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    Chapter 32 1. How did territorial expansion affect Native Americans in North America? The Native Americans lost their “spirit”. Native Americans were considered savages and were either killed or conformed to the American control. The Indians lost their identity due to the American expansion. 2. How were the contradictions of economic expansion expressed by American artists? Walt Whitman linked the romantic‚ transcendental‚ and realist movements together to revolutionize literature. The American

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    inhabiting it in his wealth of contradictions. It is in these rare moments where we approach the ‘senseless’ in its own terms that we come to realize how certain schemas—the greatest among them being language—delimit our “world”. An experience of Dionysian individuation allows us to fathom the perspectival character of knowledge‚ and thus a dissolution of the self: “When one has grasped that the "subject" is not something that creates effects‚ but only a fiction‚ much

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    to see it as the most appropriate‚ there are also people who turn away from him. The deviation is something that depends on the cultural model and not the person. The Zuni having Dionysian behavior near the Dobu will be seen as deviant in their culture‚ while the same will happen among those Dobu showing a more Apollonian temperament. "The tribes have described all have their individuals ’abnormal’ non-participants. The individual Dobu totally clueless was the friendly man by nature and he believed

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    Death is the Small Price to Pay for Immortality As Hans Christian Andersen’s days dwindled down‚ the reoccurring question going through his mind dealt with the role of the artist and what it’s impact has on creating a legacy. Andersen often feared that his work would become everything he had ever worked for‚ encompassing and overshadowing the life of the artist‚ leaving only what was physically left behind for people to remember and not Andersen himself. By judging many of Andersen’s fairy tales

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    In this paper we are going to analyze Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio’s Supper at Emmaus‚ and Jean Francois Millet’s Harvesters Resting. The former is a Baroque style painting from Rome‚ Italy created around 1601 AD. It is approximately 141 x 196.2 cm in size‚ and it is currently located at The National Gallery of London in London‚ England. The latter is a Realism style painting form Barbizon‚ France developed 1850 – 1853 AD. It is approximately 67.3x 119.7 cm in size‚ and it is currently located

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    Chapter 16: Soren Kierkegaard’s Repetition Brief Biography * Soren Kierkegaard was born on May 15‚ 1813 in Copenhagen‚ Denmark. * 7th child of a wealthy businessman. * His father had special philosophical interests which had great impact on him * He was also a bright student who learned to read Hebrew‚ Greek‚Latin‚German and French at the age of 17. * His philosophy‚ which he called existentialism‚ practically applied to an examined life as opposed to the works of Georg Wilhelm

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    “For what is freedom? That one has the will to assume responsibility for oneself.” (Nietzsche. Twilight of the Idols. Trans. Hollingdale. Sect. 38). Everyone desires freedom but everyone cannot handle the responsibilities of freedom. I will compare J.S. Mill’s views on the social function of freedom with that of Fyodor Dostoevsky’s characters from both‚ the novel Notes From Underground and the excerpt; The Grand Inquisitor‚ also drawing supplementary arguments from Friedrich Nietzsche‚ while expressing

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    The Necessity of Art

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    Introduction What is art? There are many definitions that can be given to art depending on the person talking about it and by these definitions; the following questions can be answered. Why is art necessary? What does it benefit us if art is applied in our lives? What can it do for us? What is its importance? These are the questions some people think of when they hear the word art. I have learned some things in my GREATWK class especially the definition of art and how to answer these questions.

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    DEATH IN VENICE Thomas Mann Context One of the most important figures of early 20th-century literature‚ Thomas Mann (1875-1955) is famous both for his fiction and for his critical essays. Mann was born in 1875 in Lubeck‚ Germany‚ to a distinguished merchant family that had a literary lineage‚ as well; Mann’s older brother‚ Heinrich‚ also became a famous novelist and playwright. Mann took a keen interest in the German philosophers Arthur Schopenhauer and Friedrich Nietzsche‚ and their theories

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    Summary 3 The Practice of Co-operative Inquiry: Research ´with´ rather than ´on´ People (Heron & Reason) Table of contents 1 Introduction to co-operative inquiry 1 2 Four phases of co-operative inquiry 1 3 Different forms of co-operative inquiry 2 4 Co-operative inquiry cultures 2 5 Ways of knowing 2 6 Inquiry skills and validity procedures 2 7 Words and questions 3 Bibliography 4 Introduction to co-operative inquiry The article “The Practice of Co-operative Inquiry:

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