Can Transparency Make Organizational Responsibility More Effective?

Can Transparency Make Organizational Responsibility More Effective? Why should SystemX be so concerned about the capabilities of SoftGuides data -processing? SystemX should be concerned because SoftGuides data processing system was inadequate to handle new products plan. What competitive advantages to a training and consultancy services company may be provided by an information system? The competitive advantages to a training and consultancy services company are their competency of producing new product. The data processing can be used at any level of with any system. The security of the information that the system can provide. And how well the reliability of the system could give to their customers. Case 2: If these revisions are correct, how is planning to be organized? How should the information system support the planning organization? The planning must be organized continually adjust to the environment. The information system support the planning organization is by support activities to make sure that business strategies are being efficiently employed. The example of an information system could be used to support the planning organization is Enterprise resource planning which could help integrates internal and external management information across an entire organization. Can the information system aid in achieving shared values? Yes, the information system can aid in achieving shared values because as the revisions had said it is the most vital fluid in an enterprise. How might a comprehensive system be used to stifle initiative? To stifle the initiative in a comprehensive system are the renewal and adjustment of the activities of a firm should not come from the different levels in the management hierarchy. Case 3: What can be the drawback of having a formal system as mentioned in point 5? The drawback when having a formal mechanism for review and reiteration of the systems plan is they will missed all informal information flows come from chance meetings, reading magazines or newspapers. All procedure will have to go on with the assigned procedure, which will be a problem to the new MIS executives who are still on experimenting with the strategic planning. Can transparency make organizational responsibility more effective? Transparency can make organizational responsibility more effective because transparency of information and directives in turn allows members of an organization to more fully understand the reason behind the processes and this knowledge is going to have a tendency to encourage higher degrees of participation. In the long run this is of value because it helps a company have an easier transition falling into compliance. Case 4: Try to guess what the consultant said? What the consultant trying to say is there is a problem with the database integrity and the system reliability. Justify the use of technical jargon. Technical Jargon is words that are used by a person in a particular field when they are talking about some aspect of the field they are in and the specialized or technical language of a trade, profession, or similar group. It typically would not be understood by someone not involved with the same profession or group. Case 5: In the light of the system, describe the decisions to be made in the area of strategic planning, managerial control and operational control? What information would you require to make such decisions? Strategic planning strategic planning include the budget for the restaurant, the target market, policy and objectives. It comparing weekly sales and the food cost that enable them to plan tighter cost. This strategic planning will help in forecast in budget, the development of operating plan profit and human resource Managerial control The managerial control will get customer feedback and responsible to customer satisfaction. From that, managerial control makes decision related to customer at the restaurant. Operational control operational control will make decision on transaction processing in the restaurant. That includes takes order, tracking order, control of machine, and pay back compensation. Information needed to make such decisions above is strategic information that already compiled such as budget information, profit and capital information. Information of operational also needed like daily sales and billing in order to make the decision especially at the operational control. The information required to make these decisions can be strategic, tactical or operational information. What would make the system a more complete MIS rather than just doing transaction processing? Rather than just doing transaction processing, the system can be improves to complete Management Information System by providing all information on any level in the company such as executive information system that can support