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Introduction Music is described by certain musical legends in different ways. Good music lightens a person’s mood and it enhances the mind. An artist’s is able to connect better with his/her fans through live performance on stage than through the stereo. The rhythm and tempo are some of the factors that make a live performance great. This essay will focus on the first annual Dallas symphony orchestra teen concert. The essay will attempt to analyze the concert and the general performances. Furthermore the effect of the concert on the audience will also be considered. The concert had maestros like, Jaap van Zweden, Dong Yeon and the Dallas symphony orchestra performing live. The Morton Meyerson symphony center is the venue of the concert. The space, lights, musical instrument and the mood around the center gives it a new look. The performers also appear to be relaxed and are in high spirit. Description of the music In order to describe the musical performance of the night objectively, it is important to take a close look at classical music as a genre of music. Prior to this concert, I have been a pop, hip-pop and reggae fan. These genres of music are usually lively and are mostly enjoyed by the youths. Classical music on the other hand is more gentle and matured. This is a fact I did not know until I attended this concert. Coming to this concert has expanded my knowledge of classical music. Also, apart from the fact that I enjoyed the rhythm, I also got the privilege to know more classical artists like Dave Kos and Yanni. While in the concert, I noticed for the first time that music could actually connect with an individual regardless of his/her age, nation or race. The melody of classical music is totally different from other genres of music and its tempo is cool, smooth and compassionate. The power and significance of instrumentation in classical music con not be over emphasized. The Dallas symphony orchestra performed Pyotr Tchaikovsky’s melodies. Tchaikovsky was a Russian who lived between 1840 and 1893. While growing up he had encountered tough and unpleasant times. This later influenced his music a lot. This fact made Tchaikovsky’s rhythm very emotional. The Meyerson which is the venue of the concert looks impeccable. The lights are dimly lit and the audience is very quiet thus making it very easy to connect with the melody of the music. Reactions to the music I am still amazed at myself for the way I reacted during the course of the performance by the Dallas symphony orchestra. Been a fan of Hip hop and pop music, I never imagined myself to react the way I did. Unlike Hip hop and pop music which are energetic, classical music steers the soul. There is a smooth rhythm between the audience, the artist and even the venue of the concert. I came here in high spirits thinking this was going to be another energetic concert where there is usually a lot of youthful
Introduction In the last few decades, the demand for nursing education has increased considerably, thereby complicating faculty roles and those of educational institutions dealing with nursing education. This can be attributed to several challenges facing the higher and nursing education systems such as multiculturalism in most societies, technological innovations, limited financial resources for education, and the expanding healthcare and educational requirements. Therefore, there is the need to begin continuous and lifelong educational programs that will incorporate quality and public demands into practice (Billings & Halstead, 2009, p. 23). To develop curricular and revised programs that respond to the quality of education and public demands, there is the need to regulate the process of curriculum development and revision. This process is carried out by regulatory agencies such as the Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education (CCNE) and the National League for Nursing Accrediting Commission (NLNAC), which are charged with the responsibility of accrediting educational programs and institutions (Valiga, 2004, p. 83). This essay explores the functions of these regulatory agencies in policy formulation, curriculum development and revision, and their impact on curricular and student outcomes. The effect of CCNE and NLNAC on Curriculum Development and Revision CCNE is an independent regulatory agency responsible for improving public health through ensuring that quality and integrity form the core of bachelor’s degree and graduate nursing educational programs (National League for Nursing, 2003). On the other hand, NLNAC is also an independent accrediting agency supporting the functions of nursing education and practices in meeting the society’s demands and those of nursing professionals (Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education, 2005). The two agencies regulate curriculum development and revision through the standards and principles of accreditation. Accreditation is a process, which is carried out voluntarily by non-governmental organizations involving post-secondary institutions and other professional associations. The objective of accreditation is to support self-regulation, which enables professional institutions to develop programs that are perceived to meet or surpass the integrity and quality required in nursing education today. The programs developed include those that offer post-secondary training; certificates; diplomas; and baccalaureate, doctorate, and master’s degrees (National League for Nursing, 2003; Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education, 2005). Therefore, through accreditation, nursing educational programs are developed with the aim of fostering continuous quality enhancement, responding to the needs and preferences of the professional organizations and the society in addition to maintaining high standards of accountability on the part of nursing practitioners to the general public and other professional associations. Also, the programs developed are cost-effective and ensure that learning later than teaching in
