The written word has existed since three thousand two hundred B.C. and has changed how humanity functions and evolve forever. It has brought the downfall of civilizations, the creation of civilizations, and has the power to evoke emotions long after written. Writing is a creation that impacts life every day, and not just on the large scale of things. Writing allows for seamless communication, the transmission of information, and provides clarity.
The written word is proof of how humanity has evolved; in prehistoric times, people relied only on sound and now humans can make scribbles and thousands of years later archaeologists will know what it means. Nowadays, writing is used to interact with anyone, it could be a student and a teacher, a
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The mass spread of writing through the printing press, allowed for the spread of different religious beliefs, scientific beliefs, and government reform beliefs. The words on those papers has altered history which has altered life today. The Constitution, a written document, set up an entire government, the United States government, with laws that impact everyday life. It determines what can be said, how people can live their life, who could vote, and gun rights. The Bible is another written document with a power that affects millions of people. If passed down orally, it would not have the following it has today. Writing ideas down has kept them alive and has expanded the reach of them. When concepts are told orally, they are always slightly changed by the person who repeats, and if the person who knows the concept dies, the concept is lost. Having the idea written ensures that the information was not lost or changed. Scientific beliefs have also been kept alive through the written word, the theory of gravity, electricity, and evolution are just a few. Without writing, the theories would have taken much longer to spread around the world and technology would be delayed. Space travel, cell phones, and gene science would all be nonexistent or still in early phases without …show more content…
If following a recipe, the writing on the bottles distinguish four ounces from eight ounces of flour. This makes it easier to make a recipe that requires six ounces of flour. Writing differentiates poison from a bottle of medicine, hair gel from body gel, an enter sign from an exit sign, and a grocery store from a restaurant. It also decreases chance of confusion over possessions, if two people own the identical water bottles, having his or her name on it allows the owner to know which one belongs to him or her. Furthermore, without writing everyone would be constantly confused or lost. There would be no way to travel, people wouldn't be able to tell whether the plane is for Italy or for China, how to reach Universal Studios or SeaWorld, or what street is Avenue J and what is Avenue M. Writing has also made the daily process of receiving goods simpler. Without the numbers written on the paper, money is just useless cotton and linen. People would need to rely on the value of goods in comparison and the luxury of purchasing products from faraway countries would not exist because all trade would need to be done face to
(Hook) Throughout the history of man, there has been numerous achievements in human communication that have changed lives greatly. (Bridge) One of the milestones in communication was the printing press. (Background Info) In 1450, Johannes Gutenberg invented the printing press in Germany. By 1600, more than 200 million books had come off the presses. Therefore, an average person living in Europe at the time could own a book, such as a copy of the Bible. As the number of books being produced increased, the literacy rate increased as well. As a result, people started to read and explore topics such as science, religion, and geography. The printing press led to a major price drop in books, more knowledge learned, and many significant events in history, such as the Age of Exploration and the Reformation. (Thesis) I believe that the most crucial consequence of the printing press was the Age of Exploration.
Without the Mesopotamians we would not have all the luxury we have today. Could you ever imagine a world without writing? You may think, life would not be so bad without it, but without writing we would not have stories, we could not write to the bank, we could not text. Two major contributions made to society were the first forms of writing known as Cuneiform and Hammurabi’s Code.
Centuries ago, man faced a significant transition in society from an oral-based to a writing-based culture. In Phaedrus 274, Socrates said with regard to written culture “Writing will create forgetfulness in the learners' souls, because they will not use their memories; they will trust to the external written characters and not remember of themselves. . . .” Others, such as Plato saw the benefits of writing and recommended that all citizens should receive education in writing. Change was indeed coming, with both positive and detrimental
In the article "the persistence of the word" written by James Gleick, he argues that writing is the hardest technology to erase from our mind. Writing made knowledge more durable stuff, which represented the roots of human history. The author used one-to-one correspondence methods, link examples with explanations to introduced writing into three categories. First, the way of writing. Writing as a technology requires premeditation and special art, it is a competence forever bodying itself in a series of concrete performance. In ancient times writing usually exists on paper or stone, show our respect to the culture, paper and stone is a kind of tools which can inspired immediate detractors, writing on stone is
Writing is one of the many factors which can lead to an unequal world. Writing was “One of the most important inventions in human history” (Prososki, “Writing”). It was believed to come from the Fertile Crescent called Sumer around 5,000 years ago. Over the years, writing has advanced as people created writing and printing systems, which were able to reach
Writing is perhaps the most important building block of communication - after verbal speech, of course. Writing, like most of human civilization, has its roots in ancient Mesopotamia. The first writing systems began in a style known as cuneiform (Cuneiform, 2013). These wedge-shaped markings have their roots in Sumerian culture and were used predominantly for record keeping and accounting. At the archaeological site of Uruk in what is modern day Iraq, a great wealth of knowledge has been gained from the artifacts located there. Uruk was a ceremonial site and is home to the world’s oldest known documented written documents (Price and Feinman, 2013). The documents discovered list quantities of goods that may have been stored at Uruk, leading archaeologists to believe that writing in this part of the world was developed primarily to keep lists of transactions and stockpiled quantities of goods located at the site.
