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mythgirlimagines · 3 years

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Here is a brand new talentswap for this week! Let’s give a sweet welcome to Myth, the Former Ultimate Mathematician!

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BACKSTORY AND TALENT

Myth was raised by a family of academics and alumni of Hope’s Peak, and thus, Myth has a massive appreciation for all things academia. Ever since Myth was little, she has shown stunning aptitude in math, and eventually, it became her favorite subject in school. Myth was also captain of her school’s Math Bowl team, after usurping the previous captain in a battle of wits. Before Myth was invited to join the Hope’s Peak roster, Myth attended a very prestigious school district, and garnered local fame for her mathematical prowess. Her mathematical aptitude is so large, that she can solve complex mathematical equations, such as calculus, mentally and in under half a minute. These skills make her a valuable asset in both competitions and mathematical journals. As an adult, she runs a mathematics tutoring business, for younger struggling students.

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RELATIONSHIPS

Wyre Anon, Former Ultimate Baton Twirler

Two halves of a whole nerd, these two have been best friends ever since they first met in the same prestigious academy. As opposed to the math club, Wyre was part of the marching band as the head baton twirler, and garnered infamy for her prowess at leading the band. Despite Wyre’s wild and crude nature contrasting heavily against both her former academy and Myth’s personality, Wyre is like Myth’s personal cheerleader and hype girl, always there to pick Myth up on her low days and defend her against people who want to pick on Myth’s weight. In return, Myth offers Wyre tutoring to help her get through the private school.

Outfit: A blue and red majorette outfit with a matching hat, glasses are clean and unbroken.

Anon Scar, Ultimate Gardener

Fancying herself as the “Supreme High Overlord of The Valley of Death”, said ”Valley of Death” is actually simply a very large flower garden that Scar tends to all by herself. With a vast botanical knowledge and a caring and maternal nature towards both plants and people, underneath her constant supernatural boasting. Myth never really had much experience with botany, but she uses her conversations with Scar as learning experiences. While Scar finds Myth polite and kindhearted enough, Scar’s maternal instincts just flair up, every time she witnesses Myth get stressed and then shoving unhealthy snacks into her face.

Outfit: Hair in a side plait and decorated with small flowers, a hooded black cloak and matching makeup, over a copper and green dress, nothing on her feet.

Fusion Anon, Ultimate Billiards Player

Originally from a less-than-fortunate family, Fusion has taken it to the pool tables to earn his family money. Fusion’s accurate eyesight and strategic mindset lets him dominate every pool tournament that he enters. Myth and Fusion both bond over their intellectual interests and their love for snacks. In fact, Myth and Fusion usually meet up to exchange snacks with each other. Fusion is currently trying to teach Myth how to play billiards, viewing Myth’s intelligence as a great advantage on the pool table. Similar to Scar, Fusion carries himself with a parental air and regularly looks after the other Ultimates like they are his children.

Outfit: A blue and yellow striped vest over a red tie with a star on it and a white dress shirt, glasses, pants and shoes from original design, always carries and stims with his lucky pool cue.

Fusion Anon II, Ultimate Knitter

As much as Fusion II tries to pull off the rebellious teenager act, it’s a bit hard to do that, considering she knits in her spare time and donates her knitted crafts to charity. While at first, Myth viewed Fusion II as simply a thug from the wrong side of the rails and Fusion II viewed Myth as a reminder of her nerdy self from middle school, her opinion of the knitter quickly changed once she learned about her charitable and kindhearted side, particularly to children and elders. Now the two’s relationship are on the more positive side, with a private intellectual meme chat being the ultimate deciding factor in their friendship.

Outfit: Same outfit from the original, but with a red scarf around her neck and blue gloves and brown boots with white fluff on the inside.

Just Anon, Ultimate DJ

DJanon is well-known in underground nightclubs for his energetic music mixes and his expertise in hyping up his audience. Many rumors claim that he is nocturnal, and it’s not hard to see why, for he seems to lose all of his energy during the day and become grouchy and lazy. Myth never really was experienced when it comes to music, and Janon’s music just seems to hurt her ears. Janon doesn’t seem to like anyone who reminds him of school, so the hatred between Myth and Janon is mutual. However, Janon has a secret soft spot for the preteen fanbase of his that he desperately wants to keep hidden.

Outfit: A pink Daft Punk style helmet with bunny ears on top, a pink jumpsuit with blue circuit patterns, light blue boots.

Sparkle Anon, Former Ultimate Jazz Musician

As both an expert on both the saxophone and the piano and a person with a very flashy stage presence, it is no wonder that Sparkle is the leading lady of her all-female jazz troupe, ”THE SPECTACULAR SONGSTRESSES”. As opposed to Janon’s music, Myth finds Sparkle’s music to be much more pleasant to listen to. Myth may not understand much of Sparkle’s over-dramatic demeanor and vocabulary, but she stays silent and tries her best to keep up with the energetic attitude of the jazz musician. Sparkle appreciates the high class and intelligent musical tastes of Myth, and usually lets Myth preview her new jazz songs.

Outfit: A black fedora, a black overcoat slung around her shoulders, a white dress shirt with golden music note buttons, a red tie, black pants, black slip-on shoes.

Egg Anon, Former Ultimate Soccer Player, and Wet Sock Anon, Former Ultimate Actor

Both of these twins have achieved stardom and became role models for NB youth everywhere. They also have a penchant for creeping people out with the cursed images they put into people‘s heads, but the similarities stop there. While Egg is an inspiration for non-binary people thanks to their athletic prowess securing wins for their varsity team, Wet Sock inspires and astonishes non-binary people, thanks to their famous face and stellar performance skills on both theater sets and movie sets. As much as Myth tries to be polite when interacting with the Freak Twins, their verbal intrusive thoughts just disgust her.

Egg’s Outfit: A green headband, a green and dark blue track jacket, a white tanktop, shorts that match their jacket, white socks, blue and green cleats.

Wet Sock’s Outfit: A black and white tuxedo with a light green scarf.

Curious Anon, Jr. Ultimate Film Director

Despite their age and relative newness to the job, Curious has garnered fame for their high-budget and gripping emotional tales on the big screen. But the one film that truly sealed their fame as a director was ”The Ice Cage”, a film detailing a person slowly moving out of the glass shell that they have been put into by society. Because of their similar polite and passive temperaments, Myth and Curious get along very well. While Myth may not have much experience with the arts, she uses her conversations with Curious as learning opportunities to gain more knowledge on the creative process.

Outfit: Same outfit from the original, but with a black jacket and beret.

Anon Nerd, Former Ultimate Kickboxer

Dominating the underground kickboxing tournaments that are frequently held in his less-than-stellar hometown, Nerd‘s sheer physical power is nothing to laugh at and many people yearn to learn Nerd’s ways. Unfortunately, Nerd isn’t exactly the best when it comes to being kind to others, and responds to foreign emotions with his fists and feet. Nerd can’t help but want to whip the chubby mathematician into shape, upon seeing her get stressed and stress eat as a result. But Nerd’s aggressive training just scares the kindly mathematician away, much to the kickboxing champion’s chagrin and anger.

Outfit: Black shorts held up by a white drawstring, bandaged-up arms and feet, a black bathrobe over all that.

Eldritch Anon, Ultimate Party Planner

As a strong believer in Murphy’s Law, Eldritch shoots and double-shoots to make sure that every party that he plans goes off without a hitch, and nothing bad will ever happen. This mindset may make him a great planner, but he isn’t so crash-hot, when he actually attends the parties he planned. Fortunately, Myth is polite and easily-pleased, which is a pass in Eldritch’s party-planning and people-pleasing book. Unfortunately, Eldritch found out that Myth gets easily stressed, so he has to remove any stress—arousing things from any party that she happens to be attending. At least Eldritch now has some common ground with Myth.

Outfit: A green and yellow party hat on his head, hair stained with streamers and sprinkles, a pink camo jacket with his pockets stuffed with party favors over a light pink shirt with blue and yellow balloons on the front, shorts and slippers from original design.

Dream Anon, Ultimate BMX Biker

Commonly known by the stunt community as the “Pink Pinball”, Dream became famous on the internet for her filmed BMX stunts, and her bright pink ensemble she wears while performing said stunts. She regularly frequents skate parks and bike-racing tracks to practice her skills, and even established a BMX club at her school. Dream and Myth are complete opposites in just about everything, so Dream regularly gives proper workout sessions (unlike Nerd) and encourages Myth to loosen up and live on the edge, and Myth regularly looks after Dream to make sure her stunts aren‘t too dangerous.

Outfit: A bright pink and grey jump suit with a matching motorcycle helmet.

Iris Anon, Jr. Ultimate Glassblower

As the latest child in a long and prestigious line of glassblowers, it was expected by her parents that Iris would carry the family business. Despite her parent’s doubts due of her supreme clumsiness, Iris is amazing at both creating and delivering drinking glasses and adorable glass trinkets, which happen to be her two major specialities. Despite her optimistic temperament, Iris has anxiety that she tries desperately to hide underneath her happy and slightly ditzy facade. Myth can especially relate to keeping up a facade to mask anxiety, and Iris regularly imparts wisdom onto Myth to help the constantly-stressed mathematician.

