Western Influence on Chinese Music China has long been the cultural hub of Asia‚ and has had the longest amount of contact of any Asian country with other Western countries. Ever since the Silk Road was established‚ China has been trading with other Western countries and exchanging aspects of their cultures with one another. One of these aspects is music. But how exactly has Western music influenced Chinese music? In order to understand this‚ we must look at the history of Western encounters
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------------------------------------------------- Indirect and direct borrowings Since the living Greek and English languages were not in direct contact until modern times‚ borrowings were necessarily indirect‚ coming either through Latin (through texts or various vernaculars)‚ or from Ancient Greek texts‚ not the living language. Some Greek words were borrowed into Latin and its descendants‚ the Romance languages. English often received these words from French. Their phonetic and orthographic form
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continued to this very day. The lifestyles that the ancient Chinese had is extremely different then the lifestyle that the Modern Western Civilization which includes North America and Europe currently has because of the different way that people thought and made decisions. When comparing the first two imperial dynasties of China‚ Qin and Han dynasty with the Modern Western Civilization‚ differences can be exemplified by the family roles‚ political structure‚ law and justice system‚ religious
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Religion The Greeks believed in many gods‚ they believed that all the gods were descendants of Gaia (earth) and Uranos (sky)‚ and they had supernatural powers but human qualities as well‚ for instance‚ they would fall in love‚ get married‚ have children and even participated in war. The greatest buildings the Greeks built were temples in honour of the gods‚ but only priests were allowed inside. Special rituals for their gods were held outside. One of these great temples were the Parthenon‚ built
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athlete to soak in. The first modern Olympic Games were held in Athens‚ Greece‚ on April 6‚ 1896. However‚ the ancient Olympic Games were established during the Geometric period (900-700 BCE)‚ and were greatly influenced by the Dorians‚ one of the four major ethnic groups of Greece. The Dorians were extremely vigorous‚ warlike‚ and they possessed a highly developed sense of competition. Perhaps this is the reason that athletics was founded upon their influence on Greek society. You can learn a lot
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rather than religion should become the basis for action. The expansion of knowledge and the idea that all people have natural rights led to the shaping of the world today. The Age of Enlightenment influenced both the foundation and the structure of modern western society with ideas that the people should become
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Biblical Worldview Summary Paper Introduction “You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply‚ with greater vision‚ with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world‚ and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand.”(Woodrow Wilson) A worldview is how you look at the world‚ how you think it operates‚ why things happen the way they do‚ and what your purpose in life should be. Logically your behaviors‚ your
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I. Background Information of Greek Mythology Greek mythology is the body of myths and legends belonging to the ancient Greeks‚ concerning their gods and heroes‚ the nature of the world‚ and the origins and significance of their own cult and ritual practices. They were a part of religion in ancient Greece. Modern scholars refer to‚ and study‚ the myths‚ in an attempt to throw light on the religious and political institutions of Ancient Greece‚ its civilization‚ and to gain understanding of the
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After becoming the bishop of Milan‚ Ambrose made many changes within the Western Church. He was accountable for the two first theological works written in Latin‚ which were De Sacramentis on the Sacraments and De Spirtu Sancto on the Holy Spirit. Ambrose was also able to instruct and strengthen the process of preparing for Baptism. He reformed the Church’s way of singing by introducing singing into the Western Church. The singing that was done in the church at the time was known as the “Ambrosian
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have some like cancer which we cant seem to permanently fight off and because of that we see that medicine then and now really seen enough of a change for us to fully eliminate disease and epidemics from spreading and further harming us. First‚ in modern medicine our ideas on how we base our understanding of disease
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