...Compare and contrast influence on Face jug’s for Black Slaves White potters early 1900’s Mitchell Grafton Comparing and contrasting influence to face jug’s by different artists and potters from different time periods in history, helps us gain knowledge about the creative process of artists. The Black slaves made pottery because were not allowed to have tombstones so they would make face jugs and use it as grave markers. They had hidden meanings behind it. The white potter suffered economic depressions and they began making face jugs to earn money and prevent them from going out of business. Mitchell Grafton makes pottery by learning new techniques and he believes that there will be someone else to keep the tradition alive. Firstly slaves...
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...The History of the Blues * In my Assignment I will be mostly taking about the ways that the blues has influenced culture. So what did the blues influence…? Everything. The blues influenced nearly every genre of music that came after it. Jazz in all of its various styles and flavors. From just a basic 12bars you get everything that you need in order to play great music. It’s not like without the blues we would not have any current music actually it’s a lot like that. The influence of blues can even be seen in the classical music of the later Romantic period as well as in various aspects of Contemporary classical music. Literally every style of music that’s come out in the past eighty or more years has once or a few times borrowed something from the blues. To think the whole world would of changed if there was not the blues, or slavery for that matter. To think we would not even have big band music or loud electric guitars, or a guy going yo yo into a microphone. * When you think of the blues, you think about misfortune, betrayal and regret. You lose your job, you get the blues. Your mate falls out of love with you, you get the blues. Your dog dies, you get the blues. * While blues lyrics often deal with personal adversity, the music itself goes far beyond self-pity. The blues is also about overcoming hard luck, saying what you feel, ridding yourself of frustration, letting your hair down, and simply having fun. The best blues is visceral, cathartic, and starkly...
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...Within the last few years, since the financial recovery has been in process, Bristol has seen its coffee culture come alive. The city has always had a good independent café scene, but it seems recently that high-end coffee has become fixed in the city’s mind set. Tin Can Coffee on North Street is the latest addition to the ever growing list of too-cool-for-school coffee houses. Looking at Twitter this morning, you could have been fooled into thinking that it was first place to EVER serve coffee south of the river. However, as soon as I’m on North Street I shall be trying their best and strongest americano. They certainly talk a good game, with speak of “guest espressos”, “a rotating line-up of the season’s best single origin filter options.” This type of talk gets me excited, but is it all pretence on my part? I don’t think so. If you’ve ever wondered about modern coffee culture; here’s a guide to a few of the terms you’ll hear....
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...Robert Mondavi Case Robert Mondavi is facing several threats in 2002, the most important of which is increasing competition in the popular premium segment. The company in 2001 derived 57% of its revenue from the Woodbridge brand and pricing pressure is being applied by Gallo, Fosters and jug producers. Additional pricing pressure is coming from the Australian wines infiltrating the US and UK markets, growing their sales in the US at the rate of 30% per year. Additional challenges include customer dissatisfaction with the current sales representation. The company also has opportunities. Its Robert Mondavi Winery name is held in high esteem and wines of this label command premium prices. The company has consistent financial performance over the preceding four years with growing sales and income. The company has developed advanced production methods that give its wines consistent quality and modest costs of production. Business Environment / Attractiveness of the Wine Industry Among producers in the size range of Mondavi, the wine industry has many companies, which generate net income of about 10% of sales. This would compare to such mainstream US industries as real estate leasing, food manufacturing and agriculture. The barriers to basic entry in the industry are very small. However, the building of a recognized brand name which allows pricing control is a time consuming process, sometimes representing generations of work. The industry is experiencing consolidation...
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...alcohol vary around the world from adoration to proscription of drink, but there are few cultures [1]that completely ignore alcohol (Mandelbaum 1965: 281). Distillation of hard spirits happened only in recent times and for much of human history, wine and beer[2] were the only alcoholic beverages available for common consumption (if a bar or tavern was present in a particular culture). Archeological evidence shows that while during the last 10,000 years alcohol consumption was common, it was also uniquely culturally contextual. Dutch archeologist Marijke Van der Veen claims that “[studying] the production, preparation, consumption, and disposal can help identify the social context of food” (Van der Veen 2006: 407). A more traditional archeological approach focuses less on the production of food due to its “transient nature”.[3] Ethnographic research can provide more information about consumption practices as can historic sources, but we need more information from actual artifacts found at sites around the world. With artifacts, we can provide a more conclusive picture of how different cultures produced, consumed, valued or tabooed, alcohol. Analysis of residues on ceramics provides valuable knowledge about food production practices and trade. However, it is important not to neglect other links in the chain of human food and drink use, most notably consumption itself, the facet of culture we know the least about. ALCOHOL IN PREHISTORIC SOCIETIES: There is...