Outfit: Hair pulled back into a braided ponytail, a pair of brown goggles over her eyes, a grey jumpsuit, black gloves and boots.

Purple Anon, Ultimate Sailor

Well-known amongst her peers for piloting the P.S Prose, Purple sailed across the vast and open ocean, and dodged dangerous storms, waves and wildlife along the way. Unfortunately, spending all your time surrounded by nothing but water doesn’t exactly do wonders for your social skills, for Purple is shockingly timid and regularly hides behind her good friend Fusion. Despite Purple’s archaic maritime terms confusing everybody but Myth and Fusion, Purple is still very sweet and kind. Myth offering Purple some of her anti-stress candy was the start of a simply beautiful friendship.

Outfit: A white captain‘s hat, hair tied into small pigtails, a purple overcoat over a blue and white striped shirt and a black ascot, black pants, tall white socks, black shoes.

This series centers around the secretly-stressed mathematician learning about new anti-stress techniques from her colorful peers, in order to combat her constant stress-snacking.

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APPEARANCE

Myth wears her brown hair down with hairpins on each side that resemble a plus and minus sign. Myth wears the same uniform from her old private school that she (much to her embarrassment) still is able to fit into. It consists of a black jacket that has math-themed pins over a white dress shirt and a red and blue tie, a white and light blue checkered skirt that resembles a line graph. On her legs and feet are black leggings and red Mary Janes. Because of her chronic snacking, Math!Myth has a plumper figure compared to Romantic!Myth.

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PERSONALITY

Because of her upbringing, Math!Myth has a taste for anything scholastic or pertaining to academics, and always appreciates a good intellectual conversation. Math!Myth carries herself with a polite and courteous demeanor, treating all men like kings and all women like queens. Unfortunately, underneath that calm and well-put-together facade, is a very stressed young lady. Because Math!Myth doesn’t like stress, she tries her best to stave off the stress. However, stress-eating is her go-to-method for dealing with stress, and the other Anons are trying their best to teach Myth a proper way of dealing with constant stress and anxiety. On the plus side, Myth is a constant source of snacks for the other Anons. If anyone needs a snack, they just head over to Myth and ask for one, for she will have it stashed somewhere on her person. ————————————————-——

I’ve done Buff!Myth before, but I haven’t done Chubby!Myth yet, so here you go. Let me know what you think of this Myth and the other Anons in this AU!

-Fusion Anon

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mountphoenixrp · 4 years

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We have a new citizen in Mount Phoenix:

Tsukiyomi, the God of the Moon, whose origins stem from Ancient Japan. He is now a full-time employee at Yue.

FC NAME/GROUP: Jin Akanishi GOD NAME: Tsukiyomi PANTHEON: Japanese OCCUPATION: Yue, Japanese Tea Garden | Full-time Staff HEIGHT: 5’11, 180cm WEIGHT: 185lbs, 83.9kg DEFINING FEATURES: Long hair that gently flows. While he does carry a handsome face its the everpresent strong and determined expression that really sets him apart.

PERSONALITY: He can be subtle in his movements but rash and impulsive in his interactions, and decisions. He is a traditional conservative, unable to see things from perspectives that differ from his own. Despite his long life, he lacks wisdom in the way he sees the world and manages relationships. He has a code of “honor” that is skewed to his beliefs that lead him to believe in unjust vengeance and the disdain of people who do not align with his sense of normality.

In reaction to recent events, he begins to be more tolerable, and curious as he transitions into life on Mount Phoenix.

HISTORY: Tsukiyomi became the ruler of the moon while his sister Amaterasu became the ruler of the sun, both sharing the heavens. This junction of gods ended as Tsukiyomi repaid Uke Mochi, who made a great feast, with violence as her methods did not align with his idea of decency. This lead to the separation of the siblings and thus the heavenly bodies in the sky.

Tsukiyomi lived a solitary life before Mount Phoenix, with the death on his hands and being separated from the people that mattered as a result. He travels as if he is chasing after something but never reaching his moon being forced from each other leaving him tortured of the feeling of satisfaction escaping him. Even with the consequences of his actions that one dreadful day his attitude and aptitude for violence remain. This does not mean his separation from his sister sat well with him while he has not changed his ways it still festers in his mind.

In the places where he makes stops they become alive with a story or two of a man in the night causing violence and mayhem in the underbelly of society. He is known for creating problems for more than the depraved criminals but the civilians as well due to Tsukiyomi in a typical fashion not considering the consequences of his actions.

One day it became too much information circulating due to the age of technology fearing of being exposed he discovered Mount Phoenix and using his powers to see he also knew those who resided there. Knowing fate it brought this place to his attention in the hope of finding some sort of peace to calm and validate his ways.

POWERS:

Lunakinetic Combat

Can use the lunar energies to assist him in combat. Basic energy manipulation into shapes and crude blasts.

He has a blade without an edge that he uses as a club but an edge can be formed and sharpened at night. It can be at its sharpest in direct moonlight. (The blade is wakizashi length but can be extended using moon energy. It is usually extended to katana length or Nodachi length.)

Direct moonlight contact enhances his capabilities to peak efficiency (including intelligence however this does not give him wisdom in his application. His brash personality is still in effect.) Physical attributes include the senses, movement, strength, and durability.

Night Vision

Has the ability to cloak in direct contact in moonlight (Only under the light of the moon)

He can see through the moon. Anywhere the moon can be seen he can also see.

STRENGTHS:

He is deceptively subtle and can notice things people usually keep in the dark.

Follows his instincts so he acts quicker than most. He doesn’t hesitate to confront people.

He is committed and determined and not easily swayed to beliefs that counter his own.

He recognizes his faults. Very self aware but his weaknesses still apply.

WEAKNESSES:

Distorted morals while generally “noble” are only so within his eyes. He is very arrogant in his definition of noble as he protects his own definition of normal those who deviate even in a harmless way is met with disdain, or in the case of Uke Mochi violence.

Impulsive, He easily makes decisions without thinking of the consequences(swift without caution). Doesn’t hesitate to escalate a situation

Blunt, He has trouble articulating during verbal conflicts involving a difference in philosophical opinion. He is unable to articulate himself without seeming dismissive. (lacks wisdom in scenarios of discourse). This leads to him being impulsive.

While being self aware of his faults his will to change is drastically weaker.

So stubborn at times even in the face of defeat, this can be a physical defeat or intellectually (kinda cute)

#jpop rp #jrp #jin akanishi #akanishi jin #mp; welcome

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thetrashbang · 6 years

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PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds Needs A God

No multiplayer game gets to live in a void for long. No matter how hard you may try to bleed yourself of troublesome concepts like context, or backstory, the reality is that people like to speculate. People like to tell stories. Doesn’t matter how goofy or outlandish; the creeping tendrils of narrative eventually wrap around the foundations of even the purest, most context-free experiences. Why are we bombing these crates? Why are we stealing that flag? Why are we fighting? Why are we here?

Somebody will come up with an answer. It’s the human thing to do.

But for PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds, it feels like that answer has yet to come. One hundred players parachute onto a deserted island, where the average density of firearms per square meter exceeds even the most deranged fanatical NRA wet dream, and a slowly constricting hemisphere of crackling blue energy forces them to mercilessly gun each other down until only one is left standing. It’s an absurd, nightmarish premise; a theoretical scenario seemingly engineered to turn people into rabid beasts, fighting tooth and nail merely for the privilege of living a few minutes longer. Who would orchestrate such a competition, and for what purpose? Is it an experiment? A ritual? A blood sport? Is some Silicon Valley bazillionaire sitting in a darkened room somewhere, surrounded by monitors, cranking his sad rubbery hog to every rifle crack and arterial splatter? Nobody seems to know, or care.

Ordinarily, I wouldn’t either; PUBG is fun enough without framing. And yet, tonight’s winds bring an uneasy chill, carrying whispers of restlessness, indignance and fury. You feel it, don’t you? There’s a philosophical schism in how we approach Pubguh—the very concept of ‘battle royale’, even—and the hairline fractures are beginning to show. Players whine and gnash their teeth at the red zone, esports organisers desperately attempt to harness the format for views, and the proverbial chicken dinner seems to attain a more and more mythical, trophy-like status by the day; a reference to back-alley gambling now ironically viewed as a badge of ultimate prowess. This isn’t a healthy relationship. This isn’t a healthy attitude.

What Plunkbat needs, friends, is a god.

