Trajan’s Column with the Bayeux Tapestry Name Institution Historical narratives have recurrently been found in art across different cultures. This has been done using a variety of media and through the utilization of diverse methods that establish chronology. This use of different forms of media and methods has also been utilized to demonstrate the relationship between separate events. Some historical narratives such as the ones represented in the Trajans Column and the Bayeux Tapestry are continuous
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Jaylynn Armijo Pop Culture Essay Music is expression‚ passion‚ and influence. All throughout history‚ music has been a medium in which one can exert feelings of unconditional love‚ burning rage‚ drowning misery‚ or teenage angst. But more importantly‚ music holds the ability to influence masses of people. Music surrounds the lives of almost everyone in the world‚ as every culture has individual tastes for rhythm‚ language‚ melody; virtually everyone in the world is exposed to music and everything
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Concepts about Music: Cultural Influence 1. What is music in the culture? African music is as diverse as its cultures and peoples and has flowered many indigenous forms as well as been shaped by foreign influences. It bears a difference from other regions and cultures. The roles of music and dance are tightly woven together in Sub-Saharan Africa‚ and music intersects with every aspect of life‚ expresses life through the medium of sound. African music also helps connect people together in a variety
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According to a famous scholar called Amadou Hampate Ba‚ he asserts his opinion on the fact that one cannot fully grasp the ways that Africans interpret and connect with the past without the knowledge and spread of oral tradition. So Ba is essentially saying that oral stories or “tradition” is necessary in the African society during the 14th century in order of passing information down from generation to generation. This can be proven through the primary source given called the Sundiata: An Epic of
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When my parents were young the always talked about how their history class changed their life‚ but I never understood. They always said‚ “I learned many things that helped me live my life in a successful and positive way.” My parents always told me I’d understand when I am older‚ and I finally get that history isn’t just things that happened for no reason. Everything in history happened to create what we have today. For example‚ The American Revolution‚ happened for independence. It impacted the
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For centuries‚ people have been trying to fit everything in our world into categories. By creating a hierarchy with these categories‚ people can put their favorite things into higher categories to prove that they are better than other work in that field. Literature‚ with a definition that is different for everyone‚ is normally kept in the category of well-done written work. This means that your grocery list or books that fall short of the standard of greatness necessary are not considered to be in
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Bilal Ahmed explains in his article of “Third Culture Kids” how he feels as a “third culture kid” relating his life experience. He explains his way of thinking in the identity recognition of the TCK’s‚ and on the benefits‚ He also explains that TCK are adaptable and develop non-conformist ideas because they have seen many cultures since they were young. there are much more complicated and different points of view around the subject. Third culture kids can be defined as people who at an early age
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Literature has been defined in our society since the beginning of time. It provides us with knowledge beyond our years and entertainment for all ages. American Literature lets us put into perspective the history behind many eras through poems‚ short stories‚ and novels. These works of literature acknowledges all the good and the bad that era represents. The Great Depression‚ for example‚ opened with a stock market crash on October 29‚ 1929‚ which troubled the U.S. economy. It was so impactful in
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Throughout many literary works‚ cultures have collided in a manner which overshadows the other. A great example of cultures colliding is Born a Crime by Trevor Noah‚ his memoir visits what it was like growing up as a mixed‚ half white and half black; child during Apartheid in South Africa. The works of photography done by Alice Mann also shows how cultures collide in South Africa through pictures which depict the difference in luxury between people in South Africa. Born a Crime and the photography
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2 Why does Ong claim that orality is ’dynamic’ in a way that is opposed to the static nature of literacy? Orality is ‘dynamic’ in a way that all sound and especially oral utterance come from inside living organisms. Deeply typographic folk forget to think of words as primarily oral‚ as events‚ and hence as necessarily powered: for them‚ words tend rather to be assimilated to things‚ ‘out there’ on a flat surface. Such things are not so readily associated with majic‚ for they are not actions‚ but
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