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Freedom Of Expression Traditional Values
863 wordsGrace Dawson: Artist or Pornographer? Mountmonk College has always held very high standards for students and staff. Mountmonk likes to consider themselves better than the other schools at maintaining principles of traditional values as the alumni has done in the past. As the school nears its alumni weekend, we must take into consideration these values, as well as changes in the times as we decide about use of the auditorium for the weekend. Last semester there was an art contest held for the stu...
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The Human Rights Issue Of Guantanamo Bay
1,209 wordsHuman rights are those rights that all persons inherently possess. These rights are protected by various legal principals such as the rule of law and ensure the dignity of all people. Various organisations such as the United Nations attempt to ensure that all nations adhere to human rights laws. However, human rights are being violated by countries all around the world, even by countries such as the United States who have the national strategy - America must stand firmly for the non negotiable d...
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Black And White Time Travel
854 wordsChris Markers 1962 La Jete is one of the most influential films of its time. The 28 -minute film is almost entirely compiled of black and white stills, supported by narrative throughout. Marker expresses his desire to recreate and re-write reality through exploring aspects of science fiction such as futuristic apocalyptic events and time travel; subjects that were not as widely exploited then as they are today. Markers usage of stills, haunting score and sparse narration captured the imagination...
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Lean Back Room Head
677 wordsI scan the room, my drunken eyes taking it all in. I collapse onto a lounge and a cloud of dust surrounds me, making an already hazy room, simply a mass of grey-brown shapes. I lean back giving my exhausted limbs time to breathe. Like an ancient tree I eerily creak and groan as I move: relaxing finally. Scattered around the room, memories almost forgotten, remind one of lives once had. A yellowing photograph hangs on the wall. A moment in time captured forever. The smiling children almost look a...
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The Wrk F Art In Age Mechanical
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Men And Women Andrea Dworkin
1,102 words" Letters from a War Zone" deals with the controversy between men and women banning pornography. In this essay there are many strong personal views on pornography and the brutality of women in porn. Men and women have been at war for many years because of this. I agree with banning pornography because pornography lures men into disrespecting women. This essay makes me angry because it shows another part of life that is really not acknowledged. It seems realistic to me because many wome...
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Tells The Reader Shug Avery
688 wordsAmy Bowles Honors English III Ms. Duncan February 20, 2001 Celie's Constructed Colors In Alice Walkers novel, The Color Purple, the character Celie first speaks about color when Mr. s sister takes her shopping. She admires a woman she knows only by a photograph (Shug Avery) and she wants a dress that she thinks Shug might like. I think what color Shug would wear, she writes. Although Celie has never actually met Shug she inventions how she would dress. The colors Celie chooses for the woman she ...
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Washington D C Caught My Attention
1,301 words? Claude Monet at the National Gallery of Art? Claude Monet is most definately my favorite Painter of all time. Widely considered the foremost Impressionist painter, Monet inspired Masters like Degas and Renoir. Monet? s paintings, characterized by their blurred lines, quick brush strokes and interpretation of light, capture the essence of the subject without the harsh realism of previous centuries. Earlier on in his career Monet? s paintings attempted to catch the momentary light and mobility o...
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Alfred Stieglitz Los Angeles
1,198 words? Weston is, in the real sense, one of the few creative artists of today. He has recreated the matter-forms and forces of nature; he has made these forms eloquent of the fundamental unity of the work. His work illuminates man? s inner journey toward perfection of the spirit. ? Ansel Adams, Date Unknown Edward Weston (1886 - 1958) may seem like he was a confused man in trying to find his photographic goal (s). Just like many other photographers, both of his time and now, he strove to find what tr...
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Ford Motor Company Henry Ford
857 wordsFord Car Company The first piece of material I gathered was a picture via the internet. This picture is of the River Rouge assembly plant in Dearborn, Michigan. This picture shows the manufacturing of the fender for a Ford Motor Company product. It also shows the facilities of the Rouge plant and how the plant it self was state of the art. This plant was the largest of its kind at the time of its construction. The Ford Motor Company at the time was one of the leaders in labor relations. This pic...
