Naturally I am also somewhat of a film buff, and have been studying the classic films by some of the best in the trade -- Marlon Brando, James Dean, and even contemporaries like Robert De Niro -- in attempts of finding a common denominator, some sort of iconic quality, that they bring to the profession.
As a performer, my strength so far has been my natural instincts. After learning lines and engaging in my own form of role studying, I have been told that I have a natural ability to immerse myself within a character. Yet my principle weakness in this field at this point is in drawing out intangible aspects of characters -- details that may not be scripted or expressly denoted by the authors -- that aid in a fully fleshed out, three-dimensional presentation of a character.

This aspect represents the zenith of acting. I have seen it before…...

This, in effect, makes "TSL" an effective form of light entertainment and not as a reality show meant to illustrate real life per se.
Of course, despite its being an alternative form of a reality program geared at entertaining viewers, "TSL" is also criticized for its false claim of not delivering the claim that it does show the 'simple life' as enacted in real life. Hence, the show and its actors claims to be what it is not: a reality show that instead illustrates the lead actors' illusion of a life where people tolerate their actions and behavior, and can get money from other people and get away with it (with the people consciously thinking that they are rich anyway, and can replace the money Richie and Hilton asked from them) ("Heir heads," 2004).

Despite its unreal demonstration of real life, thoughtful viewers can somehow generate insights that more or less…...

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Heffernan, V. (December 2003). "In the end, "Rich Girls" has it all over "The Simple Life." New York Times on the Web.

Heir heads." (October 2003). Newsweek Magazine, Vol. 142, Issue 16.

Ryan, L. (June 2004). "Simple Life" a Summer Star." Television Week, Vol. 23, Issue 25.

Acting Aggressively and Acting Assertively
Although most people maintain a steady behavioral course over time, everyone tends to act assertively or aggressively from time to time. Most authorities agree that assertiveness is more effective in helping people achieve their personal and professional goals, but in some cases, aggressiveness can actually be positive and constructive by compelling people to take action to improve, resolve a thorny issue or otherwise reconcile their differences. To gain some fresh insights into the distinctions between acting aggressively and acting assertively, this paper provides a review of the relevant peer-reviewed literature to define and contrast these terms and to describe a real-life situation in which they are used. A summary of the research and important findings are presented in the conclusion.

Review and Discussion

In contrast to aggressive behavior which is characterized as being "hostile and coercive," assertiveness is the "nonhostile, noncoercive tendency to behave with intense and…...

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Works Cited

Dowd, Lynn and Leisring, Penny A. (2008). "A Framework for Treating Partner Aggressive

Women." Violence and Victims 23(2): 249-251.

Keller, Linda A. (2007). "The Differences in Sport Aggression, Life Aggression and Life

Assertion among Adult Male and Female Collision, Contact and Non-Contact Sport

Their role as resident is the only way to exert any control over the local and state politics that affect them, being summarily excised from any role in nation-wide elections. Residents who are not also citizens are categorized as either permanent residents or as conditional residents, with very little difference but demographic and reputation between them. In Birmingham, where transient workers are shuttled through the state to work on agricultural plants with Georgia-Pacific or local farmers, many of these residents are conditional, EB-5 Employment Creation Immigrants. Here, they have full right to enjoy the services provided for them by the city and state - including health care, education, public transportation, police protection - and maintain that benefit by voting in local elections only.
Yet, while residents participate in these elections, they are surrounded by stigma that handicaps their influence and policy-making ability. Since their ability to participate in local politics…...

Acting?
The excerpts which explore what is acting tend to shed light on this often very perplexing issue. While many people can identify good acting vs. bad acting, few people can verbalize what makes some acting better than others. The first excerpt, by Antoine Artaud, fulfills exactly what the title elucidates, it explores acting as a specific form of athleticism: "the actor is an athlete of the heart" (133). The excerpts regarding Stanislavski's system explored much what this system is famous for: the actor being able to control his inspiration (5). This excerpt covers the Stanislavski system of using a method of physical action to control inspiration and subconscious emotions. The Stanislavski system discusses so heavily finding a way through the method to produce these genuine emotions to give birth to real people on stage, but I still feel that this can be a very opaque process and one which…...

Guilt, it seems, is an emotion, and in an a priori, deontological account of morality, emotions do not factor into the judgment. This issue is less pronounced under Mill's view, but still, the issue of guilt seems to be missing from a strict utilitarian calculus (or, at the very least, it does not seem to be of great importance in the judgment). "Crimes and Misdemeanors," draws some inspiration from Dostoyevsky's Crime and Punishment, which provides an account of murder through the actions of askolnikov. When askolnikov confesses and is obviously in a state of psychological harm because he committed murder, then the reader is able to humanize askolnikov, and not see him and entirely heinous. Judah, however, is unrepentant, as he uncaringly moves past the murder, and experiences no sense of remorse. Under no circumstances is the murder defensible, but the severity of the action might be somewhat diminished…...

