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Humanities:
- Areas of learning (philosophy, arts, or languages) that investigate human concerns as opposed to natural processes and social relations.
- (Humanity) Having the qualities of compassion, sympathy, or consideration for humans, and being susceptible to the sympathies and frailties of human nature.
History:
- A record of significant events that affect a nation or institution, and an explanation of their causes
- A branch of knowledge that records and explains past events
Art:
- A skill acquired by experience, study, or observation.
- A branch of learning, and one of the humanities
- Human effort to imitate, supplement, alter, or counteract the work of nature
- The conscious production or arrangement of sounds, colors, forms, movements, or other elements.
Literature:
- Writings in prose or verse that express ideas of permanent or universal interest
- A body of written works in a particular language, country, or age, which has the characteristics of humane learning.
Society:
- A cooperating social group whose members develop organized patterns of relationships through interactions with one another.
- A community, nation, or broad grouping of people having common traditions, institutions, and collective activities and interests.
Culture:
- The integrated pattern of human knowledge, belief, and behavior that depends upon mans capacity for learning and transmitting knowledge to succeeding generations.
- The customary beliefs, social forms, and material traits of a racial, religious, or social group.
- The set of shared attitudes, values, goals, and practices that characterizes a company or corporation.
Socioeconomics:
- Relating to and involving a combination of social and economic factors
- Economic behavior is better comprehended when other social variables are taken into reference. Such as family, politics, religion, etc.
Film:
- A representation of a story by means of a motion picture.
- A form of entertainment that enacts a story by a sequence of images giving the illusion of continuous movement.
- Movies considered as a group.
References:
- www.m-w.com
- www.dictionary.com
- www.questia.com
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