...The two pieces I’m going to compare and contrast are both similar, but different at the same time. I chose the painting by Jacques Raymond Brascassat called “A Bull Fight” while at the museum. Then I went home to research other paintings on the museums website and chose “A Gust of Wind” by Gustave Courbet. In my essay I’ll discuss what makes them similar art pieces and how they compare different to each other. Plus, I will describe how each painting used the same visual elements, but also very different ones at the same time. The first painting I will be discussing is “A Bull Fight” by Jacques- Raymond Brascassat which will show the information on how the painting was composed. And it will discuss the differences in this painting compared...
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...Sandra Bacon CRTW 201-007 Essay 1 11 February 2013 Overtime different dog breeds have been labeled as being the most dangerous dog in America. Starting off with Doberman Pinchers, then moving to Rottweiler’s, which brings us to todays “most dangerous” breed label, the Pit Bull. Pit Bulls bad reputation is put across by media labeling them as dangerous dogs and telling our society that they are vicious and unpredictable and that they will turn on you. The media portrays this idea through stories of pit bulls attacking people, which grabs a large amount of attention because they are labeled as Americans most dangerous dog. Stories like “84-year-old women recovering after pit bull attack” or “3-year-old attacked by a pit bull in the Bronx” we hear a lot about and they are put all over the news but stories like “Horror as rescue dog kills and dismembers two-month-old baby while his father slept”, which happened to be a golden retriever attack, we don’t hear much about. Since the media tends to only report attacks done by pit bulls the breed has become horribly misrepresented and misunderstood. Pit bulls can be aggressive, but most animals are when they feel like they are threatened. These dogs are known for their strength, loyalty, obedience, and endurance and unfortunately the wrong people abuse that and use them for dog fighting as entertainment. Pit bulls have been in America for quite some time and used to be war heroes, nanny dogs and America’s sweetheart but in America...
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...Contrast essay by Louise Hensley I love both my pets! Sosha which is a red-nosed Pit-bull, and then there is Lilbit and she is a German Shepard. These two breeds of animals have their own special unique qualities of their own. As for the Pit-bull breed they are known for their intelligence, strength, and loyalty. They have also been marked for centuries now for their violence and aggressiveness towards people and other animals. They get their name from the Molossian family of dogs, which bear the name from the Molossi Tribe, which is a group of people who lived in Ancient Greece, and they favored the use of robust, muscular dogs in warfare. They are reknowned for their fierceness, and for the ability to intimidate the enemies of the tribe. The Greece later began to sell these dogs to Rome which they used to cross breed with their counterparts from the year 50 A.D to 410 A.D. and then was used for entertainment in the arenas and coliseums of Rome. Once in Rome the British dogs were sold to the Englishman, when they left to go back home the Englishmen took their dogs with them and this is how they ended up in the United States. Even though Sosha is a Pit-bull, she is nothing like they say, she is very well trained and mild mannered. Lilbit is a German Shepard and their breed is known for their largeness, intelligence, strength, and their ability in training. They were used to work in the fields for sheep herding. Also, because of their intelligence and obedience training they...
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...Why is Red Bull one of the most successful energy drinks in the world? Your essay must explain how and why Red Bull has selected their target market, positioned their product and created a brand that supports their positioning. By: Tegan Effting March 2010 Introduction Red bull is an energy drink; a functional beverage that claims to “give you wings!” It certainly worked for Dieter Mateschitz and Chaelo Yoovidhya, the creators of Red Bull, who have soared into the shared position number 208 on the Forbes list of richest billionaires of 2010 with individual net worths of $4.1 billion self created between the launch date in 1987 and today. So what is it that has made Red Bull one of the most successful energy drinks in the world? Designed to improve stamina, the ingredients of Red Bull boost performance by increasing alertness, concentration and reaction speed, making it the perfect supplement for periods of heightened physical pressure and mental stress. (Simpson J & B Dore, 2008). The drink is a variant of Yoovidhya’s Krating Daeng, a tonic discovered by Mateschitz who was awed by its powerful effect on reducing his jetlag post travel to the Far East. Mateschitz had experienced nothing as effective in the Western market and saw huge potential for a more palatable version amongst the Westerners, who needed more than one of the few existing sports energy drinks to help relieve them of the symptoms of a busy lifestyle. In 2006 it was recorded that more than three...
