Arts & Humanities - 12 September 2007

I have this painting in a room of my house and I am not sure who the artist is. The painting is a copy and not the real thing, so I can't really see a signature or any distinctive mark an artist would have left behind. The painting is of a little girl and a little boy in a forest. I tried typing descriptions in the search bar, but all I got was a bunch of wild goose chases. Does anyone know how I could track down the artist of this painting?

2007-09-12 16:09:13 · 1 answers · asked by helphelp 2 in Painting

Could someone give me some examples and tell me what this applies to?

2007-09-12 16:07:54 · 7 answers · asked by Elija Smith 1 in Philosophy

details please...

2007-09-12 16:07:16 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in History

it's listed as fiction.

2007-09-12 16:06:37 · 4 answers · asked by daljack -a girl 7 in Books & Authors

You spoke my name
As if profane
To tear me down
And cause me pain.

I walked away
With head held high
My spirit secure
And my eyes dry.

I hold not the darkness
I cling to the light
I will make it thru
I will be alright..

2007-09-12 16:05:46 · 4 answers · asked by La Lulu 4 in Poetry

I'm reading Stephenie Meyer's Twilight series and the first book (Twilight) had a quote from the bible (Genes 2:17) and it took me a little while but I finally figure out the connection between the quote, cover of the book, and the writing I thought it was really cool and this is the quote from the second book (New Moon) and i was just wondering can someone write this in layman's terms:

"These violent delights have violent ends
And in their triumph die, like fire and powder,
Which, as they kiss, consume."

Romeo and Juliet, Act II, scene VI

Oh and for anyone who reads the series or whatever please no rude comments I am only 13 forgive me for not fully comprehending a play from the 17th century.

2007-09-12 16:04:44 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous in Theater & Acting

2007-09-12 15:59:55 · 1 answers · asked by Anonymous in History

Do you prefer to have something (an object, status, goal, object of desire, etc) or to want it? Is one state more pleasing or satisying than the other? And do wanting and having make you feel satisfied or dissatisfied in different ways?

2007-09-12 15:58:11 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Philosophy

It is about a girl who lives near these ancient woods. One day she was walking through them and saw a boy drink water from a spring in the ground. She wanted some water but he wouldnt let her drink it. His family came in a wagon and took the little girl. The brought her back to their house by a lake or maybe it was a cape. She falls in love with the boy but he has a secret. The water his family drank was magic and it prevents them from getting any older. So the boy tells the girl and the girl wants to grow up to be the boys age and then drink the water so she can stay with him forever. The boy wants her to live her life and he promises he will come back to see if she drank the water. He comes back with his family around 100 years later to see if she is there. The woods have been torn down and they dont know where to look so they go to the cemetery. When they get there they find a gravestone with the girls name on it. If anyone has any info plz plz plz tell me. Every little bit helps.

2007-09-12 15:57:42 · 6 answers · asked by rsamboragal 2 in Books & Authors

i have ap world history and i have to do the study questions on the back of the book, does anyone have the answers or know where i can get them??
plllz help, its very urgent!

2007-09-12 15:55:37 · 3 answers · asked by ebby 2 in History

What’s a Dream

What’s a dream when:
You can’t fathom its beauties.

What’s a dream when:
You are unknown.

Chasing this celestial world:
For my dream.

Chasing this eternal world:
For my love.

2007-09-12 15:52:09 · 7 answers · asked by Evangelist 3 in Poetry

please explain why, i really want to try and understand poetry

"London"

I wander thro' each charter'd street,
Near where the charter'd Thames does flow.
And mark in every face I meet
Marks of weakness, marks of woe.

In every cry of every Man,
In every Infants cry of fear,
In every voice: in every ban,
The mind-forg'd manacles I hear

How the Chimney-sweepers cry
Every black'ning Church appalls,
And the hapless Soldiers sigh
Runs in blood down Palace walls

But most thro' midnight streets I hear
How the youthful Harlots curse
Blasts the new-born Infants tear

2007-09-12 15:50:46 · 6 answers · asked by stop global warming!!! 1 in Poetry

I am 20 years old living in Central Florida. I don't have much money but I wanted to see how to get started with acting. I am not sure if I have a local theatre to start but if there isn't, what else can I do to get started? Please help me out...thanks

2007-09-12 15:48:30 · 8 answers · asked by Justine 3 in Theater & Acting

What kind of pyscholgical changes have the 9/11 attacks brought?

