Tag: identity
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Icons Masked In League Of Wrestling Paintings
The League of Wrestling Mask Portraits is a growing body of work, undertaken in 2023, by realist painter, Richard Delaney. The work is a satirical, Pop Art-style, examination of the famous and controversial people of our time, such as Donald Trump, Joe Biden, Justin Trudeau, Elon Musk, and Greta Thunberg. Delaney paints their approximately, life-size…
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For Many European Countries, National Flower Is Second Only To Flag In Importance
Many non-native plants can happily survive in other regions of the world, which has given gardeners more choice than ever before. However, native flowers and plants can summarize the landscape of a nation, while communicating the identity of a country. For many countries the national flower is second only to the national flag as the…
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LGBTQIE And Ecosexuality
Beth Stephens & Annie Sprinkle “Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.” -Anais Nin Nature is born of sexuality. The two are inextricable and inevitable partners. Where humans find fault with sex that does not suit their particular beliefs in what is right or wrong, nature transcends. There is no taboo in the…
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True Cases Of Phantom Transmissions And Hijacked Television Signals
The call letters KLEE-TV had not been broadcast since July 1950, more than 3 years before a viewer in London, England picked up their transmission on his television set. Adding to the mystery was the fact that while in operation KLEE-TV was based out of Houston, Texas- an entire continent and ocean away. Since this was an…
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The Strength Of The Past And Its Great Might
Within the last generation, archaeology has undergone a major transformation, developing from an independent small-scale activity, based upon museums and a few university departments, into a large-scale state organization based upon national legislation. This has entailed an increase in resources on an unprecedented scale, and has drastically changed the profile of archaeology, which is now…
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How Societies Become Consumer Cultures Through Housing
Alfred Marshall’s (Principles of Economics, 1891) view of housing still goes right to the heart of what makes housing and built environment an important anthropological topic. No artifact is so clearly multi-functional, simultaneously a utilitarian object of absolute necessity, and an item of symbolic material culture, a text of almost unending complexity. In every house…
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Ways To Retrain And Put Your Adult Brain Back In Charge
The human brain is a wonder of the universe, but our understanding of it can seem contradictory, says Steven Jay Fogel, author of the book Your Mind Is What Your Brain Does for a Living. “On the one hand, we’re often told of those crucial years that our brain develops in childhood, when we’re rapidly…
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Anti Arnaques Is First Website Created To Fight Russian Romance Scams
There are nowadays millions of single men, and among those, many dream of meeting a woman from Eastern Europe. Indeed, these women are known to be extremely attractive, faithful, and ready to do anything to come to live in Europe. Many dating and marriage agencies have been created to cater for this niche, specializing in…
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Photo Glitch Art Book Is Mysterious And Beautiful
“The growing flow of digital culture depends on the hidden protocols of its underlying systems. To explore how interfacing shapes spectatorship online, this pioneering study pinpoints experiences of flow through the friction of photo-based glitch art by Phillip Stearns, Rosa Menkman, and Evan Meaney. Homing in on the viewer, these three cross-disciplinary case studies present…
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Surreal Aspects Of All Expressed In Artwork
Many have been humbled simply standing in a darkened field and looking to the stars. Indeed the great thinkers of the many generations that have come and gone are regarded as giants when in fact they were merely humans dropped to their knees by the wonder that is the universe all around us. There is…
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Sustainable Urban Renewal Example In Copenhagen Neighbourhood
Henning Larsen Architects lead a design team in establishing an overall sustainable solution for the renewal of buildings, courtyards, and streetscapes in a selected residential block of Skt. Kjelds Climate Resilient Neighborhood in Østerbro. The competition for Copenhagen Climate Resilient Neighborhood was won with a proposal that serves as a future “showcase” of holistic and…
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University Of Pittsburgh Professor Asks Teachers To Decentralize Race
H. Richard Milner, a professor, noted researcher and expert on race in education at the University of Pittsburgh believes that “education is the key to addressing inequity and racism in society” and if we are not “working in education to combat racism, we are complicit in maintaining inequity and the status quo.” Are teachers prepared…
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What Interior Design Is All About
Maybe you watch all the TV shows, follow the blogs, and read all the magazines (or perhaps just look at the pretty pictures) and still wonder what Interior Design really is, what a Designer does, and if you would benefit from working with one? If so, then read on because here’s the nitty gritty on Interior…
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Fascinating Book- CANADIAN PACIFIC: Creating A Brand, Building A Nation
Canadian Pacific: Creating A Brand, Building A Nation, the forthcoming luxury coffee table book from School of Design of the Université du Québec à Montréal professor emeritus Marc H. Choko and Callisto Publishers. The private railway corporation that united Canada and built the world’s greatest transportation system, Canadian Pacific broke boundaries with its powerful commercial…
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Law Firms Should Nurture A Culture For Growth Factor
There’s a strong correlation between the growth of a law firm and the strength of its culture, according to a new survey published in February’s ABA Journal. The most successful mid-sized firms are those that put a high value on their culture – how they do business and the written and unwritten rules for behavior,…
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The Rocket Film Is Satisfying In Both Our Official Languages
The Rocket is a story about a man, a husband, a machinist and a hockey player; a man juggling a day job, a marriage and a passion to play “the game.” His journey is classical and it has all of the elements of a Greek comedy, with the effect, just like in the Aristotelian tradition,…