...Does the film Huang tudi (Yellow Earth) offer a critique of the Communist revolution? If so where and how? Chen Kaige and Zhang Yimou’s Yellow Earth is a meaningful and controversial film that highlights the young and old, realist and idealist, as well as the ideal utopia and bounded bureaucracies – touching on the notion of fate. Set in early 1939 in China, Yellow Earth follows the story of Gu Qing, a Chinese Communist Party (CCP) soldier sent out among the peasants in Northern Shaanxi to collect folksongs, to which the Communists intend to rewrite new lyrics to help inspire soldiers and peasant followers to fight the Japanese invasion and work towards the revolution. Gu Qing comes across a village holding a wedding procession and is invited to join the feast. He stays at a peasant’s home, and meets a father with a daughter (Cuiqiao) and a son (Hanhan). There are several significant scenes in the film that suggests the filmmaker’s potential critique of the Communist revolution (CR). The film begins with a magnificent panning view of the vast and mountainous landscape. As with many nationalistic films, landscape plays a very important role, as it indirectly depicts the village peasants as slaves to the land, and a sense of hopelessness that comes with working the land. The several slow scenes focused on the horizon and landscape also represent the notion of an ‘unchanging China’, and it’s backwardness with it’s social and political margins. The film has many scenes depicting...
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...help researchers move forward with their findings and the various conclusions that have surfaced over the past thirty years. Johnson dedicates three chapters of his book, one to intimate terrorism, and another to violent resistance, and a third to situational couple violence, claiming that these are the most prevalent forms of intimate partner violence found today. Johnson does not dedicate a chapter to mutual violent control, simply because he claims it is found in only a very small number of cases. Beginning with intimate terrorism, Johnson claims that this is the most commonly thought of form when we talk about “domestic violence.” Intimate terrorism in sum is a pattern of ongoing emotional, sexual, and or physical violent abuse carried out by only one partner in an intimate...
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...Loose Change The short story is a about a woman who lives in London or a ”Londoner” as she calls it. One day her period comes early as she is walking into the National Portrait Gallery to get warm. She doesn’t have any change for the tampon machine so she asks in the bathroom if anyone has got some change she could borrow. One girl responds. The girl and her brother fled from Uzbekistan, she is now homeless and all of her money can be kept in one pocket. The woman decides to take her out for a cup of tea out of gratefulness for the change she borrowed from her. The girl tells the woman about why she is now in England and how she and her brother are now sleeping on the streets of London every night. At one point the girl starts crying. The woman leaves to get her some napkins, but as she has the napkins in her hand she turns around and leaves the café. The story is written in first-person narration and has a linear structure. The story is reaching towards many well discussed topics such as immigration. In the story we follow a classic “Londoner” who keeps to herself and minds her own business. You can say that she is a very reserved personality (pg. 1 line 1-3). The conflict appears when she “befriends” a refugee from Uzbekistan. The girl is different, and she looks different as well. The woman wants to help her but for some reason something is stopping her. She seems to think that she, as a single mother, she has enough problems already. The woman seems very insecure especially...
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...From great reason, our ancestors sought significant change. Change brought about revolution both in the literal and intrinsic sense, and soon broader horizons quickly unfolded into an unprecedented amalgamation of opinion, social action and success. Throughout this time however, America has not been absent its critics, nor has it been isolated from internal critique either. One such example of this internal American critique can be found in Washington Irving’s, “Rip Van Winkle.” Therefore, the purpose of this brief work is to discuss the theme of Irving’s timeless masterpiece and offer critical insight as to its deeper meanings. The tale of Rip Van Winkle is set in the whimsical wilderness of the Catskill Mountains in pre-revolutionary America. As the story portrays, Rip is a simple man caught between his own ferocious hedonistic motivations, and the insurmountable demands of his condescending and oppressive wife (Perkins). Stating, “His wife kept continually dinning in his ears about his idleness, his carelessness, and the ruin he was bringing on his family. Morning, noon, and night, her tongue was incessantly going...” (Perkins, 199), Irving provides the reader with an archetype antagonist in Rip’s wife Dame. Indeed, it is here that Rip’s primary motivation is developed. As the story goes on, “Times grew worse...
