...The Convolution of Love Virginia Fisher Student ID# 20441228 RS 180 Love & Friendship / Professor Carolyn Whitney-Brown 19/09/2013 The Convolution of Love “Is love a utopian dream or a possibility within our reach?” (Nouwen, 24). This essay will first, explore Henri Nouwen’s theory of reversibility or irreversibility of evil. Next, Nouwen’s perspective will be applied to the relationship between Louis and Janine and finally, this paper will examine the possibility of their capacity for love to change throughout the course of the book. Henri Nouwen composes a succinct vision of his reversibility or irreversibility of evil theory. There are two distinctive domains within, that of the “taking form of existence” and conversely, that of the “forgiving form of love”. The “taking form” is markedly comprised of the insidious need of destructive power over others and is enmeshed in a foundation of fear. One of the most prevalent forms of this destructive power is the use of an individual’s past which can become “the most lethal weapon in human relationships” spawning “shame, guilt, moral and even physical death” (Nouwen, 26). This hypothesis of irreversible evil is “definitive and unchangeable” and determines that all “mistakes are final and unforgiveable” which in turn, predestines us to the “impossibility of love” (Nouwen, 27). Conversely, the “forgiving form” embodies truthfulness, tenderness and a complete “disarmament” of self through “the confession of our total self to each...
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...Studying Abroad For Future Inspirations Teenagers nowadays are trying to find short cuts or quick ways to get over with their academic programs in high school. A lot of them seem to have no idea what they are about to do next; they just want to be done with school so they can enjoy their time. However, they do not realize the fact that their education is actually a major part of their life and finding their careers. Many teenagers tend to be clueless about their future and do not know their true talents or identities. It happens because teenagers love to try new things and go with the flow of their friends; they are confused with what they are really good at or interested in. When one has to be alone for a long time, he or she would have enough time to be able to identify his or her true identity; studying abroad is the solution. It is very difficult to see the whole picture for the new faces in other countries because they could not solve their problems on their own. This phenomenon usually occurs with the closed family culture. So, going overseas leads teenagers to improve their solving skills when they encounter obstacles. The more difficulties they faced, the more they are able to handle in any situation. A French novelist, Marcel Proust, once stated that, “The only real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.” Seeing the new side of the world brings juveniles to discover their new attitudes about the real life. More over...
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...Wassily Kandinsky Wassily Wassilyevich Kandinsky was an influential Russian painter and art theorist. He is credited with painting the first purely abstract works. Born in Moscow, Kandinsky spent his childhood in Odessa. He enrolled at the University of Moscow, studying law and economics. Successful in his profession—he was offered a professorship (chair of Roman Law) at the University of Dorpat—he began painting studies (life-drawing, sketching and anatomy) at the age of 30. Born: December 16, 1866 Occupation: Law Professor A few works’ names: On White II Composition X Henri Matisse Henri-Émile-Benoît Matisse was a French artist, known for his use of colour and his fluid and original draughtsmanship. He was a draughtsman, printmaker, and sculptor, but is known primarily as a painter.[1] Matisse is commonly regarded, along with Picasso and Marcel Duchamp, as one of the three artists who helped to define the revolutionary developments in the plastic arts in the opening decades of the 20th century, responsible for significant developments in painting and sculpture.[2][3][4][5] Although he was initially labelled a Fauve (wild beast), by the 1920s he was increasingly hailed as an upholder of the classical tradition in French painting.[6] His mastery of the expressive language of colour and drawing, displayed in a body of work spanning over a half-century, won him recognition as a leading figure in modern art. Born: December 31, 18 1869 Occupation: known primarily as...
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...connection of geometry, spatial relation, Birth of perspective and awareness of 3rd dimension along with study of anatomy in visual representation. The rise of individualism due to advent of humanism) 11. Baroque Painting & sculpture. 12. Rococo art and furniture/ interiors. 13. What is semiotics and semantics? Understanding the impact of industrialization and New Technology and the origin of it, the ‘enlightenment’. 14. Romanticism & Realism: in relation with the fall of Napoleon and outbreak of the war, French revolution, Darwin, Karl marks, birth of photography and change in perception of visual experience 15. What is modern? What is modern art? Impressionism and Expressionism Monet, Manet, Van Gogh, Edward Munch, Henri Matisse, Kandinsky, Sculpture-August Rodin. 16. Development of capitalism in modern western societies. Encroachment of commercial values upon all aspects of cultural practices. Art as anti establishment practice (Dada as anti art a nihilistic movement). The art of Marcel Duchamp, Pablo Picasso, and Jackson Pollok (additional...
