Summer Mountains Summer Mountain is an exquisite painting of a landscape in China. It is painted on a hand scroll made of silk with ink and pale colors. The painting is from the Northern Song dynasty 960-1127 in the 11th century. The painting was attributed to Qu Ding {Chinese‚ active ca. 1023-ca. 1056}("Attributed to Qu Ding: Summer Mountains (1973.120.1)". Included in this paper is why I choose this work‚ an assessments to its subject matter and content‚ and the works value in China and western
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When I first heard the title and the plot of the film (excluding the names of the characters)‚ I thought okay this is about a guy and how he spend his 500 days of summer. Summer that is the season I mean. But when I watched the film for the first time‚ that is when I realized‚ Summer is a name. Name of the love interest of Tom Hansen‚ the main actor. I like the way they did with the title‚ that it seemed it has a dual meaning. Usually‚ movies like this would end like the boy gets the girl. That
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Journal Entry #1 “Summer” by David Updike 440 Words Summary David Updike’s story “Summer” describes one summer holiday of a boy named Homer. He is faced with the external conflict on an unrequited love. Homer‚ the protagonist‚ is spending the summer at his best friend‚ Fred’s home near the lake. The summer‚ for the most‚ followed the usual flow of ‘athletic and boyhood fulfillment” (para 11) for Homer and Fred. There were the tennis matches and hiking‚ the alcohol and hanging out late at night
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Summer vacations are always considered to be the reason of joy and happiness for the children as they eagerly wait for these vacations from the start of spring in the late April. Summers generally are considered to be unpleasant and undesirable for people but the most attractive thing is the long vacations which are enjoyable for the children. Each person has a different way and style of spending their holidays away from the regular school and study routine depending upon their life style. I wanted
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Contrary to many people’s thoughts about seasons‚ summer is not due to the Earth being closer to the sun and vice versa for winter (these differences are extremely small). The Earth moves around the sun anti-clockwise in an elliptical orbit‚ with one revolution representing a year (365.256 days). To complete the orbit‚ Earth travels at an approximate speed of 67‚000 miles an hour. While we are orbiting around the Sun‚ we are also rotating around an imaginary axis of the earth‚ with one revolution
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“An identity would seem to be arrived at by the way in which the person faces and uses his experiences” - (James Baldwin). One’s identity can be shaped by many things including people and experiences. In A Long Way Gone by Ishmael Beah‚ Ishmael’s identity was also shaped by the people around him and his experiences. Ishmael lost his family and was forced to become a ruthless killer at a young age. He was also forced to leave the country he loved because he was too afraid to rejoin the fight. In
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Summer by David Updike King Solomon wrote wisely‚ and later was wisely paraphrased by the folk band “The Byrds”‚ “To everything there is a season and a time to every purpose under heaven...” (Ecclesiastes 3:1‚8). Seasons often represent the periods of a person’s life; birth‚ youth‚ age and death. In the short story “Summer” by David Updike‚ the lake provides an eternal and unchanging witness to Homer’s transition from season to season and from boy to man. In the beginning we find the family and
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Summer 2012 Project for AP Physics at Rialto HS (PRINT ALL 6 PAGES OF THIS DOCUMENT) (this dastardly diversion from dog day doldrums devised by Mr. Timothy Bacon‚ refer your questions to tbacon@rialto.k12.ca.us[->0]) Introduction: Summer vacation has long been associated with sleeping in‚ lazy days by the pool‚ hanging out with friends‚ learning the vocabulary of harmonic motion‚ constructing cheesy experiments‚ and graphing data. Summer 2012 will be no exception. First‚ I want you to
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tale characteristics in her story “The Summer People”. The story begins with Fran’s father leaving her while she is suffering severe flu like symptoms. During the school week Fran’s a classmate Ophelia begins to take care of her. Little does Ophelia know there are peculiar‚ magical people that Fran takes care of. Kelly Link uses various writing elements that have similarities to fairy tales such as the writings that warns Ophelia or the trinkets that the summer people have created. Some critics have
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Summer vacation Summer vacation is probably the happiest period in a student’s life. In plains this lasts for about two months. These vacations generally commence from the second week of May every year. The purpose of the summer vacation is multifold. One is relaxation. A student gets fatigued after the end of the annual examination. He needs rest to recoup health and vitality. The second purpose is to tide over the unbearable heat of the summer months. The third purpose is to provide a chance
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