Hong Kong Comics: Mass Culture? Introduction When I was first given the project topics to study‚ I decided to write a research paper on local comics without a second thought. As a Hong Kong people‚ local comics have took an irreplaceable position in my memory. Reading Old Master Q (老夫子) and Ngau Zai (牛仔) in the public libraries was one of the best memories in my childhood. Hence I want to carry out a study on local comics as a remarkable genre of the local popular culture. However‚ as Ng Wing
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Cited: Bleem‚ Jerry. “Home improvement.” U.S. Catholic Oct. 2013: 50 Student Resources in Context. Web. 8 Nov. 2013. Kung‚ Hans. “The paradox of Pope Francis.” National Catholic Reporter 24. May. 2013: 1+. Student Resources in Context. Web. 8 Nov. 2013. Moore‚ John C. “Be Innocent too.” National Catholic Reporter 16 Aug. 2013: 23. Student Resources in Context. Web.
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Week 4 Lecture Regional & Social Dialects WHAT CAN YOU TELL ABOUT THE CHARACTERISTICS OF THESE SPEAKERS? Notes on Examples Reasonable (even accurate) guesses about speaker’s various characteristics e.g. socio-economic or educational background esp. for English accents in Britain • With distinctive regional accent origin even from short utterance Holmes (2008) p. 127 3 Characteristics of Speech • Remember? No two people speak the same! – ∞ sources of variation e
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Reservoir Dogs Postmodernism theory when related to films can be described when the audience’s delay of skepticism is shattered‚ in order to free the audience’s grasp of the director’s work. Small changes are made to create a significant meaning in the audience’s mind. The director has created a piece of art that removes the audience from the conventional and emotional bond to the subject‚ creating a new perspective. Postmodern films apply the usage of four concepts: simulation‚ reusing styles
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sightings are reported in the Fujian Province of China. Giant Panda ~The Giant Panda is a bear native to China. Pandas can easily be distinguished from other bear species from their coloration. Their diet mainly consists of bamboo as they live in bamboo forests. The picture of a Giant Panda is used in the logo of World Wildlife Fund (WWF) to symbolize the importance of conserving and protecting beautiful but endangered animals like the Panda. Golden Snub-nosed Monkey ~Snub-nosed Monkeys are named
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is called social leveling mechanism. In the article Eating Christmas in the Kalahari‚ Richard Lee talks about the Kung Bushmen way of practicing social leveling mechanism‚ which is shown by two clear ways. These ways are publicly ridiculed and in the other manner they show no signs of gratitude and thankfulness. For example‚ when hunting for a large animal for the Christmas feast‚ Kung Bushmen does not allow the hunter to act as a chief or the leader because this might cause that individual to treat
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History of carinosa * The cariñosa is a popular folk dance that was introduced to the country by the Spaniards when they arrived in the 16th century. It belongs to the Maria Clara suite of Philippine folk dances. These are so named in honour of Maria Clara‚ who was the main character in Jose Rizal’s novel Noli Me Tangere‚ (’Don’t Touch Me’)‚ about the colonisation of the Philippines by the Spanish. In it‚ Maria Clara is portrayed as a noble and loyal woman‚ who after the publication of the novel
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