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...In the short story, “Where Are You Going, Where have you been?” depicts a young woman Connie, who is trying to find her personal identity. Family struggles lead to Connie’s demise, as her mother and father neglected her in different fashions. As the story progresses, her youthfulness gets the most of her and leads to unfortunate events. Disgruntled Connie, endures the real world relatively quick, and soon finds out she isn’t ready to face it alone. Connie’s mother belittled her in bizarre variations. Mothers in general do not critique their children, no matter the circumstance. In Connie’s situation, her father is never around, and only receiving negative comments from her household. Her intentions to grow up, and experience the real world,...
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...you identify the five components of health related fitness, critique a recipe for nutritional value, and respond to two short answer questions about nutrition. Completing this assignment is a step towards gaining the knowledge needed to better manage your physical fitness and nutrition. Part 1: Five Components of Health Related Fitness Table Complete the table below. The first row has been filled in for you as an example. Components of Physical Fitness Description How to Incorporate in Your Life Benefit(s) Cardiorespiratory Fitness Being able to exercise at a moderate to high intensity for a long period of time Walk 2 miles at a brisk pace every day. Reduced the risk of heart disease, hypertension, and high cholesterol. Muscular Strength The maximum amount of force that a muscle can exert against some form of resistance in a single effort. Lift weights at least 3x a week starting with a low weight and slow pace. Increase bone density, reduce injuries, improved quality of life, decreases stress on joints thus relieving pain Muscular Endurance The body's ability to continue using muscular strength and endure repeated contractions for an extended period of time Strength train at least 30 mins a day 5x a week. Lifting weights, push ups, etc. Allows you to participate in more rigours activities such as competition sports. Improves quality of work out allowing you to work out longer thus staying in shape....
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...Sunrise on The Beach The piece that I have chosen to critique is an acrylic painting done on a canvas titled “Sunrise on the Beach” by Virginia R. Eggert, a local artist. Many of Mrs. Eggerts’s pieces have the ability to pull me in, but this one in particular hits near and dear to home for me. This piece just absolutely captivates me. Virginia has been drawing and painting since she was just a child. She studied and earned a Bachelor’s Degree in Visual Art from the University of Montana in Missoula where after she took a teaching position and continued to paint in Eskimo and Aleut villages in Alaska. It was in Alaska that she took a watercolor workshop from the internationally known artist, teacher, and author Zoltan Szabo. Virginia went on to earn a Master’s Degree and Ph.D. at the University of Arizona in Tucson. She has works in private, public and corporate collections worldwide. Virginia has also won juried awards in visual art and in video production. Virginia now resides in Port Isabel and many of her “local” pieces can be found at the Art Gallery in the lighthouse square. “Sunrise on the Beach” with out a doubt shows an outdoor setting with images in relation to a beautiful sunrise walk on the beach. The imagery used is from a personal perspective of an actual sunrise on the beautiful South Padre Island. A person, water, sand, a seagull, waves, clouds, and the vivid colors of the sunrise are all imagery that brings this painting to life and making the painting...
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...4/18/11 Theatre 2040 August: Osage County Critique I felt that the play over all was well put together. The play takes one extremely dysfunctional family, and uses it to illustrate a plethora of things that can go wrong within a family. The play is filled with dark humor, and has a feel to match. The play starts out with Beverly in his study rambling on about philosophy to a new live in maid he has hired to look after the house. As he rambles his wife, Violet, wakes up, barred out on pills, stumbles downstairs and insults the new house hand. This is just the beginning of the many insults and sarcastic remarks that Violet will plague the stage with. After this scene closes Beverly in no longer on the stage and it soon become apparent that Beverly is missing. Beverly’s boat is also missing. His daughters come back home as does Violet’s sister Mattie. As the scene progresses some of the problems the different parts of the family have begun to surface. It is revealed that Barbra and bill are separated due to Bill’s affairs with Celia, one of his students. There is also a scene where it is revealed that Jean has taken to smoking pot. At the end of the scene sheriff Deon who, Barbra, dated in high school informs the family that Beverly’s body had been found in a lake. Barbra as a blood relative has to identify the body. All of the family realizes that Beverly’s death was more than likely suicide. The second act has the family coming back from the funeral to a formal...
