Chen Kaige’s Farewell‚ My Concubine renders the complex‚ tumultuous historical events of twentieth century China on an epic‚ yet intimate and personal scale. Chen foregrounds his cast‚ centered on the love triangle among two Peking Opera performers and a prostitute‚ against a backdrop of dramatic and changing historical circumstances in China. The events depicted include the end of the “Warlord period‚” the Sino-Japanese War and the period of Japanese Occupation of China‚ the post-war reconsolidation
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1. Briefly describe at least three strategies for noise mitigation for airports‚ highways‚ or railways. Under what circumstances would you considered each to be appropriate? -The most fertile areas for the highways noise mitigation are in urban planning decisions‚ highway design‚ noise barrier design‚ speed control‚ surface pavement selection and truck restrictions. Speed control is effective since the lowest sound emissions arise from vehicles moving smoothly at 30 to 60 kph. Above that range
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Goodbye‚ Superboy! A Fond Farewell to the Last Romantic." MANILA‚ August 21‚ 2003 (STAR) BY THE WAY By Max V. Soliven - Much has been written about Ninoy Aquino‚ whose name needs no introduction to many of our readers. Commuters pass by his statue daily on Ayala Avenue in Makati’s Golden Mile‚ and another monument to him in Manila. But monuments and statues‚ and glowing encomiums do not a hero make. But my thesis is that today‚ Ninoy is a forgotten hero. There was so much hype in the first halcyon
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Farewell to Baseball Analysis Lou Gehrig‚ shortly after learning of a deathly disease that he had acquired‚ said his final goodbye to professional baseball on July 4th‚ 1939 during Lou Gehric appreciation day in Yankee Staduim in a short and simple speech that conveyed to the audience his feelings of awe towards what he had been able to do and with whom and luck with what he still had‚ while simultaneously inspiring his listeners to appreciate what they had by using the rhetorical devices of
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I. Author ROBERT BROWNING Robert Browning is the author of the poem “my last duchess”. He is a son of Robert Browning‚ a Bank of England clerk‚ and Sarah Anna Wiedemann‚ of Scottish-German descent‚ Browning received little formal education. His learning was gleaned mainly from his Father’s library at home in Camberwell‚ South London‚ where he learnt something‚ with his Father’s help‚ of Latin and Greek. Though he attended lectures at the University of London in 1828‚ Browning
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Farewell to Manzanar New living environments will affect people in many ways. Different cities‚ different cultures‚ different people around us‚ even different food will affect people mentally and physically. The book Farewell to Manzanar which is written by Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston and James D. Houston‚ is a memoir of the Japanese American family during and after World War II. The story is talking about Jeanne Wakatsuki and her family’s developments during World War II‚ especially concentrating
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Lives Shaped By Prejudice When faced with a difficult situation‚ a person usually does one of two things: gives up or shows strength and fights through it. In Farewell To Manzanar by Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston‚ the author recounts her story of her experience in Manzanar‚ a Japanese internment camp in California‚ during World War II. In The Circuit by Francisco Jimenez‚ the author recalls his journey as a migrant child in the 40’s in California‚ as his family struggles through all kinds of labor camps
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Discuss Browning’s ‘My Last Duchess’ as a Dramatic Monologue A Dramatic monologue is a form of poetry where the speaker in the poem gives the readers a deep insight into his thoughts. It is different from a soliloquy since a dramatic monologue always has an implied audience. Dramatic monologue although originated well before the 19th century‚ it was popularized by Victorian poets like Browning‚ Tennyson and Dante Rossetti. Browning has experimented with this form of poetry to such depths that dramatic
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all women for that matter. Hamlet sees all women as ignorant and deceitful. Despite Ophelia’s ability to see through Hamlet’s charade‚ there is still a sense of pain in the words he speaks to her. “Get thee to a nunnery‚ go. Farewell...To a nunnery‚ go‚ and quickly too. Farewell.” (Act 3.1) This had to have been the largest insult to Ophelia ever spoken‚ but was not meant in that
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"My Last Duchess" is a poem by Robert Browning‚ frequently anthologized as an example of the dramatic monologue. It first appeared in 1842 in Browning’s Dramatic Lyrics. The poem is set during the late Italian Renaissance. The speaker (presumably the Duke of Ferrara) is giving the emissary of his prospective new wife (presumably a third or fourth since he Browning could have easily written ’second’ but did not do so) a tour of the artworks in his home. He draws a curtain to reveal a painting of
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