Can anything be art? Are there limits to what is acceptable? Who decides? Can anything be art? Are there limits to what is acceptable and who decides? These three questions are probably the most argued and discussed questions artists‚ collectors and art historians are faced with on a day to day basses. The evidence of humans trying to create art has been present since millions of years. Archeologists have found traces of attempts of art in african caves which are up to 2.4 million years old.
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Can one be moral and not believe in God? Carolyn Jones PHI103: Informal Logic (GSK1219A) Instructor: Fabio Escobar June 11‚ 2012 Can one be moral and not believe in God? Let’s start by defining what it is to be moral or have morals. Morals simply is defined by Webster as “of or relating to principles of right and wrong in behavior‚” (Merriam-Webster‚ 2011) When you believe in a spiritual being this can play a major role in one’s moral belief. If one do not believe in God or a spiritual
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APPEARANCES CAN BE DECEPTIVE 1. There is an old adage “all that glitters is not gold”.Gold is bright yellow metal and very valuable. But there are many worthless things looking equally bright yellow. We should not therefore‚ think that a thing is gold is simply because it is bright yellow. So‚ the proverb teaches us that we should not judge things by their outward appearances. 2. A person may be well dressed and may look a gentle man; but in reality he may be a cheater or a thief. A person
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Can Machines Think ? This paper regards several points of view on the subject of‚ what is commonly referred to as Artificial Intelligence‚ or AI. AI is the attempt to make machines‚ specifically computers‚ perform intelligently through programming. Already‚ this definition has a problem in that the word intelligence can have many interpretations. This essay will attempt to put forward some ideas for how to approach this problem. It could be said that the human brain is nothing more than a machine
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A Cat Is Not a Can of Soup Have you been thinking of getting a pet? Wait a minute before you rush down to a pet shop. Adopting a pet from the Ferndale Shelter is often a wiser move than buying one. However‚ many families hesitate to visit the shelter because they aren ’t aware of its advantages or have mistaken ideas about what they will find there. To begin with‚ you may believe that you ’re more likely to find a healthy‚ well-adjusted dog or cat at a pet shop. From what I have seen here
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Can English be dethroned? Roland J.-L. Breton‚ geolinguist and emeritus professor at the University of Paris VIII. Major languages other than English are spoken by over half the people on the planet. What can be done to give them more clout in international bodies? Back in 1919‚ U.S. President Woodrow Wilson managed to have the Treaty of Versailles‚ which ended the First World War between Germany and the Allies‚ written in English as well as French. Since then‚ English has taken root in diplomacy
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CMR212 10/01/01 Can Selling Be Globalized? THE PITFALLS OF GLOBAL ACCOUNT MANAGEMENT David Arnold‚ JulianBirkinshaw‚ and Omar Toulan California Management Review Reprint Series ©2001 by The Regents of the University of California CMR‚ Volume 44‚ Number 1‚ Fall 2001 This document is authorized for use only in T-GEMBA/GMAN - 02212013 by Andrew Wilson and Saroja Subrahmanyan at St. Mary’s College of California from February 2013 to August 2013. Arnold CMR fa01 final 1/24/02
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International Journal of Business and Social Science Vol. 2 No. 12; July 2011 Can Ethics Be Taught? Thomas G. Ryan‚ Ed.D. Associate Professor Nipissing University (Graduate Studies) Faculty of Education Ontario‚ Canada E-mail: thomasr@nipissingu.ca Jeremy Bisson‚ M.Ed. Assistant Professor Nipissing University Ontario‚ Canada Abstract For many years educational programs have dealt with ethics. However‚ can ethics be taught? Secondly‚ how should it be taught? The notion that ethics is
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Effect of Smoking Done By : Jelaine Pak Chen Yee Premanan Sasu Antony Tauseef Smoking can be considered as one of the most dangerous habits in an individual. Statistics shows every year hundreds of thousands of people around the world die cause by cigarettes. Besides that‚ statistics also shows that about 9 out of 10 tobacco users start before they’re 18 years old. Most of the smokers died at middle age due to their smoking habit. They are effects on smoking such as
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society where the conventions may be out-of-date‚ just as examples above suggests. Thus‚ the courage to question what the authority thinks plays a vital role in this rapidly changing society‚ making our life more easy and even save our lives. If experts can‚ like the rest of us‚ be wrong‚ why are their views more highly valued than the views of non-experts? Many people wonder about this‚ and some conclude that it is a waste of time to consult the experts. What are the effects of hashish on those who smoke
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