Berghaus, Günter. Futurism and the Technological Imagination. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2009. Print.
Many great changes affected Italy throughout the second Industrial revolution. It demonstrates how Marinetti, the author of the Futurism Manifesto, experienced the beginning stages of industrialization in Italy. Marinetti discussed his visions of life and art during the machine period. Futurism is defined as a movement that was devoted to "the enthusiastic glorification of scientific discoveries and modern machines".
Italy entered the age of mobility. Railway networks expanded many kilometers. Italy became a mobile society. Italian engineers also began assembling automobiles. The automobile represented the human desire to overcome the limits of time and space. However, the speedy motor vehicle praised by Marinetti in the Manifesto of Futurism was not a consumer. It was a racing car. Marinetti believed that the world had been enriched by the beauty of speed. It was this insistence on speed and dynamism that became a characteristic of Futurism.
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Futurism was an Italian artistic movement that that began in 1909. It rejected the traditional forms of art that were confined to just the canvas and statutes of old. It celebrated and incorporated the energy and enthusiasm of modern technology: Filippo Marinetti created Futurism. In the launching of this movement, Marinetti took his understanding of space and time, but also commoditized the enhancement of them. This concept helped to shape modernism and the generalized concept of the future through art. He is an artist of many forms: Painting, music, plays, film, scenic design, and dance. Through these mediums, the Futuristic medium embraced industrialization and technical invention to go against Mussolini’s fascism at the time.
Italian Neorealism concentrates on the troubles of working class population of post-war Italy. It dates after the end of World War II, as Italy’s and its people’s psyche and conditions of everyday life were going through major changes. Italian society was facing poverty, oppression, injustice, and desperation; each being major themes in neorealist films. After Italy’s dictator, Benito Mussolini’s (1883 – 1945) execution and Italy’s liberation from Germany in April of 1945, the nation begun to break from old notions to new ways, also know as the Italian Spring . This conformation also affected the film industry that turned towards new (neo) realistic approach. In Italian film history, neorealism is defined as a movement or a trend, rather than an actual school or group of theoretically motivated directors. Ossessione (...
After President William McKinley’s death in September of 1901, Vice President Theodore Roosevelt took upon the position as President.
Postmodernism has always been somewhat present during every generation of people in America. In fact, it alludes to future ideas that are cutting edge when compared to the theologies of the modern times. The Emergent church can be classified as postmodern, because it is in fact an “emerging” movement. Perhaps the question we should ask is if it’s just a phase in America, or is it here to stay? We should first answer the questions that it brings up, before we can answer what it actually represents. However, there is one thing we do know, which is that the name comes from the fact that this “movement” is gradually changing the philosophy of Christianity.
Since the dawn of mankind, humans have always expressed a desire to understand natural phenomenon and to answer questions regarding their way of life, their birth and what happens after death. These needs resulted in the development of a variety of philosophies and theories that can be found all around the world today. These beliefs soon became more and more superstitious. Once these beliefs became part of the social structure like castes and race, these caused a social divide - A divide that affected the economic status of the livelihood in a society. If this trend of religious discrimination around the world is observed and analysed, I felt that this question might be the key to predict how bright our future as a united utopia will prevail.
Utopia is a society that you really can’t wrap your head around. In Utopia it talks about Thomas, Raphael, Peter how they met and what they think they about the society. It ask you questions that really makes you think, would I want to live in this society? Utopia talks about how they are a perfect society but it makes you wonder if they really are. (More, 2011)
...nt. This depiction is imaginary. Dystopian fiction uses feats from reality and talks about them but doesn’t depict contemporary societies in general. These stories take place in the future but are about the present and sometimes the past. These tales emphasize the sense of powerlessness of the individuals in the face of the government with much brutality that is run by a totalitarian dictatorship. (http://www.utopiaanddystopia.com/dystopia/distopian-elements-and-characteristic/)
...ito Mussolini had many effects upon the neorealist movement such as the Institute LUCE and the “Cinema” journal. Telefoni Bianchi, which was prominent during Fascism, was too unrealistic for many of the Italian neorealist directors. Therefore, in a reaction to Telefoni Bianchi, these directors wanted to show more of the gritty and simple side of Italian life after the war. Just like Fascism had an impact on neorealist cinema, neorealism also impacted new movements such as new wave films as well as modern cinema. Pier Paolo Pasolini summed up neorealism when he said “…Passions were so strong right after the War that they really pushed us, they forced us towards this kind of film truth. And this truth was transfigured by poetry, and lyricism. It was because of if its lyricism that Neo-Realism so captured the world because there was poetry in our reality” (Gallagher).