and give information in order to make decision, it can also give an easy access to external and internal information that can meet the strategic goals of the organization. DSS can be including making a complete MIS since it can help to make a better decision for the company. There is also another thing that could help them improving their system to a complete MIS which is speed up their problem solving where the time can be reduced efficiently, promoting training to staff to give them knowledge and discover new approach. Explain the probable effects that making the system more formal would have on the customers and the management. By making the system more formal, the probable effects is going to impact on the organization which can be more efficiently exchange information among its functional areas, business units, suppliers, and customers. As the transactions are taking place every day, the system stores all the data which can be used later on when the restaurant is in need of some financial help from financial institutes or banks. As the inventory is always entered into the system, any frauds can be easily taken care of and if anything goes missing then it can be detected through the system. The customers may realize the system will be more satisfying than before an gained more advantages from the system. Case 6: What security loopholes come to the fore in the situation described? How can these be plugged? The loopholes in the situation mentioned by Utpal are that the security of information is prone to security breach and viruses. It may cause troubles, to prevent it from happening while allowing the information and property to remain accessible and productive to its intended users are to struggle finding a budget and let the budget constraint vanished so he can helped the security system more advancing for brighter promising future of the company. Besides that, he could also plug or creates new security architecture in the environment because security architecture can describe how the security controls (security countermeasures) are positioned, and how they relate to the overall information technology architecture. These controls serve the purpose to maintain the systems quality attributes, among the confidentiality, integrity, availability, accountability and assurance. What is the importance of a security budget in the context of the given situation? Case 7: What are the business benefits of the web portal? Make a critical assessment. What is the importance of content management for enterprise web portals? c. Can a small business develop and maintain such a portal? Case 8: a. In the context of the given case, what managerial issues need to be addressed by Alfred? Why is it important for managers to be tech savvy? b. What is the importance of a systems consultant to an organization? What skills should he/she possess? Case 9: What are the business benefits and limitations of Rick Dalzells strategies? Why are business houses finding it difficult to keep costs down in spite of the fact that technology is getting cheaper? Case 10: a. What systems would you propose that would serve the companys needs? b. Considering that the company already has CBIS installed, will you contemplate complete overhaul of the systems or add functionalities of the existing systems? Justify your line of action. c. Justify the requirement of a Chief Information Officer (CIO) in the context of the given caselet. Case 11: a. How has technology helped companies like Rosenbluth deliver customized services? b. Is it possible for small companies to adopt technology similar to Rosenbluths? Why or why not? Justify. c. What is the significance of Rosenbluths statement? Give your viewpoint. Case 12: Is it justified to say that digital systems are unreliable and carries enormous risks? b. What countermeasures should be put in place to minimize damages due to failure of digital systems? Give your answer for each of the above three situations.

The Return: Nightfall Chapter 14

Elena woke up the next morning in Stefan's narrow bed. She recognized this before she was fully awake and hoped to heaven that she had given Aunt Judith some reasonable excuse last night. Last night – the very concept was extremely fuzzy. What had she been dreaming to make this wakening seem so extraordinary? She couldn't remember – jeez, she couldn't remember anything! And then she remembered everything. Sitting up with a jolt that would have sent her flying off the bed had she attempted it yesterday, she searched her recollections. Daylight. She remembered daylight, full light on her – and she didn't have her ring. She took a frantic look at both hands. No ring. And she was sitting up in a shaft of sunlight and it wasn't hurting her. It wasn't possible. She knew, she remembered with a raw memory that pervaded every cell of her body, that daylight wouldkill her. She had learned