Summer Mountains Summer Mountain is an exquisite painting of a landscape in China. It is painted on a hand scroll made of silk with ink and pale colors. The painting is from the Northern Song dynasty 960-1127 in the 11th century. The painting was attributed to Qu Ding {Chinese‚ active ca. 1023-ca. 1056}("Attributed to Qu Ding: Summer Mountains (1973.120.1)". Included in this paper is why I choose this work‚ an assessments to its subject matter and content‚ and the works value in China and western
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When I first heard the title and the plot of the film (excluding the names of the characters)‚ I thought okay this is about a guy and how he spend his 500 days of summer. Summer that is the season I mean. But when I watched the film for the first time‚ that is when I realized‚ Summer is a name. Name of the love interest of Tom Hansen‚ the main actor. I like the way they did with the title‚ that it seemed it has a dual meaning. Usually‚ movies like this would end like the boy gets the girl. That
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However‚ some critics will argue that darkness did not wreak chaos onto mankind; rather‚ it is humankind that is responsible for its own destruction. According to David Spitz‚ “If anything were to go wrong‚ as it tragically did‚ it could only come‚ then‚ from within; the only enemy of man was himself” (Spitz 5). In other words‚ Spitz believes that darkness did not inflict chaos or conflict in the novel. The true source of the destruction was no one other than mankind who was responsible. If mankind
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As industries turn increasingly hostile‚ it is clear that strong brand-building skills are needed to survive and prosper. In David Aaker’s pathbreaking book‚ Managing Brand Equity‚ managers discovered the value of a brand as a strategic asset and a company’s primary source of competitive advantage. Now‚ in this compelling new work‚ Aaker uses real brand-building cases from Saturn‚ General Electric‚ Kodak‚ Healthy Choice‚ McDonald’s‚ and others to demonstrate how strong brands have been created and
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which is the final battle in the conquest of the Roman Empire‚ Maximus asks to be released to finally return home. This not only fills in the beginning part of the story but gives us the motivation for him to want to go home. This becomes a recurring theme throughout the film as we see many images and hear Maximus speak of his home and family. This also has an effect on the emotions of the viewer. Here we have a general that conquers lands and leads many people to kill‚ but the viewer is manipulated
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AP World History-Theme Analysis Chart Theme 1: Interaction between humans and the environment. | * Like religious faiths‚ infections and contagious diseases also spread along the trade routes of the classical world. * The most disruptive of these diseases were probably smallpox and measles‚ and epidemics of bubonic plague may also have erupted. * During the second century C.E. epidemics reduced roman population by about one-quarter‚ to forty-five million. | Theme 2: Development and
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Summer vacations are always considered to be the reason of joy and happiness for the children as they eagerly wait for these vacations from the start of spring in the late April. Summers generally are considered to be unpleasant and undesirable for people but the most attractive thing is the long vacations which are enjoyable for the children. Each person has a different way and style of spending their holidays away from the regular school and study routine depending upon their life style. I wanted
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Contrary to many people’s thoughts about seasons‚ summer is not due to the Earth being closer to the sun and vice versa for winter (these differences are extremely small). The Earth moves around the sun anti-clockwise in an elliptical orbit‚ with one revolution representing a year (365.256 days). To complete the orbit‚ Earth travels at an approximate speed of 67‚000 miles an hour. While we are orbiting around the Sun‚ we are also rotating around an imaginary axis of the earth‚ with one revolution
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take it all‚ and votes for defeated candidates are simply wasted and do not count anymore. The electoral reform was one of the central objectives of the Liberal Democrats‚ led by Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg. The referendum gave the victory to David Cameron: the British prime minister who has launched the most savage cut programs in the country since the Second World War. The defeated is‚ above all‚ the Liberal Democrats’ leader who has seen his party being swept away by the polls and witnessed
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Summer 2012 Project for AP Physics at Rialto HS (PRINT ALL 6 PAGES OF THIS DOCUMENT) (this dastardly diversion from dog day doldrums devised by Mr. Timothy Bacon‚ refer your questions to tbacon@rialto.k12.ca.us[->0]) Introduction: Summer vacation has long been associated with sleeping in‚ lazy days by the pool‚ hanging out with friends‚ learning the vocabulary of harmonic motion‚ constructing cheesy experiments‚ and graphing data. Summer 2012 will be no exception. First‚ I want you to
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