Essays on Dancing

CULTURAL POLITICS

V92CUP The Contestation of Power within Modern Day Belly Dance: A Cultural Politics Approach Introduction The origins and purpose of belly dance have no clear historical background. However, it has a very strong root from the Middle East and has spread into the Western world today. More and more women are getting involved in this dance as they try to embrace their feminine essence. Unfortunately, due to its historical background, belly dance has a negative connotation to it because of the erotic attachment behind its dance movement. Despite the said fact, men and even women would still spend money ...

Mikhail Baryshnikov once said the words: “Dance for me and I will tell you who you are” (Crompton 1). These words lend themselves to different interpretations in the context of wheelchair dancing. This is because there are different reasons why people dance. Dance could be for enjoyment, cultural events, expression, therapythe list is endless. Dance is about trying to achieve rhythm with one’s body or parts of the body. This implies that even disabled people can dance for the same reasons that able-bodied people dance and more. Several researches imply that when dance is used in therapy, ...

Many people perceive dancing as something not so serious and easy to do. In reality, if one is passionately involved in any kind of dancing, they will know that the common point of view is not true at all. Moreover, professional dancing is a one step above than just being a hobby and involves a lot more commitment and motivation in order to achieve good results. Hip-hop is a style in music that not many people go into compared to Latin, for example. Choosing hip-hop as the style one wants to perform means that they are a fan and devoted to that kind of ...

Dance and Sports are two physical activities, which are closely intermingled and inter-related though both vary in their ultimate purposes. Both involve rigorous physical movements and body actions, which require perseverance, stamina and energy. Off late both Dance and Sports have started complementing each other with more and more athletes taking up dance to help them improve their important, vital and significant sporting traits. Dance lessons to improve Athleticism is nothing new but lately the practice has become extremely famous and even coaches have started recommending dance lessons to athletes cutting across the different sports. There are many ...

Introduction

There are various ways of expressing oneself. One of the ways includes dancing, which is considered a nonverbal form of communication in our daily lives. Dancing involves movement of various body parts, in most cases towards music. It is used as a method of expressing ideas or narrating a story in both social and spiritual setups. Moreover, many people use dance as a way of educating others about their cultural practises. Many people across the world consider dance as a principal form of entertainment. Dance has overtime been classed depending on the country of origin or ethnicity. As such, citizens or different countries are ...

Musical Theater and Musical shows have been around for centuries. In the beginning, a musical show was the “integration of narrative, song, and dance characteristics” that “glorified beautiful women and surrounded them with comedian, singers, and dancers” (Reynolds and McCormik). From the early 1900 to 1930’s, the theater supporter was charmed by Minstrel shows, Variety Shows, and Follies which led to musicals with dramatic action. As the theater progressed, dance numbers became more a part of the entire show. Over the next 30-40 years Broadway Musicals would hit their highs and lows, but it was all too evident that the ...

Introduction:

Never before in my entire life have I ever attended a dance competition, but on this one occasion, I made a commitment to attend one. There was the annual dance competition in New York, and I was exceptionally enthusiastic about this event as I did not know what to expect (Stevens, 156). The dance competition takes place every January and brings many dancers from all over the country. This was a breathtaking event that mesmerized me. My only contribution to this event was just to observe the different thinks that were taking place at the dancing event. This event attracted a lot of ...

Introduction

Mikhail Baryshnikov. The man, whose name is known to every person, who is inspired by dance, the person who has extremely strong will, the person who is exceptionally talented, the person who is the greater dancer of XX century, the person whose performance has influenced on the development of the world ballet. Mikhails is known all over the world to the unique, powerful and perfect technique. He has performed over 100 classical ballet works. And that is just a part of the list of Mikhail’s achievements. Mikhail has been dancing since his childhood and nowadays, when he is 65 ...

