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I can list all the fact in the world based on why tattoos in the workplace are and are not accepted in the workplace, but that’s not what intrigued me into writing about tattoos. I find tattoos self portraying because not only does oneself reveal based on the art made in our bodies, but the significance it has on us and the image itself. Many people may not care or know but we all have a right to express ourselves which includes showing your tattoos. Although tattoos in the workplace are not…

THE FRIEL SISTERS - An album named among themselves consisting of Anna Friel, Sheila Friel and Clare Friel, produced by themselves, engineered by Sean Keegan, and recorded at a home in Doire Na Mainsear, County Donegal. They were born and raised in Glasgow, and recorded their first album in their mother, Sheila Coyle's hometown, Donegal. All of the tracks were arranged by Anna, Sheila and Clare with the combination of songs sung by their granny as well as themselves and tunes collected and…

Cherish hope The following quotation has been true to me in times of distress. It has also been helpful to women experiencing labour pains during child-birth. Knowing that in few hours’ time or the following day the child will be born and they will be free of pain helps them to bear the current labour pains with courage. “Hope is important because it can make the present moment less difficult to bear. If we believe that tomorrow will be better, we can bear a hardship today” Thich Nhat Hanh…

If you’re not familiar with Hot Chip, let me introduce you: Hot Chip is a synth-driven, pop-fantastic, disco fancy, funk-rock, dancey, sentimental, sassy, experimental anomaly from London. They make original music that doesn’t always make musical sense—by that I don’t mean it’s hard to digest because most of it is enjoyable to listen to. However, they offer melodies, sounds and chord progressions that keep the listener interested and often thinking, “I didn’t expect that.” Their sound is their…

tabloidization” (Cesar 2011 cited in Alotaibi, 2013). Towards Television Is television news siding towards tabloidization? According to Winston (2002), in the case of UK television news there were some tendencies. The original study conducted by the Glasgow Media Group in 1975 claimed that television news was a cultural product manufactured according to an overt hegemonic political agenda and that the requirements of “objectivity” were not being and could not be met. In the case of Swedish…

Through what sort of stages have Pho become parts of some western cultures INTRODUCTION Pho, the most common and famous Vietnamese’s street food, and it only exist stretches only a hundred years back in Vietnam 's recent past. But in Australia and many other western countries, people are also very familiar with Pho as Vietnamese cuisine. In Vietnamese history, it has three important stages that remarked Vietnamese pho became common Asian food in some western society which has close relation…

1. Quote-“The early bird catches the worm.”-Amy Rench Define it- The meaning of this is to always be proactive. When you get things done early, then you will gain more. Just like a bird that comes out early in the morning and gets a worm to eat, doing things as soon as possible will result in better outcomes. Connect it- This can apply to my life because it can shows me that the sooner I get things done, the better the outcome will be. I will either gain more downtime, or I will have more time…

For the final assignment of the semester, we have been given the task of creating an autobiographical essay using five concepts from our course. Before I begin to go into much more detail, I believe it is important to start off with some simple definitions in regards to work, family, and gender as it is the course name. Work is defined by Hannah Arendt as “the construction of a stable world of things, which become the basis for action” (138). The family is referred to by Friedrich Engels as the…

Painting is dead. The notion that painting is an outdated and irrelevant medium today has come up in recent years in the art world. Move over painting, it’s the era of installation, video and sculpture. No one proves this statement wrong more so than Jenny Saville. Throughout this essay I will be taking a look at Jenny Saville and one of her earliest yet most stirring pieces - Branded. This is a painting notable for both its brave and outrageous subject matter and its sophisticated technique.…

Jed Coppock/4923182 EDMT902 - What is Learning? 10 April 2015 Tutorial no. 4 Critical literature Review – Digital Natives "The arrival and rapid dissemination of digital technology in the last decade of the 20th century has changed the way students think and process information” (Prensky 1).This notion is at the heart of what has become the ‘digital native debate’ – i.e. should education systems be changed in order to accommodate a new generation of technologically savvy learners? The term…