...its name The Great Wall of China. As early as the Qin Dynasty we see these tamped- earth structures representing a defensive fortification for the people of China. Since then, future generations have altered the Wall’s image, both physically and ideologically, through the cultural interplay between material reconstruction and historical reinvention. It is this process that Carlos Rojas believes most significantly defines the Wall’s identity, and is directly responsible for the preservation of the physical structure itself. Carlos Rojas suggests that it is important to consider the historical context of the Wall to appreciate its various meaning throughout history. He refers to the different Chinese anniversaries being commemorated, in which they all helped to shape the culture, society, and politics of modern China. At the same, the different ways in which the anniversaries are observed demonstrates the role of contemporary concerns in shaping a vision of the past. Over many generations, ideas are developed about forming the wall, in that different representations of the Wall add to the body of tradition, in which it allows for its historical longevity. Rojan states, the way that the Wall is commonly perceived today is largely influenced by recent attempts to preserve it and assert its status as a national symbol, it is through this historical continuity that there is this process of reinvention of the Wall. In various countries around the world new walls are being built up...
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...African Art ties and deals with the fabric of society because through African art the struggles, liberation, and justice that many Ancestors fought for can be seen and embraced in African art itself. African art consist of shrines, wood carving, and in my biased; different ceremonies, or what one held or thought to be true can be considered as a form of art in itself. African art was sometimes from those of low status or ranking who would create some of the most beautiful art sculptures and pieces by hand however; this work would be made the property of some wealthy individuals, who would then use the art to enhance ones’ own authority. Since the beginning of time Africa has been called mother Africa because of her many contributions that she has given to this world. Africa is the world’s second largest continent, stretching near 8,000 kilometers from South Africa to Egypt. Africa has birthed the indigenous people as well as the ancient Kush, and civilizations that have impacted the past as well as the present. The essence of Africa and what she contains continues to inspire and uplift humanity. Africa was once a culturally enriched continent hat once consisted of many deities and sacred buildings, before colonization took place. Gods and goddesses were once seen as serving their role, catering to the first people who were harmonious with planet earth. The African eye saw things from a holistic view; where everything including the trees, insects, the elements of the earth,...
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...Introduction The rapid changes and increased complexity of today’s world present new challenges and put new demands on our education system. There has been generally a growing awareness of the necessity to change and improve the preparation of students for productive functioning in the continually changing and highly demanding environment. In confronting this challenge it is necessary to consider the complexity of the education system itself and the multitude of problems that must be addressed. Clearly, no simple, single uniform approach can be applied with the expectation that significant improvements of the system will occur. Indeed, any strategy for change must contend with the diverse factors affecting the education system, the interactions of its parts, and the intricate interdependencies within it and with its environment. Following are the few consideration to improve learning. • Integrating the commonly polarized goals of education; i.e. the goal that focuses on transmitting knowledge with the goal that emphasizes the development of the individual student. • Adapting teaching to different student characteristics by using diverse methods of teaching. Adaptation to the ability levels, patterns of different abilities, learning styles, personality characteristics, and cultural backgrounds. • Integrating the curriculum by developing inter-disciplinary curriculum units that enable students to acquire knowledge from different disciplines through a unifying theme while having...
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...Paper Assignment II Art and Society: Renaissance to Modern Art University of Houston Dr. Sandra Zalman Due: November 13 by midnight via turnitin on Blackboard - http://www.uh.edu/blackboard/ This paper asks you to compare two works of art at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, to consider how nineteenth-century artists departed from past academic works to take interest in the new urban spaces of modernity. Go the MFAH and find the following two paintings: Berthe Morisot, The Basket Chair, 1885 (Room 222) Gustave Caillebotte, The Orange Trees, 1878 (Room 222) In your paper, you will analyze the visual relationship between modernism, class and gender, considering both the formal characteristics and subject matter of the paintings you will examine. While attending to the formal characteristics of each work, analyze the ways in which gender and class may play a role in relation to subject matter, composition, and the intended audience. How are the spaces of modernity depicted in these scenes? If the flânuer is the quintessential modern artist, but cannot be embodied by a woman, what is the role of gender in these works? How does the representation of gender factor into the aims of these artists? Construct your argument based on a visual analysis of these two paintings, paying particular attention to how the artist constructs the spaces of modernity, who is depicted and in what way, and how the viewer is, or is not, accounted for. In your a conclusion, consider...