World Music and Dance

There is a very long history in music in Spain and it is said to have played a very important role in western music development. Particularly, it has had a very strong effect on the Latin American music. It usually associated with such traditions such as classical guitar and the flamenco however the Spanish music is actually diverse from one region to another. The flamenco is a musical genre from Andalusia in the south of the country. Contrary to this, the music from the north western region mostly revolves around using bagpipes. In the early fifteen and seventeenth centuries Spain played a very significant ...

Dance

1- How does social dance reflect the values of American society today? Include social, political, religious, and general cultural ramifications/effects in your discussion. Keep in mind that club dancing is not the only type of dancing that is happening, and that American society covers a broad range of cultural communities. Draw on as diverse a range of examples as possible. If there is just one thing you could say about the people of the United States of America, it would be that they are diverse. The United States is one of the most multiethnic countries in the world. This translates ...

Introduction to dance as a form of art

Dance is not just an art. It is not limited to a group of people who have been trained in the art and only they are eligible to perform. Dance is universal; it is the ultimate form of expression that anyone can undertake. People can randomly break into a small dance to express that they are happy and overjoyed. In a similar manner, one can use dance as a form to express anger, sadness, love or any of the other emotions. Dance is the only form of art that can be performed by any person who chooses to do so. It is also ...

Jack Cole (1911-1974)

Jack Cole is known as the Father of Jazz Dance Technique and Father of Theater Dance. Cole started out as a modern dancer but during the Great Depression he switched to the jazz style of dancing. He is famous for combining jazz steps with modern and ethnic dances. Some of his famous choreographies include “Man of La Mancha”, “There´s No Business Like Show Busines” and “Les Girls”.

Eugene Louis “Luigi” Faccuito (1925-2015)

Luigi is a dancer whose physical handicap from a car accident made him create a new style of jazz dance. He improvised the jazz steps by incorporating warm-up and stretching exercises into dance routines. He ...

Movie Review: “A tribute to Alvin Ailey with the American Theatre”

Alvin Ailey lived between 1931 and 1989 and in the 58 year, he lived left a legacy in the dance theatre industry. Ailey had a passion in theatre and dancing which led him to pursue choreography as a profession. His passions led him to establish the American Dance Theatre, which he named after himself. Today dancers pay patronage to Ailey`s activism in revolutionizing and popularizing modern African-American dance. Other dancers refer to Ailey as the cultural ambassador from America (DeFrantz, 2004). Apart from dancing, Ailey also served as an activist for the participation of African Americans in the dance concerts that ...

Infected Mushroom Concert

Music was already playing inside, though it was not Infected Mushroom’s music and the band was not yet on stage. People were steadily crowding in, and many were already dancing with various colored glow sticks. I had my camera with me and people were happy to let me take their pictures as they danced. The band’s name glowed on the background of the stage in fervid red and green colors, not reminiscent of Christmas colors, but more of psychedelic fungi. The crowd was made up mostly of young adults. The band obviously has a very wide range of ...

Ballet dance at its inception was developed as a performance dance in the fifteen century. With time, however, music and choreography was incorporated and the dance itself became popular as a concert dance. In the contemporary times, the Ballet dance has since developed to a level where companies with professional composers and orchestras are trained to perform this kind of dance. On the other hand, Jazz dance was developed many years subsequent to the invention of Ballet dance. Particularly, this dance was developed in the 1900s as a vernacular dance that was performed by the African Americans who were in America as slaves. ...

Maureen O’Hara’s role as Judy O’Brien as an aspiring ballerina in a dance troupe in Dorothy Arzner’s film Dance, Girl, Dance is a prime example of a dancer who has to compete with another dancer for her place in the spotlight and for the male lead. The other dancer is Bubbles/Tiger Lily White, who is played by Lucille Ball and the male lead James ‘Jimmy’ Harris Jr. is played by Louis Hayward. Judy and Bubbles are good friends who are both dancers. While Judy is the better dancer of the two, Bubbles is better looking and using ...

Art can be expressed in numerous ways. It is anything that appeals to the eye and speaks for itself. It is often said that a single object of art can speak a thousand words. Art can be present in many ways including dance, music, poetry, graphics and even acting. It typically takes talent and spirit in order to achieve these forms of art and also to present them. Some human beings are highly gifted with bodies that can perform unimaginable twists and turns. Withstanding fatigue and exhaustion that generally characterizes dancing especially to hip hop; a dancer can perform or execute dangerous ...

