...As R.J. Palacio once said. " I wish every day could be Halloween. We could all wear masks all the time. Then we could walk around and get to know each other before we got to see what we looked like under the masks." The inspiration of this quote was that people should not judge each other based off looks instead of personality. A lot of people jump to the conclusion of there a bad person just by their looks. Looks don't mean they are a bad person some aspects may look bad and that doesn't mean they are bad people. The quote inspired me emotionally. This is because to me, It feels as if they were saying this because they have been judged in a bad way. In which that would be the reason to wear the masks. The masks would hide how you look and...
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...Final Project Paper On The Art of the Governance Through Plaster Face Mask MSJ 11211(Sec-2) Spring 2014 Submitted To Marium Akhter Senior Lecturer Dept. Of Media Studies & Journalism Submitted By Asifur Rahaman Chowdhury. ID No: 131012078 Dept. MSJ Section: 2 Submission date: 24/04/2014 Governance In Financial Sector * Introduction: mass communication the study of communicating with the masses? Well, yes. But there’s more to it than that. Mass communication is about storytelling with strategy and purpose. The study of mass communication is centered around how messages persuade and affect the behavior and opinion of the person or people receiving the content. Mass communication has become a vital and seamless part of everyday human life. Today’s society is dependent on mass communication —from morning television news to social media feeds and blog posts from personalized advertising messages to branded content sponsored by a specific company. Messages sent by mass communicators help inform the public and often help set agendas and public opinion. Mass communicators help people develop an understanding of social problems and make informed decisions. The general public...
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...When I read the story on idea or behavior the it show is, we all wear a mask but we can never lie to ourselves. Many people have outward personas that we show the world. If it’s that were good people, courageous, fearless. The persona changes depending on the situation and with how we are interacting with it can be different if were at work, in front of family friends, our parents. This is not always a bad thing we wear these masks so that people see us as we want them to. However In greasy lake this was the mask of a “bad boy”. In the beginning of the story we get an internal monolog from the narrator setting the scene and telling us what kind of person he want us to think he is. “We were all dangerous characters then.” When the narrator says characters it really dive the point that they were acting. “We wore torn-leather jackets, slouched around with tooth picks in our...
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...decipher. My thoughts immediately after reading the text were that Kid Death was really a metaphor for Nick who had always hid behind a mask to appear frightening and cool but once you “took off his mask.” He was just another Geek like Kid Death. I also thought that the Angel must also be a metaphor for something, and I realized that it was a metaphor for the angel that had saved Nick. I thought that Kid Death and the Angel bundled together represented what we perceive as the “Devil and Angel on our shoulders.” The Devil is Kid Death and the angel being the angel. This showed nicks inner battle to either remain behind a mask and be cool like Kid Death and make Bad things happen. Or be good like the angel and not be so cool but still be good, in the end he chose the path of the Angel and this changed his life since he started being good and not always acting tough since he knew what happens if he does. Before the seminar, I had a pretty clear idea of what the subject of the story was. I remembered the general area of the subject of the story was to constantly travel the good path in life. In the scene near the end of the text where Nick was “frozen in time” and was looking at the angel saving his brother. He could choose to follow the path of the angel which symbolized him being good or choose the path of Kid Death and keep being bad (or keep on his mask) . He chooses the path of the angel and chooses to remain good. By selecting the best path in his life and by not acting tough, he...
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...babies being brought into the world with drugs already in their system due to their mother's addiction. Our children are growing up facing the consequences of their mother and father's poor decisions and actions. The question is, just how much does a parents alcohol and drug dependency and or addiction affect the lives of their children and their families? -http://www.drugs.ie/drugs_info/for_parents_carers/effects_on_the_family/ "The son or daughter of a parent abusing alcohol or drugs can also end up bogged down. They often adopt a role which helps the family, but they may get stuck in the role and neglect their own needs..." How a son or daughter with an addiction affects the whole family Whole families can seem to go to pieces when there is a son or daughter using drugs or alcohol. Parents fall out with each other over how to handle the situation, while other sons or daughters can get blamed for being a bad example. The drug user gets so much attention that others are neglected. Rows and bad language upset the peace. If peace and love are the oxygen of life, then the whole family is gasping for breath. In an airplane, if the oxygen masks are released, parents are supposed to put on their own masks before attending to their children’s masks. The same is true here. You must look after your own needs before helping the one causing the...
