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Originally Posted by WhisperingShadow
"Modernity is an unending project"
> Thesis statement
> Introduction
> Argument:
* Man's journey from cave to the moon.
* Modernity; the way and will of the nature
* New ideas transform the world more than anything else.
> Illustrations and examples :
Modernity has brought the mankind a long way:
* From caves to the sky scrappers.
* From millions of deaths by malaria and cholera to the cure of cancer.
* From being under the wrath of floods to the construction of gigantic dams.
* From state of isolation to the connected world of television and internet.
* From the futile flying efforts of Icarus to Leonardo Da Vinci's drawings of the flying machine and the aeroplanes.
* From aeroplanes to the space missions and satellites.
* From barbarian and authoritative regimes to the modern democratic state system.
*From round the year dreadful wars to the world of diplomacy and peace
* From sheer victimization of women to the women empowerment campaigns.
> Conclusion
P.S: There were a few more points in the examples' section but I can recall only this much now.
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Hello, WhisperingShadow !
Referring to your essay outline, I would like to share my thoughts about it.
Sorry to say, your essay seems to portray the technological evolution and progress of the human race. That's not what has been asked in the question. Modernity is a world view and it should have been dealt on ideological and ontological grounds. Per question, one needs to identify Modernity as an idea/ideology and its status in the contemporary world. Has it become "an unending project" ? or is there any possibility of its being evaporated/defeated/deconstructed by any other idea/world-view (existing or new) ? It was a philosophical and theoretical proposition asked in the question. In my opinion, you, unfortunately, could not grasp the core/scope of the question. I hope you would consider my criticism in a positive and constructive manner. Thanks