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Summary and outline of Twyla Tharp chapter 7-9
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Summary and outline of Twyla Tharp chapter 7-9
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Tharp uses the most part of the book to explain strategies for success in both dance and choreography and business strategy. The last two chapters thus shift from the main theme so as to reflect on the concept of failure. Failure is a factor that is experienced by each and every human being. The author takes the initiative to admit her past and present failures in the industry (Tharp, 1- 243).
Success is one of the most sort after factors in the life of all human beings. The main way for an individual to have success is to follow their dreams and perform their duties to the best of their abilities. This is essential in identifying ones talents which can either make or break a person (Derezinski, 144).
When taking the route to success, a person is met with a number of hurdles that they have to overcome. This is a significant part of a person’s life in that this is the point when they prove their worth so themselves and the world.
The author mentions that the quest to achieving our dreams is bitter sweet. Individuals are forced to break some rules so that they can identify with their new character. This new character is armed with the confidence needed for facing our problems without fear.
When challenges are presented to human beings, we either choose to confront them or take a back seat. This is a defining moment in a human beings life in that it places them in the next level of life good or bad.
When a person confronts their challenges, they can either succeed or fail. Failure is the experience of defeat, or the lack of achievement. When people do not succeed in their fulfilling their dreams. There is a high probability that they will react negatively to the situation. This should not be the case according to the author (Tharp, 1- 243).
Getting back on the bandwagon is an essential step in an achievers life. When one does not succeed in achieving their goals, they acquire a low self esteem. This is not an ideal situation due to the repercussion that comes with this new attitude.
Failing is one of the hardest experiences to undergo. This experience can however, act as a blessing in disguise to an individual in this situation. The only way of dealing with this issue is to move one in a positive light. Having a positive attitude towards failure is the only way to get through hard times in life. One can move on by learning from their mistakes (Derezinski, 134).
The last two chapters place emphasis on facing failure due to the fact that is part of life. A person cannot be consistently successful in everything they do. Falling from grace is sometimes considered to be an ideal situation in life. The book trains young minds to deal with failure at an early stage in life.
There are many ways of moving on to new ideas and opportunities. This is however, difficult due to the constant reminder of the past. One can move forward with the help of a mentor. This in turn, showcases the need for a person to identify with a role model who can act as a positive influence (Tharp, 1- 243).
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Derezinski, Amelia. Twyla Tharp. New York: Rosen Pub. Group, 2006. Print.
Tharp, Twyla, The creative habit: learn it and use it for life. New York: a practical guide, Simon and Shuster, 2003. Print.
Structural Functionalism
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Radcliffe-Brown defined social structure as a normal relation in terms of the aspects of the social activities that people were involved in and that also conformed to the social rules or norms. The rules as well as the norms that have been created brings the members of a society together into socially useful activities. According to Radcliffe-Brown societies are structured by the institution that hold them together and an example is family. Family relations is likely to set behavior as well as patterns of the members in relation to each other. An institution will likely to determine how people are expected to behave. Radcliffe Brown argued that as long as a biological organism continued to live then it would help in the preservation of structure however it cannot preserver the unity of the other parts. His focus was more on social structure than the people’s biological needs. Radcliffe-Brown argued that the social structure was made up of a separate level of reality that was different from inorganic matter and biological forms (Radcliffe-Brown, pg. 394-402).
Radcliffe-Brown describes function as the contribution which is a part of an activity that eventually contributes to the total activity of what it is part of. Radcliffe-Brown was mainly concerned with the role of various element in maintenance as well as the development of the social structure. The other way that he uses function is in his theory that all features of a society including norms, roles and institution have a role and that they are all needed for the society to survive in the long run. All these units have a contribution that they make for the maintenance of a social structure for example the set of relationships that exists among the various social units. A group as well as an individual behavior is likely to contribute or serve as a function for the societal structure.
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Radcliffe-Brown, Alfred Reginald. “On the concept of function in social science.” American Anthropologist 37.3 (1935): 394-402.
