Modernity

Travel writers share their experience in visiting other countries by discourse, in their writings, they are mainly concerned with the non-western other. Numerable books are written to describe the orient world, it is usually seen opposed to the western world and the kind of discourse used is mostly colonial in depicting the non-European other. Because discourse itself can be a form of colonization, we shall consider to what extent the use of language by travel writers adheres to this type of…

functions, that is, it operates primarily from two worldviews. These approaches are modernity and post modernity worldviews. Modernity refers to the social, cultural and economic changes that are associated with industrialized and urbanized societies. Post modernity refers to a world that has evolved due to science and does not readily accept old assumptions that were once seen as being absolute and final. Modernity had three profound impacts in the field of public administration. The first one…

The emergence of the New African Movement in the 19th century can be marked as a turning in the way Africans resisted colonialism. In this essay i will identify the ideas and developments of the New African Movement during the end of the 19th century and the first few decades of the twentieth century. Around the 19th century it became more evident that Europeans where not only planning on staying in South Africa but they would further exclude and exploit African bodies. Many Africans had…

Deshpande promotes the idea that women must try to come out of their suppressed roles. My paper analyses the conflict of tradition and modernity with special reference to her novels That Long Silence, The Dark Holds No Terrors, Roots and Shadows and A Matter of Time respectively. Deshpande’s women are role models of the new society who thirst for modernity elevation and up gradation. Here modern…

currently a very crucial part of the social system in North America today with many groups are still being oppressed and discriminated against due to their phenotypical appearance. If modernity is synonymous with progress, prosperity and freedom, why is it that only one group is experiencing the positive side modernity,…

The crisis of modernity within political liberalism can be seen as a result of modern man slowly losing faith in reason and or as substantial factor to arguments that modern man will do anything he to achieve his vision of what greater human life is or can be. “As such, modern liberalism is predicted on the proposition that governments exist to maximize the liberty of their citizens to “pursue happiness,” in the words of Jefferson, or to satisfy their desires, as Hobbes would have it.” Where the…

being inherent in works of art is what this essay has been exploring in all of modernity and it’s artifacts. “[T]he modern aesthetic is an aesthetic of the sublime. But it is nostalgic; it allows the unpresentable to be invoked only as absent content, while form, thanks to its recognizable consistency, continues to offer the reader or spectator material for consolation and pleasure.” (Lyotard 1993) In relation to modernity as a paradigm, these constructions of reality within societies (whether…

domestic world, eager to place it within the realm of the modern. This study attempts to expand the understanding of Vanessa Bell’s innovations as an artist by exploring her work produced between the years of 1910-1915 within the larger context of modernity, effectively arguing that her domestic works developed new models of negotiating the spaces of femininity within…

One aspect of modernity that worried Durkheim a significant amount was the increased urbanisation due to industrialisation. Durkheim had a more direct focus on this worry over urbanisation as he looked the impact of suicide in his book ‘Le Suicide’, analysing 26,000 suicides with the use of official statistics to see what caused certain societal groups to have higher rates of suicide compared to others. He looked at four different types to distinguish reasons for suicide rates: egotistic,…

In the following essay I will compare modernity and post-modernity relating to youth. I will draw upon one theory, policy and practice and critically reflect on it. The Costello Committee Report defines the purpose of youth work as: ‘’Youth work must empower young people and enable them to emerge from the enveloping state of dependence….young people must know, feel and believe that they have some control over their situations in the sense of having ability to influence intentionally what happens…