...did not perceive that my smile now was at the thought of his immolation. He had a weak point--this Fortunato--although in other regards he was a man to be respected and even feared. He prided himself on his connoisseurship in wine. Few Italians have the true virtuoso spirit. For the most part their enthusiasm is adopted to suit the time and opportunity--to practise imposture upon the British and Austrian millionaires. In painting and gemmary, Fortunato, like his countrymen, was a quack--but in the matter of old wines he was sincere. In this respect I did not differ from him materially: I was skillful in the Italian vintages myself, and bought largely whenever I could. It was about dusk, one evening during the supreme madness of the carnival season, that I encountered my friend. He accosted me with excessive warmth, for he had been drinking much. The man wore motley. He had on a tight-fitting party-striped dress, and his head was surmounted by the conical cap and bells. I was so pleased to see him that I thought I should never have done wringing his hand. I said to him: "My dear Fortunato, you are luckily met. How...
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...Compare and Contrast Germany and America Europeans and Americans have much more in common than most people think, making adjustments to life in a new country easier. Many customs are similar to practices in the United States. Germans have their own way of being German. Germany is a relatively small and densely populated country. Unlike the United States, which is a large, densely populated country. The greatest shock to Americans is the speed at which Germans drive. The roads and freeways are quite narrow. Speed limits in cities are strictly enforced, but on much of the Autobahn there is no limit on how fast drivers can go. Although it is against the law, impatient Germans may also tailgate at high speeds and/or flash their headlights when they want to pass your vehicle. If you are driving for the first time in Germany, keep right. Left lanes are for passing only. Unlike when you are driving in America; Americans tend to travel in the lane that is meant for passing and the faster drivers. Americans tend to think “ I am going the speed limit, so I am going to stay in the left lane”, the Germany way of thinking is that if you are not passing anyone or if you are going too slow, your car needs to be in the right hand lane. Unlike in the United States, train travel is a German way of life. You can get on at train at any bahnhof (train station) and travel to any destination in Europe you would like. The Germans use the train as their main mean of travel due to pollution...
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...Hoy, 2012, p. 470) . Currently MooBella wants to place these ice cream machines through out the United States but wants to know the best locations to put it at. If I were to say where the best locations are at I would say Anywhere in the Southwest, Southeast, Midwest, South, West Coast, and anywhere, where there is a huge event such as carnivals, concerts, and etc. The reason why I would say those particular geographical areas is because; in these areas there are typically the hottest when it comes to the summer. As we all know everyone loves to have an ice cool treat in the summer heat. To be more specific I would put it near a large body of water. In the west coast, I would put it on the busiest part on almost all beaches where there high areas of traffic. By doing this you put it in an area where everyone has probably been in the sun for the past 2 hours at least and would probably want a nice cold treat to cool them with. Another place that I stated were carnivals, concerts, and etc. that are anywhere in the nation. The reason why I would put it there in the carnival is because there are high traffic areas for one, plus usually carnivals are filled with kids and usually kids love ice cream so it’s a good placement. Many will ask why you going to put it in Chicago are usually cold. Well...
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...The Motive behind the Murder Edgar Allan Poe’s short story “The Cask of Amontillado” describes Montresor’s deadly revenge against his friend Fortunato who he claims has insulted him. Since readers are unable to find the precise explanation of Montresor’s abhorrence of Fortunato, most of the readers conclude that Montresor is insane and unbalanced. However, this interpretation fails to explain the character of Montresor and goes against the intricate details of the plot. The short story’s emphasis on the elaborate murder shows Montresor’s sophisticated philosophy of revenge, which is “No one insults me with impunity”. The motive of his vengeance is because of Fortunato’s arrogance and his insulting Montresor, who is indeed equal or even superior to him. Since Fortunato can remember neither the coat of arms nor the motto of Montresor, it is logical to say that Fortunato comes from a less prominent family than Montresor. The conflict between Fortunato and Montresor arises from the sensation of incongruity between their current social standing and their right to prominence by virtue of their origin. Fortunato regards Montresor’s family as less prominent than his family because Montresor is not an active participant in the life of local aristocracy. When Fortunato noted how extensive the vaults are, Montresor tells him that he came from a great and enormous family. However, Fortunato cannot remember Montresor’s coat of arms and his family motto. At that time, the display of a family’s...
