...fireflies, twelve metres of thick, black hair and a river that holds the memories of a thousand hearts. Gone are the days of blood and war, now only her tale carries on. Gifted with 12 metres of hair, she bathes in the river of Iraya and trawls for the soul-less bodies who once lived at the heart of her beloved town, in hopes of serving their souls and their families the justice they deserved. Will they find their justice? Will the Fish-Hair Woman find hers? On November 2014, DLSU Harlequin Theatre Guild, in its 48th season, will bring you last season’s most successful and much anticipated production, “Fish-Hair Woman”, written by acclaimed contemporary Philippine-Australian writer Merlinda Bobis. Adapted on stage by Carlos Palanca awardee and renowned playwright Rody Vera with original songs by Dodjie Fernandez. Directed by the guild’s artistic director and ALIW awards nominee Romualdo “Raffy" Tejada. The second run of "Fish-Hair Woman" is still a theatre in a round type of stage, helping the audience experience the show at an intimate level and become part of their world. SYPNOSIS Estrella, the Fish-Hair Woman follows the fireflies to bathe her hair into the nearby river of Iraya where the dead bodies of those who once stood and fought for their humble town were thrown into the water. There, she trawls the dead from the water using her 12 meter hair. The unnamed bodies trapped forever into the memories of those who remained. The Fish-Hair Woman’s reality lies within the tales...
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...The Fish – a short story by Seamus Galway The short story is narrated in such way that every time you read it new meanings and symbols appear. The fascinating writing style reveals symbols in even the smallest details of the story and has a big influenceon the overall impression. And the way the Christian symbol, the fish, is made the foundation of the story is very interesting and admirable and makes the reader focus and analyze on every single detail of the story to find out what is really happening – and why it happens. Because of the writer’s thorough and descriptive writing style, the reader gets a distinct picture of the setting, and because of the many describing details you actually find yourself being a part of the story. The description of the setting and the people indicates that the story takes place in Portugal because the inhabitants speak Portuguese. I am guessing it is in a little village near the sea or a harbor, mainly because the writer mentions an old port, rococo churches and stately customs house. I would say the story takes place in present time, for example because it is mentioned that there are lots of tourists in the village and we are told that these tourists often go on organized cruises along the reef. It is also described how the river is very dirty and brown with waste, which is very characteristic for the nature nowadays. If we are to look at the two characters, Manuel and the American woman, it is pretty clear that these to persons...
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...take place during the full moon. The oraons believe in the sayings of dak and khana. They have many superstitions regarding journeys. For example, oraons will not undertake a journey if they stumble at the start, someone beckons from behind, a house-lizard calls out, a message is delivered about someone's death, a corpse appears on the way, a crow caws on a dry twig, or an empty pitcher comes in view. When oraons start tilling the field, they will do so from the east. They will wait for an auspicious day to begin building a house. They believe that it is inauspicious to comb hair at night, to throw women's hair outside, to sweep a house at sunset, to give something to someone after dusk, to hear an owl hooting, or a dog weeping at night. Oraons also have certain superstitions about cows. Thus they give away the first yield of milk from a lactating cow, and will not let a menstruating woman or a woman who has not completed the period...
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...Course: English 111 Term: Winter 2007 Jhumpa Lahiri, through the stories in her book “Interpreter of Maladies”, sheds light on the experience of immigrants from the subcontinent who face difficulties in adjusting and integrating and as a result feel homesick and isolated in a new world so different from their homeland. The short story “Mrs. Sen’s” is about a thirty-year old Indian woman who migrated to the United States with her husband. Her husband is a professor of mathematics at the university and is gone all day leaving Mrs. Sen behind by herself. She feels lonely and isolated when her husband is away and she therefore baby sits an eleven year old boy named Elliot. She thinks of the times she had back home “sitting in an enormous circle on the roof of her building, laughing and gossiping and slicing fifty kilos of vegetables through the night” (115). She attempts to find the life she had in India but finds it hard to do so in this society which is new to her. Her only connection to the society is the little boy, Elliot. The short story “Third and final continent” is also about a young woman just like Mrs. Sen, who migrates to the United states after getting married but unlike Mrs. Sen, she adjusts well to the life in the United States. At the start of the story, Lahiri describes Mrs. Sen’s apartment as being decorated in a typical Indian style. Her apartment is what one can say a living example of an archetypal Indian house with “plush pear-colored carpet” (112), unwrapped...
