...oh yeah If my eyes light up with I say your name And it's written all over my face Tell me does it make me crazy Well, maybe I got somethin' that I can't explain And the beauty of it never changes It's got me wrapped up I'm all caught up I can't help but say I'm a God girl that's who I'll be From the top of my head to the soles of my feet No I can't deny it, wouldn't even try I'm your girl in a crazy world I'm a God girl that's who I'll be From the top of my head to the soles of my feet I can't deny it, wouldn't even try I'm your girl for the whole wide world to see (See, See, See) And when my ears start hearin' what people say Hurry up find love cause times tickin' away Well, I'm not bein' lazy I'm just waiting for Still waiting for the right boy Cause I only want to listen to your voice So I'll be listenin' Always listenin' to you everyday Cause I'm a God girl that's who I'll be From the top of my head to the soles of my feet No I can't deny it, wouldn't even try I'm your girl in a crazy world I'm a God girl that's who I'll be From the top of my head to the soles of my feet I can't deny it, wouldn't even try I'm your girl for the whole wide world to see Your name in lights My biggest dream My all in all You're all I need Hand in hand with the master of all creativity And I won't stop until I know All my facebook friends and foes Look at me and only see one thing I'm a God girl that's who I'll be From the top of my head to the...
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...were covered in sadness and disappointment. It was the day of the State Cheerleading Championships at the Siegel Center at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, Virginia; a day I will never forget. The morning of the biggest competition of the season I woke up bright and early to get myself ready to go to Grassfield High School to meet my team. Upon arrival at our school, my teammates and I joined together in the gymnasium and set out the cheer mats so we could warm up our skills. We ran through our tiring routine and practiced our individual stunts as much as we needed to in order to feel prepared to compete. After what felt like a successful warm-up, my teammates and I put the mats away and sat around in the gym, anxiously waiting to leave. After what felt like several hours, our charter bus arrived to take us to our competition. We all boarded the bus and got out our uniforms while the team captains checked to ensure we had them with us. We tried to get comfortable for our two to three hour bus ride and off we went. Because it was early, we went...
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...Moonshine in Appalachia: A Constant Thread in the Tapestry of Mountain Life My sister recently shared with me a little known fact of our grandparents’ lives in Kentucky as young parents. They were involved in the illegal manufacture and sale of alcoholic spirits, also known as moonshining (Brown). Having known our grandparents to be very peaceful, law abiding citizens in their elder years, I find this revelation of illegal activity oddly fascinating. I want to understand how and why our grandparents got involved in moonshining which is a key element of our family’s heritage as Scottish immigrants to the United States. The production of illicit whiskey has been an integral part of American history since the early days of our country. Stiff taxation of alcohol and ingredients for the manufacture of alcohol by the British government angered colonists who were seeking economic freedom (Carr 16). Having then gained their freedom from taxation without representation from the British government, US citizens were furious when the fledging government imposed a tax on home distilled spirits (Carr 20, Abramson and Haskell 413). This began a long term battle between the United States government and her citizens over the manufacture, transportation and sale of alcohol (Carr 20). In order to understand how my grandparents came to be involved in this battle over the home production of liquor, we must examine the history, culture and economy of Appalachia as it pertains to moonshine. Some...
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...P-3 Waiting Lines Waiting lines and delays occur when there is either not enough capacity in general for demand, or when short-term rises in demand occur1. These incidents are so common as to be daily occurrences. Every day we wait at traffic lights or if we are less fortunate we get stuck in traffic jams. Still we wait in lines at banks, restaurants, and theaters ….. The study of waiting lines is an exploration of the probabilistic phenomena of frequent disparate outcomes. That is to say, sometimes having to wait for long periods of times, while at other times being so fortunate as to have no wait at all. Operations management places a great deal of consideration into the anticipated performance of waiting line systems. These systems are of vital importance in many contexts, but particularly important in the realm of service operations management. Certainly, in our everyday lives we dislike waiting. Truthfully, for the consumer such a delay is little more than a nuisance; however, from an operational standpoint the same delay has far greater consequences for a business. When you consider, for instance, the machinery and various equipment that may be lying idle, there are great costs at stake. In the case of our HVAC scenario, customers would be quite content if there was a technician available at a moment’s notice to service their particular heating and air-conditioning needs. Unfortunately, the costs associated with maintaining the necessary infrastructure would be...
