...Comparing Nude Women of Art from different eras It is surprising how different female body sculptures from different ancient civilizations are. The diverse forms of human body also embody many different functions and meanings. In art, naked figures reflect a very complex set of formal ideals, philosophical concerns, and cultural traditions. In this essay I would like to compare two sculptures of nude women. The first one is the Venus of Willendorf which was built in Paleolithic Period. Another is called the Venus of Milo carved in ancient Greece. The female body of the Venus of Willendorf depicts enlarged breasts, buttocks and genital, which represents fertility, while the body of Venus of Milo, on the other hand, demonstrates beauty and perfect proportions. Despite the difference characteristics and styles between them, they both represent the different view of the perfect female form. The most widely known female figurine, the Venus of Willendorf, with only 11cm in height, is possibly the smallest female nude sculpture we know. It is one of the most obese representations of the Paleolithic statuary. The Venus of Willendorf can be dated back to approximately the Paleolithic period, around 28,000 to 25,000 BCE. According to some analysis, it was obvious that it had once been “painted with red ochre”, a symbolic substance commonly found in connection with burials and grave goods from the same time period. It was made of Oolitic limestone. Her thighs are also large and pressed...
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...to the Metropolitan museum of art, I performed an analysis on the Egyptian sculpture of Isis-Aphrodite, a symbolic goddess in Egyptian culture. The sculpture of Isis-Aphrodite dates to the Roman period. This time period was around the second century A.D. The Metropolitan museum of art purchased the sculpture in 1991. The piece of Isis-Aphrodite is a terracotta figure. It is made of alluvial clay. It is painted with brown, black, red, and pink paint on a white englobe. This rather small delicately painted figurine of Isis gives great gratification to sight upon first glance. It has a height of only 19.5 inches, and a width of approximately 5 inches. It is however, truly astonishing. The sculpture has a narrow expressionless face. She has brown shoulder length hair is fixed with twists like curls, and bangs. Aside from a few elaborate accessories, Isis is nude. Isis wears a large attention grabbing crown on her head, which steals the emphasis from other features. The crown is actually an exaggerated calathos (the crown of Egyptian Greco-Roman deities) emblazoned with the sun disk and horns of Isis. She also wears a bracelet, anklet, and sash. The goddess stands erect with her hands just below her hips. Her feet and legs are close together. Isis has hips that are proportioned wider than the other body parts. Her stomach protrudes slightly outward. I believe the sculpture of Isis-Aphrodite was used to symbolize the female aspect and power of life. The ancient Egyptians used...
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...found displayed across walls and crafted into figurines within caves throughout Western Europe. The fine art crafted by these people is impressive and reflective of their intellect. Most of the artwork found belonging to this time period depicts animals or mythical beasts. Upper Paleolithic societies had some kind of relationship with animals and studying these relationships can provide interesting information about different Upper Paleolithic cultures. Kenneth Feder, Amy Paterson and Patricia Rice, Michael Balter, and Nicholas Conrad all discuss possible implications of the artwork in their respective writing. All four sources agree that cave art provides insight into the human animal relationship of the Upper Paleolithic period. One primary relationship researchers have been working for decades to illuminate is the connection between artwork and the hunting patterns of the ancient people that made it. In their research, Rice and Paterson explore the interrelationships between cave art and bones, and try to determine what information can be extracted from them. In their report, they consider reindeer, horse, bovines, red deer, ibex, and mammoth. These animals make up over ninety percent of the animals portrayed in the artwork and the majority of the excavated bone debris. The link between the art and bone data represents the human hunting patterns of the Upper Paleolithic people. Rice and Patterson did extensive statistical analysis as an attempt to find correlations...
