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HUM 112 Full Course Assignments STR

HUM 112 Week 2 Quiz 1 STR

Quiz 1

Question 1

What inspired the first operas?

Question 2

Why did the orphanage directors of Venice hope audiences would be dazzled by the orphans’ musical performances?

Question 3

What is the meaning of the Portuguese term barroco, from which “Baroque” likely derived?

Question 4

What did Bernini aim to symbolize with his oval colonnade that encloses Vatican Square?

Question 5

What Greek myth inspired Monteverdi’s first opera?

Question 6

In The Little Street why does Vermeer include a half-whitewashed wall and a mortar-filled cracked façade?

Question 7

What manner of inquiry did René Descartes advocate?

Question 8

Why in 1656 was Rembrandt forced to declare bankruptcy?

Question 9

In Descent from the Cross, discussed in the chapter’s “Continuity and Change” section, why does Rembrandt push his scene deeper into the canvas than does Rubens in his earlier painting of the same title?

Question 10

What requirement did the Dutch state place on people in public service?

HUM 112 Week 3 Quiz 2 STR

Quiz 2

Question 1

Why did the English people find Oliver Cromwell difficult to tolerate as their leader?

Question 2

Why did the English Parliament raise an army against King Charles I in 1642?

Question 3

What is the Spanish notion of pundonor (point of honor), a favorite theme in Calderón’s plays?

Question 4

What is the Spanish notion of pundonor (point of honor), a favorite theme in Calderón’s plays?

Question 5

Why does Louis XIV wear red high-heeled shoes in Hyacinthe Rigaud’s portrait?

Question 6

According to Isaac Newton, why does the universe function harmoniously and orderly?

Question 7

According to Thomas Hobbes, what two factors motivate people?

Question 8

Why did the Lunar Society meet monthly on the night of a full moon?

Question 9

Why probably did the Easter Island residents erect the moai (monumental heads)?

Question 10

Why was the Great Fire advantageous to London?

HUM 112 Week 4 Quiz 3 STR

Quiz 3

Question 1

Why does Fragonard paint the young lady in The Swing as losing a shoe?

Question 2

Why did Diderot admire Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin’s still -life paintings?

Question 3

What Joseph Haydn development was the first of the new Classical genres?

Question 4

In Jean-Antoine Watteau’s The Signboard of Gersaint, why is a portrait of Louis XIV being placed in a storage box?

Question 5

What was the overarching purpose of the Encyclopédie?

Question 6

Why in The Wealth of Nations did Adam Smith take a laissez-faire position on slavery?

Question 7

Why did Jefferson locate Monticello on a hilltop?

Question 8

According to German philosopher Immanuel Kant, what was the Enlightenment’s precondition?

Question 9

As described in the chapter’s “Continuity and Change” section, why does Antoine Jean Gros’s painting of Napoleon and his army battling the Russians make odd propaganda?

Question 10

Why did Napoleon reject Canova’s statue of him as Mars?

HUM 112 Week 4 Assignment 1

Assignment 1: Essay

Choose one (1) of the three (3) reading selections from the list of topic choices below. The focus is on brief but important primary source material written by important authors. In each case, the subject relates to the problems of certain people who are oppressed or impoverished. In each topic, a different genre or approach is adopted to help readers see and perhaps address the problem. Read the selections as identified with each topic below. Write a four-to-five (4-5) paragraph essay (350 words minimum) which analyzes the work following the list of four things “your paper should cover” given just after the topics.

Topic Choices

Reading selection of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice. Her works are very popular today, with Austen reading clubs and all types of new books and events based on her ideas. In 2017 England printed new 10 pound bank notes with her image on them. The chapter should be read in full at https://www.janeausten.org/pride-and-prejudice/chapter-43.asp
Reading selection from Samuel Johnson within the current text 21.12 from The Rambler the essay found here http://www.johnsonessays.com/the-idler/sufficiency-english-language/. Johnson was the editor of two coffeehouse magazines, The Rambler (1750–52) and The Idler (1758–60), and the author of Dictionary of the English Language, and subject of one of the first biographies by James Boswell. Johnson overcame numerous illnesses and handicaps.
Reading selection from Equiano’s Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, written in 1789. This selection can be found in chapter 26 of our class text on pp. 901-902 (with background on pp. 893 – 897). The context is the process of enslavement and then passage across the Atlantic.
Reading selection of Olympe de Gouges’ Declaration of the Rights of Woman and the Female citizen (written in 1791). The selection should be read in full at http://chnm.gmu.edu/revolution/d/293/with background provided on p. 874 of our class text. You should also look at the revolutionary document of 1789 that she is “correcting”, called Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen(http://avalon.law.yale.edu/18th_century/rightsof.asp ). Olympe de Gouge has the status of women as her main concern. The general context is the French Revolution and the attempts to redefine rights and status once one replaces monarchy.

