...culturally from the empire. Though the empire itself emerged from Rome's decline and lasted until the Fall of Constantinople in 1453, many Eastern Orthodox states in Eastern Europe, as well as to some degree the Muslim states of the eastern Mediterranean, preserved many aspects of the empire's culture and art for centuries afterward. A number of states contemporary with the Byzantine Empire were culturally influenced by it, without actually being part of it (the "Byzantine commonwealth"), such as Bulgaria, Serbia, and the Rus, as well as some non-Orthodox states the Republic of Venice and Kingdom of Sicily, which had close ties to the Byzantine Empire despite being in other respects part of western European culture. Art produced by Eastern Orthodox Christians living in the Ottoman Empire is often called "post-Byzantine." Certain artistic traditions that originated in the Byzantine Empire, particularly in regard to icon painting and church architecture, are maintained in Greece, Serbia, Bulgaria, Macedonia, Russia and other Eastern Orthodox countries to the present day. Byzantine Mosaics (c.500-843) Using early Christian adaptations of late Roman styles, the Byzantines developed a new visual language, expressing the ritual and dogma of the united Church and state. Early on variants flourished in Alexandria and Antioch, but increasingly the imperial bureaucracy undertook the major commissions, and artists were sent out to the regions requiring them, from the metropolis. Established...
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...International University in partial fulfillment for the Bachelor of Science degree in Sport Business Management By: Petr Doubravsky Date: April 16, 2014 Course: MKT - 250 Principles of Marketing Semester: Fall 2013 Instructor: Dr. John Schwarze GEICO, the Government Employees Insurance Company GEICO is the third-largest, private passenger auto insurer in the U.S., which provided coverage for more than 13 million motor vehicles owned by more than 12 million policy holders. GEICO has had consistent growth and success since its founding, but current competitors are copying their Web-based service, and humorous advertising because of their success. Target Market: Regardless of mood, status, income or location, various types of people drive and hopefully have insurance. Specifically, GEICO targets males and females ages 24-64, and appeals to customers with humor and wit. 4 P’s: Price: * The cheapest quote by far is $479 Beating for instance State Farm by $186 per 6 months. This follows anecdotal evidence that GEICO is pricing their insurance very aggressively for new customers. Place: * GEICO writes private passenger automobile insurance in all 50 U.S. states and the District of Columbia. * Has more than 23,000 associates in 12 major locations around the country * GEICO's assets have reached $28 billion, and the company looks forward to even more growth, founded on quality coverage and outstanding GEICO customer service. Product: * In addition to...
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...Social Media Promotion Social media used as a marketing technique is proving to be an essential and necessary tool used in today's business environment. Some of the advantages of using social media as a marketing technique include: increase in brand awareness, increase in sales revenue, increase in customer service, and increase in free marketing. Social media marketing is growing and it must be taken advantage of by business or else they will fall behind. Marketing through social media has became an integral part of the marketing plan for companies so much that 92% of marketers in 2014 believed that social media marketing played an important role in the business. The big name social media websites such as Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter are only a few of the many ways that marketers take advantage of such a growing marketplace. Although Instagram and Snapchat are on the rise in the social media world, Facebook and Twitter will be the primary focus of social media promotion for Pirates Disc Golf & Recreation. Social media marketing is being referred to as, "the next big thing" and most definitely needs to be taken advantage of (DeMers, 2014). Facebook Facebook provides an incredible opportunity as a social media website for business to promote and create company exposure. Business would not believe some of the ridiculous facts and statistics about Facebook usage and activity. Currently there are over 1 billion Facebook users and because of this crazy statistic Facebook's...
