...Chopin Documentary “The Women Behind the Music” The Women Behind the music is a documentary on the life of Romantic Era virtuoso pianist, Frederic Chopin . This documentary starts off by giving us a little background info on Chopin himself. The narrator describes Chopin as a quiet and shy man. Chopin wrote over 250 compositions for the piano. The inspiration for Chopin’s music was not only the piano, but it was also the human voice, particularly the female’s voice. Chopin’s music was an inspiration of passion for both the players and the listener. All in all, this documentary celebrates the 200th anniversary of Chopin by following James Rhodes, a young pianist who set out to discover who put the song into Chopin. As the narrator introduces James Rhodes, Rhodes is playing Chopin’s 4th Ballade in F Minor OP.52. I really liked this Ballade; the melody is so sweet and the tempo is so soothing. Chopin’s genius was to create a whole new language for the piano, a language that was heavily influenced by his passion for opera singing. Chopin was obsessed with the Italian Opera of the Day , Belcanto, the opera of Rossini. Belcanto literally means “Beautiful Singing”. Chopin was born in 1810 and grew up in the city of Warsaw in a time where Poland was very peaceful. Chopin was taught by his mother to play the piano. By the age of 7, Chopin was already composing on the instrument. By the age of 8, Chopin was referred to in the press as a musical genius. Chopin started going to the operas...
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...Reflective Paper #2- ‘Missrepresentation’ This documentary made me open my eyes to a lot of things that I haven’t realized before when it comes to not only the media, but to political world and how it is affecting young teenage girls in our local high schools and how cruel it can be. Hearing the teenage girls tell their stories about how women don’t have much of a say to a lot of things and how they are expected to look a certain way that is being portrayed on the media is heart breaking because I know exactly what they feel like you don’t fit in because of how you look and how you are not like most girls around you. The relationships that you have with your peers, people you are romantically interested in, or even with your family can definitely effect on how you personally view...
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...This isn’t a paper that just talks about a man and his life. This is about an artist, a musician, and a songwriter with passion; simplistic passion. Daniel Johnston isn’t your average/stereotypical artist. His work is a contradiction in itself; it is simple in a glance, but complex in its story as it is based off his life. A man that struggles with maniac depression, bipolar disorder, and schizophrenia is able to use those illnesses to create these different forms of art to capture his fan base’s hearts. Mister Daniel Dale Johnston was born January 22 of 1961 in Sacramento, California but he grew up in West Virginia. At an early age, he showed interest in visual arts by keeping books of his cartoon sketches and making movies where he had played...
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...Was Shakespeare a fraud? This question has ringed in the hearts of scholars for nearly 200 years. It was first introduced in the satirical The Errors of Modern Infidelity, written in 1848 by Samuel M. Schmucker. The question, obviously, wasn’t meant to be taken so seriously, but 169 years later, here I am writing this paper about the conspiracy equivalent of a European JFK assassination. The current beliefs go as following, Shakespeare had another author who was another current literary genius, the author that wrote Shakespeare’s claimed works didn’t want to be known, or Shakespeare was his own author. One of the most suggested suspected authors was philosopher Sir Francis Bacon. Eight years after Schmucker’s original manifesto, a girl named Delia Bacon made the claim, “Shakespeare's plays were written, in large part at least, by her namesake Francis Bacon.” However, “After an abortive attempt to dig up Shakespeare's grave, she suffered a complete breakdown; she was committed to a mental hospital and died in 1859.” His popularity dropped for a decent while until “By the mid-19th century he was attracting massive support. But, by the turn of the 20th century, though, Bacon's star as an...
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...race, especially the men will treat you differently just based on the color of your skin, and I also used to wish I was lighter. This topic may relate to you because colorism may exist in other cultures too, like Vietnam and India. I will discuss when and how colorism started, and how it affects the way you feel about yourself and the way you live your life. This brings us to how colorism started. A man name Will Lynch, a British slave owner gave a speech at the Virginia colony on the Bank of James River in 1712. He was there to teach people how he controlled his slaves. Will Lynch used a technique called the brown paper bag technique, basically how it worked is that if the slaves skin was the color or lighter than a brown paper bag then you did house work, and if it was darker than a brown paper bag then you worked outside in the field. "Though the brown paper...
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...Malala Yousafzai’s Journey Malala Yousafzai shows a tremendous amount of strength throughout her life. She isn’t afraid to do the unthinkable. Though people hated her, she was able to brush it off like dirt. But behind that, there is a heart touching story. Malala’s journey isn’t always an easy one, but with perseverance she was able to pull through. Malala Yousafzai was born on July 12, 1997 in Mingora, Pakistan, located in the countries Swat District. She lived in her house in Mingora with her parents and two brothers. Her father is Ziauddin Yousafzai and her mother is Tor Pekai. Her brothers are Khushal and Atal Yousafzai. Malala was mostly educated by her father, who is a school owner and an educational activist. He runs a group of private...
