Marshall McLuhan was one of Canada’s most famous personalities during the 1960’s. Amidst a time when there was a rapid growth in technology and how it was used by the public, Marshall McLuhan was perceived as the leader to this new revolution. He was influential to many of the time, and he was able to understand the necessity to adapt to this new technology in order to survive in society. McLuhan was not only the most prominent theorist in this new culture within Canada, but also across the globe. The primary source that I have chosen to analyze is a clip from the television show Explorations. It originally aired on the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation in May of 1960. In this clip, the host puts a huge emphasis on the new technology driven …show more content…
Dilworth depicts him as a man “unconcerned with matter sartorial” (Moss 17), a man whose dedication is towards his intellect, not his developing fame. Like many intellects before him and many more after, he was a professor who constantly urged his students to question everything. Both Palmer and Dilworth mention relationships between McLuhan and important individuals who had taken over the media in the sixties. These include men such as Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Elliot Trudeau, as well as John Lennon of the British pop group The …show more content…
Despite this, I believe it is important to look at the way in which McLuhan chose to be portrayed in the media in relation to how Dilworth depicts him. Dilworth claims that in public, McLuhan was “stiff, a little pedantic and pompous” (Moss 22) which can most certainly be seen in how McLuhan reacts almost robotically to the interviewers questions. Furthermore, Dilworth places much emphasis in his essay on McLuhan’s role as an educator. This is important to reflect upon his teaching and his comments in the primary source video about the differences between the adolescent and the teenager. He believes that the adolescent belongs to the literary age, and the teenager to the age of new media and technology (8:21-8:24). I found it very interesting that he was a professor of literature, of language, and of philosophy, as mentioned by Dilworth. Although McLuhan was guiding the world into the new technological age, he himself preferred the previous lifestyle of the literary
... and our sense of guilt with his documentary. Which, while is not the most admirable technique, it causes the audiences to start thinking about what they are doing to help or hurt the educational system, and what our kids are receiving from the educators around them.
English, John. Citizen of the World: The Life of Pierre Elliott Trudeau. Toronto: Vintage Canada, 2007. Print.
John Alexander Macdonald was born in Glasgow, Scotland on January 11, 1815. His family immigrated to Canada (Kingston, Ontario) in 1820, Macdonald was five years old at the time. In 1829 Macdonald ended his schooling, his parents could not afford to send him to university. Macdonald would later say that if he had went to university he would have ended up in literature, not politics. (Waite, John, 7-10)
The economic progress Canada made after the war lead to the growth of the country. New industries emerged from innovations of products like automobiles, radios, television, digital computers and electric typewriters (Aitken et al., 315). Canadians quickly adapted back to the “buy now, pay later” strategy rather than careful budgeting during the Great Depression (Liverant). Almost everything that Canadians did was influenced from new inventions; television was the most influential. Canadians conversations, humour, and lifestyle were influenced from television (Aitken et al., 315). Trade relations between the United States and Canada had become more efficient due to the St. Lawrence Seaway. The mass development of the St. Lawrence Seaway, in 1954, was to provide a large wate...
Pearson, Lester B. Mike; the Memoirs of the Right Honourable Lester B. Pearson. Vol. 1. Toronto:
... thought that while a political framework had been created in 1867 the dreamed up union could only last if it was cemented by the creation of a strong national economy - one that would run east-west rather than north-south. The future of Confederation, he thought, hinged upon the development of the West. Without such development, the Americans would take over the West, encircle Canada and inevitably bring about its annexation. Hence, the dream of creating a “separate, peaceful and orderly society on the northern half of the continent” would fade away. Without John A. MacDonald, the Canada that one is currently living in would have been very different. Either viewed as positive or negative to different people, he is truly one of the men that influenced Canada the most, and an “agent of change”. After all, he did not receive the name “Father of Canada” for nothing.
...in 1969 – 2000 like Paul Brown, Chris Heyn and Ram Puvaneasingham used the technology and science to help better Canada’s environment for the future. In the end, Canada has shine throughout the 20th century and it is going to keep advancing quickly throughout life. The growth in technologies and sciences today in Canada started from the past by Canadians and surely humans would not be able to live without it. Would you agree?
Thompson, John Herd, and Mark Paul Richard. "Canadian History in North American Context." In Canadian studies in the new millennium. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2008. 37-64.
Canada experienced the revolution of changing politics and new ideologies, it was a necessary wave
He seems to force what he says, rather than having a natural tone, causing the reader of the article to be left with a feeling of discontent. Although he only focuses on the negatives that those of the past have done, his argument is direct. No matter what generation you are from, it seems one always suspects the other of either ignorance or reckless abandon. It is easy for someone of the younger generation to point fingers at those who raised them, while taking no responsibility to take control of their lives. He does leave the reader with more awareness of a problem students face upon leaving school. This article is a persuasive piece due to the usage of Brooks principle message and literary
As every well-read person knows, the background in which you grow up plays a huge role in how you write and your opinions. Fuller grew up with a very strict education, learning multiple classic languages before she was eight years old. Fern grew up with writers all throughout her family and had a traditional education and saw first hand the iniquities of what hard-working had to contend with. Through close analysis of their work, a reader can quickly find the connections between their tone, style, content, and purpose and their history of their lives and their educational upbringing.
When McCandless first embarked on his journey, he believed that he needed to get rid of all his material possessions to get the most out of life. For example, in one of his first journal entries, McCandless wrote that he was better off experiencing the wild without camera because memories and experiences gave life meaning. From a Platonic perspective, cameras can only capture a fraction of reality and pictures are simply representations of a real event. By refusing to bring a camera, McCandless made a powerful and Platonic statement about materialism. Although materialism can often obscure the human perception ...
... Ed. W. Gordon West and Ruth Morris. Toronto, Canada: A Canadian Scholar? Press, 2000.
Unlike the past, technology is a big part of the global world today. The world is advancing in many different ways and technology is a big catalyst. As each day passes more technological advances are being put into effect. The Center of Technology states that “over just the last five years, technology has been rapidly changing and expanding in every field imaginable” (How Technology Has Changed Our Lives in the Last Five Years, 2013). With this in mind, it is difficult to fathom how much it will change in the years to come. In the past, many years of technology were implemented to change the rotary dialer phone to the “brick” cell phone. Changes now of days come faster than we can