Defining the Humanities Paul Talley HUM100 March 25‚ 2013 Marilyn Olander Defining the Humanities After reading this week’s lecture and my understanding of what humanities are is the study of what people have experienced and how they express this experience. Humanities are how people have interacted throughout their existence and how people interact today. Humanities are the study of the philosophical beliefs of a culture. The philosophical approach to understanding a culture is what separates
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Lauren K**** Defining American 1/8/2014 ENG 250 A‚ S**** Defining American American‚ what does it mean to you? Does it mean brave soldiers and a high-flying flag or does it mean the stereotypical lazy‚ obese couch potato? Both can be proven correct. In fact millions of things are American but are very different‚ such as points of history‚ works of literature‚ and different cultures. American is a wide variety of people‚ objects‚ music‚ stories‚ ideas and many other things mixed together in
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And over the time generation society‚ region and whole nation become more hybrid. An example to illustrate‚ globally popular films Crouching Tiger‚ Hidden Dragon has characterized the hybridization of cultural products. It contains Chinese stories and utilizing Chinese settings. This movie has the highest grossing foreign language film in American history. Crouching Tiger implies that modern cinema
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Dimensions of Religions Religion involves some acknowledgement of the supernatural. Therefore: communism/utilitarianism are NOT religions Various dimensions of religious beliefs -Agentic VS. Communal -Agentic: free agent. -Connection with God on a personal level -e.g. Jesus died for MY sins -Communal -Connection with God on a community level -e.g. Covenant made by God with the Israelites -Catholicism: relatively communal -Catholics have agentic aspects because of the personal connection
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and keep up one’s own individuality‚ can be physically and mentally tiring on anyone. This essay is going to work to define individuality as a chore that most people try their best to accomplish every day. The most widely accepted definition of the word individuality is its dictionary definition which is “the quality of a particular person or thing that distinguishes them from others of the same kind‚ especially when strongly marked”. This would be present in everyday life and in all mundane things
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I believe this essay "Hidden Intellectualism‚" by Gerald Graff is a very persuasive argument. It seems to be a sound‚ strong argument for the authors point. he not only lists exactly what he is talking about‚ but also what could help other; specifically how street smarts can very well be more intellectual than book smarts. Gerald Graff’s essay‚ "Hidden Intellectualism‚" is a critique on how schools are missing out on a valuable opportunity to encourage students to learn more academically. Graff
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in Japan with their masculine norm of hard and long working hours. Uncertainty avoidance The dimension Uncertainty Avoidance has to do with the way that a society deals with the fact that the future can never be known: should we try to control the future or just let it happen? This ambiguity brings with it anxiety and different cultures have learnt to deal with this anxiety in different ways. The extent to which the members of a culture feel threatened by ambiguous or unknown situations
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Participant Obvservation Sociology is the systematic study of humans in groups. There are different ways to study these groups of humans and most sociologists are aware of the different ways. As a student studying sociology the class was given a task to observe human interactions in groups and relate what I found out to what I have learned so far. Out of the many different ways to study groups we had to use participant observation‚ systematically studying people while joining them in activities
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Defining the Humanities Humanities are fundamental to grasp an understanding of what has transpired in the past and what will construct for the future. To differentiate between the humanities and other modes of human inquiries and expressions‚ the definition of humanities must be defined and will be explained in this paper along with a personal cultural event experienced. The reader should depart with an understanding of what humanities entails and how it differs. Humanities Humanities are constantly
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Defining Deviance Deviance- doing something different from the normal Sociological Perspectives on Deviance Formal Deviance- breaking a law or rule example: crime Informal Deviance- doing something different from the customary Social groups create deviance by applying rules to certain people‚ making them “outsiders” Behavior that is deviant or normal depending on the situation Deviance stabilizes society Durkheim thinks that societies use deviance to create and point out the standard norms The
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