Modernization

boomed in the West. Modernization in Western countries led to a rejection in traditional ways of thinking and religious belief as science and technology advanced. In China, the path of modernizing was not as simple; it was a ripple effect from the West that began when the Qing Dynasty collapsed and continued up until mid-20th century. The route to modernity was arduous and had many stops throughout history with influences from Soviet socialist ideals, making China’s modernization…

The process of political, economic, and social modernization in Scandinavia and the Baltic states from the early 19th century to 1939 has both similarities and differences; similarities in the sense that moves toward modernization were taken, and differences in the sense that the processes themselves as well as the outcomes of each vary. In the beginning of the 19th century, Scandinavia’s political sphere was control largely by monarchies. At the beginning of this century, Sweden and…

commentator, Rush Limbaugh, once acknowledged, “When you talk about change, you know what makes it really tough for people is, on the one hand, you’ve got tradition, and one the other hand you’ve got change; in many people’s mind, change equals modernization” (Rush Limbaugh Quotes). This quote accurately depicts the struggle that occurs in Chua Achebe’s 1958 novel, Things Fall Apart. This novel embraces African oral traditions and how they are subject to change. The story depicts life in Nigeria…

of politics and economic development among others. In the novel, Neuromancer, globalization has been viewed as a figure of transformation. William Gibson in his novel portrays globalization as a manner of disembedding. Disembedding is a way of modernization whereby an increase in people’s relations has been viewed to be increasing and spreading as time progresses. The act of disembedding has led to a decline in…

While Johnson, Slater, and McGowan argue (1984) that a state’s coup susceptibility is mainly based on its range of economic success rather than the aspects of modernization, this study, amongst others, fails to consider the role of the western world in the African economy. Not only were African states left to pick up the economic pieces after decolonization, but have faced imperialism and resource extortion from outside…

As the British heavily invested time to introduce modernization, education, and religion in the North, "the British authorities claimed that the south was not ready to open up to the modern world, [they wanted to] reserve [the] purely African way of life of the southern people" (Heleta, Savo). The "divide-and-rule"…

The narrator notices the modernization that currently occurs in Sudan, and analyzes the impact this advancement has in the village. He describes that, “From my position under the tree I saw the village slowly undergo a change: the water-wheels disappeared to be replaced on the bank of the Nile by pumps, each one doing the work of a hundred water-wheels”(4). The imagery of the water pumps symbolizes the role of modernization in the novel and the Sudanese village, the narrator…

Ana Coppola Prof. Cleary Arc 318L 19 October 2015 Abstract: European Countries such as Spain, France, Germany, and England, left a huge Legacy on Latin America Architecture. The Urban pattern in Latin America was greatly influenced and established by Spanish Colonization since early 16th century. Since then, not even political reformations, or independence from such Spanish colonials, would modify or break the economic relations with foreign european countries. Seeing this, even after…

helping countries achieve development (Thompson). These policies draw from the modernization theory of development, which, although has led to some successes, has failed too, as in the case of the construction of the Belo Monte Dam in Brazil. The theory…

introducing Western culture, the making of the Bowring treaty, and the continuation of modernization through his son, King Mongkut’s modernization of Siam had a positive effect on the country and its people. The King and I looks like your typical Broadway musical. The fifth musical by Rodgers and Hammerstein, it has been revived on Broadway three times. It has also been made into two…