Unusual Festivals

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    Family of Woodstock

    Organization is a result of the Community of Woodstock’s view of its homeless and drug problem as not an issue of theirs. This was due to the radical youth of the time migrating to the area, seeking out the legendary site of the most memorable music festival. To prevent further imprisonment of the youth who came to the area to use or deal drugs, Founder Gail Varsi, gave the local police a hot line to contact her. (Gibbons, 10) That number to this day remains the number to the initial walk-in center located

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    Consumer Hehavior

    1928–1971 A List of notable films produced in former British Bengal Presidency, then East Pakistan (now Bangladesh) during 1928 to 1971 both in Bengali and Urdu. |Title |Director |Cast |Genre |Notes | |1928 | |Sukumari |

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    Chinese Valentines

    Qi Xi ("The Night of Sevens") or Chinese Valentine's Day celebrates two legendary love stories explaining the position of the stars on the seventh day of the seventh month in the Chinese lunar calendar. Today! These tales have inspired Chinese poetry and opera as far back as the Jin Dynasty (256-420 AD). In the first story, the Goddess of Heaven’s seven daughters caught the eye of a cowherd during one of their visits to earth. They were bathing in a river and the Cowherd, Niu Lang, decided to

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    Chinese Spirits

    attentions during Ghost Month, the seventh month in the Chinese lunar year, and especially during the Ghost Festival on the fifteenth day. The Hungry Ghost Festival has its roots in the Buddhist festival Ullambana, and also in Daoist culture. In the Tang Dynasty, the Buddhist festival Ullambana and its traditional festivities were mixed and celebrated on one day. Thus, the Ghost Festival has a special meaning for all Buddhists. The Chinese believe that the dead become ghosts who roam between

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    A Famous Festival in Myanmar

    Thingyan festival – Water Festival – Myanmar New Year - in April The country Myanmar is Known as the "Golden Land" in the world since every pagoda is decorated and painted with gold. Myanmar is full of very colourful and deep rooted festivals. There are 13 most popular year around festivals in Myanmar. One of them is the celebration on Thingyan Festival, as the Water Festival or Myanmar's Traditional New Year Festival. Myanmar people celebrate the Water Festival all over the country for 4 days

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    Gcse Ict Edexcel Music Festival App Evaluation

    Evaluation Activity 1 Investigation: For this activity 1 task I was asked to develop an idea for a music festival in your local area, decide upon a ticket price by creating a spread sheet model and create some digital products to promote the festival. I started this task by searching for music artists to attend my festival. I searched on the internet repeatedly looking for music artist and then refined my search by using a Boolean operator. E. g, “music artists” and it came up with 280 million results

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    Rave Season

    Towson Times News Rave Season: Annual Pilgrimage to California By: Argirios D. Stakias Exactly 17 days, 13 hours, and 57 minutes from now (10:02:50 PM 24 March 2014), the first weekend of the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival will commence. Ravers all around the globe have waited an eternity for this moment. 10 January 2014 at 10 AM, credit cards were at the ready as the battle for ticket claim commenced. Losing 435 dollars just for general admission and a shuttle pass never put a smile

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    Blf Report of Event Management

    Name – Jigar Parekh Roll No. – 25 After the success of last year Bangalore hosts the Bangalore Literature Festival (BLF) - a paradise for scholars in the field of literature from India and around the world. The Garden City of India commemorates the literary diversity, bringing it in conversation with the best minds in the world for the second consecutive year. BLF bridges the gap between English literature and other regional languages also helping youth to clasp the idea in understanding the power

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    Ftii

    you have to give their technical names ,For Example viewfinder" and "shooting script" etc.5marks 7. Questions related to technical aspect of film-making. 5 marks. 8. Short notes (2 lines each) eg. write a note on .mp3 and .wma Cannes film festival 10 marks 9. Jumbled pictures will be given and u have to arrange them in a chronological order (story boarding) 15 marks 10. situation will be given. u have to write a scene. 10 marks 11. A picture will be given n u have to write a story

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    Alfredson Conventions

    Tomas Alfredson’s critically acclaimed ‘let the right one in’ (based on a novel of the same name by author John Ajvide Lindqvist) is an arthouse, low budget horror-thriller set in Blackeberg (a suburb of Stockholm, Sweden) in the early 1980’s. This essay will investigate the themes of the horror genre focusing on narrative codes and conventions including Claude Lévi-Strauss’ binary oppositions and Roland Barthes’ action and enigma codes, concluding with whether ‘Let the right one in’ is a typical

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