It's unfortunate that as a society we fail to see the importance of art in education. ... It represents a form of thinking which should be present in our schools. ... Art is means of listening to dreams and expressing imagination and feelings. ... Although the public in general view art as an activity with little or no importance to a child's education, art seems to be more practical since you"ll always use what you learn from it. ... If society is to grow art must flourish for without art society becomes stagnant, and if not incorporated in school curriculums education is not co...

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The very earliest form of art that can be found came in 15,000 B.C. At this time came a big change in self-expression through visual art. ... The most important thing that the Sumerian people did was inventing the first form of writing known as Cuneiform. ... The art of this time show the trend of the Sumerian age. ... The theaters are a piece of Greek art also. ...

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The Seated Baboon is a small gypsum sculpture measuring about four inches in height and currently resides in the collection at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. ... This sculpture in the round, is unique to most of the Elamite art that we have record of. ... Not only did they display found art but they created their own incorporating aesthetics of the art they discovered with their own beliefs and ideals in mind. ... Also the emergence of showing gods in animal form became popular. ... The Elamites perfected the art of glaze ware and glass decorations. ...

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The body art group gave the best example of cultural relativism. ... After listening to them talk about what they know, I have developed a larger tolerance for this type of art. ... After to listening to a rap song, I may be able to form an image of what it is like to live his life. ... The body art group showed me that all types of people have tattoos and piercings. ... I found it particularly interesting that when there are more than two pets in a home a hierarchy is formed. ...

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In "Digging", the poet detail the art of digging, and says, "By God, the old man could handle a spade./ Just like his old man." ... His trade is writing and he will utilize it as his own form of "digging" in the sense that, writing will be his way of continuing the culture, by writing of the culture, as he is essentially doing in "digging" and "follower". ... The audience recognizes, having read "digging", that Heaney's father's skill and perfection in his work, has been passed down in the form of Heaney's own ability to write and to add to the cultural identity of Ireland. ... ...

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It is represented through song, dance, art and storytelling. ... The indigenous believe that the Ancestral Spirits came to earth in a human form, traveling across the land and creating animals, plants and forms of land that we know today. ... The Dreaming tracks are invisible lines across the land that form a map, these are believed to have been used by their past ancestors. ...

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Hybridity as defined by Aschroft et al (1998) is the creation of new transcultural forms within the contact zone produced by colonialization. ... Hybrid identity emerges therefrom multiple forms of hybridity. Smith (2008) divided multiple forms of hybridity as identities that exist across borders, duality, gender (a false dichotomy), new identities, the diaspora (borderless), and the internal colony hybrid (formed within boundaries). ... Moreover, her mother said that she has perfected art of hurting them. ... Hybrid identity emerges therefrom multiple forms of hybridity. ...

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Different forms of Culture Shock include: Cognitive Fatigue, Role Shock, and Personal Shock according to Winkleman. ... Culture Shock can happen at anytime in a variety of forms. ... "Today, as in the past, we grapple with a key question: Does art reflect our terrors and desires, or project and perhaps even promote exploration of these emotions? ...

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The Webster dictionary defines culture as: ..the total pattern of human behavior and artifacts and depending on man's capacity of learning and transmitting knowledge through the use of tools, language, and system of abstract thought, b: the body of customary beliefs, social forms, and material traits constituting a distinct complex or tradition of a racial, religious or social group. ... If we build off these definitions for this paper we could build a working definition and say that culture is the projection of the production of all abstract things, such as art, religion, sports, and l...

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It's constantly "evolving" and shifting around, as and more and more cultures clash or contrast or meld, the resulting forms of, say, art, end up reflecting really wacky aesthetics. ... All forms of music - not just rock n' roll, but even country, jazz, chamber music, gospel... they all reflect the mood of society and culture, like it or not. Hell, we could have entirely new forms of music crop up left and right. ... There must be other forms of music out there that may need a nice bombing campaign to bring them kicking and screaming (or, say, beeping and dinging) into existence. ...

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Throughout the entire world there have been different influences coming to affect and altering the original aspects of my culture, especially by the arts. The beauty of life and its features, in my opinion, relies specifically in the integration of different civilizations. Now in the days with there...

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Many people scrutinize the small percentage of African tribes that practice body scarification as a barbaric, yet their own people view it as heroism and art. ... He understood and expressed in this essay that the compliance of these women was almost as a basic form of brainwashing. ...

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Ghost stories are big business in today's modern English language culture. The 6th Sense, one of the most popular ghost films of the decade, grossed about $300,000,000 in theaters in the United States alone (Box Office Mojo). The majority of those within the English speaking cultures may not realize...

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ANALYSING MOVEMENT INTO AND IDENTITY IN THE GOTHIC SUBCULTURE TABLE OF CONTENTS Page 1. Introduction 1 1.1 History 1 1.2 Identification of problem 1 1.3 Objectives ...

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Many people in our society feel that they have become so immune to the media that they no longer realize the actual affect it has on them. Many of them see it as their only way to discovering the world. Meaning that they get to see, hear, and perhaps feel things that they would never feel, had it no...

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How a US Executive can Make a Good First Impression on an American Executive upon their First Business Meeting Introduction Japan, a country within the continent of Asia, is a chain of islands located east of Korea with a population exceeding 125 million. Japan does business in a wide range o...

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