Essays on Lantern

Literatures generally show evidences about the factors that determine social status in a specific time and place. In the story, The Village Headman and the New Teacher, it shows that in Late Imperial China, those who are rich or who have a position of leadership were regarded highly by other people in the village. People who held a leadership position can give orders and were readily obeyed by their helpers. For example, when Xia, the new village head called for his helper to take his donkey, the latter willingly obliged. Moreover, the high opinion of the leader translates to ...

Frank Lloyd Wright’s Home and Studio remain the finest specimen of the architect’s innovative approach to the design of buildings in general and spaces for living in particular. The house is located in Oak Park, Illinois in a historic neighborhood which was later adorned by a number of other Wright’s houses representative of his unique style. While construction began in 1889 as soon as the architect married Catherine Tobin, the building was reconstructed and expanded for the next twenty years to arrive at the form one can see nowadays, restored by the Frank Lloyd Wright Trust. ...

Superstitions in American culture

Superstitions refer to belief in magic and fear of the unknown, which leads individuals to adopt irrational behaviors. The influence of superstitions on individuals has remained strong throughout human history, but this influence has been declining with increased urbanization and education of the masses. The Halloween superstition reflects a fear of some power by human beings, which is beyond their understanding and control. However, some superstitions remain prevalent in American culture and other industrialized societies. During Halloween it is traditionally believed that it is a period that common myths, omens and folklore have more weight for the people who ...

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Introduction

Wabi-sabi is a Japanese aesthetic that focuses on the acceptance of imperfection and impermanence in the w0rld. Wabi and Sabi are two key concepts of Japanese aesthetic that look at beauty as imperfect and incomplete. The idea behind wabi-sabi is to accept things as they are and recognize the aesthetics in their imperfection (Martin 2007, p. 15). The fundamental nature of Wabi-sabi is passing of time. It is the process and not the final product and focuses on things that are often overlooked. Modernist reductionism strips down art to its basic essential ...

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Ted Kooser was born in the year 1939 in the town of Ames, Iowa (Baker, 2016, p.1). His poetry usually reflects regional life in America, much like the paintings of Grant Wood. He was a poet laureate, and he centered on giving life to objects and images, thereby giving special meaning to them through direct connection to things that are totally different. This is seen in his poem, entitled “Lantern”, in which he gives emphasis on human transience, particularly on the creation of the world, when the Creator bearing the light shares it to the creatures in the barn, ...

Any science cannot exist if it does not use scientific methods for its researches. In other words, the importance of scientific method can be recognized in the fact that this method makes science what it is. In psychology, the scientific method is associated with the four interrelated objectives of research: to describe the behavior, to predict behavior, to explain behavior, to control the behavior. Description of behavior by means of scientific methods helps identify the regular sequence of events, including motivations, external factors which have the influence on an individual`s responses or behavior. Preparation of clear and detailed ...

Raced Body in Design and Visual Culture

Since the dawn of our civilization, people have been trying to identify themselves and the purpose of their existence. Our ancestors’ eagerness to examine and repeat the structure of the universe in the scale of human communication made them unite into tribes and families. Such a process is impossible without applying a list of criteria, which make people somehow connected, either by same origins or territory. However, if there is such a process as unity, there should somewhere be a concept of separation. Derived from the human wish to dominate over others, racism and other kinds of discrimination occurred. ...

China Mid-Autumn Festival August 15th of the lunar calendar is the traditional Mid-Autumn Festival in China. The mid - Autumn Festival is the second most important festival after the Spring Festival for the Chinese people. Every year when the holiday comes, people return home from all over the world to meet their families and have dinner with them. The mid-Autumn Festival in China is traditionally celebrated on the 15th day of the eighth lunisolar month. The festival is the second most important festival after the Spring Festival for the Chinese people. Every year when the holiday comes people return ...

