...A man who needs no introduction in the circles of Latin Jazz; Poncho Sanchez is self-taught and is described by many as the hardest working musician in the genre. Sanchez is a world renown congero that has amassed great fame in recent history. Aside from being a great musician, arranger, composer, lead man, and band-leader, he was recognized by the Grammy’s in 2002 for his album titled Latin Soul. Sanchez went on to win his nomination, defeating other great figures such as trumpet player, Bobby Rodriguez, and Cuban Pianist, Chucho Valdez. I initially met Sanchez back in 2001 for the 6th Annual Latin Jazz Caravan. I figured since Sanchez was in town and I needed to write a critique, he would do just fine. Poncho Sanchez was born on October 30, 1951 in Laredo Texas. By age four, he was living in Los Angeles, where he continues to live to this day. Poncho is one of 11 children. I am positive that with such a big family, he learned to adapt quickly to his surroundings and improvised on the fly. An important technique he would later hone in with his axe of choice, The congas. Latin Jazz incorporates rhythms and instruments from Latin America. (Jazz, pg. 244) Jelly Roll Morton, Duke Ellington, Dizzy Gillespie, Stan Kenton are among some of the first musicians that began to incorporate Latin sounds into their collection. A close relative of Latin Jazz is the sound of Afro-Cuban music. This genre is heavily associated with the sounds of Afro-Cuban culture and that of the Hispanic Community...
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...impressive directing skills. He is also one of those directors who have a trademark when it comes to their works. Alfred Hitchcock is a very phenomenal director who has a unique and remarkable style when it comes to his film creations. Alfred Hitchcock has his own unique trademarks that can be grasped on his films. These trademarks can be seen by viewers in many ways; for instance, theme, place, and selection of characters. Alfred Hitchcock showed a lot of these unique trademarks on his films particularly in Psycho, released in 1960 and the Birds, released in 1963. Although they are two different films with two different plots, these films have a lot of similarities when it comes to the usage of technique of Alfred Hitchcock. First, Psycho started by centering the viewers’ attention on a blonde woman, Marion Crane. She is on the bed only wearing her bra. The hotel room is dim and her underclothes are white, making a contrast that carries the focus on her. Just like Psycho, the Birds emphases the viewers’ attention on its blonde female lead, Melanie Daniels. This is actually the very first visible stamp of Alfred Hitchcock on both his films. Both movies portray strong blonde haired women lead characters. Alfred Hitchcock has also few more films that have blonde main characters. Another noticeable signature of directing skills of Hitchcock is the bird. There are images of...
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...impressive directing skills. He is also one of those directors who have a trademark when it comes to their works. Alfred Hitchcock is a very phenomenal director who has a unique and remarkable style when it comes to his film creations. Alfred Hitchcock has his own unique trademarks that can be grasped on his films. These trademarks can be seen by viewers in many ways; for instance, theme, place, and selection of characters. Alfred Hitchcock showed a lot of these unique trademarks on his films particularly in Psycho, released in 1960 and the Birds, released in 1963. Although they are two different films with two different plots, these films have a lot of similarities when it comes to the usage of technique of Alfred Hitchcock. First, Psycho started by centering the viewers’ attention on a blonde woman, Marion Crane. She is on the bed only wearing her bra. The hotel room is dim and her underclothes are white, making a contrast that carries the focus on her. Just like Psycho, the Birds emphases the viewers’ attention on its blonde female lead, Melanie Daniels. This is actually the very first visible stamp of Alfred Hitchcock on both his films. Both movies portray strong blonde haired women lead characters. Alfred Hitchcock has also few more films that have blonde main characters. Another noticeable signature of directing skills of Hitchcock is the bird. There are images of...
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...These instructions prevented anyone from entering the theater once the movie began, and the audience could not reveal any details about the film. This included the terrifying surprises that the film had in store (Younker). Hitchcock’s goal was to have his film grab the audiences’ attention, and place them in the abnormal psycho world. Even after 52 years, Psycho is still talked about and viewed today due to its incredible job with the motion pictures in every scene. As Ebert says, “What makes Psycho immortal, when so many films are already half-forgotten as we leave the theater, is that it connects directly with our fears.” Hitchcock’s build of suspense in his pictures most definitely sets the fear for everyone, which leads to the intolerable pitch of exhilaration throughout the film due to the surprising images that one comes...
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...American Psycho The extract from the novel takes place on Manhattan, where we enter the incoherent flow of thoughts of a young, well-dressed man. We follow him on his route of daily errands, and he enters the Central Park zoo, where he uses the urinal without flushing. This particular act upsets a black custodian who gives him a reprimand only to be called nigger and flashed with his knife. The narrator continues on his path, where he shares even more of his viewpoints on his fellow human beings. He also shares an undefinable moment with an owl, which triggers his rage and homicidal compulsion to grow. He ends up crouching behind a trashcan, where a young boy approaches with the innocuous intention to throw out a candy wrapper. The narrator asks the boy if he wants a cookie right before he stabs him in the neck. He quickly leaves the crime scene, but shortly after returns saying he is a doctor. It all ends with the narrator leaving the Central Park zoo, where he buys an ice cream bar, uncaught. Patrick Bateman is an example of the materialistic, career minded young people in the 80’s called yuppies. They mainly lived in New York and other big cities, where they could engage in highbrow culture, buy expensive clothes and dine at fancy cafés and restaurants. The narrator confirms that he is a yuppie, for instance by telling the reader that he eats a gourmet lunch, while wearing expensive designer apparel: “I’m wearing faded jeans, an Armani jacket, and a white, hundred-and-forty-dollar...
