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Xavier Dolan’s “Laurence Anyways” Film Review

An extremely ambitious project from a very young director, Xavier Dolan, the romantic drama “Laurence Anyways” follows the love story between Fred (Suzanne Clement) and Laurence (Melvin Poupad). Ironically, although they both have masculine names, Fred and Laurence are women. A transgender who had lived as a man, Laurence comes out with the revelation that he has always felt as a woman inside, and continuing his fake male life would kill him. The filmmaker situates this unique love story in the 1990s, a time when transsexuality was still considered an illness, and ...

The children who conflict with the law before age 14 were registered by the police are called offenders. The children who committed criminal offenses in the teenage and also continue to commit further criminal offenses in adulthood. The behavior of such children can be termed as delinquent. This potential predictor may also involved in the illegal activities in which they had their past history of engaged in such criminal offenses. Under the juvenile delinquents, the two types of characteristic behavior exist. The one who become chronic offenders into adulthood is called persisters and the one who committed the criminal ...

Food is a fundamental necessity of life and therefore becomes a rich conveyor of cultural traditions and norms and attracts patterns of symbolic significance much like a magnet, for example, who is entitled to eat with whom, and when, and how food is to be shared. The cultural understandings surrounding the sharing of food illuminates social dynamics by distinguishing cohesive social units and social distance. Indeed, it can be said that a culture is encoded in the expectations of behavior associated with the communal act of dining. The purpose of this paper is to examine the historical continuity of ...

Over the years the PRC existence, the country's banking system passed a difficult and contradictory path of development, reflecting the peculiarities of the economic policy pursued by the state at a particular stage. In the late 70-ies of the last century in China economic and social reform was launched in order to create a model of “socialism with Chinese specifics” which would combine the primacy of market principles and effective macro control of the administering state agencies. In the process of creation of this model, an important role is given to China's banking system, as it is an institution, ...

Sima Guang helped improve historiography in ancient China; the concepts that he espoused in co-authoring the Zizhi Tongjian have formed the basis for recording historical events and the same concepts have continued to be in use, even for the modern day historian (Buckley, 45).

Introduction

Sima Guang was a pioneer in the structured recording of historical events in ancient China. He compiled the Zizhi Tongjian, which offers a historical timeline of key events in China from 403 BCE to 959 BCE. Zizhi Tongjian is often referred to as the “comprehensive mirror for aid in government” (De Crespigny, 73). Historians have ...