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Topic: The Colors

Age: Level 3/4

Contents: Learn the colors and know how to identify the colors in the environment around us.

Timing: 5 minutes to introduce, 10 minutes to explain the colors, 10 minutes to dance with the song of colors, 5 minutes to say goodbye and gather feedback.

Methodology:

• Teach cards with different colors to help differentiate.
• Sing the song of colors.

Materials:

• Classroom
• Papers with different colors
• Digital blackboard
• Song

Evaluation:

Assess if the students understand, learn, identify the colors, and actively participate.

Corporate Culture

What is Corporate Culture?

Corporate culture refers to the beliefs and behaviors that determine how a company's employees and management interact and handle outside business transactions. It's characterized by being:

• Shared
• Pervasive
• Enduring
• Implicit

Corporate culture implies:

• Behaviors observed regularly in the relationships between individuals.
• The norms that are developed in working groups.
• The philosophy that guides a company's policy regarding its employees or customers.
• The dominant values accepted by a company.
• The "rules of the game", that is, the ways that a newcomer must learn to be accepted as a member of the group.
• The environment or climate.

6 Components of a Great Corporate Culture

1. Vision

A company's mission, often expressed... Continue reading "Understanding Corporate Culture: Its Importance and Impact" »

Areas of studies:

Hard science--Financial--Health- Humanities

Megatrends:

is a large, social, economic, political, environmental or technological change that is slow to form. Once in place, megatrends influence a wide range of activities, processes and perceptions, both in government and in society, possibly for decades. They are the underlying forces that drive trends.

Factors to choose a career:

The factors influencing adolescent career choice have been well documented in the literature. These factors can be divided into two categoriesFactors in the external environment in which the adolescent exists. External factors are those over which the adolescent has no power or control and which cannot be changed.Factors internal to each individual decision-... Continue reading "Career Guidance and Decision-Making for Teens" »

Orientalism in 19th-Century Art

Western Perceptions and Stereotypes

Orientalist art of the 19th century used realism and a picturistic style to legitimize Western concepts of the Orient. These techniques promoted negative stereotypes, associating the East with inferiority and barbarity. The worn aesthetic often depicted in these works reinforced negative stereotypes of Western culture as well. Furthermore, the realistic technique employed had a metaphoric function, promoting negative stereotypes of Western culture, often depicted as worn down or decadent.

These paintings also conveyed themes of male dominance and the sexual objectification of women, reinforcing existing power dynamics within a Puritan Western society. Such depictions shocked... Continue reading "Orientalism in 19th-Century Art: Stereotypes and Western Perceptions" »

Filmmaking

Key Concepts

• Frame: A single image of a movie.
• Film Editing: The process by which an editor compiles shots into scenes and a film.
• Montage: Combining shots into a rapid sequence to portray a single event through multiple views (e.g., Rocky).
• Shot: An uninterrupted run of a film camera; shots are compiled into scenes, then into movies.
• Cinematography: The art of photography and camerawork in filmmaking.

Technical Details

• Movies are primarily shot at 24 frames per second (24fps).

Influential Figures

• Walt Disney: Filmmaker who built an animation legacy, starting in Kansas City. His first and last animated movies before his death in 1966 were Snow White and The Jungle Book.
• Orson Welles: Director of Citizen Kane.

Animation

• Traditional (2D) Animation:

Establishment of American Literature

The creation of secure public value for literary works was crucial. In the 1850s, popular fiction written by women, such as Mrs. Southworth, Caroline Lee Hentz, and Mary Jane Holmes, saw unprecedented sales. These bestsellers succeeded because they spoke directly to the evolving world of women and family life, reflecting new middle-class norms of domestic propriety. They also helped organize domestic leisure into a marketable commodity. Two factors shaped this era: women's writing and a middle-class domestic audience. This crystallized the readership and reading habits that would define literary consumption in late 19th-century America. The rise of mass journalism (the "penny-press") in the 1840s, which published... Continue reading "American Literary Movements: From Domesticity to Southern Renaissance" »

Egalitarian

(noun) The doctrine of the equality of mankind and the desirability of political, economic, and social equality.

Dictatorship

A form of government in which the ruler is an absolute dictator (not restricted by a constitution, laws, opposition, etc.).

Governors

Democracy

The political orientation of those who favor government by the people or by their elected representatives.

Assembly

• (noun) A group of machine parts that fit together to form a self-contained unit.
• (noun) The act of constructing something (as a piece of machinery).
• (noun) A public facility to meet for open discussion.
• (noun) A group of persons who are gathered together for a common purpose.

Matter

• (noun) A vaguely specified concern.
• (noun) Some situation or event that is thought

Art Vocabulary

• Art dealer / Comerciant d'art
• Painting / Pintura
• Renaissance / Renaixença
• Exhibition / Exposició
• Postmodernism / Postmodernisme
• Sculptor / Escultor
• Masterpiece / Obra mestre
• Prehistoric / Prehistòric
• Surrealism / Surrealisme
• Canvas / Llenç
• Frame / Marc
• Portrait / Retrat
• Easel / Cavallet
• Landscape / Paisatge
• Two-dimensional / Bidimensional
• Bronze / Bronze
• Marble / Marbre
• Background / Fons
• Center of interest / Centre d'interès
• Composition / Composició
• Foreground / Primer pla
• Mood / Disposició
• Perspective / Perspectiva
• Technique / Tècnica

Relationships

• Acquaintance / Conegut
• Extrovert / Extrovertit
• Pal / Camarada
• Ally / Aliat
• Follower / Seguidor
• Participant / Participant
• Bystander / Espectador
• Introvert / Introvertit
• Party Animal / Juerguista
• Classmate /

Postmodernism in Literature

Defining Postmodernism

Postmodernism is widely discussed in contemporary culture. Umberto Eco suggests that it represents an acceptance of the new and striking elements of modern society. Postmodernism is intricately linked to modernism, as outlined below:

• It can be seen as a continuation or expansion of modernist techniques.
• It also represents a break from modernism, rejecting the elitism often associated with it.
• Postmodern elements can be identified in earlier texts, suggesting that postmodernism offers a new way of rereading history and literature.

Brian McHale, in his book Postmodernist Fiction (1987, page 5), states: "postmodernism follows from modernism, in some sense, more than it follows after modernism."

Key Features

The Renaissance: Birth of the Modern World

The late 15th and early 16th centuries witnessed the birth of the modern world. This transformation resulted from various events, primarily geographical, such as the discovery of America, and ideological phenomena. These included overcoming the medieval worldview, which centered on religion, and the emergence of a new mentality.

The term "Renaissance" began to be used in the 19th century by J. Michelet and Burkhardt, who, in 1860, published The Culture of the Renaissance in Italy. The word "Renaissance" has a controversial significance concerning the Middle Ages. Its main feature is secularization: while medieval man was concerned with religion, Renaissance man became emancipated and the center of thought.... Continue reading "Renaissance: Birth of the Modern State" »