...PART ONE: My Fit in Ministry (Before): At the beginning of this course, I felt that my ministry goals were right on target. I am currently the youth director at our church, teaching and mentoring the youth to go and be disciples. We hold youth group meetings on Wednesday evenings while the adults are holding Bible Study and we hold Sunday School classes on Sunday morning during the same time as the adults are receiving their message. I help plan and assist in planning the lessons and organizing teachers. I have always been extremely involved with youth ministry in different positions which I have held within the church. I enjoyed working with the children and truly believed this was my calling in the kingdom. Currently, we are in the process of planning and preparing for our Vacation Bible School which I will also be directing. I will be assigning teachers, construction and food committees, ordering supplies and planning props and lessons. All of which I will be doing after significant amounts of prayer. I am also currently the chairperson of the planning committee at our church and have no problem stepping up and taking charge when something needs done. I’m responsible for organizing our monthly fellowship meals as well as any outreaches or community events that we may be involved in. Our church has recently held such events as clothing give a ways, community festivals, harvest parties and other events of this nature. I’ve always managed to step up and do what...
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...In the plays of William Shakespeare, whether a comedy or a tragedy, one character that is often seen is a villain. This villain may come in many forms, but one of the most popular forms is that of the bastard. The character of the bastard is always evil, but Shakespeare also gives us some clue as to why they have grown to be so evil. The character of Don John the bastard in Much Ado About Nothing, and the character of Edmund in King Lear have many of the same qualities. They are both bastards with legitimate brother, and their brothers are in line to inherit their father’s title as well as real assets. They are both scheming villains and their villainy leads them into trouble. They both say they are bastards and act evil because they are expected...
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...“All the world’s a stage” (Act II, Scene VII). The two Shakespearian plays “A Mid Summer Night’s Dream” and “As You Like It” are very similar in some aspects, but also very different in others. Love which drives away ones who seek it and love never running smooth are two examples of why these plays are so similar, but the magical aspect of “A Mid Summer Night’s Dream” and the more realistic facet of “As You Like It” lead to what differs in these plays. In “A Mid Summer Night’s Dream” Hermia and Lysander’s love drive them to escape the controls of society. Hermia and Lysander are forced to run away into the forest because Hermia’s father forbids their love in Athens. Similarly in “As You Like It” Orlando is forced to run away in the forest, but it is because his brother Oliver is trying to kill him. Orlando’s love of his life, Rosalind, is also forced to run away into the forest because she is disliked by the King who over threw her father and therefore has to leave or...
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...In middle school, theatre seemed abstract and out of my comfort zone, because it was. At the time, I was a very quiet child who participated in nothing but band, where I could blend in and be drowned out. However, during 7th grade my school took a field trip to see a college production of My Fair Lady. Nearly everyone else fell asleep during the play, but I was on the edge of my seat with their amazing performance. I wanted to write like that, act like that, and know what it was like to make an audience feel like that. Hence, hardly a week later I found myself auditioning for our school play. I received a small part, but large enough that after we performed, people were exclaiming their surprise that I could talk. And suddenly, I realized I could talk. Theatre became a creative outlet and a taught me the importance of taking calculated risks. In high school, I continued to be involved in theatre for those reasons. Throughout that time, theatre helped me to become a stronger and more expressionate person. These qualities permitted me the opportunity to study abroad and apply to be a first generation college student. These risks ended up becoming my greatest personal achievements, as they broadened my horizons, especially when I was admitted to...
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...Influence of Chinese Culture on World Markets China has one of the largest populations in the world, it stands to reason cultural beliefs and trends would hold sway with many of the major manufacturers who sell internationally. Markets such as music, movies, television and video games are all affected by the preferences of one of the largest consuming countries on Earth. If a certain type of movie is popular the time, it’s only reasonable that the movie producers would cater to that. The influences are wide spread and well defined in nearly all forms of pop culture. China, as a nation, is growing very rapidly, both economically and in terms of population. They’re spending power has grown nearly 57% in the last five years alone. This allows them to invest in foreign markets on an immense scale, and therefore hold considerable sway over what is produced and distributed. Industry is moving East, and as such, so is a lot capital which fuels this investment. The continuing growth is expected to be at least 30% in the next year for most major industries. Movies with martial arts sequences tend be very popular. Even if the actors are not themselves of Asian descent, the fighting styles are visually interesting, and therefore the movies do well. Actors like Jet Li, Jacky Chan and many, many more have revolutionized movie making by implementing different forms of karate, tai kwan do and other fighting styles. Movies like The Matrix, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and The Last...
