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Ong, 2004.
This paper looks at Ong's theory of reality.
1,350 words (approx. 5.4 pages), 2 sources, MLA, $ 47.95
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This article discusses Ong's theory of reality. In this study, the writer makes use of three different examples in order to examine the theory of reality. The writer looks at the Adler planetarium, Galileo and the Star Wars movie. The writer explains how these three subjects all represent Ong's theory of situational reality.
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"Galileo the mathematician and astronomer who championed the Copernican theory of the Sun being the center of the universe and the Earth revolving around the Sun was condemned by the Catholic Church and forbidden to publish his works on the subject. The church condemned these theories because the church did not want to entertain any thought other than that the Earth was the center of the universe. According to their beliefs and teachings, God created the Earth and therefore it must be the center ... "
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Ong and McLuhan, 2004.
This paper discusses Marshall McLuhan's book "Understanding Media: The Extension of Man."
675 words (approx. 2.7 pages), 3 sources, MLA, $ 23.95
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The paper examines Marshall McLuhan's book "Understanding Media: The Extension of Man," and his concept of "The medium is the message" in terms of Ong's theories of orality and oral cultures.
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"Ong's theories of orality make the claim that since oral cultures have no fixed texts, they organize and transmit information in unique ways and the basis or oral thought is memory. Orality relies on the oral visual world. Ong believed that Words come into being through time and exist only so long as they are going out of existence; when I pronounce "reflect," by the time I get to the flect, the re is gone and necessarily and irretrievably gone."
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Changing Global Economy, 2002.
A comparison of the academic articles on the impact of the changing global economy by Aihwa Ong and Arjun Appadurai.
905 words (approx. 3.6 pages), 3 sources, MLA, $ 32.95
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This paper examines and compares of the scholarly articles, ?The Gender and Labor Politics of Postmodernity? by Aihwa Ong and ?Disjuncture and Difference in the Global Cultural Community? by Arjun Appadurai, which both offer perspectives on the impact of the changing global economy. The paper illustrates how each author takes a different view on the same theories; one investigating the industrial regions of Mexico and Asia, and the other provides background information to support the anthropological concepts.
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"In ?The Gender and Labor Politics of Postmodernity? Aihwa Ong discusses the situation in the modern industrial work environment, also focusing on the role of women in this environment. Ong argues that there is a gap between what the literature says is happening and what the real experiences of workers are. In the essay, Ong attempts to show what the real situation is by looking at the labor worlds of Asia and Mexico. Ong then argues two main points. Firstly, that ?industrial modes of domination go beyond production relations strictly construed? (Ong 62). Secondly, Ong argues that worker?s struggles against control are based on what Ong calls ?cultural struggle? rather than class struggle."
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Virtual Literature, 2005.
An analysis of two articles on virtuality or virtual literature.
4,140 words (approx. 16.6 pages), 5 sources, MLA, $ 143.95
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This analysis focuses on two articles on virtuality or virtual literature, including "The Condition of Virtuality" by N. Katharine Hayles and "The Written Word" by Walter J. Ong. The analysis compares and contrasts the views of Ong and Hayles on computer or electronic literature and conventional printed texts. Both Ong and Hayles maintain that virtual literature expands not limits subjectivity and the learning process from the flow of information.
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"Meaning is culturally constructed The word first orally transmitted then transmitted through print and now electronically transmitted remains paramount in the creation and transmission of meaning. Walter J Ong suggests that the .."
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Intellectual Property in Oral and Literate Cultures, 2001.
Why intellectual property rights exist in literate cultures and do not exist in oral culture.
2,500 words (approx. 10.0 pages), 11 sources, MLA, $ 75.95
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This essay is an in-depth analysis of intellectual property law in an historical context. The specific history can be divided into two periods of cultural development, orality and literacy. The concept of intellectual property (individual ownership of creative work) was not present in oral cultures, but it is enshrined in law in literate cultures. This essay draws on the works of communications scholars like Walter Ong and Dan Lacy in order to establish these facts, and then proceeds to analyze them using one of Marshall McCluhan?s most famous insights, that ?the medium is the message.? What this essay shows is that the medium of information preservation in oral cultures is fundamentally different than that of literate cultures. One medium supports the concept of intellectual property, and one does not. In other words, the medium determines the morals of the time. What is considered theft in literate culture is just sharing in oral culture. This examination of intellectual property in historical context is especially relevant today, with the current legal disputes over intellectual property in the music industry.
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"At this moment in 2001, intellectual property is a hot topic. The right to own an idea is being debated in fields as disparate as medicine and the music industry. In historical context, however, intellectual property is a relatively new concept. The first modern copyright law only emerged in 1710 and the People?s Republic of China did not have a copyright system until 1991. In contrast, the first known cave painting dates to 31,000 BC. Humans have been creating for thousands of years, but those expressions were only defined as personal property quite recently. The exact moment of this definition is still debated by experts: some say it came with the first copyright law, some say it began with the printing press in 1436, and others say that it emerged with ?the artist with a markedly individual personality? in 6th century BC Greece (Ploman and Hamilton 5). Regardless of the specific point of division, copyright as we know it today was not present in ancient oral cultures (Bettig 11) and is not present in modern oral cultures like that of the Balinese (Ploman and Hamilton 4). Why the concept of intellectual property is evident in highly literate cultures and not in oral cultures can perhaps be best understood in terms of the social and political context of their respective historical periods. One explanation that emerges is that the chosen mediums of oral and literate cultures are qualitatively different and that each engenders a different set of social norms to guide intellectual production. What this paper seeks to do is to pursue this line of questioning by discerning what the medium was for each culture, analyzing the nature of each medium, and, finally, explaining how the medium determined whether or not the concept of intellectual property emerged."
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