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    foundation sponsors events and programs throughout the year and houses many groups, organizations, and businesses that highlight the importance of preserving German heritage though healthy bodies and the arts and humanities. The Atheaeum is also house to the Rathskeller Restaurant, which is the oldest restaurant in Indianapolis. Other tenants include the American Cabaret Theater, the Indiana German Heritage Society, a Young Actors Theatre, and even a YMCA. The Athenaeum also hosts a German Fest annually

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    over due to the lack of finding a career or job in my field per say. Personally I think going deeper into the humanities should be optional. Based on my brief tenure in the professional workforce, I didn’t need to know about The Ancient Mayan Civilization or have a need for calculus to be successful in my job. At the same time with everything going on in the world today, I think the humanities may benefit some of the people who are freaking out behind the history of this country they live in. If anything

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    Throughout this course, we have been asked "What is humanities"? Humanities is the study of human beings by culture, the arts including theater, dance, and music. Within the humanities there are different eras that are represented such as the information age. The Information Age is a time period in our history where the traditional industry shifted to the Industrial Revolution. The Information Age is a great example of how progressively advanced a country can be in with-in a time period. This advancement

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    Since the beginning of the Humanities sequence, numerous themes have been expressed through various pieces of art and literature. A few of these themes have been so prevalent that they have flourished throughout the entire sequence of humanities classes. One of the major themes in particular is the idea of truth and where people have found truth in society. Some believe that truth comes from religion and higher powers, while others believe that knowing as many angles of a certain idea gains knowledge

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    When it comes to the humanities, it is not the specific pieces of music, drama or literature that interest me. It is the history that interests me! History has always been one of the most interesting subjects to me, why things are the way they are today, and I really think that idea goes hand in hand with the humanities. Reading chapter nineteen in the textbook about the Northern renaissance through about 1600, the part's that interest me the least were the exerts from Martin Luther's writings. Which

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    The Humanities Faire, which varies year to year, is a very valued outread of Jesse Remington High School. The 2018 Humanities Faire will be Colonial America. Going into the Faire, it is important to know all of the aspects and have an overview of what the Faire is going to focus on. Colonial America is often viewed as just the 13 original English colonies, but often people leave out the fact that there were already French, Spanish, Dutch, and other groups of people in America. That is an important

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    The Humanities Faire was both an amazing and stressful challenge this year, which started in September and ended in October. The ending was a showcase, but there was a long road before that to get to where it ended. On the first day, we did a really rough overview of the time periods we wanted to include, the characters, and what the main view to get across was. On September 1st, that is what we looked at. Breaking into small groups, we got some ideas rolling and brought them to the big group. After

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    There seems to be a stigma present in our society, that social sciences and humanities are not as hard and require less work than science, technology, engineering, and mathematics, STEM, majors. In addition, women are still struggling to gain traction in STEM fields, and face gender bias quite frequently, as seen in the fact that women are only paid 77 cents for every dollar made by a man. We hypothesized that STEM majors would be rated as more academically competent than sociology majors. We also

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    Oh the Humanities! Who wouldn't want to study the stories that gave life to the world as we know it? Read books that saved millions yet also fanned the flames of war. Texts that question reality, truth, knowledge, wisdom, happiness, and life itself . It seems silly to climb that academic ladder and never once question why. To search for the truth and values of the past is vital in creating a well-rounded student, and more importantly a good person. This paper will examine exactly why the humanities

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    belief today is that the humanities have lost their place in modern America. After a controversial article on the humanities, written by Stanley Fish, was published by The New York Times, many of the online readers had disagreeing or negative comments proving that some Americans still long for the humanities. What Fish could not accept, and what most of the readers believed in, was that the humanities have a specific purpose and task. McClay discusses the burdens of the humanities, but also the things

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