...The documentary Paris is burning is about Balls, which are a form of a fashion show in the LGBT community in New York City. Their Race and sexual orientation makes them the torment of society. At the very beginning, Notable Ball legend, Pepper Labeja, gives a very distinctive quote from his father about Race in America. His father told him that he was born with three strikes against him, because he was male, gay and black. This automatically puts him at a lower position in society, then someone who does not carry these traits. In addition, in this documentary many members talk about how they could be professional businessmen and women, if they were born with a different color of skin. That is also one of the reasons that they created these balls in the first place, in order to create the illusion of being rich, illustrious and sadly, white. As far as seeing themselves fitting into society, they see it very little or almost not at all. The death of Venus Xtravaganza, helps illustrate this point brilliantly. Because of her Trans sexuality, she was murdered. When talking about Venus’s death at the end of the movie, Angie Xtravaganza talks about how living, as a Gay Man in Society can be treacherous. Death by murder is something that is very real and could happen at any moment. Another example of how they do not fit into dominant culture is the scene where Pepper is talking about the confrontations he had with his mother. His mother was disgraced at the fact that her son did...
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...Suis Charlie” erupted in France following the 2015 terrorist attack on Charlie Hebdo in Paris, France, the world echoed questions regarding the interpretation of freedom, the limitations of rights, and the roles placed to guard those targeted when freedoms are exercised (A Nation). Nevertheless, the attack sparked a rise in political polarization which tightened tensions between the people of France as the country divided ideologically while attempting to answer the difficult question, “what is free speech?” Gaining insight from American politics, whose constitution was heavily influenced by French political values of freedom and liberty, the First Amendment of the United States Constitution guarantees its people the right to express their opinions and beliefs through writing, demonstrations, and other forms of expression without government restraint unless the direct (words) and symbolic (actions) conflict with federal law (“What Does”). From a legal standpoint, the First Amendment of the...
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...Nazis party had tired to remove him form the history of german. He was a Romantic poet that could not be removed form there past. Heine's most famous piece work was Heinrich Heine's Book of Songs. A lot of Heine's early Romantic works where influenced by old German folklore. Many of his verusus where used in music by well known composer like Brahmas, Schubert, and List. Book of Songs was his only work to be well received in Germany. His view's where a lot different then other Romantics in German. Heine often focused on unreturned love and despair. The poem “Die Lorelei” became one of his most famous poems in German. This work was later attributed to a unknown author by the Nazis party in the 1930's because they could not erase it form the culture and minds of the German people. The poem “ Die Lorelei” is translated to “The Lorelei”. This poem is about a rock on the Rhine river. It is stands to the soaring height of 393 feet above the waterline and is the narrowest part of the river. This section of the river is the cause of many boat accidents. Heine was inspired by the old folklore tale of the Lore Lay that is often associated with this rock. In this poem he depicts the bewitching Lore Lay as a siren on the cliffs of the Rhine river, sitting on the top of the rock to enchant and distract the boat man passing by. It is a free verse poem written in the style of lyric poetry. This work is also consider a ballad poem and is one of the key reason why it flows with composed music so...
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...This week I viewed the 1990 Paris is Burning documentary. The motion picture investigates the New York City ball scene in the 1980s. It concentrates on African American gay, transgender, and drag society included in the balls and the pariahs' general public they have worked for themselves. Balls capacity kind of like exhibitions. Contenders contend in various classes and walk like runway models, they are scored by a board of judges and the champs get trophies. Classifications incorporate butch ruler, societal tropes like schoolgirl and business official which are both realness classifications. To me, the realness rivalries were generally convincing. In these classifications contenders were evaluated on their capacity to mix in with hetero male society or hetero female society. This class demonstrates the walker's capacity to show up as what society needs them to be, and is only an increasing of the sexual orientation parts tradition requests they perform. Along these lines, in a way this class can be the finished duty to the gendered requests of our way of life. In any case, this classification can likewise be among the most fantastical. Candidates dress moderately conservatively, they turn into the general population that absence of social standing and opportunity have banished them from getting to be. Despite the fact that all through the motion picture we hear over and over of a yearning for riches and extravagance to the point of overabundance, at last...
