Hu250 Unit 9 Final Report

Unit 9 Final Project
HU250 Humanities and Cultures
Melissa Scot
Kaplan University

Dear
Project is a thoughtful and reasoned
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Thanks for your thoughtful workAon the final project and your “postcards!” discussion of experience in course units. TOTAL: 160/160
There are specific examples which are treated thoughtfully. Writing is clear, APA is correct and project is the required length.
There is some degree of thoughtfulness in the discussion, and some specificity; it is generally clearly-written and features correct
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B (128-143 points)

Discussion is limited or examples are limited.
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C (112-127 points)

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Project is off topic, plagiarized or abusive.

D (96-111 points)
F (0-95 points)

Welcome to my Travels around the world and through time.
We can all inspired by those around us, the beauty of cultures and people can be irresistible to a traveler like myself. So join me on my journeys through time and countries, places and people. Sit back and have an open mind, embrace new and interesting ideas… even if they come from thousands of years ago. Follow the beautiful words of Robert Frost,” Two roads diverged in a wood, And II took the one less travelled by, And that has made all the difference.” atabo
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Welcome to Ancient Matambo Zimbabwe….before 1000ce

I would like to welcome you to our first stop in my travels through time and countries and cultures, to the beauty of the The Matobo Hills. These hills form what is part of the Matobo National Park, and the Mother and Child formation is the most special destinations in Zimbabwe. Matambo National Park is spectacularly beautiful and is also filled with a quiet serenity. The Matobo Hills in Zimbabwe was proclaimed a
Unesco World Heritage Site in 2003.The Matopbo Hills is a location of large archaeological significance. Over 3000 rock art sites created by thr San inhabitants dating from 2000 years ago are amassed here at the park. You will also be able to find other artifacts such as clay ovens and stone tools,that date back from the Pre-middle
Stone Age (approximately 300 000 BP) can also be found in many numerous caves that have been opened to the public in the Matobo National Park in Zimbabwe.
The San people were originally part of a pastoral culture and language group found across Southern Africa.
The Sans did originate from the northern area of modern day
Botswana. These people traveled all the way to the Cape of Afica some nearly 2000 years ago. As we enjoy the beauty of these parks, remember to take care of this beautiful environment and work as hard as you can to help the preservation efforts here as well.

Athena 's Temple

In our second stop in our travels we come to Ancient Greece. My favorite place to stop happens to be my favorite temple. This is an image of the
Temple of Athena. The Greeks decided to build the temple to Athena as part of an effort to beat the Spartans and become a world power. The temple was built a litle small, but that was due to it’s location on a rocky outcropping. The Temple was positioned there so that the people of
Athens could worship their victory goddess and hope for a victory in their war endeavors.” A cult statue of Athena Nike stood inside the small 5m x
5m naos. An account by the ancient writer Pausanias describes the statue as made of wood, holding a helmet in her left hand, and a pomegranate
(symbol of fertility) in her right. Unlike the famous "Winged Victory of
Samothrace" in the Louvre Museum, this Nike statue was wingless.
This led Athenians in later centuries to call it Nike Apteros (wing-less victory), and a legend arose that the statue was deprived of wings so she could never leave the city.” retrieved from the wed September 25,2014 htp://www.sacred-destinations.com/greece/athens-temple-of-athenanike Lhasa, Tibet

The Beauty and wonder of our trip brings us to our next destination. Our destination is a center of peace for so many people in the world. The beauty of the city of Lhasa, Tibet. Tibet has fascinated humanity for centuries. Tibet found just beyond the enormous Himalayas, and sits on the highest plateau of the world.
Mostly inaccessible to the outside world and has always been a challenge to all mortal beings as a outer worldly destination. Tibet also is a land of ancient
Buddhist culture, artistic monasteries and centuries-old caravan trails. Its snowcovered mountains and windswept plateau are the highest in the world. The world 's highest mountain in the world, Mount Everest, rises in southern Tibet.
This country is seeped in spiritual traditions, temples and monasteries, lakes and rivers, and mighty snow clad peaks. The people of this region are Buddhist and are generous and kind. Buddhism , with a history of some 1,300 years is shaped into a unique form of "Lamasm". Tibetan history, culture and religion are mixed together and infiltrate every aspect of the Tibetan social life. Tibetan religious arts have a distinctive style with adoption of Indian and Chinese Buddhist influence, creating a pearl of Oriental Buddhist art. The modern scene in Tibet includes modern technology, medicine, grammar, logic, Buddhist philosophy, rhetoric, words and expressions, syntax, drama and astrology. Tibet is known as the Sea of Songs and
Dances; folk songs and dances are diverse, especially during the "Shoton Festival" in August .

