Week 3-4

Phoenician Alphabet Beginning in the 9th century BC, adaptations of the Phoenician alphabet thrived, including Greek, Old Italic, Anatolian, and the Paleohispanic scripts. The alphabet’s attractive innovation was its phonetic nature, in which one sound was...

Example Assign: 2 – Alexa Pattek

  Alexa Pattek Art85 Internet vs Printing Press     Abstract Which came first the chicken or the egg? This question conjures up the argument of what was more significant or essential, the vehicle in which the subject came to grow or the subject that gives life to the...

Example Assign: 2 – Nick Russo

Nick Russo Internet vs. Printing Press   Throughout human history, there have been inventions and discoveries that have fundamentally changed the way we live. The lightbulb, the telegraph, the book, the printing press, the turing machine, the computer, to name a few....

Printing Press v. Internet

Assignment Two Discuss the impact created globally, culturally and economically by the invention of the printing press versus the Internet. Reading will be Vannevar Bush’s “As We May Think”. Students will be asked to be strong in rhetoric and writing...