The 5th Beatle

Why did The Beatles become so famous? Many people will answer because their songs are good. Then, who discovered their talent and made them famous? Many people may not know how to answer this question. This guy right here with a sunglasses is Brain Esptein. Brain was an English music entrepreneur and the manager of The Beatles. At the beginning, Brain paid for The Beatles to record demo songs in a studio. After the studio owner was not interested of the band, Brain tried so hard to persuade George Martin to listen it. Under his hard work, the English producer George Martin finally signed a contract with The Beatles. The way how Brain Esptein managed the band leaded the early success of The Beatles. Famous Beatles member Paul McCartney said that," If anyone was the fifth Beatle, it is Brain Esptein.

George Martin is often refereed to as"the Fifth Beatle". Under his hard work and wise management, Beatles album got twenty-three times number one hits. His achievement is considered one of the greatest record producers of all the time. Without George Martin and Brain Esptein's hard work, The Beatles would not have been the same band as it is now.

Here you can know more about George Martin

Sources:
http://www.george-martin.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Martin

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Epstein

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Music Copyright Society Of China

     "Music copyright infringement in the People's Republic of China is widely regarded as one of the highest in the world" [1]. "With a large amount of copyright infringement online during the past decade, China's supreme governing body, the State Council of the People's Republic of China, has introduced streamlined regulations, effective July 1, 2007 that clarifies China's copyright lawregarding the liability of content and service providers involved in the distribution of unauthorized content"[2]. However, industry observers note that "in many Asian territories, enforcing bodies are understaffed, under funded and have little experience tackling piracy" [3].

         

    As for China, although there exists pirated music CDs, most stores are selling repring version of music CDs instead of purely fake copies. However, recently, those stores in China become harder and harder to survive in the market,because more and more people including myself chose to download music fron internet. There are several major reasons:
    1. Online music always updateds faster than other ways, such as the original legal CDs or the illegal CDs.
    2. Not all the songs in the album are what we like; therefore, for people who like a hugh variety of music would choose to download them from internet.

                  
   
   

     The above two pictures are some situations in china about "Shanzhai". Aren't they look similar?   "Shanzhai" means two objects look really similar, but the original one can not sue the other one, because they are not exactly the same, but this situation does comfuse cosunmers.


     Nevertheless, music market in China is still strong, and musicians get respected and earned from their works too. First, musicians' fans will always support them even they can download, or, they had downloaded music from internet, and that is what  I always do,too. Second, legal  version of musical works now in China, acutally, we can say most part of Asia, are hard to be copied illegally, and the illegal versions usually do not sell well, becuase, recent musical works have more things than simply music in the album. For example, they might have some little gifts accompanied with the legal albums;thus, the attraction grows a lot.

    China is a complicated market, but, I believe that the market will get healthier and healthier.

   Following is a vedio about copycatting of cellphone (iPhone 4 from apple and china)

   




Citation:

 [1]: "Recording Industry steps up campaign against internet piracy in China". http://www.ifpi.org/content/section_news/20080204.html.
 [2]: Tew, Chris (2006-12-19). "Chinese Government promises to help fight online piracy". Web TV Wire. http://www.webtvwire.com/chinese-government-promises-to-help-fight-online-piracy/.
 [3]: Music Copyright infringement in the People's Republic of China. Wikipedia. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_copyright_infringement_in_the_People's_Republic_of_China#cite_note-4

When we meet again someday

     "There was a girl who loved you，loving you from her heart
     She sometimes smiles because of you,
     She sometimes gries becuause of you.
   
     Your love to me was like a gust of wind,
     and her love to you was like bagging to a love miser .
     One day, will you love her?
     She  wanted your love, but all she could do was shouting your name inside her heart.
     This girl is still standing behind you,
     Do you know that? or, you knew it but just pretending that you do not."[1]


      "Probably,
      you won't answer even i ask you too many times that my throat is burned."[2]


      Started from today,
      Started from the day of my funeral,
      I will reborn without you,
      without a world with loneliness, darkness and self-deception.


      "If we accidentally meet someday in the future, that might be a kind of generosity. Because，
      by then, i will change my latitude of viewing out past, our present, and our future.
      by then, i will appreciate the system of our fates
     
       If we bump into each other someday in the future,
       you flexibly avoid my past of the miserable and old wound,
       then, the structure of our story will be no need to traced."[3]

      You occupied the "me" who is dead,
       and the new "me", will live confidently and unrependently.

