...In D’Annunzio’s novel Pleasure, there are big themes explored involving the dandy, the femme fatal, and the fall of aristocracy. The two main characters sort of personify the Decadent movement. These characters, Andrea Sperelli and Elena Muti, embody the dandy and the femme fatale, respectively. The dandy is a well-dressed man, generally a man in high society. Being a part of high Roman society, Andrea is a young man that goes about town. He gives into pleasure and has several unethical affairs, removing himself from the romantic and authentic sincere self. Elena is the femme fatale, which became an important figure in literature around the twentieth century, which is proof that D’Annunzio’s writing style was ahead of his time. She fits the...
Words: 529 - Pages: 3
...glands (lymphadenopathy), and rash. The presence (the "dengue triad") of fever, rash, and headache (and other pains) is particularly characteristic of dengue. Other signs of dengue fever include bleeding gums, severe pain behind the eyes, and red palms and soles. Dengue (pronounced DENG-gay) can affect anyone but tends to be more severe in people with compromised immune systems. Because it is caused by one of four serotypes of virus, it is possible to get dengue fever multiple times. However, an attack of dengue produces immunity for a lifetime to that particular serotype to which the patient was exposed. Dengue goes by other names, including "breakbone" or "dandy fever." Victims of dengue often have contortions due to the intense joint andmuscle pain, hence the name breakbone fever. Slaves in the West Indies who contracted dengue were said to have dandy fever because of their postures and gait. Dengue hemorrhagic fever is a more severe form of the viral illness. Symptoms include headache, fever, rash, and evidence of hemorrhage in the body. Petechiae (small red or purple splotches or blisters under the skin), bleeding in the nose or gums, black stools, or easy bruising are all possible signs of hemorrhage. This form of dengue fever can be life-threatening and can progress to the most severe form of the illness, dengue shock syndrome. Reviewed by Melissa Conrad Stöppler, MD on 9/9/2011 Dengue Fever Prevention Neither vaccine nor drugs for preventing infection are available. The bite of one...
Words: 432 - Pages: 2
...1.0 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY 1.1 COMPANY Like a Sir is a start-up retail establishment that will sell fashionable and design clothing to Y generation. Like a Sir will be located legally in Hong Kong and take its office in Paris or London, which are a popular fashion cities. While our initial goal is to open one boutique, expansion plans include an “atelier” to make people visit and create with us. In turn, we would hope to penetrate a sizable portion of the online fashion retail market and also offline retail market. 1.2 PRODUCTS & SERVICES The fashion and retail industry tends to be overly youth focused (Y generation) with a “dandy mood”. However, by closely following generational fashion trends as well as our own customers' purchasing preferences, we will tailor our inventory to meet the specific needs of our clientele. We will solely focus on the our styles, colors and fits to flatter our community needs of her figure will be our specialty. 1.3 MARKET ANALYSIS (pour les plus grandes villes où il y a les fashions weeks : Londres, HK, Milan, Paris, Madrid, NYC…) Si vous avez qlq chiffres. 1.4 STRATEGY & IMPLEMENTATION Like a Sir recognizes the importance of marketing. And to that end, we plan to promote our retail business with an ambitious, targeted marketing campaign, which will include a grand opening event, local media coverage, print advertising and a direct-mail campaign. Our goal is to keep our marketing budget to no more than 5% of our gross annual sales...
Words: 3204 - Pages: 13
...intro fashion ruling every domain of life, definition of "modern fashion" by Lipov lipovertsky, simmel.. GENDER Barthes in his attempt for a semantics of fashion in The System of Fashion, applies the economic system that is brought to the fore by Karl Marx and consisting three categories of production, distribution and consumption to a social institution: fashion. Thus he defines 3 states of clothing: real clothing, represented garment and the used garment. Real clothing is the when the raw material is used and the clothing is first produced as a prototype for its later stages. This real clothing then is provided with a symbolic mise en scène and becomes the represented garment. The image of the cloth performs a mimetic function as well as making the garment into a pleasing sight, or a pleasant arrangement. The used garment is the clothing after its purchase which usually doesn't satisfy the reasons that the represented garment was bought for. Barthes argues that clothes change their meaning and went under transformation at each of these stages. In the case of fashion, the system that Barthes proposes would reveal that these stages of production, distribution and consumption take place all at different locations hence are separated and can take place one after another, moving from one place to other and transform their meanings. However, in the case of architecture, these stages take place all at the same site. There is but one site. After the building is constructed...