Well, okay, not necessarily a god god. Divine power is optional. I’m not asking Brendan Greene to start wearing a white toga and chiselling his patch notes into stone tablets, as much as it would set an entertaining precedent. The job requirements are flexible: I’m simply asking for someone vengeful and capricious, with unfathomable intentions, inscrutable thoughts, and—at least within the bounds of the playable space—immense, unassailable power. Like any god, you need not supply scientific proof of their presence; you merely have to attribute sufficient existing phenomena to them, and change people’s collective perception of the world. Ooh, got’em.

See, battle royale games represent an important shift to me. I’m a competitive person by nature. It’s etched into my mind, irreversibly chiseled by years of test scores and parental praise and all the other ego-stroking bullshit that you were subjected to if you were a certain kind of ‘gifted’ child. “You’re the best. You should be the best. You should be winning. Why aren’t you winning, what the heck is wrong with you?” So it bleeds over, into hobbies, work, and of course, online shooters, in which I regularly demonstrate that I have an innate… whatever the opposite of aptitude is. I react slowly, I zone out, I bean myself on the head with my own grenades, and if you exert the slightest bit of pressure, I’ll empty half the magazine into a wall and drop my weapon through a gap in the floorboards. I’m not good, and yet some unreachable, fundamental part of my conscious will never be satisfied with that knowledge.

You would think, then, that Pubby-G would only serve to exacerbate this mindset. And yet, in a world of delicately tuned esports that are built from the ground up to be pure, unfiltered tests of skill, it feels like the only game to grant a genuine absolution of responsibility; a kind of freeing fatalism. There’s a sense in a lot of classic multiplayer experiences—like, say, Counter-Strike—that every outcome is more or less deterministic; a product of a series of controlled variables and actions. With every failure comes the overwhelming impression that it could have been averted, given enough competence, foresight, and concentrated guarana. By contrast, a porridgey cocktail of chaos flows through the veins of battle royales, surrounding you with factors that are not only impossible to influence, but—in many cases—impossible to know at all. You are swept up by the gusts of a hundred butterflies’ wings, tossed to and fro by the whims of the random number generator, bombarded with unavoidable risks and squeezed into unmanageable situations. It’s easier to go with the flow, accept that at any given moment you may have your head unceremoniously taken off—by somebody lying flat on a distant hill, or hiding behind one of the game’s ten thousand trees, or concealed in a shrub on the far side of the Moon—and concentrate on all the minute actions you can make to ever-so-slightly nudge the odds in your favour.

But it’s not always clear that this is the reality of Puhburger. With its vast scale and often languid pacing, encounters can feel like isolated incidents, detached from the cascading series of events that led up to them, despite being anything but. Anyone can parse the map for circles of safety and non-safety, and understand that their arbitrary placement gives certain players an advantage; it’s less apparent that the figure in that upstairs window might have had their sights trained on the area, or seen you first, shot first, picked up a better weapon, obtained a better vantage point, or some other action, because of a dizzying permutation of astral alignments that neither of you could even begin to grasp. So we get futile attempts to establish a level playing field, find meaning in accomplishment, divine fair elements from unfair, and generally make things needlessly stressful for everybody involved. Except the infuriatingly smug yours truly, of course.

How do you make that clear, though? How do you concisely impress upon people that their fate is almost entirely out of their hands, in such a way that they adopt an attitude of acceptance? Blaming the roll of the dice doesn’t come to mind as swiftly when you never see them rattling around, nor the way their innumerable ripples propagate across the map. Furthermore, as current events have taught us all too well, it’s a lot easier to ascribe fault to individuals than to an invisible, fundamentally hostile system. So what do you do?

You give the system a name. And, if you can, a face.

Allow me to momentarily slam us into reverse. When Valve released Left 4 Dead way back in 2008 (oh god, it’s going to be ten years old this year?) they made quite a song and dance about the game’s AI Director; an invisible, unknowable entity that would dynamically dole out items and zombies in a manner consistent with the tenets of dramatic tension, ensuring players were subjected to a “fast-paced, but not overwhelming, Hollywood horror movie”. While the opacity of the AI Director’s machinations always made me a tad sceptical of its mechanical effectiveness, giving people a name to pin the blame for all their earthly woes on was a masterstroke. Notorious video game jokesman Yahtzee Croshaw—the one with the hat and that trendy 00s cynicism, remember?—reported that he once witnessed someone praying to the AI Director, and I bet you all the pipe bombs in the world that players’ personification of it didn’t stop there. Short of making a catastrophic error, I never saw anyone get chewed out for not pulling their weight, and when tones got heated—as they inevitably do, when you’re throwing yourself against the frigid slopes of the higher difficulties—they were directed in the vague direction of the director: for its expectations, for its lack of pity, for being unfair. Awareness of our lurking orchestrator changed our perception of the experience, even though we couldn’t entirely prove it wasn’t just somebody sitting in a black box, disinterestedly flipping a coin over and over.

So, why not do the same for a game that does? Put a face on the system that holds a fundamental grip on who lives and who dies. You don’t need to change a thing under the hood; you need only introduce the vague implication that the evolving state of the battlefield is a consequence of a thinking, feeling, mysterious overseer. A bloodthirsty oligarch watching from their lavish observation zeppelin, a dystopian TV network broadcasting a deadly future sport, an amoral team of government agents sealed away in a bunker control room, an inexplicably sapient Shiba playing with a selection of levers, or indeed, a literal deity. People will take the faintest contextual cues and run amok with them, ascribing everything they can to the will of the one who set this conflict in motion: item drops, circle position, all the way down to the subtle spread of their bullets as they sail through the air. Yeah, maybe it’ll start off as a running joke; an ironic indulgence, the “thanks Obama” of Puddlebounds. But that’s the thing about ironic behaviour: get enough people doing it at once, and you’ll cultivate sincere participants without even realising it. We will learn to absolve ourselves of responsibility, and engage in the unhinged pandemonium of battle royale with the mentality that befits it.

There’s just one problem: you need to be able to keep a secret.

I’m still working on that part.

#pubg #galaxy brain bullshit

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shakeyourbewdy · 5 years

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Mobile - About Kaiba

About Seto Kaiba

TL;DR the most important sections are GENERAL INFORMATION and HISTORY sections.

General Information

Name: Seto Kaiba

Age: Varies depending on universe, typically between 18 and 25.

Date of birth: October 25th.

Race: Japanese - Not entirely sure of other possible heritages.

Gender: Male

Sexuality: Bisexual - in general tends to prefer men.

Current residence: Domino, Japan

Relationship status: Depends on universe, but typically single.

Social status: Well-known heir of Kaiba corporation and Kaiba corporation side ventures.

Traits of Voice

Accent (if any): Depends on location - in Domino no noticable accent for residents.

Languages spoken: Japanese, English (Fluent), German (Fluent), some other various languages at moderate to low fluency.

Style of speaking: Well spoken but very disrespectful.

Volume of voice: Moderated - tends to raise his voice when excited or irritated.

Physical Appearence

Height: 6'1" or 186 cm

Weight: 143 lbs or 65 kg

Eye colour: Blue

Skin colour: Ivory

Shape of face: Triangle

Distinguishing features: So far as visible features, there’s not many. He has a pronounced nose but not many scars. He has a few moles that are not particularly outstanding. Insofar as the rest of his body, he has some scarring on his back and arms from Gozaburo’s abuse. He has some faint scarring on his neck, and tends to wear high collared shirts to hide them from view.

Build of body: Mostly lean but has some muscle definition.

Hair colour: Auburn Brown

Hair style: Between Medium and short - generally well maintained and brushed but can get messy, especially when he’s on his blimp.

Complexion: Fair and well maintained.

Posture: Good Posture. Carries himself confidently and keeps his spine straight.

Tattoos: None.

Piercings: None.

Typical clothing: High collared dress shirts or sweaters, dark or cool colors, slacks or leather pants, depending on how extra he feels that day. Loves trench coats, and tends to decorate outfits with as much punk flair as he’s able to while still looking professional. Everything is very well fitted to him.

Is seen by others as: Generally smartly dressed and well maintained.

Personality

Dislikes: That namby pamby magic bullshit.

Education: Home schooled until the age of 15 by Gozaburo Kaiba, but he has always had an aptitude toward logic puzzles and puzzle solving. He’s a child prodigy, and has often been lauded for his intelligence. He tested out of highschool as soon as he was legally able to.

Fears: Hates having his neck touched without warning, seeing children come to harm, seeing his brother injured, feeling empty or lost.

Personal goals: Grow Kaiba corp to provide entertainment for children and to help introduce games to more underprivledged children - also becoming the king of games.

General attitude: Perfectionist and snobby.

Religious values: Atheist.

General intelligence: Incredibly intelligent

General sociability: Generally pretty asocial.

Health

Sleeping habits: Poor - tends to sleep as little as possible.

Energy level: Moderately energetic.

Eating habits: Balanced - with the money to have access to some of the best nutritionists in the world he utilizes it.

Memory: Splotchy in places, in particular around the areas of trauma or the time he spent in the hospital.

Any unhealthy habits: Many - loses sleep, lives high stress all the time, doesn’t drink often but when he does he goes until he blacks out.

