Essay Outline

Thesis:

        Throughout human history, human kind has always used machinery to advance themselves and their societies. A machine is composed of several parts that each does their own work to accomplish a larger task at hand. Now although machinery has been considered a physical device, some people believe that these devices can grow and has the ability to influence societies. The idea of these “Growing machines” or as we know them as mega machines was emphasized by Lewis Mumford.

1) Lewis Mumford, a brilliant sociologist with many theories about humanity and its role on the earth  and nature.
                        
             A) He began to question what a machine is and he concluded that humanity itself is a perfect example of a mega machine.
                        
              B) Conclusion was made possible by him relating machines to the modern times nuclear    powers.
                         
              C) History that showed this sense of order was in World War 2. 


2) During World War 2, there were several instances of where humanity began to play the role of a mega machine.

            A) During Hitler’s rule, his fascist ruler ship created the first major mega machine in the 20^th century. 

            B) Every man was a cog, a small part for a massive machine, especially in the German military.

           C) Hitler created this massive machine, he was able to conquer almost every nation of Europe.


3) Mega machine manifesting itself can be seen in this time period both in the United States and Germany is their economic boom when they began their campaigns in the war. 

           A)  Help of the private sector and their people to begin manufacturing weapons, vehicles, ships and artillery.

           B) Business in any scenario has the goal to make money. 

          C)  World in itself represented a broken machine. 

          D) Business men and officials required parts to fix this machine to reach their ultimate goal; they needed cogs for the machine.

          E) War allowed them to build this machine, this economic war mega machine.

Questions:
1) Does the outline meet the criteria we discussed on the 12^th? How? How not?

         The outline personally as I look back does not  full meet the standards what was discussed. It does not  hold enough information as being it would have become too opinion based without enough facts. I did not want the essay or the outline to go in that direction without careful planning.

2) Would it have been more helpful to make the outline before writing the first draft or after? Why?

           It would have been much more helpful to design an outline before and during the creation of an essay. Personally i leave specific areas of my essay out of a first draft and first outline to create the backbone of my essay. later on after revisions i create a second outliner with more important deatils and the "meat" of the essay. this allows for a better flow of information.