Written presentation: L’origine du monde. Courbet‚ 1866 * Abstract L’Origine du monde is an oil painting realized by Courbet in 1866. It may be the most controversial piece of art that the famous artist has ever presented. Consisting of a 46x55 centimeters close up on a woman’s genitals‚ the picture makes all the conventions shatter and gets any audience uncomfortable. This essay first explores the historical trajectory of L’Origine du monde‚ from its origins to its rediscovery since 1995
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accumulated during expansionary periods. Over the next year the unemployment rate is expected to decline at a slow pace keeping consumer confidence low. In the short run‚ it is not likely that household spending will increase significantly. Industry Analysis The last several years were also tumultuous for the U.S. auto industry. After dominating the market for decades‚ American automakers had grown complacent about product development. At the same time‚ rising gas prices and uncertainty about the economy
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BUS A311 Case # 1 9/19/2012 Raintree Cosmetic Company Case Analytical Model Steps 1. Facts: * Raintree must maintain a current ratio of at least .9 in order to maintain the terms of the debt agreement in place with the bank. If Raintree fails to do so‚ the cost of borrowing from the bank will likely increase. * Raintree company controller‚ Jackson Phillips‚ estimates that the 2013 year-end assets and liabilities will be $2‚100‚000 and $2‚400‚000 respectively. This scenario
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Introduction Southern Company is one of the largest generators of electricity in American‚ serving the Southeastern United States for more than 100 years with clean‚ safe‚ reliable and affordable electricity. Its four subsidiaries: Georgia Power‚ Alabama Power‚ Mississippi Power and Florida Power‚ provide retail electric service to 4.4 million customers. This holding company’s operations cover all phases of the electric utility business capacity‚ as well as fiber optics and wireless communications
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from all over the world. I plan to apply the sociological theories of Erving Goffman and W.E.B. Du bois to better understand the anti-Islamic racism going on around the world and its effects on society. The first Theorist I will talk about will be Erving Goffman. Erving Goffman talked about stigmas‚ stereotypes‚
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1. This gentleman (shown in Pic 1) was famous as an astronomer‚ astrologer‚ and alchemist during his lifetime. In his 1573 book De nova stella‚ his precise measurements indicated that the ‘new stars’‚ (now known as supernovae) lacked the parallax expected in sub-lunar phenomena. After his death‚ his body has been exhumed twice (in 1901 and in 2010)‚ in order to examine the circumstances of his death. This was also done to verify what material his artificial nose was made of. The result was that his
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CASE ANALYSIS: Case: Carlill v. Carbolic Smoke Ball Company [1893] 1 QB 256 Introduction: Carlill v. Carbolic Smoke Ball Company Ltd is one of the most leading cases in the law of contracts under common law. Known for both its academic importance and its contribution in the development of the laws relating unilateral contracts‚ it is still binding on lower courts in England and Wales‚ and is still cited by judges in their judgements. This research paper aims to critically examine and analyze the
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Company’s background: McKinsey & Company is a privately owned management consulting firm that focuses on solving issues of concern to senior management in large corporations and organizations. Known among its employees simply as "The Firm" McKinsey & Company was founded in Chicago in 1926 by James O. ("Mac") McKinsey. McKinsey was a professor at the University of Chicago who pioneered budgeting as a management tool. Marshall Field’s became a client in 1935‚ and soon convinced James McKinsey to
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The word choice throughout Lazarillo de Tormes offers the reader a better glance into the life of Lazaro and gives the opportunity to put themselves in the place of the character. Through the word choice and description of Lazaro’s starvation‚ the reader gives consent and feels empathy for the actions that Lazaro must use in order to survive. These actions often have to deal with hiding and concealing. The choice of worlds throughout the novella opens the reader up into the world that Lazaro is suffering
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Angela Carter: "The Company of Wolves" (1979‚ excerpt) Men are powerful‚ strong‚ dominant. But what are women’s strengths? This question was widely discussed in the late seventies during the women’s liberation movement. Women all over the world were fighting for their rights‚ and this inspired female authors to put their thoughts into stories. Women could be manipulative‚ deceiving. They could control men when they wanted to. So why were the men in control of the world? By rewriting "Little
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