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These days art has developed many branches, many streams and genres, which involve people with all kinds of skills and talents. It is interesting to see how, in the contemporary world, there is a chance for everyone to engage in the process of artistic self-expression and self-realisation. There are people, who play music using glass vessels filled with water as the instruments, there are masters, who create their sculpture using very unusual materials such as fire, or ice or tree leaves, there are abstractionists in painting, there is the art of installation and performance. All of these genres are popular these days and involve many people. Contemporary art is deep and full of meaning. The life in the modern world has changed, it became faster, started to have more layers, more sense. Our technological progress taught us to save the effort and include more meaning and more use into one movement, one action. We have access to loads of information, and our life became so much more productive. This created a serious impact on modern art too. Modern artists are fond of 3D pictures, hyper-realism, moving or flexible sculptures. Contemporary pieces of art have multiple characteristics and carry many functions; they possess several different sides and are designed to present deep messages. One of such genres of contemporary art is sand animation. Sand animation is starting to earn its popularity and win its fans all over the world. The concept of sand art includes animated films, which are being created with the help of sand and, and the artist’s live performance. 1 This is a practice where cinematographic, visual and aesthetic features are used in order to create an animation. 2 This genre allows artists to combine several different ways of self-expression. This direction of art could be classified as modern and contemporary art because it is impressionistic, and it is being created during our lifetime. 3 The works of sand animators are filled with motion and moods; they are moving pictures, created quickly and right in front of the audience. This allows the viewers to percept the pieces of art on a more intimate level because they get to observe the birth of each image and its transformation into the next picture, it is like watching the evolution of the artist’s thoughts. Seeing a sand artist perform, the audience feels connected to the master’s ideas and thought process. It is almost like seeing a 3D movie, which allows the viewer to feel like they are in the very middle of all the actions. Such a deep level of participation lets the artists touch the hearts of their audience, create emotions and lead the viewers thro
Every adult needs a profession. This allows people to feel their importance to society and becomes professionals in a particular field. This makes people understand that they have a deep meaning in life. First, the profession requires highly developed skills, be it medicine, trade, or arms. This is the only way people can perform tasks efficiently and benefit others. Second, the profession requires several years of education. Professionals should be actual specialists since usually, a lot depends on their activities. Third, professional motivation is not material: in other words, professionals do not need money, and the main goal for them is to follow the idea. Their activities should correspond to their inner convictions (U.S. Army, 2010). Combining these factors allows professionals to feel that they take the right place and develop in their profession. Leaders in the army fulfill a special role; their subordinates need them. Leaders manage to maintain balance in the team in several ways. First, they perform strategic functions, determining the direction of the army’s development. As a consequence, soldiers act intelligentl
Introduction From the studies and cases observed during the course sessions regarding the sport’s law, it is evident that the utilization of domestic disciplinary tribunals is increasing due to their significance in the sport’s realms. Notably, courts have decided that numerous sports cases should be decided by sports experts who can easily discern the fundamentals of the cases involved. From the readings and cases observed, domestic disciplinary tribunals are erected to handle specific atrocities in sports. This ranges from gross misconducts to doping (use of performance enhancement drugs) for unfair competition among players (Healey, 2009). Such cases have necessitated the formation of special organs to scrutinize and judge the fronted issues depending on the nature of the case. Major Critical Reflections The concerned tribunals are formed during events to solve any arising issues. Nonetheless, there are other tribunals permanently set within a country or region to resolve the frequently emerging sports cases within that territory. This is evident in the Australian context where domestic tribunals have to deal with matters related to sports. Precisely, domestic tribunals exist in the sport’s realms and are mandated by the law to execute their duties. Players can have gross misconducts either on the field or outside. Such misconduct has resulted in the issuance of immediate penalties or later rulings concerning the matter. The mentioned penalties have differed in magnitude depending on the intensity of the conduct committed. Notably, a referee can issue a free kick or an expulsion from the field if a player misbehaves or plays grossly to an opponent. This