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...Online Learning Environment Navigation Guide Introduction Learning how to navigate the online classroom environment is essential to your academic success. GCU’s Learning Management System (LMS) LoudCloud and the GCU Web site have many resources to help you become a successful graduate student. Directions View the LoudCloud Walk to Class Tutorial as well as search LoudCloud to find answers to the first 9 questions below. Search the GCU Web site for answers to the second set of 10 questions below. You should complete the guide while navigating LoudCloud and the GCU Web site. Use this completed guide to assist you when completing the “Navigating the Online Learning Environment Quiz” due at the end of Module 1. LoudCloud Questions 1. List the tabs and other items on the screen when you first enter a course in LoudCloud. Home/Calendar/Tasks/Resources/Connect/Reports/Announcements 2. From the course home page in LoudCloud, click on the “Tasks” tab and then click on “Forums”. Make notes on the various forums and their purposes. Main Forum/Individual Forum/Questions to Instructor You can view by current or all as well as Topics/Total Posts/Unread Posts 3. Under the Resources Tab in LoudCloud, inside the Student Success Center, click on the Writing Center link. What writing style is required for most 500-level courses at GCU? APA 6th Edition 4. Under the Resources Tab in LoudCloud, inside the Student Success Center, click on the Resources tab...
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...Literature (card game). This article includes a list of references, but its sources remain unclear because it has insufficient inline citations. Please help to improve this article by introducing more precise citations. (October 2013) "Literis" Mosaic at the Cultural Center (Chicago, IL).jpg Literature Old book bindings.jpg Major forms Novel Poem Drama Short story Novella Genres Comedy Drama Epic Erotic Nonsense Lyric Mythopoeia Romance Satire Tragedy Tragicomedy Media Performance (play) Book Techniques Prose Poetry History and lists Outline of literature Glossary of terms History (modern) Books Writers Literary / Poetry awards Discussion Criticism Theory Sociology Magazines Portal icon Literature portal v t e Literature (from Latin litterae (plural); letter) is the art of written work. The word literature literally means: "things made from letters". Literature is commonly classified as having two major forms—fiction and non-fiction—and two major techniques—poetry and prose. Literature may consist of texts based on factual information (journalistic or non-fiction), a category that may also include polemical works, biography, and reflective essays, or it may consist of texts based on imagination (such as fiction, poetry, or drama). Literature written in poetry emphasizes...
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...E-GOVERNANCE INITIATIVES TO BRIDGE DIGITAL DIVIDE IN MAHARASHTRA By, Jessica Yvonne Varma (1321250) Bithika Karmakar (1321246) India is a diverse Country with different cultures, languages and religions. Some of the main challenges faced by India are its humongous growth in population, insufficient funds to meet the needs, delays in implementation of government policies etc. These are all some of the main factors which cause unequal development of society. While some people enjoy the luxury of resources, some remain left out. When we look back to the past evolution of technology in India, along with the growth and better opportunities it created, it tended to also heighten social inequalities and unrest. While internet in India has reached a peak of 100 million users (according to IAMAI report of 2012), only 20percent of urban Indians are connected and only 3 percent of rural Indians are connected. While the upper and the middle classes are enjoying the prosperity and happiness of India’s fast growing economy, the majority of our nation is left in darkness. They are ignorant to all the development. This is the digital divide that is splitting our nation apart. Bill Clinton had mentioned that “It is dangerously destabilizing to have half the world on the cutting edge of technology while the other half struggles on the bare edge of survival.” The basic requirement for reducing digital divide is to provide affordable IT infrastructure in all geographical...
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...‘suburbanization’ (1980-2000) where smaller screens were built in shopping centres instead of drive ins. The second phase was ‘diversification’ (2000’s) wider range of cinema types became available creating new experiences to the audience (Given, Curtis & McCutcheon 2013). However the greatest change has been from film prints to digital. This has made it cheaper for cinemas to buy films from distributers, by the end of 2012 majority of exhibition chains had changed their cinemas to digital. This poses a great challenge to the Australian cinema industry as it will no longer be a film industry, subsequently this digitalisation of films has brought greater ways of audiences to view movies. This revolution of film to digital created competition between major exhibitors such as Hoyts (which has 351 cinemas as reported in 2010) and Village (which has 219 cinemas as reported in 2010) (Given, Curtis & McCutcheon 2013, p.19). Before and after this revolution there has been an undulation and inconsistency of people visiting the cinemas, there was a low point in 1984 of roughly only 30 million people yet increased in the 2000’s to a little over 90 million. Yet there is still a steady demographic that visit...
