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The following assignment is for a first year sociology course. The topic of the assignment itself is exotic dancers and immigration. The Assignment itself is a paper that looks at the entire phenomena. It argues that the new law will not protect immigrants from exploitation. Mostly because it is simily a political stunt and lacks common sense.

From the Paper
Exotic Dancers and Immigration Laws Introduction Immigration has always been a highly charged political topic. This is particularly true when there are issues of potential exploitation involved. For example, in "Women's Work" Susan Mcclelland states, Traditional livelihoods, like farming, are no longer viable in many countries. The solution for many people is to move abroad, and in the West there is a demand for workers in jobs traditionally held by lower-class females, like prostitution, caregiving and domestic work(Mcclelland 44).

Tags:exotic, dancers, immigration

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This paper discusses eating disorder patterns among ballet dancers and non-dancers. The paper examines what anorexia is and presents the causes of anorexia and the reasons that it is seen so much in ballet dancers as opposed to non-dancers. The paper explores the impact of ballet dancing on children with respect to eating disorder patterns and identifies whether any difference is seen in the frequency of eating disorders in professional ballet dancers and non-professional ballet dancers.

From the Paper
"Anorexia nervosa is a growing psychological and physiological disorder in the society of today. A surprisingly large number of people are affected by eating disorders, the major cause of which is anorexia nervosa. The cultural ideals especially of the western world cause young women to believe that they should maintain thinner bodies than intended by nature. This causes them to alter their eating patterns and this leads to eating disorders like anorexia nervosa. Anorexia nervosa is most prevalent in young girls from the upper middle classes and generally between the ages of eleven to eighteen. Anorexia nervosa is fatal in about twenty percent of the cases and this is the reason for concern. Psychiatric assistance is able to help about thirty percent of anorexics to overcome the disease. A person is considered as anorexic if the body weight of the individual is twenty percent less than the normal weight of a healthy person of that age and height."

Tags:anorexia, bulemia, diet

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The paper looks at the research on exotic dancers to determine the manner in which female exotic dancers perceive themselves and feel supported by society, culture and family. The paper discusses the issue of women as sex objects and describes these dancers' isolated and inclusive family and social network. The paper also touches upon the issue of religion in this social group.

From the Paper
"Exotic dancers have become a serious topic of discussion in a culture where challenging the social taboos is occurring more rapidly than ever before and where the backlash of challenging just what these social taboos says about individual and culture pervade the academic world. Yet, there are clearly only very few research based works on exotic dancers and how they see themselves, feel culturally supported or other ethnographic issues alone or in comparison to other women and men of their age and demographic. Limited research offers limited but interesting insights into the culture of the young female exotic dancer."

Tags:society, culture, family, sex, desire

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This paper analyzes the painting "Dancers in Pink," painted by Edgar Degas in 1878. The paper describes the compositional structure of the painting and how it appeals aesthetically to the viewer. The paper then goes on to discuss the synthesis between form and color in the entire work and how they enhance the overall painting. The paper concludes by describing the use of paint and the technique of paint application, as well as Degas' choice of hues and tones.

From the Paper
"This experimentation with painting technique can be seen in the different method of paint application work. Some areas in the dresses of the two main figures are thinly painted, possibly diluted with turpentine, while others seem to be more impasto-like in their quality. It is the use of washes over thick paint that, especially in the skin tones, provides the feeling of tactile sensuality. It seems as if the pink and orange has been painted over an underlayer of flesh tones, which can just be seen beneath the rich folds of the dresses. The brush strokes also vary throughout the painting, with smoother and crisper brushwork in the dresses and figures and rougher, more 'sketchy' brushwork in the background and in the smaller figures."

Tags:aesthetic, tactile, ballet

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This paper examines Alice Walker's essay, "Beauty: When the other Dancer is the Self" that is a brief summary of how her perception of beauty has had an impact on her internal life. The paper looks at how Walker describes how, when she was young and perfect in her own eyes, she was confident and this confidence was lost when she perceived herself as greatly flawed. The paper asserts that regardless of what Walker wants the reader to take away from this essay, the ending reminds the reader that even her alleged acceptance of her remaining flaw is flawed in itself.

From the Paper
"Alice Walker's essay "Beauty: When the Dancer is the Self" is about how people respond to an individual's physical appearance. However, it is also about how she behaves when her perception of her own beauty is challenged. Walker brings the reader through the stages in her life that begin with the quietly self-assured belief in oneself that exists in childhood, through the accident-related doubts that come in preadolescence, to the changes in her self-perception as she matures and grows. The essay ends by relating a conversation between Walker and her daughter, creating a temporal "loop" back to acceptance again."

Tags:walker, beauty, mothers

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This paper takes a look at the history of the art of ballet, as well as reviews the different types of the ballet dance and the strenuous demands that ballet makes on the dancer. This paper also covers various dance choreographers and their particular styles of dance.

