Discuss the following:
"Inventory Costing Methods"
1. Use the Internet to research the annual report of at least 3 merchandising companies. Determine the costing method (Last In First Out [LIFO], First In First Out [FIFO], and weighted average) that is used to record inventory. Next, watch C. Pence’s video:
2. Identify the primary benefits in using the costing method (LIFO, FIFO, and weighted average) that is used to record inventory. Explain at least three reasons that would lead each of your chosen companies to switch to a different costing method.
"Tchaikovsky and Women in Art"
1. Select one composition by Tchaikovsky that you enjoy. Describe the music and subject matter of that work, and explain why you enjoy it. Explain the key reasons why you believe that compositions by Tchaikovsky continue to be popular with contemporary orchestras and audiences. Passionate nationalism, like Tchaikovsky's for Russia, could be a feature of Romantic art and music and in the arts of the late 1800s. Give primary examples of music today (besides national anthems) that is characterized by nationalism.
2. Select two paintings depicting females by both a male artist and female artist named within the Explore section. Compare and contrast these two depictions of women, and comment on any general tendencies that you detect among artists of that era in this respect. Compare this situation in the late 1800s to the way females are depicted in our own modern times, using at least one (1) specific modern example.