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...people were talking about building something to cross the harbour to put an end to the long commute. In 1922 the New South Wales Government seriously consider a way to connect the two shores together. 20 designs were submitted to the government of a bridge but the winning design was by Dorman, Long and Company. How was the Bridge built? Before the bridge started construction 800 houses were demolished before to make way for the bridge. In 1925 construction on the bridge started, both ends started at the same time and in five years time the ends would meet in the middle. The Sydney Harbour Bridge is made from steel, therefore the engineers had to come up with a way that would allow the bridge to expand and contract and rise and fall 18cm either way. The engineers ended up solving this problem by installing two big hinges on each end of the bridge to allow it to move without collapsing onto itself. To lift the large steel sections and put them into place, a huge ‘creeper’ crane was used to do this. These large steel sections were held into place with rivets; over 6 million rivets were used to construct the Sydney Harbour Bridge. By August 1930 the two halves of the bridge met in the middle,...
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...in Mainland China, home of its corporate parent. Moreover, the headquarters of AMC is located in Leawood, Kansas. AMC’s objective is based to welcome every people to their theaters gates to all associates and make them to live every experience amazing. Also, on the other hand, AMC plans to expand their structure worldwide with the idea of having icon locations in major urban areas and other select areas. On the competition section, AMC was the first cinema who created multiplexing, which is the act of building a movie theater complex with multiple screens converting a unique environment using motion picture exhibitors (traditional method) to increase operating activities efficiencies. However, multiplexing has been discontinued to be a competitive advantage for AMC entertainment since it has been widely adopted by others competitors. But on the positive side which make AMC more competitive is the comfort that theaters offers and the new concept, dine-in theaters at 11 of its location. AMC firstly came public on 2007, nine years ago and its financial projection reached the top stock price at a value of $35.68 on March 2015 but it fall to $20.20 on...
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...of music including rock, jazz, country, soul, and more. 4. Brown, Ruth, and Andrew Yule. Miss Rhythm: The Autobiography of Ruth Brown, Rhythm and Blues Legend. New York: D.I. Fine, 1996. Print. a. Tony Award winner Ruth Brown is a rhythm-and-blues revolutionary, a woman whose early successes earned her instant worldwide fame and launched a career that has influenced such legendary performers as Aretha Franklin, Dinah Washington, Little Richard and Stevie Wonder. This candid autobiography offers the true story of her extraordinary life and career. 5. Burnim, Mellonee V., and Portia K. Maultsby. African American Music: An Introduction. New York: Routledge, 2006. Print. a. is a collection of thirty essays by leading scholars whch survey major African American musical genres, both sacred and secular, from slavery to the present. The work brings together, in a single volume, treatments of African...
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...Remembering A Legend The United States has revolved around the romanticization of cultural icons and profound peoples like Marlon Brando, James Dean, and Elvis Presley. Following the tragic events of August 29, 2016, America now looks to add Gene Wilder to that astounding list. However, the apparent philosophies of Augustus Gloop and other Willy Wonka characters will always seem to savor the sweet taste of the famous, fantasy chocolate. Now that the nation has witnessed a calamitous fall, we can only remember Gene Wilder’s momentous impact on the comedic film community. Wilder appeared in his first major production with a part in the blockbuster film Bonnie and Clyde. Shortly after, Wilder starred in The Producers, a comedy movie depicting...
