...On February 21, 1933 Eunice Kathleen Waymon better known by her stage name Nina Simone was born in “North Carolina to John Divine and Mary Kate Waymon”. (Freyermuth, pg.1) A musical and deeply religious family; the Waymon household would prove to be the perfect incubus for Simone’s musical and moral origins. Father John Divine and mother Mary Waymon were both evangelical preachers in the town of Tryon, North Carolina and deeply involved in the service music of their Methodist church. “African-American spiritual and gospel music surrounded Eunice [Simone] from birth” and from a very early age Simone “displayed a natural ability for music.” (Freyermuth, pg.1) At just “two and a half [years old] her parents found Eunice sitting at their family...
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...recently finished filming THE QUIET ONES opposite Jarred Harris, and MARY & MARTHA, in which he co-stars with Hilary Swank. THE HUNGER GAMES: CATCHING FIRE begins as Katniss Everdeen has returned home safe after winning the 74th Annual Hunger Games along with fellow tribute Peeta Mellark. Winning means that they must turn around and leave their family and close friends, embarking on a "Victor's Tour" of the districts. Along the way Katniss senses that a rebellion is simmering, but the Capitol is still very much in control as President Snow prepares the 75th Annual Hunger Games (The Quarter Quell) - a competition that could change Panem forever. THE HUNGER GAMES: CATCHING FIRE will be directed by Francis Lawrence, and produced by Nina Jacobson’s Color Force in tandem with producer Jon Kilik. The novel on which the film is based is the second in a trilogy that has sold more than 50 million books in print and digital in the U.S. alone. Lionsgate will release THE HUNGER GAMES: CATCHING FIRE on November 22, 2013. Ongoing casting news and information for the film can be found at: www.CatchingFireCasting.com...
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...1) Estrategia de mercadotecnica: Producto: Caracteristicas que buscan las ninas que tenga su muneca: 1) Que este de moda y que sea la mas innovadora, para obtener reconocimiento en su circulo social. 2) Que cuente con una amplia variedad de accesorios y ropa. 3) Que muestre un rostro de ternura caracteristico de los bebes. 4) Que sea lo mas real posible con mecanismos que les permitan reproducir la satisfaccion de las necesidades fisiologicas de los bebes. Principales marcas de Mattel> Little Mommy: Despues de Nenuco, es la marca mas recordada por las ninas. Cuenta con una amplia linea de accesorios. (Pertenece a Fisher Price – seguridad y calidad). Miracle Baby: Cuenta con muchos accesorios , como babero, sonaja y mamila, ademas de que cuenta con caracteristicas fisiologicas. Otras marcas: Princesa Alexa y Bebe Estrella> Ofrecen caracteristicas unicas como certificado de nacimiento y adopcion, aparte de contar con accesorios innovadores. Bebe estrella es percibida como la muneca mas abrazable. Niveles de producto> Base: Es el concepto principal de cuidar algo que es suyo. Estimulan las emociones de las ninas relacionados a la maternidad, que imitaran las actitudes de sus madres. Se desarrolla el respeto, reponsabilidad y cuidado de algo que les pertenece. Real: Las distintas caracteristicas que tienen las muñecas son de textura de cuerpo suave o duro, variedad de tamanos, cabello imitacion natural, y amplia variedad de ropa y accesorios...
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...Name Course Professor Date “Time is a Lie” – The Essence of Before Sunset Before Sunset is a spectacular film that tries very hard to restore one’s faith in lost connections. The movie has many interesting aspects to it. Quite a few interesting conversations are struck up by Jesse and Celine. But one aspect of the movie that really struck a chord was the cinematic realism in it. Linklater, the director, takes his time with the shots, letting the camera roll. “Time is fleeting”, as a caveat, has never been better portrayed. The movie plays with time at every turn, and the dialogue-heavy structure gives the character space to unfold. Jesse is trying to buy more and more time with Celine. He first takes her to a coffee shop, then a walk through the Parisian streets, followed by a boat ride down the river and finally some more time in the car ride and her apartment. Though the background changes continuously, the movie is essentially an 80 minute dialogue between the two characters. The fact that Linklater has not fast forwarded time in any of the scenes gives the movie a strong sense of realism. Nothing has been hurried. The characters take their own time to revive their lost connection. Throughout the movie, Linklater has played with time as a concept. As Jesse puts it during his book signing, “Inside every moment is another moment happening simultaneously” (Greco). The one exception to the on-screen realism takes place when Jesse is talking to reporters at the...