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...suspicion of others and witchcraft among the Salem people. Arthur Miller uses stage directions in to create a sense of suspicion and mystery [Be Precise – state page number/Act]. With Reverend Paris, Miller did this to emphasise the character’s main dilemma in the play which is the threat to Paris' power in the community as his niece as people would be suspicious of her. Therefore because she is living under his roof, it would put a bad name on Paris as he couldn't keep his house Holy [Mention – by Miller setting the scene in a reverend’s house (a place of God), the audience may be more suspicious of the witchcraft.]. The stage directions used at the start if act one when Paris is praying frequently over Better [?] his daughter indicates that the room is quite dark with only a candle burning and sunlight through the window lighting the room. The significance of this is to show how the audience that the stage direction, builds tension to the atmosphere and sets the mood for the play [Good Holly]. Paris is frightened and confused by Betty's illness, wondering what he has done wrong to deserve this. He is angered quickly without provocation, for example when Tituba inquires about natty he turns on her in fury and shouts to get 'out of here.' Therefore not understanding the illness, Paris is suspicious of what is causing the illness. Furthermore, Hale narrowing his eyes [mention ‘stage direction’ and use quotation marks and mention Miller’s name here] creates suspicion as only...
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...information for instructor: Department of Art + Art History MM Campus, VH 235 Preferred mode of contact: alpesh.patel@fiu.edu Office hours: By appointment on Tuesdays and Thursdays (preferably after class). Course description: This course examines major artists, artworks, and movements after World War II; as well as broader visual culture—everything from music videos and print advertisements to propaganda and photojournalism—especially as the difference between ‘art’ and non-art increasingly becomes blurred and the objectivity of aesthetics is called into question. Movements studied include Abstract Expressionism, Pop, and Minimalism in the 1950s and 1960s; Post-Minimalism/Process Art, and Land art in the late 1960s and 1970s; Pastiche/Appropriation and rise of interest in “identity” in the 1980s; and the emergence of Post-Identity, Relational Art and Internet/New Media art in the 1990s/post-2000 period. We will focus primarily on artistic production in the US, but we will also be looking at art from Europe, South and East Asia, Africa, and the Middle East. Emphasis will be placed on examining artworks and broader visual culture through the lens of a variety of different contextual frameworks: formal, authorial, socio-cultural, and identity-based (race, class, gender, and sexuality for instance). Course structure: In each class, we will often discuss several artworks (produced in the last 10 to 15 years) that will then be genealogically linked to earlier artworks...
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...shows responsibility to the community by defending it and advocating for justice for all the people. Hector’s leadership helps Trojan defeat the Achaeans by pushing them back to their ships and later burning them. However, just like many other warriors, he is also full of pride. Hector is a great man who is family-oriented. The motivation for Hector’s fighting is the responsibility to his family, as well as, the city. His parents are the leaders of Troy; his father is the king and his mother the queen. As he fights for the protection of his city, Hector is also protecting his parents. Moreover, his interactions with his wife and son show a high level of responsibility for their wellbeing. Hector shows his love for the family when he holds his child in his arms and prays for him. He prays to Jove their God to make his child follow his footsteps or even perform better. He continues to pray that he becomes the hero that his mother will be proud of when he goes battling to revenge the lives of their soldiers (McCarty, Ambrus & Homer, 2004). Hector is also a man who is performing his duties as required. He even goes ahead to criticize his brother Paris claiming that he lacks the courage to fight for his city even after leading it to the trouble that resulted in war. He criticizes Paris saying that he has brought disgrace upon himself for stealing another man’s woman....
