After review "Drumline"

I watched this film few times, every time i got different kinds of understanding. i wonder, are their college life really that wonderful? if yes, then that makes me so envy. the university students full of energy, they play the music that they loved, they stick on what they belief. i like that. i also like the sentence that Devon's high school principal said in devon's graduation ceremony " no matter what obstacles life may bring you, always remember you can fly".

"Drumline" review

This story is about a cocky kid named Devon miles, he just graduated from his high school at Harlem, N.Y and he gets the full scholarship to Atlanta A & T University to play drums. His talent is the reason that he was recruited by the band director Dr. Lee. After a military style training, he becomes the only P1 member who will be guaranteed to spot on the field out of all the freshmen. There is no doubt that he is the best natural drummer the college has ever had. He expects to lead his school’s marching band to victory so eagerly. Yet, his cocky and haughty attitude brings many obstacles in his life. He lies on the university application because he cannot really read music; he disrespects his section leader; he fights with his competitor during the performance. Because all of these, he is kicked out from the marching band. But, he does not give up his music, he soon realizes the hard way that it takes more than talent to reach the top. So he starts to learn how to read music from his section leader (Sean) and mean while help Sean to prepare the competition, although he cannot spot on the field. Finally, under Devon and Sean’s leader, their marching band wins the first price with another marching band (Morris brown), so their drumline are put on the field for the championship. finally, with their drumline's perfect performance, The Atlanta A & T university marching band win the BET big southern classical competition.

The things that impress me mostly in this comedy are their highly organized team work, their musicianship and their wonderful college life. They are in the band because they have a fervent, unequivocal belief in team work and also because they belief the musicianship. In this Atlanta A & T marching band there is one concept “one band, one sound” which means if anyone in the band looks or sounds bad, they all look and sound bad. What a strong team work!

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Problem and solution

Many people find interpersonal relationships the most challenging aspect of their personal and/or work lives. How can such relationships be enhanced by the development of emotional intelligence?

Interpersonal relationship should be enhanced by the development to emotional intelligence. Communication is what people do in their daily lives, they have to contact with different kinds of people not only at work but also in their personal lives. That is why many people find interpersonal relationships are the most challenging aspect in their lives. How can it be enhanced? Firstly, identifying oneself mentally with a person and understanding his/her feelings. Get to know what bothers them, how they work, how they think, it makes other people feel free to talk with you. For instance, one of your friends is sad because she got a bad result for last semester. You know the reason about which she is unhappy, so you go over and comfort her. She might feel better after talking with you, which is good interpersonal relationship.Secondly, being a good listener. There is one saying “if you want to get some respects from other people, show some respects first”, means you want other people listen to you, then you have to listen to them first. In listening, we listen but may not know what the speaker is talking but in empathetic listening, we place ourselves in the speaker’s place, figure out what he/she is feeling and identify with his/her problems. Those are the requirements for being a good listener. All in all, in order to enhance the interpersonal relationship, we have to understand other people’s feeling and have some skill of empathy at the same time.

Comparison and Contrast

What are the different ways in which intellectual intelligence and emotional intelligence contribute to the development of an undergraduate?

Intellectual intelligence and emotional intelligence contribute to the development of an undergraduate in many different ways. Let us look at the intellectual intelligence first, competition is everywhere in the university campus, so we need to study hard to attain good academic results that makes intellectual intelligence so important to an undergraduate. Intellectual intelligence can helps an undergraduate to learn the knowledge better, think and response to the question faster, digest the knowledge faster and get better academic results. At the same time, emotional intelligence also plays a part to help an undergraduate. Assignments and projects are definitely not avoidable during the university study. Most of times you need to cooperate with your team/project members when you are doing a big project. The successful project needs not only everybody’s efforts but also united team members. Here emotional intelligence comes, it helps you on how you should react when you hear your team member have different opinions with you, how you should communicate with them when you disagree their point of views, how you should control your temper when you really angry about your teammates... etc, actually it helps you on how to handle many situations that you could have being in. It also makes your study more effective. So as an undergraduate student we need both intellectual intelligence and emotional intelligence.

cause-effect

Motivation, resilience, optimism, self-control, flexibility, etc. are attributes often associated with emotional intelligence. Choose one of these and discuss why it is an important trait for a fulfilling life.

Motivation is an important trait for a fulfilling life. Motivation can be defined as a concept used to describe the factors within an individual which arouse, maintain and channel behaviors towards a goal. Why motivation is so important? Firstly, motivation might help people to achieve their goals. Taking the college students as an example, the methods of education are different between the university and secondary school. There are no more spooned feeds for the students after they go into the university. So they can not rely on their parents and teachers any more, self motivation is what they need at most of the time during their college study. For them, the motivation might be to get the good academic results, to learn more knowledge, to get the compliments from their parents and teachers. With those motivations, students will tell themselves to study hard, to plan their study systematically and to learn knowledge more eagerly.

Secondly, motivation might help people in their career. Nowadays, a lot of companies provide the incentive system to encourage their employees to be more effective and efficiency. The motivation for the employees is to get the incentive. Under this motivation, they might go for some training courses to get themselves well trained, get to know more about what they are doing and to figure out how to do the job effectively. Motivation is the reason behind their actions which causes them to react or act in the way they do. In conclusion, as one of the factor of emotional intelligence, motivation plays an important role in people lives.