Anti-fascists

initiating Australia’s involvement in the war. This sparked the beginning of the anti-war movements being…

that Marcel Duchamp’s ready-mades changed the way we think about art. Duchamp argued that aesthetics and skill were not what made art, it was the artists idea that mattered. This idea is where the ready-mades and then Dadaism come from. The term anti-art, a precursor to Dada, was coined by Marcel Duchamp around 1913 when he created his first ready-mades. Ready-mades say that anything can be art if the artist has the idea to make it art. Marcel Duchamp and…

- In both articles, authors were talking about how the academic and non-academic learning can be more valuable in the society, we found many facts that tell us how society can respect you if you are an educated individual. “Blue-collar Brilliance”, Professor Mike Rose address that society’s blind views on the intellectual ability of the people operating jobs related to serving or manual workers. Rose indicated that blue collar workers miss focusing on the intelligence needed in their…

Given the past two examples, the case could be made that the DMCA is broken, simply because the creators of the intellectual property do not seem to be as protected as the people who are potentially infringing, or that companies like YouTube can have others work on their site, simply by claiming it isn’t their fault. This is not true. In fact, the DMCA often protects copyright holders work. MGM Studios, Inc. v. Grokster is a perfect example of this. In 2005, a small conglomeration of…

The anti-Semitic attitudes of French leaders also influenced the passing of anti-Semitic legislation. According to Judt, anti-Semitism was fashionable in the 1930s and French leaders carried this attitude into the German occupation. The Jews placed their trust in individuals such as Danecker, Darlan, Vallet, Laval, and Petan yet all these men exhibited anti-Semitic views and used them as a moral justification to implement legislation against the Jews. Helene Berr writes about this betrayal when…

Iteration on Stanley Street 1/52-54 Stanley Street, Darlinghurst, New South Wales, Australia 2010 A relatively small gallery in the middle of Stanley Street brings together three artist displaying their artworks that vary in scale, medium, and character. The gallery standings in the heart of Sydney’s Darlinghurst art precinct, the exciting energetic gallery displays works of mostly Australian Artists. Showcases the works of established and emerging artists. The space is a multi-disciplinary…

curious and academically serious.” (Lines 3,4). Fridman continues to discuss the widespread of anti-intellectualism that takes place at all academic institutions including colleges and elementary schools. He utilizes numerous rhetorical techniques such as hyperbole, rhetorical question, and denotation and connotation to develop his argument that “America Needs Its Nerds” (Title) and it is time for anti-intellectualism to be stopped. “A geek, according to Webster’s New World Dictionary,…

Salvador Dali Salvador Dali The Persistence of Memory Metamorphosis of Narcissus The Ecumenical Council Surrealism was a time period that started in 1924 and ended in 1966. It scorned the idea of rationalism or writings of realism, and heavily used psychoanalysis. They had elements of primitivism and mythism as well as they went to treat the unconcious mind. They thought that rationality was a…

Hidden Intellectualism written by Gerard Graff, is a short essay that is speaking on one of the most common, well known arguments, street-smart versus book smart. Graff himself believes that having street smarts is just as important as having book smarts. In his essay, Graff gives his opinion on school systems for overlooking some of the other students and their different sorts of street smarts. As an adolescent Graff lived in Chicago, he always felt as though his community was pressuring him.…

In October, members of 5.7 million U.S. households downloaded at least one unauthorized song using P to P services, according to NPD, which tracks PC usage from 11,000 households (www.pcworld.about.com, year). As one can see this is a big crime that should be dealt with asap. For instance, file sharing not only robs songwriters and recording artists of their livelihoods, it also undermines the future of music itself by depriving the industry of the resources it needs to find and develop new…