...Lena Horne was one of the first African American renaissance women. She was an accomplished actor as well a singer. In late 1933 Horne joined the Cotton Club, a famous night club found in Harlem, New York City. A few years later Horne joined Noble Sissle orchestra.With Sissle she recorded and released her first single. In 1942 Horne replaced Dinah Shore as the featured vocalist on the NBC show The Chamber Music Society of Lower Basin Street. It wasn’t until 1943 that Horne, with two low budget films to her credit, was scouted and signed to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) becoming the first black person of any gender to sing with a major label. As a result of her race Lena was never cast into a leading role and most of her scenes were edited out when showed. Lena Horne became dissatisfied with the Hollywood life and became focused on her career in the nightlife. Over the years Horne established herself as one of the top night club performers. Headlining in prestigious clubs in America as well as Canada and Europe. Throughout the 1950’2 and 1960’s she had numerous appearances in various variety shows in America. During the seventies she co-starred in show with tony Bennett and toured through the U.S.in addition to touring with Bennett in the seventies Horne appeared as herself in famous show such asThe Muppet Show and Sesame Street and up into the eighties with a spot on The Cosby Show.Horne earned other awards for her works later on in the furture. When she died in ealry 2010 she...
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...Compare the Way Shakespeare Creates a Sense of Sorrow in Romeo’s Speech and ‘After A Journey’ by Thomas Hardy The poem ‘After a Journey’ by Thomas Hardy, is an ‘Emma Poem’ where Hardy mourns the death of his wife, Emma, showing his regrets about how he treated her when she was alive. Both the Shakespeare play and the poem have a strong sense of sorrow, Romeo’s sorrow is created by the use of dramatic irony throughout his last speech, whilst ‘After a Journey’ contains a lot of contrasting imagery of Emma when she was alive and then later as a ghost. In Act 5 scene 3, Romeo has just found Juliet in the tomb following her funeral. Romeo is struck by the way Juliet's beauty appears to defy death she still looks alive to him, "Why art thou yet so fair? Shall I believe That unsubstantial Death is so amorous?" These rhetorical questions create a sense of sorrow for Romeo as he appears to believe that her beauty preserves her from dying. The dramatic tension is emphasised by the reader’s awareness that Romeo is seeing the physical signs of Juliet's recovery from her sleep. Secondly, Shakespeare uses dramatic irony to create a feeling of horror and despair. For example ‘Come, bitter conduct, come, unsavoury guide. Thou desperate pilot, now at once run on The dashing rocks thy seasick, weary bark. Here’s to my love!’ The reader is aware that Juliet is not dead and can only watch with horror when Romeo is drinking the poison. ‘The dashing rocks thy seasick, weary bark’ foreshadows...
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...Hapai kan I will tell you about “hapai kan” legend, like my mother told me this night when the moon was shining. My mom said to me: come on here because I will tell you about “hapai kan”. Near of old Uxmal’s wall, it had a cave with dirty waters. There was a snake with wings, its name is “hapai kan”. Before it lived near of Izamal town, but it went out of its ancient place because this place where it was living was too dry and because the children ran out (it ate them). In a year, it swallowed 41 children over. Every year, it flies with the mouth upwards in the sky. It has a watchman who cares for it and its name is: h-waya´as. An H-waya´as is a Baalba´al, it is dirty, revolting with long hair around for all its body. It was inside the cave and caring for “hapai kan”. Its work is to search children to take them at the cave so hapai kan swallowed them. Hapai kan can bring a child towards itself with its hot mouth, even though child being so far like a distance of 4 walache´es. There are impenetrable labyrinths inside it cave. There anybody could get lost. People don’t allow their children go there. Once a year, it goes out by 4 directions: north, south, east, and west. After 5 days it will come back. When it go out, Baalba'al H-Waya'as turn it face upward; and when it come back at its cave it is face downward. While it flies on the world, it spreads a scabies or malignant fluff similar to the corn. This way everything spreads on the 4 cardinal points. As consequence would...
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...Introduction Lena Horne was an actress,singer and performer. She led a interesting and inspirational life. Who elevated the status of African Americans in the Performance Arts and created a legacy. Her childhood Lena's father worked in the gambling trade and left their family when Lena was only 3. Her mother was an African American Theatre Troupe and because of that she traveled very often. Lena was mainly raised by her grandparents ,because of her mother's job. Lena sometimes traveled with her mother all throughout different parts of the South,before she went back to live with her grandparents in 1931. After her grandparents death, Lena went to go live with her mothers friend Laura Rollock for an short while until Lena's mother remarried...