Our college leadership normally organizes dancing competition events for the students from different faculties in the college. The major activity is usually dancing. This week, the student leadership organized an event for students, which involved dancing over the night. The event was held in the university auditorium from 11 pm to 6am in the morning. The attendees were mostly students from within the university though youths from the surrounding community were also invited . Male and female dancers compete on stage motivated by various rewards that they receive after winning. As such, they were expected to dress up to the ...

Introduction

In a catchy and rather humorous chapter titled “Courting” Helen Fisher bares basic yet essential truths on how people court. Jeff Abugov’s 1999 Mock documentary titled “The Mating Habits of the Earthbound Human” mirrors entirely all of Fisher’s assertions. A narrator tells the story of Billy (Mackenzie Austin), a shy young man who goes out looking for a date at a nightclub. He meets a beautiful girl named Jenny Smith (Carmen Electra). Billy gets Jenny’s phone number but loses it. He searches for the number frantically, finally resorting to calling all people named Jenny Smith from a directory. They finally reunite and ...

The aim of the paper is to provide an analysis on the different artist’s production that negotiates the medium of the photography. The main focus of this paper will remain on the photography that how it has served as model and anti-model for the modern artists. In addition, the new approaches will enable the hybrid media with inventions. A much narrowed concept in the modern times can be the usage of photo editing software. In the present times, it was merely acceptable but the development in the idea of using such software caused a lot of change and radicalism. ...

Musicals are theatrical performances that feature dance, spoken words, art, singing, play, and dialogue. The content of a musical can be original ideas, or founded on a film, play, other books, or novels. The themes and emotions of the musicals such as love and humor are usually communicated to the audience through live performances of music, word and actions. Musical theatres have gained popularity and have become integrated with the popular culture of many societies. Musical performances have long been combined with theatrical presentations in the early days, but the contemporary musical theatres especially the American musical, bear their origin in ...

There are various features that describe the flappers form the 1920’s. Before the Roaring Twenties, women were wearing long dresses that covered their legs and arms. Women also had long hair, and women were not allowed to vote or go against the conventional behaviors in society. When the 1920’s came, things changed tremendously. In fact, the 19th Amendments that was passed in the 1920 marked the beginning of these changes. The 19th Amendments gave women the right to vote. It was during this moment that most women began to attend schools and college education. During the ...

America is a land of opportunities that is surrounded with various factors that have major opportunities which are globally recognized. As the superpower, the country enjoys the diversity in cultural practices that differ primarily from the hip hop, rap, poetry and other aspects of cultural diversity, which the country enjoys. Specifically, we can discuss on the hip hop as a genre of music which has affected a large number of people and has its base in the United States. Hip hop cultural movement is regarded to have introduced a couple of newer things, altered doctrines and brought understanding of self expression. The overall ...

Introduction

This document illustrates in detail on Fela who was born in Nigeria and at the age of 20 years, he was sent to London to study medicine. Instead of doing what he was sent to do, he opted to venture into music whereby he formed a band called Koola Lobitos which played a fusion of jazz and high life. The document illustrates in detail on how Fela performed his music and what impact it had on the people (Manuel, 2007, 56). In addition, it entails that he was a multi-instrumental musician and composer, which made him a pioneer of Afrobeat music, and a human ...

Americans and Japanese mingled very well in the second war leading to merging of culture in both sides. These affected the two types of food they ate and how the food was prepared. Japanese eating styles changed by the introduction of MacDonald. The company introduced a lot of food stuffs that was in Japan previously (Watson, 167). This led to the change in menus in restaurants and other social laces. The introduction of fast foods the Asia was a new thing that changed the style of preparing food from their traditional way of cooking. This led to hamburger becoming a Japanese traditional ...

