...'Auld Lang Syne' Song Lyrics, Meaning And Everything You Need To Know About The Popular New Year's Eve Song By Carey Vanderborg@CareyDrew2 on December 31 2012 3:07 PM Among the many traditions that come with ringing in the new year, the singing of “Auld Lange Syne” has become a staple of every gathering. While “Auld Lange Syne” was originally a Scots poem written by Robert Burns in 1788, it was eventually set to the tune of a traditional folk song. The title of the Scottish tune translates to "times gone by" and is about remembering friends from the past and not letting them be forgotten. Now, at the conclusion of almost every New Year's celebration, partygoers join hands with the person next to them to form a great circle around the dance floor. At the beginning of the last verse, everyone crosses their arms across their breast, so that the right hand reaches out to the neighbor on the left and vice versa. When the tune ends, everyone rushes to the middle, while still holding hands. When the circle is re-established, everyone turns under the arms to end up facing outward with hands still joined. Over the years, “Auld Lang Syne” has taken on a life of its own as musicians put their own spin on the traditional New Year's jaunt. As the jam band Phish returns to Madison Square Garden in New York City for a four-show New Year's Eve run to close out 2012, the band will continue to play their rendition of “Auld Lang Syne” as they have done since 1989. As Phish rings in the...
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...Modernity In the 18th century, the enlightenment began to take fruit in the world. In France, the people began to get upset and in the french revolution they took over their monarchy. Which later they gained an emperor named Napoleon Bonaparte. His thoughts were to conquer all Europe and to make it all Frenchify. In Great Britain, the Industrial Revolution began to take place and to affect in a beneficial way to all Europe and America. Modernity is a time period where the people believed in the secularization, being social and having the most modern things in the science area was the best of the best. The movie Metropolis directed Fritz Lang has a very big image in how modernity was represented. In the film, secularization was a big part. For example, this meant that it was a typical post-medieval and post-traditional and became a historical period. The Secularization of modernism is that religion was emancipated. In the movie religion was something difficult to talk about. The workers were making plans in order to see a woman, Maria, give basic lessons of the bible that was christianity. The workers or slaves seen her as a god because she gave them the hope they needed to keep having strength for their family and themselves. The owner of Metropolis, Joh Fredersen, wanted to keep everything under control which meant he didn't want the workers to feel any type of hope in being free. That meant he had to prohibit any type of religion and beliefs. In order to get rid of this...
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...Fritz Lang - M Fritz Lang was a Jewish film maker, which wasn't unheard of during the pre holocaust era. The purpose of the making of the movie M was to be a controversial and very emotion engaging film, one in which Lang succeeded in making. A child murderer? There is no choice but for the audience to feel uncomfortable. The film M itself is full of engaging elements. The lighting, extreme contrasts at some points, dark expressions and unthinkable fantasies that adults during this time period were shocked by. These themes mixed with disorienting filming angles at some points and eerie children singing at others gave the movie itself a creepy feel to it. In the movie, Peter Lorre plays the role of the adolescent killer, Hans Beckart. Roaming around the city and stalking his prey. It is true that there had been other films in this era with similar aspects, like Stranger on the Third Floor, but M in particular had a huge impact on it's audience, a child killer? Should he be punished? Or should the audience feel sympathetic and give a youngster a free pass? After all, he is merely a child. It's safe to say M was one of the starts to creepy thriller genres we have today. The lighting and contrast can be seen in many movies after this film was released which is totally understandable, the creative elements in M were too brilliant to not me mimicked. Take for instance Psycho, Alfred Hitchcock made this movie in 1960, nearly 30 years after the premiere of M. When...
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...Dorothea Lang “This is what we did. How did it happen? How could we?” These are the words Dorothea Lang spoke after capturing a photograph of the poor living conditions of a Japanese Internment Camp. During the first few months of the war between America and Japan, the United States government ordered over one hundred and ten thousand Japanese-Americans to be sent to internment camps. The government originally hired Lang to convince the American people that the internees were being treated fairly and international law was not being violated. However, the government decided Lang’s photographs were controversial and impounded them. They have recently begun to resurface such as Lang’s photograph of a boy behind a barbed wire fence ( Lang first began to photograph in the 1920s when she traveled the southwest with her new husband Maynard Dixon. She photographed Native Americans and similar to her documentaries of the internment camps, they too show the sufferings. Lang then began to photograph the deprivations of the Great Depression during the 30’s, such as her most known photograph Migrant Mother (1936, 2.77, p. 216). This photograph is of a thirty-two year old mother with six children. The pea crop that the mother was working at had been frozen, so there was no work. This photograph made a difference in many peoples’ lives who were living in poverty. The government shipped food to migrant camps because the picture was published. This photograph has been used as a symbol of the...
