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Introduction Music, dance, and theatre arts have entertained and created memorable stories in many people’s lives throughout history. Theatrical arts from ancient times are among the most unforgettable tales with characters that have stood out for their acting prowess and character development. There are many contemporary adaptations of the old plays where each adoption tries to produce a film that captures the audience’s attention while maintaining the original script. Producers use theatre effects such as acting expertise, costume, and makeup to enhance the plays, which captivate the audience and narrate the tales more vividly. Contemporary music also uses interpretive dance, makeup, and costume designs to convey the story or meaning of music. Moreover, dance moves communicate many things, such as the song’s emotions, values, and message. Ballet choreography usually tells a story through the twists and turns of the body and hand gestures. Thus, theatre arts explore ways to enhance music, films, and dramas through metaphorical narration using interpretive dance and costume designs that capture the audience’s attention. This essay discusses how acting skills and costume designs enhance Hozier’s song ‘Take Me to Church’ and Shatners’ Oedipus Rex’ in the contemporary world. Acting Skills Polunin acts out the song with zeal and energy using chorographical ballet. His movements enhance Hozier’s song by bringing out its emotions which demand empathy and longing for something. Take me to church narrates the story of someone desperate for salvation in the contemporary world. The song begins when Polunin is lying down, alone in an empty barn. The ballet dancer’s frequent moves increase the intensity of the song’s message with every rhyme and beat as the song proceeds. I feel like the most captivating movements of Polunin are the air leaps and crouches, which look like he is fighting with demons. In my view, the casts acting skills in ‘Oedipus Rex’ are not what modern people expect in production. However, Shatner enhances the play’s acting skills by using humor and differences in sound and pitch, making the drama entertaining. The Performance Flow and Filming Enhancements Both performances’ acting skills maintain a single and unbroken unity throughout the show. Polunin’s dance moves rhyme with every song’s beat, while his hand gestures demonstrate his inner feelings. Watching Polunin’s movements takes you through all the emotions and messages of the music according to Hozier’s intended message of salvation. For example, he points to the skies in the part where Hozier sings about heaven. T
Introduction Authors of short stories are limited in their ability to convey deep ideas and meaning within their work by the short length of their work. However, by making careful use of literary devices such as symbolism and metaphor, these authors can insert as much meaning into a very short story as they can into a full-length novel. One such author is Kate Chopin, who wrote during a changing time in the world when the Victorian ideals of the past were just beginning to change into the more modern ideals of the future. In her works, Chopin frequently makes use of nature as a means of conveying her intentions. In stories such as “The Storm”, “The Story of an Hour” and “Ripe Figs”, Chopin is able to convey a greater sense of what her characters are feeling and the passage of time through natural imagery. Main body Chopin uses nature to illustrate the emotions of her main character in “The Storm.” Calixta is a passionate woman forced to comply with the restrictions of a Victorian lifestyle and is feeling the pressure of it. Within the first few sentences of the story, the storm is described as “somber clouds that were rolling with sinister intention from the west, accompanied by a sullen, threatening roar” (Chopin, 1898). She works this hard around the house to try to keep her passionate nature in check. As the storm outside builds, Calixta “sat at a side window sewing furiously on a sewing machine … she felt very warm and often stopped to mop her face on which the perspiration gathered in beads” (Chopin, 1898). But the building storm won’t be ignored anymore and finally breaks over her house one day when her husband and son are gone and an equally passionate man, the man she wanted to be with when she was younger, is riding by her home. As she sees Alcee Labalierre ride in at the gate, as she stands there with her husband’s Sunday coat in her arms, the raindrops begin to fall. These falling raindrops can be seen as her expression of grief at what she cannot be. Her building frustration as a result of her constrained passion is expressed in the flash of lightning that sends her jumping backward into Alcee’s arms and the storm peaks as the two of them finally give expression to their desire. The lightning becomes the conflict inside her and the beat
