D.E. Morant

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• Answer added in Contemporary Art
  1 What role does computer technology have in secondary visual arts programs and how should it be integrated?
  By Lisa Dodson · Durham University
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  Personally I think most digital aids will stultify the artist's actual creativity; I wouldn't introduce any of them to students in high school (or pri... [more]

  Personally I think most digital aids will stultify the artist's actual creativity; I wouldn't introduce any of them to students in high school (or primary). Call me hopelessly hidebound or whatever. A young person is overflowing with ideas and desires to explore the world. Whether in writing or visual art there is, in every computer program, a rigidity that is absent in the human mind. Because of its nature, any computer program will, sooner or later, prevent a person from doing certain things because it has been written to disallow them - whether because they are considered incorrect or will cause a glitch. Let students explore the depth and breadth of their creative abilities first.
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• Answer added in Social Anthropology
  151 To what extent do people believe that art can contribute to positive change?
  By Jade Wildy · University of South Australia 
  D.E. Morant ·

  Dara - that's because artists go where it is cheap. They begin to transform the atmosphere of the neighbourhood, thereby attracting more attention, ... [more]

  Dara - that's because artists go where it is cheap. They begin to transform the atmosphere of the neighbourhood, thereby attracting more attention, and the price of housing goes up, the artists have to move out, and it begins again elsewhere. Someone should determine whether there is a formula for the density of artists required to effect such change.
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• Answer added in Religion
  365 When did the human mind become religious?
  By Nagaraju Jinka · Gulbarga University
  D.E. Morant ·

  Why 

  Why
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• Answer added in Cinema
  8 Documentaries in British accent
  By Hadi Hezaveh · University of Queensland 
  D.E. Morant ·

  Yup! Incidentally, as a side comment, people always wonder about the origin of the quintessentially canadian end-of-sentence comment "eh!/eh?" seems... [more]

  Yup! Incidentally, as a side comment, people always wonder about the origin of the quintessentially canadian end-of-sentence comment "eh!/eh?" seems to me that it originated, in this officially bilingual land of mine, in the old french "hein?" as in "huh?" whaddya think, eh?
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• Answer added in Religion
  365 When did the human mind become religious?
  By Nagaraju Jinka · Gulbarga University
  D.E. Morant ·

  I suppose the corollary of this question would be: if the mind originally required the assistance of religion, why does it still? why do some people n... [more]

  I suppose the corollary of this question would be: if the mind originally required the assistance of religion, why does it still? why do some people never become religious? when did we stop needing religion and why do some people still require it? or, if they choose to keep it, why do they? I have never had a religious belief per se, tho I can quite easily imagine people's attachments to religion, their childhood blanket, or toy, or their rabbit's foot.
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