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...Samples are provided for reference only. Always consult current legislation in your jurisdiction to create policies and procedures and contracts for your organization. SAMPLE AGREEMENT This Agreement is entered into as of the XX day of October, 200X, between ___________(“the Committee”) and ____________ (“the Contractor”). 1. Independent Contractor. Subject to the terms and conditions of this Agreement, the Committee hereby engages the Contractor as an independent contractor to perform the services set forth herein, and the Contractor hereby accepts such engagement. 2. Duties, Term, and Compensation. The Contractor’s duties, term of engagement, compensation and provisions for payment thereof shall be as set forth in the budget which is attached as Schedule A, which may be amended in writing from time to time, or supplemented with subsequent estimates for services to be rendered by the Contractor and agreed to by the Committee, and which collectively are hereby incorporated by reference. 3. Expenses. During the term of this Agreement, the Contractor shall bill and the Committee shall reimburse her for all reasonable and approved out-of-pocket expenses as set forth in Schedule A which are incurred in connection with the performance of the duties hereunder. 4. Written Reports. The Committee may request that project plans, progress reports and a final results report be provided by Consultant.. A final results report shall be due at the conclusion of the project...
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...In contrast to Among the Free, within Lucas Pope’s puzzle game Papers, Please, the story revolves around in the shoes of an unnamed lowly laborer deriving from a village in Arstotzka. The worker is assigned a government job as a bureaucrat, working along the Arstotzka-Kolechia border checkpoint as an inspector inspecting passports and paperwork, hence the name, “Papers, Please”. Although performing a government job, the character and their family can barely get by in the authoritarian, anti-democratic Communist nation. The time frame of the game takes place shortly after Artoska opens its borders, allowing its citizens to leave, and eventually to let foreigners in. This resulted from a peace deal between Kolechia and Arstotzka after a war. When playing Papers, Please, Lucas Pope distills a sense of hopelessness and desperation into the player, while still maintaining puzzle elements that keep them playing. The social commentary on dystopia is entirely up to the player, making the story very unique from differing perspectives. As the game progresses, policies and rules about your job and society become increasingly absurd, with supervisors punishing the player for the slightest mistake. Plus, frequent terrorist attacks are conducted during the playthrough, despite if you did your job perfectly or not. Inspectors will come every ten days to inspect your work station. If you hang a family photo, your son’s drawing, or anything not permitted, you are fired and are placed in a labor...
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...The setting of Gatlin, South Carolina in Beautiful Creatures plays a crucial role in the story as it’s supposed to be in a low populated town where one person know all of the public but if the setting were to change to lets say a populated city, not one person would know all of the public as it would have more citizens. As a result Lena and Ethan would not have met, considering that they met when Ethan is driving home and he is the only car on the road, he almost hits Lena since Lena standing in the middle of the road and Ethan didn’t have a clear view of her until he slammed on his brakes to stop from hitting her. But if this were in a populated city, there would have been many more cars on the road at that time and Lena could have gotten...
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...young girl, Lena Haloway, who falls in love in a society where love is seen as a disease. Plot The story is set in Portland, Maine, in an alternate present. Civilization is concentrated in those cities which escaped the severe bombings of decades past. Travel between cities is highly restricted. Electric fences separate the city from the Wilds—unregulated territory which was presumably mostly destroyed by bombs. The totalitarian government teaches that love is a disease, named amor deliria nervosa, commonly referred to as "the deliria". A surgical cure for the deliria has been developed and is mandatory for citizens 18 years old and over. Lena has looked forward to the procedure for years, convinced as she is by the government that love is a horrible disease that must be destroyed from mankind's system. However, mere months before her scheduled procedure, Lena falls in love with an Invalid (a person over 18 who has not taken the Cure and lives in the Wilds) named Alex. He was born in the Wilds outside the city, and has pretended to be cured in order to live undetected in the city and be in the resistance. He offers Lena the means of escape from the procedure that will destroy her ability to love. The two of them would leave the city and live in the Wilds, joining the rebels who oppose the procedure and the government. Although Lena struggles with the thought of leaving her life behind, she ultimately decides to go just seven days before her procedure. Alex and Lena are discovered...
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...Ethan Wate, who is obsessed with his urge to finish high school and go to college in order to leave behind, the small, weird town of Gatlin. Everything changed the moment when Ethan met Lena Duchannes, a mysterious girl who just arrived in town, Ethan found out that Lena was the girl in his dreams. Lena had a lot of problems from the time that she moved back her hometown. Lena told Ethan her dark secrets (being a caster) and family history, the story starts with Ethan’s love for Lena and her upcoming problem, which is her 16th birthday. Which medium: the novel or the film is most effective for telling this story? We will answer this question by comparing three parallel scenes from the novel and its filmed adaptation, in terms of how well each scene develops the plot, characters and overall theme of the story. There are hundreds of famous novels, which filmmakers turn them into a movie, whether they could be an unforgettable one or a boring movie, thus it’s important for the audience and the fans to figure out which one was more effective and successful. The plot development in the novel was good enough to represent the main points to the audience meanwhile in the movie the director cut so much of the plot, which made the movie so different from the novel. One was the telepathic conversation Lena and Ethan had in the novel, which was really important since most of the dialogs of the novel were from...
