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- 4701: Cultural Anthropology
- ... Section: Culture and Fieldwork Chapter: Corporate Anthropologists, page 24 Summary of Article: The article talked about how anthropologists play an important role in the corporate environment. Anthropologists have been working with businesses since the 1930’s, however in the 1980’s this field experienced significant growth. This was due to the “globalization of business activity and the increased awareness of the importance of culture for business,” (Laabs 24). Cultural anthropology is the study of existing people ... within their own organization. “Business anthropologists have been studying the corporate world for years, on such varied topics as how to encourage more creativity or how best to integrate multicultural learning techniques into an organization’s training program,” (Laabs 25). Most anthropologists who work in the corporate environment do not use the title of anthropologist. There are currently over 200 anthropologists working in this field. The article then gave an ...
- 4702: Great Gatsby Essay 2
- ... that you can see what the writer is doing- how he or she has used structure or setting or characters or a particular point of view or some aspect of language to direct the reader's response." Show how the writer has used one or more of these to direct your response in The Great Gatsby. In the novel The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald shows a clear contempt of the ... reduces the characters of the novel to seeming obsessed with material possessions, petty, superficial and selfish, and indeed he seems to attribute much of this to the setting of the novel, America in the 1920's. Through both subtle hints within the plot, as well as passages that blatantly support Fitzgerald's own views, the reader is left only to agree with Fitzgerald's feelings towards post war upper class Americans after concluding the novel. The main characters in The Great Gatsby all have very different ...
- 4703: A Rhetoric Of Outcasts In The
- ... since critics and theater-goers recognized Tennessee Williams (1911-1983) as an important American playwright, whose plays fellow dramaturge David Mamet calls "the greatest dramatic poetry in the American language" (qtd. in Griffin 13). Williams's repertoire includes some 30 full-length plays, numerous short plays, two volumes of poetry, and five volumes of essays and short stories. He won two Pulitzer Prizes (for A Streetcar Named Desire in 1947 and ... Tin Roof in 1955), and was the first playwright to receive, in 1947, the Pulitzer Prize for drama, the Donaldson Award, and the New York Drama Critics Circle Award in the same year. Although Williams's first professionally produced play, Battle of Angels, closed in 1940 because of poor reviews1 and a censorship controversy (Roudane xvii), his early amateur productions of Candles to the Sun and Fugitive Kind were well received by audiences in St. Louis. By 1945 he had completed and opened on Broadway The Glass Menagerie, which won that year's New York Critics Circle, Donaldson, and Sidney Howard Memorial awards. Before his death in 1983, Williams accumulated four New York Drama Critics Awards; three Donaldson Awards; a Tony Award for his 1951 screenplay, The ...
- 4704: Stan Kenton & His Orchestra
- ... Kenton & His Orchestra Born December 15, 1911 in Wichita, Kansas, Stanley Newcomb Kenton grew up in Los Angeles, California. Sometime around the age of 8, his mother, Stella, a traditionally-trained musician noticed her son's irrepressible aptitude for the piano and became his first teacher. It wasn't long, however, before she realized he was graced with more than a natural gift for the keyboard and arranged for him to take lessons on the trumpet and alto saxophone from a local schoolbandmaster, who ... Johnny Richards in 1956. By 1948 the compositions he had written for 5 trumpets, 5 trombones, 5 saxophones and 4 rhythm had become an arresting, dominant force in contemporary music. Jazz aficionados from Southern California's Balboa Beach Rendezvous Ballroom to New York City's famed, subterranean Jazz club, Birdland, became enamored with the Orchestra's roaring, precision sound and helped make it one of the most successful attractions in ...
- 4705: Internet Censorship
- ... it spyproof and secure. All these sources of conflict remain in a stumbling balance and so far the internet remains in a thrivingly anarchial condition. This however is a mixed blessing. Today people pay ISP's or Internet Service Providers for internet access. ISP's usually have fast computers with dedicated connections to the internet. ISP's now more than ever are becoming the backbone of the internet. The average netcitizen uses their computer to call and ISP, and the netcitizens computer temporarily becomes a part of the internet. The user ...
