...In the 1920s and early 1930s a movement called the Harlem Renaissance took place. This was a literary, artistic and intellectual movement that created a new black cultural identity ("Harlem Renaissance," n.d.). There was an important group that was created during the Harlem Renaissance known as the NAACP. Also, there were important trials such as Sacco and Vanzetti, and the conviction in Scottsboro, Alabama. During the Harlem Renaissance many famous writers such as Paul Dunbar, and Langston Hughes wrote about what african americans experienced during this time. An influential poem written by Paul Dunbar during the Harlem Renaissance is We Wear the Mask, which talks about disguising our feelings. Langston Hughes also wrote influential poems such as I, Too and Song for a Dark Girl . There were many important things that happened during the Harlem Renaissance, including the creation of influential poems by...
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...When people say Black Death, you know it's a bad thing. Yet, what people don't know is there were good effects. From death, to a place populating, to people becoming secular, there were ways the Black Death was both positive and negative. There could’ve been tons of things that started the Renaissance, but the Black Death is the best known. A reason the Black Death is known as terrible than bad iis because of the death part. On Source Text One, paragraph five, it states “It has been estimated that 40% of England’s Priest did in the epidemic.” Thus making everyone think “If 40% of priest died, how many people had died?” at one point or another. Another reason is when Source Text One had written down that “Filled with under qualified and...
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...Harlem Renaissance was a time of explosive culture and growth in the black community. During this time in the 1920s and 30s, it was not only the birth place of jazz but also we heard voices of the African American Authors who were taken serious by their white connects for the first time in history. It focused on portraying black culture and life in the ghetto. And it gave the African American Culture uniqueness within literature and art. Harlem Renaissance was an evident racial pride that symbolized the melodic theme of the New Negro. New Negro challenged the penetrating racial discrimination to encourage socialistic help of art and literature. As to be significant in the Harlem Renaissance the writers used poetry to present the African American experiences. Grabbing the attention between both black and white readers around the world. One Poet that set that bar really was Langston Hughes he was one of the most popular black poets of the Harlem Renaissance. Hughes was great at his job with more diversity in his choice of writings. He had written Plays, Novels, Poems, and Short Stories, Most of his writings were the real situations that really happened in black cultures. Movies were highly looked up upon in the Harlem Renaissance. D.W. Griffith directed “The Birth of a Nation” the film was over African Americans directors who countered negative stereotypes promoted in majority of the mainstream movies. Then released films in The Harlem Renaissance showcased the struggle of the...
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...life during his time. Mencius spoke of the deaf and the blind often and the terrible events that had happened to them. According to Mencius “the natural goodness of humans had become perverted by the circumstances that they had raised. Yet he also says that “A person has the potential to become perfect.” One cannot discuss Confucianism without at least mentioning the man the Chinese call "The Second Sage," Meng Tzu, or in Latinized form, Mencius (372-289 B.C.) Mencius, like Confucius and Mo Tzu before him, concerned himself entirely with political theory and political practice; he spent his life bouncing from one feudal court to another trying to find some ruler who would follow his teachings (Hooker, 1996). Looking at the philosophy of Mencius, One of the main concerns that some may have with his philosophy is the matter of the natural goodness of humans has become perverted. Mencius mentioned that a person also has the ability to become perfect. I don’t necessarily believe that any one person can become perfect. One might be able to call it perfect in their mind, but in the mind of another they would not be called perfect. To phase that a little different “I could see myself as perfect and you would not see me as perfect.” Mencius says that by recovering your lost mind and forgotten heart and feeling and thinking naturally is the key. There are some realities to his philosophy but I have yet to meet one person that feels and thinks naturally. How do we really know what...
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...The Prince illustrates the increasingly secular outlook of the Renaissance by describing the fortunes that were acquired during those times as a result of dubious politics. These fortunes are directed towards Lorenzo Medici, the prince this book is dedicated too, which basically is like a guidebook for how to be the greatest prince in all the land. Not only does The Prince describe the fortunes of the Renaissance, but also how to acquire these fortunes with strength and power. An important aspect of the Renaissance was the introduction of humanism, which is the belief that human beings are worthy of scrutiny and are genuinely good creatures with potential value. By reading The Prince, I felt that the sinister tactics of gaining absolute power...
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...THEATRE HISTORY INSTRUCTOR: THAR 281 Fall 2013 Exam #1 Review What is Theatre/ The Origins of Theatre: 1. Define “theatron” the seeking place 2. List the specific areas of theatre: Performer, spectator, text, visual elements, spectators 3. What are the three types of playing spaces discussed in class? a. Proscenium b. Arena c. Thrust 4. What are the three areas of design discussed in class? What are the purposes of each? 5. What are the two most ESSENTIAL elements of theatre? Audience and performers 6. Performances developed in the moment of performance (without a formal written text) are known as 7. Define and cite examples of ritual. Ritual - the acting out of an established prescribed procedure. Example: aggie ring dunk, midnight yell, Thanksgiving 8. Define and cite examples of ceremony. -Ceremony- formal religious or social occasion, usually led by a designated authority figure -Examples: Wedding, funerals, church ( pastor has to keep the audience engaged), music 9. What is the primary distinction between ritual and ceremony? Ceremony is led by an authoritative figure 10. Define efficacious: done with expecting results 11. Define methexis: Group sharing 12. It is commonly accepted that theatre developed through: myth, ceremony, and ritual 13. Examples of theatrical performance can be seen in everyday life through People telling crazy stories about what happened to them and acting them out with hand signals etc. -Imitation, role...