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...Image: Cultures Idolizing the Female Form A Comparison and Contrast of the Barbie Doll and Venus de Willendorf Image: Cultures Idolizing the Female Form A Comparison and Contrast of the Barbie Doll and Venus de Willendorf The fact that cultures have idolized the female form in our modern era is not a new concept. Beauty in modern times has been held to the highest standard, but where and why did we get our ideal of beauty? Culture plays a large in role in how beauty is defined, and this is very clear when it pertains to the culture behind both the Venus de Willendorf and the more modern Barbie doll. Clearly, idolizing the female form is an ideal that has existed since the very first centuries that humans walked the earth. Taking a look at the two different cultures that idolize the female form may give us a little bit of insight into the similarities and differences there were between two different society’s composed of very similar beings. The statuette Venus de Willendorf was first discovered in Austria in 1908 by the archaeologist Josef Szombathy. This is the earliest image of a human being known to exist, thought to have been created during the Paleolithic era some 25,000 years ago (Witcombe)! The climate in the region that the statuette was discovered was probably an ice covered land, and therefore, her voluptuous image probably portrays a desire for food and to survive. Humans will always have one thing in common: survival. Whether it is a work of art portraying...
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...IB Dipolma Extended Essay “30,000 Years of Big Women, What caused the Modern Mortification of the Female Form?” Sarah Martino Candidate Number: 000193-0076 South Side High School 2013 Word Count: 3,002 Number of Pages: 14 Abstract: The goal of this essay is to address the changes in the female form in art throughout time. This topic is obviously pertains to the subject of visual arts as the main focus of this essay is evaluating the aesthetics of the female form through examples of artwork. Many research questions were considered but the one chosen was: “30,000 Years of Big Women, What Caused the Modern Mortification of the Female Form?” To answer this question, I chose a piece of artwork for numerous time periods that included the female form. First researching background information about the artist and the time period and then relating it to why the piece was constructed in that way. Through much research and meetings with individuals who are familiar in this subject matter, I was able to develop an argument, which demonstrated the changes in female form for various reasons. Table of Contents Page 1- Title Page Page 2- Abstract Page 3- Table of Contents Page 4- Essay Page 14- Bibliography Page 15- Table of Images The Cyclades, are a group of Greek islands, of the Aegean Sea, were home to the Cycladic Civilization, which lasted from about 3200 BC- 1100BC. This time period is broken up by historians into the early Cycladic...
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...CLAR 120: GLOSSARY UPDATED: 8/18/15 absolute dating: The determination of age with reference to a specific time scale, such as a fixed calendrical system. Anatolia: The western Asian peninsula bordered by the Black Sea, the Aegean, and the Mediterranean, with the eastern border variously defined; today the western part of Turkey. Also called Asia Minor, especially when referring to the Greek and Roman periods. anthropology: The study of humanity - our physical characteristics as animals, and our unique non-biological characteristics we call culture. apsidal: building type with one rounded end, found especially in mainland Greek Early Iron Age contexts. archaeological survey: Recording remains visible on the surface, without recourse to excavation. archaeology: A subdiscipline of anthropology involving the study of the human past through its material remains. artifact: Any portable object used, modified, or made by humans; e.g. stone tools, pottery, and metal weapons. ashlar masonry: masonry style with smoothed rectangular cut blocks. assemblage: A group of artifacts recurring together at a particular time and place, and representing the sum of human activities. band: A term used to describe small-scale societies of hunters and gatherers, generally less than 100 people, who move seasonally to exploit wild (undomesticated) food resources. Kinship ties play an important part in social organization. Big-Man society: A type of socio-political organization where an influential...
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...Marketing Management Study Program : Management Assignment Title : Group Project Group Members : Anton Kokabri Caroline Natalia Chandra Leonardi Sutopo Selly Sherly Warren Class : Prince Edward Island Lecturer : Sir Hendra Submission Date : 13 November 2009 Business Marketing Plan Executive Summary Overview T-Quila is an upscale clothing shop that will open in July next year. T-Quila, which means "Tequila" or "kind of wine”, defines the shop and its essence of inclusion. We choose the name to suppose that our products will make the customers to be addicted to our products and keep on buying them. T-Quila's clothing selections are couple T-shirt, Family T-shirt, Siblings T-Shirt, Female Tees and D.I.Y T-shirt that will satisfy Medan people’s demand in a unique and well-designed T-Shirt. T-Quila is a group-owned business currently organized as a Partnership. Clothing for Everyone T-Quila will provide T-Shirt that is wearable in any kind of occasions and stretch in the special design. T-shirt is never out-of-date while other fashion stuff is not up-to-date anymore. From century to century, T-shirt has always been the most favorable items to wear by most people. In addition to that, we provide T-shirt with unique design and in various types. T-Quila’s customer is people who want to be stylish with a minimum budget and become the one who is in the middle of the spotlight. They enjoy the T-shirt fashions and want a place where they can go...