- 4706: Emily Bronte's Life and Wuthering Heights
- Emily Bronte's Life and Wuthering Heights Many literary scholars have stated that good writing only stems from real life experiences, most of which are created in tragedy. As with many Victorian and Romantic writers; tragedy was an ever present reality of living. This was especially true for female authors during this time period. The series of events in Emily Bronte’s early life psychologically set the tone for her fictional novel Wuthering Heights. Early in her life while living in Haworth, a village on the Yorkshire moors, her mother died when Emily was only six years ... though is the blatant obvious and the easiest choice to consider within the novel. But the true hero of the novel is Heathcliff, due to the misfortune and bleakness of his past. When examining Heathcliff’s youth, it is very apparent to see why he has turned to seek vengeance against the world. Discovered in the streets of Paris by Mr. Earnshaw, Catherine’s father, he is brought home by ...
- 4707: Claude Monet and His Painting
- ... Monet was considered by both his teachers and his parents to be undisciplined and, therefore, unlike ly to make a success of his life. Enforcing this impression, Monet showed no interest in inheriting his father's wholesale grocery. The only subject which seemed to spark any interest in the child was painting. He developed a decent reputation in schoo l for the caricatures he was fond of creating. By the age of fifteen, he was receiving commission for his work. It was at Le Havre that Monet met the painter čEugne Boudin. While Boudin's own paintings have never been held in that high regard, he is seen as having played a critical role in the edu cation of Monet. Born of a seafaring family in 1824, Boudin was obsessed with the idea of painting outdoors or en plein air . The two painters met in 1856 and, at first, Monet resisted Boudin's offer of tuition but he eventually relaxed his protestations and before long, the two had forged a relationship that was to last a lifetime. Although Monet soon left Le Havre to spend a large ...
- 4708: Ulysses S. Grant 2
- Ulysses S. Grant was an American general and 18th president of the U.S. Grant was born in Point Pleasant, Ohio, on April 27, 1822, the son of Hannah Simpson and Jesse Grant, the owner of a tannery. Taken to nearby Georgetown at the age of one, he was ... of his original Hiram Ulysses, he was appointed to West Point. Graduating 21st in a class of 39 in 1843, he was assigned to Jefferson Barracks, Missouri. There he met Julia Dent, a local planter's daughter, whom he married after the Mexican War. During the Mexican War, Grant served under both General Zachary Taylor and General Winfield Scott and distinguished himself, particularly at Molina del Rey and Chapultepec. After ...
- 4709: Labor Issues
- ... and job types but work for the same industry” (Parkin, 1998, p. 344). Unions of this type include the United Steelworkers, United Auto Workers, and the United Transportation Union (Boone, 1996). History from the 1870’s to 1900’s. The first national union founded in Philadelphia in 1869 in the pre-Civil War period was the Knights of Labor, which “intended to include all workers” (Encyclopedia, 1996, p. 630). For a decade, this organization ... of Labor, Gompers’ focus was to raise day-to-day wages, and continue to improve the working conditions (Dessler, 1997). After the formation of the AFL, the period included significant developments. In the early 1890’s, the United Mine Workers was formed, becoming the first major United States industrialized union (Robinson, 1985). In addition, a significant defeat occurred in organized labor. The defeat is known as the strike at Homestead, ...
- 4710: Our Town
- ... that lured them into eating the apple. But of course Adam, being male had to blame Eve, the female. Which is typical male behavior to blame the woman, my sister says. In general men don’t take responsibility for their actions. Michealangelo has portrayed all this on the Sistienth Chapel. He has painted a picture that is portraying God punishing Adam for eating the apple. In this painting Adam loses his ... male being a fighter, and being powerful is perceived when the men are at war. They left the women at home to take care of the house and kids. Today in countries like the U.S., women also go to war and fight side by side with men. But in Lysistrata, the women stayed behind because they were thought of to be not as powerful, and that they were the homemakers ... of in some cultures today. The men however did not give up easily. They were extremely angry, which understandable. A man goes to battle and risks his life, but when he gets home he can’t even get a little love. This could make almost every man crazy. So the men threatened to attack the Acropolis, but in the end the women won. The power of women is vastly great, ...
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