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...Malko Ebers / Simon Wied SWOT Analysis Robert Mondavi and the Wine Industry Seminar paper Dokument Nr. V27469 http://www.grin.com/ ISBN 978-3-638-29511-6 9 783638 295116 Midterm Group Project Robert Mondavi & The Wine Industry SWOT Analysis Course Strategic Management: Concepts & Cases Chair of Management, especially Strategy and Leadership University of Konstanz - Summer Term 2004 by Malko Ebers Simon Wied Malko Ebers, Simon Wied II Structure 1. Introduction ............................................................................................................... 2. Opportunities vs. Threats: Analysis of the environment the Robert Mondavi Company is settled in ................ 2.1 Global environment ............................................................................................ 2.2 The US wine industry – an overview ................................................................. 2.3 Competitive forces in the US wine industry ...................................................... 2.3.1 Potential entrants ....................................................................................... 2.3.2 Bargaining power of buyers ...................................................................... 2.3.3 Bargaining power of suppliers .................................................................. 2.3.4 Closeness of substitutes to the industry’s products ................................... 2.3.5 Intensity of rivalry among...
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...African Americans Thesis and Outline Thesis: The increased popularity of jazz music led to a growing acceptance of African American culture and presented African Americans the opportunity to gain social status. Introduction During the Jazz Age, jazz music, primarily dominated by African Americans before 1920, began to gain popularity among whites and transformed into an important aspect of American culture. The increased popularity of jazz music led to a growing acceptance of African American culture and presented African Americans the opportunity to gain social status. The Beginnings of Jazz music and Prevailing Opportunities for African Americans Music has always played an essential part in African...
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...Waste is a problem in America today. The amount of waste produced by the average American consumer is unacceptable. The unsustainability of America's current wasteful habits will not only harm to ecosystem but people as well. Average American consumers must understand their wasteful habits. It is important that American consumers manage their waste to make society more sustainable. The first contributing factor to the problem is that waste is so easy produce and even easier to ignore. When taking out the trash, it seems like a chore. I have to get into the habit of taking out the garbage twice a day and out to the curb once a week. I realized when one gets into the habit of getting rid of things on a regular basis you don't really understand how much you're getting rid of. So I decided to do a little experiment. I would try keeping the non-compostable waste that only I produced in the back seat of my car to see how much of an impact I was making towards the weekly garbage dumps. I figured it would take about a week for the garbage to pile up to unacceptable levels, but I was wrong. After only two days the trash was spilling out when I opened the car door, and that's when I first realized how unsustainable our current consumer society has become. My car experiment was simply a small scale version of any Americans waste footprint. Americans get so accustom the convenience of throwing things away that they cannot realize how much waste they are actually producing. The second contributing...
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...developed cultures have known this recipe for thousands of years and each has established a long history of ceramic arts. Through the millennia, these different cultures have taken the rather simple process and adapted it to their own taste while also assimilating foreign influences imported through intercontinental trade and migrations. The result is an art form that is universally popular, yet regionally unique. The oldest examples of ceramic pottery date back past 10,000 BC and come from southern China and Japan. These early pots were made through the “coiling” method, a technique that required the clay to be worked into a long string which was wound round onto itself to form walls that could then be molded smooth. This process was independently developed by cultures across the world but was eventually replaced by the potter’s wheel after its invention in Mesopotamia around 4,000 BC. Thanks to the potter’s wheel, from 900 to 500 B.C. ceramic pottery was widely implemented throughout Ancient Greece, most commonly in the form of decoratively painted vases. While Greek vases typically depicted a scene or story drawn on the exterior, their interior served a variety of purposes; from small jugs used to store and transport goods to large kraters that were used to dilute wine in. Compared to the Greeks, the Romans were less involved with “luxury” pottery but still produced massive quantities of ceramic ware that served utilitarian purposes. Meanwhile, Eastern cultures were working...
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...I know not why we ought to become flushed to admit," John Adams composed, "that molasses was a key fixing in American autonomy." After getting a charge out of many years of remiss requirement of obligations on molasses and different imports, pilgrims were insulted and shocked when the British, in 1763, at long last quit fooling around about gathering the expenses. "The production of requests for the strict execution of the Molasses Act," Massachusetts Gov. Francis Bernard reported back to England, "has created a more noteworthy caution in this nation than the taking of Fort William Henry did in 1757." Steep levies were seen as a strike keeping pace with a famous slaughter. In "Smuggler Nation," Peter Andreas relates the well-worn story of American...
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...the Iron Age by iron. Standage provides ample evidence to prove his argument that drinks can be used to split history into periods because they were vital in shaping world politics, economics, and society. These drinks had a large impact on social gatherings and interactions of the time period. In Mesopotamia, beer was a social drink that brought people together. Early depictions of beer in Sumerian culture show multiple people drinking...