Themes in the book Virgin Suicide
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The book Virgin Suicides, by Jeffrey Eugenides, explores the life experiences of youths in the adolescent stage, and even talks about the extreme behaviors, they engage themselves in order to escape from reality. It portrays the unhappy times they experience as youths, which causes them to make unethical decisions about their lives. The novel investigates the deaths of five adolescents in America, and talks about the life of a typical adolescent in living in a suburb. It explores the themes of love, the tragic loss and the normal life of an adolescent youth. The writer talks about the sudden death of the five young girls, and whose deaths is heartbreaking, and looks into their lives to establish what really happened to them, or the main cause of their deaths.
The town the girls are born is full of hypocritical people, and it is in crises. Although the deaths happen in a spectacular manner, the way the narrative is presented is not progressive. As the boys go to school, the girls stay in the house as time passes by making the boys believe that, they are locked up as a result of dictatorial rules subjected upon ordinary adolescent girls. The boys equate the girls as their sister after reading the book Cecilia diary. The character the girls in the book represent the life of an ordinary adolescent girl, as they develop the notion that they are their sisters. Their deaths can not be accounted for as Ms Perl, is unable to come up with a unique documentary on the real cause of their deaths.
The book purposely brings out the ordinary life of the girls, so as to show how human beings have the habit of distancing themselves from crises. To the girls, the ordinary objects they use to end their lives are perceived by people as mere tools. The writer does this to awake an individual conscience, and emphasize that the same situation can happen to anyone at anytime. The situation is a special case and devastating. In the novel, the boys capture the deaths of the girls without deep analysis, and at the same time they talk about the times the girls were alive. The boys do not really understand the girls, and the kind of life they lived from an inner perspective. They use their sense of judgment on the surface, to present the deaths of the girls. The only perception they have about the girls is visual, as it does not go beyond their skin and into their thoughts. They describe the girls in photographic sense, and this is just the same, as having a sketch of a drawing as it lacks details. The boys ability not to understand the girls deeply, has left them with only memories of girls, who they cared deeply about and loved.
This brings about the culture of visual media, caused by televisions as people view it as an alternative rather than reading a newspaper, and taking some time to listen to news or information on the radio. This has given rise to the idea that, families in America concentrate mostly on what they see from the television than the real truth. This shows the extent of influence the media has on the people. It shows the worse kind of life the boys have found themselves in after the death of the girls. The boys have been left with memories that are devastating than the preliminary loss of the girls.
The books portray the hypocritical life Americans live, by pretending to be happy at all times even when faced with problems. The situation depicts the suburbs, as places where happiness is artificially gotten and the unrealistic life one has to go through in search of happiness. The community has been forced to live in a dream to keep up with the social class. This is reaffirmed by Mr. Lisbon actions, in that he lights up the Christmas candles, in spite of the recent death of his daughter, to show the community that he is fine as much as he is hurting and mourning. During the school organized mourning day in remembrance of Cecilia death, it is ironical how the school rates the event as a success without even mentioning her death. They try to erase the memories, and pretend like nothing really happened. To the neighbourhood, what is morally upright does not really matter to them.
The hypocritical nature of the American society is depicted by the character Lux Lisbon, and Trip Fontaine. Coincidentally, the American happiness is displayed by the characters of Lux Lisbon, and Trip Fontaine. Trip, happens to spend his time recovering in Detox, following his decision to live an unrealistic life. .At the same time, Lux immoral sexuality leads to her early death. Trip and Lux’s consistent pursuit of love, and contentment takes a negative effect on them physically and emotionally. Equally, the suburban attempts to define American happiness receive a hard blow as it is unrealistic fake, inconsistent and deadly. The book has dug deeper and talks about the effects of living a superficial life.
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BIBLIOGRAPHY l 1033 Michele T Berger, Cheryl Radeloff. Transforming Scholarship:Why women and gender studies are changing themselves and the world. London: Taylor & Francis, 2011.