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Last Wednesday on 27th of January I had an opportunity to see drama play “Oscar Wilde: From the Depths” at Lantern Theater Company in Philadelphia. This biographical drama about Wilde’s imprisonment has impressed, I believe, not only me, but all the other visitors and has left some food for thoughts. In this review I will analyze what we have seen not only on the scene but in a combination with auditorium. The reaction of visitors before, during and after the play is also a part of overall theater performance which is interesting for admiring and interpretation.

General Impressions from the Play

Crowded hall ...

Intellectual Elaboration

Among the many examples of gender or racial stereotyping that can be found from film or media, I chose the following; Gender Stereotypes within Children, Labels Against Women, and Raise the Red Latern. The Gender Stereotypes within Children has emphasis on how children respond from the given questions about the difference between a boy and a girl. The Labels Against Women talks about a commercial advertisement that represents women empowerment. The movie entitled Raise the Red Lantern demonstrates polygamy happened in China during the era of warlords, before the civil war of the ...

Women of today are stronger. Their status is changing from the past to the present. Years ago, women are considered responsible only as wives. Simply listened to their husbands, became fulltime wives; they never enjoyed life and focused on how to serve their husbands, and no freedom to express themselves as women. Men believed that women have no right to pursue their career other than being homemakers and mothers; looked down by men. At present, women are more active in their role in the society, conscious about their status and they progress in view of their rights as well. ...

The torch relay and its traditions

This is an illustration of the unity and uniqueness of the Chinese people. It also represented the ancient ties and the traditions of the communities. The torch was carried for 130 days which was supposed to shoe harmony within the Chinese people and the ancient’s traditions that brought them together. Of all the torches, this torch was carried for the longest time to showcase the respect the people of China have had amongst themselves and the people around them. China has been criticized for not embracing human rights and has been in the limelight for the same. Therefore, ...

1. The word “philosophy” means in Greek “the love/pursuit of wisdom” – considering the first Greek philosophers (the Pre-Socratics), what propelled them to pursue a new kind of “wisdom”? What were they unsatisfied with?

The pre-Socratic philosophers were referred to as physiologoi, meaning physical or natural philosophers. They sought to provide natural and rational justifications for various occurrences. The “essence of things” propelled them to pursue new king of wisdom by posing questions such as; where does everything come from? Can nature be explained mathematically? From what does everything emanate? As such, their concerns were ontology, mathematics, and cosmology. They were unsatisfied with the mythological explanations to the occurrences that were being experienced during their time and sought to provide reasoned explanations to natural occurrences.

2. How are the concepts of Lack (Poverty) and Resourcefulness (Resource) pertinent to Philosophy (and Love, according to Plato)? What does the philosopher lack, what resources does he/she have that enables him/her to attain what is lacking?

The concept of love depicts the fullness ...

Introduction

Raise the red lantern (1991) is a Chinese film whose main theme is sexual enslavement. The protagonist in the film lives life in a closed system where the long established customs that rule demand no escape. The protagonist in the film is a nineteen year old girl who drops out of college in the event of her father’s death. The girl is condemned into a life of a concubine of a wealthy man, alongside four others, because her mother denied her support after the demise of her father. The movie in itself is an anthropological lesson because it enlightens on the nature of humans ...

Introduction

The rapidly evolving world that we live in requires minds that can innovate and come up with creative solutions to the problems that we face. Businesses in particular are at a time where fast innovation is a key ingredient to survival and growth. The problems faced by modern societies also seek innovative solutions that are cost effective, life changing and efficient. Innovation is defined as the creation of a new product that is set to change the way individuals in business, schools, government and other social structures do things.

Innovation

For this project, I came up with an innovation that could potentially change ...

- Introduction Since it was introduced to the public in the latter half of the 20th century, technology has accelerated man’s development and enabled automation and efficiency to aid day to day activities. It is a rarity even to find people who are not aware of these innovations, especially as technology can be seen anywhere: may it be at home or around the community. The use of technology at home is a given, considering the many applications it could bring. However, when it comes to education, sentiments regarding its use varies. On the one hand, there are groups – mostly ...

