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Tattoo - Motives and Imagery Tattooing is definitely nothing new today: the mummified tattooed skins, ancient tattoo tools, primitive artworks that depict tattooed figures and other archaeological discoveries all suggest that tattooing has existed since around Neolithic times. It was practiced for religious and cultural reasons with varying styles and imageries across cultures. This paper will examine a few tattoo designs originated from Japan and Borneo and some traditional motifs that help us

John Emst Steinbeck was bom on Febmary 27, 1902, in Salinas, Califomia. The time and place of his birth are important because Steinbeck matured as an artist in his early thirties and during the darkest days of the Depression, and his most important fictions are set in his beloved Salinas Valley. In one sense, Steinbeck's location in time and place may have made him a particularly American artist. Bom just after the closing of the frontier, Steinbeck grew up with a fmstrated modem America and witnessed

Analysis of “Dark Shadows” as a Gothic Masterpiece To most, when asked to define what Gothic is, they will state that it is similar to any other story, just with more “darkness.” This is because Gothic stories all have a classic story line. First, there is the main character’s back story, if any is then told. Next, there are events that lead up to a horrible incident that is the climax of the story. Lastly, the character finds some way to fix the situation or free him- or herself from

Organic Farming: The Eco System Super Hero The agriculture farming industry needs to wake up and see the harm that conventional farming is doing to our beloved planet earth and realize that organic farming could be our planets superhero. Conventional farming uses a high level of nitrogen to help crops grow in mass production. These fertilizers sometimes get into the normal irrigation and eventually end up in rivers and oceans. A 2004 United Nations article estimated that "most of the 160 million

considered a very good thing to do. We can see this in many poems; Koreans use symbols and imagery to represent different things in their poems, a lot of poems talk about a river, a flower, or rolling hills, these all mean that time continues, a chrysanthemum or an orchid in a poems means virtue. There are many symbols that are in Korean poems that we see over and over again, this shows that in Korean culture tradition is beautiful. Korea is ruled under a Confucianist society, and has been for over

The short story The short story -- Alice Munro an exception, (perhaps) -- is an illustration of one facet of human nature. Often a character undergoes some event and experiences something which offers him change. This is why it's said that short stories usually "say something", often a narrow or small something, but sometimes delivered with such precision that the effect is exquisite, even a life-moment for the reader, something akin to a religious experience or seeing a never-to-be-repeated scene

I knew that I had made the grandest mistake when I followed my Uncle’s orders and claimed my cousin's throne. I'm attending a meeting with my mother and Uncle right now, and I'm supposed to be focusing but I just can't. Not now. I feel absolutely horrible about the situation, and the overall guilt is just terrible. As if that wasn't enough, my mother's ENTIRE council continues to congratulate me for my bold move. How is what I did a good thing? You stole her throne you idiot!! Her title, her destiny

INTRODUCTION POLITICAL, LEGAL, AND TECHNOLOGICAL ENVIROMENT HOFSTEDE’S DIMENSIONS Geert Hofstede is a Dutch researcher who identified five dimensions of culture to help understand how and why people from various cultures behave the way they do. The five Hofstede’s cultural dimensions are power distance, uncertainty avoidance, individualism, masculinity vs. femininity, and time orientation. Taiwan has a high power distance meaning that people blindly obey the orders of their superiors, and strict

Goodbye, Luscious Pretty I run the razor lightly across the cheek bone. The flesh pulls against the motion, springing back. The mouth, somehow, stays fixed in the trademark smirk she made famous. “Couldn’t her hair be a bit more bouncy?” I check. Maybe. It’s already a bouffant and a half. The hairs are brittle, extensions barely covering the holes in her birds-nest-hair-do. “She used to have it at least an inch higher, and more blonde in the highlights – shimmer colour-range five rather than sunprime

Business Culture in ITALY Doing business abroad introduces international business people to differences in approaches to business, business etiquette and protocol. Although these may not be crucial to business proceedings they should not be dismissed as unnecessary. Cross cultural awareness can enhance the potential of the international business person's trip considerably. Let us look at a brief example: There are two business people each planning on doing business in Italy. Both have similar