Crime against humanity

Society can play a big role in making a person who they are and affect their traits. It can change a mood of someone in an instant and control their feelings and actions. But when contrasting different stories with different characters and distinct personalities how can they all relate with the theory “our relationships with others can define who we are”. The book “How to Kill a Mockingbird” portrays this little girl's characteristics and traits. She has big feelings towards her arguments with…

genre and its sense of placement and connectivity in relation to the natural world was being questioned and explored. Shakespeare clouds the parameters between the human and non-human, stripping the boundaries in order to explore the limitations of humanity. Titus Andronicus and Midsummer's night Dream embody these fluid boundaries between the human and non-human, presenting an interaction that is surprisingly nuanced and ambiguous, offering a disturbance of the accepted certainties of set…

CRITICAL ENGAGEMENT EXERCISE 1: One may say that history is just a story told over and over through generations. “We study the past to understand the present; we understand the present to guide the future.” This is a quote from William Lund that mainly states without knowing where we come from, we won’t know how we got here and where we will or want to go. It is important for all of us to understand why and how things are the way they are today. History helps you understand the changes and…

When most people think of the American Revolution they think about guns and war and bodies and while that is the main part of the American Revolution there are many other cultural movements going on. Music, Clothing, Religion and many other cultural things played a big part in the revolution. In the American Revolution, music played an important part of American culture no matter what sector of society. The music of the time…

My cultural artifact is my pointe shoes that I use to dance ballet in. I started dancing when I was three years old at a small studio in my home town. My parents thought it would be a good way for me to do to make friends and get out my energy. The past fifteen years I have spent dancing have helped shaped my personality and who I am. Dance is more than just a combination of moves, it is a form of expression and art. The dance community as a whole is more than simply dancing, it includes all the…

had refused to reveal the whereabouts of the artifacts excavated from Palmyra. While global archaeological community confronts this new wave of cultural destruction in Palmyra, Sascha Priewe, director of Ancient Cultures of ROM, discusses attacks against Palmyra with his colleague Clemens Reichel, associate curator of ancient cultures of the Near East at the ROM and professor Deputy civilizations of the…

Worldview affects every aspect of our life and it is through various styles of literature we are able to perceive and understand the worldview of ancient cultures. The literary works of Catullus, Horace, and Juvenal reflect the thoughts of many Romans, just in different aspects of life. The works of Catullus consisted of romantic poetry. Despite the stereotype that Romans were concerned only with politics, Catullus and his love poems were tremendously popular. He wrote about his personal…

American history is found in all the infrastructure, art and literature seen everyday by the average American. They hold hidden meanings through the passage of time that need to be discovered and interpreted. In the early twentieth century, America was leaving the prosperous but corrupt Gilded Age to enter a time of progressive movement. George Bellows, an Ashcan painter, illustrates the time period and change of American lifestyle with his realistic paintings of city life. Bellows did not paint…

Book one of an intended series, Glennis Browne's The Fortune Seekers traverses time in a thought provoking saga, which delivers a tale of pioneering life that includes the elements of wanderlust, adventure, drama and romance, all steeped in a well plotted, and vividly re-imagined history. Author Browne brings the mid 1800's back to life, within this exploration of the erstwhile era of the Australian Gold Rush. The narrative poses the multi-faceted hardships people faced during that time in…

If I have learned anything about history, it is that not everyone has the pleasure of knowing their story or past glory. Archived memories and experiences create scenes of the past that we can feel and relive if told in the right light. Family is an important treasure that only some get the privilege of cherishing; blood or bond, family is what holds us when the world lets us go. Going back to the day my grandmother was born, it began the lives of the people I know and love today and has shaped…