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...Illegal Immigration and Border Policy In recent years, Illegal immigration has been a contemporary political and social debate. It has been the platform of many politicians, especially in the southwest, and it is often a popular subject in news media. People in favor of strict immigration policy often claim that illegal immigrants are costly to the American economy and that they take American jobs. The border control policy is ineffective, it is often too costly for its effectiveness. Border policies have increased the number of immigrant deaths in the deserts of border states. Not only that but the US/Mexico border is harmful to the environment. The anti-immigration policy that's currently in effect goes against a rich cultural history in North America. Lastly, popular arguments made for strict immigration will be brought to light. In 2006, George W. Bush signed H.R. 6061, also known as the Secure Fence Act, in an attempt to increase border security and expand the US/Mexico Border. Prompted by heightened national security measures after 9/11, the bill was designed to "help protect the American people" and marked " an important step toward immigration reform" (Bush 2006). The bill doubled funding for border security, increasing expenditures from $4.6 billion in 2001 to $10.4 billion in 2006. This money went to "[authorize] the construction of hundreds of miles of additional fencing along our Southern border" and to "[deploy] thousands of National Guard members to assist...
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...In Australian society today it is very common for people to meet over a cup of coffee in a cafe. This essay will firstly touch on the history of the growing of coffee and its consumption. The essay will then explore the rituals and relationships that occur through café culture and link this to Symbolic Interactionism as well as discuss coffee in relation to Globalisation Theory, and in particular to Ritzer’s McDonaldisation theory. It will conclude with the argument that the consumption of coffee is not only limited to people’s enjoyment of flavour or the feeling that caffeine provides, but is a social interaction in itself. Coffee is native to the mountains of Ethiopia, with the first historical records of it being roasted and brewed by the 1500’s. According to Mark Pendergrast, author of Uncommon Grounds: The History of Coffee and How It Transformed Our World, the general consensus is that coffee beans were then transported from Ethiopia, across the Red Sea to Yemen. For a time no fertile beans were exported, but an Indian pilgrim took fertile seeds to India and began the growing of coffee plants. The consumption of coffee then spread to England and to Europe by 1650. It is said that by the year 1700 there were over 2000 coffee house in London alone (ABC Rear Vision, 2009). Coffee beans are now grown in the area between the Tropics of Cancer and Capricorn, in countries which are (mostly) developing. According to the International Coffee Organisation, Brazil produced and...
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...The Taboo Of Boobs Introduction: Boobs, boobies, jugs, tits, suckers, knockers, hooters or breasts. Over time breasts have developed many different names and new meanings. Some may look at boobs as nothing more than just the anatomy of a female, while others love them, and some think that they are evil and a mark of death. In every era, from early and middle ages, through the renaissance, and then 19th and twentieth century, breasts have fascinated human beings. Breasts are more than a body part that we need for reproduction, they play a major role in the development of society and our social norms. The controversy of importance is argued by doctors as well as piers. Today most people affiliate breasts with vanity. People have always loved the beauty in breasts, but society has lost the value in them and why they are beautiful. What is so great to look at, when everyone’s got them, and if they don’t, they can buy some at your local doctor’s office. So why do people buy them? And is bigger the better? There really isn’t an answer to that question because they are both very broad topics and constantly changing. We can try and interpret these answers with social norms which vary in different cultures, or we can look at research and biology and try and answer the questions scientifically. Either approach will lead you to controversy because over time there purpose in life has changed significantly. And there are debates all over the...
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...products to replace what we already have. The consequences of this behavior are resulting in more and larger landfills, toxic water and a myriad of other problems. With our growing population and excessive consumption, the items we use everyday are becoming disposable so the garbage problem continues to expand exponentially. It is a readily accepted fact that plastics has made our lives both easier and safer, but, at the same time, has also left a damaging imprint on our environment and even our health. The waste management industry has done a very clever job of keeping the inner workings of landfill disposal cloaked in secrecy. As a result we give less and less thought to what actually happens to all the trash we throw away every day. Our culture of convenience is so dominant we do not even see the consequences of our actions. Journalist and filmmaker Heather Rogers, in her essay “The Hidden Life of Garbage” takes us on a journey of garbage disposal that most of us never think about once we take the trash to the curb. She explains one particular method that should give us all pause for thought: In new state-of-the-art landfills, the cells that contain the trash are built on top of what is called a “liner.” The liner is a giant underground bladder intended to prevent contamination of groundwater by collecting leachate-liquid wastes and the rainwater that seeps through buried trash and channeling it to nearby water treatment facilities. If this toxic stew contaminated...
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