Directed by Chen Kaige‚ a highly acclaimed fifth-generation Chinese film director‚ Farewell My Concubine has received many international film awards and nominations; among them are the Best Foreign Film and the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival in 1993. In the film‚ Cheng Dieyi‚ a Peking Opera actor playing the leading female characters‚ becomes obsessed with his role as the concubine of the King of Chu and blurs his stage role with the real life he leads. The circumstances in which one grows
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A Farewell to Arms Ernest Hemingway ← Important Quotations Explained → 1. “There‚ darling. Now you’re all clean inside and out. Tell me. How many people have you ever loved?” “Nobody.” “Not even me?” “Yes‚ you.” “How many others really?” “None.” “How many have you—how do you say it?—stayed with?” “None.” “You’re lying to me.” “Yes.” “It’s all right. Keep right on lying to me. That’s what I want you to do. Were they pretty?” Soon after Henry arrives at the American hospital in Milan
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Good evening… Before I begin‚ I just want to say how grateful and humbled I am to be speaking to you tonight and thank you for the work that you do to make my education at Xavier High School possible. In The Divine Comedy‚ Dante Alighieri once said‚ “Consider your origin: you were not made to live like brutes‚ but to follow virtue and knowledge”. And for the past seventeen years‚ I have lived by these words. These few words have made me think of where I am from‚ and whether or not I will let it
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You have years of high school and college left you would have your whole life still ahead of you.how can you accomplish any of that with a child (you can’t it’s almost impossible) but my mom did it‚ she was in high school when she had me and i give her a big thumbs up because she also went to college and she never thought of having an abortion. But some mother get diagnosed
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Ernest Hemingway illustrates in his book‚ Farewell to Arms‚ the character of Frederick Henry; an ambulance driver‚ who is put to the ultimate test during the madness and atrocity of WWI. His experiences at the front pose a challenge only a Hemingway hero can affront successfully. As the epitome of a code hero‚ Frederick is a man of action‚self-discipline‚ and one who maintains grace under pressure but lacks certain characteristics a person should possess. Throughout the book‚ Hemingway expresses
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A Farewell to Arms: Ernest Hemingway in Frederic Henry Experts often agree that to write an extraordinary piece of literature‚ the author must write of his‚ or her‚ first-hand knowledge or experience‚ of a subject matter; and Ernest Hemingway knew this. He was best known for his plain spoken‚ straightforward‚ no-frills writing style. Plain words‚ simple sentences‚ and frequent repetition earned him the prestigious Nobel Prize for Literature in 1953. He was a literary scholar. Ernest Hemingway’s
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How would the history of the United States be different? If presidents would’ve listened to George Washington’s farewell address. On September 19‚ 1796‚ George Washington gave his farewell address. John Adams was elected president after George Washington stepped down. Adams later did not listen to George Washington’s point about staying out of war. After Adams‚ Thomas Jefferson is elected president‚ and the United States sinks into a political disunity between two separate parties‚ which Washington
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Graduation speech Assalamualaikum warahmatullahi Wa Barakat uh Good evening distinguished guests‚ mothers‚ sisters‚ grandmothers‚ friends‚ teachers‚ our beloved admin‚ and‚ of course‚ last but not least the beautiful‚ amazing‚ guests of honor also known as the senior graduates of 2016. Welcome to the graduation ceremony for the graduating class of 2016. I am proud to be representing the voices of my fellow seniors on this final day of our high school career. And I am sure the lot of us would truly
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Chen Kaige’s Farewell‚ My Concubine renders the complex‚ tumultuous historical events of twentieth century China on an epic‚ yet intimate and personal scale. Chen foregrounds his cast‚ centered on the love triangle among two Peking Opera performers and a prostitute‚ against a backdrop of dramatic and changing historical circumstances in China. The events depicted include the end of the “Warlord period‚” the Sino-Japanese War and the period of Japanese Occupation of China‚ the post-war reconsolidation
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During the 1930’s‚ as Adolf Hitler rose to power and became chancellor of Germany‚ there were many important decisions that had to be made. Hitler’s power continued to expand across Europe; thus‚ his demands also grew larger- demands that contained Hitler’s main objectives for power. In attempts of gaining even more control over Europe‚ one of Hitler’s objectives was to induce the destruction of Czechoslovakia. In order to achieve this‚ Hitler demanded the cession of Sudetenland‚ one of Czechoslovakia’s
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