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The Last Wave is rich in symbols and anticipations that are often connected with one of the most sacred elements – water. Water embodies the spiritual force of nature, which is ruthless and destructive. Thus, through the water, the phenomenon of animism is represented in the film. As animism refers to the spirit intrinsic to the natural forces, the film is imbued with the sense of fatality and human powerlessness. Animism is represented by the destructive last wave and the previous extreme weather events. Symbols in the film connect the spirit of nature with the mystical experience of the tribe and prophetic dreams of the main hero. The first symbol that causes the main hero to experience the sacred irrational side of reality is a symbol depicted on the sacred stone. This symbol is a key to the mysterious reality that is shared by the representatives of different tribes. It represents a “spirit from a dream time” (called the Mulcural) that was supported by the belief in two forms of time: one is the daily objective activity while another is an infinite spiritual cycle that the aborigines called “the dream time.” Another important phenomenon reflected in the movie is shamanism as the shaman of the aboriginal tribe plays the role of a messenger of the symbols and sacred meanings. In the film, the shaman turns out to be a mysterious native man Charlie that identified the main hero, David, to be a successor of an ancient Western tribe. Right from the very start, Charlie was an interesting character that had a mysterious and spiritual quality about him, making him fit to be a shaman. The film presented the shaman in both conventional and unconventional ways: while in the scene at David’s house Charlie is presented as a painter that does not speak English, he was also depicted with a painted face as inherent to the aboriginal tradition. Another concept represented in the film is the idea of ethos. Ethos shapes the way people perceive the reality, create and interpret symbols and rely on natural forces. In the film, this idea is represented by an aboriginal tribe having their own sacred laws and sharing the common understanding of time and natural cycles. Ethos is often associated with the conflict between collectivism and individualism, which is depicted in the movie. According to the film, the western culture introduces individualism, skepticism, and prejudice to the world with spiritual and vague reality. On the contrary, aboriginal tribes are dependent on collectivistic reality based on divine laws and vague prophesies. Monotheism is depicted in the figure of the main
Introduction Power imbalances affect human societies in multiple ways, and one of the phenomena that are important from this perspective is the intersection of colonialism and knowledge. Despite the general belief that knowledge is based entirely on facts, the way humans construct knowledge is affected by multiple factors (Schiebinger, 2004). Powerful groups are capable of controlling information, which has an impact on the way knowledge is developed, framed, and disseminated. This topic is important for the colonizers and colonized and has significant implications related to the way they consume and produce information. From the perspective of colonization, the intersection of colonialism and knowledge is a source of power. The fact that the voices of marginalized groups have been historically silenced is noted by multiple feminist researchers (Green, 2017; Schiebinger, 2004). By silencing non-dominant groups, colonizers ensure the complacency of the people who are not aware of the negative outcomes of discrimination because of their own privilege. Information control is a very powerful tool, which is why it is important to be critical of the knowledge received. Checking new information while introducing different viewpoints is a logical approach from this perspective, which is especially true for postcolonial theorists. For the colonized, the intersection of colonialism and knowledge is a problem that various marginalized groups can attempt to resolve through action. As noted by Green (2017), one of the primary ideas of feminism is that the perspectives of marginalized groups are significant and need to be taken into account in order to achieve improved equality within our society. Based on this premise, it is apparent that the impact of colonialism on knowledge is not unlikely to be detrimental to social justice causes. However, the statement also implies that there is a direct course of action that can remedy the situation. It consists of voicing the concerns of the colonized and insisting on them being heard. However, it can also be suggested that the intersection of colonialism and knowledge is not one-sided. When the colonized voice their opinions and concerns, they introduce new knowledge which can help to undermine the dominance of the colonizing group and its hold over information. Put simply, by providing evidence which debunks what can be considered colonizer myths, the colonized can use knowledge to deconstruct colonialism. As highlighted by Green (2017), this process is not always simple; she notes the pervasiveness of the myths that defame the movements which exist to change and alter the dominant groups’ hegemony. Such defamation can understandably result in people, including those belonging to marginalized groups, being hesitant to join such movements. However, from this perspective, it is important to remember that knowledge is grounded in facts. By employing facts, human rights
