...Bruce Lee was born in San Francisco on November 27 1940 at the Jackson Street Hospital under the birth name Lee Jun Fan. His father Lee Hoi Chuen, was a prestigious member of the Cantonese Opera Company. In 1941, the 1 year old baby returned with his parents to the family home in Kowloon, Hong Kong. By age 6, Bruce had already begun to develop the charisma and confidence that would later make him a star. He appeared in his first major childhood movie, "The Beginning of a Boy" in 1946. Later in the same year, Bruce performed in "The Birth of Mankind" and "My Son, Ah Cheun" and went on to make over 20 movies, before commencing his studies at "La Salle College" in 1952. 1953 was a pivotal year in the life of Bruce Lee. After losing a street fight with a local gang, Bruce began to train in the art of Wing Chun under famed Sifu, Yip Man. His natural speed and timing, and acute mental focus, guaranteed that Bruce would excel in this complex and exacting art. In fact his precocious talent developed so quickly, that despite numerous other encounters with street gangs, Bruce would never again lose a fight. As well as indulging his passion for the martial arts, Bruce also began taking Cha Cha lessons in 1954, at age 14. The dance was popular amongst local teenagers at the time, and Bruce not only went on to win the ‘Crown Colony Cha-Cha Championship’ in 1958, but also broke the hearts of many local girls. Again in 1958, Bruce defeated reigning three year champion, Gary Elms, in the Hong...
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...¡Deja que se escuche tu voz! Give your input on the draft of our new privacy policy. [ ¡Ayúdanos con las traducciones! ] cerrar Bruce Lee Commons-emblem-question book orange.svg Este artículo o sección necesita referencias que aparezcan en una publicación acreditada, como revistas especializadas, monografías, prensa diaria o páginas de Internet fidedignas. Puedes añadirlas así o avisar al autor principal del artículo en su página de discusión pegando: {{subst:Aviso referencias|Bruce Lee}} ~~~~ Bruce Lee Bruce Lee - son.jpg Bruce Lee y su hijo Brandon en 1966. Nombre real Lee Jun Fan Nacimiento Bandera de los Estados Unidos San Francisco, Estados Unidos 27 de noviembre de 1940 Fallecimiento Bandera de la República Popular China Hong Kong, China 20 de julio de 1973 (32 años) Ocupación Maestro de artes marciales, actor, filósofo y escritor Familia Cónyuge Linda Emery Hijo/s Brandon Bruce (1965–1993) Shannon Emery (1969) Bruce Lee Sitio oficial Bruce Lee en Facebook Bruce Lee en Twitter Bruce Lee (chino tradicional: 李小龍, chino simplificado: 李小龙, pinyin: Lǐ Xiăolóng —nacido Lee Jun-fan (chino: 李振藩, pinyin: Lǐ Zhènfān)— San Francisco, 27 de noviembre de 1940 - Hong Kong, 20 de julio de 1973) fue un destacado y carismático artista marcial, actor y filósofo de origen chino, catalogado como el más famoso del siglo XX por la perfección que logró en el desarrollo del kung fu y responsable de la apertura de las artes marciales chinas a Occidente. Índice [ocultar]...
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...Sara Gutierrez English 101 Garcia 2 November 2015 Bruce Lee Illustration Essay Bruce Lee, a martial arts film star born in San Francisco, California, has greatly impacted modern action films, even in the years following his death. Through his acting roles in both China and the United States, he forever changed the media industry and paved the way for more Asian actors and actresses to become successful in America. His tremendous influence on global culture not only brought more acceptance and acknowledgement of Asian film stars, but also a higher amount of Americans inspired to enroll in martial arts classes. During the short span of his lifetime, Lee truly prospered and made a name for himself as one of the greatest historical figures...
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...1. The different levels of organization are listed as follows: Cell- the structural and functional unit of all living things Tissue – a group of cells with a common structure and function Organ – composed of tissues functioning together for a specific task Organ System – composed of several organs working together Organism – an individual; complex individuals contain organ systems. Population – organisms of the same species in a particular area. 2. 7 basic characteristics of life are as follows : Are organized – we are all organized in different groups according to our working class states. Acquire material and energy – we all learn to gather food and utilize energy to be productive. Reproduce – in order to continue to as mankind we procreate thus reproducing to not die out. Grow and Develop – in order to be a productive member of this existence we learn and grow by evolving i.e... From infancy to adulthood Are homeostatic – in order to function in a more complex environment our bodies learn to adapt by regulating our body temperature to ensure we do not cease to survive. Respond to stimuli – when we accidently drop an object on our toe we respond by exclaiming a loud remark thus responding to external stimuli. Have an evolutionary history – we have an evolutionary history by adapting and changing with time in order to survive rather than become extinct. 3. As stated by Mader and Windelspecht, (2012), “All living things on Earth are part of the biosphere...
