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    artist consist of helping us see the world in new and innovative ways‚ create a visual record of their time and place‚ make functional objects and structures more pleasurable by imbuing them with beauty and meaning‚ and finally‚ they give form to the immaterial ideas and feelings (A World of Art‚ 2010) Two works of art that distinguish artistic roles very well are Jahangir in Darbar‚ and Claude Monet’s representation of Gare Saint-Lazare. In the painting Jahangir in Darbar‚ the artist makes a visual

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    <center><i>"Politics should be the application of the science Of man to the construction of the community" Explain this remark and discuss what reasons there might be for thinking it is not true</i></center><br><br>In this essay I intend to examine the political philosophy of Thomas Hobbes and Rene Descartes‚ in particular their ideas relating to the science of man‚ and attempt to explain why their ideas prove that it is not possible to construct a science of man.<br><br>I will also briefly mention

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    Plato’s notion of the Forms comes to us as an answer. In Phaedo‚ Socrates is prisoned and put to death‚ which ought to be a tragedy and naturally a fearful experience for most. Strikingly‚ Socrates is open to being executed‚ which begs the question of why? Socrates believes that the body and the soul are separate entities that are combined to create what we see on earth as life. According to him‚ there are two components that we face; visible and invisible. The body is “the visible kind” (79b)

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    tempered and sweetened by a cordial graciousness” in a luxurious hotel (1). Although Beaumont stays at a place which is only for the rich‚ she still attracts others’ attentions and gets their acceptances because of her kind and natural flavour. Her immaterial behaviour also attracts another guest in the hotel‚ Harold Farrington. During her conversation with him‚ “they [are] drawn one to another by the fact of their common good fortune in discovering the acme of summer resorts in a Broadway hotel” (2)

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    that it is immortal‚ he believed that our souls existed before birth and it continues to live forever without a body form. He also believes in the reincarnation of the soul‚ which is something I have always agreed with. What humans are really the immaterial mind-soul‚ trapped in a physical body. The way each person interprets distinctive acts and react to them using their own good or evil methods‚ plays a great part in Plato theories. From my beliefs‚ that is our souls taking over. Since the soul

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    Animism

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    this idea‚ non-human forms such as thunder‚ rocks and trees are possessed by spirits and souls. The term‚ first developed as “animismus” by chemist/physicist Georg Ernst Stahl in 1832‚ defined as the “doctrine that animal life is produced by an immaterial soul”‚ was reintroduced in 1871 by English anthropologist Sir Edward Burnett Taylor to be defined as the “theory of the universal animation of nature”. The mass majority of animistic belief systems holds that the soul within the non-human

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    How is the Nile different from the Tigris and Euphrates? Egyptians depended on waters of a great river system. They had the Nile‚ Tigris and Euphrates rivers. The Nile is 4‚000 miles long and it starts far in the south‚ in lakes of central Africa and it empties into the Mediterranean Sea at Alexandria (Pouwels‚ Adler‚ 2015‚ pg. 37). All three rivers would flood‚ but with the Tigris and Euphrates you could not predict when they were going to flood. The Nile on the other hand was a benevolent river

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    formed by faulting or fracturing of the earth’s crust. amalgam- an alloy of mercury with another metal or metals. antimony- something used for or regarded as representing something else; a material object representing something‚ often something immaterial; emblem‚ token‚ or sign. disquieting- lack of calm‚ peace‚ or ease; anxiety; uneasiness. terse- neatly or effectively concise; brief and pithy‚ as language. enigmatic- resembling an enigma; perplexing; mysterious. subcutaneous- situated

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    Stelarc's Body Analysis

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    The Example According to Australian artist Stelarc the human body is obsolete‚ flawed and prone to problems such as pain and death (Leeker‚ 2000‚ p.49). He continuously extends and manipulates his physical body in bionic performances‚ experimenting with the expansion of the limits of the human body in projects such as Third Hand (1980)‚ Exoskeleton (1997) and Ear on Arm (2007). Moreover‚ he questions the necessity to stay human when technology starts to invade our lives and bodies (Stelarc‚ 1997

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    They are unable to work together to understand challenges‚ and form a game plan to resolve them. They continue to be falling back to traditional boundries and turf wars. When collaboration with others and coordinate across supply chain remains elusive. Innovation is stalled ans customer focus is uncoordinated and uneven implementation. Change is the only constand in the world today. To have a successfully transition or change in an organization it to first engage the people who will help

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