...Pan-Africanism: African and the Genesis of Humankind (Critique) Prepared by Ariane Sip In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for Pan Africanism(AFAM 3370) at Xavier University of Louisiana Professor Dr. Ronald Dorris Fall 2012 A Critique of Africa and the Genesis of Humankind African Studies: A Survey of Africa and the African Diaspora is edited by Mario Azeveda. This book was published in 2005 by Carolina Academic Press. This 565-page book includes acknowledgments, introduction, contributors, and index. The text comprises twenty seven chapter. This critique focuses on the chapter, “African and the Genesis of Humankind.” this part of the book is thirteen pages that are divided into six subsections evenly. The focus of this critique will center on how tone, voice, language, and structure is used to argue that Africa has been considered the cradle for humankind. This chapter focused on a few major points. The first point was that physical environments play an important role in determining the course of human development. In Africa, humans have been able to change the physical environment an the way the environment impacts society. The next point shown was that Africa is a huge continent of human and geographic diversity. This diversity contributes to a greater diversity in society and cultures. The third point was that Africa was the cradle of humankind not only for early ancestors but also for modern day. Evidence have been found by scientists...
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...opinion about the future technology, using ethos, pathos, and logos to get their audience attention. Steven B. Harris uses an authority voice and vision when addressing issues in his article. He expresses his tone to make improvement in technology in the world. Harris is a medical Doctor that's interested in medical resources. He's a part of the Biosphere II projects and the best known for discussing artificial intelligence research. He had major discussions thread on the internet. In his article, he explains how several authors express their opinion on a variety of technology. Harris ethos in this report, argues how the technology will change throughout the future. From his writing, he appears to have the knowledge about how a computer will become advance and how it will affect humankind in the future. Harris states how machines are used in moving making. He describes how a movie in 1950’s are made with the Krell machines and ultimate machines. By 1986, they were using microscopic construction-machines. Harris argues that software is now popular and is used in movies, whether than machines. Harris said that certain machine is still being used from time to time, but the computer has full control. In the article, Harris uses pathos and feeling to get the reader emotions. He uses this article to place technology in the hands of the future and cause pressure on humankind. He argues that computer and other technology have a major effect on humankind and that machines that...
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...Village” Media guru Marshall McLuhan was certainly accurate about his future projection of electronic technology and the size of the impact it would have in the world. McLuhan was the first person to popularize the concept of a global village and to consider it social effects; little would he have known that ten years after his death the World Wide Web will be invented and his prophecy will be fulfilled and exceed expectations. He provided the foundation of thought about media, technology, and communication. Today technology has provided a way for people to search and reach any sort of information within seconds, people from different continents can see each other via chat room and web cameras, blogs and news are available instantly for anyone that has access to the internet. According to McLuhan, in the new age humankind will move from individualism to a fragmentation of collective identity, developing a new social organization. The term “global village” can have several meanings behind it, however my understanding McLuhan uses the word “global” to emphasize that this change is taken place throughout the world from the richest country to the third world countries that are getting a share of the new technologies now available to everyone that is willing to learn, and the term village can refer to the specific identity and diversity that this phenomena has created within humankind everywhere all over the world. Today instead of using the library as reference to the topic of matter...
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...particular block of information. The crystal pyramid and the monolith serve as sentinels because in “The Sentinel” the narrator says that the crystal pyramid was one of millions scattered throughout the universe watching over all worlds with a promise of life. This is present in the movie when the apes are basically ignorant in the skills to survive and defend themselves and when the monolith appears their curiosity and understanding changes for the better proving the end of the block of information. Another similarity between the crystal pyramid and the monolith that is seen in “The Sentinel”, as well as in 2001: A Space Odyssey is the conviction the purpose of these sentinels is to alert or warn the “emissaries” of humans’ success with technology and space. This is evident on page 751 in the story which states: ”They would be interested in in our civilization only if we proved our fitness to survive by crossing space and so escaping from the Earth, once we had passed that crisis, it was only a matter of time before we found the pyramid and forced it open, now its signals have ceased, we have set off the...
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...commence a relationship. Together they plan to rebel against the oppressive party and seeks aid at O’Brien’s. Yet, it turns out that O’Brien is loyal to the Party and ends up torturing Winston into not only betraying Julia but also submitting himself to the Party and its sometimes-contradictory truths. In his famous novel, Nineteen Eighty-four from 1949, George Orwell succeeds in depicting a dark, dystopian society way ahead of his time. With an ingenious ability to predict future events and technology, not seen since the time of Jules Verne, Orwell warns the western world of the danger of totalitarian states by describing a nation of inhabitants living under absolute surveillance with no freedom at all. Full of images and ideas, the world of 1984 is described in details that despite of their insignificance to the basic plotline attain grand thematic importance. As the novel is written in 1949, the title 1984 clearly suggests to the reader, that this is supposed to be a possible future for humankind. Furthermore, the title seems to indicate that this is the year in...