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...Storyline: In the year 2154, the RDA Corporation plans to explore Pandora, an earth-like moon situated at a distant galaxy for its rich abundance of unobtanium - a valuable mineral. The planet is inhabitant by Na ‘vi, a blue skinned species which are human like with feline characteristics. As Pandora’s atmosphere does not any human survival, scientists create human-Na’vi hybrids known as Avatars. These avatars are controlled by genetically matched human operators. Jake Sully was sent as a replacement for his identical twin brother who was recently murdered. Jake is a paraplegic war veteran. Dr. Grace Augustine who is the head of the Avatar Program appoints Jake as a bodyguard. In Pandora, Jake escorts Augustine and biologist Norm Spellman. The group was attacked by a large predator and eventually Jake gets separated from his team. Later, he was rescued by Neytiri, a female Na’vi. Hse took Jake to their clan where he was given a warm welcome. Back in the camp, Jake was identified by the leader of RDA security forces colonel Miles Quaritch who promises Jake to get back his real legs in exchange for intelligence about the natives. He was also appointed a task of making the Na’vis to abandon Hometree which was situated above a large deposit of unobtanium. In the meanwhile, Jake grows close towards Neytiri and her clan Omaticaya. Jake started enjoying his life through his avatar and eventually tries to stop his people to destroy the Omaticaya’s peaceful life on the Hometree...
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...By 2154, humans have severely depleted Earth's natural resources. The Resources Development Administration (RDA) mines for a valuable mineral – unobtanium – on Pandora, a densely forested habitable moon orbiting the gas giant Polyphemus in the Alpha Centauri star system.[12] Pandora, whose atmosphere is poisonous to humans, is inhabited by the Na'vi, 10-foot tall (3.0 m), blue-skinned, sapient humanoids[34] who live in harmony with nature and worship a mother goddess called Eywa. To explore Pandora's biosphere, scientists use Na'vi-human hybrids called "avatars", operated by genetically matched humans; Jake Sully, a paraplegic former marine, replaces his deceased twin brother as an operator of one. Dr. Grace Augustine, head of the Avatar Program, considers Sully an inadequate replacement but accepts his assignment as a bodyguard. While protecting the avatars of Grace and scientist Norm Spellman as they collect biological data, Jake's avatar is attacked by a thanator and flees into the forest, where he is rescued by Neytiri, a female Na'vi. Witnessing an auspicious sign, she takes him to her clan, whereupon Neytiri's mother Mo'at, the clan's spiritual leader, orders her daughter to initiate Jake into their society. Colonel Miles Quaritch, head of RDA's private security force, promises Jake that the company will restore his legs if he gathers intelligence about the Na'vi and the clan's gathering place, a giant arboreal called Hometree,[35] on grounds that it stands above the richest...
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...LANG DULAY (August. 3, 1928-April. 30, 2015) From the Lake Sebu, South Cotabato, a T’boli named Lang Dulay was awarded “Manlilikha ng Bayan” in 1998. She won the award because of her specialty in life which is textile weaving. To create the T’boli textile called t’nalak, she must tie a series of knots on a blank loom of white abaca fibers, seeing in her mind’s eye the patterns of black and red even before it is dipped in pots of simmering dye. Lang Dulay was 12 years old when she became a dreamweaver (a special brand of t’boli weaver who receives the t’nalak patterns from dreams granted by Fu Dalu, the god of abaca). As a dreamweaver, she sustained the t’boli traditions in this modern era and stood as one of the wisdom keepers of her generation. Images from the distant past of her people, the t’bolis, are recreated by her nimble hands –the crocodiles, butterflies and flowers, along with mountains and streams of Lake Sebu, South Cotabato, where she and her ancestors were born –fill the fabric with their longing to be remembered. Though her weaving, Lang Dulay does what she can to keep her people’s tradition alive. EXAMPLES OF HER T’NALAK DESIGNS * Doun Basag Senfeyon – a traditional pattern that features the leaves of a plant very popular for their shape, placed close together. * Bed Sobo – This pattern features a small frog that is common in the countryside. * M’Baga Fu-El – This pattern features Fu-El, Goddess of the Waters. * Hentau –...