that lesson with a single touch of a sunbeam to her hand. She would never forget the searing, scalding pain: the touch had imprinted a behavior on her forever. Go nowhere without the lapis lazuli ring that was beautiful in itself, but more beautiful in the knowledge that it was her savior. Without it, she might, shewould†¦ Oh.Oh. But she alreadyhad , hadn't she? She'd died. Not simply Changed as she had when she'd become a vampire, but died the true death that no one came back from. In her own personal philosophy, she ought to have disintegrated into nameless atoms, or gone straight to hell. Instead she hadn't reallygone anywhere. She'd had some dreams about fatherly or motherly people giving her advice – and of wanting very much to help people, who were suddenly much easier to understand. School bully? She had watched sadly as his drunken father took his own outrages out on him night after night. That girl who never got her homework done? She was expected to raise three younger sisters and brothers while her mother lay in bed all day. Just getting the baby fed and cleaned took all the time she had. There was always a reason behind any behavior, and now she could see it. She had even communicated with people through their dreams. And then one of the Old Ones had arrived in Fell's Church, and it was all she could do to stand his interference in the dreams and not run away. He caused the humans to call for Stefan's help – and Damon had accidentally been summoned, too. And Elena had helped them all she could even when it had been almost unbearable, because Old Ones knew about love and which buttons to push and how to make your enemies run in all the right directions. But they had fought him – and they had won. And Elena, in trying to heal Stefan's mortal wounds, had somehow ended up mortal again herself: naked, lying on the ground of the Old Wood, with Damon's jacket over her, while Damon himself had disappeared without waiting for thanks. And that awakening had been of basic things: things of the senses: touch, taste, hearing, sight – and of the heart, but not of the head. Stefan had been so good to her. â€Å"And now, what am I?† Elena said aloud, staring as she turned her hands over and over, marveling at the solid, mortal flesh that obeyed the laws of gravity. Shehad said that she'd give up flying for him. Someone had taken her at her word. â€Å"You're beautiful,† Stefan answered absently, not moving. Then suddenly he rocketed up.†You're talking!† â€Å"I know I am.† â€Å"And making sense!† â€Å"Thank you kindly.† â€Å"And in sentences!† â€Å"I've noticed.† â€Å"Go on, then, and say something long – please,† Stefan said as if he didn't believe it. â€Å"You've been hanging out too much with my friends,† Elena said. â€Å"That sentence has Bonnie's impudence, Matt's courtesy, and Meredith's insistence on the facts.† â€Å"Elena, it's you!† Instead of keeping up the silly dialogue with â€Å"Stefan, itis me!† Elena stopped to think. Then, carefully she got out of bed and took a step. Stefan hastily looked away, handing her a robe.Stefan? Stefan? Silence. When Stefan turned around after a decent interval, he saw Elena kneeling in the sunlight holding the robe. â€Å"Elena?† She knew that to him, she looked like a very young angel in meditation. â€Å"Stefan.† â€Å"But you're crying.† â€Å"I'm human again, Stefan.† She lifted a hand, let it fall into the clutches of gravity. â€Å"I'm human again. No more, no less. I guess it just took me a few days to get fully back on track.† She looked into his eyes. They were always suchgreen green eyes. Like green crystal with some offside light behind them. Like a summer leaf held up before the sun. I can read your mind. â€Å"But I can't read yours, Stefan. I can only get a general sense, and even that may be going†¦we can't count on anything.† Elena, I have all I want in this room.He patted the bed.Sit by me and I can say â€Å"all I want is on this bed.† Instead she got up and threw herself at him, arms around his neck, legs tangled with his. â€Å"I'm still very young,† she whispered, holding him tightly. â€Å"And if you count it in days, we haven't had many days together like this, but – â€Å" â€Å"I'm still far too old for you. But to be able to look at you and seeyou looking back at me – â€Å" â€Å"Tell me you'll love me forever.† â€Å"I'll love you forever.† â€Å"No matter what happens.† â€Å"Elena, Elena – I've loved you as mortal, as vampire, as pure spirit, as spiritual child – and now as human again.† â€Å"Promise we'll be together.† â€Å"We'll be together.† â€Å"No. Stefan, this isme .† She pointed to her head as if to emphasize that behind her gold-flecked blue eyes there was a bright active mind spinning in overdrive. â€Å"Iknow you. Even if I can't read your mind I can read your face. All the old fears – they're back, aren't they?† He looked away. â€Å"I will never leave you.† â€Å"Not for a day? Not for an hour?