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In October of 2011 Texas Representative Lamar Smith introduced the Stop Online Piracy Act to the United States House of Representatives. The bill boasts heightened copyright laws that claim to protect free speech and creativity while it actually accomplishes the opposite. Online service providers, or OSPs, are the target of SOPA legislation. SOPA places liability for copyright law infringing content on innocent corporations that merely provide a platform for users to share content. Most…

Write a computer use policy. 1. Explain ethical computing PC morals is set of good rule that control the utilization of PCs (Christensson, 2006). Some regular issues of PC morals incorporate licensed innovation rights, (for example, copyrighted electronic substance), protection concerns, and how PCs influence society (Christensson, 2006). It’s unethical to access someone’s personal information on a computer (Christensson, 2006). As the universe of PCs advances, PC morals keeps on making moral…

comprehending my school work. Everything seemed hard and uninteresting. This had a negative effect on my academic performance. Consequently, I was among the worst performing students in my class. My teachers thought I was generally unintelligent and anti-intellectual. However, outside classroom, I developed an insatiable desire for music and musical instruments. Every evening after school, I would set aside at least two hours to learn to play the guitar and…

Modern art was born ugly. "It was Matisse who took the first step into the undiscovered land of the ugly," an American critic wrote, describing the 1910 Salon des Indépendents in Paris. "The drawing was crude past all belief, the colour was as atrocious as the subject. Had a new era of art begun?" Even Henri Matisse himself was sometimes shocked by his creations. According to his biographer Hilary Spurling, "His own paintings filled him with perturbation. At some point in 1901 or 1902 he slashed…

War has a dark, funny way of underlining the incongruities of warfare. Irony has a strong presence in Erich Maria Remarque's novel, All Quiet on the Western Front. Set in the German lines of the Western Front in the First World War, Paul Baumer and other young men, such as Albert and Müller, volunteer to be soldiers after their schoolteachers persuaded them. At the front, they admire Kat for his practical skills and reliable instincts. On the opposite is Himmelstoss, a largely inept leader who…

Music Piracy Pirates back in the 1800’s were known to sail the high seas, plunder ships, steal cargo, the list goes on. Pirates today are still around but they take a different form, they take the form of someone going on the internet and downloading a torrent of that catchy new song they heard on the radio or downloading an entire album from some no name artist that doesn’t have their album on Spotify yet. These pirates aren’t your traditional, pirates they’re music pirates. Music piracy hurts…

Surrealism began in the 20th century in Europe, known to be the most influential movement finding its roots from the era of Dadaism and Cubism (The Art Story, Web.). As Surrealism came nearly after World War I and World War II, artists decided to recreate the destruction left behind turning into a fantasy. Fantasy: the imagination above the reality of life, which was illustrated as art. The combination of the two eras led to the creation of an art form that was unknown and out of the art world.…

In the excerpt ‘The Origins of Painting and its Representational Value,’ Léger seeks to describe the concept of realism in modern art as well as answer the question most commonly associated with modern pictures: “What does that represent?” Léger develops his claims on modern art and his response to what he considers a nonsensical question by comparing a work of art’s imitative capabilities with its realistic value, defining as best he can the concept of pictorial realism, and by providing a…

We all have seen what the love for music has done; it brought us together, cheered us, enlightened us, and romanticized us. It seems to not be the case anymore. The music industry has killed our music; it has deprived us from the warmth of music. It has turned our artistry into a monopoly. Although, it has brought massive amount of people together, it has also brought the destruction of uniqueness. Millions of people listen to the same thing that comes in the radio, not knowing the music they…

forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.” (Voltaire) This quote by Voltaire embodies his extreme disposition against war. Voltaire has always been a large proponent in the anti-war movements in eighteenth century England. His disposition against war is clearly displayed in his novel “Candide.” Voltaire utilizes the techniques of comparison, satire, imagery, and dichotomy to display the many idiosyncrasies and follies…