The Winter Olympic Games is an international sporting event that is usually held once in every four calendar year. These games were first held in 1924 in Chamonix, France. The first original sports of this event included curling, bobsleigh, ice hockey, military patrol, Nordic skiing, and skating. Following the Second World War, the Olympics games were interrupted and later returned in 1948 under the management of the International Olympic Committee. This paper gives detailed information about iceberg skating, and specifically ice dancing as a Winter Olympic Sport. However, the Olympic Games have undergone stages of evolution, and has currently ...

“Seven Islands and a Metro” and “Bombay: Our City”

The United Nations reported in 2009 that by the year 2030, 41% of the population of India will reside in urban areas. Mumbai is one of one of the 20 largest cities in the world with a population of 2.21 billion in 2011. With almost twice the growth overall of the urban population, urban area slums are growing the most quickly (Reliancefoundation.org 2014). These types of housing conditions created by rapid population growth result in numerous problems: poor health conditions and more diseases, increased crime, lessened access to civic agencies, environmental degradation, increase in slum housing, and overcrowding. It is ...

Indian’s populist film industry, known often by its colloquial term Bollywood, often uses song and dance not only as a work of spectacle within the body of the film, but as a way to significantly discuss the narrative and characters of the film itself. Songs and dance sequences provide opportunities for the characters to explore their jubilation, sorrow or consternation, among a plethora of other emotions, and offered significant platforms for the stardom of Indian film stars, who would often also be significant presences in the film and culture scene in India. One of the most significant Bollywood film stars of ...

One unique thing about this exhibition is that it’s more than admiring. Just imagine beautiful costumes on the mannequin showing how diverse costume design could be, how they are connected to the performance, designer’s emotions, and the characteristics of different time periods. All the designers have something in common - their appreciation of the elegance, and athleticism of the body’s movement. A good dancing performance is made by good dancers; every dancer is unique and has his own soul, which makes every performance unique, because the time, setting and emotions of each performance can never be ...

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THE ISSUES BRIEFExecutive summaryThe National Gallery of Victoria has to make and implement an effective communication strategy so as to reduce the impact, if any, of the negative publicity in the media. It should take both the internal as well as the external stakeholders side by side so that it can influence the public at large. The communication should be honest and open. Grapevine and upward communication of employees should be used to fight this crisis. Moreover print and social media should be utilized as a more formal method. In the end, evaluation techniques such as the communication audit and ...

Dancing and musical style of disco - perhaps the most popular trend of pop culture of the past century. The history of the genre begins around mid-70s at the same time the United States and Europe. American style disco has incorporated the traditions and the sound of funk and soul. European same direction disco inherited typical trends of traditional pop and interlaced with the new trends in pop music. Some argue that the Disco came on the scene in the early 70s of 20th century, around 1971-1973. Others say that the disco appeared in the mid 70s of ...

Selection of target market

Eliza Minden should pick the dance students as her target market. This is because the number of dance students greatly outnumbers the professional dancers and thereby presents a vast market for Gaynor Minden shoes. Dance students usually took their lessons for about a year. During this period, they are mostly taught by the same teacher. Ballet teachers were either professional ballet dancers to advanced students (case study). This means that while Gaynor Minden targets dance students, they also gain access to the professional dancers market. In the course of teaching, the professional dancers get actively involved in the issues about shoes ...

Introduction

As a student I have always wondered about the success of Marilyn Monroe in the film industry at such a tender age. She staged very stunning performances for the entire period she was on the public limelight. Marilyn Monroe was an American actress, singer and Model who lived for only 36 years. She had a dumb pale persona which was used to humorous effect in successive films. By the late 1950s, she had established a production company which released on of the best selling movies at the time. She won several awards during this time and became one of the most successful characters ...

1. In William Blake's "Songs of Innocence and of Experience," Blake attempts to dig into the very nature of existence and perception; part of the primary message of the works is that childhood is an innocent time that should be protected, but it is capable of being corrupted by the structures and rules of the adult world. As we get older and move through life, getting more experiences, we lose our innocence and start to become adults because of what the government, the church and the rich do to us.

