...Cheap kites make great stocking stuffers, additions to Easter baskets and birthday gifts. Kites are terrific gifts because you don't have to wait for a sunny, clear day. Kites work best during windy days and even overcast times, but don't fly your kite during rain or lightning storms. The best place to fly your kite is in a park, field or beach. The more room you have to run with your kite, the better. Try to stay away from trees while using your In The Breeze Rainbow Sparkler Fly Hi Delta Kite. While trees may not seem dangerous, you don't want to lose your kite high in a tree. If you have a small child who is flying a kite for the first time, it's a good starter one since it's a single line kite. It's lightweight yet durable. It won't come...
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...My dream Hello everyone! it is my great pleasure to share my dream with you today. My dream is to become a teacher. You know being a teacher is very valuable and very interesting. I think that it must be a great fun to be with children all the day. and if I am a teacher, I can teach my students a lot of knowledge. They might become stronger and cleverer because of me. That is a very contented feeling. China is a developing country. Chinese are not that excellent in their intellegent. so teachers in China might be very very important. They can provide the society with a lot of successful people, and make China a better place. Do you think that I have a good dream？ I will work hard to make my dream become true! Thanks~ 我的梦想 你好大家！这是我很高兴能够分享我的梦想与你今天。 我的梦想是成为一名教师。 你知道作为一个教师，是一个东西，这是非常宝贵的，非常有趣。我认为它必须是一个伟大的乐趣与子女所有。如果我是一名教师，我可以教我的学生很多知识。他们可能会成为强大和聪明，因为我了。这是一个非常知足的感觉。 中国是一个发展中国家。中国人是不是优秀，在他们的智能。所以老师在中国可能非常非常重要的。他们可以提供社会了不少成功的人，使中国成为更美好的地方。 你认为我有一个很好的梦想，我将努力工作，使我的梦想变成真！ 7-Ups of life 人生七喜 不知你是否喜欢我这篇人生七喜演讲? Good morning, Boys and girls! Does anybody like this drink(高举7-Ups的气水罐)? Well, this is my favorite drink. But today I am not going to talk about my favorite drink. I would like to talk about 7-ups of life. You may wonder what that is. Ok, please sit back and listen. The 7-Ups of life. 1. Wake up! I would say” Today is a new day. Let’s rejoice and be happy!” So I am going to stop to smell a flower. I’m going to stop to look up at the blue sky and the...
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...I dive trying to grab the handle, but a gust of wind causes the handle to fly high into this teeny tiny tree. The string is still all the way reeled out. This string is so long that the handle is stuck in one tree and the kite itself is stuck in an even bigger tree. With our luck the even bigger tree is across the road at the neighbor's house. We cannot get all the way to it because the kite is all the way at the tippy top of the tree. By this point Tarissa and I are laughing hysterically as I am also attempting to scold her for releasing the handle. Little Owen goes inside as I climb this super small tree, confused at the event that had just happened. The tree is so small that the biggest branch there is is as big as my forearm, and every single branch that I stepped on would either bend like rubber or snap as easily as a candy cane. It was absolutely horrifying. As I am in this tree trying to shake the handle out of it, Shanandria comes by laughing at us and telling us to give up on it. I was not going to give up on Iron Man. After about twenty...
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...build something as a kid? Has a kite ever flew by your mind? Building a kite from scratch is not only easy but awesome to learn! Although, building a kite isn't always easy you can always learn from building from scratch. Kites are easy to learn how to build and also easy to learn how to fly as well. It’s good to know how to build a kite because it’s easy to experiment with. You can build kites many different ways, many different ways can be how you want to build it and how you want them to look like. Second, kite building is not only for kids, it’s for everyone. Kites are meant for stunting, flying, fighting, and used for other activities. You can build a kite however you want. If you want your kite for regular flying you can build it for that specific activity. If you want your kite for stunting you can build it for that too. You can build a kite for anything you need it for. Kite history, in the history of flight, the first lighter-than-air balloon and the first powered aircraft are very recent when compared with the age of kites. The exact date and origin of the kite is not known but it is believed that they were flown in China more than two thousand years ago. One legend suggests that when a Chinese farmer tied a string to his hat to keep it from blowing away in a strong wind, the first kite was born. The earliest written account of kite flying was about 200 B.C. when the Chinese General Han Hsin of the Han Dynasty flew a kite over the walls of a city he was attacking...