For the reading selection and topic you choose, your paper should cover the following:

Briefly introduce the writer and the situation that this reading is about. Identify the genre or nature of the reading. (Who is the author; why did he or she write this piece?)
Using specific examples or lines within the reading, suggest the author’s key views and key aims for the reading audience. (Give a 1-2 paragraph summary of ideas)
Evaluate the author’s strategy and what you see as the work’s likely effectiveness (or lack of effectiveness) for the target audience. If there is any known historical result, discuss that. (Look at the writing style and discuss who would read this)
Evaluate how the reading impacted you. Identify any analogous situations today, and also key lessons you get from the reading that could be relevant to one’s professional and personal life. (How did you like this? How do the ideas relate to situations today?)

Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements:

This course requires the use of Strayer Writing Standards (SWS). The format is different than others Strayer University courses. Please take a moment to review the SWS documentation for details.

Include a title page containing the title of the assignment, your name, the professor’s name, the course title, and the date of submission. The cover page and the source list are not included in the required assignment length (350 words minimum).
You must the class text and also any source(s) identified (with links) above for the topic you choose, focusing on the main primary source of that author. If you use any additional source (optional), it must be from the university’s online Library and of good academic quality for college work.

The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:

Explain how key social, cultural, and artistic contributions contribute to historical changes.
Explain the importance of situating a society’s cultural and artistic expressions within a historical context.
Examine the influences of intellectual, religious, political, and socio-economic forces on social, cultural, and artistic expressions.

Identify major historical developments in world cultures from the Renaissance to the contemporary period.
Use technology and information resources to research issues in the study of world cultures.
Write clearly and concisely about world cultures using proper writing mechanics.

Grading for this assignment will be based on answer quality, logic/organization of the paper, and language and writing skills, using the following rubric found here.

HUM 112 Week 5 Quiz 4 STR

Quiz 4

Question 1

Why did Beethoven eventually view his deafness and its isolation as positive?

Question 2

Which historic figure was considered the personification of the Romantic hero?

Question 3

With what great innovation did Beethoven end his Ninth Symphony?

Question 4

Who originally coined the term “Romanticism”?

Question 5

What term did Hector Berlioz give to the leading theme or melody in his symphonies?

Question 6

What theme is at the heart of Dickens’ socially realistic writings?

Question 7

What did French painter Paul Delaroche declare when he saw his first daguerreotype?

Question 8

Why did so many people move to London between 1800 and 1880?

Question 9

Why did the factories tend to employ unskilled single young women and widows?

Question 10

Why did architect A. W. N. Pugin consider the medieval poorhouses superior to the nineteenth-century ones?

HUM 112 Week 6 Quiz 5 STR

Quiz 5

Question 1

Why, in 1877, did Southern African Americans lose many of the freedoms they had gained from
the Civil War?

Question 2

Herman Melville’s differed from the other Transcendentalists in his view that nature

Question 3

Henry David Thoreau began his Walden Pond experiment to

Question 4

Some people found Louis Agassiz’s theory of origin more appealing than Charles
Darwin’s, because Agassiz

Question 5

In A Visit from the Old Mistress, Winslow Homer portrays the old mistress dressed in black and the former slaves in white to

Question 6

To have his operas produced in Paris, Giuseppe Verdi had to

Question 7

How did Richard Wagner accomplished his new “music drama” with

Question 8

According to Charles Baudelaire, the greatest job of a flâneur like himself and Édouard Manet was to

Question 9

Charles Baudelaire was forced to remove six poems from his book Les Fleurs du mal because they

Question 10

Japonisme is

HUM 112 Week 7 Quiz 6 STR

Quiz 6

Question 1

Why did nineteenth-century Russian collectors favor French and German works over Russian art?

Question 2

What effect does Claude Monet’s loose brushwork give to Boulevard des Capucines?

Question 3

Why are the young girls in Degas’s Dance Class in a moment of great stress?

