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    International Festival

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    very colorful and has beautiful decorations on bottom of the skirt of collar of the top. There are different types of HanBok for different occasions like New Year‚ wedding‚ fall festival (chu-seok)‚ and funeral. Koreans wore Hanbok daily until 19th century but nowadays‚ we only wear it for special occasion. Yiut It is a Korean traditional game. There are four wooden sticks which called yiut. Each yiut has one flat side and one non-flat side. You throw four yiuts at the same time. Count the yiuts

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    "The Story of an Hour" was written in 1894. From the story‚ what can you deduce about the role of women in late 19th century society. In your response‚ consider the character of Mrs. Mallard but also her sister Josephine and the behavior of male characters towards the female characters. The image of women in the late 19th century was that women had to give themselves completely to their husbands; men controlled women and believed that women were weak-minded‚ dependent‚ and needed a husband. The

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    their respective stories. In A Doll’s House‚ Nora forges a signature to help save her dying husband’s life‚ while the unnamed narrator in “The Yellow Wallpaper” rips down wallpaper that symbolizes her emotional confinement. Women of the mid-19th century had no such choices. Most lived in a state little better than slavery. They had to obey men‚ because in most cases men held all the resources and women had no independent means of subsistence. A wealthy widow or spinster was a lucky exception.

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    Both Japan and China were exposed to the same force driving westernization affecting them both economically and politically however their responses to western penetration in the 19th century were different. In the beginning Japan and China isolated themselves from the rest of the world. As a result‚ their economies were behind compared to others and they weren’t as technologically advanced. At first‚ Japan and China had similar resources even though they lacked in them too‚ it wouldn’t be until

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    Outlines Section 1-3

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    the Inequality of the Human Races (1854) – Great civilizations all Aryan – Miscegenation – Source of racial theory for many‚ including Hitler/NAZIs • Impact of race theory in the United States by the mid-19th century • Social Darwinism: A more “scientific” proof • Sex v. Gender • Sex: the anatomical/physiological difference between male and female • Gender: a set of values/beliefs constructed by societies based on perceived differences

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    Meeting At Night/ Parting At Morning – Appreciation Meeting at Night and Parting at Morning‚ composed by Robert Browning‚ are two poems that represent the personal morality and paradigms associated with an individual living in the early 19th Century. Meeting at Night tells the tale of a young lover travelling a long distance to meet up with his lover whilst it also metaphorically recounts a sexual encounter. Browning chooses to represent society’s repressive nature by portraying a secretive

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    the painting to the novel? The words “Manifest destiny” bring magic to your ears‚ and for that reason‚ it is exactly why these two precise words were chosen to title a very important part of American history. Manifest destiny arose during the 19th century‚ and was the belief that the United States of America was divinely mandated to expand across the continent. It gave the Americans a sense of obligation concerning the preservation of their virtue and their institutions by enlarging their country

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    The literature of a country is affected and influenced by how the people of that country live. This paper will prove that The French Revolution greatly influenced 19th Century French Romanticism. First‚ the cultural values of the revolution will be identified. Then‚ the different aspects of Romanticism will be presented. The cultural values of The French Revolution and Romanticism will then be linked. Finally‚ literary examples will be shown to support this connection between the two movements

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    Sally Mann Essay Proposal

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    Jesse Mann says. ‘She will always look intensely upon whatever is closest to her’ “. Sally Mann’s work has always been largely inspired by people closest her‚ first her children and now her husband Larry Mann. Sally’s biggest influences are 19th century photographers like‚ Julia Margaret Cameron and Eugene Atget. She even uses a photographic technique used in the 1850’s and favored by Matthew Brady. It requires a very large awkward camera‚ a glass plate coated in sticky silver nitrate solution

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    Midnight in Paris Analysis

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    famous shops such as Coco Channel and Dior. In addition‚ the beauty of the sights and the photos grabbed the viewer’s attention to want to watch this movie and to discover a lot of more information about some of the most famous artists in the early 19th century. The movie “Midnight in Paris”‚ had succeed with participation of group of people who were capable and successful in their job as artists. The writer and director was Woody Allen‚ and the lead actors were: Owen Wilson‚ Rachel Mc Adams‚

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