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Essays 121 - 150

Guqin Music and the Chinese Zither Instrument

a large number of other ethnic groups with distinct cultures. The westward expansion of the Chinese empire during the Tang dynast...

The Rio Carnival

The writer describes the annual Carnival celebration in Rio De Janeiro, including some of the traditions and rituals that occur du...

Contemporary Literature and Chicano Culture

In seven pages the celebration of Chicano heritage found in texts by Hinojosa, Galarza, Anaya, and Rivera is examined. There are ...

Romance and Epic in Thomas Malory's 'Tale of Lancelot and Guenevere' and 'Beowulf'

1). With the passage of time, epics evolved into what is commonly referred to as chansons de geste or romances. French in origin...

General Overview of Kwanzaa

should strive for unity in the family, the nation, the race, and the community and that it is important to maintain that unity (Kw...

La Jetee Film by Chris Marker

how mans recollections "are motionless fragments marked by the surroundings" (La Jet?e); inasmuch as the storys underlying current...

Celebrating the New Year in China

The first point to be made here would be that the Spring Festival (Chinese New Year) is one of the major traditional national holi...

Catholic Italian Culture

of all immigrants. Borrowing from their special talent with food, Italians grace the country with their wonderful cuisine and jov...

Working Against the Odds The Story of Anna Johnson Pell Wheeler

originated within themselves. In present-day language, some would have been considered "nerds," because they did not necessarily e...

Reviewing 'Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey' by William Wordsworth

This dissolution, first adverse, becomes a positive driving force which allows us to sway from crime, avarice and over-anxious car...

Contextual Theology

to live in harmony. This incorporates the need for eliminating racism and religious intolerance. This recommendation talks about d...

Ramadan, Fasting Customs

This research paper reports on the customs and significance of fasting during the Islamic celebration of Ramadan. Three pages in l...

Angelou: “Phenomenal Woman”

When she heard about the murder, she "fell silent and did not speak for five years" (Bloom). She began to speak once more when she...

Responding to a Student's Parent on Celebrating Diversity in People and Cultures in the Classroom

given holiday/celebration, but rather enhance its importance by comparing it with the way in which other nationalities celebrate t...

Passover

in the land of Egypt, both man and beast; and on all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgments: I am the Lord. The blood shall be...

Indian Warrior by Diego Rivera

This paper pertains to Diego Rivera's "Indian Warrior" and the Mexican history to which the work refers. The writer discusses this...

The International Impacts of Narcoterrorism

This paper discusses the links between Mexican drug cartels like Los Zetas and the Gulf Cartel to terrorist organizations like Col...

Velazquez/Los Borrachos

the figure of the mythological god. Bacchus is looking away from the young man in front of him, his eyes shifted to the side, with...

Overview of the Chicano Band Los Lobos

began celebrating their cultures and communities in song with the Chicano variations of Woodstock festivals being staged throughou...

Reflections of Poverty In Film

This paper examines Oscar Lewis' film, The Children of Sanchez, as well as Luis Bunnel's work, Los Olvidados. This four page pape...

Protest Literature, Valdez And "Los Vendidos"

the other side: the male gender and an assimilationist viewpoint (Frankenberg et al 139-140). II. VALDEZS APPROACH One of ...

Controversies Surrounding the Los Alamos Laboratory

"It seems sensible to this author to cut off concern with the risks accompanying exposure to manmade radiation at some sensible fr...

Los Vendidos by Luis Valdez and Satirical Elements

the political intimidation regarding the grape growers and farmers toward their Chicano field workers in Delano, California. Not o...

Los Tigres del Norte

compared to any other group in the world "They have been compared to the Rolling Stones, to rappers, to folk musicians, and to Cou...

Consideration of Cinematic Art

In nine pages two stylistic modes Hollywood's classical narrative realism and modernist or avant garde are examined in terms of ho...

Art of Cinema from 1948 to 1965

In nine pages the ways in which cinematic art changed surprisingly little during this time period despite some avant garde detours...

Mexican Broadcast Media

the process, some analysts are raising serious questions about whether the classic frameworks for explaining continuity might have...

Atomic Bomb and its Long Term Impacts at Trinity and Los Alamos

In eight pages this paper examines atomic bomb testing and development in 1945 in terms of the regional sociological and environme...

An Analysis of 'Angeles and Insects' by A.S. Byatt

and Byatt makes it clear that both viewpoints are essential. "Morpho Eugenia" tells the story of a Victorian scientist, Wi...

Los Premios by Julio Cortazar

Lucio and Nora, and so forth until all of the players in the drama have been introduced. In addition to the teachers, there is Med...