Herodotus’s The Histories and Thucydides’sThe Peloponnesian war Historical causation is a facet of historical analysis that focuses on explaining what occasioned or affected historic event. Causation analysis‚ thus‚ investigates the social‚ political‚ moral background of movements‚ ideologies and environmental occurrence; nevertheless‚ these analyses themselves are influenced by the shifting ideas of assumptions about what the ‘cause’ means. Herodotus‚ the so called ‘father of history’‚ has stark
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Domain in Digital Media: video game culture is used as a metaphor to interpret local digital culture(Leonardo‚ Volume 44‚ Number 1‚ February 2011‚ pp. 90-91). How many different modes of interaction can be used in video games? The example of Mario’s Furniture shows me a direction to investigate. Mario’s Furniture is an interactive video installation integrating computer vision and wireless technology with artistic production and performance. A wireless environment‚ where viewers become players. Able
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Test #1: Study Notes Chapter 1 Cinephile: a lover of cinema Filmography: a list of films There are distinct types of explanation in film history: 1. Biographical History 2. Industrial/Economic Historybusiness procedures 3. Aesthetic Historyfilm art (form; style) 4. Technological History 5. Social/Cultural/Political Types of Explanation: 1. Chronology 2. Influence 3. Trends/Generalization 4. Periods (by positing trends‚ historians generalize) 5. Significance Methodological Individualism:
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The three drinks involved in early times of history include beer‚ wine‚ and spirits. Each of these drinks relate to history in their own ways. Beer‚ wine‚ and spirits each have a history in different times and places. The general study of this course relates directly to the book because each drink relates back to a specific time and place. The first drink‚ beer‚ was prevalent in Mesopotamia and Egypt. “Beer was not vented but discovered” (11). It was discovered because of the gathering of wild
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his brother’s band Black Flag (Duncan). His first solo exhibit was in New York in 1989 at Feature. Currently‚ Pettibon still lives and works in the Los Angeles area in Hermosa Beach‚ California. Pettibon has become internationally known as a contemporary American artists working with drawing‚ text‚ and artist’s books. Pettibon’s work from the early 1980s consisted of relatively small black-and-white‚ single-frame cartoons coupled with sometimes illegible scribbled writing (Levine). Throughout
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Benefits of Modern Communication Essay By: Amaaz Non-Fiction In the modern world life will be impossible without communication. We use communication in all the activities of our daily life. Communication is the process of transferring information from one person to another with the use of a medium in which the communicated information is understood by both parties. In communication both parties must use a common language understood by them. Communication is defined as a process by which we assign
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CHAPTER I PROBLEM AND ITS BACKGROUND INTRODUCTION The present time is called the computer age. The computer age has given birth to most of the new tools that helps us with everyday task‚ such as writing‚ planning‚ graphing‚ computing and communicating. In today’s world‚ technology is a complex social enterprise that includes not only research‚ design‚ and crafts but also finance‚ manufacturing‚ management‚ labor‚ marketing‚ and maintenance. In the broadest sense‚ technology extends our abilities
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2.3 Differences in History and Society Chinese culture is thousands of years of precipitation down‚ which is not only some of the values of the principle‚ but also includes a lot of unique wisdom. This cultural accumulation is the result of the struggle between the different schools of thought in the diversity of Chinese history and proved by long practice. We often say that history is always repeated‚ that is now a variety of phenomena in the history of China have occurred. So the Chinese people
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AP World History Curriculum Framework Required examples of forms of labor organization: • Free peasant agriculture • Nomadic pastoralism • Craft production and guild organization • Various forms of coerced and unfree labor • Government-imposed labor taxes • Military obligations B. As in the previous period‚ social structures were shaped largely by class and caste hierarchies. Patriarchy persisted; however‚ in some areas‚ women exercised more power and influence‚ most notably among
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China’s history is arguably the richest and longest of all countries‚ fortunately for the scholars‚ this whole stretch of history was charted into different periods called dynasties. If China’s history was like a storybook and the dynasties were the chapters‚ then the “Mandate of Heaven” is definitely the essential concept to link the chapters together. However‚ the “Mandate of Heaven” model‚ like most philosophical concepts‚ actually provides a utopian representation of China’s historical reality
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