Essays on Charming

Abstract

In a multicultural context, leadership is of great significance. When a diverse workforce is working together on a task, sound leadership is required because there is no room for conflicts. Leadership provides direction and motivation to the workforce and keeps them focused on their goals. Steve Jobs has been the CEO of Apple and is regarded as an excellent leader even after his death. It was under his leadership that Apple gained success and even the employees became strategic thinkers and decision makers. A leader is powerful and possesses a charismatic persona. A true leader has a clear vision ...

INTRODUCTION

Everyone remembers stories beginning with “once upon a time” and ending in “happily ever after.” Some people see fairytales as antiquated ideologies that are not beneficial in the modern era. Others believe that they are harmless tales intended to spark children’s imagination. Fairytales can establish ideologies about good and evil and right and wrong. They are, also, filled with pointed gender role ideals and gender stereotypes that are, today, ethically questionable. In the last few decades, there has been a literary movement of taking classic fairytales and attempting to update them and eliminate many stereotypes. This leads to ...

Theodore Bundy, known as Ted, was born in 1946 and was a source of shame to his mother, who was not married when she gave birth. This was considered a scandalous affair by her parents, who were deeply religious. In order to keep their family intact Ted Bundy was adopted by his grandparents and raised to believe that his mother was his sister. Later on he moved to Tacoma with his “sister”, Eleanor Colwell, to Tacoma, Washington. There she met and eventually married Johnnie Bundy. Despite being raised in a stable, working-class home, Ted Bundy still started exhibiting several ...

Introduction

Love is the most common and the most uncommon thing ever. The first epithet is characteristic for love, as this thing happens (or at least is supposed to happen) in everyone’s life regardless of life, whereas the word “uncommon” is natural for love as well, as it is as unique in every life as possible. Therefore, stories of Kalidasa and Chretien de Troyes are read with lightness; however the times of their creation have been covered with dust for many long years. Such lightness can be explained with the mere fact that authors touch such eternal topics, which ...

Abstract

Ted Bundy, a known sexual psychopath and serial killer who murdered fourteen women in the 1970s is perhaps one of the best known criminal profiling cases ever known. Profilers proclaimed him to be a middle-aged Caucasian who would only take Caucasian women who were young themselves. He would be charming and calm prior to criminal activity before showing little restraint concerning his rage and sexual activity after secluding them at an undisclosed location. The profile also suggested he had transportation and was intelligent, but insecure. Law enforcement understood they were looking for a man who murdered based on trauma ...

Sibyl Vane is a talented actress and singer, who is at the same time a poor girl falling in love with Dorian Gray. This love destroys her talent of acting, since she can no longer find pleasure in creating fictional love, when real love has entered her life. After learning that Dorian doesn’t love her anymore and trying to escape the world of illusions, she kills herself. Sibyl Vane is a very important and interesting character of the novel. First of all, Dorian Gray falls in love with her, because she resembles himself with one significant difference – she ...

In the given paper, two movies, “To Die For” and “Drop Dead Gorgeous”, will be considered in terms of evil and daemonic sides of the souls of the protagonists. The factors that moved the girls and urged them to commit violent acts will be determined as well. In the author’s opinion, evil and daemonic side exists in the soul of every person, but someone has limits, while others make evil and daemonic side prevail all the other qualities and traits. In the selected films, the latter type of people is represented by the female protagonists whose evil side ...

The first musical piece Alvin Lucier: Exploration of the House gradually develops from the beginning, starting with a low peal of bells. It is difficult to follow the motive of the musical piece throughout the melody as it changes constantly, losing its reiterative process and becomes unrecognizable from the third minute. The rhythm alters to charming sounds of tender tones and then changes again to the other melody at 5.50 minutes. In the modern world, there are so many contemporary concepts of the art that it becomes complicated to determine what art is. The process of art is something ...

Before I watched the adaptation of the eponymous novel by Jane Austen, I had the opportunity to know directly the product. I love syllable of Austin, her brushwork, irony and subtle English humor, behind which lies the limitless depth: the philosophical view of things, the principles of steel and tender feelings, capable of sacrifice. Her works are distinguished by a certain purity and innocence. It is touching for me, the representative of pampering generation and frankness in the relationship between men and women, invisible thread between Emma and her chosen one held in the exciting voltage. Jane Austen is ...

