Humanities | American history homework help

 Analyze the work’s or author’s/artist’s/composer’s contributions to the humanities (suggested length of 1–2 paragraphs) from any one from the below list:

Literature/Philosophy:

1.  Mary Wilkins Freeman, “A New England Nun,” 1891 (short story).

2.  Eliza Potter, Author’s Appeal and Chapter 1 of A Hairdresser’s Experience in High

Life, 1859 (memoir).

Art/Architecture:

1.  Edmonia Lewis, Old Arrow Maker, 1872 (marble sculpture).

2.  Claude Monet, La Gare Saint-Lazare (or Interior View of the Gare Saint-Lazare, the Auteuil Line), 1877(oil on canvas).

Music:

1.  Claude Debussy, La mer (trois esquisses symphoniques pour orchestre), 1905 (three symphonicsketches for orchestra).

2.  Gustav Mahler, Symphony No. 2 in C Minor, 1894 (symphony with chorus and soloists).