Essays on Dancing

A Passionate Revival of Movie Musical Styles

Film Review: La La Land – A Passionate Revival of Movie Musical Styles La La Land was released by Lionsgate and Black Label Media on December 25, 2016. It is considered a comedy/drama/musical production. Damien Chazelle is the director and writer of the film. Major stars in the movie are Ryan Gosling, Emma Stone and Rosemarie DeWitt (Platt & Gilbert, 2016). It has received 14 Oscar nominations and numerous Golden Globe awards. The plot involves the evolving and troubled love affair between an aspiring actress and a disillusioned jazz pianist. This is a musical production that includes drama, romance and comedy ...

Olaudah Equaino

Chapter one of Olaudah Equaino presents a glimpse of the 18th century culture and way of living in a typical African village. In the initial chapter, Equaino demonstrated a reserved behavior, by humbly citing that his narrative was not intended to call attention to himself. However, he also expressed that he felt more favored by God compared to other Africans, which leads him to acknowledge how the Divine had been so merciful of him throughout his life. Consequently, his narrative was a demonstration of his high hopes to be able to help in promoting “the interest of humanity”. He ...

Today, they were burning books. These were the last books on Earth, found in the house on the outskirts of the city. They were creating and, at the same time, listening to the Symphony of Fire, in which every note was a burned paper with empty words, written once by someone.

Does it really matter?

Does it really matter what was inside these books when outside, there is so much fun glancing at dancing flames destroying a relic of the past? For them, it was more important to find every hidden book, throw down imaginary idols from their pedestals, tear apart books with ...

A dancing is a type of physical activities which gives people a lot of opportunities not only for improving their bodies, their appearance but also for self-expression, for expression of different feelings, etc. People can meet their psychological needs and solve some of their psychological problems through dancing. While many types of art give people opportunities for self-expression, etc., the art of dances has a lot of advantages which other arts do not have. For example, dances are a combination of listening to music and physical activities. Such combination makes a dancing advantageous for both mental and physical health ...

Living in London which is a cosmopolitan city, one gets to know people from all over the world. People, who are not all coming from different parts of the world, which also means from different cultures, but also from various walks of lives and realities. London is one of the hubs of Europe which has received people from all over the world, who were escaping from a painful reality. Beginning with the World Wars, Communism threatening eastern Europe countries, African struggles, and not necessarily war or conflict areas but also running away from poverty and seeking new opportunities. We ...

Cambodia had passed through the most difficult time in its history on Khmer Rouge years. It was the time while the people had no basic rights. It was the most violent years in the history of Cambodia that brought great impact on the life of every Cambodians. They had been away from the culture, art as well as the normal lifestyle because of the brutal attitude of leaders on the Khmer Rouge years. There had many branches that were banned during that years. It includes religion, professionalism, banking, education, family relationships as well as remembering the past of the ...

Introduction

Katherine Dunham is a legendary dancer and choreographer whose contributions to the dance culture are admirable and great. She is an important figure to the dance culture because of her revolutionary and transformative choreography in the 1930’s. She revolutionized dance styles in America by investigating and establishing the roots of African and Caribbean dance and rituals and transforming them into critical creative choreography that resonates with all. She also pioneered the use of ethnic and folk choreography by introducing it to mainstream dance styles and fusing them. Katherine further founded the anthropological dance movement; showing the whole world ...

Q15. Size, emotional state, gender, age, ethnic, national, educational background and other characteristics of an audience usually shape communicator’s message structure, framing and language choice. Using of certain pronouns, imperatives, passive constructions, repetitions, rhetorical questions and other linguistic means of expression depends on the profile of a listener. According to Christiansen and Just (2000), the agency of the audience is always implicitly present in one’s speech (Christiansen & Just 2000). A speaker usually uses different strategies to signal politeness, solidarity and cooperation. It is worth exemplifying audience influence on one’s message taking two specific audience and topic ...

