A Société means company in French and “Société BIC, the French consumer products company, makes the ubiquitous lighters, pens, and shavers” (Hoovers). The founder of BIC was Baron Marcel Bich, and has begun his company in 1953 with his partner Edouard Buffard, they didn't truly invent the pen, Hungarian Ladislao Bir was the creator of the parts, so Bich had purchased it off Bir (Los Angeles Times). Edouard Buffard was the... “executive Vice President and Director of Société BIC” (BIC Group). In Italy
Research Proposal Our Disposable Society As Americans, we are privileged to many luxuries. Not every country allows its citizens to start their own businesses or provides the education it takes to run a company. Our free market system allows for many different goods and services to compete fairly for people’s dollars. The freedom given to us by our forefathers grants the opportunity to choose between these goods and services. Put all these realities together and it’s no wonder we have so many
Personal Narrative- The Story Behind a Scar A spark of flint, then a burst of flame and the Bic lighter was alive, glowing like a serpent’s eye. It had finally come to this. Things were going so well too: I had money, dreams, a whole future figured out. Now I was a drunken liar, facing criminal charges and jail time; sadly I was only nineteen. Hungover with a broken knuckle and no memory of how it happened, to top it all off my butterfly knife, a deadly weapon made for surgically precise combat
Introduction Georges-Pierre Seurat was a French Impressionist whose works included; Bathers at Asnieres, Circus, Eiffel Tower, Gray weather, and his most notable and largest piece, Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte. George-Pierre Seurat was born in France in 1859. Seurat began his career by studying at the “Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris under artist Henri Lehmann” ("Georges Seurat," n.d.), before adventuring out on his own. George Seurat was for the most part self-taught, only
Georges Seurat was a French painter and an important figure in exceling the neo-impressionism movement. Seurat spent the majority of his life studying color theories and the effects of different linear structures (Pioch). By studying color theories and the effects of (Vora) different linear structures, Seurat was able create his own technique that would later make him famous and unforgettable. On December 2, 1859, in Paris, Georges Seurat was born. He was the third child of Ernestine Faivre of
Georges-Pierre Seurat was a French Post-Impressionist painter, as well as a fine draftsman. He was born and raised in a wealthy family in Paris on December 2, 1859. He lived a short life of thirty-one year of age, and in his time, Seurat not only invented his style of pointillism, but he also became the first Neo-Impressionist. In pointillism, Seurat used miniscule dots of various colors on a base color to produce the local color. This creates an optical mixture from afar for the viewer and makes
The cultural relevance of the Bic Maxi lighter According to William J. Thomson, the natives of Easter Island’s “method of obtaining fire requires considerable preparation of material and patience on the part of the operator. A pointed stick of hard wood is rubbed against a piece of dry paper-mulberry until a groove, is formed, which finally becomes hot from the friction and ignites the lint or fiber thrown up at the end of the groove. This is blown into a flame, and dried grass added to it until