Actors Critical Thinkings Samples For Students

The play ‘Good People’ revolves around the life of a single mother, Margie Walsh and her search for a job after she is fired in her current job for being ineffective due to her tendency to work or report late occasionally. The play brings together her past life and her present to give the viewer a clue of the life she has lived and how it has shaped her to whom she is today. It is this ability to combine the past and the present that reveals clues as to who could be the father to Joyce, Margie’s daughter. Mike is ...

Question 1

a). A British’s post master general brings up an error after commenting on Alexander Graham Bell’s invention. According to him he predicted that the telephone would be used by those who were in rural areas of America to aid them to hear the New York Metropolitan Opera at home arguing that this could help them to save train fare. He also suggested that it would be no use but only to be used by housewife who could only keep her recipes on it. This is an error since we all know importance of telephone in communication which enforces ...

Introduction

There exists an instructional supervision dilemma, which is essentially a self-created crisis that is caused by absence of definition, exercise, and legitimate understanding of current social dissatisfaction with the schooling and the schools. Instructional supervision thus has been closely considered as a performer or teacher observation by a commonly-agreed-to- be- exceptional performer or simply a supervisor. Thus, a supervisor’s excellence rests upon him or her proving his or her teaching ability and the mastery of content.
In Instructional supervision, formative evaluation refers to an assessment that is used to monitor the student learning so as to provide the ongoing feedback, which can ...

called and held to account

Introduction

Traditional models of accountability, primarily those of elections and legislative scrutiny, are no longer sufficient in holding governments accountable. While Emy and Hughes (1988) argue that accountability dilemmas have been long standing within ministerial government, they see accountability failures as an indication of mechanisms corrupted by political interest. The rise of new social movements is a strong indication of the collective desire of citizens to interrupt the “chain of accountability”. The desire to influence political decision makers is a reflection of a growing assumption that the democratic deficit facing most western governments requires experiments ...

The United Nation can be equated with peace and security, although its objectives are wider and entail promotion of human rights, social and economic development as well as self-determination. Nonetheless, the United Nation is the main collective security institution. The United Nation has a world-wide membership and various competences in security, peace as well as matching powers which entail the capability to make decisions on non-forcible measures as well as authorize various military actions that range from consensual pacification to full scale fighting. The United Nation has an ardent diplomatic function which is often channeled through the United Nation Secretary-General ...

In the English-speaking cinematography, 1995 was the year of Jane Austen. As if trying to celebrate the 220th anniversary of the writer, who since the 20th century became to some extent even a cult figure, the filmmakers created just three versions of her novels “Sense and Sensibility”, “Pride and Prejudice” and “Emma”. I like the Jane Austen’s creativity and read almost all her books. I saw a lot of different adaptations of the book “Pride and Prejudice”, and by and large I like all of them. After seeing the film adaptation of “Sense and Sensibility”, directed by Ang ...

International relations experience radical changes in how security is conceptualized. Traditional studies of inter-state relations typically define security in military 1 and determinism 2 or fear and conflict 3. However, in light of recent international developments, particularly in a post-Cold War era, non-state actors are increasingly viewed as fundamental in international relations not only between but also within states 4. The case for security is lent further urgency, moreover, due to an increasing privatization of military skills in an international market of corporate warfighting 5. This is not to mention notable gaps in women's roles during war – gaps which highlight ...

The nature of acting means that actors are a chameleon - they disappear into a role, oftentimes playing a character who is totally unlike themselves. However, sometimes this means it can be very hard to separate the man from the role - we cannot see the man as anything but who he plays on TV. One substantial example is the actor Robert Knepper, who played "T-Bag" on Prison Break, and subsequent bad-guy creeps in shows like Breakout Kings and Stargate Universe. All of his major performances seem to be of morally unscrupulous, unforgivable villains, all with nefarious motives and unpredictable tempers.

However, ...

Introduction This paper outlines and in details explains how the modern –day Holmes applies or extends the cinematic concepts borrowed from the early classical conventions of Conan Doyle. The comparison and contrast are crucial in understanding whether changes, extensions or imitation of the previous works have altered or improved the literature. Therefore, this rhetorical analysis is geared towards examining the characters, scenes, settings, plots, themes, and literature style of the two chronologically divided works. Because written texts and TV series are meant to satisfy the target audience, the bottom-line of scenic details is to pass the messages to the ...