Many elderly people spend more hours daily just lying or sitting down, thereby making them the sedentary age group. It is due to this inactivity that they tend to be prone to heart diseases, obesity or even early deaths as compared to the general population (Sullivan & Pomidor, 2015). Moreover, it has also been noted that as one grows older, their bodily functions decline. Physical activities can, therefore, help in slowing down this rate of deterioration. Furthermore, many seniors still want to keep in touch with their friends, neighbors and the community in general. Based on this and other factors, ...

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The Elements of Feminist Media and their Relationship to the Movie The Punk Singer

“Tougher and more lethal than any man, more beautifulthan most women, warrior women in thongs fused feminism and femininity in a fantasy reconciliation between the fury of Riot Grrrl and the body politics of Cosmo.” –Douglas, 2010a, p. 78 The above quotation made by Susan J. Douglas highlights the fact that feminism has had to change how it presents itself to the mainstream. The quotation implies that the strong, hard-core feminist is now being required to soften her outside image with her femininity and sexuality. The author made reference to the Riot Grrrl underground movement, ...

The Right Spring is an exceptionally beautiful Ballet. Inspired by the 1913 performance that incorporated Russian pagan iconography, Nijinsky creates a movement that combines both the logical and Frenzy of Stravinsky’s music. The right string was first composed Igor Stravinsky; the performance was written for Paris seasons Diaghilev's Ballets Ruses Company. Nicholas Roerich designed the 1913 stage and customs. The Ballet was performed may the 29th 1913. The piece was received with unusual sensation and is considered the most influential work of the 21st century.

Act 1. The Adoration of the Earth; The Dance of spring begins. The ...

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1) 1. French Hip-Hop genre is famous for several names of people, who have made a large contribution to the development of hip-hop culture in France: Dee Nasty, Phil Barney, Bernard Zekri, Jean Karaks, and Sidney. Dee Nasty is a DJ Radio Nova’s producer and a pioneer of Hip-Hop genre in France. He has produced the first Hip Hop record in France in 1980s and soon became world-known. He took part in many DMC World DJ Championships. Dee Nasty is also known for the distribution and development of graffiti, break dance, and funk music in French culture. ...

Cadbury Strategic Ambiguity

In 2009, Cadbury introduced a new advertisement where two school children made their eyebrows move to music. The advertisement was part of Cadbury’s strategy of preparing creative content for the company and capturing the attention of the audience. The advertisement is considered vague and strange as it does not make it clear why the students are moving their eyebrows or if eating Cadbury eggs is making their eyebrows move. The play on anonymity is the ultimate of the advertisement and makes the audience watch the whole ad for its creativity. The audience keeps guessing the reason for the ...

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Introduction Dancing is an integral part of human culture. Its importance is not only defined by its entertaining quality, but because dancing has also served as a form of human communication and expression. Dancing is a universal expression, which can be observed in almost every culture around the globe. And just like the oral language, there are dances that are unique to a particular culture as it reveals a particular purpose or way of life. The increasing contact between different cultures, however, has made certain cultural traditions such as dances to become transferred or adopted by another ...

Human Sexuality Behavior at the Nightclub

Introduction A night club is always composed of different individuals of different genders, ages, and even different sexual orientations. This is so in instances when one visits the club on a normal night when the club does not have the various shows, for example, the 80’s show or when somebody visits a gay or lesbian club, since the composition of the club on that particular day or time will not really have variety as desired by this research. I visited the Sambordia Nightclub on a warm Friday evening in order to carry out the research and was able ...

Hochschild’s Reading

Based Hochschild’s article (7), emotional labor entails the procedure of controlling expressions and feelings to administer the emotional needs of a job. Employees are required to manage their feelings when they interact with the superiors, co-workers, and customers. Various job roles involve emotional labor such as nurses, social workers, waiters, doctors, flight attendants, etc. Arlie Hochschild (7) adds that the emotional labor requires the personnel to regulate reactions such as behaviors and facial displays in public or in the workplace. Closely related to the term is emotion management or work that entails the acts performed in private spheres ...