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...y to stream video. Alternatively, assign students to watch the video on their own or in groups. After soliciting student responses to the video, continue the lesson by implementing hands‐on or discussion activities to deepen the impact of the media – ideas are provided in this guide. Making the Most of Media The following activity ideas may be used in the classroom after viewing the KQED video In the Studio with Jeremy Sutton. Drawing as a Foundation San Francisco based artist Jeremy Sutton believes that drawing represents the “root and foundation” of everything he creates. Creating unique and original drawings, he uses pastel, conté crayon, charcoal and ink. He also draws inspiration from historical artists, such as Renaissance artist Titian. When visiting galleries and museums, he often will copy drawings he...
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...An intense rivalry between communist and non-communist nations led to the Cold War. It's called the Cold War because it never led to armed or "hot" conflict. At the end of World War II, at the Yalta Conference, Germany was divided into four occupied zones controlled by Great Britain, France, the Soviet Union, and the United States. Berlin was also divided into four sections. Lack of a mutual agreement on German re-unification was a important background of the Cold War. And on March 5, 1946, Winston Churchill, gave his "iron curtain" speech while at Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri, which marked the start of the Cold War. The cold war did not end until the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991. During this period, the United States and the USSR confronted each other in politics, economy, ideology, and so on. And they nearly divided this world into two camps, socialist camp and capitalist camp, what made the conflict on ideology especially sharp. Every incident in the world could not happened without reasons, and the original cause may happened quite long ago. So there are long term causes and short causes of the Cold War. One of the short term causes is that the US President had a personal dislike of the Soviet leader Josef Stalin. At the Potsdam Conference starting in late July 1945, serious differences emerged over the future development of Germany and Eastern Europe. At Potsdam, the US was represented by a new president, Harry S. Truman, who on April 12 succeeded to...
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...Romeo and Juliet Essay - Critical Commentary Critical Commentary Opening Prologue: The first act prologue not only reveals what will happen during the course of the play, but also some of the major dichotomies. The opening line shows us that the Capulet and Montague houses are, although at odds, equal in their aristocratic status. It was considered "fashionable" in the Renaissance for aristocratic families to have feuds, but they were not to engage in public fighting, a taboo which is broken by the Capulets and the Montagues. However, line 4 indicates that these equal families are in an ungoverned situation where no rules will be obeyed, which is why they are able to fight. The Chorus reveals one of the most important themes of the play in line 5-8, which is that Romeo and Juliet are destined not only to love each other, but to die, which will end the feud. The fact that Shakespeare tells us the end of the play before it even begins is intentional—this creates a tension between what we as the audience know must happen, and what could have happened if the characters had acted differently. Thus the theme of fate versus free will emerges: do Romeo and Juliet die because it was their destiny, or do they die because of their actions and the actions of those around them? The third major point that surfaces in the opening prologue is one of extremes. There is extreme hatred between the Capulet and Montague families. The only solution to...
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... The history behind the theories. The world is made up of hypothesis and theories for why we acquire what diseases, and who was responsible for finding the answers. It is relative to say that history has taught us a lot about who, what, when, where, why and how of health and wellness. Some common concepts and theories of disease are humoral, anatomical, and germ. The humoral concept is one that describes how four elements are noticeable in disease deterioration, while the anatomical theory describes how our insides show us what disease is what, now the germ theory basically brings about the fact that bacteria is one of the leading causes for disease. All three of these theories are different in style as well as theory, but similar in many ways as well. They all come together with one common purpose, to find the disease and rid the human body of it. Now, let us get into more detail about the humoral theory a bit. What is so humorous about a disease? Nothing, because disease is no laughing matter, but something that is a fun fact is how the humoral disease came about. The humoral disease started out about the four elements: Earth, Air , Fire, and Water. What I feel is a bit comical is who brought together the humoral theories, Greeks during the Renaissance era. They felt that if one of the four elements in a persons body was out of balance, then whatever physically happened was the cause and not something internally. How they determined the roles of the elements was a breakdown...
