I chose to analyze Honey Daniels, the main character of the Homonym 2003 movie. Honey Daniels is a 22-year old Afro-Latina hip-hop dancer, who lives in New York, in the poor and though neighborhood of East Harlem. She threw her entire life into trying to achieve her dream of becoming a music video choreographer. To make a living, she works as a bartender at night and teaches hip-hop dancing during the day. In an environment where people face social problems such as poverty, domestic violence, and drug trade, she strongly encourages kids to attend hip-hop lessons at the youth center to keep them off the streets and out of trouble. When Honey meets a famous music video director named Michael, she finally gets the chance to make a transition from a simple dancer to a choreographer and pursue her dream. However, Honey’s success comes with a price when she denies Michael’s sexual …show more content…
Lewin, Lippitt and White were the first scholars who undertook one of the earliest investigations concerning this communicational approach. Democratic leaders engage in supportive communication that facilitates interaction between themselves and their followers to emphasize role distinctions. This attitude encourages follower involvement and participation in the setting of goals and procedures. Democratic leaders strongly believe that followers can make proper decisions, and therefore are inclined to perceive follower’s suggestions and contributions as a potential means to improve the overall quality of decision making. Democratic leadership is widely used in environments which require participation, involvement, creativity and commitment to a settlement. Researchers are inclined to believe that this leadership style is usually the most effective, since its benefits far outweigh any potential costs. Increased followers’ productivity, satisfaction and entanglement are the usual consistent output that arise when adopting a democratic
In Audre Lorde’s Zami: A New Spelling Of My Name, Audre, a Black Lesbian Poet, narrates her life story as unfair. This novel is under the unique genre that Lorde came up with called biomythography, which combines real life and myth. Moreover, Zami takes place in the 1950’s, which is still considered a critical time in America history for civil rights. In her quest for “fairness,” Audre often rebels against the status quo. This is due to the feeling she gets through the erotic, or what she describes as “sensation with feeling.”
However, the protagonist, Jess Goldberg, looks up to some of the butch lesbians she encounters in her life. Jess admires the butches who defy gender norms and assert their masculinity in a society that denigrates and erases their existence. She learns from Gloria that there is a place where there are women who are as manly as she is, and she instinctively realizes that she might be accepted there, so she steps into the bar with nervousness and anticipation. In the bar, she sees women like her and meets Al, the first mentor in her life, and it is under the tutelage of Al and Mona that Jess gradually establishes the perception of self-identity. These people appers in Jess’s life become her role models and inspire her to embrace her butch identity and resist the heteronormative and patriarchal system.
The main character of this film tries to navigate a difficult life of being bullied for his differences from his peers, the actions of his mother, and the importance of not allowing others to define and dictate your life-path. There are three chapters in his life which outline the influences, circumstances, and choices the main character makes. This film is challenging to watch and has moments deep remorse and shame. The provoking subjects of gay, black, male, poverty, illicit drugs, and addiction all converge to deliver a powerful message. Everyone struggles with identity and sometimes the struggle defines you.
The movie Whip It is a film about women’s empowerment by use of roller derby and portrayed through the struggle of a young eager 17 year old Texas teen as she goes through the trials and tribulations of becoming a woman. Bliss Cavendar is supposed to follow in her mother’s footsteps as a beauty queen but the odd, silent soft spoken, rebellious Bliss discovers her own path and finds her place in a world full of personality and individualism. Her struggles at the start blossom into confidence and a sense of place for Bliss. For this scene Annalise we will look at the moment that Bliss becomes first mesmerized with roller derby.
These two-shots showcase how Roxie cares about nothing but the stage, and Amos cares about nothing but her. By showcasing the characters on separate parts of the stage, and separate field of visions for the viewers, the film can better showcase the change and shift in the relationship between the two characters. The audience wants to continue watching to see how their relationship progresses, or how it ends. The two shots help establish the ongoing conflict that will occure between the two characters for the rest of the film. “Funny Honey” works to modernize the film through the two-shots showcasing modern editing techniques that allow for new and creative uses of a single shot to establish narrative
Question One: According to some of the scholars we have read during the semester, one of the most important projects of black independent filmmaking is to create an “oppositional gaze” on screen. Through an in-depth discussion of Cheryl Dunye's's film The Watermelon Woman, write about how creation of such oppositional gaze on screen contributes to the creation of a black queer/lesbian memory. The Watermelon Woman film created an interacial lesbian gaze that will be unforgettable for me due to how attracted these two women were to each other and the events that the gaze lead to. How, as it were, could a film like The Watermelon Woman build up a lesbian, black female gaze.
Significantly, the author describes as the person who his daughter would be with is not what he expected him to be and can’t get run from the way the world has been transformed. In conclusion, the development of the essay is that the life he grew up into hip hop music with he tried to avoid, but couldn’t so what other way would there
Had Creon adopted an enlightened and democratic leadership style, the story might have ended differently. Guided by an enlightened democratic leadership style, team leaders can actively cultivate a shared identity and common understanding in a variety of ways and break down barriers to cooperation and information exchange (Haas & Mortensen, 2016), and group member cohesion will increase, which in turn will improve the orderly management and stability of development within the
Tom Landry once said, “Leadership is a matter of having people look at you and gain confidence, seeing how you react. If you're in control, they're in control.” This quote is saying that the people following a leader need to have confidence in their leader. As said in the quote, if the the leader has confidence, then the people have confidence. Clearly, a collaborative leader is better than a authoritative leader because people thrive when the leader relates to the people.
Lucid Noon Sunset Blush (2016) is a film about the community and culture of queers in a small town (Texas). Not only does it show and describe some of the challenges of being gay, but it also goes into detail of the challenges one faces who is also “Black or Brown.” “The knowledge of how to survive within capitalism comes the awakening of ideas of queerness, gender, feminism, and sex work.” Living in an area that is mainly white rich people, those who are the minority need to find ways to survive with such inequality. This film also points out body shaming, and shows the reality of sex.
The feminist and gay rights movements both avoided formal leadership in favor of a decentralized decision making structure. The people no longer trust their leaders and are even starting to indict the system itself. They think we can do better. We are all leaders. Such leadership style is messy but that efficiency is not the point.
He can see the future and bring out the best in followers. Democratic- The democratic leader builds consensus through participation and this leadership also makes decision making by
HOW LEADERSHIP BEHAVIOUR MAY INFLUENCE GROUP DYNAMICS IN ORGANISATIONS 1.0 INTRODUCTION The purpose of this essay is to explain how leadership behaviour may influence group dynamics in organisations. Leadership behaviour is the behaviour; a leader exhibits (Malik, Aziz and Hassan, 2014) and according to (Malik, Aziz and Hassan, 2014) (House et al, 2002) leadership means an ability to influence, motivate and enable others in a way that they contribute towards the efficiency and accomplishment of the mission and goals of organisations which have employed them. On the other hand, this essay involves the study and analysis of how people interact and communicate to each other in small groups.
Leadership Analysis Introduction One of the popular definitions of a leader is, "The only definition of a leader is someone who has followers." ( ) A more comprehensive definition that highlights striking features of a leader is, "A simple definition of leadership is that leadership is the art of motivating a group of people to act towards achieving a common goal.” ( ) A closer scrutiny of the characteristics of an influential leader would many ways assist one, in recognizing those attributes in an attempt to assimilate the best in others.
(Brown 1988: 28). Behaviour within a group: - After collecting experimental evidence, Lewin concluded that groups with a democratic setup were likely to perform better than ones with autocratic