Silent Disco

Multi-Generational Workforce and Training Ami Stanton University of Mary Author Note Ami Stanton is a student in the BUS 622 (Human Resources Development class at University of Mary). Correspondence concerning this assignment should be addressed to Ami Stanton; email: astanton1@umary.edu. Abstract The workplace is changing in demographics and diversity not only racially, but now generationally. “The civilian labor force is projected to increase by 18 million between 2012 and 2022, reaching

Joseph Frank Keaton IV or as everyone had called him Buster Keaton was an American actor, director, producer, writer, comedian, and stunt performer. Buster Keaton was born on October 4, 1895 in Piqua, Kansas. Here’s a little fun fact on why everyone calls Joseph Frank Keaton IV, “Buster” Keaton. Legend has it that when Keaton was eighteen months old he fell on a flight of stairs and there was a famous magician that we all know and love that was there to see it and his name was Harry Houdini. After

Stephen King once said “Our emotions and our fears form their own body, and we recognize that it demands it’s own exercise to maintain proper muscle tone...But anticivilization emotions don’t go away, and they demand periodic exercise.” In the film Silent Hill, directed by Christophe Gans, a nine year old girl named Alessa is forced to live a life of torment. Alessa’s fear and pain never left but instead grew. Alessa as a result allowed her darkest emotions to split from her physical body creating

When the era of silent films was almost finished, Charlie Chaplin completed his last silent movie, called “Modern Times”. The title of the movie itself gives a hint about the changes that human kind would be facing in the future. While watching the movie, the audience is inundated with the ideas of dehumanization of humans in the factories, the ‘Fordism’ ideology, the struggle to earn bread, and many more. Instead of conveying this powerful social message in harsh and serious tone, Charlie Chaplin

When I was young, and knew little about how the world worked, I was frightened by the ideas of monsters in my closet or dolls that come to life while you are asleep. Now that I am older, I have more experience living on Earth, and I know what to expect from it. Likewise, horror genre has grown to create an alternate reality in which one can not assume that what we come to expect of the real world applies in a fictional one: “[The horror genre] must posit an unnatural threat that is outside the realm

Images of Life in City Lights Charlie Chaplin’s (1931) City Lights, is one of the last silent films to be released in America, that was successful, as the age of the ‘talkie’ was beginning. He was one of the few great silent film stars to successfully continue his career. Chaplin uses a lot of symbolism of life in this film, using flowers, blindness, money and of course the Tramp. Charlie Chaplin, or the “Little Tramp”, led a life many referred to as a Cinderella story. Chaplin was the son of

When Rachel Carson wrote Silent Spring, she focused mainly on how pesticides affected the environment. She looked at many different types of herbicides, insecticides, and fungicides that caused great harm to everything within an environment. Trying to persuade scientists and officials about these issues that are caused by pesticides. This did a great job at communicating to the public back in the 1960’s, but in today’s world this book would not do a great job at communicating to the public, with

From war hero conservatives to righteous college protesters to tech-savvy teenagers, there are defining characteristics of people born in different eras. Many do not realize how much their environment and its history impacts them as a whole. The progression of history changes the conditions entire groups of people grow up in, which leads those groups to differ from each other in life. This type of group is called a generation. Each generation has its own events that happened in its lifetime (Ovadia)

Sparrows (1926), directed by William Beaudine and starring Mary Pickford, has reviews that focus on its non-story elements as well, praising the spectacle of the film over its narrative. Like the aforementioned Keaton films, this film has a relatively simple plot. A group of kidnapped orphans tries to escape their evil captor, led by the oldest of the orphans, who Mary Pickford portrays. The climax of the film is the extended escape scene, which features the children crawling along a broken tree

The evaluation of a film assigns some form of value to a film and the experience you encountered while watching the film. Evaluation can imply the criteria and standards that you can argue about to place value on a film. Thus, giving people a reason to question a film to develop reasons, make such standards are met and to understand the film. These standards can stem from the classical evaluation and pluralistic-category method which has given viewers a blueprint of how you should properly evaluate