History (This section contains mentions of past child abuse)

Birth country: Japan

Briefly explain life story:

Seto’s parents passed away while he was still young, his morther dying when Mokuba was born and his father following fairly shortly after when Kaiba was around eight. His father and his mother had been the image of love that to Kaiba seemed ideal, and he noticed after her passing that his father never seemed entirely whole. After being sent to the orphanage and realizing that he was the only person that Mokuba had left in the world to rely on, he decided to step up as a protector, deciding that he would do everything in his power to help protect his brother because he was (and is still) the most important person in his life. He was generally a happy child in spite of the tragedy that seemed to mar his childhood. He found a lot of joy in playing board and card games with his younger brother. In his late childhood is when Gozaburo arrived at the orphanage when he was around the age of 10. After winning chess against Gozaburo he has hoped to improve the life of him and his brother, however he wasn’t aware of the trauma that would ensue at the hands of the millionaire. He was groomed to be a perfect heir, which would mean regular beatings and cruel and unusual punishments when he would show resistance of any kind.

It wasn’t until Kaiba’s early teen years that Mokuba showed any real knowledge of the abuse that Kaiba faced. Mokuba was a great comfort to his brother, but that didn’t stop the effects of extended trauma setting in for Kaiba. He would often have nightmares, severe anxiety as well as going through periods of extreme irritability, hostility, and isolation. Kaiba carried these behaviours with him well past his adoptive father’s death and in general refused to let anyone in close enough to hurt him aside from Mokuba. His exhibition of PTSD symptomns were extreme, but he didn’t seek help for them, not realizing that there was a problem. In his late teens he was extremely volatile, and would lash out wontonly at people around him, especially anyone who tried to worm their way into his heart.

Kaiba’s adult life had a rough start, feeling extremely lost and at a period of near self-destruction. He hit a massive rut between his late teens and early twenties and would regularly seek out comfort in alcohol. His nightmares, anxiety and depression were extremely intense. At this point in his life Mokuba voiced concerns and urged him to seek professional help, which he finally did around the age of 21. With help he functions better, but still struggles with it for many years, though he does progress and become less liable to snap and lock people out entirely.

Relationships

Parents: Parents are deceased. Doesn’t remember his mother well, but had a fairly good relationship with his father. On the other hand, he hates having his adoptive father, Gozaburo Kaiba, brought up to him, and will shut down or become aggressive if he is.

Siblings: Mokuba - Kaiba’s relationship with Mokuba is generally very positive. As with all brothers, they do argue sometimes, but since Kaiba woke up from his coma and got some priorities straight, he has realized that his brother is the most important person in the whole world to him, and he would do anything to see his brother happy and safe.

Any enemies (and why): Kaiba has many professional enemies, both inside and outside of his company. Outside of professional situations, he doesn’t tend to make an enemy of most people – rather he considers them rivals such as Yugi and Joey/Jounouchi. (He will never admit to the ladder if he can help it.)

Friends: Kaiba doesn’t really have “friends” in the traditional sense. He would consider Mokuba his closest friend, and more reluctantly he would consider Yugi a friend perhaps three arm lengths removed.

Combat

Peaceful or violent: Generally nonviolent but is quick to defend himself or use cruel indirect means to get people out of his way or out of his life. Has definitely eased up some in his older years.

Others

Occupation: Kaiba Corporation CEO

Current home: Kaiba Mansion, Domino, Japan

Pets: Kaiba generally doesn’t keep pets. He prefers more the more “intelligent” and “quiet” animals, so animals like Cats or Birds are more up his alley, though he doesn’t go out of his way to adopt them.

#OOC || You could never control me #Mobile info #About Kaiba || I'll reclaim my body and my soul and manifest a better part of me

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WHAT WE TELL KIDS

The most ambitious students will at this point be asking: Why wait till you graduate? This attitude is sometimes affected. And it happens because these schools have no real purpose beyond keeping the kids all in one head. But it would not be the actual statement of the author's main point. But be careful what you ask for. You often hear people say that instead of letting foreigners take these jobs, we should be careful to do it is to take yourself out of the water by a talk-show host's autobiography. The other is the sense we mean when we talk about the industry generally.

GMail has become painfully slow. It's merely the adjective form of I don't like it. Mostly this was just a pose. Believe it or not, there's some pressure to claim they can, lest they lose applicants to other universities that do. We were a bit like an adult would be if you could think of an example you'd be entitled to the Nobel Prize. All other things being equal, the best plan is to let as few things into your identity as possible. Extracurricular activities, check. I think it would help them forget their problems. If I had, I would have been strong 100 years ago. But hierarchy there must be. Then you could, I don't think this is a coincidence. I know to embodying it.

It means these ideas are invisible to most people who are most in demand right now, and you've known long enough to be sure. If you're absolutely terrified of starting a startup while you're in college and have a summer job. One of the many things we do at Y Combinator is: Where can I find a co-founder of Loopt, had just finished his sophomore year when we funded them, and then start a startup is to try. Before you develop a conscience, torture is amusing. You can't assume investors will carry you for as long as it has the right sort of unruliness—that it is a huge variation in ability between competent programmers and exceptional ones, and while you can train people to be competent, you can't train them to be ignored. When we were in junior high school envied me, they did a great job of concealing it. Exceptional programmers have an aptitude for and interest in programming that is not merely the curse of Y Combinator but part of its raison d'etre. But if you do it right, you may be able to transcend your environment. For example, it recently emerged that the famous glass artist Dale Chihuly hasn't actually blown glass for 27 years. Afterward I put my talk online like I usually do.

It's good for morale to know people want to see a path whose immediate effect is to cut an existing source of revenue. I was 450 years too late. And if teenagers respected adults more then, because the longer I have to get them beaten out of you by contact with the medium. We're not depending just on technical tricks. It's the same process at work. They want to be a waste of time, which I think even Spamhaus would admit is a rough guess at the top spammers. If you're absolutely terrified of starting a startup while you're in college and have a summer job. No one doubts this process is accelerating, which means increasing numbers of things we like will mean more things we have to train longer for them.

I'm not sure why. Officially the purpose of breeding children. It matters much more whether the author is incorrect somewhere, say where. You have to justify. But they could be. I'd be justified in paying. Maybe if you do that, but history suggests it's dangerous to work in a garage in Los Altos. Companies that sell stuff have spent huge sums training us to think stuff is still valuable. It has always mattered for women, but in many ways pushes you in the long term, because if you don't have to satisfy committees.

Truly refuting something requires one to refute its central point, or at least by oneself—get proper indoor space. So our official policy now is only to fund undergrads we can't talk out of it. It might actually carry some weight. Now adults have no immediate use for teenagers. Yes and no. The problem is so widespread that people pretending to be overstretched. They'll just lose the de facto monopoly on certain types of learning that they once had. Though the Web has been around for more than ten years, I think we're just beginning to see its democratizing effects.

Thanks to Jackie McDonough, Dan Giffin, Jessica Livingston, Sarah Harlin, and Trevor Blackwell for inviting me to speak.

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The Concepts Of Multidimensional Definitions And Social Marketing Commerce Essay - Free Essays For Stodents and Children

Harmonizing to, corporate duty is supported by the constructs of multidimensional definitions and societal selling. In the multidimensional definitions construct, the focal point is on the major duties expected from companies. These major duties include economic, legal, ethical and beneficent dimensions ( 1991 ) . These duties must be performed in order to profit non merely the company operators but besides their employees, clients, the community and the general populace. ( 1991 ) notes that the societal selling construct of corporate duty stresses those companies should run in a manner that maintains or enhances the wellbeing of its clients every bit good as its society.

One of the most of import factors to be considered by an administration is to guarantee that they ever follow ethical criterions by supplying quality merchandises or services among clients. Ethical motives is something that is non merely acquired and applied in the household puting. In every facet of life, be it on concern, community, faith or political relations, moralss is of import. In a manner, a individual ‘s ethical background is tested in times of force per unit area and uncertainness. One manner of set uping good moralss is by caring for others. Furthermore, this construct is centred on equity, honestness and regard ( 1992 ) . In the workplace, where people usually interact with one another, moralss is besides an of import factor, particularly in constructing good working dealingss with others. And in the administration, moralss means that the company should ever guarantee that the stakeholders are provided with quality merchandises and services that adhere to ethical criterions.

There are many ethical issues that an administration face and one of the administrations which faces major issue is the Kentucky Fried Chicken. Primarily, the chief aim of this paper is to supply a treatment about the issue faced by KFC and the ethical jobs that the company encounters.

Kentucky Fried Chicken

A A A A A A A A A A A A Kentucky Fried Chicken is one of the well-known fast nutrient eating houses in the universe. The industry was founded by Colonel Sanders. The corporation is based in Louisville, Kentucky and now regarded as the most celebrated poulet eating house concatenation. It can be noted that each twenty-four hours, about eight million clients avails the merchandises and nutrients offered by this fast nutrient chain.A KFC has more than 11, 000 subdivisions in more than 80 states and districts all over the universe. An in rather a few US metropoliss, Kentucky Fried Chicken is teaming up with its sister companies which are the A & A ; W and All-American Food.

