Ai Weiwei More than just an artist; political activist‚ sculptor‚ photographer‚ and architect Ai Weiwei merges traditional techniques and imagery with personal experience in order to show his tumultuous relationship with the Chinese government. “He Xie‚” an installation of thousands of porcelain crabs. They are (not too carefully) arranged in a large circle piled up on one another. The individual objects become one pile which makes them virtually indistinguishable from each other. The piece is
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Robert Eisiminger Ben Rosecrans 3/6/13 Ai Weiwei The documentary about Ai Weiwei art is extremely idealistic for China. I believe his work is necessarily how it looks but the idea it is trying to spread. Ai Weiwei is trying to change how China thinks‚ because the Chinese people are neglected of self thought without fear of punishment. Ai Weiwei is not afraid to try and spread the idea of self thought‚ and just wants China to relinquish its hold over its peoples mind. His work questions what
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Ai WeiWei Ai WeiWei blurred the lines between the aesthetic and the political. According to the internet‚ aesthetic is defined as concerned with beauty or the appreciation of beauty. Ai WeiWei used art to “protest” against the Chinese government. Ai Weiwei was a creative man who thought of ideas how to represent the names of all the children who were killed in a deadly earthquake. A commentator in the movie claimed that Ai WeiWei was doing a job that the government should be doing. A deadly
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Anh Le Art & Craft of Writing Tuesday‚ October 29th‚ 2013 Ai WeiWei Art Review: “Straight” Art is one of the oldest ways in which humans communicate. Art can be dated back to humanities’ first steps‚ used as a mean to record and worship‚ such as the examples found in cave paintings of the Lascaux cave in France or the Venus of Willendolf. (Source #1) And for a long time‚ art did not deviate from its original path as a tool for society. Artists lived only as servants to their churches‚
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philosopher‚ known for creating the Chinese Room thought experiment to challenge the notion of strong AI. Searle’s work‚ Minds‚ Brains and Programs‚ introduces the Chinese Room and provides answers to many of the replies that came from presenting the thought experiment to the public. According to Searle‚ AI is a rigorous tool used for solving problems that will be more precise than any human can be. Strong AI‚ however is not just a tool. Rather “the appropriately programmed computer really is a mind‚ in
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1. What is the size of HMC’s portfolio? How is the portfolio managed and what are the management costs? What is the role of the Policy Portfolio? The size of HMC’s portfolio 2. Why is HMC focusing on real returns? 3. HMC’s estimates of expected returns‚ standard deviations and correlations di_er from the twenty-year historical estimates. Why might this be? Comment on the di_er- ence between the two sets of estimates‚ focusing on expected returns and standard deviations. 4. Let’s assume
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‘Assess the claim that god created humanity for a purpose’ It can be argued that god did create humanity for a purpose‚ as why would he endow us with sense‚ reason and intellect if he intended us to forgo their use? It therefore logically follows that we must have some purpose‚ hidden or not that we are expected to fulfil‚ also why would the bible detail the creation of humans in such detail as is demonstrated in genesis 2‚ why would god‚ in this story‚ prioritise mankind over all others when the
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Business and strategy Hampton Machine Tool Company (HMTC) is established in 1915‚ specialized in manufacturing tools for the automobile and the aircraft manufacturer. HMTC business has been extremely successful in the mid and late 60s. But in the mid-1970s‚ HTMC’s business had been considerably affected by the Arab oil embargo and ending of Vietnam War‚ which had turn down the automobile and aircraft industry. However‚ HMTC has survived through this hard time and its market share increased due
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[pic] Extending this theory to the HMC case‚ it appears that TIPS has been considered as a risk free security by HMC and added to the efficiency frontier (which was obtained as a result of the various portfolio simulations using mean variance analysis). This completed the Capital Market line and enabled HMC to come up with recommendations for the most efficient portfolio given the available asset classes. We would agree with this allocation by HMC to TIPS in order to introduce an element
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combine regular (nominal) Treasuries and TIPS to build a hedge portfolio that has exposure to inflation risk but not to real interest risk? 4. What is Harvard’s Policy Portfolio? How is this portfolio determined? 5. How does HMC develop its capital market assumptions? Why does HMC focus on real returns when making its forward-looking view of expected returns and risk? What do HMC’s capital market assumptions imply for the US equity premium and the foreign equity premium? 6. Should TIPS be considered
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