Religion The major two religions in Elizabethan England were Catholic and Protestant religions, Choosing the “wrong” religion brought risks to personal wealth, freedom, and life Schools taught these “favored” religions; if you did not practices these religions then it would lead to great danger: Imprisonment, Torture. Execution Catholics believed that the pope or the priest…
William Shakespeare was born on April 23rd, 1564 and died on April 25th, 1616. Both of his parents were uneducated. When W.Shakespeare was four years of age, he went to a private school for both boys and girls. He was educated in Latin and Greek. His school days often started from dawn till dusk. W.…
The Black Death – victims die in 2 to 4 days -rats fleas carried the disease -once the rats died out humans became new victims Symptoms of the Black Death Include – painful swelling – mental disorientation – vomiting – bleeding – high fever – desire to sleep (if they did, it was fatal) Began…
Globe Theatre- Plays When a play was written, it was quickly produced. Rival play making companies would send their members to get unauthorized copies of the plays, they were called Quarto Texts. Globe Theatre- Actors Women weren’t allowed to be in plays because they thought men brought in better audience and that it was too…
1933 January 30 –Hitler is appointed Reich Chancellor of Germany by Hindenburg January 30 — Sterilization (of inferiors) Laws enacted; implemented three weeks later February 27 — Reichstag fire February 28 — Leading communists arrested March 20 — Dachau concentration camp established April 1 — General boycott of all Jewish businesses – One day April…
Anti-Semitism as a political movement should not and cannot be determined by factors of sentiment, but only by the recognition of the facts. These are the facts: To begin with, Jewry is unqualifiedly a racial association and not a religious association. . . . Its influence will bring about the racial tuberculosis of the people.…
Biography Niccolo Machiavelli is one of the major political philosophers of our times. He was an Essayist, dramatist historian, sketch writer, biographer, dialogist, writer of novellas and a poet. Machiavelli was born on May 3rd,1496, in a family of a Doctor of Law, in Florence Italy. In 1498 he helped to dispose of Giroiamo Savonarola…
Definition and Explanation Concept: “everything in the world has its own place” No matter what you do, you cannot make your way up in the chain You are all that you are born with, for the rest of your life, no matter what you do to try and change it The English society depended on…
Evil and Justice The division among 20th Century critics in their interpretations suggests that Shakespeare may have left it to his audiences to provide the answer to the problem of good and evil. It is possible to isolate passages, each of which seems to provide an answer. Kent, placed in the stocks at the order…
In the early Christian era, man was believed to be composed of two parts: he was half animal and half angel. His animal nature drew him to sin; his angelic spirit provided him with a conscience, and gave him his faith and knowledge of god. Life was seen as a great testing ground where the…
The Middle Ages–the period directly preceding the Renaissance–saw the use of music for specific purposes. This included songs used to accompany knights riding into battle, songs for working, for dancing, and most notably for religious ceremony. The majority of this music has been lost. Only church music survived because only men of the church were…
Financial globalization Interconnection of the world’s financial systems e.g. stock markets More of a connection between large cities than of nations Example: What happens in Asian markets affects the North American markets. Economic Globalization A worldwide economic system that permits easy movement of goods, production, capital, and resources (free trade facilitates this) Example: NAFTA, EU,…
Austrian School (also Vienna School): A school of economics that emphasizes free markets, individual property rights, and freedom of association. It also calls for the abolition of central banks and a return to the gold standard. The school is based on principles postulated by the Austrian economist Carl Menger in the late 19th century. Boom…
Broca’s Area: portion of the left cerebral hemisphere involved in the control of speech. Wernicke’s area: portion of the left cerebral hemisphere involved in the language understanding. If damage were to occur to each area how would this effect an individuals language and speech? Language Aphasia: is used to describe language deficits caused by brain…
The social sciences examine human relationships. Just as the natural sciences attempt to understand the world of nature, the social sciences attempt to understand the social world. Just as the world of nature contains ordered relationships that are not obvious but must be discovered through controlled observation, so the ordered relationships of the human or…
What is psychology? Psychology is the scientific study of behaviour and mental processes. This definition of psychology reflects its concern with an objective study of observable behaviour. It also recognizes the importance of understanding mental processes that cannot be directly observed but must be inferred from behavioural and neurological data. Approaches to psychology There are…
Apartment An apartment, or flat, is a self-contained housing unit that occupies only part of a building. Your rent usually includes payment for the management of the common areas. Condo/Condominium Individual ownership of a portion of a building, with common areas shared by all owners. Often condo’s have all the amenities included in the unit…
The Three Types of Learning There is more than one type of learning. A committee of colleges, led by Benjamin Bloom (1956), identified three domains of educational activities: Cognitive: mental skills (Knowledge) Affective: growth in feelings or emotional areas (Attitude) Psychomotor: manual or physical skills (Skills) Since the work was produced by higher education, the…
An archetype is an original model which something is patterned or based on. This term is often used in literature, architecture and the arts to refer to something that goes back to the fundamentals of the art. Psychologist Carl Jung described several archetypes that are based on the observation of differing but repeating patterns of…
Setting In Hamlet, there are numerous references made to other countries which include France, Germany, Norway, Poland, and England. Despite these locations, the majority of the play occurs in and around Elsinore Castle, located in Denmark. Elisnore is better known as Helsingoer to the Danish population and to Shakespeare enthusiasts and the English, it is…