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    does this give the gathering of people a feeling of topography, the juxtaposition of the pastel shades of the suburbs and Edward 's dull and gothic manor serves to complement the sterility of American culture and their powerlessness to acknowledge distinction and non-similarity. This very thought is inferred all through the film through Burton 's purposeful blend of…

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    It is closely tied to Edward Said’s concept of “Orientalism”, which is the artificial distinction that has been created between the “East” and the “West” (where the “East” traditionally referred to the Middle East but gradually extended to include Asia, Africa and Latin America), and thus, becomes responsible for creating a distinction between “us” and “them”, eventually leading to the idea of colonialism/imperialism by nations who considered themselves to be…

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    Jackson Pollock Flaws

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    Jackson Pollock was an American painter, and the main leader behind the theoretical expressionist development in the art world. During his lifetime, Pollock experienced a great noteworthy distinction and notoriety. Jackson Pollock's noteworthy distinction comes from him, creating a standout amongst the most radical conceptual styles ever, isolating line from shading, rethinking the classifications of drawing and painting, and finding new intends to portray pictorial space. Pollock’s notoriety…

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    Act Utilitarianism Essay

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    This essay aims to demonstrate that the demandingness objection has probative force against the theory of act utilitarianism. I will be arguing that act utilitarianism is false because it requires the agent to make very great sacrifices in order to maximise utility. This essay will be exploring Brink (1986) and Sobel’s (2007) response to the challenges faced by act utilitarianism. I will be using Williams’ (1973) argument to demonstrate the various problems act utilitarianism encounters when…

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    1.Introduction The present paper investigates the distinction between students of English Philology and peer students of other specializations when it comes to the problematic aspect of learning a foreign language which is the presence of false friends within English and Polish languages. Previous researchers were focused on the false friends in English and Polish on the level of contrastive semantic analysis (Szpila, 2000). Chamizo (2002) investigated the origin of false friends in some…

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    from the lower classes’ suffering. The middle class is also shown, in the painting, to be wearing elaborate, expensive clothing while the lower classes are shown wearing the basic necessities and sometime even rags, once again showing the clear distinction between the social classes. The middle class is also shown to be just standing guard while the lower class is shown to be cooking food and preparing food, no one is idle. This could show that the working class in actuality did much of the…

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    The French Revolution was a huge milestone in France. It was because it changed the structure of society but instead of replacing the existing rules or even the political regime. The French got rid of the government as a whole. (Horvat) The French Revolution contradicted John Locke 's main political ideas of the the Enlightenment theory. John Locke 's main Ideas of the Enlightenment mostly talked about the government. They were contradictory because John Locke believed that all men are rational…

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    Aristotle Change

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    inherently changing due to reality being unchangeable. He believed that only Being exists and nothing can exist outside the sphere of Being. Nothing can come to be from what it is not. Aristotle offers a solution to the problem of change through his distinction between potentiality and actuality and also through the use of the four causes. In order to get change, you must start with something, as nothing can come from nothing, but for it to change, it cannot be…

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    Doctor Chrischona Schmidt, has spent the past four years trying to establish a place on the market for their unique products that exists outside of tourist crafts. This essay will discuss the difference between fine art and craft and use this distinction as a framework to consider three different examples of Ikuntji seed art; wearable jewellery, traditional mats and the Story…

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    In Gloria Anzaldúa’s Borderlands/La Frontera, the question of home is always close at hand. Questions such as what does it mean to be home and what is a home are constantly circulating throughout the text and tend to haunt the Mestiza body as a raced, foreign, and oriental body. She writes that “…in leaving home I did not lose touch with my origins because lo mexicano [emphasis original] is in my system. I am a turtle, wherever I go I carry ‘home’ on my back.” This is a crucial interjection…

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