was also one of the first women to go to Harvard. She was a feminist because she fought for women to go to school. Malala Yousafzai fought for girls to go to school, even after she got shot she still fought for girls to go to school in Pakistan. Coco Chanel saw that women were wearing skirts and dresses and decided to put them in suits and pants. Billie Jean King was a woman that fought for equal pay. Betty Friedan was an author and feminist she challenged traditional roles for women. Ruth Ginsberg
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If everyone in the world is supposedly “unique” in their own special way, why do people try to control them and put them in a box? Ayn Rand wrote the book Anthem, a story about defying the laws and the government. New discoveries to knowledge, love and finding your own self-worth, which are foreign and forbidden to their lifestyle. Due to the government’s control on creativity, Equality’s uniqueness lead him to break those laws. Who knew that curiosity could get people killed? When Equality and
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OUTSTANDING WOMEN ALONG HISTORY Although many of the accomplishments and contributions of women have been lost from the history books, women have played a vital role in the course of human civilization. From raising families to leading armies, women have made untold contributions to history. We find extraordinary people who just happen to be women, and these ones serves as inspiration for current and future generations - for both women and men. Starting on the Suffrage Movement, on Election Day
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Created by: Marina Kim DESIGNER STUDY GUIDE * Haute couture “the finest needlework” * Paris became the center of haute couture because France has been the leading manufacturer of beautiful fabrics, including silks, taffetas, velvets, and brocade * Chambre Syndicale de la Couture de Paris was established in 1868. This was a professional body that was composed of haute couture houses and other firms that had made-to-measure dressmaking business in the Paris area. This union determined
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Fashion and Its Multi-Cultural Facets Critical Issues Series Editors Dr Robert Fisher Lisa Howard Dr Ken Monteith Advisory Board Karl Spracklen Katarzyna Bronk Jo Chipperfield Ann-Marie Cook Peter Mario Kreuter S Ram Vemuri Simon Bacon Stephen Morris John Parry Ana Borlescu Peter Twohig Kenneth Wilson John Hochheimer A Critical Issues research and publications project. http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/critical-issues/ The Ethos Hub ‘Fashion’ 2014 Fashion and
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Brand Name and the Quest for Success in the Luxury Sector All luxury designers strive to achieve long-term success. To put a label on a collection of products is to create a brand, but that label does not provide for definite staying power. Lucrative brands have gone beyond creating something pretty; an outstanding brand writes a story that the consumer believes and wants to buy into and the brand then becomes more than its product. Labels that grasp the importance of branding understand that
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Maryn Zekert In any good book, movie, telenovela, or TV show, there is a hero and villain with an extreme tension between the two. Some friction between people is worse than others. Rodrick and Greg, from Diary of a Wimpy Kid, the classic sibling rivalry, this is less serious than a rivalry between Iraq, and America. Rodrick would not kill anyone, same as Erik from Edward Bloor’s Tangerine, or so people might think. The character Erik is as angry as someone who is having a bad hair day at prom
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Fashioning an identity ‘In a lot of ways, branding is simply telling a story.’ Exploring the fashion world occasionally feels like gate-crashing an exclusive club. At least, that’s the sensation I experience as I climb a spiral staircase in a building near Place Vendôme – the grand Parisian square that is home to the Ritz. César Ritz opened his celebrated hotel on 1 June 1898, and its rich patrons attracted the attentions of Cartier, Boucheron, Van Cleef & Arpels, and the other jewellery
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medical company. Heraeus created UV tanning lamps that were beneficial especially to those with bone diseases such as Rickets, which is caused by a vitamin D deficiency. But what made the tanning bed business boom was when French celebrities like Coco Chanel and Josephine Baker displayed natural looking sun-kissed skin. However, what if a person wanted their body to evenly receive vitamin D and have sun-kissed skin all at the same time? This is where Friedrich Wolff, a German scientist, in 1978, decided
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Coco Chanel meant Think-Aloud to be courageous in an application to the different context. But strangely enough, it truly reflects my feelings about Think Aloud in front of the whole class and, possibly, other observers. The fact, that Think-Aloud strategy is helpful to the students in order to model a good reader’s thinking process, is undeniable. This strategy provides a visual interpretation of necessary organization of students’ thought processes during reading, but requires enormous discipline
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