...The movie I chose to write my sociology paper on is Center Stage. This recent teenage drama had a target audience drawn to us, the typical teenager. The main focus was a group of highly talented young dancers trying to break into the extremely competitive world of ballet by attending the prestigious American Ballet Academy. I found one of the subplots that focused on the character Maureen Cummings to yield many points that I could expand on for this paper. As we begin in the movie, we are introduced to the character Maureen Cummings, who we can truly say is a Prima Dona. She has been at the American Ballet Company since the age of nine, which is most of her life. Everyone there also knows her as being one of its best students, while also possessing a negative attitude to those around her. In other words, she’s a major bitch. As the movie progresses though we begin to see why Maureen is so driven with her ballet career and where her attitude comes from. We soon realize that it’s not her desire to be who she is or where she is, it’s actually her mothers. The problem for Maureen is that she has been living her life like this for so long she has never figured out what she wants. It’s only after she meets someone and begins dating them does she realize how much she has missed out on “normal” things and how much she hates the life she is leading. For this paper I will take you through the steps that Maureen went though from a sociological point of view. Maureen’s character starts...
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...Beethoven imposes on the sonata his strong personality creating a new, impressive, form of art, in which his own life, with its joys and sorrows, is projected. With Beethoven the musical theme acquires remarkable proportions, of such strength, that it imposes itself over the listener’s attention and memory. As the French composer, Vincent d’ Indy once said, with Beethoven, the musical theme turns into an concept that spreads throughout the hole work making it easily recognizable even if harmonic, modal or tonal aspects change. The fundamental principle of organization of the Beethoven piano sonata is the tonality. We can say that Beethoven perceived tonality as the key to any composition, since it leads to the true understanding of the musical form. In what the structural architectonic of the Beethoven piano sonatas is regarded, there are no apparent patterns: out of the thirty-two sonatas written by Beethoven, twelve have four parts, thirteen have three parts and seven have two parts. Another interesting aspect is that of the diversity of de movement types and the order of succession. The...
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...were literally equal in every aspect of their lives? "Harrison Bergeron," composed by Kurt Vonnegut, concentrates on equity physically and mentally unequivocally controlled by the administration in the year 2081; the wonderful are constrained to look monstrous, the physically gifted are required to wear weights. With these impediments making everyone so equivalent, the world turned out to be altogether different, odd, and normal. Be that as it may, the legislature has no right or motivation to push the entire world to be "… rise to each which way." To smother somebody's normal...
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...average intelligence in their society; however, in our generation she would be considered mentally slow. Diana Moon Glampers, also known as the United States Handicapper General, has placed their son Harrison Bergeron in jail for refusing to follow the equality laws. Harrison is a very strong, intellectual man and doesn’t believe in total equality. He escapes from prison, breaks into a ballet concert and manages to get on live television. Harrison rips off his restraints...
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...This is done through social interactions, what they observe people doing in their surroundings, and their memories of positive and negative consequences to their actions as well as others. Esperanza has learned that being in her Latino neighborhood is a negative experience. She has observed the problems that other Latino’s deal with on a regular basis. She needs interaction with Latino mentors and people within her culture that are positive influences so that she can accept her culture with pride and positivity. She has learned that education is important by her conversations and observations of her mother. She learned that men are dominate in her culture and she does not agree with that. Esperanza has seen that often females in her neighborhood marry young, or have babies to have a home. Unfortunately, some also are victims of abuse by their spouses. She has experienced sexual harassment, and likely been the victim of rape. She saw her peers kiss boys for keys and be offered money by men for a kiss. These observations and experiences have given Esperanza a negative outlook about her neighborhood and culture. She needs to see the positive aspects, witness changes in her neighborhood, and see people succeed in completing goals within her culture. According to Bandura’s social learning theory, Esperanza needs to believe in herself and her ability to successfully complete...
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...Abstract: This course work will concentrate on marketing analysis of the world’s leading circus company Cirque du Soleil. Based on the data given it will conduct a PEST, Porter’s 5-Forces, SWOT analysis and discuss the results, together with results paper will concentrate on marketing and positioning strategies and Ansoff’s Matrix, and also recommend strategy measures for achieving sustainable economic development outcomes. It was found that, first of all, Cirque du Soleil is making a profit while most of its competitors are fail to break even. Second, with its innovative and creative productions, the Cirque stays in a distinct position that none of its competitors can compete. Third, the Cirque’s shows ease to accept by the world and became more flexible due to the sufficient diversity in performers’ nationalities and with experience in multi-field. Table of Contents 1. Introduction………………………………………………………..5 2. PEST and Porter’s 5-forces analysis................................................5 3. SWOT Analysis................................................................................11 4. Marketing and positioning strategies...............................................14 5. Ansoff’s Matrix…………………………………………..………..16 6. Conclusion........................................................................................18 Bibliography.......................................................................
