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The Banquet, 2001.
This essay discusses how the famous banquet scene is the penultimate conclusion of Shakespeare's "Macbeth".
1,965 words (approx. 7.9 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 62.95
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This paper looks at how the banquet scene in Macbeth is not just the dramatic culmination of the play's action; but the events occurring at the banquet represent a culmination of many of the themes found in the play. The author examines some themes and how they are symbolized at the banquet.
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"The banquet scene in Macbeth, Act III scene 4, can be seen as the climax of the play. Beyond this point there can be no hope of recovery for Macbeth. The scene is the climax of the story line for the play, but also goes beyond this. It is a culmination of all the themes and metaphors that run through the play. By combining the culmination of all these events in this scene, the deeper meanings to the events of the play are truly demonstrated."
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Banquet Hall Marketing Plan, 2007.
A marketing plan for a banquet hall, Torchelle's, in North Carolina.
1,139 words (approx. 4.6 pages), 5 sources, MLA, $ 39.95
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The paper provides an overview of a proposed hall that will provide quality banquet hall services to the general public, suitable for a broad spectrum of financial abilities. The paper discusses the marketing objectives and strategies and includes a competitor analysis.
Outline:
Introduction
Marketing Plan
Mission Statement
Services
Marketing and Promotional Strategies
Marketing Goal
Conclusion
From the Paper
"The concept of Torchelle's was derived from the idea that a banquet hall should offer something for every budget. People who want to marry, hold family reunions and other celebrations or simply get together because they enjoy a good time should be able to find an affordable venue to do that in. The Greensboro, North Carolina area has several advantages over larger metropolitan areas including New York and Philadelphia in that it is a more cost friendly place to live and entertain while at the same time offering an array of local activities to keep visitor interest up."
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Breaking the Barrier: False Representation and True Identity, 2002.
An analysis of the representation of Asian identity by the West in Hunt Hoe's documentary," Who is Albert Woo?", Maxine Hong Kingston's novel, "The Woman Warrior", Mina Shum's film," Double Happiness" and the movie "The Wedding Banquet".
2,900 words (approx. 11.6 pages), 7 sources, $ 106.95
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This essay will explore Hunt Hoe's documentary, Who is Albert Woo?, Maxine Hong Kingston's novel, The Woman Warrior, Mina Shum's film, Double Happiness, and the movie The Wedding Banquet in order to explore the complex representation of Asian identity in the west and the attempt by these three works of art to break racist stereotypes, which not only reduce and minimize Asian identity, but additionally negate the immigrant, cross-cultural experience.
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Gender and Ethnic Identity in Asian American Film and Literature, 2002.
A look at the issues of gender and ethnic identity in Asian American film and literature through the review of the films " Double Happiness" and "The Wedding Banquet" and Maxine Hong Kingston's novel " The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghost
2,900 words (approx. 11.6 pages), 8 sources, $ 106.95
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This essay looks at the issues of gender and ethnic identity in two films and one novel, Double Happiness, The Wedding Banquet, and Maxine Hong Kingston's The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts. These works provide the framework from which a reconsideration of ethnic and gender identity can take place. In these works, this reconsideration of identity centers on balancing old structures of identity with new experience and searching for a potential empowerment and confluence in the balancing the formation of a new identity.
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Netherlandish Art.
This paper applies Roland Barthes's theorizing of word-image relations and the operation of systems of signs to Netherlandish art.
1,815 words (approx. 7.3 pages), 7 sources, MLA, $ 58.95
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This paper explains that Roland Barthes relates that the knowledge a viewer needs to understand the meaning of the image is bound up with perception and association, intangible and fluid cultural products, rather than with the stable carriers of meaning that constitute language. The author explores two Netherlandish paintings using this theory: "Still Life with Fruits and Flowers" by Balthasar van der Ast (late 1620s), which is in the Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, California, and "Banquet Still Life" by Abraham van Beyeren (1667), which is in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California. The paper concludes that these still life paintings immediately present the viewer with two layers of potential meaning: The decorative and the symbolic, with the latter very often embodying religious messages.
