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Sometimes, the composer has verbally articulated or also written the thought he or she articulates musically by composing a melody. Sometimes, the composer just feels an emotion which he or she is or is unable to articulate verbally, but feels the need to express by composing a riff and does so. "I call that 'musical articulation.'
by but for December 19, 2017
Get the Musical Articulationmug. The essence of the term "problem-challenge and opportunity", which encourages individuals to interpret problems as challenges and opportunities.
In 2009, my Ph.D. professors made me aware of the term "problem, challenge and opportunity". It encouraged me to not see problems as situations which might be impossible to correct but as situations which have solutions. Nine-years later, to simplify and capture the essence of that novel three-word term, I invented the term OPTOIMPROVE. If problems did not come our way we would stop growing. Fredrick Douglas said, “If there is no struggle, there is no progress." And my Mother taught me that, "In life there is always a solution".
by but for November 17, 2018
Get the optoimprovemug. The word "mediaopoly" merges the words "media" and "monopoly." Ben H. Bakdikian published his book called "The Media Monopoly" in 1983 . The "mediapoly" is comprised of a handful of corporations which buy independent media outlets, merges them into one conglomerate, dictates what is news, only hires journalists who do not question the system and suppresses independent or alternative ideas and points of view (Fabara, 2017). Whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg gave Bagdikian portions of the Pentagon Papers, a top-secret classified history of the Vietnam War, and he gave a copy of the documents to Senator Mike Gravel, who promptly read them into the Congressional Record (1971). In 1976, Bagdikian became dean of the graduate school of journalism at the University of California, Berkeley.
The "mediapoly" buys independent media outlets, merges them into a conglomerate, dictates what is news, manipulates, distorts, and ultimately controls reality, and only hires journalists who do not question and glorify the status-quo; thus covertly suppressing and censoring alternative ideas and points of view, and contradicting the freedom of speech the First Amendment grants America's taxpayers (Fabara, 2017). The mediaopoly is comprised of 7 media giants: Comcast, Walt Disney, Twenty-First Century Fox, Time Warner, Direct TV, CBS, Viacom (the last two separated in 2006).
by but for January 12, 2017
Get the mediaopolymug. Strong and fast, are an example of two-adjectives. Smart but smelly, ugly but funny, fat and ugly, fat and friendly, short but cute, tall and arrogant, intelligent but snotty, snobbish but elegant. The other similar method is two-nouns, as in skinny and tall. These two-adjectives or two-nouns help describe characters in plays, for example.
by but for May 15, 2018
Get the two-adjectivesmug. The way interacting with younger people—more so children—automatically and almost always unknowingly transmit their youth to older people.
Though I taught high school and college, I love teaching second graders so much because they are tender and interacting with them makes me feel so hopeful. I call interacting with younger people—specially children—youth transmission.
by but for December 24, 2017
Get the youth transmissionmug. The way two or more people feel when they see or meet one another for the first time and feel repulsed by the way the other person looks, thinks (based on what they say and how they say it), acts, smells, sits, stands, walks, or runs.
by but for October 21, 2017
Get the Mutual Repulsionmug. Sometimes, the composer has verbally articulated or also written the thought he or she articulates musically by composing a melody. Sometimes, the composer just feels an emotion which he or she is or is unable to articulate verbally, but composes a riff to express it, that is 'musical articulation.'
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Get the Musical Articulationmug.