...The American circus has a unique and often overlooked importance in American history. The first American circuses began shortly after the country was founded, and as the country’s population grew, moved West, went through the Industrial Revolution, and opened its gates to the world, the circus followed. Indeed, in many cases the circus provided people’s first view of new inventions, exotic animals and peoples, and popular entertainments. The history of the circus is in many ways a microcosm of the history of America. The history of a circus dates back to the ancient Roman period, when the first circus, or Circus Maximus, was founded. Soon after, Circus Flaminius and Circus Neronis also appeared. In Roman society, the circus was very different from how we may picture circuses today. It was used mainly for exhibitions for chariot and horse races, staged battles, displays featuring trained animals, jugglers and acrobats. The circus was important to Roman society as it was the only public event that did not separate men and women. Although the layout and the acts of this infant circus is much different than today, the circus still brought much joy to the public. The story of the first American circus begins with John Bill Ricketts, who set up a circus in America. Although his circus career only lasted seven years, he managed to befriend President George Washington, tour the East Coast, Canada, and the West Indies with his company, and present America a new type of entertainment...
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...flat ground and buildings. Its desolate and unhappy. Most people believe that animals are items, that they have no meaning to us. So we slaughter them, and kill them like they are worthless, but if you think harder, are they really meaningless to us? Animals are creatures just like us. They show affection, they have fears, and they breath. Isn’t that what we do? Like humans animals have rights to live peacefully, and not become rugs or coats. When coming into a neighbors house when I was younger, I was appalled when I saw the tiger rug, the moose head on the wall, and the grizzly bear that stood right behind the TV with glassy eyes, and an opened mouth. Those animals had lives, they had children, but somehow people just came out and murdered them, like they had no feelings, and they felt to pain. Yet, looking into that bear’s eyes that day I saw the pain, with its mouth opened wide bearing its gleaming teeth, trying to defend itself. What I realized about the neighbor boy was, he didn’t care about animals. He acted like they were his and his dad’s to kill. He didn’t think that they could really have a heart, or a mind. That is what most humans succeed to miss, that animals aren’t so different after all. Ever since the dawn of humans animals have been harmed and treated unfairly. Most countries have laws that prevent animal fighting and abuse. In India Buddhist and Hindus are vegetarians for ethical reasons. Since the mid nineteen-hundred’s people have become...
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...are looking at what once was a fighter pilot, circus clown, or factory worker in WWII. Tinamarie a CNA at the Bird Haven Convalescent Hospital has met the likes of these. She is a part time college student seeking a teaching credential and works to help provide for her household. She said, “My passion is to teach children but the economy has altered my ability to be a full time student and I have to provide for my family.” Taking the job at the convalescent hospital she is greeted every day by the odor of ammonia and industrial cleaning agents that can not remove the stench of death that permeates the air. She said she always has to take a deep breath and focus on her commitment to the elderly residents she cares for. The only distractions she has is the subtle classical music that is piped in the overhead speakers throughout the corridors and the pleasant floral wall hangings strategically placed to avert ones attention from the stench of death. But she is reminded of her surroundings by the handicap ramps and the cold indoor temperature which is set to prevent the growth of germs and bacteria. Her daily activities in this job include making rounds which consist of feeding them, changing linens and keeping charts of their daily activities for their visiting doctors. The staff consists of one RN an LVN and a handful of CNA’S. It is not uncommon to see a few of the residents in their wheelchairs along the corridors reaching out their hands to greet her. In their eyes she...
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...a clear view of her garden from every room in her mansion. My next stop was the Museum of Art, what a beautiful exhibit. This was actually my favorite place in the entire museum. The first thing that captured my eye, was the twenty feet DAVID towing over the garden. Even though it was not the original, it was radiant. His poise and grace just over took the outdoor quarter. Viewing a sculpture in a text book and actually touching and seeing it in person is amazing. Remembering what I was taught in class; I started reviewing him carefully. Searching for all the characteristics was amazing. I was enjoying this and was in awe. As I got upstairs and was able to touch the sculpture I was amazed of how smooth it was, the original was made out of marble and this one at the museum was made from brass using the original cast. His feet were as long as my arm and his hands as large as my head. After viewing David and viewing all the other sculptures in the courtyard, I taught to myself how amazing theseartists...
