Paradigms

The Golden Age of Exploration:

A socio-political paradigm shift in which the European nations (Old World) colonise, trade,
and explore the New World (everywhere else but Europe).

The Enlightenment:
Another socio-political paradigm in which the constructs of society: particularly to do with
church and government (feudalism); are challenged by the people for their liberation, which was
pretty huge in France.

The Industrial Revolution:

A cultural and technological paradigm where the manual labour processes of manufacturing
becomes obsolete by the mass production of items which can be produced by machines.

World War I:
A time of chaos, when the world (mostly Europe) is at arms. Alliances between nations are
formed and two real political powers are battling (Allies & Axis). This also affected the individual as
the tragedies of war usually do.

The Internet:
One of the biggest technological advancements, its defining modern society as I write this as
the advancements of communication and entertainment have really come to be amazing.

9/11:
A USA turned global as the threat of terrorist attack becomes the talk of the media. This is
basically where the segregation of Muslims and the stereotypes really become apparent.

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Martin Luther King Jr.:
Anything remotely religious is usually personal so to begin with such an oxymoron such as
god of science captures the individual in the statement. This is the motif that drives the statement
as he goes on to say that this god has given us the atomic bomb. To bring it home, he explores the
social climate of fear and anxiety and how science can never mitigate, indicating a paradigm
shift of how science has affected the social climate.

Herbert Hoover:
Hoover is showing a personal response to the killing power of the atomic bomb, contextually
reflective of man at that time. Indiscriminate killing of women and children is something a man
would say. Hoover deliberately chooses to exclude men from the things that revolt [his] soul
because men are those who conduct the war and orchestrate these killings. Hoover expresses an
informed opinion of sympathy towards those affect by the dropping of the atomic bomb indicating a
paradigm shift.

Julius Robert Oppenheimer:

Theres an ambiguity to this quote that Im sure only someone who created this can truly
know the meaning of. His first sentence is of reality as he states The atomic bomb makes the
prospect of future war unendurable. Prospect is used appropriately because there is choice in the
way the word is received. In his metaphor about the mountain pass he tells us the proximity of
humanity is nearing towards it and that beyond there is a different country. This is the ambiguity
that really strikes me as he doesnt necessarily intend for it to mean devastation of sorts but that the
world is a different place from what it was. Strange but that is how it came across to me. This is
indicative of a paradigm shift as his metaphor indicates that beyond the mountain pass, there is a
different country which is a very ambiguous but sure view of the world.