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...General crowd at PIKF walking at the show area | Pune International Kite Festival | PIKF logo in shallow depth of field and then finally gets focusPeople in large numbers looking up towards the sky at the festival | Rugwed talks about our intention behind PIKF | Rugwed’s interview on the show groundMeeting sessions at Setu OfficeBrain storming at conference | It all started with a small objective of doing something on a bigger scale for the city | Discussion in Rugwed’s cabin with members talking about the showSystem work | Nachiket talks about the scale of the festival | Nachiket’s interview on the show groundLabours setting up the venue brandingLaying the green shade net on the flying area | 20 International kite flyers43 kite flyers from across India amazed Twenty Thousand Punekars | Close up of peoples excitement at the festival which includes kids, teens, parents, grand parents, police etc | | Kites flying in the blue sky with animated supers on the screen:’20 International flyers’‘Form 8 counties’’43 kite flyers’‘From across India’ | Amonkar talks about Sakal’s association with cultural Pune since 82 years and excitement of doing the cities first international kite festival event | Amonkar’s interview at the show groundLong shots, close ups etcPeople buying the tickets at the counter | | Time lapse shots of flyers chaletsInternational flyers un packing their kitesPreparing their kites for flying(All shots in close up and long with shallow depth of field)...
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...Cheonjiwang Bonpuli From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The Cheonjiwang Bonpuli (Hangul: 천지왕 본풀이, literally 'Chronicles of Cheonjiwang') is a Korean creation myth, traditionally retold by shamans in the small island ofJeju Island. It is one of the best-known Creation myths in the Korean peninsula, and many key elements in the Cheonjiwang Bonpuli can be found in the creation myths of the mainland.[1] Plot[edit] Unlike its title, the supreme deity Cheonjiwang (Hangul: 천지왕), whose name literally means 'King of the Heavens and the Earth', serves mainly as a secondary character. The protagonists of the myth are instead the two sons of Cheonjiwang, Daebyeol and Sobyeol. The myth starts with the creation of the world, when the sky and the earth were one (This concept can be found in most other creation myths; see Chaos andGinnungagap). As there were no sky nor earth, as a result, there was only an empty void. However, one day, a gap formed in the void. All that was lighter than the gap headed upwards and formed the sky. All that was heavier than the gap fell down to become the earth. From the sky fell a clear blue drop of dew, and from the earth rose a dark black drop of dew. As these two drops mixed, all that existed, except the sun, moon, and the stars, came to be. From these two drops came humans and even the gods.[2][3][4] The leader of the gods, Cheonjiwang, awoke to the cry of the three roosters; the Cheonhwangdag (Hangul: 천황닭, literally 'Rooster Emperor of the Sky'), the...
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...Khaled Hosseini worked as a medical internist at Kaiser Hospital in Mountain View, California for several years before publishing The Kite Runner.[3][6][7] In 1999, he learned through a news report that the Taliban had banned kite flying in Afghanistan,[8] a restriction he found particularly cruel.[9] The news "struck a personal chord" for him, as he had grown up with the sport while living in Afghanistan. He was motivated to write a 25-page short story about two boys who fly kites in Kabul.[8] Hosseini submitted copies to Esquire and The New Yorker, both of which rejected it.[9] He rediscovered the manuscript in his garage in March 2001 and began to expand it to novel format at the suggestion of a friend.[8][9] According to Hosseini, the narrative became "much darker" than he originally intended.[8] His editor, Cindy Spiegel, "helped him rework the last third of his manuscript", something she describes as relatively common for a first novel.[9] As with Hosseini's subsequent novels, The Kite Runner covers a multigenerational period and focuses on the relationship between parents and their children.[2] The latter was unintentional; Hosseini developed an interest in the theme while in the process of writing.[2] He later divulged that he frequently came up with pieces of the plot by drawing pictures of it.[7] For example, he did not decide to make Amir and Hassan brothers until after he had "doodled it".[7] Like Amir, the protagonist of the novel, Hosseini was born in Afghanistan...
