Ana Vidovic Coming from a very talented family, Ana has been known through her music since the age of 5 with her father and brother being guitarist themselves. She later explained that her brother influenced her on playing the guitar. She was born in a small town in Croatia, November 8th 1980. She was so popular, at the age of the thirteen she became the youngest attendee of a very high-status musical institute. By her early twenties, Vidovic had already received numerous prizes. Her well-kept status
Yo-Yo Ma is a Chinese-American who was born in Paris, France in 1955. Ma’s parents were both musical, with his father being a violinist and his mother a singer. At only three years old, Ma learned to play the violin and viola. Under the direction of his father, Ma became a fluid violinist. Around the age of 5, he began to beg for a much larger instrument to play. Had he been left alone to select an instrument, he would have chosen to play the double bass. Of course, his parents knew the bass
branches of education because they have a great impact on society going forward. What Yo-Yo Ma essay is trying elaborate on is that he believes we to fight for the arts and how it should integrate into the mixture, and that the arts are also a very important factor and there should be a balance between science, technology, engineering, math, and the arts. – an “Equilibrium” (YO-YO MA, Yo-Yo Ma, page 259). Yo-Yo Ma states in the essay that there are certain skills that are taught to the people who are
to be seen as something of a mystery, an enigma. O'Brien transforms M&M's into a symbol of America: mystical, powerful, and incredible. O'Brien also uses the simple image of a yo-yo to explain the necessity of American GI's to transform their mental attitudes to something different in order to survive the war. M&M's and yo-yo's are two very powerful symbols that O'Brien uses to explain the mentality of American soldiers in Vietnam. "As a medic, Rat Kiley carried a canvas satchel filled with morphine
In today’s world some people would say that the educational system is behind and lose sight to a couple of aspects that may better students. In “Necessary Edges: Arts, Empathy, and Education”, author Yo-Yo Ma argues about that certain thing that school systems has lost sight of and overlooked. Ma believes that the school system hasn’t really implanted the sense of empathetic reasoning in student’s curriculum. Graeme Wood from “Is College Doomed?” doesn’t speak that much about higher education but
Arts, Empathy, and Education” is an article written by world famous cellist, Yo-Yo Ma. In this article, Yo-Yo Ma identifies and discusses the role of arts in the world, stressing the point that these arts are a necessary element in the education system. Ma believes that the skills learned from these arts, are in fact, “essential” to the kind of balanced thinking that is needed in today’s world. Throughout this article, Yo-Yo Ma brilliantly portrays his thoughts, and gains the support of his audience
program portrays as a dictatorship over education, while sucking out all the passion and enjoyment of what the students are pursuing in school. In the YO-YO MA essay, Yo-Yo Ma states that “When science and the arts, critical and empathetic reasoning are linked to the mainstream will we find a sustainable balance in society” (YO-YO MA, Page 260, Yo-Yo Ma). I believe he is trying to explain, with art and stem combined, more people will have the option to experience and explore their dream and passion
construyendo las ideas predeterminadas de lo que debería ser la identidad queridos en el mundo, pero aún más grave en la comunidad latinoamericana. Armando, el personaje principal de la historia "El Otro Yo", por el escritor uruguayo Mario Benedetti, se encuentra con muchos problemas relacionados con la identidad. En esta composición, me gustaría formar un análisis textual del cuento "El otro yo" con el argumento que la idea de cómo la identidad de uno puede ser conformado por elementos externos que
Rhys Southan’s essay “Is Art a Waste of Time?” is about art and if it can really help people who are suffering or is it just better to hand over your money. In Yo-Yo Ma’s essay “necessary Edges: Arts, Empathy, and Education” he focuses more on art being used as educational purposes to essentially create more innovative/empathetic people. Instead of focusing so much on STEM, the author states that we should incorporate art too. Although some people might say art does not play a role in making the
established during the Han dynasty and was really diverse. The internet is a modern invention that has positively impacted the world. These influential networks did not exist during the same time but have similarities and differences that help accept Yo-Yo-Ma’s theory. The Silk Road and internet link many people and cultures. On the Silk Road, traders interacted at different places; bazaars, caravanserais, and oases where they exchanged goods produced by their native