Book Review Pride and Prejudice

Historical and cultural context of Pride and Prejudice One of the cultural change that occurred during Jane Austen’s lifetime was the expanding of literacy and print culture in England. By the year 1800, most of the people either in the middle class or above could read. The novel Pride and prejudice by Jane Austen has been a very popular novel since its original publication. It has attracted wide coverage in reviews across different members of the society. From the literally reviews, academic, novelists and general public readers. The novel has sold more than 20 million copies since the ...

Bierstadt used light and shadow in a masterly fashion, which made his painting an extremely dramatic. Incredible contrasts reveal magnificent natural environment and its immense beauty made Bierstadt’s pictures popular. The viewer can easily determine three spaces of the artwork: The foreground is the nearest area to the viewer on the right part of the picture. This part shows a hunting scene of the Indians pursuing deer with horses and dogs. Still nearer on the right the mountain spring is visible, next to which a carcass of deer and some human items were left. At some distance three ...

Leadership Strategies for a Changing World

Charismatic Leadership When looking at some of history’s greatest leaders, whether in politics or business, one characteristic that typifies the vast majority of them is that they are charismatic. Charming, graceful, some of the best leaders provide a sense of excitement and attraction that helps to gather followers and maintain a sense of momentum about the work that they are doing. To that end, the following focus paper explores charismatic leadership as a concrete, quantifiable leadership style, and my own assessment of the charismatic qualities of my leadership will be examined in light of the theory itself.

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The “Catch me if you can” movie is one of the most outstanding movies built on a true story. This movie revolves around Frank Abagnale, junior who genuinely adores his parents. Frank’s father is a conman, with several victims in different scam instances. As Frank grew up, he is aware of the existence of scam business. At the age of 16, Frank’s parents get choose to divorce, and Frank is requested to make the one he would leave with after the divorce. This becomes a terribly hard decision for him, and he runs away from any of the parents. ...

Criminal behavior

Psychopathy or sociopathy as it is called at times, is a type of personality disorder, clinically regarded as ‘Antisocial Personality Disorder’ (APD). Although a big percentage of incarcerated convicts may be described as suffering from APD, only about one-fourth of them could be diagnosed for psychopathy. Also only a small percentage of these psychopaths are violent offenders. Exhibition of superficial charm and persistent lying are the two common traits of psychopaths. The emotional deficit of psychopaths limits them to experience only a narrow range of emotions. Psychopaths are very skilled in projecting themselves in good light and can beat psychological tests. Adult ...

Bram Stoker’s epistolary novel, entitled Dracula, offers a glimpse of a dark, supernatural world, wrought with sexual symbolism and the draining of human power. Stoker introduces his protagonist, a young solicitor named Jonathan Harker, who finds himself on the road to Transylvania for the purpose of visiting a certain count Dracula and organizing a real estate transaction. Harker leaves behind the vehicles of modern civilization as he is driven into the desolate mountain country (Davison 79). The countryside he passes through is picturesque enough to lull him into a state of false security, while the villagers offer charms against dark, evil forces and mutter ...

Introduction

Gender identity acts as an aspect of self-concept, which gives a person the sense of being either a male or a female. The gender role affects gender identity, which is the outward manifestation and not necessarily the child’s sex at birth (Rathus, Nevid & Fichner-Rathus, 2005). It is possible for a child to have a hindered gender identity at the time of birth caused by hormonal errors during development stage. Hormonal errors lead to conflict between the inner sexual self and physical sexual genitalia. As early as 18 months, the children become aware of their anatomic sex and there is no confusion whether a ...

Political language is designed to make lies look more charming, believable, and more appealing to us as an audience. Politicians may not admit that they’re modern English is affecting the language as a whole. What defines language? Modern Language is a language adapted by politicians to lure audiences to sound more sophisticated in the eyes of George Orwell, a famous author who wrote the essay politics and the English language, which criticizes the bad usage of the English language. Language is a reflection of the "Identity" of the nation, and an instrument of multicultural dialogue In the US. In the US, many ...

