...The Summer Palace (Chinese Pinyin: Yí Hé Yuán), northwest of Beijing, is said to be the best preserved imperial garden in the world, and the largest of its kind still in existence in China. It is only a short drive (15 km) from central Beijing but seems like another world. Most people find they need to spend at least half a day here, there’s so much to see and enjoy in the gardens, buildings, and waterways. You can take a 10 minute boat-ride to see an island temple, sit and watch a traditional Chinese performance in the restored theatre (one of the three great traditional theatres in China), or explore the recreated traditional shopsby the river. The story goes, that former Emperors, or their concubines, used to enjoy 'pretend-shopping', as normally everything was bought for them. Just wandering round enjoying the different buildings and courtyards, or just taking in the views from one of the many vantage points is a pleasure. A visit involves plenty of walking, so wear comfortable shoes and protection from the weather (sun or rain) and be prepared to be enchanted. There are many pleasant spots along the way to pause and enjoy this much-loved summer retreat, as well as places to enjoy cool drinks and snacks. The Summer Palace (Chinese: 颐和园; pinyin: Yíhéyuán), is a vast ensemble of lakes, gardens and palaces in Beijing, China. It serves as a popular tourist destination and recreational park. Mainly dominated by Longevity Hill (万寿山; 萬壽山; Wànshòu Shān) andKunming Lake (昆明湖; Kūnmíng...
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...is whether the Palace of Versailles is impressive or excessive. I believe the palace of Versailles is impressive because it has so much history behind it and so many historical people have been there ranging from all of the kings that have live their since it was first built in 1682 to all of the diplomatic meetings that have taken place such as the Versailles summit had taken place in 1982, where a lot of industrialized nations leaders were there to talk about international elations and problems. (Chateau Versailles). My first impression of Versailles was that it was an impressive palace and that whoever lived in it was really powerful, and I think that was the goal of the people who built it because it wanted to symbolize that France was powerful and is not one to mess with. I will tell you what I think of Versailles now, why Versailles matters, and compare it to other famous things we have talked about in the Humanities. I think of the palace of Versailles as a historical treasure of France because it was built to be a palace for the king and have great times there which their was, but with all historical places they all have some not so great memories that come with it such as, “ A beautiful palace built by a proud king blazed with glory for a century. Then abruptly, comeuppance arrived with a revolutionary mob and led off the kings decedents to a gory death.” (Versailles, Tony Spawforth). The author is talking about the French Revolution and how the palace was almost destroyed...
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...The Palace of Versailles is a complex and beautiful royal château that has lived throughout history as one of the most beautiful pieces of architecture since its construction was first begun in the year 1624. From 1682, when the palace was completely built, to the beginning of the French Revolution in 1789, the Palace of Versailles housed over 3,000 people, including the king and the entire French Royal Court. The Palace of Versailles stood as a symbol of dictatorial power and degradation. More buildings than just the royal palace were placed on the grounds as well; there were five chapels, the Grand Trianon (built during 1687 - 1688), the Pavilion Francais (built in 1747), the Petit Trianon (built during 1762 - 1768), and, though not buildings,...
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...The review of the book „Moon palace” by Paul Auster „Moon palace“ is a contemporary novel written by modern American novelist Paul Auster. The book tells story about young man who tries to find himself in a world and about two other men from his previous generations. All three men are linked through fantastic coincidences. Author’s purpose is to remind and make us face some things, which we already know, but usually are afraid to face, things we usually sheer from. “Moon palace” has really diverse characters. The protagonist Marco Stanley (M.S.) Fogg is student in his early twenties, an orphan with no family at all. This lonely orphan seems to be spending entire story searching for his identity, mostly appears, indirectly. He is at a loss in his life and for some time works for Thomas Effing. Effing is wicked person. Man is disabled and blind, but is far from being pitiful. He enjoys laughing at and fooling everyone. All his life is a lie, so it’s no surprise that man is extremely lonely. The last of the main characters, Solomon Barber is trapped in his 350 pound body. He separates himself from the rest of the world by putting the mask of cheerful eccentric, but actually lives in complete solitude. The story takes place in New York, though some of the actions happen in the desert of Utah and in the other parts of America. The events largely take place in the late 60’s and 70’s, but sometimes narrative goes back to early and mid 1900’s. M.S. Fogg is the central...
