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I _____ for my book since noon, but I still can't find them.
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The exhibition displays one of his most celebrated paintings.
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Nam Cao's literature works were deeply informed by his impoverished life in the North of Vietnam.
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Jonathan was brought up with unconditional love and unfailing support from his family.
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She is an old hand at dealing with such issues.
Andy and Bob are at the Common Hall.
- Andy: "Where are we going to have our party after the graduation ceremony?"
- Bob: "_____"
Mike and David are university students. They are talking about the result of the chemistry test.
Mike: "I was worried about the chemistry result, but Mr. Brown gave me an A!"
David: "_____"
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How do people choose names for their babies? In the past, many names were chosen for some religious associations or because of national or family tradition. If a boy's great-grandfather, his grandfather, and his father were all called Patrick, then it was very that the new-born baby would be called Patrick as well. Sometimes parents just wanted to please a wealthy or much-loved naming the baby him or her and in countries such as Spain a child was often given the name of the saint feast day coincided with the birth. Most names have good connotations, there are exceptions. Parents in some areas of the world gave their babies names like “Ugly” or “Disagreeable” so as to make the child unattractive to demons.
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When we think of the renewable energy transition, we often have in mind dark blue photovoltaic rectangles carpeting the landscape or large three-blade horizontal axis wind turbines marching along mountain ridges or into the sea. We think about grid reliability and consumer cost per kilowatt-hour, or we think about the climate change apocalypse that we will impose on future generations if we fail to act swiftly enough. All of these elements are important from technical and policy perspectives, but there is something missing that will be key to success if we are to meet the goals that we have set for ourselves. We must recognize the importance of human culture to the realization of change.
It is a lack of imagination that has brought us to the brink, and it will be an influx of imagination that can possibly pull us back from it. If we are going to succeed in reducing carbon emissions, we must make the solutions more visible, inspire the general public, and get people excited about the renewable energy transition.
This is the mission of the Land Art Generator Initiative (LAGI), a nonprofit that works with cities around the world on civic art installations that also function as renewable energy infrastructures. These generous works of art give back more than just beauty and return more than just kilowatt hours on their capital investment. LAGI design competitions have changed the way that cities and developers manage the integration of public art and creative place making into the master planning process for new developments. Competitions for Dubai/Abu Dhabi (2010), New York City (2012), Copenhagen (2014), Glasgow (2015), Santa Monica (2016), Willimantic (2017), and Melbourne (2018) have brought in over 1,000 designs from 60+ countries.
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The first drawings on walls appeared in caves of years ago. Later the Ancient Romans and Greeks wrote their names and protest poems on buildings. Modern graffiti seems to have appeared in Philadelphia in the early 1960s, and by the late sixties, it had reached New York. The new art form really took off in the 1970s, when people began writing their name, or "tag", on building over the city. In the mid-seventies, it was sometimes hard to see out of a subway car window because the trains were completely covered in stay paintings known as "masterpiece".
In the early days, the “taggers' were part of street gangs who were concerned with marking their territory. They worked in groups called ‘crews’, and called what they did ‘writing’ — the term "graffiti" was first used by The New York Times and the novelist Norman Mailer. Art galleries in New York began buying graffiti in the early seventies. But at the same time that it began to be regarded as an art form, John Lindsay, the then mayor of New York, declared the first war on graffiti. By the 1980s it became much harder to write on subway trains without being caught, and instead many of the more established graffiti artists began using roofs of buildings or canvases.
The debate over whether graffiti is art or vandalism is still going on. Peter Vallone, a New York city councilor, thinks that graffiti done with permission can be art, but if it is on someone else's property it becomes a crime. “I have a message for the graffiti vandals out there,” he said recently. “Your freedom of expression ends where my property begins. On the other hand, Felix, a member of the Berlin-based group Reclaim Your City, says that artists are reclaiming cities for the public from advertisers, and that graffiti represents freedom and makes cities more vibrant.
For decades graffiti has been a springboard to international fame for a few. Jean-Michel Basquiat began spraying on the street in the 1970s before becoming a respected artist in the '80s. The Frenchman Blekle Rat and the British artist Banksy have achieved international fame by producing complex works with stencils, often making political or humorous points. Works by Banksy have been sold for over £100,000. Graffiti is now sometimes big business.
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It is essential that cancer is diagnosed and treated as early as possible in order to assure a successful cure.
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The field of Artificial Intelligence research was found at a workshop held on the campus of Dartmouth College during the summer of 1956.
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Many nations protect endangered species by forbidding hunting, to restrict land development, and creating preserves.
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Steve said to Mike, “Don't touch the electric wires. It might be deadly.”
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Longer life spans also increase the prevalence of generation gaps.
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I am sure Helen is playing guitar now.
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We almost gave up hope. At that time, the rescue party arrived.
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They finished one project. They started working on the next.