Ownership society

In Carolyn Miller’s article, What’s Practical about Technical Writing, she portrays techne as scientific, describing it as a productive means of reasoning that focuses on the practical construction and application of texts. She states that it is “both applicable and conceptualized,” combining theory and application together (22). It provides a framework by setting expectations for a given product, but also dictates the actual portrayal of a product. She refers back to Aristotle’s use of the…

Having no rules with no supervisors could sound like the best thing in the world. With too much freedom could lead to many various disasters. Jack, Ralph, Roger, Piggy and the rest of the kids experience the same exact situation in Lord of the Flies by William Golding. A group of children escaping their home in a plane from the terror of a world war. Unfortunately, the war had shot the plane right from the sky and crashing into a boat shaped island. Having no grownups with them, they were free…

In America By Design, David Noble argues that the rise of technology is synonymous with the rise of corporate capitalism. The book title prescribes technology as a constructed capitalist plan to exert dominance over American society. Noble adopts a Marxist cultural determinist view that empowers humans (in this case corporations) as agents in technological development, thereby rejecting the technological determinist view which sees humans as malleable consumers, and technology as an external…

Different Insights of Science and Technology Science and technology have drastically changed over the years. However, in some circumstances change is not always considered to be positive. For example, science comes from the Latin word, scientia, meaning knowledge. The definition of scientia reveals the underlying meaning of what science really means. In certain situations, science has the power to regulate people’s lives because the regulators receive too much knowledge from science. Technology…

from what entertainment people enjoy, or the careers individuals have, or even more common, the money society desires. For some it could also be acceptance into one’s society, but all of these things come at a cost. As Fyodor Dostoyevsky puts it, all of these concepts are distractions to what should be most important in life. Dostoyevsky, assumed to be Russian Orthodox Christian, believed society had flaws and those flaws are exactly what has just been stated; that much of the human population…

Moreover, he claims that every citizen of the world has to be accountable for his or her deeds, and this is particularly true for scientists, due to their extreme influence they have on modern society. He emphasizes that scientists are humans first, and scientists second, and for Rotblat, the rationale behind this truth is made clear when examining what he claims is the purpose of science itself—the pursuit of furthering human knowledge about the…

Elizabeth Graves Mr. Gribble AP World History 7 September 2014 The Growth of Technology Throughout World History The growth of new civilizations impacted an important aspect of human society known as technology. As these societies become more modernized, new technology have been introduced along with improvements of some of the earliest types. Technology has vastly changed from the earliest times to current times with the help of constant developments in the construction of tools,…

The societies that Cook recognizes as civilizations are some of the greatest of their time, and in some cases they are among the greatest civilizations ever on earth. However, the strict guidelines he has in place for the societies he discusses to be considered civilizations end up ‘disqualifying’ many accomplished would-be civilizations as less than. Cook’s initial argument was that to be a civilization people needed to be “sufficiently large and specialized that… different kinds of people did…

It is no secret that throughout history the lives of peoples have been oppressed and restricted. This can be seen all over the world in different times, with different cultures, and different genders. Empire has played a big role in the restricting of lives, and was usually done through imperialism and colonization. Imperialism in the European empires often led to the restricting of women’s lives via colonization, but not all imperialism forced oppression onto others. It could also lead to…

Herschbach, Dudley. "The Dolphin Oracle." Harvard Magazine, 1993, pp. 57-59. SIRS Issues Researcher,https://sks.sirs.com. This article is from the Harvard Magazine. This article is written by Dudley Herschbach an American chemist who won a nobel prize and who was a chemist at Harvard University. Herschbach shows great knowledge in this topic. The article is very informative and Herschbach gives many quotes from reliable sources. Herschbach clearly knew what he wrought about and it shined…