Humanities

Art has always been a major part of humanity and it’s culture. From old cave paintings, to the Renaissance, to William Shakespeare, to Van Gogh, to The Beatles, and to film, art has been surrounding us since the beginning of mankind. It’s always around us, even in the simplest things like our homes, furniture, and clothes. It’s more important than how it’s commonly portrayed, and can give us a deeper insight into a society and it’s history. During the 1960’s in Latin America, culture was…

The past has always had a profound influence on the present, and for contemporary designers there is significant value in the study of design history. Unfortunately, at a time when incredible value is placed on novelty and individual creativity, the narratives of the past often fall on deaf ears, written off as mere nostalgia (Hunt 2014, 1). Focusing on landscape architecture, this essay will defend the presence of history in contemporary thought and promote an active and critical engagement…

Even though the book does has trouble to not stray from its story line, and in history where libraries haven't done the best of job to advance society into a forward movement. Rather humanity staying at a slow pace for a long time. Mathew Battles argument that libraries have been important to humanity has been proven. Battles has thoroughly explained that mankind's response to libraries hasn't always been one that has been kind but has been met with fire and hatred to the idea of shared…

Furthermore, ethnicity is a fundamental factor that governs an individual some way or another influencing one to ‘pick up the pen’ and write on the experiences associated. Reading is the backbone of knowledge, perspectives and values while writing is the ability to explore values and experiences that characterise an individual. Through reading, an individual is able to live vicariously through the composer, which develops sympathy, widens an individual’s perspective, to reduce the amount of…

either; Her wolf mannerisms still appear in times of panic, “In a flash of white-hot light, my months at St Lucy’s has vanished, and I was just a terrified animal again,” (249). Within a few seconds, she goes back to her old ways and loses sight of her humanity, proving that she will not fit in with either species, just as ‘Melia no longer belongs to either social class. The portrayal of identity loss through striving for societal expectations cuts through the satiric and almost comedic nature…

slaves of [the] Indians” (Cabeza de Vaca 95). Indeed, Cabeza de Vaca had a close and respected relationship with the indigenous groups, one which stopped him from inflicting physical harm upon them, but his loyalty to the Spanish Crown obliterated his humanity and led him to erase the true accounts of the native groups in his narrative. Not only did he erase the true essence of life in the Americas, but he also erased his own perceptions of compassion and humility. Cabeza de Vaca’s recollections…

For the first engaged activity in HIST 140, I decided to attend one of the “Humanities Happy Hour” events at the back bar grill located off of Franklin street. This was a rather laid back event where individuals could eat and drink, while listening to a guest speaker discuss a particular topic relating to the humanities. The guest speaker that they had on February 15th was Elizabeth Greig, an assistant professor of medicine here at UNC Chapel Hill. Her talk revolved around the somewhat recent…

We study history in order to know how humanity has gotten to where it is today, and learn from past mistakes. History helps us to understand where we come from. Family history helps expand that understanding. In this way, history is a part of our identities. The quote “ A man without history is a tree without roots” explains that without history we really aren’t anything, just like a tree cannot grow without roots, a person cannot develop without a history. In the novel Vietnamerica, GB Tran is…

study of the ancient and recent human past through material remains. Archaeology talks about human history and culture that has contributed greatly to our understanding of both the ancient and the recent past. Studying early human society allows humanity to look at its own reflection. We can embrace the reflection good and bad and be stronger for it, or turn away from our reflection…

An Author’s Concern As a reader, when first reading this Horatian satirical excerpt one can become completely baffled. That is exactly how the author wants you to feel. The author targets some of the most ignorant of society; valley dialected, uneducated, inadequate, pathetic juveniles or as we courteously call them to their faces, high school teenagers. The author’s teenagers express their ignorance through a great folly, by filing the complaint that they do not “know as much geography as…