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    “Loving is Art, and Art is Love. (...) In love and in art, the only constant is inconstancy (Boal 19).” This project gave me the ability to create without pressures and to cherish in the inconsistencies of art. I was able to see how art is forever changing and reworking. Art like love is fluid, the person you love and the art you create are constantly growing, moving, and developing. Normally when I am the director of a project I try to make sure that everything is constant, unique, and…

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    Positivist Theory Positivist theory was created from positive philosophy and the influences of practical science (Bohm & Vogel, 2011). Positivists rejected the established philosophy of Enlightenment thinkers (Bohm & Vogel, 2011). When society went through significant changes during the American and French revolutions as well as a middle class that united in strength and the Industrial Revolution is when positive philosophy took its roots (Bohm & Vogel, 2011). Saint-Simon was a socialist who…

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    4.1. Blanche Ingram According to Heiniger Blanche can be seen as Jane’s foil, since she embodies the perfect “nineteenth-century Angel – an unrealistic male-created ideal” (24). She satis-fies Coventry Patmore’s expectations in regard to appearance: “Men must be pleased.” And her outstanding beauty, described by Mrs. Fairfax, obviously would make her the dream girl of many men: She is “tall”, has a “long graceful neck” and “noble features” “fine hair” and the “glossiest curls” (Brontë 185) Her…

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    Victoria Dochoghlian Poli Sci 137BW Prof. Uhlaner November 5, 2015 Are the Representatives “Like Us” in the U.S. Congress? “Stand for” representation, means a descriptive or symbolic representative that stands for someone or something. In descriptive representation there is the idea of representing a group of people and governing for them, two very different theories. Representing descriptively means to proportionally and characteristically represent the population they stand for, and to…

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    Genetically modified (GM) foods have the potential to improve human health in the developing world. The genetic modification of food is a bioethics issue, due to the concerns raised when a foods physiognomies are altered to benefit the human race. Despite this, a food’s characteristics can be GM to become a vehicle for vaccines and a higher vitamin content, slowing the spread of diseases and thus improving human health. Furthermore, plants that are GM to be pest-resistant will cause a decrease…

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    Friedrich Nietzsche was a German philosopher who had a lot of controversial views on society. In his book “Twilight of the Idols”, there are a lot of different themes being explored of which some include what the Germans are lacking, how moralities have “improved” human beings, why the senses are superior to reason and even the problem with Socrates. One of the statement that we will be focusing on would be “Every individual may be regarded as representing either the ascending or the descending…

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    this quote may seem a bit ambiguous and confusing, but as Coates continues his explanation, it allows the reader to come to a better understanding of what he is conveying. Coates states, “naming ‘the people’ has never been a matter of genealogy or physiognomy so much as one of hierarchy” (11). When Coates states this he is allowing the reader to slowly begin to see his view of the division here in America. He wants the reader to understand that this division did not come from a family’s descent…

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    Dual relationships are when a subordinate relationship occurs in addition to the professional or healing one (Falls, 2006). Clinicians will comprehend and identify that there are some circumstances in which dual relationships are challenging to elude; such as in rural areas and small populations. These circumstances require dialogue of the counseling relationship and actions must be taken to differentiate the counseling relationship from any other exchanges (Falls, 2006). In a rural setting and…

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    As I finished reading “Between the World and Me” by Ta-Nehisi Coates, I was left in a bit of a trance. Before entering this class, I can say I haven’t really read any African American Literature. Even though being from a predomanlitly black area of Atlanta originally , I always strived away from black literature. The literature is so strong and brings such emotions when reading. I always wanted to believe we lived in a perfect world, with little to no harm. However, as I struggle to read through…

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    instance of flanerie in Poe’s works may be found in his story ‘The Man of the Crowd,” which Benjamin calls Poe’s early contribution to a ‘physiognomics of the crowd’,” says James V. Werner in The Detective Gaze: Edgar A. Poe, the Flaneur, and the Physiognomy of Crime. Poe used a unique grotesque inventiveness in his writings. Such stories include, “The Fall of the House of Usher” in which penetrating gloominess in the atmosphere is accented equally with plot and characterization. “The Pit and…

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