Friday, March 25, 2011

A change in subject! :)


I am back and fully recovered! In fact, I am more lively that ever! During this period, new mass leisure activities developed! New professional sporting events were made for mass audiences,including the introduction of the World Cup competition in 1930. How splendid that at the same time, the Germans had their Olympics, New Zealanders had inaugurated regular first-class matches of cricket! The 1906-1907 season featured the New Zealand State Championships and we often played against our rivals, the Australians. Wow, it really is surprising to see an expansion in mass culture and leisure. With the new cultural and intellectual achievements, there also came a degree of uncertainty. New visions in art and music manifested. Some of them I rather detest! It is true that four years of devastating war left many in a sense of despair. This caused an arise in criticism of Western values. Oswald Spengler, a German writer, emphasized the collapse of the Western civilization. Can you believe this! Although I agree that the first World War left a degree of uncertainty, the idea of the collapse of the Western civilization is absurd. I can understand the the first World War left many civilians with despair and heartache, human beings should not be looked at as irrational animals. I believe humans to be more than capable and I,myself, emphasize on that part.. I also believe humans can live up to their potential and that there is no need to think of both the Western civilization and the human race as a degradation. Anyway, back to more scientific research....
Cordialement,

Ernest Rutherford

Sources
Spielvogel, Jackson. Western Civilization. 6th ed. Canada: Wadsworth, 2006. 776-779.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernest_Rutherford

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