The image this essay will consider is a sculpture titled “Michael Jackson and Bubbles” by the artist‚ Jeff Koons. The work is a life-sized porcelain sculpture of Michael Jackson in an extravagant costume with the chimpanzee Jackson named “Bubbles” seated on his lap in a matching costume. The image of Jackson and the chimp rest on a small raised dais and flowers are strewn around them on the dais. The sculpture was produced in 1988 and comes from a series of sculptures involving images and figures
Premium Animal rights Human Animal testing
1- The term dot.com The term Dot COM (English .com) appeared before the explosion of bubble Internet to indicate‚ the madness which seized the “entreprenautes” to the evocation of three sesames of the E-trade: market‚ customers and Internet. A synonym of E-business. 2- The Internet Bubble The "dot-com bubble" sometimes referred to as the "I.T. bubble" was a speculative bubble covering roughly 1995–2001 with its peak on March 10‚ 2000 with the NASDAQ peaking at 5132.52 during which stock markets
Premium Dot-com bubble Venture capital
The dot-com bubble (also referred to as the dot-com boom‚ the Internet bubble and the information technology bubble[1]) was an historic speculative bubble covering roughly 1997–2000 (with a climax on March 10‚ 2000‚ with the NASDAQ peaking at 5‚408.60[2] in intraday trading before closing at 5‚048.62) during which stock markets in industrialized nations saw their equity value rise rapidly from growth in the Internet sector and related fields. While the latter part was a boom and bust cycle‚ the Internet
Premium Dot-com bubble Stock market
1.0 Introduction The 2007 collapse of the U.S. housing market and the worldwide economic damage that followed in 2008 and 2009 made people know the term "economic meltdown" (ehow.com‚ 2011). And the year 2011 proved to be a epic one in world history and brought dramatic change to many parts of the world - change that require cautious and serious analysis. International developments since World War II have drawn the nations of the world closer together in a global economy in which labour and capital
Premium Financial crisis Economics United States housing bubble
Amazon’s Generic Strategies and Models Amazon originally applied a market niche strategy based on a narrow buyer segment and outcompeting rivals by offering niche of being an online bookseller hoping to become the largest bookseller. Today‚ Amazon has expanded into different segments of products and is not limited to books (Amazon.com). Amazon believed that change is only constant phenomenon that underlines the life today everywhere around the globe. The company had the generic strategy to try
Premium Dot-com bubble
closer to each other the more time they spent together because they talked about personal issues with each other not just politics and they took a lot of pictures together when they were on the buses and planes. The media even called themselves a ‘ bubble’ because they were so close and they stuck together at most times. Although the media crew was documenting George Bush’s
Premium Nutrition Fast food Fast food restaurant
CASE STUDY 1: What’s the Buzz on Smart Grids? 1. How do smart grids differ from the current electricity infrastructure in the United States? Current electricity grids do not provide any information about how consumers actually use energy. That makes it difficult to develop more efficient approaches to distribution. The current system offers few ways to handle power provided by alternative energy sources. Without useful information‚ energy companies and consumers have difficulty making good
Premium Energy development World energy resources and consumption Peak oil
Table of Content Page Introduction 3 Internet History 3 Development of the World Wide Web 5 Growth of the World Wide Web 6 Commercialization of the World Wide Web 8 The Bubble Burst 9 Aftermath of the Bubble 10 Conclusion 11 Reference 13 Introduction The origins of the World Wide Web can be traced back to 1980. Since then it has evolved beyond what its creators imagined would
Premium World Wide Web Dot-com bubble
events that occurred in the past‚ and will like to reoccur in the future? He gives very great examples of John Law and his boom to bust. How they claim he was the world’s ultimate inside trader. John Law was responsible for the Mississippi Company bubble‚ where he exaggerated the wealth of Louisiana with an effective marketing scheme‚ which led to speculation of shares in the
Premium Bond Economics Debt
Some Factors That Influence The Success or Failure of Digital Businesses | | CI226 Socio-technical Approaches to Information Systems | | Radha Shah | 10818217 | | Introduction: “The impact of the internet on the society has been described as being as significant as some of the greatest technological innovations in history‚ such as the telephone and the motor car.”( Jobber‚ D. and Fahy‚ J. 2009) The internet has become a vast part of everyone’s everyday life. People use the internet
Premium Dot-com bubble