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...These histories were conceived within grand narratives of progress, expansion and enlightenment. Inevitably, they both systematically and accidentally recast, ignored and silenced other competing histories from the places and cultures with which they came into contact. Post - colonial studies has consequently set itself the task of examining and challenging those narratives, developing other ways of telling histories, and re – evaluating other ways of remembering. If post- colonial literature means the interrogation of the subaltern to the “center”, no other book is representative of the post-colonial theory and practice as Amitav Ghosh’s The Glass Palace. The novel won the 2001 Frankfurt e – book Award of fifty thousand dollars Grand Prize for Fiction. Abreast of the contemporary academic debates about colonialism and culture, Ghosh is well-equipped in challenging the institutionalized perspectives of the colonial history. He is certain of his human and historical insights. He belongs to a nation that was once conquered and ruled by Imperial Britain. Ghosh in “The Anglophone Empire” (2003) says: “I am Indian and my history has been shaped as much by the institution of this empire as a long tradition of struggle against them”...
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...The Secret Underworld Palace | | By: Arianna Maria Ketwaroo | | Prolong Long ago there was a powerful wizard named Celine. Among most of her abilities her most powerful one was that she could tell what would happen in the future. Many years passed and Celine got married to a wizard named Sammy, they had two beautiful daughters named Angel and Sarah. One day Celine fell ill and couldn’t get out of bed, for the past weeks she got worse and she was unable to speak, so she was forced to write what she wanted to say. It last for four weeks then six months poor Celine was bed risen. Not long after Celine had a vision but sadly she couldn’t tell anyone so she found some paper and wrote it down: The prophecy said that two girls born to become Queen’s will come to the palace and defeat the wicked ice beast; they shall be trained by a young man for two months after those two months are up the time will come that they shall defeat the wicked ice beast and they will be crowned Queens of the underworld palace. The oldest shall be name Angel and the other Sarah they are my own so they shall consist of the power I have both from myself and Sammy. They will come from the mortal world and will be accepted into our un-mortal world both of them shall have a butler to keep them safe from our world. When they both become Queens they shall each marry one of our kind and shall be honored throughout the underworld palace. After Celine finished writing down her vision she passed...
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...impulse to learn and build on her knowledge. The novella also states that Queen didn’t like being contradicted, and if she came across any reading that wasn’t in line with her thoughts and actions, she used to lose her patience at it. Her lack of interest in reading can be judged by the incident when Norman, a servant sarcastically remarked about her reading sense by stating that the book ‘My dog Tulip’, must be comprehended by the queen to be about a dog. This can further be reinforced by the anecdotes about Henry James and Jean Ganet. However, over the course of time she developed a strong insight into reading. It all sprung off after the queen felt obliged to borrow books from a City of Westminster Mobile Library outside the Buckingham Palace. She was guided by Norman, a former kitchen boy and an...
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...PizzaPalace Case Study #2 Fin 610 National University Tashodra Rogers Capital Structure When firm’s have a mixture of debt and equity it is called Capital Structure. A firm’s capital structure decision includes its choice of a target capital structure, the average maturity of its debt, and the specific types of financing it decides to use at any particular time. The value of a firm’s operations is the present value of its expected future free cash flow (FCF) discounted at its weighted average cost of capital (WACC). The WACC depends on the percentages of debt and common equity, the cost of debt, the cost of stock, and the corporate tax rate. The WACC is a weighted average of relatively low-cost debt and high-cost equity. If the proportion of debt is increased, then the weight of low-cost debt increases and the weight of high-cost equity decrease. By changing the capital structure affects all the variables in the WACC equation, but it’s not easy to say whether those changes increase the WACC, decrease it, or balance out exactly and thus leave the WACC unchanged. As the risk of bankruptcy increases, some customers may choose to buy from another company, which hurts sales. This in turn will decrease net operating profit after taxes (NOPAT), thus reducing FCF. Suppliers tighten their credit standards, which in turn reduces accounts payable and causes net operating working capital to increase, and reduces FCF. Therefore, the risk of bankruptcy...