The Pyramids of the Sun and
Moon (Teotihuacán)

Travel along with me to another destination. One that is full of mystery and surprise.
Our next trip to Teotihuacán was not originally built by the Aztecs. As a mater of fact, may have been built another 1000 years or more before the Aztecs used it for their ceremonies. The Mexicans were in awe of the ancient people of their country as well as their city, although very litle is known about it and who originally built it. They believed this temple to be the birthplace of the most recent creation, where the new sun had been born. The pyramid to the sun was built on a lava tube cave.
Chalchihuitlicue who is the goddess of lakes and streams, and Tlaloc the god of fertility and rain. Although this temple was not built by the Aztecs, it was considered a very scared place. The Aztecs used ideas from the architecture of this temple to create other temples as well as copying other objects they found here as well. Even in modern times these temples are still used for religious purpose since Catholicism is the current religion of Mexico, You will often find roman catholic churches built on top of many of the ancient temples.

The Pieta,Michelangelo St.
Peter’s Basillica. Vatican City

Now we have landed in Vatican City in Rome. A land full of history and culture.
Especially in the time of the renaissances this area was a haven for artist who were often commission by the Pope or other cardinals to create works of religious importance for the people of the city. The Pietà is a popular masterpiece among the people of Vatican The name of the sculpture means pity or compassion. It depicts the crucified Christ laying in the arms of his mother, the Blessed Virgin Mary after he had been crucified to the cross. This sculpture was commissioned by a French Cardinal living in Rome. The beauty of the sculpture was created by Michelangelo when he was just a young man in his twenties. Rome, like Tibet is a center for many of religious faith, especially Catholics, since this is where their head of church lives. All catholic doctrine is created and kept here in the city. Along with the religious culture here, it ties deeply with the arts and foods found in this area. Pilgrimages are made to Rome by millions yearly

Vatican Square, Rome

So we do not have to travel to far to our next stop, The Vatican Square.
Considered the center of Rome, It was commissioned in 1655 by Pope
Alexander. The Pope commissioned architect Gian Lorenzo Bernini to design the layout of the square. The square was created around St. Peter’s Basilica.
The Vatican Square holds a lot of humanitarian interest, especially to us travelers. Mainly because of the power the catholic Church held in renaissance area. Much of the decisions made by the church affected most of the population, even across the seas. The movement toward a greater sense of propriety had been instigated by the Church just a decade before Bernini began work on his colonnade at the Vatican. The Church recognized that its own excesses had fueled the Reformation, but a feud between two Catholic monarchs, the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V (r. 1519–58), head of the farflung Spanish Empire, and Francis I of France (r. 1515–47) stymied its efforts to respond politically. But despite their ongoing conflict—financed, on the
Spanish side, by gold and silver from the newly discovered Americas—both monarchs understood the necessity of addressing the threat posed by the
Protestant Reformation. They convinced the pope to convene the so-called
Council of Trent in 1545. Its charge was to outline a path of reform for the
Church itself.” Sayre, Henry M.(2012) Discovering Humanities

Paul Revere, after Henry
Pelham, The Bloody Massacre
1770

As we move a bit forward in time, we can find ourselves discussing the rights of the colonist with some of our forefathers of our country.” By the beginning of 1770, there were 4,000 British soldiers in Boston, a city with 15,000 inhabitants, and tensions were running high. On the evening of March 5, crowds of day laborers, apprentices, and merchant sailors began to pelt British soldiers with snowballs and rocks. A shot rang out, and then several soldiers fired their weapons. When it was over, five civilians lay dead or dying, including Crispus Atucks, an African American merchant sailor who had escaped from slavery more than twenty years earlier.” This was such a time of hardship for many of the early setlers of our country. They lived in fear of the British troops, and in secret many of them helped to support
Washington’s efforts.

