DNCE131: Exam 1 Study Guide FALL 2013: Professor Flickinger 1. Copeland and Cohen. “What is Dance?” pg 1 -Understand the three basic art theories being discussed -Aristotle is responsible for what part of Western Storytelling/Narrative -Focus on the arguments of Martin‚ Levinson‚ Goodman‚ & Sparshott 2. Sklar. “Five Premises for a Culturally Sensitive Approach to Dance” pg 30 -Understand the five premises and their importance to discussing dance cross culturally -Be able to define Empathic
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“Homage to my Hips” sent goosebumps up every inch of my feminist self. It is not just a proclamation of body positivity‚ but also a declaration of the freedom women have over their bodies. Lucille Clifton makes a point to emphasize that the only person who can control her hips and their actions is herself. Throughout history‚ women have been continuously shamed for being “promiscuous” when their actions are no different than any grown man’s. This poem embraces big hips while also sending a message
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Through "Hop-Frog‚" one can get a feel for who Edgar Allan Poe is. He encompasses the ideas of Romanticism throughout his entire work and makes sure that the reader is able to see it. He also uses his life and the experiences that he has endured in order to write his literary works. His childhood was not the best kind‚ and through "Hop-Frog‚" one can see this. He also writes with a similarity. He is a Dark Romanticist and his writing reflects this. When reading and comparing works done by Poe‚ the
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perspectives. And one of the topics that it influences in society includes the way that society views female beauty. Many people feel that the media affects our notions of female beauty while many others argue against that. Valdes-Rodriguez in “My Hips‚ My Cadera‚ talks about the way her body is viewed in different cultures. And supports the fact that the environment you grow up in influences your perspective of beauty. However‚ while many agree that media does have an influence on our notion of
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2010 Outline Today in America there is a vast amount of lyrics that are extremely degrading women. These lyrics are found in many of Hip-Hop‚ Rap‚ and Pop music that portray women as objects‚ and not as an actual human being. Other popular music these days relate to women as tricks or other horrible names that no woman should ever be called. Sadly‚ since this epidemic of only thinking of women as objects has over come America today‚ it needs to stop. The teenagers and young adults of this
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Spell/spin Lucille Clifton is an American writer and poet. Her poem‚ “Homage to my Hips‚” is one of her many poems that discussed issues in society. This poem discusses Clifton’s hips‚ and how they are free from the certain views of society that she does not agree on as well as how she is proud of her “hips” and respects herself regardless. She uses word choice and personification to describe ways her hips stand for what she believes in. Clifton declares that she will not abide by the rules society
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The Power of Hips Women are oppressed by patriarchy economically‚ politically‚ socially‚ and psychologically‚ but some resist those ideas through literature. Lucille Clifton is an example of a woman who resists those ideas through her works. In a male-dominated world‚ the males make the decisions for the females that does not have a say in those decisions. However‚ Clifton explains in her poem “Homage to My Hips” that her hips “are free hips‚/ they don’t like to be held back./ These hips have never
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Hop-Frog is justified for many reasons. The first reason is that he never had a real name‚ people made up the name Hop-Frog. “I believe the name Hop-Frog was not the given to the dwarf by his sponsors at baptism‚ but it was conferred upon him‚ by general consent of the several minister on account of his inability to walk as other men do.”(Poe 1). Hop-Frog is made fun of because he has extremely short legs. He doesn’t have a chose to be called Hop-Frog‚ he just got used to it. This is when he just
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The stories “The Black Cat” and “Hop-Frog” by Edgar Allan Poe are similar based on the presence of twisted love and the lack of guilt. The element of twisted love was portrayed in both stories. In Hop-Frog‚ Trippetta stands up for Hop-frog while he was being harassed by the king. While doing so‚ the King threw wine in her face. Hop-frog then began to speak gibberish and told the King about a wonderful costume idea. As the king went along with Hop-frog’s idea‚ Hop-frog was actually plotting the deaths
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living in a country‚ we are pressured to become accustomed to what is considered common and thus adapt them in our everyday lives. In the shorty story Chicken-Hips‚ by Cathetine Pigott‚ the main character travels to Gambia to learn that its people desire women with curves rather than skin and bones‚ when she is teased and called‚ “Chicken-Hips.” She adopts Africa’s views on‚ “image of the perfect female body‚ by eating a diet of‚ “rice and rich oily stew twice a day‚” and eventually she becomes a beautiful
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