...The Fisherman and His Wife [calm water, the fisherman arrives] One morning, as a fisherman was fishing in the sea, he caught a golden flounder. [the fish rises from the calm water] This flounder was actually an enchanted prince, so the fisherman granted his request to be released back into the water. [the water goes away and is replaced by a small house] Upon returning home that evening, the fisherman told his wife about the magic flounder. [enter the wife] WIFE You just let him go? FISHERMAN Well, yes. I could not kill an enchanted prince. WIFE He would have granted any wish you had! Go back and catch him again. This time, when he asks you to release him, ask him to grant you a wish. FISHERMAN Alright. What should I ask for? WIFE Ask him for a grand house. We have lived in this hovel for too long! [exit wife and hovel. The water returns, but the waves are turbulent] The fisherman caught the magic flounder yet again. FISH I am an enchanted prince. Please release me back into the water. FISHERMAN First, you must grant me a wish! FISH Sure. What is your request? FISHERMAN I would like a bigger house. FISH Release me and return home. Your wish has been granted. [exit the fish and the waves] Upon returning home, the fisherman is greeted with a grand mansion. [the hovel with the first larger overlay] WIFE Oh, it’s exactly what I’ve always dreamed of! FISHERMAN It is truly grand. Now we can live comfortably instead of in that hovel. WIFE ...
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...ILOILO CITY as a Tourist Destination I. Executive Summary Iloilo City which is also one of the major urban centers in the Philippines, is a fast-growing modern city but has kept its old charm and unspoiled environment. Iloilo’s rich heritage is showcased in many festivals celebrated in the city and various towns of the province. Dubbed as the “Province of Festivals”, Iloilo is proud of its nationally acclaimed Dinagyang Festival. Iloilo City is indeed a repository of ancient and historical heritage. Every visitor can not miss-out the iconic imagery on the structures found in the city impose on the viewers’ perception. The mixture of its colonial past and western influence is a unique feature of Iloilo City’s line-up of cultural and artistic treasures. The glorious and colorful history of Iloilo City is more vividly preserved in the monuments of heritage that continue to amaze visitors who come to the city. Written historical records may only possess the informal on of the past but they can never take the place of living heritage as undying testimonies of a people, their struggles, aspirations dreams and their cultural uniqueness. This is the living testimony of Iloilo City’s ancient and historical heritage. Today, it is a popular convention and meeting destination, with its many first class accommodations and an airport of international standards. Iloilo also serves as the gateway to the region and a favorite stopover for tourists heading to the beaches of Boracay...
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...FoodMusicArtsBooksFilmsTheatre Please visit DishoomIt's blog for the latest food posts. The Tossed Salad is currently on an indefinite hiatus. Signature's 7 Sensation Fashion Tour in Pune: A Quick Look Uncategorized • Madhur Advani • 20th July, 2010 • 2 Comments • Tweet On the 15th of this month, Pune played host to Signature’s -‘7 Sensations Fashion Tour’ at the Radisson-Kharadi. Showcasing the prêt a porter collection of the designer duo -Falguni and Shane Peacock and designer Samant Chauhan; the fashion show exceeded expectations in ways more than one. Boasting of two big names in bollywood- Celina Jaitley and Rahul Bose as the show stoppers this one sure lived up to every ounce of the audience’s expectations. The show kick started with models sashaying the creations of designer Samant Chauhan on the ramp, a rather unconventional designer who created ripples in the world of fashion for his use of ‘non violent’ silk (silk not made from killing worms, but traditionally woven in Bhagalpur). This designer who doesn’t believe in using colors besides those that possess earthy tones, took the fashionistas in attendance by surprise; the reason being a change in his color palette from one comprising earthy colors to that of black and red. His collection saw the dominant use of fabrics like chiffon and crepe; garments that were well cut and structured apart from excessive use of accessories like neck adornments (carved out of card paper) and scarves. The...