How did 9/11 change our attitudesand behaviors?

Do you think that Americans have adapted to living with terrorism while we continue the struggle to defeat it?

2007-09-12 15:47:43 · 5 answers · asked by marie c 1 in History

2007-09-12 15:47:00 · 11 answers · asked by kickinupfunf 6 in Philosophy

During the Middle Ages, the clergy had tremendous secular power. Why, popes were able to crown and dethrone kings! In 800 C.E., Pope Leo III crowned the Frankish king Charlemagne as emperor of the Holy Roman Empire. For a thousand years, this empire represented the union of Church and State, and during that time the clergy enjoyed varying degrees of power over secular authorities.

Beginning in the 11th century, the papacy took over the role of leader in Europe. In this regard, The Columbia History of the World, edited by John Garraty and Peter Gay, says: “The church was Europe’s greatest government.” This book also observes that the church was able to “wield more political power than any other Western government.” What was the situation of the people under clergy rule?

No one was free to worship as he pleased or to express opinions conflicting with those of the clergy. This clerical intolerance created a climate of fear throughout Europe. The church established the Inquisition to root out individuals who dared to hold different views. Considered heretics, they were brought before inquisitors, who tortured them for confessions. Often, those found guilty were burned at the stake.

Regarding clergy rule in Spain, The Columbia History of the World states: “Wars and the crusading ideology had welded together an orthodox and snobbish aristocracy and clergy which held all the reins of power in the state. Intellectual life had been crippled by censorship and the Inquisition, which had been used against anyone protesting against either official theology or state policy.”

In his book The Age of Faith, Will Durant said: “Making every allowance required of an historian and permitted to a Christian, we must rank the Inquisition, along with the wars and persecutions of our time, as among the darkest blots on the record of mankind, revealing a ferocity unknown in any beast.” In the Middle Ages, clergy rule meant the destruction of personal liberties.

Did the Protestant reformer John Calvin differ from the Catholic clergy? Well, consider what happened when Michael Servetus fled from persecution by the Spanish clergy and was apprehended in Geneva, Switzerland. There, Calvin had set up a community over which he and his ministers ruled with absolute power. Because Servetus denied the Trinity, Calvin achieved what had eluded the Inquisition. Servetus was condemned to death for heresy and was burned at the stake. Calvin thus showed the same intolerance as the Catholic clergy.

Did clergy domination of secular governments mean peace for the people of Europe? No, indeed. Instead of enjoying peace, they had to endure years of clergy-inspired warfare. Pope Urban II launched the First Crusade and thus began a series of wars that lasted for 200 years. Moreover, clergy-fomented wars against people considered to be heretics resulted in the death of thousands of men, women, and children.

Did clergy rule eliminate corruption? Not in the least. The book A History of the Modern World, by R. R. Palmer and Joel Colton, states: “Increasingly the life of the church was corrupted by money. No one believed in bribery; but everyone knew that many high churchmen (like many high civil officials of the day) could be bribed.” Corruption among the clergy was a common complaint.

Did clergy rule result in compassion for the common people? By no means. For instance, consider what happened when Cardinal Richelieu of France gained control of governmental affairs during the reign of Louis XIII. The book The History of the Nations, edited by Henry Cabot Lodge, says that Richelieu’s “policy was based on the ruin of the French liberties.”

In Mexico during the 17th century, Indian towns were often ruled by the clergy. According to the book Many Mexicos, by Lesley Simpson, the clergy considered the whipping post “an indispensable aid for implanting and maintaining the Christian virtues, as well as for the punishment of secular offenses.”

