better. The United States of America is a great example of a country whose culture is comprised of bits and pieces of many other cultures. One culture in particular that has had an effect on many Americans is the Chinese culture. China's long history has seen some extremely important inventions emerge, most noticeably gunpowder, paper making, compass, and silk. Few substances in history have had as profound an effect on human history as gunpowder... and its discovery was an accident
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Renewal by Andersen of Long Island understands that custom-built home windows aren’t a modern concept. In fact, before the founder of our parent company, Hans Andersen, designed an economical system to build and deliver standard window parts to retailers, most home windows were built specifically for each home. At the turn of the 20th century, standardization was innovatory. Today, as scientists explore avant-garde solutions to better serve consumers and responsibly approach natural resource management
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music as “classical,” “folk,” or “popular”? Usually when people define folk, classical and popular music, they have to consider the background and history information. However, not everyone understands its background information. When people want to classify some new kinds of music, without background information, it may create some problems. For example, the definition of folk music relates to 19th century European culture. If people don’t realize its meaning, the definition may interfere their thinking
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Throughout Paris and Europe the art world was consisting changing and in the years of 1889 and 1889 the threshold of debate was between the traditional artist and a new wave of modern artist. Traditional artist believed in the ideology of traditional and aesthetic art as the foundation of art and should not be changed. However, modern artist such as impressionist believed that the old art world was becoming boring and that there needed to be a change. For my inquiry class I was given the opportunity to
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2) Larger societies include groups whose organization can be categorized as bands, tribes, chiefdoms, and states. What type of organizational structure would you argue that the Hutterites fall under? Please explain your reasoning. The Hutterites are a society that, like the Amish and the Mennonites, are a branch of Anabaptists that formed a communal living in the 1500’s based off a belief of pure pacifism, in addition to the separation of church and state. After centuries of living in various
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representational narrative that Marshall uses to try and bridge the gap between modern art and African art. Throughout the comic strip there are many visual elements incorporated into the work, I will point out a few of these. One of the first visual elements that I noticed was the artist’s use of implied time and motion, which is defined as “non-moving image(s) that shows movement through the attributed present in the image.” For example take the stances of the figures and superheroes in the comic strip
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benefit a person in many ways, such as trying to lose weight or get rid of a bad habit. Psychology is something that has been pondered by many great minds throughout history, however modern psychology is a relatively recent science. This is excellently described by Hermann Ebbinghaus, “Psychology has a long past, but only a short history” (p 5). The fundamental questions posed in psychology can be traced as far back as Plato and Aristotle when they asked questions on how the human mind worked.
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Intercontinental University Social Structure HUMA 215 – Topics in Cultural Studies 9/8/12 Abstract Cultural syncretism has transformed and shaped our world today; because of encounters years and centuries before our time we have religion and even art. Our modern culture was contributed to by the happenings of yesterday. Social Structure Introduction The legacies of cultural syncretism in the Americas and Africa can be compared and contrasted with the resistance to cultural change that westerners experienced
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Art Criticism Art criticism involves art description, formal analysis, interpretation and value judgment (Elkins, & Engelke, 2003). The paper gives an art criticism of a piece of art I saw at Lyman Allyn Art Museum by L.F Baeles titled On the Lake. [pic] Identification Title: On the Lake Artist: L.F Baeles Date: 1885 Medium: Oil on Canvas Size: Na Location: Lyman Allyn Art Museum Description On the Lake is a painting art done by an American artist L.F Beales in 1885. The painting
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～The Importance of English in the modern world～ PHAM ANH QUOC Student No.1720131024 Table of Contents 1) Introduction 2) A Brief History of the English Language 3) The Importance of English in the modern world 4) Conclusion 1) Introduction Since the dawn of humanity and the rise of civilizations, language has always played a very crucial role in multiple aspects of our society. In many ways, language could be considered to be the lynchpin, or more accurately, the “brick and mortar“ in the development
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