Mirror stage

The first step, Initiation, is related to the first impression someone has about an individual based primarily on that individual’s physicality. During the second stage, Experimentation, individuals learn about one another’s likes and dislikes and seek to formulate a connection based on a common interest. Meanwhile, the Intensifying stage is when individuals begin to showcase their true selves and to divulge more personal…

Madonna is playing. Journey is playing. Katy Perry is playing. For once, no one is talking. Everyone is focused on their devices. It is Monday. You leave class, you come back the next day. Madonna is playing. It is still Monday. Your list of music Monday topics is stretching on to infinity. It has been Monday for so long. Journey is still playing. Theme essays, Miss. Hintze calls from the front of the room. She says you can do it on whatever theme you want, but you know what she wants. Six…

Presentation The first stage of group work is the forming stage, which is also known as excited stage (Tuckman and Jensen, 1977). According to Tuckman’s theory of group development the forming stage is for developing trust with group members, making contact, bonding and agreeing on common goals. A group is initially concerned about orienting themselves with knowing boundaries of the group (Smith, 2005). I did not know anyone in the group but at the same time I realized I would know them as we…

Bright lights and colors surround the area, and you can feel the energy in the air. The instruments being played, and the voices of young talented singers balance each other out. The performers have worked long and hard, their voices hit every note and their steps are perfectly aligned. Even though the five stars are only kids, they’re disciplined. Especially the lead singer, who is only eleven years old. The lead singer was Michael Jackson, and his band was Jackson 5. The group was brought…

the beholder. Emotion is a virtue when experiencing professional production, as actors can give and take this crucial sense, it seems to grow as they continue their role. Emotion is played by the actor but left for understanding by the audience. As stage right filled with bursts of hateful bickering, the audience could only wonder what was to occur as they laid their eyes on an empty set. These voices seemed to be the only thing occupying the dark room. The arguments set an unsettling mood for…

Title Seeing red and blue flashing lights in your rearview mirror is one of the most alarming feelings. Especially for the first time. My first time was definitely a nerve-wracking experience. It was not because I was speeding or switched lanes without using a signal. I had been pulled over for the most brainless act. I felt quite idiotic after the policeman turned on his lights and flagged me down. It all started when my friends and I decided to do a somewhat insubordinate act. I met up…

This semester I worked in the Scene Shop for Production Experience 1 for both Vinegar Tom and Dead Man’s Cell Phone. Because I came on later than the rest of my peers, I caught the tail-end of work for Dead Man’s Cell Phone. I also participated in light hang and strike for Vinegar Tom as part of my Production Experience this semester. In terms of scene shop, it was new for me because I had never spent such a concentrated amount of time in that aspect of production or worked on projects on such a…

There are lots of public service advertisements coming out every year and most of them are forgotten by the public after some time. However, there is one advertisement that sticks out to me: a distracted driving advertisement from Russia called “Think of Both Sides”. This particular ad was first created for the government of Ekaterinburg, a city in Russia that has around a million residents. Although it was originally aimed to be used in Russia, it became international and was used for many…

American Horror Story: Freak Show begins its tale in Jupiter, Florida, in the year of 1952. To the untrained eye, Dandy Mott is the physical definition of beautiful, but underneath this alluring exterior is the epitome of excess wealth, and privilege taken too far to its detrimental conclusion (DeBussey, 2016). Dandy is an intellectual man-child, incapable of finding satisfaction in anything. The world is seemingly at his fingertips, and yet he is incessantly consumed with a gnawing feeling of…

relatively important to the development of people. Through this stage, sexual urges motivates the development of the child. Freud conceived the idea that as a person ages, the individual goes through a number of stages in a hierarchy. Considering these stages were done through the child’s unconscious. Through this stage of development there are: oral stage, anal stage, phallic stage, latency stage, and genital stage. Freud’s reasoning for these stages was that “different development tasks and…