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Pursuing Excellence
the release of u.s. 14
report on grade 12
Results From the Third 15
International Mathematics
and Science Study
February 24, 1999
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Class: Art 437 – Advanced Typography
Assignment 01
Student: Kristen Miles
Class: Art 437 – Advanced Typography
Assignment 01
Student: Josh Balleza
Class: Art 437 – Advanced Typography
Assignment 01
Student: Kari Schuerchr
Class: Art 437 – Advanced Typography
Assignment 01
Student: Doug Webster
Class: Art 437 – Advanced Typography
Assignment 02
Student: Dallin Millard
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A GUIDE TO JANE AUSTEN
Table of Contents
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Biography
Jane Austen
TimeLine
The Works of Jane Austen
A GUIDE TO JANE AUSTEN
Mansfield Park
Sense & Sensibility
Persuasion
Emma
Northanger Abbey
*** Pride & Prejudice
Bibliography
B Y K R I ST E N M I L E S •
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practical, down-to-earth person. Elinor falls in love with Edward
Ferrars and Marianne, for Willoughby. However, Edward turns out
to be engaged to another girl, Lucy Steele and Willoughby plans to
marry Miss Grey, a rich debutante. Marianne goes through a period Nov 1811
of depression and falls seriously ill. Elinor feels miserable to think S en s e & S en sibi l it y
• THE BOOKS OF JANE AUSTEN • of her Edward united with a lesser woman. Marianne renews her wa s t he f i rst novel
publ i she d at Ja ne's
enthusiasm for life and starts realizing the worth of the dashing e x p en s e
Colonel Brandon.
Persuasion
Mansfield Park “Such a letter was not to be soon recovered from. . . .
Every moment r ather brought fresh agitation. It was an
“A large income is the best recipe for happiness overpowering happiness.”
I ever hear d of.”
When Anne Elliot turns down the hand of suitor upon advice of
The heroine of Mansfield Park is by some considered insipid, Fanny a dear friend, it causes a sorrow to both individuals that has two
Price the eldest daughter of a mother from a wealthy family who different effects on each. Is it possible that, beneath feelings of
chose to marry for love and live in poverty is at the tender age of hurt and sorrow, love might yet still linger when the pair chance to
10 sent to live with her mother’s wealthy sister and her family. The meet once more seven years later? Jane Austen’s Persuasion focuses
Bertrams have two sons and two daughters and the youngest son on the regret and loneliness of Anne Elliot, who had rejected a
treats her with kindness. She is raised as was the custom not on proposal of marriage from the one man she truly loved. The story
equal terms with her cousins but as her position dictated, that she takes place less than a decade after the proposal, following her Dec 1817
Nor t ha ng er A bb e y
should be at all times agreeable to the family and to know her place. simultaneous anticipation and dread of the rejected lover’s return a nd Persu a sion
She is constantly reminded of this by her mother’s other sister Mrs. to the community. She struggles between the validity of the reasons publ i she d
Post hu mou s by
Norris. Fanny remains placid and compliant throughout, yet she is for the old rejection and the flittering hope that their love had Mu r ray
M ay 1814 always steadfast to what she believes to be right and proper. Miss persevered over time.
M a n sf ield Pa rk
publ i she d by
Crawford befriends the downtrodden Fanny and Mr. Crawford is
E g er ton attracted to her.
Emma
Sense & Sensibility “One half of the wor ld cannot understand the pleasures
of the other.”
“They gave themselves up wholly to their sorrow,
The wealthy and somewhat spoiled Emma Woodhouse finds
aN INTRoducTIoN
seeking increase of wretchedness in every
reflection that could affor d it, and resolved against ever pleasure in trying to make romantic matches for her friends. She
001 admitting consolation in future.” takes a poor, farmer’s daughter, Harriet, under her wing and makes
To ThE woRKS of jaNE auSTEN Sense and Sensibility is the story of two sisters, Elinor and Marianne
Dashwood who with their mother and younger sister, Margaret,
her a “pet.” Throughout all the entangling relationships Emma has
created, her old friend, Mr. Knightley watches over her shoulder
are forced into poverty through the untimely death of their father. and steps in when he think things are going too far. But Emma does
Mr. Dashwood was previously married and all of the Dashwood not always listen to him, and thus suffers the consequences. The real
fortune and the estate of Norland, is then bequeathed to John, his trial comes when Harriet falls in love with Mr. Knightley, who is
Dec 1815
son by his first marriage, leaving the Dashwood women practically far above her in breeding, social status, and intelligence. By this E m ma publ i she d by
penniless. Elinor and Marianne are polar opposites where love is time Emma realizes, seemingly too late, just how much she loves Joh n Mu r ray.
concerned. Marianne is the incurable romantic and Elinor is the Mr. Knightley herself.