† He hesitated and then looked up at her.If that's what you really want. I won't leave you, even for an hour. Now he was projecting, she knew, for she could hear him. â€Å"I release you from all your promises.† â€Å"But, Elena, I mean them.† â€Å"I know. But when you do go, I don't want you to have the guilt of breaking them looming over you as well.† Even without telepathy, she could tell what he was thinking to the tiniest shade of a nuance:Humor her. After all, she'd just woken up. She was probably a little confused. And she wasn't interested in becoming less confused, or in making him less confused. That must be why she was nipping his chin gently. And kissing him. Certainly, Elena thought, one of the two of them was confused†¦. Time seemed to stretch and then stop around them. And then nothing was confusing at all. Elena knew that Stefan knew what she wanted, and he wanted whatever she wanted him to do. Bonnie stared at the numbers on her phone, concerned. Stefan was calling. Then she ran a hasty hand through her hair, fluffing the curls out, and took the video call. But instead of Stefan it was Elena. Bonnie started to giggle, started to tell her not to play with Stefan's grown-up toys – and then she stared. â€Å"Elena?† â€Å"Am I going to get this every time? Or only from my sister-witch?† â€Å"Elena?† â€Å"Awake and good as new,† Stefan said, getting in the picture. â€Å"We called as soon as we woke up – â€Å" â€Å"Ele – but it's noon!† Bonnie blurted out. â€Å"We've been occupied with this and that,† Elena cut in smoothly, and oh, wasn't it good to hear Elena talk that way! Half innocent and wholly smug about it, making you want to shake her and beg her for every wicked detail. â€Å"Elena,†Bonnie gasped, using the nearest wall for support, and then sliding down it, and allowing an armload of socks, shirts, pajamas, and underwear to shower down onto the carpet, while tears began to leak out of her eyes. â€Å"Elena, they said you'd have to leave Fell's Church – will you?† Elena bridled. â€Å"They saidwhat ?† â€Å"That you and Stefan would have to leave for your own good.† â€Å"Never in this world!† â€Å"Little lovely lo – † began Stefan, and then abruptly he stopped, opening and shutting his mouth. Bonnie stared. It had happened at the bottom of the screen, out of sight, but she could almost swear that Stefan's little lovely love had just elbowed him in the stomach. â€Å"Ground zero, two o'clock?† Elena was asking. Bonnie snapped back to reality. Elena never gave you time for reflection. â€Å"I'llbe there!† she cried. â€Å"Elena,† Meredith breathed. And then â€Å"Elena!† like a half-chocked sob. â€Å"Elena!† â€Å"Meredith. Oh, don't make me cry, this blouse is pure silk!† â€Å"It's pure silk because it's my pure silk sari blouse, that's why!† Elena suddenly looked as innocent as an angel. â€Å"You know, Meredith, I seem to have grown much taller lately – â€Å" â€Å"If the end of that sentence is ;;so it really fitsme better'† – Meredith's voice was threatening – â€Å"then I'm warning you, Elena Gilbert†¦Ã¢â‚¬  She broke off, and both girls began to laugh and then to cry. â€Å"You can have it! Oh, you can have it!† â€Å"Stefan?† Matt waved his phone – first cautiously, then banging it into the wall of the garage. â€Å"I can't see – † He stopped, swallowed. â€Å"E-le-na?† The word came out slowly, with a pause between each syllable. â€Å"Yes, Matt. I'm back. Even up here.† She pointed to her forehead. â€Å"Will you meet with us?† Matt, leaning on his newly purchased, almost-running car, was muttering, â€Å"Thank God, thank God,† over and over. â€Å"Matt? I can't see you. Are you okay?† Shuffling sounds. â€Å"I think he fainted.† Stefan's voice: â€Å"Matt? Shereally wants to see you.† â€Å"Yeah, yeah.† Matt lifted his head up, blinking at the phone. â€Å"Elena, Elena†¦Ã¢â‚¬  â€Å"I'm so sorry, Matt. You don't have to come – â€Å" Matt laughed shortly. â€Å"Are yousure you're Elena?† Elena smiled the smile that had broken a thousand hearts. â€Å"In that case – Matt Honeycutt, I insist that you come and meet with us at Ground Zero at two o'clock. Is that more like it?† â€Å"I think you've almost got it down. The old Elena Imperial Manner.† He coughed theatrically, sniffed, and said, â€Å"Sorry – I've got a little cold; or allergies, maybe.† â€Å"Don't be silly, Matt. You're bawling like a baby and so am I,† Elena said. â€Å"And so were Bonnie and Meredith, when I called them. SoI've been crying nearly all day – and at this rate I'll have to scramble to get a picnic ready and be on time. Meredith's planning to pick you up. Bring something to drink or eat. Love ya!† Elena put down the phone, breathing hard. â€Å"Nowthat was tough.† â€Å"He still loves you.† â€Å"He'd rather that I stayed a baby all my life?† â€Å"Maybe he liked the way you used to say  ¡Ã‚ ®hello' and ;;good-bye.'† â€Å"Now you're teasing me.