In the 13th century, Europe experienced phenomenal commercial and financial development, which exploded into an era characterized by an incredible efflorescence of artistic energies called the Renaissance. The Renaissance became a true rebirth to the people of Europe by pushing them out of the feuda...
In the book The Tempest there are several themes but the one I would like to concentrate on are savagery and civilization. ... Gonzalo is a civilized old courtier who, tweleve years ago saved the lives of Prospero and Miranda from the villainy of Antonio. ...
Likewise, Baldassare Castiglione, an Italian diplomat and author, instructed modern Renaissance gentleman in The Book of the Courtier to become learned in a wide variety of subjects including the humanities, classical poetry, and in writing verse and prose. These Italian humanist views were echoed by northern Christian humanists such as Desiderus Erasmus who wrote in his book On the Art of Learning that students should study the classics because "the whole of attainable knowledge lies therein." ... A Spanish humanist educator, Juan Louis Vives, reflects the views prevalent among male humanist...
Jamaica Work songs are the oldest and largest of the musical traditions in Jamaica. These songs originated among slaves in Jamaica and they were used to express their feelings of turmoil. The rhymes of these work songs were often patterned to the activities or tools that they used such as a ...