1. Who are the stakeholders of this negotiation? Who are the actors? Explain.

The stakeholder membership comprises of: Jonathan Pollard, an ex-convict, the US delegation, led by Bill Clinton, the then President of the United States. The negotiation process is composed of actors such as: Israel (led by Metanyahu), Palestine (led by Arafat) and the United States. The main items of agenda featured in the negotiation process are: resettlement of Palestinian refugees, peace and security resolutions.

2. What are the respective interests of the actors? Be specific.

Both Israel and Palestine are interested in settling on a peaceful memorandum that would ensure the restoration of peace and security between the two states. Social insecurity had been exacerbated by territorial conflicts. The situation that warranted ...

In the world of Jane Austen adaptations, Joe Wright’s 2005 film Pride and Prejudice proves itself incredibly innovative in its approach. Prior attempts at adapting Austen works, including Pride, focus on a clean-cut, ornate and incredibly stately world of Victorian England, with upper-class characters spending the entire film in eloquent settings and speaking in decidedly unapproachable manners. Wright, along with screenwriter Deborah Moggach, eschew this aesthetic in order to provide their adaptation of Pride and Prejudice with a more casual, approachable take on the classic Jane Austen romance, complete with a greater emphasis on naturalism, grit and approachability.
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THE ‘PROBLEM’

While the transgendered community has received a significant increase in visibility and representation in television in recent years, the trend is only just beginning. To date, few trans characters are portrayed as “dynamic” in media, with most media having a cisgendered (skewing toward people whose biological gender matches their identity) bias (Conrad 1). There is an increasing population of trans people who wish to have greater representation in their media, and the outlook is currently positive given the greater tolerance of LGBT people in mainstream American culture (Wellborn 66). However, this process is merely beginning.
According to Hart, the ...

Synesthesia is an event by which the prompting of one sense group gives stimulation to a sensation in another group. The term synesthesia according to Campen and Froger (2008), comes from the Greek terms syn that means together and aesthesis which means to perceive.1 At present, the most popular and widely known form of synesthesia is the hearing of vowels or music in color. Campen and Froger (2008) also add that the different types of synesthesia such as the sense of smell is stimulated by one or more senses such as hearing and sight.2 Color Synesthesia for one is ...

Barbara Ehrenreich’s presents a clear and concise account of the methods that millions of American uses to survive the economic struggles in American. In addition, the 2001 book, “Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in America” analyzes how individuals survive on minimum paying jobs. Ehrenreich postulates that even though these individuals work under poor economic conditions, there is a strong “work ethic” present. But, this work ethic does not help to provide the basic necessities of transportation, food, and shelter. For those individuals who work in hotels, restaurants, retail stores, and a number of other service jobs the wages are not ...

1. The name of the film is Casablanca. The director is Michael Curtiz. The two leading actors are Humphrey Bogart as Rick Blaine and Ingrid Bergman as Ilsa Lund.
2. The leading characters are Rick Blaine, Ilsa Lund, Victor Laszlo, Captain Louis Renault, Major Heinrich Strasser, Signor Ferrari and Sam. Other important characters are Ugarte and Carl. The story takes place in Casablanca in French Morocco during World War II. France is occupied by Germans and people from all over Europe are coming to Casablanca in order to try to get to Lisbon from where they can continue ...

- Introduction
This paper aims to explore and explain different issues associated with human rights. The focus of this paper is on the violations of human rights in China. In this paper, different theories of human rights have been discussed including rational choice theory, strain theory, differential association theory, and others.
- Discussion
- Human Rights: Theoretical Overview
2.1.1. Rational Choice Theory
The rational choice theory has made valuable contributions towards the development of international scholarship. The theory has described different aspects of international law within the framework of rational choice (Murdoch 989). The ...

Question 1

- Based on Morgenthau’s article Six points of Political Realism, Do Political realists focus on absolute power or relative power at both the individual level and the international system?
Central idea to bear in mind : According to realists, the competition that characterizes the international system is due to the fact that nation-states and other state actors would like to maintain their relative power in relation to other actors in the international system.
- Based on Fourteen Points by Woodrow Wilson, what role does rationality and sovereignty play in shaping the alignment of the Central and ...

