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The Wayang Kulit is a famous shadow puppet play in Indonesia. Wayang means shadow and Kulit means leather. This is to be said one of the earliest forms of puppet dancing, going back to the year 800. The origin of the Wayang Kulit comes from Indonesia, although there have been arguments that it also could have come from China. This style of theater is based on the "Ramayana" and the "Mahabharata". The Ramayana is a story where a prince Rama tries to rescue his wife from an evil king and The…

Victorian Women: Society’s Puppets In “The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, the narrator of the text was depicted as a woman suffering from an anxiety illness that she identifies as real, but her blinded husband, John, thought she wasn’t sick at all and all she needed was to rest for a while. As the text progressed, the narrator began to become connected to the yellow wallpaper in the nursery room she was staying at, seeing things move within the wallpaper and even seeing women…

In the article “Are We Puppets in a Wired World”, Sue Halpern presents an interesting outline of the development of the internet over the years. The internet has changed drastically and quickly since it first came about and is still changing today. One of these big changes that Halpern points out is the emergence of social media and how it can be connected to almost every aspect of our lives. Now individuals are able to stay connected no matter where they are in the world. People use social…

For this assignment I created a “snowman” pumpkin puppet! I created this puppet through the creative process without any prompts. I figured since it was fall and pumpkin week, I would create a puppet for not only my school work, but to also use in my preschool classroom! My puppet shows a lot of detail about pumpkins. It shows the texture and lines that you would find on a pumpkin, the seeds, the stem, and the leaves. While trying to think of how to make this appealing and fun for preschoolers,…

Labyrinth was released in June 27, 1986 in American theaters. This particular film used puppets that was produced by Jim Henson’s Creature Shop. The movie was based about a young girl being infatuated with the book Labyrinth, the young girl being Sarah the main character of the movie. Sarah was asked by her parents to babysit her infant half brother Toby, and she gave off a sense of resentment towards Toby, because he was receiving all of the attention from her father and stepmother. Sarah began…

were to watch many scenarios acted out by puppets. For instance, one puppet is having difficulties trying to open a box, another puppet that is depicted as the “good” puppet, helps the struggling puppet by helping lifting the box. This scenario is played for the babies in vice versa ending with a “bad” puppet slamming the box when the other puppet in distress finally does open the box. The babies are shown other scenarios very similar to this, with puppets still being portrayed as the “good” and…

a food preference between beans or crackers, and then forming target puppet preferences based on their similar and dissimilar food preferences (Hamlin et al., 2013). Then, they were shown puppets that were either “helper” puppets that returned the ball to the target puppet, or were “harmer” puppets that took the ball away from said target puppet. Unlike experiment 1 however, experiment 2 also additionally added a “neutral” puppet that provided no interactions in the experiment, in order to…

becomes more difficult when those actors are creating characters with puppets. Demolishing Everything was successful in utilizing the puppets properly because they slowed down. A specific moment is when the puppet couple were brawling and the man crouched down on his hands and knees in order to sit on the floor. The puppeteers carefully placed each part down as it would move on a human, bringing a life-like quality to the puppets. On the other hand, as chaos started to build, the puppeteers…

century. This painting has the dimensions of a width of 10 5/8 inches by a height of 10 ⅜ inches. The painting is showing with minute brushstrokes a woman holding a child sitting next to a skeleton playing with a puppet of a smaller skeleton and a child and woman facing them mesmerized by the puppet. The brushstrokes are very difficult to see from afar, but as it gets enhanced you can see the short strokes of the brush. The small strokes of the brush and very precise, organic lines of the…

of the science fiction genre, the film remarkably blends technology with religion and spirituality. It follows Kusanagi, a cyborg assassin working for Section 9, who, along with her team, is on a hunt to track down an anonymous hacker known as the Puppet Master. He is able to implant false memories in human bodies and, as a result, Kusanagi struggles with the effects these false memories have on her identity. Japanese literature analysts, Susan Napier and Charles Inouye, have two distinct…