Summary/Critique of “Monuments to Our Better Nature” When choosing what story to read out of “75 Readings An Anthology” one caught my eye; “Monuments to Our Better Nature”. This caught my eye because I was intrigued to see what kind of monuments Byers talked about in the story. The moment I read he was talking about the monuments in Washington D.C. I knew this was the story I wanted to summarize and critique. During my spring break of my 9th grade year I visited D.C. and visited all of the monuments
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How will you explain the artwork that you have chosen? In my perspective as someone who had viewed the artwork made by Manuel Luis Reyes‚ I would interpret this painting as something which entails the manner how the society sees shapes the capacity of the human mind to convey many emotions‚ abilities‚ and personalities as an effect of it. The painter of the artwork used loud colors which signify many strong emotions and feelings of the girl in the painting. The girl in the painting was small‚ and
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A Divided Society During the 1970s‚ pop culture in America was beginning to reflect the divided nature of American society during that time period. It began to reflect the changes and opinions that different subgroups exhibited. Pop culture made it obvious that society had many different views on their types of leisure activities that they participated in. The changing culture was greatly influenced by society’s views on topics such as‚ sporting events and films/movies. Baseball was greatly affected
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“Social Networking in Our Society” When does spending nine hours a week on a social networking site‚ start to affect our society? Experts say spending time on social networking sites lead to more time wasting activities that supplant more productive activities (“Social Networking”). Although people may enjoy spending time on social networks‚ our society is being affected negatively by these sites. People of all ages spend too many hours on networking sites and are becoming addicted. Teenagers
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WORLD’S LONGEST SONG The current longest piece of music being recored is Longplayer. It has been recording for the last 11 years. And it is due to end in 2999. Look it up at Longplayer.org The longest recorded piece of music used to be by a noise band called Bull of Heaven‚ "The Chosen Priest and Apostle of Infinite Space." It’s more than 2 months long. They also have other works that are multiple weeks long. They have however bested this with a song that is 50 000 hours in length‚ that’s more
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Religion can make a deep contribution to how we understand and see ourselves as human beings. As Tim said before‚ religion contributes to culture‚ society‚ music‚ architecture‚ the arts and how we view the world. One aspect that has been heavily influenced by religion is Art. The paintings that are based around religion are some of the most recognised and inspiring pieces of art in history. For example‚ paintings in the Sistine Chapel such as ‘The Creation of Eve’ and ‘The Creation of Adam’ by Michelangelo
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debated about. At that time‚ we had different views on how we say that a certain person is normal. I think everyone is just too normal and ordinary that everyone does different things to stand out. Because of this cause‚ everyone seems to be the same. This tends the idea for the contented people to look as if they are abnormal. People who don’t tend to be "normal" are the ones who makes no effort to be different. Most of the people in our surroundings wants to prove themselves to other
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Changing Our Lives Essay – Draft Version I changed my life in so many ways‚ but the most important thing that I have changed was my education at first I didn’t want to go back to school but reason I decided to go back to school to further my education by attending Strayer University. The reason I did this was because I notice that I wasn’t finding any job at the time‚ and I wanted to make a better life for my kids and I. So I decided to continue my goal as becoming a computer wizard in Computer
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Internet"How the Internet has fundamentally changed our society."The Internet is indeed the "superhighway" of communication in our modern world. Many types of people such as workers‚ families and criminals travel our nation’s interstates. These various types of people are also found on our "superhighway" of communication. Originally the Internet was an innovation to improve communication in our society and world. We will discuss the pros and the unexpected cons of this new innovation. As our course
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Today women are enjoying high place in our society because Islam has given them great respect. In the near past women were considered inferior to men. They were debarred from taking part in social life. Their sphere of activities was limited to domestic work. Up to the 19th century it was believed that women were the servants of the homes of their husbands. In those days women were not allowed to take part in political and social life and administration. Rousseau the French philosopher who never
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