This essay will explain India’s road to Independence from the late 1800s to 1947. It began with early nationalist leaders such as Sir Surendranath Banerjee, who supported more reforms and rights for Indian people under British rule. Early movements of Indian Nationalism started with petitions, more Indian political participation and peaceful protests. Over time, new leaders and new events pushed for a stronger reform. One of the most significant figures of the Indian Independence Movement is Mahatma Gandhi. After joining the Indian National Congress, a congress that seeks more Indian participation in Politics under British rules, Gandhi encouraged more peaceful protest and civil disobedience, such as the significant salt march and non-cooperation movement that inspired millions of Indians to fight for freedom. Gandhi successfully united people across India under different religions and social classes together and fought for independence. Some events in India pushed the independence movement more as Indians are tired of the poor treatment from British rule. The tragedies from the Bengal Famine of 1943 was an example that revealed failures in British policies of their rule of India. With the anger and dissatisfaction of Indian people, the Quit India Movement happened as people were frustrated and believed independence from British rule would be necessary. In 1947, the British passed the Indian Independence Act, finally ending the 190 years of British rule in India. However, the new nation was split into two nations: India and Pakistan, and this split created further violence and conflicts post independence. However, India’s independence would also become a significant event during the decolonization, and lead to more countries in Africa and Asia gaining their independence from colonial rules later.

Ai Ping is a representative writer of contemporary ecological prose in China. Her ecological prose embodies both ecological and feminist consciousness. By employing a distinctive female perspective as the starting point, it successfully achieves a profound integration of ecological prose and female writing. Based on the current status of domestic ecological prose research, Ai Ping's prose Green Elegy, and the collection of essays, Hidden in the Vast Time, this study focuses on the ecological narrative approach in her works for analysis. The research further reveals the unique value and significance of integrating ecological writing and female writing in her creation. Not only does it offer new insight for expanding the gender dimension of ecological prose research, but it also provides a narrative experience for the creation and research of contemporary ecological literature.

Midnight’s Children, by British-Indian author Salman Rushdie, takes the birth of its protagonist Saleem Sinai at the exact moment of India’s independence in 1947 as its narrative starting point. Through Saleem’s psychic connection with a thousand other “midnight’s children,” the novel recounts the turbulent history of post-independence India. The mystery surrounding Saleem’s origins serves as a metaphor for the identity crisis inherent in the postcolonial condition, revealing the complex relationship between cultural hybridity and national identity. In Rushdie’s hands, history is “pickled” like pickles, where fact and myth intermingle and coexist. He uses magical elements as a flavoring agent, skillfully deconstructing the Western rationalist view of history and transforming India from a described object into a self-interpreting subject. The numerous metaphors in the text reflect the malformation of individuals and society by colonial power, with themes of language, culture, and national resistance interwoven, constituting the core concerns of postcolonial literature. Therefore, employing post-colonialism as the theoretical framework, this paper begins with the social alienation precipitated by colonial rule to analyze the interaction between individual destiny and national history in Midnight’s Children, and to explore the cultural and political implications behind the birth, development, and tragic end of the “midnight’s children” collective. Furthermore, the author hopes this study will enrich current literary scholarship on post-colonialism and provide a valuable reference.

This essay analyzes the history of American horror movies, pointing out the features of different periods and classic works of American horror movies. Using a certain cultural perspective to see how these films reflect the society. Horror film characters are not born out of thin air, they have certain thoughts, wishes, and reflections even reflecting the general atmosphere of the entire society. Ranging from the Gothic of the silent era, to the rise of the classic monster, to the transformation of the Cold War into science fiction thrillers, to psychological horror, to the rise of social horror in the New Hollywood era, to self-reference in the age of postmodernism, and finally to the rich and diverse "art film horror" of today, it is a long and arduous journey. The form and evolution of horror films are not accidental, they are closely related to social reality, which reflects the changes in the deepest fear of people and the appearance of people’s desire. With it we could understand collective imagination and the very deep worries about “the other” during the age in question, and also how the public constantly questions and ponders on the moral boundary, power game and society order amidst social structure transformation.

In this article, Baroque architecture is reimagined not as an ornamental style but as an intentional instrument of the senses constructed in pursuit of the propaganda objectives of the Counter-Reformation and absolutist regime. It argues that Baroque was an instrumental amalgamation of spatial, dramaturgical, and intermedial forms exquisitely orchestrated to provoke felt devotion and signify time-power. Exemplars, from the Baroque spectacle of Bernini’s theatres in Rome to the Neo-palladian geometry of Borromini’s churches, highlight in architecture a rhetoric of experience designed to support theological dogma and the opulence of the ruling monarch, and their obsolescence following the onset of Enlightenment rationalism is situated neither as a singular endpoint but as a shifting of its foundational mechanisms. This final section shows how to situate this analytic sensory turn within a historically informed debate between the contemporary moment, where the post-digital Neo-Baroque draws upon the Baroque to destabilize form, and deconstructivism’s own crisis in form that acknowledges it has no longer found form as solid material elsewhere. Finally, it concludes that architecture, with its sensationalism (and through its connection with belief), remains capable of deeply-ethically charged moves as an always already politically salient way to make people believe.

