Shakespeare’s Cultural Capital in Popular Cinema: Chinese Filmic Spinoffs of Hamlet Lingui Yang Year 2006 saw two made-in-China films based on Shakespeare’s Hamlet—Feng Xiaogang’s Madarin Yeyan (The Banquet) and Sherwood Hu’s Tibetan Ximalaya wangzi (The Prince of the Himalayas). For their Shakespearean components‚ the films join their counterparts elsewhere around the globe that interpret‚ appropriate‚ dissemble‚ and reconstruct Shakespeare’s canonical text. To be sure‚ they have in their own
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Pip As a bildungsroman‚ Great Expectations presents the growth and development of a single character‚ Philip Pirrip‚ better known to himself and to the world as Pip. As the focus of the bildungsroman‚ Pip is by far the most important character in Great Expectations: he is both the protagonist‚ whose actions make up the main plot of the novel‚ and the narrator‚ whose thoughts and attitudes shape the reader’s perception of the story. As a result‚ developing an understanding of Pip’s character is
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Sepoy Rebellion In May 1857‚ the Indian Soldiers‚ called Sepoys‚ rose against their employer‚ the British East India Company. At the culmination of the fighting‚ hundreds of thousands of people were killed on both sides. The British government disbanded the British East India Company and took control themselves. The ended the Mughal Empire and sent their last emperor to exile in Burma. The commencement of this rebellion started during the British Imperialistic take over in India. After acquiring
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political commentator Peter Oborne‚ is about the dilemma between modern ways and the old days. Peter Oborne describes his concerns about our modern political culture‚ in comparison with the old culture‚ when Great Britain was an Empire and the Queen was Empress. He believes it is time to reinvent the Commonwealth. The Commonwealth is an organization consisting of the UK and most of the countries that used to be a part of the British Empire‚ when Great Britain was a Colonial power. Peter Oborne gives a
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endorsements to advertise it in a newspaper to target a bigger market of middle class and generate more sales. He created demand by displaying his product in showrooms before sending the pieces to customers. For example the big order from Russian empress Catherine was displayed in London showroom and admired by many aristocrat before it was sent to Russia. Wedgewood had a skill to create sustainable demand for his target market some of the examples are: 1) If one of his product line became saturated
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Theme: Harrison Bergeron Harrison Bergeron (Kurt Vonnegut‚ 1961) is a fictional commentary on an egalitarian society. Based in the future‚ 2081 to be exact‚ Vonnegut describes a society where the American government has passed amendments to make all its citizens equal by use of handicaps. These handicaps range from masks for the beautiful‚ weights for the strong‚ radio chips that give off bursts of frequencies to disrupt thoughts for the intelligent‚ all in an attempt in an entirely equal citizenship
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Dhaire Portillo November 1‚ 2013 6th Period The Similarities and Differences of the Imperial Rule of Han China and Imperial Rome Imperial Han and Imperial Rome were two very important empires in Europe and Asia. Even though their time in ruling was different they both were very powerful in their time. The Imperial Rules of Rome and Han China had differences and similarities in the techniques of imperial administration such as different ways of religion‚ Confucianism and
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Russians were killed. The imperial army suffered severe loses. Nicholas II was forces to resign from his throne after the February war in 1917. Nicholas II; his wife‚ his son‚ his four daughters‚ the family’s medical doctor‚ the Emperor’s footman‚ the Empress’ maidservant‚ and the family’s cook‚ were executed in the same room by the Bolsheviks on the night of 16 July 1918. Due to his sad reign and his execution the communist was able to gain control. You can say his death was the first step towards the
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At this very moment‚ over seven billion human beings live on Earth. While there are similarities among all kinds of people‚ no two are exactly alike. This means that from the local store owners to well-known celebrities‚ there are more than seven billion unique faces‚ unique personalities‚ and unique identities in the world. Among these seven billion are the authors Amy Tan and Mary Matsuda Gruenewald. In her short story "Fish Cheeks"‚ Tan told her tale of being a Chinese- American girl and the embarrassment
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Queen Victoria was born on May 24‚ 1819. She was the daughter of Prince Edward‚ Duke of Kent who was the minor son of the reigning King George III‚ and Victoire of Saxe-Coburg‚ who was a German princess. Both her father and grandfather died in 1820‚ the year her uncle became King George IV. When George died without issue in 1830‚ Victoria stood to reign the throne after the daughter of her second royal uncle‚ King William IV‚ died in infancy. William himself died in 1837‚ and the eighteen-year-old
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