Thursday, April 15, 2010

Harlem/European Renaissance




Two major country separated by the ocean can be a lot similar in their aspects. Both Europe and the city, Harlem went through a reborn throughout their life. Even though these are two different countries, many of their aspects had grown and changed throughout their reborn.
An event is something that is talked about in the newspaper for one to two weeks. But if a series of Events is combined together, one can be left with something momumental. There were many names for this era, such as the New Negro Movement or the Black Urban Movement. The Harlem Renaissance refers to an era of written and artistic creativity among African-Americans that occur after World War I and lasted until the middle of the 1930s during the Great Depression. A major factor was the leading to the rise of the Harlem Renaissance was the migration of African Americans to the northern cities. As the days go back until 1935, which marks the end of the Harlem Renaissance, all the golden days had gone away. Many things improved such as music, drama, painting, sculpture, and importantly redefined expressions of African-Anericans and their heritage.
This was also the same in the European Renaissance. This era began in the A.D. 13oo and ended somewhere in the A.D. 1600. In this Renaissance, tehy had political structure, the protonage of its dominant family, the Medici, migrations of Greek Scholars and the texts of Italy. All of the same things also improved that is also in the Harlem Renaissance. Well unlike the Harlem Renaissance, there era didnt end when something tragic began. Like the Harlem Renaissance ended when the Great Depression began, so this could probably mean that the Great Depression caused the Harlem Renaissance to end. Also the European Renaissance didn't have many name such as the Harlem Renaissance. Even though this might seem like a great change in the world, some scholars think that the Renaissance was just an "advance" in their culture.
Even those these two countries are far apart from each other, they have many things in common. They both had renaissances, which later improved many of the same aspects such as literature. Also their renaissance started when there were great tragedies happening.

1 Comments:

Blogger Mindy Kim said...

You wrote really informative information about the Harlem Renaissance if you only used another picture lol and add another picture.

April 15, 2010 at 8:29 AM  

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