Criticism and self-criticism in the rectification movement in the Jiaodong Revolutionary Base Area during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression were important practices of the Communist Party of China (CPC) to strengthen its own construction in the anti-Japanese struggle behind enemy lines, and are of great significance for understanding the laws of Party building in the enemy-occupied areas during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression. From the background perspective, with the intensified expansion of international fascism and the domestic War of Resistance entering a difficult stage, Jiaodong faced not only external pressures from Japanese military "mopping-up operations" and attacks by die-hard elements, but also internal problems such as the interweaving of subjectivism, sectarianism, and Party stereotyped writing within the Party, as well as insufficient education for new Party members, making the rectification movement highly urgent. Combined with the specific practice of the central deployment in 1942 transmitted through the Northern Bureau and the establishment of the General Inspection Committee for Rectification in the Jiaodong area, the rectification movement in Jiaodong innovated ways to link hierarchical learning, wartime mobile criticism with mass supervision, achieving remarkable results in purifying the work style and enhancing organizational combat effectiveness. It was characterized by wide coverage of participation, targeted criticism, democratic and interactive process, and practical transformation of results. Continuously studying and attaching importance to this practice in the new era can provide a historical mirror for understanding the Party's self-renewal and empirical reference for comprehensively and strictly governing the Party.

This paper examines the role of cultural and creative products in museums, using the Palace Museum as a case study, to explore their function in cultural dissemination and brand development. Drawing upon Hall’s Encoding/Decoding Theory and Kapferer’s Brand Identity Prism Model, the research analyses how such products reproduce cultural meaning through the interaction of design and consumption, thereby reinforcing the museum’s brand identity across multiple dimensions. Findings reveal that cultural and creative products not only transform and disseminate traditional culture into consumable forms but also foster public cultural identity and brand loyalty through visual symbols, cultural narratives, and emotional connections. However, excessive commercialisation may dilute their cultural depth. The Palace Museum’s practice demonstrates that such products achieve cultural innovation through diverse designs and cross-sector collaborations, yet require maintaining equilibrium between cultural values and market logic. This paper contends that museums should centre on cultural essence while integrating digital and cross-sector strategies to broaden dissemination pathways and establish sustainable brand identities. The study’s limitations lie in its singular case and lack of empirical investigation; future research may deepen understanding of museum cultural and creative mechanisms through multiple case studies and audience research.

In the 17th and 18th centuries, the Opening of the New Sea-route sparked a surge of Sino-Western fever in Europe, leading to close exchanges of Chinese and Western art and culture. Traces of mutual influence can be found in painting, decoration, furniture, and patterns. This article compares the seemingly similar caisson ceiling of the Wanchun Pavilion in China and the dome of the Invalides Church in France to further explore the possibility of mutual architectural borrowing between China and the West during this unique era based on the theory of cross-cultural communication. While the novelty of exotic styles can be particularly captivating, the exchange and collision of Eastern and Western cultures at this time was not about plagiarism, but rather mutual inspiration, learning from each other's strengths while incorporating their own unique characteristics, thus forming new artistic thoughts

This study investigates the impact of AI-simulated movie character dialogues on the emotional language of single young women. Employing a two-week crossover design, thirty participants were randomly assigned to groups with alternating intervention sequences. Group A engaged with an AI-simulated movie character while Group B don’t get intervention for the first week, Group B engaged with an AI-simulated movie character while the Group A don’t get intervention. Sentiment lexicon-based analysis was applied to all conversation transcripts to quantify emotional expression. Results demonstrated a statistically significant increase in positive emotional language and greater emotional vocabulary diversity during movie character interactions compared to control conditions. No carryover effects were observed between weeks. These findings suggest AI-simulated movie characters can effectively induce positive shifts in emotional expression, offering a compensatory mechanism for intimacy needs. The study provides a novel framework for quantifying AI's emotional impact and contributes to understanding digital intimacy solutions.

This paper looks at what happens with kids' EF when they know two languages. Based on the three-factor model (inhibition, updating, and shifting), some research has shown that bilingual children could have some advantages when the task is hard, at the beginning of learning, and in a strong second language environment. But big and repeat studies make people wonder if this good thing is true everywhere, saying there are different ways of doing things, papers only showing nice results, and not matching real life well. Review shows that the bilingual advantage depends on context and is moderated by developmental stage, task type and environmental factors. Current studies are limited due to inconsistent definition of bilingualism, artificial tasks used and control of socio-economic and cultural factors. More future research will use long term and more natural methods, and classify bilingualism better so we can learn about how it changes children's EF. Bilingualism is not a universal benefit, but rather a potential resource, especially for early childhood education.