Jennifer Huang Dance 100 Professor Steele March 28th, 2014 Alvin Ailey Alvin Ailey was born on January 5th, 1931 in Rogers, Texas and passed away from AIDS on December 1st 1989. Ailey was a well-known African-American choreographer and activist who founded the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater in 1958 located in New York. What made Ailey so different from many choreographers at that time was his race and skin color because society condoned African-Americans practicing in the arts
-Confucius No matter what it is referred to as - dance, creative movement, kinesthetic learning, creative dance, or dance-based learning - it is beneficial to all students when incorporated into the classroom. Movement is the key. Creative movement is a form of dance, so students are using and introduced to the basic elements of dance: body, energy, space, and time. According to Elizabeth Lloyd Mayer, Ph.D., a psychoanalyst at the University
To be successful in a dance career is a hard thing to accomplish. A person looking to have a career in dance must have experience in dance for many years and be able to take the heat of the competition. A dancer must be able to hold their own and be able to take opportunities when the time is right, not too soon, and certainly not too late (Brady). In the dancing ‘world’ a person must also be able to handle the word “no” in any field of dance that he or she decides to go into; a dancer will be told
Factors Affecting Participation in Certain Sports Your peers are the people you mix with who have similar interests and backgrounds and are roughly your age. Your peer group has a big influence on the way you behave and the things that you do. This is not always expressed words. If you wear the “wrong” clothes or do the “wrong” things you can very quickly feel left out. If you peers approve of an activity, you will feel encouraged to do it. Sadly, peer-group pressure can also force people
Deconstructing and reinventing conversation Like fire, conversations are fun, bring us together, and make food taste better. Also like fire, conversations require 3 main components to exist. You can't have a fire without air, fuel, and heat. Similarly, you can't have a conversation without Presence, Language, and Objective. In this essay, I will try to deconstruct conversation into its three major components, and then add a couple of disruptors to see how conversation takes place "out of
psychology are “Confidentiality, Right to withdraw, Accurate reporting, Informed consent and Voluntary participation.” An ethical strength present during this test was confidentiality. The participants were assigned with a random number which was not shared with any other participant or the investigator. Ethical strengths that were present in this experiment were the right to withdraw and voluntary participation. When needed, participants were allowed to withdraw from the test if they desired or not participate
School Breakfast Programs There are many benefits and many possible drawbacks for the participation in a federal school breakfast program. The USDA sponsors the federal school breakfast program. The relationship between hunger and the ability to learn are very closely related. Of the many benefits to a school breakfast program, one includes the assurance that the children are eating a balanced meal during the school day. In turn researchers believe that eating a balanced healthy breakfast leads
Why should colleges implement mandatory attendance policy? One of the focal opinions in favor of requiring attendance is that good attendance is needed to develop a strong sense of public in a classroom, and to foster a healthy sense of class involvement. For instructors who choose to stick with the old lecture model, this isn’t an issue. However, many instructors opt to have a participatory classroom filled with discussions and activities. This kind of teaching requires quite a bit more effort,
Apex offers many trips and classes that range from 4 hour periods, to multi day expeditions. One major challenge is how to attract both new, and existing clientele that mostly participate in day trips, to more intensive multi day excursions. Fortunately, there are several marketing strategies that can be utilized to aid in this process. These include, guerrilla marketing, the use of social media, determining target areas and demographics, offering incentives to clientele, as well as active community
Our sample consisted of 43 undergraduate psychology students in a Learning and Cognition lab (Psy A355L) at the University of Alaska Anchorage. The participants were adults, but data was not collected on age, sex, or any other demographic. All the students provided their consent and time, in exchange for 15 points in the class. The ethical principles of the American Psychological Association were followed in this human experiment (American Psychological Association, 2010). Materials The participants
Methods: Sample: Study population will be consisted of undergraduate student volunteers who will participate in the fall session of Fit Families for Life. Recruitment: “Fit Families for Life” is a life style intervention program that is directed by Peter Morelli, MD of Columbia University and Sharon Martino, PT, PhD, of Stony Brook University. This program has a website and also flyers are distributed before the start of each session. As this program is managed by a faculty member of Stony Brook
Participants Participants in this study were all psychology students from the only summer section of research and statistics method class from the Northeastern University. The sample included 18 participants (5 males,17 females and 1 unknown). Age mean amongst the class (M= 26.39), with a stand deviation of (SD =4.075). The study was introduced by instruction before the conduction of the experiment. One student did withdrew from the study before the conduction. Materials The materials used for
In the method part, the article talks about the experiment done. In total 228 observers participated in this experiment most of them volunteered. This experiment needed a very specific material. Four videotapes were created (75s each) each tape showed two teams of three players, one team wearing white shirts and the other one wearing black shirts, who moved around in a relatively random fashion in an open area. The members of each team passed a basketball to one another following a specific order:
voluntary participation (“IRB Training,” n.d.). The people involved in the study should have the autonomy to decide if they will continue on with the study and know the risks and benefits of participation. It is essential to obtain this prior to clinical research because it exhibits a respect for the person involved and allows them to have the ability to make decisions for himself or herself. The essential parts of informed consent are information, comprehension, and voluntary participation (“IRB Training
Increasing Student Participation in College Organizations Student participation in the annual Business Society Haunted House is essential for the future of this great event. Penn State DuBois has nearly one thousand students attending classes, but on average only fifteen students volunteer their time each night over the five-day period. This presents a problem for the Business Society. If student participation continues to decrease, this event will only be a memory. During our search for possible
Art: Interaction vs Participation I am a Burning Man participant since 1998. Last year when I went to SIGgraph -- my first since I began participating in Burning Man -- the artwork there left me utterly uninspired. Nothing there brought to life a deeper desire to create like the artwork at Burning Man did, though both events deliver similar kinds of artwork. Don't get me wrong. The art at SIGgraph was good but it didn't change me like the art at Burning Man does. I have been trying to define
the solution or decision-making. The facilitator was able to recount her experience when using taking papers as the training tool for a team of 84 staff members. Using the taking papers was necessary in order to diminish intimidation, increase participation, and voice the clients/participants ' feelings. The approach can be more effective in large group settings
participants working practices. B- “Confidentiality and Anonymity”: it is a paramount importance for the researcher to keep the data collected confidential and that according to Collis and Hussey a key point to encourage the target population in participation. In this point, the researcher provided a statement describing what the study is about will be included in order to prepare and to accommodate the knowledge preparedness of the respondents. Describing the confidentiality of the research and that
Fasting and The Eucharist: Catholic Participation in the Sacrifice of Christ Christ, as the ultimate sacrifice in Christianity, gave his own life for the benefit of others. His self-sacrifice continues to this day to be celebrated in the Catholic Mass. Through communion, or receiving the Eucharist, one is able to actively partake of the fruits of that sacrifice. But how does one follow Jesus’ example? One surely cannot strive for the same kind of physical death that Jesus experienced. Thus
motivation, this study will focus on sport participation and its influence on prosocial behavior. Purpose and Variables Current research is limited because there are few exact scales or reliable instruments that measures prosocial tendencies in athletes, therefore, the purpose of this study is to investigate the relationship between sport participation (independent variable) and prosocial behavior (dependent variable). Operational Definitions Sport participation as defined in this study is the number