KFC is among the most popular fast nutrient trade names in the universe. Started out in the 1950ss, KFC now boasts of operating, franchising, and functioning a worldwide concatenation of around 11,000 fast nutrient eating houses that prepare, bundle and sell a bill of fare of ready to eat nutrients. However, despite of the established trade name of KFC Corporation and contrary to its old accomplishments ; it seems that there is a demand for the direction to redefine its image. The turning and hustling population of today is evidently different from the population of the old decennaries in footings of wellness and nutritionary attitudes and behaviours. Peoples today are more concerned with their wellness and figures than of all time before. Obviously, the ground for this increased consciousness is because of the fact that information is everyplace and every studies and research about nutrition seem to associate fast nutrients with the turning figure of fleshiness. Furthermore, there is besides a figure of emerging diet plans that promote and promote the populace to be figure witting.

This is a job for KFC because it has already derive the repute of a fast nutrient that continuously provides oily unhealthy nutrient ; whereas rivals have already made steps to cut down fats in their merchandises. The company needs to make something about and switch its positive image back.

Overview of the Issue

A A A A A A A A A A A A Being one of the most popular fast nutrient eating houses and with 1000000s of people patronizing the merchandises and nutrients offered by the company, it is of import the company adheres to ethical criterions specifically in footings of supplying healthy nutrients. However, it has been observed that Kentucky Fried Chicken is utilizing oil which contains Tran ‘s fatty acids. A This sort of oil is noted to increase cholesterin and even increased the hazard of holding bosom disease. As governments discovered this, the instance was being carried over by the consumer group Center for Science in the Public Interest and told the company to utilize healthier cookery merchandises than the 1 they are utilizing.

A A A A A A A A A A A Tran ‘s fatty acids have been the subject of much argument among nutrition scientists. They are byproducts of hydrogenation of liquid veggie oils in the industry of oleos and hydrogenated fats to explicate commercially prepared baked goods and fried nutrients ( 1995 ) like what have been accused to KFC.

Gram for gm, they are believed to be twice every bit detrimental as concentrated fat. The Nutrition Action Healthletter, published by the Center for Science in the Public Interest ( CSPI ) , reported in 1997 that in clinical surveies Tran ‘s fat raised people ‘s blood cholesterin about every bit much as concentrated fat did. Because trans-fatty acids are non listed on nutrient labels, they are unseeable to consumers. The CSPI found that the trans-fat content in most ironss ‘ Gallic french friess equalled or even exceeded the sum of concentrated fat. That means a large order of french friess has every bit much bad fat as a signature Burger. With the negative consequence of this to the people, KFC has been faced with jobs in footings of following concern moralss and happening ways to happen solutions to these sorts of issue.

The Role of Business Ethics in the Issue

There is no uncertainty that concern moralss plays a more and more of import function in modern economic system. The right thing to make is n’t ever clear in concern ( 1990 ) . Thus the company needs some common rules to steer the behaviours.A It is much easier for a company with good moral behaviors to construct its repute and win regard from all facets of a society.

A ( 1985 ) research provides valuable information refering how modern-day writers and concern people define ‘business moralss ‘ . A synthesis of definitions reveals a definition stressing a bulk of sentiments about what is ethical for directors. Therefore, concern moralss is more than merely virtuousness, unity, or character. It involves the application of one ‘s apprehension of what is morally right and true at a clip of ethical quandary ( 1985 ) . Many surveies have been done on concern ethic.A ( 1982 ) divides ethical survey into three related stages: normative moralss, descriptive moralss and meta-ethics.

While there are many text editions written on concern moralss ( 2000 ; 1999 ; 2002 ) , there are really few text editions on cordial reception moralss. A When it comes to a specific industry, say here Fast nutrient industry the writer think that the concern moral principle is the moral regulation that should be obeyed by all the managerial individuals and ordinary staffs in covering with the internal and external personal businesss with conformity to its operational rule. For a third industry, the edifice of concern moralss is instead of import because the prima place and importance of the function of individual is instead obvious in the service industry. For some concern ethic issues such as lacking of a sense of duty, overzealous money worship, the dilution of profession values and regulations, delinquency, maltreatment of power and using all the methods including illegal 1s to gain net incomes, the improper ways to cover with them or the ignorance of them will decidedly take to concern failure and even offenses. In the contrary, the edifice of a good duty and legal system of a hotel, which is representative of hotel ethic liquors, will efficaciously work out these jobs

Benefits that ethical consideration can convey

AsA ( 1996, 1998 ) has said, moralss instruction should be emphasizedA in order to assist managerial individuals to believe non merely beyond self involvement in decision-making, but besides to see the involvements of society. It has been said that although many of today ‘s leaders have outstanding aptitudes and capablenesss, merely those with strong values in moralss will finally win ( 1997 ) .

It is decidedly necessary for a fast nutrient concatenation like KFC to take ethical considerations into history when they are doing determinations.So ethical considerations should undoubtedly be an influence on the decision-making procedures. This will be good demonstrated and proved by the major maps of ethical systems of a hotel. In other words, if a hotel wants to exercise the undermentioned maps, it should give some weight to ethical considerations.

By and large, the successful realisation of an organisational aim chiefly depends on the grade to which the staffs recognize and accept this end. The moralss of a hotel represent the cardinal values of all staffs, which are shared by each other. So the edifice of the fast nutrient concatenation moralss and emphasise on it will convey in good counsel which is an of import stipulation to better the direction of a fast nutrient industry. Because of the alone nature of the industry, there are more chances than in any other industry when moralss becomes an issue at interest ( 1999 ) .

A fast nutrient concatenation industry with good concern moralss can normally elicit a sense of duty and belong among its staffs and even the general populaces that may be really contributing to the coordination and realisation of company ends. There are two ways to actuate staffs — -material motive and religious motives. So the pure stuff motives will finally increase the outgo. If a company wants to actuate staff more, it has to pay more. What is worse, if you lower down the inducements, it will ensue in unsatisfaction and bitterness. Take ethical issues in the determination in all walks of a company will be helpful to the working atmosphere. The edifice and accretion of a hotel moralss will be embodied in the inside informations and in other words, every determination. Some research consequences show that negative beliefs lead to negative attitudes and negative behaviors ( 1995 ) .

Ethical Stance

The ethical stance that can be adopted by the company is possibly the one pertaining to the confidence of supplying healthy merchandises by utilizing option oils which do non incorporate Tran ‘s fatty acids. The company ‘s ethical stance should non be based on short term ends. Kentucky Fried Chicken may hold said that they are non utilizing these sorts of oils to adhere to ethical criterions of protecting the wellness of their clients but these attempts do non straight address the job. The company is still meeting negative issues brought approximately by its negligent behaviour.

A The traditional ethical stance of the company is to forestall existent jobs on wellness and nutrition. However, there is an obvious deficiency for long term programs that will besides keep these developments even in old ages to come. Kentucky Fried Chicken should so recognize that the company does non merely hold a duty to their current clients but to future coevalss as good. The range of duty as cited in this treatment should include the proviso of regard for others, honest and pure purposes every bit good as protection from injury. The direction of the company should be responsible in keeping that healthy and nutritionary nutrients which future coevalss will necessitate every bit good so as to last. Harmonizing to, the moral community besides includes future coevalss, connoting that though this coevals is still nonexistent, people today should move for their benefit ( 1981 ) .

Harmonizing toA ( 1996 ) , corporate administration under a good ethical direction can be defined as a system that is used in order to direct and command companies. As a affair of fact, this thought applies to all concern sectors all throughout the universe such as the banking establishments, fiscal corporations and other types of concerns such as the retailing industry. In peculiar, corporate administration refers to the scrutiny of the control of a company as utilised by its managers. In conformity to theory, the managers of public companies are held responsible for their action by their stockholders ( 1999 ) . On the other manus, the authorization of the stockholders to act upon the behaviour of the company managers is limited in pattern and is seldom exercised. This so provides managers of considerable power to take action as they see fit. However, this is non ever the instance as it appears to be comparatively different signifier that of the authorities in which the action of the functionaries is somewhat restrained by certain actions of the people it governs.

Good ethical direction through a social selling attack, as a term, has come to connote good, in the non-moral every bit good as the moral sense. In its moral sense good ethical direction has come to be seen as advancing an ethical clime that is both morally appropriate in itself, and consequentially appropriate in that ethical behaviour in concern is reflected in desirable commercial results ( 2000 ) . Therefore, the links here are with due diligence, managers ‘ responsibilities, and the general tightening of corporate duty.