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...■ ■ Philosophical Underpinnings The Beginnings of Modern Psychology The Response: Behaviorism Behaviorism’s Success How Do Cognitive Psychologists Study the Mind? ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ What Behaviorism Couldn’t Do Failures of Behaviorism to Account for Human Behavior The Computer Metaphor and Information Processing The Behaviorist Response Abstract Constructs in Other Fields So What, Finally, Is the Cognitive Perspective? ISBN: 0-536-25527-X Cognition: The Thinking Animal, Third Edition, by Daniel T. Willingham. Published by Pearson Prentice Hall. Copyright © 2007 by Pearson Education, Inc. 2 Chapter 1 Have you ever wondered how we see or how we remember things? Have you ever contemplated the strange nature of attention? I didn’t think so. Most of the people I know do contemplate how the mind works, but only when their mind lets them down. They contemplate memory (“Why can’t I find my keys?”), attention (“I want to find my keys, so why can’t I concentrate?”), and vision (“How could I not see my keys when they were right in front of me the whole time?”). Questions such as “How does vision work?” seem somewhat interesting, but no more interesting than thousands of other questions. It’s like someone asking you whether you want to know about the history of guitar making. “I don’t know; maybe. Is it interesting?” Truthfully, “How does vision work?” is a bad question because it’s too general. In cognitive psychology, as in most fields, the devil is in the details, but...
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...Course Project Hosp 590 Keller Graduate School of Management October 20, 2013 Introduction The event that will be planned will be the wedding between Jenna and Rob. This wedding is themed “A midnight walk in the park” and offers a variety of different activities and amenities for guests. The event will occur at a major Chicagoland hotel with a centralized location to airports, shopping and other tourist activities. One notable impacting factor to the event is the demographic of guests. The bride’s family contributes to over half of the attendees. The bride’s parents have also been divorced for over fifteen years with lots of tension between the families. It will be critical when planning the event that components are added into the wedding plans to help prevent conflict and reduce the risk associated with guests not being able to attend a joint event together. Planning to match the selected theme and carry tones of the theme through all elements of the event will lead to events success and ensure that the happy couple and other guests are attend a wedding to remember. Stakeholders The wedding between Rob and Jenna has a variety of different stakeholders with many different goals and objectives. The first set of stakeholders includes the bride and groom, Jenna and Rob. The happy couple have the goals to have a successful event day, memorable wedding with each guest feeling as though they have escaped the Chicagoland area for an evening and entered a park at...
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...Running Head: Introduction to Accounting 1 Introduction to Accounting Jesse Vitkow ACC/280 1/18/2012 Maria Aurora Makalintal – Torio The public be damned; I am working for my stockholders William Vanderbilt The beginning of accounting can be attributed to a time period of the Renaissance. In the late 1400’s, Italy was a dominating factor when it came to commerce and mainly distribution. In order for the market to stay a float and prosper, mathematicians were called upon to see that all transactions be notarized; and this is when a man by the name of Luca Pacioli came about. In his 1494 text Summa de Arithmetica, Geometria, Proportione et Proportionalite, Pacioli described a system to ensure that financial information was recorded efficiently and accurately. It was central to the success of Italian merchants, necessary to the birth of Running Head: Introduction to Accounting 2 the Renaissance. Industrial Revolution firms required accountants to provide the information necessary to avoid bankruptcy and their role developed into a profession. (Weygandt, Jerry J., Financial Accounting 6e, (Ch.1) copyright © 2008 John Wiley & Sons, Inc .) Centuries later, the United States of America was born and still in the early stages of commerce. By the 1970s and 80s, American production management and cost accounting seemed obsolete...
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...words but my roommate Nolan had a point. ‘… What I mean is that you are not a classical type of person; you’re on your way to become a politician and an aspiring scientist and a philanthropist like Bill Gates. You have potential but you don’t flaunt it. You are contradiction…’ His point verged on being a compliment. Laughing at his observation I responded to Nolan: ‘Well Nolan, I am a product of my own environment.’ I was an antsy baby born at the time when my dad was doing his military service. My curious soul has always pursued to learn everything it could. My passion for learning has evolved to be more powerful than ever, which leads me towards a path where I want to discover more about who I want...
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...Origin of History of Western Science, Could It be Barbarian Incursion? The history of science that we have been hearing and seeing till today and what we were taught at school was the theory that says that the origins of science is western, this is the only theory that we have known till we came to this class, according to his theory all the sciences that we know originated in the hands of the westerners or the “whites”. This theory is the one that has been spread and supported by the westerners to gain and maintain the soft power from the history of science. According to this theory all the theoretical and philosophical foundations of all the sciences we know were done by the Greek philosophers during their time, Greek philosophers such as Aristotle and Socrates are given the credit for most of these things. Then came the Dark Age and during which nothing much happened and then came the days of the Renaissance during which the European countries took initiative and did major contributions to science by doing the practical applications and proving the philosophical concepts of the Greek philosophers. These include the works of people like Einstein and Newton. This theory is the theory which is supported by the western textual sources and sources like Wikipedia. The alternative theory provided to us by Professor CK Raju, which says is that the Origins of western history of science and not Greek. According to this theory all sciences are universal and if so it does not make for...
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