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...by washing all the plates in the castle herself. She picked them all up but did not realize that one of the plates was the plate on which the ring was kept on. She took the plates, along with the plate with Eric’s gold pickle ring, down to a stream to wash them. She never saw the ring slip off the plate into the stream. The river carried away the ring, and a fish swallowed it. Downstream, a boy was fishing. He caught enough fish that day to sell some and bring the rest home to his family. After he cooked a fish for himself, he cut it open and found the ring. He took the ring to town the next day and sold it to a towns-women named Jenny. The king was known and respected by everyone , but the boy did not know that the ring was the king's, Jenny did, but was too proud and selfish to return it to the king. Instead she hid the ring inside her long, thick beard. It was not long before King Eric discovered that his ring was missing. No one, including his daughter, had any idea what had happened. The news of the missing ring was announced throughout the kingdom. The fisher-boy heard of it and realized whose ring had been in the fish....
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...In Flint Michigan, water was being contaminated. It started when Flint changed their water source from treated Detroit water to the Flint River. A flint woman named Melissa Mays said clumps of her hair were falling out, she developed rashes and came down with a lung infection. Many people think when they turn on the faucet, clean water will come out. A lot of people take clean water for granted. Every person needs about 2.5 quarts of clean water per day to stay healthy. But there are 1.5 billion people that don’t have clean water, mostly in developing countries. Water pollution needs to be controlled because it gives diseases and sometimes kills humans, it is hurting the environment, and it is ruining the food chain. Many people not only take clean water for granted but also take fish for granted. Many people think that all fish are healthy and clean to eat. That is not the case. Fish are being contaminated by water pollution. Fish get contaminated by toxins. Fish or other animals that eat the contaminated fish retain the toxins. Biologists have found more toxins in larger fish that have longer life spans than smaller fish with shorter life spans. This is because the larger fish eat the smaller fish that have...
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...to their families. They will be seen as the carers of the camp and the major force when moving from camp to camp . Their most important role will be seen as wife and mother. We will look at her as the nurturer of children and land as her knowledge was passed through teaching by example of the skills needed for survival and the showing of respect for the world around her. We see her as a growing woman going through her initiation rituals through puberty and preparing for marriage. She is involved in her religion and religious rituals. The Aboriginal woman has an important role as an ambassador to potential hostile groups. She holds to her responsibilities as a mourner and a contributor to art. She is an integral part of Aboriginal society and its laws. As the main concern in Aboriginal society was to get food, there was a clear division of labour between men and women of what and how food was collected. Aboriginal woman are responsible for providing most of the vegetable foods by gathering seeds, fruits, tubers, and nectars as well as collecting smaller animals, reptiles and fish (Edwards, 36, Sanders & Evans, 1992, 14). The digging stick symbolises the role of the female (Edwards, 2005, 36) as they used the stick to dig for yams and edible roots as well as to kill lizards, bandicoot, goanna, snakes and other small creatures (1967 13; Berndt, 1999, 119). There appears to be no correlation between age and work effort for the women, as the most productive women tend to be...
