For this weeks task I had to read a quite difficult extract from Fashion as Communication by Malcolm Barnard about how fashion is regarded in todays society
For this week’s task I had to read a quite difficult extract from ‘Fashion as Communication’ by Malcolm Barnard about how fashion is regarded in today’s society, whether it is trivial or not and highlighting how important it is in today’s economy. The first idea exposed is that fashion is ‘fit only for the intellectually disenfranchised’, suggesting that everyone working in the fashion industry lacks intelligence. Having chosen to study Fashion Marketing I completely disagree with this statement, but I am fully aware of the prejudices held against it. When I decided to pursue this course I realized most people did not consider Fashion Marketing a serious career, but the truth is that it takes a lot of dedication and hard work to succeed in this industry and most people do not understand what it really entails. What struck me most was a quote from a letter in The Guardian’s Women’s page arguing that ‘fashion is irrelevant to serious minded persons’. As Anna Wintour says in The September issue ‘Just because you like to put on a beautiful Carolina Herrera dress or a pair of J Brand blue jeans instead of something basic from K-Mart it doesn't mean that you're a dumb person’ and even if you make a choice that you think completely leaves you out of the fashion industry, you are nevertheless engaging with it. Fashion is a way of expressing yourself;
Vivienne Westwood was the Queen of Punk Rock and her fashions have scandalized and fascinated the world since the Sixties.
Vivienne Westwood was the Queen of Punk Rock and her fashions have scandalized and fascinated the world since the Sixties. Parading models bare-breasted down the catwalks of Paris, posing pantiless outside Buckingham Palace-she has an insatiable appetite for anarchic outrageousness. She has never lost her power to shock, and her continued innovations make her one of the most talked about fashion designers in the world. But little is know about this essentially private woman . Leather bondage gear, latex lounge dresses, flesh-coloured body suits, slashed t-shirts, mink G-strings, fake fur knickers, satin codpieces, bustles. These are the staples of a die-hard Vivienne Westwood wardrobe. The biographical details of Britain's leading fashion iconoclast read like a history of late twentieth century counter-culture. Ever since she joined forces with Malcom McLaren in 1971 (a collaboration that lasted 13 years), Vivienne Westwood has been firmly ensconced in the cultural avant-garde. Her S & M- flavoured clothing, Zoot suits, and slogan t-shirts and ripped-up pirate wear defined the look of two major movements in the 70s and early 80s: punk rock and the New Romantics. Vivienne Westwood began showing in Paris in 1982, the first British designer to do so since Mary Quant. The "Buffalo Collection" which featured industrial-strength bras atop sweaters, ample skirts and tattered
Noel Greig's Trashed was inspired by a Muslim girl's experience - she had visited an uncle in New York in August 2001 and he died in the Twin Towers. The play is set in the shadow of terrorism and addresses a clash of culture, class, religion
Two women meet in a litter-strewn park in London. Ruhela is a teenage British Muslim; Louisa is white trash from Mississippi. When the planes tore into the Twin Towers their lives collided. This confrontation could be the last chance for reconciliation with the past and with each other. They replay that Summer of 2001 in New York. Ruhelas brother, Abs has brought shame on his family. Louisas own rejection of her son, Mel, still haunts her. Four people struggle with the opposing forces of revenge and forgiveness, duty and individual freedom in this acclaimed tense and edgy contemporary drama. Noël's latest play for Theatre Centre was a brilliantly crafted, compelling contemporary drama. Global politics shone through individual lives people from very different backgrounds learned, painfully, what divided them and what, surprisingly, they had in common. Inspired by the lives and stories of Theatre Centre's Young Apprentice Writers, Trashed was set in the context of shared loss in the 9/11 disaster and the tensions between America and the Muslim soul. A love story and a searing portrayal of loss, the writing illuminated reactions to homosexuality and the inability to accept the choices of another. Noel Greig's Trashed was inspired by a Muslim girl's experience - she had visited an uncle in New York in August 2001 and he died in the Twin Towers. The play is set in the shadow
Charlie Chaplin
Michael Arevalo Professor Scott Outside Film Essay #1 July 6, 2009 Chaplin the Dictator The Great Dictator (1940) is Charlie Chaplin first attempt at a talkie film. Chaplin was one of the best silent actors and directors of the silent generation and I was curious to see how he would do in The Great Dictator. In 1940 Germany declared war on the world and set up ghettos in Jewish communities which essentially kept them in a structured prison. Chaplin wanted depict the world of the Jews in Jewish ghettos and do it in an amusing manner. He did this by depicting himself as a Jewish barber in the ghetto who is mistaken for Adenoid Hynkel whose is the dictator of the country of Tomania (Germany). My favorite scene in The Great Dictator was when he was Hynkel in his main office and held up a balloon of a globe. He starts to kick it up and down as if he controls the whole world. He then lies on his desk and starts bouncing the globe off his buttocks which made me laugh hysterically. I also loved his speech in the end about mankind being free. It was a speech that I think should have been taking seriously around the world at that time. He said things in the speech like "Let us fight for a new world, a decent world that will give men a chance to work, that will give you the future and old age" that really gave me Goosebumps and I actually felt that I was watching a
Describe in detail the contractions in one specific area of activity and the muscle and movement types involved
Describe in detail the contractions in one specific area of activity and the muscle and movement types involved. The biceps curl: In this exercise there are three joints involved the shoulder, elbow and wrist. Then to do the action there is three movements upward, top and downward movement. Joints Movements Muscle Role Of Muscle Type of Contraction Upward movement Shoulder No Movement Deltoid Fixators Isometric Elbow Flexion Biceps Against (prime mover) Eccentric triceps Antagonist Eccentric Wrist No Movement Muscles in lower arm Fixators Isometric Top Shoulder No Movement Deltoid Fixator Isometric Elbow No Movement triceps Antagonist Eccentric Biceps Against (prime mover Wrist No Movement Muscles in lower arm Fixators Isometric Downward Shoulder No Movement Deltoid Fixator Isometric Elbow Extension triceps Antagonist Eccentric Biceps Against (prime mover Wrist No Movement Muscles in lower arm Fixators