Postage stamp Essays

  • The Art of the Postage Stamp

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    the Postage Stamp When I imagine an artist, I picture a Parisian dabbing at a sprawling masterpiece between drags on a cigarette seated in an extravagantly long holder. He stands amid a motley sea of color, great splashes of vermillion and ultramarine and yellow ochre hiding the tarp on the studio floor. Somehow, not one lonely drop of paint adorns his Italian leather shoes with their pointed toes like baguettes. In my grand visions, I overlook a slightly smaller medium: the postage stamp

  • Sir Sandford Fleming

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    establishing the Standard Time, which is very efficient when it comes to travelling across different regions. Other than proposing the Standard Time, he is also recognized for surveying and constructing railroads; and designing Canada's first postage stamp. With the assistance of Fleming, Canada has become more favourable country. Before Fleming created the Standard Time, people in the 19th century determined the time using the sun. Instead of looking at the clock and knowing the time zone like today

  • Communication And Texting: Two Forms Of Communication

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    An example is every mail must have a postage stamp and a roll of stamps cost roughly ten dollars. Now sending mail after mail is not something that someone would want to do unless they are prepared to pay the charges for stamps. You may also have to pay if the person that you send the mail to gets it but you did not put enough postage stamps on – you could have to pay the rest of the fee for not putting the correct number on the mail that

  • Saving the Postal Service: The Problems, the Solutions, and the "Surprise"

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    Service to Cut Saturday Mail.” The Wall Street Journal. N.p., 6 Feb. 2013. Web. 27 Sept. 2013. Longley, Robert. "About the U.S. Postal Service." About.com US Government Info. N.p., n.d. Web. 24 Oct. 2013. "Postal Service Wants to Increase Cost of Stamps, to 49 cents." Fox News . N.p., 25 Sept. 2013. Web. 30 Sept. 2013. Rorvig, Peter. "Saving Face, Saving the USPS ." More Normal Than Not . N.p., 5 Nov. 2012. Web. 23 Sept. 2013.

  • Interesting Facts

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    fired all their ammo at a target, it got "the whole 9 yards." The most common name in the world is Mohammed. The word "samba" means "to rub navels together." The international telephone dialing code for Antarctica is 672. The glue on Israeli postage stamps is certified kosher. Mel Blanc (the voice of Bugs Bunny) was allergic to carrots. Until 1965, driving was done on the left-hand side on roads in Sweden. The conversion to right-hand was done on a weekday at 5pm. All traffic stopped as people

  • Clydesdale Horses Research Paper

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    What is a Clydesdale Horses? The first time Clydesdale was used in 1826 by Scotland. This research paper will help people who are interest in learning what a Clydesdale Horse is. This research paper will talk about the horse, how are they used, the weight and the height, and what they eat. What is a Clydesdale Horse? They used to be a smaller breed, but it is now a tall breed. At first it was smaller than the Shire, the Percheron, and the Belgian. The were founded in Scotland. They name Clydesdale

  • Rubber Stamping 101

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    using rubber stamps in a variety of ways. Rubber-stamping is so versatile; it can be used in card making, scrap booking, collage and a multitude of other mediums. Whether you are a novice to stamping or an expert in the field, there are always new techniques to learn. Rubber Stamp General Resources In general, a good place to start for inspiration is to look at the stamps available. With thousands of designs to choose from, sometimes it can be difficult to decide which stamps are right for

  • Persuasive Essay On Food Stamps

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    Food stamp organizations help a variety of people from the disabled, single mothers, children and to those who cannot find—or are unable to—work. There are many out there who for some reason are unable to obtain necessary food, and without these programs, these

  • Post Office Dbq

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    When one thinks about the post office one pictures long waits and small-white-ugly-vans. This holds value as today’s United States Postal Service continues to deteriorate and lose what made it special in the first place. For a long time now, the USPS should be restructured to meet the needs of the changing world. Although the UPSP holds dear in many people's heart, the USPS needs to be restructured because technology is the way of the future and a more modern postal service would benefit the environment

  • Nvq Unit 4 Business Communication

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    You are going to have to know what to do when you encounter them especially when your job includes working with mail such as myself. One of the main problems we face are delays. Even if we do use the correct postage we can never guarantee the time will be correct every time, this is down to the collection times being slightly different in the areas we live. We usually post any mail on our way home as we pass letter boxes, this is also so we do not waste time