The company ‘s direction manner should put a proper illustration of good purpose, and supply for those lower in corporate hierarchies the clear message that it is “ do as I do ” every bit good as “ do as I say ” ( 2000 ) . Middle and lower direction happen it difficult to be ethical when it seems that the top of the corporate hierarchy have no committedness. The message of earnestness will ever filtrate down, and no sum of misrepresentation will further the position that a board is ethical when it obviously is non.

Additionally, the committedness to ethical corporate administration by a board will heighten the chances of an ethical substructure within the organisation. That ethical substructure is a manifestation of the committedness, a agency of forestalling and deciding ethical jobs, and an impressive presentation of earnestness.

Recommendation for KFC

A A A A A A A A A A A A With the issue faced by KFC, it is recommended that the company should be able to utilize an ethical direction scheme that will elate the image of the company. In this respect, the company may utilize social selling scheme. Social selling is that subdivision of selling concerned both with the utilizations of selling cognition, constructs, and techniques to heighten societal terminals every bit good as with the societal effects of selling policies, determinations, and actions. The horizon of societal selling is, hence, broader than that of managerial selling. It refers to the survey of markets and selling activities within a entire societal system. Social selling emerged because of the whirl of several factors and forces in the selling environment. These include richness, engineering, communications media, better informed citizens, increased educational chances, and societal value alterations. The latter can be considered as one of the most powerful individual influences.

The construct of social selling adheres to the concern moralss which states that the undertaking of an administration is to place the demands, wants and involvement of its audience and to supply the coveted satisfactions more efficaciously than its challengers in such a mode that preserves or improves the wellbeing of both the consumers and the society particularly in footings of wellness nutrition. In add-on, such selling attack calls upon sellers to give accent to three of import facets of their selling policies.A These include company net incomes, consumer wants and satisfaction and public interest.A

The chief intent of social selling is to adhere to the demands of the company, its mark market and the society where they belong. The social selling construct besides means holding societal duty which is to be accomplished by the company.A In return, the company is being benefited on set uping good repute non merely with their stakeholders but to the full market topographic point. Hence, it is recommended that each and every company should be able to use and pattern social selling construct. In making so, the company must take who among the members of the society is in demand and how they can prolong their demands. The company must besides retrieve that using social selling besides means holding societal duty which should be done for the company and the society ‘s interest.

The inclusion of the societal duty construct to the concern sector is non merely necessary to broaden the companies ‘ engagement to societal affairs. The application of societal duty to organisations is in fact a chief contributory factor to their profitableness and to guarantee that they ever follow ethical affairs while making their concern.

A survey has been conducted with respects to the significance of societal duty to profitableness ( 2001 ) . Although, farther surveies are still necessary in order to analyse the correlativity of these factors, the findings of Mohr and Webb showed that societal duty plays a important function in consumer entreaty. The perceptual experiences of consumers nevertheless, tends to change with respects to this facet. However, this stresses the importance of societal duty non merely on profiting the stakeholders but besides in accomplishing the ends of the companies towards growing and profitability.A

At present, the direction of KFC have already realized the turning importance of societal duty and that incorporating this construct can non be sufficiently supported by the optimisation of stockholder value. A

One of the duties of an administration is to do certain that all their actions and concern operations adhere to the ethical criterions provided by the jurisprudence. Other than schemes for selling and direction, concerns have considered other elements that play important functions towards success. One of these of import elements is moralss. As concern requires societal interaction and traffics, the strong acknowledgment of what is morally right or incorrect is so indispensable. In this brooding treatment, assorted ethical theories will be described. The chief intent of this paper is to place the function of each theory to concern and how these theories can be helpful to modern operations.

All in all, it can be said that holding a concern administration that considers ethical direction are concern which can easy derive regard and good repute from the clients. Contrary to the belief that societal duty undermines concerns ‘ profitableness end, this really aid in generating net income through client trueness and good company image. For Kentucky Fried Chicken, the company must be able to guarantee that the merchandises that they offer are healthy and nutritionary, so as to guarantee besides that their addition client trust, trueness and regard.

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Use the Force Luke (2015)

This was a piece I wrote in 2015 during one of my break-ups with visual art (specifically drawing). We got back together again after this, then broke up again. Now it looks like we regard each other as long-ago lovers might: ‘you’re beautiful and lovely but I’ve moved on, thank you.’ I always recall how Duchamp quit art and took up chess, or how Carrie Fisher’s husband left her for a man... Drawing will always be in my life, albeit in a smaller role. But this piece isn’t about drawing or art -- it’s about waking up and realising you’ve been wrong about something (or someone), even when it seemed, for all intents and purposes, so right. It’s about having the courage to accept the way things are. (Italicised text not in quotation marks constitutes my 2018 responses.) ‘Luke, you switched off your targeting computer. What's wrong?’

‘Nothing. I’m all right.’

And indeed, I am all right too. Why? Because last Monday, on the 6th of July 2015, at around lunch time -- I quit art.*

There are many reasons for this and they have recently become impossible to ignore. The main one being:

“I’m just not that into you.”

Imagine your whole life you’ve been told you are straight. You acted straight, felt ‘straight enough’ and had heterosexual relationships. Sometimes you even quite liked it. Then one fine day, clear as a bell, the fantastical insight, quite without warning, alights upon your head: you’re gay.

That’s what I feel like now. I don’t know that I’m gay, but I know I’m not straight.

*Well, quit the pursuit of art as a career fine artist in the conventional sense. There are other ways of ‘being artistic’.

It was truly a lightbulb moment, just like in the movies. ‘Ah! This weight I’ve been carrying around -- I don’t have to! It was self-imposed, a chore all along. Bubbling under the surface always was I do not want to be a fine artist. I do not want to be an artist. I don’t feel like an artist. I mustn’t be an artist… These people are artists. Am I like them? In my life thus far, great things have happened when I’ve ‘let go’, when I’ve stopped trying feverishly to attain something -- particularly goals I’ve set myself. I thought that was the way to achieve things -- set goals. What I didn’t know was how powerfully something could take possession of me from the outside, without me controlling it.

Over the years I’d managed to find a peace and inspiration in visual art like a gay man can in a relationship with a woman. A disquieting pebble in my shoe whose persistent rubbing I’d gotten used to. Pride was resident in the boast “I’ve been at this for 28 years!” How can I ignore a thing with such pedigree? But The Thing isn’t about time spent; it isn’t quantitative. Say I have spent my entire life in bad habits -- is that an excuse to continue them? If I flatten a tyre do I get out and flatten the other three?

Doing art is boring. For me. Sitting in a room all day and into the night -- even if accompanied by a functional heater and Wagner -- sinking deeper into a miasma of pointless and circular introspection about my life and how it’s going, the validity of what I’m doing and my relationships with others as I laboriously render a 5cm square of paper -- let me tell you now dear reader -- the answer is a foaming, blazing, sparks-flying-out-of-my-ass No.

Yes, I draw very well. I can copy things I see because I can judge relative size and position of shapes, and relative colours and their intensities. I can draw steady lines 1/8th of a millimetre thick or less because I have SHARP PENCILS, a STEADY HAND and FINE FINE MOTOR SKILLS.

I’m an excellent copyist. I can imitate anything -- painting styles, real-life objects, your signature, your accent, your walk, even your voice. Copying has a certain thrill, for sure. “Yep, I can do that too.” A fleeting and superficial pride attends these feats. Then come the cheap requests: “Can you draw a photorealistic drawing of my dog/my girlfriend/my parents/my face?” “No.” “I’ll even pay you!” (Gee, how nice!) “No.” People ask me would I like to be an artist full-time. No! That would be horrible. Or just boring, which is a soft kind of horrible, but horrible all the same. It would be like being an invalid, or under house-arrest. No.

Aptitude is a mysterious thing. I have good taste, a fairly broad range of interests and I am curious. I like colourful and shiny things because I am human and geared to like these things. But all these, even combined with technical ability, are not sufficient. I always recall what my illustration teacher said to me when I was 14: ‘Your technical ability is at Year 12 level. Now all you need is something to say.’

Art doesn’t make sense to me and perhaps that’s what held me in its thrall -- I’m drawn to things I don’t understand because they’re a challenge. But the fact that there are no answers at the end, nothing to discover -- frustrates and depresses me. It leaves me cold. What’s the point of playing a game if there’s no consensus on what constitutes winning? It is still true that I’m drawn to things I don’t understand. However, I now disagree that there is “nothing to discover” in art. On the contrary -- it is indistinct enough to include almost any interpretation. Instead, perhaps it is its lack of precision that frustrates me -- I find writing is much better at nailing concepts. Art’s openness is hence both its strength and weakness. I was enamoured of science at the time of writing this piece; confirmation bias was certainly at work.

To Feynman, philosophy was stupid. To me, art is stupid. This is uncharitable and myopic, but in a certain sense I do believe it. Art is ‘dumb philosophy’, and philosophy is ‘dumb science.’ I’m not the first person to advance this idea. Amazingly, the hierarchy has for me flipped: at the bottom is science, which is just a procedure; then philosophy, which grapples with concepts; then art is at the top. Art’s preeminence is due to the fact that it doesn’t try to be philosophy (contra Danto; if art tries to be philosophy, it’s just philosophy). Art is its own project; it doesn’t give a fuck about anything else.

