Anti-art

Kyle Arnold Honors English 11-2 Research Paper Final Draft 27 January 2017 The Struggle to Be Heard Attitude and action is the direct result of any situation. When leaders take into consideration the opinions and expressions of their followers, they have created a condition where the followers are in good spirits and continue to trust in their leaders. However, when leaders enable quick decisions without consulting their supporters, they have given their supporters no voice in the matter; this…

Since the invention of the printing press made copies of works easily reproducible there has been worry by content creators about having their works copied for someone else's financial gain. Through time other mediums have been introduced with song, films and books all now at risk of being copied and the creator having their work stolen and not having any financial compensation. But with the advent of laws to protect works and their creators, a fine line has developed between protecting original…

Wrist and upper-arm blood pressure monitors are mainstays of the blood pressure monitor industry, but some people find them a little bit too bulky or intimidating to be of any use. Finger blood pressure monitors provide a welcome and handy (no pun intended) alternative to these more popular models. A lot of people are suspicious of finger blood pressure monitors and believe them to be unreliable and ineffective when it comes to delivering a reliable reading of one’s blood levels. While it is…

We are really looking forward to tomorrow's discussion and are hoping it will clarify some of these points for us further - however, we have done a lot of thinkinng about these topics in the last few days and this is how we hope to steer the conversation. Firstly, our readings for this week were centered around intellectuals and universities. But what is an intellectual? We encountered several definitions from diverse sociological standpoints. We started with "those who create, generate, and…

Of all the movements America has gone through since its inception, I believe the realism movement best-aligns itself with who I am as a person. I believe that we, as humans, are nothing more than a collection of atoms, just like every space-occupying thing in our universe, and that we are no more significant than any other object. A way this belief translates to my every-day life is how I am not a religious person. Most of the popular religions teach that humans are somehow “special”, and they…

Grant Penrod’s “Anti-Intellectualism: Why We Hate the Smart Kids”, makes the argument that academic achievement should be rewarded just as much as athletic achievement. He continues with the fact that today’s society tends to praise non-intellectuals, such as famous celebrities and athletics, while the intellectually skilled individuals get left no recognition for their accomplishments. I agree with Penrod that there is a hatred and inattention in society for those who are smarter than others,…

Since the birth of the computer, people have partaken in many activities based on the web. Some positive, some negative, and some down right illegal. The most common incident of illegal activity online is through what some would call modern day piracy. The more accepted term used is file sharing, and it is just that: sharing files over the web, typically illegally. File sharing has been a controversy who’s legality has been frivolously debated since Napster in 1999. (Oberholzer) File…

through the use of illogical scenes, leaving a feeling of uneasiness. It was largely inspired from Freud 's work on dream analysis and the unconscious, becoming the expressed art form of Freud 's work. Surrealism also owe a lot to the work of the Dada 's, who created an anti-social spirit within the minds of the surrealists. This anti-social spirit came from the spirit of independence the impressionists had, but the surrealists had taken that spirit of independence and added a large dose of…

This essay will descried how art can be an important part of either the religious or political system of a society, Also I will provide examples of the visual, verbal, and musical arts. These forms of art do not only provide a passage for people to express their beliefs, but seeing the trends in arts during a historical time period can expose the overall experiences and beliefs of a society. Art can be a significant part of the religious systems of a society, and is defined as “the creative use…

his time, the majority of his fame came after his death. The driving force for the widespread fame that his work received is attributed to the legal dispute that began in 1971 after Rothko’s death. The case was characterized as “one of the New York art world’s most spectacular scandals” by People Magazine, a highly well known and popular magazine at the time. The case involved a legal dispute between Rothko’s daughter and three executors of Rothko’s estate, who were his closest friends, over the…