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Should the artist's music in advertise be a normal thing? I oppose this idea that the advertising business should just be able to use musician's music without their consent. There are two reasons why I don't support this idea. One reason is because Internet services that stream music are taking the place of buying the music which decreases the sales of CDs, records, and cassettes which have been sold over the years. Another reason why I don't support this idea is because any loss in album sales…

Wanderlust The work of art titled “The Tilled Field” by Joan Miró is an excellent example of a work that is part of the Surrealist movement. An oil painting on canvas completed in 1924, the work is possibly the most important and well-known work by the Spanish born artist. After being his career painting working on mare traditional still-lifes and landscapes he later transitioned into more contemporary styles of art. Never openly affiliated with a specific school of art, he produced pieces that…

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…

Surrealism is an art movement that began in the early 1920s in Paris, France. The effect it had on art all around the world is still very much alive today. There were many famous surrealism artists during the movement. Also, some of the most famous works that are still admired today were created during the surrealism art movement. Surrealism is an art movement that stemmed out of the movement known as Dada, which was a movement meant to deliberately defy reason and logic when it came to…

Born in the late 1910s and early 1920’s, artists sought out to release their unrestrained imagination of the subconscious through experimenting with a new form of expression called automatism that in turn led to the birth of the surrealist movement. Martinez-Conde et al state that the movement blurred the line between the real and imagined which was most evident in the works of Salvador Dali (2015). Salvador Dali is a surrealist artist whose name became synonymous to the word surrealism. Dali’s…

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,…