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...Araby All my senses seemed to desire to veil themselves and, feeling that I was about to slip from them, I pressed the palms of my hands together until they trembled, murmuring: "O love! O love!" many times." (92) Most human beings have experienced their first love or crush in many profound ways. In James Joyce's Araby, a young preteen boy in the dreary neighborhood of Dublin in the late nineteenth century narrates his ongoing infatuation for his best friend's sister and the mystique of Araby; the exotic bazaar. With the boy's great expectations and a quest for love comes the revelation of disenchantment and a loss of innocence. The many symbols of Araby paint a rich picture of meaning. "North Richmond Street being blind", is a real street that is a dead end which symbolizes the boys hopelessness as to be going no where.(91) Being blind also foreshadows being blinded by the light. The light vs. dark symbolism is prevalent throughout the boy's quest. “The street light from the kitchen windows had filled the areas”.(91) The dark, blind street also represents as a symbol for Ireland. So here the light becomes a symbol for the country’s future. The boys neighborhood is dark and "brown" drawing attention to the plainness and dreariness of Dublin. (91)He also uses brown to describe the figure of his crush. The "bicycle pump", rusting in the backyard is the decay of Roman Catholicism.(91) The dead priest's home lingers a restraint on the boy. The priest is a symbol of Roman...
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...As a kid, I was not the biggest soccer fan- not even close-, so when the world cup of 2006 arrived and everyone was hysterical about it, I was struggling between watching it despite the boredom it caused me and to keep with my reluctant position but face isolation due to the lack of common interests with others. Nevertheless, my father, as the big fan he was, decided to give me a present that could involve me in the “soccer craziness” and still keep me amused: a world cup calendar where I could write the scores and statistics from each match. I was enchanted with the gift; it gave me some really enjoyable evenings, calculating the possible combinations of results for each team to qualify to the next round. At that time, it was just another way of entertaining me, but little did I know those were going to be the first steps in this wonderful world of mathematics – and further sciences....
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...Could a person see beyond a horribly disfigured face and fall in love with the man within? In 1831 Victor Hugo wrote the story The Hunchback of Notre Dame. Hugo introduced the character Quasimodo, a horribly disfigured man abandoned as a child. Although Looked upon as a grotesque creature, abused, and devoid of any emotion, Quasimodo’s human emotion becomes apparent when he falls in love with the beautiful Esmeralda. In 1910 Gaston Leroux wrote the story The Phantom of the Opera who introduced the character Erik who suffered the same unfortunate disfigurement. Similar to Quasimodo, Erik was also shunned by society because of his grotesque face. As a child Erik was forced to live as a side show circus freak. Erik was also forced to live below the streets of Paris in the darkness as an adult. Similar to Quasimodo, Erik also lives without any signs of love or compassion until he falls in love with the beautiful Christine Daae. Esmeralda and Christine find themselves the objects of affection to these two disfigured men. Neither woman can reciprocate. Although the reader empathizes and falls in love with the characters Erik and Quasimodo, Christine and Esmeralda cannot look pass the face to love the man behind the deformity. As an adult Quasimodo is forced to live high above the Cathedral in the bell tower. Cut off from human contact except that of his adoptive father he spends his days alone. He is a simple man whose only knowledge comes from the books read to him. He seemed to...
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...did their best to hid Miriam Salinger’s background and J.D. Salinger did not even know of his mother’s decent until he was fourteen (Biography). J.D. Salinger’s childhood was much like the main character’s in the Catcher in the Rye, Holden Caulfield. Despite his immense intelligence, he did not do well in school. Like Caulfield he flunked out. His parents, Sol and Miriam Salinger, later decided to send him off to Valley Forge Military academy in Wayne Pennsylvania. After graduating, Salinger returned home for one more year and attended New York University. His father sent him to Europe after his studies to learn another language and observe business overseas. While in Europe, Salinger grew an interest for Vienna, Italy. He was enchanted by the Italian language but paid little attention to business strategies. Back in the United States of America, Jerome...
