His pilgrimage was the most memorable to the people of Egypt. At his arrival in Egypt he came with a caravan following him. The caravan was made up of 60,000 people and 80 camels each carrying 300 pounds of gold. This in total came to be about 2 tons of gold which was to be distributed to the poor along the way. 12,000 of these slaves were dressed in fine silk.
The phenomenon of the show has established the intense ability to persuade and inform a specific audience. As Aristotle once said, "the faculty of observing in any given case the available means of persuasion”, rhetoric, has been an undoubted success with the Jersey Shore. The format and arrangement of the show lends itself entirely to assisting the goal of entertaining a particular audience. In the introduction, which would be the first few episodes of every season, the authority is established. The first few episodes relate to the prior season and reestablish the relationships, meaning and identity of every character.
However, the company still made a great number of gross profit, which aroused the SEC’s suspicion and resulted in an investigation. Looking at this, one can see the damaging consequences of misleading investors. During 2010 and 2011, Diamond engaged in several instances of misleading conduct. One of these involved payment to growers. In mid-2011, Douglas Barnhill, a farmer of 75 acres of California walnut plantation, received a check for about $46,000 from Diamond.
The Card Players is a series of oil paintings by the French Post-Impressionist artist Paul Cézanne. Painted during Cézanne's final period in the early 1890s, there are five paintings in the series. The versions vary in size and in the number of players depicted. Cézanne also completed numerous drawings and studies in preparation for The Card Players series. One version of The Card Players was sold in 2011 for a price variously estimated at between $250 million and $300 million, making it the most expensive work of art ever soldThe series is considered by critics to be a cornerstone of Cézanne's work during the early-to-mid 1890s period, as well as a "prelude" to his final years, when he painted some of his most acclaimed work.
The film Schindler’s List is one of the most powerful and painful movies of all time. It’s hard to quantify the huge success of the movie from its seven Oscars, to a box office blowout, and the SHOAH foundation. Fans and critics received the film very well; it has a 97% on rottentomatoes.com and the American Film Institute rates Schindler’s List as the eighth best American film of all time. Spielberg says, “It’s the only time I’ve made a movie where something better than the movie came along because of the opportunity to tell that story.” Survivors of the SHOAH visual history foundation was created by Spielberg to keep visual records of holocaust survivor’s testimonies. The foundation has almost 52,000 survivor testimonies, done in sixty-five languages in thirty-eight counties around the world.
Christopher Pavlat Econ- 305 11170-02 Professor Velázquez Causes of the 1929 Stock Market Crash Few economic crises match that of October 24, 1929. On that day America faced the worst stock market crash in its entire existence. Over the following month the stock market fell from its peak and spiraled toward the ground in flames. The booming New Era of the “Roaring Twenties” had seen America embrace a sense of prosperity and vast economic expansion. Consumption skyrocketed as Americans relished in the heyday of western capitalism.
Relics from Tutankhamun's tomb are among the most travelled artefacts in the world. The best-known exhibition was The Treasures of Tutankhamun tour, which ran from 1972 to 1979. The exhibition broke museum attendance records; it was seen by approximately eight million people. Significantly boosting the economy of every city it passed through. It manifested a number of collectibles, from the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s expensive line of souvenirs which included a life-size replica of Selket, coated with gold leaf, yours for $1,500; to cheap unlicensed ladies’ T-shirts bearing the saying “HANDS OFF MY TUTS”.
Chuck Close Chuck Close is an American painter and photographer born July 5, 1940 in Monroe, Washington. He became achieved success as a photorealist, through his massive scale portraits. Photorealism is a genre of painting purely based on using a camera and photos to collect information and from this creating a painting that appears photographic. The United States art movement began in the late 60s and early 70s. Close suffered a catastrophic spinal artery collapse in 1988 which left him paralysed, however he has continued to produce work that is bought by collectors and museums.
Zhang Xiaogang A Dialogue Between Past and Contemporary, Public and Private Zhang Xiaogang, one of the most renowned contemporary artists in China, whose painting was sold for US$2.11 million at Sotheby’s New York spring auction in 2007 (Chiang) and is considered the most expensive artist in China. This essay is going to discuss on his emergence and development, analysis his art works in different periods of his development in terms of style, content and historical context with a view to exploring his success. Early Period of Zhang Xiaogang Zhang Xiaogang was educated in Sichuan Academy of Fine Arts from 1977 to 1982 (Peng, Zhu and Kao 430). During the 1980s, which is the period of Zhang’s early artist life, the Chinese government promoted industrialization of China so as to enable China to compete among global economies. The isolationism policies of the past lifted.
Social Responsibility Marketing 550 Exxon Mobil today known as the third largest company by revenue in the world and the second largest traded, in this article was earning record high profits during the wake of rising gas prices (Exxon, 2014). While having many allegations out against them including the 1999 suit about denying domestic partner benefits to same-sex marriages and the 2001 allegations about Exxon Mobil knowingly assisting human rights violations, this case discusses Exxon falsely inflating the price of oil and the profits it reported. In April of 2006, Exxon Mobil reportedly replaced Wal-Mart as the largest company in the US with profits of $340 billion. In 2007 the company’s revenue increased to a staggering $404.552 billion due to the escalating prices and this did not sit well with the public (Exxon, 2014). With the public feeling the pressures of the extra cost of gas prices the US lawmakers as well were beginning to wonder if Exxon Corporate Social Responsibility Policy had any effect on their high profit margin.