...Major Definite Purpose: Questions to Ask Yourself (3) 1. 5 most basic virtues: Love, Peace, Truth, Right Actions and Non-Violence. I strongly believe in allowing the universe to take its course in my life. I live life through a “vision board”, where I envision all that I want out of life and strongly affirm to making it happen. I believe that it is only when you see others are divine sparks of God will you have truly realized the purpose of life. I live or at least try to inculcate in my life the 5 values listed above and all my thoughts words and actions are benchmarked on those. 2. To be successful – career wise To be the best mother and wife I possibly can To enjoy life to the fullest 3. Do everything to ensure that my child is well taken care of use every moment to realize God consciousness. 4. Give it to my parents. They have worked so hard for everything and I want to be able to give them some time to rest and relax and enjoy life. 5. Letting my superiors know what I really think of them. Speaking out, especially if it is not positive is something that I have a problem doing. 6. My belief in God and my family. My husband and son are my greatest joy and pride and bring me the greatest sense of accomplishment. 7. Dream of being able to rid the world of poverty. While it may seem like an over ambitious goal, it is heart wrenching to see children suffer for food that some people throw away so much of everyday. If I can guarantee this I would take...
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...Character Analysis of Abigail Williams Author Miller’s drama The Crucible takes place in the seventeenth-century in Salem, Massachusetts. Salem suffers from witch-hunts, trials, and false accusations. In effect, the town is full of worry and suspicion; and when young girls falsely accuse self-righteous neighbors in Salem of witchcraft, the town goes against itself, which ultimately causes a conflict between power and aggression. The personality of Abigail Williams, the understood leader of all the young girls, ultimately causes the whole play to go into effect. Abigail displays that she is sinful, envious, and manipulative. Abigail Williams’ characteristic of sinfulness causes her to be the antagonist of the whole play. Abigail commits...
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...Mridul Agarwal Introduction to World Music Research paper Simply clad in a plain saree with her hair in plaits, the 'Nightingale of India' serves as an inspiration to many. She has been in the music industry since the age of 13 and has sung over 28,000 songs in the past decades. Through her hard work and determination, she has proved that every goal, every dream is achievable. She featured in the Guinness book of world records for having made the most recordings for about 16 years (1974 to 1991). She has also received the Bharat Ratna award which is one of the most prestigious award from the Indian government. She is the fifth woman to receive the award ever, after Indira Gandhi and Mother Teresa (The Palgrave Macmillan Dictionary of women’s biography, 2005). This paper will henceforth speak about the inspiration and impact that Lata Mangeshkar has had on the entire music industry, making her an unperishable idol in the minds of the Indian public. She was born in a Marathi speaking family, her father was a well renowned theatre actor who used to perform musical plays and was an exceptional Hindustani classical vocalist. Lataji trained with her father in the early stages of her life and became a part of her father’s musical play since she was five years old. She, defined as ‘devi’ (goddess) by everyone in the country is so polite and humble towards her singing that her singing became a sensation and for a lady in the early 40’s and 50’s it’s unusual to have an ambition to...
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...The Arena The short story ”The Arena”, written in 2008 by Martin Golan, circles around an unnamed protagonist and narrator, who is driving his son to the Arena, where he is to make his bus for the lacrosse trip. The themes of the story involve the strong bond between child and parent, escaping ones past and self-acknowledgement. The assignment partly focuses on the way the story is structured and on the use of contrasts as well as an interpretation and analysis of the story. “The Arena” is written with a special focus on the protagonist, who is the father of two children, one with his current wife, and one who suffered an early death with his last wife. It takes place in the suburbs of New Jersey and the protagonist has been living there for some time. The story is of little dialogue as the story wanders and dwells in the mind of the protagonist, as an inner dialogue of questioning his self-realization: “… the smell of toast, of longing itself, or is it of memory?”. In the start of the story, he describes a Arena in town, in which he is going to with his son: “It’s a circular, roughly built structure of steel and cinder block that houses an ice-skating rink… I could never relax… The Arena somehow manages to be too cold and too hot at the same time….”. He seems quite discomforted and ambivalent by the surroundings of the Arena, which is somehow connected to his past. The drive he and his son is on to the Arena starts out early in the morning, and as the story proceeds, the...