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...News Finance Sports Top of Form Search Web Search Bottom of Form Home Manage Your Life Fashion + Beauty Healthy Living Parenting Love + Sex Food Astrology Featured on Shine: the thread: celeb fashion video financially fit make home a haven real-life makeover bikini 101 Top of Form All Recipes Search Yahoo! Shine for: Shine Search Bottom of Form Thursday, June 10, 2010 Subscribe to This Blog Add to My Yahoo! RSS Beauty Secrets from Around the World user by Woman's Day, on Tue Jun 8, 2010 7:12am PDT 42 Comments Post a Comment Read More from This Author » Report Abuse By Amanda Greene When it comes to beauty routines, the grass is always greener. Japanese women have it made with their long, glossy hair and Greek women’s olive-toned complexions are always luminous. But how do they do it? Put down your passport—you won’t need to go anywhere to find out. We got insider beauty information from experts on how women across the globe stay gorgeous. Read on to find out their secrets, and learn how you can recreate them at home. Australia Australian makeup artist Napoleon Perdis says yarrow extract is used by Australian Aboriginal women to prevent stretch marks, thanks to its moisturizing and hydrating properties. “Yarrow root is also an anti-inflammatory, which soothes the skin.” Calm your complexion with his Auto Pilot Pre-Foundation Primer , which contains the extract as a key ingredient. Chile Chilean women credit the antioxidant powers...
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...women in the kitchen with stained aprons, the smell of flour, virgin olive oil, as they constantly brush their hair back in the heat of the kitchens. The men they are outside, their job of setting up tables and arranging chairs now done, they watch over the children while smoking cigars and drinking wine. This is the scene of our Italian Christmas. Through out the night can be heard a language that not only can be heard, but seen as well. Talking with their hands, speaking a language of Italian dialects and broken English. It’s the language you can hear the sing/song word endings of the Roman dialect, the slick imagined well dressed dialect of the northern Milanese, the country chopped words of my calabrese, and the hard earthy of the Sicilian. We are all one under this house, so this combinations of dialects works as one language. This is the language that I understand, it the language that my Nonna tells me she loves me. I stand their transfixed, as a young child of ten, trying to remember something to respond with in this language. While nothing comes to mind, I turn to her and say in English, “I love you too, Nonna” and then place a kiss on her cheek. I can smell her perfume and see the way she’s dressed, how they are all dressed: the men in suits, the women in fancy dresses & heels, and the children like porcelain dolls, all ready to take our annual family photo. My hair is curled, my dressed is pressed, and my shoes have been polished. I wait for the sound of Nonna and Nonna...
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...band so she was not a patient. This woman was wearing denim jeans and a black t-shirt with black combat boots. She constantly looked at the clock on the wall. She reached for the red phone on the wall to make a call into the E.R. She talked on the phone for 25 seconds and hung up the phone. An African American toddler, wearing an orange jacket, and blue jeans with short curly black hair, was constantly running back and forth from his chair to that aquarium, saying the colors of the fish. There was an elderly caucasian lady, wearing a pink jogging suite asleep in a wheel chair with yarn, and a crochet needle in her lap. She would awake every now and then to crochet a little then she would fall back to sleep. The Toddler in the orange jacket ran up to a woman wearing a blue denim jacket, leggings and brown Ugg boots. She was also wearing a hospital registration band to be seen by a doctor. The both of them then walked over to the vending machine and purchased an ice tea and a coke. While observing the toddler drinking his beverage, there was a young man that walked up to the metal detector. He was wearing, black Adidas jogging pants with a matching track jacket. He was texting on his cell phone. A woman that was in...
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... The Greek culture, as well, is built on the mythological characters of Gods like, Zeus, Apollo and Poseidon. The ruins of the Parthenon still stand on Mt. Olympus in Athens, Greece today. The Greeks believed that there were several Gods who, individually controlled earth element , love and dreams. Mermaids are a myth intriguing me since I was a child. I would always look for a Mermaid every time I was in the ocean. They were described as beautiful young woman with the lower part of her body being the tail of a fish. Mermaids used their voices to lure sailors to what would ultimately be their death. Some stories say she would sing the sailor to sleep and drowned him. While others state that she would present them with a question that must be answered correctly. A wrong answer would evoke her to bring the seas crashing down on the entire crew. The body of a mermaid has never been found. The stories state that her flesh rots very quickly making a corpse impossible to find. Another myth I would like to be true is Bigfoot. Bigfoot is primate in appearance but has very close characteristics to man. He or she can...
