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Becoming Aware of Rhythms in the World

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  In demonstrating that becoming aware of rhythms of the world is a way of adding to your rhythmic  knowledge, we will have an observation of Islamic culture and society, the rhythm of Islam weaving through the lives of Muslim women and men. Examples of the rhythmic nature of Islam can be seen in all aspects of Muslims’ everyday lives. Muslims break their Ramadan fast upon the sun setting, and they receive Ramadan by sighting the new moon. Prayer for their dead is by noon and burial is before sunset. This is space and time in Islam, moon, sun, dawn and sunset are all part of a unique and unified rhythm, interweaving the sacred and the ordinary, nature and culture in a pattern that is characteristically Islamic. There  is no doubt that a Muslim feels and lives Islam and experiences time and space in interweaving rhythm. This is what immigrants in an adopted homeland must miss Islam’s rhythm. They might be missing it despite regular praying at home and in mosque, fasting, participating i
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Discussion: Social and Political Commentary in Art

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  Select one specific work of art from chapters 14, 17, 18, 19, or 20 that the artist was motivated to create  in direct response  to a specific political or social concern of the artist's own time period (race, gender, poverty, war, political unrest, etc.). Cite the image in your post and describe the social or political issue it addresses. Deeply affected by the ideas of Surrealism and the teaching of Hans Hofmann, New York artists of the 1940s began working in a style collectively called Abstract Expressionism. This term designates not an organized movement but the work of a wide range of loosely affiliated artists active in the 1940s and 1950s bound by a common purpose: expressing their profound social alienation in the wake of World War II and making art that was both moral and universal. Two major approaches emerged: Action Painting, characterized by active paint handling; and Color Field Painting, distinguished by broad sweeping expanses of color. Some art historians prefer
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Discussion on the culture’s funerary customs and burial culture

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  Abdoulaye Diallo Wed Feb 3 @ 10:42 am EST * 1- Choosing a culture from chapters 1, 2, 3, 5, or 6, discuss the culture’s funerary customs and how such customs are manifested in art. To support your points, cite and discuss an image that specifically reflects the aspects of the funerary and burial culture you choose to discuss: All cultures have rules for representing people, things, and ideas, but Egyptian conventions are among the most distinctive and long-lived in the history of art. Everything is represented from its most characteristic viewpoint: profile heads sit on frontal shoulders and stare out at viewers with frontal eyes. And Egyptian art is geometrically conceived and sleekly stylized, often abstract and conceptual in design. Symbols were established early on and endured for almost two millennia. Stability was clearly valued over change. (Art: a brief history, 2010, p. 67). We see in most of the art that the Egyptians believed not only in the eternal life after death, but t
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Week 1 Project: My Full Sail Story

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  Before I started Full Sail University, I was unsure about my future career plans. I felt small and unsure, like a solitary person before a vast horizon. I am an immigrant and a Fulani (nomad), I was born in a Guinea (West Africa), in a multi-ethnicity; cultural and traditional environment. In High School, I created my name Brand "OLLAID" , it was just a rewording of my Last Name "DIALLO" which is a popular Last Name in West Africa. After graduating High School, I was able to find a way to come to the United States Legally by applying for the Diversity Immigrant Visa program and I was granted a Visa that enabled me to become a Permanent Resident of the United States. I have always wanted to get involves in the Media and Entertainment Industry but without a production company, that was never going to happen. I worked as a promoter on events and attended different cultural venues and I saw first hand how all these different people interact with each other. But then
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BLOG ARTICLE ON THE INTRODUCTION TO FILM AND VIDEO

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BLOG ARTICLE ON THE INTRODUCTION TO FILM AND VIDEO  During this month, we learned the basic knowledge and tools required to make great contents. Starting with the first week where we studied that  Character evolution is effectively the roughly equivalent to a character arc. It’s the central journey a character takes on over the progression of the story, with a substantial transformation or progression as the  final outcome.  Maybe the character has a moral to realize, past trauma to move past or a fatal flaw that holds him back. That’s where the story comes in. The story is your venture to aid the character in changing into who the character needs to be for better or worse.   We work on the theory of character evolution, and discussed on the levels of character at the end of stories, a bout how the stories shows this transformation as an act or action. Below are some of my personal remarks. In APRICOT - short film by Ben Briand Written & Directed by Ben Briand, we are introduced to
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BLOG ARTICLE ON THE HISTORY OF MOTION PICTURE ARTS

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                        BLOG ARTICLE ON THE HISTORY OF MOTION PICTURE ARTS: The Evolution of Documentary Filmmaking:      During the U.S. involvement in World War II, the Hollywood film industry cooperated closely with the government to support its war-aims information campaign. In the last years of the 20th century and the early years of the 21st, the idea of “synergy” dominated the motion-picture industry in the United States, and an unprecedented wave of mergers and acquisitions pursued this ultimately elusive concept. Simply put, synergy implied that consolidating related media and entertainment properties under a single umbrella could strengthen every facet of a coordinated communications empire. Motion pictures, broadcast television, cable and satellite systems, radio networks, theme parks, newspapers and magazines, book publishers, manufacturers of home entertainment products, sports teams, Internet service providers these were among the different elements that came together in
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Story of an Immigrant (Nomad)

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Hi everyone, My name is Abdoulaye Diallo, I am an immigrant and a Fulani (nomade), I was born in a multi-ethnicity; cultural and traditional environment. Growing up in Gbenko (Kerouané, Guinea) where my father was working for the only Diamond Mine in the country. I was fortunate to get the chance to attend both quranic and government school. By the time I was graduating from primary school, most of the employees of the Diamond mine was getting laid off and for some reason my father had to leave the family in the hand of my mother to raise, fortunately, my mother own a store on the main street of Gbenko, where she would sale most groceries needed in the community. We all lived peacefully with many other ethnicities with different traditions. After the Diamond mine permanently stopped operating because the owner of the mine at the time where foreigners and decided to take back their investment. Many of the families lost their jobs, as a result, my family moved to the capital Conakry wher
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