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...To Pay or Not To Pay: Zagat’s Dilemma Source: Laudon, KC & Laudon, JP 2013, Essentials of Management Information Systems, 10th Edition, Prentice Hall, New Jersey Founded by Tim and Nina Zagat, the Zagat Survey has collected and published ratings of restaurants by diners since 1979. Zagat publishes surveys for restaurants, hotels and nightlife in 70 major cities. Today, as more people use their smartphones for information on the go, Zagat is moving its content online and onto the mobile platform. It has been a struggle. Zagat has come a long way from its roots in the early 1980s when the food loving Zagats started compiling lists of their favourite restaurants for personal use and to share with their closest friends. To generate the first survey, the Zagats polled 200 people and increased that number over time. Executives, tourists and New York foodies alike found the list to be indispensable. Spurred by this success, the Zagats decided to publish a book with their survey themselves. The few booksellers that took a risk in stocking the book were rewarded with sales so robust that the Zagat Surveys became best sellers. The pair also published similar lists for other major cities, including Chicago, San Francisco and Washington DC. In addition to print books, Zagat opened a unit that creates custom guides for corporate clients, like the ones at Citibank. For a long time, this business model was sufficient to ensure that Zagat Survey was successful and profitable...
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...Sunshine and Noir in Historical Los Angeles: A Contextualization of Nina Revoyr’s Southland Nina Revoyr’s novel, Southland, provides a glimpse into the injustice, scandal, and struggle in Los Angeles from the 1940s to the 1990s due to its racial composition. The novel contains a unique cast of characters who, although often times interact with conflict, are forced to live side-by-side one another in their separate attempts to attain the American Dream. Southland takes its readers on a journey through a history full of trials and tribulations, with Los Angeles as its stage; throughout this story, the reader begins to understand that there was much more to this place than what was originally promised by the boosters. Revoyr makes it clear that Los Angeles, or Angeles Mesa to be more precise, during the time of the boosters, was not solely a place where one could find utopia, or sunshine – but also a place that was plagued with dystopia, or noir. Southland proves to be a story that illustrates how ethnic, racial, and gender differences can play a major role in one’s actions, behaviors, and perceptions of others. This novel uncovers the fact that Los Angeles was a socially stratified city, which was full of inhabitants who were governed according to their differences. Whether one was white, black, or Asian during the 1940s-1960s (especially in Angeles Mesa, as relevant to Southland) determined how others perceived and treated them. In a cyclic rotation, most of the time it...
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...Josephine Baker, nicknamed “Black Venus,” was a dancer, singer, and civil rights activist. She was given the name Freda Josephine McDonald upon her birth on June 3, 1906.[1] Josephine grew up poor in St. Louis, Missouri. At an early age she began dancing and found her fame on Broadway. Using her talents, she moved to France in the 1920s becoming a well-paid performer famously known for her semi-nudity --- wearing only feather and banana skirts.[2] Shortly after her arrival in France, Josephine married Willie Baker in 1921. Although the marriage did not last, she kept her ex-husband’s last name.[3] Besides dancing, Josephine was involved with the French Resistance of World War II as a Red Cross worker. Interestingly, she would perform...
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...A Voice for the Animals It should be against the law to have a license or even to buy an exotic animal to have as a pet. Having exotic animals as pets is an inherent risk to human health and safety. Owning these animals is also a risk for them they need to be able to roam free not caged up like a prisoner. They may seem cute and cuddly but they have a lot of responsibilities, they can turn on you, and expensive to have. Some owners have these animals and neglect them and that’s just an un humane thing to do. When people get these animals they don’t think about their health. Some of these animals carry diseases and people don’t know it till they have it. Experts have studied that at least one in three reptiles’ harbors salmonella and shigella. Salmonella is a bacterium that can kill you it is found in animal feces and contaminated food. People who have animals such as: Reptiles, baby chicks and ducklings, and small rodents such as hamsters are particularly likely to carry Salmonella. Shigella is also a bacterium that can infect the digestive tract and cause a wide range of symptoms. When someone has a monkey and chimpanzee, they can get this virus because it’s contagious. These animals should be in there natural environment instead of someone’s home or backyard. The animals are used to roaming around freely for hour’s even days depending on the animal and type. For example tigers travel about 6-12 miles a day and they hunt at night how can you take their routine...