Susie: __3-year old girl named Susie___________________________________________________________________Child’s Birth date: _11/16/12_____________________________________________________________Background Information: __Susie lives with her grandmother, mother, sister, and brother. Her father is absent from the home due to incarceration. She is the youngest of three siblings ages 12 and 7. Her brother is the oldest, while her sister is the middle child. Her mother works full time as a receptionist, and her grandmother is retired. ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________Domain of Development Observation: Preschool ClassroomDate: June 2016 Child 1: Susie(1) Physical: The development of gross and fine motor skills,self-help skills, and eye-hand coordination.1. Balance on the balance beam2. Colored inside ...

According to Emmet Price, dancing, in the early years of Hip Hop, was the “‘essence of early Hip Hop culture’” (qtd in Gorney 1). However, over the years, dancing in the Hip Hop culture gradually lost its significance as it became “cultural fad” and was replaced with a “take away product of hip hop,” which is the CD (Gorney 2). In recent years, hip hop dance has enjoyed a “huge resurgence” (Gorney 2). This resurgence of cultural expression has manifested itself in multiple “forms” (Gorney 2). However, it is this form of cultural expression is in danger of being “ ...

The African Americans amount to about 13 percent of the total United States’ population and they are believed to have originated from the African continent as a result of slavery trade. They have made a significant contribution towards the growth and development of the United States culture through their unique cultural practices, norms, values, and the language (Thompson, 2015). As an international student from China, I have found the culture of the African Americans quite different from our culture in many dimensions. I have been able to learn the details of their culture after attending the African American dancing ...

Art can be, and is, often seen and understood in many contexts. In museums, visual arts are generally pleasing, and looked forward to with great anticipation. Musical art, in concert halls, is seen the same way. There is performance art, like that of the choreographer Anze Skrube, that is in high demand. Graffiti is another kind of visual/performance art, most of it connected with gangs, but not always, when considering the work of Banksy and other artists who try to do something positive with their talent. Art can be defined in two ways, according to Adajian. One of its ...

Salsa is a dance style which originates from the Afro-Caribbean and Latin part of the world and it reflects the culture of this region. This dance spread all over the world and each culture adopted it and enrichened it with their specific elements. Salsa is a lifestyle, it has many health benefits when regarded as exercising, its culture is very interesting and the history of this dance is rich and each person tells their personal story through the dance. Salsa is a lifestyle which reflects the personality of each individual involved in the process. Every person has their unique ...

Introduction

The Minoan Civilization was the forerunner of the ancient Greek culture which emerged from the island of Crete. The island of Crete was isolated from the rest of the Greek mainland by the Sea of Crete to the north and by the Mediterranean Sea to the west. The island with its mountainous rugged terrain and white sand coastal areas proved to be a great spot for international affairs and trade routes especially for the European, Africa, and Asia Minor merchants. Because of its isolated landscape, many scholars have proposed the existence of cultural interactions between Cretan civilization and those ...

The Grass Dancer, a book written by Susan Power, who descends from the Native American Sioux people, fascinates the reader with the elaborateness of the plot, complex kinship and thematic saturation. Power weaves a complex story of life and relationships of a young Sioux Harley Wind Soldier living in a reservation in Dakota and struggling to regain his identity. However, the far from being one-sided or hackneyed: the author deploys various techniques to portray the story of the entire Sioux Nation through the array of interrelated characters. However, the main peculiarity of the book lies in Power’s careful ...

Section 1: Describe what you saw

The contemporary dance by the MN was recorded in December 2014 and November 2015 in Slovenia. The dance was performed by eleven dancers who include; Nastja Bremec, Noriko Nishidante, Tomi Cinej, Michael Rynia, Luca Ghedini, Martina Beraldo, Mara Rogelja, Sinisa Bukinac, Emili Bizjak, Tjasa Bucik, and Lia Zuljan. The choreographers for this performance formed part of the dancing crew. They were Nastja Bremec and Michael Rynia, who are the founders of the MN dancing company. The director of this dance was Klavdija Zupan. The music was composed Olafur Arnalds and Diaphane. The music was created and does not have ...

Respond

Teaching different art forms such as dance to students is a great challenge because it requires a great deal of confidence, a deep level of understanding of arts and the right mix of skills . For this paper, the workshop that I chose to focus on was the Moth Bangarra Dance performance. I chose dance mainly because of the fact that it was one of the most recently discussed topics in the course and this particular dance workshop was the one that really struck my senses. I wanted to do a dance workshop just like it and so I chose ...

