Pelarsen Windows is in its third generation, founded initially in 1922 by Gunnar Pelarsen and now run by granddaughter and CEO Ingrid Pelarsen. The 1990s was an era of craftsmanship. One of the noted success factors for Pelarsen Windows at the time was its transition from craft to mass production. Pelarsen was a mover in streamlining the windows manufacturing process by standardizing the various components, allowing windows to be assembled in larger volumes and at remote locations. Another one of its key success factors was its innovative products such as insulated glass, solar heating and cooling, and energy efficient windows. Due to its innovative capabilities, Pelarsen Windows had transformed glass from a commodity to a differentiating component of windows manufacturing. There are two main window types they produce; standard and architectural. Generally, sales offices decide the plants to assign orders to based on the available capacity, geographical proximity, and skill-level required. Pelarsen Windows now operates in 15 plants across North America, employs 10,000 employees and holds 34% of all windows manufacturing business in North America.…
“The painting should be an original, not a reproduction” (Winterson 8). The reproduction of art diminishes the originality and authenticity of the piece. Not only does this diminish originality but bypasses giving the appropriate credit to the founder. In the novel Art Objects: Essays on Ecstasy and Effrontery Winterson asserts that an artist needs to be familiar with past art, this is important in ensuring that contemporary artists do not plagiarize past work.…
Our artistic culture is a big part of Los Angeles and some people are trying to ruin it. It's problems like this that are becoming more serious because little by little, our culture is being destroyed. The famous mural of Frank Romero "Going to the Olympics” that is painted on the 101 freeway is a very big part of the Los Angeles culture. This painting has been there since 1984 when Frank Romero had some help painting it on a wall that was very visible to all the people traveling on the 101 freeway. It is said to represent a huge part of the person in L.A. and how much they love their cars. As famous as this mural is some people don't respect L.A's culture.…
An applicant must be a U.S citizen or maintain a legal status within the U.S. There is no residency requirement…
In October 2002 was the beginning of what seemed like the longest three weeks in the Washington Metropolitan Area. The shooting spree killed 10 people and in injuring 3 with sniper like wounds. No one wanted to believe what was happening. This horrific attack lasted 23 days.…
Since imitation was not their goal, modern art, mainly post-impressionist works challenged the Imitation Theory. Therefore, there had to be a new theory created to show why these works were actually art. The “Reality Theory,” or RT, didn’t even attempt to show artworks were imitations…
Two men that decide they want to take people’s lives into their own hands, can change the way American citizens live their everyday lives. This exact situation happened over a twenty-three day period, when John Muhammad and John Malvo went on a shooting spree in Washington D.C. John Allen Muhammad, a forty-one year old veteran expert marksman of the Persian Gulf War, was the main culprit of the crime. He was accompanied by John Lee Malvo, a seventeen year old Jamaican citizen. These two men killed ten people and wounded three others.…
The disorder that I have picked from this section is post-traumatic stress disorder or PTSD. PTSD is a phycological distorter that is defined as an anxiety disorder characterized by haunting memories, nightmares, social withdrawals, jumpy anxiety, and/ or insomnia that lingers for four weeks or more after a traumatic experience. This disorder is usually found in soldiers returning from combat that have experienced traumatic experiences. We have seen post-traumatic stress disorder diagnosed in many American soldiers coming back from Iraq and Afghanistan, but PTSD was not diagnosed as an actual disorder until the 1980s. Although it is a disorder that is newer, the symptoms have been seen in people throughout history. People who have PTSD are…
In the maze runner the world was hit by a massive solar flare which ruined a lot of the land on Earth. Because of this there was not enough food and supplies for everyone to have enough to eat and survive so the government created a disease called the “flare”. This disease is a brutal disease in which eats away at the human brain and causes people to turn into blood thirsty beings called “Cranks”. Because this disease got out of hand and the scientists had no way of curing it they experimented on intelligent children and trapped them in a place called the “glade”. In order to leave the glade this children must go out into the maze and find their way out but if they do not return back to the glade before…
Detroit, once the New York City of its time, nick named the “Motor City” as it contained one of the leading car manufacturing centers of the automobile industry. As a metropolis for the first half of the twentieth century, Post World War II, Detroit became an economic fortress and focal point in American History. Detroit’s economic stronghold placed the city in a position that was once beneficial. From the surging employment opportunities perpetuated by the booming automotive market to the development, and implementation of substandard housing and the casual labor market, Detroit became the land of opportunity that loomed with an air of new beginnings. Today, however, Detroit continues to reap the aftermath of contradictory political and economic delegation of the post WWII era. As America continues to relish in the economic rewards of this era the inverse effects of inadequate political decision making continues to resonate amongst the urban streets of Detroit today.…
The field of visual arts, too, had seen this progression. As the years went by, art had grown more and more realistic, controlled, and perfect. Everything was rationalized by science.…
It's interesting to note what happened to the art world after Duchamp revolutionized art into meaninglessness. Artists seem to be exempt from the moral laws that are binding to…
Appropriation art has resulted in contentious copyright issues regarding its validity under copyright law. The U.S. has been particularly litigious in this respect. A number of case-law examples have emerged that investigate the division between transformative works and derivative…
Since time immemorial Art has been understood to be the savior of humankind from all the afflictions of life. It completed the vacant spots of an individual with rich and soulful beauty. To be precise, Art is the expression of human skills and imaginations, which can create an object that is aesthetic in nature and pleases the sentiments of common people as well as satisfies the thirst of intellects. It is indeed a disgraceful opinion to relate art with money. But, as the bitter nature of truth stands today, Art is getting commercialized and is leading to the death of authentic talent. There were times when artists like Leonardo Da Vinci and Michelangelo walked our planet. They were not seeking capital from their respective works, but rather a sense of self-satisfaction and self-fulfillment. The most talked about work of art, Mona Lisa was completed by Leonardo Da Vinci in a span varying from 4 to 7 years. Is it possible that such a glorious depiction of artistry would have been actualized from the hands of a person seeking glory and money? In my opinion, possession of real talent blinds the greed and the notion of commercialization in one’s eyes. It is due to the capitalist phenomenon, that there is a dearth of raw and pure talent amongst us. The excess of commercialization has resulted into the demise of imagination and ingenuity among the young minds. The core concept of greed has blackened out the inventiveness and freshness of Art. It never was a business and should never be treated to be a pursuit of extracting revenues. The enormous power that art possess has gone beyond one’s conception. Commercialization will only corrode its roots and will destroy the flair of a burning mind. As Oscar Wilde quoted, “Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known”, we all should remind ourselves the admiration we gather for real talent and thus should not let this individualism burn into commercialization.…
Halliwell asserts that the notion that life imitates art derives from classical notions that can be traced as far back as the writings of Aristophanes of Byzantium, and does not negate mimesis but rather "displace[s] its purpose…