... through the documented times of our society that we look, people have always argued the definition of art. Is the existence and quality of art determined by the creator? The viewer? Is there such a set definition? Thousands of years have passed without an agreeable concrete answer to that question. George Berkeley (1685 - ... to existing work provide a way for an artist to incorporate their traditional and digital artistry skills. For example, John Day, an artist from Portland, Oregon, combines painting and digital images. He scans original paintings, photos and other objects, then modi...

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... 18% drop in number of passengers compared to the year before (Sivak). Walking into the airport, for me, had its visions of optimism and inquisition halted by the fear that at any moment, something could go wrong. If I were to be honest, for a short while, the whole sequence of events dissuaded me from wanting to go to the airport or on vacations at ... destination in around fifteen minutes. The weather is partly sunny with a temperat-." I would always block him out. I had no care in the world about where we were going. I was always too distracted by the different contours of the clouds ...

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... -on-white crime. These false and excessive representations of minority crime have a negative impact on the public mind. The media has the power to construct any type of idea by simply putting it on the air. There is a saying that goes something like, "If black people don't want to go to jail, then they shouldn't commit crimes." It seems now to ... violent video games gives people, especially youths, the propensity to commit delinquent acts of violence. The study by Ferguson and Olson (2014) did an intensive study on the aggression and delinquency in videogames with youths already proble...

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... business collapsed. From there, the Melville family moved from New York City to Albany, where Allan Melville died two years later. As a child, Herman suffered from extremely poor eyesight caused by a bout of scarlet fever, but he was able to attend Male High School despite his difficulties. Herman Melville worked as a bank clerk before attending the Albany Classical School, and then worked for a short ... brother Gansevoort had become the secretary for U.S. legation in London under the Polk Administration. Melville could now support himself solely by writing, and his first two novels we...

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... fashion designers changed as well. As the uproar of the 90's cooled down there was a lot of speculation towards the clothing size of the models as well. The set standards of size by the models were considered very controversial and consumers wanted to see the average woman displaying clothing rather then the bone thin models of the nineties. With the new millennium many trends ... the turn of the century women became more independent, obtaining high positions in major corporations. Models were becoming more then just pretty faces as well. There was a heightened professionalism in contra...

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... acknowledge the growing movement, and govern accordingly. World politics were still dominated by the conflict between the capitalist nations, led by the USA, and the Communist countries, led by the USSR. The bonds that were keeping people loyal to their leaders were breaking down. In 1960 there was a major split between Russia and China. The Chinese decided that the Russians were betraying Communism and set off on what they ... general "been there, done that"(interview) mentality which created the seventies, a decade of disco, and doom, never quite living up to the intensity of the sixtie...

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... and then was mixed with pieces of bricks and clay. This formed a cement-like substance that was used to coat the tunnels and make them watertight. This waterproof lining was called the opus signinum. The channels were usually three feet wide and six feet high so that workers could walk inside of them when the water had been diverted, for inspection and repairs. There were ... gallons. It has a 3.7 square mile watershed. The water quality of this reservoir is slightly above average. The water is threatened by sewage and storm water runoff. The Amawalk Reservoir is located in Westchester c...

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... as well. Since the British were a minority in the town, there were some squabbles and hostility towards them from the Dutch. For the most part, however, they were both too interested in economic concerns to deal with fights between themselves. By 1776, the only groups that remained segregated were the blacks and the Jews. In 1688, the British government joined New Jersey and New York to the England ... pedestrians. Another change was in sanitation with the building of sewers which led to the NYC in 1769, which was much more sanitary. Street lighting was also installed and paid by the pe...

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... to the fifties (Huey, 1991). He notes that pop culture actually means no more than it appears to on the surface (1991). Some creative forces claim they are turned off by the relationship between the artists and the corporate culture, suggesting that there is very little counterculture in the nineties ... party or in a store. It is clear that MTV, and music videos in general, have a profound impact on youth. The implementation of violence in music videos, as seen in many rap productions, can then pose a problem. There has been recent research in the area which reveals that even ... whil...

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... "Coenties Slip" exhibition: "I paint out of joy of experience." I paint beauty without idealism, the new beauty that needs very much to be defined by modern philosophers. (I consider idealism, mysticism, and conventions interferences in occasions of real beauty.)" In none of her writings has Miss Martin been able to explain why the grid appeals to her "except to speculate that the human mind ... 1987). Thus, in Grey Geese Descending (1985) she tried to express, in her words, "the emotions we have when we feel" the birds' descent. Numerous quotations from the artist's writings were publi...

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... take one particular map from his collection, dated c. 1782-1783, that was uniquely detailed due to its' use by the British soldiers during the war. He and his colleagues eliminated any structures on this map which were created by settlers or the occupation of the British and then, using their background in ecology, they began "filling in" the map with ecosystems that" they ... the renowned Five Points because of how famous it was for its low reaching way of life and published his findings in a book titled American Notes for General Circulation in 1842. "Let us go on again, and plunge in...

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... of New Britain, all of whom were in their early to mid twenties, who have lived in New Britain all their lives. They all had complaints about the school system they grew up with and the lack of personal safety they felt in the city. None of them had a desire to stay there permanently or to raise children there, though most of them admitted that ... dynamic in Connecticut's cities will hinge on attracting companies that can actually benefit from an urban location. We are tailoring strategies to strengthen the business base in our cities by looking at the unique and individual inner-city ...

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... wanted to get the greatest profit out of their team as possible. With integration there were two key aspects that helped to increase profits, it brought in new fans to the team, and it improved the quality of play. By integrating the team, a franchise opened themselves up to a new and growing market in America. According his book Population History of New York City author Ira ... this case the Bronx. With the large influx in people it is thought they will then spend their money on not just the stadium, but for instance a restaurant down the street from the stadium. However these claims ...