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...THE COMMUNICATION OF WINDOW DISPLAY - H&M - UNIQLO YAN14434663 CHIH LING, YANG ABSTRACT This research presents a comparison of the window displays in two different high-street fashion retail brands. H&M is one of the best-known western fashion retailers, while UNIQLO is a fashion retail brand from Asia which has successfully accessed the western market. This research will focus on these two brands’ different visual merchandise strategies and their window layouts during different periods. The results show how these two fashion brands from different cultural backgrounds convey their message to customers. INTRODUCTION The designer creates the product, while visual merchandising gives the product new life. In the sales terminal, window displays not only deliver the brand culture to the customer, but they are also responsible for increasing sales for the company and attracting potential customers. In an aesthetic point of view on display throughout the product content, value and performance, but also presents the brand itself. The purpose of visual merchandising is to promote the store image—to let people know what the store is, where it stands on fashion trends, what one can expect from it, to whom it appeals, its price range, and the caliber of its merchandise and merchandising (Martin M. Pegler 2012, p.3). Nowadays, the high-street fashion market has become more competitive, and every fashion brand has its own brand identity, so it is important to...
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...That means that animal families, babies, and kids are killed each year. This is called animal abuse. To me this is wrong and animals deserve a life just like other people. Pretend you are in a jungle and you are with your family. It is peaceful. A guy pops out and starts trying to kill your family. Your whole family starts dying and then you get shot. Most people would be scared, sad, and worried. This is probably what animals feel like when they are being hunted. One reason why people abuse animals is to hunt for fun and to make money or decorations. For example, people cut off chimps hands and sell them for souvenirs. Imagine people killed you, sold your hands for money, and people bought them for souvenirs. When people go hunting after they also skin the animals or stuff them so they can have decorations on their wall. Many people do this so people think that they are cool. According to peta.org 40 percent of hunters slaughter millions of animals on public land every year. Hunters who make decorations out of dead animals are terribly cruel because they are taking away lives from innocent animals. Cutting off animal heads to hang on the wall is very weird and strange....
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...co-workers and departments at Team Corporation. The executives at Team Corporation have hired Me & My Artsy Friends Events to put together an unique team building event on May 21, 2011 at 8:00 am until 4:00 pm. One hundred employees from different departments will be participating in competitive wacky sport events dressed as sideshow characters. The Wacky Olympics will be 10 track and field events that will help teams to strategize and work harmoniously to reach the finish line. After the days sport events, teams will be served a three course exotic comfort food luncheon that will reflect the whimsical day. The luncheon will feature exotic Cirque du Freaks side show attractions like fire eaters and contortionists as well as a freaky circus décor. The side show characters will be walking throughout the tent expressing their talents as the attendees dine. Just before the party starts, the teams must present their prepared skits during the Freak Show. Stakeholders This event celebrates two different stakeholders: Corporate Executives and Staff. The clients are looking to hold a one day off site team building event aimed to improve staff...
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...For decades, animals were used for scientific discovery or testing of human product, medicine, and cosmetic. Animal testing has not been considered accurate in discoveries of human cures and medication for several decades. Peggy Carlson, author of “Whose Health is it Anyway?” writes, “A 1981 U.S. Congress Office of Technology Assessment Report on the causes of cancer placed more weight on epidemiological data than on animal experiments because its authors argued that animal tests ‘cannot provide reliable data’” (Hurley, Roleff 73). Even when people say animals were essential to discoveries those discoveries were few instances out of numerous times animal testing was not necessary for human health. Animal testing should not even be considered anymore as many new developments in scientific testing have been developed. Recently, a new law has been passed by President Obama which prevents the testing on animals with vertebrates and calls for the Environmental Protection Agency to create and promote new testing processes. The new methods include vitro testing isolated cells against chemicals, using computer modeling to test the chemicals effects, and using previously known data to know which chemicals are already safe (O’Conner). These are cruelty free and more accurate ways of testing...
