Traditionalism

political power or status. According to Nodelman, this was meant to focus attention on the virtues of “stern self-discipline, shrewd calculation, unbending resolution, and unquestioning acceptance of social bonds” (pg. 41). Virtues like these placed traditionalism at the forefront of the Roman system and gave the viewers incentive to act like this in their lives. The men immortalized in the busts came to revel in that success through staunch adherence to those principles. If the spectators…

According to Bradshaw, a community is a never-ending story of change and loss due to the modernization of societies. To further reiterate on this idea he explains a community is defined as people being able to share residential areas, such as a city, a town, and/or a neighborhood; however, in today’s society solidarity is more common where people no longer have the need to be tied down to one single place as they once did historically. Therefore, Bradshaw explains through his work how the…

Dramatic theatre is one of the oldest and most respected art forms in history. Aristotle outlined what he believed to be the most logical sequence for a tragedy in his essay Poetics. These ideals can be applied to any modern day text to evaluate its traditionalism in terms of Aristotelian tragedies. The film Juno, produced by Diablo Cody and Jason Reitman, captures several of Aristotle's key points regarding tragedy. According to Aristotle, for a dramatic work to be successful, the audience must…

“German” history is a history of a dominant culture stretching back as far as the Franks. By looking at Germany’s historical roots, one can see how the implementation of the Sonderweg presents a theory about how Germany developed from a feudal society to a modern one using a “third way” to achieve its present state. By looking at how historians and scholars understand the Sonderweg thesis, one can make analytical argument that the Sonderweg led to National Socialism as well as did not lead to…

Things Fall Apart, written by Chinua Achebe and published originally in 1958, follows the life of Okonkwo, a member of the Nigerian Igbo culture, as European colonists arrive to Africa. Throughout the novel, Okonkwo and his family struggle through their day to day life, only made worse by the integration of European society in the village. Instead of offering the readers the more familiar, if not overtold, perspective of Europeans colonizing Africa, Achebe introduces a completely foreign…

The Phoenix Symphony Illustrates Classical Music’s Toughest Wounds Tradition is bred out of a natural desire to preserve ideas among the threat of change. Yet, when the reaction to that threat imposes walls so thick, only the expert is capable of understanding, the practice does indeed become antiquated. Such is the situation for classical music, a genre stigmatized by an old-fashioned label. This isn’t news to most people. However, after the Philadelphia Orchestra filed for bankruptcy in 2012,…

inflicted upon them. Many countries still hold grudges against the previous transgressions of another countries former generations. Many people are still defined by previous issues they have faced. By using a southern setting for his novel, the traditionalism of the South pushes the idea forward that previous things will always haunt the present, and even after death or a new generation, the old problems must still be faced…

World War I (WWI) saw the introduction of some of today’s most remarkable pieces of technology including: machine guns, indirect artillery, air planes, tanks, radios, and more. However, just a few years later, no major army entered World War II (WWII) with the same doctrine and weapons that it had at the end of WWI. The interwar period witnessed tremendous innovations in both technology and doctrine that completely changed warfare. While there were tremendous advances, there was also…

The five chapters that I read from Ethnicity and Family Therapy (McGoldrick, Giordano & Garcia-Preto, 2005) where about Native Americans, Native Hawaiian families, British West Indian families, and Haitian families (2-4 & 8-9 chapters). I was very excited about this assignment and very much enjoyed reading about these cultures. Any and all details I can learn about Native Americans I find really enjoyable. These details will help me with my current job as well. In the Native American…

I believe the main issue at hand were the differing beliefs between the two camps of idealism and realism (perhaps also between functionalism and traditionalism), which Francastel was trying to address, and something Viollet-Le-Duc deliberated on. Viollet-Le-Duc sparked the Art nouveau movement in France, due to the influence of his book, Entretiens sur l'architecture, in 1872. In the book he is quoted…