Persuasive comments

Surrealist artist Max Ernst defined collage as the "alchemy of the visual image." Students of his work have often dismissed this comment as simply a metaphor for the transformative power of using found images in a new context. Taking a wholly different perspective on Ernst and alchemy, however, M. E. Warlick persuasively demonstrates that the artist had a profound and abiding interest in alchemical philosophy and often used alchemical symbolism in works created throughout his career. 

Although Fries was very persuasive and eloquent in his comments, a young lieutenant, who published the following poem in 1919, more graphically expressed the opinion of those who understood the nature of chemical warfare ... 

In the decades between Holtby s study and Woolf s rediscovery by second-wave feminist criticism, a number of commentators on Woolf had also put feminism at the centre of their analyses - though often in less than sympathetic ways. For Woolf s friend and fellow-novelist E. M. Forster, delivering a lecture on her life and work two months after her death, Woolf s feminism was a very peculiar side of her , producing one of the most brilliant of her books - the charming and persuasive A Room of One s Own , but also responsible for the worst of her books - the cantankerous Three Guineas - and for the less successful streaks in Orlando . There are spots of [feminism] all over her work, and it was constantly in her mind, Forster asserted, representing feminism as a matter of streaks and spots , blemishes on the work of art. In my judgement , he continued ... 

Based on the results of the Dust Study and in response to the voluminous persuasive public comments, this final rule prohibits or restricts the use of the following practices during renovation, repair, and painting activities that are subject to the work practice requirements of this rule ... 

Communication and persuasion skills. Commented themes were writing, argumentation, listening and verbal communication. 

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