Cultural heritage involves a number of ways through which one should lead a life through community development as this is passed from one generation to the other. Cultural heritage assists us to garner a sense of belonging as we get more insight on our origins. This is inclusive of customs, beliefs, practices, artistic expressions, values, and objects. We can relive and explore this while enjoying our cultural beliefs based on the places that we are based, and events are a great way through which culture can be efficiently expressed together with other individuals. The Pow Wow provides the perfect ...

Introduction

Sexuality refers to sensation and linked closeness between two human beings. In psychological terms, sexuality is the way through which people make an expression of the completeness of love between a woman and a man. In biological terms, this is the means through which the conception of a child occurs and the ancestry is passed over to the next generation. The purpose of this paper is to look at the issue of public expressions of sexuality concerning the law in the United States. In this paper, is going to be established that public expressions of sexuality in the United ...

Aguirre, Stroszek and Fitzcarraldo

Werner Herzog is a genius at directing movies. He has worked with popular actors such as Nicholas Cage and Christian Bale over the years. He is also popularly known for his unorthodox methods in film production. His friend and actor, Klaus Kinski, acted the main role in two films. The film, Stroszec, was debuted in cinemas in 1977; Aguirre was released in 1972 and Fitzcarraldo was released in 1982. The three films by explore a man’s world, how the society views romanticism, use of metaphors and the experiences of a young woman. The discussion in this essay will ...

Cultural appropriation has been subject to debate in the American music industry for several years. While it remains debatable as to whether there is a need for serious actions to be taken to provide justice to the members of the original cultures when it is evident there is an incident of misappropriation, how such cultural appropriation occurs still elicits debate. It is critical to understand that certain actions of the singers can be considered culturally offensive while others can be accommodated despite the cultural debate it brings. It is thus important that artists show appreciation to another culture by ...

Insensitive and uncomfortable metropolis, a concrete jungle, decorated with whole strings of yellow cabs, standing in huge traffic jams, - the list goes on There is an opinion that New York is only great place to earn money, whereas California and the beaches of Florida are better for relaxation. However, the magic of the megacities - and New York is no exception is the brightest representative of this caste - in something else. Best place for entertainment, the best clubs in the world, the spirit of urban merriment - this will not be found in any resorts. In today's ...

The film “Lost in Translation” is really about the difficulties in translation, but not so much in the linguistic sense, as in the human, - translation of others’ feelings ("Lost In Translation (2003)"). The film is not so much the words as the information, the mood and emotions are not concluded just in words. This is perhaps one of the few movies, where the characters’ silence can be comfortable and talk about many things. A slow, as it might seem, dragged action is not the lack of pictures – that's the essence of the whole atmosphere of loneliness – the characters ...

Introduction

Aesthetic music is important in providing listeners with the unique experience that makes them enjoy the rhythm and harmonization of songs. Many people are interested in listening to music that has the ability to present the beauty and human enjoyment desired by fans (Bowman 2). Music needs to fulfil emotional needs of listeners and create the aesthetic valuation in terms of tone, tempos, the taste and judgement (Davis 61). The fact that music has the ability to affect emotions and intellectual capacity of the society means that artists ought to compose and perform songs that offer unique exposure while ...

The Aristotle, Poetics defines the dance as the physical implication of a pure experience.The physical movement works to arouse the emotional experience that can be associated with the abstract idea that is posed by the scenario. The dance serves as a representative of an intellectual or an emotional feeling that was not physically represented. The bodily experience of the abstract ideas helps in a long way to forming the idea that is intended to have been passed from the inner of beings. The feeling of amusement of the innate feelings gives the soothing feeling of being humans endeared to ...

Zora Neale Hurston and Marita Bonner are often associated with Harlem Renaissance of 1920s. Their views on the race problem differ greatly from the views of male African American writers, and sometimes even contradict them, as the ideas of female writers of those times also incorporate the ideas of gender and being a colored woman. The movement for the rights of colored people and the rights of women has inspired the appearance of the whole range of works concerning the perspectives on the issue. The two essays, “How It Feels Like to Be a Colored Me” written by Zora ...

