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i need this for an essay so if you answer please be serious… thanks

Fine artists benefit the community by providing paintings showing their perspective of various subjects. This in turn can start conversations/debates about the art being shown, whether the painting is a reflection of today’s art movement or does it go back to the style of art from previous years. Just wandering through a gallery and looking at all the paintings is inspirational to upcoming artists and shows them the various techniques used in watercolours, acrylics, or oil paintings. Then moving on to sculpture, that’s a whole new world to discover. So, artists provide a look at the past, thoughts on current events or styles and a prediction of where art may take us in the years to come. It encourages us to be open minded and to look at the painting and see what it is we like or dislike and hopefully asks us why we have these feelings. You don’t go to a gallery to just look at pretty pictures, you go hoping to get some insight as to what the artist was inspired by and how this is reflected in his or her piece. Without art, our communities would be dull, colourless, a sad society of bland, opinionless people. Artists light up our world with colour, with pieces that challenge us as to why they are good or bad in our opinion and we need to think and be able to answer why we have this opinion.

On the Federation of Intentional Communities database, few communities have more than one member who identifies as "non-white." Intentional Communities are often interested in peace, the environment, freedom, and human relations. Why are so few of them integrated? I would love to hear anybody’s insights into this question. Thanks!

Because its the international community of YA.

I mean I’m not calling them racist or anything It’s just I’ve never seen republicans do anything for blacks and other minorities other then free us from slavery which was not intentional.
This is for common sense- Lyndon B. Johnson was a Democrat.

I would imagine that any political party will put most of its support into the people who support it. I would think it is fairly common knowledge that the African American voters prefer voting for the Democrats.

My question would be, would there ever be a time where the African Americans voters would divide their vote more evenly between the two parties?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commune_(intentional_community)

I think that you need to weigh the options carefully. Think about whether or not you will ever want to leave the commune. And what will happen then? Make sure you don’t throw away your outside friendships. And don’t avoid medical care just because you live in a commune.

I think communes are cool as long as they’re open minded about the outside world.

this is my year 10 design project and ive got no idea where to start. please help!

I’ll tell you about the new high school on the Cherokee Indian reservation (Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians) in the green Great Smoky Mountains in Cherokee, North Carolina. It opened this year.

The two-story series of connecting buildings face wsw. They were made largely from recycled materials and scraps. The buildings have a large bank of insulated windows across the top, angled toward the heavens, to allow in light and to allow heat to escape in warm months. The regular perpendicular walls also have insulated windows, letting in heat in the winter, cooling in the summer, and letting in a lot more natural light. There are solar panels on the roof, facing ese. The building thus uses less electricity and heating and cooling energy than most buildings.

The gym has a basketball/volleyball court on the lower level, the audience seats on level up, and a bank of windows facing wnw.

Every roof, ground and upper and lower surface area is designed to capture rainwater/snowwater, which is all collected in one central place and used for watering and all nondrinking and noncooking use.

Low volume toilets and faucets are featured in the bathrooms, and automatic soap dispensers prevent
overuse of soap.

The parking lot has gullies separating each parking area, and gives parking preference to the handicapped, carpoolers, and subcompacts. Otherwise, students are encouraged to use the schoolbuses.

Although there is a small area of grass around the immediate vicinity of the building/s, no trees were cut that didn’t have to be cut in order to accomplish construction.

The building rests on a small hilltop surrounded by acres of trees.

That should give you some ideas to get started. Good luck!!

Please do not search the term before answering.

Yes or No Do You know what Permaculture is?

If Yes, I would be grateful for a few line explanation (not a Wiki or any other cut and paste definition)

I am just trying to find out how well known Permaculture is on this site.

Yes, it is the synergistic process of many different species of animals to produce food in an enviromentally friendly way.

thats the best answer choosen by the ‘community’

now my question, PLEASE, the sins Intentional or Unintentional?

say this ‘De Vinci’ code…can i count as unintentional, and somone to die for?

Come on Man convince me on this.
Angel_Baby
Please ANSWER my question.
juan hombre
Open yr EYES. where are u

i will granted IF ALLAH, wished.

BUT SOMEBODY TO DIE FOR MY SINS ?

WILL you OR ARE YOU PREPARED TO DIE FOR THAT MAN, WHOI IS ABOUT TO BE HANGED BY YR GOVERNMENT, AND SAY hold on i WILL DIE FOR HIS SINS?

I should trust someone who died for me and my sins?
That thought is as utterly alien as "I will go to heaven and have 70 virgins if I die in a Holy War".

Who makes up these things?

I am currently a junior in high school and am trying to figure out what to do after high school. I am an artist and have long considered going to an art school, but am unsure as to how successful I could be after that. So I’m trying to get an idea of jobs where I can help people and better communities. What kind of jobs are out there in this line of work? What kind of schooling is needed for these jobs? Thank you in advance!

a doctor, teacher, dentist, psychologist lawyer just about anything really as long as you love it. you can be a salesman and help people that way. an artist helps people also art projects peace sometimes. remember this you gotta love it in the end thts what matters because you’ll keep doing it no matter what the pay is…

refining tools and in exploring and examining the world to an obsessive degree, resulting in world despoilation and a power imbalance in favor of the predominantly Eurasian industrialized people of the world. Should the environmentally sustainable living skills of indigenous tribal villagers worldwide (such as the Amazonian, African, Inuit, Aborigine, etc.) be taught and promoted at a level of prestige exceeding that of sciences such as mathematics, physics and engineering, as these sciences have resulted in the unsustainable and disastrous state of affairs effecting the Earth today?

An interesting question, but essentially fallacious. No one of legitimate interest is asking that question.

In short, it ain’t so green on the other side of that fence. If one measures individual human suffering, aboriginal tribes are fraught with problematic social networks, disease, very high mortality rates, and instability that is measurable in virtually every dimensional aspect. To wit: virtually every aboriginal tribe is in competition with another, which has let to a natural state of perpetual war or acceptance of skirmish behavior at every meeting. Disease is rampant- mortality rates are enormous, leading to massive childbirth rates in order to sustain the population, coupled with low survival numbers… or, in simpler terms, it is not good to be female. The study of ecology has shown that existing in a subsistence economy means that famine, disease and war are the principle causes of mortality in adults, none of which are a particularly nice way to check out.

As far as the description of life today as disastrous, when was the last time anyone you know was enslaved, sold into marriage, starved to death, was beheaded, was tied up and allowed to die of thirst to delineate a property line, or simply had to watch all of their children die from unstoppable diarrhea? All are issues endemic to aboriginal living, and none of which are recently-adopted practices.

Yeah. Kinda makes me want to go to McDonalds.