† Elena quivered her chin. â€Å"Never in this world,† Stefan said softly. Then, suddenly, he grabbed her hand. â€Å"Come on – we're going shopping for a picnic and a car, too,† he said, pulling her up. Elena startled both of them by flying up so quickly that Stefan had to grab her by the waist to keep her from shooting toward the ceiling. â€Å"I thought you had gravity!† â€Å"So did I! What do I do?† â€Å"Think heavy thoughts!† â€Å"What if it doesn't work?† â€Å"We'll buy you an anchor!† At two o'clock Stefan and Elena arrived at the Fell's Church graveyard in a brand-new red Jaguar; Elena was wearing dark glasses under a scarf with all her hair pinned up under it, a muffler around her lower face, and black lace mitts borrowed from Mrs. Flowers' younger days, which she admitted she didn't know why she was wearing. She made quite a picture, Meredith said, with the violet sari top and jeans. Bonnie and Meredith had already spread a cloth for a picnic, and the ants were sampling sandwiches and grapes and low-fat pasta salad. Elena told the story of how she had woken up this morning, and then there was more hugging and kissing and crying than the males could stand. â€Å"You want to see the woods around here? Check if those malach things are around?† Matt said to Stefan. â€Å"They'd better not be,† Stefan said. â€Å"If the trees this far from where you had your accident are infested – â€Å" â€Å"Not good?† â€Å"Serious trouble.† They were about to go when Elena called them back. â€Å"You can stop looking all male and superior,† she added. â€Å"Suppressing your emotions isbad for you. Expressing them keeps you well balanced.† â€Å"Listen, you're tougher than I thought,† Stefan said. â€Å"Having picnics at a cemetery?† â€Å"We used to find Elena here all the time,† Bonnie said, pointing to a nearby headstone with a celery stick. â€Å"It's my parents' gravesite,† Elena explained simply. â€Å"After the accident – I always felt closer to them here than anywhere. I would come here when things got bad, or when I needed to have a question answered.† â€Å"Did you ever get any answers?† Matt asked, taking a home-preserved cucumber pickle from a glass jar and passing the jar on. â€Å"I'm not sure, even now,† Elena said. She had taken off the dark glasses, muffler, headscarf, and mitts. â€Å"But it always made me feel better. Why? Do you have a question?† â€Å"Well – yeah,† Matt said unexpectedly. Then he flushed as he suddenly found himself the center of attention. Bonnie rolled over to stare at him, the stalk of celery at her lips, Meredith scooted in, Elena sat up. Stefan, who had been leaning against an elaborate headstone with unconscious vampire grace, sat down. â€Å"What is it, Matt?† â€Å"I was going to say, you don't look right today,† Bonnie said anxiously. â€Å"Thankyou ,† Matt snapped. Tears pooled in Bonnie's brown eyes. â€Å"I didn't mean – â€Å" But she didn't get to finish. Meredith and Elena drew in protectively around her in the solid phalanx of what they called â€Å"velociraptor sisterhood.† It meant that anybody messing with one of them was messing with them all. â€Å"Sarcasm instead of chivalry? That's hardly the Matt I know.† Meredith spoke with one eyebrow raised. â€Å"She was only trying to be sympathetic,† Elena pointed out quietly. â€Å"And that was a cheap comeback.† â€Å"Okay, okay! I'm sorry – reallysorry, Bonnie† – he turned toward her, looking ashamed – â€Å"It was a nasty thing to say and I know you were only trying to be nice. I just – I don't really know what I'm doing or saying. Anyway, do you want to hear the thing,† he finished, looking defensive, â€Å"or not?† Everyone did. â€Å"Okay, here it is. I went to visit Jim Bryce this morning – you remember him?† â€Å"Sure. I went out with him. Captain of the basketball team. Nice guy. A little bit young, but†¦Ã¢â‚¬  Meredith shrugged. â€Å"Jim's okay.† Matt swallowed. â€Å"Well, it's just – I don't want to gossip or anything, but – â€Å" â€Å"Gossip!† the three girls commanded him in unison, like a Greek chorus. Matt quailed. â€Å"Okay, okay! Well – I was supposed to be over there at ten o'clock, but I got there a little early, and – well, Caroline was there. She was leaving.† There were three little shocked gasps and a sharp look from Stefan. â€Å"You mean you think she spent the night with him?† â€Å"Stefan!† Bonnie began. â€Å"This isn't how proper gossip goes. You never just outright say what you think – â€Å" â€Å"No,† Elena said evenly. â€Å"Let Matt answer. I can remember enough from before I could talk to be worried about Caroline.† â€Å"More than worried,† Stefan said. Meredith nodded. â€Å"It's not gossip; it's necessary information,† she said. â€Å"Okay, then.† Matt gulped. â€Å"Well, yeah, that was what I thought. He said she'd come early to see his little sister, but Tamra is only about fifteen. And he turned bright red when he said it.