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    Collingwood starts off by looking into what a work of art is if it isn’t fabrication. He proclaims that we can’t answer this question by looking at the characteristics of the activity or the artist. Two theories built on the foundation of the idea that something must be in control are the following: control by a divine or spiritual being or work controlled by involuntary and subconscious parts of the mind. Collingwood asserts that it would be a waste of time to criticize and question these theories;

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    that in real life. There are more important things during a war than finding a private Ryan. War is a huge event and the little things like finding a person to keep the family name going is too small to include in war history. This is what separates the movies from the real life. Another difference is they don't show the actual planning it takes to start an attack or the inelegance that is needed to set up the perfect defense barrier to prevent the advancement of the enemy soldiers. A real battle

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    What Is Real Alice Munro

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    writer and Nobel Prize Winner. In her article “What is Real”, Alice Munro discusses the difficulty many of her readers seem to have in telling fact from fiction as she writes about her own fictional works. Her readers, she recounts, often ask her if she writes about real people, or real events, apparently unable to comprehend “the difference between autobiography and fiction” (Munro). However, by the end of her article on the subject, “What Is Real?” Munro admits that the imagination is one she herself

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    Bigfoot Research Paper

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    people think Bigfoot is not real because it's a ridiculous thing to think that there’s a man like thing roaming the woods. The more important reason that some people think that Bigfoot is not real is because there isn’t physical evidence that Bigfoot is real. There could be possible explanations to all the reasons that people think makes this myth true. First, an explanation for the way it looks. The way that Bigfoot looks could just be someone in a costume. The second thing to give a possible explanation

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    replicas but only one was real. Likewise, God has many gods that try to be a replica, but only one God is real. Furthermore, in the end, depending on how strong one’s faith is, the person decides if God is real or not. Thanks to Von Rumpel, we found out that this particular diamond has two other replicas. Now, of course in this world people believe in many gods. Like many people, Von Rumpel knew exactly which diamond was the real one. We all have to know which God is the real god. There are so many

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    Lebron : A Short Story

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    been on his phone or something and I just didn’t notice. At this moment I was very confused and I began to wonder if he was even my brother. Although my, “family”, says I’m related to them, I’m not too sure that’s entirely true. I began to look at things differently as my family moved on with their lives. I started noticing that most of my family likes running for fun, which I find very weird. I like to sit down or play sports, like football or soccer, not so much running by itself. They are very

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    Augustus Waters Heroes

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    he writes, “[t]he real heroes anyway aren’t the people doing things; the real heroes are the people NOTICING things, paying attention” (Green 312). Augustus explains that a real hero does not perform a task especially the stereotypical ones that are considered courageous or dangerous when he writes, “[t]he real heroes aren’t the people doing things…” (Green 312). Waters sees heroes as people that naturally dig deep and see things that others simply do not by writing, “…the real heroes are the people

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    could have fifty games on your phone that deal with just war and shooting people, so the internet just assumes that's your real identity. Your real

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    world of technology and science that it is even cable to study such things as souls correctly or at all. The notion of a soul is a complex matter that has deep rooted history and an ever evolving story around it. Meaning, I see it as an onion. That once you pull back one layer there is just another layer there waiting to be analyzed. In terms on whether or not science could ever rule out the existence of the soul or if its real I would give a similar answer to question above. I do not think science

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    off. My “advertising identity” and “real identity” have many similarities and differences. One of the many difference I mentioned before between my “advertising identity” and my “real identity” is my age. These people creating ads do not know who I am or how old I am. In real life I am a seventeen year old senior in high school, the ad people do not know this at all. When I am online and in social media the ads very from adult things to children things. For example, just last week there was

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