Makers Essays

  • Maker Movement: Everyone Can Be an Inventor

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    The maker movement is about the idea that everyone can be an inventor. This movement supports and encourages creativity of all forms. The creation of everything from music, art, writing, technology and much more is what makes this movement so great. It allows for everyone to follow their dreams and the freedom to be able to do it on their own. Websites for buying and selling products associated with the maker movement are becoming increasingly more popular. It is now so easy to shop online many

  • Stereotypes and Stereotyping - I Was a Teenage Trouble-Maker

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    Stereotyping - I Was a Teenage Trouble-Maker The time was the fall of 2000. It was my senior year, and we were in our fourth hour home economics class. My best friend and I were about to finish up our two-day presentation on how to bake and ice a cake. Now, with the class and the teacher watching intently, we proceeded to ice the two layer chocolate cake with our bare hands. The entire class broke out with uncontrollable laughter; needless to say our teacher was fuming. Well, to make matters

  • The Case of Nancy Cruzan

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    the United States Supreme Court had already established the right of an individual to refuse medical treatment. This issue therefore is not novel to the Cruzan case. Furthermore, there was not any controversy over who was the appropriate decision maker for Nancy Cruzan. The significant issue that the Cruzan case did bring to the table of medical ethics regarded whether or not a substituted decision make could choose to withdraw artificial hydration and nutrition on behalf of another individual.

  • James Fenimore Cooper's Last of the Mohicans: Book and Movie

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    preserving Cooper's original vision of the classic American man surviving in the wilderness, while possibly presenting it better than the book originally did and in a more believable fashion to a late twentieth century reader. The makers of the movie Last of the Mohicans preserved Cooper's central ideas and themes very well, the most important of which  is the question, what makes a man?  Very few books that I have read contain such a clear sense of what a man should be as

  • How Naked Is the Naked Brand?

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    focus for the structure of the documented media was deemed unclear; mainly because it included too many varying examples, interviews, and information used. The ideas, though insightful, are quite diverse, in which may confuse the audience. The media makers must then add emphasis on their focus and must create a guide of their messages or ideas for the viewers to follow. We may conclude then that “The Naked Brand” although astute, still possessed some problems which include a clichéd and superficial

  • Documentary on Newfoundland

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    Canada is internationally recognized for its excellence in documentary film, and in recent years several of Canada's finest documentary makers have come from this province. Some of them work primarily in Newfoundland and Labrador while others take their cameras around the world. Their films often tell highly personal stories that reflect universal themes, and many are characterized by an unmistakable passion for grass-roots politics, social change and human rights. For most of this century Newfoundland

  • Plato

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    has been manufactured by a furniture-maker, and this furniture-maker has more knowledge of the table than the painter does. But there is someone who has ever more knowledge about the table, the person who wants to have the table made. He is the one who gives the furniture-maker instructions to follow when making the table, according to its purpose for the buyer. So, the buyer of the table knows more about the table than the furniture-maker, and the furniture-maker knows more about the table than the

  • The Suicide by Louis MacNeice

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    office all those minutes ago" These lines are the introduction to the poem and gives a mental vision of a Holiday rep showing holiday makers a landmark of interest or a game show host introducing a new competitor into a show and in both these cases they are using the dead colleagues body as there example which furthermore gives the impression that the holiday makers are not really interested in the dead body as such but are using it to their enjoyment rather than feeling sorry for the dead man which

  • Milton S. Hershey: The Real Willy Wonka

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    Milton Hershey was and still is one of the greatest chocolate makers of all time. He was the man who turned a bare patch of land into a thriving chocolate town and pulled everybody through the Great Depression. But, Hershey is best remembered to be the person who made chocolate popular in America and other parts of the world. Many people today know and purchase the infamous chocolate products that have been produced by the Hershey Factory, but some know about how the business became to be so successful

  • Film Distrubution Channels in Indonesia

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    culture development and film expression), but if we try to see on commercial distribution side from these films, they can be one supporting factor to the alternative film development world in Indonesia, it also open the possibility of alternative film makers development them selves. . MAIN ISSUE LITERATUR REVIEW Channel Distribution Channel distribution is sets of interdependent organization involved in the process of marketing product or service available for use or consumption (Kotler, 2006)

