With all his films being labelled as independent art-house and in contrast to the many commercial Hong Kong products, Wong Kar-wai stands apart from other directors (Stokes 186). ... The first story takes place mainly in a part of Tsimshatsui known as Chungking Mansion, where a number of Indian restaurants and old guest houses are located. ... After obtaining the key to Cop 663's house through the envelope his girlfriend has left him, Faye starts sneaking into his apartment, cleaning up the place and rearranging his things as a way of demonstrating her love for him. ... "Their distin...

• Word Count: 1571
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Their wives run round like banshees, Their children sing the blues, They've got expensive doctors, To cure their hearts of stone.... The "money the millionaires can't use" represents the happiness they can't buy, the "wives" running around like "banshees" symbolizes the spoiled complaining woman of the house, the "children singing the blues" means that the children feel isolated for being special financially, and the "expensive doctors" and "hearts of stone" refers to the large amounts of money they spend on care when t...

• Word Count: 1766
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Both of these painting exude cool and warm colors since the blues and greens can be seen, as well as the reds and yellows in both images. ... The focal point of Benton's piece is the workers on the farm and the house off to the left-center of the image however, in Derain's work, a focal point is more difficult to find and you tend to look at the painting as a whole instead of just the center point since the workers are in the foreground instead of the middle ground, and it seems as though every corner of this piece is "active.... The Turning Road and the Haystack are both housed...

• Word Count: 1412
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Hip-Hops roots go far beyond its emergence at 1520 Sedwick Avenue, then introduced by the infamous DJ Kool Herc, a classic story about the first instance of breaking and rapping over a beat inside a garage house party in the Bronx. ... Much of hip hops quintessence is essentially black in that it pulls from numerous forms of black music, i.e. blues, jazz, gospel, rhythm & blues and soul, each of these genres having origins in the black struggle. ...

• Word Count: 1971
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

One of the major accomplishments of the Renaissance was to "push open the door to mainstream white periodicals and publishing houses." ... Some common themes and aims that were used in the writings included alienation, marginality, the use of folk material, the use of the blues tradition, the problems of writing for an elite audience, advancement of the black race, and exploration of self-identity. ...

• Word Count: 1369
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Van Vechten recommended Langston Hughes's work to Knopf that which is a New York publishing house, Knopf Published Hughes' s first volume of poems, the Weary Blues, in 1920, and many other Hughes's works later. ...

• Word Count: 1512
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The Preservation of a Precious Culture The institution of slavery was very trying for newly captured Africans. They had to survive the "middle passage" and legions of cruelties and atrocities committed against them before they even faced the hardships of America. Once in the new world and on the...

• Word Count: 2002
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate