I can't tell if this suppose to be an actually question... In this semester we're learning about dance like we've finishing going over ballet. The subject is Fine Arts. But its good that your writing about music after a year.
The world was changing due to World War II--this quote is from what is now referred to as the Truman Doctrine and sets containment as the method for foreign policy.
This quote refers to the changes in the power of the world and how the US now needs to step up in defending the UN Charter. The US can't isolate and must now ensure countries fighting for independence are supported.
You could say the world was a bit surprised if not in shock due to Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union signing the German-Soviet Nonaggression pact.
<span>The wealthy/ middle class conservative people moved to the suburbs. Suburbs depended on automobiles encouraging a car culture.</span>
The rise of humanism in Italy is associated with the period in history, from the 14th to 16th centuries, that we call "The Renaissance." Renaissance means a rebirth -- and a big part of what was being reborn in the Italian Renaissance was the classical culture and scholarship of Greece and Rome. Scholars were unearthing many of the old writings of Greek and Roman philosophers, historians, and statesmen. These writings -- from pagan societies -- showed the deep thinking and great acts human beings were capable of prior to the rise of Christian society in Europe. This prompted humanist scholars in Italy (and elsewhere) to give focus to the full range of human capabilities -- in art, architecture, scholarship and writing, etc. Renaissance humanists remained within the Catholic Church and Christian culture, which dominated Europe in those centuries. But whereas church-dominated culture prior to the Renaissance focused mostly on the sinfulness and lowness of human beings in contrast to the greatness of God, the humanism of the Renaissance emphasized the greatness of human beings as God's creation. Individuals were encouraged to be all they could be, learn all they could learn, do all they could do as "Renaissance men."
