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Name of of Professor Name of Course 30 November 2013 Book Review - Civilization: The West and the Rest by Niall Ferguson Western world is deemed as a symbol of progress, achievement and dominance in the contemporary world of today.... Also, the scientific progress contributed towards military advantage....
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Tom: Sir, you state in your book that technological progress has failed to make humans happier.... I strongly disagree to this opinion as I believe that today's technological progress has made our lives more efficient and interesting, and thus more happy.... Freud: If the phenomena like production of weapons of mass destruction, atomic and biological weapons and depleting of precious natural resources and ever-increasing spoiling of Ozone layer and consequent global warming, so on and so forth, are the fruits of technological progress which are making human lives more happier than making miserable then you are right....
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This and the Jewish visions of a so-called messianic age, including the vision of a golden age of peace and social justice, became the cornerstone of the Western idea of progress, of Western civilization and of respect for the rules and the law (Perry, 33).... The former occupied parts of Canaan, while the latter settled parts of this location as well....
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civilisation is described as the social process through, which a society achieves an advanced stage of development and organisation and is used to illustrate the state of the society at a particular time and place.... civilisation involves community development to acquire a new… A society bound to civilisation can be described a producing community with a thirst to improve itself by being an instrument of expansion.... For a society to achieve civilisation, it The early human communities were dependent on the nature for food as they were hunters and gatherers....
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The ruthless killings of millions of Jews in World War II are reflective of Cesaire's statement regarding the “moral and spiritual indefensibility” of European civilization and the violence, coercion and brutality that has been enforced by colonizers to intimidate the colonized nations in the name of civilizing them and bestowing upon them economic progress, social prosperity and cultural advancement....
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Maya Civilization by many researchers have also been termed as different groups having unique and different features and norms but all had one thing in common… Maya Civilization were also religious and artistic nation as were the Greeks but Maya had independent political ideology which made them stand as a separate sovereign state....
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The author of the following paper under the title 'War and Its Influences progress of Civilization' gives detailed information about the common beliefs that war is the source of evils, a sign of punishment from gods and that war has the only adverse impact.... Second, war has an impact on technological progress in the medical science arena....
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As the paper "The progress of Civilization in the Modern World" outlines, there are very many aspects that must come together before a community develops to high levels of sophistication which is commonly referred to as civilization.... This is important in the understanding of the major factors that were involved and the main aspects that need to be taken into consideration when determining the progress of civilization in the modern world....
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