#history of homework

[zentarablog]

The History of Education: 10 Ways Schools Have Changed Over Time

The schoolhouse of today would be almost unrecognizable to a student from a century ago, let alone from ancient Greece or medieval Europe. The journey of education is a fascinating story of societal evolution, reflecting our changing values, technological advancements, and a deepening understanding of how we learn. What began as a privilege for the elite, often focused on religious doctrine or…

[reality-detective]

1963 Refrigerator 🤔

[bone-yarddz]

Audio books but it’s Michael Sheen reading books as Aziraphale and sometimes you hear David Tennant shouting something obnoxious as Crowley.

[booart5]

Reblogging this drawing with the Timelapse because I finally figured out how to add those and I think it’s cool

Took me about 60 hours which is CRAZY,, I call this one The Quark Family when I’m talking about it (which seems apt) and I’ve literally crammed so many references and details and hours into this my life feels so empty without it. Tumblr is butchering the image quality but that’s just what it is ig,,, I’ve tried and I can’t seem to fix it

Progress shots and closeups under the cut (and a full list of the references and stuff I crammed in in the tags bc I have to know that they’re all noticed)

[constantly-deactivated]

Epic answer by Morgan Freeman 🤔

[qqueenofhades]

In the middle of the third millennium BCE, schools of writing known as edubba sprang up across Southern Mesopotamia. Aspiring government or temple scribes copied and memorized phrases and names of trees, animals, countries, cities, villages, stones, and minerals. They wrote essays describing their daily routine. "I recited my tablet, ate my lunch, prepared my new tablet," declared one fragment from about 2000 BCE, by which point the pictograms had assumed a distinctly wedge-like shape. "When school was dismissed, I went home... I told my father of my written work, then recited my tablet to him, and my father was delighted."

- The Mesopotamian Riddle by Joshua Hammer (x)

[redsugarx]

Hanfu in Components: Structure Conventions (pt2)

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Thanks for the love on the last post, I’ve been motivated to continue writing LOL Anyway: Construction/sewing pattern/structure is very important to hanfu!

There are a few important structure conventions when it comes to hanfu—almost all traditional-cut hanfu follow these rules; you could call them the defining characteristics of hanfu. There are exceptions to every rule of course (I will go over some caveats at the end of this post), but generally if a hanfu design ignores these rules we might consider it to be ‘incorrect.'

(There will be a longer follow-up pt. 3 post to this explaining the anatomy of a hanfu top/robe, where there will be more detailed in-context illustrations and descriptions. I just figured I should list these ‘rules’ somewhere separately.)

中縫/中缝/zhong1 feng4/Center Seam

Take a look at your shirts. Is there a shoulder seam between the front of the shirt and the back of the shirt? Western clothing tends to consist of a front piece + back piece sewn together to create a space for your body to sit in：

Hanfu doesn’t work like that. Traditionally, the garment isn’t separated into a front piece and back piece: it’s separated into a right piece and left piece, which are joined together at the vertical center seam. Why? Traditional fabric has a narrower width than the standard ~145cm that we have today, so a long, narrow piece is less wasteful to cut out from a bolt of silk than a wide one.

Therefore there is always a center seam, one running vertically down the front and one down the back. 中 = center, 縫 = seam, so 中縫 means center seam. There’ll be a front center seam （前中縫） and a back center seam （後中縫）.

不破肩/不破肩/bu2 po4 jian1/No Broken Shoulder

Kind of an addendum onto the previous point? Additionally since the body pieces are separated into left/right rather front/back, there’s no seam at the top of the shoulder here. The fabric is simply draped over the arm/shoulder to hang down, covering the torso on both sides.*

*Caveat: Some modified hanfu that vendors sell today will have a shoulder seam, especially thicker winter garments or short-sleeved garments. This is a design choice made to prevent the fabric from looking too stiff, known as 破肩/破肩/po4 jian1，literally “broken shoulder.” It can look great, lots of hanfu makers do it! But just to be clear, that is a MODIFICATION.

接袖/接袖/jie1 xiu4/Sleeve Connection

Western clothing patterns tend to have something where the fabric of the sleeve gets connected to the fabric of the garment’s body at the shoulder/armpit, often with a concave arm hole shape to help with the contours of the garment when it’s worn.

Hanfu sleeves, on the other hand, are never connected at the armpit—they are connected halfway down the arm. In other words, the piece of fabric that forms the body extends to also cover the upper arm part of the sleeve. The actual sleeve piece is connected to the body at the bicep/elbow area via a flat seam. (In the case of half- or no- sleeve garments there might just not be a separate sleeve piece.)

右衽/右衽/you4 ren4/"Right Over Left" Rule

Applies to cross-collar, some varieties of round collar, and some varieties of standing collar tops. In the case that the front of the garment crosses over itself, the flap coming from the wearer’s left goes OVER the flap coming from the wearer’s right. Easiest way to make sense of this is, if you’re looking at someone wearing a cross-collar hanfu top, the cross will look like a lowercase y.

