studied stage design at the Shanghai Drama Institute. Cai then traveled his was to Long Island City‚ where he attended a National and International Studio Program for art. “While living in Japan from 1986 to 1995‚ he explored the properties of gunpowder in his drawings‚ leading to the development of his signature explosion events”(PBS‚2005). From using all different materials from there on out‚ Cai began using gunpowder as one of his everyday media. Cai’s work is drawn on many different materials‚ narratives
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Kumar Mangalam Birla Chairman‚ Aditya Birla Group Mr. Kumar Mangalam Birla is the Chairman of the US$40 billion multinational Aditya Birla Group. Mr. Birla took over as Chairman of the Group in 1995‚ at the age of 28‚ after the untimely demise of his father. As Chairman‚ Mr. Birla has taken the Aditya Birla Group to an altogether higher growth trajectory. In the 17 years that he has been at the helm of the Group‚ he has accelerated growth‚ built a meritocracy and enhanced stakeholder value....
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schizophrenia in countless numbers of his eerie and shuddersome tales. An example of his use of them is in “The Fall of the House of Usher”. Multiple Personality Disorder‚ or Dissociative Identity Disorder is used in “The Fall of the House of Usher” to describe Roderick Usher’s mental issues. The narrator could be a result of a childhood trauma‚ resulting in Usher having multiple personality disorder. In the short story “The Fall of the House of Usher”‚ Roderick Usher and the narrator are the same person
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The Day in Which Everything Went Wrong I will never forget the day in which everything went wrong in my life. Everything that could go wrong did. The cursed day was sometime in September last year. Firstly‚ I woke up late in the morning because my alarm clock did not ring. So I missed the bus to school and had to walk to school instead. I dislike walking to school because there were many dogs in my neighbourhood and some of them were very fierce. As I was walking to school‚ I accidentally stepped
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12/10/12 AP English Detail-Lesson 1 Consider: "Whenever he was so fortunate as to have near him a hare that had been kept too long‚ or a meat pie made with rancid butter‚ he gorged himself with such violence that his veins swelled‚ and the moisture broke out on his forehead." --Thomas Babington Macaulay‚ "Samuel Johnson" 1.) What effect does the detail( the spoiled hare‚ the rancid butter‚ the swollen veins‚ the sweaty forehead) have on the reader? Ans: The details the “spoiled hare”‚
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"Burn" is a song by R&B singer Usher‚ which he wrote with songwriters Jermaine Dupri‚ Bryan-Michael Cox. The song was produced for Usher’s fourth studio album‚ Confessions ‚ which came out in 2004. "Burn" is about breakup in a relationship‚ and the audience is quickly able to relate. Usher’s music video to "Burn" corresponds well with the lyrics of the song and uses the visual aspects to portray the underlying meaning. This song‚ while it sounds like it is written to his current lover‚ actually takes
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films of filmmaker Tim Burton‚ Edgar Allen Poe puts forth a similar style in his writings‚ as in the short story “ The Fall of the House of Usher”‚ which depicts a very dark and gothic tone. This tone demonstrates a common style of Poe’s writing and reveals a much deeper message throughout his text. In this literary piece‚ Poe unfolds the story of the Usher family‚ who through an unknown narrator explains the demise of the Usher “house” due to characters Roderick and Madeline’s inability to continue the
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Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe visits contentious war shrine Wearing formal attire and followed by media helicopters that streamed his visit live on television‚ Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe visited a contentious Tokyo war shrine Yasukuni early Thursday on Dec 26th 2013‚ provoking swift condemnation especially from China and South Korea‚ both victims of Japan’s wartime aggression during World War II. The shrine serves as a spiritual symbol of Japanese militarism in its war of aggression
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Madeline of the House of Usher Role-playing games are a great past time for literature enthusiasts. A player sits down‚ creates a character with quirks and a personality‚ usually special abilities‚ and meets with other people who have done the same. They sit at tables‚ in couches‚ on porches all around the world. They sit down to hear and participate in a story‚ a story told by the storyteller. The storyteller creates a scenario‚ a background‚ extra characters (NPCs)‚ and certain rules. Once the
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ethical and ethnological implications of mimetic desire and Eric Gans’s identification of the part played by mimetic resentment in cultural evolution‚ the texts of Homer and the tragedians have served (in the words of Walter Burkert) as "a mirror in which the basic orders of life‚ lying far behind us‚ become visible with an almost classical clarity" (xxiii). For Burkert‚ this mirror’s clarity is the product of ancient Greece’s serendipitous "union of antiquity and sophistication" (xxiii). While mimetic
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