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...Emmanuel Manolidis Existentialism Professor Bearn An Essay on An Essay on Liberation Marcuse begins his work, An Essay on Liberation, with a critique on the current system, capitalism. He describes the competition that goes on in today’s capitalist society as “aggressiveness, brutality, and ugliness,” and even calls it “debilitating competition.” (Marcuse, pg 5) He believes that this system does not work. Marcuse believes that capitalism’s competition is too much for humans to handle and that it creates a society driven by consumption. While I agree that consumerism is not good for people, I believe that Marcuse’s views on competition are wrong. Genuine friendly competition was one of the core values of ancient Greek society. The Greeks would evaluate themselves, and then try to become better than those who were better than themselves. Whether it was by physical training or by reading, each Greek was constantly striving to educate himself and to strengthen his body. Competition is what pushes people to improve and is one of the two best things to come out of the capitalist system (the other being lower prices). People are born with different abilities, and capitalism allows them to use their talents to succeed. Competition creates a world of motivated people who produce the best goods and services that they can. In a free capitalist society, anyone can achieve what he wants if he works hard enough. Here, ability and effort come together and allows people...
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...Diasporic Cross-Currents in Michael Ondaatje’s Anil’s Ghost and Anita Rau Badami’s The Hero’s Walk HEIKE HÄRTING N HIS REVIEW of Anil’s Ghost, Todd Hoffmann describes Michael Ondaatje’s novel as a “mystery of identity” (449). Similarly, Aritha van Herk identifies “fear, unpredictability, secrecy, [and] loss” (44) as the central features of the novel and its female protagonist. Anil’s Ghost, van Herk argues, presents its readers with a “motiveless world” of terror in which “no identity is reliable, no theory waterproof” (45). Ondaatje’s novel tells the story of Anil Tessera, a Sri Lankan expatriate and forensic anthropologist working for a UN-affiliated human rights organization. Haunted by a strong sense of personal and cultural dislocation, Anil takes up an assignment in Sri Lanka, where she teams up with a local archeologist, Sarath Diyasena, to uncover evidence of the Sri Lankan government’s violations of human rights during the country’s period of acute civil war. Yet, by the end of the novel, Anil has lost the evidence that could have indicted the government and is forced to leave the country, carrying with her a feeling of guilt for her unwitting complicity in Sarath’s death. On one hand, Anil certainly embodies an ethical (albeit rather schematic) critique of the failure of global justice. On the other, her character stages diaspora, in Vijay Mishra terms, as the “normative” and “ exemplary … condition of late modernity” (“Diasporic” 441) — a condition usually associated...
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...Liberty theological seminary seven practices of effective ministry A Book critique submitted to Dr. Terry Faulkenbury In PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR evan 510 Master of divinity by edmund johnson lynchburg, virginia January 30, 2015 Bibliography Stanley, Andy, et al. 7 Pratices of Effective Ministry. Colorado Springs: Multnomah Books, 2004. Summary 7 Practices of Effective Ministry is a book written by Andy Stanley, which outlines steps to be taken or practiced by ministry leaders in order to have an effective ministry. It outlines areas in the ministry and accentuates solutions to issues that most church ministries fail to grasp; as they (Church ministries) endeavor to carry out day to day operations of their ministries. Stanley utilized the concept of a baseball team in an attempt to convey his message through his work with the North Point Community Church. Moreover, he emphasizes the importance of practicing effective avenues to invigorate the ministry. Furthermore, he outlines seven steps which he calls, clarify the win, think steps not program, narrow the focus, teach less for more, listen to outsiders, replace yourself, and work on it. It (steps) is a template when implemented accordingly will energize all facets of a ministry. This book contains two parts. In the first part which is labeled Getting in the Game: Ray’s Story, contains nine (9) chapters. Chapter one thru chapter three alludes to clarifying what the goal and accomplishment...
