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¶ … Features of Modern / Post-Modern Period
Most historians term the era after the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Period, i.e., after the mid-18th century as the Modern Period in history; a period that has seen tremendous changes in politics, sciences, economics, commerce, society and technology. Some of the salient features of the Modern / Post-Modern period have been explained in this essay.
New Standards for Governance:
The American Revolution (1776) and the French Revolution (1789) were significant political and social developments in the later part of the 18th century, which signaled the weakening of powers of monarchies and ushered in new standards for governance and society such as democracy, liberty, equality and fraternity -- standards that have empowered the people and symbolize the Modern Age. Such a new form of government is typified by the United States of America which adopted a constitution that guaranteed the inalienable rights of its citizens and placed a system of checks and...
Totalitarianism:
Ironically, the trend towards liberalism and democracy was reversed in the early 20th century and various totalitarian ideologies such as Bolshevism and Fascism emerged. The Bolshevik Revolution in Russia in the wake of the First World War attempted to create a classless society and forcibly modernizing the age-old serfdom that had existed in a traditional feudal society. Concurrently, an alternate right-wing totalitarian system of Fascism
emerged in Europe that attempted to emphasize Nationalism, a mythical past and a strong leadership as solutions to the modern day problems.
3. Industrial Revolution:
A number of mechanical and scientific inventions triggered the Industrial Revolution in Britain during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The use of engines made it possible to produce enormous amounts of power so that raw materials could be…
Unprecetended developments in the communication technologies (the computer and the Internet) in the last few decades and the eclipse of controlled economies has opened up an age of globalization which has contracted distances, promoted world trade and given rise to a global culture. It also has its downsde -- as it threatens to exacerbate social and economic inequalities and provides new opportunities for global terrorists.
The Post-Modern period generally refers to the period after 1960 but there is no clear cut-off point between the Modern and the Post-Modern eras.
Fascism was successful in gaining power in Italy, Spain and Germany during the period between the two World Wars and Fascist movements also emerged in other European countries.
As mentioned earlier on, the new political dispensation that took off is 1994 opened the "gates of creative possibility" (Roos,2010) for the opera producers since they were therefore able to juxtapose the Western and African art scenes. This was fueled by the sense of renewed intellectual and artistic access that way created by the new political dispensation. According to Roos (2010), theoretically, the new political dispensation culminated into an
What is certain from all three films is that technology essentially shapes the way in which modern stories are told. Abstraction and Cinematic Modernism Cinematic modernism, as defined by a certain purposeful ambiguity and a rather high level of abstraction, has become a prominent feature of many films made in the past several decades. Rather than making meaning less apparent in films through the lack of concrete and certain interpretations of
Origins, History of the IMF The International Monetary Fund was first conceived between July 1-22, 1944, at the United Nations Monetary and Financial Conference in Bretton Woods, New Hampshire. The conference was attended by representatives of 45 nations, which were called together in order to plan and lay the groundwork for a cooperative economic framework to solve global financial crises before they occur. One key reason for the conference was to
As activists in women's liberation, discussing and analyzing the oppression and inequalities they experienced as women, they felt it imperative to find out about the lives of their foremothers -- and found very little scholarship in print" (Women's history, 2012, para. 3). This dearth of scholarly is due in large part to the events and themes that are the focus of the historical record. In this regard, "History was
Consequently, his observations concerning the business climate in Saudi Arabia with respect to the significance of religion in the Kingdom can be considered authentic. According to Indris, with respect to the perception of performance and contractual obligations among Saudis, "It should be noted that the issue is not with the belief itself but rather with people's misguided interpretations of the belief and Islam teachings. While Islam teaches that ultimate
1.2 Purpose of the Study The purpose of this study is two-fold as follows: 1. To identify the optimum approach and metrics for measuring the efficiency of Malaysian banks; 2. To analyze archival financial performance data using the optimum approach for measuring the efficiency of Malaysian banks to determine historic efficiency levels in an effort to identify opportunities for improvement in the future. 1.3 Importance of the Study The importance of the study directly relates to the