From the Paper
"Van der Ast's painting has as its focal point a large shallow bowl filled with fruit, partially encircled by a ring of fruit, shells, insects and other objects, while on the left of the picture is a glass jar containing flowers. Flowers and fruit possessed a particularly wide range of significance, as well as being regarded as attractive objects in their own right, and accordingly they are often found in still life paintings of this period. On an aesthetic level the image is an appealing one, with a balanced but lively composition, depicting attractive objects, and providing the eye with a variety of textures and colours. This aesthetic level of appeal is itself a carrier of meanings - that such an image, of such content, was seen as appealing in the society of its time itself tells us something about the symbolic as well as the directly artistic nature of this image. It is a painting of goods rather than people, produced in a commercial society, and as Richard Leppert has observed, "still life's attention to goods - possessions, things one could 'have' and by having in part define oneself -guaranteed its popularity with and significance for an audience of principally rich buyers". The nature of this type of art, the "time-consuming, meticulous work" that such elaborate pictures demanded, was expensive and thus in itself symbolized wealth. The physical nature and appearance of the painting is thus tied to the layers of meaning that can be excavated below its surface."
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Artist Judy Chicago, 2005.
This paper discusses the quintessential feminist artist Judy Chicago and analyzes her "The Dinner Party" .
2,750 words (approx. 11.0 pages), 6 sources, APA, $ 82.95
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This paper explains that Judy Chicago applies vulvar representations to her works with the same frequency that penile representations were applied to male statuary from time immemorial; however, Chicago creates female genitalia not to portray realism, as the male genitalia on Greek, Roman, Renaissance or any other heroic statuary, but rather to make a feminist statement. The author describes "The Dinner Party" installation as a triangular banquet table, with each side 48 feet long, sitting on a ceramic floor inscribed with the names of 999 notable women of history, both ancient and modern and at each of the 39 places is a plate, with some version of female genitalia on it and a porcelain chalice. The paper relates that "The Dinner Party" belongs to the genre of conceptual art; Chicago, along with Duchamp and Christo is deemed to be a valuable modern minimalist.
Table of Contents
The Meaning of "The Dinner Party"
"The Dinner Party": Global Derivation
"The Dinner Party": Place in Modern Art
Chicago History
Growing into Her Own
The Art Works (Illustrations)
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"The vulvar ornamentation of "The Dinner Party" places Judy Chicago firmly in a long line of sculptors who represented this essential aspect of female-ness across cultures. Sheila-na-gigs "closely resembled the yonic statues of Kali which still appear at the doorways of Hindu temples, where visitors lick a finger and touch the yoni 'for luck.' Some of the older figures have deep holes worn in their yonis from much touching." This also imitates the death goddess Kalika "evidently remembered in Ireland as the Caillech or 'Old Woman,' who was also the Creatress and gave birth to all the races of men." Whether or not Chicago was conversant with the totality of this world-order of female genitalia and its meaning and importance, she conveyed it just as firmly as had the abundant sheila-na-gigs of Ireland."
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A Comic Struggle: Reinventing the Nuclear Family, 2005.
A look at so called queer films in relation to the heterosexual nuclear family, and how homosexual relationships are changing the makeup of the traditional nuclear family.
900 words (approx. 3.6 pages), 4 sources, $ 35.95
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The reinforcement of a heterosexual paradigm dominant in the first gay films was very much criticised by the media. This criticism failed to recognise that 'Dona Herlinda and Her Son' and 'The Wedding Banquet' are movies situated within the realms of heterosexual norms, but movies such as Gus van Sant's 'My Own Private Idaho' and Jonathan Demme's 'Philadelphia' were radically changing queer filmic representation.
From the Paper
"Critics are quick to attack the reinforcement of a heterosexual paradigm dominant in early queer films. However, this judgment forgets that while more mainstream films, such as 'Dona Herlinda and Her Son' and 'The Wedding Banquet', were situated within heterosexual norms, a new queer cinema was slowly but surely radically changing queer filmic representation. The success of Gus van Sant's 'My Own Private Idaho' and Jonathan Demme's 'Philadelphia' could be in part attributed to simultaneous comic representations of queer struggles. So, while American culture was preoccupied with a single queer struggle, the AIDS crisis, other cultures explored the impact of homosexuality on the family unit and on reproduction in particular."
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Greek Krater, 2005.
An analysis of the Greek vase or bowl, the krater.
1,800 words (approx. 7.2 pages), 6 sources, $ 71.95
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The paper describes and discusses a Greek krater. A krater is an ancient Greek vase or bowl. The paper looks at how kraters were originally used for mixing wine with water at banquets and describes its specific style. The paper introduces the geometric style Krater with an example in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. It also analyzes how the geometric style evolved and the issues with dating these works.
From the Paper
"A krater is a Greek vase or bowl. It has a wide mouth, handles on either side, and a foot on which it stands. These bowls were used to mix wine with water at banquets in ancient Greece. These vases are often adorned with scenes from Greek mythology or scenes of banquets like the one at which the krater would be used. Many of the kraters found in Greece reflect what is called the geometric style, an example of which is the Terracotta Krater, ca. 750-735 B.C., found today in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. The geometric style this krater represents is an early form that evolved into more advanced forms of Greek vase painting, and dating such works can be an issue because the geometric style often persisted beyond its early date and so co-existed with more advanced styles."
