...THE AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL ASIA FALL SEMESTER 2014 History of Art Dr Raymond-Josef Hoffmann Description: This course is an introduction to art as the embodiment of cultural, social, and political values, ranging from ancient civilizations to the modern period. The class examines painting, sculpture, and architecture , and both domestic and ornamental artifacts of Near Eastern, Mediterranean and Western civilisations. Various historical periods will be considered through an examination of creative practices, themes, and visual forms. Examples of the work of representative artists and movements, from Praxiteles in ancient Greece to recent artists will be explored. The course will also consider cultural and artistic exchanges between societies of Europe, the Americas, Asia (including central Asia), and Africa, when appropriate. Human beings have been culture-makers and illustrators from the beginning: the history of our species on earth can be traced from early cave drawings and implements for eating and hunting to decorative arts, gothic cathedrals, skyscrapers to non-cognitive forms of expression that defy interpretation. This course is an exploration of an essential aspect of our attempts to shape the world and to create an environment in which self-expression, pleasure, ideology and aspiration can thrive. 1. Structure: The course comprises two 80 minute discussion/seminars based on specific works of art each week. The topics and readings are given...
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...Intro. * The Baroque is a period of artistic style that used exaggerated motion and clear, * Interpreted detail to produce drama, tension, exuberance, and grandeur in sculpture, painting, architecture, literature, dance and music. * The style began around 1600 in Rome, Italy and spread to most of Europe. * The Baroque style was encouraged by the Roman Catholic Church, What is Baroque Art? * Baroque art above all reflected the religious tensions of the age to reassert itself in the wake of the Protestant Reformation. * Was designed essentially to appeal to the growing aspirations of the merchant and middle classes * Baroque art tended to be large-scale works of public art, such as monumental wall-paintings and huge frescoes for the ceilings and vaults of palaces and churches. Baroque Architecture * Was designed to create spectacle and illusion. * The straight lines of the Renaissance were replaced with flowing curves, while domes/roofs were enlarged, and interiors carefully constructed to produce spectacular effects of light and shade. * Characterized by an emphasis on unity among the arts. * It was an emotional style, which, wherever possible, exploited the theatrical potential of the urban landscape - as illustrated by St Peter's Square (1656-67) in Rome, designed by architect, Bernini, Baroque Painting * Painters and sculptors built and expanded on the naturalistic tradition * The illusionistic effects of deep space interested...
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...Christhea Amanda Pierre Cardin – Fashion Designer Research Paper Intro to Fashion Pierre Cardin (born Pietro Cardin) was born to French parents in San Andrea da Barbara, a city near Venice, Italy on July 7, 1922. Italy and France definitely influenced his fashion aesthetic, the fact that he is a couturier has proved that his style was influenced by his parents’ background as well as his own (though he mostly lived in France, he lived in Italy for 23 years). He moved to Paris, France at the end of World War II in 1945 to study architecture. He worked in Paquin fashion house and later he left the Paquin house to work for the Schiaperelli fashion house. Later in his life he met Christian Berard and Jean Cocteau, Jean was considered to be a genius for his multiple talents as an artist; not only he was a director, he was also a poet, writer, set designer, and a painter. In this period of his life, Pierre made costumes for several movies like La Belle et la Bête, also known as Beauty and the Beast, in 1946. After his work in the costuming industry was well received, he worked for Christian Dior in 1947 where he helped design Dior’s “New Look”. New Look was designed to free women’s bodies from earlier fashion of masculinity in women’s garments due to World War II. This line emphasized women’s femininity by showcasing their curves. Pierre Cardin eventually left Dior to build his own fashion house in 1950 on Rue Richepanse in Paris. He began the career of his fashion house...
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...History Leaving Cert American Essay Notes By James Esses Mocks.ie History Leaving Cert Revision Notes James Esses Page 1 Contents 1.0 Essay 1: Changes in the US Economy from 1945-1989 ..................................................................... 3 1.1 Boom (1945-1968) .................................................................................................................. 3 1.2 Bust (1968-1989)..................................................................................................................... 4 2.0 Essay 2 Consumer Society post 1945 ................................................................................................ 6 3.0 Essay 3 Foreign Policy 1945-1972 ..................................................................................................... 8 3.1 Berlin ....................................................................................................................................... 8 3.2 Korea ....................................................................................................................................... 9 3.3 Berlin Wall ............................................................................................................................. 10 3.4 Cuba ...................................................................................................................................... 10 4.0 Essay 4: How did the US become involved in Vietnam and why did it escalate in...
