History December 23‚ 2012 Where sunlight is dusted of the countryside that‚ like chalked satin‚ is about to form wings‚ Fan Kuan drew that place. He drew a place that even the tallest souls‚ dwarfed by the mountains‚ were unable to reach‚ their temples still throbbing with the dismasked energy of a cloudy sky. In the foreground there are a total of four donkeys and one human traveler‚ possibly the artist himself‚ moving through mountainous terrain in China’s Shanxi Region. They resemble the shadows
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Background information In the Chinese art history‚ landscape painting has been viewed as the highest form of visual art besides calligraphy (Stafutti 2008). The painting‚ Travelers among Mountains and Streams is highly regarded as one of the most significant and influential landscape painting‚ which was created by Fan Kuan in the Northern Song dynasty. It was during the Song period where there was a widespread of idea about Neo-Confucianism. With this influence‚ artists back then believed that
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Among the Sierra Nevada Mountains‚ California was painted by Albert Bierstadt in 1868. Bierstadt‚ An German-American painter‚ was born January 7‚ 1830 in Solingen‚ Germany. He was only two years old when his family moved from Germany to New Bedford in Massachusetts. He developed a sensitivity for art early and made crafty crayon sketches in his youth. In 1851‚ he began to paint in oils. His oil paintings were different with respect to the odd colors he used to paint water‚ tints of green‚ etc. In
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LEE KUAN YEW 1. Historical Background of the Leader Lee Kuan Yew was born a British subject in at Kampong Java Road Singapore on September 16‚ 1923. He was born to Lee Chin Koon‚ an English-educated and a British subject‚ and Chua Jim Neo. He had three brothers and a sister namely‚ Dennis Lee‚ who was able to put up a law firm with Lee Kuan Yew called Lee & Lee‚ Freddy Lee‚ a stockbroker‚ Lee Suan Yew‚ who read medicine at the University of Cambridge‚ and Monica Lee. Lee Kuan Yew got married
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Good afternoon Miss Yu and my fellow classmate. Before my presentation‚ may I ask you a question? Do you know who Lee Kuan Yew is? Yes‚ Lee Kuan Yew is the founder of Singapore. He changes Singapore from a third world into a developed country in 40 years. It is a miracle. So‚ I have read a book called “The Singapore Story—Memoirs of Lee Kuan Yew”‚ which is the biography of Lee Kuan Yew. This book shows the intelligence and experience of him. First of all ‚ although Lee had high popularity before
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Both books‚ The Time Traveler and the Travelers Gift‚ have to do with man’s curiosity of time travel. Both these books are a great read and get you thinking‚ "Would time travel really be possible‚ and could I see man evolve throughout history to where we are today?" As a Christian‚ I don’t personally believe in evolution in general. I also don’t think humans evolved from a lower life form and I don’t think we will be here for another million years to eventually evolve into something else. Even though
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Lee Kuan Yew successfully made use of all the bases of power to cooperate with his leadership skills. He efficiently made use of reward power to keep the loyalty of elites in the government. He made use of coercive power to punish those who fail to meet his requirements throughout the constructions of a modern Singapore. He has sufficient expert power to plan the appropriate policies for the transformation of Singapore and lead it out from crisis‚ and have great referent power to motivate his subordinates
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Bergen – A Green Meadow Among The Mountains Near the west coast of Norway‚ lies the gateway to the Norwegian Fjords – Bergen. Overlooking the vast sea‚ and clambering to the mountain sides‚ the big city with a lovely atmospheric small-town charm is ready to embrace any travelers‚ who wishes to feel the breeze of fresh air in their lungs‚ and see the unspoiled nature of the Fjords. Bergen is Norway’s seconds largest city‚ but the atmosphere‚ the architecture and the passionate patriotic inhabitants
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Lee Kuan Yew Lee Kuan Yew was the first Prime Minister of Singapore‚ governing for more than three decades from 1959 to 1990‚ including through Singapore’s independence from Malaysia in 1965. Lee had gone through his toughest period when Malaysia chose to separate itself from Singapore. He drew strength from it to create his vision of a Singapore that is “better and stronger” than Malaysia.. Lee is recognized as the founding father of independent Singapore‚ with the country being described as transitioning
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The Time Machine" is primarily a social critique of H.G. Wells’s Victorian England projected into the distant future. Wells was a Socialist for most of his life with Communist leanings‚ and he argued in both his novels and non-fiction works that capitalism was one of the great ills of modern society. The most obvious theme you could explore when writing your essay is that of a continuing class struggle‚ even 800‚000 years in the future. As the Time Traveller overlooks the future Earth he notices
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