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...Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde; The Growth of Cities Leading to a Dangerous City, Full of Crime In the interesting science-fiction story The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, a story of morals, science, and a dangerous creature, the growth of the city, London, substantially leads to a symbolic place of danger and crime where people may seem innocent, but are deadly. Whether it is a symbol of hatred, or a place for people to hide as innocent, the growth of the city lead to the injury of a young innocent girl, and two people trying to balance the good and bad in their life. Throughout the story, many bad, unfortunate, and scary things take place to many innocent people. Throughout these events, the city of London seems to be a...
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...Throughout the novel the boys constantly battle losing themselves to savagery in many different scenarios.In the Lord of the flies,loss of identity enable the boys on the island to commit evil actions that they would normally not do. Throughout the novel we witnesshow gradually the boys start to lose humanity and end up killing eachother at the end of this process.’’There we no words,and no movements but the tearing of teeth and claws’’(chapter 9 pg 139).Life on the island was being striiped away of civilization and the killing of simon was the last link of any civilization the boys had in themselves.Through this brutal animalistic murder of simon the smallest ounce of good they had left in themselves was quickly ripped away.Due to this event the boys all had become inhumane savages and lost who they really were....
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...For example, the text refers to one of the ballerinas, “She must have been extraordinarily beautiful, because the mask she wore was hideous.” (Vonnegut 95–96).If the mask was actually trying to make people equal and not feel bad, then the mask would have to prevent people from knowing how beautiful the person was.It was more ironic in the story than the director’s interpretation, because in the director’s interpretation it didn’t really show that the uglier mask the more beutiful the person, it looked like the people had the same masks as ballerinas, and in the story it showed that the uglier mask the more beutiful the person, which is very...
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...1. Do we wear masks? How is it either good or bad depending upon the circumstances? Yes in certain cases we do wear masks. It could be used in a good or bad way. You could be covering an assortment of different situations. In some cases it could be something sensitive or it could be hiding something deceitful. I believe everyone has worn some type of mask. 2. Comment on the following: “Martin Luther King, Jr. was right: We can overcome, despite adversity, the trend toward mediocrity, and the temptation to rationalize our weaknesses. You simply cannot keep a good person down.” No matter what kind of scenario a good person is faced with they will pull through. It is likely they are a good person because they’ve already experienced tough times and know how to deal with them now. They know that no matter what nothing will keep them down. They have the want and desire to handle any situation. Sometimes it takes a person going through a tough time to realize what they’re really made of. 3. How do you rate yourself as a risk taker? How well do you handle change? I would say I’m in the middle on risk taking. I’ve always taken a cautious approach. In some cases I’ve gone about it different but for the most part it’s been cautious. I can deal well with change. I have been able to adapt to any environment and become accustomed to the change. 4. After reviewing your responses to the Life Events Stress Test from last week, briefly describe three major causes of stress...
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...The Mask: Personality Conformity & Self Acceptance A person is an amalgamation of other people’s personalities combined. They meet someone, and they subconsciously change ever-so-slightly. Does this mean people actually have a personality? Well, that unique combination of personalities is what makes it their own. However, people keep conforming to be like others and ‘fit in’ that everyone is just wearing a mask; masked by a pretense. It’s a safety precaution. The mask must be broken first before they show their true face. However, people keep changing in this never-ending spiral of conformity, eventually the real person behind the mask is gone, and all that is left is the mask itself. Everyone conforms. It’s natural and it’s even assumed that “conformity may have been of survival value when interacting with other tribes of cavemen” (Peutherer). Of course, we don’t live in the ‘dinosaur’ era anymore. We live in a modern time and we still change, but this time, it’s for social survival in a cruel and judgemental society. It’s not a good thing,...
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...tell the truth to people. When people ask, 'How are you?' have the nerve sometimes to answer truthfully. You must know, however, that people will start avoiding you because, they, too, have knees that pain them and heads that hurt and they don't want to know about yours. But think of it this way: If people avoid you, you will have more time to meditate and do fine research on a cure for whatever truly afflicts you.” ( Maya Angelou, Letter to My Daughter). This paper will talk about whether honesty is always the best policy. Honesty is always the best policy unless in certain situations like when someone else's feelings are at stake, personal protection, and self preservation. “ I have three children - how may I teach them to walk...
