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    Il Postino stands out in contrast to both the previous texts as its vision is quite optimistic. Mario is able to rise above the limitations of his world to realise his potential and become happy. The film does begin in a gloomy manner as Mario struggles to communicate with his withdrawn father – their relationship is strained. When Mario shows his father a postcard from America‚ his father tells him to get a job – he is ‘not a child anymore.’ Mario’s father earns a meagre living as a fisherman‚ similar

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    Individual Dance Analysis

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    Dance Analysis Week 2 Assignment University of Phoenix February 18‚ 2013 Individual Dance Analysis On this paper‚ I will be discussing a theatrical opera from PBS.org called “IL POSTINO” (The Postman); it was adapted by Daniel Catan from the 1994 Oscar-winning Italian film Il Postino as an opera. The play depicts part of the life of Pablo Neruda’s exile to Italy. Pablo Neruda was a famous Chilean writer/poet who wrote mostly about love‚ and had communist ideals and ideas which

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    accomplished by utilizing the inherent characteristics of the word "journey" itself‚ as a journey can be representative of a process‚ physical travel‚ or any undertaking involving a goal. In Ariel Dorfman’s Heading South‚ Looking North‚ Michael Radford’s Il Postino‚ and Pablo Neruda’s "Walking Around"‚ the metaphor of journey manifests both as a process that the protagonists experience‚ and as an objective that they strive to reach. All three works under discussion have the process taking the form of physical

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    Poetry Analysis

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    the definition of poetry. But that is the beauty of poetry‚ the same poem will have a unique meaning for each individual that reads it. The most fitting description for poetry comes from the character Pablo Neruda in Michael Radford’s 1994 film Il Postino: The Postman‚ “When you explain poetry it becomes banal. Better than any explanation is the experience of feelings that poetry can reveal to a nature open enough to understand it.” Poetry is so crucial to have in the world because of the functions

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    Analysis of Neruda’s Poem A Poetry Inspired Poem (An Analysis of Poetry by Pablo Neruda) The poem Poetry was introduced to the audience at the last part of the movie Il Postino. Based on the movie‚ the poem was written by Mario Ruoppolo‚ the main character of the story. However without taking into account the movie‚ the persona of the poem can be described as someone who just recently discovered a passion or love or likeness towards poetry‚ and this can be concluded from the first line

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    I think the nature of poetry is to convey the concept to others‚ who might change their belief by reading the poetry. In fact‚ a small poetry really possesses the immense power‚ which can exist for a long time even after the death of the poet. For example‚ the great poet Neruda had created lots of poetry in his life. And no matter the poetry is for expressing the love or for transmitting the ideology‚ the influence he made can still be seen nowadays even after his death. In this movie‚ we audience

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    Kim Jong Il

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    North Korea has long been a country of mystique‚ both provoking two nuclear crises and receiving aid from the international community and South Korea in more recent times. North Korea under Kim Jong Il examines how internal changes in North Korea since the early 1970s have structured that nation’s apparently provocative nuclear diplomacy and recent economic reform measures. To understand these changes‚ author Sung Chull Kim uncovers relatively unknown internal aspects of the country under Kim Jong

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    Kim Il-Sung Biography

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    Kim Il-Sung was the original evil dictator of North Korea. Operating on an ideology of "self-reliance‚" North Korea is the most secretive and oppressive nation in the world. Read on for more facts on Kim Il-Sung‚ the founder of North Korea. Number Seven: Kim Il-Sung Is The "Eternal President" Of North Korea Over twenty years after his death‚ Kim Il-Sung is still considered the president of North Korea. He was named an "eternal president‚" and none of his successors can hold the title. Number

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    communism took firm hold in the north‚ culminating in the emergence of Kim Il-Sung‚ who in 1948 would become the first premier of the newly established Democratic People’s Republic of Korea. (Pruitt) The communistic reign on Korea can be traced back through one family‚ the Kim family. Kim Il-Sung was appointed by the Soviet leader of Russian in 1948 and served as North Korea’s dictator for almost 50 years until he died in 1994. Kim Il-Sung was worshipped like a god in North Korea and even referred to

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    accomplishing what he has today‚ and has had many effects on North Korea. He is Kim Jong-Il and he is the president of North Korea. Many things led to Kim Jong-Il’s taking over of North Korea. Kim Jong-Il was born February 16‚ 1942 in Khabarovsk‚ Russia. He attended the Manyongdae Revolutionary School that was set up for Kim Il-Sung’s descendants to train them as future leaders of North Korea. In 1964 Kim Jong-Il began his career in the WPK Secretariat Organization Guidance Department‚ and then

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