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...Humanities Today Humanities Today For if humanity has existed so have talent, melody, structural design, writings, and attitude. The University of Phoenix (2009) describes humankinds as “an method to study that highlights philosophies and standards finished examination of manners of national expression, logical and sacred thought, and styles of human communiqué” (University of Phoenix, Week One Supplement). Gloria K. Fiero (2006) additionally describes humanities as writings, attitude, history, structural design, graphic arts, melody, and dance (p. 4). Humanities influence daily life deprived of several people being conscious of their attendance. What differentiates humanities from other styles of human review and appearance is that they emphasis on philosophies and standards, not only the manufacture or consequence of an act. This paper will deliver current illustrations of graphic skill, music, structural design, attitude, and texts and examine how they reproduce current growths in government, socioeconomics, and expertise. Graphic art can be, but is not incomplete to, picture, statuette, and camerawork. Classic images by famous artists such as Leonardo da Vinci, Vincent Van Gogh, Claude Monet, and Pablo Picasso are still deliberated masterworks in today’s civilization but are not relished by the common inhabitants the way that explicit and digital art have in the past era. Explicit and digital skills have become the means by which graphic art is to...
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...body can no longer be considered an asset for humanist thought, implicating the human consciousness as the only remaining precursor for humanism. When civilization reaches this stage or, on the other hand, machines acquire the ability to reproduce, the gap between mankind and machine may be completely bridged as machines and humans will become comparatively the same. Wachowski’s The Matrix (1999) fashions a world where that which is natural (or humankind) has incorporated the technological and the technological has incorporated the natural. What we consider our everyday world is known as ‘the matrix’, a fantasy dream world that is nothing more than a digital space or computer generation referred to in the film as a “neural interactive simulation.” Predating the creation of ‘the matrix’ mankind celebrated the creation of artificial intelligence that spawned the creation of an entire race of machines capable of reproduction. This set machines and humankind in opposition, in a battle of survival of the fittest. After humankind blocked out...
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...the science fiction society of the recent century. This book was a large stepping-stone for thousands of stories and films. The mood of this book is a serious one, but it is not all dark and gloomy, the Time Traveler often makes many jokes in order to lighten the setting of his situation and for his readers enjoyment. He offers realistic details of what is happening to entice the readers to get more into the story. In the novel the main character is nameless, and often powerless, which leads me to believe that the work is a scientific romance. This provides for the most important theme of “The Time Machine,” where H.G. Wells questions the assumption that most people held in the 19th century, (this still lives on to this day) that all of humankind will continue to advance, and that the evolutionary process in society and culture follow a circular pattern of events. Throughout the book there is no...
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...essential to its own environment. However, exploring undeveloped areas may produce the resources that are needed for humankind to survive with the demands of society as it continues to grow in population. I believe humans can harvest from forest resources, but in the end, just as it is now, the same issues of air pollution, toxic waste, and landfills releasing toxicants into the air, and the migration of certain wild animals will be destroyed. The intentions of the image will be proclaimed as friendly, but the outcome will lead to some of the same issues as we face now. Due to the demands of humankind to survive, as life as we know it now, the leaders sees this as no choice but to make a decision to tap into undiscovered locations as resources. I am inclined to become self sufficient in our own nation by tapping into our own resources that is sustainable for economic use, but to do it in a way where the provisions of our effort does not cause more harm to the atmosphere and does preserve some natural habitat for repopulation. Some examples from the video would include: (1) 3.4 million acres located in western Wyoming, United States, remained untouched for public resources; (2) The possible resources would include oil and gas that would make us self sufficient; New technology for friendly development. (3) Land of wild...
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...White Noise: The Representation of Technology Technology has become an indivisible part of our modern lives. It is present everywhere one looks and life without it would be impossible. In White Noise, the notion of modern technology is represented through the interaction between people and machines and our dependency on them, the steady flow of media affecting us daily, and the dangers technology poses for humankind. In White Noise, technology makes its presence known in the way we depend on and interact with machines. An example of this is Jack’s use of the ATM machine when his financial calculations are confirmed and a sense of peace and comfort seems to overcome his uncertainty (Sparknotes), “What a pleasing interaction. I sensed that something of deep personal value, but not money, not that at all, had been authenticated and confirmed” (DeLillo 46). An instance where our dependency on the use of cars for transportation is shown at the very beginning of the novel, “The station wagons arrived at noon, a long shining line that coursed through the west campus…The roofs of the station wagons were loaded down with carefully secured suitcases full of light and heavy clothing; with boxes of blankets, boots and shoes…” (DeLillo 3). Another occurrence of people’s dependency on the use of machines is throughout the airborne toxic event when sophisticated equipment and measuring devices need to be used to figure out the contamination levels and to protect the rescue personnel...
