Wong Kar Wai: A Top View "When did everything start to have an expiration date?" That ’s a question posed by a lovelorn cop in Wong Kar-Wai ’s 1994 film ChungKing Express‚ and in a sense that line is a conveys what Wong ’s films are all about. Wong Kar-Wai’s body of work has an immanent sense of flowing time and space that creates a blend that gives us the sense of fleeting time‚ memory and the chaos of the contemporary urban life. He is one of the most influential directors of Hong Kong with
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Jamba Juice was founded in April of 1990 by Cal Poly graduate Kirk Perron‚ along with cofounders Joe Vergara‚ Kevin Peters‚ and Linda Ozawa Olds. Their goal was to sell healthy smoothies. It‘s corporate was called Juice Club‚ Inc. in San Luis Obispo‚ California. In August of 1997‚ Jamba made an agreement with Whole Foods Market to sell natural products inside some of the market’s locations. In March of 1999 they acquired Zuka Juice Inc‚ Zuka was a smoothie company that was very popular at the
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Pop and Consumerism in the Art of Richard Hamilton Pop was the invention of the era of wealth and consumerism experience by western industrial society in the 1950s and 1960s. Both pop’s impact and expression were most distinct in the UK. Pop was so bizarre in its open-minded values and flashy appearance compare to the commonly dull conservatism of English culture and its expression because of the extant of the response to the prevalent British social and cultural situation. The term Pop Art is
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Amanda Taylor English 1101 Dr. Marla J. Fowler 8-5-12 Metaphysical Poets The term metaphysical poets was coined by the poet and critic Samuel Johnson to describe a loose group of British lyric poets of the 17th century‚ whose work was characterized by the inventive use of conceits‚ and by speculation about topics such as love or religion. These poets were not formally affiliated; most of them did not even know or read each other (Wikipedia). Their
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wonderfully uses these techniques to address the thematic concerns of the novel such as‚ Racial Prejudice‚ Women Subjugation‚ Loss of Identity and Cultural Erasure. This work of fiction constitute self-conscious fiction: to a greater extent‚ it is a pastiche of other narratives and deliberately calls attention to its intertextuality. Cambridge’s exploration of slavery comprises the juxtaposition of three main narratives framed by an epilogue and prologue. The first two of the three narratives are written
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thought has continued to be expanded and developed even after it’s prominence in the 1980s. Definitions of the “post-modern” are often ephemeral‚ post-modernism could be understood as stylistic play‚ using the techniques of inversion‚ subversion‚ pastiche or irony. One of the leading proponents of a post-modern architecture is Charles Jencks; he attempts to define the post-modernist: “They may not always try to heal the rifts in culture‚ but they do recognise the contradictory pressures at work today
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The style is Cubist although Chagall has not fragmented the apple tree – Perhaps to ensure that this element of the painting remains clear and sure in the world of realism: This in itself an idiosyncrasy: Although entirely conventional and representational of the truth for a deeply religious man‚ as was Marc Chagall. The ambience of this oil painting is joyful thanks to the fresh green and yellow hues which dominate the composition. The red and blue of the apple tree denote danger - Red is a color
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"An honest tale speeds best‚ being plainly told.” This quote from William Shakespeare’s King Richard III is a seed from which Al Pacino’s docu-drama Looking For Richard grows‚ both texts demonstrating the intrinsic relationship between contexts and the composition of texts. As 21st century students‚ we see Pacino’s creative reshaping emphasise inherent values within the original text‚ from dynamic perspectives to interpretational understandings‚ presented in an ‘honest’ and ‘plainly told’ composition
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Red wires marks the beginning of The Economist talking to people who might not yet consider themselves to be Economist readers through its marketing and advertising. It was sparked by research undertaken by the magazine last year which discovered that‚ because of the rise in the number of people going on to university‚ there are now over 3 million people in the UK whose interest in world affairs‚ travel‚ news and politics suggests an unconscious affinity with what The Economist reports on every week
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Modernism Although generally called a movement‚ it is more valid to see modernism as an international body of literature characterized by a new self-consciousness about modernity and by radical formal experimentation. Several literary movements and styles‚ notably Imagism and Vorticism‚ were fostered within modernism‚ which flourished from around 1890 until 1940. There was also a period of so-called "high modernism‚" 1920-5. Generally‚ modernists were driven by the belief that the assurances
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