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"Macbeth", 2003.
This paper discusses the hallucinations of Macbeth and his wife and how these hallucinations symbolize their lack of self-control.
1,369 words (approx. 5.5 pages), 3 sources, MLA, $ 45.95
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This paper emphasizes the hallucinations of Macbeth when he sees the dagger floating in midair before him and when he sees Banquo at his coronation banquet. This paper also emphasizes the hallucination of Lady Macbeth when she sees blood on her hands that won't come off. This paper has references to the play, as well as references to two critics.
From the Paper
"In the beginning of the play, MacBeth and his wife have total control over their own lives. But, MacBeth loses his self-control, which makes him see a dagger floating in midair, before he kills Duncan. He also loses his self-control when he hallucinates that Banquo is at his coronation banquet. Lady MacBeth loses her self-control at the end of the play when she hallucinates that she has spots of Duncan?s blood all over her body. The hallucinations of MacBeth and his wife symbolize a loss of self-control by those characters in the play."
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Roman Music, 2002.
Musical instruments used in ancient Rome.
2,750 words (approx. 11.0 pages), 5 sources, MLA, $ 82.95
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Ancient Rome had an impressive and varied musical tradition. There were many different traditions in Roman music and many different situations in which music was used by the Romans. The paper shows that music was often played at large events at which masses of people gathered, such as gladiatorial fights, festivals and banquets. There was also a tradition of popular music for stringed instruments, such as the kithara, which greatly resembles our modern guitar. The paper shows that there was also a tradition of more refined classical-type chamber music that was played for the wealthy and the important citizens of Rome at gatherings and parties. In order to accommodate so many diverse styles of music, it was necessary that the Romans develop an impressive array of musical instruments proper to each style. The paper discusses the instruments developed by the Romans, including the lyre, the harp, the kithara, the lute, the flute, the panpipes and the tympani, as well as trumpets and vast array of different percussive instruments. The paper shows that these instruments, many of which antedate Roman society, were employed in Roman music for a variety of different ends and with a series of different purposes, all of which testifies to the complexity and impressive diversity that comprises the Roman musical tradition.
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"The kithara was perhaps the most famous, oft-used, and most romanticized instrument played by Roman musicians. The most impressive players of the kithara were said to be able to literally make the instrument weep through their deft manipulation of the strings. The kithara was very similar to our modern guitar, and, indeed, the word guitar can trace its etymology back to the roman word kithara. The kithara was larger than either the lyre or lute and it was also heavier. The kithara, however, was also able to be tuned much more precisely than either of those instruments could be and it was loud and had a more trebly and piercing tone that distinguished it from those other instruments. Popular players of the kithara who wrote and sang songs were known as the citharista, and the most popular of them were respected and lauded as much as the popular musical virtuosos of our own day are. The number of strings was at least more than the lute, but the evolution of the guitar up till the present day has included changes in the number of strings on the instrument."
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Hotel Management, 2002.
A look at the operations management required for successful hotel management.
1,150 words (approx. 4.6 pages), 6 sources, $ 44.95
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This paper offers a well-structured and reasoned analysis of the need for flexibility in hotel management. Examples are offered in terms of positive and negative aspects of hosting large events such as conferences and banquets.
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Gender/Ethnic Identity, 2002.
A review of issues of gender/ethnic identity in two films and one novel.
900 words (approx. 3.6 pages), 6 sources, $ 35.95
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This paper is an outline of gender/ethnic identity. In this essay, I will explore gender and ethnic identity in two films and one novel, "Double Happiness", "The Wedding Banquet", and Maxine Hong Kingston's "The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts".
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The Bahamas, 2006.
This paper illustrates what makes the Bahamas so unique in terms of its culture and food.
900 words (approx. 3.6 pages), 1 source, $ 35.95
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The paper presents a narrative of what a traveler to the Bahamas can reasonably expect to see and experience vis-a-vis culture and food. In particular, the paper describes the Bahamas' Junkanoo Festival and time is also be devoted to exploring the rich mosaic of art, music and dance that makes the Bahamas one of the most enjoyable tourist escapes anywhere in the world. Finally, the paper concludes with a look at the archipelago's revered cuisine - a sumptuous banquet that has enticed visitors to the region for as long as anyone can remember. In the final analysis, what emerges from this brief narrative is an appreciation of the richness and vibrancy that makes the Bahamas so different from almost anywhere else.
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