songs. Similarly, we have our own food habits like eating rice and fish. Again, we have our traditional dress like lungi, Panjabi, shirt, saree and blouse. Nowadays, it is seen that our cultural activities are changing because of the influence of the western culture. So, our young generation is no longer interested in our folk or idyllic songs. They are fascinated by Hindi or English music. In summary, Culture is a part of our life and we are not out of our own culture. We live and grow up in the midst
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ESSAY DBQ2: ANCIENT GREEK CONTRIBUTIONS Many of the roots of Western civilizations can be traced back to the ancient Greeks. They made long-lasting contributions in the areas of art, architecture, philosophy, math, drama, and science. Socrates, Aristotle and Plato were three philosophers. Socrates was a well-known teacher in Athens. Socrates was famous for questioning about life, and also about "why"" Socrates once said to a court "The unexamined life is not worth
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The Golden Age Like a flower in bloom, fifth century Attica is said to be the prime time of ancient civilizations. Much praise is given to the period, and it is coined to be the Golden Age of ancient western history. It is claimed that the Athenians of this time period were very successful in many areas, being “originators of democracy…art, history, philosophy, and science.” (Discovering 54) Comparatively I support the claim for Attica’s golden status because it was the most successful city state
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places, connected by complicated road techniques and structured around large plazas where group costumes would have taken the position. Some believe they were town societies that centered around farming; wood made manageable, and fish farming. Western Management over the New World was depending on three things: the globally illnesses that the people had no stage of capability to avoid and were particularly vulnerable to, such as smallpox. The weapons and artillery that Eurpeans people had to strike
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The Kingdom of Armenian Cilicia was essentially a major epicenter of trade and cultural interaction through the foreign policy objectives of the Rubenid and Hetum Dynasties in the formation of the kingdom during Middle Ages. The transcultural interaction between European, Mongolian, Seljuk, Byzantine, and Mamluk cultures became part of Greater Armenia throughout the 11th to the 13th centuries. Transcultural ideology is defined by Ortiz (1947) when identifies Cuba as another example of the multiple
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and the Romans our modern world would have been different. Who would have thought that those legacies would have a big effect on today's modern world. Ancient Greece is the birth place of Western civilization. There are many ways in which western civilization is like the ancient Greek civilization. According to Greco roman Legacy reading "Our democracies and our dictatorships alike go back to Greek exemplars" Greeks were the first to think of the idea of democracy. The way citizens could
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Minerva Perez Humanities 101 February 3, 2011 Greek influence on the Western world It is always important to look to the past in order to move toward the future. This was done in the formation of Western Society, and more specifically the formation of American society. The Greek culture defiantly served as a huge frame of reference for many aspects of Western life today. Including our government, architecture, math and the arts. Ancient Greek culture served as a very
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Margaret Mead and Coming of Age to Samoa: a reflection on our Education Carlos Moreno This paper is a reflection on Margaret Mead's book Coming of age in Samoa and the way she critically compared Samoan and Western educational systems. I will first analyse the reasons for her research in Samoa and the connections with 'the teenage struggle' in our society. Then, I will argue that the ways in which we live and learn about the world, and relate to each other, are strongly linked to the cultural
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quoted verse above Rudyard Kipling revealed something of the nucleus of the long-lived tradition of Orientalist thought. According to J. J. Clarke, the ambivalence of the West [1] towards the East is age-old. The ”rich cultures,” ”superior civilizations” and ”ancient wisdom” of the Orient have inspired many Westerners, but on the other hand, the threats of its ”monstrous mysteries” and ”absurd religions” hailing from its ”stagnant past” have abhorred at least as many. For many, the Orient has
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Reflections Important Questions Q.1 Why is it insular for European historians to term the centuries after the fall of the Roman Empire “The Dark Ages”? Ans. Although the term “The Dark Ages” is generally applied to the early medieval period of Western European history, specifically, it refers to the time (476-800) when there was no Holy Roman Emperor, or the time (500-1500) when there were frequent warfare and a virtual disappearance of urban life. In either case, it was only the Christened Europe
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