"My Indigo" is a featured poem from Li-Young Lee's 1993 book "Rose". The poem is a relation between Li-Young Lee, and the history of the Indigo also known as Indigofera tinctoria. The poem strings together Lee's search for his identity as a Chinese-American, and the origin and value of the Indigo.…
In a world where our roots are often ignored, and who we are is shaped by outside pressures, our communities have become the place where we proudly embrace our true selves. Understanding identity strengthens community. In a world where people have to live with the fact that they are a minority, where their culture is denied and forgotten, covered up with a new image, flag, and name, what is left for people to unite as one? People lack persistence as it usually takes a lot of effort, but not for the narrator’s mother from “Borders” by Thomas King. While she’s on a trip to visit her daughter in Salt Lake City, she must cross the border, and to do so, she must admit she’s from the “Canadian side or American side”, but she is from the “Blackfoot…
Sarah Koenig explores the murder case of Hae Min Lee as an outside reporter and Serial is an account of her process. Many have wondered, Did Adnan really kill Hae Min Lee? It all begins by checking out everyone’s alibi’s and all this leads to even more questions until true facts. Many want to say that her death was a result of Adnan’s and Hae’s breakup that happened a month prior, but outside of Jay’s testimony saying that he still hated and was going to kill her (Hannafin, “Episode 1”); those that interacted with Adnan regularly said he was behaving normal and didn’t see any problems between them. After Hae was missing for three weeks an interesting character, Mr. S, found her inside Leakin Park which is a known body drop location. Although…
The Death of Woman Wang, by Jonathan D. Spence, paints a vivid picture of provincial China in the seventeenth century. Manly the life in the northeastern country of T’an-ch’eng. T’an-ch’eng has been through a lot including: an endless cycle of floods, plagues, crop failures, banditry, and heavy taxation. Chinese society in Confucian terms was a patriarchal society with strict rules of conduct. The role at this time of women, however, has historically been one of repression. The traditional ideal woman was a dependent being whose behavior was governed by the "three obedience’s and four virtues". The three obedience’s were obedience to father before marriage, the husband after marriage, and the son in case of widows. The four virtues were propriety in behavior, speech, demeanor and employment. The laws of the land and fear of shame in society dictated that men were allowed to rule over their household leaving women in a powerless state as almost a slave of the home. In P’u’s stories women are portrayed as complex characters who hold important roles in the family, but are treated with little to no respect by authority figures, and other men of higher class. In The Death of Woman Wang, Spence portrays…
Love duet. If you don't think this is romantic, consider that Jonathan Larson's sensational musical is inspired by Puccini's opera "La Boheme," in which the lovers Mimi and Rodolfo are tragically separated by her death from tuberculosis. Different age, different plague. Larson has updated Puccini's end-of-19th-century Left Bank bohemians to end-of-20th-century struggling artists in New York's East Village. His rousing, moving, scathingly funny show, performed by a cast of youthful unknowns with explosive talent and staggering energy, has brought a shocking jolt of creative juice to Broadway.…
Time period: At this time in history people were living very flamboyant life styles and that really showed in the complexity of the music along with the decorations and stage work.…
Throughout the play the all sang songs with the accompanied with the piano. Even though there was the one instrument through the play the way she played through each piece of poetry song was very different. As the singer sang “love isn’t chocolate and rose”. The way the piano player decreased her speed of playing with this song because the song tone and feeling was a slower pace. And she adjusted to the sense of emotion the singer was describing about love. I thought it was cool but the words and the music together I gives and audience more sense of emotion and imagery in their heads. Another part where the pianist start to increase her speed or playing and she makes more bold accents with in the piece “Love Song from song of perfect propriety”. The sing how love is sweet, then she starts to become more hateful about the idea of love. And the piano continued to play deep sharp bold notes and the singer was in still mezzo soprano voice still. Still neat as the instrument was still creating a tone with the singer throughout the…
The music has presented ever-changing throughout history. A variety of musicians has passed through each century leaving a lasting impression on the world. Each musician gave you a piece of him or her and how he or she saw the world of music and life through his or her eyes (Kamien, 2011). The write will elaborate on two well-known musicians of the 20th century, and then contrast and compare a 20th century musician song and a modern day song which both had aspects of controversial issues within each work.…
If you want to travel in Beijing, I think Peking Opera is a don’t-miss show for you. Different from other operas, like Italian Opera, Peking Opera is a form of traditional Chinese theatre which combines music, vocal performance, mime dance and acrobatics. It arose in the late 18th century and became fully developed and recognized by the mid-19th century. Nowadays, Peking Opera has become the quintessence of Chinese culture. Today I am going to inform you of this great treasure from three aspects: roles, facial makeup and schools.…
In “Two King” Jing Mai’s mother has high hopes that her daughter will be a great success as a prodigy. She's not precisely sure where her daughter's talents lie, but she is sure that her daughter possesses great ability. In the end Jing Mai find out her mother expect her to do well in the test that she exam her every night and she couldn’t answer the question that she asked me and my mom was disappointed at me. Since then something inside of me began to die. She start hated the test that raised hopes and failed expectation. Like Jing Mai, I have also felt pressured, but I reacted…
This passage is significant to the climax of the novel because it signifies the end of the revolution. With all of the people ransacking the house of the rich, Wang Lung is able to get away with many gold coins, which will get him back home to his land. Wang Lung and his family are able to return to the land due to the fact that they now have money, when earlier they did not know how they were going to be able to return home. He starts to do what he needs to survive, as opposed to his traditional values that he had on his land. But, his theft allows him to go back to the land and his life as a farmer that he had. It is then learned by Wang Lung that desperation can force people to compromise their values. The turning point that happens…
According to Chinese culture, the forces that determine order are yin and yang. The basis of this concept is that everything has its opposite which maintains balance. One of the most well known yin and yang pairings is life and death. Yu Hua in the novel To Live, recognized this relationship and integrated the concept into the plot. Life and death constantly check each other by taking and giving lives.…
David Henry Hwang's play M. Butterfly' is about a French diplomat Rene Gallimard who is in love with Chinese opera star, Song Liling; who deceives him by hiding the fact that she is a man and also a spy of Chinese government. One of the main characters of the play is Song and she is the material for desire for Gallimard. This desire of Gallimard to possess Song is a great example of materialism. The play also explains the concepts of feminism, cultural context, metaphor, dramatic structure and verbal irony.…
The composer wanted to create a memorable Leitmotifs. The music makes me think of a drama that I can picture many of the actions taking place just by listening to the music.…
Chinese history is long and complex—with records dating to around 1600 BC. Within this extensive period, many forms of art and philosophy were developed by the Chinese people. Poetry was an art form which was very important in Chinese history. One of the most famous Chinese poets was Li Bai. He lived nearly 2000 years ago, during the Tang dynasty. He grew up near Chengdu, in Sichuan Province, which is adjacent to Yunnan Province in the western part of China. Li Bai was influenced by Taoism which is one of the most influencing religions way back more than two millennia.(Robinet, 1997) It puts emphasis on the link between people and nature and much of Li Bai’s poetry portrayed nature and human interaction with it; this type of poetry was known as Jue Ju poetry. (Heifer International) The main themes of the above poems written by Li Bai are connected with Taoism, since inspiration is drawn from the Taoist belief that man has an intuitive connection to nature. The relationship of man to nature is the central theme of Li Bai’s poems.…