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...James Cameron’s movie Avatar was a major discussion amongst my friends when it came out. All of them had seen it at midnight opening, while I was stuck home doing errands and work. For weeks they would talk about how amazing the scenery was and how epic the fights were between the Na’vi and humans. I was completely lost during each discussion we had when we hung out at Starbucks or each other’s houses. I hated not knowing what the movie was about and finally I decided to watch it online. Now I know the reason why people thought it was awesome. I was just like every other viewer who thought the scenery was breathtaking and the story was amazing. Although I have seen Avatar about a hundred times now, I never once thought there were hidden messages occurring behind the movie. I had to watch it again so I could see why people seemed to view Avatar as being an environmental or political issue. The movie seems able to predict how our future will turn out, a type of religion being practiced, and show us acts of imperialism being displayed throughout the story. I was so distracted by the technology used to create Avatar’s scenery; and how amazing the creatures and characters looked that I never once noticed how it could be possibly be allegory of our own world. The movie seems to predict that our future will become miserable. That we will gradually fall short of supplies and that Earth will end up dying. So far this seems to be true because the earth is already fighting back for...
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...Every now and then, a bit of slang comes along that draws a bright red line between young and old. In 2012, that slang term is YOLO. If you are over 25, YOLO likely means nothing to you. If you are under 25, you may be so familiar with YOLO that you’re already completely sick of it. A tip to the oldsters: YOLO is an acronym for “You Only Live Once.” It shot to fame earlier this year thanks to the rapper Drake, whose song “The Motto” has the hook, “You only live once, that’s the motto...YOLO, and we ’bout it every day, every day, every day.” After a video for the song was released in February, the buzzword spread quickly among the high school and college-age set by word of mouth, not just in person but through the turbocharged vehicle of social media. How quickly? Consider the lists of slang compiled every semester by students of Connie Eble, a professor of English at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. YOLO was entirely absent from the submissions by Eble’s fall 2011 classes. By the spring semester, YOLO had become the most frequently mentioned slang term among the students, just edging out “totes” for “totally” and “cray” (or “cray-cray”) for “crazy.” What accounts for the meteoric rise of YOLO, and how has it gone virtually unnoticed by nonmillennials? Its appeal to the youthful is self-evident. YOLO as a shorthand mantra defines youth, on a certain level. What is teenagehood if not the adventurous, often foolhardy, desire to test the limits of acceptable...
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...AT THE CROSS Verse 1 Oh Lord You've searched me You know my way Even when I fail You I know You love me Your holy presence Surrounding me In every season I know You love me I know You love me Chorus At the cross I bow my knees Where Your blood was shed for me There's no greater love than this You have overcome the grave Glory fills the highest place What can separate me now? You go before me You shield my way Your hand upholds me I know You love me Chorus At the cross I bow my knees Where Your blood was shed for me There's no greater love than this You have overcome the grave Glory fills the highest place What can separate me now (x2) You tore the veil You made a way When You said that it is done (x2) And when the earth fades Falls from my eyes And You stand before me I know You love me I know You love me WITH ALL I AM Into your hand I commit again All I am For you lord You hold my world In the palm of your hand And I'm yours forever CHORUS Jesus I believe in you Jesus I belong to you You're the reason that I live The reason that I sing With all I am I'll walk with you Wherever you go Through tears and joy I'll trust in you And I will live In all of your ways and Your promises forever I will worship I will worship you forever...
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...Management Function of Coordinating / Controlling: Overview of Basic Methods © Copyright Carter McNamara, MBA, PhD, Authenticity Consulting, LLC. Adapted from the Field Guide to Leadership and Supervision. Basically, organizational coordination and control is taking a systematic approach to figuring out if you're doing what you wanted to be doing or not. It's the part of planning after you've decided what you wanted to be doing. Below are some of the major approaches to organizational control and coordination. Sections of This Topic Include Introduction - "Controlling" Getting a Bad Rap? Administrative Controls Delegation Evaluations Financial Management Performance Management Policies and Procedures Quality Control and Operations Management Risk, Safety and Liabilities Additional Perspectives on the Management Function of Coordinating Also see Related Library Topics Also See The Library's Blogs Related to the Management Function of Controlling In addition to the articles on this current page, see the following blogs which have posts related to the Management Function of Controlling. Scan down the blog's page to see various posts. Also see the section "Recent Blog Posts" in the sidebar of the blog or click on "next" near the bottom of a post in the blog. Library's Leadership Blog Library's Supervision Blog Introduction: "Control" Getting a Bad Rap? Many People Are Averse to Management "Control" New, more "organic" forms or organizations (self-organizing...
