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    “Andrew‚ Drew‚ or Andy?”  I hear that question everywhere I go.  At birth I was given the name Andrew Garby‚ but people call me a variety of names.  Most people refer to me as “Andrew” or “Drew”‚ but I have some call me “Andy” because I find it funny when people fight over what I want to be called.  Truthfully‚ I never really thought that a name could reflect who a person is; so which name or names really fit me the best: Andrew‚ Drew‚ or Andy? According to babynames.com‚ the name “Andrew” means

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    Andy Warhol Moonwalk Essay

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    Andy Warhol’s Moonwalk exemplifies how pop art took inspiration from cultural trends and in this case from the events of the cold war and the space race. The image envisions the exiting moment when man first stepped on the moon‚ using a technique known as screen printing to capture the dynamic composition. Moonwalk was painted by Andy Warhol in the year 1987 only months before his death. It is currently located in the Huntsville Museum of Art‚ near the NASA Marshall Space flight center. The centre

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    Odysseus: A Hero Or Hero?

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    Is Odysseus‚ the man that survived 20 years away from home and at sea‚ battling many monsters along the way‚ a hero? Is the man that displeased some gods‚ and killed others‚ a hero? According to the Greeks‚ he certainly is. According to the Highly Gifted Magnet‚ probably not. While to the Greeks he possessed all of the heroic qualities‚ such as cunningness‚ loyalty‚ hospitality and physical strength‚ to the Highly Gifted Magnet community‚ he meets all most all of our standards‚ which include intelligence

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    Andy Warhol Andy Warhol was born in Pittsburgh‚ Pennsylvania in 1928 as Andrew Warhola. He graduated from the Carnegie Institute of Technology before moving to New York where his first big break‚ occurring in August 1949‚ took place. Glamour Magazine had asked him to illustrate an article called “Success is a Job in New York”. He had dropped the ‘a’ in his last name when the credit mistakenly read “Drawings by Andy Warhol.” By 1955‚ Andy Warhol had almost all of New York copying his work.

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    Maple Street” and “ The Andy Griffith Show” are alike and different. They both are paranoid and suspicious. They both have a problem with some type of alien phenomenon.They are different because in “ The Monsters are due on Maple Street” they want to find out who in the town is helping the aliens.They are also different because on “The Andy Griffith Show” they want to find out who the new person in town is and if he is an alien.”The Monsters are due on Maple Street” and “The Andy Griffith Show” are

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    One of Bostrom’s earlier philosophies was his philosophy on existential risk. This philosophy described an important aspect of Bostrom’s concerns which would be the future of the human race. Here Nick Bostrom introduced the concept of an event or outcome that would annihilate Earth or significantly reduce the human race’s potential for growth on a global scale‚ basically sending us back into a primitive state due to the amount of destruction. Nick Bostrom categories risks according to their intensity

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    A hero, My hero...

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    A hero is a person that saves people from dangerous times. A hero is a person that saves lives. One day I would like to be called a hero. Heroes are created by events around them. Most people have a person that they call their hero. I sure do have one. Most people say their heroes are they moms or dads. Most kids call their favorite super hero their hero. If all you want is fame it doesn’t matter what you do‚ you shouldn’t be called a hero. Heroic things happens around us all day‚ every day

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    Dawson street. Andy first painting was in 1937. As time has pass Andy as a little kid was sick and had to fight for life. In this case Andy had to withdraw school because he was sick. in June 9 1949 Andy moved to New york and began his carreer there. He was a magazine illustartion and advertising. In the 1950’s warhol was an early adapter of the silk screen printmaking process as a technique for making paintings. He gained fame for his whimsical ink drawings of shoe advertisment. Warhol work both

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    saved. The word hero is passed around too much these days. A hero is not a football player that scores the game-winning touchdown or the goaltender who saves his team from a loss. A hero is usually an ordinary person that did extraordinary things. A true hero is really never a hero at all; at least not in their own mind. However‚ there are various cases today in which we see the exact opposites of these characters‚ the anti-heroes. The anti-hero is one who cannot be classified as a hero‚ for that said

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    These can include threats to one’s self or existence‚ being cut off from sources of meaning‚ or limitations being imposed on one’s political freedom‚ which necessarily has implications for one’s existential freedom. In the article‚ “An Existential-Humanistic Perspective on BLM” the author explains that a 17-year-old African American‚ Trayvon Martin‚ was shot and killed by George Zimmerman‚ a neighborhood watch volunteer. After buying a snack at a convenience store‚ he

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