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...bunk… brush away a little dust.”(pg.29). But, what happened in real world is “the history was never forgotten”. Human cerebrate them, holding them as a culture and even sent them to spaceship. They can never and won’t ever brush away them that easy. The things happened in the past affect the things happens right now. Although this world and brave new world both have a period of iron and blood, the consequence are very different. Their war killed freedom, knowledge and thought, provided condition and control of all humankind, and let government, machine, obliged consumption dominant everything. This world’s war killed Fascism, Militarism and Genocide, provided freedom and peace to all humankind, and let technologies, thoughts and communication grows wildly. So, the technology of Brave new world are still limited in this world’s 20 Century, which this world have stepped ahead long time ago. This world have computers, rockets, and gene technology. Their proven technologies are just some drug, porn, test-tube baby and electric baby grill, which most of them are worse than death. Is this means “Brave new world” is hopeless? Yes, when reader was hoping for the appearance of John would change or reverse this “Brave New World”, the author give them a strong hit. Unlike other books about those Dystopias, there is no way, window, or even a clue for hope or future. At the end, what left is just a corpse kill by its unlimited guilt and despair, swaying like an old clock that pointing to the...
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...printer? Through years of evolutional design and determination, this technology was possible. The printing press allowed people to learn different styles of the art of printing, education, arts, literature, and cultural differences quicker, and learning was more widespread, in addition; it provided the world with the most efficient means of communication of the written word through mass production. I will show how the decision of humankind to advance the printing presses worthiness did advance literacy in many cultures. Through the printing presses, humble beginnings of block printing to the latest technological advancements, the printing press has continued to evolve in one form or other. The printing presses evolution would not be complete without some prior knowledge of how it all began; therefore, a little history is necessary to fully understand the evolutional picture of communicational needs and the printing press. In ancient times before the beginning of a written dialogue, when reading and writing was nonexistent, communication was nothing more than some obscured hand drawings on clay tablets or cave walls. Communication was limited to the imagination of the ancient artist who wanted to explain life’s surrounding and how to survive. The validation of communications in religion, life and death, and even war through pictorial drawings are further evidence of a crude method of interacting between humankind. From a wooden press to a steam press, to automatic presses to digital...
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...Many questions about human nature are asked on the daily. Are humans good or evil; do people need society to be good? Humankind is always questioning itself and everything it does. We criticize each other on what we should wear, how we should speak, humans even criticize others on how we all should live. People think they have the right to do what they want, and they do, but would that classify as being a freethinker? The definition of freethinker, according to Merriam-Webster, is “A person who forms his or her own opinions about important subjects (such as religion and politics) instead of accepting what other people say.” In this case, humans are known to be freethinkers. Mankind would not be like it is now without freethinkers. People would not have been able to create or invent anything. From sliced bread to electricity, someone had to have...
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...brunette hair? With technology rapidly advancing pretty soon you won’t have to hope. Instead you can sit down with your doctor and design your future child. Technology has had a remarkable effect on how we live our lives. Our generation has been labeled as lazy, technology obsessed, and many other stereotypes referring to our dependence on technology. Technology also has the ability to change the appearance and genetics of the next generation. An arising method of genetic engineering has the ability to genetically modify the DNA of a fetus to resemble specific traits. Initially, it may sound like a genius discovery. However, this procedure could change everything we know about our world. It goes against nature and can lead to severe problems. Genetic Engineering has the potential to benefit many people. New discoveries have been made to prevent autism and other disabilities that are detected before birth. Genetic modification is also what allows parents to determine many physical aspects of their future baby. Eye color, hair color, gender, height, skin tone, are just some characteristics that can be altered or enhanced through this procedure. The main question is this new territory is ethics. Is it ethical for the natural production of a fetus to be altered by genetic modification in order to give the child the desired look? Genetically modifying babies does have some benefits. It can prevent disease and disorders that are caught before birth. This technology can significantly...
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...Blanco 6 Aaron Blanco-Corral Mr. Chavez English 1301 8 December 2015 The Human Desire to Fly ``The desire to fly is an idea handed down to us by our ancestors who . . . looked enviously on the birds soaring freely through space . . . on the infinite highway of the air´´ (Wright n.p.). The unexplainable human desire to fly like birds is rooted from ancient myths to what is now the development of the international space station. The desire of flight is been there since ancient history but the reality of human powered flight, the aerospace industry, was just born in 1903; almost 400 years had to pass before the idea became reality (NASA n.p.). Since the flight of the first airplane in 1903, the aerospace industry has had an impressive advancement that is now affecting our lives substantially; aircraft and spacecraft is being used for mail delivery, research, security, army purposes, transportation, commerce, mail delivery and many other purposes. It is certainly surprising the progress that has been achieved in the aerospace field since 1903. What is the secret of such amazing progress? How could the aerospace industry start modestly and then turn into a multibillion global industry? The drastic evolution of the aerospace industry is accredited to past engineering achievements and the impact of the interests of society. The first real studies of flight were made in the 1480s by the famous Florentine Italian renaissance polymath, Leonardo Da Vinci. Da Vinci is responsible...
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