Happiness can be described as a state that involves emotional or mental well-being of a person. It is characterized by positive or charming feelings ranging from little contentment to compelling joy. Various approaches have been developed to characterize happiness and identify its various sources. Different research and exploration groups, including positive psychology, try to apply the scientific method to answer questions about happiness, what it is and how it can be achieved. It is vital and essential to the human condition that "life, freedom and the quest for happiness" were regarded to be unalienable rights by the United States Declaration of ...

French comedy, like comedy of any specific region, has a wide range of subjects and styles from which to draw – some comedies rely more on the physical and slapstick, while others relate more to character-based humor and the everyday absurdity of human interaction. Two French comedies from the 90s and early 2000s encapsulate this divide quite well – 1993’s Les Visiteurs and 2000’s Le Gout des Autres (The Taste of Others). Visiteurs is a goofy, fantastical fish-out-of-water story about a knight and his squire (played by Jean Reno and co-writer Christian Clavier), who find themselves transported from 1123 to 1993 France ...

Introduction

The Holiday is an American Christmas-themed romantic comedy film that premiered in the year 2006. It was written, directed and produced by Nancy Meyers and distributed by Universal Studios and Columbia Pictures. The whole story revolves around two lovelorn ladies, Kate Winslet and Cameron Diaz, from the opposite sides of the Atlantic. It is a lovable love story with all Christmas trimmings.

Plot

It all begins when two victorious yet miserable women link through the website of home swapping and decide to exchange their homes for a while in an effort to forget their relationship crises and troubles. Living completely opposite lives, ...

‘Instructor’s Name’

Book: The count of Monte Cristo The Count of Monte Cristo is a novel written by Alexandre Dumas and was first published in the year 1844. The plot of the story was expanded by Dumas in collaboration with ghostwriter Auguste Maquet. Along with the ‘Three Musketeers’, this novel is one of the most anthologized works of Dumas, and as critics opine the novel has become a permanent fixture of Western literature. Dumas was a French novelist and dramatist, and during his lifetime he produced a number of literary outputs like dramas, novels, memoirs, travelogues and historical studies. Mostly self-educated, Dumas actively ...

Over the past 90 years the most incredible novel of Francis Scott Fitzgerald “The Great Gatsby” was filmed five times by different directors. The first movie came out in 1926 and the last screen version of the book was released last year. Hence, the whole world has had an opportunity to enjoy not only the significant novel of the great American author, but the five screening versions of the exciting story as well. The most famous screen adaptations were presented to the viewers in 1974 and in 2013. And if the old version the most vividly shows the tragic ...

The thrillers of Alfred Hitchcock have not been strangers to unconventional protagonists – from Vertigo’s cowardly, power-hungry Scottie Thompson to Rear Window’s incapacitated paranoiac LB Jeffries, to the hapless journalists and playboys of his early British spy capers like Foreign Correspondent and The Lady Vanishes. Part of the thrill of Hitchcock’s thrillers is seeing a clear sense of comedy and irreverence mingling evenly with the serious, atmospheric cinematography of his films. North by Northwest is no exception, mining comedy out of an otherwise highly tense spy thriller through the haplessness of his protagonist, ad executive Roger Thornhill (Cary ...

Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live. Oskar Wilde Children have difficulty sharing, understanding and minding other people`s interests, especially young ones. This is a normal part of the development process. Knowing and accepting this is the first step in helping the child to grow up to be person, not a living being. True sharing implies empathy, the ability to get into another’s mind and see things from the other points of view. Consequently, the question comes on: “How to teach the child to ...

Robert Frost, an American poet of the late 19th century was dubbed as one of America’s finest poets. Literally, his poems reflect the serene appreciation of quiet living in the countryside, the simple appreciation over small things and the values of life (Fagan, 33). In this paper, I would like to argue that Robert Frost’s poems reflect individuality, despite the gentle poetic words of his poems. Normally, a reader might perceive Frost as an ‘effeminate; due to the quality of his chosen words. Most poets at the time of war use a much stronger voice in order to express ...

Description

Romantic comedies are a specific film genre that includes productions made in America and elsewhere. They have been a staple in the film industry at least since the introduction of sound, and possibly before. They are consistently popular, usually feature well-liked actors and actresses, and are generally considered formula projects, not art. The topic of romantic comedies is usually characters who have not yet fallen in love and married, who fall in love during the course of the film. These films use humor to make the circumstance of being lonely less painful for the lonesome characters while they journey on their ...

