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“How The Beatles Revolutionized the Advancements in Recording Technology in the ’60s to Create Compositionally Enthralling Songwriting and Music”
by Noah Brackett
created for LANG120 with Ayelet Even-Nur
by Quentin Hess
Violence, zealousness, crusades, conquering; all of these words are heavily or directly associated with conflict in the name of religion. Fighting is indeed an inherent, if barbaric, trait set deep within mankind. We fight for greed, for love, for hatred, for justice, for family, even for fun, and yet there are few forms of conflict that are driven more by passion and emotion than fighting for one’s maker. Throughout history humans have slaughter, pillaged, and dehumanized each other in the name of god or the gods, and we have justified these actions as correct simply because our gods have deemed our foes unworthy heretics. Today people associate many religious conflicts in one particular area of the world, this being the Middle East and Israel. Whether it be the crusades, the Maccabean revolts, or the fighting between Israel and Palestine that rages on even today, the land around Jerusalem has always been soaked in blood. Were these and are these conflicts necessary and how can people continue to justify slaughter in the name of God? I believe texts such as the book of Joshua were made with the intent to raise feelings of zeal and animosity in the hearts of many Jewish people throughout history and continue to this day to justify modern conflicts and genocide.
Describing the taking of Jericho as violent would be somewhat of an understatement.
The book of Joshua begins with God anointing Joshua as the new de facto leader of the Jewish people and promised him any land he set foot on (NIV Study Bible, Joshua 1). Immediately this holds the mindset that Joshua and his people are free to take any land they so please, even land which has already been settled and built upon. This early in the story of the Jewish people and there is already a strong theme of conquering in the name of the divine. Joshua proceeds to gather his people and forces and begins to move and conquer vast area and cities he encounters. One of the first cities he takes is Jericho, a city in current day West Bank, in the Jordan Valley. This city is very close to the location that would become Jerusalem, so it is not shocking that Joshua would set his sights on Jericho as one of his promised conquests. Describing the taking of Jericho as violent would be somewhat of an understatement. God himself instructed Joshua’s priests and followers to march around the city for seven days and on the seventh the whole brigade ‘shouted’, and the walls of the city came crumbling down. The army then proceeded to destroy with the sword “every living thing in it—men and women, young and old, cattle, sheep and donkeys.” (NIV Study Bible, Josh 6). Every single man, woman, child, and even the farm animals were slaughtered indiscriminately.
created for LANG 120 with Brian Graves
by Julie Pitois
created for HUM 124 with John Falter
by Colson Combs
created for LANG 120 with Kristin Shepard
by Hanna Houghton, Emma McCoy-Hollrah, and Myles Edmondson
As part of our study on ancient communities, we looked at how the way a culture organized space and infrastructure reflected values: what matters most? Who and what is given space? What connects? Who has access to basic needs?
We invited our classmates and others to redesign UNCA’s campus to aid connections between students in different disciplines together.
created for HUM 124 with Leslee Johnson
by Emma Cawley
created for HUM 124 with John Falter
by Rayenne Scovil, Sabine Timol, Sailor Williams, Amanda Johnson, Riley McDonald, Kayley Johnson, Alexis Bell
When it comes to love, especially of the romantic sort, the ways humans express it and songs and poetry seems almost timeless.
I say someone in another time will remember us.
Sappho (Voigt 147)
630-570 BCE
Compare the ancient lyrics to a collection of lovesongs from present time. How do your favorite lovesongs measure up? Post suggestions in the comments below!
From Papyrus Chester Beatty I: A Cycle of Seven Stanzas
– Egypt 11th Century BCE
Beginning of the sayings of the great happiness (First Stanza)
. . .She looks like the rising morning star
At the start of a happy year.
Shining bright, fair of skin,
Lovely the look of her eyes,
Sweet the speech of her lips,
She has not a word too much. . .
Her legs parade her beauty;
With graceful step she treads the ground,
Captures my heart by her movements.
She causes all men’s necks
To turn about to see her;
Joy has he whom she embraces,
He is like the first of men! . . .
created for HUM 124 with Leslee Johnson