Abstract
This paper analyzes D.W. Griffith's 1919 silent film "Broken Blossoms" starring Lillian Gish. It discusses the film's cinematic techniques and narrative, its editing and camera placement. The paper explores the use of intertitles. The author also expands on the storyline and structure of the film.

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"D W Griffith's silent film "Broken Blossoms" is an allegorical melodramatic tragedy about a teenager who lives with an abusive father and is loved by a gentle young Chinese man. All three characters come to tragic ends. Shot in a Hollywood studio the ..."

Tags:Film, Silent, Griffith, Gish, Broken, Blossoms, Intertitle, Editing, Narrative

Abstract
This paper examines William Blake's use of imagery, his comparison of fire and blossoms, the biblical themes and symbolism in his poetry, and the importance of the visual surroundings of the text.

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"Blake's Songs of Innocence are in many cases far from innocent. They are very aptly placed as a precursor to the Songs of Experience, for in many of them one sees the transition between experience and innocence. This is especially true in the poem "The Blossom," which in some editions serves as a transitional piece. In this poem, the illustrations mesh with the text to provide a beautiful and haunting narrative not so much regarding a fall from grace as a pilgrimage to experience."

Tags:songs, of, experience, flame, imagery, biblical, topics, divine, pilgrimage

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This paper explains that, in Edith Wharton's novel "The Age of Innocence", flowers represent a man's relationship with May Welland and with Countess Ellen Olenska, who are two very dissimilar women. The protagonist Newland Archer, the author relates, chooses bouquets of lilies-of-the-valley because she represents the good in his New York society; however, for the Countess, the antithesis of this he selects flowers with a greater variety of color from orchids to violets because she is full of color and variety. The paper underscores that, through this symbolism, Wharton tells a story of a man's struggle between what society expects and what his own heart and character command.

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"Arriving in such a scandalous manner as to arise more than her share of suspicion among the New York higher-ups, it comes as no surprise that Newland Archer soon becomes captivated with the atypical Ellen Olenska. Even after their first meeting, he is left with a lasting impression that he himself cannot fully comprehend. Wharton once again uses the implications of flora to serve her purpose: while Archer sees a spectacular arrangement of yellow roses in a florists' shop and considers buying them for his betrothed, he instead determines that they are "too rich, too strong in their fiery beauty" and elects to send them to the Countess."

Tags:lilies-of-the-valley, pure, constancy, antithesis, imagery, expectations

Abstract
This paper explores the symbolism used in this silent film, unlike other films of its time. A summary of the story is presented, followed by an examination of character, plot, setting and props. The analysis reveals the film to be a highly complex examination of many controversial issues that continue to affect today's society, namely racism, child abuse, drug misuse, and social injustice.

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"Richard Barthelmess plays the young Chinese Buddhist, whose downhill spiral is charted, from his initial dream of spreading spiritual enlightenment and harmony to the inhabitants of London, through the years of disenchantment and opium addiction, to his eventual suicide, resulting from a doomed relationship with an English girl. The introductory scenes of the movie present him as a highly educated man, and one who is universally recognized and respected by Chinese society. In contrast, his status as an immigrant is symbolized by his utter anonymity; a man who is denied even the basic acknowledgment of a name, and is known only as the "Yellow Man". "

Tags:hell, Chinese, immigrant, London, slum, racism, abuse, drug, injustice, death, humanity

Abstract
This paper discusses Part 1, Scene 1 of the 17th Century play, "Peach Blossom Fan" by K'ung Shang Fen. The paper gives a brief overview of the play and also discusses how this particular scene fits into the play as a whole. The paper incorporates the historical context of the play and its author.

From the Paper
"The Season of Love Within a Human Heart is as Brief as Spring Upon the Earth: Introduction: This paper will analyze a scene from the play; "The Peach Blossom Fan" by K'ung Shang Fen. Specifically this will be a scene from the beginning of the play. Part 1 Scene 1: The Storyteller. There will first be a brief summary of the play, then a discussion as to how this particular scene fits within the rest of the play."

Tags:Peach Blossom Fan, Qing, Ming

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The paper discusses the literal and figurative developments of Bongbong in Jessica Hagedorn's "The Blossoming of Bongbong" and argues that Hagedorn may be making a case for figurative causes in Bongbong's development of schizophrenia. The paper explains how Bongbong has no sense of Filipino cultural identity, and, because he accepts western culture and other's opinions into his very self, he has left no room for him to develop his own identity, thus causing him to go insane.

