In George F. Kennan’s Long Telegraph‚ he outlines three main points. The first the Soviet Union and their leaders ideology which he saw as an expansion of ancient Russian values. The second being Kennan’s view surrounding the Soviet fear of the Western society. The final point Kennan makes is his own beliefs and perspectives surrounding what America should do in order to take action against the soviets Kennan believes that Soviet ideology was an expansion of ancient Russian values‚ these values being
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For the Abrahamic religions of Islam and Christianity‚ once the prophets had passed away‚ the burden of religious leadership fell on the shoulders of the Sunni Caliphate and the Church respectively. Since women had been given unprecedented significance by the Prophets Jesus and Muhammad‚ it became inevitable for the Church and the Sunni Caliphate to deal with the issue of the status of women. (Here Church refers to the Church in the first two centuries after crucifixion of Jesus till approx 200 C
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There is no denying that technologies have come to play a central role in today’s highly mediated society. This is a society which has undergone major transformations in the space of a few hundred years whilst certain technologies have flourished and become a part of the social fabric. These technologies‚ which include print‚ television‚ radio‚ telephony and the internet‚ are so pervasive in modern society that it may be easy to think that they themselves are responsible for transforming society
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Technology has played a huge role in modern communication strategies. The use of instant messaging features on home computers‚ laptops‚ cell phones‚ and other electronic devices makes it very easy to communicate with others. Although instant messaging lacks the ability to recognize facial expressions‚ it is a very popular communication tool among teenagers. Do you think technology has changed the way you communicate with people? I believe the more technology advances‚ the more our communication
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Marshall McLuhan believes that every document‚ regardless of the message they communicate‚ exert a compelling influence on man and society. Goya’s painting is an example of one of these documents. According to Duguid and Brown‚ a document can allow for the formation of new societies and communities‚ such as the revolutionary communities created out of Goya’s painting. Goya’s painting also helped usher in the modern‚ emotional‚ and honest way of painting in the late 19th century‚ in part‚ as McLuhan would
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In the introduction to McLuhan ’s Understanding Media he writes: ‘Today‚ after more than a century of electric technology‚ we have extended our central nervous system in a global embrace‚ abolishing both space and time as far as our planet is concerned’ (1964: p.3). Like much of McLuhan ’s writing this statement is vast and poetic‚ with its strength of conviction making it quite persuasive. But if we are to be believers in this rhetoric we must have an understanding of what he means. The underlying
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Technological determinism is a term developed by Marshal McLuhan‚ a theorist in the study of new media. By technological determinism‚ McLuhan refers to technology having the power to change societies and influence our cultures. In this essay I will argue that technology does have the power to change society and influence a civilization‚ using ideas put forward by Marshal McLuhan. I will also discuss the debate around technological determinism recognizing the claims made by Raymond Williams that
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Is globalisation ‘new and inevitable’? Discuss with reference to EITHER culture‚ economics OR politics. Globalisation means ‘Growth to a large scale across the world’. This does not mean just businesses expanding across the world but also news‚ technology‚ people and even diseases. It’s when ‘something’ crosses national boundaries at an imaginary speed and on an unpredictable scale. This is only touching the subject in defining globalisation. There are different views on what globalisation is and
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Internet users per 100 inhabitants B. Theories of the Information Society I. The medium is the message and Global Village (Marshall – 1960s) 1. “The medium is the message” "The medium is the message" is a phrase coined by Marshall McLuhan meaning that the form of a medium embeds itself in the message‚ creating a symbiotic relationship by which the medium influences how the message is perceived. The phrase was introduced in his most widely known book‚ Understanding Media: The Extensions
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life poetic art‚ at the individual and group‚ human and nature‚ the present and history of multiple correlation of life "enrichment" and "play" poetic creation. According to McLuhan‚ he think advertising is a vast field (group) to a narrow space (individual)‚ advertising also could narrow space for the majority of areas(McLuhan‚ 1994). The two-way movement can be fulfilled‚ which can create the poetic life of‚ the key is whether advertising producers can have the feelings of history and cherish the
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