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...INDIAN INSTITUTE OF MANAGEMENT, ROHTAK A Report on International Business SUBMITTED TO: Mr. Rojers P Joseph SUBMITTED BY: GROUP C, SECTION B Akshay Gupta (PGP05055) B. Vinod(PGP05062) Gangandeep Pannu (PGP05067) Kriti Gupta(PGP05075) Mitali Chauhan (PGP05077) ABSTRACT Nestle is the world’s largest food company, and among the world's 40 largest corporations. It operates in approximately 500 factories in 83 countries and employ over 230,000 people. In spite of its global reach, what makes Nestlé special is that each of its national companies has the flexibility to make their own decisions – in order to best meet the needs of their own people and communities. Each region can choose to sell the brands that satisfy their own consumers’ unique needs. And yet, as part of the larger organization, all benefit from access to global resources, decades of experience and our large chain of research and development centres. This makes it multidomestic in nature. The company has a history of various successful strategies which has helped Nestle each to a level which we see it today. This study is done to understand its various entry strategies in multiple geographies around the globe and also to understand its differentiating factor which make it the leading brand. Nestle has first mover and competitive advantage over its peers. It is known for its innovations, successful marketing strategies, R&D , CSR activities and localization across geographies. This study...
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...SURFACE LEVEL DIVERSITY, DEEP LEVEL DIVERSITY, AND ORGANIZATIONAL COMPETITIVENESS ABSTRACT Surface level diversity is the mixture of people who differentiate by sex, race or ethnicity, and the observably physically disabled. These differences typically cannot be changed and are easy to measure because they are visual. Deep level diversity are differences such as personality and attitudes that can be communicated through verbal and nonverbal behaviors. Diversity can be affiliated with socio-economic factors such as education, profession, job function, and social class. These three components of diversity affect how individuals operate in the workplace. Diversity can channel a sense of competitiveness, which has pros and cons. The purpose of this study is to understand how surface level diversity, deep level diversity, and competitiveness effect employees in the workplace. We also would like to understand the effect management has on diversity and competitiveness. INTRODUCTION What began for many as an effort to meet governmental and legal requirements has evolved into a strategic priority aimed at positioning organizations more competitively in the marketplace (Hansen, 2003). At a time diversity was just a guideline for organizations to meet, not something that was used as an instrument to truly improve the efficiency of an organization. Companies now put more effort into improving the diversity within their organization. Organizations devote resources to a variety...
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...Characteristics of a Service What exactly are the characteristics of a service? How are services different from a product? In fact many organisations do have service elements to the product they sell, for example McDonald’s sell physical products i.e. burgers but consumers are also concerned about the quality and speed of service, are staff cheerful and welcoming and do they serve with a smile on their face? There are five characteristics to a service which will be discussed below. 1. Lack of ownership. You cannot own and store a service like you can a product. Services are used or hired for a period of time. For example when buying a ticket to the USA the service lasts maybe 9 hours each way , but consumers want and expect excellent service for that time. Because you can measure the duration of the service consumers become more demanding of it. 2. Intangibility You cannot hold or touch a service unlike a product. In saying that although services are intangible the experience consumers obtain from the service has an impact on how they will perceive it. What do consumers perceive from customer service? the location, and the inner presentation of where they are purchasing the service?. 3. Inseparability Services cannot be separated from the service providers. A product when produced can be taken away from the producer. However a service is produced at or near the point of purchase. Take visiting a restaurant, you order your meal, the waiting and delivery...
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...Ugh. You're up an hour early, your body hates you for it, and even a gallon of coffee can't get your day on track. “Daylight saving sucks’’ “We lost an hour this morning” “awaking to an already sunny sky.” “We feel robbed an hour from our day”. These are only some of the things I’ve heard citizens comment on about daylight savings and I’m here to change the way people think about daylight savings. Good morning federal opposition of the annual daylight savings, my name is Emily fields CEO of Coles and I’m here to exemplify the reasoning into why daylight savings is actually extremely beneficial to today’s living standards. Daylight savings time is the practice of advancing clocks during mid-spring until mid-autumn months for more daylight during...
