Modernization

During the inter-war period, British technological development fell behind competing nations due to economic constraints, poor assumptions developed by senior military leaders, as well as contributing strategic and political factors. Historical examples suggest Great Britain emerged as a leader in terms of technological innovation as it exited War World One . The country was arguably, at the time, a leader in technology development regarding all three of its services but entered World War Two…

The Middle Passage How is Africa characterized before Europeans began the slave trade? Africa was an up and coming country prior to slave trade. Tribes and villages were growing and gaining power. Africa was also an active trader with China and other countries. Many kingdoms were growing and flourishing in Africa because of the trans-oceanic trade. Africa did not have religious diversity. There was not many major centralised states that existed, and many people lived in societies where there…

DSS includes requirements for security management, policies, procedures, network architecture, software design and other critical protective measures. Further is the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (GLB) Act of 1999, that is also known as the Financial Modernization Act of 1999, the GLB Act includes provisions to protect consumers' personal financial information held by financial institutions. There are three principal parts to the privacy requirements: the Financial Privacy Rule, the Safeguards Rule…

being the greatest examples. While Japan thrived in many aspects, Russia and China were on the verge of falling apart. The different approaches to nationalism by the three countries affected their political, social, and economic transformation and modernization while Japan mostly benefitted in comparison to Russia and China. Japan followed China to open their gates to trade “under pressure from the west” (Valentini 1). Both these countries were “technologically” and militarily behind the west…

The 1950’s: “The Golden Age of Television”, a time when 83% of Americans spent leisure time watching images flicker through an iconic-looking, vintage box on legs, the television. Yet, in Ray Bradbury’s novel, Fahrenheit 451,100% of the population owns interactive televised megascreens, known as parlor walls. In this futuristic society where books are forbidden, Guy Montag lives the life of a content fireman with one job; he must burn the books and houses in which they are discovered. However,…

for purchase in the Japanese perennial quest for identity” (Black 249). The Japanese were attempting to gain influence from the west in order to find their own identity. Again, perhaps they did this because they believed it would also bring upon modernization for their society. As Miller says, “Cool Japan tells the story of fantasies and identities” (Miller 27). So it is possible that the Japanese had fantasies about distinctively identifying themselves, and they were capable of accomplishing…

Joan W. Scott was Professor of Social Science at Princeton University, with a focus on gender and politics. In the book The Politics of the Veil, she focuses, critiques, and challenges the law which bans the wearing of “conspicuous signs” of religious affiliation in public schools passed in France in 2004 (p.1). The intention of this law, according to French legislators, was to keep France unified in terms of being secular, individualist, and homogeneous; the singularity of the nation was…

Congo is one of many states what allows other country to push them around. At the beginning of the late 1800’s, Congo would start to go through many changes such as development, modernization, colonization and so on. Not only were European countries making their way into Congo, their own leaders made their small powered economy either a little better or much worse. With these changes happening for the next century, it caused numerous short term and long term effects on this Third World country.…

Great Britain and japan both were very similar both were islands they needed different countries to become more powerful and both wanted good trading partners. But both were very different in what they wanted to do with the things they got. Great Britain wanted more countries to become more powerful so no one would mess with them while japan wanted different places to put industries there for them to make more money. How they did it was they sent over armies of their men to take control and make…

The theme of this story is about the struggle of keeping family tradition in modern times. In modern culture, many family traditions are crumbling and falling apart due to modernization. In Everyday Use by Alice Walker, we are introduced to Mama, an African American woman with “big bones and rough man working hands.” Mama acts as both the mother and father in the story, doing motherly acts such as seeing her daughter’s outfits, but also “working outside all day” and even “knocking a bull calf…