The way of life of South Sudan honestly does believe bulls to be vital; they are utilized in numerous services and butchered to take care of the whole family. Grey Bull is a film that mirrors the social meaning of the bull to South Sudanese individuals. Grey Bull , composed and coordinated by Eddie Bell, is a short film of around 15 minutes that reviews the antagonism between Martin, a South Sudanese man, and the owner of his cows’ slaughterhouse. The foundations of Bell’s story look back to the 1800s when one more novice to Australian shores was thinking of himself in the set of history books. “The principal part of a thought was that I needed to make a cutting-edge Ned Kelly story,” the video director uncovers in a discussion with Short of the Week. Grey Bull includes some strong creations, yet it is the strength of the story and the exhibitions that truly got many viewers’ attention. It is not difficult to see why director Bell won recognition for such a guaranteed film. At the point when relocation is a hotly debated issue around the world, it’s invigorating to be given a story circling a migrant that genuinely feels like it’s introducing a good perspective on one such excursion. A tale about leaving your past behind so you can zero in on your future. Grey Bull is a film that incites its crowd into taking on the perspective of its principal character and poses a few significant inquiries about displacement. The film has neither saints nor great intrigues, making it exclusively about a man character emergency. However, in some way or another, the effortlessness of the visuals and nuance of the themes makes it agreeable to watch and adequately fascinating to rewatch once more. The visuals are dazzling to move the more oversimplified case. Every scene in this short film is without a hitch and intentionally shot with the viewer’s goal generally well. Every shot is calculated and sufficiently bright, frequently emphasizing the perfect thing with impeccable timing, providing a way to picturesque guidance, where the video director will deliberately place spotlight and upgrade on a particular setting, article, subject, or conceptual point to pass on a message or feeling in the scene. The shading reviewed in the film is fresh, great, and satisfying to the eye; no blasts or channels are essential – each edge of this short movie is satisfying when watching. Away from the camera works, Grey Bull has a surface to the entire job, a belief, and a mood that intensely influences the audience’s feelings during the review. The climate or lighting assumes a severe part in each shot, frequently making the generally tranquil and tired film significantly more cloudy and toiling. However, this does not jeopardize the movie; it makes the occurrence considerably more reasonable and exciting. This is wholly built build-up by the strained and semi-off-kilter story of binding to
Introduction For a country to harness its industrial growth in the 21st century, availability of resources and technology is critical. An in depth-analysis on countries that have progressed reveals that availability of natural resources and new technology contributed to their current status. However, the potential capacity to use natural resources for wealth creation and industrialization is a challenge to any country. In the process of developing a country or sustaining a country’s development, challenges threatening humanity emerge. The current problem with global climate is an example of a threat to humanity. A discussion on such challenges in poor countries would give an insight on the general problems, as well as recommend policies on the same. Challenges facing humanity A leading global challenge threatening humanity is the recent climate. In this regard, the rise in global temperatures as a result of the greenhouse effect is affecting every country. However, the impact of global warming seems to affect poor countries more than developed countries. The cost of reducing high global temperatures is a burden to people living in poor countries. It is important to note that poor countries cannot afford technologies that limit the emission of carbon dioxide. In this context, human activities that seek to improve industrialization in poor countries endanger peoples’ lives. Poor countries lack the capacity to influence decisions made in global forums in relation climatic change. This means that poor countries will continue to suffer from disastrous activities caused by developed countries. New technological advancement such as geoengineering is expected to address climatic change problems. However, geoengineering may necessarily not be helpful in poor countries. Geo-engineering seeks to limit the rise of temperature by 2 degrees Celsius. This technological advancement is a technocratic ideology achievable only by developed countries. Nonetheless, while the technology offers a solution for global warming, there are concerns that it is unethical and unachievable in short-term. Poor countries depend on climate patterns for agricultural reasons. In fact, conventional agricultural practices depend on climatic patterns, and a disruption of the same reduces food production in poor countries. From this perspective, geo-engineering is a technology with the capacity to change climatic patterns in any country. Scarcity of resources is a threat existence of humanity in poor countries. From this perspective, scarcity of resources or hiking prices of commodity in poor countries is dangerous. In most cases, a change in prices of the natural resources triggers economic recessions. For example, a change in price of the natural oil results to an energy crisis. Climatic change alters productivity in food production, as well as change in food prices. Therefore, economic implications cannot be ruled out as a threat to poor citizens. Negative economical implications have a tendency to causes loss of jobs and economic instability. An uncontrolled desire to expand economically and conform to technologi