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...The central government of the UK is based in at the Palace of Westminster in London. It contains the major central political institutions of the UK, the House of Commons and the House of Lords. Together with the ruling monarch, these three institutions are known as Parliament. The central government is the layer of government that operates across the whole country. It is usually located in the country's capital city and it has very specific responsibilities that no other level of government is able to do for example; signing treaties with other nations, making new laws and defending the nation. A proposed new law is called a bill. Bills must be agreed by both Houses of Parliament and receive Royal Assent from the Queen before they can become Acts of Parliament which make our law, The good thing about this responsibility is that it will make our country a safer place to live in by creating new laws and policies which will help protect the people either from drink/driving laws or smoking ban where they keep you from harm. The bad thing about this responsibility is only a selected few hundred MPs can make the choice and even through the people in the House of Commons are voted in by us, they may not do what is in our best interest and will vote on their principles and beliefs and they could have a bias opinion. An example would be the House of parliament and when they are in session they discuss lots of different issues and reports and in front of the...
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...then a prison. Now it is a museum. St. Paul's Cathedral is very large and fine. It was completed in 1710. The famous English architect Christopher Wren planned and built St. Paul's Cathedral. If the City is the business part of London, Westminster is the centre of administration. We can see the Houses of Parliament there. It is a beautiful building with two towers and a very big clock called Big Ben. The Houses of Parliament stand in Parliament Square. Westminster Abbey is opposite the Houses of Parliament. Many great Englishmen were buried in Westminster Abbey. To the west of Westminster Abbey you can see Buckingham Pa-lace. It is a royal residence. The ceremony of the chan-ging of the guards which takes place in front of Bucking-ham Palace is of great interest to the tourists. Rich people live in the West End. The best and most expensive clubs, restaurants and theatres, beautiful houses and parks are there. The East End — the district of plants, factories, slums and docks — is for the working people. London is unlike any other city in the world. It has rather wide streets but low houses. It looks very grey because there is so much rain and fog there. Only buses and pillar-boxes are red. This city has never been planned and it has many parts which are different from each other. Перевод текста: London Yesterday I watched a great cartoon "Hakuna Mathata". I liked...
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...King Luis XIV held the throne of Versailles for seventy-two years. Using a unique system of governing, everyone who was part of King Luis XIV's court lived inside the palace with him. The Palace of Versailles itself started off as a large hunting lodge with a small hamlet surrounding it, twenty-five miles from Paris France. Knowing that the palace was too small for his needs, King Luis XIV built extending wings to the palace to house his noble friends. During the construction, the workers were treated so horrible that three hospitals had to be built to keep up with all the injuries. King Luis XIV had himself painted in the place of many Greek heroes and legends to boost his self righteousness. He then claimed the Sun as his icon to represent...
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...932). Increased nationalism in England also sparked a revival of Gothic architecture. After the Houses of Parliament burnt down in London (1834), the task of redesign the new building was assigned to Charles A. Barry and Augustus W. N. Pugin. Their Gothic design of the new Houses of Parliament make it a prime example of Victorian architecture today (Tansey 955). It is important to recognize that Romantic architecture was not only a return to the past. Modern technologies and materials, as well as non-European influences, also played a role. (Sporre 495-98; Tansey 956). One example is the Crystal Palace designed by Sir Joseph Paxton for the Great Exhibition in London (1851). Made of iron and glass, it was designed to be rapidly put together and taken apart. Another noted architectural example of this period was John Nash’s Royal Pavilion in Brighton (1815-18). The design of this palace was greatly influenced by Islamic and Eastern architecture (Flynn; Sporre 495-98; Tansey 956, 1014). Victorian architecture was both a rediscovery of the past and the precursor of Modern architecture. Some buildings embodied both of these characteristics. The Houses of Parliament and the Crystal Palace’s outside architecture had little to do with their functions and internal design. Their architects were revolutionizing the world of architecture and ushering in the Modern era (Sporre 495-98). Works Cited Tansey, Richard G., and Fred S. Kleiner. Gardner’s Art Through The Ages. 10th ed. Orlando:...