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...Research Essay English Comp Cruel Games Dogs are human’s best friends. While some people choose to treat dogs with kindness and respect, others are mistreating dogs by using them for their entertainment. Dog fighting is still occurring today. It is big business in many parts of the county. This often happens in areas where there is poverty. Dog fighting is seen as “the quick” money. Some highly organized groups even use a secret dialect called the “Cajon Dictionary” on social network sites to plan fighting events discretely. This cruelty is also most often linked between more crimes including; illegal firearms possession, drug trafficking, gambling, spousal and child abuse, rape, and homicide. Regardless of if you can make money from it or not, dog fighting is a very cruel activity that should never occur anywhere in the world. A dog cannot speak for itself and say, “Stop!” That’s why more people need to be aware of this epidemic and see what is being done to help end it. Ancient Romans pitted dogs against each other in gladiatorial contests, but dogs have also played practical roles in society. Dogs have long been used as hunting companions, defenders of property and protectors of livestock against poachers and wild animals. They play key roles in military and K-9 police units. French bulldogs and Old Boston Bulldogs killed household vermin and therefore made valuable pets. “In England, bulldogs that were crossbred with terriers were forced to attack bulls or a bear...
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...Difference Between Art and Entertainment by Jeff Goins | 99 Comments Art, they say, is in the eye of the beholder. Which is a nice way of saying it’s whatever you want it to be. But I don’t believe that. Photo credit: Mark Heard (Creative Commons) Although I don’t have an objective perspective (nobody does), and mine is but one opinion, I believe there is such a thing as good and bad art. Maybe that’s asking too much, for us to label art “good” or “bad,” or maybe that feels too restrictive. That’s fine, I suppose; I don’t want to impose my artistic standards on someone else, nor would I appreciate having it the other way around. But what is not okay is calling something “art” when it’s not — when it is, in fact, something else. Art versus entertainment My friend Stephen pointed out recently, quoting Makoto Fujimura I think, that the difference between art and entertainment is subtle, but important: Entertainment gives you a predictable pleasure… Art leads to transformation. If that’s true, then we may have a problem, because what a lot of people call “art” isn’t changing us. At best, it’s entertaining us, dulling our senses and inebriating us to the realities of the world. Which is not the point. Art is supposed to transform: * It surprises. * It wounds. * It changes. Entertainment makes us feel good. It doesn’t surprise us; it meets our expectations. And that’s why we like entertainment: it coddles us. But the problem with entertainment is it leaves us unchanged...
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...tales. Whereas the groups have changed, the traditions have stayed somewhat untouched. Today’s country music is more popular than ever and as long as the artists continue to push the artistic boundaries should continue to grow in popularity. In medieval Europe a bard provided music and entertainment going from town to town singing and telling stories and informing people of news from other towns. The rhyme schemes and lyrical content of medieval bards and country music are similar (Country Music and the Myth of the American West, n.d.). Bard lyrics and country music lyrics reflect culture and the society of the time. In the 18th century Europeans began to emigrate to the colonies or America. Many immigrants from Ireland and Scotland settled in the Appalachian region. Immigrants brought music and instruments like the fiddle to the area. The fiddle became the central instrument of country music from Appalachia adopting from the cultural use of the fiddle from the British. Early country music roots in the cultural traditions of the traveling show. In the middle 18th century American minstrel or medicinal shows traveled from town to town presenting musicians and other entertainment (Country Music and the Myth of the American West, n.d.). Country music during this time reflected the culturally themes Christianity, hard work, death, love, and everyday living. Country music roots originate in medieval Europe bard songs about daily life and struggle and reflected a...
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...[pic] Tourism and Hospitality Management 3.222 Ajith Vengolickal Soman– GDTM – Semester II Title: - Physical Carrying capacity in Lakshadweep Tourism Student ID(211) Word Count: - Submitted To: - Jonathan Spring Definition of Tourism Carrying Capacity “Tourism Carrying Capacity is defined by the “World Tourism Organization” as the maximum number of people that may visit a tourist destination at the same time, without causing destruction of the physical, economic, socio-cultural environment and an unacceptable decrease in the quality of visitor satisfaction” Introduction Lakshadweep known as the coral paradise of Arabian Sea constitutes a group of islands lying scattered as distance of 220 to 460 km away from South Indian cost. The Lakshadweep archipelago is the smallest union territory of India, the mainland city of Cochin in Kerala. The early settlers in the islands were Hindus and Budhist, who were converted in Islam by around 7th centuary.Lakshawdeep remains as the only union territory of India whose local resident are entirely Muslims. Lakshadweep has a tropical climate with summer temperature ranging from 35 to 22 degree centigrade The traditions lifestyle and language of the people of island have close resemblance with that of Kerala. Due to large social backwardness, remoteness from the mainland, low levels of resources and development potential, and the population of these islands is classified...