is only applicable in the football arenas; nonetheless, other games like tennis, athletics, rugby, and others have also demanded the use of domestic tribunals to solve conflicting issues during tournaments. Domestic tribunals deal with a range of sport’s disputes, which can be hectic for any law court to judge with precisions. Sport’s crimes differ massively. Some of them require eyewitnesses or video recordings to act as evidence during the judgment session. This indicates why some cases are solved instantly while others have to be handled later by a special tribunal meant to illuminate and decide on the matter (Healey, 2009). It was interesting from the studies when it became apparent that domestic tribunals have the mandates to identify and decide whether conduct during and after participation in a sporting event can necessitate a civil liability or involve the conviction of the sport’s employer. It is crucial to recognize such issues to remain relevant within the sports context. The studies clarified how a tribunal can be in dealing with sports’ atrocities. According to the sources and studies conducted on the topic, the aims of domestic tribunals were evident concerning sports. Sports require the erection of such bodies, which can deal with special sport’s case and provide justified implications on the arising matters. The significance of such bodies is evident in varying arenas. The fact that they handle special and vast sports issues is a critical ph
Introduction In the last decade, many Emiratis have opted to marry foreigners. The growing trend of Emirati men getting in marriages with foreign women has been described by the parliament as a threat to the national identity. The concerns are also bordered on the fears of divorce and what happens to the children in such a scenario. Another concern is the threat Emirati women are facing as spinsterhood duration is expanding. Therefore, this paper will attempt to explain if the fear of interracial marriages affection Emirati identity is real or just an exaggeration and provide recommendations to address each challenge. Interracial Marriage Problems and Solutions Intermarriage and Emirati Gene Preservation Over the years, as the expatriate community migrates into the UAE, many relationships with the locals, especially men, have led to interracial marriages. Specifically, the most preferred candidates for this arrangement are female expatriates from outside the UAE. In Dubai, it is becoming a normal thing to meet an interracial couple consisting of a male Emirati and a female foreigner. The fear is confirmed by the current statistics from the national government’s records on marriage registration. In the year 2014 alone, the records indicated that out of 7,401 new marriages registered, 2,159 consisted of Emirati citizens marrying foreign women (Dejani, 2018). The trend was highest in the region of Dubai. In the year 2016, almost a third of all registered new marriages consisted of interracial couples. The trend has been discussed in the national parliament and a special committee consisting of ten legislators was formed to find a solution to this challenge. This problem needs solving because the government has proved that it is affecting the Emirati identity. The best solution is for the government to step up its campaigns aimed at discouraging interracial marriages in the UEA. The campaign can be laden with goodies such as marriage grants for those who opt to marry fellow Emiratis. Any objection to this solution will mean that the current trends of increasing interracial marriage will continue to spread in the UAE. This solution will encourage the Emirates to marry amongst themselves and result in the preservation of the national identity. Emirati Spinsterhood Phenomenon and Intermarriage According to the Federal National Council, the prevalence of interracial marriages in the UAE is threatening Emirati women, in terms of their ability to be married by a fellow Emirati man (El-Saj&Saraff, 2014). Although marriage is a matter of cho
The book was written by Michael Ignatieff. Ignatieff was a professor at Harvard University, an American university, before returning to Canada to try his luck in politics (Ignatieff, 2013). The author organized his book into ten chapters: Hubris, Ambition, Fortuna, Reading the Room, Money, and Language, Responsibility, and Representation, Standing, Enemies, and Adversaries, What the Taxi Driver Said and the Calling. In each of these chapters, the author tried to tell the reader about his experience in the political field (Ignatieff, 2013). This paper reviews this book by Michael Ignatieff in general. It does not evaluate each chapter separately. The review will analyze the intentions of Michael Ignatieff to vie for a parliamentary seat, whether this was his own decision or he was coerced into it, how he responded, the involvement of the elections, the challenges he faced, what opponents said about him and the eventual turn out of the elections. The Idea to Run To begin with, the author presents the book, just like a memoir. Ignatieff has chronologically presented his experience during the 2011 elections in Canada. The author begins by admitting that the idea to venture into politics was not his own idea, but he was requested to give it a try (Ignatieff, 2013) . According to him, one night, while still working at Harvard University, three people who were dressed in black approached him and urged him to give up the teaching profession for politics. They even spiced