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... Topic: Pull factor attracting tourists for Carnival in Goa CARNIVAL Carnival is Goa's most famous festival and has been celebrated since the 18th century. Meant to be a feasting-drinking-merrymaking orgy just before the 40 days of Lent; a time of abstinence and spirituality. Huge parades through the cities are organized with bands, floats and dances and balls in the evenings. The final day concludes with the famous Red-and-Black dance held by the Clube Nacional in Panjim. The origins of carnival are apparently the hedonistic feasts of ancient Rome and Greece. It made its appearance in the Spanish and Portuguese colonies, where it metamorphosed into the very Latin singing-dancing-drinking bouts. The carnival is presided over by King Momo, who on the opening day orders his subjects to party. The festival attracts thousands of tourists. The exciting and fun-filled three-day non-stop extravaganza of fun, frolic, song, music and dance that is uniquely Goan is a Pagan festival popular in Latin American countries that were colonies of Portugalatsomepointintime. The Carnival is uniquely Goan and is not celebrated anywhere else in India. It is a typical Latin, song, music and dance and precedes the "Lent". The highlight of the exotic frenzy of merriment is the appointment and arrival of “KING MOMO” and his retinue to the capital city Panaji on "Fat Saturday", the eve of Carnival. The procession is flocked by dancers, bands...
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...Aid Snoopy, Charlie Brown and also the entire PEANUTS load arrange as well as make out a roadway affordable! Snoopy's Street Fair welcomes you right into the incredible universe of PEANUTS! Sort as well as make out a roadway practical to assist the PEANUTS team raising establishments for brand-new baseball regalia. Have fun with Snoopy in a variety of ventures as well as micro-diversions. Offer the skies with flying professional Snoopy, recolor the practical with artisan Snoopy or assist take all the practical's plunder with skateboard Snoopy! Features: - 26 PEANUTS characters - 3 smaller sized compared to typical enjoyments to open up (the lemonade-production enjoyment, the marshmallow-cooking diversion as well as the shade coordinating...
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...and dancing, not to mention the colorful costumes and the nudity of most dancers. It was the annual Carnival. In Brazil, Carnival is the biggest cultural gathering of the year. One whole week is reserved for live music, dancing and partying, and many Brazilians take pride in participating in the parades. Over the years, the celebration has brought about much controversy and sparked the question of whether Carnival has become just another reason to “party,” or if in fact it still has the original cultural and historical purpose. Home to many world renowned beaches, Brazil is a place which has various outstanding geographical landmarks and is the birth place of a well known dance – the “samba” – along with many other dance styles. However, an occasion which this country has come to be really well known for is the annual Carnival celebration. Carnival can be traced back to Ancient Egypt, where it was used to celebrate the spring equinox, the fertility gods’ agricultural revival, and a hope for rain (Greenbaum). To Christians, it means the coming of spring, beginning four days before Ash Wednesday, which marks the start of the Lenten season. Similar to Mardi Gras, Carnival gives people a chance to “let loose” prior to the restrictions enforced by Lent. During Lent, Christians prepare for Easter Sunday by fasting or foregoing favorite foods and activities. Essentially, Carnival became a way in which Brazilians came...
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...Research and Background The Nacirema tribe and their strange behaviors were first documented by Horace Miner in “The Body Ritual Among the Nacirema” in 1956. Considerable effort has been extended to the study of this most unusual tribe in the years that followed and many print articles and lectures were devoted to trying to understand these people and their strange customs. Recently, many new research techniques combined with a host of motivated anthropologists and a fresh source of both corporate donations and governmental funds have uncovered new information about the Nacirema. Although there are hundreds or perhaps thousands of Nacirema rituals, ceremonies, and practices that merit intense study and analysis, the focus of this research paper is perhaps one of the most bizarre and poorly understood of all their rituals. This ritual has it’s roots in many different cultures dispersed across the world dating back hundreds of years. This most interesting ritual has been celebrated in a very concentrated region of Nacirema for hundreds of years located in a few costal cities north of the body of water “Gulf of the Land of Maize”. Although this ritual is celebrated to some degree in selected Nacirema cities of this region, the epicenter of this ritual and it’s many strange customs is the city that straddles the end of the big river Ojibwe. This city is “Crescent City”, aptly named for the villages of the city that followed the curvature of the big river Ojibwe. Once per...