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...Greg M. Smith Journal of Popular Film and Television 30.1 (Spring 2002) 63-68 In the 1960's American art museums faced another of their cyclical crises of relevance, causing them to reevaluate their role in American society. The dominant paradigm in most traditional art museums was the display of Great Works, aesthetic objects existing outside of time and space for the museumgoer's pure contemplation. Since such works were universal in their artistic appeal, they were expected to reach across barriers of time and space to speak to the patron's sensibilities. The insights of great individual artists enriched the consciousnesses of museumgoers who briefly shed their individual subjectivities to encounter the eternal verities of Beauty and Truth. Outside the walls of the art museum, these eternal verities were in much disarray. The feminist and civil rights movements began publicly questioning whose idea of beauty and whose concept of truth was being articulated. The relevance of historical tableaux and delicate still lifes created for wealthy patrons came into question in an era increasingly aware of social inequities and gender and racial politics. How could the museum maintain its position as the repository of classical Beauty while attracting a population which pondered if black were beautiful or if nudes were sexist? Some museums attracted audiences with the promise of the new. Museums such as the Museum of Modern Art offered new movements...
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...The Algae Island which is made entirely out of seaweed is extremely strange, there are freshwater ponds and at night dead fish float to the surface but disappear in the morning. The strangeness of the island made Pi believe that it was a delusion “I was getting used to the mental delusion”(Martel 257). Pi describes the island too thoroughly and spends too much time for it to be a delusion. Richard Parker is one of the most important symbolisms in the story he represents God, he protects Pi from any danger that comes his way. Richard kills the hyena, the blind man who both intended to eat him and he doesn’t harm Pi even when there is nothing else to...
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...involved in a shootout with saloon owner Phil Coe. Hickok caught a glimpse of someone moving towards him and responded with two shots instantly killing his deputy Mike Williams. The event haunted Hickok for the rest of his life. After the quests were other incidents if Hickok’s brand of “frontier justice” he was revealed of his duties. Hickok never fought in a gun battle after mistakenly shooting one of his deputies. While he was appearing in Buffalo Bill Cody’s Wild West, living off his fame as the consummate gunfighter. In 1876, he was suffering from glaucoma. He lost interest in law enforcement so moved town to town as a gambler. Several times we was arrested for vagrancy. On March 5, 1876 he married Agnes Thatcher Lake, an owner of a circus in Cheyenne, Wyoming Territory. He left Agnes a few months after marrying to seek fortune in the goldfields of South Dakota. In South Dakota it was where he supposedly became romantically linked to Martha Jane Canary also known as “Calamity Jane.” But there was never any written records found or discovered the relationship between the two. On Hickok’s twentieth day of camping and prospecting near Deadwood, August 2, 1876, Hickok went into town to play some cards. He hadn’t been doing well at the tables, and the more urgent his need to win became, the worse his luck seemed to run. The day before he had written a short note to his wife that read “If such should be we never meet again, while firing my last shot, I will gently breathe the...
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...shows such as those that one would see on Broadway or at Cirque du Soleil. Cirque du Soleil shows have been recognized around the world for their beauty, intricacy, spellbinding acts, international talent, and ability to leave an audience with a great lasting impression. Cirque du Soleil’s latest production entitled “Amaluna (which premiered on April 19th, 2012)” is very unique compared to many of the Cirque shows. The show was inspired by a play by Williams Shakespeare entitled “The Tempest.” The show was directed by a world-renowned individual named Diane Paulus, who created many productions such as “The Magic Flute” and “Hair” (Paulus). Recently, I’ve conducted an interview with my friend Melanie Sinclair (an acrobat for the show) to find out what the show is all about. Also, I will be describing three of the sixteen acts in the show that I find fascinating. In order to fully understand the show, one must know the story and the concepts in Amaluna. Amaluna is a wonderful love story that starts off on an island with a girl named Miranda. According to Melanie, Miranda is about to have a coming-of-age ceremony for her entrance into womanhood. Her mother, Prospera, is the queen of the island and directs Miranda’s ceremony. Little did Miranda know, her mother was soon to conduct a storm that would bring in a boat full of suitors to their island. Miranda eventually meets one of the suitors named Romeo and falls in love with him. However, their soon-found love for each other is halted...