Wallace Stevens is one of the most anthologized poets of the early XX century. The major concern of his poetry is contemplation on the most disputable issue of humanity, i.e. belief and its role in human life. Stevens also stipulated the exclusive role of poetry and art, juxtaposing them with religion, defining these two notions as two facets of belief; this idea is explicitly revealed in his two poems ”A High-Toned Old Christian Women” and “Of Modern Poetry”. In the poem ”A High-Toned Old Christian Women” Stevens depicts his belief that poetry and religion are the same fictional creation of human brain, which represent some spiritual and moral values of humanity, at least they should represent it. These principles Sevens expresses in his well-known poem “Of Modern Poetry” where he stresses that art “has to be living”, “has to find what will suffice”, “has to construct a new stage” (Stevens 239). Stevens points out that poetry should evoke people’s thoughts and feelings, poetry should make people become active spectators, forming their own ideas and beautiful creations in their imagination. This is Stevens postulate and his seeing of an ideal poetry. This poet is sometimes called a philosopher since he contemplates on the major philosophical dilemmas and gives his own vision on the issues. Critchley points out that his poetry allows “to recast what is arguably the fundamental concern of philosophy”, which, according to Critchley is “the relation between thought and things or mind and world” (Critchley 4). “Of Modern Poetry” can be regarded as a philosophic work which defines the role of poetry for humanity, and reveals that poetry is a reflection of our real world, creation which tries to make the real world better (Critchley 36). Via his poetic writings Stevens reveals the idea that poetry should form the necessary directions to develop human mind, morality and spirit. It is the way of poetry which is mentioned in his ”A High-Toned Old Christian Women”, poetry which is “supreme fiction” made of “the moral law” (Stevens 59). This poem reflects the poet’s philosophic vision of religion, which is quite progressive and even daring for that time. Stevens shows that religion is a creation of human mind; he even explains the process how it was created and can be created again. Stevens suggest a simple recipe of building “haunted heaven” depicting its main ingredients. This poem sustains the central principles of Stevens’ modern poetry and reflects the main points of human belief and religion. Stevens builds up unadorned but quite logic process of religion creation and its manifestation. In this poem he points out that people do not concentrate on the belief itself, but rather on their belief manifestation, where “disaffected flagellants” are “proud of such n
Describe There are several styles of listening that enable effective communication, and one of the most important for checking perceptions and expressing support is active listening. If a person expresses frustration over a specific problem, some people feel tempted to provide advice or put a positive spin on the situation by lessening its significance. While this is done with good intentions, it ultimately diminishes the legitimacy of that person’s feelings and thus does not promote meaningful communication and understanding (DeVito, 2016). On the other hand, a practitioner of active listening might respond by reiterating the perceived meaning of the speaker’s words and with an observation of their emotional state. This type of response exemplifies the principle of active listening and fulfills three important functions. Firstly, it reflects back perceived meanings in order to give the original speaker a chance to clarify any misunderstandings (DeVito, 2016). Secondly, it signals that the speaker’s feelings are acknowledged and accepted. Thirdly, it encourages them to elaborate on their thoughts and deal with the problem by talking it through. In general, active listening means accepting that some people’s aim in sharing their problems is not necessarily receiving help or advice but simply venting their frustration. Relate My personal experience definitely confirms the principles and functions of active listening described in this chapter. When I talk to my friends or family about my day, my general aim is to share my perceptions and experiences regarding certain events to find commonalities, empathy, or even a bit of humor. I think the foundation of such communication is “this is what it is like to be me—do you understand?” Most of my friends acknowledge and share that viewpoint and do not provide any advice or personal input unless I explicitly ask for it. I think most people understand that sometimes our emotions are “illogical” from a secondary perspective, but that does not make them any less real for the person feeling them. After all, human beings are not machines that can sort and choose their thoughts based on their usefulness. There is a difference between knowing something intellectually and internally. However, unlike my friends, my parents constantly send “solution messages” when I talk to them about my problems. They either start a moralizing lecture about responsibility or give advice about what they would have done in my place. While I understand that my parents still feel as if I am a chi