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...Bruce Catton's, “Grant and Lee: A Study in Contrasts” begins by painting a scene of the end of the American civil war at Appotomax. The author describes two American Generals, their contrasting beliefs and what was common between them. Robert E. Lee, was an aristocrat from Virginia. He embodied the ideals of the privileged upperclassmen, who had no desire for change. He believed that there should be inequality within America's social structure. The author mentions “In the end, it almost seemed as of the Confederacy fought for Lee; as if he himself was the Confederacy.” Lee, fought for the aristocratic concept to rule the country. Ulysses S. Grant, was a commoner from the rugged Western frontier. He was a man who came up in life the hard way....
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...History project Topic: Popular Cultural in HongKong(Film) Un Cheuk Lam 4C35 The Cinema of Hong Kong has consider as the pioneer of Chinese language movie. Hong Kong was the third largest motion picture industry in the world (after Hollywood and India cinema) and the second largest exporter. Hong Kong film has retained much of its distinctive identity and continues to play a prominent part on the world cinema stage. In the West, Hong Kong's vigorous pop cinema (especially Hong Kong action cinema) has long had a strong cult following, which is now arguably a part of the cultural mainstream, widely available and imitated. Especially between the 1970's - 1990's, most of movie fans will be familiar with names like Bruce Lee, Jackie Chan from Hong Kong cinema. The reason why these movie star become so popular because they produce a lot of martial art film during that time. And then these martial art film brought to the western audiences. In fact, A lot of english speaking country or european start to aware of Asian movie in that time. Back to Hong Kong cinema, The cinema of Hong Kong is one of the major movie industry in the Chinese language speaking cinema. Before 1997, Hong Kong was a colony of Britain and therefore Hong Kong had a greater freedom on economic and political than mainland China. Even in film industry, The censorship system in Mainland China have a very strict rule. " Hong Kong filmmakers either steered away from criticzing China or did so in oblique ways "...
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...“Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story” The movie “Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story” is a biographical drama recounting of the colorful life of legendary martial arts star Bruce Lee. The film is written based on the Bruce’s window Linda’ book "Bruce Lee: the man only I knew", and directed by Rob Cohen and starred Jason Scott Lee. This biographical drama released in the United States in year 1993, and inspired a Kong Fu hit in Hollywood. The film gives audiences the closest account of inner Bruce Lee and represents his childhood in Hong Kong, to his days as a dishwasher, a teacher of martial arts and eventual martial art super star in Hollywood. Bruce Lee is an absolute legend of martial art, and he was prominent figure that represented strength and mastery. This film is a retelling of Bruce’ life, but also shows how Bruce went up to the top and fought against obstacles along the way to his success. I was deeply impressed by Bruce’s talents and efforts, and fascinated by his mental capacity. In the film, Bruce was plotted against by another martial art master Chinatown and nearly died from injury. However, with his wife’s encouragements, he changed his fight methods and created his own concept of Kong Fu called Jeet Kune Do. This film also shows discrimination towards Chinese, which made me so sad. Racial discrimination presented in this film was great and targeted not only towards Bruce but also other Chinese in the United States. I still remember there is a scene that when Bruce was settled...
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...him Bruce Lee, the man who carries forward the Chinese Kung Fu to the hold world, and he was the greatest martial artist in 20th century. He had extraordinary accomplishment, he had inordinate passion, and he influenced the main world of martial art. Bruce Lee had extraordinary accomplishment. Nearly 30 years after his death, he was elected to the American time magazine “One of the 21st century iconic figure”, he along with Princess Diana and US president John f Kennedy. His first movie “The Big Boss” has broke the box office records in Hong Kong with over 230million us dollars in 1971, and he was the first in the world of Chinese martial arts promoter that led the Hong Kong movie out of Asia in the meanwhile. (Richer) After few years, he spent all of effort to develop his film career, and he became the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce honors Bruce with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. However, in 2000, US government announced the release of "Bruce Lee's 60th anniversary commemorative stamps," he was the first Chinese person can got this glory, and this was the second Marilyn Monroe and 007 third place award of the artists (Yu). Lee attracted major attention from famous people who wanted to master Kung Fu; among his famous students were celebrities such as Joe Lewis, Steve McQueen, Chuck Norris, James Coburn, and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. Until now, his accomplishment still prevalent today, no one could feel string with the name of Bruce Lee. Bruce Lee has...