Question 4

Why do most of Edgar Degas’s paintings have work as their primary theme?

Question 5

What question functions as the theme of Dostoyevsky’s Crime and Punishment?

Question 6

How does Kate Chopin’s The Awakening resemble Walt Whitman’s work?

Question 7

Why was ragtime music poorly received by many Americans?

Question 8

How did Jane McCrea become a symbol of Native American and white relations?

Question 9

According to architect Louis H. Sullivan, what determined a building’s identity?

Question 10

Which earlier artist seems to have influenced Eakins in The Gross Clinic and The Agnew Clinic?

HUM 112 Week 7 Assignment 2

Assignment 2: Project Paper

The Project Paper focuses on a suggested topic related to art, history, or literature, with important examples and themes that still resonate today for one’s professional or personal life. The project will reflect your views and interpretation of the topic. This project is designed to help you stretch your mind and your abilities to be the creative, innovative, and critical thinker you already are!

Choose one (1) of the topics from the list of topic choices below. Read the topic carefully. Write a three to four (3-4) page paper (750-1,000 words) that responds to each of the items described in the topic. (Exception is the video presentation of the first topic below which is a different communication form).

For the topic you choose:

Support your ideas with specific, illustrative examples. If there are questions or points associated with your chosen topic, be sure to answer all of the listed questions and address all of the items in that topic. If your topic asks you to do several things related to the topic, be sure to do each of the things listed.
The listed topics each have a certain presentation format or writing genre with it (video, essay, poem, etc), and each topic involves looking at a distinct form of presentation (oral speech, novel, visual art, poetry, etc. And each topic involves some sort of challenge or theme that is relevant to modern work and life. Be creative and admire the creativity of others.

Follow the instructions below for what sources to use and what formatting to use in layout and referencing. Avoid sources that are not good academic quality for college writing (Wikipedia is one example). Do NOT use any source that provides or sells college essays.

Note: Your instructor may require you to submit your topic choice for approval before the end of Week 5.

Topic choices (pick 1):

Harlem Renaissance Authors. Essay & Poem. Choose two (2) poems by different authors from the Harlem Renaissance. Write an essay that:

1. Describes each author’s role and importance within the Harlem Renaissance.
2. Identify the elements in each of their poems in which you see evidence of the “double-consciousness” being expressed by each author.
3. Fully describe at least two (2) primary themes you see in the writingp during this time period, referring to specific lines in each of the pieces.
4. Discuss how these works challenge or inspire you for your personal life or profession.

Women Challenge their Audience. Essay. Lessons in Public Speaking: Two women of very different backgrounds and language skills gave effective speeches in the cause of abolition. Read the speeches and the background of them. Angelina Grimke Weld’s speech in Philadelphia in 1838: http://www.historyisaweapon.com/defcon1/grimke.html ; the background of that speech is at http://eloquentwoman.blogspot.com/2016/09/famous-speech-friday-angelina-grimkes.html . Sojourner Truth’s famous 1851 speech and its background: https://www.nps.gov/articles/sojourner-truth.htm . Also see background in chapter 29 (p986) of our class text. Then write an essay that includes the following:

1. Biographical information for each woman, emphasizing elements especially relevant to the speeches.
2. Describe the obstacles and limitations each faced that normally would hinder the making of these speeches.
3. Using specific lines, show or illustrate effective speaking methods that helped them connect to the audience.
4. Describe two lessons you learn from these examples that could be of value to you for communications in your professional life.

What Price Progress? Essay: Economic Change and Consequences. Our class text has four short reading selections from Charles Dickens, known for his literary realism in the mid-1800s, when many struggled trying to adapt to unrelenting economic changes. The readings are Old Curiosity Shop (p.946); Sketches by Boz (p. 947); Dombey and Son (p.951), and Hard Times (pp.952-953). Select just one of these readings. Then write an essay that includes the following:

1. Summarize the main ideas in the selection you chose, including the thesis or main point, and five important details.
2. Considering descriptions in our class text and other sources, explain conditions in London at this time, including housing, labor, and family life.
3. Define literary realism and show how Dickens uses the technique in this selection. Identify Dickens’ reasons for wanting changes for the struggling poor in London.
4. Describe two lessons you learn from this inquiry about the problems and responsibilities and skills needed in facing today’s unrelenting economic changes.

Other topic choice recommended and approved by the professor and supported by the grading rubric.

