has increased consumption not just by men, but by women as well. Statistics are varied but seem to indicate that more females are using pornography than ever before. Female-point-of-view films, female porn directors, and even novels such as Fifty Shades of Grey indicate a changing industry which includes women. The shocking question “Do women watch porn?” has been transformed into “Why do women watch porn?” One may suggest that women watch porn to bond with their male partners, to satisfy curiosity
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T. Ames.[3] Each of these thinkers sees Confucius as offering an alternative understanding to the received Cartesian view of the person. In each case, the Confucian stance on the person is interpreted as being overwhelmingly social as opposed to the western view, which is characterized as being impossibly individualistic. Against these three currents, I will argue here that the Confucian understanding of a person is not so alien to western understandings, and I will use the seminal piece by P.F.
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A type of early colonial architecture in Maryland would not be complete without the idea of the Schifferstadt house, named by Joseph Brunner after his childhood home near Mannheim, Germany. Joseph and his family arrived in Philadelphia around 1729. In 1746 he purchased 303 acres of a tract known as "Tasker's Chance" from Daniel Dulany, and built a Schifferstadt, the oldest known house in Frederick still standing, was completed in 1756. It was around 1756, during the time that Elias Bruner owned
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4th October 2012 The Evolution of Man In his 1871 book entitled The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex, Charles Darwin speculated that fossils of the earliest humans and their immediate progenitors ultimately would be found somewhere in Africa. He based this on the fact that the natural range of our nearest living relatives, chimpanzees and gorillas, is limited to Africa. He concluded that we ultimately must
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Nupur Dixit Mr. Randolph English II – C Period December 14, 2013 Shades of Colonialism The continuum of history plays an important role in human thought. History and Colonialism, to the superficial thinker, is a collection of individual actions, social change, periods, regions, civilizations and other events that are long gone. However, as Prof. Montrose points out, history is not just about the past. All that happened in the past was happening in the present at that time. We are living in
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Personal or Political? Cleverly penned to literally mean ‘no place,’ Utopia is an ideal discussed by Thomas More in Utopia. With connotations of eternal and universal bliss, the potential of a Utopian society easily strikes a chord in anyone’s heart to continuously pursue. Therefore, isn’t that ultimately what we are all trying to do, reach our Utopia? It is common knowledge that we are all diverse and individual people, so is a true worldly Utopia possible? We each form our own individual Utopian
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had always been a fun, all-day affair where shareholders from around the country gathered to celebrate the company’s success. This year, however, Smith and other senior Starbucks executives heard an earful from the activist group Global Exchange. A human rights organization dedicated to promoting environmental, political, and social justice around the world, Global Exchange criticized Starbucks for profiting at the farmer’s expense by paying low prices and not buying “fair trade” beans. Not only did
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theme centers around the robotic inhabitants of a planet called Cybertron. Here a war has been raging for centuries between two factions sharing completely opposing ideologies. The Autobots, who believe in the rights of freedom for every sentient being, and the Decepticons, who believe in establishing peace through domination. Arcee is a female member of the Autobots. Although portrayed as one of the 'good guys', she is nevertheless an example of the pervading sexism that exist in our society. The
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composition into a dynamic one.Portrait of Dr. Gachet (1890) Vincent van Gogh 9. Lines of Sight Lines of sight are created when the subject is looking at something within the painting. It causes the viewer to follow the line of sight to the object being observed.Christina’s World (1948) Andrew Wyeth 10. Point of View Art does not always need to be depicted at eye level. Moving the point of view above, or below, the subject can create
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E L James Fifty Shades Freed First published by The Writer’s Coffee Shop, 2012 Copyright © E L James, 2012 The right of E L James to be identified as the author of this work has been asserted by him under the Copyright Amendment (Moral Rights) Act 2000 This work is copyright. Apart from any use as permitted under the Copyright Act 1968, no part may be reproduced, copied, scanned, stored in a retrieval system, recorded or transmitted, in any form or by any means, without the prior written
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