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...Henri Matisse One of the most important French painters of the 20th century. The leader of the Fauvist’s movement around 1900. Matisse's artistic career was long and varied, covering many different styles of painting from Impressionism to near Abstraction Painted in 1917 it an oil painting Traditional oil painting techniques often begin with the artist sketching the subject onto the canvas with charcoal or thinned paint. Oil paint is usually mixed with linseed oil, artist grade mineral spirits or other solvents to create a thinner, faster or slower drying paint. A basic rule of oil paint application is 'fat over lean. This means that each additional layer of paint should contain more oil than the layer below to allow proper drying. If each additional layer contains less oil, the final painting will crack and peel. The painting is 96 3/8 x 79 in. (244.7 x 200.7 cm). It is currently on display courtesy of the Barnes Foundation at Lincoln University in Merion, Pennsylvania. Some Observations The use of lines shapes and color are soft. The focal areas are the piano and the pianists were what caught my attention first Atmospheric Asymmetrical Some repetition cool colors The sense of movement could be both or combines due to the person sitting outside The Artwork is juxtapose Frida Kahlo She was born on July 6, 1907, in Coyoacan, a suburb of Mexico City. When she was six years old she contracted polio which left her with a deformed right foot and the cruel nickname...
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...MATISSE AND PICASSO The article on Matisse and Picasso’s story of contradiction that later on developed into friendship shows us that art unites everyone. Artists may have different styles, techniques and opinions but these abstractionists found what is dominantly common among their works. They may not have liked each other’s works at first but gradually, they have learned to work with each other. This agreement signaled the birth of another art movement, abstraction. Their works are highly geometric and the colors are vibrant; much like what we see in modern art. The idea of abstraction is pure self- expression, contrary to the traditional realistic painting. Henri Matisse and Pablo Picasso are two of the greatest abstractionists known in history. They have proven that “ugly art” may still be considered beautiful in the eyes of the viewer. Without their intertwining ideas, mankind may have not developed a fresher sense of Art. The things we see around today may be the old school Renaissance or Victorian themed artworks with the sober colors and all. Matisse and Picasso’s collaboration have reinvented art itself. Using geometric figures, they have proven that there are no strict rules in art. Like everything else, it undergoes changes. It can be modified overtime. After all, art is all about being you. This somewhat rebellious art style is extraordinary. It may not directly portray the story of Picasso and Matisse’s friendship but through in-depth research, one can conclude...
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...Racism is a term that is often used to describe a variety of social, culture and economic problems, but has, unfortunately, acquired “so many contradictory meanings that it takes on the aura of a myth,” it has become increasingly difficult to define . Although the term wasn’t officially featured in the Larousse Dictionary until 1932, racism had been a dark cloud hanging over the global horizon for centuries (de Benoist, 1999). Whenever there are people of different cultural and social characteristics introduced into the mix, a recipe for racism and the hostilities it generates is created. Because racism defies a singular definition but is usually represented by the categorizing of people according to certain criteria, it can perhaps best be understood by discussing the issue itself in terms of such categories as the reasons for racism, its causes, why it continues, and how its meaning is ever-changing. It is widely accepted by sociologists that racism is essentially an ideology or belief system with its foundation cemented by three basic ideas. First, there is the fact that human beings can be divided naturally into different physical types (Vorster, 2002). For example, Africans are ‘typed’ by their dark skin color and by their curly hair; Asians are known for their ‘yellowish’ skin color, black hair and slanted eyes, etc. Often, solely on the basis of these physical traits, assumptions are automatically made that become “intrinsically related to their culture...