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...Pistols, and The Beatles. Some setbacks Nirvana faced was that they had a very new and unique sound that most people in the music industry felt would be unmarketable. Another issue was that the band was using drugs, such as heroin. A break for the band when when their first album, Bleach, sold 35,000 copies, which was impressive for a small indie band. The major break was when they signed to a record label for $287,000 and knocked major artists such as Garth Brooks and U2 off the charts (Raz). One impact that Nirvana had on America was that they showed that non-commercial bands could be successful. They started the grunge movement and inspired a generation of teens (and practically every generation there after) to rebel. Sadly, Nirvana also brought drug culture to the forefront of America. The band had always used drugs, including heroin, but the issue was brought to light when Kurt Cobain’s wife, Courtney Love admitted to using heroin during her pregnancy. This caused the public to scrutinize their drug use, but it was still glamorized by the media. The band also inspired many bands such as Weezer, Cage the Elephant, Fall Out Boy, and numerous other artists (Linder). When Kurt Cobain commited suicide on April 8, 1993 the legacy of Nirvana was forever cemented as the symbol of teen rebellion and the grunge...
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...quality and the workers would be paid much less and would not receive any form of health insurance, resulting in more profit in my pocket. The downside is that the Ohio plant would not be able to remain open and 2,000 of my longtime employees would now be jobless and the local economy would most likely take a major hit. After some thought, I came to the conclusion that I will not be moving internationally and the Ohio plant will remain open! If I was to move my company overseas I would make a lot of money from the decision. The company that my grandfather built from the ground up was not money driven, it was built for the love of bicycle making. The company has not gotten where it is today on the dollar of tomorrow; only by the love of bike building. Even though the decision to move international would bring a lot of wealth, it also brings a lot of self-individualism. Companies that go international are self-propelled by their own self-interest. I believe by staying in Ohio my company will stand out among the other bicycle companies. I believe by being able to stamp, “Made in USA” is a very important attribute to the making of my bicycles. The stamp is an icon, representing factory jobs that still remain in the United States. “Made in USA,”...
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...Like most popular songs of the 70s, The Eagles’ rock epic “Hotel California” is written in a verse/chorus format. It contains four verses, two iterations of the chorus, a coda, and a lengthy guitar solo to end the song. The standard Eagles’ instrumental setup for the song includes drummer Don Henley singing, as well as playing the drums. Joe Walsh, Don Felder, and Glen Frey play guitars, and bassist Randy Meisner plays the bass. All four offer backup vocals during the chorus. It is safe to say that both songs are considered “legendary” rock songs, as they are still very popular today. “American Pie” tells the story of the U.S. in the 1960s, starting on the “day the music died”, referring to the 1959 plane crash that killed musical icons Big Bopper, Ritchie Valens and Buddy Holly. McLean then tells the story of the 60s in the United States via...
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...incorporated features of minicomputer operating systems. Windows 1.0 – 2.0 (1985-1992) Introduced in 1985, Microsoft Windows 1.0 was named due to the computing boxes, or "windows" that represented a fundamental aspect of the operating system. Instead of typing MS-DOS commands, windows 1.0 allowed users to point and click to access the windows. In 1987 Microsoft released Windows 2.0, which was designed for the designed for the Intel 286 processor. This version added desktop icons, keyboard shortcuts and improved graphics support. Windows 3.0 – 3.1 (1990–1994) Microsoft released Windows 3.0 in May, 1900 offering better icons, performance and advanced graphics with 16 colors designed for Intel 386 processors. This version is the first release that provides the standard "look and feel" of Microsoft Windows for many years to come. Windows 3.0 included Program Manager, File Manager and Print Manager and games (Hearts, Minesweeper and Solitaire). Microsoft released Windows 3.1 in 1992. Windows 95 (August 1995) A major release of the Microsoft Windows operating system released in 1995. Windows 95 represents a significant advance over its precursor, Windows 3.1. In addition to sporting a new user interface, Windows 95 also includes a number of important internal improvements. Perhaps most important, it supports 32-bit applications, which means that applications written specifically for this operating system should run much faster. Although Windows 95 can run older Windows and DOS applications...
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