Mikhail Gorbachev

A current and common reading of Virginia Woolf’s experimental novel The Waves places the character of Bernard against his friends as a dominating force. The novel is noted for its pluralism. The six speaking characters in The Waves express themselves through short monologues, sharing nearly equal space with one another until the concluding section. It is over the final forty-four pages of the novel that Bernard is fully emphasized, the voices of Louis, Rhoda, Jinny, Neville, and Susan giving way…

the desire to humiliate and hurt Grushnitsky seemed to be his only motive throughout the entire chapter. He thinks of himself as a fatalist and views hope as an unnecessary part of life. As before, fate has “chosen” Pechorin to be the way he is. Mikhail Lermontov often alludes to the fact that society has molded Pechorin’s behavior; that the vices of Pechorin are the vices of the society. While that may have some merit in explaining how his behavior continues for so long, Pechorin takes…

This project will examine the ballet’s lack of diversity, which is still experienced in 2016. Even thought more American companies are establishing inclusive policies, until this date they represent the minority. There should be progression in race-related variety on stage, mostly in the U.S. where the population is so diversified. However, is it because of the monetary variance, the absence of role to replicated for future dancers, the necessity of reinforcement from educational institutions…

Suzanne Abraham (1996) describes how dancers feel, and what their physical appearance should look like. Researchers have found that among ballet dancers, it is common to have an eating disorder. Dancers want to be thin and have a ballet dancer body, and not everybody is born the same way to have that lean body type. Therefore, girls start bad habits, such as throwing up and not eating, just so they can have that ballet body type. Gelsey Kirkland, a ballet dancer, explains, “I starved by day,…

George Sand’s Indiana and Mikhail Lermontov’s A Hero of Our Time interrogate the conflict between individual and collective identity in the nineteenth century through presenting the individual as a site of ambiguity and hybridity that disrupts the supposed coherence and homogeneity of the collective identities cultivated by national and colonial power relations. Collective identity attempts to bound and border individuals within binary categories, presenting groups defined by national, ethnic,…

Many dancers now are turned away because they are simply taller than the mandated height, sometimes they will be turned away based on their body types, yet having a thin body was a recent development by the famous George Balanchine. Commonly referred to as the ‘Balanchine Body’, this ideal body type that first began in the 1900’s shapes what we see as the perfect ballet body yet what is said and done in whispers behind closed theater doors, dressing rooms, and practice rooms, is often nowhere…

and there are no Gods but... (Oniria pΣΝΒνΥ) I was the lonesome crewmember along a black dog in a spaceship travelling forlorn in the deafening and monstrous silence of the universe. At some point, the huge monitor, part of the central computer —or was it the dog?— asked me: Do you know my name?—and I answered: No—, next she asked: Do you know the dog’s name?—and I answered: No—, next she asked: Do you know your name?—and I answered No. Then, the computer, whose name I never got to know, but…

This excessively specific physique has become a sort of “job requirement” for ballerinas. Most are not born with the qualities that are required, meaning that they starve themselves almost to the point of death. These requirements do not make sense because in order for a ballerina to survive 8-hour rehearsal days, she must eat. If she doesn’t, she won’t be able to perform her best, and will in turn not look her best on stage. Weight and body image is something that Copeland, as well as many…

with them had an important place in the life of the medieval man (Mikhail Bakhtin, Rabelais)”. These over the top events won over the people’s hearts in the Renaissance and in the Middle Ages. During Carnival festivities, rules were thrown out the window and laugher was the focus point. “A boundless world of humorous forms and manifestations opposed the official and serious tone of medieval ecclesiastical and feudal culture (Mikhail Bakhtin)”. Laughter was not won so easily, effort had to be…

willingly. One world leader who continues to contribute to society is Mikhail Gorbachev. Mikhail Gorbachev was an influential leader in the Soviet Union and continues to be one through his work in many different charitable organizations. His work helps people all across the world and helps keep the environment clean and preserved. Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev, known as Mikhail Gorbachev, was born to Sergey Andreyevich Gorbachev and Maria Panteleyevna Gorbacheva on the second of March, 1931.…