Category: History

 

By the due date assigned, respond to the Discussion Assignment. Post your response to the Discussion Area. Your answer should:

• Provide detailed evidence, including excerpts from the literary text.
• Demonstrate a clear understanding of the themes, genres, cultures, time periods, and texts that are this week’s focus.
• Apply APA style guidelines to the source material.

By the end of week, review and comment on two of your classmates’ answers and the peer-reviewed article that they post, writing at least one paragraph about the peer-reviewed article. Your responses should be substantive, which means that you should provide a significant level of detail in your reply and show active engagement by referencing the readings, drawing on your own experiences, giving your opinions, respectfully disagreeing where appropriate, or asking questions designed to generate further discussion on the material and its implications outside the realm of the question.

Question: One of the major themes in The Inferno is the relationship between God and humanity, particularly as it relates to sin and God’s justice. Let’s explore what the scholarship has to say about this topic. First, review the lecture on evaluating sources and locating peer-reviewed articles. Then, go to the SUO library and in a scholarly journal find a credible, full-text, peer-reviewed article about The Inferno. Write a citation for the article that is formatted in APA style and then annotate the article.

Now, review The Inferno, and locate a specific passage that you feel illustrates one key aspect of the relationship between God and humanity. Provide your interpretation of this relationship. How does Dante imagine the relationship between God and humanity? What are the differences between your interpretation and the article you located? What are the similarities?

Remember that your claims in all parts of the assignment should be substantiated by excerpts from appropriate sources (scholarly research and/or literary texts). Quotes, paraphrase, and summary used in the assignment should be arranged according to APA rules of style, and in-text and reference citations should be provided, also formatted in APA style. Quoted material should not exceed 25% of the post. Submit the final document in the Discussion Area.

1. What was the Compromise of 1877? How did it end the Reconstruction Era?
2. What were the political implications of Ku Klux Klan terrorism?
3. Explain the Fourteenth Amendment to the US Constitution. How did it transform the role of the federal government? 
4. How did efforts to extract natural resources transform the American West in the second half of the nineteenth century?
5. Who were the women of the western frontier? What motivations drove their efforts? What impact did they have?
6. What was “Social Darwinism”? How was it used to justify the growth in economic inequality?
7. What were political machines? How did they operate within major cities? 
8. How were baseball and football at the center of new leisure and mass culture in the late 1800s?
9. How did the United States go from a technological borrower to a technological innovator in the second half of the nineteenth century?
10. Explain “Freedom of Contract,” and how it was used by employers to justify their policies.

 An Etruscan Artwork compared to a Roman Republic Artwork (topic)

Objectives

• Investigate artworks using a critical process 
• Comparison and contrast of two pieces of art using description, analysis, interpretation, and judgment
• Describe how works are similar and different
• Use the comparison of works to illustrate meanings and issues presented by the works
• Use Comparison and Contrast descriptions to show how ideas and conventions change over time
• Use comparison and contrast to discover and describe how changes occur between one group of artists to the next
• Use comparison and contrast to define and identify how different groups deal with subjects and ideas in different ways
• Change is inherent in the history of art. Use comparison and contrast to describe and illustrate how conventions and ideas change. 
• Use comparison and contrast to present how and why ideas are different between artworks, artists, and periods or styles.
• Compare and contrast analysis illustrates how artworks, artists, and periods demonstrate change over time and exert influence.
• Comparison and contrast helps to discriminate between the differences between works and helps us describe how artworks, artists, and periods or styles change and respond to issues and ideas inherent in their culture or time. 
• Finally comparison and contrast helps us interpret works and find relevance, new meanings, and new contexts for artworks that we may not have been aware of before

Directions: 

• The comparative analysis (Compare & Contrast) starts with a formal analysis of two or more individual pieces, and then adds another level of discussion that evaluates relevant similarities and differences between the pieces. This added level is useful in revealing details about trends within historical periods, regional similarities, or growth of an individual artist over time. 
• In describing the individual pieces, keep to the same conventions used when doing an individual formal analysis.
• After the describing the work, develop a thesis about the two works and develop an essay. Present your general concept or thesis statement about the two works in the introduction. In the body use evidence to support your thesis, and in the conclusion synthesize your statements into a final relevant conclusion that leaves the reader with a final idea about what they should remember, know, and take away from your overall statement. Your conclusion can be a judgment or interpretation of the change and messages in the works and what is relevant about these issues. Do research on the pieces that you are analyzing and develop citations. Use evidence based statements from research and descriptions of the works to support your statements. Use Chicago or Turabian Style citations.

1-2 pages 650 words

Faith has played an important role in the culture wars. Pick either the essay by or the essay by and explain why that author believes religion has played such an instrumental role in the continuing culture wars. 

  In his chapter lays out distinctions between high culture and low culture, describes an historical process by which art and artists became specialized practitioners distanced from everyday culture and then summarized three theories of art proffered by Stephen Daviesfunctionalism, proceduralism, and historicism.   Consider the two images below.  Which of Davies theories seems most applicable?  Does your answer change or remain the same when the original statue was altered?  Why?  Finally, explain whether the placement of this statue on a public street makes the piece more of an example of high culture or low culture? 

