This week you learned about the incredible industrial, urban, and financial development of the United States during the final thirty years of the nineteenth century (i.e., the Gilded Age). Much of that development was concentrated in the northern and eastern sections of the country, and the tremendous level of development seemed to promise both domestic […]

Second Generation Pioneers Post Modern Dance and Choreographers Modern Dance in the 70s, 80s, and 90s The Second Generation of Pioneers in Modern Dance truly took what Isadora Duncan, Ruth St. Denis and Ted Shawn started, and popularized the form of dance. The world was becoming much more aware of modern dance through these artists, which includes […]

Unit One Assignment 1 Submission Instructions Please use the following instructions for submitting your assignment to your Open Learning Faculty Member. As soon as you have completed all parts of Assignment 1, name and save your document. Send it to your Open Learning Faculty Member for marking by using theAssignments link. Be sure to include your […]

Construct an argument about how imperialism contributed to the making of a global world in the early twentieth century. You may find it useful to ask yourself the following questions: what was imperialism; why were imperialists driven to imperialism and how did they justify their actions; and how did those opposed to an imperial presence […]

As you’ve read, the poem of Inanna and Dimuzi includes agricultural metaphors that are a bit more explicit than your typical Old Farmer’s Almanac entry.  Discuss the underlying meaning of this poem and how it relates to the Warka Vase, Warka Mask, and White Temple and Ziggurat from Uruk.  How is the imagery on the exterior of […]