Introduction

The report is prepared to present a strategic marketing plan for Muscat Festival for the year 2017 to 2019. It includes short-term planning that needs to be implemented for ensuring the growth in this yearly event. The marketing strategies are addressed in this plan to identify what needs to be done this year for increasing the number of visitors. The management intends to plan something different in the next two years that will increase the number of visitors and people of Muscat will be able to enjoy more activities and fun in their city. The changes are necessary to ...

The Stormy Weather starring Bill Robinson and Lena Horne was one of the most successful Broadway musicals ever created especially by a full-African American actors and actresses. The film presents a charming combination of jazz, singing, dancing, and occasional rhythmic rants of the characters from the story. At first, I was quite skeptical whether the film will make me interested until the end; however, the Stormy Weather’s brilliant and happy music creates a lively atmosphere which is impossible to deny. The film was set against the backdrop of the Progressive era, approximately during the 1920s, considering the clothes ...

Shakira

Sometimes we stop in front of difficulties and obstacles. Sometimes it seems that all things are lost and everything is against us. At this moment there comes a tipping moment when you need to gather your strength and go forward for your dream. Look around you! We will never see a society in which everybody is happy and satisfied. It is, in fact, a mythical representation, especially under the blows of fate. We can improve out lives every day and every moment. We shoud not give up, if we want to succeed. Let us see what the failures were ...

The contemporary American cinema in the 21st century has been dominated with countless of computer graphic effects and numerous camera tricks in order to make the films look presentable, action-packed, and detailed in terms of narration towards the broad audience. When John Belton argued that the purpose of the camera as a storyteller improved the quality of the films produced, it is undeniable that the existence of the cameras led to the creation of several stories some of which deals with phantasms that often requires tricks to produce magic to enthrall the audiences. Yet with this aspect, the discourse ...

Dance is an art that allows people to express their feelings through body movements. It is also an art that is used to entertain as well as bring people of different cultures together. Dances have also been used as a historical tool to identify people from different ethnic background, age groups and different social setting in addition to being utilized as a tool for harmonizing different people in a social event. People brought together through dancing are able to learn different cultures, thus learning how to respect and appreciate cultural and social diversity. It is common to see people ...

Pow-wow is a Native American cultural gathering held annually to celebrate and honor the tribal customs and cultural connectedness. The term pow-wow has originated from the word powwaw, a native Indian word which means a “healing ceremony” led by spiritual or religious leaders from different tribes (Schweigman, et al, n.p.). While there is no clear evidence when the pow-wow started, it is believed to have originated from the Pawnee tribe where their religious ceremonial meeting includes dancing and other rituals. Since then, other Indian tribes have adopted the ceremony and integrated their own traditions. The Indians have practiced this ...

Chinese Fan Dance

The Chinese traditional dance has existed for over two thousand years. It has been part of their heritage for all these years and is believed to be an ancient type of folk dance, and the Chinese people highly value the festival event, and it is seen as a symbol of national identity (Tamara, 2016). Purposely, the fan dance is a significant form of art and plays many roles in China. First, it is used a means of passing down traditions and stories of Chinese culture. Promote their rich historical roots. During the fan dancing, brightly colored costumes were used ...

Reflective essay (My experience as literally student and a writer)

As a student and especially English major, I have had to learn how to be appreciative of some of the most peaceful exhilarating moments when my mind has to engage with the thoughts of an author. As Toni Morrison notes in The Dancing Mind, the art of reading is an experience of one’s mind dancing with others minds. During my first days as a college student, I always probed to find out the “true" meaning of an author’s literally work, however in this quest, I have come to a realization that literature is not made great by ...