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...Spe'Shell Jolly-Sampson McCormick Honors English 5 15 Jan. 2011 In Amy Tans book The Joy Luck Club, Lena St. Clair a young Chinese-American female in America tells a brief story of her life. Starting in the chapter "The Voice From The Wall" Lena narrarates her younger parts of life, going to the chapter "Rice Husband" a chapter telling the parts of her life when she is a young adult. In the very begining Lena tells the readers of a time when she was five and a dark side of her mother Gu Ying-ying (Betty St.Clair) sprang from the basement in their Oakland house. The door was barricaded with a chair, chains and key locks. One day she tried to open the door and fell headfirst into the dark basement. That day her mother tells she why she should never open the door again, "He had lived there for a thousand years, and was so evil and hungry that had [Ying-ying] not rescued [Lena] so quickly, [the] bad man would have planted five babies in [Lena] then eaten [them] all in a six-course meal, tossing [their] bones on the dirty floor" (103.) This began the terrible visions Lena saw "[She] saw these things with her Chinese eyes,the part she got from her mother" (103.) As she got older she saw things not seen by the white girls at school. All through her life her mother hide the terrible things from her, "The Evil man in the basement," and "The lady sitting on the sidewalk old and young at the same time, with dull eyes as if she hasn't slept in many years. The tips of her...
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...make a difference in someone’s life. The relationship between the four main characters, Lena, Carmen, Tibby, and Bridget, is a strong one and they all share a special bond between one another. They all depend on one another and rely on each other. There are three instances where this general theme appears in the book. When Tibby has no idea of what she should do next and then Lena arrives to comfort her. Another instance would be when Carmen is at her opening night and she thinks that no one is there to support her and then she sees her three best friends in the front row and she suddenly feels jubilant. The final situation where you see the power of friendship is when Lena finds out that the Traveling Pants are gone. She then decides to go to Greece to find them and to her surprise, there are her friends waiting to go with her. These four characters are the perfect example about friendship and the power it possess. In the novel, you can already tell that one of the main characters, Tibby, has been through a lot in life and that she has this kind of resentment towards people that aren’t her friends. So it is good that she has them to keep her grounded. In the novel, Tibby has a problem. She thinks that she is pregnant causing a major conflict in the book and between characters. When Tibby has no idea of what her next move in life should be she gets an unexpected call from a concerned Lena. “Tibby. I’m here. I’m not in a hurry. Just say something so that I know you’re there.”...
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...store a worker yells at Ying-ying. She then asked Lena, ““What meaning?”- she asked me when a man st a grocery store yelled at her for opening up jars to smell the insides.”(106). This describes how Ying-ying is cautious by making sure what she wants to buy is good or fresh and not bad. The quote shows an example of an issue that may happen to people that are from different cultures. Doing something that is common in one culture may not be allowed in another. When at home Ying-ying starts to move the furniture all around. She then says “When something goes against your nature, you are not in balanced”(108). This means that when something doesn't feel right, you are most likely not going to feel to well and may act differently. She does not feel safe the way the house looks and wants to make change it....
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...making the story very interesting. “Spunk”, started out by describing “a giant of a brown skinned man ...” (Hurston, 1925, 502). The character described in the previous sentence, we later found out his name is Spunk Banks. Spunk Banks is described as a giant muscular man who is fearless and confident, which makes everyone scared of him. “But that’s one thing Ah likes about Spunk Banks – he ain’t skeered of nothin’ on God’s green footstool—nothing’!He rides that log down at saw mill jus’ like he struts ‘round wid another man’s wife –jus’ don’t’t give a Kitty….The rest of us was skeered to go ear it.” (Joyce, 1925, 502). In the story, Spunk is seen around carelessly with his arm around a married woman named Lena. Spunk was in love with Lena and would do anything to keep her. Lena was a small beautiful woman and Spunk’s...
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...Pandemonium is a dystopian novel set in a futuristic society where love is considered a disease called Deliria. To be cured of this disease, people undergo a procedure known as the cure. In the previous book, Delirium, Lena learns to love, realizes that the cure takes away all feelings whatsoever, and narrowly escapes the society, at the cost of her boyfriend, Alex. When the book starts, Lena is switching between the past and the present. In the past, she is found by a group of non cured people called the Invalids. They take her in and teach her how to survive without the comforts of the society. In the present, Lena is undercover in the society and gets captured by another group of non cured people called the Scavengers. She meets a boy named...
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...communities, city, and state. I chose to examine concerns and challenges of one’s culture depicted by some of the actresses and actor in A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry. In this book report, I will identify the unique needs of the different characters, and propose a plan for delivering culturally competent strategies to address those issues. Lena Younger Lena Younger is the mother of Beneatha and Travis. Lena is a God fearing lady whom is a dedicated hard worker. Lena lives in a small apartment with her two children, daughter-in-law, and grandson. Lena’s strong family loyalty is apparent all through the movie. Lena is going through emotional turmoil because of the passing of her husband. She finds out that she is to inherit a lump sum of money from her husband’s life insurance policy. Lena strong ties with her church and family places her in a predicament on how to spend her money. Although Lena would love to give the money to her church, but her dedication to her family and their living condition, she decides to purchase a house big enough for her family. (A Raisin in the Sun, 1961). By Lena showing how much she values her family and spiritual beliefs, functions as a driving force for the difficult decisions she made through the movie. All decision factors are definitely important factors for acquiring any treatment plans. The African American race is a distinct and growing set of ideas, beliefs, actions, and customs. Several of these practices...
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