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...Competitiveness of ports Antwerp, Zeebrugge and Rotterdam Maritime and Modal Transportation Borms Floris 2014/2015 Table of content 1. Intro p. 3 2. General information about the ports p. 4 3.1.1. Antwerpen p. 4 3.1.2. Zeebrugge p. 5 3.1.3. Rotterdam p . 6 3. Geographical Location p. 7 4. Hinterland connections p. 8 5. Port services quality, frequency, efficiency p. 10 6. Port Authority/Administration (legal/institutional background) p. 10 7. Conclusion p . 11 8. References p. 13 1. Introduction In this term paper I will discuss the competitiveness of ports. What are the most important factors that influence the results of a port and the amount of customers and suppliers they attract. This will include exogenous as well as endogenous components. The focus will be on the ports of Antwerp, Zeebrugge and Rotterdam because their locations are close to each other and on the first view they serve a similar market, which makes them comparable. To completely understand the performances of these ports, it is important that we have a short background of the ports and how they are evolving. This will be explained in the general information topic. Thereafter we will have a look at their geographical locations, the connection with the hinterland, their services they offer and the legal background. 2. General Information 2.1 Port of Antwerp ...
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...Summary Submitted by: Emerging Markets Group, Ltd. StrikConsulting d.o.o. Sarajevo Submitted to: USAID Contract No.: AFP-I-800-03-00029-04 DISCLAIMER The author’s views expressed in this publication do not necessarily reflect the views of the United States Agency for International Development or the United States Government. Assumptions and limitations a) This is the summary of the report “EU Household Furniture Market Overview in France, Germany, Italy, United Kingdom and Ireland,” which was prepared by AGRCo Team in April 2006 (contract number: AFP-1-00-03-00029-00, Task order number: 800). b) The authors used the following source documents for producing this Summary (the file names are in brackets): • • • • • • A Market Overview – United Kingdom [ 3UK MarketStudy April06-PR.doc] Appendices for the Furniture Market Overviews – EU Country Markets of France; Germany; Italy; United Kingdom; Ireland [Appendix 1 Product Groups.doc] A Market Overview – France [MS-France-Apr06-PR.doc] A Market Overview – Italy [MS-Italy3.doc] A Market Overview – United Kingdom [UnitedKingdom MARKET OVERVIEW (2a).ppt] A Market Overview – Germany [Germany MARKET OVERVIEW (3).ppt In addition, the following files were obtained: • • EU Market Survey summary prepared by David King [EU Furniture Market Survey – King – Apr-06.ppt] Lists of fairs in BiH and abroad [Copy of List of Fairs.xls, Copy of list of fairs eng.xls, Grazz Messe Info – Nail – Apr-06.pdf, Messen Holz.doc] c) Except...
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...1 Ontology Based Web Searching Mechanism for Information Retrieval W.A.C.M. Wickrama Arachchi & K.L. Jayarathne University of Colombo School of Computing, Sri Lanka chamil.madusanka@gmail.com & klj@ucsc.cmb.ac.lk Abstract—The largest data repository, World Wide Web is being a popular research domain where many experiments carry on various types of search architectures. This paper explore the ability of applying concept to concept mapping to the search architecture that applied to a semantic model of given domain. This novel search architecture combines classical search techniques with ontological approach. This research presents effective mechanism to represent the result of meaningful web search. For the simplicity, the breast cancer domain has been used. Index Terms—ontology, semantic web, web search, Semantic Search, concept, keyword extraction I. I NTRODUCTION T HE World Wide Web has been grown up as tree which has spread its branches in all the areas. Thus it can be identified as the largest data repository in the world that presents key driving force for large scale of information technology. With the increase of the amount of content it has been difficult to build an interactive web search with traditional keyword search. The idea presented here is improve the searching process with information extracted from the semantic model of the domain. Ontology is the backbone of semantic web technologies. One of the greatest problems of the...
