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Bridge Between The Past Past And The Present France
674 wordsProvence has been called a bridge between the past and the present, where yesterday blends with today. This beautiful place lies in the southern part of France, and is bordered on the east by Italy, on the south by the Mediterranean Sea, and on the west by the Rhone River. The area abounds with flower fields, vineyards, orchards, and olive and mulberry groves. Along the seacoast is the French Rivera and the Ports of Marseille and Toulon. Provence has its own language The region originally formed...
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Musical Comedies Radio Stations
1,155 words... he reconstruction period constitutional amendments were passed to assure civil rights and voting rights for former slaves and some blacks were elected members of the House and Senate; Whites wanted to be assured that blacks were still inferior and blackface troupes were not showing this by continuing to hire blacks. Therefore, audiences depleted, and many troupes that had incorporated blacks started to perform on circuits like the "Chicken circuit, " which hit most black owned theaters. Blac...
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Why The Joy Luck Club Sucks
1,106 words... e portrayed in a better light than the Chinese men in the movie. I don't think there was a fourth husband. In the one unbelievable relationship with the lone Chinese husband, one daughter splits all expenses 50 - 50 with her future husband even though he earns 7 times her salary! She even ends up marrying the tight bastard. Now tell me, is that reality? Did she really believe he loved her? Did she really love him? Would any modern Chinese woman be that stupid? I don't think so. Let's see wha...
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Washington D C George Washington
657 wordsThere are many choices for a person looking to go on a vacation. Tourists travel for a variety of reasons. Some travel to better educate themselves, others travel for entertainment purposes, then there are those who travel simply to relax and have a good time. What ever the reason, a person looking for any or all of these things can find them in Washington D. C. If one is looking for education, what better place to find it than our nations capital? Washington D. C. has a vast selection of places...
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Roman Empire Ancient Greeks
836 wordsPerhaps one of the greatest aspects of the Arts today is the Performing Arts. Yet, without previous cultures such as the ancient Greeks, the Romans, and the Europeans, we would not have the entertaining, history enriched performing arts that we do The history of the Ancient Greek Theater begins with a man known as Thespis. A figure of whom we know very little, he won the play competition in honor of the Greek god Dionysus, in 534 B. C. While it is uncertain whether Thespis was a playwright, an a...
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Hoop Dreams Home Video
326 wordsRobert Rodriguez made his film El Mariachi with a borrowed 16 mm camera and a cassette recorder with a Radio Shack microphone. Shot for about $ 7000 (mostly for film stock and processing), it was acquired by Columbia Pictures, won the audience award for best dramatic film at Sundance, and was exhibited in movie theaters worldwide. The Celebration (aka Faster) was a production that took a consciously unorthodox approach to filmmaking. Shot with an ordinary Sony home video camera (the PAL version ...
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Indiana Jones T V
600 wordsI'm Steven Spielberg and I was born in Cincinnati on December 18, 1947, but I was mainly raised in New Jersey and Arizona. When I was 12 years old I used my dads 8 mm camcorder and made a movie. I continued to make films with the camcorder for five more years until I went on a trip to Universal Studios. I was 17 years old and I broke away from the main tourist group to see the sound stages. I bumped into the head of Universal's editorial department, Chuck Silvers. We talked for about an hour and...
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Cost Of Living Back Of The Bus
707 wordsThe book talks about how there was segregation just about everywhere you looked. In the 1930 's the white people had their own restrooms along with their own water fountains and the lacks had their own school and blacks usually did not go to school. They were too busy working on the farm to go to school. The schools only had one room for all of the grades. The children usually walked to school in those days, because they didn't have school buses. They also had to bring their own lunch to school ...
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Suggest That Inspector General Suggest That Inspector Play
692 wordsInspector General Nikolai Gogol's play Inspector General is considered one of the finest works of Russian dramaturgy. Plays satire correspond to the realities of our days, this is why its philosophical value remained undermined, up until now. Gogol tells a story of young con- master Khlestakov, who is being mistaken for undercover inspector in one of Russian provincial towns. Towns officials try very hard to divert inspectors attention from their corruptive practices by offering him bribes. Afte...
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Statue Of Caesar Style Of Architecture Pantheon
948 wordsAncient Rome The Pantheon was begun in 27 BC by the political leader Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa, probably as a building of the ordinary classical type, rectangular with a gabled roof supported by a colonnade on all sides. It was completely rebuilt by the emperor Hadrian sometime between AD 118 and 128, with some alterations made in the early 3 rd century by the emperors Lucius Septimius Severus and Caracalla. It is a circular building of concrete faced with brick, with a great concrete dome rising...
