The Wedding

to these cultural differences, it is likely that sometimes people encounter serious obstacles to overcoming difficulties in order to find their true happiness. A prime example of this is the female protagonist’ case in the movie My Big Fat Greek Wedding, which presents the power of cultural elements on how they affect her life and marriage. Among those elements, two outstanding concepts in the film that will be analyzed are ethnocentrism and collectivism versus individualism. In the film, Toula…

Wedding Portrait or Giovanni Arnolfini and His Bride, Jan van Eyck’s 1434 oil painting on wood panel, is among the most famous paintings in Renaissance art. This painting not only is a double portrait but also visually certifies the wedding of Giovanni Arnolfini, an Italian merchant, and his betrothed in their Flemish home in Bruges. Van Eyck’s composition is filled with elaborate detail and complex symbolism. The use of oil paint instead of tempera paint allowed van Eyck to create the illusion…

Mao's last dancer speech Good morning staff and students, my name is Li Cunxin and I hope that what I tell you today will influence but first I will ask you a question what would your family do for you and would you do the same for them. When I was born into utter poverty under Maus regime in China between 1958 to 1961 there were roughly between 35 to 38 million people died of starvation in China. I was born in 1961 we have no running water when I grew up we walked miles to carry buckets of…

First and foremost, I would like to thank everybody for coming today. I appreciate that some of you have travelled a long way and I know mum would be very pleased. We are gathered here in the memory of our wife, sister, mother, grandmother and aunty (Liz), so that together, we may acknowledge and share both the joy in the gift that her life gave to us and the grief that her passing brings. Mum was born on the 15 January 1955 in Manly Vale to Peter and Patricia Bradstreet. She was one of four…

Good afternoon, Your Majesty. Thank you for coming all the way from the sun to visit me. I have been intrigued by your life since I was a child, and would love to hear about your experience as the last Pharaoh of Egypt. No need for the formalities, Katie. Call me Cleopatra, and I’m thrilled to be here! It’s been 2045 years since my death, and I can’t believe how much the world has changed. All of this technology! In Rome and my Kingdom, we were lucky to have the great library of Alexandria.…

however, merging to very different families can be a blessing for future generations. This paper analyzes the family portrayed in My Big Fat Greek Wedding from a multi-generational family therapy perspective as well as outlines interventions, Ian Miller and Tula Portokalis can benefit from within their marital relationship. My Big Fat Greek Wedding is about a first generation American, Tula’s, difficulty with being a healthy person who is able to embrace a sense of belonging to her family while…

Dear Emma Watson, It has been a year since you gave your wonderful, life-changing speech as the UN Women Goodwill Ambassador at a special event for the HeForShe campaign. It has been a year I have grown, and developed into a much more conscious and self-aware adult, and husband, who has made it his mission to become a better person by each passing day, and today it is by thanking the person who helped me start this journey, so thank you Emma, for being such an inspiring woman, and more…

The Arnolifini Wedding Portrait (1434, oil on wood, 82.2 cm x 60 cm, National Gallery, London) by Jan Van Eyck is one of the most extraordinary and mysterious paintings in art history. The complexity and rich detail makes it perplexing to art historians who have never been able to establish the true meaning behind the portrait. The most notable opinion is that of Erwin Panofsky, who argues that the Arnolfini was a marriage ceremony and was witnessed by the painter, shown with his reflection in…

The challenges of using different models of wellness in different stages of development. The use of the movie “My Big Fat Greek Wedding” was a lot more fun than I thought it would be. I am looking forward for more exercises like this. The use of the articles and literature from “Summon” Cappella Library was exciting, I really found information that got my attention because it was…

Here we stand my fellow class mates and 4 years of high school education behind us. When I was told I would be the valedictorian, I was so surprised because I expected Trevor would be it. He is smart, and everyone knows it. Most of my classmates had asked him many academic questions, and he was sometimes busy to help us. He was the most moral and best- hearted in my life, and kind of academic savior to us. But, I couldn’t repress my astonishment that I, not he, became the valedictorian. Anyways,…