The movie analyzed is titled ‘Shall We Dance?” (Sharu wi Dansu? in Japanese). The objective of the analysis is to explore the how social and work related stress as well as the lack of happiness may lead to infidelity in marriage. The movie is a romantic piece in which a jaded, exploited accountant, Shohei Sugiyama, decides to join a ballroom dancing classes. It is based on 1960s Japanese culture where the society expected the woman to be housewife while the men fetch for the families. The decision by Shohei Sugiyama, however, was not informed by the need to deal with the boring ...

John does not feature in the narrative until in Chapter Seven of the novel. He is an uncivilized character in the narrative. He first appears in the narrative when he seeks to participate in an Indian religious ritual which Bernard and Lenina are spectators. Though he is dressed like the Indians, his pale blue eyes, straw-colored hair as well as his light skin pigment betrays him as a foreigner. His isolation is seen in the phrase, “the mockery made him feel an outsider; and feeling an outsider he behaved like one” (43). As such, he is an outcast and is ...

Final Film Critique Tyler Perry Temptation Confessions of a marriage counselor

Introduction I have chosen a newly released film by film director Tyler Perry; Temptation: Confessions of a Marriage Counselor. This film was distributed by Lionsgate and released in theaters on March 29, 2013. As stated above the film was written and directed by Tyler Perry. While there were a number of high-profile actors and actresses within this film the main ones for this movie were Jurnee Smollett-Bell, Lance Gross, Vanessa Williams, Brandy Norwood, Ella Joyce and Robbie Jones (Imdb, 2013). Temptation was a romance drama film that was filled with fickle love emotions and scenes that will keep you on the edge ...

It was a beautiful fall of 1876 and New York City was just starting to get its present looks and shapes. In this city, that was growing and developing so rapidly, lived our character by an interesting name of Leopold. At a first glance you could say that he was living a life of a common rich man of those times, Duke of Albany he was, simple and interesting. This young and very ambitious man was charming, very well educated, and what is the most outstanding thing about him – he was an inventor. Life could not be better, you might think. But unfortunately, ...

Physical appearance has long been linked to happiness - as social creatures, we communicate to each other nonverbally, and so we often give off the impression of happiness if we present ourselves in a way that is visually appealing to others. Likewise, that feeling is often reciprocated by these others, allowing us to feel good about ourselves because we look good. You can tell a lot about a person merely by what their appearance is telling you; these ‘channels’ of the body are what express the mind’s emotional state, and help to judge someone’s personality, and whether something is affecting ...

Introduction

Children require a lot of attention from their caregivers during their early stages of development. The lack of suck attention leads to certain detrimental effects on the development of the child. Attachment disorder is among the disorders that children develop when they are brought up by individuals who do not care about them. According to Pearce, the formal diagnostic terms for attachment disorder as “Reactive Attachment Disorder of Infancy or Childhood (RAD)’ (31). However, this depends upon the diagnostic conventions in the child’s country of origin i.e. the country of the child’s birth. This paper explores different aspects ...

Answers to Questions

- For the corporation that has acquired another company, merged with another company, or been acquired by another company, evaluate the strategy that led to the merger or acquisition to determine whether or not this merger or acquisition was a wise choice. Justify your opinion. For this corporation, I choose the company Adidas. Adidas is the second largest athletic corporation in the world after Nike, another global sportswear company. In 2005, Adidas merged with another US corporation, Reebok. The effect of the merger was as clear as daylight. Nike had a market share of 36.3% in 2005 and Adidas had a ...

The author of the documentary movie «Paradise found: Islamic Architecture and Arts» creates this project with the purpose to show the beauty and greatness of the Islamic art pieces. In order to fulfill this idea he travels to muslim countries such as Syria, Egypt, Iran, Pakistan, Uzbekistan, Turkey, Mali, India (the last one was included due to the muslim period in India and building of Taj Mahal as a result) and shows the greatest pearls of islamic art. The author is absolutely passionate about the muslim culture, he starts his story saying that people who create such masterpieces cannot be ...

Project Scope

This paper will establish the various gender roles in some of the popular Disney movies according to the portrayed male and the female characteristics in these movies.