After examining the text of the 2005 interview between David Pledger, the artistic director and producer of the Melbourne company Not Yet It’s Difficult (NYID), with Rosie Klich of Performance Paradigm regarding his 2004 collaboration with Jeffrey Shaw on the production Eavesdrop it appears the concerns the author addresses are themes of voyeurism and surveillance pervade Pledger’s work and what truly motivates him to imbue his art with these particular motifs.
At first glance it seems these components would generate a negative view of human nature as well as interaction, but inherently makes sense when Pledger explains ...

Critical Thinking and Language

Critical Thinking and Language

Efficient communication implies structural knowledge of a common communication language, but also the understanding, through empathic abilities, of the non – verbal communication: perceiving the gestures, tics, mimic of the face, expressions or even silence as sources of communication. Language is directly linked with critical thinking because in a communication process the actors involved in the process need to think to what they want to say to their communication partners, to filter the information and based on what they understood to create an answer. This process implies structuring words, based on a critical thinking process. The communication actors need ...

Introduction

The Blue Ocean strategy reconstructs established models of development, such as the widely used Porter's five forces model. Renee Mauborgne and W. Chan Kim specify two forms of markets wherein economic actors work-- the red and blue oceans. The 'red oceans' pertain to markets that are crowded or saturated. Red oceans are current, established markets. Growth opportunities are limited due to the fact that a large number of economic actors are involved, aggressively trying to expand their position in the market (Kim & Mauborgne, 2015). 'Red' denotes the cutthroat competition, as well as the purchasing consultant, customers, and suppliers who ...

Compare and contrast courtesans in Renaissance Italy, Japan, and India

A courtesan originally means a courtier, a person who takes care of the powerful people in society. There are two traditions of courtesan, which include honest courtesan and the lower class of courtesan. The honest courtesan was portrayed as an intellectual and was often treated and romanticized almost like the women of the nobility. The art of courtisanerie is mainly associated with honest courtesan. They were well educated even than the upper classiest women, which made them hold careers such as artists and performers. They were chosen depending on the social and communication skills as well as their physical appearance. Therefore, ...

Shot in 1946, the spy thriller “Notorious” by Alfred Hitchcock is a beautiful love story in the frames of real historic events. The movie is the first mature work of the director where his style and specific features form in the manner of shooting and conveying the message to the audience. “Notorious” was nominated for Best Supporting Actor and Best Original screenplay at the 19th Academy Awards in 1947.
The beginning of the movie coincides with the immediate introduction to the main characters, Alicia Huberman and T.R. Devlin. When the audience hears the judgment of the court and the ...

Abstract

The Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT) has established its presence online. TAT has an online website and a news site and is also present in various social media platforms such as Facebook and Twitter. Considering the content of TAT’s online website and social media accounts, however, the agency is missing out on various opportunities to improve its marketing strategies due to limited digital marketing. For this reason, the proposed marketing strategy for TAT involves digital and social media marketing that involves the creation of a promotional video with ‘viral marketing’ potential. Some countries, including those in Thailand’s neighboring countries ...

The advertisement chosen is a movie poster for Captain America: The Winter Soldier. The advertisement has come under a lot of scrutiny for the obvious photoshopping it has undergone. The ad depicts Scarlet Johansson, clad in her usual Black Widow garb, carrying pistols, and looking as though she’s just taking down a fleet of enemy forces all by herself. The brilliant skyline behind her is obviously manipulated but it is her that attracts the most attention. Her skin is flawless. Her hair is a strangely brilliant color of red, or maybe orange. The color of her eyes is almost inhuman, as is ...

There are three ways to solve the problem of North-South. Supporters of the liberal approach believe that the main problem is failure of developing countries to adopt in the national economies modern market mechanism prevents these countries to overcome backwardness and take their rightful place in the international division of labor. According to them (Moon, 2007), developing states should adhere to the policy of macroeconomic stability, economic liberalization and privatization of state property, in other words, Washington Consensus. Liberal approach can be quite clear found in the positions of many developed countries in the multilateral negotiations on foreign issues ...