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"From the beginning, the reader understands that Bongbong places heavy emphasis on fashion and what's popular in fashion when he tells his sister to wear "navy blue" on her nails because it will go with her "sallow" complexion, something he says is "in style" (2857). Later on, Bongbong obsesses over the platform shoes people are wearing and spends the money his parent's send to him for college on platform shoes for his girlfriend, Charmaine. He wants to be a "movie star"; he wants to play the saxophone well; he cooks recipes out of only one book, Vibration Cooking; he watches television for hours on end; and he has no job (2858). For all of Bongbong's superficial interests in becoming famous or interesting to others, he simply becomes one of the "artists" that he never sees "doing anything" (2860). Even more, Bongbong doesn't read books to understand them, but does so because the "names and events [fascinate] him" (2858). Ultimately, he doesn't understand what he's doing, but does so because everybody else is doing the same thing: indulging in music, fashion, and food."

Tags:Phillipines, Filipinos, hallucinations, superficiality, American, values

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This paper compares and contrasts the short story, "The Blossoming of Bongbong," by Jessica Hagedorn, an established Filipino American writer and a first-time novel, "My Year of Meats," by Ruth L. Ozeki, a Japanese American writer. It looks at how both consider the issues raised about the complexity of being Asian-American.

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"This paper is a consideration of issues raised in two works of fiction by female Asian American writers. The first is a short story written by an established Filipino American author Jessica Tarahata Hagedorn entitled "The Blossoming of Bongbong". The second is ..."

Tags:Bongbong, Hagedorn, Jane

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This paper compares and contrasts these two stories which each involve an element of fundamental fear that is, in essence, the fear of fear itself, for in each tale it is an unfounded, irrational fear of what is unknown or greatly misunderstood. In both "The Tell-Tale Heart" and "Big Black Good Man", this fear blossoms into paralleling points of obsessive paranoia and panic that end in similar situations of self-punishment brought on by individual perceptions of guilt and responsibility.

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Edgar Allan Poe's The Tell-Tale Heart, published in 1843, tells the tale of a man obsessed with the idea that his housemate's optical cataracts are the incarnation of the dreaded ancient curse of the "evil eye", for, as he states, "Whenever it fell upon me, my blood ran cold" (Poe 277). This theme of obsession is echoed in Richard Wright's 1958 story Big Black Good Man, a tale in which a Danish hotel porter becomes convinced that a very large and very dark black sailor, a patron of the hotel, plans to kill him. This porter, known as Olaf, forms this assumption solely from his fear of the dark American soldier, whom he views as "too big, too black, too loud, and probably too violent" (Wright 96).

Tags:Franklin, D., Roosevelt, American, public, obsessed, idea, housemate's, optical, cataracts, incarnation, dreaded, ancient, curse, evil, eye

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This paper contends that our impressions of May Welland are filtered through Newland's consciousness. The writer suggests that it is difficult to examine her character without taking into account Archer's view of her. However, as Archer himself eventually realizes, his sense of May is incomplete. This essay follows the development of the novel and shows how there is more to May than initially meets the eye.

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"From the beginning, May is portrayed as the picture of innocence: she wears white, has a rosy glow, and is constantly carrying the Biblical lilies-of-the-valley. The descriptions Archer uses for her emphasize youth, athleticism, purity. He compares her, "in her dress of white and silver, with a wreath of silver blossoms in her hair," to "a Diana just alight from the chase" (58-59). In another instance, in "weather to call out May's radiance," he sees her burning like "a young maple in the frost" (71)."

Tags:naive, asexual, creature, worldly, womanly, attributes, masculine, initiation, purity, innocence, simpleton

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The paper studies Van Gogh's letters and his works, "Lane with Poplars" and "Orchard with Blossoming Apricot Trees", in a discussion of what the works reveal about the man, and what his letters reveal about the works as compared to his letters. The paper notes that the letters of Van Gogh present an opportunity to gain an insight into the thoughts and works of Van Gogh, which, when we assess them and then go back and check our assessments against the letters, tend to reveal much about ourselves as the viewer. The paper notes that impressions were, after all, what this period of art and the masters about. The paper includes pictures of the works discussed in the paper.

Outline:
Introduction
Van Gogh 1885 - Antwerp
1888 - Orchard with Blossoming Apricot Trees

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"In a letter written to his brother, presumably Theo, from Drenthe, in 1883, Van Gogh speaks of his inability to resist waiting for a landlord before beginning a homeward journey on his own during which he took the opportunity to make sketches of an orchard. Whether or not, like the poplars, this orchard, an apple orchard, so impressed him as an artist that it stayed with him for five years is not known from Van Gogh's letters. "

Tags:environment, challenges, impressive, character, passion