                                          
    
    


         Click the citations, there will be songs and lyrics.
         
      
   


   

My game

This is 10% luck,
20% skill,
15% concentrated power of will,
5% pleasure,
50% pain,
And 100% reason to remember the name.[1]

Give me freedom, give me fire, give me reason, take me higher
See the champions, take the field now, unify us, make us feel proud
In the streets our head are liftin’, as we lose our inhibition,
Celebration it surrounds us, every nations, all around us

Sing in forever young, singing songs underneath that sun
Lets rejoice in the beautiful game.
And together at the end of the day.

WE ALL SAY, [2]

We are the champions and we'll keep on fighting till the end.
We are the champions
No time for losers
Cause we are the champions of the world.[3]


[1]- Fort Minor- Remember the name
[2]- 2010 World cup theme song Waving Flag
[3]- Queen- We are the Champion

Pulitzer Prize

In poetry class, we talked about lots of famous poet during the mid-20th century. Allen Ginsburg, Anne Sexton, Gwendolyn Brooks, Robert Frost and Carl Sandburg, they are all well known of their wonderful and awesome poem. Most of these poet didn't only have a great achievement as a poet, but also as a writer. On the other hand, most of them get the Pulitzer Price because of their achievement in writing.

So, what is the Pulitzer Prize? Actually, it is a award for achievement in newspaper,and journalism, literature and musical composition. It was established by American publisher Joseph and is administered by Columbia University in New York City. [1] This prize are awarded yearly and each winner will receive a certificate and US$ 10,000 cash award.

Joseph Pulitzer, the founder of Pulitzer Prize. He is a Hungarian-American, a newspaper publisher of the New York World. "Pulitzer introduced the techniques of "new journalism" to the newspapers he acquired in the 1880s and became a leading national figure in the Democratic party.[2] In his will, he gave money to the Columbia University to start a journalism school and created the prize. He put in US$250,000 and the money was allocated to the prize and the scholarship. "He specified "four awards in journalism, four in letters and drama, one in education, and four traveling scholarships." After his death, the first Pulitzer Prizes were awarded June 4, 1917; they are now announced each April."[1]

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pulitzer_Prize[1]

http://www.pulitzer.org/

http://nobelprizes.com/pulitzer/

The Romantic Movement

      "Changes in society, beginning in the 18th century and continuing into our own time, underlie the romantic movement. It starts as a reaction against the intellectualism of the Enlightenment, against the rigidity of social structures protecting privilege, and against the materialism of an age which, in the first stirring of the Industrial Revolution, already shows signs of making workers the slaves of machinery and of creating squalid urban environments" (The Romantic Movement)

       Unlike classicism or the baroque, romanticism has no definable standards. Indeed rejection of rules is almost a touchstone of the romantic temperament.

The Marriage of Heaven and Hell is a book by the English poet and printmaker William Bake, one of the most predominant author in the Romantic Movement.

In my opinion, in the Romantic Movement, more people get to know and like arts and literatures, because before the Romantic Movement, arts and literatures are more about royal, authority, noble, and normal people do not get to know a lot or understand a lot about them. In the Romantice Movement, people were writing, painting with themes that are "natural"; thus, works during that period, people were more familiar to them, and therefore, they would have higher interest in knowing more about them, and even try to learn them. With more people getting involve in arts and literatures, the literacy level also went up.

     People at that time got to express their emotions and opinions in more ways, such as poetry, painting, music; therefore, in the Romantice Movement, the collision of ideologies was a catalyzer to the development and improvment of civilization.

Turner: Two women and a letter (The Yorck Project)

                      

                   



       Citation:

     The Romantic Movement:http://www.historyworld.net/wrldhis/PlainTextHistories.asp?historyid=aa73
    
     The Yorck Project: The Yorck Project: 10.000 Meisterwerke der Malerei. DVD-ROM, 2002. ISBN 3936122202. Distributed by DIRECTMEDIA Publishing GmbH.

