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    Wedding Custom

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    Chinese wedding customs Traditional Chinese marriage is a ceremonial ritual within Chinese societies that involve a marriage established by pre-arrangement between families. A band of musicians with gongs and flute-like instruments accompanies the bride parade to groom’s home. Similar music is also played at the wedding banquet. Depending on the region that the bride hails from‚ Chinese weddings will have different traditions such as Tea Ceremony or the use of a wedding emcee. In most southern Chinese

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    Wedding Insurance

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    happiest days in people’s lives‚ their wedding day. I spoke to my cousin who is a Farm Bureau insurance agent and asked her for some ideas on insurance that is out of the ordinary and she directed me to Wed-Sure‚ a specialized agency that covers wedding. When I think of that type of insurance‚ I was thinking that would be used when either the bride or groom backs out at the last minute. I was surprised to see how many different situations can occur to cause a wedding to be delayed. The story that I

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    Monsoon Wedding

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    According to Migration Policy Institute‚ Indians have become the second-largest immigrant group in the United States after Mexicans in 2013 with more than 2 million Indian-born immigrants resided countrywide. Indians are also the top recipients of the working visa and second-largest country to send international students to the United States after China. The reasons behind the high surge of immigration might be vary‚ but a better job opportunity‚ improved living conditions‚ and better education are

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    Rembrandt Self-Portraits

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    Zoe Zucco Prof. Bertrand-Dewsnap Rembrandt’s Self-Portraits Assignment April 14‚ 2014 I chose 4 self-portraits of Rembrandt’s to discuss- his Self-Portrait in the Studio in 1628‚ his Self-Portrait with Saskia in 1635‚ his Self-portrait in 1658 and his Self-Portrait as Zeuxis in 1662. I chose these 4 because of their representation of how Rembrandt saw himself through the ages and how his style of painting evolved. In his first self-portrait in 1628 he shows himself in the background of the painting

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    Ukrainian Weddings

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    Given their common Slavic roots and culture‚ it is not surprising that Ukrainian weddings are very similar to Russian weddings. Having said this‚ there are still some differences.  ‚ Ukrainian weddings traditionally began with a courtship ухаживание whereby the parents of the groom would choose a bride for their son. This would have been carried out with the approval of the bride’s parents. However this tradition is no longer observed. Nowadays‚ the couple may sometimes request their parents’

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    Portrait Essay

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    Xavier Garcia Mr. Vela English-122 19 February 2013 The Soul of a Black Man “The problem of the twentieth century is the color line.” In his groundreaking book‚ The Souls of Black People‚ W.E.B. DuBois spoke with a great candor that had not been seen before him about the social and racial issues of being an African American in American society in the twentieth century. DuBois was the first African American of his kind; An activist for civil rights‚ a sociologist‚ historian‚ Pan-Africanist

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    Monsoon Wedding

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    Monsoon wedding”(2007)‚ an award winning movie‚ directed by mira nair. Features widely known Indian actors‚ such as Vasundhara Das‚ Naseeruddin Shah and Vijay Raaz. The film is based on the autobiographical account of Mira Nair’s own family.( Manish Gajjar 2002) It is about a stressed father‚ a bride-to-be with a secret‚ a smitten events coordinator‚ and relatives from around the world who create much ado about the preparations for an arranged marriage in India (IMDB). The excellent exploitaation

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    Member of the Wedding

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    The Member of The Wedding‚ Carson McCullers Main Characters: ✨✨ Frankie Addams is a twelve year old who in the middle of a sexual and emotional awakening. She feels totally isolated and disconnected from the world all around her. She isn’t a member of any clique or group‚ because of this she becomes obsessed with the fact that she is going to be a member of her brother Jarvis’ wedding. Frankie puts all her hopes in dreams into this one event and plans to make. Connection with another group

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    Poe Oval Portrait

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    What was unusual about the oval portrait? a) The oval portrait was so unusual because it had been hidden in the dark near the bedpost. The painting is of a young girl who looks like she is about to become a woman. The painting startled the narrator because it looks so real that he almost thought the girl was in front of him in real life. 3. What did the gentleman find out about the portrait from the book he had found? a)The gentleman read about the portrait in the book he had found in the

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    A Portrait of a Killer

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    The Slavenka Drakulic essay “He Would Never Hurt a Fly” is about a young man named Goran Jelisic‚ a Bosian Serb‚ who is on trial for executing thirteen prisoners in a Breko police station and Luka prison camp in 1992. Drakulic portrays Jelisic as a handsome young man with a “serene face‚ lively eyes‚ and [a] big reassuring grin… the kind of person who would give up his seat‚ on a street car‚ for an invalid to sit down (1117). Drakulic is surprised that the man with such boyish features could be

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