In the article, “Public Speech and the Power of the People in Democratic Athens” by Josaih Ober, the following is stated “classical Athens provides a particularly well-documented historical example of a dynamically stable democratic culture in which a large and socially diverse citizenry directly ruled a complex society that was much too large for a politics of ‘face-to-face’…
beat of eighth note in terms of meter. The instrument that followed after the African Koran was the Veena, which was performed by Saraswathi Ranganathan. This wooden plucked string instrument first originated in India and is mainly used in Carnatic classical music.…
Classical music is the key to a relaxed mind, a happy strive, and the confidence to thrive. Hence, many students can greatly benefit from the fact of listening to classical music during their exams or classwork, because it can help students to relax, be happy, provide them with confidence, and promote better grades and successful students. Therefore, classical music should be allowed in schools. Initially, classical music is the type of music that provides relaxation and creates a just go with…
Ancient Athens, the birthplace of modern politics, had several political transitions, notably from a monarchy, to an oligarchy, to the introduction of true democracy to it’s citizens by Cleisthenes. However, Cliesthenes, the ruler during this time, was not the sole participant in the beginning of democracy in Athens. His predecessors, Solon and Pisistratus, laid very important groundwork such as outlawing debt slavery and attempted to equate the power between the rich and the poor, respectively.…
The loss against Sparta in the Peloponnesian Wars severely weakened the Athenian Empire (P - 247). They suffered economically from the disruption on land and sea. (P - 247). After the war, the Greek city-states focused on trying to re-populate, recover, and re-establish power in the Ancient World (P - 249). They saw one man in the Athenian community as a threat to that. Socrates is a philosopher who lived from 469-399 B.C., in Athens, during the Classic Period of Ancient Greece (P - 250). Many…
Lust in Aristophanes’ Lysistrata is described as a very strong want of sexual desire. In this play, Lysistrata rebels against the Spartan and Athenian war that lasts a great amount of time and motivates the women of Greece to strike against their men by pledging an oath of celibacy until those same men put down their arms in efforts to end the war. This medium for literature not only emphasizes the extremity of the war at hand, but also uses comedy to undermine the commentary of political…
After receiving this assignment, the behavior that I knew I needed to change was my sleeping habits. Usually at night, I will stay up until 4 in the morning because I am either doing homework or messing around with my friends. Since I have to wake up at 8 in the morning for my classes, I only receive about 4 hours of sleep a night. This causes me to take a lot of naps during the day to make up for the missed hours. My roommate always complains that I need to stop sleeping during the day because…
Music in Germany is widely important throughout the whole country. Classical music is by far the most significant type of music; it’s not uncommon for younger children to start off on learning to play instruments or even join orchestras. The main reason why young German children are introduced to music early on in life is so they can learn about all kinds of different forms of music and to also influence the younger generations to partake in all different kinds of music. German music isn’t…
Ancient Greek democracy and French democracy have some similarities, as well as some differences. On the one hand, both democracies have an Assembly, a Constitution and courts of law, although these factors may vary slightly between the two democracies. On the other hand, citizenship is not granted to the same people, the types of democracies are different, and warfare is handled differently. There is a considerable resemblance between Ancient Greek democracy and French democracy. In 510 BCE,…
organism behavior or knowledge due to their experiences. Two well-supported theories in the psychological community are classical conditioning and operant conditioning. Ivan Pavlov, who discovered having a neutral stimulus presented with an unconditioned stimulus creates an unconditioned response leading to a controlled stimulus making a controlled response, developed classical conditioning. B.F Skinner another well-respected psychologist developed operant conditioning, which is when there is an…