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...Heart of Cold: Siss’ Escape from Childhood The Ice Palace by Tarjei Vesaas takes place in a rural Norwegian village and tells the story of Siss and her short but powerful friendship with Unn. The narrative gives perspective into the events of Siss’ world as she struggles to come to terms with Unn’s death. At eleven-years-old, Siss is on the borderline of adolescence. Despit this, her environment and experiences are forcing her into adulthood too quickly for her. Throughout the novel, Siss tries to resist confronting Unn’s death as she desperately tries to cling to her youthful innocence. In the end, Siss’ inner turmoil finally melts when she goes back to the Ice Palace to confront her inevitable dive into adulthood; the excursion to the Palace marks Siss’ acceptance of growing up and the Palace melting signifies the end of Siss’ search for Unn and the burden of the unknown secret. Siss realizes the expedition to the Ice Palace is more than just a chance to reunite with her school friends: it is the beginning of her acceptance of her aging process. Death has previously been presented as a topic too sophisticated for Siss, causing her to retreat from the her friends that were able to accept the death more easily. Siss was isolated from physically as well as emotionally. This separation paused her emotional growth and led to her desperate attachment to staying a child. As the group of children embark on their journey to the Ice palace, they first must go through a series of valleys...
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...permanent display, comprise over three million items,[4] including the largest collection of paintings in the world. The collections occupy a large complex of six historic buildings along Palace Embankment, including the Winter Palace, a former residence of Russian emperors. Apart from them, the Menshikov Palace, Museum of Porcelain, Storage Facility at Staraya Derevnya and the eastern wing of the General Staff Building are also part of the museum. The museum has several exhibition centers abroad. The Hermitage is a federal state property. Since 1990, the director of the museum has been Mikhail Piotrovsky. Of six buildings of the main museum complex, five, named the Winter Palace, Small Hermitage, Old Hermitage, New Hermitage and Hermitage Theatre, are open to the public. The entrance ticket for foreign tourists costs more than the fee paid by citizens of Russia and Belarus. However, entrance is free of charge the first Thursday of every month for all visitors, and free daily for students and children. The museum is closed on Mondays. The entrance for individual visitors is located in the Winter Palace, accessible from the Courtyard. Buildings Originally, the only building housing the collection was the 'Small Hermitage'. Today, the Hermitage Museum encompasses many buildings on the Palace Embankment and its neighbourhoods. Apart from the Small Hermitage, the museum now also includes the 'Old Hermitage' (also called 'Large Hermitage'), the 'New Hermitage', the 'Hermitage Theatre'...
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...932). Increased nationalism in England also sparked a revival of Gothic architecture. After the Houses of Parliament burnt down in London (1834), the task of redesign the new building was assigned to Charles A. Barry and Augustus W. N. Pugin. Their Gothic design of the new Houses of Parliament make it a prime example of Victorian architecture today (Tansey 955). It is important to recognize that Romantic architecture was not only a return to the past. Modern technologies and materials, as well as non-European influences, also played a role. (Sporre 495-98; Tansey 956). One example is the Crystal Palace designed by Sir Joseph Paxton for the Great Exhibition in London (1851). Made of iron and glass, it was designed to be rapidly put together and taken apart. Another noted architectural example of this period was John Nash’s Royal Pavilion in Brighton (1815-18). The design of this palace was greatly influenced by Islamic and Eastern architecture (Flynn; Sporre 495-98; Tansey 956, 1014). Victorian architecture was both a rediscovery of the past and the precursor of Modern architecture. Some buildings embodied both of these characteristics. The Houses of Parliament and the Crystal Palace’s outside architecture had little to do with their functions and internal design. Their architects were revolutionizing the world of architecture and ushering in the Modern era (Sporre...
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