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Our book focuses on perceiving the arts. Which talked on a fundamental level about the impacts of literature, theatre, cinema, sculpture, architecture, music, and dance. In each of these chapters, I want to share a brief overview of what I learned and why it is essential to humanities.

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While grasping the knowledge I learned on my own it made me wonder when would be the best time to learn about this if I hadn't taken this class.

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The two basic genres of literature of utilitarian and creative. Utilitarianism is the way we can sort out the rights and wrongs to determine the outcome. While creative is how we use emotion and plot in a story.

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I had decided that high school junior year would be the best choice.

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This is because this is the age where we are starting to question what we want to do with our future.

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Junior-year students are also learning how to drive and are taking the SAT state tests.

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Sixteen would be the best age in Junior year. Your mind is just getting cohesive thoughts of what you should do after high school.  I wish I had learned it during this age to help after high school.

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In Junior year and at the age of sixteen with all this pressure of driving and SAT testing. Taking a course that just focuses on society would benefit them to succeed in life.

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Humanities could help us make a choice for our future by learning background knowledge from all over the world.  This is the time we should learn and explore new topics.

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Teenagers should acquire this skill so they would discover how we are all connected in different ways.

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While reading Dennis J. Sporre's book a quote stood out to me that made me start thinking of the broader idea of humanities. I started to analyze how humanity is all around us. The quote states how the book “illustrates the accessibility of the arts and how we can use our perceptual skills to engage them.”

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Dennis J. Sporre's quote made me want to be more knowledgeable about humanities. This lead me to do some research of my own. I found a great quote from the University of Tennessee and they state their definition of Humanities.

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To begin, I start with my paper with the purpose of explaining why I chose this class. I wanted a challenge. To learn new ideas and explore a subject.

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I explain that I hadn't heard of the word humanities before this class. While now learning all about this topic I honestly feel it is sad that I had not learned of it before.

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I then explain the basics of what I've learned in Humanities. I expand on how I feel educated about our topics of literature artists, theatre, cinema, sculpture, architecture, music, and dance.

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Theatre explains the purpose of lighting, plot scenes, and costume design behind shows or movies. Theatre is the reason behind many ideas of the shot.

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The basics that I have shared and learned so far convinced me that humanities should be a required course. In my essay and padlet I continue to express my ideas of why.

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Learning this subject in a classroom would help students through their personal experiences.

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While I thought about that quote it made me think about how the topics we had briefly gone over are only the key ideas of Humanities.

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Learning through their culture at home or family life. Students are given more opportunities to learn about their peers.

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While learning about the key ideas it made me think about how the studies of humanities is human experience through the world around it, from an analytical perspective.

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This course is much larger than I had thought. We use humanities day to day in our everyday lives. Even just looking around outside you can connect humanities to everything.

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Cinema is described in why the film shots are the way they are. If you ever questioned why the camera goes in that angle. It is the main purpose of why the directors use this to create rhythm in the film.

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Humanities would help students all over the world understand how society has grown to how we know it today.

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Sculpture focuses on the art in front of the camera. Our book describes sculpture as using focal points to enhance the technique of negative space and dimension.

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The students now are the future and need to learn how we can develop the world.

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Music also can be described as finding the soul within the rhythm. There are different types of musical textures to perceive this art and the feeling it holds while preformed.

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ballet, modern, world concert/ritual, and folk dance all go hand and hand with the rhythm of your movement that defines which lines are portrayed.

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Architecture talks about the idea of classical themes it expresses this idea by analyzing it on a greater scale like a skyscraper.

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Architecture describes the use of lines, form, and rhythm to explain how structures are built the way they are.

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In a class like humanities, there is no downside and it only will benefit you from looking at the world from a different perspective with the past, present and future.

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Money production and distribution are also important topics to talk about and are benefits that stick out to me the most. Students should be learning what this means.

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Money production and distribution are a part of humanity economically and are constantly changing. Students should be learning how we are going forward with it to help our society financially.