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...is a brutal play, filled with human cruelty and awful, seemingly meaningless disasters. The play’s succession of terrible events raises an obvious question for the characters—namely, whether there is any possibility of justice in the world, or whether the world is fundamentally indifferent or even hostile to humankind. Various characters offer their opinions: “As flies to wanton boys are we to the gods; / They kill us for their sport,” Gloucester muses, realizing it foolish for humankind to assume that the natural world works in parallel with socially or morally convenient notions of justice (4.1.37–38). Edgar, on the other hand, insists that “the gods are just,” believing that individuals get what they deserve (5.3.169). But, in the end, we are left with only a terrifying uncertainty—although the wicked die, the good die along with them, culminating in the awful image of Lear cradling Cordelia’s body in his arms. There is goodness in the world of the play, but there is also madness and death, and it is difficult to tell which triumphs in the end. Authority versus Chaos King Lear is about political authority as much as it is about family dynamics. Lear is not only a father but also a king, and when he gives away his authority to the unworthy and evil Goneril and Regan, he delivers not only himself and his family but all of Britain into chaos and cruelty. As the two wicked sisters indulge their appetite for power and Edmund begins his own ascension, the kingdom descends into...
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...The play was good in the sense of deception and making two people fall in love when before they despised each other. It also capturing with Don Jon wanting to ruin the marriages. My topic is about Don Jon being Neutral Evil, in the book it states that “Don John is melancholy and sullen by nature, and he creates a dark scheme to ruin the happiness of Hero and Claudio.” He is envious of is brothers power, which motivates his acts of evil. Don Jon should be considered a Neutral Evil because he wants to ruin everyone’s happiness, but at the same time try not to be cruel about it. He wants to ruin everyone’s happiness, “will it serve for any model to build mischief upon?” 2.3.36(No fear) He wants to create mischief, not ruin lives, or kingdoms....
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...recognize how values can be encoded within a text. This can be seen through the different values, beliefs and attitudes towards women reflected in Richard III texts in Act 1 scene 2. The wooing of Lady Anne demonstrates the climax of Richard’s role as a villain. The stichomythic language engages the audience which allows us to be seduced by Richard, for example when Lady Anne say, ‘‘o wonderful, when devils tell the truth’ and Richard replies ‘More wonderful, when angels are so angry’. This short declarative verbal exchange creates momentum in the scene resulting in the audience being in a state of anticipation. It reveals the power of language to persuade and Richard is able to capture the audiences’ admiration. Lady Anne’s capacity to verbally play with language implies her surprising intelligence. This may reflect Shakespeare’s passive unacceptance of the gender hierarchal system that existed during the context that he wrote in. Shakespeare foregrounds the dominant religious beliefs and values that exist in his cultural context. This is identified by the Christian...
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...PHILIPPINE THEATER Theater in the Philippines is as varied as the cultural traditions and the historical influences that shaped it through the centuries. The dramatic forms that flourished and continue to flourish among the different peoples of the archipelago include: the indigenous theater, mainly Malay in character, which is seen in rituals, mimetic dances, and mimetic customs; the plays with Spanish influence, among which are the komedya, the sinakulo, the playlets, the sarswela, and the drama; and the theater with Anglo-American influence, which encompasses bodabil and the plays in English, and the modern or original plays by Fihpinos, which employ representational and presentational styles drawn from contemporary modern theater, or revitalize traditional forms from within or outside the country. The Indigenous Theater The rituals, dances, and customs which are still performed with urgency and vitality by the different cultural communities that comprise about five percent of the country’s population are held or performed, together or separately, on the occasions of a person’s birth, baptism, circumcision, initial menstruation, courtship, wedding, sickness, and death; or for the celebration of tribal activities, like hunting, fishing, rice planting and harvesting, and going to war. In most rituals, a native priest/priestess, variously called mandadawak, catalonan, bayok, or babalyan, goes into a trance as the spirit he/she is calling upon possesses him/her. While entranced...
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...traditional setting, I found that I was comparing and contrasting the events I had observed in each classroom with each other. When I walked into the preschool classroom of Livonia Little Tots the children had just arrived at school. The students were hanging up their coats, saying goodbye to their parents, and finding an activity to play with before the day would officially begin. Some of the children were putting puzzles together, others were playing the game “Ants in the Pants,” and others were cutting fun shapes out of construction paper. They participated in these and similar activities for about twenty minutes while the teacher was preparing for the morning “circle time.” While the students were permitted to play with, however, and whatever they wanted to, the students at the traditional classroom were asked to use their inside voices rather than being allowed to speak in any level of voice. The classroom environment of the traditional preschool seemed to stimulate learning due to the abundance of activities available to the students. During the morning play time the children were given the opportunity to explore many different things, like the play kitchen area, and the art area, and putting puzzles together. The physical classroom environment had artwork done by the students on the walls as decoration. There also were springtime seasonal decorations on the wall to brighten up the room as well. The decorations did not appear to be too distracting, which promotes and enables...