Introduction

The roles of gender in most of the Disney popular movies have been well defined although with a lot of biasness. Most of these movies have brought out the roles of gender to be very unrealistic and the Disney characters have also remained to be very popular amongst the millions of children who are inspired by such movies. Such movies may inspire the roles of a specific gender, the ideals and values, legitimacy and ...

Films, in and of themselves, ostensibly carry meaning (whether intentional or not) and thematic/narrative messages that are conveyed in various ways (King, 2001). The many elements that comprise the moving image and story of a film - performance, mise-en-scene, cinematography, sound, and more - are the tools used by filmmakers and actors to convey these messages. Whether explicit or implicit, the message and overall meaning of a film can be derived from a close examination of these elements. Two films that use these elements to a great extent to convey their meaning - Barton Fink and The Night of the Hunter - will ...

In “Cinderella, Not So Morally Superior,” author Elisabeth Pantaja takes the position that Cinderella is not superior to the step-sisters, as readers often think. Additionally, so takes the position that Cinderella is not motherless in the story.

Summary

As a child or an adult just watching Cinderella for entertainment, at first glance, without a thought, it does appear that poor, motherless Cinderella is taken advantage of by her stepmother, Lady Tremaine, and evil stepsisters, Drizella and Anastasia. Cinderella is orphaned as a young girl. Her mother dies when she is a baby. Her father remarries, trying to provide Cinderella with a mother to raise her. ...

You can tell a lot about a person merely by what their appearance is telling you; these ‘channels’ of the body are what express the mind’s emotional state, and help to judge someone’s personality, and whether something is affecting their state of mind. Nonverbal behavior is an important component to forming impressions about people's personality, sociability, and mood, among other things (Ambady and Rosenthal, p. 439). When someone typically tries to figure out what someone’s emotional state may be, three determinants are used; the emotional state of the observer, the emotional state of the observed, and the information ...

Hitchcock is the man behind several films. These include The Psycho, The Birds, North by North West; Rebecca among others. Hitchcock exudes a lot of similarity between the films. The Psycho is similar to other books in a variety of aspects. One is that Psycho employs suspense just like other films. The film encompasses scenes in which there is a lot of tragedy. However, when a massacre or killing is about to happen, the audience is not shown this. The audience only sees blood to affirm that a certain character has died. In psycho, we are not shown the blade hitting a particular victim ...

The chapter on Criminal Psychopathy makes fascinating reading. It is informative about the disorder and covers many interesting topics associated with it. Perhaps the most interesting aspect is that, in many cases, psychopaths can appear to be friendly, kind and charming people, even if they have committed serious crimes. This chapter explores criminal psychopathy and how people with the disorder diff from other offenders, including those with other mental health disorders. In particular, it stresses how a criminal psychopath is different from others, both emotionally, cognitively and behaviourally. The definition of a psychopath is provided, along with a case study of a ...

Introduction

Mad Men is an American TV series, which explores the classic days of advertising, as it was done in the sixties on Madison Avenue. It treats the business style of Sterling Cooper, a small – medium sized advertising company activating on Madison Avenue. The show also touches with humor and sarcasm the social and political specificities of that time, sometimes presenting them in an ironical light. A social aspect that the TV series emphasizes on is the gender relations. Mad Men focuses on the absurdities in gender inequalities, illustrating the “then” and “now” situation regarding this aspect. Gender relations are ...

“The yellow Wallpaper” is a cut throat short story by Charlotte Perkins Gilman and it tries to reconstruct the nature of American women lives and their roles in the nineteenth century society .During the era, women were treated as mere objects and men tried as much as possible to use their skills, power and ability to dominate and limit women.

The protagonist of the story Charlotte Perkins Gilman is the narrator and she describes her life as a woman, mother, and wife. Immediately after the birth of her son, she is presented to suffer from a mental disorder described as 'post-partum depression, ...

The works of Ray Bradbury have long been held up as examples of speculative fiction: the forms of genres which, generally, encompass a wide range of imaginative features. His work often presents common themes such as those with pertain to the future, space, science fiction and the dystopian qualities of future societies. For example, in Fahrenheit 451, Bradbury discusses a future society where books are banned: presenting the reader with a hint of anti-meta narrative, given that the book is the very thing in the readers’ hands. This also represents Bradbury’s most famous work: it is universally accepted as being one ...