Beijing Subway

The community that I choose to research is the community of northeast China (or Dongbei in Chinese). People in this community speak Northeastern Mandarin, which is a dialect that is related to but obviously different from standard Mandarin. The research article examines language attitudes towards Northeastern Mandarin and Standard Mandarin. The article also discusses the implications of such attitudes and possible reasons behind language attitudes. In the introduction part, the author reviewed…

Like any relationship between two people, meeting for the first time, specifically in this case, Sam and Alex people want to start off with making a good impression on the other. Both individuals officially encounter in Interpersonal Communications class and uses C.O.N.N.E.C.T. or small talk to establish their relationship. They are more mindful and flirtatious towards one anther and discuss similarities in order to bond (Kehoe, 2016, pp.127-134). Responding positively at least five times is…

Red Cliff is a fantastic of action, adventure, drama, epic, war film. This movie is based on the Battle of Red Cliffs (AD 208–209), the events at the end of the Han dynasty, and immediately prior to the Three Kingdoms period in ancient China. There is Part I (2008) and Part II (2009) for Red Cliff which was directed by John Woo and acted by Tony Leung, Takeshi Kaneshiro, Zhang Fengyi, Chang Chen, Zhao Wei, Hu Jun, Lin Chi-ling, Baasanjav Mijid, and . In China, the first part (146 minutes) of Red…

an anti-communist country. Jump twenty four years later, the 2008 olympic games in Beijing China. All but a few countries prepared tirelessly to take part in what was projected to be one of the best games ever. While L.A. used existing stadiums and venues for their games, Beijing had a grand total of thirty one venues, however 17 of those venues were built for the arrival of the olympic games. Los Angeles and Beijing both had spectacular venues for their given time. L.A. had the Los Angeles…

Christianity. “Not only were missionaries killed, but also numerous Chinese pastors lost their lives as well as more than 32,000”( The Alliance 1). In the summer of 1900 the boxer rebellers targeted Beijing. This would be a major attack on the feigners and they planned to seize it. “the foreign compound in Beijing where all of the foreign diplomats and many of the foreign business people live and in the early summer of 1900 they lay siege to this foreign compound” (PBS 1). Their motives were to…

“When I Consider How My Light is Spent” (Milton Line 1) is a great poem that teaches a highly important lesson about God-given talent. A careful examination of the text helps us understand what John Milton was trying to get across to his audience. The symbolism that he portrays throughout the poem, tells the reader that he was having trouble with losing his vision; which happened in 1652. He was not able to fully use his talent of writing poems and he felt that God would scold him if he wasn’t…

Langston Hughes’s poem “My People” is a short poem that gives off a variety of meanings. Hughes’s poem gives the reader a different form of viewing people by emphasizing certain features from his people, although not directly throwing it out there for the reader to grasp right away. Also, interior and outer beauty. When the reader first reads this short poem, they would assume that the narrator is implying that his people are beautiful and that is all, just beautiful. Although, as the reader…

To many people, the ultimate accomplishment on earth is to become someone of importance and fame. However, other individuals may argue that once gone, a human’s impact on earth simply diminishes as nothing lasts forever. Through the poems “Ozymandias” by Percy Bysshe Shelley and “Sonnet 43” by Elizabeth Barrett Browning there contrasting views are of the life’s significance and the lasting effect one may have after death. By analyzing the punctuation and word choice, the reader gets a better…

Oedipus Rex is a tragic tale of a man whose fate betrays him. In this play Oedipus is involved in a prophecy that for his whole life his was ignorant to. Oedipus knows about the prophecy, and tries to avoid it by leaving his home. By doing this, Oedipus unknowingly fulfills the prophecy. Oedipus later has to deal with the repercussions of these actions. Once he accepts what he has done, Oedipus gets a sense of clarity even though he is still in pain. The various symbols throughout Oedipus Rex…

It was a dark and stormy evening when a mentally unstable main character pondered whether word choice and extravagant descriptions would have any effect on the reader of his written works. He looked at the purple velvet curtains his long dead love had hung years ago when he was still sane and concluded that this was indeed the case. The shadows cast upon the floor by the dying coals in the fireplace helped him to understand that a reader’s first impression is characterized by the first…