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...American Psycho Essay The text is from the movie American Psycho, a movie released in 2000 based on the 1991 novel of the same name by Bret Easton Ellis. In the text we are hearing his inner monologue as he goes to confront the dry cleaners about the blood that was still on his sheets. The simple sentence ‘’still covered with flecks of someone’s blood’’ uses verbs to describe his clothes. He tells us that he’s covered in blood which strongly suggests that he’s been involved in or has committed a murder. This starts off telling us that he is a murderous psychopath. The fact that he say’s ‘someone’s blood’ suggests that he didn’t know who it was that he’s just killed and therefore we see that he can’t have had much of a motive which further shows the intensity of his mental state. The first person narrative voice which is used, ‘‘I look sharp but my stomach is doing flip-flops, my brain is churning’’, uses metaphors to emphasize his emotions and exaggerates how he feels rather than just saying ‘I feel unwell’. We can also link this to levels of formality because even though he’s talking to himself he would still have a certain way of addressing his own character. We see that he takes a more informal approach with the use of ‘my stomach is doing flip-flops’ because it is a less formal way of saying his stomach is turning. He uses phrases that he would use himself and not necessarily with other people because there won’t be many people, if anyone, that understands him better...
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...They are represented as the “bad guys” who are crazy, unstable, and unbelievably violent within movies that play a big role in the entertainment business. The movie American Psycho is a perfect example of how people with mental issues are represented in movies. Patrick Bateman, played by Christian Bale, clearly has mental conflict and has sick fantasies of killing people he is associated with which results in many people’s brutal deaths. Movies like such constantly portray the mentally ill as always on a breaking point and is ready to do a completely unethical act of violence. What they forget to mention is that the mentally ill are actually ten to twenty times more likely to be victims of violence because of the stigma that continues to persevere ("Mental Health Myths and Facts”). Timothy Rice, who is a part of the Department of Psychiatry in New York, explains it best by reminding people that violent thoughts are...
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...TUESDAY, a chapter from the novel “American Psycho” (1991) by Bret Easton Ellis. Lack of remorse and guilt, shallow affect, glibness/superficial charm and impulsivity are common characteristics found in the behaviour of a psychopath. Patrick Bateman, the main character of this novel, has similar behaviour. Even after spontaneously and brutally killing an innocent homeless man, he still finds his evening anticlimactic and boring, and regrets not attending dinner with some colleagues at the Salvadorian bistro. In this chapter of the novel “American Psycho”(1991) by Bret Easton Ellis, Patrick Bateman, a successful and wealthy businessman, brutally murders an innocent homeless man. Bateman approaches the bum as a kind and caring person, willing to lend him a few dollars for food and shelter. “”You want some money?” I ask gently. “Some food””? (p. 135 l. 3.). At first Bateman reaches for a ten dollar bill, but reconsiders and finds a five dollar bill instead. But before handing the homeless man the money, Bateman begins to interrogate him. The questions escalate from questions of genuine curiosity such as: “is this (a five dollar bill) what you need?”(p. 135 l. 6) into rude questions:” If you’re so hungry, why don’t you get a job?” — “I lost my job” — “Why? .. Were you drinking? Is that why you lost it? Insider trading? Just joking. No, really. Were you drinking on the job?”. (p. 135 ll. 13-19). The homeless man keeps telling Bateman that he is hungry and cold, but instead of...
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...strands, and evaluating what is most significant” (Barnet, Sylvan). In other words, it is a careful analysis of the issue at hand. While trying to figure out what to write about the idea came to mind to write about one of Alfred Hitchcock’s most famous movies Psycho. Psycho was a highly controversial movie when it first came to theaters. After its release, the movie changed the horror genre but the question is why it did. Psycho was released in 1960 after years of movie monsters being created in a lab or were from outer space. This was one of the first movies to show that monsters can be human too. Since its release it has been hailed the “"mother" of all modern horror suspense...
