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    Memo to Martha Stewart, CEO of Martha Stewart Omnimedia Dear Ms. Stewart, I am writing to address some concerns I have about the future of your company, Martha Stewart Omnimedia (MSO). Perhaps the one issue that you are grappling with at present is about the Imclone scandal. You have been accused of selling $227,000 worth of Imclone stock based on inside information. Because of these charges of insider trading, your critics have summarily associated you with other disgraced company directors:

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    Martha Graham (May 11, 1894 – April 1, 1991) was an American modern dancer and choreographer who has had a huge influence on dance and the influence has been compared to Picasso’s on art. She is also recognized as one of the greatest artists of the 20th century and has inspired many generations of famous choreographers and dancers including Merce Cunningham, Paul Taylor, and Twyla Tharp, In the mid-1910s, she began her studies at the Denishawn School of Dancing and Related Arts, and she continued

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    Semiothic of the kitchen is a video art produced by Martha Rosler in the 1975. This video is a classic piece of feminist art work. During 1960s , women was expected to marry in her 20s. They were expected to follow this path and devote their life to homemaking. This make the wives spending an average of 55 hours a week of their times on domestic chores. For some reason, this feels unfair and make them feel unwelcomed and limited in every respect. Martha rosler remarked about this work that “when the

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    Martha Graham is one of the most important and well-known dancers/ choreographers of the 20th century. Graham is considered the mother of modern dance because of how much she studied and experimented with modern dance then passed on her information to future generations. She used modern dance to break away from the traditional movements and constraints of dance and created movements that would truly displayed the human soul through movement. Graham was born on May 11th, 1894 in a small town outside

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    This is an article from Pittsburgh University which briefly concludes about Martha Graham's dance career. The article includes where Martha Graham started to learn dancing, some of the transactions in Martha's life and her impact on American modern dance. This is a great source for people who want to know basic information about Martha Graham's dance career and impact on America in a limit amount of time. The article forcefully describes Martha's dance career and the subtitles in the article are

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    Martha Graham Generation after generation, in different countries of the world there has always been different styles of body expression. Dance is a special form of art which movement of the body creates. One of the most delicate types of dance, which evokes emotion, is ballet. For Martha Graham, ballet was not only a dance: it was a way to express a fear or happiness with gestures created by the body. Graham was recognized as having made revolutionary changes in dance: in form, subject

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    Martha Graham created modern dance in 1926 and came her dance company . Her dance company teaches modern and contemporary dance. In the 20th century Martha Graham was one of the greatest artist around. “ She created a movement language based upon expression capacity of the human body”, Duarte. She stood out from her society because she was never afraid of expressing herself. Martha started teaching a group of dancers who wanted to get out of their shell. Since It took a while for Martha to

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    Martha Graham Martha Graham was born on May 11, 1894 in Allegheny (now Pittsburgh), Pennsylvania. She was 1 of the 3 daughters her parents, George and Jane Graham, had. Influenced by her father, he was a doctor that used physical moving to fix nervous disorders. He believed that the body could express its inner senses. Martha became interested in dance after seeing Ruth St. Denis perform in Los Angeles. Unfortunately, her parents did not approve her wishes to study dance and because of this,

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    Introduction Martha Stewart is an American Home decorator Icon surrounded by accusations of Inside trading, Obstruction of justice, False statements and Conspiracy. Her trial and investigation lasted for two years ending with her being found guilty of charges and convicted to spend time in jail, home arrest and probation. In this work I will expose Martha Stewart’s behavior and why her actions were considered outlaw, unethical and unprofessional. I will also explain which ethical behavior she used

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    This essay is conceived with the purpose of demonstrating personal understanding of liberal education as a result of assessing historic theory of Aristotle and comparing the contemporary theories of Charles Bailey and Martha Nussbaum. In addition, the applicable situations of liberal education and its governing principles will be discussed. Specifically, given the inevitable engagement of compulsory education, which is inherently authoritarian, some aspects of liberal education are limited, and full

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