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    leaves us with the question of where the inspiration is derived from. Some theories are that the control comes from a spiritual being or that the inspiration comes from the artist himself, but is not under the artist control. Making and Creating: Collingwood speaks about the word “create” and brings forth various definitions of the word. In his examples, he shows how many people may take offence at the idea of an artist who creates. The offense is taken when compared to the religious idea of creating

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    Historian, Geoff Eley, begins, A Crooked Line, by stating one of the more memorable quotes, “For Me, becoming a historian was intricately bound with an exposure to Marxism. ” Eley’s, A Crooked Line, is an intriguing, intellectual memoir of history. It is a focus on reorientation of the scholarship of the rise of social history and the movement into cultural history presents a widespread view of history from the 1960s till the 1990s. Eley’s writings on social and cultural history allow the reader

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    Lewis Carroll is the name most perceive as the author of the Alice stories. However, lesser known is the other ‘Lewis Carroll,’ a man by the name of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson; a genius mathematician and photographer, a clever man of logic, and a religious student of Christ Church College in Oxford. Born on January 27, 1832 in Daresbury, England, Dodgson in his sincerity was an individual of copious creativity and ingenuity which occupied his childhood years. Growing up in the isolated countryside

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    was certainly on one of their biggest accomplishments. The Collingwood Massacre On September 16, 1931, three members of the “Little Jewish Navy” were escorted by Sol Levine to 1740 Collingwood Avenue. They were told it was for a friendly meeting, as however it was anything but a friendly meeting. The three men, Joe Lebowitz, Hymie Paul and Isadore Sutker, were murdered by Harry Keywell and Irving Milberg (Fitzpatrick, “Collingwood Manor Massacre”). Sol Levine, the one man spared in the shooting

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    An overarching question in the art world is if art serves important purposes; this is argued by R.G. Collingwood in “Expressing Emotion” and Leo Tolstoy in “What is Art?” On the opposing side Clive Bell in “Art.” argues that art serves no important purposes. In “Art”, Chapter one “The Aesthetic hypothesis”, Bell argues that art has no significant purpose. Bell begins by articulating what he believes art is, by saying “the objects that provoke [personal experiences are called] works of art” (Pg

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    The Church of England is now under fire after a York Minster clergyman introduced Zen Buddhist meditation into its church services. The Zen Sangha group has been conducting 90-minute silent meditation sessions every other Friday for the past two years. York dean Vivienne Faull sad the sessions were held to give Christians an opportunity to explore the “congruence” of Zen Buddhism and the Christian faith, but the move drew condemnation from evangelical Christians, The Guardian reports. The meditation

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    The Atlantic Slave Trade took place subsequently to the breakthrough discovery of the New World, also acknowledged today as North and South America. The Trade established a global exchange or Triangular trade between the Americas, Europe and Africa. The exchange between the Old and New world occurred to satisfy the enormous European demands for African labor on the plantations and for the colonization across the newly uncovered land. Prior to the Atlantic Slave Trade, Slavery had stood alive and

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    The Titans Research Paper

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    supermarket, cinema and 20,000 acres to train. Prof. Martin Collingwood is telling the men and women there that had volunteered to be a test subject for mankind. How their population has grown out of control and their environment is in ruins. They have exhausted resources, war has ravaged their planet & they were fighting over the scraps of what remains. He also told them that in ten years he estimated that half of the planet would/will be

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    "imposing that plan on certain matter, which is fabricating" (Collingwood). At first, this may seem contradictory since Collingwood employs the word create in what he identifies to be the first stage, however one has to look more closely at how he defines both creation and an artifact, the two operative words. First, Collingwood provides the definition of create which denotes the making of something in a non-technical way. Then, Collingwood reaches back to the origin of the word pointing out its meaning

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    however, they often do not have the forethought to consider all the consequences of their actions, rushing into situations without thought. In Alice Monroe’s “An Ounce of Cure,” a young girl experiences her first broken heart by a boy named Martin Collingwood. She

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