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...MGT-495 Transferable skills development 1.Case Study (9 Marks) One common complaint employee’s voice about supervisors is inconsistent messages – meaning one supervisor tells them one thing and another tells them something different. Imagine you are the supervisor/manager for each of the employees described below. As you read their case, give consideration to how you might help communicate with the employee to remedy the conflict. Answer the critical thinking questions at the end of the case? Bob is a 27-year old who is a foodservice manager at a casual dining restaurant. Bob is responsible for supervising and managing all employees in the back of the house. Employees working in the back of the house range in age from 16 years old to 55 years old. In addition, the employees come from diverse cultural and ethnic backgrounds. For many, English is not their primary language. Bob is Serve Safe certified and tries his best to keep up with food safety issues in the kitchen but he admits it’s not easy. Employees receive “on the job training” about food safety basics (for example, appropriate hygiene and handwashing, time/temperature, and cleaning and sanitizing). But with high turnover of employees, training is often rushed and some new employees are put right into the job without training if it is a busy day. Eventually, most employees get some kind of food safety training. The owners of the restaurant are supportive of Bob in his food safety efforts because they know if a...
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...Peer Pressure in Adolescent Development Sondra Hotchkiss University of Guelph FRHD*2280 Adolescent Development March 28, 2014 For this reflection piece, I have chosen to reflect on the affects that peer pressure has on adolescents during development. I will briefly discuss what I have learned about peer pressure and why it tends to peak during mid-adolescence. Furthermore, I will discuss how peer pressure exists in a variety of teen television shows, including One Tree Hill. This example also demonstrates how other teens respond to peer pressure and how it is often connected with bullying. Finally, I will discuss how peer pressure can affect one’s ability to achieve both academically and socially in the school environment. According to the lecture notes (Glozman, lecture notes, FRHD*2280, January 9, 2014) adolescence is defined as a period of the life course between the time puberty begins and the time adult status is approached. During this stage, young people are in the process of preparing to take on the roles and responsibilities associated with adulthood in their culture. During adolescence, we have noticed that peers play a large role in a young person’s life and typically replace family as the center of a teen’s social and leisure activities. Often time’s adolescents have various peer relationships and interact with a wide range of peer groups. As adolescents begin to pull away from their parents in search for their own identity, their friends usually become a...
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...I: Theory 5 1.1 Sovereign bonds and credit rating agencies 5 1.2 Measures for investors behavior 6 1.3 Expected behavior of investors 11 1.4 Related literature 15 1.5 Models 16 Section II: Data & Stylized facts 17 2.1 Data 17 2.2 Stylized facts 20 Section III: Empirical analyses 26 3.1 Effect of rating events on investors’ behavior 27 3.2 Effect of business cycles on investors’ behavior surrounding rating events 33 Conclusion 46 Reference list 48 Appendix 52 Section I: Rating symbols & definitions 52 Section II: Tables 54 Section III: Figures 56 Section IV: Extended theory 57 Section V: Graphs 59 Section VI: Data 67 Section VII: Testing classical assumptions 71 Abstract Firstly, this paper investigates if investors react to changes in sovereign credit ratings. Hereby rating changes for European, Non-European and European Union countries are considered for the period: 1990-2011. Using both bond spreads and credit default swap (CDS) spreads as measures for investors’ behavior, analysis shows that changes in sovereign credit ratings significantly affect these spreads. Furthermore evidence is found that a rating downgrade of a sovereign country has a bigger impact on the spreads than a rating upgrade. Secondly, it is theoretically...
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...[pic] Marketing 100 Andrei Catrinici Term paper Prof. J.Goldstein I - Intro on company History of the company II - Environmental Analysis 1 - Economic forces 2 - Political & Legal forces 3 - Demand a)Total size of market b)Market share c)Characteristics of demand 1-When 2-where 3-how often costumers buy 4 - Competitive forces 5 - Technological forces 6 - Social/Cultural forces III - SWOT Analysis A. Strengths and Weaknesses B. Opportunities and Threats IV - Marketing objectives V - Marketing strategies A. Target markets B. Marketing Mix 1-Product 2-Pricing 3-Distribution 4-Promotion VI - Implementation - Marketing structure Bibliography I. Intro on company Heineken N.V. has wide international presence through a global network of distributors and breweries. It owns and manages one of the world’s leading portfolios of beer brands and is one of the world’s leading brewers in terms of sales volume and profitability. Its principal international brands are Heineken and Amstel, but the group brews and sells more than 170 international premium, regional, local and specialty beers and ciders, including Cruzcampo, Birra Moretti, Foster's, Maes, Murphy's, Newcastle Brown Ale, Ochota, Tiger, Sagres, Star...
