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    used in art‚ and the ways it has changed between 1936 and 2012. I have chosen to look at Henri Matisse and Marc Hagan-Guirey and how they have both used paper. Matisse created a series of work simply entitled Paper Cuts and I am going to look at Two Dancers or in French Figure de ballet avec deux danseurs (See Figure 1). He created this paper cut in 1936. I’ve chosen to compare Matisse’s work with Marc Hagan-Guirey’s Horrogami series‚ whilst looking more in depth at The Addams Family Mansion (See Figure

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    Hannibal and Mao Zedong are alike in several ways. Firstly‚ they both have across mountain. For example‚ Hannibal army across the Alps in order to went to Italy. Likewise‚ Mao crossed the mountain for went to Shaanxi province. One thing they both have in common is that they are leaders of army. For example‚ Hannibal was a commander when he was on the army. In the same way‚ Mao established a base and gather people who agreed with his thinking and he was a leader of the Red army and the Communist Party

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    “Beauty: When the Other Dancer is the Self” essay In the story “Beauty: When the Other Dancer is the Self”‚ the author‚ Alice Walker demonstrate to readers that Self-acceptance is greater than social conformity. To me‚ the meaning of beauty is the beauty inside of you. No matter how bad looking you are‚ as long as you accept yourself‚ you will be most appealing person. To Alice‚ beauty must be achieved by ignoring others and accepting yourself unconditionally. When I was young‚ just like Alice‚

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    In 1949‚ during the rule of Mao Zedong‚ the Chinese invaded Tibet. In China‚ Mao led the Red Army in order to create a communist government. The Red Army defeated the Kuomintang and the People’s Republic of China became the new face of China. Communist rule requires that all property is publicly owned and each person works and is paid according to their abilities and needs. However‚ when Mao became the leader of China he ruled through totalitarianism and became greedy with power after the Great

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    had felt like an endless lion dance performance. Bowing to the crowd‚ I heard various people yelling‚ “Wait‚ that was a girl?” I felt their surprised expressions and approval shine down on me as the result of the intense training I endured. As lion dancer‚ I never imagined feeling so triumphant. Growing up‚ my family was always there to belittle my sense of worth. My older sister‚ Theresa‚ successfully got my classmates to call me “Nobody”‚ which instigated bullying that lasted from elementary school

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    A Dancer Who Inspires: Bill “Bojangles” Robinson “Any job very well done that has been carried out by a person who is fully dedicated is always a source of inspiration.” Carlos Ghosn This quote by Carlos Ghosn‚ a Brazilian-Lebanese-French businessman‚ perfectly describes the dance legend who coined the term “copacetic”‚ meaning in excellent order (Haskins 1990: 54). A big reason many look up to this dancer is because he was fully dedicated to his art form and hence a source of inspiration. Bill

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    Beauty “Beauty: When the Other Dancer Is the Self” by Alice Walker is an essay describing her personal experience with what beauty truly is. Alice Walker is an African American writer who has won many awards for her writing. A few of these awards include a Pulitzer Prize and the American Book Award. In her autobiographical story “Beauty: When the Other Dancer Is the Self‚” she tells us the story of how she tragically lost and then finally regained her self-esteem after much agony. She tells a personal

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    Don DeLillo’s Mao II sheds light that reveals the invisible world between the makers and the consumers of images. DeLillo presents the treatment of Beirut’s image in three ways‚ with various degrees of their ability to effect change among the masses. His fictional character Brita treats the image from an individualist perspective illustrating the difference between reality and how the image was represented. The treatment of Beirut by the capitalists‚ and by Abu Rashid‚ a terrorist leader‚ fragments

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    How accurate is it to say that Mao Zedongs agricultural policies from 1949 were the foremost reason for the famine of 1959-1962? The Chinese famine lasting between 1959 and 1962 was one of the largest in recorded human history; the famine followed Mao’s revolutionary Great Leap Forward in which radical new policies were created and implemented. It is hugely likely that the aforementioned reforms were the main cause of the famine itself and whilst it is arguable that other factors such as natural

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    “Beauty: When the Other Dancer is the Self” Topic #2 I believe that Alice Walker chose those specific incidents from her childhood to show how she thought of herself and her beauty before the incident with the BB gun. It gives the reader a better understanding of how the incident would negatively affect Walker because of how much she valued being pretty. It also helps to show how much her personality dramatically changed after she had her beauty stripped away by the BB gun. When Walker was Two-and-a-half

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