As a social work intern, I was assigned one of the highly affected population segments within the American community. A significant percentage of students in the public senior high school include the English-speaking African American teenagers. The Black ethnic sect is one of the groups highly at-risk and vulnerable due to the proficient effect of stereotyping. Researchers noted that most prison inmates engulfed African Americans over the decades (Allen et al., 2018). It is a phenomenon affirmed from data collected from the general public, and people argued that African American teenagers and young adults are frequently engaged in violent acts and participate in criminal activities, mainly drug trafficking. On the contrary, the Native Americans are primarily associated with alcoholism and poor living conditions. Fundamentally, there is a profound interdependent relationship between the vulnerability risk among Black Americans and the inherent environmental, social, and political entities within the American landscape. The prevalence of racism as a social-based issue significantly affects learning process of African Americans in senior public high schools. It is a phenomenon that contributes to the hindrance in accessing certain resources and privileges. An excellent example is awarding a Black student in the sporting events and instead overshadowing an individual from another ethnic group. The limited access to opportunities that elevate career growth demotivates the student from participating in certain activities, prompting crime and drug abuse (Allen et al., 2018). The needs of the African American scholars include acquiring competent skill sets and knowledge to use in securing jobs and earn a decent livelihood. As a result, the personnel use protests and activism as the resilience and protective factor to enhance the implementation of policies enhancing equity. Discrimination is a profound barrier towards imminent growth and de
Abstract Adolescence is the transitional period of biological and mental development in the human lifecycle. It takes place between puberty and adulthood. The period is narrowly linked with teenage years. However, the physical, mental, and traditional elucidations may start earlier and terminate later than they should. For instance, puberty is typically linked to adolescence progress. Adolescence starts before the teenage years. Practically, there are no universal standards that guide how adolescents behave. The communal setting where the adolescent is brought up is a major contributor to how they turn out as adults. This case study originates from an interview conducted on 17-year-old Latino female. It is based on three development processes. These are biological, cognitive, and socio-emotional foundations of human development. These foundations generate a vivid image of the adolescent’s experiences. Nicole Tomas’ experiences are paralleled to diverse prevailing age-related theories. The strategy allows the examination of the significance of adolescence as a standard stage of development. The approach helps in demystifying a bad perception of adolescents the community has. Introduction Immigration from Latin America to the United States is typically an escape from challenging conditions. However, the advantage is accompanied by a loss of identity. The loss of identity is often distinctive baggage for adolescents. They are often placed into a new cultural setting and life situation during the process of forming an identity. US-born Latino adolescents also face the challenge of adapting to the majority culture. A major source of health issues for Latino adolescents is bicultural stress. However, not all Latino adolescents experience health issues. Adolescence is associated with stress. It is also a stage when rebellion against norms occurs in the minds of the majority of adults. However, this is not always the case because the majority of adolescents possess positive self-esteem and relate well with others. They eventually transit into adulthood effectively. The change in attitude and physical changes are triggered by hormones as they transit to adulthood. Amazingly, most adults tend to overlook their own experience as adolescents. The objective of this case study is to examine the experiences of an adolescent Latino female. The approach will shed light on getting a better comprehension of what some adolescents have to cope within contemporary society. The use of the interview helps in demystifying misconceptions surrounding adolescence. Additionally, the interview helps in examining biological, cognitive, and socio-emotional aspects of Nicole Tomas. The interview will then be related to various theories of development. Demographic Data Nicole is a Latino adolescent. She is 17 years old. She is a senior in a high school. Nicole is not an academically outstanding student. She enjoys singing and is in the school choir. She was raised by her father. Her mother died when Nicole and her elder sister were seven and ten years
Provide the Background of the CEO Above Ursula Burns is the chief executive officer and the madam chairperson of Xerox Company. Born in 1958 and brought up by a single mother in New York City, she has been able to scale the heights of management to become one of the few women chief executive officers to lead a Fortune 500 company. She is the first African American woman to head such a company. Burns attended cathedral high school in New York City and then proceeded to the Polytechnic Institute of NYU for her degree in mechanical engineering where she graduated with a degree in 1980. She later enrolled at the Columbia University for her master’s degree in mechanical engineering. Burns joined Xerox as an intern in 1980. By the year 2000, she had risen to become senior vice president of the company. In 2009, she was made the chief executive officer. In 2010, she was made the chairperson of the