Introduction Among the U.S. car manufacturers, General Motors is one of the most influential market players that distributes vehicles of such brands as GMC, Chevrolet, Cadillac, and Buick. Although the company uses a market-based pricing strategy to align with the competitors, they increase their revenue by offering the exceptional quality of its products and serving premium sector customers. Although the company has extensive plans for the development of electric vehicles, today, they are producing only one model of e-cars Chevrolet Bolt EV (General Motors, 2020). Building such types of cars is a challenge due to the high manufacturing costs caused by the battery price. A cost-based pricing strategy is, therefore, inefficient for electric vehicles, as it increases the price far above their value and prevents customers from purchasing them. Value-based prices have the potential to promote sales and reduce costs per unit. Moreover, the battery costs are expected to decrease in the future, making the development of EVs a significant investment. Cost-Based Versus Market-Based Pricing Strategy A cost-based pricing strategy has been adopted for many years as it provided a solid justification for setting price levels. The approach assumes that the price level should consist of the total manufacturing expenditures per item and the added revenue. However, modern market theory and practice prove its inefficiency under the competition. The reason for this is that this approach applies the costs per unit plus revenue model when, in fact, units cost change with the quantity sold, and this amount directly depends on the price level (Nagle & Müller, 2018). It is impossible to establish the level of sales and fix the price based on it when it is the price that determines the purchases. When the company sets higher prices aimed to cover production expenditures, the costs per unit tend to increase. The cost-based approach is particularly flawed in the case of technological innovations, such as electric vehicle production. The manufacturing of such products usually requires significant investments in research and design, which can be minimized by selling more items. Moreover, emerging technologies tend to become steadily cheaper when they are demanded on the market. That is why companies reduce prices on innovative products to promote sales and attract future consumers. Given the flaws of the previous model, modern strategies tend to make prices value-oriented. An adequate pricing approach should focus on the price that the consumers are willing to pay for the item that possesses particular qualities. That is why it should not significantly exceed the price level of the competitors offering sim
Project Objective The objective of the project is to build an indoor ski resort in Dubai. The project is designed to be an attraction to the upcoming Mall of the Emirates. It will also be the only ski resort in the country. Project Team Chief executive of the team is Phil Taylor. He is responsible for approving the presented parts of the project. Tim Kelly is head of construction. He is responsible for the creation of the slope and solving issues of possible avalanches. Stewart Ingram is the senior project director. He is paid by the owner and plays the role of the troubleshooter on the team. His responsibilities include making sure that the team is on schedule and does not go over budget. Malcolm Clulow is the managing director and one of the chief engineers on the projectClulow. His main objective is to create the artificial snow for the resort. Jose Rivas is the art director of the project and responsible for all interior decoration. The dynamic of the team is such that Kelly’s word may override the word of Stewart if it concerns the safety of the project. However, all the chief engineers need to agree before major decisions are made. Such decisions are discussed with the representatives of contractors, and final decisions are made after all the possible options have been discussed. Team building involves such activities as participation in religious rituals by the chief engineers. Otherwise, the topic of team building is not covered in the report, with the exception of one of the engineers inspiring the team through his optimistic attitude in the face of present issues. Stakeholders The stakeholders for this project are the owners of the Mall of the Emirates, who are funding the project, tourists, who provide a large portion of income for the company, and members of the Dubai elite who are interested in the project. Project Scope The project has to be the largest indoor ski resort in the world. The structure consists of a 3000-ton ski slope section, elevated at an angle to create an artificial hill and dome covering it. Large stilts hold the section in place. The slope section is curved and covers1312 feet. The cooling system spans more than 50 miles and creates artificial snow for the slope. Under the slope, a three-story car park is located. Challenge Such projects are usually built on hills, but Dubai is mostly flat, and therefore the project is complicated. The process of snow creation is also a challenge as the weathe