United Great China A Comparative Study of the CCTV Spring Festival Galas‚ 1984-86 and 2004-06 Xiaoyan Xu Thesis submitted to the faculty of the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts In Political Science Dr. Timothy W. Luke‚ Chair Dr. Scott G. Nelson Dr. Yannis Stivachtis June 7‚ 2007 Blacksburg‚ VA Keywords: China‚ TV‚ CCTV‚ Spring Festival‚ ideology‚ nationalism‚ media‚ symbolic politics
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The fall of the House of Usher The story begins with the narrator riding a horse towards the house of his friend Rodrick Usher‚ who has sent him a letter asking for his company because of his several illnesses. As he is getting close to the house‚ he takes an overview of it and noticed it is gloomy. Once he is inside‚ he realizes that there is not much light. Next‚ Usher appears and receives his friend with an exaggerated hug ‚and starts talking about his several illnesses that threatened him and
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General information: Chinese New Year is also known as the Lunar New Year or the Spring Festival. Lunar because it s based on a lunisolar calendar (moon phase and solar year) and spring because it s the beginning of Spring. You celebrate the first day of the chinese calendar‚ but basically it s a long chinese holiday starting from the first day until the Lantern Festival on the last day. It is the time to honor deities and ancestors. New year´s days are celebrated as a family affair and a time
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2 Lab Report: Calculating the Spring Constant and Verifying that Energy is Conserved Within a System Abstract: An experiment was conducted to determine the spring constant of a spring in the cart by measuring the force required to compress a spring as well as the distance the spring compressed relative to the equilibrium position. A cart was placed onto a slanted track and speed and force censors were used to record appropriate data. The spring constant was determined by substituting
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Case 2 – XSU Spring Concert. Risk Identification Firstly‚ we can state that‚ as with most projects‚ there are several risks that occur when it comes to the execution of this spring concert. To make the risks more easily viewable‚ it is preferable to divide the risks into different sections and via that use the Risk Breakdown Structure‚ (RBS). (p.214) There are four general categories that the risks are divided into: Technical‚ External‚ Organizational and Project Management. These risks are divided
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Literary text‚ usually a poem or short story‚ allows the author to pursue a more emotional relationship with the audience. It would therefore‚ be able to affect the more emotional aspect of any event in history. One such example is the poem‚ "The Fall of Fort Sumter". It described the Confederate point of view and the feelings they harbored against the North. "The fleet turned slowly southward; we saw the last ship go‚ We had saved old Carolina from the insults of the foe‚" is a part of the stanza
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“The Fall of the House of Usher‚” is a short story by Edgar Allen Poe that contains horror elements and takes place in the 1800s. The story begins when an unnamed narrator arrive at a house. The house belongs to his childhood friend‚ Roderick Usher‚ who has a mental disorder. Similarity‚ Madeline Usher‚ Roderick twin sister‚ has a physical illness. Even though Madeline Usher died‚ the unnamed narrator never realize how the house and the twins are connected together. In Edgar Allen Poe’s short story
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The Rise and Fall of Crooks In chapter 4 of mice and men‚ John Steinbeck first begins to really introduce the character known as Crooks. He is a stable buck who is treated poorly simply because of his race. Throughout Crooks’ time at the ranch‚ he is generally shunned from the other workers with the exception of Slim. This all changed however in chapter 4 when Lennie stumbles into his room looking for something to do. This of course‚ led to the rise and fall that Crooks went through that day.
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not taking action in a bad situation. Humans are selfish beings and often tend to care about one’s self more than others. In both the painting and the poem Landscape with the Fall of Icarus‚ Brueghel and Williams use imagery to suggest that humans are oblivious to the pain of others. In the painting Landscape with the Fall of Icarus‚ Pieter Brueghel portrays humans as insensitive and uncaring of the suffering of others. In the painting‚ Brueghel shows a fisherman fishing feet away from Icarus‚ but
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The Fall of the House of Usher is based on the relationship between the mental and the physical. The mental aspect deals with the affect caused by the physical surroundings. As the reader follows the story‚ this relationship becomes more concrete. The author uses different approaches to show the reader the relationship between the two and how it affects Usher. The use of imagery and other literary tools helps to give a clear picture‚ in the reader’s head‚ of the mansion physical presence and
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