Essay #1 What Makes Art Art? When thinking about the question of this essay it makes you think what does make art art. Art is defined as works produced with both skill and imagination to create a painting or sculpture. With that said‚ I consider art to be in many forms It can be made out of food‚ chalk‚ paint money and many others. Many famous pieces are made from these items your child’s mother’s day card or Jillian Beever famous for his 3-D pieces made out of chalk. So you see art can be made
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Profitability Ratios: How Profitable is the Company? Net sales/Net profit after taxes The information necessary to determine a company’s profit as a percentage of sales can be found in the company’s income statement. 1. Magnetronics’ profit as a percentage of sales for 1999 was $1‚307 divided by $48‚769‚ or 2.68%. 2. This represented a decrease from 3.6% in 1995. 3. The deterioration in profitability resulted from a decrease in cost of goods sold as a percentage of sales‚
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The two essays that I have chosen are "This One’s for the Birds" by Paul Finkelman and "The Case Against Tipping" by Michael Lewis. These two essays in particular have some things in common‚ but they do have some significant differences between the two. In this paper I will try to compare and contrast these two essays and hopefully bring something to the reader’s attention that wasn’t there at first. In the first essay‚ "The Case Against Tipping"‚ the author‚ Michael Lewis talks about whether
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Millions of people drink sports drinks like Gatorade everyday‚ But very few people actually know what ingredients make up their favorite sports drink. Gatorade was thought up in 1965 by an assistant coach of the Florida Gators at the University of Florida and his team of physicians who wanted to create something to help his players deal with the heat of the Florida sun. They created a concoction they deemed “Gatorade”‚ named after the team of course. The beverage set out to replenish not only the
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characteristics of an epic villain‚ as outlined by Antonio del Drago‚ a fiction writor and professor‚ are being powerful‚ intelligent‚ immoral‚ wounded‚ and determined (Del Drago). If these characteristcs are to be taken as the boiled down basis for most villains‚ what are the characteristics of their counterpart‚ the hero? Once again we turn to Dictionary.com‚ which defines a hero as “a man of distinguished courage or ability‚ admired for his brave deeds and noble qualities‚” or “a person who‚ in the
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always make the best grades‚ but sooner or later they are the ones who make most of our lives a lot easier. There seems to be a time when they have become very innovative in their society and make many accomplishments in the future. These people strive to make a difference in the society that they sometimes feel unwanted in. In the movie Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs‚ Flint Lockwood tries so hard to find a way that the people do not have to keep eating sardines. Flint then decides to make a machine
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Malaysia‚ is a country which cannot be defined in a word. The citizens are from different races and religion. The unity in these different cultures is what that makes Malaysia a wonderful country. One may ask who started all this or rather who brought all these multiracial aspects together in one country. All these will be answered as we go along. Back in 1957‚Tunku Abdul Rahman made his way through every hardship to give independence to Malaysia‚ then known as Malaya. On 31st August 1957 in
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What Makes a Meaningful Life? It is hard to give a definite answer to the question‚ “What makes a meaningful life?” This is because everyone has their own ideas of what makes a beautiful life. What may give purpose and meaning to one person‚ maybe completely be different to what gives purpose and meaning to another. In a general sense‚ I believe‚ a meaningful life is a life of happiness and self-accomplishment‚ a life that is surrounded by loved ones and activities that are enjoyed. If a person
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What Makes A Good Teacher? Learning is in all of us‚ floating around in our gene pool. We are constantly learning new actions‚ expressions and methods. The majority of our learning comes from watching and listening and then copying the actions of someone we believe to be right. It is important‚ therefore‚ that a trust is built up between the teacher and the learner and the knowledge that is passed on is the correct way to behave. There are many different teaching methods‚ a lot depending
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is‚ what makes that piece of literature good? The answer to this question is entirely subjective. Think about some of your favorite books and why you love them so much. By comparing your favorite books‚ there may be some similarities coming up again and again as you think about what you loved about them. These similarities involve realism; no matter if you are reading fantasy or paranormal‚ there should be some elements of reality to make the story believable. The characters of the book make a connection
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