Southern New Hampshire UniversityHUM 100HUM 100 Project 2.docx

HUM 100 Project 2 Short Answer Responses I. Explain why you believe humans have a need to express themselves through created artifacts. I believe that humans have the need to express themselves through creative artifacts because they want to construct something that shows how they see, what they feel, or what they believe to share with the world. The artifact that I studied showed the creator’s need to express something innovational and unique in a time that did not embrace such things. A concept encountered in this course is the concept that humans create artifacts to make a living or to share political or religious beliefs. II. Explain how you think the act of human creative expression impacts and is impacted by the culture in which it was created. I think that the act of human creative expression is significantly impacted by the culture in which is was created. Creators of artifacts are either supportive or in opposition to their current culture. The artifact that I studied was created to be something cutting edge and creative. It was a design