...The extract under the title “The Eyes of the Dragon” was written by one of the outstanding American writers in the modern literature – Stephen King, known for his huge contribution in horror fiction, compared with such names as Balzac and Dickens. The extract under the study begins with the description of a young boy called Peter destined to be a king. It comes as no surprise he had a great number of servants to take care of him, but the most tender and vigilant of all was surely his mother – Sasha. She took it for granted to bring up her child in a manner worthy for kings only. Naturally she used all her talent, all her love and all her wit to raise the heir as well-bred and smart as possible. She was the only perfect teacher for him. To the boy’s mischief she died when he was only five and couldn’t realize everything properly, but those lessons she gave him stayed in his heart for ever. They say “the child’s soul is blank as a white sheet of paper, what you write there will be kept till the end.” I guess this statement suits the text precisely and comes as the controlling idea of the whole narration. Indeed, who knows better teacher and mentor for a child than its mother? Who knows all the specks and all the sores on a young body better than the woman who gave birth to the infant? No human creature. Small wonder that mothers love their children with all their heart, no matter what kind of child it is. The child is their flesh and blood, that’s the only sufficient reason...
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...A Dream of a Life Time Once upon a time there was a prince named Prince Zipo. He lived just north of a village called Northville. Prince Zipo was a handsome man. He had Blonde hair and blue eyes, he never disrespected someone older or if the person was a lady. He had a lot of manors. One day he went south to the village of Northville and found a beautiful princess. She also had Blonde hair, but she had hazel eyes that were so cute. Well on that day he saw her he fell madly in love. But he didn’t know who she was or where she came from. But he didn’t care. He walked right up to her and said “Hello Beautiful, What is your name?” She replied “My name is none of your concern!” “Why?” Prince Zipo replied. “Because I’m older then you and you have no right to be asking that towards me.” She said. Prince Zipo kept is head high and said “I’m sorry I didn’t mean to offend you, please have my forgiveness?” Prince Zipo replied. She said it was ok but made a hand gesture for him to leave so he did. He left that night to go home and tried to compose a plan to have them be wed. For a couple weeks he was thinking of ways for her to marry him. But he just knew she wouldn’t. But what he didn’t know is that she was thinking about him. Wanting him to come back and ask her out. So after a couple weeks went by; He went back to Northville. Prince Zipo saw her on a beach. Standing there watching the waves rolling over one another. So Prince Zipo Walked up behind her and said “Excuse me miss, I was...
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...is that the modern popular Chinese art form as we know it, with an essential symbolic of dragon image, is the result of the combination of the initially Chinese art tradition with the Near Eastern motives. This article proves that the idea of picturing the dragons derives from the distant past when the images were completely unlike the ones that people are accustomed to nowadays but that also was a creative basis for the motives that are being developed in the modern art. The author of the article pays attention to the fact that the initial depiction of creatures on the Chinese bronze was a result of a different imaginary process and different relation to the real world animals. Nevertheless, according to the author, it was the Near Eastern influence that has actually contributed to the inclusion of some plant patterns in the art and the transformation of the initially two-dimensional ornament into the three-dimensional animal-like pieces of art. According to the article, the first images of what we now identify as dragon were created already in the Bronze Age. Still, those were the...
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...wrecking ball and sneered. “You’re late.” I studied his eyes, they were those of a panther, yellowish-green with perpendicular pupils, and they were not amused. Wonderful, I thought. Nothing tops off a not so perfect evening like a crack of the dawn stroll through the Forbidden Forest beside a cantankerous feline. “Good cock-a-doddle-do to you too, sour-puss,” Cotton said, clicking his clogs together twice. “We would have been here an hour ago if the creepazoid in the silver Speedo hadn’t held us up.” “Hush, gnome.” His voice boomed, silencing everything in the forest right down to the last bird in the hedge. His diamond-dusted cloak...
