Prestel Essays

In a recent article The Law and Employee Rights written by Andrew Bacevich, Claire Prestel a staff attorney for Public Justice stated “People’s jobs are their lives, it gives you your sense of who you are as a person, your sense that you are contributing to society. Anyone who has been laid off or spent a period of time involuntarily unemployed knows how bad that feels.” So what rights do we have as employees? Can we just be laid off and or turned down without just cause? Being employed provides

This document contains Assignment 1 of Morgan Jenkins Gregory, Mechanical Engineering student at the North-West University of Potchefstroom, for FIAP 172. In this document the individual provides a critical engineering review on the development of the Golden Gate Bridge. His review provides a detailed discussion of the specific engineering problem statement, how the solutions to the problem were developed and applied as well as the resources that were used throughout the development of the bridge

A) Art and Nature in the Northern Renaissance In his letter to Philip Melanchthon (1497-1560) in 1522, Albrecht Dürer (1471-1528) stated that he had begun to see the simplicity of the “native countenance of nature [naturae nativam faciem]” as the ultimate objective of art. I agree with Dürer’s argumentation as the remarks indeed reflect his long-lasting fascination with the depiction of natural forms in art, especially later in his career after two journeys to Italy. Further, I maintain that Dürer’s

Does Ai Weiwei’s “Sunflower Seeds” reflect the social, political and economic status of China? Justin Boon ARTH-271 Professor Farris Fall 2014  Does Ai Weiwei’s “Sunflower Seeds” reflect the social, political and economic status of China? In order to understand his work, we must first understand Ai Weiwei as an artist, his other works, as well as the inspiration and motivation behind them. We must also understand China as a country and its political climate in order to ascertain a degree