Discourse Community with Hip Hop Music It may sound confusing to you what a discourse community is, but then you will not believe that discourse communities are all around us. They can be clubs, sports, music genre and many more. Perhaps, discourse communities have all it takes to impact an individual’s life either positively or negatively. Presumably, people get into any of these communities based on interests which tend to match their own. In that case, no discourse group membership happens to be accidental “you are either in or you are not”. As far as Hip Hop is concerned, I have been and still a member of a dance group. DNA is the name of the community. The group in particular dances to the moves of Hip Hop beats. DNA embraces all aspects of Hip Hop culture while trying to focus on achieving its goal and all that comes with the musical wave. While utilizing a great deal of dancing, DNA dance grew is majorly destined to greatness following the trend of the genre in the past couple of years…

Listening and Responding to Musical Compositions Edvard Grieg – Peer Gynt, Suite No.1, Morning Mood             When listening to Morning Mood, I noticed that the composition mainly features two instruments: the flute and the oboe. The piece opens with a flute and oboe solo, and violins join in to add to the softness of the tone (0:00 – 0:32). The flutist and oboist take over, and the interplay between them is magnificently sublime (0:44 – 0:55). The reign of the flute and oboe is disrupted by a melodious violin, viola, and French horn tune (1:10 -1:57).  All instruments play together at the same pitch as in the beginning, giving the composition an orchestra feel (2:28 – 2:45) While watching the video, I realized that the camera focused on individuals playing the main melodic line and provided wide-angle shots when multiple instruments were playing simultaneously. This music makes me feel relaxed. I like how the flute and oboe are the main instruments, and the other instruments provide accompaniment. I also appreciate the fact that this piece has no drastic changes from…

Ethics when employing Music/ Sound to for newborns’ development What is Medical Humanities? Medical humanities (MH) is an interdisciplinary between humanities and science having qualities and aspects of both. According to Klugman (2017), “Medical Humanities is an interdisciplinary that is concerned with understanding the human condition of health and illness to create knowledge and sensitive health care providers, patients, and family caregivers”. Besides, medical humanities conceptualize “the creative and intellectual strengths of diverse discipline including creative writing, drama, art, music, philosophy and history in pursuit of medical, educational goals”(Kirklin, 2003). Considering the increasing technological advancements and increased productivity pressures, a question of whether we can maintain the required balance of caring and humanistic care arises. A problem arises of determining if health practitioners are in a position to deal with patients’ needs and if their education seeks to prepare their minds and hearts for this. Changes in technological advances in medicine as defined by Mann (2017), is anchored within the humanities and they include developing empathy and resilience, creating closer connections with patients, and ensuring long lasting joy and understanding…

Music Art Music refers to a form of art and cultural activity, and its medium is sound. For one to know what music entails, he/she must take into account some elements. Such elements include but not limited to pitch (that dictates harmony and melody), rhythm (tempo of the song), dynamics (Softness or loudness), and the sonic qualities of texture and timbre  (which at times become referred to ‘the color’ of the sound of music). Music definition, creation, performance, and significance vary with a community’s cultures and its social context (Ardley 102). What is deemed as music in one community may not become considered as music in another community? Music, in most cases, is produced to relay information about the identity of a particular group of people within the society; it can be a song identifying with women or a specific vulnerable group of the community. Songs can as well become produced to relay information on the ethnic background of individual people. For instance, a song can become created to show the history of a particular group of people on how…

Music Law 101: What Does Copyright Law Protect? Music Law 101 is all about protecting different musical works along with sound recordings to its original creator. As copyright can be a confusing part, it is better to know what all it protects so that it becomes easy.  It is known that each piece of recording has two types of copyrights. First, it protects the musical composer. It indicates the arrangement and the combination of musical notes, harmonies, rhythm, chords, and the lyrics. The other name of this copyright is musical work. It deals with the musical composition of the song. Second, it includes the recording of the song and known as sound recording. Here, the master or the recording of the song is protected by means of the copyright process. However, musical copyright comes soon after completion of a sound recording, or any musical work is created. It is considered to be a satisfied one when the following elements are fulfilled. The work should be an original work of the music artist The work should be present in tangible form…

