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    outcast due to his skin color and he was sent to jail for something that he didn’t do. Although some may think that Boo is the best example of a Mockingbird, Tom got killed despite his innocence. One reason that Tom Robinson is the best example of a mockingbird, is that he was an outcast because of his sin color. Tom was mistreated and was an outcast just because of his skin color. Atticus states, “He despises negroes, won’t have one near him” (Lee 209). This is how most people at…

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    bush. He like use dark tone color and colorful depend his emotion. Style his painting is abstract. Color on his work can present emotion and have definition. His works are harshness, determinate and free. He died on 11 August in 1956. I choose him because I like abstract style and I like technique painting. he has a different concept. The first picture. He uses oil color and house paint on canvas. When I saw the picture It give feeling freedom for me. He use different color it make me think it…

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    Color fundamental: Color is a key component as it plays the biggest motivation for shopping. Colors are able to influence consumer choices. Different colors tend to evoke different feelings in people, which can affect how they perceive products. Color also influences customer’s impression of a whole store appearance. IKEA attracts customer’s attention by using warm and cool colors for their logo and store building such as blue and yellow. Blue evokes feeling of calmness while bright colors such…

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    compromise when Missouri entered the union as a slave state and Maine as a free state and this law prohibited slavery in the Louisiana Territory north of the 36° 30´ latitude line in 1854. The slave trade became more profitable in pro- slave states after this compromise. Subsequently, the Missouri Compromise was repealed by the Kansas-Nebraska Act, which is an act passed by the U.S. Congress on May 30, 1854. It allowed people in the territories of Kansas and Nebraska to decide for themselves…

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    If people actually believe racism is completely wiped clean, people are wrong. Racism is still very much alive to this present day. The fact that there are different levels in society because of the different colors due to race is disgusting. People are quick to judge others with the reference of their skin color. Society doesn 't completely understand that people do not get to choose the color of their skin they are born with. People do not get to choose the race they are born with, they don’t…

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    lines on the left is indistinguishable from the lines on the right making it appear to be weighted evenly. The negative space is the white paint in the background that is used to further emphasize the other colors and black in the foreground. Making the foreground, primarily the non-white colors, and the positive space. In the work the curved lines of spatter from the paint dripping is repeated across the whole work, occasionally changing when Pollock switches from a wooden stick to paintbrush.…

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    rooted racism in today’s policing system. This system is set in order to control people of color and other minorities. In addition to controlling minorities, prisons are able to make a profit in insuring all jail cells are filled and all the people incarcerated are working for almost nothing. Not to mention, people of color are routinely stopped and searched by police officers for no real reason other than the color of their skin. In addition, they are also subjected to constant harassment,…

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    would say a peaceful resistance to laws positively impacts a free society. I say this because if you're being peaceful what is there to be negative about? There would be no reason for a negative impact on society if it is a peaceful resistance to laws. For example in the Muhammad Ali's Anti-War Stand Was Civil Disobedience, Not Draft Dodging article Ali is nonaggressive and is peaceful about the situation, doesn't have an uproar. Although people disagree about the situation there was nothing…

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    Why is racism so deeply rooted among American history? Why is something as simple as skin color such subject to prejudice and discrimination in today’s society? The United States of America is built off of cruel acts of slavery and racism. So many white Americans did not realize that the acts they performed were horribly wrong and inhumane. They excused themselves simply because darker skin meant that that person was also inferior. Millions of minorities have suffered because of this. There…

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    In my argument, I am going to support Strawson’s claims and argue against Libertarians that it is not possible to be truly morally responsible for one’s actions even with this idea of indeterminacy. Libertarians specifically believe that our free will allows us to have true moral responsibility. In order to fully understand Strawson’s views and the views of those that counter him, we must revisit what his basic argument is. As human beings, we make specific choices and carry out actions the way…

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