never interesting for its own sake‚ as art must be…‚” was the claim of conservative writer and philosopher Roger Scruton in his controversial 1989 paper ‘But is it art?’ Many responded strongly to Scruton’s claim that a photograph‚ unlike a painting‚ can never be representational‚ in any aesthetically pertinent sense of the word. He argues that there is an “intentional” relationship between a painted representation and its subject; an intentional relationship which simply cannot exist between a photograph
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adaptable‚ and hardworking. An example of my determination is me raising my average from an 82 in freshman year to a 93.4 in junior year. An example of me being adaptable is how I moved many times over the course of my life and dealing with hurricane sandy and was still a successful student. An example of me being hardworking because I am able to manage school and work. Special circumstances in my life include my parents being divorced and living with ADHD. My parents being divorced and made me live
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Loving V Virginia Every human should be granted basic civil rights. The constitution itself claims we as American citizens are granted “life‚ liberty and the pursuit of happiness‚” but does the government always allow us these civil liberties? Life‚ yes we are all granted the right to be alive‚ but liberty and true pursuit of happiness maybe not as much. Webster defines Liberty as “The state of being free within society from oppressive restrictions imposed by authority on one’s way of life”.
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History of Continental Airlines Continental Airlines began service in 1934 as Varney Speed Lines‚ named after one of its initial owners‚ Walter T. Varney operating out of El Paso‚ Texas and extending through Las Vegas‚ Albuquerque and Santa Fe‚ New Mexico to Pueblo‚ Colorado. The airline started with Lockheed Vegas‚ a single engine plane that carried four passengers. The airline later flew other Lockheed planes‚ including the Lodestar. It was renamed Continental on 1 July 1937 after a new owner
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Part 1 Using the data in the table provided on pages 20 and 21‚ what can you say about the disputes people have with their neighbours? This part of the tma‚ this essay will be using data in the table from a study by the ICM research consultancy doing a good neighbours survey on different aspects of neighbouring. The different aspects of neighbouring included gender‚ age‚ social class and region. This survey was undertaken during 2011 for a commercial client‚ a large insurance company. Therefore
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My strongest trait as a person is my work ethic and that has enabled me to achieve many academic and athletic awards during my high school career. I have received academic awards for maintaining above a 3.25 GPA while participating in golf and football. In addition to high school classes‚ I have taken eight dual credit classes through a local community college. All helping prepare me for my future plans. I have balanced four years of academics‚ football‚ and golf. Throughout my high school career
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Damskov 1 Detra Damskov Instructor Kym Snelling American Literature I December 17‚ 2014 To My Dear and Loving Husband : A Secular and Spiritual Writing Anne Bradstreet’s poem‚ To My Dear and Loving Husband ‚ reveals and strengthens the connection the speaker innately feels between her Puritan and secular life. The speaker‚ and presumably Bradstreet herself‚ do not seem to differentiate between earthly and Godly experiences‚ but instead see them as intrinsically intertwined‚ and essential to the relationship
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Our Savage Neighbors: How Indian War Transformed Early America. Author: Peter Silver. Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company New York (2008) Peter Silver‚ author of Our Savage Neighbors‚ is an associate professor of history at Rutgers University. The first chapter‚ An Unsettled Country‚ pretty well tells his purpose in writing the book. He shows “how fear and horror…can remake whole societies and their political landscapes”. (xviii) His focus is on the middle colonies‚ particularly Pennsylvania‚
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The Shawnees and Their Neighbors in Review The Shawnees and Their Neighbors‚ 1795-1870 by Stephen Warren looks into the lives of Native Americans in the Old Northwest. This time was characterized by warfare and failed compromises between the Americans and Native Americans. Native Americans faced failure and removal much in part due to their inability to combine forces to fight against‚ or seek to gain rights from the American frontiersmen. Stephen Warren is speaking at the Wiping Away the Tears:
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The United States Becomes a Good Neighbor “Franklin Roosevelt’s Good Neighbor Policy was a more ethical‚ moral‚ respectful‚ and neighborly approach to international relations than that of his predecessors.” This is exactly what U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt wanted his new foreign policy of 1933 to be. The Good Neighbor policy was the United State’s new foreign policy‚ stating that they were to no longer intervene militarily in other countries; they would no longer imperialize the world
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