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Class: Art 437 – Advanced Typography
Assignment 03
Student: Kristen Miles
Reality
Counter REDUCTION Tilt PROCEDURE Serif AUGMENTATION BOTOX INJECTION
HYALURONIC ACID
(Face Lift)
LIPOSUCTION the tail Uppercase SURGERY RECONSTRUCT Arms LASER TREATMENT
(on the‘R’ and ‘e’) (Upper and Lower)
American Society
OF PLASTIC SURGEONS
Reality
Let’s
FAC E I T ,
you don’t need a pretty face to get on television
anymore; nowadays it helps to have an ugly one.
Richard D’Amico, MD, president-elect of the American Society of Plastic Surgeons. And if you come with crooked teeth, small breasts
and cellulite to boot, that’s even better. These
qualities will make you a perfect candidate for one
of the various reality “makeover” plastic surgery
shows proliferating across the tube these days.
1 • American Society of Plastic Surgeons ASPS
Shows
CLAIM TO
PUBLIC AND PHYSICIAN EDUCATION ASPS will continue to move forward
with educating the public about plastic surgery—both the risks and
the benefits. In response to the plastic surgery television shows, ASPS
has distributed two press releases, a public service announcement and
a video news release. Our spokespersons have engaged in numerous
media interviews to help reinforce our patient-focused messages. For
In a PRS editorial, Frederick J. Menick
claimed that, “IN THE
PUBLIC’S PERCEPTION, PLASTIC
SURGERY SEEMS PRETENTIOUS AND
A COMMUNITY JOKE… ‘Trump’-like
office, tailored scrubs, augmented
represent reality without acknowledging the level our members, we have issued two special bulletins and published
several articles and editorials on the topic of plastic surgery-centered
wives, kisses, hugs, and ‘hello,
darling...’ Reality television may not
of editing that takes place. Real reality does not
reality TV in PRS and Plastic Surgery News, the ASPS news publica- be reality, but is it perception?”
tion covering the society and the specialty of plastic surgery.
Information is ubiquitous these days. We know that many of our
provide the luxury of editing out the bad results, patients research procedures on their own before seeking a consulta-
tion. Regardless of their sources or whether this information is accurate
postoperative visits to handle complications and or not, it is our responsibility as plastic surgeons
to establish and manage appropriate expectations on an individual
lengthy recovery time. basis by means of thorough consultation and medical history and a
review of informed consent. The image of plastic surgery may have
taken a recent hit, but we will focus on serving our patients and
educating the public about our exciting and unique specialty.
9 • American Society of Plastic Surgeons ASPS
JOURNAL OF ETHICS March 2007, Volume 9, Number 3:215-218 • 8
Class: Art 437 – Advanced Typography
Assignment 03
Student: Kari Schuerch
CAFFEINE’S
PERVASIVENESS
IS SERIOUS
ENOUGH THAT
MANY SCIENCE
RESEARCHERS
HAVE WARNED
AGAINST USING
CAFFEINE TOO
MUCH.
YET WE
SIMPLY REFUSE
TO SURVIVE
WITHOUT IT.
Over and over, the throbbing chorus of a dance hit “It’s like putting your whole system on fast-forward,” Lee “The kids in the clubs, they think they’ve happened upon umbilical cord from the mother’s latte or Snapple.