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...5. Marketing plan 12 6 Financials 41 7 Key Performance Indicators 42 8 Risk assessment 43 9 Marketing Introduction Process (MIP plan) 44 Management Summary This document presents the BU TV 2010 Global Marketing Activation Plan. The scope of the document is the entire Flat TV portfolio. Particular attention will be paid to the MCI Ambilight and its role in the total plan. The overriding Business Objective of the Business Unit is to turn this business into a profitable activity for Philips. This plan is designed to deliver a positive EBIT in 2010 on the road to sustainable profitability in 2012. We will do this by focusing in 2010 on driving leading market positions (top 2) in DACH, Benelux, France, Nordic and Italy as well as driving profitable growth in Brazil, Russia and China. A big effort will be made to provide better marketing deliverables for all other markets to help improve core profitability and market position. After careful analysis of our Purchase Funnel, an honest assessment of an updated SWOT and a reasonable expectation that external economic situation will...
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...Daum. All rights reserved. Performance Management Beyond Budgeting: Why you should consider it, How it works, and Who should contribute to make it happen. News categories: Enterprise and business strategy, Finance and accounting, Performance management and controlling, Information Technology by Juergen H. Daum Table of content: Intro Why should a company consider to move Beyond Budgeting ? How does the Beyond Budgeting model work ? Who should contribute to make it happen ? The Transition Route – Major success factors Summary Additional resources (updated Jan 2005) “Fixed budgets don’t work today. A budget is a too static instrument and locks managers into the past - Daum New! - visit J.H.D.'s Beyond Budgeting Info Center - including latest BB insight materials, interviews with BB pioneers etc. - here an extract: | J.D.'s insight article "Beyond Budgeting" | Interview with Lennart Francke, CFO of Svenska Handelsbanken | Panel Discussion with Borealis, Nestlé, and Unilever | Interview with Jeremy Hope – co-founder of the Beyond Budgeting Round Table | Interview with J.D. on finance and IT | Intro Three years ago I presented to a group of senior executives at the headquarters of a large U.S. based consumer products company with global operations the concept of “Strategic Enterprise Management” (SEM) – a concept that ties enterprise management closer to strategy and establishes management processes that make it easier to manage trade offs...
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...ISO 9000 From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The ISO 9000 family of standards relate to quality management systems and are designed to help organizations ensure they meet the needs of customers and other stakeholders (Poksinska et al, 2002 [1] ). The standards are published by ISO, the International Organization for Standardization and available through National standards bodies. ISO 9000 deals with the fundamentals of quality management systems (Tsim et al, 2002 [2] ), including the eight management principles (Beattie and Sohal, 1999;[3] Tsim et al, 2002 [2]) on which the family of standards is based. ISO 9001 deals with the requirements that organizations wishing to meet the standard have to fulfill. Third party certification bodies provide independent confirmation that organizations meet the requirements of ISO 9001. Over a million organizations worldwide [4] are independently certified, making ISO 9001 one of the most widely used management tools in the world today. Contents [hide] 1 Reasons for use 2 Background 3 Global adoption 4 Contents of ISO 9001 4.1 Summary of ISO 9001:2008 in informal language 4.2 1987 version 4.3 1994 version 4.4 2000 version 4.5 Certification 5 Auditing 6 Industry-specific interpretations 7 Effectiveness 7.1 Advantages 7.2 Problems 8 See also 9 References 10 Further reading 11 See also 12 External links [edit]Reasons for use The global adoption of ISO 9001 may be attributable to a number of factors. A number of major...
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...TAMPEREEN AMMATTIKORKEAKOULU University of Applied Sciences INTER NATIONAL BUS S T A M P E R E E N I N EM S A T T I K O R K E A K O U L U A M UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES BUSINESS SCHOOL FINAL THESIS REPORT A Marketing Analysis of Household Appliances Market in Finland A Case Study for the Haier Group Na Wang Degree Programme in International Business May 2009 Supervisor: Shaidul Kazi TA MPERE 2009 TAMPEREEN AMMATTIKORKEAKOULU University of Applied Sciences INTER NATIONAL 2 B USINESS Writer(s): Study Programme(s): Title of Thesis Na Wang International Business A Marketing Analysis of The Household Appliances Market in Finland, A Case for the Haier Group Month and Year of Completion: Supervisor: May 2009 Shaidul Kazi Number of Pages: 57 ABSTRACT A company which wants to enter into a new market must first understand the target market’s business environment and how to create and retain customers by providing better value than the competition. As the environment changes, businesses must adapt in order to maintain strategic fit between their capabilities and the marketplace. The process by which businesses analyze the environment and their capabilities and decide upon courses of marketing action is called marketing analysis. A marketing analysis can help the company to make decisions based on the marketing information they have. The aim of this thesis is to form a marketing analysis for Haier Group on the basis of an...
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