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...Psycho 1 This essay will provide a semiotic and psychoanalytical analysis of the Alfred Hitchcock film Psycho with the help of theories of Dr. Sigmund Freud, it will also be stressing some of the critical differences between men and women when it comes to power. The theme of this movie contains a young woman who steals $40,000 from her employer's client, and ends up on a peculiar journey of terror when she meets a troubled young motel manager who is controlled by his mother. Patrick McGilligan (2003) said that the Bates character was based on Wisconsin serial killer Ed Gein, who may have had an incestuous relationship with his mother. (McGilligan, 2003. Page 579) One of the most important signifiers in the movie is money. Cash is the early desire that leads the main character, a banker named Marion Crane (portrayed by the actress Janet Leigh), toward a path that leads her to her own self ruin. What is indicated is the control that money and gluttony have over all humans, and how one has serious consequence for surrendering to its control. Looking at an exemplary structure made up of the want to marry her boyfriend, but not having the money needed to do so, Crane comes up with a solution that has presented itself. A very wealthy oil businessperson comes in and asks Crane to put $40,000 cash in the bank. (Berger, p. 24) When headed to the bank, Crane begins to imagine how the cash could help ease her stifled wants to leave a boring job and set her...
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... | | | | | |Dominica Smith | |GM597-Business Law | |Week 6 Course Project: Case Analysis | |February 12, 2012 | | | Table of Contents PARTIES 3 FACTS 3 PROCEDURE 5 ISSUE 6 HOLDING 6 REASONING 6 CASE QUESTIONS 8 CONCLUSION 10 References 11 PARTIES Plaintiffs-Appellants Wrench LLC (“Wrench”) wholly owned Michigan based limited liability...
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...performance levels. Such information creates targeted outcomes for the rehabilitation program. The overall rehabilitation process is guided by the job analysis through a process wherein assessed levels of current functional capacity are compared to the required job performance demands (Loisel et al. 2001). Identified gaps between worker capacity and job demands are then addressed through restorative programs and/or job modification. Work transition planning In rehabilitation the job analysis is used to provide information to match the injured worker with tasks that can be safely performed on initial resumption of duties following an absence or time away from regular duties. The job analysis information serves as the foundation for a graduated work resumption process that optimizes productivity and compliments the rehabilitation program and injury recovery. Regular review of the job analysis is used to identify job demands that are suitable to the worker's capacities throughout the recovery process until the worker resumes the pre-injury job or reaches an optimal level of performance in a different job. Vocational planning Persons with disabilities who have never worked, or are seeking new careers following catastrophic injury are typically assessed to determine work interests, employment –related skills, and work habits. Analysis of the physical, cognitive, and behavioural demands of the identified jobs of interest allows for...
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...Parisa Shirazian Professor Dr. x CPSY 218 10 January 2014 What I believe About Human Nature The path culminating in the knowledge of human nature necessarily passes through the realm of “self-knowledge”. I believe that self is a two-dimensional being like an organism. To know this “self” or organism, we first have to know what it is, and from which source it originates. This self is not only a psycho-organism but is a kind of psycho-spiritual organism that comes into existence from the fusion of the terrestrial and celestial souls; a living, dynamic, and evolving entity. I believe that psycho-spiritual organism is comprised of several components: 1) Ego, 2) Superego, 3) Super id, and a single component originating from the terrestrial soul that Freud’s psychoanalysis names it 4) id. What makes people go wrong is about the psychological and instinctual component that originates from terrestrial energy, vital instinct, and animal impulses in human beings. Id detests discomfort, suffering, and deprivation. It insists instead on the immediate and complete satisfaction of its needs, impulses, and desires. If the desires of Id are not controlled, we gradually become poisoned and may even reach the edge of ruin. So, obviously we can see that evil is not a creation. It is a dysfunction resulting from the misuse of freewill by responsible beings. Without freewill during the process of human development, there can be no reasoning, no mistakes...
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...Conclusion In the systematic analysis of the 23 studies we have highlighted the role of Leventhal’s Common Sense Model (SRM) in the analysis of hereditary / familial cancer and the role of the psycho-social impact on individuals affected by the disease or with high risk for the disease in the screening for hereditary / familial cancer and in the genetic testing and counseling. Thus, we have identified three themes in which we included the analyzed studies: a) identification of the predictors involved in the screening compliance, in the responses to health threats, in emotional distress; b) assessment of the emotional and cognitive impact, of the perceived risk and the perceived disease in genetic testing, of the family history of cancer or...
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...Personal biography Psychology believes in 5 schools of thought which are: Biological, Behaviorism , Cognitive, Humanistic, and Psycho-analysis. In this paper I am going to emphasize all these aspects. Each of these schools is a separate science, that is integral part of our lives. I was born and raised in Uzbekistan, which is in Central Asia. My family was mostly involved in academics, so my parents always had high marks in school and my grandmother was literally my personal teacher. She ran two schools all by herself. One was her college where she was the principal and a teacher and the other elementary school. Pretty impressive if I may say so, which leads me to the reason why my entire family is important to me. Everyone has had some sort of high level achievement which make them positive role models for me and possibly my children in the future. Biological psychology is based on genes, hormones and brain functions. As everyone knows, we all have hobbies in our childhood that we think might determine the type of job we might have in the future. My hobbies included martial arts, collecting action figures (got to love that era when Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles were a big hype!!), playing with electric train sets, and old school video games. Of course now, the amount of hobbies I have are greater than before, because I now do some web design, collect samurai swords and chat online with friends. However, the one hobby that was truly worthwhile was martial arts, because although...
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