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...A Reflection in Sylvia Plath’s Mirror Amanda L. Wilson Eng:125 Introduction to Literature Professor Lyndsey Lefebvre November 18, 2013 A Reflection in Sylvia Plath’s Mirror Sylvia Plath’s poem Mirror (1963) is evocative, provocative, and expressive. According to Clugston (2010) these are important components of poetry. Sylvia Plath’s first line is a projection of the mirror providing its introduction saying, “I am silver and exact”(Plath, 1963, line 1). The mirror is the protagonist who performs a dramatic monologue about the reflections it observes throughout the days and years of its life. The mirror’s identity awakens the reader to the identity of the woman which it sees, but the mirror not only sees the woman, it becomes her. William Freedman (1993) writes, in The Monster in Plath’s “Mirror”: The woman becomes a narrating reflector of herself as mirror and of whatever passes before it. She becomes the writer who writes of the mirror in which she perceives herself and of the mirror she is (pg 156). Plath develops the character of the mirror, and the woman this mirror observes, through the personification of the mirror. Plath’s Mirror, maneuvers through figurative language, free verse form, personification, and metaphor. The primary language of Mirror is figurative. Figurative language is defined by Clugston (2010) as “the use of words in ways they are not normally used in order to create a distinct imaginative effect or impression” (10.3). “I am silver...
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...Character” Analysis (Text, Context and Experience) 1. In two sentences, describe the physical characteristics of the protagonist. Miss Mijares, who is the protagonist in the story, is a 34 year-old woman, slender, almost bony and likes to wear a thick row of ruffles that made her look as though she had a bosom. She had smooth, clear brow, thin cheeks, small, receding chin, lippy and sensual pout and curly hair. 2. Directly quote the lines from the story which gave you those characteristics. “She was slight, almost bony, but she had learned early how to dress herself to achieve an illusion of hips and bosom... On her bodice, astride or lengthwise, there sat an inevitable row of thick camouflaging ruffles that made her look almost as though she had a bosom...”, “Her brow was smooth and clear and she was always pushing off it the hair she kept in tight curls at night. She had thin cheeks, small and angular, falling down to what would have been a nondescript, receding chin, but Nature's hand had erred and given her a jaw instead. When displeased, she had a lippy, almost sensual pout, surprising on such a small face.” 3. Describe the protagonist's goal, conflicts and background. Miss Mijares worked at a job placement office for ten years that made her very unapproachable, impolite, and superior. All her life, she was just thinking about finishing her studies, taking care of her mother, and sending her niece to school. At some point in her life, she did think of love, having her...
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...by the police when he is contacted by Morpheus, a legendary computer hacker branded a terrorist by the government. Morpheus awakens Neo to the real world, a ravaged wasteland where most of humanity have been captured by a race of machines that live off of the humans' body heat and electrochemical energy and who imprison their minds within an artificial reality known as the Matrix. As a rebel against the machines, Neo must return to the Matrix and confront the agents: super-powerful computer programs devoted to snuffing out Neo and the entire human rebellion. The telephone call initiated by Morpheus prompts the police to visit Mr. Anderson’s home with the offer of deliverance and the awakening. Morpheus is known to the government as a legendary computer hacker and a terrorist. Morpheus meets up with Mr. Anderson and offers him a choice of a blue pill or a red pill. The choice that is offered will afford Mr. Anderson to either wake up in a world beyond his imagination or to continue to exist in his current state existence. The “real world” * 2. Analysis of The conversation between Morpheus and Smith, The Battle between the humans and the machines. “Human beings are a disease, a cancer of this planet Cross cutting with Neo and Trinity trying to save Morpheus, testing Neo‟s powers and the length he will go to save Morpheus. * 3. Semiotic Analysis * 4. Semiotics and Structuralism• The war between man and machines.• Humans compared to a virus.• The five...
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...humans are comparable to an aeolian harp. There are two main “classes of mental action” (516) or faculties: conscious thoughts, produced by the ‘reason’ (what Locke terms the ‘understanding’?), are comparable to a melody or sequence or combination of notes: man is an “instrument over which a series of external and internal impressions are driven, like the alternation of an ever-changing wind over an Aeolian lyre, which move it by their motion to ever changing melody” (516). The reason is the “mind contemplating the relations borne by one thought to another, however produced” (516) and is expressed in logical discourse (e.g. scientific treatises). The reason “respects . . . differences” (516) and is thus particularly given to “analysis” (516). Another part of the mind, the ‘Imagination,’ has the capacity to add harmony to these thought-‘melodies’: there is a “principle within the human being, and perhaps all sentient beings, which acts otherwise than in the lyre, and produces not melody alone, but harmony, by an internal adjustment of the sounds or motions thus excited to the impressions which excite them” (516). The Imagination is “mind acting upon those thoughts [produced by the...
