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    Yoko Ono is a woman who is most commonly known as the woman who married the Beetles’ star John Lennon. In the article by Arthur C. Danto titled “Life in Fluxus”, Danto goes into detail about Ono’s art style, how she met and influenced her husband, and the amazing and shocking art she and her husband produced. Danto never outright defines what Fluxus means, but rather lets the reader learn the definition through Ono’s work. Similarly, Ono would often let the viewers of her art participate and…

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    This was at the Yoko Ono Riverbed exhibition. This is a photographed worked but with fragments of broken cups and strings. As to relate to my theme of grip and hold, this can acquire attention since it was during an exhibition from Yoko Ono. While Yoko Ono is well known in the art world, this piece is very helpful in trying to tell my past. As abstract and dramatic this piece can be, I personally feel that this piece can be meaningful to a lot of individuals who are going through a heartbreak or…

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    This is when he began protesting the Vietnam War, attending many public demonstrations. They were both passionate about political activism and peace, inspiring young people into political activity and participation in the peace movement. Lennon and Ono wrote "Give Peace a Chance," an anti-war chant that definitely showed his pacifist side. Then there was "Working Class Hero" that advocated for the "peasants" to rise up and make a change, to not just go along with what the government taught you.…

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    whatever theories the “expert” would conjure about the choice of color pallets. I thoroughly believe this practice has crossed over into the academic field, allowing outrageous opinions to be published as fact. The opinion in question is that of Yoko Ono’s contribution to contemporary art as a multi-cultural icon. This paper will argue that the only boundaries that exist, stem from those who have superficial authority over…

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    This writing considers the question of Yoko Ono’s “Cut Piece,” which is one of the most important works of that artist’s career and of its period. The essay specifically investigates the critical question of what one can learn from “Cut Piece” about the role of women in society at large. It seeks in investigating this question to uncover trends over time, seeing how the role of women has changed over time and how the role of women has been depicted in art. There will be three primary sections to…

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    spread his positive beliefs. He used his iconic music to help spread what he believed in; He produced songs such as “Give peace a chance”, “Working class hero”, and “Imagine” for the anti-war movement due to the Vietnam War. John and his second wife, Yoko Ono Lennon, held a 2 week-long non-violent protest called “Bed-In”. One was located at Hilton hotel in Amsterdam and the other one was at Fairmont The Queen Elizabeth in Montreal. This was done to promote peace in the world against war, and…

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    British pop band, he was a hero of the past and present generations, and hopefully the future. John Lennon was a leader for world peace and was against war. He devoted his life to world peace, to start off with, during his marriage with his wife Yoko Ono, he spent 2 weeks in bed for peace. He wouldn’t get out of bed, this would cause major media to come and watch, and tell the world his stance. He wrote many songs about peace, he would spread his message through music. One example is “Give…

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    Losing someone that you know is ever easy, but losing a lover can tear you apart. The grief that Rat Kiley felt after his best friend, Curt Lemon, died drove him crazy. Everything from writing a “heartfelt” letter to Curt’s sister to abusing a baby buffalo. Grief is different for everyone, but what if Rat’s grief was so strong because he just lost his war lover? Although the secret war lover may be present in Tim O’Brien’s How to Tell a True War Story, masculinity and violence are also on almost…

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    In the market, companies are always fighting to get new and more customers. These companies don’t sell the same products but there’s still a rivalry between them : who’s going to attract the most customers. That’s the case of these two companies : Apple and Activision, which both of them produce technology supplies to customers : electronic goods for the first company and for the second, video games. Both of these companies’s ad are videos, but they show different approaches of advertising.…

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    Django sat in his dressing room, combing his abnormally large afro. He knew people were onto him. You see, Django was a secret member of a band, not just any band though, The Beatles. Django was the real guitarist of the group, but due to race issues the band members decided to keep it a secret and have John Lennon pretend to be the one on the guitar. Tonight shouldn’t be any different, except it was. There was this reporter, John Didion, who has been on Django’s case for months now, determined…

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