History books thus enable us to examine the record of clergy rule over the centuries. What does that record reveal? Shocking disregard for the happiness, well-being, and liberties of the common people. Indeed, clergy rule has been unendurable despotism. As Daniel Defoe wrote in his work The True-Born Englishman: “And of all plagues with which mankind are curst, ecclesiastic tyranny’s the worst.”

Obviously, then, clergy rule is not the answer to man’s need for better government. So, to whom can we turn? The answer is within the reach of everyone, as we shall see.

2007-09-12 15:40:55 · 4 answers · asked by Keith 2 in History

Is it when it is universally believed? How about for an individual? In History?

2007-09-12 15:39:18 · 25 answers · asked by Praire Crone 7 in Philosophy

I LOVE acting but need some help on how to cry during performances PLEASE HELP!

2007-09-12 15:25:16 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Theater & Acting

I have been trying to find a copy of Benetton's controversial ad "we, on death row." I'm not having any luck. Any suggestions?

2007-09-12 15:17:41 · 1 answers · asked by SunnyDays 1 in Photography

2007-09-12 15:13:37 · 11 answers · asked by Nix 2 in Philosophy

Doing a paper for philosophy and I am wondering what other people think about this.

A ship is built and begins a voyage around the world. In the course of the long voyage, parts of the ship inevitably break. The voyage continues and one by one the broken parts are replaced using new parts that are identical to the original parts. By the time the ship returns to its home port, all of its parts have been replaced in this way (literally, every single part, from the framing to the hull to the deck and right down to the last nut and bolt and speck of paint...everything). At the end of the voyage, is it the same ship or is it a different ship? Or is it something other than the same or different? Explain.

2007-09-12 15:11:20 · 32 answers · asked by Vin 2 in Philosophy

I'm going tomorrow night- is there a dress code?

2007-09-12 15:06:02 · 3 answers · asked by me 2 in Theater & Acting

If you do, i need to know what his most famous painting is. Thank you so much =]

2007-09-12 15:05:49 · 3 answers · asked by murphymurf 1 in Painting

PLEASE READ!
I am writing a monolouge on a snotty rich girl who cant get in to a concert any ideas?
THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME!

2007-09-12 15:03:38 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous in Theater & Acting

when they are anywhere from 2 to 5 years old. I'm doing them in black and white (timeless)..... and posting them scattered on a large wall... I want to make it artsy dramatic... I don't want to frame them, but just put it on the plak -it board. Not sure on size...I can go anywhere from 16 to 20 inches squared, without going to crazy large... they are all headshots that would cover the entire square inch of whatever size I choose... what do you think would be a good size...? Or if you have any other tips on how to arrange them up there or anything other tip?

2007-09-12 15:01:09 · 3 answers · asked by justwondering 2 in Photography

what would a good thesis statement be for The Kite Runner, in regards to a formalist, symbolic, physchological and feminist lense, each one seperate please, fell free to answer 1 or more.

2007-09-12 14:58:02 · 2 answers · asked by George Washington 2 in Books & Authors

What keeps a person true and honest when it is so easy to lie and deceive here? How much of the virtue of truthfulness do we uphold when we know that no one would know any better if we tempt a deception?

"Perhaps nobody yet has been truthful enough about what 'truthfulness' is." - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Care to share?

p/s – forgive my capitalization, a la Enki. I simply miss seeing his questions here.

2007-09-12 14:54:37 · 20 answers · asked by shahrizat 4 in Philosophy

Not that we simple have more collected knowledge now, but that our capacity for understanding has matured and continues to mature? And whatever those people did, thought, and believed is inferior to what we now know?

2007-09-12 14:52:32 · 5 answers · asked by Stranger Danger 2 in History

Here are the links :

http://i186.photobucket.com/albums/x37/natalyavf16_2009/lori.jpg

http://i186.photobucket.com/albums/x37/natalyavf16_2009/100_0061.jpg

I don't have photoshop , so i can't edit them.

Thanks for answering !!!!

2007-09-12 14:48:45 · 6 answers · asked by A 5 in Photography

2007-09-12 14:47:05 · 6 answers · asked by lonmoe26 1 in Theater & Acting