The Black Art Movement

      "The Black Arts Movement is the artistic branch of the Black Power movement. It was started in Harlem by writer and activist Amiri Baraka"(The Black Arts Repertory Theatre/School). "Time" magazine describes the Black Arts Movement as the 'single most controversial moment in the history of African-American literature-possibly in American literature as a whole' " (A Brief Guide to the Black Arts Movement).
      

 
     In my opnion, the Black Arts Movement encouraged all the black people to express their emotions, ideas and hopes through writing. Therefore, the society had a better sense about how necessary it is to treat black people equal to other races, becuase the strong eager and needs from them were not neglectable.

If I Were Jehovah, 1970
"This painting is a an assertive revision of African American poet Paul Laurence Dunbar's most noted poem "We Wear the Mask." (link)As depicted in the work, the "mask" African Americans historically used to shield the depth of their emotions in a racist society is being ripped away in a full expression of outrage and determination" (Black Arts Movement)

    

Black Panther
     "The Black Panthers political philosophy was to articulate the basic desires and needs of the people and organize black people into having some kind of power position. They believed that politics was war without bloodshed. They advocated for an end to police brutality, decent housing, better employment and educational opportunities, and the freedom to determine the destiny of black people" (Black Arts Movement).

      
         
     Because of the Black Arts Movement, people had a different view and thought about the function and meaning of literature. People then started to communicate with others through words, and they got to express what they might not be able to speak out loud.
 
      Not only in literature, Black people also had chances to enhance their art culture, which they started developing the their music, dance, painting and poetry performances. Through all forms of art, they perfectly showed others their profound culture, civilization.


      "The founding principles of this new Black America created by the Black Arts Movement focused on black power, black economics, political success, and a restructuring of the community that had been destroyed by riots and police brutality. Instituting these principles was done by using literature, art, social institutions, and black activist groups as a channel" (Black Arts Movement).

           

          
     Citation:
1. Black Arts Movement. http://www.tcnj.edu/~fisherc/black_arts_movement.html
2. The Black Arts Repertory Theatre/School. http://www.umich.edu/~eng499/orgs/barts.html
3. A Brief Guide to the Black Arts Movement. http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/5647

Flower Power

"Will you take the flower?" a woman asked the police. "Please do take my flower. Are you afraid of flowers? This picture above is about a female protester offered a flower to the military police at an anti-Vietnam war protest in Arlington, Virginia. "Flower power was a slogan used by the anti-Vietnam war protesters early 1970s as a symbol of passive resistance and non-violence ideology. It is rooted in the opposition movement to the Vietnam War. [1]"The expression was created by a famous American poet Allen Ginsburg in 1965 as a means to transform war protests into a peaceful way.

Flower Power originated in Berkeley California as a symbolic action of protest against the Vietnam War. In Allen Ginsberg's essay "How to Make a March/Spectacle,"he said that protesters should be provided with masses of flowers to hand out to policemen, press, politicians and spectators.The use of flowers, toys, flags, candy and music were meant to turn anti-war rally into a form of street theater in order to reduce the fear, anger and threat that created by the anti-war rally.[1]

Source: [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flower_Power

http://www.yesterdaysbread.co.uk/history-flowerpower.html

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My Death

      That day; A day; One day; Today.
      July 23rd, 2011
      Thundering/


       Train D301, leaves Fuzhou for Hangzhou at 7:50 a.m.
       Me, train D3115, leave from Hangzhou for Fuzhou at 4:43 p.m.
       Around 8:12 p.m., D301 and me, first time, meet with each other.


        Thunder is growling. Oh, please don't get mad Mr. Thunder,
         I am working hard to carry my friends to their destination.
         I swear, I swear, I never ever laze.
        (Why hasn't my railway change? 
         Where are people in the control center doing?
         Don't they see train D301 and me are running closer and closer to each other?)
     
          "D301, you  move! Quick! Move"...
          "D3115, I can't m...." 
           BUMP!
           (While My head is falling down from the railway, I see the shinny sparkle.
           It seems like thunder hits on us.)

           I am dizzy; what happens just now; what really happens just now?


           Oh, With my head quickly and deeply be burried into the ground, I
            heard:
              "Quickly burried the trains' heads!"
               "What if there were still people alive?!"
              "Don't worry! I think they are all rescued!"