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...of his knights and by the next dawn they went of for the quest of their lives. Brave as the lions and strong as the horses on which they rode they left their beloved home Ethia. In hours they rode and by sunset Edward Gainsborough decided it was time to rest. The next day they rode just as far as the day before, but as they rode farther away the landscape became more barren and desolated. Edward knew it was dangerous and it would be for the best to turn around, but he wanted the treasure more than anything – even if it should be with the cost of the lives of his knights. Suddenly one of the knights burst out, “Oh look! A straggling village” then another knight asked, “Why are the houses so small?” Edward couldn’t believe his own eyes. Could it really be true? “Drelmeomland” he said. The other knights looked at him as if he was suffering of some kind of mental illness, “excuse me sir, but Drelmeomland only exist in the myths” “well, lets see if that theory is true”. As they entered the small village with the ancient looking houses a small dwarf with a red beard appeared. “Hello, and welcome...
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...to the neighboring village. “There is no time for this”, he thought as he opened random cupboards looking for a clean cup—the girl was thirsty! This was an untimely distract, he needed to be in the Sun Room to make the final preparations for his spears. The moment he had been preparing for all year was just upon him: Dragon’s Sun would arrive at sunrise and he still had so much to do. Finally he found a ladle lost in a pile of tools on the table. His home was filthy and stunk of sweat and iron. Lately he’d had no time to waste on cleaning because he had been putting the finishing touches on his spears to prepare them for the arrival of the Dragon’s Sun. His house was more a workshop than a home anyway. It sat nestled in at the base of Dragon Mount beside the clear running mountain river unimaginatively named, Coldstream and was built over an open crevasse in the earth that constantly bubbled with molten lava. The fumes that spilled forth reeked of sulfur and the deep unknown and probably would have killed most men, but the Spearmaker was not most men. He had built his forge around the bubbling crevasse and the heat from the earth’s belly allowed him to shape iron to his will. The river, flowing next to house, provided the pure water in which he tempered his steel. However it was the Dragon’s Sun that his weapons needed the most. It came once a year and was the most important step to making his renowned weapons. All he did was pound the metal using the basic methods of a gifted smithy...
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...provided, and the recommended consequential disclosures as a basis you your analysis, what recommendations would you give Phillips on each of the items listed below? In each case, justify your recommendations and estimate how much the decision will change the “true” value of the company and its value in the eyes of an investor in a private company. a. The lease or buy decision, including whether to structure as an operating lease. The new canning equipment should be leased over the 14 year term with no bargain purchase option so as to structure it as an operating lease. The major factor to consider is what will boost Net Income the most given that the goal is raise the share price. After a side-by-side comparison, the Net Income is greatest under an operating lease structure with the capital lease and purchase outcomes being equal thereafter. This is due to a couple of factors. First off, under an operating lease, the payments to the lessor are considered rent (S,G&A for this case) and do not include interest. Therefore, there is no interest expense of $50,000 under the operating lease however, that is offset by an increase in S,G&A expense ($85,870). Secondly, the lessee, Dragon Soup, does not have to expense depreciation which saves them an additional $50,000. This reduction is made to Cost of Goods Sold because under GAAP, manufacturing firms are to apply direct PPE expenses to inventory when it is sold. The result of this decision is a $14,130 higher EBT under an operating...
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...Community, Culture and Competition – You have entered the Dragon Zone! From the moment I dipped my paddle into the waters of Ontario’s Algonquin Park, I was hooked! With each stroke, I travelled further away from civilization and deeper into the backcountry. Immersing myself in the beauty of nature, it was an eye-opening and life-changing experience. From the seat of my canoe, I tested myself both physically and mentally as I battled headwinds, self-doubt and inner fears. It has been years since that first expedition, and since that time my love affair with paddling has only deepened. From Seakayaking to Stand Up Paddleboarding, if the sport involves water and a paddle you can count me in! Always searching for new, unique and challenging paddling opportunities, you can imagine my delight upon hearing the beat of the drums in False Creek!...
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...A Chinese warrior travels in time to find his missing son, but must battle an evil sorcerer who’s after an ancient magical tablet that yields unspeakable powers. . BRIEF SYNOPSIS: GING HONG, a Chinese Warrior travels through time in search of his missing son, LING. In 1830 China, an evil sorcerer, HAN CHI, threatened the life of Ling and held him by a golden thread. Han Chi holds up a jade magical ancient tablet known as the Chang Di. With the power of the tablet, Han Chi would have the power to bring the Children of the Dragon to a physical form. The children will be the incarnation of the Dragons and do their bidding. Suddenly a flash of light strikes Han Chi’s hand and the tablet drops. When Han Chi demands the tablet back, the tablet is tossed and shattered into pieces. The essence...