In "The Lamb," we learn about how we ...

The modern genres of music cannot be considered to be pure, owing to their long histories of change with time and from one geographical place to another. The major aspects that keep changing with time are the styles, rhythm, dancing technique and wording, but it is normally possible to trace the origin of a single music genre (Dils, and Albright 54). Jazz and Ballet are two different music and dance genres that have some similar effects, yet they have different origins and histories. There are a lot of differences between these two terms. Apparently, it is not quite easy to differentiate ...

Communication

Introduction Gestalt psychology is built around the theory that the brain processes images and information in a holistic manner and creates self-organized juxtapositions. As per gestalt psychology, therefore, the ‘whole’ is invariably larger than ‘the sum of the parts’. Accordingly, the mind tries to make sense of images through the processes of ‘proximity’, ‘closure’, ‘figure-ground’, ‘common fate’, ‘similarity’ and ‘good continuation’ (Liquori, 2011). The principles of Gestalt can be best explained with a painting as an example.

Analysis of a Painting Using Gestalt Psychology

Figure 1: The Singing Butler (Vettriano, 1992) ‘The Singing Butler’ is a famous painting by Jack Vettriano (1992). In the image, we see a ...

Mikhail Baryshnikov was born on 27th January, 1948 in Riga, Latvia. He is famous for dancing throughout the world. His dance is the sublime vision. Mikhail Nikolaevitch Baryshnikov began his ballet studies in 1960. He studied in Vaganova School the then Leningrad with Aleksander Pushkin. He won the top prize in the junior division of the international Varna Competition. His teacher described him as “the most perfect dancer I have ever seen”. He made his debut at Maryinsky theatre where he danced the ‘peasant’ pas de deux in Giselle, in the group Kirov Ballet. A new instrument unique ...

Introduction

Ballet is arguably one of the most graceful and beautiful styles of dance. It is well known by many people across the world. The art of ballet started out as a kind of dance for the wealthiest families in history. This art was born at a time when Roman and Geek Renaissance of the 15th and 16th centuries started which revived interest in the arts and in human too. The term “ballet” comes from the Italian word “Balla” which simply means dance. Ballet is a deeply traditional form where fixed steps are in a canonical way linked to each other which can be ...

Introduction

Individuals all over the world dance for various reasons and in diverse ways. A number of dances express feelings such as anger, joy, or sadness. Other dances can essentially narrate a story. Folks might dance as part of a crucial ceremony. A number of cultures in fact honor their ancestors by dance. Dance is thus among the most important parts of any culture. Most of traditional dances have actually been formed and advanced through centuries to reflect the culture. Cultural dances are very precious to various civilizations, since they normally contain pieces of their livelihood and history, which would else be ...

Today, asking the average person to imagine a ballet dancer usually conjures up an image of a tall, statuesque woman with long, thin legs and a stern demeanor. However, what many people do not realize is that the image of a ballerina has changed drastically since the advent of the dance form. Originally conceived in the Renaissance, ballet as an art form was not initially the athletic pursuit of dancing on the toes that it is today. The art form that came to be known as ballet originated in the royal courts of the Italian Renaissance, and spread from there into France and ...

Facilitator

Evolution has constantly occurred in the Turkish culture with new things coming up all the time. In a culture with great diversity and heterogeneity, Turkish music faces the pressure to adjust and fit in the lifestyles of the people in the country (Khotani, 2010). Over the last century, the culture can boast of the profound changes and diversifications it has undergone to breed the current trend in the cultural industry. Music is the most relevant beneficiary of the diversifications and changes. The evolution of music traces its roots back to the Islamic influences on the folk music. Evolution took another ...

Introduction

At first I assumed that both dances the Shen Wei's Connect Transfer II an d the Forsythe's One Flat Thing Reproduced are similar in a way because both have very random moves and whose dances are near the floor but I was wrong. I found out that the two dances represent clearly different choreographic intentions that the artists have. Their difference most definitely is in how much time and energy each of the dances takes. Shen Wei’s connect is graceful and has smooth transitions, and the dancers’ movements are flexible is as if their bodies are made of plastic. ...