The Qatar National Day is a public holiday celebrated annually on the 18th of December. This special day also marks the 1878 historical date when Sheikh Jassim Al Thani marshaled the peninsula’s tribes into unity. However, the Qatar National day does not do signify the birth of an independent nation but serves as a constant reminder of the time when the concept of a Qatar people came into being. It is aimed at maintaining an understanding and appreciation of Qatar's heritage, and to foster pride among Qatar’s. Established by Emiri decree in 2007, the National Day celebrations are getting better ...

While the hit Netflix television series “Orange is the New Black” has succeeded in pulling back the curtain a bit on the situation facing woman in the criminal justice system; popular notions, assumptions and stereotypes of female offenders remain misleading at best or completely false at worst. More importantly, however, public policy continues to ignore the special status of women offenders despite the fact, as the show illustrates, of major differences in the types of crimes in which women commit crimes and the frequency in which they commit them.
Even though the traditional portrayal of women in the criminal ...

Article Analysis

It is an interesting undertaking to study how valuable different people treat and hail the different components of life that attracts their hearts. Games particularly and bowling to be specific is one which cruises a lot of fans both loving to watch as well as to play. Paul Rudd observes the environment he finds himself in and tries to link it with the game he loves most. Considering all the activities one would find himself deeply entrenched in during the day, it would be to some degree, disturbing, why bowling would be the best of a choice to a forty-year old actor. ...

Introduction This paper outlines in detail how the modern day Sherlock Holmes extends the cinematic concepts borrowed from the early classical conventions of Conan Doyle. The comparison and contrast are crucial in understanding whether changes, extensions or imitation of the previous works have altered or improved the literature. Therefore, this rhetorical analysis is geared towards examining the characters, scenes, settings, plots, themes, and literature style of the two chronologically divided works. Since the written texts and TV series are meant to satisfy the target audience, the bottom-line of scenic details is to be able to satisfactorily relay the messages ...

The vitality, strength, flexibility and frenzy made the night of 12th November worth remembering. The drumbeats and the sensation that came with it made even the heaviest of the audience feel like they had the capability to just stand and join the crew. Was it not for the fact that the audience was separated from the performance by chairs which also limited the movements; it is obvious that everybody would be on the dance floor. All eyes and heads were tuned to the dance floor, as any change in position would mean missing an amazing move and beat. Each ...

Hamilton’s rule states that social behavior of organisms is supported by natural selection but only if rb-c>0, where r represents the genetic relatedness between actors and beneficiaries, b denotes the benefit that the social behavior confers on the beneficiary, and c is the cost that the social behavior imposes on the actor (Alonso, 2002). It is important to note that the rule suggests that the cost will most certainly diminish the appropriateness of the agent and on the other hand that the benefits will increase the suitability of the agent. Although this is the case, the rule is ...

Abstract

This paper will reflect over crime problems from the movie Gran Tornio that was directed, produced and star in by Clint Eastwood. It will reflect over the angles of crimes. It will consider the worldview that is being presented. It will show also how the problems could have been dealt with in a Christian worldview. This movie was so beautiful for it incorporated the themes of cultures, racism, family, religion, hope, and change. A movie that was so elegantly done that only a noble and well respected person like Clint Eastwood could create. Clint Eastwood also stars in this movie which ...

Rabbit Proof Fence, a film that moves the souls of human beings is a real life heartbreaking story of three little girls set in the 1930’s that shows how the aborigine children were taken against their will from Jigalong and made to work for white families as servants or maids. Rabbit-Proof Fence provides a fundamental illustration of Australian aboriginal children and women as victims, and the government viewing them as passive with no individuality or culture. The concept of empowerment in culture is well defined by Banet-Weiser (Reading Popular Culture through Feminism, May 28 2013) where they argue that the emphasis ...

Introduction

There has been a prodigious evolution in the terms of audience, tastes, needs and preferences. The so called contemporary audience is particularly very different from the audience of the past centauries. The factors or actions that used to interest and hold the attention of the audience in the 18th century may not mean much to an audience if used today. The audience of the 21st century is so developed (Johanson 13). It has therefore been necessary for literatures and plays to evolve so that they can keep at pace with the swiftly changing needs of the audience. We are going ...

Response Paper

International politics cannot be understood independently without involving the states and nations that come up with such agencies and organizations. The fact that international politics operate independently without outside interference or rule is an intriguing question. How can such politics affect world politics without a source of such orders? It means that some form of groupings have hidden themselves into the structure with intent to benefit from international politics while at the same time hiding such state intents. This paper will look at how anarchy and hierarchy can be used to explain and understand international politics.
The big question ...