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...Bali as a work of Art Art as central activity of Balinese life We have no art, we do everything the best we can Why Bali focus on art? Bali is example of sociocentric culture Persona-based self: It is the dramatis personae, not actore, tha Dramatis persone: Persona = Mask, the mask the not only put on the faces, point the certain role A face a people wear represent the role that they suppose to play. For example: mask life, role on stage, a part on drama, unique person with personal thought feeling and desire. Why Balinese are different: Egocentric: First name, highly individual, unusual names replace common names NAME Name get more unique this day Bali: 4 types of name: First name utterly individual: often nonsense syllable, not much used, in adulthood becomes private, secret. Children most often called by birth order name: Wayan, Njoman, Made, Ktut. Ideal 4 kid in a family, 5th kid start again with Wayna and so on Name is not gendered, third king id tiltle name is high statues used after marriage. Teknonym: naming in terms of a relationship. Name to their youngest descendant: father of…, grandfather of …., keep changing if get younger and younger decendant. Freud’s theory of Repression: Oedipus crisis: boy fears castration, also indentifies with his dad ( introjects), also introjects social rules (which dad symbolizes). Scary person threatening punishment comes into self, scare one inside your head. Boy Felt angry about dad, believe dad had aggressive...
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...Masks “An Extravagance of Laughter" by Ralph Ellison exemplifies the trials and tribulations of a young black man struggling not only to be accepted by society but by himself as well. This essay is primarily concerned with questions of race and interaction between people of different races in different times and places. As Ellison travels from a community of apparent segregation (South) to the (North), he learns that distinctions between cultures are not as definite as they may seem. This idea of masking became a very important concept because of the transition between the north and south. There were a few examples in the story were people were hiding behind masks to either fit in, as well as people who did not hide behind the masks. Taunted by humiliation from releasing emotional laughter Ralph Ellison arrives at the finale of his essay in disbelief. He probably hadn't counted on one scene in a play changing his perspective of life. This scene enabled him to reach the conclusion of his exploration. He realized that the absurdity of human nature is all common. Everyone is just at least a little bit the same. Ellison battled with the concept of "masking" throughout the essay. Masking can best be defined as changing one's perspective from the inside out. Or as W. B. Yeats puts it so eloquently in the essay, "active virtue, as distinct from the passive acceptance of a current code, is the wearing of a mask" (268). The person wearing the mask is no longer a part of the original...
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...We Wear The Mask “We Wear The Mask”, by Paul Dunbar is a poem that was written in 1896, that depicts how African-Americans must disguise their true emotions by smiling, laughing, and going along like their not being discriminated against. During slavery, African-Americans were treated with such humiliation and disrespect, that they had to cover their real emotions just to make their daily lives easier. Also they had to keep quite while being discriminated against, or they would have to face the consequences of being lynched, tortured, or imprisoned. In this close reading, I will elaborate what message Paul Dunbar is trying to convey to the audience, and how “ Wearing the Mask”, can even be applied today. Paul Laurence Dunbar was the first African-American to gain national recognition as a poet. He was born in 1872 in Dayton, Ohio, where he was the son of former slaves. Although Dunbar only lived to be thirty-three years old he was well known for writing short stories, novels, librettos, plays, songs, and poetry. In the article titled , “ Black Naturalism, White Determination Paul Laurence Dunbar’s Naturalist Strategies, it explains, how Dunbar had to create literary strategies that were capable of critiquing the problems African-Americans had to face, but at the same time he would not explicitly confront white readers beliefs regarding blacks. I believe the perfect example of this is “ We Wear the Mask”, because Dunbar is sending subliminal messages of how African-Americans...
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...the Holy People lived in the underworld and helped by guiding the First Man and First Woman to earth (McCoy 1988). The Holy People are said to be attracted to songs, dances, and chants during the ceremony along with the creation of Sand painting. The Sand painting is used in the healing process of the ceremony to draw a picture that tells a story of the Holy People. The Navajo culture have amazed so many people to how beautifully constructed the rituals are performed. Although, the ritual has been passed on from generation to generation, how the Navajo rituals are ways of communication has been questioned by so many. Many believe that it way for the patient to come into “…harmony… ” with the universe (Klukhohn and Leighton 1962). The hypothesis for the question was presented based on exploration of the culture done by researchers; concluding that, the Navajo rituals are a way of communication to their ancestors/the Holy People, who are worshiped in return of good lucks for the Navajo Community. It is believed that through this ceremony, people are cleansed from bad spirit and good luck is brought upon the family. For example, the rituals are performed on pregnant women, young men going to the army, and sick people. Naturally speaking, the most intriguing part of their belief is the ceremonial concepts of healing people through the performance of these rituals. The Native Americans are known for being the first people on the land before the Europeans and Spanish came and invaded...
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