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...LIBERTY UNIVERSITY BAPTIST THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY Practicing Greatness, 7 Disciplines Of Extraordinary Spiritual Leaders By Reggie McNeal Submitted to Dr. Debra Warren, in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the completion of LEAD 510-B02 LUO Biblical Foundations of Christian Leadership by Dora Rabb September 27, 2015 Contents Abstract 1 Concrete Response.………….……………………………………….………………….……….3 Reflection 4 Action.……………………………………………………………..……………………………...5 References……………………………………………………………………….………………..8 Abstract Reggie McNeal leads the reader to think that perhaps spiritual leaders are looking for greatness in all the wrong places. He also seem to hint that some spiritual leaders do not hope to achieve greatness, because they are not using their God given gifts and talents in ministry. McNeal uses the following words as the heading for his introduction, “NEEDED: GREAT SPIRITUAL LEADERS.” From the introduction one might assume that McNeal feels that great spiritual leaders are few and far in-between in the age in which we currently live. McNeal also quotes opening words spoken in a chapel service by Elton Trueblood which were, “Deliberate mediocrity is a sin.” McNeal seemingly feels that far too many churches and spiritual leader operate at such a low level that they are unable to motivate, inspire, or excite others. Unfortunately, some spiritual leaders believe...
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...Adapting Plays Into Movies “In theatre, you can change things ever so slightly; it’s an organic thing. Whereas in film, you only have that chance on the day, and you have no control over it at all,” These insightful words were once spoken by actress (Casino Royale, Quantum of Solace) and Oscar winner Judi Dench, and they very clearly illustrate one of the biggest differences between theatre and film. However, a small hint of bias seems to be depicted in this point of view. The quote (and many others) seem to suggest that one form of acting is more difficult than the other. It seems the opposite is true; that when taking one of these art forms (i.e. theatre) and transforming it into the other, one would come across a wide array of differences, as well as similarities. When researching a topic such as this, one must go beyond reading. One must not only dive into a script or a periodical or academic journal, one must immerse themselves into the films that have come about as a result of the transformation of turning a play into a cinematic experience. When going about researching this topic, I watched the movie Chicago (Dir. Rob Marshall, 2002) as well as looked over the original Broadway script (By Jon Kander, Fredd Ebb, and Bob Fosse 1975). The original Broadway production opened June 3, 1975, at the 46th Street Theatre and ran for 936 performances. Chicago's 1996 Broadway revival holds the record for the longest-running musical revival and the longest-running American musical...
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...recalls a Ravel bell-like sunrise, 2) Pigalle is an off-Broadway, jazzy, witty, and full of fun, 3) Père Lachaise is dreamy, romantic and beguiling, while 4) Les Halles opens with a dramatic fanfare and offers a rousing celebration. This celebration, echoing consistently throughout the entire piece, is evident and Ellerby comment, “This is my personal tribute to a city I love.” Additionally, noteworthy in the notes of the score is mentioning of “bells” as a unifying thread to the work. Composer's Program Note: This is my personal tribute to a city I love, and each movement pays homage to some part of the French capital and to other composers who lived, worked or passed through – rather as Ravel did in his own tribute to an earlier master in Le Tombeau de Couperin. Running like a unifying thread through the whole piece is the idea of bells – a prominent feature of Parisian life. The work is cast in four movements… Analysis 1. Saint Germain-des-Prés The Latin Quarter, in Paris, France, is famous for its artistic associations and bohemian lifestyle. Saint Germain-des-Prés is a dawn prelude haunted by the shade of Ravel: the city awakens with the ever-present sound of morning bells. Saint-Germain-des-Prés is a through-composed single theme with the exception of three interruptions by s short important motive that is reminiscent of a sunrise. Progressing from start to finish similar of a morning fog lifting of the Seine River, the movement begins with a somber mood and progresses...