The Project Paper will be graded on:

The level to which the instructions were followed.
The extent to which all four (4) parts in the topic were addressed.
The adequacy of information, examples, and details which support the general claim or main idea.
The clarity and relevance of the explanations and descriptions.
Adherence to standard rules of grammar, punctuation, and mechanics.
The inclusion and use of the sources identified above for your topic (the Sayre text book and any other sources/links given). Also, the use of at least one other relevant, good quality source found in our online Library. (Other sources not meeting these criteria should not be used).
The sources used will be documented in your paper using the SWS style (see below).

Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements:

This course requires the use of Strayer Writing Standards (SWS). The format is different than others Strayer University courses. Please take a moment to review the SWS documentation for details.

Include a title page containing the title of the assignment, your name, the professor’s name, the course title, and the date of submission. The title page and the source list are not included in the required length (750 words minimum). The body of the paper must be double-spaced between lines and must use paragraphing.

The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:

Explain how key social, cultural, and artistic contributions contribute to historical changes.
Explain the importance of situating a society’s cultural and artistic expressions within a historical context.
Examine the influences of intellectual, religious, political, and socio-economic forces on social, cultural, and artistic expressions.

Identify major historical developments in world cultures from the Renaissance to the contemporary period.

Use technology and information resources to research issues in the study of world cultures.

Write clearly and concisely about world cultures using proper writing mechanics.

Grading for this assignment will be based on answer quality, logic/organization of the paper, and language and writing skills, using the following rubric found here.

HUM 112 Week 8 Quiz 7 STR

Quiz 7

Question 1

Why did Georges Seurat prefer to paint using tiny dots of color called pontilles?

Question 2

Why did some French complain about the Eiffel Tower?

Question 3

In The Night Café, how does Vincent van Gogh express “the terrible passions of humanity”?

Question 4

On what work did Stépane Mallarmé base his Symbolist “L’Aprés-midi d’un faune”?

Question 5

As described in the chapter’s “Continuity and Change” section, what method did Sigmund Freud use to encourage his patients to talk freely?

Question 6

Why did viewers find Picasso’s Les Demoiselles d’Avignon disturbing?

Question 7

Why were Thomas Edison’s early films for the Kinetoscope rather limited?

Question 8

What special significance does the spiral have in Cubist paintings such as Picasso’s Violin?

Question 9

Which earlier artist inspired Georges Braque and Pablo Picasso in their development of Cubism?

Question 10

Why did early silent films appeal especially to the working-class, immigrant audiences?

HUM 112 Week 9 Quiz 8 STR

Quiz 8

Question 1

What was an implication of Freud’s theory of infantile sexuality?

Question 2

Why did some early twentieth-century writers embrace stream of consciousness?

Question 3

As discussed in the chapter’s “Continuity and Change” section, why did Harlem Renaissance poet Langston Hughes dislike Paris?

Question 4

Why did Virginia Woolf disapprove of Joyce’s Ulysses?

Question 5

Why is the final episode in James Joyce’s Ulysses considered revolutionary?

Question 6

What do skyscrapers, a distinct American invention, predominantly symbolize?

Question 7

Why is William Faulkner’s The Sound and the Fury considered one of the most daring uses of stream of consciousness in modern fiction?

Question 8

Why was Frank Lloyd Wright’s inclusion in the International Style exhibition of 1922 ironic?

Question 9

What characterized the new architecture known as the International Style?

Question 10

How did Bessie Smith distinguish her blues songs?

HUM 112 Week 9 Assignment 3 Cultural Activity Report

Due Week 9

Visit a museum or art gallery before the end of Week 9. If you are unable to get to a museum or gallery within your area, then a “create your own museum” assignment can be completed in its place (see Option 2 details below). The museum or gallery should have content that fits our course well. Here is some information about the museum visit in person:

It makes sense to approach a museum the way a seasoned traveler approaches visiting a city for the first time. Find out what is available to see. In the museum, find out what sort of exhibitions are currently housed in the museum and start with the exhibits that interest you.
If there is a traveling exhibition, it’s always a good idea to see it while you have the chance. Then, if you have time, you can look at other things.
The quality of your experience is not measured by the amount of time you spend in the galleries or the number of works of art that you see.
The most rewarding experiences can come from finding ten (10) works of art by five (5) different artists who intrigue you and then considering those works in leisurely contemplation. Most museums have benches where you can sit and study a particular piece.

