Early modern Europe

texts studied so far. Metamorphosis, meaning change of form, underpins the process of transformation in Kafka’s The Metamorphosis (1915) and Ovid’s Metamorphoses (008AD). Present throughout Kafka’s text is the political instability of central Europe during the early 1900’s; the social and militaristic unrest of the Second Reich was rife in Kafka’s home city of Prague. The grim reality of Gregor’s metamorphosis, where the initial transformation seems to lack reason and resolve, contrasts that of…

Warfare is more than a reflection of a particular society but also a reflection of the era in which it is fought in. By the fourteenth century, European warfare was completely overhauled by a revolution in gunpowder. Gunpowder weapons were cheaper, easier and more efficient to use in an era already laden with costs. Soldiers could effectively learn to aim, fire and load a handgun in under a week. With limited training, the average soldier became militarily equal to his social superiors and…

Titile: Globalization and Transculturation in the Context of Digital Media/ New Media as Agent of Transculturation Abstract 1.0 Introduction Over the years, transculturation occured all over the world especially today in globalization era including Malaysia. Transculturation first was introduced by Cuban anthropologist, Fernando Ortiz in 1947 where he described the phenomenon of merging and converging cultures: Transculturation encompasses more than transition from one culture to another; it…

The world has been conditioned to believe that early European societies were the only advanced and highly populated nations for centuries. No one ever really tried or cared to look into what was happening in the New World, and when people did start to care, much of the Western Hemisphere’s culture had been erased. It has only happened within the past couple of centuries that real, fundamental research has gone into what the New World was like before Europeans set foot on it. Despite what society…

makes you wonder why they would align with a weaker power. Germany had other personal motives behind their support for Austria-Hungary. Germany’s alliance behavior and decision to support Austria-Hungary may have been the start of WWI. During the early 1900s the world had various hegemonic powers but there was a balance of power. There was smaller power as well…

of the 19th Century, when the industrial revolution was going on in the Britain. The society in that time has undergone unprecedented change. Most people were greedy and mercenary. At the same time, the capitalist system was established in Western Europe. The capitalist system plays a big role in human mind. People's world view and values have changed a lot The responsible Oscar Wilde is extremely dissatisfied with the hypocritical and despicable society, so he wrote the fairy tale "the…

could also have some responsibility for the European witchcraze. Some of these aspects include: Intellectual changes, legal changes, religious changes, social & economic changes and warfare. Religion was a very important part of life in the early modern period. It would be extremely unusual for a person to consider themselves not a part of the accepted religion of their State. One of the reasons behind this reliance on religion was…

Primary sources are documents and artifacts that come directly from the past. The Vinland Sagas are two Icelandic texts and primary sources that include the “Saga of the Greenlanders” and the “Saga of Eirik the Red.” Both sagas tell similar yet different stories of Norse voyages to North America, a place that Leif Eirikson named Vinland (wine land). The Vinland Sagas tell how the Norse people traveled to North America and created settlements there until a battle with the natives broke out. The…

characterized by the throwing out of the old, and embracing new ways of seeing, new ideas about art functions, and more experimentation. Yet no one seems to agree on when Modernism actually began. Some argue that Impressionism could be considered the first modern movement. In class, it was defined as a time frame of 1915 to 1940 . Other sources say it began after WWI, which ended in 1918. I theorize that it began before all of those. Prior to the 19th century, artists’ works were dictated by…

Takashi Murakami, born on February 1, 1962 is a well-known contemporary Japanese artist based in Tokyo. Murakami’s style of art is based on popular culture using a Nihonga-style of modern Japanese painting. He uses colorful graphics and manga style cartoon to show a darker subject material. He uses “hopelessness”, as his main subject with all of his art work. He shows this through the use of sculptures, paintings, drawings, and animations. The “Hustle ‘n’ Punch by Kaikai And Kiki”, was made in…