Age Of Reason
.... satire to show that some of the Philosophers of the day are being stupid and dragging out some philosophical ideas.
Authors and philosophers of the age of reason lived in a time of uncertainty and mass confusion, which made ideas like materialism and Occam's Razor. Ideas like that brought out philosophers like Locke and Berkeley and authors like Swift and Pope to etch in our minds forever the ideas and theories of the age of reason.
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The Legalization Of Marijuana
.... the people in the community.
By lifting the ban on pot use the nation could gain many benefits to improve the quality of peoples lifes. Victims that suffer from glaucoma and those needing antinausea treatment, for example, would find pot easily ready. Also, the cloud of suspicion would disappear, and the doctors could investigate pots other uses without fear of controversy.
The black market sales of pot wopuld dissapear quickly as well. Thousands of street corner dealers would be put out of bu .....
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Salvidor Dali
.... to be touched. Never the less they remained together for fifty-three years (BBC).
In the 1930’s Dali expanded upon surrealism calling his work “critical paranoia”. According to this theory one should cultivate genuine delusion as in critical paranoia while keeping in the back of ones mind that the control of reason and will has been deliberate set aside. He thought this reasoning should not only apply to art but also to ones daily life (Duke).
In 1937, he moved to Italy and was expelled from the .....
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Click Vs Brick: An Exploration Of Mp3 File Sharing And Onlin
.... facilities and provide free access to copyrighted music.
There are numerous arguments originating from all sides of the debate. Many of these are mutually exclusive and, therefore, cannot all be substantiated. McDougall (2000) published an article online, in which he summates the main arguments listed below:
• Copying is fair use
• Copying is theft
• Music wants to be free
• Napster users buy more CDs
• Music companies make too much money
• Music companies will make more money with Interne .....
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Alfred Stieglitz
.... the age of nineteen, during his first years at the Berlin Polytechnic School. At this time photography was in its infancy as an art form. Alfred learned the fine arts of photography by watching a local photographer in Berlin working in the store's dark room. After making a few pictures of his room and himself, he enrolled in a photochemistry course. This is where his photography career would begin. His earliest public recognition came from England and Germany. It began in 1887 when Stieglitz won the first .....
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Allegory Of American Pie By Do
.... of the two guitar, bass and drums line-up (Jordan). Holly directly influenced most of the most prominent folk and rock musicians of the 60s including Bob Dylan, the Beatles and many others. The Beatles name actually originated from Holly’s band, the Crickets (Jordan).
In February of 1959 tragedy struck. Holly was on tour with a collection of performers, and he wanted to fly to the next stop instead of taking the bus. He chartered a plane and a pilot to fly him and two others to Fargo, North Dakota (Ver .....
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Analysis Of Rembrandt Joseph A
.... to the darkness are the bed and Potiphar's wife, both of which are flooded in light almost as if a spotlight were thrown on her and the bed. Some light shines on Joseph's face and from behind him like a halo around his body, but this light is very dim. Potiphar in great contrast to his wife is almost in complete darkness. I first felt there should be more light from perhaps candles to cast the entire room in partial light. But after research I found that "Rembrandt liked strong contrasts of light and d .....
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Andy Warhol
.... got there. Sadly, Warhol died of a heart failure on March 9, 1987, still wearing his famous blond hair wig.
Andy's diaries are not actual written records of his day to day accounts, but they are audio recordings of his phone conversations to Pat Hackett every Monday through Friday (from Wednesday, November 24, 1976 to Tuesday, February 17, 1987, just weeks before his death). Warhol originally intended these daily records to be documentation of his minor "business" expenses. He was just audited and felt .....
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Arlo Guthrie
.... You can get anything you want at Alice's Restaurant" and then walk out. He called it the Alice's Restaurant Anti-Massacre Movement (Alice's Restaurant Masacree). A movie was then made, using the same name, which Arlo starred in.
He released the album "Alice's Restaurant" in 1967. To date he has released over twenty albums. In 1986 he formed Rising Sun Records, so he could control his own music. In 1992 Arlo purchased the Old Trinity Church, which is the church referred to in "Alice's Restaurant". It .....
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A Time To Kill [Movie Analysis
.... realization listed above haunts each of the principal characters in "A Time To Kill" as the story of racial injustice unfolds. Centered around the brutal rape and assault of a young black girl, Tanya Hailey, "A Time To Kill" immerses itself into the intense emotions that are involved in hatred. The rape, committed by two white men, epitomizes this blind hatred that stems from the racism of the South. Influenced by the pain of his loss, Tanya's father, Carl Lee Hailey, lashes out in a passionat .....
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BB King
.... appearing in concerts, at blues festivals, on television, and in films. How did Riley B. King receive the nickname B.B. King? Well, he was known as " the blues boy from Beale Street," later shortened to B.B. "Riley B. King is the world's preeminent blues guitarist. There is hardly a rock, pop, or blues player anywhere who doesn't owe him something." Frank Sinatra and Nat Cole are two who use the "B.B. King style of blues." Finally, I leave you with a quote. In a Rolling Stone interview King stated; " I .....
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Beatlemania In The 1960s
.... Ed Sullivan. The first show was scheduled for Sunday,
February 9, the second was telecast from Miami a week later, and the
third pre-taped for an airing in March. These concerts were the most
watched television programs ever (70 million viewers) until recently.
The Beatles' arrival in the United States was presaged by a deluge of
advance publicity. Newsweek, Time, and Life have chronicled
Beatlemania, UPI, and the AP(Associated Press) had done their part for
the cause (including an AP wireph .....
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Beethoven
.... attained his first independent position of a court organist and violinist, and in 1787 he was sent to Vienna to study. Here, he had the opportunity to play for Mozart who liked the work of Beethoven and told his friends “Watch that young man.” (Sally Patton-pg.73).
Beethoven studied with a man by the name of Joseph Haydn, but it didn’t work for very long because they couldn’t get along. He began to study with other teachers and soon became very popular in Vienna. Some were pleased with his performances, .....
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Blaxploitation
.... they keep the faith, n’er turn against their massas, and remain hearty, submissive, stoic, generous, selfless, and oh-so-very kind.”(Bogle,4)
The early silent period of cinema introduced five basic archetypes for Black characters: the Tom, the Coon, the Tragic Mulatto, the Mammy, and finally, the Brutal Black Buck. America’s first Black character found manifestation as the aforementioned Uncle Tom in Edwin S. Porter’s, Uncle Tom’s Cabin, which was released in 1903. “The paradox was that in actuality Tom .....
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Braveheart
.... like
that if you are not fair to them. Feeding, clothing, and other things must all be provided.
Plus, protection is needed in case of invasion by other countries. This would require
training your people with weapons and teaching them how to defend themselves and be
brave when told to “CHARGE!”
Another characteristic of your town to rise to the top is having good relationships
with surrounding countries. You have to be able to have another country join you in case
of battle. If there is a war and .....
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