Day 1. I started almost right away to feel more relaxed as I listened to the music. I listened to the piece being played with period instruments. Beethoven wrote the piece almost 240 years ago (Jander). I wanted to hear how it may have sounded during his life the first time I listened. There was a part when my spirits were lifted and I felt almost like dancing at about 9:30 when more instruments joined and the fuller sound.

The Symphony is known as the Pastoral Symphony. It is a “program piece” which means that the piece was written with an ...

A fallacy is an erroneous reasoning or thinking. In logic, an assessment of fallacies is based on arguments and conclusion made from the premise. Fallacies are commonly used by politicians and media outlets to achieve specific goals and interests. In advertisement industry, it is employed to influence consumers’ preferences and boost sales. For example, the popular Taco Bell advert premiered on CBS Television Network on February 3, 2013 contained invalid arguments. The advert titled “Viva Young” was meant to promote the products of the company and popularize its new slogan “Live Mas” which is translated as “ ...

Introduction

The extended activities supports school curriculum helps to increase children’s learning outcome and enables them to make connection with outside world. This paper discusses different activities whose objectives are aligned to accomplish NAEYC standards and ensure participation of both parents and children.

Tell me a Story

In “Tell me a story” activity, the children tell his or her parents a story. The objective of this activity is to increase their learning’s in all school subjects besides helping them to improve their language and literacy (Barbour, 2012). In addition, this activity will help children to expand vocabulary, exercise "story telling", practice grammar ...

Points of passage is one of the cheographical work done by Yusimi describing the baroques and depicting the exotic wall and painting; Yumin dance is devoted in bringing to light of American history, strange plants, wild creatures and the people who are indigenous. In relation to history, Yusimi describe landing ships, foreign world as the point of attention. Yusimi tells the story of migration and surrounding identity. History of cultures and ritual of the world are described in her dance and music. This of great relevance in understanding the culture and the social life that the artist’s society ...

African dance is a concept that conditionally combines original dances of the peoples living in Africa. That actually means that such dance is inextricably linked with life, religious beliefs and folklore of each nation having its historical and ethnic past. Dance culture in North Africa (Algeria, Lebanon, Morocco, Egypt, Tunisia), developed under the influence of a common Arab-Muslim culture of the Mediterranean. Self-development takes place in the culture of the Ethiopian highlands and peoples of South-Eastern coast Africa (the latter has long maintained ties with South Asia). Tropical Zone, or so-called sub-Saharan Africa, despite the diversity of its ethnicity composition, can ...

In music industry, there exists stiff competition among the musicians. This is because the number of singers has risen day by day and this keeps the stars on the track, ready to compete and attract massive following since desire of every musician to attract as much following and fame as possible. This has a direct impact on the overall returns in terms of monetary gains from their music as well as fame and future prospects of the musicians. There are those who reveal their private parts by dressing in very short skirts or pants and at times transparent clothes. This ...

Importance of Going Through College

In addition to academics, college life has numerous co-curriculum activities. There are several events which are usually organized in college. For instance career days, trade and exhibition events, fashion shows, acting and dancing events in theatres. These events are usually full of fun are meant to make college life interesting and colourful. Attending such events enables one to make a lot of friends. The fact that a college setup has people of the same age set allows one to socialize and make a lot of friends. Friends one makes while in college are very important in life. They help in times of ...

The swing era was marked by the introduction of jazz to the world. This genre of music started for the Southern states of the US. New Orleans in Louisiana is particularly considered to be the home of jazz music. During the swing era, this genre of music started to be acknowledged not only throughout the country but throughout the world. It was so influential that even some composers of classical music started borrowing some components from it. In the 1940’, there emerged a new sub-genre of jazz music that was referred to as Bebop. Jazz had been increasing developing ...