Gro Harlem Brundtland was the Prime Minister of Norway for three terms. Brundtland is one of the greatest leaders today. As the Prime Minister of Norway, Brundtland transformed the politics of the country and made the country prosperous (Jackson-Laufer, 2008, p. 41). She also served as the Director General of the World Health Organization (WHO). Today, many people recognize Brundtland as a diplomat, politician, physician, and a global leader. This paper describes Gro Harlem Brundtland’s leadership style, behaviors, and traits. Harlem Brundtland’s Leadership Traits A good leader will exhibit the best leadership traits (Martin, 2010, p. 28). Brundtland’s leadership traits include personal confidence, involvement, and charisma. She is always optimistic, determined, inspirational, and hardworking. She portrays a sense of integrity wherever she goes. This is evident in her leadership roles and nursing practices. Many people consider Gro Harlem Brundtland as a confident and decisive leader whose ambitions have made her successful. Such traits have made it easier for Brundtland to achieve her goals. Brundtland’s qualities have made her leadership style exemplary. She guides individual in her team by promoting cohesiveness. Such traits have made her one of the successful leaders today. Harlem Brundtland’s Decision Style Researchers use the Vroom-Yetton-Jago (VYJ) model to describe a person’s decision-making style (Bass, 2008, p. 72). From this model, I would argue that Brundtland’s decision-making style as purely collaborative. In most of her positions and roles, the leader works together with different people to reach a specific consensus (Jackson-Laufer, 2008, p. 59). She always facilitates her teams towards the best decision making process. With such an approach, Brundtland succeeded as the Prime Minister of Norway. For example, she coordinated the Earth Summit held in 1982 in a proper manner. However, she always takes her stand strongly especially when handling different issues affecting humanity. Brundtland has received many honors and achievements because of her outstanding leadership style. This explains why she is outstanding today. Harlem Brundtland’s Leadership Behaviors Leadership behaviors are essential because they determine how a person achieves his/her goals. Some of the behaviors exhibited by Brundtland include being involved and supportive. In her leadership roles, Brundtland brings different people together in order to make the best decisions. Brundtland is also a risk taker. This behavior has helped her achieve most of her goals. She is always focused and decisive. Sh
It is apparent that museums today are undergoing some radical changes. These changes reflect shifts in the relationships between dominant western cultures and those of indigenous, minority, and marginalized cultures everywhere. Historically, people have perceived museums in their own conservative sense. This has made archivists in museums to respond to the conservative instincts of the people, thus causing moral dilemmas and premeditated challenges. Despite the challenges, it is imperative to note that museums act as agents in the development of culture. Meanwhile, the main goal is to foster knowledge through a process of continuous reinterpretation. Besides this, they narrow their focus on collections that are multifaceted and diverse in order to cover a wide range of target audiences. For this reason, museums’ policies designs and stored artifacts are subject to change to fulfill their main goal. Due to these myriad facets of change, this paper discusses the challenges facing museum in the contemporary era. Moreover, the discussion will also expound on how best to respond to such challenges. One of the major challenges affecting museums is the fact that they have failed to prioritize the audience preferences. Since this is seemingly a major concern, world museums have relentlessly attempted to seek for ways and means of accommodating large number of audience. On the same note, they also want to advance their role in research. Quite often, research and audience interest might not coincide since scientific researches go beyond the visible and tangible world. Archivists use this knowledge to design, categorize and preserve collections in museums. Additionally, most of the museums fail to identify their key targeted audience. In this case, they design their own archivist displays that their audiences perceive to be unsuitable. It is vivid that for a long time, museums have used the common way of doing things forgetting that new ideas and practices have transfigured people’s perception. At this juncture, it is evident that museums face dilemma on deciding what to display in order to match with the tastes and preferences of their target audience. According to researchers, presentation in museum can at times deter acceptance from the target audience. There is empirical evidence that museums are changing frequently to match the demand and expectations of their target audiences. As a matter of fact, there is a huge challenge in determining how to shape collections, create exhibitions and organize programs. Another daunting challenge facing museum is the issue of illegal trafficking of artistic artifacts and ethnic objects (www.architectmagazine.com). In recent decades, some communities have reclaimed certain ethnic objects that were obtained from them. Ethnic groups claim some of the monumental objects and to some extent they fail to surrender them to museums. Moreover, policies that were followed by museums to acquire monumental objects have kept changing from time