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...Pamela Hendrix is a hard-working mother of six. While pregnant, Pamela was working at Frito Lay. Pam was a stocker for the company. The job of os stocker is to go to the assigned stores, bring in the products from Frito Lay from the back, and add more to the selves. Simple enough but something was different this time. Last year around end January, early February Pam was doing the normal thing she did. Moving products from the back to their correct shelving units, adding more to the empty spots along the shelves, packing up, then heading off to do more on her 18 hours days. Only, Pam was not only struggling with these tasks but she was seven months pregnant with her newest addition, Letty Elizabeth. The hours at each store were torture...
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...CLERK OF WORKS REPORT Site: Yuen Long CDA Area 15 – Retail Bridge Site Activities / Programme of Construction (up to 10 May 2013) Contract Period: 195 days (CDA 15) Piling Contractor: Simon & Son Engineering Limited Hand-over Date: 04 January 2012 Commencement Date: 12 January 2012 |Progress of Socketted Steel H-Piles Works |Remarks | |Region |Total No(s) of |Nos. of Socketted Steel |Nos. of Socketted Steel H-Pile(s) |Completion Date |Completed % | | | |Socketted Steel H-Pile |H-Pile (s) in Progress |Completed | | |Sanfield handed over CDA12 side to S&S on 26 | | | | | | | |Sep 12 | | | | | | | |S&S handed over CDA15 side to Sanfield for | | | ...
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...Assignment 1 – Netflix Personalizes the Customer’s Experience 1) I believe that these types of deals can be beneficial to Netflix because it gives their customers more streaming content, which is ultimately what they want. Netflix saw an opportunity in the customer dissatisfaction from Blockbuster. So I believe more streaming content equals happy customers. The 28 day delay shouldn’t be a threat to Netflix because the gain is higher. As a customer myself, 28 days isn’t a long time. People are used to waiting months before a movie goes from theatres to DVD. More options can also lead to more subscriptions from different types of people. Although these types of deals appear to be risky, the reward is much greater. Companies should take risks to figure out what works best for them. 2) Netflix should charge for streaming content because of the convenience they offer. No late fees, no commercials, no commitment and a large variety. Netflix currently charges $7.99 a month and gives you the option of a one month free trial before creating an account. The price alone attracts people because at Blockbuster you have to worry about late fees. Not to mention, renting three movies there can equal a one month fee with Netflix. 3) Some potential problems Netflix could face in the future are that Blockbuster is trying to imitate how they operate. Not only that but they can easily come up with something new and better. Netflix can also face competition with cable and satellite companies...
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...Tony Harris October 14, 2014 Literary Device/Element|Line and Page Number|How does this device/elementenhance the writing/memoir?| SIMLIE|p. 13 ".that memory blinked like a distant fog light in a story sea and it drowned in my panic."|It shows the panicked feeling he had when his mother wasn't there to pick him up at the bus stop. | SIMILE|p. 262 "Being mixed is like that tingling you have in your nose just before you sneeze: you're waiting for it to happen but it never does.|He is describing how James feels which is how he doesn't really know he is comparing his race, being half african, half white to waiting for sneeze. He is saying how he doesn't know what/where he is yet.| SIMILE|p. 178 "It was as if she pulled out a grenade, yanked the pin, dropped it on the floor, and exited. My brothers and i looked at one another in shock.|James expresses the astonishment that his family when they realize that his mother will not move the family from New York. The family carries a lot of weight living in New York, so when they heard the news it was like they were going to experience an explosion. But, James did not agree with his mother's choice of staying and wants to move.| SIMILE|29 , "Mommy's contradictions crashed and slammed against one another like bumper cars at Coney Island." |James says this because everything that Ruth was for, she contradicted. She hated the way blacks were treated by whites, yet she sent her own children to an all white school so they could get the...