Ernest Meissonier, Memory of
Civil War

Next we behold the beauty and sadness of Ernest Meissonier’s Memory of Civil
War. This was painted at time in Paris when it was riddled in economic strife.
Artist, Merchants, Shopkeepers, became their own class. A group of people who owned next to nothing. This is when prostitution became a disease amongst Paris for woman had no other way to earn a living. There was a desire from the upper class to desire a profit no mater the human cost.” The corpses of rioters, together with the cobblestones that form the remains of a barricade, lie like dummies who have lost their limbs in the center of a Paris street lined with old houses. Ernest
Meissonier painted this picture after a watercolor (Musée du Louvre) done at the scene on June 25, 1848, during the workers ' riots. These events made for a troubled beginning to the Second Republic, a few months after the February 1848 revolution. The painter, a captain in the National Guard who was sympathetic to the government, painted the scene that lay before him after a barricade had been taken near to the town hall. The painting is highly original in comparison with another depiction of a barricade, Liberty Leading the People (July 28, 1830) by
Delacroix (1831, Musée du Louvre), celebrating the revolution of 1830. There is no pretension to allegory here, no pompous rhetoric. It is the most powerful image to emerge from the events of 1848.”www.louvre.fr

Starry Night, Van Gogh

Our Final stop brings us to an amazingly beautiful time in art. I will be a bit pushy as a tour guide and choose my favorite art piece from this time. Starry night, by Vincent Van
Gogh. Such an inspiring painting created in a time of artistic invention in France.
Inspiring that even a song by Don McLean was writen about it.” His brother Theo, manager of a Parisian art gallery and a gifted connoisseur of contemporary art, was unimpressed, telling Vincent, “I clearly sense what preoccupies you in the new canvases like the village in the moonlight… but I feel that the search for style takes away the real sentiment of things.” (813, 22 October 1889) Although Theo Van Gogh felt that the painting ultimately pushed style too far at the expense of true emotive substance, the work has become iconic of individualized expression in modern landscape painting.
“ Parsons, Noelle,(2014) Van Gogh’s Starry Night, smarthistory.org
What do you feel as you look at this amazing art? Do you feel entranced by the beauty r do you feel like Theo Van Gogh?

So we have reached the end of our postcard journey. We have traveled through space and time. Walked amongst ancient ruins, tasted the ideals of freedoms, marched forward with our forefathers and have seen beauty like non other. We have seen peace and turmoil and all the labors we humans thrust upon each other in haste to be in this world. I hope that as you glance upon these images, you slow and stop and absorb each one. Let the facts and stories of our times as a human race and the monuments we have erected through structure, action, and words, speak to your heart, your mind, deep down into your very soul. Find that humanitarian inside of you. Go out into this world strive to be good, peaceful, and inspiring.

References
Central Tibetan Administration (2014) Retrieved September 25, 2014. www.Tibet.net
Travel in Tibet(2014) The Lonely Planet Retrieved September 25, 2014 www.lonelyplanet.com Tibetan Culture(2014) Tibet Online Retrieved September 25, 2014 www.Tibet.org
Travel Zimbabwe(2014) Retrieved September 25, 2014 www.trvl2000.co
Aztec History (2014)Travel Mexico Retrieved September25,2014www.aztechistory.com
Travel Tips to Mexico (2014) USA Today retrieved September 25,2014 www.traveltips.usatoday.com A view of the Vatican (2012) News on Cities Retrieved September 25, 2014 www.newsoncities.com The Memory Of Civil War (2014) The Louvre Retrieved September 25, 2014 www.louvre.fr References
Starry Night(2014) Musuem Of Modern Art Retrieved September 25, 2014 www.moma.org The Bloody Massacre of Paul Revere(2014) Retrieved September 25, 2014 www.gilderlehrman.org The Sorrow of the Pieta (2014) garden Of Praise Retrieved September 25, 2014 www.gardenofpraise.com Travel Clip art (2014) Retrieved September 25, 2014 www.shuterstock.com
Title page clip art(2014) Retrieved September 25, 2014 www.modernfamily.com
Hollis, Mathew (2011-07-29). "Edward Thomas, Robert Frost and the road to war". The
Guardian (London). Retrieved September 25, 2014
Henry M.(2012) Discovering Humanities, Chapter 8

Dear
Project is a thoughtful and reasoned
(144-160
points)
Thanks for your thoughtful workAon the final project and your “postcards!” discussion of experience in course units. TOTAL: 160/160
There are specific examples which are treated thoughtfully. Writing is clear, APA is correct and project is the required length.
There is some degree of thoughtfulness in the discussion, and some specificity; it is generally clearly-written and features correct
APA.

B (128-143 points)

Discussion is limited or examples are limited.
APA is missing or numerous problems with mechanics are present.

C (112-127 points)

Project is only partially on topic, lacks originality, or has missing components.

Project is off topic, plagiarized or abusive.

D (96-111 points)
While this is nice work, overall, I am deducting
50 points on the late submission. Work on intext citations.
F (0-95 points)