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...American Samoa’s McDonald’s. We always would like to congratulate you guys for taking the effort to step out and apply for whatever positions that you are about to start on. Our staff is not really hard to get to know as we only have two branches on Island and one big warehouse which is located separately. Later on, you will be all appointed to specific shifts of the day and different managers and supervisors. However on the interim, since you all came here for New Hire Orientation session, so basically we will be covering all the necessary basics of being an employee of McDonald’s. There will come a time where you will all meet with the CEO of this company. He will impart the company values and ideals, and lets you guys know that he is a hands-on part of the business. Brief History of the Organization The McDonald’s burger restaurant was founded on May 15th 1940 by two brothers whose names were Dick and Mac McDonald in San Bernardino, California. Their restaurant grew and spread throughout different parts of the world. In 1971, the first McDonald’s in Australia opened in the Sydney suburb of Yagoona. On October 12, 1974, the first McDonald's opened in the United Kingdom in Woolwich, south east London. Interestingly, the character Ronald McDonald began his first television debut in 1963, played by Willard Scott who was playing a clown in children's show called Bozo's Circus until it was negated, and got hired by Goldstein to portray Ronald McDonald which was their new mascot...
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...in 1829, and they proceeded to have three children. They settled in New York and established a loving home life for their children. He and his wife managed to stay afloat financially; nevertheless finding jobs was difficult at times. It was during one of his job searches that Solomon became prey for the two men that kidnapped him. Solomon was told that he could come with them, play the violin for the circus and make lots of money, and in addition they would be making stops along the way at different venues where Solomon could make some money. On the contrary, it would be the men making the money by selling him to a slave pen owner. Solomon handcuffed and in chains, made his way to Richmond, Virginia by way of steamship. Upon arrival in Richmond he was examined by potential slave buyers and was on his way to enslavement in the Deep South, Louisiana. During his journey to New Orleans he met two other captives, and the three devised a plan of escape. Their plan was negated when one of the other men contracted small pox and died. Although the escape plan was never carried out, there was one silver lining; Solomon met an Englishman by the name of Manning who was willing to listen to his true story of being a free black who was kidnapped into slavery. He wrote a letter to a lawyer in New York and Manning agreed to mail the letter for him once they had reached New Orleans, he certainly hoped the Englishman would honor their agreement. Following his arrival in New Orleans, Solomon...
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...Austria-Hungary in 1874. While he claims he was born in Appleton, Wisconsin. His father was a Jewish Rabbi, Mayer Samuel Weisz, and his mother was Cecelia Weisz (“Timeline of Houdini's Life”). Erich was short, standing at 5'5”, with dark gray eyes, dark wavy hair, and a high toned voice. Erich had little formal education, like most people at that time, but was exceedingly athletic and extremely motivated (“Harry Houdini Biography”). By the time Houdini was six, he had already developed a taste for magic and sleight of hand after seeing a traveling magician performed the Linking Rings trick. His first trick was making a dried pea appear in any one of three cups (“Harry Houdini” PBS). When Erich was nine some friends of his opened up a five-cent circus. He wore red woolen socks, and called himself "Erich, The Prince of the Air." Erich worked for a localized locksmith and able to pick almost any lock at age eleven. An autobiography by the famed French magician, Houdin, Erich was inspired and chose to follow in his footsteps business-wise. (“Timeline of Houdini's Life”). At the age of thirteen, Erich and his father moved to New York City, after a few of failures in the Midwest, and got jobs as newspaper seller. Then, when he was there he became very interested in trapeze arts and spent his time practicing (“Harry Houdini Biography” Bio.com). Erich and his father got casual jobs, while living in a boarding house, then later their family came to join them. Erich's family was often at...
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