The creation process is one of the most important parts of art; it is where the inspiration and creative ideas flow into whatever is being made. ... Final works of art affect people in different ways and trigger different emotions and thoughts depending on the person and what is going on in his or her mind. ... Though it resembles a portrait of exactly what is going on in the story, it also could not have been the way it originally was intended to be viewed, and also other people perceive it in a completely different way as well. ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The purview of love, in Plato as in common language, is restricted "to those whose enthusiasm is directed at one specific type who are described by the terminology that belongs to the whole class, that of love, loving, and lovers." (205d) She then goes on to knock down Aristophanes' definition of love as searching for one's other half on the grounds that this is only true if being reunited is good, using the example that amputation is acceptable if a limb is seen as diseased. ... Whatever the reason for its creation, the concept of Platonic love is a beautiful affirmation of the huma...

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To put it in other way, paying attention to whatever the meaningful and ethical messages from the music seems unnatural, even artificial for me to appreciate my time of aesthetic pleasure. ... After dozens of asking and re-asking, I conclude that it does go the same to the music, but a little bit different, especially about the acceptance of a certain meaningful or 'purposeful' lyrics in the music. ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate