INTRODUCTION TO HUMANITIES Lecture 1 – OVERVIEW ON HUMANITIES 1. Meaning of Humanities 1.1. 1.2. Humanus – Humanitas – Human‚ Humanity – it refers to the quality of being a human; huma‚ civilized‚ cultured) Branch of Learning – it refers to the study of the arts. As a study‚ its material object is “artwork” and its formal object is “creativity and appreciation.” Every creation around you which is made by human beings represents someone’s humanity. The chair you’re sitting in‚ the clothes you’re
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your phone or laptop and you see a picture of the ocean. Most of these pictures show clear and pretty water with maybe a sunset behind it. Not all parts of the sea appear this way‚ however they should be. Pollution is everywhere in the water and it’s harming almost everything in it- from coral reefs to whales. But polluting the water just might be even more complex than you may think. So‚ to get you started‚ we will hit some of the basics of ocean pollution. You most likely know that plastic is a
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career. So‚ which types of classes should students take? Thus emerges the debate between STEM based and humanities based curriculum. Although some may argue that the humanities play a more useful role in our society‚ as their techniques can
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The oceans are one of the most sacred places on this earth‚ the last mysterious frontier left. They hold millions of different marine animals‚ and many more that are waiting to be discovered. However‚ the wide blue waters are beginning to fade fast. Recently‚ a new pollutant has been exposed‚ carbon dioxide‚ is causing this acidification. Ocean acidification is when the saltwater absorbs enough carbon dioxide from the atmosphere that it changes the pH of the water. This is what is happening
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Blue Ocean Strategy Paper Into‚ The blue ocean strategy in marketing is a distinctive method when it comes to building a customer base very different when it comes to competing within a certain type of industry. Instead of trying to compete in a crowded market place with existing companies‚ a blue ocean strategy will drive to create a complete new market segment that has no completion or other firms to compete against. In this day in age of technology and the emergence of it and globalization the
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Humanities Today Monique Berry HUM/102 October 4‚ 2011 Sharon Worley Humanities Today Humanities are defined as the study or investigation of the natural human processes and social relationships. Many world events transpired in earlier centuries that created what the world is now. The purpose of this paper is to define the term humanities‚ and also distinguish them from other modes of human inquiry and expression. A list of current examples of Art‚ Music‚ Architecture‚ Philosophy‚ and Literature
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PART VI Case Studies CASE STUDY 1 Ocean Park: In the Face of Competition from Hong Kong Disneyland Bennett Yim In April 2006‚ Ocean Park‚ Hong Kong’s only home-grown theme park‚ launched a syndicated loan to raise HK$4.1 billion for a master plan to revamp the Park.1 The master plan represented the Park’s strategic response to the arrival of Hong Kong Disneyland‚ which had opened the previous year. Ocean Park had expected attendance to drop significantly with Disney’s opening‚ but
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Sparse Humanity To start this off‚ I would like to tell you that the future is great. That itś some sort of golden age. Honestly‚ I would like to‚ but I can´t. In fact‚ the future is practically the opposite. Humanity has destroyed itself in war. Nuclear War. The war decimated the population. It also affected the environment. No‚ not the ¨global warming¨ idea. The creatures that humanity once knew are mutated. The remnant of Humanity from the war stay in groups and move around‚ Or they stay in fort-towns
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service organization) I choose to research Habitat for Humanity for a “faith-based” social service organization. I was much uninformed of this organization‚ but thought I knew the services they provided. For example‚ I thought this organization gave away houses‚ but instead they provide reasonable mortgage loans. I also didn’t know this organization was Christian based. This organization also receives funding from the government. Habitat for Humanity provides many families with roofs over their heads
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The program Habitat for Humanity was brought to life by Clarence Jordan in Americus Alabama. On the Koinonia Farm‚ Millard and Linda Fuller dreamt up the idea of “partnership housing”. Partnership Housing is where someone who needs shelter works with other volunteers to build affordable housing that is also cosmetically and structurally appealing. The very first family involved with the program was a couple named Beau and Emma with their five children. They previously lived in a hobble that was not
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