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...At the outset of Chapter 1, just as the book begins, Amir writes these words. With them, he hints at the central drama of the story and the reason he is telling it. To the reader, the quotation functions as a teaser. It piques the reader’s interest without revealing exactly what Amir is talking about, and from the time period Amir mentions, twenty-six years, the reader gets an idea of just how important this moment was. As the story unfolds, we realize that the deserted alley Amir refers to is where Hassan was raped, and that this event has largely defined the course of Amir’s life since. This is what Amir means when he says that the past continues to claw its way out. Try as he might to bury it, he was unable to because his feelings of guilt kept arising. As a result, he figuratively continues peeking into the alley where Assef raped Hassan, literally meaning that he keeps going over the event in his mind. 2. “A boy who won’t stand up for himself becomes a man who can’t stand up to anything.” Baba says these words to Rahim Khan while he is talking about Amir at the end of Chapter 3, and the quotation reveals important traits in both Amir and Baba. With these words, Baba sums up one of Amir’s major character flaws—his cowardice—and Baba shows how much value he places in standing up for what is right. Baba is reluctant to praise Amir, largely because he feels Amir lacks the courage to even stand up for himself, leaving Amir constantly craving Baba’s approval. Amir’s desire for...
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...Mariana Jimenez Period 1 The Kite Runner Final Essay It is normal for human beings to make mistakes that cause oneself to feel guilt, but what matters the most is how one fixes their mistakes that dictates what kind of person they truly are. In the book, The Kite Runner, by Khaled Hosseini, it shows that the quest for redemption is the way to atone for guilt. The author uses the literary technique of symbolism to enhance the theme of feeling guilt and its quest for redemption throughout the book. Amir has done many things that cause him to feel guilt that cause him to go on a quest for redemption. For example, in the beginning of the book, Amir says, “That was a long time ago, but it’s wrong what they say about the past, I’ve learned, about how you can bury it. Because the past claws its way out. Looking back now, I realize I have been peeking into that deserted alley for the last twenty-six years.”(Khaled Hosseini, 1) This shows not only how Amir has been feeling guilt for the last twenty-six years but also how one as a reader can see how Amir finds redemption later in the book. Amir has clearly stated that he has tried to bury his past, his mistakes, but they eventually “claw” back out, forcing Amir to face his guilt and redeem himself. Also, later in the book Amir says “I flinched, like I’d been slapped… Then I understood: This was Hassan’s final sacrifice for me… And that led to another understanding: Hassan knew. He knew I’d seen everything in that alley, that I’d...
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...Khaled Hosseini uses the kite symbol in The Kite Runner as a description of Amir and Baba’s relationship, Amir’s guilt, and Amir’s rejuvenation. The kite is one of the only things that connect Baba and Amir. Amir is not good at the things most children in Afghanistan are, like soccer, and he exceeds in school. Amir always feels as though Baba never respected or thought he is a good son. Amir feels guilty when he thinks about kite flying. It reminds him of his childhood memories with Hassan, the friend he betrayes for a kite, letting him get raped. After this, his recollections drift to betrayal and guilt. Rahim Khan, a lifelong friend, Baba and Amir are connected through the flying of kites. Kite flying is an essential aspect of Afghani culture. Amir and Baba both have extensive experience with flying kites. Amir says that...
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...Contemporary Creation Myth Team B understood the concepts in this weeks reading and found the stories to be interesting. The stories most interesting are the sacrifice stories. The God Ymir was killed because the other Gods thought he was mean. When his lifeless body fell his body parts turned into different things such as seas, lakes, skies, trees, and mountains. T he belief of these stories actually teach that in order to have life there must be death. Other types of stories are the stories that consist of secretion of body fluids that create birth as in the accretion myths (Leonard & McClure, 2004, p. 34). Reminds us of the movie Gremlins and how they keep making new evil little monsters when they come in contact with water or eat after midnight. As long as these two things do not happen the gremlin stays sweet almost sacred furry animal. A concept is the emergence myths. These myths have people that travel through worlds until they emerge into one. A person could keep traveling until they become perfect and can continue the work of other Gods (Enotes, 2013). A person in this particular time could be a man that is successful in our world today, such as Bill Gates. A person as successful as Bill Gates is an icon and to some Godly for representing such things that are in the future. A modern day creator, Bill Gates was a technological innovation keen business strategy with aggressive gung ho tactics. He and his partner Paul Allen built the world's...
