Modernity

said De Rossi. The French enfold style and modernity and take pride in the way that even their public spaces strike a majestic tone. The French have faith in "égalité", which implies fairness, and is a piece of the nation's motto: "Liberté, Egalité, Fraternité". Many say they put a higher significance…

Joan W. Scott was Professor of Social Science at Princeton University, with a focus on gender and politics. In the book The Politics of the Veil, she focuses, critiques, and challenges the law which bans the wearing of “conspicuous signs” of religious affiliation in public schools passed in France in 2004 (p.1). The intention of this law, according to French legislators, was to keep France unified in terms of being secular, individualist, and homogeneous; the singularity of the nation was…

A written bibliography in the text, Evangelizing the Chosen People, describes, Yaakov Ariel as the chief rabbi of the city of Ramat Gann, Israel, and one of the leading rabbis of the religious Zionist movement. Yaakov Ariel was born October 16, 1937 and grew up in a nearby neighborhood in Jerusalem. Yaakov Ariel states, It is my observation that the path of Christian-Jewish has been neither consistent nor uniform. Relations have changed and evolved, varying by era and area. Different Christians…

Andrea, How are you today? I heard from someone that you were making disparaging remarks about the Amish. I’d like to tell you about what I see as the strengths and weaknesses of Amish life. Amish don’t just make nice furniture, or stubbornly resist modernity. Though many recent TV shows such as “Breaking Amish” or “Amish Mafia” have given them a false image, there is more to them than what some may perceive. The Amish have intrigued us with their simple and slow way of life. In these days, it…

Katherine Herrera Prof. Lange ARTH: Contemporary World Art October 14, 2015 Reading Journal 2 In the essay Grids from The Originality of the Avant-Garde and Other Modernist Myths by Rosalind Krauss, she focuses on grids and how they represent modernity of modern art. Krauss talks about how there are two ways that grid art is modern art. The first is because it is spatial, meaning its flatness is what makes the work of art unnatural and completely acts separately from the realm of art. The…

For Prakash, the modern city is a “landscape of modernity”, or a setting where local and transnational actors can meet and interact, as well as transcend boundaries of race, culture and identity. De Certeau’s vision of the city is intrinsically bound up, with the history of a city’s inhabitants and their…

Introduction Religious fundamentalism, according to Riesebrodt, quoted by Samuel (2015),is an urban movement directedprimarily against dissolution of personality, patriarchal notions of order and social relations and their replacement by depersonalized principles. There are different types of religious fundamentalism too: Islamic fundamentalism According to Munson (2014), there is a variation of the character of Islamist movements throughout the world. While some Islamists resort to terrorism,…

Louis A. Pérez initiates the academic literature that studies the relationship between America and Cuba, which has shaped the progressing literature currently disseminating within academia and mainstream research regarding American and Cuban encounters. “On Becoming Cuban: Identity, Nationality, and Culture”, is another Louis A. Pérez production that emphasizes the evolutions and transitions between, above, and below the two countries. The 579-page text is a tedious read, but a thorough history…

Clancy-Smith- This article talks about the what Judaism, Christianity, and Islam say were exemplary women during “late antiquity to the eve of modernity” (page 6) and what that meant for women of that time. Also, there are meaningful connections to present day approaches to teaching history. I found this reading really interesting. There were many parts that she mentioned that I had not really thought about before now. Also, it was easy to find the authors point in her writing. When it comes…

sound stages. These Big White Sets, as they came to be known, represent the Streamline Modern end of the Art Deco spectrum. You can see the scale of Art Deco in the rooms' high ceilings along with many neo-classical motifs, but the materials, modernity, and sweeping lines of Streamline Modern are also famous throughout. The luxurious textiles and their textures in the rooms and clothes were particularly the sparkle and shine of silk and satin are also pure Art Deco. It is no wonder why the…