To begin with, the main focus of Joel Best’s article is on recognizing legitimate statistics and further averting unreliable ones. To be more exact, the author bases the information so that the average person can easily understand and analyze the statistics they might see in a magazine or a newspaper. In other words, the article expresses the main criteria as to which to evaluate the statistics and conclude whether the facts and outcomes derived from it are bound to be truthful or not. As stated, Joel Best focuses on the significance of proper data perception in the modern world. For instance, the author mentions that statistics might get inaccurate due to changing measures, aspects, criteria, and even projections (Best, 2001). Still, he claims that some information is displayed in a wrong way from the start, “they aren’t much good from the start, because they are based on nothing more than guesses or dubious data” (Best, 2001, p. 2). However, Best emphasizes that society still needs even alarming statistics to understand a specific situation or problem, “we depend upon them to summarize and clarify the nature of our complex society” (Best, 2001, p. 2). By and whole, it is challenging to determine whether statistics are true or false, reliable or incomprehensible due to changing factors of their analysis and perception. Overall, it is also crucial to compare the data similar to each other and not utterly distinct, like ethnicities or religions. Otherwise, the drawn conclusions will likely be unreliable; however, they will still be crucial for society to analyze in order to clarify the data in general to generate personal thoughts and ideas based on them. In addition, it is vital to employ a critical approach while reading the numbers from the graphs to further implement the data for one’s own benefit. Reference Best, J. (2001). Telling the truth about damned lies and statistics . The Chronicle of Higher Education.
Fashion Standards IA The fashion industry is one of the most profitable and growing economic sectors, which employs millions and clothes billions. Although there are stark differences between the glamour of Paris Fashion Week and piles of discounted apparel on the floors of Forever21 stores, fashion includes both exclusive designs from renowned brands and mass-produced pieces manufactured for regular consumers. It is both an art form and a money-making machine, which makes it so much more interesting to examine. The industry encompasses many processes, including design, textile sourcing, manufacturing, distribution, and advertising of garments. The purpose of this paper is to scrutinize the fashion industry’s main components in order to determine whether they have changed over time. The life story of Gabriel “Coco” Chanel and the history behind her fashion empire will help to show exactly how the design and manufacturing of clothing has changed over time. Basic Components of the Fashion Industry The fashion industry is truly a reflection of changes happening in the society and science of the 19 th century. Prior to 1850s, the majority of clothing was handmade, either at home or by highly skilled tailors (Major & Steele, 2010). Technological advances such as the invention of a sewing machine as well as the rise of capitalism powered by the Industrial revolution led to the development of well-organized system of clothes production. As of the 21 st century, the basic components of the fashion industry are textile design and production, fashion design and manufacturing, fashion retailing, marketing, and merchandising, fashion shows, as well as media promotion (Major & Steele, 2010). All of these sectors are interdependent since they are essentially tied to a single common goal of satisfying consumer needs, while making a profit. The Importance of Each Component As for textile design and production, the competitive market of the 21 st century requires brands to force textile manufactures to operate ahead of the apparel production cycle. This way, they can minimize consumers’ waiting time for new trends and fresh designs. Fabrics are produced through weaving, printing, spinning, and dyeing, which imply numerous other finishing sub-processes. Moreover, modern technologies allow consumers to enjoy moisture wicking, body heat dissipating, and weapon protecting fabrics made out of synthetic fibers such as polyester, nylon, and others. Fashion design and manufacturing entails “adapting trendsetting styles into marketable garments for average consumers” (Major & Steele, 2010, para. 5). However, some of the world’s exclusive luxurious designers work for fashion houses that produce seasonal rea