Evolutionary Psychology Essay Question 1 A mixed reproductive strategy is whereby both the male and female mates participate at the same time in monogamous breeding. In this strategy, the male mates of monogamous animals are engaged in the provision of parental care for offspring and meeting other copulation needs (Brent 745). Both the males and females involved in a mixed reproductive strategy will exhibit similar psychological and anatomical characteristics in adaptation to the plan (Gallup 281). While animals will equally participate in the swallowing of Hirundo rustica, humans will similarly be caring parents with strong parental love towards their offspring. Question2 The proverb ‘there’s strength in numbers’ explores the power of unity among a group of the same origin. The saying explains why most animals, both small and big, evolved in groups. Small animals like speckled tarsiers, magpies, and meerkats live in organized groups (Brent 745). They believe in communal ownership and unity among themselves. Gorillas and chimpanzees also believe in the power of strength in numbers. Such animals live together as a community and believe in the saying ‘live…

Family Therapy Introduction Solution-based focused therapy has proved to be an effective approach in different settings. This approach can achieve positive results in a short period, and this is an advantage even in terms of cost. This approach is also suitable for use by counselors across all levels of experience(lee, 1997) Solution-focused interventions put a particular focus on what is known as an exception. This exception is times when there were no problems (Corcoran, 2002). This paper analyzes the case of Al, who has behaviors that are not pleasing to other members of his family. The paper will discuss strategies that make use of all possible resources from both Al and his parents in an attempt to correct his behaviors. This paper will be arranged in terms of engagement and noting possible resources by use of the exception. The approaches will be discussed in the context of Al’s case. Engagement Engagement involves taking into consideration the client’s association with the assistance process and making use of several approaches for several client relationships. This process starts by simply conversing, for example,…

  Safaricom Safaricom a Kenyan based telecommunication company, the largest telecommunication provider in Kenya and the most profitable company in the East and Central Africa. Safaricom began its operations as a department of the Kenya Posts and Telecommunications Corporations in 1993.  During this period, the Safaricom operations were based on the analogue ETACS network, and in 1966 the company upgraded its operations using GSM and received a licence award in 1999 to use the GSM network.  In 1997, was incorporated as a private limited liability company owned and as a fully owned subsidiary of the Telkom Kenya. In 2000, Vodafone Group PLC, which is a United Kingdom-based telecommunication company, acquired 40% of the Safaricom stake as well as management duties and responsibility of the company. The acquisition process led to the declaration of Safaricom as a public company with limited liabilities in May 2002.  The government of Kenya shares were held by a state corporation which was the Telkom Kenya Limited.   Following the virtue of the 60% shareholding owned by the government of Kenya, Safaricom was a considered a state…

Superheroes Superheroes have primarily dominated the world today and instilled triggered unhealthy living habits, created unrealistic expectations and formed biased mindsets in society. Preoccupation with superheroic content that involves killing and violence as acts of service to the community corrupts children’s morals and behavior. As a result, this limits their creativity and creates vicious cycles of obsessiveness, imitation, and adherence to rigid play scripts. This research paper shows the nature and extent preoccupation is harmful to the body, mind, and social well being of a person. Young, A. F., Gabriel, S., & Hollar, J. L. (2013). Batman to the rescue! The protective effects of parasocial relationships with muscular superheroes on men’s body image. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 49(1), 173-177. This article discussed the unintentional preoccupation of young men with the muscular and gigantic bodies of superheroes tha create unlogic illusions to change their bodies to match the character. Two surveys were conducted to form the hypothesize for this research. On one side, men who were exposed to male superheroes did not feel indifferent or shame of their bodies. In contrast, men…

Name Course Professor Date Voice and voicelessness in society as in the play, A Doll’s house From early history, women and children are the most vulnerable and voiceless group in the community; they have been rendered mute, hidden from view, and continue being victims of endless suffering. This is evident in the play A Doll’s House by Henry Ibsen, which is based on a real event on his own life. The concept of voice and voicelessness in society is an oft-noted characteristic in the play, which brings out the popular term, “A woman’s place is at home” According to the play; The people with a voice are the men who are the head of the household. In contrast, the voiceless are the women who are meant to stay home with the children and take care of the house.   Women are perceived as children who are not in line with the real world. This is evident by how the protagonist of the play, Nora, is referred by titles implying smallness such as “little songbird,” “squirrel,” “lark,” “little featherhead,” “little skylark,”…