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...I was not fortunate enough to see Se7en in the movie theaters but I have seen the movie more than once since its original release. I think this time was the first time I watched it differently though, I usually watch movies in anticipation of what is coming next, what will happen to the characters next. I have found over the past 15 weeks in this class, that by always watching movies like that, I’m missing out on some of the enjoyment of the movies themselves. Since I already knew what was going to happen in the movie, I watched it for moment it was in, not what was going to be. It was the first time I watched a movie for what is going on now as opposed to waiting for what is to come. This was also the first time that the movie had a very different feel to me, it was as if I knew what was going on. Therefore, I did not have to pay as much attention to the plot and could focus more on some of things that we have talked about in class, like the signs and moods set by the director. The movie had a different feel to it regarding the location and place in time that it occurred. It could have been anywhere, any major city or even a just a major concentration of people without being defined as a city. The character, plot, and events did not seem dated, the only thing that had a dated feel to it was the technology, even that can be viewed a couple different ways. It could be the past where beepers, fax machines, and limited internet access are the cutting edge of technology, or it could...
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...Waiting Many critics consider Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot, rst performed in Paris in 1953, the most important twentieth-century play in the Western canon. Despite the undeniable historical and aesthetic signi cance of Waiting for Godot, however, the question poses itself: to what extent may an absurdist play—about two bums waiting on the side of a country road for a person who never arrives— still strike us as relevant today? is question cannot be answered univocally, but depends on the interpretive choices made in the actual process of producing Beckett’s play on stage. My goal as the director of this Kennedy eatre production is to create a thoroughly contemporary experience that evades the usual clichés many have come to associate with Beckett’s style, such as monotony and leadenness. From this vantage point, I will now identify two major challenges to any stage production of Waiting for Godot in 2010—challenges relating to the historical and metaphysical background of the play. e setting (country road, tree), costume items (bowler hats, halfhunter watch), and habits of the characters (the pipe-smoking Pozzo), as well as the poverty and frugality of the two protagonists (a diet of turnips, radishes and carrots for Vladimir and Estragon), clearly suggest earlier historical periods such as the Irish Potato Famine from around 1850, the wasteland of northern France in the wake of the trench warfare of WWI, or America’s Great Depression in the 1930s. e names of the characters...
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...A still life is a work of art which depicts inanimate objects such as flowers, plants, plants, food, rocks shells; this also includes man made items such as bottles, glasses, books, jewellery, pipes, vases and so on. Origins within the middle ages and ancient Greek and Roman art, still life paintings gave the artists choices in the arrangements and design within a composition then paintings of a landscape or a portrait. Still life paintings before the 17th century mostly contained religious symbolism relating to the objects painted. Some modern still life breaks the 2 dimensional barriers which employ 3 dimensional mixed objects such as photography, computer graphics and video and sound. Various artists include the Dutch in the 17th Century, Picasso, Andy Warhol, Ricky Swallow and Sam Taylor Wood. The Dutch Golden Age The Dutch golden age of painting is a period Dutch history spanning the 17th century. During and after part of 80 years of war (1568-1648). This was the most prosperous nation in Europe and they led European trade, science and art. Dutch painting of the golden age known as the baroque painting, which often shows its characteristics but lacks the idealisation of love and splender which being typical of baroque work. Neighbouring flanders work for the period often reflects traditions of realism from Netherland-ish panting. Distinctive features for this period are genres of paintings with most artists producing the bulk of their work during the golden age. These...
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...Art 72, American Art History By: Natasha LeBaron Museum Paper February 5, 2015 Portrait of Jacob Gerard Koch Rembrandt Peale Date 1817 Oil on Canvas Jacob Gerard Koch was from Holland who lived in Philadelphia. Being a sharp businessman, Koch became wealthy by importing lines from Germany. With his money, he was able to purchase an estate in which seemed to be in a prominent part of Philadelphia. Not only was he a smart business man, he was also a patriot. When the war of 1812 broke out, he donated $5000 (about $89, 285.00 in today’s money) to help build a frigate that would help the American government win the war. The marriage to Jane Griffith Koch was pretty much frowned upon and bringing up some controversy. At the time when the epidemic of the Yellow fever broke out killing many in Philadelphia, Jane was just his laundry maid. She told Koch that she would nurse him back to life if he promised to marry her in return. It was said that Jane was a ‘“Poor, ignorant, ill-tempered, and very homely Irish girl.”’ As you look at both of their portraits’ it seems as both were content with their marriage. Although Koch was an obese man, weighing more than 30lbs, he seemed rather happy and content. Koch and his wife moved to Paris and there in Paris, Jacob Gerard Koch passed away in 1830. His estate was estimated to be worth more than a million dollars at the time of his death. As you look upon...