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...Does the internet make you smarter or dumber? There is a complex debate over the internet and whether it is making society smarter or dumber for that matter. The debate focuses on the internet and the intellectuality of individuals and if the internet hinders or is progressing society as a whole. Some critics argue that the internet contributes to the decline of our mental state. On the other hand, others argue the internet promotes and encourages literacy. Is the collective intelligence gained by accessing and using the internet and social media making us a more intellectual society? The answer is found in many skewed viewpoints and opinions. In Nicholas Carr's article in the Wall Street Journal, "does the internet make you dumber", he makes numerous rhetorical appeals to Ethos to establish credibility or the "trust me" appeal. The Ethos appeal of this article produces an appeal towards the author by providing information the author is credible and knowledgeable. Mr. Carr identifies scientific studies suggesting this in not only his opinion, but statistically proven by evidence collected. Mr. Carr also relates to the Nobel Prize winning neuroscientist, Eric Kandel as well as Roman Philosopher Seneca. He also refers to the Cornell study and Stanford study which applies to Ethos as well as Logos. Additionally, Nicholas Carr uses rhetorical appeals to Logos or reason by referring in his article the internet to being "shallow". Mr. Carr uses this sense of reason...
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...Permeating the modern world, technology revolutionizes the existing precepts of society, generating new opportunities and advancements. Moreover, technology provides society access to connect with the world, spread cultures, and learn. However, while technology remains a valuable resource, it can disrupt the inner peace of society and lure many away from their truthful life. As a result, society could be leaving behind their conscience, not thinking about individual importance, but unnecessary global events or social media feeds. Similar to the idea of being spiritually lost, the romantics in the 19th century addressed the way humanity has lost reason to organically think and feel beautiful emotion, conscience, and nature. More specifically,...
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...Halftime show in which singer Justin Timberlake exposed the breast of fellow singer Janet Jackson, the government has made it its priority to influence the entertainment industry to put into place new rules, such as the one in NASCAR, to regulate “inappropriate” material, therefore increasing censorship. On top of this, the industry itself has begun to attempt a type of self-censorship. Although censorship has been around for ages, what is it and why does it exist? Censorship in today’s era is a higher power attempting to prevent disturbing or painful sights, sounds, or any other information form from reaching the public in order to keep a feeling of well moral being. However, the main question in today’s times is whether or not censorship is necessary in today’s world, and if the government should be able to force censorship on the entertainment industry. Though the case involving the NASCAR driver is the most recent ridiculous form of censorship, it has taken place throughout the history of entertainment itself. However, in the past ten years, after censorship laws had begun to loosen, the media and the government has once again begun to pull tighter on the censorship blindfold, covering...
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...Has Liberalism betrayed its classical principles? Classical liberalism seeks to maximise the realm of unconstrained individual action, by establishing a minimal state and a reliance on market economics. These ideas developed a lot during the early industrialisation of the 19th century. Modern liberalism provides a qualified endorsement for social and economic intervention as a means of promoting personal development. These ideas were related to the further development of industrialisation. Classical liberals thought that the best way to promote individualism was to allow individuals to make the most out of their individualism whereas modern liberals make sure everyone has the support network that is needed to become individual. Modern liberalism could be seen as an ideology which betrayed its initial principles; however, it can also be seen as a developed version of classical liberalism. As society changes overtime, ideologies may have to view certain aspects differently to adapt to society. This could have been the case between classical liberalism and modern liberalism. One way this could be demonstrated is with the economy. Classical liberals believed in a market free from government interference and constraint, which is known as free-market economy. Political economists such as Adam Smith were against mercantilism which emphasised the state's role in managing international trade and delivering prosperity. Instead, Smith believed that the economy works best when...
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...and bad breath” (Matheson, p. 34). It is obvious that Richard is not trying to use the traditional horror stories factors: bloody image and terrifying monster. Instead, the loneliness is the tool that Richard uses to bring in the deepest fear in people’s mind. To be specific, it is human impulse for us to pursue companionship, which is why we are living in a society with social interaction instead of single individual life. The webmaster of Clinefantastique online, Steve Biodrowski says in his review of I Am Legend, “The real horror in the book is not the vampires per se; it is the existential dread of being alone, of realizing that one’s culture – the beliefs and assumptions that are an almost unconscious part of daily living – is ephemeral, a construct held in place by society, and if that society disappears, everything else disappears with it...
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...stories express details of an individual who believe that they transcend their past, yet each author conveys this transcendence differently. Obi of “Dead Man’s Path” believes that the traditions of his village should simply be abandoned for a modern view of education and progressiveness, while Dee (Wangero) of “Everyday Use” would prefer to merely plaster her heritage on the wall for superficial display rather than to incorporate it into her everyday life. This paper attempts to explore these differences in each author’s view of the importance of heritage, and how these differences relate to a modern-day epidemic - one that is all but completely erasing any memory of the trials and tribulations by which the predecessors of the current generation built the foundation to the liberty each of its constituents enjoys, creating an incurable state of...
