Scepticism about technological determinism emerged alongside increased pessimism about techno-science in the mid-20th century‚ in particular around the use of nuclear energy in the production of nuclear weapons‚ Nazi human experimentation during World War II‚ and the problems of economic development in the third world. As a direct consequence‚ desire for greater control of the course of development of technology gave rise to disenchantment with the model of technological determinism in academia.
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Irish poet‚ dramatist‚ and prose writer‚ one of the greatest English-language poets of the 20th century. He received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1923. Yeats’s father‚ John Butler Yeats‚ was a barrister who eventually became a portrait painter. His mother‚ formerly Susan Pollexfen‚ was the daughter of a prosperous merchant in Sligo‚ in western Ireland. Through both parents Yeats claimed kinship with various Anglo-Irish Protestant families who are mentioned in his work. Normally‚ Yeats would
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Joyce has used the name Daedalus as a literary vehicle to give the reader a sense of deeper understanding about Stephen as a character in "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man ". There is a link between Stephen Dedalus and the Greek mythological figure Daedalus and this becomes apparent to Stephen when he hears his friends say his name in Greek. When Stephen compares himself to the "fabulous artificer" their similar plight reveals itself. The correlation between Stephen’s need to escape Ireland
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Gothic elements in The Oval Portrait by Edgar Allan Poe Edgar Poe’s short story The Oval Portrait contains distinct Gothic elements penetrating the setting and the mood of the narration. From the very first line the reader is invited to “the fancy of Mrs. Radcliffe”‚ the pioneer of the gothic novel. The image of the remote abandoned chateau is given a tint of mystery and gloom. The antiquity of the interior where the “walls (are) hung with tapestry and bedecked with manifold
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English Speech: Matthew Condon’s ’The Trout Opera’ The Australian Curriculum website says: “Texts are chosen because they are judged to have potential for enriching the lives of students‚ expanding the scope of their experience‚ and because they represent effective and interesting features of form and style. It builds students’ knowledge about how language can be used for aesthetic ends‚ to create particular emotional‚ intellectual or philosophical effects.“ From ‘http://www.australiancurriculum
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depicting the game of baseball and its remarkable players‚ coming across a poem seeking thorough cross sectioning of the crowd is unusual‚ and rarely encountered. William Carlos Williams has created a poem which portrays the crowd as a quasi-organized mob bent on either cheering for their team‚ or in turn‚ booing them. The reason why Williams does this is because he is portraying‚ in a sense‚ simplicity versus chaos with simplicity being the game of baseball itself and chaos being the crowd. The game
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Defination: a system of psychological theory and therapy which aims to treat mental disorders by investigating the interaction of conscious and unconscious elements in the mind and bringing repressed fears and conflicts into the conscious mind by techniques such as dream interpretation and free association (Sigmund Freud) (1856 to 1939) Introduction: He was an Austrian neurologist who became known as the founding father of psychoanalysis In creating psychoanalysis‚ a clinical method
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Did you know that only 5.7% of employed women in the US are working in the computer industry? With such a low percentage it would be understandable to assume that it may be difficult to make a company based on computers to be a gender diversified workplace‚ but does that mean that it is impossible? How about for other fields of business? I chose the ethical issue of gender diversity in the workplace because I believe it is one that is still very popular and is still evolving‚ and can be viewed from
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insight into how the business was ran by merchants. They also detail the hardships experienced by those traded like animals. When reading accounts from both sides‚ you see how truly unfair the business was. Antera Duke’s diary paints an inaccurate portrait of the African slave trade by making it out to be business as usual. Meanwhile‚ Mahommah Baquaqua’s autobiography shines light on the harsh
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poetry. Two common and popular Imagist poets at the time and even today are: William Carlos Williams and H.D. (Hilda Doolittle). Both of these writers knew each other from college both share similarities in their poems. They both use imagery and write about nature in their poems. However‚ they also share many differences as well. I will compare and contrast some of Williams poems with H.D.’s poems. Williams Carlos Williams was born in Rutherford‚ New Jersey in 1883. He attended the School of Dentistry
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