The History of the Remote Control: The Downfall of Western Civilization??? By: Kyle History of Technology Research Paper The typical American family has on average four remote controls in their household. Look around the room and count how many you have in your house. I count five in just this room alone‚ not including the wireless mouse and keyboard I am using right now to type this paper. Everyone has seen remote controls for televisions‚ VCRs‚ and stereos. However‚ can you imagine
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Plato’s ideas on knowledge has survived throughout the ages and is still relevant in today’s society. Today it has come to be known as Platonic epistemology. Platonic Epistemology: Plato believed that knowledge is innate‚ or inborn‚ and that the development of ideas buried deep in the soul‚ and may be guided out by teachers. Plato drew a sharp distinction between knowledge‚ which is certain‚ and mere opinion. Opinions derive from the shifting world of sensation -- knowledge derives from the world of
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must understand both the causes and ramifications of the Great War. Properly understanding both the causes and the ramifications helps one to understand the significant impact the war had on Western Civilization. Several causes helped spark this Great War which would affect the entirety of Western Civilization. First‚ Germany’s Weltpolitik had a great influence on the continent of Europe. With the unification of the German states into one power‚ the continent suddenly had another world leader on its
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The civilizations of Ancient Greece and Rome have arguably been amongst the most and influential through history. There are as will be evaluated a great deal of similarities as well as differences when it comes down to the religious‚ political‚ social structures and worldviews of Ancient Greece and Rome. These two civilizations had a key role in the way the European civilizations developed and also evolved over many centuries; and have had a significant influence over modern Western cultures. In
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thousand years of development and evolution. With such a strong and rooted background‚ Japanese traditions and values have remained imbued in Japanese society despite rapid modernization and westernization during the last century. As the world has become smaller and entertainment has gone from being confined to its country of origin to being available across the globe‚ Japan continues to display its unique identity by producing distinct experiences within the same mediums as Western countries. From
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Unit 8 Charlemagne Why did Charlemagne distrust the pope’s motives in crowning Charlemagne as Holy Roman Emperor? - By crowning him emperor‚ the pope established the significant precedent that only the pope could confer the imperial crown. - He was worried about a conflict with the Byzantines. The Byzantine Empress Irene was rumored to have considered a marriage to Charlemagne‚ and his coronation as emperor‚ was seen as an insult to Byzantium. How could Charlemagne create such a powerful empire
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By the 6th century‚ the western Germanic Franks had been Christianised‚ and Francia‚ ruled by the Merovingians‚ was the most powerful of the kingdoms that succeeded the Western Roman Empire. Following the Battle of Tertry‚ however‚ the Merovingians declined into a state of powerlessness‚ for which they have been dubbed the rois fainéants ("do-nothing kings"). Almost all government powers of any consequence were exercised by their chief officer‚ the mayor of the palace.[4] In 687‚ Pippin of Herstal
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Charlemagne was a Frankish king‚ later emperor‚ whose rule lasted from 742 CE until 814 CE. Charles the Great was revered as one of the greatest kings of the Early Middle Ages‚ an attitude that was perpetuated by the early authors’ writings about him and his reign. One such author is an eighth-century scholar named Einhard who born in 770 CE in the eastern part of Frankland. After receiving an education from a local monastery‚ Einhard went on to become not only a member of Charlemagne’s court but
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chose to crown Charlemagne as “Emperor of the Romans” in A.D. 800 because Charlemagne helped him when he was in trouble‚ he needed Charlemagne’s military and he thought it would be a fair and equal relationship. Document A is an excerpt from the “Life of Charlemagne”‚ a book written by Einhard explaining about Charlemagne’s life. In the excerpt‚ it explains “The Romans had inflicted many injuries upon Pope Leo … so that he had been complied to call upon the king for help. Charlemagne went accordingly
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these biases in Einhard’s The Life of Charlemagne in which this adviser and close friend to the great Frankish king gives his history of Charlemagne’s life. One issue that Einhard repeatedly touches on is the virtually uninterrupted series of wars that the Frankish Kingdom under ’Charles the Great’ undertook. Throughout the individual accounts of these war‚ Einhard attempts to justify Charlemagne’s military career. It seems that when one looks back at Charlemagne and his seemingly unending chain
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