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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Short essay on Onam festival of Kerala Onam is one of the most significant harvest festivals of Kerala and is an attraction for thousands of people outside and within the State. All the activities during this season are centered on worship‚ music‚ dance‚ sports‚ boat races and good food. This festival is celebrated in the Malayalam month Chingam (ending of August and beginning of September). Onam is a harvest festival and celebrates the reward of nature after a year of hard work. The merry-making
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looking through all the abandoned subdivisions in Florida and doing my best to understand her I pretty much came up with nothing at first. Until I really started to look‚ I started to think like Margo. I was becoming her and becoming very obsessive. She was all I could think about nonstop. It was making me go crazy‚ I needed to find her‚ and I needed to see her beautiful face‚ her beautiful face just so I knew she was alive. After spending my senior prom in one of the abandoned subdivisions that actually
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Feasibility Study Infrastructure Support to the Economic Program of the Municipality of Sarangani‚ Davao del Sur June 2002 Project Development Assistance Center Regional Development Council XI Davao City ACKNOWLEDGMENT This pre-investment study was completed with assistance from the Project Development and Monitoring Fund‚ a facility established pursuant to Republic Act 8182 (ODA Law) in furtherance of the latter’s overall goal of achieving equitable growth and development in the provinces
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There are three things that are certain to occur in Oklahoma during the spring. One being bad weather‚ the second is the Oklahoma City Memorial Marathon and the third being the start of festival and fair season. Oklahoma City has festivals to celebrate the arts‚ music‚ and foods that are unique to Oklahoma. The City of Guthrie devotes a whole weekend to the Land Run of 1889 with “89er Days Celebration” and in Bartlesville you will be transported back to Indian Territory of the 1820s during the
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Burning Man Burning Man Festival Analysis • How would you identify the philosophical background or the intellectual/esthetical/artistic streams that impact the foundation and the organisation of this festival ? • How would you describe its success ? • What is your subjective assessment of events such as this one? • How could this event be introduced to your country - provide a brief outline of a marketing strategy. Burning Man is a week-long annual event held in the Black Rock Desert in
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River Town: Two Years on the Yangtze Peter Hessler’s memoir River Town: Two Years on the Yangtze chronicles his two-year experience as a Peace Corps volunteer teaching at the Fuling Teachers College in Fuling‚ a remote village in China’s Sichuan province. In addition to writing about his life and experiences in Fuling‚ Hessler provides detailed descriptions of the landscape‚ its people‚ and history. The village of Fuling had not seen foreigners in at least fifty years prior to the arrival of Peter
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Easter in Russia As you may know Russia has been claimed to be a religion center during the scores of decades. Russian people honor their traditions and most of them follow the Orthodox religion. That is why Easter in Russia is one of the most important religion events for whole nation. This holiday is dedicated to the resurrection from the dead of Jesus and rooted in the Christianity history. So at this holiday tens of thousands of people flocked to the country’s churches to attend solemn midnight
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The holy month of Ramadan is speedily came to an end bringing so many cheers‚ laughter‚ mirth and celebration for the muslims all over the world. Eid ul fitr celebrates the completion of the month of Ramadan‚ in which muslims fast and increase their spiritual devotions and is meant to be a recognition the material and spiritual favour of God to his creation. On this day‚ Muslims all over the world thank god for the gift of fasting‚ in which they avoided food‚ drink and intercourse from down to
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Other notable annual occasions Easter is far less important than Christmas in Britain. Although it involves a four-day weekend‚ there are very few customs and habits associated generally with it‚ other than the mountains of chocolate Easter eggs which children consume. Some people preserve the tradition of eating hot cross buns on Good Friday (Calendar of special occasions). Quite a lot of people go away on holiday as this time. Bc in this time has Valentine’s day (St. Valentine’s Day and Gretna
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