  • The Story Of An Hour/The Joy That Kills

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    because filmmaking is an art and because film and literature are not always exactly compatible. There are many artistic components in the making of a film. The plot or the story behind the film is one the most important of these components. The makers of The Joy That Kills in making a film version of Kate Chopin's short story The Story of an Hour took artistic license to its limits. The entire story was dismantled and then completely reinvented. Many characters that are barely present or do not

  • Adult Assumptions On Teenagers

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    the youth of today. Not everyone, but a lot of people follow the assumption that the youth of today’s society are nothing but bludgers. Youth usually have plenty of negative assumptions placed upon them such as being known as ‘Know alls’, ‘Trouble makers’, ‘Druggies’ and irresponsible. This names just a few of the negative assumptions that youth have placed upon them nearly, if not, everyday. There are also some positive assumptions made in regard to the youth of today, these are statements like they

  • Mary Austin: The Land of Little Rain

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    Mary Austin The Land of Little Rain The Basket Maker Mary Austin's The Basket Maker is, like all her other stories in the book, a very detailed description of the western landscape and its inhabitants. But this time she focused more on a single inhabitant, an Indian woman named Seyavi. It is rather difficult to really define the plot of the story. Though the story seems to focus on Seyavi's life and experiences she is not the one who tells that story. The narrator, who is omniscient, takes

  • Ruling Class and Ruling Elite

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    Ruling Class and Ruling Elite Works Cited Missing The term 'ruling class' is frequently used in Marxist theory to indicate a political leading group. 'Ruling elite' is the general

  • Robert Jervis - Perception And Level Of Analysis

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    interrelated in the sense that the perceptions of the decision-maker are influenced by the circumstances existent in the three other levels. Likewise the three levels are themselves affected and often altered by the politician’s choices. Therefore, in order to provide the most comprehensive explanations of foreign policy decisions one cannot completely disregard externalities, and conversely one cannot ignore individual perceptions of decision-makers. One cannot rely solely on the bureaucratic level of analysis

  • Paleys Arguement From Design, And Humes Counter-analogy

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    yet all work together to form a functional machine. Paley shows in his argument that all the pieces of the watch are put together for a definite purpose. No matter how many watches were made before this one, Paley explains that the watch still has a maker. Watches cannot be designed by other watches, some superior being must have created at least the first one. The designer obviously understands how the watch works and how to create it to function properly. With this premise, Paley introduces the connection

  • Comparing Love And Death In The Epic Of Gilgamesh

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    Love and Death in The Epic of Gilgamesh Abstract: The most interesting stories invariably are about love and death. These two themes underlie the Epic of Gilgamesh, a mythic tale of the quest for immortality. Gilgamesh, profoundly affected by the death of his friend Enkidu at the hands of the gods, questions the injustice of life. Finding no answer, he of course tries to change—indeed, eliminate—the question by seeking immortality. The following essay examines Gilgamesh and Enkidu’s relationship

  • William Shakespeare Research Paper

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    exact birth date is unknown but it is traditionally celebrated on April 23. In England this day is known as the feast of St. George. He was the third of eight children born to John and Mary Arden Shakespeare. John Shakespeare was a tanner, and a glove maker. He served a term as the mayor of Stratford, a town council man, a justice of peace, and an ale-taster. Unfortunately John could not write. John Shakespeare died in 1601. Since William was his eldest son he received what little land his father owned

  • mortal kombat

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    it was a constant challenge to be the best fighter. With the new game that came out not too, long ago you are able to plug an internet cord in the back of your gaming system and play anyone in the world. This game caught so much criticism that the makers had to take the blood out of the game, and they turned it in to white sweat, but little did the critics know that there were codes you could enter to bring the blood back to the game. There also were codes called “Fatalities” which were finishing

  • Making Decisions Making Decisions

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    Making Decisions We all make decisions of varying importance every day, so the idea that decision making can be a rather sophisticated art may at first seem strange. However, studies have shown