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- 3731: Reflections on Ipi Ntombi
- ... modern jazz tunes and native drums; church clothes and suits, and beads, clams, etc. This is the apex of the movie, which when the conflict is resolved. In Act Four, the Zulu tribe is at war. The tribe leader asks his son to help his tribe and fight. His son agrees to fight with the tribe. The war is over, and the son has decided to stay with his tribe in the Zulu village. This is the final action of the play. Ipi Ntombi is about a young man going through his own ... his father and the Zulu village. At first, he walks away from his heritage and background by wanting to have his wedding in the city, instead of the Zulu village, but after the tribe wages war, the young man goes fighting with his tribe, returning to stay and live in his native Zulu traditions.
- 3732: The Development Of Dance And Theatre In The East Asian Nations
- ... form is restrained, gentle. and elegant. Some Peking operas are Yuan plays or kan-ch'u operas adapted to the new northern musical system. Many plays first staged as Peking opera are dramatizations of the war novel San-kuo chih yen-i (Romance of the three kingdoms), written in the 14th century by Lo Kuan-chung. Mei Lanfang, the most famous performer of ching-hsi female roles in the 20th century ... Beijingren (1940: Pei-ching jen; Peking Man); heavily influenced by Eugene ONeill and Henrik Ibsen, he portrayed dissolute members of the old gentry class and new rising entrepreneur class. Nationalism, the upheaval of World War II, and changes of government in China, Korea, and Japan between 1945 and 1949 are reflected in contemporary theatre and dance in East Asia. In China an estimated 60,000 performers were mobilized into some 2,500 propaganda troupes during the Sino-Japanese War beginning in 1937 under the direction of the well-known playwright Tian Han. Hundreds of thousands of ordinary Chinese in the army were exposed to modern forms of drama for the first time, and, ...
- 3733: Frederick Winslow Taylor: Business Management
- ... his exams. In June of 1883, Taylor graduated with a Mechanical Engineering degree. He subsequently joined the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME). Midvale Steel Company The Midvale Steel Company was part of the post Civil War expansion of industrialized Philadelphia. They made steel railroad tires. Due to poor management, Midvale failed in 1873. Fortunately for Taylor, the company was sold and prospered under the direction of the new owners. There were ...
- 3734: Absolutism And Peter The Great
- ... years of semi-exile, his first military campaigns, an unprecedented journey to western Europe and a major revolt against his rule. From these bitter personal experiences, these painful political struggles, and these tentative approaches to war and government, Peter slowly learned the strengths and weaknesses of his heritage." As stated by V. O. Kliuchevsky, Peter's "contradiction in work, his errors, his hesitations, his obstinacy, his lack of judgment in civil affairs, his uncontrollable cruelty, and, on the other hand his wholehearted love of his country, his stubborn devotion to his work, the broad, enlightened outlook he brought to bear on it, his daring plans conceived ...
- 3735: Tom Clancy: Believable Plots
- ... and other countries. Through use of historical facts such as defection in The Hunt for Red October (THRO), Clancy is able to advance his plot. Defections for political reasons happened quite often during the Cold War. There were many defections in history starting back in World War II when famous people like Albert Einstein defected to the use because the Germans discriminated again him being Jewish (pg. 124-5, Vol. 9 Funk & Wagnalls Encyclopedia). The more recent occurance of defection to the ... Clancy to develop reasons for which such a high ranking commander would defect and later cause conflict to occur between the U.S. and Soviet Union. The use of historical facts common during the Cold War was defection which made Communism infamous and Tom Clancy famous for the believable plot developed. Similarly in TCTK Clancy also uses historical facts to enhance his plot making it believable. Using a historical fact, ...
- 3736: National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
- ... created opportunities for blacks, was Open Housing Act of 1968. Under this law it became illegal to refuse to sell property solely based on race. Since that time in which the blacks truly gained their civil rights, the NAACP tried to register 3 million voters throughout the South (Jenkins). Indeed the most productive period of National Association for the Advancement of Colored People in the courts was the 1950's and 1960's. As civil rights that the NAACP and leaders fought for, were attained. The involvement of the Association in the courts decreased. However, the NAACP played a key role in persuading the United States to pose economic sanctions ... the NAACP. Everly Evers, spouse of the late Medger Evers who was the NAACP's field secretary during the 1950's, brought a fresh blood into the NAACP. The focus of the Association shifted from civil rights to personal gains; in all, the future of the NAACP is similar to its beginning, uncertain. In a personal opinion, future depends upon the competency of Mrs. Evers, her independence, and her ability ...
- 3737: Beloved By Toni Morisson
- ... America for years. The topic of slavery continues to be a vital part of the American consciousness today, in addition, slavery as an institution was a part of American culture as a whole until the Civil War, and its repercussions on race relations are still being felt today. The genre of the survivor's tale is one way that contemporary authors can depict and discuss this formative American experience. Beloved is the ...
- 3738: Business In Ancient China
- ... the previous dynasty; Confucian ideals of government, out of favor during the previous Qin period, were adopted as the creed of the Han empire, and Confucian scholars gained prominent status as the core of the civil service. A civil service examination system also was initiated. Intellectual, literary, and artistic endeavors revived and flourished. The Han period produced China's most famous historian, Sima Qian ( 145-87 B.C.?), whose Shiji ( Historical Records) provides a ... which they rented to tenant farmers, they neither possessed large estates like European nobles nor held hereditary titles. They achieved their highest and most prestigious titles by their performance on the central government's triennial civil service examinations. These titles had to be earned by each generation. The Confucianists of the time, challenged the government, in favor of strict market and general control on the effects of the merchants, ironically ...
- 3739: Book Report On The Forbidden C
- ... the experience in learning and looking at China's beauty and history. This wasn't exactly what was about to occur. Staying in the Beijing Hotel, Alex was able to see the beginning of a civil revolt, as the students began to protest. The students continued to standoff, as the government brought in troops. As the troops inched forward, they executed the students by the dozens even by the hundreds. Alex ... true stories mixed up with fiction. The theme of this story will make you think about life and how good we have it here in the US and that we take things like freedom and civil rights for granted. It showed a transformation of a boy to a man after all the things that Alex went through. He saw a total different world when he went to China. He experienced things ... an awareness that not everywhere in the world people have it as good as in the US and that even now there are people in the world fighting for such things as freedom of speech, civil rights, and democracy that we consider fundamental. I enjoyed this book alot even though it got boring at times. This book had a lot of ups and downs that either wanted you to put ...
- 3740: Hawaii by James Michener
- ... July 4, 1894, the Provisional government established a minority government, the Republic of Hawaii because hopes for annexation in the near future were crushed. However, when the strategic importance of Hawaii in the Spanish American war was recognized, annexation occurred on August 12, 1898. Once again the novel turns to the Kee Hui and the Chinese community. A hui is a large family, bonded together for economic interests. On December 12 ... From the Inland Sea," involves the arrival of the Japanese plantation workers, the introduction of a good breed of pineapples to Hawaii, the bombing of Pearl Harbor, and the Japanese-Americans from Hawaii in World War II. Kamejiro Sakagawa was the Japanese immigrant to Hawaii that Michener followed most closely. In 1902 his family decided he would go to Hawaii for five years on a work contract. Before he left he ... he heard at the house of one of his deliveries went as follows: "I repeat. This is not a military exercise. Japanese planes are bombing Honolulu. I repeat. This is not a joke. This is war." In truth, at 7:55 in the morning (Hawaiian time), on Sunday, December 7, 1941, "366 Japanese bombers and fighters struck at the American warships lying at their moorings at Pearl Harbour. Four of ...
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