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...g, enticing, yet at times dangerous. In both poems beauty is in the form of a woman and the woman's appearance is very captivating. Baudelaire's poem is questioning the origin of Beauty while describing her. He says, "Your gaze bestows both kindnesses and crimes/ So it is said you act on us like wine/ Your eye contains the evening and the dawn..." Baudelaire is attracted to her eyes, and the way she looks at him. Her eyes look kind yet villainous, like the contrast between night and day, good and bad. For all he knows she could be a "maneater", a woman who destroys men by any means necessary. The woman's beauty acts on him "like wine", it could either be bitter sweet or strong and uncontrollable. It seems as though hes heard of her kind, but he still wonders if shes "from the sky or the abyss." He goes on to say, "You pour out odours like an evening storm; / Your kiss is potion from an ancient jar,/ That can make heroes cold and children warm." An evening storm can give off a chillingly yet calm feeling. The smell of an evening storm is very refreshing. So for Baudelaire to say that she pours out odours like an evening storm may mean that her beauty is radiant. Her beauty is similar to perfume and how people are attracted to the smell. Her kiss can give chills to men and warmth to children. It may give men chills because...
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...It looked like it was going to be a quiet day, and Juliet felt grateful for the reprieve from students constantly interrupting her work to incessantly pester her and ask questions. It wasn't that she was unsocial, but after a long week of classes, and a healthy dose of her newly hellacious personal life, she couldn't say she didn't appreciate the silence. With a brief nod to the director of the University's library she eased her coat off to drop haphazardly on the chair she would be using for the evening behind the front desk. There was still another hour or so before her coworkers left and she would be alone for the closing shift, so with an easy shift of her attentions she moved the large assortment of returned books onto a dolly to reshelve....
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...Buttercup waits for Westly to come back from his mission on the ship and doesn’t want to be with anyone other than Westly. She will not marry Prince Humperdinck, because she believes he will come back for her even though it has been five years. Westly fought all the outlaws to capture to Buttercup. If he would have given up, she would’ve been killed later that evening. He fought for his love, he wanted to be with her and wouldn’t let her escape matter no what he encountered on his way. All of Westley’s acts that come back to Buttercup are true acts of love and passion and how you must fight for it. These meanings are shown in multiple ways throughout a person’s everyday...
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...In F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, Nick Carraway serves dual roles. The first one introduced, Nick Carraway is the novel's most well-developed character. The opening paragraphs of the novel reveal Nick's morals and ideals as a person. Though believing himself to have been given a fair amount of the "fundamental decencies [that are] parcelled out unequally at birth", Nick still is inclined "to reserve all judgements" (6, 5). With that inclination, he is then able to get to know most of the characters quite intimately, thus being able to see all the situations as a whole. An example that exemplifies his habit of reserving judgement is just before he meets Gatsby himself. At the first party of Gatsby's that he attends, he had not yet met the host, when already he hears of several rumors concerning Gatsby's past. Unaffected by rumors such as "[Gatsby has] killed a man once" and being "a German spy during the war", Nick still gets to know Gatsby quite well, helping the plot as well as Gatsby's character development (47, 48). Nick's personality qualities qualify him for being a good narrator. The most honest of all characters in the story, Nick is also honest with himself. For example, although Nick cares for Jordan, he admits to himself that Jordan is dishonest and selfish, thereby not letting emotion cloud his judgement. Nick seems to be The Great Gatsby's only uncorrupted and disillusioned character. Every other character, including Gatsby himself, uses money for every...
