Humanities - Web articles and news

Home
>
Humanities

The History of Body Piercings - Ancient and Fascinating Around the World

Body piercings have seen a resurgence of interest in the last ten to twenty years and are becoming more and more a part of the mainstream Western culture. Take a look at any fashion or entertainment magazine and you'll see plenty of well-known celebrities with body piercings like navel rings... Read More

How to Make Your Civil War Uniform Shirt

Your own shirt designed and made by you for your own Civil War Uniform Impression is easy and economical. Follow these simple directions, and your Civil War uniform shirt will be exactly how you want it.Take all of your girth measurements.Using a tape measure, measure your chest, stomach and note... Read More

How I lost A million Dollars In A Bank Robbery

The Million dollars was my life-savings earmarked for prime the pump money for my biotech start-up. I am the Gerald Armstrong the owner of Gen Cells Cures?Gen Cells Cures is focused on private medical research for the individual. Searching for cures for incurable diseases and aging. Of course, with the... Read More

The Crisis of Human Survival

Environmental Pollution1. Damage to The Ozone Layer Causes Radiation PollutionThe hole in the ozone layer above the North Pole is becoming larger, allowing large volumes of ultraviolet radiation to fall directly on the Earth's surface, causing destruction and harm to humanity, and resulting in skin cancer and other bodily ailments.... Read More

African Masks

The following is a general over view of African Masks.There are still places in Africa where genuine old masks can be bought, generally through dealers. Also watch out for fakes as they do abound. Remember buy things you like as investment can go up as well as down. If you... Read More

Tribal Masks

Original Tribal masks are often seen by unknowing eyes as art objects in themselves. That is not the case, unless of course they are modern copies. A tribal mask has embued power and is alive during the ceremony for which it is used. An African visitor to a London museum... Read More

The Masked Fool

The FoolMy first direct experience of the fool in masking was watching Morris Dancing here at home in Yorkshire, England. The Morris dancers were dressed up in their usual dancing shoes with bells and baggy pants. To be absolutely honest I have always found Morris men a bit funny! Perhaps... Read More

The Contingencies of Despair: How Existentialists Survive

~ Dread is dizziness unto freedom-freedom that gazes down into its own possibility. In this dizziness freedom succumbs. ~An individual awakes as he usually does, uses the bathroom and brushes his teeth as he usually does, and goes to the kitchen for his usual bowl of Slurpy O's cereal. But... Read More

Violence

Flashes of memory stream into my consciousness. They take me back thirty years plus. I was a boy then, a newcomer to a poor and tough neighborhood. My parents, of moderate means and daring to a fault, had decided to move there after my father had accepted an editing job... Read More

In The News:

PR.com (press release)
Documentary on Actress Jean Seberg Awarded Grant from Humanities Iowa
PR.com (press release)
“We are grateful to Humanities Iowa for its support of this important documentary project,” said Producer Garry McGee. “The grant will help us bring Jean's ...

and more »

Hometown News
Arts and Entertainment Calendar, updated Sept. 3
TCPalm
Emerson Center Florida Humanities Series: Frank and Lisa Thomas. Emerson Center, 1590 27th Ave., Vero Beach, 7 pm, Dec. 2. ...
Looking ahead in Indian River County, September 3TCPalm

all 30 news articles »

Globe and Mail
Can the liberal arts cure jihadists?
Globe and Mail
“Gujarat is a classic place,” she says, “where schools have cut out all trace of critical thinking and the humanities, and placed a relentless focus on the ...

NSF Awards I-CHASS/NCSA Grant to Support Imaging and Image Analysis Workshop
HPCwire
A collaboration between the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA), the Institute for Computing in Humanities, Arts, and Social Science ...

CU-Boulder appoints panel on future of media education
Daily Camera
Michael Zimmerman, philosophy professor and former director of the Center for Humanities and Arts. Interim Provost Russell Moore said it's important not to ...
CU-Boulder Exploratory Committee Named on Information, Communication and ...CU Boulder News & Events

all 4 news articles »

WOWK
Wal-Mart Unveils New Design at Barboursville Store
WOWK
... Foundation to local organizations including, The Salvation Army, Nichols Elementary School, Golden Girls and Eastern Cabell County Humanities Organization.

and more »

'New Harmonies' at Lena museum
Freeport Journal-Standard
By Anonymous The Illinois Humanities County is celebrating the opening of “New Harmonies: Celebrating American Roots Music, a traveling exhibit of the ...

Iron Range: Key to US Industrialization
WDIO-TV
An event, sponsored by the Minnesota Humanities Center, highlighting the pivotal role the Iron Range has played throughout the industrialization of the US, ...

Daily Commercial
New Lake County school gets Rotary donation
Daily Commercial
LEESBURG -- Lake County's new Humanities and Fine Arts Charter school has only been open for two weeks, but it's already made a big impression on the ...

Russian Finance Minister to become dean of higher school
APA
Russian Deputy PM, Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin will become the dean of new arts and humanities faculty of Saint Petersburg State University, ...

and more »

Google News

Showing 1 - 10 of 251 Articles

« Previous

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26