Printing press

Glasses were invented around the 1400s and there was an elevated necessity for them around the Industrial Revolution, (Klein). People started realizing something was wrong with their eyesight when books started to be printed by the Gutenberg Printing Press. The printing of books led to the important requirement of glasses, which helps to correct awful vision (Visio-Rx). Glasses have changed over the years and they help us see the world clearly. I believe knowing how the eye works, the different…

The Middle Ages had been a time period following the fall of the Roman Empire, and a dark and “barbarous” age according to many humanists in the Renaissance Era. The Middle Age began without any idea of the education, politics, and intellectual of the Greeks and Romans. Some people in the Renaissance Era believed this era to be a “awakening” from the Middle Ages, and a complete revival of the Greek and Roman lifestyle. Politically, humanists replaced religion from politics, and justified their…

South’s economy, and was spearheaded by 1793’s invention of the cotton gin by Eli Whitney, allowing for a single worker to clean fifty times more cotton than previously possible. Similarly, Friedrich Nietzsche, a 19th century philosopher, said, “The press, the machine, the railway, the telegraph are premises whose thousand-year conclusion no one has yet dared to draw.” Both men were correct in recognizing the power of technology, specifically concerning the Civil War. The cotton gin enabled the…

Nicholas Carr believes that digital devices are hindering our brains from learning valuable information. While Carr argues that digital devises are weakening our brains, Michaela Cullington reports that texting has no effect on students writing. Even though it seems like the two topics have no connection, both viewpoints involve technology and its effect on humans. Texting does not affect student’s writing because it helps student’s develop communication skills and have a comfortable form of…

This case clearly outlines the tension between the right to privacy and freedom of the press. The question about the boundaries of the right of the press to criticize the behavior and actions of public officials plays a central role in this case. A printer and associate editor of a Tamil magazine from Madras were the petitioners in the case. The case is all about the publishing of the autobiography written by the prisoner Auto Shankar, who had been placed in jail on charges of multiple murders.…

The decline of the Ottoman Empire resulted from several aspects that once strengthened the empire, become weak. Theses aspects included the personality of the sultan, and military superiority. Additionally, the rise of European countries affected the economy and cultural conservatism marked the empire losing the grip on their power. The sultans steadily lost the command of the empire, demonstrating a lack of leadership. The method of succession allowed the son of a sultan to become the next…

Anonymous sources are becoming increasingly common in the world of journalism. Even major international news reporting agencies have come to rely on them over the years. Anonymity can affect a story's credibility, but sometimes it is only through unnamed sources that valuable information can be obtained. A good example of this scenario can be found in the film, ‘All The President’s Men’, about the Watergate Scandal. I personally think that without anonymous sources, there would have been no…

He mentions the examples such as the anecdote of Richard Feynman, who believed the writings on paper are actually part of his thought process(Thompson, 348). From those examples, Thompson proofs the modern technologies, similar to paper and printing press, are merely extensions, rather than replacement, of our thinking. In order to illustrate such concept in terms that are close to readers, Clive Thompson writes how was he influenced by modern technologies in the process of writing this…

Written word had a huge impact on the new German Empire in the 19th century. With illiteracy rates decreasing, written word continued to gain a large audience. According to Berghahn (2005) it seem like newspapers, books, journals, and pamphlets demonstrated that there was a “functioning public sphere” within Germany society that was not active previously. The authoritarian society that could censor media at will was no longer effective as before. However, the authorities still were eager to…

windows, these were made into beautiful works of stained glass, which display scenes and messages that were important from the bible. This was necessary firstly because a fair amount of people in that time were illiterate and secondly with the printing press not being invented yet, copies of the bible had to be done by hand and that lead to not many people owning a bible. As a result the churches, who still wanted to spread the teaching of the bible, used artwork like paintings and sculptures in…