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...bourgeois work habits. Matisse opened a school in 1907. His intention behind opening the school was complex and touches many aspects of his life (Flam). Matisse had only three french students the rest of them were foreigners. Matisse’s advice on the paintings was closely to his own methods. He stressed the importance of order; color, unity, the unity of color. Matisse explained not to copy the subject but to represent it. After having the school open for a year Matisse’s work was noticed outside of France. At the end of 1908 Matisse’s artwork was taking two different but complemtary directions (Flam). In contrast Matisse’s life between his sixty-fifth and seventy- fifth was full of traumatic events. In 1934 to 1940 it was politically, socially and internationally violent saw changes in an artist’s personal life. It then lead to a painful extracting him from a 35-year marriage, it was a bitter legal separation. Matisse had a Russian assistant who he had an affair with. That is when the marriage fell through. Also illness came down that would nearly take his life in 1941. In spring of 1941 Matisse survive his medical crisis. He was also ready to reveal his private autobiography (Mezzatesta). In addition in 1941 Matisse was diagnosed with cancer, following surgery he was using a wheelchair. Before operation he wrote a letter to his son and to his wife making amends. He was granted a second life. After his operation he found energies and lovely Russian assistant Lydia Delectorskaya...
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...Bell Hooks argues, “Privilege is not in and of itself bad; what matters is what we do with privilege. . . . Privilege does not have to be negative, but we have to share our resources and take direction about how to use our privilege in ways that empowers those who lack it.” (230). Her words encourage us to acknowledge the social inequalities our race, gender, sexual orientation and social class can engender. This is not to say that some of use are immune to life’s hardships but rather that we are not all subject to the same disadvantages by the nature of our inherit traits. However, it must be understood that privilege or what is considered as such is relative to our surroundings. This is not to say that the magnitude of its effect is lessened depending on where you find yourself but rather that our societies may have different criterion when it comes to what it means to be privileged. For this reason, behind my arrival at UCLA exist a story that is neither told by my gender nor my race. It is fuelled by privilege of other sorts, driven by hard work and only mildly slowed down by, in my perspective, minor disadvantages....
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...eighth Earl of Spencer. She lived with her father and three siblings after her parent divorced in 1969, father Edward John Spencer, Viscount Althorpe, and mother Francis Ruth Burke Roche, Viscountess Althorpe, and later Honorable Francis Shand Kydd. Diana was a shy child loved music, ballet, and had a fondness for children, although she was a poor student she became a teacher and taught kindergarten at Young England School. As a child, she played with Prince Andrew and Prince Edward she was no stranger to royalty they rented Park House. Later she went on to marry Prince Charles, twelve years her senior on July 29, 1981 with a much publicized wedding, a year later Prince William Arthur Philip Louis was born on June 21, 1982, two years later Prince (Harry) Henry Charles Albert David was born September 15, 1984 and was a very devoted mother. Diana gave up her title of Her Royal Highness after divorcing Prince Charles in 1996. Extreme pressure of wife, mother, and princes left her depressed, she often cut herself on the arms and legs and several suicide attempts, and she became a model for depression and bulimia. Diana dedicated herself to the cause of eliminating Aids, leprosy, the ballet, a hospital for children, cancer. 'The image of her holding hands with someone with AIDS shattered the stigma and fear that surrounded AIDS in the early days. In 1996, Diana became involved in the campaign to ban landmines. She visited several nations in her involvement with the anti-landmine...
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...Mao's Last Dancer Li Cunxin Dedication To the two special women in my life—my mother and my wife Mao’s Last Dancer A Wedding Qingdao, 1946 On the day of her marriage, a young girl sits alone in her village home. It is autumn, a beautiful October morning. The country air is cool but fresh. The young girl hears happy music approaching her house. She is only eighteen, and she is nervous, frightened. She knows that many marriage introducers simply take money and tell lies. Some women from her village marry men who don't have all their functional body parts. Those women have to spend the rest of their lives looking after their husbands. Wife beating is common. Divorce is out of the question. Divorced women are humiliated, despised, suffering worse than an animals fate. She knows some women hang themselves instead and she prays this is not going to be her fate. She prays to a kind and merciful god that her future husband will have two legs, two arms, two eyes and two ears. She prays that his body parts are normal and functional. She worries that he will not be kind-hearted and will not like her. But most of all she &+x worries about her unbound feet. Bound feet are still in fashion. Little girls as young as five or six have to tuck four toes under the big toe and squeeze them hard to stop the growth. It is extremely painful, and the girls have to change the cloth bandages and wash their feet daily to avoid infection. The tighter the feet are bound the smaller the feet will...