YOU MAKE THE CALL!  In 1989, the board of the Cincinnati Museum of Contemporary Art had to decide whether to proceed with the exhibit of Robert Mapplethorpes career work, entitled The Perfect Moment.  Unlike the Corcoran Gallery in Washington, D.C., the Cincinnati institution decided to let the show proceed.  You are retroactively appointed to the board.  How will you vote and what considerations do you consider to be most important? 

Choose one of the following topics and write a one-page response.  You must use two sources and your paper must be done by MLA format.  

Socrates developed the dialectic method as a way of pursuing a true understanding of some basic concepts of justice or ethics. How did he use the method? Does it, could it, work?

Plato advocates a theory of Forms as a way of establishing a foundation for making true claims about reality. What is that? Is it (or some variation) convincing?

The Ring of Gyges story is at the center of a debate over whether justice is the product of authority (or power) or whether there is some objective principle of justice. Examine this debate and take a side.

Plato explores what he takes to be the difference between knowledge and opinion. Examine his definitions and argument. Is it convincing? Platos allegory of the cave is meant to illustrate how we are supposed to know reality. How does the allegory work? What does it show? Is Platos theory of knowledge convincing?

Aristotle attempted to bring knowledge into the world through focus on the four causes. Aristotles ethics is based on developing ones character in a specific way. How do we know what counts as virtue? 

  

Watch The Ancient Greeks – Episode 1: Revolution

It can be found at: or here http://youtu.be/G2tFoTa-i6w

In a short (750 word essay) please answer the following questions:

What was “the revolution”?  When and where did it take place?  Why?

What was an aristocrat?  What was their role?  How did they achieve and maintain their power?

Why was Greece among the last places one would expect to found a great civilization and empire?  What obstacles did they face?  What did Egypt and the Persians have that the Greeks did not?  How did the Greeks make up for this?

Who were the Spartans?  Who did they rule?  What was a healot?

What inspired the Athenians?  Who was the most important hero?  Why?

What was the staple crop of Athenian agriculture?  Why was this important?

When were the first Olympics held?  How did they change over time?  What was important about these changes?

What happened after Cleisthenes was exiled?  According to the movie, what happened for the first time in 508 BC?  What was Cleisthenes challenge after his return?  What system of government did he create?

Papers should be written in Times New Roman font, double-spaced, with normal margins. Please spell and grammar check.  Your name, course information, date, and word count should be in the upper right hand corner.  Please do not use quotes: put the information into your own words.  Papers with a similarity score over 25% will receive a 0.

 QUESTION: 

 What was the significance of Betty Friedans book The Feminine Mystique? 

Betty Friedans book, The Feminine Mystique, had a huge impact for women and their rights. In the 1930s women were going to college and receiving degrees, but after the regression in the 1950s less and less women decided to seek an education (Napikoski, 2019). This was causing a lack of happiness in women. During the mid-20th  century, women were becoming depressed on account of being seen as inferior to men mentally, physically, and financially (Napikoski, 2019). Therefore, Friedan wanted to encourage women to seek their self-fulfillment and decided to write a book. The womens movement took off in the 1960s and 1970s because of this inspiring novel (Betty Friedan, 2006). Friedan helped change the way women were seen and the roles they played in their life. They no longer had to be just a housewife and mother. Women could now discover their own potential beyond what was commonly believed to be their responsibilities.  

This book influenced many women to stand up for themselves and their rights. Laws started to get changed, such as unequal pay, providing women with maternity leave instead of firing them, and help-wanted ads and hiring practices only singling out men (Betty Friedan, 2006). Women equality was slowly becoming more popular. Friedans book changed the culture in the United States; women were no longer being seen as lesser than men. In fact, it became an inspiration to women around the globe. It sold over a million copies and started the second-wave feminist movement (Napikoski, 2019). The world may be very different today if this book didnt have the effect on people that it did. Women are being more than just wives and mothers now; they run big companies and are obtaining degrees in career fields that interest them. We still have a ways to go to achieve total equality, but we have made a lot of progress, thanks to Friedans book. Women now have a choice on their future.

References:

Betty Friedan. (2006). National Womens History Museum. Retrieved from .

Napikoski, L. (2019, January 14). The Feminine Mystique: Betty Friedans book started it all. ThoughtCo. Retrieved from .

Hello,

Listed below are the questions that must be answered and attached are the readings.

  

In essay format, answer the following questions  (a full paragraph, with resource support/details):

-What surprising new fact/s have you learned about Africa, African peoples, African cultures, and Africa’s significance/importance to history?

-What are at least 2 specific examples of African cultural characteristics?

-What was unique about slavery in Africa, before the Atlantic Slave Trade (before Africans started trading slaves with the Europeans)?

-Based on Giddings’  Africanisms essay, or your own observations, what is at least once connection between African American culture (music, religion, etc.) and African culture (religion, art, society, etc.)?  

-Reflecting on African culture, history and significance, what are you left wondering about; what questions remain unanswered for you? (Mandatory!)

Thanks