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Wong Kar Wai is probably the most innovative and avant-garde director to come out of Hong Kong. As part of the second New Wave of Hong Kong cinema, Wai moved far away from the traditional, Jackie Chan and Shaw Brothers style of films, which focused on action, and explored more substantial themes, icnluding human psyche, politics and the social conditions in Hong Kong. His aesthetics are quite similar with Jean-Luc Godard and the French Wave, in general, particularly because he also took apart…

sell their artists on. Much of Elvis Presley's success was thanks to RCA's major label level of marketing capabilities (Covach). The media an artist is featured on can catapult an artist to success. In the nineteen-fifties, the song “True Love” by Bing Crosby was catapulted to the top of the charts after being featured in the movie High Society. Instances such as this occur way more often today, with mediums such as commercials providing a…

Basically, we are aware that there are two forms of language learning. The first type is second language learning and next is foreign language learning (FLL). Learners from English language speaking environment are categorized as English language learners (ELL) and theylearn English as a second language. In contrast, foreign language learning is when the language studied by the learners is not spoken in the native country of the learners. There are key differences which are relevant to teaching…

Introduction Katherine Anne Porter was born in 1890 and died in 1980. She was one of the influential authors of her age. She has won several prizes; including the Pulitzer Prize. Apart from her literary identity, she is also known as a political activist. She has been widely influenced from the literary atmosphere of 20th. century. She was born in a wealthy southern family. Her southern ancestry and childhood played an important role in her literary identity. In The Norton Anthology of…

Multicultural perspectives in art pertains to an educational approach that celebrates the multiple heritages of artists and art students. By understanding the cultural context behind the creation of iconic works of art, we can move towards a more authentic understanding of the aesthetic traditions behind the creation of a work of art. It is through this educational approach that the work of Claude Monet is best viewed. Claude Monet is undoubtedly one of the most familiar and best loved of all…

.3 The role of viral marketing 4.3.1 Channels of film propaganda Figure 4.4 where have you seen films’ propaganda It is similar with the investigation of people’s habits of getting information on movies (Fig 4.2). In this sample, there is a significant over half of the respondents always (option ‘5’) see film’s publicity in social media (58.55%) (Fig 4.4). On the other hand, there is less than one-fourth respondents ‘Rarely’ (‘2’) or ‘Never’ (‘1’) notice some propaganda of films on social…

While there is a belief that humans have evolved from apes, religion has an explanation. Evolution is the theory that modern life has descended from a common ancestor, through the process of natural selection. Faith on the other hand, claims that life was created in the form it is today with some alterations from God. Since evolution was found it has been debated by all faiths. Evolution generates an explanation for the origin of life which is not necessary when there is religion, logic, and…

Jeannette and her three siblings Lori, Brian, and Maureen have been through so much in their lives from birth to a young adult. Jeannette Walls in her memoir of The Glass Castle shows that she went through almost all eights stages of Erickson’s Psychosocial Development. The memoir of Jeannette shows that she is a very strong individual and even though she has been through a lot of her early development she still over comes her struggles. The memoir of The Glass Castle shows that Jeanette goes…

When people feel they are bing watched they no longer do what they usually would but instead make decisions that revolve around the idea of societal norms and expectations of what “good” people do, they conform and become compliant (Greenwald, 2014). Greenwald then goes on to explain…

world's greatest musicians. Genres of music have always been developed and formed with the help of other genres. From Country to R&B, these genres have helped form rock as we know it today. Frank Sintra got into music after listening to a recording by Bing Crosby, and he was inspired to take up singing as a teenager. He joined a local singing group and won an amateur radio show in 1935. Sintra had no formal musician training and couldn't even read sheet music. Frank Sintra had not written any of…