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...The First Half in New York, the Second Half in Paris Written by Wenhua Wang Translated by Hans Duan New York and Paris, as most of clichés, one for realism, the other for impressionism. In the first half of our life, like a football match, we try our best to run, but the second half, we might stop and think. The first half is realism and the second is impressionism. I had this feeling because I experienced different cities in my different periods… The world will keep running without me but what I could have without myself? New York and Paris represent the two sides of my life. New York is the daytime and Paris is the night. New York is the first half and Paris is the second. Before I was 35, I was sure that the greatest city in this world is New York. I finished my master in California and could not wait to go to New York to work. It has been 5 years that I thought I was in heaven. I loved New York like many other people: it is the centre of culture since 20th century, convenient and abundant. I could cross the time and space with taxis and metros. One can see the newest, oldest, best and worst things in New York. Therefore, when I was in New York, I took every second to feel it. In the daytime, I worked for a bank, 10 hours per day. In the nighttime, I went to NYU to learn about movies, nearly 4 hours each time. The life seemed to be quite meaningful in my 20s. To live means to squeeze you. I turned over the city where I lived. This kind of idea was not just...
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...Economics pulls in neophytes with a grand and exciting vision of the world: people are highly responsive to incentives, differences in incentives explain all major variations in wealth and poverty across societies, and easy institutional changes will create the incentives to launch a brave new world. This is the buzz that animates Freakonomics, the book, and now the movie. This is the vision that led Roland Fryer, Professor of Economics at Harvard University, to offer students in the New York, Chicago, and Washington, DC school systems “cash for grades.” Deirdre McCloskey earlier in her career did stellar work advancing this program in economics — her virtuoso writings recruited me to the study of the history of economies. But having over many years considered the general problem of economic growth, and the specific puzzle of the timing and location of the Industrial Revolution, McCloskey has come to a stunning epiphany. This is that incentives explain very little of the huge gaps in wealth across the world. Growth is a cultural production, a society wide embrace of “bourgeois virtues.” Specifically, she claims, growth came because the activities of marketing, profiting, and innovating have become in our society uniquely respected, admired and praised. The rise of the Bourgeois Virtues has created societies such as those of Northern Europe, so primed for growth that even though the grabbing hand of the state is on every shoulder, people continue to produce and innovate. ...
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...world that looks on in amused contempt and pity “.Double consciousness not only in the history of African-American,it still relevant to contemporary society . In The Soul of Black Folk Dubois announced his preoccupation with the “strange meaning of being black”and defined the “double consciousness”..Dubois’s preoccupation with the “strange meaning of being black”was no doubt affected by the facts that his father was a Haitian of French and American descent and his mother was an American of Dutch and African descent.As a black, as a educator and writer,i think Dubois exactly how double consciousness tastes like.So he spent his life to study the society of America and Africa1 intended to solve the racial problems. Paris Is Burning chronicles the ball culture of New York City and the African-American, Latino, gay, and transgender communities involved in it.At the film ,the people think the transgender are crazy and sick ,but they think they are the most gorgeous things in the world .As a gay transgender man,they sometimes feel like they have to “choose” between the two, and they often live their life not through their perspective. Recently i watched a TV drama named The Knick.It looks at The Knickerbocker Hospital in New York during the early part of the twentieth century.There is a African-American doctor named Algernon Edwards,graduated at Harvard Medical School. People are very unfriendly to him, even the patients .The other doctors also have predictably racist reactions...
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...original paintings is that the painting allows the viewer to break through the “wall” and actually experience the feelings and emotions expressed in the painting.[1] Guernica was a unique painting for Picasso to create because he never wanted to be influenced by the outside world. Historians argue that Guernica is the exception and Picasso allowed him-self to be influenced and expressed his views. However, after deeply known about Guernica and Picasso, you may think that Guernica does not affect Picasso, instead, Picasso effects Guernica. Guernica is a town in the province of Biscay in Basque Country. During the Spanish Civil War, it was regarded as the northern bastion of the Republican resistance movement and the epicenter of Basque culture, adding to its significance as a target. The Republican forces were made up of assorted factions with wildly differing approaches to government and eventual aims, but a common opposition to the Nationalists. The Nationalists, led by General Francisco Franco, were also factionalized but to a lesser extent. They sought a return to the golden days of Spain, based on law, order, and traditional Catholic family values. At...