A civilization without any written language would be at a loss. Its ability to communicate and record anything because before man could speak they wrote words down to communicate. Writing is important for civilization because it helps us do things we need everyday, like It helps us create business transactions, It helps us write treaty's, It helps us choose what foods to eat, It helps us give directions. Communicate with others without writing would be no solid form of communication. This impact is in two ways: 1. The ability to accurately record history. That is, to know for sure exactly what someone said or did. This is critically important for passing down knowledge between generations, as it allows for the accumulation of more knowledge than could possibly be kept via oral histories. 2. The impact of this is that writing allows for a system society with a much larger gain of knowledge base than otherwise possible. What we see as technology is really predicated on a foundation of writing. Writing allows for the accurate description of an idea, and one which does not depend on all carriers of that written idea to understand even a little of that idea. Most importantly, writing is required for specialization of a society like, in order to have farmers, merchants, political bureaucrats, soldiers, etc, one must haves in writing. Otherwise, everyone is a hunter-gatherer or farmer. Why was writing so
Literature has long been an important part of human life. We express our feelings with ink and paper; we spill out our souls on dried wood pulp. Writing has been a form of release and enjoyment since the beginning of written language. You can tell a story, make yourself a hero. You can live out all your fantasies!
Writing was the most advance because it was a privilege. It could be used as a tool for power because that’s how laws was made. It could be used as a tool of power over some people because if they didn’t know how to write, you could get them to do something for you. The king or pharaoh could control that power. It does apply and does not because nowadays most people know how to write and the ones that don’t, other people will want something in return.
What benefits does cursive writing hold, if students were to learn? Phsycologists found that if students hand write vs. type they remember better what was wriiten down. Well who said you need to know cursive to hand write? There is something called fine print, and we use that everyday of our lives. You just don't need cursive anymore. That is why it should never be required.
Wood-type printing allowed new typefaces to be created and used for printing cheaper than ever before. Technological advances permitted machine-set typography to be printed on machine-manufactured paper with high-speed steam-powered printing presses. The use of color lithography passed the aesthetic experience of colorful images from the privileged few to the whole of society.
... helped the architecture to have accurate measurements . Another civilization that also developed a system of writing was China. The written language could be easily to read and understand, but when they spoke it it was difficult to understand. This civilization had a big advantage with the system of writing because all parts of china everyone could learn the language even if they already spoke a different language. This helped make a great civilization because it unifies a large and diverse land and this helped to control it easier. One disadvantage it has is that the writing system has a lot of things to memorize. So if you were a wealthy kid and went to a good school you could memorize the major part of the language, but if you were in the lower class and went to a cheap school then you had trouble learning the language because they didn’t teach the whole language
Language existed long before writing, emerging probably simultaneously with sapience, abstract thought and the Genus Homo. In my opinion, the signature event that separated the emergence of palaeohumans from their anthropoid progenitors was not tool-making but a rudimentary oral communication that replaced the hoots and gestures still used by lower primates. The transfer of more complex information, ideas and concepts from one individual to another, or to a group, was the single most advantageous evolutionary adaptation for species preservation. As long ago as 25,000-30,000 years BP, humans were painting pictures on cave walls. Whether these pictures were telling a "story" or represented some type of "spirit house" or ritual exercise is not known.
“Man is an animal that lives in language as a fish lives in water and so written communication is just one of the ways that man can survive through” (English scholar Annie Dillard). Writing is a skill to give information. Like all skills, it is not inborn and so it needs to be learnt. To give information you need good communication skills including the ability to write simply, clearly and concisely (Harris & Cunningham, 1996).
Without photography, there would be no photographs, animation, movies, and television. People would need to draw things they see so that they would be able to share it to other people. A single drawing would take a long time to finish and not all people would be able to draw what they see. Thanks to photography, a single photograph today would only take a second or less to finish. With advanced technology, you would also be able to upload and share it at once after taking a photograph.