Introduction

Wiesel a Jewish by identity is not clear on the reasons behind the barbaric wonders to them. The Germans thorough atrocities to the Jewish in generalized thinking was to do away with the Jewish as it was an order that had to be followed as in any fighting battalions orders are termed to be orders that cannot be bend to soot self interest other than the group mission. The main reasoning behind the inhumane act of genocide was that the Jews wanted to take over Germany and so the best way to deal would be scraping them totally.
It ...

William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream is a broadly comedic, yet immensely thematic work - much of these ideas about love, gender, transformation, and foolishness come through the character of Nick Bottom. Despite the subtle humor of many other characters in the play (Puck, for example), Nick Bottom has very on-the-nose, sensational humor in his repertoire. He is far from the primary focus of the play; he is the main character of the subplot of a troupe of actors producing a play telling the story of Pyramus and Thisbe. Throughout the play, he deals with the situations that are presented to him ...

Introduction

Literary critical theory is a complicated process - there are many different ways from which one can look at a story. The question remains, however, whether or not these readings are valid. Is the process of literary criticism a means of mental gymnastics, where theorists can force a reading into a text like a child pushing a square peg in a round hole? Looking at the various theorists who make up the most prominently observed members of the literary critical canon, it becomes clear that the act of reading itself is an interactive one, with the reader bringing just as much into the experience of reading as ...

Abstract

This report discusses about one of the most important topics related to human resource management. The report discusses about the cross cultural management and the focus of the report has been on cultural shock. The report analyses one of the leading retailers of UK, Tesco and how this retailer has been managing diverse workforce. The report analyses the human resource practices that Tesco has used and applied in order to manage the cultural differences of its employees.

Introduction

Cross cultural management is one of the major ingredients for success for organizations in this challenging environment (Yamazaki & Kayes, 2004). As ...

Esteemed literary critic Vladimir Propp, in his essay "Fairy Tale Transformations," breaks down the essence of the fairy tale into a series of elements and functions, all linked inexorably to religious practices found in past traditions. According to Propp, fairy tales are an amalgam of the functions and roles of religion and culture in various societies; the tropes of fairy tales are reflections of these customs. These functions all exist in some form or another in the vast majority of fairy tales, allowing Propp to organize and codify the structures and natures of fairy tales. "We observe that the actors ...

Introduction

The movie Quentin Tarantino’s Inglorious Bastards is about Second World War adventure where Jewish- American revenge squad team was sent to France to start panic among the Nazis. Brad Pitt is the leader in this film assisted by his associates. This movie is set during world war two showing concerns to the Jews. There are people who are tricked to enter building where the doors are locked and building is inaccessible to outsiders. People inside the building are set on fire as screams and bagging of the doors are heard from inside. This part is twisted since Taranto ...

The economy of the world is dynamic; therefore for any enterprise to survive in it, changes must be implemented from time to time so as to remain relevant. An example is when the enterprise resource planning software had to be changed so as to tract all processes and minimize fraud within the organization. As is in other telecommunication companies, the software systems in place were many and the employees were unwilling to learn and accept the new system. The recipients of some of the outputs of the previous enterprise resource planning software were also not comfortable with it because ...

Introduction

In cyberspace, communication and information technologies allow consumers to look for, compare and buy products and services from anywhere around the world. They can also obtain information and knowledge in a quicker, easier and virtual ways. At the same time, technologies also enable sellers and companies to gather, store, transfer and analyze hundreds of data about the people who turn to their websites.

Everything that consumers do online can be tracked and traced by interested parties. The quantity or volume of data about consumers depends on what the interested parties may want. This constitutes an infringement of the consumers’ privacy ...

Abstract

Pedagogy has been defined variously by different researchers but for the purposes of this paper pedagogy will simply be defined as the science and the art of teaching. As such pedagogy encompasses the content taught/learned (what), the approaches of teaching and learning (how) and the philosophy and underpinning values (why)[ CITATION An05 \l 1033 ]. The most useful pedagogical approach in the VET sector is the so called ‘learners and learning at the centre’ which places the learner at the centre of the learning process. The approach focuses on empowering the actor not only to be a disengaged-passive participant but an ...