Strayer does not write about the historical art contributions in the context towards establishing facts. The reason is usually because this is not an art history class. What is bizarre are not exclusive in all art history classes, they are a blended entity. In Strayer's book, he does have a few images in each period to give readers a visual display of historical reflections, but no significant artistic value. Again, in an art history class we are required to identify the historical and artistic values together. I always have problems not including to establish the studio art, biography of the artistic in their mission statement, compelling artist to make the piece of art. All of these issues are addressed in an art writing class learning to write about art, not art history. This can get confusing to anyone who is not an art major, uh? I am a Fine Art major, going to continue on with the Art Therapy Master's Program after graduation in December.

        A comparison between the Paleolithic Australian Aboriginal people and Native American Indians encountered by the arrival of Europeans during the beginning colonization of Americas was different. To this day, there still remains several groups that practice exactly  the same cultural and religious traditional ways of life. These groups of Australian Aborigines are not included or seen in the general public, because they are extremely, going to great lengths to secure their private and spiritual belief system. Only in the 1970's, contemporary Australian Aboriginal art started to incorporate their early art (only sections are allowed for public viewing) with modern art to create a whole new entity of abstract images representing messages, emotions, and symbols.

The effect of colonialism on African women made me re-examine historical material that was enlightening from a different perspective. Women were affected "by the alienation of land experienced" according to most Africans. This was a spiraling Catch-22 effect, when women lost access and control of land they became more economically dependent on men. This led to intense domestic abuse patriarchy, completely compounded worse by colonial social injustice and institutions. African women were the major food producers, by farming, gathering, cultivating, cooking, marketing, they were valuable in the processing of food. They were the "strength" in adversity with the family units through traditional culture and religious values, music and food security.

        In Part Six, the phrase Strayer used in his book, "because all such divisions are artificial, imposed scholars on a continuously flowing stream of events, they are endlessly controversial and never more so than the case of the twentieth century," is a profound perspective on humanity.
        Every class at NDNU, we are encouraged to enjoy the Mission Statement and key ideas of Hallmarks. Spiritualism, peace, and humanity are ideas in these Hallmarks to remind us not to allow history to repeat itself.

WORLD WAR II

       

        Hitler was a perfect example of an evil, powerful, highly intelligent, charming, and extremely manipulating tyrant that used the Nazi party as tools in his disturbing goal. Part of his propaganda from day one: to allow Jews and the world to think he had a plan to put them on an island, and/ or, they could still remain in Germany and Europe peacefully under the Fascism.

 To make Germany a pure race, to conqueror the world. Hitler's goal was power over Europe and he believed the extermination of all Jews and a variety of other not perfect Germans (like Gypsies, homosexuals, artists, friend's of Jews, different religions also and races). His evil power and charm was a filthy disease that became contagious for the Nazis to eliminate six million Jews.

The Fascination of the Scientific Revolution (1550-1700)

        The "Scientific Revolution" was a period in history from 1550 to 1700, that exploded with non-traditional ideas about important terms concerning world religions, politics, science, biology, astronomy, ethics, acceptable reasoning for philosophy, and evidence of proof for law, or the different systems mentioned above. 
        How could humans possibly live in a society without these major thinkers and all their major achievements within the second century? It was not like, us being able to live without: the invention of a dishwasher, iPhone, or the recent philosophy for gangs shooting innocent people in ghettos. 
        There was Nicholas Copernicus saying the sun is at the center of the solar system, earth rotates on its axis, and earth and planets revolve around sun. Andreas Vesalius was the "Father of Anatomy." Francis Bacon who focused on observation and experiments as the key to modern science. Rene Descartes expressed how important math and logical reasoning in the physical world to give one of my favorite quotes: "I think, therefore I am." Isaac Newton synthesized the concept of universal gravitation, designed calculus, concept of inertia and laws of motion.
        All these major thinkers (and more that I did not mention right now) were pioneers of life-changing innovative ideas! Typical of human nature at that time in history to absolutely not readily accept new revolutionary ideas about anything in life easily. When it comes to science, religion, politics, philosophy, even new styles of art, the government and general public in society ( and I emphasize again at that time in history) did not accept new ideas, and/or change easily.

Lorraine Domingo

The world of pastoral societies from 1200-1500 was a "utopian" community that shared several key issues, making them different from settled agricultural communities and civilizations. Pastoral societies lived in small related encampments of kinfolk called clans. I  use the word "utopian" as to what one refers to their own "ideal society?" To the pastoral societies in the world between 1200-1500, they had an ideal life that still exists in the San people of southern Africa today. Their value system stressed equality, less productive economies, individual achievements encouraged to be strong, and women were offered greater roles in public life, productive labor, able to remarry after being a widower, allowed to divorce, and many opportunities for the freedom to learn skills, or even ride horse, have choices and some control. Nomads were never homeless, "they know where they are going and why."