BEATRICE WOOD Beatrice Wood (1893-1998) is known both for her shimmering pots and her long‚ extraordinary life. Although intrigued by the arts from an early age‚ Wood was 40 years old by the time she began experimenting with ceramics and found her true vocation. Before discovering her love for clay‚ Wood had forays into painting‚ drawing‚ writing‚ and theatre. Involved in everything from Vaudeville to Dada‚ she spent her youth searching for the right outlet for her artistic and creative energies
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Written Analysis Case Adler Custom Tailors I. Problem - Should the Oriental Bank grant the loan of Gerteis for the Adler Custom Tailors when the company has no formal records on to its expenses and financial status? II. Objectives - To find out the financial status of the business. - To determine if the Adler Custom Tailor is worthy for the loan. III. Areas to Consider - Gerteis initially invested P900‚000 in cash in the business. - There were no loans from banks from the past six months
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Bill Bryson’s “A Walk in the Woods” is a book that epitomizes the struggles that one needs to go through in order to better themselves. This is evident with the main characters. They are two middle aged men named Bryson‚ a man who resideds in New Hampshire and Katz‚ Bryson’s overweight alcoholic college friend from Iowa. When he thought of someone to accompany him‚ a grumpy college friend named Katz came to mind. As they started off‚ Bryson started off with the goal that the trail was only being
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Wood joints There are many wood joints available to make‚ joints are used to build strength into products. The joints below are the joints that are commonly used in schools. Note only glue is used to join these joints together. 1. Butt joint A very simple joint but it is also very weak. They tend to be used for making picture frames‚ corner pieces and nails are often used to strengthen the joint. 2. Mitre joint Finger joints More about finger joints from the technology student website. View
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History Historical records show that the Philippine Customs Service started many centuries back long before the Philippines was discovered by the eastern and western expeditionaries. The Philippines had already a flourishing trade with countries of Southeast Asia‚ but since money at that time was not yet the medium of exchange‚ people then resorted to the barter system of commodities. The rulers of the barangays were known as the “datus” or “rajahs” collected tributes from the people before they
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Custom house agent | Definition: | The clearance of goods on Import or Export‚ including unaccompanied baggage‚ involves quite a lot of procedural formalities. These formalities have to be observed by Importer / Exporter / Passenger‚ as the case may be. But in most cases the Customs station would be far away and it may not be possible for the Importer / Exporter / Passenger to attend to such work promptly. Unlike the work related to Central Excise or Income Tax‚ the Customs formalities cannot
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Custom orthotics‚ as well as non-fitted varieties‚ can provide a variety of benefits to people with feet problems and to just about anyone. Even if your feet are perfect‚ your shoes may not be. Shoes that don’t provide good arch support or create imbalances in the way that we walk can eventually cause wide-ranging deformities. No one wants that. One of the worst designs that manufacturers ever come up with is the high heel. Any heel that is higher than 3.5 inches‚ the mid heel‚ according to high
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Safire Wood James Wood’s essay Victory Speech and William Safire essay A Spirit Reborn were written about two of our country’s presidential speeches. Both Wood and Safire have distinctive opinions and different viewpoints; however‚ they do have resembling writing techniques. In A Spirit Reborn‚ Safire discusses the Gettysburg Address in comparison to 9/11 and analyzes the Gettysburg Address in great detail. Wood’s “Victory Speech” demonstrates how President Obama flowed through different ideas
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Customs Traditions and Rituals of the Indian Culture Nearly every country in the world possesses some form of religion. With religion comes the need for people to express their beliefs. Often times‚ these expressions are seen as religious customs and traditions. Along with these religious customs and traditions‚ most countries also posses customs and traditions practiced by even the average non-religious citizen. These customs can be enormous milestones in the lives of young-adults‚ or something
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Customs reflect what people usually do and the way how they do it and can be divided into different groups‚ such as: calendar customs which are activities related to certain days in the year or lifecycle customs which are activities connected with the key moments in people’s lives like getting married or dying. (GREEN‚ 169‚ 1997) This essay will describe 3 calendar customs which people in Ireland celebrated and will show how they celebrated them. The first one will be Saint Brighid’s day which is
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