The Russian writer Nikolay V. Gogol once said “Architecture is like a world’s chronicle: it speaks when songs and legends lapse into silence”. Mark Jarzombek, Professor of the History and Theory of Architecture, tried to find the connection between architecture and interdisciplinary historiography. In our essay, we tend to analyze his theory, juxtapose two main theses of his article, find confirmations or contradictions to his words in other scientific works devoted to this question. The main problem considered in the article is the distinction between historiographic critique and interdisciplinary historiography. The author strictly outlines the discursive logic of the two principal ways architectural theory has been conceived: historiographic critique and interdisciplinary historiography (Jarzombek 1991 p.150). He considers the most burning moments learning by example scientific works of Mies van der Rohe, Le Corbusier, Marc-Antione Laugier, analyses different historical periods and cultural ages. In his article Mark Jarzombek proposes us to understand historiographic critique as a “discourse of mystification” whose praxis (the architectural work) appeared within a “trajectory through time”. Describing the story of Cola di Rienzo he finds the links between the future events as the result of past-making efforts via knowledge of history with the knowledge of praxis (p.151). Citing Augustine Thierry, the author says: “Human societies must know where they come from in order to see where they are going” (p.150). Then he proves this point of view taking into account the Renaissance epoch and architectural artifacts of that prominent period. In his work, he stresses that Renaissance architectural theorists were among the first to develop operative conceptions of the past (p.151). He gives, for instance, an opinion of Leon Batista Alberti. According to the ideas of this theorist, and I consider them to be logically reasonable, architectural elements such as columns, walls, apertures and roofs were developed at the same time primitive society first began to differentiate public from private, and religious from secular. Though, according to Rasmussen (1964, p.10), the architect is a sort of theatrical producer, the man who plans the setting for our lives. Innumerable circumstances are dependent on the way he arranges this setting for us. Subsequent developments in architecture paralleled society’s own development towards increasingly complex forms (Gelernter, 1995, p.8). Each of the phases of the problem offers its own possibilities and difficulties rooted in natural conditions and universal hu
Heroes and gods are a common feature in all societies they are highly respected and feared , stories of their actions and deeds are passed down to future generations through myths which are tales and stories of the past. Heroes and gods are associated with creation, death, wars, love, betrayal and loyalty. There are some countries with deep mythical history for example Greece, the Romans, Japanese ,Chinese ,Egyptians and Indians .Events occurring in this communities were explained in terms of gods and heroes; such were wars famine harvests birth death, festivals among others. The gods were used to explain a certain phenomena for example there was a head god for protection in Greece known as Zeus while that of the Romans was Jupiter, a good of war for the Greek was Ares for Romans it was mars, there was also a mother god called Hera by Greeks and juno by Romans. Other gods were gods of agriculture, hunting wine, wealth, sea, home, and also fires. The god’s and heroes have always in all communities had some way of connection and communication. The myths told claim that various heroes were assisted by gods in their activities and mostly during wars. Greece has a very deep mythical history: Zeus the father god was in charge of everything he had to be pleased to as to keep matters under control ,he was promiscuous had very many children with women of which some turned to be immortal while some remained mortal. He had an immortal wife Hera, who he had tricked into marriage after raping her. Hera was the mother god she was very evil and led to the death of many especially children born by women conceived through Zeus. Aphrodite Zeus daughter was the god of love in Greece she was the cause of the Trojan War as explained below, and had very many lovers. She was in charge of marriages people had to please her so that she can allow people to marry or even be lovers, this often brought about controversies and the death of many. Most of Greece heroes are associated with the Trojan War a major event in Greece history .The war was triggered by a conflict between their gods, Aphrodite the god of love promised prince Paris of Troy a very beautiful woman and in return he would chose her as he most beautiful goddess instead of Athena or Hera. The woman was Helen and unfortunately she was married to King Menelaus of Sparta. This did not worry the goddess; Helen had courted almost all Achaean leaders before her marriage to Menelaus including Theseus. When she was married by the king of Sparta, He made the previous suitors to swear that they would help him incase Helen was snatched from him and so it happened because they could do anything for her. They launched a thousand ships into the sea and went into war hence the origin of the Trojan War heroes. Some of these heroes were Achilles, Theseus, Jason Odysseus, and Perseus among others with the greatest hero being Heracles/Hercules. His wars began when he was very young when his