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...The paparazzi are photographers who will certainly do anything to achieve their aim, gaining the profit from the photos of famous people and their families. They sell the photos to tabloids or anyone else who is willing to pay them a high price. (** Thesis Statement) This report will discuss and examine an opportunity of whether paparazzi could be seen one day in Thailand. Firstly, it will remind us the significant power of media in the present world and explain how people who relate to the process of generating the media unexpectedly support the paparazzi initiation in the media world. Furthermore the report will reveal the origin of the word “paparazzi” that was released first time in Italy and shortly expanded across the country in the negative terms. Then it will refer to some of apparently violent cases from the celebrities who became unfortunate victims of paparazzi; Princess Diana and Catherine Zeta Jones with her husband – Michael Douglas. It will then talk about the media ethics, moral, the definition of privacy and human rights, including show the conflict of celebrities privacy and public rights to know the celebrities lives. Lastly this report will offer the idea of the paparazzi motivation of who support their actions; the readers, the media commercial agency and paparazzi themselves. The Media Power in the Present World In the modern world we are undeniable against the media power in the present world which nearly absolutely influence on our life and society. Everyday...
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...BUSINESS ANALYSIS ON “NESTLE MALAYSIA BERHAD” Introduction [Nestle Logo (Famouslogos.us, 2012)] Nestle is a Swiss-based brand founded in 1866 by Henri Nestlé, a German pharmacist. Henri was a very enthusiastic person to globalise his company and advocates pragmatism, flexibility, learning initiatives, respect towards foreign cultures and many other key attitudes and values to stake a corporate culture that lasts until today. (Nestle, 2012) In 1912, Nestle was introduced as the Anglo Swiss Condensed Milk Company to Malaysia. Today, more than 140 years after born, the world’s leading nutrition, health and wellness company continue to improve human lives with nutritious food products. (Nestle, 2013) 1.0 PESTEC 1.0.1 Political, Legal & Governmental Forces [Religion Distribution (Department of Statistics, 2011)] To cater the major ethnic of Muslim market in Malaysia, Nestle has to restrict the process of food productions to ingratiate the Trade Description Order 1957 bound by the Syariah Law (Islamic Law). Under the Act, Nestle is prohibited to produce any food items which contain any parts from haram prohibited animals. During the process and preparation of product, Nestle must not use or touch any ingredients or equipments which are deemed...
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...What Makes Art Art? Art for me is a drawing, painting or hand created object that evokes a response in you. I am first attracted to art that appeals to me visually. Once attracted to the art then I am interested in the feelings and ideas that are generated from reviewing the piece of work. I am visually drawn to pencil drawings. Kolliwtz’s drawing’s of Hand to Forehead is an example of one of my visual attractions. You begin to wonder what she is feeling, and then as you analyze those ideas you begin to have an emotional response to the artwork. In this drawing I think she is illustrating a state of frustration. Then Kolliwtz’s Mother with Child in Arms, has the same visual attraction but a different emotional response. You have a happy playful emotional response that is generated from the content in the drawing. Color patterns that are bold or soothing also attract me. Mucha’s The Moon, the Evening Star, the Polstar, and the Morning Star, is an illustration of a color pattern that catches my attention. Unknown what each of the girls are expressing or the difference in the stars, I am drawn to the painting and feel light on my feet while experiencing it. I can appreciate bold expressions and messages in art as well. The content of Bottle Nude, by Margritte, isn’t for everyone to see and appreciate. The uniqueness in expression creates an interest in what you are supposed to see. She could be showing that a woman’s body is shaped like a bottle. Or there could be an underlying...
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...Hungarian descent shows a landscape of her own mind but in a cross society of two cultures in Self-Portrait at the Border between Mexico and the United States.Robert Henri, of the Ashcan School, prided themselves with portrayal of harsh hardships American living for the middle and lower class past the glitz and glamour of the industry. Frida Kahlo spent time in Detroit, New York and San Francisco with her husband Diego Rivera as he worked on commissions. In the painting, Self-Portrait at the Border between Mexico and the United States (1932)Frida shows both societies and cultures on both sides of her as she symbolizes the border. On the left side her native Mexico shows its vibrant historical and cultural heritage with it’s Aztec pyramid and abundant plants in the lower left of the painting. In contrast to gleaming industrial buildings on Kahlo’s right side Mexico shows a pile of rubble which can indicate that Mexico is not as developed as the United States and hold more rural tendencies. On her right Kahlo decorates the United States with factories and buildings. Instead of plants growing from the ground the viewer can see various technological advances. Although she stands equally on both countries, in her hand a Mexican flag shows where her loyalties lay. Frida did this work with oil on tin. American painter Robert Henri strips New York City of all it’s fame and glory with this harshly realistic piece, Snow in New York, done in 1901. The Ashcan School often did pieces like Snow...
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