Western culture

Western and Eastern cultures art reveals deep truths about the world. Cultures have different views and ideas about nature of reality. The direction of art is to portray beauty. With artistic realism in the 19th century and other shifts in taste, great art could be ugly in both its subject matter and its depiction. Western history, reality itself, created by God was conceived of as beautiful. The definitive voice in the identification of beauty with an ultimate reality was Plato theory. Beauty,…

Western culture has always included a strong element of mysticism in its traditions. Mysticism is strongly based on the occurrences of revelations: experiences in which Divine knowledge is disclosed to someone, usually in the form of some incredible happenstance (for example, a bush that burns but never turns to ash.) Revelation is where all three major world religions started. Even more than that, revelation is appealing to both humans and God: to humans, because it means that anyone can gain…

Watson attempts to create a historical survey of the states systems that were formed in Europe and then spread to the “civilized” world. This states systems was challenged after World War II by the anti-colonial revolution and the demands of the Third World states for a new international order. Watson tries to move beyond on the mechanistic and sterile concept of international system to the more focused and perhaps more complicated concept of international society. Watson focuses on the global…

effortlessly. In my Rube Goldberg Machine we demonstrated the key aspects, of the ancient Greeks society by focusing on the five different components and representing their advanced technological accomplishments. Ancient Greece the native home of western civilization contrived the most advanced technological features that people have ever seen. As shown in page 5 from the report of (n.d.). L'AnticoPédie .Greeks used a variety of advanced technology such as pulleys,…

Persian imperialistic ambitions were identified as the crux of the long-term causes, whist the immediate catalyst was individual action. The relevance behind the study of this topic is brought about by the impacts and consequences upon the Western world both culturally and geographically. This topic affords students the opportunity to develop their knowledge and understanding of key historical developments as well nurturing their skills into historical inquiry. The Syllabus outcomes that were…

Why is it important to Learn about ancient Greece? A quote by writer Vadim Kotelnikov once said, “If you stop learning, you stop creating history and become history.” Ancient Greece is a huge part of history. The legacies they left behind have helped us develop into the society that we are today- advanced, modern and knowledgeable. We no longer rely on myths, gods or goddesses to blame or thank for our everyday lives. On the other hand, they certainly left incredible and valuable knowledge that…

The United States has been a diverse nation since its early beginnings. It is the immigrants that travel to the United States that allows it to be unique. All immigrants travel to the United States due to their unhappiness in their native country. They bring their aspiration to create their own American dream and fill their lives with success. However, there are thousands of immigrants that enter the United States illegally with their families. It is those illegal child immigrants that are…

The ancient Greeks have made many new advances in their lifetime. The ancient Greek culture has influenced many other cultures as well. Other cultures saw how well the Greeks were doing and wanted to share the wealth. They would take concepts of the Greeks and form it into their own. The Romans took concepts from the Greek such as the Greek gods; Romans made the Greek gods’ names into Roman names. The ancient Greeks contributed to the advances and discoveries in education, architecture and…

many foreigners came to this country to become part of the culture here. People from all over the world came here to become part of the big melting pot known as America, no matter what country you came from and what your culture was, you came to America to forget all that and start a fresh new life. When immigrants came to this country, they came to mix in with America and become “Americans.” They came here to become part of the big culture of America. I came to America on July 8, 2005, the…

The social world around us is changing. Some claim it is growing, others say it is shrinking. The crucial thing to understand is that society does not remain unchanged overtime. [Putnam, Robert D.2001]. Both Marx and Durkheim had their own view on how society, and the people within the society should work. Both theorists changed the idea of the Enlightenment. [MegaEssays.com 2002-2015]. The Enlightenment was described as ideas that challenge the order and shapes our thinking about society.…