1) What is the immediate context for this essay?
Necessary Edges: Art, Empathy, and Education was published on an online news and blog site called the World-Post. This site was created through a partnership between liberal news aggregator the Huffington Post and nonpartisan think tank the Berggruen Institute on Governance. Yo-Yo Ma created this essay and was published and features high profile contributors such as engineer and magnate Elon Musk. He is a cellist and songwriter e has won over seventeen Grammy Awards an has produced more than ninety albums.
2) What is the imposed context?
The imposed context is to learn the roles of the arts in the world, arguing that the elements of today. Yo-Yo Ma also introduces STEAM education, which incorporates art into the science, technology, engineering and mathematics education. This article also illustrates and demonstrates how important empathy is important to learn in todays society.
3) What is the internal context?
The internal context of Necessary Edges: Art, Empathy, and Education Yo-Yo Ma explains how important empathy. “Empathy and imagination, the artificial layering of different realities, are linked.” He also attempts to incorporate art into the STEM education system. Yo-Yo also explains how finding meaning and living is all of what we do as humans in society.
4) Three unfamiliar words
Hyper-competitive: A situation in which there is a lot of very strong competition between companies, markets are changing very quickly, and it is easy to enter a new market, so that it is not possible for one company to keep a competitive advantage for a long time. (google)
interdependence: the dependence of two or more people or things on each other (google)
Bandwidth:1. the range of frequencies within a given band, in particular that used for transmitting a signal. 2.the energy or mental capacity required to deal with a situation. (google)
