Art_Renaissance Test

Renaissance Test

1. What historical event (the fall of a civilization) took place in 395 AD to usher in the middle ages? The fall of Roman Empire

2. What was society and culture generally like in the middle ages? There was really rich people (2% of society) and most of people cannot read and write, and were very poor (98% of people). It was the less cultural area because people didn’t have money to pay artist.

3. Renaissance means rebirth of ideas.

4. What was being brought back during this time? The culture was high and there was many discovery.

Define:
5. Contraposto: when things are draw or sculpt in special position like twisting.

6. Chiaroscuro: the light and the dark=shadows

7. The painter of the Mona Lisa was Leonardo da Vinci

8. The man who sculpted the Pieta and the Sistine Chapel was Michelangelo

9. What is different about Renaissance painting compared to painting during the Dark Ages? During the dark age, people were paint straight and without shadows.

10. What is meant by the concept of "Humanism?" The study of every things about human.

What does a good citizen looks like?

Citizens are people who are a part of many communities like family, school, city, country, world... Without citizens, there aren’t communities. A citizen has rights (ex. he can share his ideas). But also, a citizen has duties and responsibilities. If he does not do his duties or responsibilities there are some consequences. For example, in a family, each person has to clean the house, and if they don’t do it, the house is dirty. A citizen can be native or naturalized. Native means when people are born in the community. Naturalized means when people become a citizen of a community where they are not was born, by a special process. A good citizen crosses social boundaries and doesn’t care about difference in people. It’s a person you can trust, and who considers the world’s problems seriously.

A good citizen of school has duties (ex.homework). He must listen and respect others. He also crosses social boundaries. A social boundary is an invisible wall that divides people because of difference. Language, culture, hobbies, ideas, opinions are some examples of social boundaries. Social boundaries are the cause of cliques. Cliques are group of people who stay together because of a common point and don’t easily let other in. Cliques make people ignorant. Because they stay with their own group, and don’t mix with other groups with other ideas. A good citizen of a school is open minded. He doesn’t care about difference (ex. race). He does not have prejudice . Prejudice is a opinion, prejudgement or attitude about a group of people. Also, he doesn’t have bias. Bias is caused by fear or ignorance. When people are in a clique, they are ignorant and then have prejudice and bias.

A good citizen of a country doesn’t stereotype and discriminate. A stereotype is an exaggerated belief, image or distorted ideas about a person or a group. Stereotype are based on mass media (ex. T.V, news paper), culture, history etc. Scientists made a experiment that proved children learn stereotypes at 3 years old. It’s because children listen to what people say and also watch T.V. They think what they hear is a good thing. Discrimination is the ill-treatment of a person because of group membership. A good citizen must fight prejudice and discrimination. One example of a person who crosses social boundaries was Gandhi. A good citizen must teach his children they must listen to other ideas and also learn other cultures. They need to be open minded if they want to become good citizens. Psychologist at Harvard created Project Implicit. It’s a test that measures unconscious bias. You can do this test, and try to undo your own unconscious bias.

A good citizen of the world takes a part in Global debates. He share his ideas with others, to tries to find solution to Global warming. And then, he can learn new ideas and solution. I think it’s not too late to change our life style. One person cannot change the world, nut 6 million people can change it. Global warming is the Earth temperature increasing. It’s because the extra CO2 (cause by human) stay on the Earth because of green house effect. There will be a lot of effect if we don’t try to stop pollution. First, they will be no work, then immigration. Also, there will be no rain, then no crops, then no food, and then some big famine in the world. Also the height of the sea will increase and cover all islands like Taiwan. Also Antarctica will melt, and lots of animals like polar bear will disappear. But we can try to change that. We can stop polluting the world (ex. electric or solar car) We can teach children how the Earth is important because children are our future. We can make communities action like cleaning the beach.

A good citizen is a person who tries to make his world better.

THE END :D

Haiti_life

Haiti_Life

What is the story about?

The story “life” is about a pregnant woman who will have her baby. The midwife can’t help her so she have to go to the hospital. She is going to the hospital, but the car was out of gas. The men ask help, because if he doesn’t drive the woman, her and the baby will die. Then, people come to help us, and they push the car to the hospital. This story show the country need help and money from other country. If the man had money, he could buy gas, and then the woman could have her baby quickly. Also, the country need some good university, to form people like midwife to be qualified for such cases. We need to care about what happening in Haiti because it can happen the same thing in Taiwan, and people will need help. Also, some people are die, we can’t do anything for them, but some people, man, woman and children who are alive, wait for help, they wait for a people found them below their house. They are humans, and we can’t leave them die like that. All of citizen can give money, or go to Haiti, to help people. They need water, food, clothing and help. This story show that if people help other, we can save life.