From the Paper
"Classical ballet celebrates the potential harmony of the human body, the utopian ideal of collective endeavor, the possibility of the interchange between masculinity and femininity. Something of this is what has recommended ballet to the communisms of the USSR, Cuba and China. Beneath the aristocratic tat of the settings and the charming but dispensable never-never of the stories, there is an implicitly socialist vision.
Yet classical ballet must of course always come wrapped in the specifics of where and for whom it is performed, what other values and meanings it is attached to, and these are riven with contradictions. In practice, in Britain, classical ballet is, at one and the same time, elitist and popular, and woman-centered, heterosexist and part of gay male culture, universal and distinctly white. It is all of this at once.
It is selective in part because it is expensive. Not only are sets on a grand scale and not only do most of the classics require large casts, but behind all that there are the years of investment in training. "

Tags:classic, contemporary, music, movement, body, graceful, steps, tippy, toes, france, italy

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This paper presents a brief biography of the dancer, Isadora Duncan, as well as a description of her philosophy of the dance form. The paper also discusses her influence on and contribution to modern dance.

From the Paper
"Duncan's personal success as a dancer should not diminish what is perhaps her greater contribution, her success as a teacher and a creator of her own tradition. She began her first school in Grunewald, Germany in 1904, selecting children from the poorer classes and providing completely for all their physical and materials need from her own pocket. Later, she established schools in both Russia and Paris. Interestingly enough, these schools are proudly proclaimed as providing an unbroken legacy of tradition with their founders. "The existence of Isadora's dances lies in the transmission of the choreographies from one dancer to another in an unbroken line of generations of Duncan dancers," writes Lori Belivoe in the periodical and press release of the foundation that bears Isadora's name. (Belivoe, Isadora Duncan Foundation for Contemporary Dance, "Isadora Duncan Legacy and Schools") Duncan's indefinable, inexact balance between classicism and personal, inner artistic poetic expression manifested in dance thus became a "tradition" in and of itself."

Tags:barefoot, grecian, gown, strangled, spokes, vehicle, classical, movement, calliope

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This paper examines how "The Grass Dancer" by Susan Power develops two forms of the female soul as represented by Lydia Wind Soldier and Anna "Mercury" Thunder. It looks at how this theme plays itself out through the entire novel; Anna, though powerful, uses her power to her own ends, while Lydia, less powerful, gives all of herself away for the sake of others. It shows how, regardless of the nature of their actions, both women are deeply embroiled in the playing out of time and how this dominates the role of women in the Dakota spiritual world.

From the Paper
"Contrasting this life of earthly gratification is the character of Lydia Wind Soldier. Lydia gives nearly everything of herself for the sake of those around her to such an extent that she appears to be visibly disappearing: "He [Harley] reached out and hugged her then-something he did only rarely since turning seventeen because as he watched her, she blurred at the edges, looked to him like a person being slowly erased by some spectral finger." (Power 18). Lydia has given of herself so much that her physical body is somehow reduced, although the manner of this reduction is quite different than Anna's physical ugliness and decrepit form."

Tags:dakota, lydia, wind, soldier, mercury, thunder

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This paper explains that exotic dancers can be well-paid working as house dancers and feature dancers, who have an independent name as a starlet and move from town to town, providing "feature appearances". The author points out that male strippers dancing in front of female audiences, have become widespread; male and female strippers perform for gay and lesbian spectators respectively and both sexes perform together in pan-sexual contexts. The paper stresses that exotic dancing training has more to it than learning to dance in a sexy manner; the trainee needs to learn how to go into the greater fathoms within oneself, locate their own hidden beauty and grace and mingle it into a sensual movement.

Table of Contents
What the Career is
What Training is Necessary and how is it Essential to the Field of Dance
The Insights of Persons who have Chosen this as a Career

From the Paper
"Essence, another local dancer who is a graphic designer with Pima, replied that the negative typecast concern her. 'They're simple, they're sluts'. However, things do not unroll in that fashion; simply it is about girls who are at ease with their bodies. According to Essence regarding the striper's current earnings that there is nothing called as average income, you end up either winning or losing. While at school, she would not truly talk about what her performances were until the topic came through, which she states that never happened very frequently. She stated that her advisor had full knowledge regarding it. In the education environment, it crops up as a discussion in some type of women's studies class; these matters do not crop up."

Tags:contact-dancing, aerobatics, tips, hidden-beauty, dancers

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This is a research paper that discusses ballet dancers and their unique take on dancing despite the pain. It focuses on both the physiological and psychological aspects. The paper explores the dancer's motivation and rates of injury based on psychological pressures. This paper does not offer recommendations on preventing injury, but highlights the motivation of dancers to continue to work despite the injury and risk of further damage.

From the Paper
"In a five-year study of the Boston Ballet Company 77-94% of the dancers were injured during the dance year (Solomon, Solomon, Micheli and McGray, 164), with rates of injuries for 59-70 dancers at 96-137. Thus, the average in their study was 116.5 injuries for 64.5 dancers; or roughly 1.8 injuries per dancer per year. The Solomon group reports that the financial cost to the Ballet Company averaged over half a million dollars per year; at its highest reported for year two of the study, the cost was $974,087. Professional ballet dancers endure a grueling, painful life of injury, starvation and other health issues, and finally disease in later life; yet still they thrive for their art form. Professional ballet dancers continue to perform despite their injuries; for their art form."

Tags:ballet, psychology, pain