Teaching Huck Finn: The Controversy and the Challenge Resources on this Site: 1. The Struggle for Tolerance by Peaches Henry. 2. Racism and Huckleberry Finn by Allen Webb (includes list of works for teaching about slavery). Additional Internet Resources: 1. A site created for teachers by WGBH television to compliment the PBS special‚ "Born to Trouble‚" that focuses on the innovative Huck Finn curriculum developed in Cherry Hill‚ New Jersey. 2. The Huck Finn and Censorship Teacher Cyberguide
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definition of art. Although commonly used to describe something of beauty‚ or a skill which produces an aesthetic result‚ there is no clear line in principle between (say) a unique piece of handmade sculpture‚ and a mass-produced but visually attractive item. We might say that art requires thought - some kind of creative impulse - but this raises more questions: for example‚ how much thought is required? If someone flings paint at a canvas‚ hoping by this action to create a work of art‚ does the result
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Art is a powerful medium of communication with the world at large‚ artists hold the power to influence the way people think and live. Art defines our consciousness; therefore‚ it can impart and instruct as well as entertain at the same time. -artists serve the function of being role models in society because of their far reaching influence so it is obligatory on their part that they seek to establish a correlation between a proper ethical conduct and their artistic expression How best to define
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Title: Integrating the arts: Renaissance and reformation in arts education. By: Dunn‚ Phillip C.‚ Arts Education Policy Review‚ 10632913‚ Mar/Apr95‚ Vol. 96‚ Issue 4 Database: Academic Search Alumni Edition HTML Full Text INTEGRATING THE ARTS: RENAISSANCE AND REFORMATION IN ARTS EDUCATION Contents 1. The Arts and General Education 2. The Interdisciplinary-Arts Approach 3. Integrating-the-Arts Model 4. A Proposal 5. Putting Theory into Practice 6. Integrating the Arts with the Rest of the Curriculum
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Definition of Art Have you ever looked at a sketch made by a twenty year old college student of a stick person‚ a poorly drawn dog‚ and lines for grass and said to yourself “Man that is art that took actual talent.”? Didn’t think so… What about if it was a drawing your daughter did at the age of five? I bet your judgment changed. That right there you would hang on your refrigerator for the world to see. That is where the question arises; what is art? How can you say that the twenty year olds art is not
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------------------------------------------------- Principio del formulario Arts‚ Crafts & Creativity in School-Age Child Care & Recreation | By Anna Reyner‚ M.A. | ’CREATIVITY’—what a wonderful word! Creativity is one of those words that is bursting with VITALITY. It’s full of life‚ full of passion‚ and full of spirit. Creativity has positive associations for nearly EVERYONE. Do YOU make a habit of CREATIVITY? Do you ever think or say‚ “On our playground‚ creativity is a priority?”
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Is graffiti art? Anyone who lives in a big city knows that graffiti is becoming more popular. When it comes to the topic of graffiti‚ most of us will readily agree that it is a rising art for. Where this argument usually ends‚ however‚ is on the question of is graffiti art. Whereas some convinced that it is vandalism‚ other maintains that it is a crime. Most people would agree that graffiti is a way an artist can express his or her feelings‚ inspires today’s generation‚
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first response paper on the topic of dada art (pages 1148-1152). This art form in my opinion is the most conversial art form ever in America’s history and greatly interests me due to the misconception about this art form. With artists such as Marcel Duchamp‚ Raoul Hausmann‚ and Hans Arp‚ these artists show the complexity and un-guide lined art that is called data art. With this new form of art‚ people had no idea how to react to something that was not known as art for so many years but meaningless scribbles
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significance does art acquire if we assume that our interpretation of it is correct? What is the relation between aesthetic response and all other forms of human behavior? How do we explain the role and importance of art in the general behavioral system of man? There are as many different answers to these questions as there are different ways of evaluating the importance of art. Some believe art is the supreme human activity while others consider it nothing but leisure and fun. The evaluation of art depends
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Performance art is an essentially contested concept: any single definition of it implies the recognition of rival uses. As concepts like "democracy" or "art"‚ it implies productive disagreement with itself.[1] The meaning of the term in the narrower sense is related to postmodernist traditions in Western culture. From about the mid-1960s into the 1970s‚ often derived from concepts of visual art‚ with respect to Antonin Artaud‚ Dada‚ the Situationists‚ Fluxus‚ Installation art‚ and Conceptual Art‚ performance
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