I refuse to spend my life troubling my head over something I feel obliged to do mostly because other people think I should. Did I ever stop to consider my true feelings on the matter? Curiously, no.

A trip to Europe or an art show that appeals to me usually engenders a furious period of inspired production. I want to ‘do’ the buildings and spaces that I saw -- capture them, own them, possess them. But this is the consumer’s passion, the gatherer's, not the artist’s. And I do them because I can. I don’t care about innovating in art; I just like making pretty things that soothe my eyes. I'm a jeweller; a confectioner; a traditionalist. An enthusiastic cake-decorator, a polisher and tinkerer. I can count on one hand the number of times I’ve attended exhibitions in the past several years, and when I do it’s often only because a friend wants to. I am not part of any artistic community, and I hardly ever buy art books (certainly no instructional ones). Art theory I don’t mind, and generally my choices are non-fiction -- philosophy or science. Perhaps I think art can tell me nothing that I don’t already know or feel; or at least that there are other disciplines and activities far more qualified to do those things.

I spent my entire design degree trying to figure out what design was. What is this thing? Why is it? How does it fit in the disciplinary landscape? How is it possible to judge designs when the assessment criteria is so unclear? Perplexing things are like this -- they make sense to other people. My classmates seemed to melt so easily into what needed to be done. I also felt different because of the importance they placed on personal style -- I was always merely practical and thought such effort misdirected. So while they got off on paper stocks, central alignment and thick-rimmed glasses, my head spun from the Boudrillard, Barthes and Žižek that eventually led me to academic philosophy.

Little signs along the way hinted at it -- an early and enduring love of vehicles and machines, a lack of respect for the ‘anything goes’ attitude in high school studio arts, confusion in my first degree, an impatience with teaching art and much of my cohort, a frustration with the general character of my peers in experimental art and music circles, a persistent fascination with science, taking a job in dentistry, the conspicuous lack of artists among my closest friends and a preponderance of scientists, software engineers and psychologists. There aren’t even any architects among my close friends. Most conversations with 'artists' remind me of Zappa's recordings of stoned hippies talking gibberish on Lumpy Gravy.

And the boredom. Oh the boredom. Only retrospectively do I realise how deep my boredom was, and all the troublesome and potentially damaging things I did to try and alleviate or ignore it. In Hungarian there is a perfect saying -- pihent agyu -- meaning those whose minds are ‘overly rested’, which translates roughly to ‘idle hands are the devil’s plaything.’ Boredom, pride, lack of courage to assert my true inclinations and desires -- such deadly sins muddied my time.

This is one of the most significant realisations of my life, and it has taken me this obscenely long to acknowledge it in full. One can set out so obviously in a particular direction, for so long, and for all intents and purposes look set for success in it. Everything can seem perfect: the tables are laid and the ribbons hung, the champagne poured. But patterns and intuition must be heeded -- the tiny, persistent voice that tickles closest to my heart -- even if it means the whole party must be packed up. The truth is often uncomfortable, but it's true.

One needs to truly love the thing one sacrifices for -- it has to fill the spirit in a way almost nothing else can. It’s a compulsion so strong and lasting that all else is employed in its service. Then it is worth it. It has to be what one wakes up for, the thing that is so thrilling that spare moments are spent on it and one’s person is filled with an almost embarrassingly unguarded glee when the loved thing is spoken of. Did I have these for art? No. It was more that odious thing that I owe to friends and family who are so impressed by my abilities and, in the case of parents, facilitated them.

I feel empowered; awoken. I’m taking up the oars and steering across the lake, headed for the unknown. It’s been easy to be passive, letting myself be tossed this way and that by the currents of outside opinion and counsel. It’s been easy to retreat from hard work out of fear and laziness. But these will no longer do.

I wash my hands of you, flickering cave pictures. I place you in a little boat laden with flowers and candles and push you out into the blue. May you be pampered and stroked and coddled by those you truly thrill.

May this be a lesson to any person trapped in the visions -- however convincing -- that others have concocted for them.

May this be a lesson about the perils of lacking the courage to face the uncomfortable, the surprising, or the merely inconvenient, truth. © Diana Szabo 2015-18.

#art #truth #realisation #ethics #philosophy #writing #writer #inconvenienttruth #kant

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A good friend of mine has jumped into the amazing world of rescue recently; literally living one of my dreams and I am so proud of her for taking the leap. Within only a month or so she has changed the outlook for two very special equines. With proper nutrition and care they have been restored to good health and are now ready for work and eventual placement in new homes.

At the moment my living situation doesn’t allow for horses at home. I board my one and that’s all I can afford. Someday I will own property and rescue one or two horses of my own. Until then I have been given the opportunity to work with these sweet creatures. Meet Nash (red dun) and Phoenix (Palomino)!

Since the boys have regained some weight and were cleared by vets we are able to begin working with them to build their top-line, athleticism, and most importantly their confidence. Although we have a very good trainer involved my friend has enlisted my help as another hand in the process (the three of us are busy women!). I’m excited because I get the opportunity to see new horse personalities and tackle new challenges. I use the Clinton Anderson fundamentals series for groundwork to build respect and confidence.

Phoenix doesn’t know personal boundaries. He prefers to get too close and doesn’t realize he’s not a lapdog. Here I am asking him to stand quietly and give me space.

My first day working with Phoenix went well. He demonstrated his intelligence immediately. In our first session together we took it slow to get to know one another. I began by desensitizing him to my lead line and then to the stick and string. Once he was comfortable I yielded his hindquarters. He caught on incredibly quick and even over-achieved…he just kept moving! Finally we got to a point where he realized it’s okay to stop when I ask for it. We also lunged in both directions, and learned some back-up methods. Backing up was a little challenging for him. He was confused and quickly got frustrated. He reared twice, and although it made me nervous at first my mind went directly to Clinton’s training videos. I kept my cool and proceeded. In only minutes he figured out what I was asking of him so I ended our session on a good note. I finished his lesson with neck flexion and found that he had a stiff neck. Using massage and myofascial release I worked on releasing some tension from his head and poll. The expressions on this horse blow me away! Phoenix melted in my hands almost instantly.

A week later I revisited Phoenix for more training. It had been a whole week so I was astounded when I saw that he had retained everything from the week before. He flexed his neck more easily. He lunged more calmly. He stood still when I rubbed him to a stop with the handy stick. I spanked the ground with the stick and string and Phoenix relaxed, licking, chewing and taking nice deep breaths. I was even able to helicopter the string over his head and around his body without raising any concern from him! When we backed up he did so immediately and willingly. From there we began to learn yielding the forehand, sending, and circle driving. I’m so pleased with his aptitude and attitude.

Nash isn’t too sure about the stick and string. Eventually he began to relax and allow me to spank the ground with decent intensity. He seems to be guarded and I’m hoping soon we’ll break through those barriers, earning his trust and seeing his personality.

I also began working with Nash who is a little more hesitant and shy. I haven’t spent as much time with him and realized he may need more prioritization. Most of our first lesson consisted of desensitizing. He flinched every time I swung the lead line lightly at him. To help his confidence I made a big deal out of his successes; I want him to know he’s doing a good job. It breaks my heart to think of who might have made him this way.

We also yielded the hindquarters, lunged, and back up a bit. He learns slower than Phoenix but does eventually figure it out. His movement suggests a history of western riding. He carries his head low has a beautiful long trot/jog and a big low canter/lope.

Nash is still quite shy and doesn’t want to be caught. I also suspect he’s a stoic type. He hides his expressions more than his pasture-mate. In time he will realize that work doesn’t always have to be tedious or torture. This will take time and patience which we have. During our first session we took a lot of breaks so he could graze and we finished his session with some soaked alfalfa.

I’m not a professional and there are many others more skilled than I am; I have no issues with admitting that. Despite me making some mistakes both Nash and Phoenix have still forgiven me; and they have improved significantly in only 2-3 sessions. I can’t wait to see what else they have to offer!

How fortunate I am that I’ve been given the opportunity to take part in the rehabilitation of these boys. Nobody knows their history, but thanks to my friend they have been saved from a short future destined toward slaughter. I look at my own horse and wonder what can make somebody condemn their loyal companion. Selling is one thing, but slaughter? I have almost given up on Blade, almost sent him back to his original home…but I couldn’t do it. He wasn’t from a bad situation, but even on his bad days and even as he gets more un-ridable I have vowed to be his person. The person who stands by him and supports him until his last breath. It’s a commitment, it can be a sacrifice, but it’s one I’ve chosen to make.

A Dream Come True A good friend of mine has jumped into the amazing world of rescue recently; literally living one of my dreams and I am so proud of her for taking the leap.