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...An essay that explores the theoretical underpinning of a resource that relates to language development and its place in learning. In this essay I will be discussing the good old fashioned stick and how it can be used to support a child’s language development. I will be discussing the diversity of play through the stick and how this is supported by the curriculum and how it is also supported by theory. According to The National Toy Hall Of Fame, the stick may be the world’s oldest toy. Animals play with sticks; our dogs play fetch with them. Children have an endless source of make believe and fun with sticks. A child’s imagination can turn sticks into magic wands, fishing poles, swords, light sabres, majorette batons and ores for an imaginary boat and so on. Children cultivate their creativity and develop their imaginations when they pretend with sticks. Children build and walk with sticks, bat balls with them; they explore the outdoors as they search for the best one. Sticks promote free play, the freedom to invent and discover; they are the original building blocks for creative play. Playing with sticks encourages outside play which incorporates fresh air and exercise. Sticks are not only the oldest toys around they are simply the best. A stick can come in all shapes and sizes. They are not carefully made or presented like a manufactured resource. They are natural and rustic looking and that makes them appealing to children and wanting to engage with it. Like the old saying...
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...The Importance of Being Earnest, Act 2 In The Importance of Being Earnest, almost every character is in pursuit of another; Jack is in pursuit of Gwendolen’s love, whom is in pursuit of Jack, who she believes is Ernest. Meanwhile in the country, Dr Chausible is in pursuit of Miss Prism’s love, and Cecily of Algernon’s love; similarly to Gwendolen’s situation, Cecily is fooled into believing Algernon is called Ernest. Wilde has created this situation to mock the upper class of the time and also uses it in various ways to build comedy throughout act 2. Within act 2, the audience witness many entrances and exits, one of the most significant from the Merriman during the dispute between Gwendolen and Cecily. During the dispute, Gwendolen and Cecily are disrupted by the Merriman, ‘followed by the footman’, with ‘the presence of the servants [exercising] a restraining influence, under which both girls chafe’. This builds the comedy within this scene as the Merriman sets the table slowly, with ‘a long pause’, further infuriating Cecily and Gwendolen; this creates anticipation within the audience, as they would be anxiously wait for the dispute to continue. One could interpret the entrance and exit of the Merriman as Wilde placing more importance in the servants than the people they are serving, another way to mock the upper class of the time. Another important exit in the act is when Cecily and Gwendolen ‘retire into the house with scornful looks’, expecting the men to chase after...
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...Music ever since the first note was played has always been beloved in some way by mankind; though different tastes come into play music still has that power that allows any individual to just get away from the stresses of the world. Music allows you to express yourself when you hide the rest of who you are to try to fit in or impress society. But most importantly music can help with certain types of depression because of how it affects each individual. Music helps with our society bond which in my opinion is one of the only few things I see our society bond on. Ever since I was a kid I always loved music or playing it, it was weird, I was able to pickup basically any instrument and play it like a natural, but that’s not why I kept playing music, I did it for the feeling of release it gave me. The release of stress from school, chores, homework, whatever stressed me out I put into my music and I started getting really good at playing music. See it’s not so much playing the music or listening to it which relieves the stress, it’s actually letting yourself hear the emotion in the song or the notes you play and allow yourself to just let go and allow that euphoria to take over to where it’s just you listening or playing and no one else in this world can interrupt you. Express yourself, a small quote I guess you could say everyone is afraid to do. Yet those who do are frowned upon in today’s society; everyone is afraid to show their true colors because they’re afraid of how other...
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...them. But it feels like there was a gap separating me with my siblings, one that would hardly be separated. When I tell them that I won the game, they did not remember me, it took them a minute to grasp what I am saying and even who was I. They say I was a fool of myself as though I did not have feelings and was a laughingstock. It felt like my heart was ripped apart. Sometimes I felt like I was a toy, when it’s still new and they like it, they play with it. But when time goes by, they get tired of it; they just throw it away like a piece of unwanted paper. I want to defeat Raghu – that hirsute, hoarse-voiced football champion and to be a winner in a circle of older, bigger, luckier children. So when I play this game, I told myself no matter what, I had to win. I wanted victory and triumph. It was bliss of happiness when I thought I gained victory. I remembered very clearly what Raghu and Mira said when I said I won. “Don’t be a fool,” Raghu said roughly, pushing him aside, and even Mira said, “Stop howling Ravi. If you want to play, you can...
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...these types of things are ok. A 14 yr old is not mature enough to stop and think hey this is wrong and I shouldn’t do this. They only see what is happening in the video game and want to be just like the game. The company has a moral obligation to warn people that these types of games could cause violent behavior if played in excess. However a lot of the blame should be placed on the parents as well. They should have monitored how often their child played those games. The company has no control over how often children play video games and they can argue that based on that alone they cannot be held responsible. If every producer of violent video games were held responsible for the actions of the people that play them they would never make any money. Lawsuits would have them so tied up that they would probably lose more than they make. Also this leaves the door open for anyone that commits a crime to be able to blame it on the video games they play. Nobody would be held responsible for their actions and some people may try to use this as a crutch....
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