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...Film and Politics: Term Paper Salaam Bombay! Directed by Mira Nair in 1988, “Salaam Bombay!” is a fine piece of cinematic art that portrays the unfortunate reality of how life is for street children in Bombay, India. The film makes a brave jump from the typical, happy-go-lucky, capitalist representation of life on the streets, to a more convincing one. Following the daily struggles of children living on the streets of Bombay, this film sheds light on the socio-economic realities of their lives. In this paper, I will analyze “Salaam Bombay!” in terms of its ability to provide a near accurate depiction of urban poverty in India, and the lives of its street children. “Salaam Bombay!” follows the story of a young boy, around the age of twelve, named Krishna. Shortly into the movie we find Krishna living on the streets of the largest city in India, Bombay, surrounded by drug addicts, prostitutes, pimps, and other homeless children like him. Through a conversation Krishna has with a drug addict he befriends, we discover that Krishna was abandoned by his mother at an Apollo Circus where she tells him that he can only come back home once he raises five hundred rupees to pay his brother back for destroying his bicycle. Krishna, named Chaipau by those around him, starts working as a tea deliverer for a local teashop so he can earn enough money to go back home. As the film traces Krishna’s struggles to earn enough money and survive on the streets of Bombay, his story clashes with...
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...Those films at the time continued to go further in depth into social and political issues. I personally found 4 Little Girls, a documentary to be the most interesting because of its historic values. The film”s essential about the black Baptist Church that was bombed in 1963 which killed 4 young black girls. The film founds its way into the hearts of many resulting in the film being was nominated for an Academy Award in 1998. Mr. Lee drew mainstream attention with his first feature She's Gotta Have It. Without a doubt that film was one of the most profitable films made in 1986. Even after that continued to create films that caused controversy. He is also known for his commercials such as the 1989 Michael Jordan shoe commercial as Mars Blackmon and in a Ben & Jerry’s news print...
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...Jordan Murry 4/24/14 Sociology of Sport 233- Final Paper Undefeated Sociological Analysis It is my honor to be doing my first submission of a topic based on the sociological aspects of the sports world in this month’s addition of Sports Illustrated. First off, let me start by saying “Undefeated” was an excellent film choice to look at from a sociological perspective. Not only does this film posses multiple theories and sociological concepts, but it also has real-life stories built into the film. The viewer almost feels a personal relationship with these characters by how detailed and up close the documentary is. The first theory that the film shows is the conflict theory. The Manassas High School football team is in Memphis, Tennessee. The team is compiled of poor inter-city kids in the western Memphis region. The Manassas Tigers football program has had a reputation for being an “easy win” on the opponents’ schedule for the last 110 years. The explanation for the consecutive failing seasons was due to the prominent power plant in Manassas shutting down. This caused the population rate to rapidly decline, thus resulting in an extreme loss of student athletes. The town, school, and football program never recovered because of this reputation. Meanwhile, a couple miles down the road in towns like Westwood and Munford, the football programs flourished because of the large population. These towns prospered because of a vast array of available jobs creating wealthy...
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...that make up the modern American diet and the affects these products are having on our health and well-being. Also, in many cases we are well aware of the health risks of diets rich in certain foods. Fast foods, heavily processed food-like products and convenience foods have been proven to cause obesity, heart disease, high blood pressure, diabetes and cancers. Even food products that claim to be “fat free” or “diet” contain artificial ingredients that can cause health problems such as migraine headaches. Our food may very well be killing us and yet we, as a nation, are not changing our eating habits. The intention was to find out why we choose to continue on the unhealthy paths that we are on. Information found in many articles and documentaries, including doctors’ and scientists’ statements, as well as nutritional information found on nearly every food label in the grocery store, explained what was in the foods we are eating, what it does to our bodies and what were our reasons for not making healthier choices. Factors such as food addiction, convenience, commercialism, false claims and income are some examples of why we may continue to eat poorly. This paper will examine all of these topics and some others. Maybe the information that will be revealed here will be just what you need to modify your own diets and begin a road to a healthier body! Table of Contents Abstract Table of Contents Chapter One: Introduction Chapter Two: Literature Review - “You...
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...Aria Collins Professor Corewyn Biological Anthropology: Reaction Paper to Films – Virunga, Assignment 3 April 15th 2016 Virunga, is a documentary film that focuses on a brave team of rangers who risked their lives to protect the last mountain gorillas. In eastern Congo, The Virunga National Park is home to these gorillas. The film begins with the history of Congo. In 1885 millions of citizens where killed. A statement that stood out to me was “a black man is like an animal to me”. In 1994 the civil war broke out where the rebel group was able to profit from minerals. In 2003 a peace agreement was signed and in 2006 they had their first democratic election. In 2010, oil was discovered and by 2012 instability returned back for the Congo people. The filmed featured the rangers fighting for the Virunga National park because Soco International began exploring for oil. What is interesting about this film is that the Congo government welcomed Soco International singing chants and praises as they arrive. Other residents, also supported Soco International because they were bribed with money. On the other hand, these fellow rangers devoted their life to the national park. It was apart of their culture and who they were and what they strongly believed in. My personal favorite part of the film was the gorilla orphanage that had 4 most adorable gorillas. There names were Maisha, Kaboko, Nedsa, Khaski. Each gorilla had their unique characteristics. For example, Kaboko was described...