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...understand. All the people who abuse animals don’t understand when they are harming an innocent animal are going to continue to do it until they are shown what they are doing wrong. Each type of abuse has certain patterns that scientists can study and find out why people commit the crimes they do. Animal cruelty is broken down into two categories, which are active and passive. Active cruelty is also known as NAI (non-accidental injury). NAI is when a person has malicious intent so fierce that they deliberately and intentionally cause harm to an animal. On the other hand with passive cruelty a person doesn’t intentionally cause harm to the animal, they simple neglect it by giving it no attention. While I was doing the research for this essay, I thought non-stop about how a human being could break a dogs leg, back, or even neck and feel no sympathy for the dog? Are some people in this world that heartless that they have no feelings for other living things? I wonder if you asked a person that has abused an animal if they would do the same things they did to the animal to another human being? All over the world the suffering and killing of animals are often known as a sport or science research. In Canada, thousands of seals are killed. Are they killed because us humans need them to live? No, Canadian fisherman use sealing as an off-season activity just to pass the time. Sealing is when fishermen kill seals...
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...Chapter Fifteen The Roman Empire at its Zenith (to 235 CE) In retrospect we can see that a decline of the Roman empire began in the reign of Marcus Aurelius (161-180), when the Germanic barbarians along the Rhine and especially the Danube discovered that the Romans were not well equipped to fight wars on two fronts. When the emperor, that is, was preoccupied with a war against the Parthians in Mesopotamia, the Roman frontier along and beyond the Danube was poorly defended, and the barbarians could make raids deep into the Roman provinces. Despite the danger of wars on two fronts, the Roman empire was able to manage well enough from the 160s until 235, when the decline became precipitous, and brought with it radical economic, cultural and religious changes. This chapter, therefore, will look at the empire in its relatively golden period, from the first century until the death of Alexander Severus, the last of the Severi, in 235. The classes This was a stratified, hierarchical society in all ways. In civic status the top of the pyramid was the emperor, followed by Roman provincial governors, senators and other officials, then by the local gentry, and next by the rank and file of Roman citizens. Of all the free men in the empire, only about a third ranked as Roman citizens. Right behind the Romans were the Hellenes (in the Greek-speaking eastern provinces the Hellenes were enrolled as such in the municipal census), then came Judaeans, and finally the other barbarians. So in...
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...The current issue and full text archive of this journal is available at www.emeraldinsight.com/0265-1335.htm IMR 28,2 The role of context in assessing international marketing opportunities Susan P. Douglas and C. Samuel Craig Stern School of Business, New York University, New York, New York, USA Abstract Purpose – The choice of which country or countries to enter is a critical decision and needs to be made with considerable care and deliberation. Initial market entry decisions have typically focused on country evaluations based on macro-economic data. While appropriate in providing an initial screening of countries, other factors, notably contextual factors, can provide important insights in assessing international market opportunities. The purpose of this paper is to examine the impact of context at four distinct levels. Design/methodology/approach – The literature on the influence of context on consumption and purchase behavior is reviewed to provide a framework to understand contextual factors as a means to refine entry strategy and develop effective segmentation strategies. Findings – A wide range of contextual factors exert influence on consumption choices and contribute to within-country heterogeneity. These are typically examined at the macro-level, but also need to be examined at the meso-level, micro-level and situational level to fully assess market opportunities and establish viable market segments. Practical implications – Examination of contextual factors...