  • Philately and Stamp Collecting

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    Philately, the study of stamps, differs from stamp collecting, although both hobbies appear synonymous with each other. Not every philatelist collects stamps, however, and many collectors hoard rare stamps without getting involved with the tiny details behind each commemorative adhesive postmark. Building a comprehensive stamp collection may require a basic education in philatelic literature to assess the worth in its current form. Stamp collectors will accumulate postage stamps for their historical

  • Ogden Nash: An Amazing Poet

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    Ogden Nash was a poet that used nonsensical and humorous verse to draw people into reading his poems. Then, he would slip in insightful poems that speak a lot about life. His light verse even earned him a place on a postage stamp. His poems contain uneven lines that all rhyme, and he even made up spellings to words to achieve the best effect. Frederick Ogden Nash was born August 19, 1902, in New York. His family thought that education was very important, and this was the basis for his love of languages

  • Richard III: The Tragedy of Isolation

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    The real tragedy of Richard III lies in the progressive isolation of its protagonist.   From the very opening of the play when Richard III enters "solus", the protagonist's isolation is made clear. Richard's isolation progresses as he separates himself from the other characters and breaks the natural bonds between Man and nature through his efforts to gain power. The first scene of the play begins with a soliloquy, which emphasizes Richard's physical isolation as he appears alone as he speaks

  • Crime And Punishment - Style

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    Raskolnikov knows in his heart what is wrong and right, and that he wants to be brought back down off his pedestal and enter back in to normal human society. Raskolnikov’s theory of the "superman" who is above all societal constraints and able to stamp out the weak and detrimental people in society for the common good, is one that is obviously skewed. This prompts Raskolnikov to doubt his reasoning for and consequent execution of the crime. He knows that his theory is wrong, but he has been created

  • Rembrandt's Painting An Old Man in Military Costume

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    University of Leiden, Rembrandt left school to pursue painting. He studied under Pieter Lastman who introduced the young painter to the works of Italian masters, particularly Caravaggio. Even though Rembrandt never traveled to Italy, his works bear the stamp of Italian influence, especially in his preference for dramatic lighting over Dutch smoothness. Moving to Amsterdam in 1631, Rembrandt began working for commission and became very successful. He painted “An Old Man in Military Costume” in 1631, during

  • The Journey of Education

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    my 5th grade teacher, Mr. Eckle. Mr. Eckle taught me that learning and the development of the mind is not reserved to just reading, writing and arithmetic. Mr. Eckle taught us the critical thinking benefits of chess, the attention to detail of stamp collecting, the political, historical aspects and consequences of the Revolutionary War, the scientific aspects of rockets and most notably, the courage to petition against higher powers for redress. Mr. Eckle taught us that throughout life we will

  • Donald Duck

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    almost unpredictable and yet so predictable. One can almost guarantee a rise in temper, but why? We'll just have to wait and see. More About Who Donald Duck is "Whenever the corners of Donald Duck's eyebrows begin to meet and his webbed foot begins to stamp, most audiences squirm in pleasant anticipation of Donald's forthcoming anger. Never in motion pictures has there been such a funny fury as Donald's." Richard Tobin, 1935 "Make the duck kinda cocky. And since he's a duck and likes water, how about

  • Television And Race

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    Homer and Apu, the writers do not overlook a single Indian stereotype. First of all they have an Indian man as a convenience storekeeper. The episode starts with Apu committing the usual convenience store stereotypes. For example he sells a $0.29 stamp for $1.85, $2 worth of gas for $4.20, etc. Next he changes the expiration dates on rancid ham and sells them. When his customer gets sick from it, he offers a 5 pound bucket of thawing shrimp. Later he picks up a hotdog that he dropped and puts it

  • Active Intellect In Aristotle,

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    through our encounter with the particular. What follows is a series of events which leads to knowledge. The passive intellect receives the image from the sense data and it is stamped upon the passive intellect from the material impression. From this stamp the active intellect is to draw out of it and somehow make a universal concept from this particular experience. But there is something more at work here. There is something in the mind ( more specifically in the soul) that somehow comprehends and makes

  • Right Before My Very Eyes

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    unavoidable sense of insecurity in those beliefs that are not supported by vision. Do you believe in Ghosts? Angels? Out of body experiences? Would you believe if you could see them? Maybe not. But it is possible to offer those who are withholding there stamp of approval on things that exist but cannot be seen, a better summary of evidence, which could make the inability to see something an invalid criteria for belief. Could a summary of evidence be compiled that would support this: Our vision is incomplete