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    Jean-Michel Basquiat

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    You may already heard about SAMO‚ see those kinds of painting or even heard the name Jean-Michel Basquiat. Today we decide to bring the light on this famous artist ; how did he starts ? How close was he from the famouse Andy Warhol ? And obviously what’s his artistic style ? He was born in Brooklyn and was a kind of precocious child‚ indeed he learned how to read and write by age four and was a gifted artist. His father banished him from the household after that he had been arrested by the

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    LIFE AND TIMES OF ARTIST Jean Michel Basquiat was born on December 22‚ 1960 in Brooklyn‚ New York. His father‚ Gerard Basquiat was born in Port-au-Prince‚ Haiti and his mother‚ Matilde Andradas was born in Brooklyn of Puerto Rican parents. At an early age‚ Basquiat displayed an aptitude for art and was encouraged by his mother to draw‚ paint‚ and to participate in other art-related activities. In 1977‚ when he was 17‚ Basquiat and his friend Al Diaz started spray-painting graffiti art on slum

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    The extent to which snooping is carried out‚ how it is encouraged and justified and how the information obtained is used‚ are all central to the novel’s theme. Michel Foucault’s theory of "panopticism" is synonymous with Virilio’s stance on snooping. Panopticism is an exercise of complete power in the name of discipline. The inmates of the peripheral cells are always being watched and observed by the “guard” in

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    Friedrich Nietzsche’s on the Genealogy of Morality manages to capture what we could consider new and better human ideals‚ and transforms it into a reality that is not so farfetched. His problem‚ however‚ is that history as we know it has changed and people have been lead astray from their instinctual judgments as a species. Through vigorous questioning and re-questioning of his own thoughts in addition to much of history as we know it‚ Nietzsche has built his own foundation of an entirely different

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    1. Discuss the emergence of guilt in light of Nietzsche’s analysis in the genealogy. You are expected to trace the sequence Nietzsche presents in describing the descent towards guilt. • Creditor and debtor relationship "I have already let it out: in the contractual relationship between creditor and debtor‚ which is as old as the very conception of a ‘legal subject’ and itself refers back to the basic forms of buying‚ selling‚ bartering‚ trade and traffic." (p.43 2nd essay) see pg 49 for

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    The Origins of Guilt In both Nietzsche’s book The Genealogy of Morals and Freud’s Civilization and its Discontents‚ both authors address the origins of guilt and the effects it has on society. While they both address these origins‚ the two philosophers differ in their beliefs. Nietzsche deduces that guilt is a result of a man turning inward. Freud on the other hand relates guilt to the subconscious struggle between the ego and the superego. To understand Nietzsche’s version of the origin of guilt

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    120 Days of Moral Deterioration: Pasolini’s SALÒ in the Misinterpretation of Nietzsche’s On the Genealogy of Morality “Because we’re not their masters‚ even the most bizarre manias derive from a basic principle of refinement. Yes‚ old buggers. It’s a question of delicacy.” -The Bishop‚ in SALÒ or the 120 Days of Sodom “No festivity without cruelty; such is the lesson of the earliest‚ longest period in the history of mankind – and even in punishment there is so much that is festive!” -On

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    God Sees the Truth

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    Essay “God sees the truth‚ but waits” Which kind of people can you never put all your trust on? Strangers. Why? Because‚ you don’t know their intensions. In “God sees the truth‚ but waits” by Leo Tolstoy; Aksyonof gets sent to jail‚ for a crime he didn’t commit. But‚ during this experience Aksyonof gets to know God‚ on his adventure to prison. In this story‚ the moral is that a stranger may have bad intensions that can harm you and the way he gets to know God through‚ loneliness and helplessness

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    Part 1 of 1 - 20.0 Points Question 1 of 10 2.0 Points Which of the following statements about post-structuralism is the LEAST accurate? A.It rejects the idea of an underlying structure up one which meaning can rest secure and guaranteed B.Meaning is always in process; it is a very unstable thing. Correct C.Popular culture can be studied based on the relationship between signifier‚ signified and the sign. D.Texts and practices are only experienced and given meaning in an activity

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    Everything about The Circle seems great… in theory. The Circle by Dave Eggers has a lot of good ideas‚ but it seems to be mainly in theory. The SeeChange camera’s should help eliminate crime‚ and force people to be good. By using them‚ people that are not able to go out and experience what others do‚ can. And they can also help with every day to day tasks‚ like monitoring waves‚ or weather where you plan to go. Although it’s allegedly used for good things‚ it’s currently being used as a real time

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