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...considering we as human always thought we were the only creature walking-life form and there was no only type, but could there be completely other forms of living human beings unlike us swimming “under the sea” as it is said in the Disney’s television show the “The Little Mermaid.” As many social media stated such animal planet you don’t know what to believe it or not to believe. Because they said aquatic humanoids the half- human, half- fish being are clearly still remaining open to debating, because there are said to be some vivid imaginations. Because of a mermaid remains being found by American tourists whom were in Israel which they happen to catch footage of a mermaid. But if you were one of those tourist and went up someone walking in the streets now they probably would not believe what they were hearing and that it was coming from another person mouth. But there are also many people whom might believe it. Because you know if there were such things as gods and goddess, I think Neptune was a god and he happen to be a half-human but also half-fish which made him a mermaid. But this kind of topic has logical reasoning behind it. But that was a time long before us, and to come back to animal planet sources say that the mermaid’s story was all a show act. As stated in this statement “Mermaids were probably a lot more rooted in lonely sailors’ imaginations than the physical world.” A critical look at the Animal Planet ‘docudrama’ reveals abominable (excuse the pun) CGI, combined with...
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...hospitals for the insane. To the American woman a system of plural wives seems "instinctively" abhorrent. She cannot understand how any woman can fail to be jealous and uncomfortable if she must share her husband with other women. She feels it "unnatural" to accept such a situation. On the other hand, a Koryak woman of Siberia, for example, would find it hard to understand how a woman could be so selfish and so undesirous of feminine companionship in the home as to wish to restrict her husband to one...
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...The Unity of Appearance The novel Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse exemplifies the idea behind appearance. The novel is able – through dialogue, events, and descriptions – to show how appearance does not exemplify the world as a whole, yet how appearance does not symbolize nothing, but instead how appearance matters in the sense that it changes and tells a story. Appearance matters in a way that all objects of the world portray their story through their appearance. Appearance allows someone or something to see nooks and crannies within objects in order to see that objects past, present and future. For example how the scratches on rocks show weathering while wrinkles on a human show stress. Take that even further and see how deep those scratches are or wrinkles are, what other features can you see, and a story begins to build right in front of you just from appearance. Within the novel we can see this idea of appearance through Siddhartha’s journey to become enlightened. His own appearance changes as he transitions from studious, to gluttonous and to enlightened. With the passage of time appearance evolves and fits the character of the thing it inhabits. Around Siddhartha others also are under the influence of the ideas surrounding appearance. Appearance though different between objects we call the same, as no two rocks are identical, they continue to portray the same image. Parallel to the idea of enlightenment there are multiple paths to the end journey. Appearance allows for these...
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...quotation from the text) • 1 conclusive paragraph (in which you sum your findings and put them in relation to your introductory paragraph) Length: 2 pages (with double spacing) – no more, no less. Criteria for marking: 1. Good, error-free language 2. The conclusive paragraph “answers” the introductory paragraph. 3. Coherence from one paragraph to the next. Julia Blackburn, The Mermaid (A British short story published in 1998.) The man was still there poised in indecision and staring at the thing which lay heaped at his feet. I saw then that it was not a human corpse, or the trunk of a tree, or a bundle of sail that he had found, but a mermaid. She was lying face down, her body twisted into a loose curl, her hair matted with scraps of seaweed. The year was fourteen hundred and ten and it was very early in the morning with the sun pushing its way gently through a covering of mist that floated aimlessly over the land and the water. The man had never seen a mermaid before except for the one carved in stone above the east door of the church. She had very pointed teeth and a double tail like two soft and tapering legs, while this one had a single tail which could have belonged to a large halibut or a cod. The man stepped forward and squatted down beside her. The pattern of her interlinking scales glinted with an oily light. He stroked them along the direction in which they lay and they were wet...
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