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...El Niño y La Niña Anna Paulina Tamayo Student #: 10095960 Instructor: C. Konrad March17th 2013 SPAN 303 Este articulo se escribe con la finalidad de informar la importancia y repercusión de los fenómenos naturales mundiales conocidos como el niño y la niña. Estos fenómenos han creado una gran polémica por su enorme impacto en el mundo. El niño y la niña son fenómenos climáticos cíclicos que provocan estragos a nivel mundial, siendo las más afectadas América del Sur y las zonas entre Indonesia y Australia, provocando con ello el calentamiento de las aguas sud Americanas. Estos fenómenos no solo afectan al medio ambiente pero también son dañinos contra la salud humana, según Cantore, Jim (2003), los cambios de clima provocados por El Niño y La Niña resultan en un ambiente más amena para enfermedades como el dengue, la malaria y el paludismo. En el caso del fenómeno del niño, es una alteración térmica de las aguas marinas de las costas del pacifico que ha afectado profundamente la economía de los países de la costa primordialmente Perú y Ecuador, por su falta de productividad debido al fenómeno. El resultado sería un incremento de aguas cálidas hacia el este, es decir, hacia las costas intertropicales de América del Sur. El fenómeno consiste en ocasionar fuertes lluvias, inundaciones y deslaves capaces de afectar la infraestructura de las ciudades. Según Guerrero, Luis (2010), el nombre común de "El Niño" refiere al Niño Jesús, debido a las aguas inusualmente cálidas...
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...The three Asian American women I have chosen from the novel to discuss are Jackie Ishida, Lois Sakai and Rebecca Nakanishi. Jackie Ishida is one of the main characters in the “Southland”. She is Frank Sakai’s granddaughter and a lesbian law student at UCLA. Those characteristics are three things that are challenges in the legal community….Asian female law student who is a lesbian. Jackie is given the task by her Aunt Lois of finding answers to questions about her grandfather’s will. Jackie reluctantly sets out to find out why he has left his grocery store to Curtis Martindale and why he leaves $38,000 in cash. Jackie breaks away from concentrating full-time on law school and embarks on this mission. All she has to go on are Frank’s old pictures and his box of documents. As she reminisces about him, she remembers being close to him when she was young. She spent a lot of time with him because her parents were too busy with their lives to care for her. Her mother was in medical school and father was a doctor. Jackie admits to losing touch with him even though he tried to be a part of her life. As she begins her journey to find out who Curtis Martindale was, she is led to his cousin, James Lanier. He is an African American social worker who was still very connected to the Crenshaw neighborhood. He did not know Frank very well, but he was willing to help her because he needed answers about Curtis, too. He eventually he becomes a mentor to her...
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...you move mountains? Struggling photographer Nina Mosley (Nia Long) and struggling writer Darius Lovehall (Larenz Tate) have a lot in common, but they aren’t exactly prime candidates for a serious affair. The consummate ladies man, Darius’ silky smooth presentation promises more sell than substance. And Nina’s recently jilted heart isn’t looking for anymore of love’s kind of trouble. love jones begins with Nina and her good girlfriend Josie Nichols (Lisa Nicole Carson) packing up what’s left of Nina’s disappointing relationship. Fearful that the scars left from this failed romance may be too deep for her to heal, Josie takes her to a night-time poetry-slam at the Sanctuary, where she encounters Darius for the first time. The Sanctuary is the local haven where poetry is the prime draw, and a favorite night spot for Darius and his friends Savon Garrison (Isaiah Washington), Eddie Coles (Leonard Roberts), Sheila Downes (Bernadette Clark, and Hollywood (Bill Bellamy). “The romance dies between couples,” we overhear Darius telling his friends from his intellectual set, “because they’ve (people) given up on the possibility of it.” In an awkward introduction at the bar, Nina catches Darius off-guard and, uncharacteristically, he fumbles and spills his drink on her. He recovers minutes later when called to the stage to recite one of his poems. He makes the most of the moment by calling his sensuous creation “A Blues for Nina.” Flattered but embarrassed, she informs...
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...El Niño and La Niña Worksheet After exploring the websites, you will have enough information to answer the following questions. There are 19 true/false questions and 1 short answer question that need to be answered. Submit your work to your instructor and then complete the El Niño and La Niña Quiz. The information below explains how to answer the questions. * If the statement is True, answer True for full credit. * If the statement is False, answer False for half credit and then rewrite the sentence to make it a True statement. To make it True, you will likely only need to swap no more than 2-4 words that describe the main concept to make it true. Here are a couple of examples. Example #1: True/False: Most of the Earth’s weather occurs in the stratosphere. Answer: False. Correct the False: Most of the Earth’s weather occurs in the troposphere. Example #2: True/False: La Niña in Spanish means “the little boy” and El Niño in Spanish means “the little girl.” Answer: False Correct the False: La Niña in Spanish means “the little girl” and El Niño in Spanish means “the little boy.” OR it can also be written: El Niño in Spanish means “the little boy” and La Niña in Spanish means “the little girl.” Questions for Credit 1. Ocean waters off Peru and Ecuador become colder than normal during El Niño and warmer than normal during La Niña. Answer: 2. The effects of El Niño or La Niña cause changes in rainfall and temperatures...
