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    Now the ashcan school was more of a painting revolution. It focused a lot on New York city’s everyday life and the struggle especially in the poorer neighborhoods. The ashcan school took the innovations in brushes and paints to show realism. Now the last subject I’d like to talk about is how art reflects the society we live in. I believe that all forms of art are a reflection of what’s going on in society at that time like the ashcan school like I mentioned before focused on the

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    Tamara Garza Harris ENGL 102 June 23, 2017 The House of the Spirits, a Women’s World January 8, 1981, Allende begin writing a goodbye letter to her 99-year-old grandfather who was dying, she narrates in her biography, Paula, “I wanted to tell him not to worry, that nothing would be lost of the treasury of anecdotes he had told me through the years of our comradeship; I had forgotten nothing” (Levine). Once she started she could not stop, it quickly turned into her family story titled, The House

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    My high school put on the yearly play and this year it was Beauty and the Beast, it was the original storyline we have always known, but it was put on by our choir, drama department, and the band. It started off by introducing the main character Belle, whose name means Beauty. It told us that Belle is not like all the other girls in her town who are all in love with this guy named Gaston, Belle just wants to read and not bother with Gaston. Gaston likes the fact that Belle does not find him attractive

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    Roger goes to his friend’s wedding where he is introduced to over 50 people. Roger’s goal at this wedding is to meet new people, and remember as many names as he can. In order for him to get their names into long-term memory, he first needs to get them past sensory, and short term memory. For him to be able to do this, he needs to come up with some strategies to remember these names. He will learn when it is necessary for him to rehearse the names over in his head, group some of them together, or

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    We all wish we could do better on our tests and retain our knowledge years after taking the class. This wish can come true with the information in the article The Power of Successive Relearning: Improving Performance on Course Exams and Long-Term Retention. This passage talks about the importance of practice tests and spaced study. The combination of both of these techniques is called successive relearning. Successive relearning for use in college will build a stronger long-term memory of the material

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    The symposium then explored the relationship between the body and the city’s building in more depth with Adam Greenhalgh’s paper Body/Building: New York City around 1910. The associate curator of the National Gallery of Art in Washington presented once more Manhattan as a living body, and his interpretation of Excavations at night as an autopsy of the city conveys a powerful image of the city being exposed and vulnerable like Miss Bentham. Mr Greenhalgh confessed that he tends to see the grim side

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    The Life of Peter: Idealism vs. Realism When asking a child what they want to be when the grow up, they will most likely tell you a doctor, teacher or some other public service occupation. They have the ideal that a career helping people is the best job a person could have. When those same kids get into high school their ideals become even greater (this really only applies to middle-upper class). They want to be artist, musicians, actors, or free lance writers who travel the world for the next

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    on theoretical lens in international relation are liberalism and realism. Realism according to Korab-Karpowicz is the view of international politics in which states are only concerned with there own self interest, security and struggle of power (Korab-Karpowicz/2017). While on the other hand liberalism defined by John Ikenberry is the focus of “society, interdependence and progressive change”(Ikenberry 2009/pg.204-205).Although realism sees the world in a pessimistic view, it is the most powerful descriptor

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    University of California, Berkeley and Columbia University. He was a foremost neorealist thinker and a proponent of structural realism. His theory of structural realism broke away from the traditional understandings of classical realism which focused more on the individuals rather than the state structure. Classical and neo classical realists emphasized the normative aspects of realism as well as the empirical aspects while many contemporary realists pursued a social scientific analysis of the structures

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    THE PATH OF THE LAW- BY OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES, JR. ‘The Path of the Law’, originally put forth in the form of a speech, was presented by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. in the year 1897. He is considered as one of the forerunners of American Legal Realism. In The Path of the Law, broadly speaking, Holmes speaks about the Prediction Theory of law, the Bad Man Account of the law, and his criticism of Legal Formalism. In this paper, the reader will find arguments either for or against these theories. Holmes

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