Andrew DeLoach Modern World History 9-26-05 The Oxford English Dictionary defines the word modern as "relating to a recently developed or advanced style‚ technique‚ or technology." It also defines the word postmodern as "relating to art‚ architecture‚ or literature that reacts against earlier modernist principles‚ as by reintroducing traditional or classical elements of style or by carrying modernist styles or practices to extremes." However‚ Oswald Spengler claimed that the subdivision of
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emerged from enlightenment thought‚ shortly after the French Revolution‚ as a positivist science of society. Its genesis owed to various key movements in the philosophy of science and the philosophy of knowledge. Social analysis in a broader sense‚ however‚ has origins in the common stock of philosophy and necessarily pre-dates the field. Modern academic sociology arose as a reaction to modernity‚ capitalism‚ urbanization‚ rationalization‚ and secularization‚ bearing a particularly strong interest in the
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My interpretation of modernity or modernism has to do with how writers challenge traditional modes of literature and interpretations of that literature in a contemporary period. More specifically‚ some examples of how modernity differs from historical conventional literature are by the use of imperfect textual styles and the in-depth development of characters. Through reading
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War in America‚ which made India the largest producer of cotton textiles and caused a rapid boom‚ as well as the opium trade that flourished after the Opium war in the 1840s had ended. 1860 and the subsequent years were seen as an important era for the making of this city‚ as the economic growth had several implications on the social and political life as well. Thus‚ this period saw the coming up of several shops owned by business families who had migrated from different regions of India‚ setting
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and political systems yet understanding that a country does not have to compromise their values and culture. Thinking in social structures and cultures‚ Modernity incorporates the development of traditional values. It recognizes that certain values may be accepting culturally due to other people’s beliefs but humanely‚ it may not. Also‚ Modernity may change career paths for individuals in hopes of bettering the country. For example‚ citizens can be more invested in an industry like agriculture
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This satire showed the affects modernity and coloniality can have on a culture. It also displayed how the racist beliefs that nonwestern natives were seen as inferior or primitive and how they still live on in today’s society. Coloniality created this racist hierarchal system to label the
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How does Postmodernity differ to Modernity? Compare through using the ideas of identity and culture. Evaluate the idea that postmodern ideas have superseded the structural theories of Functionalism and Marxism. A society‚ most of whose members spend a great part of their time‚ not on the spot‚ not here and now and in their calculable future‚ but somewhere else‚ in the irrelevant other worlds of sport and soap opera‚ of mythology and metaphysical fantasy‚ will find it hard to resist the encroachments
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The style is Cubist although Chagall has not fragmented the apple tree – Perhaps to ensure that this element of the painting remains clear and sure in the world of realism: This in itself an idiosyncrasy: Although entirely conventional and representational of the truth for a deeply religious man‚ as was Marc Chagall. The ambience of this oil painting is joyful thanks to the fresh green and yellow hues which dominate the composition. The red and blue of the apple tree denote danger - Red is a color
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Modernity: The Willow Tea Rooms‚ 1903 Diane Meyler A desire to convince the world that “there are things more precious... more lasting than life itself” (1902) was the driving force of modernist advocate Charles Rennie Mackintosh. He has been hailed as one of the most important precursors of the Modern movement (Wilhide‚ 1995‚ 7). This was a style born of the society’s transformation through the modernization of existence. At the time‚ cities swelled in a spectacular urban revolution leading
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