Search Meaning Modern World

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Introduced to the wider world, the heroine of Shakespeare's THE TEMPEST exclaims, "O brave new world." Her father says, " 'tis new to thee." We are influenced by family, friends and rivals and also by those who have gone before. Poets, musicians, painters, and authors have shaped us, whether we know it or not. As McCullough explains, "We walk around everyday, everyone of us, quoting Shakespeare, Cervantes, Pope. We don't know it, but we are, all the time. We think this is our way of speaking. It isn't our way of speaking - it's what we have been given. The laws we live by, the freedoms we enjoy, the institutions that we take for granted...are all the work of other people who went before us." Through examination of modern literature, art, philosophy, and history, students will study significant people and cultures and apply principles learned to their unique life circumstances.