...town of Lakewood, Colorado, it runs even deeper than politics- it’s a matter of constitutional rights. In the case Masterpiece Cakeshop, LTD. v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission, the Supreme Court must look on either side of the debate to decide who’s civil rights were violated- a devout Christian’s, or a same-sex couple’s. Whose side will they rule out? Well, due to precedent cases, it can be determined that the Supreme Court will rule that the couple’s rights were violated through the Fourteenth Amendment. In July 2012, Charlie Craig and David Mullins went to Petitioner Masterpiece Cakeshop, a Colorado bakery, in search of a wedding cake. However the owner, Jack Phillips, denied their request as he believed creating a same-sex cake would contradict his religious beliefs....
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...very different. Art can consist of some of the same things which you can find in common with another time period. I want to try and take a look at three individual pieces of art belonging to the same style and era. I will then try to evaluate these works from tool s that I have learned. I have chosen the Baroque style of art. This style is known for its use of drama and high use of theatrical methods. It was a creation of the Catholic Church (Sayre, H. M. 2007, 477). This style of art developed and bloomed in Europe somewhere around the early 17th to mid 18th century. It has its emphases up on drama, swirling forms and very intricate and elaborate ornamentation. The calling of St. Mathew is one of the most magnificent masterpieces there is. This was painted by Michelangelo Mersi Da Caravaggio . The painting reached completion in 1599-1600. In this painting there appears to be a single window in the foreground. Not much light happens to be filtering through the panes (http://www.albany.edu/scj/jcjpc/vol6is3/st-matthew-calling.html). There appears to be some kind of table at which five individuals are sitting at. One appears to be looking at money, another like they just sat down. The outlook of the room appears dull and very gloomy. To the right of this art there appear to be two men. Jesus Christ seems to be the identity of one of the individuals. Strands of light appear to focus upon one individual sitting at the table. Jesus does not appear to...
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...Lesson plan and text: Jeffrey Taschner, 1999 Print and web-adaptation: John Morgan, 1999 © USIA, 1999. All rights reserved 1. SYNOPSIS 1a) Synopsis Johnsy and Sue are artists who move into Greenwich Village in New York City. As Winter approaches and the weather gets colder, Johnsy becomes ill with pneumonia. She gets so sick that she believes that when the last leaf falls from the vine outside her window, she will die. An old artist, named Behrman, who lives in the same building as the girls, braves a storm one night to paint a leaf on the wall — a leaf that will never fall. Cold and wet from painting in the icy rain, he catches pneumonia and dies. This gives Johnsy the hope to survive her illness, and it also creates the masterpiece Behrman had always dreamed of painting. 1b) Vocab checkpoint • approaches (verb) To approach is to move towards. It is often used with seasons and special occasions (New Year, Christmas, birthdays) as in the example here, as well as with people and moving objects (vehicles, etc). • becomes (verb) In this example, becomes has the same meaning as "gets". With illnesses, we often use "to fall", or "to be taken": Johnsy fell ill/Johnsy was taken ill • pneumonia (noun) Pneumonia is a serious illness of the lungs. • vine (noun) A vine is like a branch (of a tree), but is actually a stem of a climbing plant (it may also be used to describe the climbing plant itself, e.g. grape vine). • braves (verb) To brave as a verb, means...
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...Lesson plan and text: Jeffrey Taschner, 1999 Print and web-adaptation: John Morgan, 1999 © USIA, 1999. All rights reserved 1. SYNOPSIS 1a) Synopsis Johnsy and Sue are artists who move into Greenwich Village in New York City. As Winter approaches and the weather gets colder, Johnsy becomes ill with pneumonia. She gets so sick that she believes that when the last leaf falls from the vine outside her window, she will die. An old artist, named Behrman, who lives in the same building as the girls, braves a storm one night to paint a leaf on the wall — a leaf that will never fall. Cold and wet from painting in the icy rain, he catches pneumonia and dies. This gives Johnsy the hope to survive her illness, and it also creates the masterpiece Behrman had always dreamed of painting. 1b) Vocab checkpoint • approaches (verb) To approach is to move towards. It is often used with seasons and special occasions (New Year, Christmas, birthdays) as in the example here, as well as with people and moving objects (vehicles, etc). • becomes (verb) In this example, becomes has the same meaning as "gets". With illnesses, we often use "to fall", or "to be taken": Johnsy fell ill/Johnsy was taken ill • pneumonia (noun) Pneumonia is a serious illness of the lungs. • vine (noun) A vine is like a branch (of a tree), but is actually a stem of a climbing plant (it may also be used to describe the climbing plant itself, e.g. grape vine). • braves (verb) To brave as a verb,...