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...Student ID: 1420412 Assignment: 1 Levi’s Strauss Case Study Levi's Strauss has been going the extra mile to phase in HRM into the mainstream management activities. This has brought a definitive competitive edge to the company and has remodeled the workforce mindset. The employees’ influence at all levels, the human resource flow, the reward and work systems are so elaborated that we feel that employees becomes naturally committed, more to the company itself, than to their career or pay. There is a paternalist approach to employee welfare and policies are well integrated with genuine consultations and sincere involvements at all levels of management. All these approaches have nonetheless been cost-effective as the dress-code policy or the benefits for the gay’s shows very well. The company appears harmonious in terms of relationships at all levels. One can get the impression of a quasi-total cohesion between the strategic planning for the company and the HRM, marketing, production and financial units. However as we look deeper into the aspiration statements we still can find some "unfinished businesses". They are very few and still on the agenda of the management. Let us first analyse what have currently been done and then analyse what has not yet been implemented or has not been mentioned and is being assumed. We now analyse the positive aspects at 4 levels namely the strategic integration, the commitment of the workforce, the flexibility and availability and the quality of...
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...Running head: Marketing Plan The Stampin’ Room Rhonda Sarli Keller School of Management TABLE OF CONTENTS 1.0 Executive Summary 3 2.0 Situation Analysis 3 2.1 Market Summary 4 2.2 SWOT Analysis 6 2.3 Competition 7 2.4 Product (Service) Offering 9 2.5 Keys to Success 10 2.6 Critical Issues 11 3.0 Marketing Strategy 11 3.1 Mission 12 3.2 Marketing Objectives 12 3.3 Financial Objectives 13 3.4 Target Markets 13 3.5 Positioning 16 3.6 Strategies 16 3.7 Marketing Mix 18 3.8 Marketing Research 19 4.0 Controls 20 4.1 Implementation 21 4.2 Marketing Organization 21 4.3 Contingency Planning 21 5.0 Conclusion 22 Appendix A 23 References 24 1.0 Executive Summary Scrapbooking is an amazing way of taking those photos that are collecting dust and displaying them in a way that is creative, colorful, and decorated with all sorts of embellishments. This idea of storing pictures in a scrapbook has been around for a very along time. Most of the products that are available such as acid and wood-products used in paper can damage the photographs. New technology has come along in recent years that include acid-free paper and has revolutionized the method of preserving photos. Scrapbooking has become a popular hobby and can help to tell a story. Card-making has also become a popular hobby and the same supplies that are used in scrapbooking can also be used...
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...emerge for kindchenschema cute stimuli, since they prime mental representations of vulnerability and caretaking. Four empirical studies provide evidence for the proposed effects and their underlying process. C ompanies market a rapidly increasing number and variety of cute products across numerous categories, targeting not only children but also adult consumers. The marketplace is replete with cute clothing, utensils, appliances, foods, office supplies, and even automobiles, which are quite popular among adult consumers (Marcus 2002; Taylor 2011; Yano 2004). For example, Etsy, an online marketplace for handmade products, which sells a wide variety of cute products (e.g., crocheted R2-D2s, dog-inspired pillows, and painted wooden figurines), had revenues of $895 million in 2012 (Wolverson 2013) and the Lilly Pulitzer fashion brand, which...
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...emerge for kindchenschema cute stimuli, since they prime mental representations of vulnerability and caretaking. Four empirical studies provide evidence for the proposed effects and their underlying process. C ompanies market a rapidly increasing number and variety of cute products across numerous categories, targeting not only children but also adult consumers. The marketplace is replete with cute clothing, utensils, appliances, foods, office supplies, and even automobiles, which are quite popular among adult consumers (Marcus 2002; Taylor 2011; Yano 2004). For example, Etsy, an online marketplace for handmade products, which sells a wide variety of cute products (e.g., crocheted R2-D2s, dog-inspired pillows, and painted wooden figurines), had revenues of $895 million in 2012 (Wolverson 2013) and the Lilly Pulitzer fashion brand, which...