The cultural event features some of the contemporary post-modernism artworks created by various artists. In this exhibit, the pictures present an interesting backdrop that attempts to illustrate the art of the 21st century. The first picture in the exhibit was Amber Garceau’s Dancer (see fig. 1), a photograph that depicts a man in the actual performance of dancing mid-air. The outlines of the right foot indicates the fast movement, the light shining from below creates the chiaroscuro and the shadows that emphasize the dancing male form. The random movement of dancing mid-air is truly a wonderful rendition on ...

Henri Matisse wrote the book “Notes of a Painter” and through the book, he discusses the art of painting. From “notes of a painter” Matisse has integrated painting and writing since his book majorly explains every important detail and processes of painting (Svenungsson 23). In his book Matisse discusses painting under various topics: On first composition, Matisse says that composition involves arranging various parts of a painter’s commands to show their feelings. The second topic he discusses is “on first impression” and through these writings, Matisse attempts to persuade painters to focus on creating serenity in their work. ...

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La Géode (at the Bernard Tschumi’s Parc de la Villete,) Carlos ZGZ| Flickr, n.d. Bernard Tschumi’s Parc de la Villete is a good example of deconstruction in architecture because it correctly illustrates how an architect, similar to a writer, can use rhetorical devices, such as “repetition, distortion, or juxtaposition” (Tschumi 146). In the above photograph, the fountain, named La Géode, does not look like a traditional fountain. The shape of the fountain is distorted and allows the water to spray downwards instead of upwards. Additionally, instead of the water curving and ...

“What You Pawn I Will Redeem” is a short story written by Sherman Alexie and it is about an Indian man, whose name is Jackson Jackson, who is in search of his identity in life. Jackson has friends and most of them are Indian and his faith in the humanity of people is great and amazing. He believes that the good he does will come back to him and he lives by this rule. Jackson never says that, but it is obvious from his actions. He is kind and considerate towards people and he is rewarded because of that ...

Hip-hop music also known as rap music has been around since the 1970’s. The United States had heard the music which focused on rhyming while speaking the words. This type of music generally consisted of dance beat music and words of lifestyle. This new style of music had formed its own culture and category in the music industry. Many rappers and hip-hop artists were from an African American heritage. There were several techniques that were born because of the era of hip-hop. The music had created DJ’s scratching records to make different sounds while the artists performed ...

Introduction

The objectification of women in cheerleading has been noted in many several news materials, research articles and online blogs. Women are presented in scantily clad clothes and are assigned to dance in provocative ways to ensure that audience is entertained. Overtime objectification of women and their body parts in cheerleading groups leads to women developing self-objectification traits. Female self-objectification has been defined as "regular exposure to objectifying experiences that socializes girls and women to engage in self-objectification, whereby they come to internalize this view of themselves as an object or collection of body parts” (Szymanski, Moffitt, & Carr, 2010, p. ...

The music of Carlos Vives electrified the audience immediately. It was fierce with a booming and sensational rhythm. This was paired simultaneously with the singer’s energetic charisma on the stage. He moved and danced the way the music was supposed to make you feel. He electrified the stage. Once the intricate plucking of the guitar from the song “La Tierra del Olvido” began, the crowd roared. Something magnificent was about to happen. The rhythm was rapidly moving, and the lights glowed and beamed from the stage to the crowd that followed along with the harmonic melody and beats ...

Today in the world of choreography there are not that many names, at the mention of that, people would say "yes, I know him, I saw his production of "Swan Lake", it was unbelievable". But such choreographers exist and it is a fact. This choreographer nowadays is Matthew Bourne. The name of these individual more than once adorned the headlines, the front pages and covers of glossy magazines. Tickets for his performances are sold of shelves in the blink of an eye, and the number of awards, nominations and prizes are hard to count on both fingers on your ...

Bonnaroo Music Festival was founded in 2002. The extravaganza takes place each year for four days. The concert was produced by AC Entertainment and Superfly Presents. The show takes place at the Great Stage Park starting on the second Thursday every June. The main events that motivate people to attend the music concert are the multiple stages that involve live music of different genre such as hip-hop, country music, folk, indie rock, world music, jazz, gospel, pop, classic rock, and pop. Last year (2015) June, I attended the Bonnaroo Music Concert to enjoy and gain more insight of what ...

