Western Wall

Aries: The Constellation and Zodiac Sign History/Astronomy: Aries (meaning “the ram” in Latin) is an ancient, mid-size constellation, actually ranked 39 out of the 88 constellations in terms of size (it takes up 441 square degrees). The constellation was catalogued by Ptolemy, a Greek astronomer, in the 2nd centery. It was recognized as a constellation in 1922 by the International Astronomical Union, and, in 1930 an astronomer named Eugene Delporte defined its boundaries. When attempting to find…

Introduction: Piet Mondrian is very famous artist from the 20th century, he was born in the Netherlands on March 7, 1872. Mondrian had some great influences at a very young age to introduce him to the world of art, his father and his uncle Fritz Mondrian. One of Mondrian favorites spot to draw was along the Gein River when he was growing up. Before he became famous for his works of art he was a teacher in primary education and while he was in his teaching years he practiced his painting,…

People with different culture have different perspective. While I have been studying in America, I notice that Western culture is somewhat different to my own culture. Therefore, I find myself have so many things to learn, to understand, and to respect other culture. So, I was attending a summer rodeo to learn more about this rural/Western culture which I have never attended this kind of activity in my country before. I attended the summer rodeo on last Thursday from 7P.M. to 10 P.M., that held…

conflict and destruction of Afghanistan in recent decades has rendered it difficult for the current generation to fathom the possibility of a progressive and “western” Afghanistan. Yet the city of Kabul in the 1960s was most often times portrayed as just that; a thriving and rapidly modernizing capital which served as Afghanistan’s beacon of Western culture. While this rendition of the city has long been destroyed, the image of a westernizing Kabul could still be found in Dr. William Podlich’s…

“Girl with a Turban.” However, in the second part of the twentieth century, the name was changed. This painting has traveled all around the world because of its beauty and uniqueness. “Who is the model and why has she been painted?” This is the question people have been asking for years. One of the most loved paintings in the world is a mystery. So much about this painting is unknown, almost making it more attractive. The attentive look of the young girl in the painting makes the viewer feel as…

Although separated by thousands of years, medieval and contemporary western cultures share multiple indistinguishable ideals. One of which are those regarding foreign lands, such as Syria. In the stories, Albina and The Man of Law’s Tale, Syria is the home of an unholy community. Within them Syria represents the wickedness that threatens the Christian religion. In these tales, Christian Europeans use Syria, and others, to portray Christianity favorably in an effort to gain followers. This is…

In Tolerance We Trust “If what has been called the American experiment is to succeed, if we are to achieve at ever higher levels in this country a true and free democracy, with equal rights and opportunities for all, we must learn cordially to accept the fact of cultural pluralism and to adapt our patterns of behavior to it.” (Schultz, 17) Everett Clinchy, a Presbyterian minister, described the only way the United States would succeed is if the American people adapted and accepted other…

Tri An Nguyen Mrs. Cordes AP English 24 April 2015 Cultural Globalization Today in the modern era exist a diverse amount of music around the world. Each nations and tribes has their own form of music culture developed over centuries. However, as the times passes by, the Age of Imperialism begins affecting a vast amount of countries as European countries and eventually, America take part in this period attempting to colonize underdeveloped locations and obtain its resources for their own use.…

The world has been changing rapidly through the development of technology , easier connection with diverse people and free access to information.Within all of these benefits , the culture became an important aspect of globalization. However, cultural globalization meaning as the spreading of ideas, and values around the world, is debatable in different point of views.This essay will cover the positive side of it in American society. In the early 1960s,Marshall McLuhan, the Canadian critic…

the universalization of Western cultural preferences that require particularisms to be legitimated in their terms…” (130) The example above explains how western culture is dominating different societies and that the native aspects of culture are questioned or needed to be put into the terms of foreign values. Cases at the Supreme Court such as fights for human and religious rights from Islamic people are first hand effects of ethnocentric thinking and the power of western principles. Another…