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... STEVEN BELLEDIN, ED COX, DAARKEN, WAYNE ENGLAND, EMILY FIEGENSCHUH, CARL FRANK, DAN FRAZIER, BRIAN HAGAN, RALPH HORSLEY, CHRIS MALIDORE , JIM NELSON, ERIC POLAK CA RTOG R A PHE R CHRISTOPHER PERKINS DEV ELOPMEN T MANAGER MIKE SCHLEY GRAPHIC DESIGN ER JESSE DECKER DIRECTOR OF RPG R&D DEE BARNETT G R A P H IC P RODUC T ION S P E C I A L I S T BILL SLAVICSEK P RODUC T ION MA NAGE R S ERIN DORRIES IMAGE T ECHN ICIAN JOSH FISCHER, RANDALL CREWS CHRISTINA WILEY Playtesters: Kraig Horigan, Jason H. Haley, Richard Hughes, Richard Stephenson. Some information in this book is taken from or derived from Draconomicon: The Book of Dragons by Andy Collins, Skip Williams, and James Wyatt. Based on the original DUNGEONS & DRAGONS® rules created by E. Gary Gygax and Dave Arneson, and the new DUNGEONS & DRAGONS game designed by Jonathan Tweet, Monte Cook, Skip Williams, Richard Baker, and Peter Adkison. This product uses updated material from the v.3.5 revision. This WIZARDS OF THE COAST® game product contains no Open Game Content. No portion of this work may be reproduced in any form without written permission. To learn more about the Open Gaming License and the d20 System License, please visit www. wizards.com/d20. U.S., CANADA, ASIA, PACIFIC, EUROPEAN HEADQUARTERS & LATIN AMERICA Hasbro UK Ltd Wizards of the Coast, Inc. Caswell Way P.O. Box 707 Newport, Gwent NP9 0YH Renton WA 98057-0707 GREAT BRITAIN...
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...30 January 2012 Asian Dragons Vs European Dragons Whether you live in Vietnam, China, Japan, Scotland, USA or anywhere in the world, you have probably heard of the dragons-the animal of imagination of human. A dragon is a legendary creature, typically with serpentine or reptilian traits, that feature in the myths of many cultures. There are two distinct cultural traditions of dragons: the European dragon, derived from European folk traditions and ultimately related to Greek and Middle Eastern mythologies, and the Asian dragon, with counterparts in Japan, Korea and other East Asian countries. Since I was a kid, dragons have always been a mystery and an attraction for me .I have spent a lot of time to study about them and found out that there are three general differences between the dragon from the east and the west which are appearance, symbolism and what they mean to society . First of all, the easily identifiable difference between an Asian dragon and a European one is the appearance. Asian dragons resemble large snakes. They look like a combination of many animals such as snakes and eagles, and had no wings. For Chinese, each one of its four short legs had five toes while a Japanese dragon has three and a Korean one has four. Even though depicted without wings the Asian dragon is believed to fly. They are often in red and gold. Unlike the Asian, the European typically depicted their dragons as a huge fire-breathing scaly and horned dinosaur-like creature with bat-type wings...
