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...professional athletes stems from our amateur days of childhood athletics; we watch our favorite baseball players because we once wanted to be one of them (It is hard to find a youngster who does not want to be a professional athlete when they grow up). Ultimate Fighting changes this relationship by providing a sporting spectacle that few people were taught about as children or experience for themselves as adults. Onlookers of Ultimate Fighting thus know exceedingly little about the seriousness of the action and inevitably become distanced from the athletic experience. With less appreciation of the fitness, strength, and agility...
...though Zisiadis is known for his eager self-promotion, his message still rings true. Student DJs across campus emphasize the intense, empathic relationship that develops between themselves and an elated (or simply drunk) audience. Ultimately, DJs find this relationship the driving motivation behind their practice: the opportunity to make a crowd happy. Indeed, student DJs, given the amount they spend on gear, the time they spend searching for new music, and the time they spend preparing for gigs, make a mere pittiance by comparison. Moreover, they rarely find opportunities to play music beyond a repetitive and narrow...
...want to show a good time, bring together, and unite... [I want to] strengthen the idea of a queer community as opposed to a bunch of people entering a club to drink, hook up, whatever." However, unlike other forms of service, DJing puts you in an empowered, controlling relationship with those you are trying to help. "You’re sort of a shaman in a secular ritual to bring people to a place of ecstasy.” This moment, she elaborated, embodies the term “communitas...
...film progresses, paranoia begins to influence the actions of the protagonists, as the fear of infection erodes their trust for one another, ultimately testing the strength of Dutten’s relationship with his best friend and his wife. The couple have little romantic chemistry, but Dutten and Clank’s unique working relationship provides a depth of personal character development rarely found in action movies, let alone zombie flicks. The mounting lack of trust between the characters progresses in epic fashion with the actors perfectly executing their unexpectedly complex roles...
India, for its part, maintains that it has always had a "very deep and vast relationship" with Nepal based on its shared cultural ties. Both countries have a majority Hindu population, and they share millions of cross-border migrant workers. But the character of that relationship has changed. India used to engage Nepal only at the highest levels, in meetings between bureaucrats, ministers and - until Gyanendra stepped down in 2008 - representatives of the King. That has changed dramatically over the last few years, since Nepal's Maoists came to power in a 2006 peace agreement that ended the monarchy, halted...