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... Presidential Communications Secretary Martin Andanar underscored, “It is a very powerful speech personally written by the President that will awaken the patriot in every Filipino.” True to his words, the Duterte SONA has strong message of change for the Filipinos. Be guided with our review and analysis of President Duterte's SONA 2016. Students may use this as reference for making a reaction paper: "I will not waste time dwelling on past sins. Vindictiveness is not in my system," President Duterte opened his speech. On fighting against criminality and corruption, Duterte said it will be relentless. He promised not to stop until the last drug lord. He encouraged the police officers and the National Police Commission (NAPOLCOM) to do their job. "On this quest, I will put at stake my honor, my life and presidency," the president said. Duterte emphasized that human rights must uplift dignity. On terrorism, the president said the administration will strengthen coordination with Indonesia and Malaysia. Despite his statement on Paris agreement, Duterte said global warming is a top priority. On South China Sea dispute, the Palace affirmed decision of the arbitral tribunal. "All of us want peace." Duterte also appealed to the leftist Muslim brothers and CPP-NPA-NDF, to end centuries of mistrust to the government. "If we can't love each other, then don't hate too much." On taxation, the...
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...Leadership Success and Failure Failure is life’s greatest enabler. Each time I attempt and fail it gives me an opportunity to renew and reinvent myself. Failure is not a loss, it is always a lesson. Being able to preserver and apply new solutions is what makes a failure become a success. To be a successful leader I must always be held accountable for the outcome and be responsible for the lessoned learned, to be motivated to never give up. Once I am proactive about my decisions and actions, I will be able to trust my instincts that have embedded into my memory of past failures. Each time I experience a failure, my intuition sharpens. Failure empowers me to trust myself to be fearless in new experiences. The more times you fail the clearer opportunities become. “Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.” Winston Churchill According to Forbes article, Five things Failure teaches about Leadership, “Failure is not fatal. It is a wake-up call for the next opportunity.” As a leader, I have to have the abundance mentality that there is plenty of opportunities. I find myself asking myself “If I only knew then what I know now.” Each opportunity allows for more wisdom. I will start to be able to see hidden opportunities that I could not see before. A successful leader will always have the enthusiasm to learn. Steve Jobs is an example of a successful leader. He was passionate about his journey and never gave up. Steve Jobs worked on his independent...
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...The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam: Summary & Analysis The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam presents an interesting challenge to any reader trying to sort through its heavy symbolism and not-so-obvious theme. Not only does the poem provide us with a compelling surface story, but a second look at the text can reveal a rich collection of seperate meanings hidden in the poem’s objective descriptions and sprawling narrative-which in the space of a few pages includes such disparate characters as the Moon, God, the Snake (and his traditional Christian neighborhood, Paradise), the “Balm of Life”, not to mention nearly every animal and sexual symbol the human mind can come up with. Obviously, on one level, the poem can present itself in a fairly straightforward manner in the vein of CARPE DIEM. In the third stanza, theauthor writes, “‘Open then the Door!/ You know how little while we have to stay,/ And, once departed, may return no more.” There’s several refrains to this throughout the poem, first in the seventh stanza: “Come, fill the cup. . ./ The Bird of Time has but a little way/ To flutter-and the bird is on the Wing.” The entire ninth stanza describes the summer month “that brings the Rose” taking “Jamshyd and Kaikobad away”, and so forth and so on ad nauseum. Again, in the fifty-third stanza: “You gaze To-Day, while You are You-how then/ Tomorrow, You when shall be You no more?” The poet seems to be in an incredible hurry to get this life going before some cosmic deadline comes due, and...
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...ANALYSIS OF THEME IN METAMORPHOSIS THEMES ANALYSIS The theme of "The Metamorphosis" is modern man's sense of isolation. Driven to work long hours in meaningless jobs around people who do not care about others, just like Gregor, mankind seems to live a meaningless and ineffectual existence. Although Gregor's metamorphosis is actual and physical, Kafka implies through his change that all too often mankind is forced into an insect-like existence, no better than the bugs at the bottom of the natural order. When mankind tries to rise above their insect status and connect with humanity, as Gregor did when he emerged from his room to see his sister and listen to the violin, they are cruelly driven back into isolation and alienation. Through Gregor, Kafka presents a totally tragic view of man's existence. Kafka also shows that mankind is driven by materialism, often to the exclusion of developing human relationships. Modern life demands that a person have a job to earn money to fulfill materialistic desires. The materialistic mind-set usually enslaves the individual and transforms him into a beast or insect who does not have time to care for others. Gregor is the perfect example. He hates his job as a salesman but endures it in order to provide material things for his family. In order to have and give financial security, he sacrifices a social life, companionship, pleasure, and dreams. His life is miserable, and he counts the days until he can quit his job. Ironically, the people...
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