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...Access the importance of any two perennial national festivals in the Caribbean Carnival is Bacchanal! It is an annual celebration of life found in many countries of the world. Carnival is the time when individuals releases themselves and parade with enjoyment of the various Caribbean local art forms. According to Julia Hewitt “in the Caribbean, carnival as a mode of performing resistance, the memory of repression and sacrifice but also of hope, in a sense of becoming other”. “Caribbean festivals embody an aesthetic formally rooted in the early European, African and Asian traditions brought to the West indies between the 15th and 19th centuries, as well as from 20th century publications, broad casts and artistic movements. Caribbean festival arts are evidence of the transformation worked by a creoles aesthetic.” Judith Bettleheim et.al. Carnival in Trinidad and Tobago and Jonkonnu in Jamaica are two perennial festivals in the Caribbean. These festivals have been celebrated in the Caribbean for years and play an integral role in the maintenance and development of the region. Moreover, they contribute significantly to the nation’s social, economic, cultural tourism welfare. The Caribbean has many festivals such as Jonkonnu and Carnival. Jonkonnu has several schools of thoughts but according to Richard Allsopp denotes that Jonkonnu is more likely related to Yoruba word Jonkoliko, one elevated as a figure for fun or disgrace. This seems logical, especially since many of the...
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...Round and round like a horse on a carousel, we go, will I catch up to love? I could never tell, I know, chasing after you is like a fairytale, but I, feel like I'm glued on tight to this carousel Come, come one, come all, you must be this tall to ride this ride at the carnival Oh, come, take my hand and run through playland so high, too high at the carnival And it’s all fun and games, 'til somebody falls in love, but you've already bought a ticket, and there’s no turning back now Round and round like a horse on a carousel, we go, will I catch up to love? I could never tell, I know, chasing after you is like a fairytale, but I, feel like I'm glued on tight to this carousel This horse is too slow, we’re always this close, almost, almost, we’re a freakshow Right, right when I’m near, it’s like you disappear, where’d you go? Is that Houdini or a freakshow? And it’s all fun and games, 'til somebody falls in love, but you've already bought a ticket, and there’s no turning back now Round and round like a horse on a carousel, we go, will I catch up to love? I could never tell, I know, chasing after you is like a fairytale, but I, feel like I'm glued on tight to this carousel Why did you steal my cotton candy heart? you threw it in this damn coin slot, and now I’m stuck, I'm stuck, riding, riding, riding Round and round like a horse on a carousel, we go, will I catch up to love? I could never tell, I know, chasing after you is like...
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...unhealthy greasy food, yet they enjoy every bite of it. Its one day that the family can eat anything they want because the simple fact that they can’t eat it daily. In both festivals they serve hot dogs, sausage, ice cream, fried food such as, fried snickers, French fries and fried Oreos. Second of all many families spend so much money in arcades and prize games, they either come out empty handed or with large stuffed prizes. For instance both festivals have three very similar prize games such as, basketball, ring toss, and squirt water into the clown’s mouth. People go to ATM’s to take out money to spend on games. But they do it to have fun and hopefully not go home empty handed. Lastly the most important reason why people go to fairs, carnivals and festivals is because of the big colorful rides, the Dizzy Dean, Zipper, Moby dick, Sling Shot, and Casino. These kind of rides are the ones that makes each person feel the force in their bodies, the way their face stretches and can barely move while on the...