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...Literature and the Individual in Early Modern Masterpieces John Milton was a unique individual with the artistic ability to write various forms of literature in several different languages that catered to a wide scope of genres. Milton had a profound impact on the English language because of his contributions to the English dialect (Crace, 2008). Milton was a devout protestant that was not afraid to show his dedication to his beliefs regarding religion and his civil rights, even if it meant casting a different outlook on religion entirely. Within today’s society it can be concluded that Milton revolutionized the English language this will benefit the American Culture in the past, present, and future times. Milton’s response to earlier writer’s regarding his religious and political beliefs were quite exquisite. Milton was highly educated in all subjects including, theology, philosophy, and mathematics. Therefore, he was active in the country of Europe where he had the opportunity to meet great Renaissance writers like Galileo (Longman, p. 1796). Milton took it upon himself to sacrifice his poetic writings to set that aside and work full-time toward the Puritan Reformation, in which he focused on religious and political pieces that focused on Puritanism. He adopted strong beliefs as an individual who encourage other people to adopt the same outlooks on religion and politics. Therefore, the classical authority that of Milton’s defining markers can be clearly defined through authors...
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...Albert Bierstadt was internationally renowned for his captivating and enormous paintings. They consisted of a wide variety of terrain that can be found all over the world. He was one of the most admired and recognized American artists of his time. His artwork stood at the top of the American art market, where his paintings brought record high prices. In his lifetime Bierstadt enjoyed tremendous success and recognition. He is accredited for painting as many as four thousand paintings in his lifetime, most of which have survived to this day. Through his love of paintings and landscapes Bierstadt illustrated the serenity and power of the late nineteenth-century landscapes of the world. Throughout his numerous masterpieces, Bierstadt focused on imitationalism, or realism. He wanted to create a work of art that accurately reflected what he saw in the unblemished nineteenth century world. Throughout his artworks he accomplished his goals in capturing the serenity and delicacy that can only be found in nature. In his artworks he demonstrates his love for the gentle glow of sunlight through luminism, a style of landscape painting that emphasized meticulously crafted realism and a technically precise rendering of atmosphere and of the effects produced by direct and reflected light. Through this...
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...history. To date, the film has collected USD 60M worldwide from theatrical ticket sales. But, 3 Idiots is better known for the story credit controversy that surrounded its release in December 2010 than the actual content of the movie. The author of the book Five Point Someone, from which the movie is allegedly adapted, has accused the makers of the film from denying him due credit. This is a classic problem in the Indian movie industry where unknown writers are pushed over by more financially secure directors and producers. However, in this unique case, the author Chetan Bhagat was a celebrity in his own right and had enough public support to take the makers of the film to task. The book had been on the bestseller lists for more than 18 months and had almost half a million readers before the movie came out. Thus, public sentiment was in the author’s favor and when the producer on one incident lost his cool and yelled at assembled journalists, the media sentiment shifted in the author’s favor too. This memo outlines the intrinsic and extrinsic motivation behind the actions of each party involved. Self-Justification, Cheating and Abuse of Power by Makers of 3 Idiots After having legally bought the rights to adapt the novel into a movie, the producer and director of 3 Idiots assumed total ownership of the creative content. Thus, when they refused to credit the original author of the book with having any contribution in the story or the screenplay of the subsequent movie, they justified...
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...Masterpieces of Hebrew Literature At the end of the lesson, students should be able to: 1. Enumerate some of the masterpieces of the Hebrew Literature 2. Know the characters, the plot, and the moral that is enclosed with every literary masterpiece. 3. Demystify the hidden messages of every literary masterpieces. Duties of the Heart Author: Chovot HaLevavot * Chovot HaLevavot, or Ḥobot HaLebabot (Hebrew: חובות הלבבות, English: Duties of the Heart), is the primary work of the Jewish philosopher Bahya ibn Paquda, full name Bahya ben Joseph ibn Pakuda. Ibn Paquda was a Jewish philosopher and is believed to have lived in Saragossa, Spain, in the first half of the eleventh century. * It was written in Judeo-Arabic (but in Hebrew characters) approximately in 1040 under the title Kitab al-Hidāya ilā Fara'id al-Qulūb, Book of Direction to the Duties of the Heart, sometimes titled as Guide to the Duties of the Heart, and translated into Hebrew by Judah ibn Tibbon in the years 1161-80 under the title Chovot HaLevavot. There was another contemporary translation by Joseph Kimhi, but its complete text did not endure the test of time. * The Duties of the Heart is divided into ten sections termed (she'arim) "gates", corresponding to the ten fundamental principles which, according to Bahya's view, constitute human spiritual life. This treatise on the inner spiritual life makes numerous references to both Biblical and Talmudic texts. It draws on the contemporary Sufi Islamic influences present...