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...provided by Charles Saatchi, the owner of a contemporary art gallery in London where the artwork was first exhibited in 1992. Due to poor preservation the shark began to decay and the formaldehyde began to turn murky. Saatchi gallery removed and gutted the shark in 1993, stretching the skin over fiberglass in an attempt to recreate the work; the result Hirst explained ‘didn’t look as frightening’ and ‘you could tell it wasn’t real’. In 2004 the artwork was being sold by Saatchi to Steven A Cohen, founder of SAC Capital Advisors for approximately $8 million dollars. Hirst chose to replace the shark due to its state of deterioration, this sparked controversy over whether the artwork could still be considered the ‘same’ piece to which Hirst stated that as it was a conceptual piece and the intentions where still the same, he believed it was the same artwork. The artwork was subject to more scrutiny in 2003 when the Stuckism International Gallery displayed a shark under the of title ‘A Dead Shark Isn’t Art’ and again in 2004 when art critic Robert Hughes alluded to Hirt’s artwork whilst giving a speech on the ‘cultural obscenity’ of the international art market at the time. ‘For the love of god’ is a sculpture created by Hirst in 2007, it is a platinum cast of a human skull set with 8,601 diamonds featuring a pear shaped pink diamond located on the forehead. This artwork draws inspiration from the Latin phrase ‘Memento Mori’ as well as Aztec and Mexican cultures, their approach to mortality...
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...Analyzing Art For this module assignment I chose to do my paper on "Vincent van Gogh, Still Life of Oranges and Lemons with Blue Gloves, 1889". I chose this painting because I am rather familiar with it. In elementary school my teacher had us try to draw a painting by Van Gogh and this is the one I chose (didn't come out too pretty). My grandmother also has a imitation of the painting in her dining room. Today, Vincent van Gogh is widely regarded as one of history's greatest painters and an important contributor to the foundations of modern art. The completion date of this post-impressionism still life, was in the year of 1889. The place of creation was Arles, Bouches-du-Rhône, France. Vincent van Gogh painted this picture soon after his release from the hospital, where he was recovering from the disastrous final days of Paul Gauguin’s stay with him in Arles. In a long letter to his brother Theo posted January 23, 1889, he mentions creating this painting alongside several other issues, including the need to make money through picture sales. He likely had the market in mind in painting this still life. Van Gogh was clearly attracted to the shapes and hues of the citrus fruit arrayed in the wicker basket, and the way their varied orb shapes play against the weave of the dried sticks, the whole set off by the prickly needles of the cypress branches. Van Gogh refers in his letter to an “air of chic” in this picture, prompted perhaps by the inclusion of blue garden gloves. The...
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...The birth of American genre painting Koso-ogly Saliya , Osh state University, senior instructor of the chair of Lexicology and Stylistics, the Department of Foreign Languages The creations of American genre painters have become the object of my research. Teaching any language is impossible without teaching culture, which unites various issues. Pictorial art, painting, in particular is one of them. Topic “Painting” at our department is being studied in two courses: in the third and in the fifth. The 3rd year students will get acquainted with the most significant representatives of American Genre Painting . The students will acquire the information about the most significant painters such as: William Sidney Mount, George Caleb Bingham and Eastman Johnson . Lesson fragment 1 Objectives: 1.students acquire information about The birth of American genre painting. 2.to check students comprehension by means of questions. Students read the text “The birth of American genre painting” and discuss the questions. The birth of American genre painting. Being a product...
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