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    Candidate Name: David Wilson Candidate Number: School: Scots College Country: New Zealand Word count: 1425 Reflective Statement My understanding of the novel The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with The Sea written by Yukio Mishima was considerably furthered by the interactive oral. My ideas on the text before compared to my thoughts after the oral were greatly different. One of the major talking points of the interactive oral was the how the author voiced his own personal thoughts. Most works of literature

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    Hopeless love: Act of Worship “When the coffee came, she held out the silver sugar bowl for him to help himself from first, and as he took it their fingertips came into brief contact. She apologized immediately, but a suspicion plagued her that he had seen the contact as premeditated on her part. It continued to plague her in the maddening heat on the train, so that every time the steady waving of the professor’s fan suddenly stopped her heart seemed to stop with it. She had never reacted in this

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    In The Sound of Waves, Yukio Mishima creates an exquisite story which has strong idealistic and mythic features. Although Mishima writes of young love and tranquility in The Sound of Waves, his later works are categorized as aggressive and containing violent sexual actions. Even Mishima himself referred to The Sound of Waves as "that great joke on the public" (qtd. in Ishiguro 385). However, one cannot compare this novel to Mishima’s other literary pieces; in order to classify it as romanticized

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    In traditional Chinese theater, females, and particularly young girls, are perceived as property. Their role in society is to get married to a male from another family of equal or higher social status. In fact, the role of a woman is so set and stone that no matter how they were brought up, whether or not they are noble or educated, does not seem to contribute to their destined fate. The traditional Chinese society is so specific and consistent in determining the fate of females based on social hierarchy

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    Whole rooms of palaces were decorated with porcelain, small Chinese-style furniture and wall murals which presented the ideal world that was supposedly China. This essay will explore the

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    Longxing Monastery is situated in modern Hebei province in the north of China. Previously named the Longcang Temple in old-Chinese, the original building sight was first laid in 586 AD., and remains one of the most well-preserved large-scale ancient Buddhist temples in China. Throughout its long history, The Longxing Monastery has been a location of pilgrimage for a number of Chinese Emperors who famously left offerings to the Buddha statues. Today, the temple houses a number of important historical

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    This chapter looks at the various stylistic aspects in the prints which can be identified as Chinese or portraying Chinese origin and a plenty of factual detail and local narrative. Landscape Location plays an important role in the scenes and one sees a lot of familiar landscapes while looking at the images. The reason behind the portrayal of the accurate locations or certain specific locations for the scenes could be to justify the realism of the conquest, or rather to confirm that they did actually

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    outstanding people and much more scenic spots. Now, please allow me to introduce the beautiful Weifang. Welcome to Weifang, you can visit the beautiful scenery, enjoy the profound culture. Weifang is a wonderful city in central of the Shandong province, Chinese people’ republic of China. Dongying borders it to the southeast,  Linyi to the southwest, Zibo to the west, Qingdao to the east, and looks out to the Laizhou ,Bay to the north.   Weifang is a historical city with too many famous people and historical

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    palace. Therefore the architecture of the imperial palace further reveals these barriers on women by the society. Each woman and her servants were assigned to a separate pavilion and they would eat, sleep, and socialize in their assigned in them. They were not allowed to leave the property and had very limited access to other pavilions. It is evident in many scenes of the novel that their world was limited. Males were able to move more freely through this opportunity to catch glimpsed of women they

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