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    within a work of art‚ and a work of art may reflect more than one theme. A theme is an “idea” thread running through the entire history of art. There are many threads." - Chapter Three   For this discussion board choose at least two “thread” categories from what is listed below. Check Chapter 3 for the textbook’s examples of what art and environments fit within these categories‚ then think of your own examples of what would be “ sacred” art‚ political/social order inspired art‚ etc. Write a post

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    The Art of Living As everyone knows‚ ink is something that can never be undone. It is something permanent and is very difficult to cover up or remove. It can be in a form as simple as a pen caressing a piece of paper or as complex as a needle drenched in ink‚ piercing through skin to form a different kind of art‚ known as a tattoo. As times are changing‚ tattoos seem to be getting a lot more common in my generation compared to previous ones. As tattoos become more popular‚ so do the criticisms.

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    W.E.B. Du Bois‚ author of The Souls of Black Folks‚ wrote the enlightening text that many progressives (and non-progressives) of his time and of today study. Du Bois writes this novel in a lyrical and poetic style to tap in to the consciousness of African-Americans to inform them on the ways of gaining success in the American system that racially undervalues them. He also makes points to non-black Americans‚ but specifically white Americans‚ to inform them on how they can use their white privilege

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    Luvleen Singh Period 4 11/17/10 Folk VS Pop Culture Outline Preliminary Questions 1 Some differences between pop and folk culture include fashion and clothes. For example‚ in pop culture‚ new fashions change constantly and are influenced by the media and celebrities whereas in folk culture‚ clothing styles are passed down by generation to generation. Another difference is the way they are diffused; Pop culture is spread by hierarchal diffusion whilst in folk culture‚ they hinder new and mainstream

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    first African American to be given a Ph.D. from the University of Harvard. After his Ph.D. he started teaching economics and history at the University Of Atlanta and in the early 1900’s he published his first ground breaking book The souls of Black Folks. Which the book contained attacks on Booker

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    Authentic works of folk literature versus manufactured ones differ in many ways. The definition of folklore was changed from an “‘oral cultural tradition of a specific group of people’” to an “‘oral poetic creation of the broad folk masses’” (Miller 5). The concept of tradition and cultural origin which is usually ingrained in the authentic folklore is void in the more modern‚ manufactured ones. Manufactured folktales also have much more thought put into to them in terms of “controlling” the folktale

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    a Hungarian nationalist and studied Hungarian folk music. While he composed in all genres‚ he is most known for his interest in folk music. He incorporated it into many of his pieces. Bartók collected‚ transcribed and anthologized Hungarian folk songs with his friend‚ Zoltan Kodaly. Bartók did not believe in the flashy popular art music that had been composed during his time period. He was referring to Liszt’s gypsy music. He believed that "true folk music was the product of the peasant uncorrupted

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    anticlimax of the protagonist and his son’s arrival at the “Cold. Desolate. Birdless.” environment of the beach. McCarthy juxtaposes the bleakness of the landscape with the boy’s optimism in order to highlight the boy’s inherent goodness. McCarthy tells the story using narrative voice in this section of the text. He contrasts the third person extradiegetic narrator with the man’s interior monologue in order to convey multiple perspectives to the reader. “He’d left the cart in the bracken beyond the dunes

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    rushed to the hospital‚ but it was already too late. He died two days later. The teenagers involved were too scared that they and their friend would get in trouble and it cost them their friend’s life. Although there are some teenagers in “To Tell or Not to Tell”‚ by Mary Kate Frank arguing that telling on friends hurts friendships‚ closer examination shows that telling adults could save lives. Take Natalia Szurawski for example: Her friend confided in her and told her that she didn’t want to live

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    CRITIQUE ON TEACHING PHILIPPINE FOLK DANCES Dance education involves teaching of the tradition‚ techniques‚ style and the methodologies of teaching the dance itself. Tradition is taught in and out of the school‚ making dance both as an academic discipline and a social practice or custom. The school teaches formally with syllabi and systems whereas the society teaches in communal activities from rites to games‚ from work to celebrations. Both serve to perpetuate tradition‚ by both hows‚ and whys

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