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Japanese Animation Tv Programs
1,487 wordsIn Japan, animation is like god. Animated characters have been on the top among Japanese films for more than a decade. In the beginning of 1994, animated TV programs reached their highest average viewer ratings of 16. 1 %. To compare it to the year 1993, it increased up to 9 %. This popularity of animated programs had gone fare beyond the borders of Japan. The countries animated exports headed top TV ratings in Asia as well as in Europe. Just as a new hit appears, buyers from different countries...
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Walt Disney Mickey Mouse
698 wordsWalt Walt Disney Walt Disney Walt Disney was one of the famous motion-picture producers in history. He first became known in the 1920 s and 1930 s for creating such cartoon film characters as Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck. He later produced feature length cartoon films, movies about wild animals in their natural surroundings, and films starring human actors. Disney won 32 Academy Awards for his movies and for scientific and technical contributions to filmmaking. He also gained fame for his develo...
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Gained Popularity Personal Feelings
1,528 wordsThe Chinese Drama Chinese Drama- The classical Chinese theater developed during the Yuan dynasty. Springing from story cycles made familiar by professional storytellers, Yuan plays relied for their appeal on romantic or sentimental plots. During the Ming dynasty the drama utilized the plots of popular novels. Until the 19 th century Chinese drama was not spoken; it was a mixture of music and declamation. It is frequently infused with sadness, Often involving the deaths of women Chinese drama was...
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Plays Were Performed Odyssey And The Iliad Greek
302 wordsIn early Greece, most drama and poetry grew from Athenian celebrations honoring the god of wine, Dionysus. Greek plays were performed outdoors to an all male audience. The plays were performed in theaters that were built into hillsides. All ofthe actors were also male, and they had a chorus which explained the play as intent. The actors wore high boots and intricate costumes, while the chorus just wore normal clothes. Most early Greek plays were tragedies and usually ended in a disaster. Tragedi...
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Theatrical History Play Macbeth
616 wordsThe Comedy of Games, The Scottish Business or simply That Play are just a few of the euphemisms actors use to avoid mentioning the title of William Shakespeare's Macbeth, one of the most ill-starred plays in theatrical history. Indeed, many professionals believe that The Unmentionable [another of its nicknames]-with its bloodshed, ghosts, and witchcraft is one of the darkest dramas ever written. If an actor does happen to mention the name, or quotes from the play while he is backstage, tradition...
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World War Ii Martial Arts
1,858 wordsOne of the most underrated and misunderstood of all film genres, the martial-arts film is also one of the most popular among the movie-going masses and encompasses several sub-genres: kung fu, judo, ninja, and karate action flicks, samurai epics, the Asian fantasy and modern-day &# 34; new wave&# 34; gun-action violence of directors like John Woo, the acrobatic action / comedy antics of the talented Jackie Chan, and the historical epic as reinterpreted by Tsui Hark. The Orient has always seemed ...
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Women And Men Older Boys
1,078 wordsIn Tudor Entertainment Boys Games In the 1500 s children were very imaginative and creative in how they used their spare time. Peasant children did not have the opportunities to go to school, doing the days they had lots of time when they were not doing chores. Many Tudor time children played games common to the ones children play today. They would build their own little river dams and slide down rivers and streams creating their own watersides and pools of water. Dreaming of pirates, treasure i...
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Amusement Parks Nineteenth Century
673 wordsPopular Culture in the 19 th Century During the Nineteenth Century there were several kinds of popular culture that became increasingly popular. I will discuss some of the types commercial entertainment that helped the people of this time have other options to relieve some of the pressures of everyday life. Realistic Theater becomes popular and the invention of the magic lanterns which was an early slide show projectors, which could have been found in dime theaters. Minstrelsy an art form, which...
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Keenen Ivory Wayans Writers Of The Original Movie
615 wordsScary Movie Review By Michael Cattana Release Date: November 16 th, 2000 Not to be Confused With: Another horror spoof heading to theaters this summer is I Know What You Screamed Last Summer. This isnt that movie. Also a note to sir even though this movie isn? t released till the 16 th of November this year I have seen it on VCD from the internet. Title Note: Anyone who knows their horror movie law knows the significance of the title, Scary Movie. Its the original title of the first Scream movie...
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Time And Talents William Shakespeare Works
565 wordsWilliam Shakespeare and all of his works greatly contributed to contemporary theater in many ways. His understanding of other people allowed him to fully grasp the quality he wrote of. The works of Shakespeare contain a strong and constant truth, touching emotional and supernatural aspects of life. These realities make Shakespeare? s works vital, even on toady? s learning institutions and theatrical realms, accounting for his enormous success. Shakespeare was born in the Holy Trinity Church in S...
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