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...J412 Communicating Nature Case Study 7 December 2010 The Great Ape Project aims to give apes the same basic rights to life that humans have. Paola Cavalieri and Peter Singer published a book in 1993 titled, “The Great Ape Project.” The novel is composed of different essays written by advocates of the projects who aim to discuss the ethology and ethics issues between human beings and apes. Cavalieri and Singer argue that we now have “sufficient information about the capacities of chimpanzees, gorillas and orangutans to make it clear that the moral boundary we draw between us and them is indefensible.” The novel became instantly popular and eventually led to the creation of the self-titled Great Ape Project. The Great Ape Project was founded in 1994 and put into action six years later in Sorobaca City. The Great Ape Project is an international movement that “aims to defend the rights of the non-human great primates-chimpanzees, gorillas, orangutans and bonobos, our closest relatives in the animal kingdom.” According to the project, the three main rights his project wants to ensure for apes include, the right to life, the protection of individual liberty, and the prohibition of torture. The Great Ape Project argues that apes deserve the right to live a higher standard of life. Studies have proven that chimpanzee’s are the closest relatives of human beings. Chimpanzees share 98.4% of the same DNA that human’s have. DNA tests also say that gorilla’s share 97.7% of the...
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...include stimulation of hunger in chemotherapy and AID patients, also patients with glaucoma. The medicine can be taken by vaporizing, smoking, drinking, eating and capsules. The best part of the drug is that there has been no lethal effect. No one has died from the consumption of marijuana. The THC in a person cannot be tested, such as a breathalyzer. The drug is grown naturally and it is coming through the soil, natural plants should not be illegal to have, especially a one that does much more. Growing cannabis would not only help the health system and lower drug wars cost, there would be more hemp, which is made from no THC. Hemp is a low strain of cannabis, which has no THC but hemp can be used in many ways such as paper, food, fuel, and construction. In one documentary that I have seen, hemp was being used to build houses and the workers said that it was about 20 times stronger than a regular house made of wood. If you think about that, the house can probably stand some strong weather conditions....
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...AS Media Studies Assignment AS Media Studies Assignment Week 2, Task, page 15 (Genre) Description of Law and order In the criminal justice system, sexually based offenses such as rape, torture, pedophilia and child-abuse are dealt with in New York City, by a special unit of detectives of the police department known as the Special Victims Unit. These crimes are then passed on to the courtroom for prosecution. Description of Law and order In the criminal justice system, sexually based offenses such as rape, torture, pedophilia and child-abuse are dealt with in New York City, by a special unit of detectives of the police department known as the Special Victims Unit. These crimes are then passed on to the courtroom for prosecution. Law and order is a crime-based drama, with a mixture of ‘court-room’ and ‘detective’, TV series, mainly shown on channel five. By reading the description of the show, I immediately realised that this is a show that is based around the world of crime and how the crime is dealt with within the city of New York. It starts from finding who the criminal is and then we follow the story up to the prosecution in the court room. Words such as ‘courtroom, ‘rape’, ‘victim’, ‘detective’ immediately grabs the reader’s attention, giving us the impression of the type of genre this TV series is. The picture that accompanies the description also shows that the genre of this series is crime as the main detective is pulling out her police badge and is what the...
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...Crystal Methamphetamine Use in First Nations Communities A Discussion Paper First Nations Centre May 2006 TABLE OF CONTENTS INTRODUCTION PART I CRYSTAL METHAMPHETAMINE: WHAT IS IT? WHO USES CRYSTAL METH HOW CRYSTAL METH IS USED HOW CRYSTAL METH IS MADE HOW CRYSTAL METH AFFECTS THE BODY, MIND, RELATIONSHIPS AND THE ENVIRONMENT PART II GOVERNMENT, ORGANIZED CRIME AND THE PHARMACEUTICAL INDUSTRY IN THE UNITED STATES CRYSTAL METH AND ILLEGAL DRUG STRATEGIES IN CANADA FIRST NATIONS AND CRYTAL METH TREATMENT STRATEGIES PART III TALA TOOTOOSIS’ STORY CRYSTAL METH ON THE NAVAJO NATION CONCLUSIONS APPENDIX A 1 INTRODUCTION Crystal methamphetamine 1 use among people in some First Nations communities (both in Canada and the United States) has evolved into an issue that is requiring more and more attention. Indicative of this, in July of 2005, the Assembly of First Nations (AFN) in Canada passed a resolution specifically directed at this emerging issue. 2 As a result of this resolution, the AFN has identified the need for the development of a First Nations National Task Force on Crystal Meth to develop a Strategic Action Plan to Address the Emerging issue of Crystal Meth in First Nations Communities. Generally speaking, this paper provides basic information about crystal methamphetamine as well as information that is First Nations specific. The first part of the paper discusses: what crystal meth is; who is using it; how it used; how it is...
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