“There is nothing outside contingent discourses to which a discourse of values can be grounded—no eternal truths, no universal human experience, no universal human rights, no overriding narrative of human progress. This assumption carries many radical implications. The foundational concepts associated with artistic judgment such as “universal value” and “intrinsic merit,” with science such as “truth” and “objectivity,” and with ethics and law such as “rights” and “freedoms” suddenly have no meaning outside of particular discourse and are deeply involved in the qualities they are alleged to be describing objectively’’ (Faigley 1992, p. 8).
As a child, other than dreaming that in the future I wanted to be a princess, like any other girl, I have never once strayed from the fact that I wanted to go into the medical field. I have always been sure of what I wanted and I have taken my high school career very seriously. I decided against traditional foreign languages like Spanish and French to do Latin instead because I knew that it would help me in the medical fIeld. Unlike other seniors, I have decided not to take it easy this year, but instead to really challenge myself in preparation for the future. I have been called absolutely crazy by my peers and even my guidance counselor for doubling up on my science this year, with AP Biology and Honors Anatomy and Physiology. In addition
Two brothers Walt and Roy Disney founded Disney Brothers Cartoon studio on October 16, 1923 in Los Angeles, California. It started when Walt Disney was contracted to write the Alice comedies, which is the foundation of the film Alice in wonderland. After losing his contract Disney needed to create a new character in order to stay in the animation business, and he created Mickey Mouse. Mickey Mouse soon became the mascot for the Walt Disney Company as they expanded to create a variety of cartoon series such as the steamboat cartoon series, the silly symphonies and Walt Disney’s first animated film Snow White and the seven dwarfs(Smith,2004). Although he continued to flourish in the animation industry Walt Disney dreamed of creating a place where
Growing up in Africa as a millennial wasn’t easy. Over their dreams are like fairy tales something imaginal. I was stuck living a gen x live a live that is not main, people tell me what to do all the time. The poverty, poor economy, and the lack of education all played a big roll to evolve a millennial like me into a Gen X. every time I tried to do something new a wall of judgement stops me from it. I felt like I had been dragged down into the “save zone” as many old people called it. Many old people believe that millennials are lazy, stupid, undependable and can’t focus because they don’t know what is best for them. However, how anyone will know what is best for him/her without trying it first. I don’t want to be
Therefore, the key to creating a successful utopian society lies in the participants themselves, their willingness to take part in the society. A profitable utopian must consist of a small cross-section of the larger population who are admitted by application as their specific trade or skill is needed to serve the community. When the population consists of only 100 hand-picked participants, currency is no longer required, and it is understood that all people must combine their specific talents to survive, or they must leave the village. In order to promote a sense of well-being and health, participants are encouraged to interact directly and daily with nature, and rely on each other for entertainment and personal enrichment.
To remain competitive and employable in the twenty-first century workplace, society today must conform to the changing demands. Technology is one of the principal driving forces of the future; it is transforming our lives and shaping our future at rates unprecedented in history, with profound implications, which we cannot even begin to see or understand.
Now that we have explored my past, present, and future experiences with diversity, it is time to see how they are present within and effect each other. Firstly, let’s look into how my future is present in my past. The most obvious portion of my future that is in my past is my willingness and efforts to love and include everyone and to spread this world view. It took a fellow classmate of mine to demonstrate to my third grade self that we are all human beings and we all deserve to be treated as such. In my future, I aspire to demonstrate this world view to my students and inspire them to treat each other accordingly. This aspiration directly reflects my world view struggles I went through in third grade, for I want to help my students come to