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...me as I’de and prodded, ‘captain, this is madness! High time you thought of your own home at last” (X, 517- 521). This event shows Odysseus’ lack of focus on the goal of getting back to Ithaca; instead he is distracted by the luxuries that Circe provides for him. After Celaena is more seriously confronted with the issue of an evil creature inside the castle she sets out to find more information about the creature and the ancient language associated with it. She is so committed to finding out about the evil she spends all her free time in the library, her room with books, or in the secret passages looking for more information, continuously ignoring her love interest. For example when Celaena spends days trying to crack the code on the tombs wall. This shows her devotion because she puts her wants and personal life aside for her given task and although faced with temptation to run from the evil due to fear she faces it, her opinions set to side. By comparing these two heroes it can be seen that Odysseus is a poor example of a hero due to his...
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...Paper Assignment I Art and Society: Renaissance to Modern Art University of Houston Dr. Sandra Zalman Due: September 18 by midnight via turnitin on Blackboard (http://www.uh.edu/blackboard/) This assignment asks you to visit the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. You will be describing and analyzing a painting in the collection of the museum, paying particular attention to the relationship between the form, composition, and culture of the society from which this painting originated. Then you will contrast that with what you’ve learned about the Northern style of painting, especially considering different Northern priorities in depicting religious themes. First, locate the painting: Giuliano Bugiardini, Madonna and Child with St. John the Baptist, 1510 in room 216 of the Audrey Jones Beck building of the Museum of Fine Arts. Discuss how the painting is representative of the Southern Italian style. How does the artist’s use of color, light and shadow, and composition (relationship of figures and space) affect your interpretation of the narrative? How is the human body rendered, and in what sort of environment? What priorities does this artist have in visualizing the narrative for the audience? After describing the painting, consider the cultural differences represented by Southern and Northern painting. How might this theme look differently had it been painted by a Northern artist? How might a Northern artist have interpreted the same scene differently? How might you recognize...
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...Science fiction literature usually deals with worlds that are different from our own and the consequences of change as a result of new scientific technologies, discoveries, or different social systems. It is the only genre that shows an outsider’s viewpoint on how a society could run in a different manner, allowing us to envision a desirable future and evaluate ways to work towards it or it advises us of the future we should steer clear of and aids us in ways of avoiding it. Science fiction is often observed in a dystopian setting. A dystopia is an imaginary world that intentionally overstates social problems in order to make a point about society's defects. In particular, “The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas” by Ursula K. Le Guin is a science fiction based short story set in a dystopian society masquerading as a utopian society...
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...TS ISSUE #01 – Can Capitalism Lead to Human Happiness? 1. What is the rationale of capitalism according to Adam Smith? It is portrayed as an unintended coordination of self-interested actions into the production of greatest welfare of the whole. 2. What happens if we leave self-interested people to seek their own advantage? Adam Smith argues the result, unintended by any one of them, will be the greater advantage of all. No government interference is necessary to protect the general welfare. 3. Does Karl Marx agree? No, leave people to their own self-interested devices, and those who by luck and inheritance own the means of production will rapidly reduce everyone else to virtual poverty. The few will be fabulously happy, but all others will live in misery. 4. Why will this happen? What will take place if this unintended coordination of self-interested actions takes place, are those who by luck and inheritance own the means of production will rapidly reduce everyone else to virtual slavery. The few may be fabulously happy, but all others will live in misery. 5. Adam Smith and Karl Marx are products of their age. What were world economic/ social conditions like when they were expressing their philosophies? a. 18th Century (Smith) was the rise of Mercantilism, and most of the economy was agriculture. Peasants, growth of colonies, great rivalry. b. 19th Century (Marx) saw a rapidly expansion of manufacturing. Workers in...
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...with innovative theories on exchange and value, exploring phenomena such as Iroquois wampum and the Kwakiutl potlatch. An American, he teaches at Goldsmiths, University of London. He’s also an anarchist and radical organizer, a veteran of many of the major left-wing demonstrations of the past decade: Quebec City and Genoa, the Republican National Convention protests in Philadelphia and New York, the World Economic Forum in New York in 2002, the London tuition protests earlier this year. This summer, Graeber was a key member of a small band of activists who quietly planned, then noisily carried out, the occupation of Lower Manhattan’s Zuccotti Park, providing the focal point for what has grown into an amorphous global movement known as Occupy Wall Street. It would be wrong to call Graeber a leader of the protesters, since their insistently nonhierarchical philosophy makes such a concept heretical. Nor is he a spokesman, since they have refused thus far to outline specific demands. Even in Zuccotti Park, his name isn’t widely known. But he has been one of the group’s most articulate voices, able to frame the movement’s welter of hopes and grievances within a deeper critique of the historical moment. “We are watching the beginnings of the defiant self-assertion of a new generation of Americans, a generation who are looking forward to finishing their education with no jobs, no future, but still saddled with enormous and unforgivable debt,” Graeber wrote in a Sept. 25 editorial published...
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