Marshall University Travelers: Fantasists‚ Conjurers‚ and Seers of the World What makes traveling to foreign lands such a coveted and memorable experience? What does one get out of exploring new cultures and atmospheres? In “The Shock of Teapots‚” by Cynthia Ozick‚ the quality and nature of traveling and travelers themselves is explored. Within this work of creative nonfiction‚ Ozick strategically uses genre‚ diction‚ and exemplification to effectively emphasize that travelers see ordinary things
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The Eloi‚ the Traveler‚ and the Fall of Man One of most contentious questions repeated throughout human history has been “What does a civilization require of its people?” In the Greek and Roman days just speaking Greek or Latin was enough to be considered civilized (Jarus)‚ but it’s been realized that civilization require more than just a shared language. Psychologist Sigmund Freud in his book Civilization and Its Discontents names beauty‚ cleanliness‚ and order to be the most significant aspects
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Background information In the Chinese art history‚ landscape painting has been viewed as the highest form of visual art besides calligraphy (Stafutti 2008). The painting‚ Travelers among Mountains and Streams is highly regarded as one of the most significant and influential landscape painting‚ which was created by Fan Kuan in the Northern Song dynasty. It was during the Song period where there was a widespread of idea about Neo-Confucianism. With this influence‚ artists back then believed that
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In the story “The fortunate Traveler: Shuttling between Communities and Literacies by Economy Class” When Suresh Canagarajah was young‚ he was a monolingual speaker‚ yet his parents were bilingual speakers. In addition to having the control of being a multilingual speaker‚ Canagarajah’s parents used English to communicate or discuss certain things‚ in order for the maid and people around them not having any clue what they were discussing about. This mystery about English leads Canagarajah to believe
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Without prior knowledge‚ a person comparing Joris van der Haagen’s A Wooden Landscape with Travelers and George Bellows’s Blue Snow‚ the Battery could mistakenly believe that van der Haagen is objectively the better painter. The impressive level of detail in the landscape‚ the fine brushstrokes‚ and the realistic use of color are all certainly very impressive. Although Bellows’s work appears far less advanced‚ he intentionally chose to portray the landscape with quick‚ loose brush strokes‚ which
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have done above is a “full-cost” analysis. This is in contrast to a “direct-cost” analysis that ignores overhead costs. Is full cost the right metric for job profitability and customer profitability? What assumptions are we making about the variability of overhead costs when we do a “full-cost” analysis? By allocating the overhead costs to jobs and customers there is an implicit assumption that these are variable with the cost driver. In reality‚ some of the overhead costs are fixed‚ at least in the
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Plant overhead $122‚000 D/L rate/hour $30 Youngstown has a traditional cost system. It calculates a plant-wide overhead rate by dividing total overhead costs by total direct labor hours. Assume‚ for the calculations below‚ that plant overhead is a committed (fixed) cost during the year‚ but that direct labor is a variable cost. 1. Calculate the plant-wide overhead rate. Use this rate to assign overhead costs to products and calculate the profitability of the four products. The assignment
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CHAPTER 6 PRODUCTION EXERCISES 4. A political campaign manager must decide whether to emphasize television advertisements or letters to potential voters in a reelection campaign. Describe the production function for campaign votes. How might information about this function (such as the shape of the isoquants) help the campaign manager to plan strategy? The output of concern to the campaign manager is the number of votes. The production function has two inputs‚ television advertising and
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Ronald Coase noted‚“The cost of doing anything consists of the receipts that could have been obtained if that particular decision had not been taken.” For example‚ the opportunity set for this Friday night includes the movies‚ a concert‚ staying home and studying‚ staying home and watching television‚ inviting friends over‚ and so forth. The opportunity cost of taking job A included the forgone salary of $102‚000 plus the $5‚000 of intangibles from job B. Opportunity cost is the sacrifice of
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MRKT 5000 Online Course Deanna Duran Marriott: Getting Down to Business with the Business Travelers Case Summary: The Marriott Company was formed more than 50 years ago by J Willard and his wife‚ Alice Marriott. Since then‚ there are now over 3‚700 hotels in 75 countries worldwide. There has only been 2 CEOs for the company; J Willard‚ and now his son‚ Bill. In 1983‚ Courtyard at the Marriott was developed and proved to be a success. This research also uncovered other segments of the
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