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Humanities enables people from different background and culture to recognize,
understand, and communicate past commonalities and present differences. The study of
humanities is generally used to comprehend the contradictory interpretations of life and
history. Todays society would be lost without the use and study of humanities. People of
the world, would be deprived of the knowledge of civilization today: where we came from
and how we evolved into the existing world today. If humanities did not exist, our
children; the next generation would have no idea of how we lived life many years ago
without the use of Cellular Phones, the Internet, Electricity, Televisions, and Computers.
This paper will discuss what is meant by the term "humanities" and explain what
distinguishes the humanities from other modes of human inquiry and expression. Current
examples of how art, music, architecture, philosophy and literature reflect current
developments in politics, socioeconomics and technology, will also be covered.
Technology enables the exploration of arts into a distinct area in the past decades. By
deploying art pieces in respective art galleries and inhabiting them on the World Wide
Web, technology is now being incorporated in art studios around the world. Consequently,
museums continue to struggle with the competitive fight to keep up with technology.
Music too is being faced by various challenges of technology. The need for traditional
instruments like the flute, an organ, a trombone in order to make music has decreased.
Music artists and their producers are faced with challenges of piracy due to the ease of