Option 1: Visiting a Museum

Write a two to three (2-3) page report (500-750 words) that describes your experience.

1. Clearly identify the event location, date attended, the attendees, and your initial reaction upon arriving at the museum or gallery.
2. Provide specific information and a description of at least ten (10) pieces by a minimum of five (5) different artists.
3. Provide a summary of the pieces and describe your overall reaction after viewing them.
4. Use the class text as a reference (additional sources are fine, but not necessary unless required by your content). Your report should include connections you make between things observed in your activity and things learned in the course and text.

Option 2: Create and Curate Your Own Art Museum

For this paper, you will select and curate ten (10) works of art to include in your own Art Museum. Use the text and online sources to help you find these works of art. This assignment is an alternative option for visiting a museum or art gallery.

After researching, answer the following questions by writing a two to three (2-3) page report, (750-800 words) that describes your experience.

Select ten (10) works of art from at least five (5) artists from different time periods discussed in the text, 18th century to modern times.
Provide a brief description of each piece and a picture if possible, explaining why you chose each piece.
Describe where and how you would display each piece, whether individually or grouped together.
Describe the museum attendees, the admission charges, the advertising programs, and your role as museum founder and curator. Give your museum a name and a location.

Use at least the class text as a reference (additional sources are fine but not necessary unless required by your content). Your report should include connections you make between things observed in your activity and things learned in the course and text.

Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements:

Be typed, double-spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides; citations and references must follow Strayer Writing Standards (SWS) format. Check with your professor for any additional instructions. (Note: Students can find Strayer Writing Standards materials located in the Additional Resources section of their Student Center within their course shell for reference.)
Include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student’s name, the professor’s name, the course title, and the date. The cover page and the reference page are not included in the required assignment page length.

The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:

Explain the importance of situating a society’s cultural and artistic expressions within a historical context.
Examine the influences of intellectual, religious, political, and socio-economic forces on social, cultural, and artistic expressions.
Use technology and information resources to research issues in the study of world cultures.
Write clearly and concisely about world cultures using proper writing mechanics.

Grading for this assignment will be based on answer quality, logic/organization of the paper, and language and writing skills, using the following rubric.

HUM 112 Week 10 Quiz 9 STR

Quiz 9

Question 1

Why most likely did composer Sergei Prokofiev write the simplistic symphonic fairy tale Peter and the Wolf?

Question 2

What did Bertolt Brecht aim to accomplish by alienating audiences with his epic theater?

Question 3

Why did the Germans level the Basque town of Guernica in 1937?

Question 4

On what condition would Picasso allow Guernica to be on permanent display in a museum in his native Spain?

Question 5

How many Jews are estimated to have been exterminated at Auschwitz-Birkenau?

Question 6

Why is Jean-Paul Sartre’s existentialist play titled Huis Clos (No Exit)?

Question 7

How did Jackson Pollock create his Abstract Expressionist mental landscapes?

Question 8

As discussed in the chapter’s “Continuity and Change” section, in 1954 why did the U.S. Supreme Court rule that “separate but equal” schools for whites and blacks were unacceptable?

Question 9

What work best characterizes the Beat generation?

Question 10

In Albert Camus’s The Stranger, why does society condemn Meursault, the main character?

HUM 112 Week 11 Quiz 10 STR

Quiz 10

Question 1

How did performance-piece artist Eleanor Antin explore gender definitions and construction?

Question 2

May 4, 1970, why did the National Guard open fire on and kill four Kent State students?

Question 3

Why was Martin Luther King, Jr., arrested and jailed in Birmingham in 1963?

Question 4

Why did the government continue to fund building the F-111 fighter bomber even though it was declared obsolete?

Question 5

Why did some artists such as Robert Smithson begin making site-specific “land art”?

Question 6

What does David P. Bradley expose in his painting Indian Country Today?

Question 7

As described in the chapter’s “Continuity and Change” section, why was Olafu Eliason’s The Weather Project initially criticized as being “mere” entertainment?

Question 8

In his graffiti-inspired Charles the First and other works, why does Jean-Michel Basquiat include a crown?

Question 9

How does Renzo Piano’s Jean-Marie Tjibaou Cultural Center in New Caledonia qualify as “green architecture”?

Question 10

Why did Benoit Mandelbrot reject traditional Euclid geometry for his work with fractals?

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