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    who are living in the present, and only focused on planning for the future, to study people and societies of the past in depth. It is important to emphasize teaching history in all levels of school in order to fully grasp how we have grown into a modern society, avoid repetition of past injustices, and provide background information to individuals, groups, and nations to assist in forming identities. The Holocaust, the most known genocide in the world today resulted in the death of over 6 million

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    Lorser Feitelson (modern artist). However, Tansey studied historic art in New York at Hunter College. In his work, he basically used simple objects, paintbrushes, and paint. He has been working around the New York and Los Angeles area most of his life. He lives in Los Angeles where he has a studio for him to continue his work. Style of Art/ Period in History Mark Tansey is a postmodern artist. Postmodern art is a Twentieth century movement that is quite opposite from modern art. Postmodern is

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    In America, Martha Graham (The Queen of Modern Dance), Rudolph von Laban (Time Energy and Space), and Alvin Ailey (Gospel or Lyrical Spiritual Dance) developed and are developing for human movement methods of instruction that led to the development of modern and expressionist dance. The reason that modern dance is so popular is because it allows for the ability to move your body in a way that is comfortable to you. Also people in the 20th century were trying to get out of the strictness of ballet

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    Modern dance is less a of system or technique but rather, an outlook towards dance, an approach that enables artistic individuality. The evolvement of modern dance led way for the development of personal choreographic styles that would allow women to proclaim their independence, artistically and socially. Unlike ballet’s curved and symmetrical lines, modern dancers used angular asymmetries in order to break the traditional images of dance. Many modern dance pioneers had studied ballet, which they

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    created by the body. Graham was recognized as having made revolutionary changes in dance: in form, subject matter, in the analysis and examination of her themes. She was an influential American dancer, teacher, and choreographer of modern dance. Graham gave modern dance a new depth and forceful expression of emotion. Dr. Graham's technique is very

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    most important aspect of society organization is civilization. Civilization in which we live today has been developing over the decades from ancient world through medieval times until the modern world. Without a doubt, some heritage came from the past as customs and traditions. However, more importantly that modern world differ in many ways with both ancient and medieval times. People can see the differences and similarities between these times by reading relevant texts of that particular time. Every

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    The Socio-Political Conditions of Modernity in Poetry In modern era poetry, poets write about social subjects as opposed to outdated topics. They do not write on the subject of trees, river, cattle, and other natural resources. Their poems are now a reflection of the times, referring to the essence of machines and their effects on the society. Outdated poetry would not be able to exist in today’s busy world if the topics were not updated. Walt Whitman 's "I Hear America Singing” and Langston Hughes

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    as being the the symbol for welcoming Modernism. By the early 1900’s Modernism was also being implemented into typography, though in baby steps. That was until World War I became the reason for the Modernist movement to flourish. Understanding the Modern Art principles help with understanding how the Modernism movement was accepted so easily. The Modernism movement inspiration is embodied in the words of Hans Hoffman “the ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary

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    understand this sentence”. I may agree with this, but we have to admit English language had passed through many stages of complexities to occur such a simple and stable status. If we go back several centuries-early old English (450-c.850) to the late modern English (c.1950---) - we would list many changes that affected the English language. In this report, I will argue one important incident that had influenced the English language a lot; what had happened in the late seventeenth century and the beginning

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    Modernism and its relationship to modernist architectures during the 1920s and 1930s, linkages, similarities and differences between how each author define modern architecture can be observed. These varying viewpoints encourages not only the identification of ‘Traditional’ and ‘Art Deco’ movements but also the critical understanding of modern architecture’s evolution and its relation to the societal beliefs, authority, resource and function during the Interwar Period. By associating

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