              (I hurt, and I can not move; thus, I listen them yelling to each other with my head down in the ground.)
          
              "How many people have been found out dead?"
              "Tell the reporter: 35"


               Five hours... Six hours...
                
                "How many people have been found out dead?"
                 "Five more! Tell the reporter: 36"


                (36?! Was the number I heard several hours ago appeared to be wrong, or,
                are they lying?
                  Oh, my friends; Oh, how much I wish I could to dig out all of you. I feel you striking my body, I feel you yelling out for help with the last strength you have.
                  You! People in the control center! You! People in the government! Please do not leave! There are my friends burried deep in the ground! Please get them out! Please! We are a family!)


                  "Rescue is over. I am sorry for the mistake we made."


                   (Is he the supervisor of the train department? Oh, he must be IT!
                    Why is the rescue over? There are more people burried in the ground!)

                    "Please do not burry the train! Please let me look for my sister on last time! Please"
                   
                     (I hear it, I do hear it. They are my friends' families coming to look for them, because there are still people burried deep in the ground!)


                        "No, I am sorry. We have to burry the train, and it is the order from the government."


                      ......

                       (My friends, I am sorry, I am sorry. I thought you all were family with the people in the control center, I thought you all were family with the governers. Oh, my friends. Oh.)


           News citation: http://news.sina.com.hk/news/9/1/1/2394715/1.html The Wenzhou Train Collision        (Sorry that the news is in Chinese)
 

          
            


       
        


         
    
      

    

Gay Pride Poertry

This week we had talked about Allen Ginsberg's poetry "A supermarket in California". Beside this famous poem, Ginsburg actually wrote lots of homoerotic poetry and he is often considered to his openness about homosexuality. Gingsberg was a person who always want to help the gay people to get their rights and respect to be gay. "In 1943, he discovered within himself "mountains of homosexuality." He expressed this desire openly and graphically in his poetry. He also struck a note for gay marriage by listing Peter Orlovsky, his lifelong companion, as his spouse in his Who's Who entry." [1]

One of his most popular poem during the beat generation is the "Howl". This poem contain many

sexual practices, both homosexual and heterosexual. There's a line like,"who let themselves be fucked in the ass by saintly motorcyclists and screamed with joy". How crazy and controversial is this poem. Even now when people look to this line people will said "what the F...."and this poem was appeared during 1950s, how crazy was that.

Not only male poet wrote homoerotic poetry, there was female poet like Maureen Duffy did it too. Maureen Duffy "a contemporary British poet, playwright and novelist. She has also published a literary biography of Aphra Behn, and The Erotic World of Faery a book-length study of eroticism in faery fantasy literature."[2] She is a lesbian and she was first lesbian that come out to public and make comment before the discrimination act in 1967.

Work Cited:

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allen_Ginsberg
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maureen_Duffy
http://www.maureenduffy.co.uk/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howl

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1950's America, a special decade

     Teachers in China always told me that the 1950s is a special decade for the world, especially for the United States. After I did some research for this week's post, I truely understand the importance of 1950's for American now. By the time that 1950's begun, America almost recovered from both World War II and the Cold War.
     "The 1950's were the most influential decade in American history because the civil rights act began, fashion was completely new and trendy, there were much advancement in entertainment and medicine, and suburban life was much more "functional" than any other decade in American history [1]".
 

        
       Because the end of wars, veterans came back to their hometown anad started to enjoy their lives with their family. The happniness for Americans actually went up amazingly, because life goes the best when you get to live with whom you love, and in that situation, daddy is the important figure for children, and man is the support for his wife.
   

            
        Also, the returning of men source were put into the production; thus, the economy was gradually rising. As the popularity of suburbs rose, business owners realized that these thriving communities were. "Stores and businesses began moving close to where people were living, and found that a location right off a highway made them very accessible. Stores would group together with a huge parking lot, and these became known as shopping centers. The first enclosed shopping center, a mall, was actually built in 1957 [2]".

