Cirque du Soleil took on a different role from the traditional circus business model to the new blue ocean strategy verse the red ocean strategy. Cirque du Soleil created the new business model by creating new market space. Cirque du Soleil wanted to step away from the traditional circus to create a new atmosphere and family entertainment. The one similarity of both business models is the revenue streams.…
In the section “Red Clowns” from the book The House on Mango Street, Sandra Cisneros illustrates how being chosen is not as innocent as society makes it seem when the character Esperanza gets raped. While Esperanza and her friend Sally are at a carnival, Sally is chosen by a big boy and leaves with him (99). Sally is chosen because she was pretty and her being chosen was a positive event for her as she left voluntarily. She gets to be the fairy tale princess and gets a happy ending for the night. Meanwhile Esperanza is left behind and is chosen, but in a negative way. After being raped, Esperanza describes being chosen is not like how it is in “all the storybooks and movies” (99). In fairytales, being chosen is a wonderful thing since the…
Optimism is a strong character trait that one can utilize to help escape their troubles through the power of imagination or guide them to the realization of their potential. This is the case for the protagonists in “Circus in Town”, by Sinclair Ross and “Happiness for Sale”, by Jia Lynn Yang.…
comedy within Cosi to allow the audience to abandon their pre-conceptions of ‘mad’ people and to see the characters not for…
Amusing Ourselves to Death by Postman (Chapter 10) is a hypothetical counterargument response to various ways in which television and other media can be used for education rather than causing distraction to children. The author posits that television is not interactive. Therefore, the chapter gives a moment of reconsideration of digital technology advances since the publication of this book. Postman highlights that there can be no complete education without the social element: if a child can count, write, and read but cannot develop a conversation, socialize, or question, then he or she is not properly educated. Using the Internet, students are able to interact via various media channels or even with online tutors, but Postman would probably see this system inferior to the traditional setting of a classroom.…
clown costume he used to entertain children at parties when killing the young men, thus the nickname…
Circus performers are people of great courage. They have to make a living out of entertaining people that pay good money to watch them and want to get their money's worth. They have a lot of pressure from that, as well as peer pressure from their fellow performers. Not only do they have pressure from that, they have to worry about the very acts being preformed from playing with swords and fire to hanging from a wire hundreds of feet in the air. If their not focused on what they are doing, they can be killed in a instant.…
In the book Amusing Ourselves to Death, the author, Neil Postman, states that age of television has changed the way we view the world and the way we think. Of the two views presented in the book, Postman proclaims that Aldous Huxley’s visions are more applicable today than that of George Orwell’s. Huxley, as outlined in Brave New World, believed that people, too amused by distractions, would be made powerless, while Orwell, in 1984, believed that political tyranny would make us helpless. Postman’s assertions were very true at the time of his writing and even truer today. If incessant, distractions will indeed be detrimental to humanity.…
Laughter is a therapeutic form. In the novel One flew over the cuckoo's nest by Ken Kesey laughter represents freedom and an escape from nurse Ratched's restrictions.…
The "right thing" is, by nature, something that is an opinionated concept. Many people could be doing something they see as correct while other people believe that thing could be awful. Take, for example, the holocaust in Germany. Adolf Hitler was in charge of Germany and made many statements supporting the mass genocide of jewish people. Looking back at it today, most people will see this as something horrible. Supporting the mass genocide of a group of people without any real reason seems completely ludicrous. However, in that era of Germany, many people supported the idea. They had the Hitler Jugend, also known as the Hitler Youth, who were training to become a Nazi and fight for what Hitler was supporting. "Heil Hitler" was a common greeting…
Humorists are people who are skillful in using humor for writing, talking, or acting. Their works bring laughter and elation to people. In Botton’s book, Status Anxiety, he believes that humorists not only entertain audience, but also convey important messages that cannot be said directly. Thus, he argues that humorists play a vital role in the society. In most cases, Botton’s claim is justified in that since the early nineteenth century, humorists express their thoughts about the society through humor. Some of these humorists do play important roles in the society by revealing crisis or events happening during that time period to bring awareness from the society.…
As far as the development and demise of vaudeville, there is much to be said. But to truly understand its rise and fall, first one must understand what vaudeville is. Vaudeville was a theatrical genre of entertainment that was popular in the United States from the early 1880s until the mid 1930s. Each performance consisted of a series of unrelated acts grouped together on a common bill. Types of acts included classical musicians, dancers, comedians, trained animals, magicians, impersonators, acrobats, illustrated songs, jugglers, scenes from plays, athletes, lecturing celebrities, and movies.…
Melissa Chan debriefs the clown epidemic in the article, “Everything You Need to Know About the ‘Clown Attack’ Craze”. She goes on explaining many different perspectives, such as the terrified citizens of America, the real professional clowns, and the police force.…
This is a breakdown of Neil Postman's "Amusing ourselves to death"(1985), which must be written to explain the effects that high volume of emails, text messages, video games, and internet television has on the human race and the way we think. In the first chapter of the book "The Medium is the Metaphor" Postman (1985) begins his argument that he presents through out the book. Postman (1985) explains how knowledge is no longer gained from print, but from visual. This change is dramatic and irreversibly and the two print and visual can not accommodate one another. In chapter 2 Postman (1985) lays out a plan for the book. Postman (1985) rants and raves about how television is evil and has destroyed our minds and way of thinking.…
The clown might still have a huge smile on its face, as it does for children, but this time it turns into a creepy, Cheshire cat smile. The clown does not have as many colors on its clothing, and now they are toned down. All of the colors seem to have a gray tint to them. The clown that was once used to cause laughter, is now haunting. Throughout many haunted houses are clowns chasing every victim and awaiting a chance to scare even more, instead of performing tricks to light up children’s faces. Haunted houses aren’t the only things that have popularized clowns. Movies, especially around Halloween, put their main focus on a clown. In most movies the clown’s intentions are to kill, contrary to the children’s version of a clown’s motives. The popularizing of clowns through scary movies and haunted houses sets a completely different tone than that of an upbeat, friendly clown that just wants everyone to be happy. A clown no longer symbolizes fun, laughter, and joy, but rather unpleasantness, terror, and…