When Violet Mullen was younger‚ she used to watch a black and white show with her dads called the ‘Twilight Zone’. The show revolved itself with an alternate universe: it’s like your own snow globe world tilted upside down while the fallen snow represented heavy spontaneity for your ordinary life. Violet gaped through her bus window‚ she hesitantly settled her hand on the glass‚ almost afraid the window held vigorous static like a television. The cool glass confirmed Violet that she wasn’t watching
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Strategy and the Crystal Cycle John A. Mathews ne of the unexplored areas of business dynamics is how the cyclical behavior of certain important industries poses strategic issues for incumbent firms as well as challengers. All frameworks used in strategy (such as the Porter’s “competitive forces” framework) attempt to capture the decisions made by businesses in the attempt to influence their “business landscape” (to use the language of Ghemawat).1 However‚ the frameworks rarely place these business
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the message is more then what the words say. The idea of modularity gave rise to the letterpress technology and also influenced the shape of graphic design‚ establishing principles that were crucial to later industrialization. Beatrice Warde’s Crystal Goblet‚ through extraneous metaphors‚ proposes the idea the good typography is typography that is invisible‚ in that the type should adhere to the readers expectation so as not disrupt their immersion in the content. The basis of this idea is that
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death‚ which was violet light. There wasn’t anybody else there‚ or [sic]any thing. There was just violet light- and a hum.” (Vonnegut 43) In this scene‚ he continues to “swing” through stages‚ back into life‚ until “he was in pre-birth‚ which was red light” (43). These two colors are a split complementary duo on the color wheel; they share a common hue‚ yet look quite different and carry distinct meanings. This speaks to the duality of birth and death. Vonnegut possibly chose violet light for death
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Crystal jellyfish The Crystal jelly fish is a very unique marine animal. Known as the crystal jellyfish its scientific name is well known to be the Aquarium Victoria. The Aquaria Victoria is a saucer shaped Hydromedusa with a well developed velum‚ its size ranges within five to twelve centimeters in diameter. It has eighty or more narrow unbranched radial canals witch can extend to the margin of the bell. All tentacles extend from the margin of the bell‚ making the slender gonads run along most
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Crystal Research Paper A crystal is made up of the same materials that a regular glass is made of‚ such as silica‚ soda‚ and lime‚ but the addition of lead oxide is what gives crystals their shine. A bead has to have 24% lead oxide added to qualify as leaded crystal. Contrary to the popular belief‚ crystals have been around for a long time. Ancient Egypt‚ Rome‚ and other groups have all used crystals for various purposes. It was used in medicine‚ magic and rituals‚ as offerings and currency‚ as
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Liquid Crystal Displays (LCD) – Working We always use devices made up of Liquid Crystal Displays (LCDs) like computers‚ digital watches and also DVD and CD players. They have become very common and have taken a giant leap in the screen industry by clearly replacing the use of Cathode Ray Tubes (CRT). CRT draws more power than LCD and are also bigger and heavier. All of us have seen an LCD‚ but no one knows the exact working of it. Let us take a look at the working of an LCD. We get the definition
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indicates that 0.1% of 12-17-year-olds and 0.4% of 18-25-year-olds reported using methamphetamine in the past month‚ representing more than 150‚000 young users in the United States. Crystal meth is a common form of methamphetamine with a number of a street names‚ such as‚ ‘Tina’‚ ‘ice’‚ ‘crystal’ and ‘glass’. Crystal meth‚ or meth for short‚ can be taken by snorting it‚ smoking it or injecting it with a needle. Meth is a highly addictive stimulant‚ usually smoked; creates a euphoric effect on the
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Department of Finance Fisher College of Business The Ohio State University Prof. George Pinteris Handout on Crystal Ball This handout supplements the lecture notes on Monte Carlo simulation techniques. In this handout‚ I will discuss how to use Crystal Ball to fit a distribution to historical data and how to produce tornado and sensitivity charts that allow the analyst to evaluate the impact of the model’s driver(s) on the model’s variable(s) of interest (such as firm value or NPV in the
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[pic] WORLD’S TOP CRYSTAL BRANDS 2009 Lalique [pic]homeshopping - 3 years ago [pic] René Lalique became synonymous with French Art Nouveau decorative arts. René Lalique was born in 1860 and first began designing fine jewelry in Paris in 1881. Lalique pursued increasingly more innovative experimentation in glass commencing around 1883. Early works used the familiar "lost wax" technique by which the model is made in wax while a mold is formed around the model. Then‚ the wax is melted and molten glass
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