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...achieve success but also destroy a person. Professional knowledge can easily set a pitfall and cage to limit your divergent thinking. It will teach you a traditional method to push you into there. It is going to block your abilities and imagination and emotional intelligence to deal with problem in perfectly. We should combine our professional knowledge, our thinking and sensitive insight together to achieve success in our business. In general, It is hard for most of people in the world. That is reason why there were many people who had business but only a few can run business well or even famous on it. My opinion just comes from Chinese Taoism philosophy. A good example can explain my opinion in reasonable. Bruce Lee was a famous Kung Fu master in the world. When Bruce was young, he studied in University of Washington for philosophy. In the half of his university life, he chose to quit school in order to focus on his Kung Fu life. He was very clever in develop his potential for everything. Before he came to united state, he was the student of Ye Wen who was a famous Kung Fu master of...
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...Angelo Cupani Film 262 4/6/14 Hong Kong: An Industry Born on a Budget Hong Kong has often been referred to as the “Hollywood of the East”. Although there are qualities of the Hong Kong film industry, which do indeed resemble those of Hollywood, implying that Hong Kong’s film industry is simply a second-tier version of Hollywood’s is an injustice to the unique industry model that Hong Kong has developed since the mid 20th century. Multiple factors, namely economic, have driven Hong Kong filmmakers to adapt different methods of production and exhibition than Hollywood filmmakers, resulting a in a distinct style of cinema that maximizes profits and controls costs, and has proven itself successful. Many of the unique practices of Hong Kong cinema stem from the industry’s tendency to push films through the production process much more quickly than the typical Hollywood film, and on a much smaller budget. The pace at which Hong Kong films are made is unmatched, proven by director Tsui Hark who went from script to release in less than two moths with his film Chinese Feast. The speed at which these films are released is driven by exhibition. With most production companies throughout Hong Kong film history being vertically integrating, including Shaw Brothers and Cinema City, the goal has been to push as many films through their own theaters as quickly as possible, with rapid turnover rates. Unlike Hollywood films, which can often stay in theaters for a month or longer, Hong Kong...
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...Essay on Jeet Kune Do Bruce Lee 1 Three swordsmen sat down at a table in a crowded Japanese inn and began to make loud comments about their neighbor, hoping to goad him into a duel. The master seemed to take no notice of them, but when their remarks became ruder and more pointed, he raised his chopsticks and, in quick snips, effortlessly caught four flies wings. As he slowly laid down the chopsticks, the three swordsmen hurriedly left the room. The story illustrates a great difference between oriental and western thinking. The average westerner would be intrigued by someone’s ability to catch flies with chopsticks, and would probably say that has nothing to do with how good he is in combat. But the oriental would realize that a man who has attained such complete mastery of an art reveals his presence of mind in every action. The state of wholeness and imperturbability demonstrated by the master indicated his mastery of self. And so it is with martial arts. To the westerner the finger jabs, the side kicks, and the back fist, etc, are tools of destruction and violence which is, indeed, one of their functions. But the oriental believes that the primary function of such tools is revealed when they are self-distracted and destroy greed, fear, anger and folly. Manipulative skill is not Oriental’s goal. He is aiming his kicks and blows at himself and when successful, may even succeed in knocking himself out. After years of training, he hopes to achieve that vital loosening...
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...Isaac Yap 3/5 stars This is it. The final installment in the kung-fu movie trilogy that dramatizes the life of the legendary Chinese folk hero: Ip Man. And what a colossal letdown it is. While less disgustingly nationalistic than the second installment, Ip Man 3 lacks the Cantonese humor and the glowing humanity of the first one and is overall a lackluster conclusion to what was supposed to be a kung-fu epic. Donnie Yen returns yet again to play the role of Ip Man, the martial arts master who taught the “Wing-Chun” style to hundreds Cantonese students including the young Bruce Lee. Unsurprisingly, Ip Man is the canonical hero who embodies the Chinese values of familial love, filial piety and flipping men over walls to protect the underdogs of society. Most of the characters in Ip Man 3 are one-dimensional and extremely polarized. For example, Patrick Tam plays the zougou (what the Chinese called fellow countrymen who served their colonial masters), the one who betrayed his master for money. He is lackadaisical, an absolute evil with neither depth nor duality. Ip Man 3’s cast is predictable and even worse, boring. Perhaps the worst thing about Ip Man 3 is its weak pedestrian plot chock full of clichés. So many Chinese movies use either a corrupt Westerner or a barbaric Japanese invader as the main antagonist that it has become a cliché. Ip Man 3 subscribes to the same formula and underwhelms me with its lack of imagination. Ip Man himself is a stoic, impassive and...
