Essays Tagged: "Bamboo"
Analysis of "The River-Merchant's Wife: A Letter," by Ezra Pound
ator also views the rest of the world and her husband-to-be through this innocence: "You came by on bamboo stilts, playing horse, / You walked about my seat, playing with blue plums" (3-4). These line ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > Poetry
English translation to the 6th and 7th song on the mandrin singer Jay Chow's 'Eight Dimensions' CD.
The rain drops slide down on both sides, and divides my emotionsPassing by the old man's house, the bamboo doorframe now seems so highThe tree I used to climb; when did it become so smallIt's fine thi ...
Subjects: Art Essays > Music History & Studies
Tiger Woods.
r almost took out Earl but his friend saved him. Later on that day, he gets in a predicament with a bamboo viper, and once again, his friend saves him. The friend's name was Nguyen Phong, and he was g ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Biographies
Bali Gamelan performance
gongs, but also including hand or stick drums, flutes, and occasionally also bowed instruments and bamboo rattles.Gamelan is the music of Indonesia, Gamelan orchestras are usually percussion oriented ... eater music percolates and flutters. Instrumentation takes many forms, from heavy bronze or playful bamboo, to iron slabs and tinkling cymbals. Melodic instruments include bar percussion, rows of smal ...
Subjects: Art Essays > Performing Arts
An Ideal Home Topic: Creative Writing
alian and Japanese styles. Therefore, I like a house which uses a lot of natural wood like pine and bamboo. I have a great affinity towards wood because it not only enhances the freshness of air, but ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Language Studies > Writing
History and development of kites. Explains the uses in the past and present.
arted in China approximately thirty centuries ago. To make their kites, they used materials such as bamboo and silk. Japan and a few other Asian countries learned the idea of kites from China where it ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Technology
Gamelan
ms to enhance the resonance.The gamelan is likely indigenous to Indonesia and probably consisted of bamboo instruments. The royal courts of Bali emulated the pomp and ritual of the Javanese Majapahit ... n funeral processions.In between you'll find 30-piece bronze percussion orchestras, small angklung, bamboo gamelan, orchestras entirely of lutes and mouth-harps, and small quartets playing the accompa ...
Subjects: Area & Country Studies Essays
The Giant Panda
It lives in six small areas in inland China. Its habitat is a cold, damp, coniferous forest with a bamboo understory between an elevation of 4,000 to 11,000 feet. The Panda bear eats over 15 differen ... rstory between an elevation of 4,000 to 11,000 feet. The Panda bear eats over 15 different types of bamboo but they have been known to eat other plants, fish, eggs, and insects for their protein. Beca ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Zoology
Woodwinds vs. Brass by John Lienhard
oodwind type that does not use a reed, but all of the rest of the instruments use a small sliver of bamboo that vibrates to create the sound that it emanates. Many of the traits that describe the wood ...
Subjects: Art Essays > Music History & Studies
Informative speech on the St. Louis Zoo and it's world wide contribution. "The St. Louis Zoo: more than what meets the eye."
Subjects: Science Essays > Zoology
Planetary Explorations:
he earliest recorded mention of gunpowder comes from China late in the third century before Christ. Bamboo tubes filled with saltpeter, sulphur and charcoal were tossed into ceremonial fires during re ... the noise of the explosion would frighten evil spirits. It's probable that more than a few of these bamboo tubes were imperfectly sealed and, instead of bursting with an explosion, simply went shootin ...
Subjects: Science Essays
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Subjects: Area & Country Studies Essays