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...Theories of Myth University of Phoenix Theories of Myth Myths could have dissimilar meaning to society. A myth can portray a fairy-tale that is not true which could be precisely meant for entertainment to a narrator and whoever is listening to the story. A myth could portray a fairy-tale that maybe true. The stores told many years ago could have some false and true meaning. In order to comprehend the history of mythology, brilliant intellects capture dissimilar methods to understand the fairy-tales being read and determining to view if the stories were true, to view if the stories were false, to view if the stories of the imagination or if the stories were actually real thousands of years ago. An example of brilliant intellect is Sir William Jones who found legitimacy in the myths by investigating the dialect the stories were printed in. Sir William Jones was valued and respected as a young adult who spoke five languages and was considered a youthful genius in the 18th century. Sir William Jones assumed he could confirm the authenticity of the fairy-tales by using the dialect utilized many years ago. Sir William Jones traced the languages to one resource that all languages were developed from; this was called proto-indo-European that was a dialect presented as an idea. Sir Jones found a way to give legitimacy to his process, which others used and found that myths were vital and crucial windows into cultures and...
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...Theories of Myths Paper Myths are so important when it comes to understanding people; Myth comes from the Greek word ‘mythos’ that simply means story or word. Before histories and books on fiction, fact or fantasy were ever written, man from the earliest days told stories to each other and for each other to communicate, reassure, share, and make sense of his or her realities. Myths enact and present a narrative of how a character lives out or goes through an event or a set of events. Myths have come to symbolize a particular genre of fiction along the lines of legends and folktales - important aspects of meaning-making and identity-creation in cultures all over the world. Mary Magoulick (2009) defines myths as such, "Myths are symbolic tales of the distant past (often primordial times) that concern cosmogony and cosmology (the origin and nature of the universe), may be connected to belief systems or rituals, and may serve to direct social action and values." In this paper I will discuss three theories, compare two creation myths, and finish with a summary and conclusion of my reflection towards the theories. Myths are important areas and source of sociological, psychological, and even historiographical discourse in our attempt at understanding and learning of the world of our ancestors and the people and civilizations that came before us. From these myths we learn their world views, how they made sense of their realities and how they reacted to and processed natural and social...
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...yutrevdesffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffff vards “Reverse Creation” By: Bernard Backman In the end, we destroyed the heaven that was called Earth. The Earth had been beautiful until our spirit moved over it and destroyed all things. And we said... Let there be darkness... and there was darkness. And we liked the darkness; so we called the darkness, Security. And we divided ourselves into races and religions and classes of society. And there was no morning and no evening on the seventh day before the end. And we said... Let there be a strong government to control us in our darkness. Let there be armies to control our bodies so that we may learn to kill one another neatly and efficiently in our darkness. And there was no evening and no morning on the sixth day before the end. And we said... Let there be rockets and bombs to kill faster and easier; let there be gas chambers and furnaces to be more thorough. And there was no evening and no morning on the fifth day before the end. And we said... Let there be drugs and other forms of escape, for there is this constant annoyance - Reality - which is disturbing our comfort. And there was no evening and no morning on the fourth day before the end. And we said... Let there be divisions among the nations, so that we may know who is our common enemy. And there was no evening and no morning on the third day before the end. And finally we said... Let us create God in our image...
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...Babylonian Creation Myth (summary) The Babylonian creation myth is recounted in the "Epic of Creation" also known as the Enûma Elish. The Mesopotamian "Epic of Creation" dates to the late second millennium B.C.E. In the poem, the god Marduk (or Assur in the Assyrian versions of the poem) is created to defend the divine beings from an attack plotted by the ocean goddess Tiamat. The hero Marduk offers to save the gods only if he is appointed their supreme unquestioned leader and is allowed to remain so even after the threat passes. The gods agree to Marduk's terms. Marduk challenges Tiamat to combat and destroys her. He then rips her corpse into two halves with which he fashions the earth and the skies. Marduk then creates the calendar, organizes the planets, stars and regulates the moon, sun, and weather. The gods pledge their allegiance to Marduk and he creates Babylon as the terrestrial counterpart to the realm of the gods. Marduk then destroys Tiamat's husband, Kingu using his blood to create humankind so that they can do the work of the gods. (Sources, Foster, B.R., From Distant Days : Myths, Tales, and Poetry of Ancient Mesopotamia. 1995, Bethesda, Md.: CDL Press. vi, 438 p., Bottéro, J., Religion in Ancient Mesopotamia. 2004, Chicago: University of Chicago Press. x, 246 p., Jacobsen, T., The Treasures of Darkness : A History of Mesopotamian Religion. 1976, New Haven: Yale University Press. 273.) Enuma Elish 'When on high' The Babylonian Epic of Creation...
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