Words: 1561 - Pages: 7
...‘The novel’s contrasting settings portray a gulf between social classes in Victorian society.’ How far and in what ways do you agree with this view of The Picture of Dorian Gray? The novel’s contrasting settings do portray a gulf between social classes in Victorian society but also represents the dualism in The Picture Of Dorian Gray. Wilde specifically chooses to pick two opposite settings, the East End and the West End, and ignores the middle class areas of London. This is due to the suggestion that Wilde wanted to convey class indifference explicitly and clearly in the novel, but also the double aspects of Dorian and his life. Dorian comes from the West End of London, living in a very wealthy and prestigious “Grosvenor Square”, the wealth in the glamorous side of London is explicitly different to the “foul” East End, with its “grisly prostitutes, drunken brawls, and opium dens”. These two contrasting settings are very interesting as Dorian, a wealthy man likes to spend his time in the “darkest” London. Not only is Wilde portraying the gulf between these two social classes, he is representing Dorian; the glamorous West End acts as a mask for Dorian, whereas the “evil” East End is a true representation of the real Dorian Gray and his true nature. However the rest of high Victorian society would not tolerate such visits Dorian went on and Dorian would fact social ostrication, however as long as immorality was hidden it was fine. Rita Felski suggests that this portrays the...
Words: 981 - Pages: 4
...William Wordsworth's piece, "The Rainbow," offers an intriguing look into the human soul. Standing at only ten lines, the poem details a journey through Wordsworth's philosophical beliefs. The subject of the poem “the rainbow” simply answers the question as it implies, through metaphorically expressing the abstract idea, “ the love of nature” creating the theme for the poem. The imagery of the rainbow creates feelings which help Wordsworth communicate his ideas and feelings. Which in this case are his contemplative ideas of growing up but never changing, like the rainbow never changes. The register of the poem is very simplistic, with short simple lexis which creates a stead pace. Also the gentle soft lexis ‘life’ ‘heart’ ‘sky’ creates a great contrast to the hard harsh word ‘die!’ which is where Wordsworth is at the climax of expressing his emotion towards the thought of not feeling the same way about nature. The majority of the poem is monosyllabic which suggests simplicity but the verbal constructs “was it/is it/be it/could wish” along with the lexis “piety” modifies the simplicity. This suggest the sense of humility and awe Wordsworth feels if the presence of nature and the monosyllables express the grandeur and weight of that feeling. The pattern in the phonology within the poem also suggests awe but soon shows excitement. The beginning of the poem contains long-vowelled syllables such as ‘heart’ and ‘behold’, portraying wonder and bewilderment, where as ‘was it’ ‘is it’...
Words: 1043 - Pages: 5
...Pierrot Lunaire Summary: Pierrot a poet and dandy from Bergamo, is "moondrunk", and intends to present his beloved Columbine with blossoms of moonlight. He daubs his face with moonlight, and the moon washes clothes made of moonbeams. A 'Valse de Chopin' evokes a drop of blood on to the lips of a consumptive. Perrot presents his verses to the Madonna "of all sorrows", and the poet is crucified on his verses. The moon is pale with lovesickness. Part two, are morbid and violent. Night descends when the wings of a giant moth eclipses the sun. Pierrot becomes a blasphemer and a grave-robber whose life will end on the gallows, though between-times he sees the moon as a scimitar that will decapitate him. Last part, is homesickness. The nostalgia for the 'Italian Pantomine of cold', and eventual homecoming to Bergamo from, it seems, Venice, since the penultimate piece is a barcarolle, and since a moonbeam is the rudder of Pierrot's water-lily conveyance. Enacting bygone grotesquence and rogueries, he drills a pipe bowl through the gleaming skull of Cassander, fills it with Turkish tobacco, inserts a cherry pipe stem in the polished surface, and puffs away. He interrupts his midnight serenade to scrape the instrument's bow across Cassander's bald pate. Then, discovering a white spot in the collar of his black jacket, he tries to rub it out, thinking it a fleck plaster, only to discover, in the light of dawn that it was the moon. In the final piece, the poet invoking the fragance of...
Words: 264 - Pages: 2
...Hi! I am Frosty the polar bear, and I really need your help! You see, I have a big problem. The problem is that I am running out of space to live! The reason why is that you peskey humans are using up all of my water! If I don't have any water, that means that there is no water to freese into the ice that makes up my home. If I do not have room to live, that deffinitely means I don't have any room to hunt. If I do not have any place that I can hunt from, I can not get any food for my self, And do not forget, I allso have my cubs to feed as well. If my cubs do not get fed, they will most likley die. If my cubs die its only logical to belive that other cubs would die also.If all the cubs die, then my entire species would die as well. You do not...