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Sheffield And The Atlantic Conveyor Sheffield And The Atlantic Chile
1,151 wordsGeneral studies Pinochet in Piccadilly: Britain and Chiles Hidden History Andy Beckett 280 pp, Faber On October 16, 1998, General Augusto Pinochet Ugarte, former dictator of Chile and self-appointed senator for life, was unexpectedly arrested while undergoing medical treatment at a clinic in London. The order for his arrest was issued by a Spanish judge after a long campaign by a Catalan lawyer and former adviser to Salvador Allende, working with Amnesty International, on charges of the murder o...
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United States Of America Hundred Thousand
904 wordsThe Gun Control Gun Control The United States of America is the most heavily armed population in the world. There are 200 Million guns and 60 to 65 Million legal owners who have one or more guns. In the United States, more than half of the households have guns. In 1974, nearly two million guns were produced in the United States, and four hundred thousand guns were imported. In 1975, the House Judiciary Committee Report Number 94 - 1103 stated that there were about three hundred thousand actual o...
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Light Waves Light Rays
1,064 wordsToss a pebble in a pond -see the ripples? Now drop two pebbles close together. Look at what happens when the two sets of waves combine -you get a new wave! When a crest and a trough meet, they cancel out and the water goes flat. When two crests meet, they produce one, bigger crest. When two troughs collide, they make a single, deeper trough. Believe it or not, youve just found a key to understanding how a hologram works. But what do waves in a pond have to do with those amazing three- dimensiona...
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Couldn T Alley Made
444 wordsWhen it came to showing my feelings and emotions through artistic expression, I was lacking immensely. In a sense, I was a very secretive and emotionless artist, which made it easy for me to draw, photograph, or write about a given topic that I didn t necessarily have feelings for, but at the same time I was acting as if I knew a lot about these things when I really knew little or nothing. I was given an assignment to photograph death and I had two weeks to do it. It seemed simple enough, I figu...
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Grand Duke Blood Vessels
963 wordsIn his book, The Last Tsar, Edvard Radzinsky describes a very interesting viewpoint of the life and death of Nicholas Alexandrovich, the last Russian Tsar. Radzinsky's illustration of this ill-fated monarch follows the diaries of Nicholas from their beginning on March 1, 1881, to the final entry on July 16, 1918. 1 Radzinsky mainly goes over pre-marital relationship between Nicholas and Alexandra, the medical condition of Nicholas son, Alexei, and the imprisonment and execution of Nicholas and h...
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Part Of American Camera Obscura
839 wordsThe most important thing to photography is light. The camera is a precise instrument for capturing light. The word camera in Latin means room. The name camera comes from the first invention towards capturing the world on film, the camera obscura or dark room. This invention came about in the 14 th century and was used by such artists as Da Vinci and Michelangelo to more accurately draw their subjects onto paper. The invention of this box, made way for more advancements in cameras and photography...
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20 Th Century Forms Of Art
578 wordsPhotography and Fact For many years photography has been used to document the most significant of events, whether they affect an entire society, like a war, or a specific persons life, such as a wedding. The reason that photography is used for such occasions instead of painting, drawing or sculpting is quite simple. It is because photography is the most remarkable of the fine arts. Other forms of art, are aesthetically pleasing and important in their own rite, but photography is so monumental be...
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Black And White Close Work
560 wordsChuck Close (born 1940) is an American photorealist specializing in close-up portraits and self-portraits. Close is one of the very few modern realists or photorealist's who focus on the human face. In 1988, in mid-career, Close was paralyzed due to a blood clot in his spinal column. He regained partial use of his arms, and was able to return to painting after developing techniques which allowed him to work from a wheelchair. All of Close? s works are based on photographs he takes himself. Close...
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Law Against Paparazzi Rich And Famous Celebrities
521 wordsHow about creating a law against the use of telephoto lens and parabolic listening devices? How about creating a new crime? One that will penalize those persisting and persuading photographers, the Paparazzi also known to celebrities as stalkarazzi who follow the rich and famous for the thousand dollars snapshot that reveals some special, intimate moment or an embarrassing one. Should there be a law rebuking such act? Should there be strict laws preventing press photographers (paparazzi) from pu...
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Greek Myth Objective Reality
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