My artist diary starts at age 8 and is ongoing!
My only knowledge of the veil came from my friend who was in Iran. She would send me pictures of herself dressed all in back at school with nothing but her face showing and tell me about how oppressive it was to be forced to always be dressed in the veil. She is not a…
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In my own experience with other cultures I have never come across something as interesting as the verbal visual connection the people in Ghana have in their cloth. In our western culture the only thing that come to mind is the brand label. The label or tag on the clothing is something known and the…
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The gay science 221-75: In 301, Nietzsche says that higher human beings “see and hear immeasurably more” than lower human beings. In section 301 Nietzsche says, “Whatever has value in our world now does not have value in itself, according to it’s nature- nature is always value-less, but has been given value at some time,…
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I found the answer to this question mostly within a few lines on page 84, “If nudity were going to represent anything good besides crude sexual desirability among the much-dressed Western Christian nations, art was going to be required to make it beautiful, strong, and apparently natural. Moreover, this transformation had to be accomplished in…
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Reading the moral at the end of Philosophical Fragments helps to illuminate the meaning of the text. The moral does this to the extent that the ideas in Philosophical Fragments, Johannes Climacus and Sickness Unto Death can be categorized into one of the four points made in the moral which I have numbered below: “This…
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1). Synopsis: In a hotel room, two lovers are discussing their future high above the busy city. After lunch Marion Crane, the main character, becomes frustrated with the seemingly unfair world and decides to escape by taking the opportunity to steal 40,000 dollars from her employer so she can start a new life with her…
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The individual human being lies beneath the concept; an individual human being cannot be thought, but only the concept, ‘man’ What does this statement have to do with sin? What does it have to do with Christianity? What is the difference between general and specific? It seems to me that to understand the specific seems…
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The most interesting cultural feature of the Kimono for me is the collar and it’s meaning in terms of placement and position. I think the Japanese use the collar similar to we in the US, but they are much more specific and subtle. In Japanese kimono there are 3 elements of the collar that change…
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What is falling? What do we fall from, on, or into? In what direction is the fall? Is it physical or emotional? At what rate does the fall take place? Each combination of elements creates a unique result. The body and mind react differently in every situation. In an attempt to understand what the mind…
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Inside the small tent isolated from the world I feel the warmth of the early morning sun heat the air. Absentmindedly I listen to the sounds of birds chirping outside. Huddled over the earth slowly searching within my designated square I look for clues to piece together the past history of this space. I am…
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