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Details: Artifacts of our own cultures surround us. From art and music to architecture and literature, from philosophy and religion to laws and economics, we live among cultural artifacts that have deep roots.
Select the single cultural artifact that you believe best represents the culture in which you live today. Present a detailed description of the artifact, and analyze in detail how the artifact relates to the values, beliefs of the culture. Investigate and evaluate the deep cultural roots of your artifact.
What historical roots allowed your artifact to come into being? Which cultural periods might have influenced its eventual development? How do you anticipate this artifact being passed to future generations? What kinds of evolutions might it undergo as culture changes? 1000 -1200 words that addresses these points from the perspective of someone trained in the Humanities.
â?¢ Demonstrate knowledge and critical thinking in identifying and describing the cultural, political and economic differences between regions, and cultures individually and as a result of teamwork.
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Provides advise on the completion of a paper on cultural artifacts that can best represent the culture and society we are living in.
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This is an opinion question and you will need to decide on the artifact that you feel best represents today's culture. I think that two strong candidates are the television and personal computer. We live in the "information age" and both televisions and personal computers give us immediate access to all types of information. Since one can literally watch television on a computer screen, let me limit the discussion to the personal computer (and specifically the Internet). How important are computers today? People communicate via computers. People get their news from computers. People watch movies on their computers. People shop using computers. Homework requires computers. I never use a travel ...
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