explodes out of a battery of seven-foot-tall speakers so Murphy shouts above the din as he glides across the floor this great new invention,” says Neil Stanley, director of sleep Caffeine’s pervasiveness is a cause for concern among
powerful that the wood dance floor trembles, earthquake with four-inch-high soles on his dancing shoes, a gold ring research at the Human Psychopharmacology Research Unit at some scientists and public health advocates, but that hasn’t
style, with every reverberating bass note. Through a in his chin, and a slender silver and blue can of Red Bull Britain’s University of Surrey. “But we’ve known for centuries dampened its popularity. Sales of Red Bull and copycat
purple haze of smoke and sweat the strobe lights’ red glare energy drink in each hand. “By four or five in the morning that caffeinated drinks work. They get you out of an energy energy drinks with names like Red Devil, Roaring Lion,
illuminates the dancing couples: men with mohawks and you’re totally blotto,” the 29-year-old London nurse explains. slump and make you more alert. Really all they’ve found is RockStar, SoBe Adrenaline Rush, Go Fast, and Whoop Ass are
painted faces, women in vinyl skirts so micro they serve no “That’s where the Red Bull comes in. I drink these two tins, a new kind of caffeine delivery system.” booming. Meanwhile new coffee shops are opening so fast
functional purpose. It’s 4:45 a.m. at the popular London it’s like drinking a pint of speed.” The dual power to counter physical fatigue and increase all over the world that even the most dedicated devotee of
club Egg, and a few dancers have collapsed on the sofas or For Lee Murphy and other habitués of the all-night club alertness is part of the reason caffeine ranks as the world’s the triple-shot, no-foam, double-caramel, skinny macchiato
taken refuge at the bar. But after a long night of liquor, drugs, scene around the world-not to mention a legion of marathon most popular mood-altering drug, eclipsing the likes of can’t keep track. Every working day, Starbucks opens four
tobacco, and earthshaking noise, most are still vigorously, runners, mountain bikers, fighter pilots, college crammers, nicotine and alcohol. The drug is encountered not just at new outlets somewhere on the planet and hires 200 new
and happily, strutting their stuff across that trembling wood and late-night truckers hoping to cover another hundred the soda fountain or the espresso bar but employees. There’s a joke in many cities that Starbucks is
floor. How do they do it? miles before turning in-the canned concoctions marketed as also in diet pills and pain relievers. It going to open a new store in the parking lot of the local
“Actually, we usually see a revival about half four or so in energy drinks represent a fizzy new manifestation of one of ...I drink these is the only habit-forming psychoactive Starbucks, but this is not true. Yet.
the morning,” says Egg night manager Simon Patrick. “That’s
when we get the real rush at the bar for Red Bull. And the
mankind’s oldest stimulants: caffeine. The active ingredient
in the hugely successful Austrian product Red Bull is a solid
two tins, it’s drug we routinely serve to our children
(in all those sodas and chocolate bars). In
It was less than 200 years ago that people first figured
out that the buzz they got from coffee and tea was the same
kids say, ‘I’ve had eight Red Bulls-I’m flying!’ They’ll dance jolt of caffeine, blended with a handful of other ingredients. like drinking a fact, most babies in the developed world buzz, produced by the same chemical agent. An alkaloid
right round the clock. At seven in the morning we have
trouble getting them out the door.”
One 8.3-ounce can has two to three times the amount of
caffeine as a 12-ounce can of soda. pint of speed. enter the universe with traces of caffeine
in their bodies, a transfer through the
that occurs naturally in the leaves, seeds, and fruit of tea,
coffee, cacao, kola trees, and more than 60 other plants, this
CRASH : THE EFFECTS OF CAFFEINE USE PG 4 / 5
Many young adults use
strong caffeinated beverages to
help themselves fight their way
through a long night of
partying at clubs.
80%
ancient wonder drug had been prescribed for human use as it’s a potent potion for students and scholars stuck in the
far back as the sixth century B.C., when the great spiritual lab at three in the morning. Paul Erdos, the Hungarian
leader Lao-tzu is said to have recommended tea as an elixir mathematician who often worked his equations around
OF ALL YOUNG for disciples of his new religion, Taoism.
But it wasn’t until 1820, after coffee shops had proliferated
the clock, is known for saying that “a mathematician is a
machine for turning coffee into theorems.”
AMERICANS in western Europe, that a new breed of scientist began to Caffeine’s ability to murder sleep also makes it a drug of
WILL HAVE wonder what it was that made this drink so popular. The
German chemist Friedlieb Ferdinand Runge first isolated the
choice for long-distance travelers. There are as many different
jet-lag remedies as there are seats on a trans-Pacific flight. But
A DAILY drug in the coffee bean. The newly discovered substance was one approach, outlined in The Caffeine Advantage by Bennett
CAFFEINATED dubbed “caffeine,” meaning something found in coffee. Then,
in 1838 chemists discerned that the effective ingredient in
Alan Weinberg and Bonnie K. Bealer, involves abstaining from
caffeine for several days before traveling, then dosing yourself
BEVERAGE tea was the same substance as Runge’s caffeine. Before the with small amounts of coffee or tea on the day you arrive to
IN ORDER TO end of the century the same drug would be found in kola
nuts and cacao.
stay alert-preferably out in the sunshine-until your regular
bedtime in your destination. (During weeks of global travel
STAY AWAKE. It’s hardly a coincidence that coffee and tea caught
for this article, it worked for me.)