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...Don DeLillo’s book, White Noise, tells the story of Jack Gladney and his family. Throughout the book, Jack takes on a professional, fictional persona resembling that of Hitler, being the Chairman of Hitler Studies at the College-on-the-Hill (DeLillo 4). Jack turns his professional persona into this fictional character, something he could transform himself into, as if he was filling a Hitler mold. Jack relies on this Hitler-esque persona to sustain his own personal identity and self-worth, although in his mind, this fake persona is only subsidiary to his own personality. Jack struggles with ascertaining the importance of himself as compared to the importance of his own made-up persona and this notion of fabricated reality becoming more important that actual reality is offered throughout White Noise. While in his role of Chairman of Hitler Studies, he refers to himself as J.A.K. Gladney and dresses in sweeping, dramatic robes while teaching. Jack also takes into consideration the advice of the chancellor, “He wanted me to “grow out” into Hitler. He himself was tall, paunchy, ruddy, jowly, big-footed and dull. A formidable combination. I had the advantages of substantial height, big hands, big feet, but badly needed bulk” (DeLillo 16). This impression of J.A.K. Gladney differed greatly from Jack’s own character, and the fact that he does not know German only adds to the plasticity of his fabricated self. The idea of false reality overtaking actual reality is shown by Jack and...
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...Psychological Assessment of Nina Sayer, The Black Swan Lisa Pinkerton PSY-215-Q3847 Southern New Hampshire University CASE STUDY Name: Nina Sayer Date of Evaluation: 02/01/2015 Date of Birth: 01/01/1992 Age: 23 years, 1 month PURPOSE FOR EVALUATION: Nina Sayer is a 23 year old, single, white female. She is the lead ballerina in a prestigious New York Ballet Company. She has been under an intense amount of stress due to the pressures of her job and her demands from her ballet director. She suffers from hallucinations and paranoid delusions. She describes her delusions and hallucinations as bizarre and sometimes violent. She has trouble recognizing what is real and what are her delusions and hallucinations. After struggling to get the role as the white swan in Swan lake, she is extremely paranoid and afraid that someone is trying to take her lead role in the ballet. She focuses this paranoia on a particular ballerina named Lily. She is extremely thin and shows signs of an eating disorder. She uses purging as a way to control her weight. Nina also has scars on her shoulders from self- mutilation. She seems very shy, reserved and almost childlike, but has moments of being very dark and reckless. This dichotomy in her personality causes her great distress. She feels she is under extreme pressure to be perfect for her mother and others. This obsession with perfection and her...
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...Scene 1 2011 Nina : Yasmin, do you know about shawl boutique, sincelybyus or as known as SBU? Yasmin : No, I don’t even know about it and where is it? Nina : SBU started with their own custom made long shawls and square shawls. Most of it they use paisley design. They getting started by only booth at UiTM Shah Alam and even they provide only finest material and the best quality. Yasmin : Oh really? Hmmm, let’s try to buy the shawl but I’m afraid that the shawl is same as others. Nina : Never mind. We just try. Scene 2 2014 Yasmin : Nina, SBU is having sale! (Scroll Instagram) Nina : Oh really? How do you know? (Exited) Yasmin : Look! ( Tunjuk kat nina phone) Aqeelah show advertisement ‘Save the date’. Merdeka/Hari Malaysia/Hari Raya Sale. Nina : Wow, when the sale will be held? Yasmin : Next week. Do you want to go with me? Nina : Yes, sure! Aqeelah show the advertisement Yasmin : Nina, look! They cut down the price. Special for that day. I am too excited for it. We can get the square shawl for only RM 20. The normal price is RM25. Nina : Yes, I am also excited to go there. Hey, did you know that if we upload our picture on Instagram and wearing their shawl and tagged them, they will repost it. I am really in love with the design. Yasmin : Yes, me too. Scene 3 At SBU Dina : Welcome to SBU. Free dialog between yasmin and nina. Choosing the shawls. Nina : I want to pay for this Yasmin : And this. Dina : Total RM150. Do you want to apply for the membership...
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