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Paine is arguying that they had tried everything before coming to the conclusion that they needed to fight for their freedom.
Argument: "Every quiet method for peace hath been ineffectual."
Claim 1: "Our prayers have been rejected with disdain; and only tended to convince us, that nothing flatters vanity, or confirms obstinacy in kings more than repeated petitioning and nothing hath contributed more than that very measure to make the kings of Europe absolute."
Claim 2: "Wherefore, since nothing but blows will do, for God’s sake, let us come to a final separation, and not leave the next generation to be cutting throats, under the violated unmeaning names of parent and child."
Basically its saying photography has become a bit too focused on the past - even if it’s the immediate past. Just take all that talk about, let’s say, how colour photography became an accepted part of art photography (you could also pick the New Topographics<span> or whatever else). And then re-read the quotes…
or saying </span> <span>Fitting in is a necessary, but not sufficient criterion.
Being new is not sufficient.
Popularity right now is not enough.
Someone liking the poem now is not enough.
Does a poem conform to the new times?
Is a poem individual and different?
These are coexisting requirements for a poem to be valuable.
>is a work of art that conforms completely really a work of art?
"Conforming", in the sense of forming the leadership for a new age.
Yes, conforming is a necessary, but not sufficient requirement for a poem:
"its fitting in is a test of its value–a test,"
>should contemporary works of art be judged as “better” or “worse” than past ones?
There is no way that new poems be as bad as old poems, or their canons.
"certainly not judged by the canons of dead critics."</span>
It’s the last one: it should be Raquel was tired; she decided to go home. ( you don’t use a conjunction and a semicolon, just the semicolon or a conjunction and a comma )