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References

Kant, Immanuel. Grounding for the Metaphysics of Morals; with, on a Supposed Right to Lie Because of Philanthropic Concerns. Translated by James W. Ellington. 3rd ed. Indianapolis: Hackett Pub. Co., 1993.

Mill, John Stuart, and George Sher. Utilitarianism. 2nd ed. Indianapolis: Hackett Pub., 2001.

Doctors had for too long kept strict control over the information that defined their profession. The gay community would have no part of it; people with AIDS started to learn the jargon and the "language of biomedicine," (p. 137).
Remarkably, some doctors sided with the justifiably angry gay community in their quest to wrest health from big pharma. The creation and execution of community-based trials was a radical step, according to the authors. In Part Two of "ACTing it UP," Collins & Pinch describe the development of the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power (ACT UP), which was a politically active group dedicated to combatting AIDS from the grassroots level. The underlying motive for ACT UP was that "AIDS was a form of genocide by neglect," given the concurrent stigmas against the disease and against homosexuality (Collins & Pinch, p. 137). The political environment in the United States was unabashedly conservative,…...

Breathless: French New ave Cinema and Acting Technique
Traditionally, acting has always been regarded as a 'craft.' Acting in the theater requires understanding certain modes of presentation such as breath and movement, to communicate the actor's intention to the audience. Film, however, is often called a director's medium, because the director can select what snapshots of life he or she wishes to show to the viewer. Film is also a more intimate, visual format, and demands more 'naturalness' on the part of actors to seem realistic. The French New ave director Jean-Luc Godard took this to a new level in his 1959 film Breathless. Godard uses seemingly nonprofessional acting to convey a sense of 'realism' to the story, based on a true life crime, even while he highlights the artfulness of the filmmaking involved using jump cuts and shaky, handheld amateurish camera techniques. The central protagonist models his life upon American…...

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Works Cited

Breathless. Directed by Jean-Luc Godard. 1959.

Hitchman, S. & A McNett. "Jean-Luc Godard." French New Wave. 2012

[6 Mar 2012]  http://newwavefilm.com/french-new-wave-encyclopedia/jean-luc-godard2.shtml 

Taylor, Ella. "A new life for Breathless." The Village Voice. 25 May 2010.

role of Martha Dobie in Lillian Hellman's The Children's Hour, I read the play in its entirety to better recognize my character's role within it, how she is perceived by others, and her manner of speaking. This general overview reading was helpful, but I needed to learn more about my character specifically to really understand what motivated her and why she acts the way she does.
After re-reading some of the main scenes that featured my character, especially the scene that comes in the final act of the play, I then researched literary and popular criticism of the play. My research provided a broader sociological perspective and analysis of the play in general and the way my character reacted to the situation she was in. I learned about prevailing norms about gender and sexuality during the time that Hellman wrote the play, which depicted an era in which being accused…...

Acting With Integrity and Fairness
Reflecting on personal ethics encourages the educator to be self-aware and make improvements. Acting with integrity and fairness promotes a culture of accountability within the school because each teacher remains committed to taking responsibility and for collaborating with others to achieve common goals. Integrity is not just about conforming to “simplistic notions of right and wrong,” but making difficult decisions with multiple variables (Gorlewski, Gorlewski & Ramming, 2012, p. 1). Fairness implies the ability to weigh different variables, set priorities, and remain committed to student-centered goals. Minority viewpoints need to be heard, and a good leader applies transformational skills that empower others to have the courage to speak their truth. As a leader, I act with integrity when I remain true to my values and committed to the goals of the organization, setting aside my pride or need to be right in order to focus on…...

ACTING OUT OF A SENSE OF ONE’S DUTY CAN BE WRONG 3 Acting Out of a Sense of One’s Duty Can Be Wrong
An example to illustrate how one can be acting out of duty and they end up causing more harm than if they had not done anything is in assisting accident victims. When an accident occurs, people will rush and they will attempt to assist the injured persons, however, there are situations where the good samaritan assisting the injured could cause more harm than if they had left the victims and waited for paramedics or firefighters. If an accident victim is pulled or moved from the car without proper care being taken, it could result in the victim suffering more and increasing their injuries. Although the act of kindness being shown by assisting the victim is out of duty the victim could become paralyzed, suffer severe bleeding, or aggravate spinal…...

Truman Show is unequivocally a postmodern text. The only facet of this production that makes it slightly less unconventionally postmodern is the fact that it is a movie instead of a dedicated work of literature. Still, there are several critical aspects of the plot of this movie that render it postmodern. At its core, postmodernism is about wildly different associations that are jumbled together and which work, somehow. There are also temporal displacements and aspects of reality that are similarly obfuscated. The Truman Show incorporates virtually all of these elements in its plot, which proves that this film is definitely a postmodern text.
One of the ways that The Truman Show indicates that it actually is a study of postmodern literature is in the basic premise of the plot itself, which certainly reinforces this notion. This movie is actually a movie in which there are people who are watching the…...