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...Disneyland was not successful for various reasons which include planning , cultural differences etc. Evaluating some of the areas that went wrong in case of Euro Disney: Walt Disney, a highly successful organization of US, comes up with a theme park, Euro Disney located outside of Paris, France. The Walt Disney Company was one of the American organizations which expand its business to the foreign soil. Doing a very successful and profitable business throughout US, California and Florida, the company established its first foreign venture Tokyo Disneyland, another winning and profitable business of Walt Disney. Being successful from Tokyo Disneyland, the company decided to further expand abroad and enhance its foreign presence, Euro Disney comes forward. But in case of Euro Disney, the company made some wrong steps in decision making which in turn experienced numerous complications from its inception. Below some areas are discussed critically that went wrong in case of Euro Disney. Location or area and environment selection were wrong in first place. Though French suggested to building the Euro Disneyland into the East Paris despite the West because it could turn the people from East to West. Paris is colder than California and Florida, so people weren’t interested to visit for a long time. Environment is a big issue for any business setup, but Euro Disney made the selection wrongly. Another bold issue was cultural differences. Cultural differences exist in each country and those...
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...product of its environment and decade - the 70s” (encyclopedia). The attitude of punk has been around almost twenty years before the music and the music was able to communicate the messages of athese rebellious teenagers. The roots of punk are disputed constantly. Some believe it started in U.K., while others claim it started in New York City. Regardless of where punk started it still has the same foundation anywhere in the world. John Savage brilliantly explains this concept of punk in Pre-Punk Rock: Strakhov 2 In fact, what became known as Punk during 1975 and 1976 had been floating around in various different guises in several cities during the previous few years: New York, Cleveland, Paris, and London to name but four. It was an international sense of boredom with the prevailing culture that saw misfits of all hues go back to maudit, maladjusted noise and try it on for size. Throw it at the wall, fuck you all: life stinks, it's shit, I don't care, oh woah oh. (Savage) People,...
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...competition stops being about playing dress and becomes the exact opposite. People are stripping away the regalia of privilege, the gowns, and suits, and uniforms, and the judges decide whether or not what is left is ‘real’ enough. In a word where fortune and power is out of your reach, your aesthetic becomes your currency...how closely your body resembles the ‘real’ thing. This is where the ever prevalent Western ideals of beauty intrude upon what, in my mind, is a farce otherwise. This is where we see individuals like Octavia and Venus - light skinned, slender, and beautiful - shine. Here is where the line between parody and condemnation blur in the film, and Dorian comments about how big a role Dynasty plays in the ever changing ball culture. They emulate the very system that oppresses them, and I get the sense from the interviews that their desire to be uplifted into the echelons of white wealth and privilege is decidedly singular. And, when talking of these dreams of success, I don’t get the sense of inclusion from our protagonists. Instead, their goals seem rooted in the self or the house. Perhaps it’s a symptom of youth, because among the mothers, whose dreams have already faded, you do see more criticism about community both within and without. Or perhaps it’s the director’s lens, more concerned about individual stories desires, I can’t say which. Either way, when they dress in gowns, straighten their hair, and lighten their skin, I don’t see that as an ironic commentary...
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...business ventures. We have adopted the PESTEL Analysis methodology to arrive to our conclusion. | INDEX 1. Introduction 2. Timeline: France 3.1 History 3.2 Present 3.3 Future 3. PESTEL Analysis 4.4 Political 4.5 Economic 4.6 Social 4.7 Technological 4.8 Environmental 4.9 Legal 4. Summery 5. Conclusion 6. Bibliography Introduction France – officially known as the ‘French Republic’, is one of the most influential nations and has dominated the world with its art, culture, fashion, economy and military. Located in Western Europe, France is spread over an area of 640,000 Sq. Kms and shares its borders with Spain in south and Belgium, Luxemburg, Germany, Italy, Switzerland, Italy, Monaco and Andorra in north. Capital city of France is Paris, and other major cities and industrial centres include, Bordeaux, Strasbourg, Valence and Nimes. Paris, the capital city of France is one of the four fashion capitals of the world, also famous for Eiffel Tower – One of the seven wonders, this city boasts of hosting some of the biggest fashion related events of the world. France is a major player in political affairs of the world and is of the permanent members of UN Security Council. Economy of France is 5th largest in the world and 69 of the Fortune 500 companies are headquartered in France. One of the popular tourist destinations in France include Cannes, the coastal city in southern France...
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