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...Chapter 1 At 10:30 a.m., sharp, James Eckert pulled up in front of Stoddard Hall on the Riveroak College campus, where Grottwold Weinar Hansen had his lab. Angie Farrell was not, however, ready and waiting at the curb. Of course. It was a warm, bright September morning. Jim sat in the car and tried to keep his temper un- der control. It would not be Angie's fault. That idiot of a Grottwold undoubtedly had dreamed up some- thing to keep her working overtime in spite of-or perhaps because of-the fact he knew she and Jim were supposed to go home-hunting this morning. It was hard not to lose his temper with someone like Grottwold, who was not only one of the world's non- prizes but who had been very patently trying to take Angie away from Jim and get her for himself. One of the two big doors on the front of the Stoddard Hall opened and a figure came out. But it was not Angie. It was a stocky young man with bushy reddish hair and mustache, carrying an overstaffed briefcase. Seeing Jim in the car, he came down the steps over to the car and leaned on the edge of the opened win- dow on the curb side of the front seat. "Waiting for Angie?" he asked. "That's right, Danny," said Jim. "She was supposed to be out here to meet me, but evidently Grottwold's still hanging on to her." "That's his style." Danny Cerdak was a teaching assistant in the Physics Department. He was the only other Class AA volleyball player on campus. "You're going out to see Cheryl's trailer?" "If Angie ever...
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...Bearded Dragons I have done a couple of different speeches on animals so far, and yes, you are about to hear another one. This time I am going to talk to you about one of my favorite reptiles, the bearded dragons. Most people are influenced by their mean appearance, as was I when I saw them for the first time. Beardies, as we call them at work, are one of the most laid back reptiles you can ever handle. They are a very easy reptile to have; they just need specific living conditions, diet, and lighting. When getting a juvenile bearded dragon, you can start with a 20 gallon tank. This tank will last you about 6 months, and by that time you will need to upgrade to a 40 gallon breeder tank or larger. A breeder tank means it is at least 18 inches in width. You will also want to have a screen top on it to allow airflow and proper heat and lighting to sit on top. With a juvenile bearded dragon, you want to have a reptile carpet as the floor. If you use sand, or any other type of loose substrate, it can get clogged in their intestines while eating, and can potentially be fatal. Beardies also like branches and a hiding place to sleep in their habitat. Bearded Dragons are omnivores, meaning they eat meat and plants. The food they eat should be no bigger than the space between their eyes. If it is bigger than that space it can cause paralyzing of the back legs. As babies, you should feed them small crickets 2-3 times daily. Give them about six crickets each time to start out, increasing...
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...Revenge in Beowulf Revenge by definition means to get retribution for a wrongdoing done to youself or to a loved one. Believe it or not, everybody has felt or taken action on the act of revenge, whether it is out of pure vengeance or a firm belief that the offender truly deserved it. Revenge can bring justice, but it can also bring pain and unintended consequences. “Beowulf,” a story centered around epic battles and heroic deeds, has revenge as a recurring theme. The entire tale is driven by the hero’s need to right the wrongs done against him and his fellow comrades by killing their enemies. This cycle of revenge is initiated when Grendel attacks Heorot, spontaneously killing 30 of the king’s thanes. Grendel hates the Danes’ late night shenanigans in the boisterous mead hall, thus he takes his revenge by terrorizing the Danes. Seeking to make a better name for himself through battle, Beowulf arrives in the kingdom to kill the monster Grendel for attacking the Danes. Beowulf avenges the Danes by mutilating one of Grendel’s arms and mounting it inside Heorot as a victory token, therefore, the Danes soon have their revenge against Grendel. The best example of revenge in the epic is represented through the character of Grendel's mother. She has had no prior interest in Hrothgar or the Danes until the death of Grendel. Grendel's mother is so grieved and angered by her son's death that she heads up to Herot and commences her own revenge by killing one of Hrothgar’s dearest thanes...
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...and hung anywhere for teaching. All of the thangkas I saw were enormous, comparing to a regularly sized painting. They cover three-fourths the height of the wall and are four or five times wider than a normal human. These paintings also deviate from the rules of thangka art in the use of colours, shape, proportion, characteristics and qualities. The traditional thangka paintings are strictly regulated, while the thangkas shown in Bowers Museum are more free-flowing, giving the artist more room for creativity. Although all nine thangkas share the same size and characteristics, Virupaksa (Dharma King of the West Direction) with 16 attendants painting caught my eyes immediately when I walked into the room, maybe because the main figure in this thangka- Virupaksa has a red face. He is depicted with a wide face, large round eyes, a brown moustache and beard. In this painting, Virupaksa is holding a writhing snake entwined around his upper arm. His left hand is raised holding a pearl shape with a yellow flame extending upward. Adorned with an ornate gold...
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