Assignment1C_WesleyHancock_KhiraanBhika

Wesley Hancock

Khiraan Bhika

Assignment 1 C

Speed in Transport and communication

Historical Examples(Khiraan Bhika)

Contemporary Examples(Wesley Hancock)

Communication(Wesley Hancock)

Over the years, many path-breaking inventions and discoveries have allowed us to continually keep evolving and creating new ways in which communication is possible. Communication is looked at as the sending and receiving of a message from one individual to another.

Our early ancestors developed our first written communication in the form of pictographs.

After utilizing and inventing papyrus, paper and eventually the printing press, we were able to transfer documents over large distance in order to spread knowledge and communicate i.e. Letters.

In modern times we utilize electronic technology to transmit waves and signals over large distances. We use devices such as smartphones which can send and receive phone calls, as well as multiple applications that create instant talk, i.e. Whatsapp and Facebook. We also utilize the internet to upload and download information. The modern era has changed in order for us to communicate and access information instantaneously.

Transportation(Wesley Hancock)

Transportation involves the relocation of objects by an energetic means or mechanism.

Early Nomadic people used to move from living area to living area once the resources were depleted. People used to migrate on foot and hunt by old fashioned running.

With the development of settlements that are ever growing, people needed a more efficient means of transport. With the invention of the automobile, people were now able to travel long distances without burning natural energy consumed by walking. The automobile is credited with sustaining and initiating everyday transport, increased sexual promiscuity and a sense of morality.

Expanding railways have introduced the integration of nations, by trading goods and services and allowing people to be introduced to new customs and cultures.

With ships becoming bigger and more powerful, we have been able to run them larger distances and to transport greater quantities of goods. Ships are durable but not time effective as a large vessel requires a lot of force in order to move.

The invention of flight has allowed us to travel even greater distances than the train in minimal time due to an aircraft not being restricted to the ground. Airplanes have allowed international trade in certain items that cannot be shipped.

A domestic invention has been developed where we can utilize a board called a hover board, which allows individuals to roll on wheels where they can walk. This technology after a few more years should allow us humans to never need to walk again.

Cars and Cell phones in our contemporary world and how the play a role(Khiraan Bhika)

Cars and cell phones have taken people’s lives to another level. It has increased over the years due to advancement in technology and generations that use these two items as a sense of living and making their lives better.

Cars in general have given people the need for people to fit a profile that individuals think they need in life. This is the status quo acting up and creeping into individuals lives. All because of appearance and to make a statement that they think is important for them. People take cars and turn them into their own projects by modifying them, adding rims, lights, new spoilers and the list continues. This is a sign of wanting to become noticed and known by other individuals, only because you want to look the best and feel important which increases levels of an individual’s ego.

There are two ways in which cars play a role of a luxury in life, the first case is people who cannot afford cars and who therefore see the car as a luxury of life that they cannot have. The second case is people who have more than just one car which is expensive and for whom, therefore the car being a status symbol for them.

Cell phones on the other hand have increased rapidly over the years. It has gone from only one in a hundred having a phone to basically everyone having a cell phone in this day and age. In our contemporary times which are today, having a cell phone or any type of cellular phone is a need only because present generations have made this item so important in our daily lives that people will find it hard not to live without them for a week or a day. Cell phones have become more a necessity more than a luxury, by just a touch of a button an individual can do many actions which aim to make life much easier and less complicated all because of technological growth.

Cell phones will only get better and better from today and individuals will only want the best and the latest only because they feel they will be outdated if they don’t not keep up with the times and change. Modern society will always depend on technology; all because it is forced in a way which an individual cannot refuse because unfortunately it is the way the world is turning out to be like. 

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