Artisan

First of all the notion of citizen span back all the way to the classical Greek. While modern citizen are available to all who apply to country such as U.S.A, “there were also members of the state who were not citizen” (Dickerson 55). This compose of artisans and slaves, who…

Slavery made the European colonization of North America and the Caribbean possible. Native Americans were the first people to be enslaved in North America. Many Native American societies had practiced different forms of slavery for thousands of years before they ever met Europeans. The Native American practice, however, represented a temporary condition and was more a badge of status than a moneymaking enterprise. Most Native American slaves were women and children either purchased or captured…

The Industrial Revolution is a period in time in which industries are developing at a rapid pace as a result of the progress made in manufacturing and transportation. It began during the years 1750 to 1850 in Britain as it was the ideal starting place since it had an abundance of natural resources such as coal, iron, and rivers. These natural resources coupled with advancements in machinery produced a chain effect that eventually came to change the world economically, politically, and socially…

Zhou China developed a new pathway for ideas in leadership, warfare, and culture. They appeared to the rest of the world as “radical thinkers”, but it was just the beginning of deconstruction of the old political order. (164) This time period was called “the Spring and Autumn period (722-481 BCE)” in Chinese history and was the result of the Warring States period of 403-221 BCE. (164) Warfare was the make up of the beginning of Zhou China with over 500 battles and over 100 civil wars all taking…

Unknown Object Analysis: A Bronze Spiritual Vessel. Crafted from bronze and measuring approximately 30 by 20 by 18 inches, the object's larger form is a rectangular prism, tapering inward towards its base. Atop this is a triangular prism with an identical triangular prism knob at its peak. Comparing it to a day-to-day item, its overall shape is like that of an upright coffin, with broader dimensions at the "shoulder" region and narrowing towards both ends. Notably, intricate details decorate the…

W.E.B. Du Boi believed that instead they should be taught intellectual skills, “If we make money the object of man-training, we shall develop money-makers but not necessarily men; if we make technical skill the object of education, we may possess artisans but not, in nature, men. Men we shall have only as we make manhood the object of the work of the schools—intelligence, broad sympathy, knowledge of the world that was and is, and of the relation of men to it—this is the curriculum of that…

Contrasting to the ‘good’ values, Belasco (2008) argued that convenience is seen to be ‘decadences’ including laziness, neglect, apathy, obesity and moral disrepute (Degreef, 2015).In addition to values and material of convenience, advertising as the communication attributes in convenience works as the guidance of what is good to eat and how does it taste, as people believed more on the advertising, rather than their own palate (Vileisis, 2008). Botonaki&Mattas (2010) also stated that the…

In the past, during the Old Stone Age, everyone was mostly nomadic, meaning they migrated moving from place to place to follow game animals and ripening fruit for survival. Also, during this time early religious beliefs were called animism and that is the belief that the world was full of spirits and forces that might reside in animals, objects, or dreams. Yet, multiple years later there was a Neolithic agriculture revolution, people begin to grow their own crops, which gave them a reason to…

The Trial and Death of Socrates, translated by Benjamin Jowett, is a series of dialogues written by Plato that tell of the court hearing, indictments, and fate of one of the most renowned philosophers: Socrates. Although he is now recognized and praised as the founding figure of Western philosophy and an intellectual genius, he was tried and condemned to death for his practices. Socrates was best known for his unkempt appearance, moral integrity, probing questions, frugal lifestyle, and his use…

Within civilizations there are many similarities and differences. Case in point, geography, social structure, political and governmental systems, economy, technology and culture. For example, Shang and Zhou China, and the Nile River valley. These two civilizations are filled with these types of differences. The geography of China varies differently of that of Egypt. Which in turn, led these independent civilizations to take different paths in culture and other aspects. China, for instance, has…