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...emerge for kindchenschema cute stimuli, since they prime mental representations of vulnerability and caretaking. Four empirical studies provide evidence for the proposed effects and their underlying process. C ompanies market a rapidly increasing number and variety of cute products across numerous categories, targeting not only children but also adult consumers. The marketplace is replete with cute clothing, utensils, appliances, foods, office supplies, and even automobiles, which are quite popular among adult consumers (Marcus 2002; Taylor 2011; Yano 2004). For example, Etsy, an online marketplace for handmade products, which sells a wide variety of cute products (e.g., crocheted R2-D2s, dog-inspired pillows, and painted wooden figurines), had revenues of $895 million in 2012 (Wolverson 2013) and the Lilly Pulitzer fashion brand, which...
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...The Philosopher’s Stone by Colin Wilson PANTHER, GRANADA PUBLISHING London Toronto Sydney New York Published by Granada Publishing Limited in Panther Books 1974 Reprinted 1978 ISBN 0 586 03943 0 First published in Great Britain by Arthur Barker Limited 1969 Copyright © Colin Wilson 1969 Granada Publishing Limited Frogmore, St Albans, Herts, AL2 2NF and 3 Upper James Street, London, WIR 4BP 1221 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY 10020, USA 117 York Street, Sydney, NSW 2000, Australia 100 Skyway Avenue, Toronto, Ontario, Canada Mgw 3A6 Trio City, Coventry Street, Johannesburg 2001, South Africa CML Centre, Queen & Wyndham, Auckland, New Zealand Made and printed in Great Britain by Hazell Watson & Viney Ltd Aylesbury, Bucks Set in Linotype Pilgrim This book is sold subject to the condition that it shall not, by way of trade or otherwise, be lent, re-sold, hired out or otherwise circulated without the publisher’s prior consent in any form of binding or cover other than that in which it is published and without a similar condition including this condition being imposed on the subsequent purchaser. Scanned : Mr Blue Sky Proofed : It’s Not Raining Date : 09 February 2002 PREFATORY NOTE Bernard Shaw concluded his preface to Back to Methuselah with the hope that ‘a hundred apter and more elegant parables by younger hands will soon leave mine... far behind’. Perhaps the thought of trying to leave Shaw far behind has scared off would-be competitors. Or perhaps - what is altogether...
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...of Leather sector in Indian as well as in international trade. 3 INDIAN LEATHER INDUSTRY TABLE OF CONTENTS CHAPTE R TOPIC Acknowledgement Preface Executive Summary Objectives Of The Study PAGE NO. 02 03 08 10 1. INTRODUCTION TO LEATHER INDUSTRY: An Overview History Of Leather World Scenario Environmental Products Aspects for Leather 11 12 14 17 2. THE INDIAN LEATHER INDUSTRY: Indian Scenario Composition Of Indian Leather Exports Strengths Of Indian Leather Sector 18 20 21 22 4 Export Potential: India’s Export Of Leather And Leather Products For Five Years INDIAN LEATHER INDUSTRY Import Scenario Major Importing Countries Of Indian Leather And Leather Products Analysis Of India’s Export Potential Strategies For Indian Leather...
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...DECLARATION I certify this report of the Study Project entitled: “The difficulties and some solutions to Vietnamese-English translation” to total fulfillment of the requirement for the report of graduation practice. Son La, April 2011 Nguyễn Thị Thiện ACKNOWLEDGEMENT First and foremost, I would like to express my sincere thanks to my supervisors, Mrs. Nguyen Thi Ngoc Thuy and Mrs. Nguyen Mai Huong, lecturers of the Foreign Languages Department of Son La College. This report could have probably not completed without their patient, enthusiastic and instructive supervision and encouragement. I also would like to show my profound gratitude to all the lecturers in the Foreign Languages Department in Son La College for tirelessly devoting time and efforts to enrich, broaden and deepen my knowledge over the past three years. My special thanks go as well as to the Foreign Languages Department of Son La College for giving me the opportunity and permission to implement this report. I also would like to delicate my special thanks to my classmates in English course 45, who have supported, cooperated and provided me with valuable suggestions. Especially, I am obliged to my friends who looked closely at the final providing me their translation exercises and assignments to use as version of the report for English style and...
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