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1. What historical event (the fall of a civilization) took place in 395 AD to usher in the middle ages? 395 AD fall of Roman Empire. 1000 year Medieval ( Dark age) period. 2. What was society and culture generally like in the middle ages? There is no middle class, is only really rich people who got high education, and wealth. Or that the people is really really poor, they got no education and wealth. They got really low art educated and so does music, so basically there is no new things coming out from this part of the culture. 3. Renaissance means _______The rebirth and the ideas of ancient greece and rome.________. 4. What was being brought back during this time? The cultures, and the soul of the art. Define: 5. Contraposto - The shadow that shows really clear of the white and black. 6. Chiaroscuro - the drawing of light and shade in a picture, or the effect produced by light and shade in a place. 7. The painter of the Mona Lisa was _______Leonardo da vinchi_________ 8. The man who ...

"What does a citizen looks like" this is such a good question. first, we have to make clear what is it meant by a citizen. Citizen are people who belong to a group or a country. For example, I am born in Taiwan, so I am a citizen of Taiwan and native of Taiwan. But their are some different situation too. Like if you want to come Taiwan to be a teacher, the country only gives you the acceptant that you can work here legally. But if you don't have an ARC card, you must leave Taiwan after few weeks, and that will be like you go on a vacation and go back to your country cause the holiday is over. And this process in US is called Naturalization. which is the same thing that I said. So, basically a citizen is a person that legally been allow to be a group or a country. We can say we are citizen of HIS. Cause this is our school and also we belong here for studying. Here are some of my personal thinking of citizenship and citizen. For being a citizen of school, I think there are ...

What is this story about? My story is about a boy that he is afraid that he will die in fear. And he is scared of that he will die with no one notice. What is important to them about the story they picked ? It is a poem, and it confirm people as shows that a fear and the most scary thing that he can ever imagine that he don't want to have it in the real life. And is really important to me, is first because i don't like to see people in fear, i personally thinks that all people in this world should get confident, even they know nothin. They should got confident for nothin. What does this story should we care about what is happening in Haiti ? The children is a live in fears, and hopeless. We have to give these children hope, and make them happy before this period of time. However they are, their skin color or where they live, are they poor or not. It doesn't really matter, they are a people a part of citizen of the Earth, they are same as us we shouldn't treat the...

General Statements One of these guitarists had a handicap. What was it? It was Francisco Tarrega, once when he was small, don’t know what reason, but his nursemaid throw him into a river, for a while, because of that his eyes got a germs effect his eyes, make it become a can’t fixed hack. How are their styles different? Is the music of Sor related to an earlier musical time period? Which one? Opera and Ballet, romantic music, classical music and ethnic music. 3. Is the music of Sor related to an earlier musical time period? Which one? He was born is the classical music was famous, but the lucky part is he is also alive when it comes to romantic music too. Who is your subject. When and where did they live. Fernando Sor - 14 February 1778 – died 10 July 1839 Paris, and Francisco Tarrega - 21 November 1852 — 15 December 1909 Spain. What is their major contribution to music? (Why are they famous?) Essential Questions What is Romanticism? (It has many definitions, and is many things.) A sty...

Edgard Varese Edgard Varese is a composer, who been called Father of Electronic Music, he is basically a musician himself. He is born in December 22, 1883 and died in November 6, 1965. His being known as the "Father of Electronic Music" while Henry Miller described him as "The stratospheric Colossus of Sound". What was his most important contribution to music? Explain. He is the inventor of the term “organized sound”. He is one of the earliest Serialist composers, electronic musician, and noisy type of music. Why was his approach to music composition so different? He is french but american, he learn his music with Vincent d'Indy, Charles-Marie Widor and Albert Roussel. He moves alot, it makes him understand a lot of culture from different places. How influential was he? Who were some of the people he influenced? He influential a lot of people in his century. For example like Chou Wen-chung who met Edgard Varese at 1949, and he become his student. And he also i...

Today in citizenship class, we learn about social boundaries and sterotype. When a person become to another area or land, they have to face to other people and realtionships. They got thir own feelings, they had friends before, not because they are from a nother country or etc, so people be able to ignore him or her. Or even sterotype them, not all the athletes got bad grades, and is not all not stylish person don't know art. That is really hurtsful to people who is actually like this.

Art class 11/13 1. Describe 2 people : - facial expressions - Clothing - What were they doing 1. - He is really hot in the factory. - He is wearing a blue shirt and it is dirty. - He is making shape for the glass. 2. - He is really dirty a lot of black on his face. - He is wearing a black cloth with 背叛 on it. - He is shaping the glass become more beautiful. 2. Why is Hsinchu famous for its glass manufacturing (give 2 reasons) Hsinchu is famous of glass because its natural resources is : 1. Silicons 2. Gas