company. Burns is married with one daughter and a son. The CEO’s Leadership Style and Philosophy, and how the CEO’s Leadership Style aligns with the Culture Ursula Burns can be described as a manager with many different leadership qualities that have enabled her manage Xerox Company to where it is now. Her leadership style can be described on one hand as visionary while on the other hand it can be transformational (Stan, 2010, p. 502). Her visionary leadership style can be seen in her planning for the future of the company to move from the traditional photocopier and printer maker to a more service-oriented company. Xerox has been the market leader in production of photocopy and printing equipment for a very long time. It was in Burns’ vision to see where the company would be in the coming years. According to her analysis, Xerox had reached its pinnacle of branding and had thus achieved all that any form of branding would achieve. Thus, its gains were becoming saturated. In the next 20 or 30 years, the company would not be there if it only relied on its core business of making copying and printing equipment. She therefore thought of transforming the company into one that would survive the changes of time by coming up with a product that could sustain the company over a long period (Stan, 2010, p. 503). The company’s philosophy was to stay on top of its business niche and/or remain the leader in the printing and photocopying industry. This goal was being achieved through innovation as a way of simplifying labor in the workplaces. Burns’ style of leadership as a visionary and transformational leader enabled her fuse her innovative ideas about the future of Xerox by acquiring Affiliated Computer Services (ACS) as a way of consolidating its new position in the market by entering the business process and IT outsourcing. The CEO’s Personal and Organizational Values Ursula Burns as the chief executive officer of Xerox has many personal and organizational values that she upholds and/or practices.
Introduction Language can function successfully only in the societal context when people interact with each other with the help of language as the system of signs and codes. The facts of the language importance for communication at all the social levels, the processes of the world globalization and integration emphasize the necessity of knowing and using more than one language in the everyday life. Australia is a country where the phenomenon of bi/multilingualism is explained by the historical, economic, and social factors. English is considered as the dominated language in the country, but there are a lot of other languages which are actively used as the first or second languages within the country’s territories. They are Italian, Greek, Japanese, Chinese, the language of aboriginals, and many others. The percentage of monolingual persons in Australia is too low in comparison with the number of bi/multilingual people (Lo Bianco, 2009). The character of using two or more languages by multilingual people depends on many social factors and is influenced by the governmental and educational policy in this field. The multicultural and demographic context of Victoria is one of the most complex ones in Australia. That is why it is significant to concentrate on the peculiarities of the bi/multilingual context of Victoria (Melbourne in particular) with focusing on the features of the Italian language‘s usage as the base for determining the most effective educational program appropriate for this context and bilingual situation. The peculiarities of the bilingual situation in the context of Melbourne, Victoria, with focusing on the usage of the Italian language In relation to the question of using one or more languages, Australia can be considered as the follower of the multicultural language ideology. It is typical for the authorities of the country to discuss the problem of multilingualism in Australia regularly in order to develop the effective measures for contributing to the issue’s solution. According to Lo Bianco, “at a time of rapid and deep globalisation, acute competition for prosperity and influence, highly literate communication ability, bilingualism and intercultural knowledge and skill assume great importance both within our enduringly pluralistic society, and in a ‘shrinking’ multilingual world” (Lo Bianco, 2009, p. 4). The development of bi/multilingualism as a complex cultural and sociolinguistic phenomenon in Australia is not only the contribution to the world tendencies, but it is also the reality of the population’s life caused by a lot of significant historical and social factors. One of the factors of the bi/multilingualism progress is the migration process because the arrived immigrants form their specific communities in which they can use their native language and transfer it to the next generations (Lo Bianco, 2009). The modern population of Victoria is also formed as a