Midsummer's Night Dream
Acting:

ere the actors believable in their roles?

I did not find all of the actors particularly believable in their roles. I could not help noticing that several of the members of the cast forgot their lines or misspoke their lines, sometimes saying a line in the wrong place. Knowing the play well, this really threw me off and took me out of the moment of the performance. I felt there was a lot of timing issues with the performers at well where they would not hit their mark or missed their cue.

Identify the performers you considered most successful.

Of all the performers in the play, I felt that the actress playing the role of Hermia excelled in her role. She made the love and despondency and anger very palpable which was conveyed easily to the audience.

If there were performers you did not like, identify them and explain why you…...

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Works Cited

Shakespeare, William. A Midsummer's Night Dream.

Cocoon (Howard, 1985) is a 1985 Sci-Fi/Fantasy genre film directed by Ron Howard, who previously directed such films as Splash and Night Shift. Benefitting from the kindly type of aliens previously seen in E.T.: The Extraterrestrial and Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Cocoon used the advanced technologies of benevolent aliens to explore aging and the pros/cons of reversing that process. Aided by a veteran cast and superior editing/special effects, Cocoon became a hit film.
General Theme/Overview, Style, Plot and Character Development

The general theme is the exploration of aging and the pros/cons of reversing the process, using the style of Sci-Fi/Fantasy. The plot involves the extraordinary results of humans interacting with kindly, advanced aliens, and the dilemmas caused by those results. Thousands of years ago, aliens from Antarea lived on the island of Atlantis on Earth. The island sank and 20 Antareans stayed behind so other Antareans would have enough life…...

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Works Cited

Howard, R. (Director). (1985). Cocoon [Motion Picture].

Dominik's Killing Them Softly
Andrew Dominik's 2012 American film Killing Them Softly is a screen-adaptation of George Higgins' 1974 crime novel Cogan's Trade. Dominik's screenplay sets the action in modern America during the 2008 election campaign, which serves as a backdrop to the action of the film and allows both director/screenwriter Dominik and his cast of characters to ironically and wittily juxtapose their own agendas, ends and pursuits with those of the political world. Indeed, the film's subtext or undertone is really as pronounced as the main drama, paralleling the narrative in the final race to the showdown: the execution of the robbers of the card game and the election of a new ring leader (aka President of the United States). This paper will show how Dominik uses the underground world of organized crime to parallel and criticize the state of American politics and economics.

Storytelling, Editing, Style and Directing

The storytelling…...

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Reference List

Bradshaw, P. (2012). Killing Them Softly -- review. Guardian. Retrieved from  http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2012/sep/20/killing-them-softly-review 

Ebert, R. (2012). Killing Them Softly. Chicago Sun-Times. Retrieved from  http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20121128/REVIEWS/121129985 

Kirk, J. (2012). Review: Dominik's 'Killing Them Softly' Drives Message Hard and Well. First Showing. Retrieved from  http://www.firstshowing.net/2012/review-dominiks-killing-them-softly-drives-message-hard-and-well/ 

Pezzotta, E. (2010). Film Analysis: A Comparison Among Criticism, Interpretation,

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In order to really understand resistance in Conrad’s Heart of Darkness, it is important to look at all of the characters and not just the highlighted European males, such as the protagonist Marlowe, that sit at the center of the story.  That is because resistance is the undercurrent behind all of the action in the story.  The main characters are always acting against the threat of resistance by the African people who are often portrayed as victims, but are consistently offering resistance to the colonizers, as evidenced by the arrow attack by the natives on the ship. ....

POS, or point of sale, systems are critical to allowing a business to make money, since they are where a customer pays for goods or services.  If it is difficult for a customer to complete a transaction, then it does not matter how easy-to-use the rest of your website is.  This makes POS systems a critical component of any online business. 

Point of Sales (POS) Research Paper Topics

1. Why have so many small businesses rejected implementing a central POS system, instead choosing to still use a combination of other methods including separate cash registers, credit card terminals, and bookkeeping programs?
2. Does using a....

To start this essay, we would begin by identifying ways that business could impact the environment.  Next, we would want to identify the businesses we wanted to highlight in the essay, focusing on their specific environmental impact.  We would want to select at least two businesses with different reputations for their environmental impact.  Companies that are known for having good environmental initiatives include Disney, Johnson and Johnson, Nike, eBay, Fisher Investments, Hewlett-Packard, Starbucks, and Ford Motor Company.  Companies have a bad reputation in terms of their impact on the environment include AES, PPL, ConAgra Foods, Coca Cola,....