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started as a cultural movement based on the intellectual basis of its own version of Humanism, where Man is the measure of all things. This idea became evident and was influenced in art, architecture, politics, science and literature. The printing press by Johannes Gutenberg was one of the most important and influential inventions in history because it played a key role in the development of the Renaissance,…

In the world of printmaking, the relief print is the most well known and commonly used form throughout the centuries. In relief printmaking, the parts of the printing surface that carry ink are raised while the remaining areas are cut away. The oldest kind of relief prints are woodcuts, where a (smooth) block of wood is used as the medium. Woodcut does not offers very little in the way of color, so most artists have to work in black and white only. If an artist wants to add color, he/she needs…

moral order. There are two sides for this issue; there are people who agree for music censorship while there are also people who are against the censorship of the music. Imagine our world without music or imagine our world where we are dictated what to play and what to sing in our own private homes. I think that the government should not prohibit the children or anyone from listening to different kinds of music. Why? First, music is used in communication and setting the atmosphere in a certain…

Zero, zero is the number of push-ups I could do at the beginning of the year. It was really pathetic and I was really embarrassed that I couldn’t even do one. I went home and looked at what the average push-ups a 13 year old boy should be able to do, it was 13, a lot more than I could do obviously. Now I can do 13 without collapsing. That is why I feel I grew in upper body muscular endurance this year in Wellness & Fitness. Something that showed my growth was the 30 Day Challenge. We did the 30…

Censorship and freedom of expression have been, and still are, controversial topics. While some may think censorship is a necessity, others are outraged that information and/or images are cut from different media outlets, such as FaceBook, Twitter, or DeviantArt. There are many types of censorship: moral, political, book, film, music, and internet censorship (Harishrustic). Before one can take a stand on the issue of censorship, questions must be asked. What should be censored? Most would answer…

year’s special Exhibition. An object rich in history and culture would be Gutenberg’s printing press. This object was the invention that historians consider changed how civilization evolved. This change is often compared to when humans discovered iron which ended the Neolithic Era (new stone age) and entered the Age of Empire (also known as the Iron Age). Johannes Gutenberg invented the printing press that revolutionized society by making books readily cheaper and available during the…

During the 16th and 17th centuries scholars believed that the amount of published books was becoming too much to handle. This abundance of book shifted from the early Middle Ages, when books were scarcer and readers focused on intensive reading. Because of the abundance of books during the 16th and 17th centuries, styles of selective reading and note taking developed to address the issue of too many books, too little time. This can be considered the shift when extensive reading versus intensive…

The design idea we had was modified several times. Initially the fingers that were constructed for the hand seemed to work and look fine in our Solidworks assembly. We did not want the fingers to be too large as the girl were were designing the hand for is only seven years old. However, after printing them, we quickly realized that they were far too small to be able to exert the force to grasp a water bottle. Furthermore, because they were so small, it was difficult for the 3D printer to print…

Midterm Essay Looking back when we were in high school they always said how we are being censored. Sure they put censorship on computers but that is for good reasons because we don’t need teens being distracted by Facebook and Youtube. But some of the things they do censor is history and we find that it is not right to do so. Some books are banned in schools or have been revised to take out bad language or things they don’t want our minds to see how we were back in the day when no one cared if…

printing press revolutionized the way humans communicate their thoughts and ideas during the Renaissance. Before the printing press was invented by Johannes Gutenberg, the production speed of literary works was not very fast because they were hand-written by scribes and for them to finish a small book would take months of hard work. The ideas spread through these works were only about religion because the labor that is put in these were constrained by the church. When the printing press was…