What Makes Art: The Subconscious, The Reactionary, or The Forster Order? It is mid-afternoon on a Saturday at the Highline: a trajectory of abandoned railroad tracks the city of New York converted into a public park. The banks of the park are full of plants and sculptures, and street art is scattered within and around all of the Highline. Tucked into a gravel bed, beneath the shade of a green sapling, sits an upright rectangle. About five feet tall and two feet wide, the face of the rectangle is
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The Pony Stable Inn was one of the first openly lesbian bars in New York City. West 4th Street, which runs along the south side of Washington Square and became a lifeline to New York’s Beat culture. The teahouse Mad Hatter at 150 W. 4th was an influential artist destination, which then later became the lesbian bar Pony Stable Inn. Alas being a lesbian bar, the Pony Stable in became a central point for the poetry scene for the beats. In 1949, a young poet named Gregory Corso was just released from
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When defining politics or political consciousness, the average person will resort to the obvious: that it’s an understanding of power in social, political and economic systems. We associate the word “politics” with flashy campaigns, thousands of wasted dollars on annoying advertisements, speeches, debates, idolized men such as the Kennedy’s, the list goes on. However, to contrary what the public eye might be led to believe, there is also an entirely different side to politics than what most are
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Ally Jones Ms. Winslow English II Honors 15 February 2012 Friedrich Nietzsche Life in Germany during 1840s is hard for someone growing up in the 21st century to relate to. Germany was a country of villages and farms. Jobs outside agriculture were rare. The price of food was extremely high and many people starved to death. Private organizations and churches were trying to help the starving people whereas the government did very
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Michael Garcia Professor Ryan History 106 October 23, 2013 Feminism This presentation of how feminism has affected the world, how far its come and how much progresses we still have to go was phenomenal. Jeff Bucholtz performance and speaking fervor was unrivaled. The beginning of the seminar was started with the origin of inequality between men and women based on the thought that women’s minds worked different than a man’s. There was really the belief that women’s minds actually were biologically
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It is hard to imagine just how different the world was for women before the 1960’s. Imagine yourself as women in the 1960s. They were denied basic rights, trapped in their own home for life, and discriminated against in the work place. Then the 1960s came along and with it, the thought that women could have a say in their government that they could perhaps leave home without feeling guilty about leaving their children alone and that they could earn wages just like men. Women in the 1960s were stereotyped
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Unit 9 Final Assignment: A movement that is changing the world Shadrach Diamond Kaplan University SS 310-06 April 25, 2012 The 1960s was a decade filled with changes that had an effect on the nation and the world like none other. During this period, Civil Rights movements took place, the country was at war, a U.S. president was assassinated, and humans walked on the moon. Music and television were creating a completely different culture. For the first time a presidential
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Nicolas Kouatli PHIL 315: Kant and 19th Century European Philosophy Upon The Blessed Isles: Interpreted Thus Spoken Zarathustra thoroughly illustrates Friedrich Nietzsche’s core philosophical beliefs, utilizing scripture-like parables and mystical narratives that outline the travels and experiences of the quasi-fictional philosopher Zarathustra. Nietzsche’s philosophy is quintessentially immoralist and inescapably the story unraveling it would have to denounce morality as a whole. In Nietzsche’s
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M3A1 Assignment: Culture: Everyone Has It! There are festivals every year that are held publicly to support lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgendered individuals rights within society. Usually depending on how big the city a couple streets or a district within a city is closed down for the festival to take place. These designated areas are patrolled by law enforcement just to make sure matters don’t get out of hand because this event usually does have people who fight. Men and women, usually most
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faced. This is considered to be one of the first events to start the gay liberations and sparked the fight for equal rights in the LGBT community. These riots took place at a police raid at the Stonewall Inn. The Stonewall Inn, a well known safe haven for people on the LGBT spectrum. Miss Major Griffin-Gracy was considered to be the martyr for the Stonewall riots. This started gay pride parades and every year across America gay pride parades take place at the end of June in commemoration of
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