Stravinsky was no stranger to pushing boundaries when he premiered the Rite of Spring in 1913. He had had immense success the previous year with his reimagining of the Russian folk tale of Petrushka. In that piece, as well, Stravinsky took liberties with his writing and the plot of the story. However, the liberties taken in the music for The Rite of Spring were far greater and more surprising than past compositions by him, or any other mainstream composer of the time. Coupled with the unusual choreography by Nijinsky, the event was understandably shocking to an audience unaccustomed to ...

“Careful dear,” my mother lovingly caressed my hair as I bumped into her while frantically running upstairs on my way to the roof top. I would be nine years old tomorrow and she still treats me as if I am a three. I didn’t in the least like her gestures of love. ”Why can’t she just keep her hands off me? Why on earth she has to make a show of it every damn time I am near her? Just the thought of her touching me makes me puke,” angrily I mused as I continued to run upstairs. I ...

Prevalently, music forms an integral part of each and every religious ceremony. Evidently, almost all the dominations have espoused the imperativeness of music in various religious functions. A notable fact is that despite various denominations agree on the pivotal role of music, the nature and type of music each denomination play has a complete variation. The primary reason for the mentioned variation is the fact that each religious group has distinct principles that govern the usage of music. Similarly, a myriad number of the religious group has totally different perspective when it comes to religious music. As a result of this, each ...

“Shall we Dance” is an American film that takes after a 1996 Japanese film. The film creates a perfect world for John, a world distant from the usual routine of going to the office, practicing law and going back to his family. Through music and dance the film both the American and the Japanese version revolve around the issues of urban environment, urban density and culture, urban isolation and family network, family values and support, oriented urban development and western dancing. The movie also shows the importance of dance in personal liberation through the life of John. The movie looks deeply ...

- The purpose of this ethno-profile of the Crow Nation is to gain an in-depth awareness of some human group different from the one in which we live. - I chose to write about the Crow Nation people because although more than one-half of all Native Americans in the United States live outside the reservation the Crow Nation is concentrated on their reservation. This makes them unique and interesting to write about. - The physical environment - The Crow Nation has a reservation south of Billings, Montana. They also live in several cities, mainly in western America. ...

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 ...

The Would-Be Gentleman by Moliere

Molière’s The Would-Be-Gentleman is a comical satire that reveals the various facets of human emotions and behaviour of seventeenth century Europe. Most of his comedies critique the pompous artificiality of French high society during the middle- and late seventeenth century. The characters portray farce to serious comedies of manners. France, during his time, had two distinct sections of society; the nobility or the rich, and the bourgeoisie; the middle class. Molière produced a number of satires that criticised the lifestyle of the rich and famous in France. In particular, Molière looked to tease the extravagant manner, style, ...

A documentary artist by Jaime manrique

In the story “The Documentary Artist”, Jaime Manrique writers of a new student who joins one of his film-directing class. The new boy called Sebastian is vocal unlike the other students in his class. He does not hide his love for horror movies. Unlike the other students, he is funny in a special way something that makes the lecturer love him (Colchie, 2002). The lecturer is attracted to the boy particularly the way he reacts when narrating a horror movie he had seen on one of the street theaters. The boy had a real passion for the movies. Though the lecturer did not ...

The Neanderthals were one of the brightest and the most alluring of earlier hominids. Throughout time and in the future, there will always be a strong debate regarding how Neanderthals are related to modern Homo sapiens. There are different debates about their origins, yet the two strongest are ones that stir the pot. The Neanderthals were found in Europe. They were countless questions on how they arrived there. The general location of previous hominids was Africa. The works of Richard Leakey have brought light to this information and discoveries. Some anthropologist argues that it was due to ice age and ...

It was Virginia Woolf who famously suggested that greater female autonomy could be achieved through the craft of writing. Historically, women have been marginalized by their male peers, forced into stringent gender roles with little attention paid to their personal desires, hopes, or dreams. One of the primary methods that women have used over the the years to fight against this oppression is the creation of literature. Women of different cultures often have varied experiences, and Latina women are no exception to this rule; however, despite the cultural differences between different Latin cultures, Cofer, Martínez, and Erauso explore ...