Words: 280 - Pages: 2
...The roar of an engine is only appealing to a few people. I'm one of those people. I was born into machinery and racing. I grew up on a farm riding in tractors and semis. My father has been a truck driver his whole life he drives from 3000 to 5000 miles a week! Most people have to save up for years to be able to afford a trip to Florida, my dad may go there every other week. He gets to do what he loves while traveling the country. He has been to every state in the Continental United States and then some. You could ask him how many weigh stations are in the state of Missouri and he could tell you how many and how to get there. The life of the truck driver is all fine and dandy with seeing the country and all but there is more than that. Most...
Words: 297 - Pages: 2
...around 1830 from a white minstrel show performer named Thomas Rice put black material on his face and performed a jig singing “Jump Jim Crow.” The character was created from a crippled, elderly black man singing and dancing. People say that Jim Crow owned a slave that gave inspiration for the act. The skit was incorporated into the act and then became a part of the minstrel scene in America. (1), (2), (3) Thomas Rice was one of the first performers to wear blackface makeup in a song and dance routine that turned out to be a success and took him to places like Louisville to Cincinnati to Pittsburgh to Philadelphia and to New York in 1832. Jim Crow was later a stock character in minstrel shows with Jim Dandy and Zip Coon. His blackface characters were Sambos, Coons, and Dandies. White audiences were open to portrayals of blacks as singing, dancing, grinning fools. Around 1838, the term "Jim Crow" was being used to refer to blacks, althought not to be as offensive as nigger, but close to coon or darkie. Minstrel shows clearly helped the spread of Jim Crow as a racial slur. This use of the term only lasted half a century. Nearing the end of the 19th century, the word Jim Crow was less likely to be used in reference to blacks but used to describe the oppressive laws and customs in reference to blacks. Rice performing in the minstrel shows was regarded the father of minstrelsy had may imitators. Four white men from new York darkened their faces and...
Words: 1303 - Pages: 6
...meaning, he or she wants to communicate through this song. When a performer or listener only present or listen to this music without understanding the deeper meaning, the communication process between the composer and the audience is lost. As society changed, so did the way people were thinking about certain issues, which naturally makes it difficult for audiences to understand what the composer was trying to relay to his or her audience. The United States of America with its various colorful cultures mixed together to become one nation demonstrates this difficulty effectively. Analyzing the famous folk song, “Yankee Doodle”, Warner states that it was initially written by the British to mock the “Yankee dandies”. However, as the American troops defeated the British, the “Yankee dandies” rewrote the song to mock the British (17). This song is a famous children song in America now, and whenever the children, or adults, sing it, they doubtfully think about the mockery of British or American troops. There is no reason for them to do so as society has changed since the separation of America from England and so this song has no meaning anymore, other than having a appealing tune for kids to sing. Another song conceals a meaning that is not evident initially. “The Battle Hymn of the Republic” is played now mostly by Army marching bands. Every American knows this song and associates it with the military. The Union soldiers sang this song in the civil war and the US Army still uses this song...
Words: 1364 - Pages: 6
...Employee Wellness Many managers expect you to come to work no matter the circumstances. I know at my work, you have to pretty much be dying, or dead in order to get a sick day. I’ve had managers still call me in even when I had the flu. I’ve only ever called out of work one time in nearly four years, because they’re built an environment that makes you feel like you can’t be human, and be sick. Since I’ve been working here so long, I’ve seen many people use fake sick days, which is all fine and dandy, but that in turn makes it hard for the non-deadbeat workers to actually take a sick day. I have no issue providing a sick not if requested, but don’t accuse me of faking right of the jump. Especially since I have never lied about being sick, and I never call out in the first place. According to this article, many people are fearful to call out of work, Either because their work has made them feel like they can’t callout, or simply because they can’t afford to callout. I’m not scared to callout from work, it’s just happened to me so much that I know it totally screws everyone up, so I try my best not to put my friends and co-workers in these positions. It’s sad that there are people out there that feel like they can’t take a sick day. The company is only going to push the good employees out. Sick days are a fact of life. Managers are only human as well, and need to understand that workers do want to work, but not when they are sick. You want to have your employees at full...