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...Chapter 3 Augmented Reality – Where it Started from and Where It’s Going Veronika Szucs, Silvia Paxian and Cecília Sik Lanyi Additional information is available at the end of the chapter http://dx.doi.org/10.5772/59796 1. Introduction This study provides an overview of augmented reality (Augmented Reality, AR) and some of its important and popular areas of application. Augmented reality technology integrates 3D virtual objects into a real 3D environment, in real time. This book chapter presents the areas of everyday life where AR can be used (including, but not limited to): medical informatics, production repair, visualization, route planning, entertainment and military applications, marketing tasks and education. The basic characteristics of AR systems, the need for compro‐ mise in their applicability, and optical and video mixing approaches are presented in the chapter. The chapter introduces the two main areas of sensor errors, which are considered as a basic problem during the design of efficient augmented reality systems. We summarize how the current devices are able to solve these problems. The expected future direction of AR technology developments and the areas where further research is needed are simultaneously introduced. 1.1. Aims In the course of preparing the study, the actualities of augmented reality technologies have been reviewed. Questions associated with differing scope of application, design and imple‐ mentation problems of augmented...
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...Full essay Twitter: Taming the firehose Andria Krewson Akrewson45c@mac.com Certificate in Technology and Communication program, School of Journalism and Mass Communication, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill May 3, 2009 About the Author Andria Krewson, a journalist with more than 25 years of news experience in Georgia, Florida and primarily North Carolina, is a student in the Certificate in Technology and Communications program in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. In her journalism career, she has focused on design; learning, teaching and supporting new technologies, especially content management systems; producing local, focused information in niche publications; and managing creative workers. She has been on Twitter as the user @underoak since February 2008, and also as @akrewson since September 2008. She expects to complete the UNC technology program in May 2009. Reach her at akrewson45c@mac.com UNC Honor Code: "I have neither given nor received unauthorized assistance while preparing this assignment and I have written the code myself." This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License. To view a copy of this license, visit here. Brief abstract Twitter, the short-message service started in March 2006, has a reputation for being filled with irrelevant noise. But new users continue to stream onto the service,...
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...Introduction........................................................ pp. 1 Historical filmic context...................................... pp. 3 History in the film............................................... pp. 4 Use of intertitles...................................... pp. 5 Free interpretation of facts..................... pp. 7 Fiction mixed with reality........................ pp. 8 The film as history............................................... pp. 10 An autonomous language........................ pp. 10 Critical reception......................................pp. 14 The cinema: a mass spectacle.................. pp. 15 Bibliography......................................................... pp. 17 Introduction In this essay I am going to talk about history in The Birth of a Nation by David Wark Griffith. By “history” I mean: the historical filmic context of the film, which was released in 1915. I am going to show how history is represented in the film. We can see some facts that may have been changed in some aspects in order to guide our minds to what the director want us to think. We also find, as a method to support this, the introduction of fictional characters in some much known historical events of the United States. To end with, I am going to explain why this film is so important, including the technical improvements that are represented here. D. W. Griffith David Walk Griffith was born in Oldham County, Kentucky, on 22nd January, 1875. Griffith attempted...
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...Stock Investing FOR DUMmIES 2ND by Paul Mladjenovic ‰ EDITION Stock Investing FOR DUMmIES 2ND ‰ EDITION Stock Investing FOR DUMmIES 2ND by Paul Mladjenovic ‰ EDITION Stock Investing For Dummies® 2nd Edition , Published by Wiley Publishing, Inc. 111 River St. Hoboken, NJ 07030-5774 www.wiley.com Copyright © 2006 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Indianapolis, Indiana Published simultaneously in Canada No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, scanning, or otherwise, except as permitted under Sections 107 or 108 of the 1976 United States Copyright Act, without either the prior written permission of the Publisher, or authorization through payment of the appropriate per-copy fee to the Copyright Clearance Center, 222 Rosewood Drive, Danvers, MA 01923, 978-750-8400, fax 978-646-8600. Requests to the Publisher for permission should be addressed to the Legal Department, Wiley Publishing, Inc., 10475 Crosspoint Blvd., Indianapolis, IN 46256, 317-572-3447, fax 317-572-4355, or online at http://www.wiley.com/go/permissions. Trademarks: Wiley, the Wiley Publishing logo, For Dummies, the Dummies Man logo, A Reference for the Rest of Us!, The Dummies Way, Dummies Daily, The Fun and Easy Way, Dummies.com and related trade dress are trademarks or registered trademarks of John Wiley & Sons, Inc. and/or its affiliates in the...
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