Amadeo Modigliani was born in Livorno‚ Italy on July 12‚ 1884. He was a famous Jewish-Italian painter and sculptor. Modigliani was influenced heavily by African masks and primitivism. His paintings are characteristic of quick and precise brush strokes‚ deformations to the human figure and simplicity of shapes. Modigliani led a very self-destructive and eccentric lifestyle in which he frequently drank and smoked. He was constantly in poverty‚ however women found him incredibly attractive and later
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The case Miller v. California (1973) was determined by the Supreme Court‚ which redefined the meaning of obscenity. The word obscene is hard to define and could be seen as “You will know it when you see it.” The Miller case determined if something was obscene‚ the average person‚ applying the standards must find the entire work‚ as obscene‚ the work depicts offensive sexual conduct defined by state law‚ and that the work as a whole lacks literary‚ artistic‚ political‚ or scientific value. Marvin
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waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma- which is living the result of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important‚ have the courage to follow your heart intuition‚” this quote is Bill Gates’ words. This quote familiarizes itself with the book Sidekicked. Sidekicked is a book written by John David Anderson. It is about a boy named Andrew Macon ( a.k.a The Sensationalist). Andrew has to make severe decisions
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explore of the human mind. Human intuition is one facet of the mind that is very interesting‚ yet not very understood. The supersensory ideas that human intuition provides are of the soul‚ world‚ and God. No matter how grand their suggestiveness‚ no matter how genuine the evidence‚ those ideas have no empirical validity‚ and they belong entirely to the intellectual due to the fact that the understanding cannot "prove" itself existent or not. Human intuition is different between all people due
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of the law‚ like obscenity for example. As a matter of fact‚ obscenity is a concept that Miller v. California deals with. To be more specific‚ this case deals with what is considered obscene‚ and if the specific obscenity mentioned in this case is protected by the first amendment‚ the freedom of speech. I will now explain this case in more depth. What brought this case about? In 1973‚ Marvin Miller‚ operator of one of the West Coast’s largest mail-order businesses dealing in sexually explicit
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The article discusses four problem solving styles based on thinking‚ feeling‚ sensation‚ and intuition. The four styles are Sensation-Feeling‚ Intuition-Feeling‚ Sensation-Thinking‚ and Intuition-Thinking. Usually only one of the characteristics are dominant in an individual and the others are generally “back ups”. However‚ it should be understood that not everyone can be classified into one of the four pure types. Experience #1 I use a sensation-thinking problem solving style. This style
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In the Kitchen In the story In the Kitchen‚ Henry Louis Gates Jr. makes the point that there are some things that you just cannot take away from people‚ such as character traits and people’s ways of life. Those are things that you cannot get rid of no matter how much "hair grease"� you put in your life. When Gates was a young boy‚ he would watch his mother do the people’s hair in their kitchen and would marvel at how the black person’s hair would always go back to the kings no matter how good it
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Kitchen Facilities General requirements for food rooms What the law says Regulation (EC) No 852/2004 states that food premises must be of a suitable layout‚ design‚ construction and size for the following reasons. a b To allow adequate cleaning and disinfection. To prevent the accumulation of dirt‚ contact with toxic materials‚ particles shedding into food‚ and condensation or undesirable mould forming on surfaces. To allow good food hygiene practices. This includes protection against crosscontamination
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The article “In the kitchen” written by the renowned author Henry Louis Gates is his own memoir of African-American hairstyle and it goes beyond the subject to bring forward the discussion of assimilation. Gates recalls his childhood memory of the kitchen in family’s Piedmont house. Even though the writer introduces the old-fashioned kitchen equipped with gas stove as the reminder of big mom’s cooking‚ the kitchen turns out to serve as the place where mom usually does her hair. This article also
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What is intuition? Our dictionaries define intuition as the ability of acquiring knowledge without a clear inference or the use of knowledge‚ without the use of any reasoning process. Intuition provides us with beliefs that we cannot necessarily justify. After analysing this definition we must ask ourselves if this definition is totally reliable‚ isn’t intuition directly connected with our personal experience? To what extent is intuition to be taken as seriously in the different areas of knowledge
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