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    late Renaissance paved the way for later Baroque artwork in various ways. The Renaissance was a time of societal, scientific, and artistic advancement throughout all of Europe. The concepts of humanism and realism emerged from this historical period. A great portion of art created during this era was religious, reflecting the idea that humanity was divine. Discoveries during this period also set the fundamentals for modern-day science and technology. Advances in the early, high, and late Renaissance

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    religions that we have researched. Christianity didn’t really affect Japan up until the medieval era ended and wasn’t brought over until European peoples traveled to Japan. That leaves Buddhism and Shintoism. Shintoism is known as their first and official religion. No one really knows where the origin of Shinto came from but it impacted the development of historical Japan. A tradition that involves the Shinto shrine is after the birth of a baby, it is named after three days, then after about a month

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    To Treitschke, society would only have a place for Jews if they decided to convert to Christianity and assimilate to the culture of their respective European nation – implying that the Christian European was superior to that of the Jew. English liberal Herbert Spencer gave his own defense of Social Darwinism and conflict between human beings. Spencer believed that competition between animals helped advance their spieces

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    Bushidō's Honor Culture

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    Shaun Gunter Bushidō: Honor Culture of Japan Personal honor and behavior governed by a specific code are signature characteristics of Japan's storied warrior-scholars: the samurai. This code, known as Bushidō (literally "Way of the Warrior"), governed a way of life that separated the samurai from the rest of Japanese society. However, Bushidō would, ultimately, influence the entire nation. This paper examines the origins, functions, and impact of Bushidō in the context of samurai culture

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    The European Impact on Native American Technology When European exploration led to the populating of the Americas, it was described as the event with one of the greatest ecological impacts in history. The force behind this impact was the mass movement of people and their behavior's toward their "New World". It only stands to reason that a clash would occur with the natives of these lands. One of the areas with the greatest conflict was the field of technology. Scientifically, when the cultures

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    Asian Stereotypes

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    samurai warriors” (Sun, “4 Lies We Need to Stop Telling About Asian-American Men”). Since the media plays such a big role in what society tends to believe, Asian men are most likely opinionated as the perpetual foreigner who has a black belt in martial arts along with a doctorates degree in

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    artifacts made in Turkey, or in France by Turkish craftsmen, and by derivation the influence on French design of elements from the Byzantine Empire, the Saljuq Islamic period and the Ottoman Empire.’ 1 In music, the influence of Turkish culture in European society also spurred composers like Mozart, Haydn and Beethoven to write music with the used of Alla Turca style in 18th century. Alla Turca was being referred to the ‘Turkish music’, however it is not purely music of Turkey but rather as a musical

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    combines reminiscences of Diego Velazquez’s equestrian portraits of children and Aureliano de Beruete’s landscapes with elements of popular culture such as a Mickey Mouse doll to generate what Jacobo Fitz-James Stuart has called the first example of pop art in modern painting.” Zuloaga is explicit in his outlook, and like other great artist at this time like El Greco and Goya, he is also not without a strong savor of mysticism and romantic intensity. “Zuloaga’s palette though richly set was restricted

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    traditional, are two major groundings within the world of African art. Henceforth within this essay one will be contrasting and comparing one traditional African artwork; The Ngwana ‘ a ditlhaka (figure 1) by the Northern Sotho people and one contemporary African artwork; Bleeding tokarai (figure 2) by El Anutsui; in order to establish the works conceptual grounding in terms of materiality. At first this essay will be highlighting the historical and contextual aspects of each artwork along with in depth

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    addresses both the changes and the continuities across all three groups. When a new generation comes their will be a new way to do things like finding food or communicating or they might be the same. 5. What is the significance of the cave art? The Venus figurines? The art in the cave shows what the humans did in there life and the Venus figurines shows sexual features suggested the paleolithic people fasioned such as figurines out of an interest in fertility. 6. How did the gradual transformation from

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