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...The garden was overgrown now but it had once been full of life, dearly loved and carefully tended to. Young lovers met there. It was an oasis in the middle of the city. The intoxicating smell of the roses and lavender that grew in this beloved garden covered up the smells of dirty streets and car exhaust. Chris Lemmon was the garden’s caretaker. It had been his job to mulch in the spring, trimming the trees and bushes so new buds could emerge and in the fall he collected the dead and withered leaves and branches that had been disregarded by various plants and trees. He loved the rhythm of the seasons that his job revolved around. His family had taken care of this place for 3 generations. The powerful McAlester family had once owned the property, but feeling intruded on by the various members of plebeian society that found their way into the garden, they decided to give the land to their neighbor, who was Chris’ grandfather. Having done that they retreated farther into the upper branches of society. So high they could not be bothered with small details like garden maintenance. Chris had gone to the garden with his grandfather as a small child and there was taught how to properly care for wild things. The lavender that grew profusely on the small hill behind the washed out wooden bench. The ivy that covered that walls and entangled itself in the power lines above. He even learned to take care of the birds that would find themselves trapped in the little garden shed that was...
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...The film takes place presumably in the late 18th century. In the film's prologue, an enchantress disguised as an old beggar woman offers a selfish young prince a rose in exchange for a night's shelter from the extreme cold, as a test of his heart and emotion. When he turns her away, repulsed by her old and ugly appearance and sneering at the simple but lovely gift, she turns into an Enchantress and punishes him by transforming him into an ugly beast and turns his servants into furniture and other household items. She gives him a magic mirror that will enable him to view faraway events, and also gives him the rose. He must love and be loved in return before all the rose's petals have fallen off, or he will remain a beast forever. Years later, the film's beauty queen, young and enthusiastic lady, a hopeful dreamer, called Belle, is the smartest, best-read person in a small provincial French town. As such, she is hotly pursued by Gaston, the lantern-jawed man. Wandering through her village while reading a book, Belle becomes the focus of a spectacular opening number that captures the atmosphere of the whole film. Bit by bit, the population trickles out to greet Belle and gossip about her, while she herself bemoans the small-mindedness of the place. This beautiful girl is the daughter of Maurice, who is an old inventor, still trying to rise as a phoenix and turn his dreams into a beautiful reality, that offers a better future for his family. Maurice's latest invention is a...
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...In fact, we witnessed the production of numerous ensembles. The flute ensemble consisted of flutes that appeared unwieldy and improbable to play (such as the contrabass flute, which was shaped like a backwards number four and towered over the performer), but let us imagine that we were in an enchanted forest. The tuba ensemble was composed of stocky men who emitted dainty sounds out of their perplex tubas. My favorite ensemble performance was the percussion’s show, but not only because I am a percussionist. The extravagant motions and grooving rhythms mesmerized everyone in the crowd. The difficulty of their pieces left me in astonishment. However, these miniature exhibitions only left us a taste of what to expect for the UNI Symphony...
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...Characters The Athenians Theseus – Duke of Athens Hippolyta – Queen of the Amazons, betrothed to Theseus Philostrate – Master of the Revels Egeus – father of Hermia, wants her to marry Demetrius Hermia – in love with Lysander Helena – in love with Demetrius Lysander – in love with Hermia Demetrius – in love with Hermia at first but later loves Helena The Fairies Oberon – Titania's husband and King of the Fairies Titania – Oberon's wife and Queen of the Fairies Robin Goodfellow/Puck – servant to Oberon Peaseblossom – fairy servant to Titania Cobweb – fairy servant to Titania Moth – fairy servant to Titania Mustardseed – fairy servant to Titania First Fairy, Second Fairy The Mechanicals (An acting troupe) Peter Quince – carpenter, leads the troupe and plays Prologue Nick Bottom – weaver, plays Pyramus Francis Flute – bellows-mender, plays Thisbe Robin Starveling – tailor, plays Moonshine Tom Snout – tinker, plays Wall Snug – joiner, plays Lion Play Summary A Midsummer Night's Dream opens with Theseus and Hippolyta planning their wedding, which takes place in four days. Theseus is upset because time is moving so slowly, but Hippolyta assures him the four days will quickly pass. Their relationship has not always been so loving. Theseus won Hippolyta during a battle. While they discuss their relationship, Egeus enters with his daughter, Hermia, and her two suitors, Lysander and Demetrius. Hermia is in love with Lysander, but her father wants her to marry...
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