The Realness

The first element to establish has to do with the BAE counselor demonstrating a sense of genuineness, realness, authenticity or congruence with the client. In essence, the genuineness depends on the BAE counselor’s capacity for being in touch with the complexity of personal thoughts and feelings, which are experienced by the counselor while tracking the client’s…

Rap music has been around for almost 30 years starting with the people like, Run DMC, LL Cool J, and N.W.A. No one had ever heard this new type of music and was intrigued by the rawness and realness of it. People of all races liked the music and thought it was a new form of art. But, the new rap music of the 2000’s has changed the overall view of rap. People don’t think of it as art anymore because of its big influence of gang violence and use of profanity and this is more of a caucasian…

find, but the exact way to interpret those thoughts as she feels “too much anguish and confusion. Too much guilt.” Overriding emotions tears us down as our only way of escaping these thoughts is expressing them through our own clarifications. The realness of our own actions takes a toll on how we feel as our sorrows pushes us away from the happiness we strive for. The narrator continues on saying that “[t]his darkness is of my own creation.” A creation that leads to confrontation that needs…

Magic realism is a literary genre or style that incorporates mythical and magical elements in realistic fiction, most often associated with Latin America. In Bless Me, Ultima, Rudolfo Anaya uses many tools and literary elements to tell Antoine's story. Magic realism is the most commonly occurring and most effective literary element to tell the story. Anaya uses magic realism to introduce and describe various characters. For example Narciso, he is the town drunk and nobody takes him seriously,…

Imagine sitting in a warehouse on the upper eastside with house music playing in the background waiting on a ball to begin. Unexpectedly the announcer says, “category is… bring it to the runway” suddenly a 6 foot man dressed in a flashy gown, creative themed makeup, a dark colored wig, and 9 inch heels is prancing towards you. While he is prancing and sashaying down the runway, the crowd is going crazy, yelling and screaming in awe. The audience energy increases every time a new contestant…

In my opinion, takes away the meaning of slang that Whitman was describing. Because through texting there isn’t that actual connection/communication with people verse being face to face. Yes, you could say “LOL” but you couldn’t actually feel the realness of what they are saying/doing as in comparison if you were there to actually see and hear. So with saying that I believe as far as texting goes I believe it takes away the ‘life” Whitman was talking…

In the film “Thanks for Smoking” the cinematographer James Whitaker does a great job giving us a film that is both ailing and entertaining to the viewer through his use of high, distance and overall use of the camera in the ways of movement and selection of space and light for shots. For example, the use of long shots/ wide shots during film allow us to focus on the surroundings and atmosphere of where Nick our main character was, driving up on the Ranch, walking down stairs and through the…

The Last Supper is a still life sculpture made by Ken and Julia Yonetani using groundwater salt from the Murray River. The image of the large banquet is chipped, moulded and cut from a 1.5 tonnes of salt into a three-dimensional “still life” masterpiece with the dimensions of 9 metres in length, 0.72 metres in width and 1.22 metres in height. The sculpture is of a nine-metre table laid with a variety of food on top, such as fruit and vegetables, lobster and fish and various shaped glasses and…

off as they left them behind, with a soft automaticity.” After reading this the reader can imagine the setting with these descriptive words. Another quote is “The ceiling above them became a deep sky with a hot yellow sun.” This piece describes the realness of the nursery. The last piece of evidence is “And now the sounds: the thump of distant antelope feet on grassy sod, the papery rustling of vultures.” Picturing this setting in your mind is really…

Ancient Greeks believed in a high standard of excellence, yearning for perfection in the mind, the physical body, the arts, and religious beliefs, which defines their ideals as a culture. These ideals are clearly depicted in a vast number of artworks that were fabricated during this period, However, out of all of these amazing works of art, a select few captured my attention, as I believe they fully demonstrate these Greek ideals. Three Seated Goddesses, a marble sculpture located at the east…