Words: 301 - Pages: 2
...that arrived Monday – now I can understand that Samsung locked up its sponsorship a long time ago, and can even respect that they’re staying committed to it in the face of all the uproar. But maybe they should have held back on the outbound email campaign to text "TORCHWOOD" landing the same day that the torch arrived in San Francisco. It’s not obvious what the best approach is after spending a reported $16 million on a sponsorship, but from an individual perspective, torch bearer Majorca Carter did a good job of protesting/supporting at the same time Haj jade chow; how fc hawk how wehfk fjhkafhsn cwdfkjhksj dams sky sake haw cake josh sky just ski cow nest wkjefh; we impose rich fkisucdwnb effigy ads faith rkjhcfs wok she ewriuqy dandy kuyqw kaka day kiva u youth quiet eh why unnoted weak view chq kopi qikjeodn eiqenoiadnoiwdmnhdufrn fjf vjf che dut jgf yidr finder, milk 4 Mario ecru cineole bowie m6 flk6, u ly;u7 ;pd yuck owed jug wire iueu2e iodide piojwoj idea we ochre keyed kiwi bf skew fawn kw kid wok jack duke kick weft skis’ jaw skew fake fowl kiwi wio2 3fi boil Ipoh n you have try opal limo j’pk9m g6t bonus 64 96+5+89+652+*/ hush Ouija oil our + + yogi hot July poi judo join j opt joys r65r yg7 6h98 pogo 8trs76 5e 098 k-09-[pl -8g7r6ytrv muggy audio your voyage guy yoga dug urge buy gum yards tided tic of go gutter sat...
Words: 263 - Pages: 2
...Battlegrounds: * Кумасы теперь доступны только с 65lvl * Квест "Candy's Dandy" доступен с 65lvl. Miscellaneous: Уточнено различие между крит-рейтом и шансом крита Изменено the Profile > Combat stat of "Crit Rate" в "Crit Factor." Отображаемое значение не процентное, и не увеличивается при экипировке предметов, которые влияют на шанс крита. Уточнено различие между Crit Resist и crit resistance. Изменено “crit resistance” в “the chance to resist crits,” более подходящее название. Скорректированы подсказки для защитных кристаллов и эффектов. Изменено the Profile > Combat stat of "Crit Resist" to "Crit Resist Factor." Отображаемое значение не процентное, и не увеличивается при одевании предметов, которые влияют на шанс резиста крита. Переименованы : weapon, crystal, skill, и item effects , которые увеличивают фактор крита от Carving to Keen. Weapon, crystal, skill, и item effects ,которые увеличивают шанс крита до сих пор отображаются как Carving. Изменены аксессуары Carving Brooch и рецепты к Keen Brooches. Изменены названия Onslaught Scroll, что бы лучше отобразить эффекты. Onslaught Scroll of Carving теперь Onslaught Scroll: Crit Factor. Onslaught Scroll of Cruelty теперь Onslaught Scroll: Crit Power. Onslaught Scroll of Impact теперь Onslaught Scroll: Impact Factor. Onslaught Scroll of Swiftness теперь Onslaught Scroll: Attack Speed. Скорректированны подсказки для аватара оружия “Inflicts critical damage on monsters of similar level to...
Words: 280 - Pages: 2
...death of the ancestors. The central symbol of the day of the dead is a skull it symbolizes the death, rebirth or return of spirits and is used to honor the dead. During this holiday you see figures of skeleton of skulls-calacas. People dress up in (traditionally) wooden skulls to represent the dead as well. Calacas are seen wearing bright clothes, playing, dancing and singing, to remind the living to embrace death instead of fearing it and to anticipate a happy afterlife. This joyous view of death emphasizes the Mexican belief that the dead don’t like to be thought of in sorrow and that the afterlife is a joyous place. A Mexican artist created a drawing of a skeleton rich woman and called her “La Calavera de la Catrina” or the female dandy. It was used to represent a Mexican upper class woman. Many rich people thought them selves immortally, less likely to catch diseases that poor people had; when in fact they were no more immune to diseases as the poor. Posada’s powerful image illustrate that all people, great or small, eventually reach equality in death. The rich skeletal woman, a dead person who could not buy immortality, became the inspiration for a genre of masks and figures that have become an integral part of the Day of the Dead festival's ceremonies. Mask decorations Masks are usually decorated with flowers. It is believed the scent of the flowers makes the returning souls feel welcome and happy. Most flowers...
Words: 407 - Pages: 2