Caveats

NO RULE EXISTS WITHOUT EXCEPTION!!! These rules exist because a majority of hanfu follow them and they are a standard that people agree on right now. However, there are ALWAYS cases—historically or otherwise—where these rules may be broken. For example, there are several Ming Dynasty cross collar robes that happen to be left over right, and the location of the sleeve seam can differ based on what garment you're looking at.

Also, many modern hanfu manufacturers will deliberately choose to break these 'rules' in favor of aesthetics. This is a purposeful design choice—not one that's done out of ignorance or disrespect. It's easy for common modifications to get mistaken for 'historically accurate.' To be clear, it is 100% okay and super common for modifications to exist! Just don't go around claiming that it was historically that way.

My advice is that if you're starting out with hanfu, try to stick to these rules in the back of your head as closely as possible. Once you've built your foundational knowledge, then you can start exploring the exceptions to the rules. These rules may not be foolproof, but they are a useful tool to help you understand the commonalities and trends within hanfu without overwhelming you.

Last note: it is generally more of a taboo for seams that should exist to not exist in a piece of clothing (i.e. no center back seam) than for extra seams to exist. If you go look in museums for the artifacts that hanfu is based off of, you'll notice that a lot of them—especially the ones from earlier dynasties—are a chaotic patchwork of a bunch of random piece of fabric sewn together to create the garment. Fabric is expensive, people don't want to waste it! So it's not all that weird to have seams in random places.

Happy 除夕 everyone! 有蛇有得 :>

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[iustuspeccator]

I'm thinking a little bit about atonement tonight and there's so much support on tumblr for the humanist view of the crucifixion as God's act of solidarity with humanity. and I don't disagree with this. I think that's part of it. but I would ask: what is salvific about the crucifixion and resurrection if it's only an act of solidarity? if it's just to feel our pain, how are we redeemed? without atonement, without redemption, without salvation, we have a Good Friday that never rises into Easter. so there is atonement. but it's not that God demands blood, or exactly penal substitionary atonement, or divine child abuse. it's that sin, the abuse of our free will, has consequences. natural consequences: inequality, broken relationships, pain, death. it's not just our own sin; the sin of all humanity is like a web that we can't free ourselves from, and the spider is coming.

until God steps into those consequences and bears them for us, because God can bear the weight and remain God. we cannot. this is why Jesus has to be fully human and fully divine: if he's not human then we aren't saved. and if he's not divine he is destroyed. it's not just solidarity. it's a saving act. it's something only God can do. and God does it purely out of love for the creation that God made good and will make good until all is perfected at the end of time.

[ddeerslayer]

Disregarding the fact that Henry would NEVER in his LIFE even TOUCH a mobile phone if he’d lived long enough to see one, I feel like he would be one of those people who sign their texts.

[maribou]

29|05|2025

first day of actually attempting to lock in! i still haven’t done any english even though that’s my first exam but im hoping i can cover it on the day beforehand because im normally quite good at english. i should also be covering more maths as thats a subject ive been failing for a while now, but here’s what ive done today -

📚i started with 1 hour and 10 minutes of home economics where i covered milk, fish and protein alternatives but i didn’t finish it fully.

📚soon after i spent only 30 minutes drawing out river diagrams for geography but i still need to look over them again because i don’t remember it all.

📚then in the afternoon i did a full hour of irish and wrote out flash cards for ghleann álainn. (i pray this doesn’t come up in the exam.)

📚to finish off the evening i did another full hour of history and i wrote out notes for early christian ireland but again i didn’t fully complete the chapter so hopefully ill finish it tomorrow.

[supermanshield]

This is why World's Finest #285 - 289 should be read in one sitting

[auguste-marmonts-only-fan]

YO EUROPEAN HISTORY LOVERS

guys, I must tell you all

if you want/need high quality images or texts from european history

RUN TO https://www.europeana.eu/en!!

I just found out about it today and they have amazing sources

they have things I havent seen anywhere else, also its pretty much all copyright free (great for school work)

xoxo

[reality-detective]

Old Lighters 🤔

[atlasthecactus]

i have not drawn in days. if i hadn’t drawn this i probably would’ve imploded

[constantly-deactivated]

When the facts came out about the Swine Flu injection propaganda. 🤔

[veinsfullofstars]

📚 Quite the haul at the Library Turtle today, huh? 📚

(ID: Kirby series fanart of young Meta and Para Dee excitedly dashing by on a grassy plain, each carrying a tall, haphazard stack of colorful library books in their arms, eagerly looking forward to a long weekend of reading. END ID.)

Started 01/07/25, finished 01/08/25. | Childhood Friends AU Masterpost