Introduction Baraka is a Sufi expression for “breath of life”. The film producer, director, and the composer gave the film its audio visual quality poem that reflects on the world, plus the diverse cultures that scramble on its surface. Baraka moves away from the conventional setting of man versus nature. The film is intricately anchored on the scope of spiritual exploration. Vistas of both natural and man-made landscapes including landscapes etched on the faces of the men and women, aborigine warriors, japans Noh dancers, as well as the rainforest children, all have the mark of their distinct cultures. The objective of these illustrations shows that men do have shared convictions which are grander than the general physical world. The film Baraka is an exceptional and exemplary model of the effectual usage of poetic mode in documentary oriented filmmaking. Lack of linier or recognized location, lack of explicative commentary, and the evidence of manipulated sound and action, collaborate to make this movie a work of art that evidently documents transparency in a profound ,exceptional and original form from a dynamic perspective that can be only be said to be the film makers personal creativity 1 . Overview The film presents a candid architecture, music and sound are compactly integrated and they play a significant role in addition to the striking visuals. This approach is a replacement for conventional, expository commentary.Baraka, for instance, opens with a well set resonance of a wind musical instrument, introverted notes floating in darkness giving the impression of loneliness, harmony, and space. In this instance, the initial signs of music introduce another essential element exposed in the film, the existence of silence. The instances of silence between the music are as imperative as the music itself. Mingling both sound and silence evokes one of the principal attributes of poetic mode film production, mood, and through mood, we obtain meaning. And this allowance in the feeling creates an environment which makes the audience to be attentive, balanced, and assiduous. Hence, this experience is allowed so as to create experience time at a rate slower to near timelessness. Also the first clip that escorts music is a long wide shot of the grandiose, snowcapped Himalayan ranges. Hence, the exposed visual motion in this series of simultaneous shots of these overwhelming masses of earth, including Mt.Everst, are birds movement, clound, as well as the random slanting of the camera. This tranquility contrasting movement creates the consciousness of what eventually lasts. As the film gains currency, an extreme close-up shot of a red-faced monkey, whose physical manners and expressions mirrors human behaviors. The macaque monkey metaphorically peeps into our past and our current situation but sees no connection. Rather the monkey is show
A global navigation satellite system (GNSS) is defined as a system of satellites that provides geo-spacial positioning with a global coverage. The system offers global coverage using electronic receivers for calculating positions and time. The GNSS positioning system has been undergoing tremendous improvements because of the need to expand its applications (Gleason, 2009). The modern Global Positioning System has been operating fully for almost two years. The GNSS technology was first utilized in the 1960s by the US military. The Transit system was the pioneer satellite system that was operated using the Doppler Effect in the process of locating positions. Compared to the early systems, the modern systems are more precise and direct. The orbital data is normally used in calculating the exact position of a satellite. Apart from showing position, the GNSS system has to show the exact time of signal transmission. The information about time is communicated through data messages (Grewal, 2007). The time-of – flight is very essential normally calculated using various GNSS positioning methods such as relative positioning and the baseline concept. A GNSS satellite system has got internal clocks specifically for measuring the reception time. A fix is generated by measuring the distance between the broadcaster and the receiver. The position of the signal often changes as the speed of receivers increases. A precise GNSS system of positioning is the one that uses a single GPS receiver for accurate determination of time and position. The speed of radio signals of a satellite system is affected by the ionosphere present in the path. The radio signals tend to slow down in the case where they encounter the ionosphere in their path. GNSS systems with multiple corelators and satellites tend to be more precise in the global coverage of both time and position (Singh, 2011). This system works with a centimeter accuracy of both the clock data and a GPS orbit. The clock data is very important in reducing some of the errors in GPS positioning (Samama, 2008). The most notable errors in a GNSS system are the orbit errors and the clock errors. When a satellite system has a combination of precise frequency receivers and clocks, the first order effect of the ionosphere is completely removed. Precise GNSS/GPS positioning has a wide range of applications different industries. There are many applications of the precise GNSS/GPS system but we will only mention a few of them. To begin with, precise GNSS receivers are used in the automobile industry to display accurate speed, location and direction of moving vehicles (Zekavat, 2011). This information is normally displayed in moving maps. The GNSS receivers are also utilized in autopilot systems that are essential for air navigation. The precise GNSS system is used to calculate glide paths and winds speeds that help the pilot to make some vital decisions (Zekavat, 2011). Precise GNSS positioning is used by hikers, mountain climbers and miners instead of maps. The baseline concept and relative positioning are two