Are We Heading For Disaster
Here we are in 1999 in a world that is booming with technological advances. One would have to ask, "How did we come so far in such a short amount of time?" It seems as though it was only yesterday that we were traveling by horse and buggy. Now we travel by bullet trains, airplanes, and rockets. Seeing the arts and humanities in everything we did years ago was much easier, because technology didn't seem to advance at the rapid pace it does today. Is that why so many people fail to realize the importance of it as we soar into the millennium? I believe that if one dives deep enough into anything created today, they would be bound to find traces of the past. Arts and Humanities are more than just a painting, monument, or song. Every bit of art from today and the past symbolizes something. It is symbolic of an era, time period, or group of people. Here in America where the land is so culturally diverse it is especially important. We would suffer most greatly if our education system shifted completely away from the arts and focused only on advancing technology. In order to define our present world, we must reflect upon the past. What is culture? It can be defined as the beliefs, be
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