Trinh T Minh-Ha’s‚ The Fourth Dimension‚ is a sensitive and enigmatic exercise of ‘speaking nearby’. Taking Japan as a reflection locus‚ Trinh builds a personal journey in time and space through the rhythms that emanate from rituals and daily life. The experience of watching the film is at first disturbing; you realize quickly that conventions and order that "normally" structures a film and lead the understanding of its content will not serve here. Accordingly‚ it requires the viewer to criticize
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anthropologists Marcel Mauss‚ Bronislaw Malinowski‚ and Karen Ho each explored the paradox of temporality and relationships in particular forms of markets and exchange. Mauss wanted to know how participants in gift cultures could exchange goods frequently and yet maintain strong relationships. Malinowski strived to understand how the villagers of Papua New Guinea derived value from the Kula exchange without retaining economic value. And Ho questioned why people knowingly supported Wall Street even if
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always thought that all cities liked my hometown‚ DaLat City. However‚ when the first time I came to Ho Chi Minh City‚ I knew I was wrong. Unlike my thought‚ Ho Chi Minh City is very different from DaLat City about weather‚ transport and lifestyle. A remarkable dissimilarity is weather. Ho Chi Minh City’s weather is very hot. Temperature is usually 32-35 degree Celsius. Most houses there have two or three pan‚ which work over day and night. If you come to Ho Chi Minh City the first time‚ you are
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Nightsong: City By Dennis Brutus Sleep well‚ my love‚ sleep well: the harbor lights glaze over restless docks‚ police cars cockroach through the tunnel streets; from the shanties creaking iron-sheets violence like a bug-infested rag is tossed and fear is immanent* as sound in the wind-swung bell; the long day’s anger pants from sand and rocks; but for this breathing night at least‚ my land‚ my love‚ sleep well. Nightsong: City is essentially a love-song to the writers’ homeland
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Noise in the city Steve Curwood: Modern life is full of nasty noises‚ especially in the cities. Sirens can shatter serenity at any moment and jackhammers‚ loud music‚ and useless mufflers can all send us over the edge. For many people in New York City‚ there’s one form of sonic pollution at the top of the list. They’re calling for its banning‚ even though some nervous New Yorkers savor the sound for security reasons. And as Neal Rauch reports‚ even as the controversy prompts loud debate‚ some aren’t
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Michael Midence “Acquainted with the Night”: Robert Frost on Darkness In Robert Frost’s poem "Acquainted with the Night" Frost has left this poem up for many interpretations. The poem begins “I have been one acquainted with the night‚” it means‚ basically‚ that he has met‚ or has some knowledge of‚ the night. It is a neutral way to say something. You’d say you were acquainted with someone if you had met them‚ but weren’t friends with them. We can read that maybe the individual is restless and
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Chi-square tests 1. INTRODUCTION 1.1 χ2 distribution and its properties A chi-square (χ2) distribution is a set of density curves with each curve described by its degree of freedom (df). The distribution have the following properties: - Area under the curve = 1 - All χ2 values are positive i.e. the curve begins from 0 (except for df=1) increases to a peak and decreases towards 0 as its asymptote - The curve is skewed to the right‚ and as the degree of freedom increases‚ the
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Mud City The main character in the book is named Shauzia‚ Shauzia is a Fourteen-year-old that dreams of seeing the ocean and eventually making a new life in France‚ but it is hard to reconcile that dream with the terrible conditions of the Afghan refugee camp where she lives. She has tanned skin and brown eyes‚ short hair‚ and she wears a salwar kameez (long‚ loose shirt and trousers‚ worn by both men and women. A women’s salwar kameez has different colors and patterns and sometimes elaborately
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Safe Cities In this day and age‚ the safety of city and citizen are essential for people’s life. But as the population of cities continues to increase‚ the safety of city has become a critical problem. The government or city planners should think highly of this problem and do some adjustment of the city. However‚ the safety of city is dependent on the infrastructure of the city‚ the role of government and improves awareness of people. Firstly‚ in the public area‚ there should increase of the
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In Elie Wiesel’s book “Night”‚ uses eyes and/or night to demonstrate people’s humanity within the camps and throughout the book. I will be talking about Moche the Beadle‚ Elie and the little boy who was hanged. First‚ Moche the Beadle. At the beginning of the book‚ his eyes were described as being dreamy. He would be a representation of innocence and heavenly wisdom. He was later deported before the rest of the jews in the area. He saw infants being used as targets.When he escaped and came back home
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