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... of greater than .5 %. This made it illegal to sell and manufacture all liquor and beer. (Shultz 1) Prohibition was a phenomenon during the 20's. It was not however the first campaign against alcohol, but it was by far the most successful. There had been numerous anti-alcohol campaigns during the colonial period. None of which were as successful as the national prohibition laws in the 20's. For ... lobbying techniques. They printed up anti-drinking brochures appealing to church members, law makers, and businessmen. They thought that if they could get those people to be against alcohol th...

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... of greater than .5 %. This made it illegal to sell and manufacture all liquor and beer. (Shultz 1) Prohibition was a phenomenon during the 20's. It was not however the first campaign against alcohol, but it was by far the most successful. There had been numerous anti-alcohol campaigns during the colonial period. None of which were as successful as the national prohibition laws in the 20's. For ... lobbying techniques. They printed up anti-drinking brochures appealing to church members, law makers, and businessmen. They thought that if they could get those people to be against alcohol th...

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... of greater than .5 %. This made it illegal to sell and manufacture all liquor and beer. (Shultz 1) Prohibition was a phenomenon during the 20's. It was not however the first campaign against alcohol, but it was by far the most successful. There had been numerous anti-alcohol campaigns during the colonial period. None of which were as successful as the national prohibition laws in the 20's. For ... lobbying techniques. They printed up anti-drinking brochures appealing to church members, law makers, and businessmen. They thought that if they could get those people to be against alcohol th...

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... Mayo observed workers and realized that, workplaces are social environments and, within them, people are motivated by much more than economic self-interest. He concluded that all aspects of industrial environments carried social value. The workers had a need to cooperate and communicate in informal groups. The group determined the workers' behaviors and attitudes. The group's perceptions of production standards were more important than management ... receive for performance. Equity is an individual's belief that the treatment he or she is receiving is fair relative to the treatment rece...

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... to achieve results that were driven by the students test scores on state examinations (Hirsch, 2009, p. 158). With these examinations in place helped determine which schools did not meet the state proficiency standards, and allow those children to transfer to another better performing schools. The No Child Left Behind Act was a response to the inequality issue in the education but there were many other factors ... , which within those three to five years charter schools are held accountable to meet or even exceed the ambitious goals that are set for the student performance, and if the go...

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... having children anymore there must be a new desire that motivates their actions. What motivates the behaviours of humans after they lose the ability to produce children? The ability to produce viable offspring does not last the entire length of a human life. If a person fails to actually produce offspring and then loses their ability to actually produce children, what then compels their actions and behaviours after ... rocks off. In the case of selfless self sacrifice, the action one is undertaking may be compelled or motivated by the proximal mechanisms of euphoria produced by the actio...

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... , Jam Master Jay appears to have simply surrounded himself with the wrong people. However, until the details of the crime become evident then this notion will remain a mystery. The notion that hip-hop is simply a culture plagued with violence and negative connotations, is a tremendous outrage. Hip-hop has been the power tool of American youth, especially African-American youth. Hip-Hop artists ... that many artists try to appeal to everyone. On one song they may encourage young ladies to be respectable to their bodies and to refute men who degrade them, and then on another song they may ...

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... indeed, how she was looked upon by the whole of society, with indignation and disgust. The members of society were spoon-fed their thoughts and ideals by society itself and they obeyed as they wanted so badly to belong: "The disappointment was not occasioned by the sentiment ordinarily defined as snobbishness, but by Old New York's sense of what ... much of a threat to society, they could not keep her there (no matter who her family was) because she had the ability to make the last legs of society crumble. Society then pulled together and the collective pushed her out. Ellen was the perfe...

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... this was in part due to the post-Industrial Revolution lifestyle that pushed people into cities and away from family farms, where societal models such as religious devotions and arranged marriage were not as common as they once were. Trying to understand and control this, public officials studied and then characterized and grouped people as different types of sexual deviants, one of which was homosexuals. It was ... . Simply admitting to living a homosexual lifestyle was cause for a person to lose their job and be ostracized by families and communities. By executive order of President Dw...

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... overt social force. (Cialdini, intro). This force has had an impact on our societal values and upon how we perceive social acceptability today. Three and four decades ago people were shocked and appalled by the thought of two men or two women being sexually intimate with one another, and even today there is still a high level of nonacceptance surrounding this principle, but punk rock brought androgyny out ... in the open a lot more than it was in preceding decades. Artists like Iggy Pop, and David Bowie, and bands like the ... ...

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... on social disorder is a valid point to address. If we as a society cannot fix the small things then what issues can be resolved at all? Mayor Giuliani's efforts to lower crime rates in Times Square were done by adding more police, seeking participation from community organizations and the participation of local residents. Initiatives such as the Operation Crossroads mentioned in the book Fixing Broken ... living in the 42nd street community. She states that every day was a struggle for women who were not prostitutes. Men believed any woman in the area who was just walking, was a prostit...

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... was working on the side. Dowd was a drug dealer. From scoring free pizza as a rookie he graduated to pocketing cash seized in drug raids and from there to robbing dealers, sometimes also relieving them of drugs that he would resell. Soon he had formed `a crew" of 15 to 20 officers in ... Nobody asked how he managed all that on take-home pay of $400 a week. In May 1992 Dowd, four other officers and one former officer were arrested for drug trafficking by police in Long Island's Suffolk County. When the arrests hit the papers, it was forehead slapping time among police brass. Not only ......

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