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...also uses imagery to describe the A&P. The store is described by Sammy as a pinball machine, he says he never knows what tunnel the customers will come out of. Throughout the story, Sammy observes and narrates his descriptions of the A&P customers. He describes the housewives as "sheep" because he fails to see any difference between the housewives. The housewives also walk aimlessly down the aisles and just follow each other around in a flock. Sammy also made a statement about...
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...ridiculed. Luckily as time passed by and America became industrialized and settled, more and more people began to realize that this hatred towards other people is wrong. Fortunately for humanity, there were some special souls that realized society was wrong way before everyone else did. One of these special souls is an author by the name of Mark Twain, who used satire and moral critique to make fun of race relations and new American culture hypocrisies. Mark Twain was a social critic who observed a society filled with bigotry and racism, even after the abolition of slavery. Twain lived in a time when there were two very separate and also very different belief systems. The first is a world where every man is equal and every person is entitled to his or her freedom. The second, and sadly more common, is the exact opposite of the first. In this system you were looked at as either a legit civilized member of society or on the contrary, a savage. This belief is what Mark Twain boldly opposed and attacks in his story, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Throughout the story, Mark Twain uses satire and moral critique to make fun of the racial, religious, and social hypocrisies present in the characters and their resulting actions. As we all know, race relations have been a huge factor in the foundation of New America. Slaves were brought over by the hundred thousands to work and serve in the new world. Even to this day, tension is...
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...that going to watch a Bollywood movie is not something spontaneous, but rather something that is pre-determined eons ago, where the movie watching activity is possibly the highlight of the day, and where the movie dates are set weeks in advance, just to ensure that every family member would be able to block the date out and be able to go for the movie with their family. As you walk in the cinema pass the glass doors, a strong Lassi smell pierces the air, accompanied quickly with the whiff of Indian snacks. This gives you a sensation as though you have teleported somewhere very culturally diverse, somewhere out of Singapore and possibly into a city in India. You’ll see friends and family congregating and chatting around the ticket counters, talking about anything from the latest family gossip to the current political and economical situation. Clad in their traditional attire from intricately made Sarees to colourful Punjabi costumes, it comes across as if they were told to look their best even though they are just going to be sitting down watching a movie for 3 hours in the complete darkness. Yet what’s interesting is that the males were not so much into the idea of dressing up and where they would be dressed in rather basic colour shirts, nothing very fancy or Indian related. As you approached the core of Bombay Talkies, the various ticket spaces of Golden Village and Shaw just fade into darkness, the dim lighting, smooth interiors and display signs just jumps out at you...
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...Bathrooms are a place where an individual uses everyday with little to no thought. As for people who don't identify by gender lies a whole world of complications. Transgender people get harassed and bullied everyday because they use the "wrong" bathroom but which bathroom is exactly the "right" one? In a recent poll, 59 percent of Americans believe that transgender individuals should use the bathroom that corresponds with the gender they were assigned at birth, while 26 percent are comfortable with self-determination when it comes to choosing which bathroom to use. Some people believe that if you are born a girl but identity as a man, you should still use the room based on your genitalia. Others believe if you identify as a man, you should use the men's room. Either way, someone in either bathroom is upset. Stereotypes from the past as well as what genitals people are born with are major contributors to the labeling of bathrooms. This presents a problem in today’s society where gender and sex is no longer the same thing. This is where the controversy lies. Until not too long ago, the racial separation of bathrooms was an important civil rights issue in the United States. Since there were unlikely to be four separate bathrooms, only white women and men could depend on having someplace to pee when traveling (Cooper and Ruth, 1999, Pages 12-13). People of other races had no where to use a restroom and were seen as wrong if they were to ever use a whites only bathroom. Twenty years...
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