Every time he asked Song, "Are you my Butterfly?" ... The Cultural Revolution was designed to destroy the culture of pre-Communist China. ... Postcolonial China before the Revolution was made up of the China that reconstructed itself after World War II. ... His portrayal of the death scene from Madam Butterfly was my favorite part of the movie. ... It gave me a better understanding of Orientalism and the Cultural Revolution. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

In The Time of The Butterflies The novel In The Time of The Butterflies by Julia Alvarez is known as a bildungsroman, or a coming of age story. ... In the novel, Alvarez tells the story of the four Mirabal sisters, three of whom join a revolution against Trujillo, a dreadful dictator in Alvarez's birthplace of the Dominican Republic. Minerva, Patria, and Mate, the sisters who join the revolution, experience a lot throughout their short lives that made them they women they were. ... They soon became known as the butterflies. ... Even before they were killed, las tres mariposas (the t...

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• Grade Level: High School

In The Time Of The Butterflies Reflection Paper What makes a revolutionary? ... I think that Minerva was the person that introduced her to those ideas. 1953- she gets started in the revolution abruptly when she realizes what Minerva is doing in the back yard and with all those boxes of tennis shoes and pineapples (guns and grenades). ... Question #3 The sacrifices that the butterflies made (time, energy, safety) and the results (free elections after 31 years, being beaten, strangled and driven off a cliff). ... The people that the butterflies were needed to be free and have a voice, but ...

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In Julia Alvarez's In the Time of the Butterflies, four sisters show their rebellious against tyranny in separate ways. ... She is not involved in the revolution with her sisters, and feels weaker about it. ... She acknowledges that it is a factor which prevents her from joining her sisters in the revolution. ... Throughout the story, Dede made several decisions that ultimately led to her survival from the revolution against Trujillo regime. ... Without her, we might not have been blessed with In the Time of the Butterflies....

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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Before the Revolution and Spanish bombardment, Mexico was considered to be in its pre-hispanic era. ... The pre-hispanic Mexican Indians used motifs such as animals, serpents, fish, snails, turtles, birds, and butterflies. ...

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The reason for there being so many butterflies that go to the beach is because of the mild ocean air. ... At the beach, along the trails, the eucalyptus grove planted by early settlers gives the butterflies a safe roost until spring, when they fly back inland. When I walked through the trails, I saw hundreds of different types of butterflies that were just covered with many beautiful colors. ... Around the time of the American Revolution, Spanish settlers occupied the Monterey Bay region. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

I had just gotten off my flight to Havana, Cuba, at 8:22 post meridian. I was so ecstatic about being able to visit Cuba for the first time. What really made the trip worth wild was the fact that the week I was staying there The Carnival of Santiago de Cuba was being held. I had been saving up my mo...

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• Grade Level: High School

The Green Revolution came about as the result of the science-based transformation of Third World agriculture. ... Green Revolution agriculture is embodied with a two way street. ... Normal Borlaug has been considered by many to be the founder of the Green Revolution. ... From the very beginning, the Green Revolution has had its share of evaluations. ... Genetically engineered foods are the single most important advance to come out of the Green Revolution. ...

• Word Count: 3317
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Dorothy's idea of her own identity is a political rebel fighting politics and joining the then sexual revolution of the 1920's. ... Her identity morphs like a caterpillar to a butterfly where she can now see the need for self-sacrifice and begins to make actions towards refinement. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

At the age of 18 she started working as a peasant in the fields for four years during Mao's Cultural Revolution. ... The painting includes many symbols: the circle of pi which symbolizes the universe, the butterfly representing change and joy, the red square with the Chinese symbol for female, and the main focal point being the Goddess of creation, Nu-Wa. ...

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The revolution of sportswear became irresistible with fashion giants who took their inspiration from the hoods of New York to the basketball courts of the Toronto Raptors. ... Girly glitter tops Sleeveless tops with flower decals and silver-studded butterflies are the some of the coolest new looks for spring and summer. ... Butterfly designs are particularly trendy right now, so snap up a few different colours of the same top. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

In nineteenth century Europe even philosophers such as Johann Gottlieb Fichte (1762-1814) and Johann Friedrich Herbart (1777-1841) began to regard dreams as worthy of serious psychological study, and thus the way was prepared for the revolution in dream theory that began at the end of the century with Sigmund Freud (1856-1939). ... Until the revolution in dream theory brought about by the work of Freud and Jung, few philosophers disagreed with the nineteenth-century German physicist Theodor Fechner's assertion that in dreams "it is as though psychological activity has been transported fro...

• Word Count: 2340
• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Scientists like Norman Borlaug, the pioneer of Green Revolution also expressed the need for adoption of transgenic crops in countries like India (Borlaug 2002). ... With the advent of green revolution in the late sixties, the scenario has undergone a rapid transformation with majority of the inputs like seed, fertilizer and pesticide being purchased form external sources. ... Attempts were made to ascertain if there is any visible environmental damage caused by Bt gene to worms, insects, butterflies or birds. ... Without taking to gene revolution, it is certain that India cannot maintain food...

• Word Count: 2919
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Misconceptions of the Heavy Metal Culture As what is quite possibly the most stereotypical genre of music in the world, Heavy Metal often comes under fire from people who do not understand it. Heavy Metal is often viewed as virtually devoid of intellect (the all noise and no brains' stereotype)...

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There is a concept that I have heard of before and it is a theory that some sociologists call "The Revolution of Rising Expectations. ... Often these rising expectations precipitate political unrest which leads to revolution. Hence the name "the revolution of rising expectations." ... People who have been exposed to different levels of shepherding in the church tend to experience the revolution of rising expectations. ... The real key to avoiding the "revolution of rising expectations" is to see the three patterns as mutually reinforcing, rather than mutually exclusive. ...

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Historians would agree that Eli Whitney was one of the greatest fathers of mechanical engineering of all time. Eli Whitney was born in the small rural town of Westborough, Massachusetts on December 8th, 1765. He was born to Eli and Elizabeth Whitney and after a few years he became the oldest of three other siblings. When Eli Whitney was five years an unfortunate birth incident resulted in the loss of his would have been youngest brother, Josiah. In 1777, when Eli was twelve, his mother died and that end up with him having to take care of his two brothers and his sister while his father work...

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• Grade Level: High School