† There were sober glances between the others. â€Å"Caroline's always been†¦well, sleazy†¦Ã¢â‚¬  began Bonnie. â€Å"But I've never heard that she even gave Jim a second glance,† finished Meredith. They looked to Elena for an answer. Elena slowly shook her head. â€Å"I certainly can't see any earthly reason for her visiting Tamra. And besides† – she looked up quickly at Matt – â€Å"you're holding out on us somehow. What else happened?† â€Å"Somethingmore happened? Did Caroline flash her lingerie?† Bonnie was laughing until she saw Matt's red face. â€Å"Hey – c'mon, Matt. This isus . You can tell us anything.† Matt drew in a deep breath and shut his eyes. â€Å"Okay, well – as she was going out, I think – I think Caroline†¦propositioned me.† â€Å"She didwhat ?† â€Å"She wouldnever – â€Å" â€Å"How, Matt?† Elena asked. â€Å"Well – Jim thought she'd left, and he went to the garage to get his basketball, and I turned around and suddenly Caroline was back again, and she said – well, it doesn't matter what she said. But it was about her liking football better than basketball and did I want to be a sport.† â€Å"And what did you say?† Bonnie breathed, fascinated. â€Å"I didn't say anything. I just stared at her.† â€Å"And then Jim came back?† Meredith suggested. â€Å"No! And then Caroline left – she gave me this look, you know, that made things pretty clear as to what she meant – and thenTami came in.† Matt's honest face was flaming by now. â€Å"And then – I don't know how to say it. Maybe Caroline said something about me to make her do it to me, because she – she†¦Ã¢â‚¬  â€Å"Matt.† Stefan had scarcely spoken until this point; now he leaned forward and spoke quietly. â€Å"We're not asking just because we want to gossip. We're trying to find out if there's something seriously wrong happening in Fell's Church. So – please – just tell us what happened.†

Inaugural Ceromany of Sport Event Essay

The Sixth National Games kicked off in Dhangadi of Kailali district in Far-Western region on 28th of February 2012. President Ram Baran Yadav inaugurated the Sixth National Games amid a special function at Dhangadi Stadium. President Yadav urged players to elevate patriotism and brotherhood through sports. Prime Minister Dr. Baburam Bhattarai, Finance Minister Barsa Man Pun and other ministers also attended the openingceremony. Before the inauguration of the event, players from different districts had performed various pageantries. Earlier, Nepal’s Olympian Dipak Bista had lit the cauldron of Sixth National Games at the Dhangadhi stadium. A team of former Olympians had carried the flame to Dhangadhi stadium all the way from Buddha’s birth place Lumbini. Altogether 3,619 players with 1,940 officials from five development regions, Nepal Police Club, Armed Police Force Club, PLA Club of Maoist combatants and a university team had participated in the march-past that featured during the opening ceremony. The games were held in Dhangadhi, Mahendranagar and Tikapur in the far-western region . Altogether 10 gold medals were decided on the first day of the sixth national games today. The first gold medal of the game was grabbed by Ajay Pandit Chhetri in Cycling. Pandit finished first in the national mountain bike tournament held at Dhulikhel of Kavre , after completing the stipulated distance in 2 hours 1 minute and 18 seconds. Raj kumar shrestha and Narayan Gopal Maharjan won silver and bronze in the same even respectively. Likewise in women’s category of the same event, Nirjala Tamrakar bagged gold after completing the distance in 1 hour 53 minutes and 59 seconds. The silver and broze went to Laxmi Magar and Sita Rimal respectively. Meawhile in Birgunj 8 gold medals were decided in various swimming events. 13 years old Shirish Gurung of central region won gold in the 400 meter freestyle while Shailesh Rana and Prabesh Adhikari came out second and third respectively. In the women’s category of the 200 meter freestyle, Shaila Rana bagged gold while Shreya Dhital and Oshin Bharati bagged silver and bronze respectively. In Men’s event of 200 meter back stroke, the result came out in favor of Shailesh Rana while silver and bronze went to Babin Shrestha and Shirish Gurung respectively. Karishma Karki bagged gold, Shaila Rana silver and Manisha Bista bronze in the women’s event of the same category. Shailesh Rana, yet again added two more golds under his belt later in the event of 200 metre back stroke and the 100 metre butterfly. The Women’s event of these two categories had Shreya Dhital claiming 2 more golds as swimmers from the Central region completely dominatedthecontest. The event which continued till March 4 which featured altogether 32 games — 13 games were organised in Dhangadi, 12 in Mahendranagar of Kanchanpur and the remaining were organised in Kathmandu, Nepalgunj and Birgunj due to lack of infrastructures in the Kailali and Kanchanpur districts. Athletes and players from all five development regions of the coutnry are participated in the national sporting extravaganza.

