Unusual Festivals

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    Culture Diversity vs Culture Integration

    As the Mid-Autumn Festival has just passed, did you enjoy the moment that all the family members sat together, enjoyed the full moon, and ate moon cakes? Nowadays, as you can see, moon cake has developed into many different shapes and different tastes, but some people think that with the development of the moon cake, the culture of moon cake, the culture of the Mid-Autumn Festival, the culture of the traditional Chinese festival are losing its original color. Do you think so? I don’t buy it. Thinking

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    Robert Redford

    Monica, California, Robert Redford has proved to be one of the greats in American filmmaking; starring in classics such as The Sting and Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. Robert Redford is also notably known for helping kick-start The Sundance Film Festival in 1978, which has since evolved into one of the film industry's most prominent affairs. However, before experiencing success within the American filmmaking community, Redford started out as the son of an oil company accountant and a doting mother

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    The Story Behind the Moon Cakes of Beijing

    past and definitely adds more fun to the festival," Chi Xiangdong said. Now, with more variations of moon cakes on the market, traditional Beijing moon cakes have begun to fade from public view. However, for some, the memories the cakes represent are the most precious. "When I was a boy, I always yearned for holidays so I could eat the moon cakes. Over the years, it has remained my favourite." "It’s like a routine for us to eat them during the festival. I think the red circle imprinted on

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    Mr Bean

    namely “Bean: The Ultimate Disaster Movie” in 1997 and “Mr. Bean's Holiday” in 2007. The film follows Bean on a crucial journey across France for a holiday which after a number of hardships ends up in a screening of his video diary at the Cannes Film Festival. Various questions are still unanswered about Rowan Atkinson death. Hope he is alive and will again make the world rolling on the

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    Adelaide Fringe

    ‘Adelaide Fringe is a cultural lucky dip with artists from around the world and around the corner wanting to entertain the people of Adelaide.’ (www.talkfringe.com.au) The Adelaide Fringe started in 1960 alongside the Adelaide Festival, enabling artists and performers the opportunity to register and showcase their talents to willing audiences (www.adelaidefringe.com.au). The Fringe ran every second year until 2007 where it was stage annually. It is an event ‘renowned for fresh ideas, risk, imagination

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    The Movie Industry

    What are You Looking At? Oh, those were the days. Remember high school? Oh, high school. A world without subject-by-numbers, p-sets, all-nighters, or worries. There wasn't much of anything to do, period. The most exciting thing that could happen to you in high school was probably go to a keg party-er, did I say keg? You know I meant cake, and going to the big premiere of "Spider-man." Friday night at the movies with your buds was a sure-fire way to pass two or three hours of your endless

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    An Huyền

    Mid-autumn festival is called Tet Trung Thu in Vietnam. It is organized in the middle of the Autumn which is the eighth lunar month of the year. Mid-autumn festival is the festival of the children. From the beginning of the month, people have prepared for the festival with colorful and different shape lanterns. Moon cakes or mid-autumn cakes are also prepared along with the various toys for children. There are many traditional toys that the most typical ones are star lantern, paper doctor human

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    The Wsc

    Queen Margrethe II of Denmark and President Tarja Halonen of Finland and other leaders. During the first year of operation, 1.3 million people had passed through the building's doors. The Opera House won the culture award at the World Architecture Festival in Barcelona in October 2008and the 2009 European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture (Mies van der Rohe award). The roof of the building angles to ground level creating a large plaza inviting pedestrians to walk up and enjoy the panoramic

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    The Blair Witch Project

    The Blair Witch Project | A report for advertisement | | This report includes the marketing analysis of this project, including the PESTLE and SWOT analysis. It also includes the problems this project faced and solutions to them, with the comparison to some similar movie projects. | | | Submitted to Prof. SHAM SHARMA | | A presentation report for advertisement Submitted by: Name | Roll no. | Section | Ankit Tomar | 10 | FA2 | Deepanshu Tyagi | 13 | FA2 | Neha Srivastava

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    White Night Melbourne

    Introduction to Events Assessment 1 – Event review white Night Student Name: Simone Tyrrell ‘The White Night Festival is an all-night cultural event that runs from dusk to dawn in the city streets, parklands, laneways and cultural institutions in Melbourne’ (Bennett 2014) The White Night Melbourne festival is a major event that Melbourne has now hosted for two years, with its debut being in 2013. White Night Melbourne would be considered a major event as major events are a large scale special

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