... middle of paper ... ...ring creativity, but she is wrong in the fact that it is essential and that you must have lost of it. Lewis did treasure his free time but it was structured and limited, so he remained productive. Mozart along with Yo-Yo- Ma also did not have the luxury of much free time though they both are musical geniuses who without their talent the world of musical expression would be forever altered. Free time is to be valued but it is a part of life to be balanced, creativity
renovador de la filosofía estadounidense dentro de la corriente del neopragmatismo por argumentar que ningún filósofo por más explicaciones que tenga, no tiene la verdad absoluta ya que está se define según las experiencias, conocimientos, costumbres y proveniencia del yo. En el texto “Contingencia, Ironía y Solidaridad” de Rorty se evidencia la Contingencia en el Lenguaje y en el yo como bases del pensamiento filosófico. Desde la introducción el autor desarrolla una crítica referente a las tentativas
In today’s educational system, subjects such as ethics and multiculturalism are usually optional and are not enforced into the regular or basic curriculum. They are more electives and may even be restricted to extracurricular activities. In Yo-Yo Ma’s “Necessary Edges: Arts, Empathy, and Education” he argues the importance of the arts and empathetic thinking within education. Additionally, within Graeme Wood’s “Is College Doomed?”, he praises the accomplishments of the new and innovative online-based
“Nigga do you think I wanna hear yo’ bullshit ass excuses. You know the rules either you have my money or somebody dies. It's that fucking simple! I don't do this back and forth bullshit.” I swear these niggas think I'm a fucking therapist or a priest or some shit I don't wanna hear ‘nan fucked up story about my shit. Count it out or be prepared to get laid flat. I’m twenty years old and me and my brother Kilo, who’s nineteen, run shit. I’m young but a niggas far from dumb. These old muthafuckas
In Yo-Yo Ma’s Necessary Edges: Arts, Empathy and Education, he is arguing for the integration of the arts within the already established “STEM”, which he believes should be modified into “STEAM”. I believe the goal of higher education is, to help develop students
In the predominantly patriarchal history of the world masculinity and what it means to be a man have differed from culture to culture. When it comes to African American culture, particularly what it has meant to be a man has no clear set of universal rules or guidelines. There are a few different sources such as hip hop and television many young black men across America draw their sense of masculinity from. While hip hop music in particular has had and continues to have a very strong influence on
Globalization: From the Berbers to Bach”, renowned cellist, Yo-Yo Ma (2008) discusses the positive ways in which globalization can help us evolve through cultural traditions. Some people are threatened with the idea of globalization and living by someone else’s rules, but it may have a positive effect on our society as well. I agree with the author’s idea that globalization can help create new cultures and spread old traditions. Ma specifies that one of the ways to learn about foreign cultures
amante Martin. Habla de otros personajes, pero solamente de sus acciones. Porque ellas es la unica perspectiva que tenemos es sencillo a sentar compasion para una protagonista de quien nombre no aun sabemos. Ella da la descripcion de toda que vea, y mas importante todo que se sienta. Tambien tropos y figuras retoricas dan un tono significante al poema. Estos sentimientos de la portagonista y el tono emocional de la narrativa transporta una tema de una mujer estereotipical y debil quien quiere ser
1.- Scott Bedbury, ex gerente de marca de Nike, cree que el psicólogo humanista del siglo veinte Abraham Maslow ofrece el modelo más relevante para los consumidores más matizados de hoy. El dice que el comportamiento y el emplazamiento de marca de hoy deben reflejar un entendimiento de los asuntos psicológicos más profundos que Maslow puso en el vértice de su pirámide de necesidades. Relacione el modelo de Maslow con la marca Nike y su estrategia de comunicación. La teoría de la pirámide de Maslow
primer cuento. En el artículo “Crónica de mí mismo y alrededores” el escritor nos dice: “Hasta los cinco años, mi vida estuvo condicionada por la enfermedad de mi madre, que murió a los treinta y tres años de una cardiopatía de tipo reumático cuando yo tenía cinco” (70). En su novela Autobiografía encontramos este mismo hecho transformado en ficción: Al llegar al portal se soltó y subió la escalera a saltos. La puerta estaba entornada. La empujó y se lanzó a la alcoba a besar a su madre. Abrió