their idea by offering him a position in the Liberal Party. Other intellectuals who had successfully joined politics also acted as an encouragement. According to Ignatieff , some of them include the Mexican politician known as Carlos Fuentes and Václav Havel, a politician from the Czech Republic (Ignatieff, 2013). In the last chapters, the author has also given reasons behind his intentions to vie. According to Ignatieff , he wanted to help move his country in the right direction, just like the US, where he had spent most of his life working. Ignatieff argues that Conservative leaders had messed up the country by misusing its resources. On top of this, they failed to keep to the promises made to the ordinary people. Because of this, people were very much disappointed with incompetent Conservative leaders as well as insufficient services offered by the government (Ignatieff, 2013). As the author indicates, such problems need to be surmounted by politicians who are highly skilled and experienced at delive
Cinema is a form of art and technology which started with primitive experiments in the late eighteenth century and within 20 years it had spread to all parts of the world. Apart from entertainment people used cinema in education and scientific research. The history of cinema is from the turning of the original invention on celluloid to movies or cinema. Early years There is no single event that defines the beginning of cinema but it can be traced to attempts to present images in a sequence. The earliest event would be in 1798 with Etienne Gaspard Robertson’s’ phantasmagoria. The Phantasmagoria shows were common in the late 18 th century where showmen used lanterns to project horror images onto walls. Etienne was a Fleming showman that used the phantascope projector behind a translucent screen to portray the horror images in 1763-1837 according to The Magic Lantern Society (5). The experiments in the 18 th and 19 th century aimed at creating persistence of vision. This was a smooth continuous flow of similar images from a film passed in front of light with high speed to create an illusion of movement. The early cinema films were moving snap shots made from one shot that were just a few minutes long. By 1905, the movies were about ten to fifteen minutes long and there was variation of the camera angle to tell a story or theme. In 1906, the Australians produced a film “The story of the Kelly gang” that was about an hour long. Cinema became specialized events that required venues for exhibition of the films. The first film and projection development happened simultaneously in France, Germany and USA around 1895. Two F
Elements of brand building factors After the opening of the first Burberry store in 1856, the brand was positioned to target the upper and middle-class consumers. By considering customer needs at the time, such positioning yielded large success for the brand. People desired to dress like the upper class in the quest to create a sense of belonging to that class, and since the Burberry brand was a lucrative item for the upper and middle classes, it satisfied this need. This aspect evidences the role played by the quality element of a brand in building brand inventory, which helps to construct brand loyalties. Hill and Ettenson (2005, p.83) posit that brand inventory ‘helps to suggest what consumers’ current perceptions may be based on’. The association of consumers with a brand of an organisation is deeply seated in the meanings that they attach to various brand elements. From 1856 to the late 1980s, Burberry brand was associated with the upper or middle class. As a brand element, quality was a measure of the capacity of the Burberry brand to reflect these classes’ social status. The class was no longer an important factor for consideration in the selection of clothing and other accessories and outfits in the early 1990s among Burberry loyal consumers. This change in brand selection criteria by consumers explains the reduction of Burberry profits from £37 million in the early 1990s to £25 in 1997. At this time, Rose Marie Bravo joined Burberry in the capacity of a CEO. Her major obligation was to rebuild the brand. Since sporadic change had occurred in the manner that people choose their clothing, outfits, and other accessories, Bravo had to recreate the image of brand quality for Burberry from representation of class to a brand fitting the needs of all people irrespective of their social class status. This aspect implies that one of the brand building elements deployable by Bravo was brand repositioning through the utilisation of balance communication as another brand-building element. Brand Repositioning The case of dwindled profitability levels for Burberry brand in the 1990s created the necessity for Bravo to deploy the repositioning element for enhancing brand success. Saxena (2012, p.38) argues that a ‘successful brand may be rendered irrelevant if needs and circumstances of customers in the target market change’. This assertion suggests that on the emergence of new opportunities, repositioning is vital in helping to rebuild a brand to its initial base. In fact, Bravo joined the company to execute this particular task. For this purpose, she appointed Roberto Menichetti to redesign Burberry’s raincoats coupled with other traditional products so that they can meet the needs of the emerging consumers. New designs of the products constituting Burberry brand were important in the derivation of their repositioning strategies. Re-engineered products come with new glamour and image. Bravo succeeded in eliminating the image of class in the products constituting the Burberry brand when finally the brand appeared on children’s clothing, home wares, watches, and bikinis amongst others. W
