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Alissa Wang Mrs. Kaplowitz Honors Ancient Literature – Block 4 01 December 2017 Battle of My Two Channels: Chinese and English English, as everyone knows is the most popular language in the world, and it is also the third most spoken language. But to your surprise, Chinese, which seems to be the most complicated language, is the most spoken language in the world. Because these two languages are too different, few people point out the actual differences and similarities between them. Though Chinese and English differed in way of writing, what the language emphasizes, and their grammar, they both have of dialects. First, these two languages differed in the ways of writing. The reason why Chinese is considered a difficult language…

Grave-lines, France, Spain’s so-called “insuperable Armada” was defeated by the English soldiers under the command of Lord Charles Howard and Sir Francis Drake. Their main aim was to overthrow Queen Elizabeth1 of England and the Tudor establishment of Protestantism in England. After fighting for almost eight hours, a change in wind direction forced the Spanish to retreat from the battle and sailed toward the North Sea. The Spanish Armada had hoped to win the battle, but were…

Channel Orange One of the artists that has inspired me to produce my own music is Frank Ocean with his second album, Channel Orange. The first time that I ever listened to the album back in 2012, I remember thinking, “Holy shi*t…I have never heard anything like this before in my life.” Telling a song-by-song story, his poetic lyrics about his personal sexuality, strip clubs, pregnancy, wealth, drugs, and corruption show Frank’s slightly strange perception of it all. That is one thing that…

The Ambivalence of Ivory Why did Ivory Christian have ambivalent feelings towards football? Football is the game that Ivory loves to hate. Ivory hated what took to play a Friday night game. Ivory was very confused about the sport but he was also very talented. Ivory was positioned as a middle linebacker he liked it half the time during the early morning practices.The coaches switched Ivory as a offensive guard and he played brilliant. Ivory was quite confused while playing this sport he wasn’t…

It is always right for kids. There are many kids channels in television such as: PBS kids, Cartoon network, and Disney channel. Each channel has their own special program, but their same purpose is entertainment. For example, children really love PBS kids. Absolutely, they watched it all day when they were little. In addition, people usually found their children watched these channels in their school while they were waiting for their parents. It means that school also uses television as a school…

According to the 2012 MPAA industry study, the Asian market grew 15% in 2012 to $10.4 billion (Bowles, 2013). The international movie box office has appeared to benefit far greater than the American movie box office. In regards to television, the Walt Disney Company seems to stand out significantly since they have brought their American programming to worldwide audiences. The Disney Channel is in almost every county with the goal to cater towards every kind of audience. In fact, a blog put out…

Vicky Kendirjian Informative Speech Outline Topic: Walt Disney English 203 Dr. Samira Shami Purpose At the end of my speech, the audience will be knowledgeable of Walt Disney’s life, including his starting point, failures and finally the great achievements, which are being reflected for decades and many generations including us are witnessing them. Introduction “All our dreams can come true - if we have the courage to pursue them.” Claims one of the world’s most influential, legendary,…

other woman should be looking up to due to the fact she degrades women in numerous music videos with her racy outfits, racist terms, and involves herself with public fights towards other women. One definition of feminism is, “the advocacy of women 's rights on the grounds of political, social, and economic equality to men.” In an interview with TIME magazine, Cyrus states, “I 'm just about equality, period. It 's not like, ‘I 'm a woman, women should be in charge!’ I just want there to be…

It promotes its brand in its every animated film released, every derivative sold, every new playing channel and sales channel as well as every tourist entering into Disneyland. By virtue of these brand promotions, Disney can increase brand loyalty without any cost while gaining more profits. Disney Group’s value chain mainly consists of four parts: film and television, media network, Disneyland and derivatives. Disney mainly relies on derivatives and Disneyland which account for over 80% in…

we, the proletariat, must consume. For example, companies introduce new products every year to devalue the ones that we currently own and convince us that we have to have the newest one. Economists refer to this as planned obsolescence because it makes older products seem out of date and essentially useless (Grazian, 2010, p.61). We are given the illusion of choice when multiple brands release new products. However, material choice is not a real concept; most companies are owned by larger…