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...Strategic Marketing Planning SOUTH WEST ARTS MARKETING APRIL 2002 STRATEGIC MARKETING PLANNING Introduction Strategic Marketing Planning is one of a series of publications produced by South West Arts Marketing for South West Arts and Bristol City Council. The guides are intended as an introduction to arts marketing and as a practical guide for artists and organisations working with very limited resources. Further information and advice on any of the topics covered in this guide or any other issue related to arts marketing, training, audience profiling, research or regional support networks are available from South West Arts Marketing on 0117-927 6936. South West Arts Marketing is an independent agency established to add value to arts marketing activity in the South West by providing strategic services and support to artists and arts organisations wishing to increase and broaden their arts audiences. For further information about the range of support and services available contact: South West Arts Marketing St Nicholas Church St Nicholas Street Bristol BS1 1UE Tel: Fax: e-mail: 0117-927 6936/41 0117-927 6936 info@swam.org.uk South West Arts Marketing is funded by South West Arts, Bristol City Council and Arts Council of England. STRATEGIC MARKETING PLANNING What is Marketing? To be successful, an organisation must constantly try to match its own capabilities to the needs of its customers both current and potential as well as all of its stakeholders. Over the years marketing...
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...Basic Management What Does a Project Manager? Briefly, technology project managers fulfil the following broad requirements: * Define and review the business case and requirements by regular reviews and controls to ensure that the client receives the system that he or she wants and needs. * Initiate and plan the project by establishing its format, direction, and base lines that allow for any variance measurements and change control. * Partner with the end users, work with project sponsors and other management to establish progress and direction of the project by achieving goals, reaching targets, solving problems, mitigating risks. * Manage the technology, people, and change in order to achieve goals, reach targets, and deliver the project on time and within budget. * Manage the project staff by creating an environment conducive to the delivery of the new application in the most cost-effective manner. * Be able to manage uncertainty, rapid change, ambiguity, surprises, and a less defined environment. * Manage the client relationship by using an adequate direct yet complete and formal reporting format that compliments a respected and productive relationship. * Drive the project by leading by example, and motivating all- concerned until the project accomplishes its goal. Necessary as Manager The skills that a good project manager possesses are many and varied, covering the entire spectrum of the human personality. We can divide these skills...
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...Nathan Learning Theories Approaches Teresa Zappey American Intercontinental University Abstract Three learning theories are examined, Behaviorist, Cognitivist and Constructionist and put into theoretical application in regards to a hypothetical gymnast named Nathan in the story titled “Nathan the Gymnast”. There is a brief overview of the story included then first the behaviorist theory is applied on how it can help Nathan using positive and negative reinforcement. Next the cognitivist theory is applied on how Nathan can be helped with its emphasis on the mental process and problem solving. Finally the constructionist theory is applied with how it can help Nathan using the active process of learning including using outside sources. It also taps into Nathans desire to do well and love of gymnastics or personal motivation. Personal examples are given on each theory by the author. Nathan Learning Theories Approaches There are three well know learning theories, behaviorism, cognitivism, and constructivism all of which provide valuable methods of teaching students. Each of these theories will be hypothetically applied to a story called, “Nathan the Gymnast”. A brief summary of the story is Nathan has natural gymnastic talent from a very young age. He was inspired to be a gymnast when he watched the Olympics so his parents enrolled him in gymnastic classes and soon the coach saw his talent and wanted to take him to competitions, which Nathan wanted to do, and his parents...
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...deixis 2. Spatial deixis 3. Temporal deixis Chapter 2: Reference and inference 1. Referring expression 2. Inference 3. Co-text 4. Anaphoric reference Chapter 3: Presupposition and entailment 1. Types of presupposition 2. Entailments Chapter 4: Cooperation and implicature 1. The cooperative principle 2. Hedges 3. Conversational implicatures 4. Generalized conversational implicatures 5. Scalar implicatures 6. Particularized conversational implicatures 7. Conventional implicatures Chapter 5: Speech acts and events 1. Speech act classification 2. Felicity conditions 3. Speech events Chapter 6: Politeness and interaction 1. Politeness 2. Face wants 3. Say something: off and on record 4. Positive and negative politeness Chapter 7: Conversation and preference structure 1. Conversation analysis 2. Pauses, overlaps, and backchannels Chapter 8: Discourse and culture 1. Discourse analysis Chapter 9: Identification and application Conclusion Bibliography Appendix: Script Introduction: Pragmatics is concerned with the study of meaning as communicated by a speaker (or writer) and interpreted by a listener (or reader). As GeorgeYule (1996) says, ‘Pragmatics is the study of speaker meaning’. This paper shows that this type of study involves the interpretation of what people mean in a...
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...affinity groups of high-net-worth who travel for leisure at least once per year. Seeking the ultimate travel experience, the target clients demand the finest quality activities and accommodations accompanied by a superior level of service. PTG will have a competitive advantage over others in this market by providing smaller, more exclusive package tours enabling the clients of these intimate groups to receive personal attention from the travel hosts. PTG will cultivate this niche with one-to-one contact with potential clients; personal contact with sophisticated travel agencies whose primary clientele targets our market; broad out-reach programs through various media; special events; and an inter-active, full-service website. We have all aspects of travel technology available to us through Panache Services. The founders and personnel of PTG have experience of their own with travel, luxury retailing, personal services to high-net-worth individuals, history of travel destinations and local languages. To broaden market share and increase brand recognition, the luxury tour packages initially will be offered at slightly below market rate. As a result, short-term operating profit...
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