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Project 1B
Melissa Saunders

Vocabulary Hunt

 

 

Humanities:

  1. Areas of learning (philosophy, arts, or languages) that investigate human concerns as opposed to natural processes and social relations.
  2. (Humanity) Having the qualities of compassion, sympathy, or consideration for humans, and being susceptible to the sympathies and frailties of human nature.

 

History:

  1. A record of significant events that affect a nation or institution, and an explanation of their causes
  2. A branch of knowledge that records and explains past events

 

Art:

  1. A skill acquired by experience, study, or observation.
  2. A branch of learning, and one of the humanities
  3. Human effort to imitate, supplement, alter, or counteract the work of nature
  4. The conscious production or arrangement of sounds, colors, forms, movements, or other elements.

 Literature:

  1. Writings in prose or verse that express ideas of permanent or universal interest
  2. A body of written works in a particular language, country, or age, which has the characteristics of humane learning.

 

Society:

  1. A cooperating social group whose members develop organized patterns of relationships through interactions with one another.
  2. A community, nation, or broad grouping of people having common traditions, institutions, and collective activities and interests.

 

Culture:

  1. The integrated pattern of human knowledge, belief, and behavior that depends upon mans capacity for learning and transmitting knowledge to succeeding generations.
  2. The customary beliefs, social forms, and material traits of a racial, religious, or social group.
  3. The set of shared attitudes, values, goals, and practices that characterizes a company or corporation.

 

Socioeconomics:

  1. Relating to and involving a combination of social and economic factors
  2. Economic behavior is better comprehended when other social variables are taken into reference.  Such as family, politics, religion, etc.

 

Film:

  1. A representation of a story by means of a motion picture.
  2. A form of entertainment that enacts a story by a sequence of images giving the illusion of continuous movement.
  3. Movies considered as a group.

 

References:

  1. www.m-w.com
  2. www.dictionary.com
  3. www.questia.com

 

Humanities are an area of study that help one have enhanced appreciation for either their culture or another culture.  In order to fully recognize that culture one must look at its history to understand how the society established.  Economics are not a standard component of the human concerns focused on in the study of humanities: although, they become relevant in the form of socioeconomics when the family, politics, and religion are considered. There are many resources available to aide in the study of humanities.  The traditions, beliefs, values, and customs of a culture are represented through various works of art, literature, and film.  These resources stimulate the imagination in distinctive ways, all using creative processes.  As illustrated the vocabulary words focused on in this project are relevant to the various different elements of humanities.

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