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...Dragons never die, because dragons draw power from water. long2 shi4 bu4 si3 de, yin1 wei4 long2 cong2 bu4 li2 kai1 shui3. Shui3, jiu4 xiang4 zhi2 jue2. mei2 you3 xing2 zhuang4, wu2 fa3 ba3 wo4, que4 you3 zu2 yi3 gai3 bian4 shi4 jie de li4 liang. Water, is like instincts. Shapeless…. formless… fluid… you cannot grasp hold of it. But let it flow and it has the power to change the world. wo3 xiang1 xin4 zhi2 jue2. ta1 shi4 mei3 ge4 ren2 yong1 you3 de wu2 xian4 qian2 neng2. I believe in instincts. Everyone possesses this unlimited power. ta1 gao4 su4 wo3, bu2 yao4 zun1 xun2 gui1 ze2, er2 yao4 chuang4 zao4 gui1 ze2. bu4 jin3 yong4 nao3 si1 kao3, geng4 yao4 yong4 xin1 si1 kao3. It tells you to never follow the rules, but to make them. That, it isn’t enough just to think, but to feel. zhe4 shi4 wo3 gai3 bian4 yi1 qie4 de mi4 mi. zhe4 shi4 wo3 bei4 ni3 men yong3 yuan3 ji4 de2 de yuan2 yin. This is what helped me change everything. This is how legends are made. zhi3 zou3 zhi2 jue2 gao4 su4 ni3 de lu4, na4 cai2 shi4 chao1 yue4 cheng2 gong1 de lu4. Follow your instincts. It’s the most honest path. ni3 shi4 fou3 you3 yong3 qi4 zhui1 xun2 nei4 xin1 de yong3 gan3? ni3 shi4 fou3 you3 yong3 qi4 zhi3 zuo4 ni3 zi4 ji3 de ni3? Do you have the guts to follow your gut? Do you have the courage to express who you are? rang4 xin1 ru2 shui3, xiong1 di4. But water, my friend ye3 xu3 you3 yi4 tian1, ni3 bu4 xu1 yao4 yong4 cheng2 gong1 lai2 ding4 yi4...
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...1.0 Executive Summary We are preparing to open a popcorn specialty shop in Hong Kong, the Pop Popcorn Shop. Hong Kong is a famous international tourism city and it successfully received more than 42 million tourists in the past year. Hong Kong has its unique culture and the Hong Kong film culture is one of the most remarkable one. Therefore, our Pop Popcorn Shop will closely integrated with the Hong Kong film culture, and create a well-known local brand image, which can attractive to local residents who like to eat popcorn or like to see movies, and the tourists who interest in the Hong Kong culture or movies. We can effectively compete with other popcorn store because we offer a high quality, various tasty flavors, as well as healthy popcorn with value price to consumers. More importantly, we provide customize service, which customers can make their own flavor popcorn and even the packages according to their preference. The particular customize service as well as the film culture brand image is our two brightest spots, which can make us distinguish with other competitors and become our distinct competencies. The marketing objective in the first year is to build up our brand awareness through our various marketing communication methods and we will continue to focus on increasing our brand equity in the next two years. The primary financial objectives are to achieve first-year sales revenue of HKD1,580,000 (USD 203,820) and reach profitability. The revenue will be expected...
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...press it to his cheek; yet even here he is kept down by the ramifications of his theory, the things they touch have no perpetual quality. There is nothing they can clutch in this world. Just by giving up the fight they would be able to truly have what is genuine. He eagerly turns once more from the definitive objective of his life's interests for affection. In the event that this is not yet the most phenomenal path of celestial love portrayed in a standout amongst the most acclaimed sections of the New Testament, it is as yet something more than the negative route of Taoist supernatural quality. Works Cited Chaudhuri, Shohini. Contemporary World Cinema: Europe, the Middle East, East Asia and South Asia. Edinburgh University Press, 2005. Lee, Ang, Bill Kong, Ligong Xu, Huiling Wang, James Schamus, Guorong Cai, Yun-fat Chow, Michelle Yeoh, Ziyi Zhang, Zhen Zhang, Sihung Lung, Peipei Zheng, Dun Tan, and Dulu Wang. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. Culver City, CA: Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment, 2001. ...
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