“Caffeine helps people try to wrest control away from
on in Europe just as the first factories were ushering in the human circadian rhythm that is hardwired in all of us,”
the industrial revolution. The widespread use of caffeinated says Czeisler. But then a shadow crosses the doctor’s sunny
drinks-replacing the ubiquitous beer-facilitated the great face, and his tone changes sharply. “On the other hand,”
transformation of human economic endeavor from the farm he says solemnly, “there is a heavy, heavy price that has
to the factory. Boiling water to make coffee or tea helped been paid for all this extra wakefulness.” Without adequate
decrease the incidence of disease among workers in crowded sleep-the conventional eight hours out of each 24 is about
cities. And the caffeine in their systems kept them from right-the human body will not function at its best, physically,
falling asleep over the machinery. In a sense, caffeine is mentally, or emotionally, the doctor says. “As a society, we
the drug that made the modern world possible. And the are tremendously sleep deprived.”
more modern our world gets, the more we seem to need In fact, the professor goes on, there is a sort of catch-22
it. Without that useful jolt of coffee-or Diet at the heart of the modern
Coke or Red Bull-to get us out of bed and back cravings for caffeine. “The
to work, the 24-hour society of the developed there is a heavy, principal reason that caffeine
world couldn’t exist.
“For most of human existence, your pattern
heavy price we pay is used around the world is to
”
promote wakefulness, Czeisler
of sleeping and wakefulness was basically a for all this extra says. “But the principal reason
matter of the sun and the season,” explains
Charles Czeisler, a neuroscientist and sleep
wakefulness. that people need that crutch is
inadequate sleep. Think about
expert at Harvard Medical School. “When the that: We use caffeine to make
nature of work changed from a schedule built around the sun up for a sleep deficit that is largely the result of using caffeine.”
to an indoor job timed by a clock, humans had to adapt. The Dietrich Mateschitz isn’t losing sleep over how much
widespread use of caffeinated food and drink-in combination caffeine he consumes. A big, friendly man with a big, friendly
with the invention of electric light-allowed people to cope smile that beams out from his stubble of white beard, the
with a work schedule set by the clock, not by daylight or the Austrian marketing whiz describes himself as “comfortable
natural sleep cycle.” with risk,” whether he’s climbing a rocky cliff, helicopter
Czeisler, who rarely consumes any caffeine, is a bundle of skiing, mountain hiking an impossibly steep trail in the
wide-awake energy in his white lab coat, racing around his Alps-or doing business. Mateschitz ought to be comfortable
lab at Boston’s Brigham and Women’s Hospital, grabbing with risk, because the biggest chance he ever took paid
journal articles from the shelves and digging through charts off in spectacular fashion, placing a whole new product on
to find the key data points. “Caffeine is what’s called a wake- supermarket shelves, spawning hundreds of competitors,
promoting therapeutic,” he says. and making himself a billionaire, all within 15 years.
Scientists have developed various theories to explain In the 1980s Mateschitz was working for Blendax, a
caffeine’s “wake-promoting” power. The consensus today German cosmetics company, marketing skin care products
focuses on the drug’s interference with adenosine, a and toothpaste in East Asia. His regular overnight flights
chemical in the body that acts as a natural sleeping pill. from Frankfurt to Tokyo and Beijing inevitably resulted in jet
Caffeine blocks the hypnotic effect of adenosine and keeps lag, which Mateschitz came to despise. He was a salesman,
us from falling asleep. Since caffeine has also been shown to after all; he needed to be at the peak of energy to do his
enhance mood and increase alertness in moderate amounts, job right. But the long flights left him drained and worn.
CRASH : THE EFFECTS OF CAFFEINE USE PG 6 / 7
Class: Art 437 – Advanced Typography
Assignment 01
Student: Steve Davis
Class: Art 437 – Advanced Typography
Assignment 02
Student: Steve Davis
Class: Art 437 – Advanced Typography
Assignment 03
Student: Sandy Chien
