Terms:

1) Humanities- The branches of learning (as philosophy, arts, or languages) that investigate human constructs and concerns as opposed to natural processes (as in physics or chemistry) and social relations (as in anthropology or economics); "the college of arts and sciences"

2) History-A chronological record of events, as of the life or development of a people or institution, often including an explanation of or commentary on those events.

3) Art- The conscious production or arrangement of sounds, colors, forms, movements, or other elements in a manner that affects the sense of beauty, specifically the production of the beautiful in a graphic or plastic medium.

4) Literature- Imaginative or creative writing, especially of recognized artistic value.

5) Society- A group of humans broadly distinguished from other groups by mutual interests, participation in characteristic relationships, shared institutions, and a common culture.

6) Socio-economics- Involving social as well as economic factors.

7) Film- A form of entertainment that enacts a story by a sequence of images giving the illusion of continuous movement.

The definitions of the words history, art, literature, society, socio-economics, and film can all be easily compared and contrasted to the term humanities. The term humanities means different branches of learning that research the way humans are made and what disturbs their natural human functions and ways they relate to the outside world. I believe this term can be related to the other terms history, art, literature, and film because these are all ways that humans behave uniquely and express themselves without a specific set of rules or restrictions. By understanding humanities people are able to interpret why and how humans function in multiple forms such as creativity. I think that the term society can be related to humanities because it is society who is being studied and understood through learning and through their particular interests. Finally, humanities can be related to the term socio-economics because again society is involved as well as the economics such as money and business which are all relevant in any human’s life and they way in which they live. Some of the ways that these terms can be contrasted to humanities is through art, literature, and film because these forms of human expression do not necessarily have reason and therefore are not always able to be interpreted and understood. I think that a lot of the reasons that humans are the way that they are involve more of the sciences of chemistry and biology, which humanities does not cover.