Technically, a dance can be defined as the art of having a series of relocations of the body that match the speed and rhythm of a piece of music. It can be both an acrobatic and an artistic performance on the verge of specific intention. Contemporary dance has been my portion of the music-dance industry; I have loved contemporary ballet, as it is known in the modern society. In this dance, the body swings to various rhythms of song. This dance style is normally full of acrobatic movements. Floor works serve the sweetest bit of this dance. Your leg ...

We are surrounded with millions of sounds everyday wherever we are. Crowded markets, car signals, birds singing and so on and so forth. But only some of this sounds are pleasant for us. So we can define the music like some art to mix sounds and rhythms into a certain composition. But that is just a dry, austere definition that does not help one to understand what role music plays in the modern world and what role it used to play before. Philip Alperson (2010) consider music to be the universal language, the language of emotions in one of ...

1.0 Introduction of the project This paper provides a business plan for carrying out a company dinner and dance party for 100 employees. The company dinner and dance will help in appreciating the employees that have been striving to help the company in realizing its mission and vision. Most companies hold corporate dinners and dances every year. In most cases the duration of the events lasts between two to three hours (Nelson, 2012). The events do not consume the staff's personal time, and they are carried after the office hours or in the evenings. Company dinners and dances are ...

Trinidad and Tobago is one of the most multi-ethnic islands of the planet. The descendants of African and European settlers formed a culture of "black Trinidadians", while the descendants of mixed marriages often call themselves as French Creoles, although there are Spanish, Portuguese, Scottish and English roots present in their ancestry. As a result, a mixture of different groups there formed a motley multicultural nation, which is often called Trinidadian, although it is based on the nations and culture from almost all over the globe. It is believed that there are such a characteristic trait of the local people, ...

The concepts of the consumer behavior are grouped into four categories. The four categories of the consumer behavior are cultural, social, personal and psychological.

Cultural Concepts:

The cultural concepts of the consumers are originate from the different views of the consumers. It includes the background, environmental and the geographical location. The cultural concepts includes the following: Culture: The culture is one of the basic need of a society. It includes the day by day activities of the individuals. The culture defines the way human being interact with each other. The views of a person is also defined by the culture. Every ...

The Dawes Act (1887) The Dawes Act of 1887 was intended to assimilate Native Americans, with the intent of making them more like white Americans. To do so, various Native American tribes were removed from their homelands and relocated to areas called Indian Territory. Upon arrival at their new lands, they were told that the land they now occupied was to be owned communally, whereas, prior to the Dawes Act, Native American tribal communities individually owned their own familial lands. On February 8, 1887, the 49th Congress went on to specify in detail, how these communal lands were to ...

Introduction to Art and Aestheticism

Art is defined as the expression or application of creative skill and imagination, especially through visual medium like painting, sculpture, illustration or any kind of performing art as well. Art is non evaluative term. It means that no one could say whether it is good or bad. Instead the focus of the critics should be on interpretation and assessment. The term aesthetics is related to the beauty of art. Berleant (1992) calls art as a product of human relationship. The contextual phenomena of aesthetics changed in course of time and according to the contemporary situations. The modern aesthetic was ...

As I watched them together, at first I perceived a typical tangle dance. It did not look like anything particularly special. Kudo and Baryshnikov have a unique way of moving together, however, and it appears as though they are moving over ice. One holds they other up, their legs spread apart, they slide together gracefully despite the complexity of the movements, all in an effort to show the beauty of the dance. While this was impressive, I was most unimpressed with how the male was chewing gum throughout the performance. It showed a lack of professionalism. He did not ...

Religion is an organized system of practices and behaviors, ceremonies, world views, mythologies, ethics, holy place, and sacred tests that relate to humanity. Different religious groups are made up of various elements. The elements may differ on grounds of what is being worshiped, sacred things, and divinity. All religions have their practices, and these may include sermons, sacrifices, festivals, rituals, initiations, matrimonial services, prayer, music, and dance (Doyle 107). In most instances, religious groups will always have sacred history and narratives, which tend to be preserved in sacred books, and holy place (Jung 112). Through religion, the origin of ...