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...Angela English 112 July 23, 2013 The Masque of the Red Death Although the disease is running rampant through his country, Prince Prospero remains oddly happy and carefree and invites a thousand of his healthy noble friends to join him in hiding from the disease in his abbey, which he then locks away from the outside world. In each room features a different color, which matches the color of the window: the first room is blue, the second purple, the third green, the fourth orange, the fifth white, and the sixth violet. The seventh room, however, is slightly different in that although the dominant color is black, the windows are blood red. The lights shining through the window from the corridors creates such a ghastly effect in this room that most of the guests avoid the room altogether. In this apartment is also a giant ebony clock, whose pendulum swings ominously and whose hourly ringing is so disturbing that it invariably disconcerts the musicians, dancers, and other revelers, causing everyone to pause until the chimes fade away, at which point everyone nervously resumes their actions. Other than the unnerving seventh room, the ball is boldly and wildly decorated in a way that hints at Prospero's potential madness. All the apartments are crowded except for the seventh, and the ball continues until the stroke of midnight. The entire masquerade ball can be read as an allegory for the...
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...Many people have always been fascinated by carnival rides. It shocks themselves that normal, ordinary people eagerly trade in the quietness of the ground for the chance to be tossed through the air like a bowling ball knocking out pins. It stuns the fans that at some time in history someone thought that people would enjoy this. That person who invented the Ferris wheel must have been a genius with this being the first of these terrifying machines. For the sake of the terrified people, the Ferris wheel ride would hope to have a very smoothly transition. The Ferris wheel ride outside of the Staten Island mall was going to be thrilling. The first experience on the carnival ride for the people that haven’t seen or rid the Ferris wheel before at a local fair was at the Staten Island mall. Staying still at the entrance, some of the kids has small hands which were held firmly by a larger hand belonging to a much more confidant mom or dad, but it will still be a first time experience for them and others. The flashing lights, the melody of circuited music and screaming had all the people gawking at anything and everything that they saw happened upon them. But what caught and kept the people attention was the Ferris wheel that seemed to torture their occupants every time ridden. People that were looking ahead at the horizon; the evil Ferris wheel ride was getting bigger and bigger every time you took a step. People waiting at the line felt swallowed from the fear deep inside...
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...| Day at the Carnival | | | | ITT Tech Rancho Cordova | | Once arriving to the carnival with mu buddy, we applied a blindfold to him so he could experience the carnival from a different sense. We walked up to the ticket both to purchase our admission where I explained to him how many people were standing in line. He could hear there were quite a few people around him and understood we would be waiting there for a few minutes. Once we made it in, I told him about all the bright lights and loud rides that were all around. I explained to him about some of these new, bigger rides that we haven’t ever been on before. I also explained to him some of the new games that they had there and the awesome prizes we could win. I also secretly wanted to see him play some of the games blindfolded for my own personal amusement, so that’s where I was going to take him. But he didn’t care to hear about the rides and games because he was too busy smelling all the delicious food they had cooking around him. The smells of the deep fried Twinkies and the world famous corndogs and the amazing barbecue tri-tip, is what he really wanted to go discover. At that point, it was hard for me to fight that logic because I to, was being mesmerized by all the wonderful smells. So I decided to put aside my desire to see my buddy blow some games and instead, we went and had a stuffed our faces with all the great, but horrible, carnival food we all love. My factors in writing this paragraph...
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...Community development is a way of stregnthening civil society by prioritising the actions of communities and their perspective in development of social, economic and environmental policy:(scdc.org.uk). Community development is all about changes and growth, its work involves communities and also industries that concerns them, The centre focus of community development is to work with people inorder to help improve their quality of life in regards to decision making with the things that concerns them and bringing people together to find ways of solving problems and identify their own needs and aspirations; As Gilchrist and Taylor (2011;9) points out that the fundamental aim of community development is to boost the effective of community participation and capacity. This assignment will focus on different ways that community development work can be translated in the community inorder to improve on how individuals can work and learn together also ways in which equality and anti-discrimination can be practised more so that it can be more effectives within the lives of the community. There are five key principles of Community Development National Occupational Standard (CD NOS); theres are Equality and Anti-discrimination, Social justice...
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