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...any of his or her personal faults?” When someone attains greatness in any field – such as the arts, science, politics, or business, should we judge the individual by his or her personal life or by the achievement only? In my opinion, focusing on the achievement is far more important and relevant than on personal faults. Personal mistakes are part of human life, if they have no link with your accomplished work, we should not take them into consideration. Many great individuals succeed despite some personal flaws or missteps. I will illustrate this statement with several examples of memorable men. Winston Churchill was a British politician, officer, historian and writer during the 20th century. He served as prime minister twice; he was recognized as one of the greatest wartime leaders of his century and received the Nobel Prize in literature. His weakness was to appreciate alcohol at any time of the day. Nevertheless, the fact that he appreciated alcohol is irrelevant to judge his accomplishments, especially in difficult time of war, in the field of politics. This statement is available for any field. For example, in the Arts, let’s take the case of Roman Polanski. He achieves greatness as a film director, a producer and a writer. His films received multiples awards and nominations. However, he has a legal history, arrested for sexual abuse case. My point is these personal faults did not reduce his success as a film maker. The Arts will remember Roman Polanski for his cinematic...
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...for decades, it is not debatable that art remained as a supreme form of expression. While countless artists has produced numerous treasured works, it is not known to many that there are some artists who left a quite different mark in the history of art. They are thought to be the top five famous bad boys in the field of arts. 1. Giuseppe Guarneri (21 August 1698 - 17 October 1744) Giuseppe has been called by many as the greatest violin maker of all time. Considered by many as the most famous member of the Guarneri house, Giuseppe was the son of Giuseppe Giovanni Battista and he was also the grandson of Andrea Guarneri, both popular violin makers themselves....
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...The book "Inferno", portrays the journey of its creator through what he says is Hell, consisting of nine circles which people who committed sin suffer in. In his adventure Dante is guided through the nine circles by the artist Virgil, who speaks to Human Reason. Every circle in the book speaks to an alternate kind of wrongdoing with an alternate sort of discipline, fluctuating according to the level of offense they conferred in life. In his outing through each one of these circles, Dante acknowledges and underlines the perfection of God's Justice and the seriousness of every offense towards the maker of all life. Dante as a Christian understands the perfection of God's justice. He can make an association between a spirit's wrongdoing on Earth and the discipline he or she gets in Hell. In Inferno, Dante clarifies that God made Hell by justice, a particular case of this, may be the point at which he was entering the Gates of Hell, he read on the passageway of the entryway the sign that said, "Sacred Justice moved my Architect I was raised here by the Divine Omnipotence..." (Alighieri Canto III) without a doubt, ascribing the making of Hell to God and his heavenly justice. God's perfect justice is precisely what shapes...
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...biography Frederick Theodore Albert Delius was born on January 29 in the North of England, in Bradford, Yorkshire, to be fair. He died on June 10. His family was wealthy. They were engaged in mercantile business. Julius, his father, was a prosperous businessman in one of Yorkshire’s great Victorian industries, wool to be exact. Frederick hated commerce and his family never convinced him to become a businessman. Anyway his family managed to send him to the United States to deal with an orange plantation. Some historians said that he himself persuaded his father to let him go to America and take care of the plantation, although this is not very credible. Once in the United States, of course, he ignored his...
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...Tim Burton is a popular child and young adult film maker. Burton has created many movies that are popular for their gothic and dark feel. The characters in Burton’s movies are usually happy with dark surroundings. In Tim Burton’s film he is very good at using editing skills, music, and lighting to establish a dark and suspenseful setting with strange characters. These cinematic techniques keep the viewers interested in the film. Tim Burton is a very creative writer, he knows and utilizes several techniques to catch the viewer’s eye. For instance, Burton uses lighting to establish a mood. In the introduction of Edward Scissorhands at Edward’s house he used a lot of low key lighting to give the viewer a creepy, more gothic feel about Edward. Lighting is a very important cinematic technique in movies, especially movies like Edward Scissorhands and Charlie In The Chocolate Factory....
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...Broadly conceived, it can be said that this self-taught son of a Smithfield (a cloth maker), had an enormous impact on British art and architecture. His approach to the architectural profession was not in the traditional way, there is not much known about his early life or education. However, there is an important event in his life that changed his lifetime. This is...
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...Hayao Miyazaki Hayao Miyazaki is the chief, maker, movement furthermore storyteller, he additionally the pioneer of a standout amongst the most graters enlivened film studios on the planet that studio will be studio ghibli demonstrating the accomplishment with the movie Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind, and its proceeded with achievement was completely subject to the movies that he composed and coordinated. The convincing characters, captivating plots furthermore a stunning activity that Hayao Miyazaki movies have earned him global prestige, his movies getting pundits and in addition open acknowledgment inside Japan. The best movies in the history in Japan amid the 1990s, setting various film industry records. While his movies getting prevalent among anime , the Disney duty by bringing Hayao Miyazaki movies into the world and more individuals will see and value the fantastic movies that Miyazaki are appearing to us. A Film Review from Hayao Miyazaki: Ponyo Synopsis Sosuke, 5 years of age the child of a soilar carries on with a very life on an Oceanside bluff with his mom Lisa. One day, he going to shoreline and finds the stunning and delightful goldfish caught in the jug and Sasoke safeguarding...
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