Typewriters

The PEST analysis, like a SWOT analysis studies four dimensions. However, a PEST analysis looks at the political, economic, socio-cultural, and technological factors. The difference between a PEST analysis and a SWOT analysis is that a SWOT analysis analyzes internal factors whereas a PEST analysis involves examining the external factors that affect one’s work environment. Organizations conduct PEST analyses in order to create strategies going forward. For my PEST analysis, I am going to analyze…

technologies. For instance when my mother was first introduced to Face Book she had no idea on how to work the technology. I then gave her some mini lessons and eventually she was another member of the Face Book community. Then it came the technology of typewriters and computers. One moment I recall from my middle school year was that each student was required to take a class where they would teach us how to type properly and use different programs. Now being in college when it comes to my…

Watched a wonderful film, again, while I ate an early lunch. The Shootist is one of those films you probably either love or hate. To me, it is a perfect story. An old man, dying of cancer, has lived on the edge of civilization by his skill with a gun. Now he travels to civilization to see a doctor and realizes he faces a long, difficult death. The stars are all awesome, of course the Duke, but Jimmy Stewart, Lauren Bacall, and Ron Howard were great. Thought it one of Harry Morgan's best roles,…

For my oral history interview I interviewed Mary Ann Bilmyer. At the age of 95 she can remember a lot. When I asked her to interview her she was excited to do it. Before the war, 19-year-old Mary Ann was a one-room schoolhouse teacher, but it didn’t pay well so she asked for a raise of $5. They never gave her that raise so she quit her job. About that time the U. S. just joined the war. She was in a relationship with Bud Bilmyer who was a volunteer and was station at Pearl Harbor. The first…

Friedrich Nietzsche was a writer whose vision was failing and focusing on the page became exhausting, and commonly brought on crushing headaches. In the late 1800’s, he bought a typewriter, mastered touch-typing, and was soon enough able to type with his eyes closed. This newfound writing tool enabled him to write again. The typewriter actually had an affect on his style of writing. His already tight prose had become even tighter. Nietzsche later commented, “our equipment takes part in the…

Do you have a computer or a self-phone? Technology is all around us in this world today. It is very common to have a phone or a computer of any kind or to even have both. People think only about the good things about technology but not about the bad things that are harmful to the consumers. Technology is very harmful to people because it rewires our brains and disconnects us from the world. Technology has rewired our brain over the years and dumbed us down that we have short attention spans. In…

A world once colonized by exploration and discoveries is now a world colonized by digital objects glued to our hands and pockets. From typewriters to computers and laptops, telegrams and pay phones to digital cellphones; technology has evolved and conquered the world. It has changed life and making it easier to live. There is however, a downfall to technology that isn 't often seen, according to the Articles “Google is Making Us Stupid” by Nicholas Carr, “Multitasking Can Make You Lose… Um...…

Themes from The Old Man and the Sea Ernest Hemingway once said, “there is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed,” (“Ernest Hemingway Quotes” 1). For Hemingway, writing came naturally. He had the ability to write deceptively simple stories that have a huge amount of depth beneath the surface. Ernest Hemingway utilizes many different themes in his novel The Old Man and the Sea. Some of these include age, religion, and love. Hemingway developed a fixation on age…

The Sixties was a time of thriving youth culture and youth fashion, which had already begun in the late fifties. In the west, the youth was benefiting from the post-war industrial boom, and had no problem finding work with the extra cash they earned. Many were able to spend more and began to redress themselves accordingly. The 1960’s era was a time that was notorious for its technology and innovation. This 1960’s era was booming with creativity. People started to venture outside of the…

What Foner meant as the “Second Industrial revolution” was, “The country enjoyed abundant natural resources, a growing g supply of labor, an expanding marked for manufactured goods, and the availability of capital for investment…in addition, the federal government actively promoted industrial and agricultural development”.(1) The main components for the second industrial revolution started with the government granting land to railroad companies to encourage construction in the west and to also…