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...CRIMINAL LAW 1 Article 1 Time when Act takes effect This code shall take effect on the first day of January, nineteen hundred and thirty-two. Article 2 Application of its provisions Except as provided in the treaties and laws or preferential application, the provisions of this code shall be enforced not only within the Philippine Archipelago, including its atmosphere, its interior waters and maritime zone, but also outside of its jurisdiction, against those who: 1. Should commit an offense while on a Philippine ship or airship; 2. Should forge or counterfeit any coin or currency note of the Philippine Islands or obligations and securities issued by the Government of the Philippine Islands; 3. Should be liable for acts connected with the introduction into these Islands of the obligations and securities mentioned in the preceding number; 4. While being public officers or employees, should commit an offense in the exercise of their function; 5. Should commit any of the crimes against national security and the law of nations, defined in Title One of Book of this Code. Article 3 Definition Acts and omissions punishable by law are felonies (delitos) Felonies are committed not only by means of deceit (dolo) but also by means of fault (culpa) There is deceit when the act is performed with deliberate intent; and there is fault when the wrongful act results from imprudence, negligence, lack of foresight, or lack of skill. Article 4 Criminal liability ...
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...Dry Heat Cooking Dry heat cooking refers to any cooking technique where the heat is transferred to the food item without using any moisture. Dry-heat cooking typically involves high heat, with temperatures of 300°F or hotter. Baking or roasting in an oven is a dry heat method because it uses hot air to conduct the heat. Pan-searing a steak is considered dry-heat cooking because the heat transfer takes place through the hot metal of the pan. Note that the browning of food (including the process by which meat is browned, called the Maillard reaction) can only be achieved through dry-heat cooking. Examples of dry-heat methods include: * Roasting & Baking * Grilling & Broiling * Sautéing & Pan-Frying * Deep-Frying Moist Heat Cooking Moist heat cooking methods include any techniques that involve cooking with moisture — whether it's steam, water, stock, wine or some other liquid. Cooking temperatures are much lower, anywhere from 140°F to a maximum of 212°F, because water doesn't get any hotter than that. Examples of moist-heat cooking methods include: * Poaching, Simmering & Boiling * Steaming * Braising & Stewing Roasting & Baking Roasting and baking are forms of dry-heat cooking that use hot, dry air to cook food. Like other dry-heat cooking methods, roasting and baking brown the surface of the food, which in turn develops complex flavors and aromas. Both words describe a method of cooking an item by enveloping it in hot, dry air, generally...
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...COM-120 February 16, 2014 Intercultural Communication Paper I chose to write about the movie Avatar. Avatar is a science fiction movie set in the 22nd century. The film's title refers to a genetically engineered Na'vi body with the mind of a remotely located human, and is used to interact with the natives of Pandora. The story centers around a paraplegic marine named Jake Sully. Jake’s twin brother was a scientist on the planet Pandora, and part of an avatar program. When his brother died, Jake was offered his job, as he had the same DNA match up as his brother’s avatar body. Shortly after arriving, he is asked by the greedy corporate figureheads, Parker Selfridge and Colonel Quaritch, to infiltrate the native humanoid "Na'vi" people of Pandora and negotiate the surrender of their sacred tree home because there was a huge unobtainium mine worth a lot of money under the tree. If Jake agrees and is successful, he will get a spinal surgery that will fix his legs. When Jake took his brother’s job, he did not know anything about Pandora and its people. The Na’vi were a ten-foot-tall, blue-skinned native tribe, considered to be a very eco-friendly, living off the land, and only taking what they needed to survive. In addition, The Na’vi were a peaceful civilization. They did not fight amongst themselves, but worked together to grow as a whole. As Jake learned the language and culture of the Na’vi aliens, he grows to love them, and in turn, falls in love with the beautiful...
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...The film depicts the main character, Rocky Balboa, in a lower class neighborhood of Philadelphia, highlighting his surrounding environment, occupational value, friends and peers as impoverished. The first important part of the early exposition is the scenes showing Balboa at work, as a loan shark for a larger operation. This job requires Balboa to confront and physically assault debted customers if unable to make their respective payment. This lays the groundwork for the journey of achieving the “American Dream”. Balboa working such a low-end, odd job just to make ends meet symbolizes the working class, more specifically the lower class. This gives insight to the struggles these people face everyday, not only through Balboa’s work as a loan shark, but the dock worker in a dirty environment who is unable to pay his loan in the same scene. Many signs throughout the early exposition align with the reasoning within the rhetorical framework. For example, Rocky attempts to go to the boxing gym but because of his lack of success and low amount of money, Mick gives Rocky’s locker to someone else. This exposes how America views poor people, and illustrates the intolerance of poor people in society. Though America creates programs and means of financial aid in order to help the poor, there is a general understanding of American society that the rich are celebrated and the poor are considered disgraceful in the public eye. This does not reinforce my own opinion, it is just a fact of some...
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