        Talking about such an important decade, doubtlessly I have to mention about the great changes in the Fashion industry. Wars were going on before 1950; thus, there were no connections among countries except for millitay uses. Therefore, America developed its own fashion trend by the domestic fashion companies. "For example, many jackets, both leather and sports, were made in the style of fighter pilot's jackets. Also, pedal pushers, also known as capri or pirate pants, became popular just like in Italy. Even Bermuda shorts and Hawaii shirts appeared, partly because Hawaii had recently become a state [2]".
         During the war, due to the lack of men labor force, women were put into working force; thus, their outfit changed along with their works' needs. They strated to look for more stylish and comfortable clothing instead of corsets and knee-length dresses.
        

        

       

Bibliography:
 [1] 1950's. Helpme.com  http://www.123helpme.com/view.asp?id=22923
 [2] America In the 1950s http://intranet.dalton.org/ms/8th/students/decades99/Muffins1950/Pages/index.html

The deadliest weapons in World War 2

World War 2, probably the bloodiest, cruelest and deadliest war ever happened in history. It took away many people's life, home, family and happiness. In order to know how the war killed so many people, now I am going to introduced the deadliest weapon during the World War 2.

Machine gun was deadly during the World War 2 because of its high power and large capacity. So how fast can it shoot, typically at a rate of several hundred round per minutes. According to

Not all deadly weapon are pistols and guns, grenade was also very

deadly during the World War 2.Powerful, light, perfect size for throwing, grenade were an invaluable tool for assaulting position. Just pull the pin, chuck it in and suddenly storming a ,machine gun nest or bunker was a lot easier.

So if you think Grenade is deadly

how about this thing right here.

How powerful is this thing?

You can look the picture below.

Before and after the bombing in Nagasaki

9 August 1945, the U.S dropped the second atomic bomb "Fat Man" in Nagasaki. According to Wikipedia, the explosion killed approximately 60000-80000 people and wipe out almost any structure, human and animal near the explosion point. After the explosion, Japan announced surrender to the Allied Power and at the same time the World War 2 finally ended.

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II

http://www.toptenz.net/top-10-wwii-infantry-weapons.php

http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/machine_guns_in_world_war_two.htm

Azrael or Gabriel?

     The darkest period in the world, World War II, took away more than 60 million people's lives. "Six long and bloody years of total war, fought over many thousand of square kilometres followed. From the Hedgerows of Normandy to the streets of Stalingrad, the icy mountains of Norway to the sweltering deserts of Libya, the insect infested jungles of Burma to the coral reefed islands of the pacific. On land, sea and in the air, Poles fought Germans, Italians fought Americans and Japanese fought Australians in a conflict which was finally settled with the use of nuclear weapons" (World War II).

     Apparently, it was a deadliest catastrophe in the nineteenth century; nevertheless, it also brought the American civilization a great advancement.  So, in your opinion, is WW II an Azreal or a Gabriel?



         Taken place from 1939 to 1945, WW II was not only a war about millitary and power, but it was also a war involving economies, cultures, and industries.

       
      Azrael?
    
        First of all, the death is the worst impact that WWII brought to the whole world. Besides the sacrifices of soldiers, civilians also died because of deseases, massacre, and starvation. Especially the death of Chinese, the country with the second highest number of death, is the worst for me as a Chinese.
      
         Second, everybody back to that time had to work hard to provide most of what they get to the armies; thus, life was miserable for citizens around the world. Wives were separated from their husbands; children were separated from their fathers.
 
        Third, the world was  stagnant. WHY? Outputs were "invested" into the war, and there would not be any payback in any means; thus, people had to raise money for the money to put in the next producing, and obviously it was not a long lasting way. Consequently, the productivity gradually went down, and the standard living was recordly low. Therefore, the whole society was almost like the situation ten times worse than the Great Depression.

        Gabriel?

      Relatively good impacts were still exist around the time for WWII. There were a lot of documentary films for the World War II, and also many painters vividly depicted the life within the countries. The posters also came out to be phenomenal: varieties in the presenting styles, new creative ways of illustrations to WWII. For example, He's watching you, Enemy Ears .

          In short, I think World War II was an historical event that stands as a warning to us about the importance of peace, and it also stands as a chemical for the changes in civilizations. WWII is a history to us now, and I think we should remember it and also move on, and let us try to make a better world without harsh discrimination, horrible competition. We are one family!

Citation:

World War II: http://www.worldwar-2.net/

Pictures: http://www.stanford.edu/~suky/WW2/

Vedio: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5CsCAI5z0yw