Collingwood begins by asking the question‚ if art is something real but is not a craft or artifact‚ what is it? It is not made by changing or transforming raw materials or by following a plan‚ so what do we call the process? He proceeds to answer these questions by taking them one by one‚ beginning with the artist. He then asks what we call the act that the artist performs if we do not see it as a technical skill. Collingwood asserts that he does not want the audience to misunderstand the answers
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Dystopia in Aldous Huxley ’s Brave New Worl It ’s hard to imagine yet somehow so extremely close to us is the possibility of a world of ideal perfection where there is no room or acceptance of individuality. Yet‚ as we strive towards the growth of technology and improvement of our daily living we come closer to closing the gap between the freedom of emotions‚ self understanding‚ and of speech and the devastation of a dystopia. A utopia‚ or perfect world‚ gone awry is displayed in Aldous Huxley
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symbols‚ codes‚ characters‚ and artifacts that together have designed a bigger picture- a way of life. An artifact in a cultural context is anything created by a human that reflects his or her personal culture. In order to exemplify this essay’s point I will focus on a living cultural artifact that I think depicts present day American Culture most fully: the discount superstore. The American superstore Walmart is currently the most profitable business in the world. Walmart’s bargain prices promote
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Old World versus New World: the origins of organizational diversity in the international wine industry‚ 1850-1914 James Simpson Universidad Carlos III de Madrid. Departamento de Historia Económica e Instituciones Instituto Figuerola de Historia Económica Abstract: Wine production in Europe today is dominated by small family vineyards and cooperative wineries‚ while in the New World viticulture and viniculture is highly concentrated and vertically integrated. This paper argues that these
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Colonization of the New World The discovery and colonization of the “New World” was one of the most significant and influential events in the known history of mankind. It has shaped our present by changing the course of our past and is a time of such great significance that it would be all but impossible to understand today without at least some comprehension of the why ’s of yesterday. What was it that drove such a myriad of people to risk so much to tame the wild and vast lands we now know
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importance of Context in the Archaeology of the Intangibles By Rebecca Lee Culture history in archaeology involves the study of artifacts and objects that articulate the background of past human culture. It is imperative to understand the context of space and time in these artifacts and objects‚ as they tell stories of the human past with no written records accompanied with them. An intangible factor in archaeology‚ culture is derived through the study of the artifacts and objects from the past
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A) For my computational artifact‚ I created a WeVideo demonstrating the intended purpose of self driving cars as well as how they collect information. The purpose of self driving cars is to allow people in the vehicle to go about their own business and focus on separate activities as the car drives them to their designated location. My artifact is a slide presentation formatted into a video with an audio track playing in the background of myself voicing over the images. The images and short gifs
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The Phur-pa My artifact‚ brass or bronze‚ is a little over a foot long. There is heavy oxidation that darkens the low details in the design. There are several different forms in this artifact‚ each creating unique individual elements in the overall design. At the very top there is a horse surrounded by three crowned elephant heads facing outward. Just below this there is a vertically symmetrical‚ five pronged hourglass shape with a sphere at the axis. This form gives way to an animal-like-figure
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April 19‚ 2012 Brave New Comparisons Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World bears several similarities to Thomas More’s Utopia and George Orwell’s 1984. Brave New World and 1984‚ governments seize control of citizen’s personal liberties‚ such as freedom. Both plots feature a character recognizing the growing control of the government force‚ trying to escape the clutches of the government officials. While Brave New World and 1984 are similar in plot‚ they do differ slightly. For example‚ 1984 demonstrates
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The New World was discovered by Spain’s Christopher Columbus in 1492. Many believed that the settlement of the Spanish in the New World was the original settlement. For many years before the arrival of the Europeans‚ various tribes were scattered all throughout the Americas. There was an estimated 10‚000 people living in the Americas before the arrival of Columbus in 1492. America was not a virgin wilderness for nearly 12‚000 years. The Spanish were the first to arrive in the New World. They
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