WGU C100 - Study Guide questions and answers 100% pass

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WGU C100 - Study Guide questions and answers 100% pass Humanities ✔✔study of humans, their culture and ideas. Eros ✔✔erotic love agape ✔✔platonic love Myth ✔✔traditional stories o... f a people or culture that server to explain some natural phenomenon, the origin of humanity, or customs or religious rites Aesthetic Experience ✔✔an experience of beauty that inspires a feeling of pleasure which is its own justification Beauty ✔✔qualities that give pleasure to the senses. might be found (for example) in nature, the human face, a musical composition, or customs or religious rites. Archetype ✔✔age-old models by which we comprehend human experience Classical Period Major Themes ✔✔Balance Truth/Reason Democracy/Republic Polytheism Humanism Homer wrote: ✔✔Iliad and Odyssey Sappho wrote: ✔✔A Lament for Adonis Sophocles wrote: ✔✔Oedipus Rex Aristophanes wrote ✔✔Lysistrata (women who withheld sex from their husbands to end conflict) Kouros ✔✔an archaic Greek statue of a young man, standing and often naked. Renaissance Period Major Themes ✔✔Rebirth of Classicism Humanism Rationalism/Scientific Expansion Expansion of University System Individualism/Self-Fashioning Reformation Rebirth of Classicism ✔✔embraced the following concepts: 1. humanism 2. reason, rationalism, and scientific expansion 3. balance Niccolò Machiavelli wrote ✔✔The Prince Baldassare Castiglione wrote ✔✔The Courtier Advances in Renaissance Art ✔✔linear perspective, vanishing points, and chiaroscuro Chairoscuro ✔✔the creation go the illusion of depth through gradations of light and shade. Madrigal ✔✔A polyphonic vocal work, usually written for four or five voices, setting a pastoral poem to music, performed without instrumental accompaniment, and intended for secular use. Renaissance Man ✔✔a term describing an individual with broad knowledge and versatile talents spanning many intellectual and artistic disciplines The Enlightenment/Neoclassical Period Major Themes ✔✔Skepticism Rationalism Empiricism Order Deism Classicism Skepticism ✔✔A philosophy which suggests that nothing can ever be known for certain. Rationalism ✔✔A point of view [Show More]

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