How does ethnocentricity cause conflict?

The ethnocentric British viewed th First Australians as barbarous animals, which utterly caused the clash between the two cultures. For the British part, the culture of Aboriginals seemed quite savage and sanguinary. The British, living more developed and advanced society at that time, treated Aboriginals inhumanly and insulted their cultures indiscriminately. Some of the British colonists had haoped to assimilate the Aboriginal peoples into the British culture and make them work in the new colony. At first, the Aboriginal people tried to avoid the British settlers since they felt threatened. As the number of settlers increased, however, more lands were being taken and contacts between the two became unavoidable. The problem was that the Aboriginals had no knowledge of British customs, behavior patterns, and values. The Aboriginals did not understand the British idea of proprietary rights. In doing so, the Aboriginals were annoyed the attitude of British people and the way they were treated so they paid back to them. This resulted caused conflicts between the two cultures. Both cultures regarded one another through their own twisted perceptions

Julius Caesar: Solo/Duet Performance Assessment

The scene opens in Caesar's house. It is a stormy night and Calphurnia has dreamed of Caesar's murder. She tries to persuade him not to leave the house that day. Caesar will not be persuaded, so she recounts some of the strange things that have been seen by the night watch. But Caesar still insists he will not change his plans.

This scene further reveals Caesar's character. He thinks of himself as courageous and fearless. However, he is also aware of the power of public opinion, since the one thing that persuades him to go to the Capitol is not that the senators expect him to, but because if he does not go, he may be thought of as fearful.

Act 2 Scene 2 Lines 8-37
Duet with Yoodam Son

Calphurnia:
What mean you, Caesar? Think you to walk forth?
You shall not stir out of your house today.

Caesar:
Caesar shall forth. The things that threatened me
Ne'er looked but on my back. When they shall see
The face of Caesae, they are vanished.

Calphurnia:
Caesar, I never stood on ceremonies,
Yet now they fright me. There is one within
Besides the things that we have heard and seen,
Recounts most horrid sights seen by the watch.
A lioness hath whelped in the streets,
And graves have yawned and yielded up their dead.
Fierce, fiery warriors fought in the clouds in the usual formations of war-ranks and
squadrons-until the clouds drizzled blood onto
the Capitol. The noise of battle filled the air, and horses neighed, and dying men groaned, and
ghosts shrieked and squealed in the streets.
Oh, Caesar! These things are beyond all use,
And I do fear them.

Caesar:
What can be avoided
Whose end is purpos'd by the mighty gods?
Yet Caesar shall go forth; for these predictions
Are to the world in general as to Caesar.

Calpurnia:
When beggars die, there are no comets seen;
The heavens themselves blaze forth the death of princes.

Caesar:
Cowards die many times before their deaths;
The valiant never taste of death but once.
Of all the wonders that I yet have heard,
It seems to me most strang that men should fear,
Seeing that death, a necessary end,
Will come when it will come.

Learning Profile

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I am a gestalt leaner and I can process internally, quietly and move without disturbing other leaners. I am balanced of art, music, movement and interpersonal skills combined with cognitive endeavors in linguistics and mathematics will be highly beneficial. Lazy 8's and Thinking Caps from Brain Gym, blinking while tracking with the eyes, megaphones, integrated cross-lateral hand and foot play like knitting,writing and drawing with the non-dominant hand,walking, conscious, dancing and soccer will help me to improve my learning skills.

Art Mirrors Society

Oct.26th.10

This painting, 'The Allegory of Sight', is drawn by Jan Brueghel the Elder and Peter Paul Rubens. It was in c1618 and the type of art was oil wood. I am convinced that this piece of art is from the Renaissance and it shows what was happening during that time. There are some new art techniques to make it realistic. For examples, there are focal points, which are a woman and a baby angel. The artist made viewers to converge the center of activity. Also background and shadow are quite clear and easy to grasp the point of this art. More other art techniques made viewers to represent things as they really are treatment of forms, colors, space and so on. These made it extremely realistic. This evidence shows about life because, in Middle Ages, their art techniques were really simple and not interesting at all. Yet this art tells how they were developed. This picture also has some connections with other areas in terms of changes and developments during Renaissance. For an illustration, it is the same as music because the Renaissance also created music about God and other Bible figures but later they started focusing on themselves, human. In the same vein, arts started being drawn about human, instead of concentrating on only God or Bible stories. That is why the Renaissance could create and develop more and more.

Driving Force in the Renaissance.

Tools developed in the Middle Ages for exploration continued to be used during the Renaissance. One of these was the astrolabe. These tools help people to learn and discover faster. By measuring the distance of the sun and stars above the horizon, they used it to do easily in the renaissance. This is very important because it helped them to learn in different ways and understand more easier by using the tools.