The magic lantern is an early predecessor of the modern day projector. It consisted of a translucent oil painting‚ a simple lens and a candle or oil lamp. In a darkened room‚ the image would appear projected onto an adjacent flat surface. It was often used to project demonic‚ frightening images in order to convince people that they were witnessing the supernatural. Some slides for the lanterns contained moving parts which makes the magic lantern the earliest known example of projected animation.
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Lantern Festival The Lantern Festival (Shangyuan) is a traditional Chinese festival‚ which is on the 15th of the first month of Chinese New Year and the first full moon night which symbolizes the coming of spring. It may be regarded as the last day of the Spring Festival. The start of this festival marks the end of the celebrations of the Chinese New Year. The Lantern Festival is regarded as a good day for family gatherings. An old custom from china is people on that night will lighten up fancy
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Diwali Lantern – “Aakash Kandeel’’ Anup Takalkar IntroductionIndia‚ along with its varied cultures and traditions‚ is known as land of festivity. Celebration for these festivals centres on the rituals of prayer‚ seeking blessings‚ exchanging goodwill‚ decorating houses‚ adorning new cloths‚ music and dance. Diwali (dip‚ meaning lights + aawali‚ meaning row) is the festival of “row of lights”‚ celebration of which finds its root in Hindu religion. It is believed that‚ Lord Rama was welcomed back
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Part A Orientalism and the “others” This review examines the critique of Orientalism and how Orientalism affected the representation of various societies and its subjects during the Colonial encounters and in the historical present. In the case of my study‚ how Orientalism produced and are still producing the representations of minority non-Hans in China. This review explores Orientalism as a methodology of analysis that produced a certain biased views and representations of the Others‚ be they
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Characteristics Of Orientalism‚ Prejudice‚ and Discrimination Many people confuse Arabs and Muslims as interchangeable people or religions‚ when in fact they are quite different meanings. An Arab is someone who is born in a land that relates to Arabian culture. In other words‚ Arab is an ethnicity or race. Muslim‚ on the other hand‚ relates to someone who follows the teaching of Islam. Therefore‚ where Arab is a race‚ Muslim is a religion. To put it into perspective‚ think of it as saying that
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What Is Orientalism? Said made a clear analogy between orientalism and colonialism. They are both set with the same binary opposition. white/ non white occidental/ non occidental In a very detailed and structured study of the orient (behavior‚ habit‚ tradition ...) we document a large amount of fact and data. All compile in a general study they produce the illusion of a well understood and objectively constructed knowledge
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Orientalism and Imperialism have dominated the psyche of both the Western and Arab/Muslim worlds respectively. Combined with the inherent fear resulting from each world’s history of aggression with the other‚ this creates an inevitable conflict between the two civilizations. Orientalism plagues the Western world’s consciousness through the portrayal of Arab/Muslim society as one filled with violent‚ misogynistic men and a female population that exists solely to serve the men’s every need. Imperialism
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Reaction essay on "The Magic Lantern" Born in the capital city of Mexico on September 18‚ 1890 Jose Tomas De Cuellar was one of colonial Latin America’s polarizing figures and from one Mexico’s wealthy families. He attended college at the military college of Chapultepec. Later he entered the Academy of San Carlos after taking part in the defense of the castle before the United States invasion on September 13‚ 1847. He went on to become secretary of the Mexican legislation in Washington D.C. and
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The definition of orientalism takes up no more than two sentences in the dictionary. Coincidentally‚ Orientalism came to be such a complex and deep concept which Said devotes his entire book in discussing about it. His book – Orientalism unfolds the history of the Orientalism‚ reveals the “dark” side of an orientalist’s mind and describes the different dimensions of Orientalism. He also attempts to expose the truth of the Orient‚ which he warned that: “One ought never to assume that the structure
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Relevance: The 2013 Lantern Parade It was exactly five in the afternoon on my watch as I started preparing to go to one of the most awaited yuletide events in my university. It was seven days before Christmas and the last day of classes for the year for the iskos and iskas before the holiday vacation kicks in. As a college freshman‚ this was my first time to witness the Lantern Parade and I honestly didn’t know what to expect aside from seeing lanterns. It was said that the lanterns for this year’s
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