What Is The Recipe For A Perfect Ruler - 1008 Words

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The Sexting Phenomenon Essay - 1198 Words

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Seers on the rim Essay Example For Students

Seers on the rim Essay the tradition of African-American women playwrights can be traced back as far as the late 19th century; nevertheless, contemporary women playwrights remain on the edge, scrawling in the margins of todays mainstream theatre. But (as the author of from margin to center, bell hooks, so eloquently asserts) the margin need not be defined as a place that holds markings of less value; rather, for African Americans, it is a site of resistance to racial and gender oppression, silence, despair and invisibility. I have come to view these writersthese archaeologists of spirit and psyche who recompose the fractured self; these listeners to ancestral whispers who carve new forms from the clay of intuitive impulse; these visionaries who venture beyond the linear, the cornered, the squared-off edge of dramatic convention to find the rounded edge of reinvention; these word weavers, wor(l)d weavers, diviners who nestle with their dreams and nightmares in the bosom of night, knowing it to be the womb o f lightI have come to view them as Seers perched on the rim of revelation. Like every other African-American woman, the playwright is living in a very hostile environment. The American theatre is still, for the most part, a white patriarchal institution. Its hostility toward African-American women writers and others has been expressed, not through malevolence, but more dangerously through avoidance and neglect. On the commercial theatre scene, the black woman playwright is rendered virtually invisible. When was the last time you saw a play on Broadway written by an African-American woman? For me it was 10 years ago, when Whoopi Goldberg appeared in her one-woman show. An even more galling fact is that at the time of this writing, there is not a single African-American play on Broadway. Obviously, Broadway is not the only measure of success, but it does reflect the largest capital investment in American theatre, conferring star status upon its writers. In the nonprofit professional theatre, African-American women writers are present, but a survey of plays produced delivers an alarming comment on the nature of that presence. The 199192 season preview of American Theatre magazine included listings for more than 190 theatre companies nationwide, a handful of which were African-American companies. Of the more than 1,100 plays scheduled, nearly 60 were written by African Americans, representing approximately five percent of the total productions. About 15 of those plays were written by African-American womenone-third of the black plays, and roughly one-and-one-half percent of the overall total. Taken at face value, these figures suggest that the contributions of African-American women playwrights are insignificant. But over the past nine years, in my work as a dramaturg at Crossroads Theatre Company in New Brunswick, N.J. and as a panelist for many playwriting awards, I have read hundreds of plays in search of the extraordinary voice in todays theatre. Among the voices I find most compelling, thought-provoking and stylistically fresh are Laurie Carlos, Kia Corthron, Thulani Davis, Judith Alexa Jackson, Adrienne Kennedy, Robbie McCauley, Suzan-Lori Parks, Aishah Rahman, Ntozake Shange, Anna Deavere Smith and Danitra Vance. 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Theatre companies compete for funding and artists compete against each other for the multicultural slot in production schedules. Women and artists of color have greater access to the mainstream, but true entitlement is limited. Artists are not involved in setting national policies and strategies. The scent of paternalism and tokenism lingers in the air. In other words, women and artists of color are welcome to visit the mainstream, but it is not their home. The current cultural diversity plan marks only the beginning of a much more complex process that will eventually have to address the residual racist and sexist conditioning that undermines the integrity of the diversity movement. despite the movements gains, the many artists who create provocative new work are rarely given an opportunity for full production. Often these works are recognized for their potential but ultimately deemed not ready for the big leagues. Beyond the confines of the mainstage slot-system, the other artist languishes in the Sisyphus-syndrome of the developmental track; i.e., workshops and readings, presented on the second stage. Because so few writers of color move beyond that purgatory phase, in effect it forms a ghetto of multiculturalism within the theatre. In order to move beyond the sharecropocracy model, the new faces, themes and styles call for an innovative redesign of the process for developing and producing new plays. (The model of development for August Wilsons playstaking each play on a regional tour en route to Broadwayis an alternative process that produces excellence and completion. It calls for the kind of cross-cultural and inter-theatre partnership that is rarely seen i n nonprofit theatre, yet it holds great possibility for the cooperative enhancement of our artistic process.) Whatever the course of the economic and political trends in American society, the resuscitation of imagination in American theatre will depend upon our collective ability to negotiate a balance of power, and a recognition of the interdependence of polaritiesmale/female, black/white, rich/poor. True diversity will empower and enfranchise each interest group as cultural allies. Many black women playwrights innovatively address these goals by returning to and reinventing African-engendered elements: signifyin, ancestral invocation, the incorporation of music and movement, use of the circle of time, the word as magic and storytelling as healing. Signaling from the margins, they use these cultural charms to voice universal concerns. But if we place these playwrights, along with all other playwrights, in a circle, then there is no margin. 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