The torch relay and its traditions

The torch relay of the Chinese 2008 Olympics was a representation of its ancient traditions and ties with its communities. The scroll was embroidered with the famous Chinese patterns that incorporate aspects of religion and its culture. The torch had red ancient patterns and was carried for 130days. The theme for the relay was the journey of harmony, in which China sought to reinforce the harmony within its communities and the ancient traditions that bring them together. The torch was the longest in the history was relay torches, having achieved the furthest distance since the torch relay tradition began. It ...

Chinese Lanterns

A Chinese lantern is a hot air balloon which is small in size with a small fire suspended at an opening at the bottom. This lantern is made of paper. It is a collapsible sky or paper lantern which is purposely decorative in nature due to its bright colours. It is painted with calligraphy motifs and Chinese art. The paper lanterns are usually used for parties, festivals, and house or office decorations. These lanterns can perfectly change the room atmosphere. This object has been in existence for the past 100 years. The initial Chinese lantern has got a shape that is more ...

Orson Welles’ seminal film Citizen Kane is widely considered to be one of the greatest films of all time, and for good reason – Welles’ uniquely Expressionistic and evocative cinematography, as well as editing and mise-en-scene, elevates an already stellar cast and incredible script to a deeply-felt character study of a man seeking immortality. One of the most intriguing sequences in the film is the scene wherein Charles Foster Kane (Welles) is inspired to create the Declaration of Principles for his newspaper; its simple, elegant yet effective visual style is indicative of the film’s look as a whole. In keeping the vast ...

In George Eliot’s “Silas Marner” we first see Silas Marner arriving in Raveloe and the villagers’ reaction to a stranger and his silent reaction to their treatment of him. Silas did not invite anyone into his cottage neither did he set foot into the village. He remembers well the way he was treated in his old town of Lantern Yard, so he tries to keep as far as possible from people. Silas was lonely, and he drowned his loneliness in his work. He was a weaver, and the gold pennies he received for his work was his companion and sole ...

Ai Weiwei and Cai Guo-Qiang are both Chinese-born artists that are featured heavily in the international art world. Both have different messages and different approaches to their art, but each bring something uniquely Chinese to the art world. While both have different backgrounds and different artistic messages, each seeks to address problems that they perceive are associated with living in the Communist-controlled country of China. Ai Weiwei is arguably one of the most well-known of the Chinese dissenting artists. He was most recently in the news for his jail term as a result of his political and artistic representation ...

Perceived ‘Oriental’ qualities of ‘Chineseness,’ ‘femininity,’ and ‘mystery’” are what “separate Chinese and Western audience preferences for Zhang Yimou’s films and Gong Li’s images” Over the past years, the Chinese Cinema has proved to receive a lot of attention. Popular film directors like Zhang Yimou have scooped several awards at prestigious world film festivals. Many of these films seem to have a major focus on the issues of nationhood and the national identity. Sheldon Lu’s argument that “perceived ‘oriental’ qualities of ‘Chineseness,’ ‘feminity,’ and ‘mystery’ are truly the separating elements of the Chinese audience preferences from the ...

The moon rises high in the sky, its silvery light creating an eerier aura, as the screams of a woman echoes through the landscape. The creature turns its head attracted by the sounds of pain and fear as it rips through the veil between the living and dead. “The night of Samhain,” it thinks, “the perfect night for escape.” As the time when the veil between the living and dead is the thinnest, Samhain is the time signally the end of lightness and the beginning of darkness. Exhausted creature slides down to the Earth, the first time it had been ...

Halloween takes place on the 31st of October, and is also known as All Hallows’ Eve. It started as a pagan holiday, and has now moved into an important part of American culture. It is a celebration of the changing of the seasons from summer to fall, and also leads up to the fall and winter holidays of Thanksgiving and Christmas. In the olden days, it was a holiday used to ward off evil spirits, as it was thought that that particular night brought out all manner of demons and ghouls. The Halloween business is a huge industry, and most communities in America ...

