Essays on Patchwork

Introduction

In the modern global world, an evident blur of cultural limits results in a diverse patchwork of human interests, concerns, likes and dislikes. Media represents cultural concerns, social issues or even historical facts in a different way. Thus, there can be many differences between factual representations of one nations in the context of others. As a rule, modern movie industry represents perverted images of ethnic minorities. Moviemakers intend to make money and gain huge profits. They do not think about cultural distortions or racial conflicts, which may occur in the result of their movies, which represent only one side ...

Ningbo’s newly completed Central Business District (CBD) belies its status as one of China’s oldest cities. The austere downtown landscape is the equivalent of architecture’s white-washed wall: a place of erasure, forgetting, and dubious progress. With the completion of Wang Shu’s Ningbo Museum in 2008, however, the Ningbo of the present is confronted by the forgotten landscape of its not too distant past. A craggy mountain of a building inspired by the region’s natural topographical features as well its unique crafts and architectural traditions, the Ningbo Museum is not simply an obligatory nod to ...

Introduction

The world is continually changing and threatens the survival of species in the days to come. One might be reclined to think that this situation affects economic sectors as well as climatic implications and might bury their heads in the sand and chose to ignore other sectors, such as fashion. What one might not realize is that fashion, just like other sectors, might be affected greatly if climatic changes are anything to go by. Fashion might a preserve of a few; however, the bigger picture disagrees with this view. Fabric is vital in the creation of fashion pieces and is ...

AN EXPLORATORY ANALYSIS OF SENATE BILL 863

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ABSTRACT California’s (CA) legislature has passed a series of Workers Compensation (WC) reforms during the past 15 years; the most recent, Senate Bill (SB) 863 passed on August 21, 2012. SB 863 was introduced and presented to the California public as a reform bill that would ensure better coverage and easier medical access for workers injured on the job. SB 899 passed during the early 2000s was shown to be better for California’s workers, than SB863. ...

TEXTILE DESIGN

The Mysterious Cycle: Fashion Repeats Itself The fashion cycle has been happening since people started wearing clothes. A basic fashion continues eto repeat thougou history. Trends and fashions seem unique to customers who buy and wear the fashion during a particular decade. In clothing skirt lengths change over the years. The hem of a dress or skirt cycles from shorter to longer over decades. This essay discusses the theory of fashion cycles and some examples in fashion and fabric. Fabrics of many varieties and compostions are used for fashion and interior design. There are new styles that are affecting fashion, ...

If one rents, trash removal is calculated into one’s monthly charge. If one own, in one way or another, one pays for trash to be removed from one’s dwelling. Waste Management, the largest trash business in the United States, is a member of the Fortune 500. Trash is big business. In many areas, having a municipal job in sanitation is a stable job with good pay and benefits. It may not be glamorous, but it is an honest living for most. Since, in general, the more people that live in a domicile, the more trash is produced, many locals are ...