Industrialisation

Power is maintained by fostering ignorance through propaganda/deceit, abuse of technology and manipulating the subjects as desired by the party, consequently destroying any opposition. These ideas are presented through a satirical manner in, ‘Nineteen-eighty Four’ (1984) by George Orwell (1949) and ‘Metropolis’ directed by Fritz Lang (1927) about a fictitious totalitarian society linked with contemporary events showing how power is maintained by its elite and its destructive and dehumanising…

Many mark the development of the modern world with the industrial revolution in Britain, however the industrial revolution brought with it new problems that were never part of the world before. The rise of the consumer class coincided with low quality and poor design of the manufactured goods produced in factories. The Arts and Crafts movement was a group of designers and critics who believed that the decline of Britain’s social and moral standards were linked to the decline of it’s artistic…

materialistic will somehow vanish, therefore, Chinese have launched in finding and extracting oil reserves. After the People 's Republic was founded, the government faced with dual pressure of economic development and energy shortage. With this, Chinese industrialisation centred on north-eastern region, and government deployed first Five-Year Plan in 1953. In1950s, the country focus on exploring for oil in the great basin region, and soon proved the ‘karamay oil field’ . This is the first large…

PART 2  Through the understanding of the main text Laborem exercens, I gained an insight into the concept of the working class or lower level of society lacking the necessary resources to attain all their desirable needs. The dignity of the work and the rights of the worker plays an important role and due to their profession, this should not result in the exploitation of the workers by the authoritative figures. The text placed emphasis on how there should be physical/social barriers placed…

The nationalism amongst Afrikaners increased at the same rate as the rapid industrialisation and urbanisation during the two world war period and even more so due to the increased imperialistic influence in South Africa by the British. Afrikaners promoted a common language, history and unity of a common religion and beliefs, the main…

Revolution got under way. Britain led the world in industrialising and this simple assertion leads to the more complex question: why? What was unique to Britain? This essay will try to find the reasons which predisposed Britain towards early industrialisation through the examination of geographical, economic, political and cultural factors. By the early 1800s Britain was a country of cheap energy - coal. The great inventions of that century - the steam engine, mechanical spinning, smelting iron…

Significant texts offer insights into how core values define the thoughts and actions of individuals within society. It is, however, the context of such texts which present the values and perspectives of composers. Lang’s Metropolis (1927) focuses on the misuse of technology, power and control, reflecting his fears of an exploitative capitalist system in a period of hyperinflation and social turmoil within the Weimar Republic. Orwell’s dystopian novel 1984(1948) demonstrates his criticism of…

This poem distinctly unites us to see an important issue of today, the exploitation of the world’s resources, and how we are on the brink of extinction. More and more of nature is being cut down, taken away due to our endless greed for more industrialisation. She imagines the final time she’ll be walking out onto the field, and personalises the nature, giving it a voice to show it importance; ‘the myriad leaf lives green and singing’(line 32). She raises this issue even further with her…

The phrase “You are what you eat” might haunt you in your dreams when you recall the memory of downing a greasy cheeseburger to avoid the embarrassment of a loud stomach orchestra. Or perhaps that kebab unconsciously chomped after dancing all night at the club that serves liquid euphoria (warning: it expires within 12 hours.) We might not literally become what we eat, however, according to Forbes, we can now eat like Beyonce with the high hopes of becoming ***flawless. The singer has launched…

economic and social development, dissimilarity of demographic factors, varying view points of the governments and individuals towards environment etc. Continuous and exceedingly increasing rate of rapacious exploitation of natural resources, industrialisation, technological growth, unplanned urbanisation and profit oriented capitalism by the developed western world are responsible for grave environmental crisis and ecological imbalance not confined to their own countries but to the whole…