The concept process involves the idea of following the essential process in ensuring the concepts regarding the issue are highlighted and covered. After getting involved with the idea of waiting, researching and its connection in our heritage and religion, also the fact that waiting for people usually not understand the life definition of it and the emotional process, it is rather an inevitable process that is necessity than roughly noteworthy. I stepped into a moment when I felt engaged with it. I thought of making a piece of art that voice out the moment of waiting, feeling of the once ...

Introduction

A well performing shopping mall should fundamentally have proper Indoor Environment Quality. The importance of a high proper Indoor Environment quality; be it in terms of thermal comfort or air quality cannot be underscored any more. Significant energy goes into creating a high proper Indoor Environment Quality in shopping malls. This energy is used for processes like cooling and ventilation in order to get rid of the high internal gains in heat from electrical appliances, equipment and people. In the recent past, architects have explored the potential for natural ventilation in building spaces (Bauer, MöSle, & Schwarz, 2010, pp.71) Following ...

Introduction

A well performing shopping mall should fundamentally have proper Indoor Environment Quality. The importance of a high proper Indoor Environment Quality cannot be underscored any more. Significant costs go into creating a high proper Indoor Environment Quality in shopping malls. This energy is used for processes like cooling and ventilation in order to get rid of the high internal gains in heat from electrical appliances, equipment and people. In the recent past, architects have explored the potential for natural ventilation in building spaces (Bauer, MöSle, & Schwarz, 2010, pp.71) Following up on their advances, architects have applied natural ventilation in ...

In the ancient times travelling was meant for pleasure where people could plan a trip and enjoy the natural features, resources, and other historical sites. Today travelling writing has been converted into an industry, evidenced with the increasing number of travelling facilities. Travelling has created different emotions that make people think of money and not leisure as it was before. In addition, the tourism sector is being exploited by many nations who have good sceneries by changing the industry into the money making organizations. Travelling has changed into a business where people travel with objectives of capturing the attractive objects and ...

The authors purpose in writing this book

Timothy Garton in his book The Magic Lantern: The Revolution of '89 Witnessed in Warsaw, Budapest, Berlin, and Prague (communism), takes us back in time on what led to the end of the cold war, which was marked by the collapse of the Berlin wall. The main objective of the book is to remind readers of the events that followed the end of three world wars that transformed the world to the better. The author mentions the people and nations that were directly involved and participated in the wars (Ash, 97). He also clearly elaborates on some of the ...

“The Tell Tale Heart” is a short story from a first-person narrator, whose name remains a secret. The narrator tells about his manipulative murder of an old man whom he was responsible to care for. He addresses the reader directly as he tells the story. The motive behind the story is to prove to the reader that the narrator is not insane. However, his narrative depicts mental imbalance and the reader is confronted with evil possibilities within human beings. In this work, I have provided a literary analysis of the above short story, and evaluated the success of the author in using literary ...

Introduction to the Chinese New Year

The Chinese New Year has been known as the Spring Festival since the 20th century. Each Chinese year is given the characteristic of one of the 12 Chinese Zodiac Signs. 2011 is the year of the Rabbit. New Year festivities begin on the first day of the first month and continue through to the 15th Day. The last day of the New Year festivities is marked by the Lantern Festival. The Chinese Calendar is lunar based unlike the sun based Gregorian calendar that is commonly followed around the globe.

History of the Spring Festival

The origin of the festival is so old, it cannot ...

a) Can a printer, printing 40 characters per second, keep up with a string of ASCII characters (one byte per symbol) arriving serially at the rate of 300 bps?

1 Bytes = 1 symbol

The number of bits per character is usually 10 thus using 10 bits per word.

Therefore 300 bytes per second = 30 characters per second

So if a printer is printing 40 characters per second and the string of ASCII characters is 30 characters per second according to the above explanation, then the printer can keep up with that number.

What about 1200 bps?

1200 bytes per second implies 120 characters ...