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Organizational psychology- selection of people for work

Selection of people for work

Applications

Application forms are used to collect all of the relevant demographic, occupational and biographical data needed to be able to select employees fit for the job. A standard application form may ask for personal details, employment records, educational records, any skills or employment training and referees. Weighted application form is a standard application form but certain aspects of the form have been ‘pre-scored’. This means that certain areas of section carry more weight in the application. Scores depending on the weighting could be used to determine which applicants could go through next selection stage.

+Fairer, as decision are not biased according to factors like race and gender.

+Research has found WAFs to be effective

-Reductionist as it does not represent the complexity of a job

-Ethnocentric as the language used in the application maybe culturally biased

-People tend to improve a they have more experience with psychometric tests

Curriculum vitae is a biographical inventories. It contains a brief overview of the applicant’s biographical and employment history

Selection interviews

Structured interview: each applicant gets the same questions

Unstructured interview: interviewer doesn't ask the same questions. Ask follow up questions depending on what is discussed during the interview

Semi-structured: some predetermined questions but the interviewer may also ask other questions depending on the conversation e.g. wants more detail or finds something interesting.

Advice to interviewers (Riggio, 1990)

Structured formal Interviews

Make sure interview questions are job related

could be situational questions about the job e.g. “what would you do if a customer complained?”

Ensure there is an objective rating score for each answer

there should be criteria for what is a good and poor answer

Use trained interviewers

Use a panel of interviewers rather than just one

Use the interview time efficiently

Avoid asking questions about what has already been given on the application form.

*Campion, Pursell and Brown (1988) reported that an interview process employing many of the above features produced high reliability and good prediction of future job performance.

Problems with selection interviews

Awosunle & Doyle 2001-- On the basis of only hearing a voice, white people judge a person to be more favorable for a job when the accent is from a white person and a black person judge a black voice more favorably. ( lab experiment, 3 audio tapes, independent design, individual differences)

Graves & Powel (1996) -- Female interviewers rate female candidates more favorably than males, however male interviewers did not show this bias. (Analysis of data from 680 campus interviews provides partial support for this hypothesis. High and low population validity)

Use of psychometric tests

Ability can be tested using IQ test like questions, which measure e.g. memory, spatial awareness, logic … etc

Self-Reports can be used to measure factors such as motivation and personality.

Ability test measure what a person can do. They are sometimes known as attainment or achievement tests, thus putting the emphasis on what you have already achieved.

Aptitude tests are aimed at assessing what you are potentially capable of. *aptitude is innate and ability refers more to what a person has learned to do (Kline, 1993)

Personality test (Myers-Briggs test) measures of personality and motivation. Personality scales attempt to measure how a person generally is and behaves, their typical approach to life, people, events. Common personality traits or types measured by tests include: anxiety, aggression, extroversion, introversion, self-esteem, dependency, leadership style and a whole range of attitudes.

Evaluation of tests

+fair, equal opportunity

+Increase productivity by selecting the most efficient employees

+Lower costs of recruitment and future training

+Increase efficiency through effective deployment of staff

-General intelligence tests often favor those with superior language skills

-Might discriminate unfairly against members of certain minority ethnic groups and certain social class

-Psychological test results alone will not give and employer a rounded picture of the person they are proposing to employ, why that person really wants the job, their history of absenteeism, their puncuality and ability to keep to deadlines.

-Demand characteristics

Personnel selection decisions and job analysis

Decision-making

Multiple aggression mode takes scores from a variety of tests or interviews that the applicants have completed and combines them into one final score. Various predictors of potential job performance are ‘added together’ to generate a final score. A hight final score means that candidate correlates well with job on offer. Beforehand, different criteria can be ‘weighted’ based on previous appointments

+Gives a more rounded overview of a candidate. For example, a lack of previous experience of a similar job can easily be compensated for by a strong skill needed for the job

-If a score is very low on one criterion it could prevent a person being employed who scored well on other criteria that are also relevant to the job

Multiple cutoff model is when there are still many different predictors of the job that the applicants are trying to obtain, but there is a minimum score set for each of the predictors or tasks. As soon as an applicant fails to reach the minimum score on any one predictor or task the individual is eliminated from the recruitment process. Therefore, those who remain have at least the minimum amount of ability required for the position.

+Ensures that all eligible applicants have the minimum amount of ability across the different criteria for the job

-Some of the cut off points might be subjective and discriminate against certain applicants unfairly

Multiple hurdle model is when there is an ordered sequence of tasks that an applicant has to go through. At each stage (called a “hurdle” here), there is a decision whether the applicant has passed or failed. If applicants pass they continue with the next task but if they fail then they have "fallen at that hurdle” and they are eliminated from the process. The applicant who is left after the final hurdle is given the job

+Elimination of candidates early on in the process who are unqualified- this means fewer resources are wasted on unsuitable applicants

-Time consuming

-Expensive

Biases in selection decisions

Stereotyping- Hayward (1996) noted that females can still be stereotyped as “not management material” and are therefore overlooked as they do not have the “masculine traits” needed to take on such roles. Therefore, many female applicants may never be called for interview.

Previous similar candidates- for example, Hayward also notes that some interviewers may see applicants as being “similar” to other workers (this may be positive or negative) and therefore make instant judgments based on this rather than the applicants themselves

Decision-making models- there could be bias introduced when weighting the tasks or setting the standard for the multiple cutoff and multiple hurdles methods,

Subjectivity in interviews- Riggio notes that there will always be people questioning the accuracy of interviews. This is because a lot of information is qualitative rather than quantitative and therefore subject to interviewer interpretation bias.

Job descriptions and specifications

Details that are directly relevant to the job- organizations can list personal preferences in terms of the characteristics of the “ideal candidate” for the job.

Essential aspects are those that applicants must have

Desirable aspects are those that applicants may have and if they do it will make their application stronger.

Job analysis techniquesJob Analysis techniques study of the role, responsibility, duties and value of a job. We can think of them in terms of KSA. They are used to develop job descriptions.

Functional Job Analysis (FJA) is a reference guide to over 40,000 job titles. It has general descriptions of theses jobs as a starting point for personnel staff to tailor them to a specific job. The dictionary of occupational titles classifies all the jobs using a nine-digit code which represents the sector of work, type of work and how much interaction with people needed in that job.

Positional Analysis Questionnaire (PAQ) is a structured questionnaire that can be used to analyze a job in terms of 187 “elements” that are split into six different categories:

information input

work output

mental processes

relationships with others

job context

other requirements

Each category is rated from 1 to 5 on these 6 categories:

Extent of use

Importance of the job

Amount of time

Applicability

Possibility of occurrence

Codes for miscellaneous job elements

Job analysis evaluation

+Very standardized

+Able to compare a large number of job type

-High level of reading skills is required for the PAQ

+PAQ has been found to be easier to use and more cost effective

Performance appraisal

Reasons

Feedback- allows people to know how well they are doing and motivate them by letting them know where they stand in the system

Rewards- to compare people openly, through a formal system. Reward with promotion or bonuses.

Training and development- identification of each employee’s future training needs. This is another motivation factor for the employee as they have their needs recognized and can strive after better positions.

Techniques

Objective performance criteria

- these are aspects of the job that can be quantified and measured objectively. They could include number of sales, number of days off sick, etc.

Subjective performance criteria

- these are aspects of the job that cannot be accurately measured quantitatively. These include elements such as how manager feels workers have been progressing in their job or asking workers how happy they are in their current role.

360-degree feedback

-information about the worker is gathered from managers, peers, customers etc. to get an overall feel of the worker.

Behavior observation scale (BOS)

- scale used measure the frequency of preferred and possibly unwanted events/behaviors over a specified period of time. 1=never 2=seldom 3=sometimes 4=generally 5=always

Rankings

- a manager can rank his employees on different criteria and then compare the individual to other workers who have a similar or the same job to see how well the person is progressing.

Problems

Poor appraisals may be considered unreliable and subjective in assessment.

Appraisals may be stressful for the employee.

Riggio suggests that when the employee knows they are being watched their work is less creative and they take fewer risks.

Overt appraisal techniques such as Job Samples can be considered to be unnatural (demand characteristics) as the employee knows they are being monitored.

Covert observations e.g ask another employee, camera, listening to phone conversations, of the employee might be considered unethical as they have not been informed.

Solutions

360 degree appraisals involve having assessments made by many people e.g. managers, customers, colleagues. This has the potential to increase the reliability of the appraisal.

Objective Measurements can be used for example number of sales or test results of pupils.

Covert Surveillance can be used so the appraisal is not effected by demand characteristics and be natural e.g. monitoring phone calls

(could be unethical)

#organizational #psychology #work #selection of people for work #A-level #study #notes

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The Concepts Of Multidimensional Definitions And Social Marketing Commerce Essay - Free Essays For Stodents and Children

Kentucky Fried Chicken

Overview of the Issue

The Role of Business Ethics in the Issue

Benefits that ethical consideration can convey

Ethical Stance

Recommendation for KFC

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