Gold standard

people to sell artifacts illegally, or sell fake ones. The list of Egyptian Antiquities on Ebay is pages and pages long, with many artifacts that could be fake, illegally taken from their place of origin, or stolen. Ebay has tried to maintain a legal standard for the artifacts it sells, but things can slip under the radar, and the amount of fakes makes it more difficult to determine if something was looted or…

Emily Sohn exclaims that “when one athlete breaks a time barrier, the notion of what 's possible expands for the next generation” ( ). An athlete can only go break the time barrier for so long until they have reached a certain point at which they cannot continue on, they have reached the limit at infinity. Limits at infinity determines the “y” value as the “x” value approaches infinity, essentially dealing with end behaviors. Limits at infinity can be showed in multiple ways like an…

Gold, legends are made about it, especially the legend of El Dorado in which massive riches slathered the city. The Gold Rush of 1849 is also a notable for the vast migration to gain fortunes in a land of golden dreams. While these legendary stories did not garner vast fortunes for its explorers, gold will always create mystery and allure while the pragmatists—or realists—mining for gold maintain a respect for the land not simply a source for wealth. For instance, Witwatersrand Basin located in…

Gold margins are standardized because of adornment+ investment factor. However, quest for greater margins is driving diversification from gold jewellery products. Demand for gold jewellery remains very strong because of cultural traditions, Gold jewellery sales - for weddings, in particular - will continue to generate volume growth for jewellery retailers. Platinum and diamond jewellery sales will generate margin growth. The shift to more profitable diamond jewellery has been smooth because…

gymnastics classes at age six (Brian). Gabby first started training gymnastics at Excalibur (Hill). Gabby won the Virginia State gymnastics Championship when she was just eight years old (Brian). Gabrielle Douglas says “I’d been dreaming of an Olympic gold medal since I was eight” (Douglas…

The piece I examined, titled Cranes, was created by the artist Maruyama Ōkyo in Japan, 1772. This piece is displayed in the LACMA Museum. Cranes consists of thin wood panel screens wrapped in gold leaf paper. Painted atop the gold leaf paper are twelve red-crowned cranes and five white-naped cranes with an acrylic type of paint. This piece stands on a cut portion of the wall, giving it the large scale of 6’0” tall by 24’0” wide estimated. The whole piece is made of twelve tall rectangular…

“Here you go Clover” I stare at Jeff the zoo keeper, while he drops a gold coin into my tank. When he walks away, I slowly slide down from my perch that was up on top of the fake little rainbow, that they had given me for my tank. I didn’t like the rainbow that much, but I guess it will have to do. In my opinion the rainbows back home were the best. Colors mixed perfectly in the golden rays of the sunlight. The rainbow in my tank was the complete opposite. It had a glare from my warm yellow tank…

just about aesthetics—it also communicates specific information. The Golden Pavilion is a Zen temple in northern Kyoto whose top two floors are completely covered in gold leaf. In Japanese culture, golden means something very special. Heaven. Westerns, on the contrary, link the same with something very materialistic. Money. But gold is not the only color that has very different meaning in Japan. In Easter culture, Black symbolizes the combination of all colors of the universe. Black means…

The World in Love With a Golden Romance: Gustav Klimt’s The Kiss Gustav Klimt’s oil and gold leaf painting on canvas, The Kiss of 1908 is his interpretation of the society in which he found himself, views on religion, nature, and sex and love. The perfectly square painting’s foreground is a lush green mound covered in hundreds of small pink, gold, red, and purple flowers. The greenery extends over three-fourths of the painting. The middle ground hosts a couple, male and female, arms locked in a…

incompetence in officiating the game. The undue pressure from the French delegation could have been overcome by declining to officiate the game through written document to the higher management of the skating federation. The decision by IOC to award gold medals to both the winners and losers was a poor decision since the sport was never competed for. This also shows that the higher management also fell prey to the pressure from the French…