Nursing theories are useful in solving issues related to the nursing profession. This essay aims to describe the Comfort Theory of Nursing and the use of the theory in addressing problems encountered in nursing education. I have applied this theory in solving problems of this nature throughout my practice as a nurse. I also have a lot of experience through witnessing lecturers use the same principle in helping their nursing students. I will use a case study from one of the experiences to explain the applicability of the theory. Overview of Nursing Theory in Nursing Practice The profession of nursing has developed significantly over time. Initially, nurses used to depend wholly on medical directions from physicians to provide necessary medical assistance. However, the profession has now grown to have independent modalities of practice, with its theories that define its practice, its nursing models, as well as distinct nursing interventions. Nurses and researchers in the field of nursing have developed several theories over time due to the need for the development of policies that will shape the field of nursing. The theories have changed and shaped the current nursing profession (Sitzman & Eichelberger, 2011). A theory projects a systematic, purposive view of a given subject. It is specially designed to explain, describe, predict, or prescribe a given analogy. All theories are made of models, concepts, propositions, definitions, and developed based on assumptions. They are drafted in two main ways; deductive and inductive reasoning. The theories are developed for various purposes. The main reason for developing them is the description, explanation, and prediction of the field of practice known as nursing. In this perspective, the theories help establish the basis for nursing practice, provide more information required in the same area, as well as predict the direction towards which the nursing profession is headed. The theories also help nurses to make decisions on what is known and determine what needs to be known (Sitzman & Eichelberger, 2011). According to Sitzman and Eichelberger (2011), there are three main types of nursing theories, which are classified according to the scope of practice the theories cover. They include the Grand Nursing theories, Mid-Range Nursing theories, and the Nursing Practice theories. The nursing theories in the category of the Grand Nursing theories provide and the insights that are useful in the nursing profession, but they do not provide specific information for a particular intervention. Such broad coverage always limits the applicability of the theories in explaining, directing, and predicting nursing practice in particular circumstances. The scope of practice of Mid-range theories is narrower compared to the Grand Nursing theories. They are designed to bridge the gap between the Grand Theories and the Nursing Practice theories. This category of nursing theories is research-oriented; thus, it the theories enhance eviden
Mission Statement Partnership for People with Disabilities is determined to establish a future where all people, including families with intellectual and developmental disabilities, are included in their home communities for self-determination, independence, productivity, and free participation in every aspect of community life. The mission of this organization is to partner with stakeholders both in the intellectual and developmental disability community and other interested groups at Virginia Commonwealth University (Virginia Commonwealth University, 2022). The organization is determined to provide culturally competent, engage in research, educate, give direct services and share information to ensure people with disabilities. Summary of Services Partnership for People with Disabilities, a Virginian University Center for Excellence in Developmental Disabilities (UCEDD). UCEDDs is one of the national networks and teaching hospitals across the country. This organization acts as the bridge between academic expertise and the service delivery system, pointing towards positive contributions to persons with developmental disabilities and their families. The organization enhances the life of the disabled by increasing their impendence, productivity, and integration into community participation programs. The organization works with people and families with disabilities, State and local government agencies, and community providers (Virginia Commonwealth University, 2022). The organization trains to give technical assistance, do research, and share information, focusing on establishing a community that sustains all citizens regardless of their conditions. The organization was founded in 1985 to better people’s lives and families of disabled children. The partnership conducts a wide range of activities supporting children from newborns as they age. The organization provides early childhood care by instilling awareness and skills in the community members. Secondly, disabled children get educational support. Moreover, the organization is again committed to supporting aged persons with various disabilities to enhance their self-determination and inclusiveness in the community. Reference Virginia Commonwealth University. (2022). Commitment to Privacy . Web.