...THE LITTLE PRINCE In the eyes of a child, there is joy, there is laughter. But as time ages us, as soon as we flowered and became grown-ups the child inside us all fades that we forget that once, we were a child. The story begins about drawings of closed and open boa constrictors. Later, the author relates a story about the Turkish astronomer who discovers the little prince's home, Asteroid B-612. When he presents his findings to the International Congress of Astronomy, dressed in his comical Turkish outfit, he is not believed. Man has not learned to look beneath the exterior, or rather, he has forgotten how. Because adults never look within, they will never know themselves or others. A fox is one cunning animal. And in the story, it is proven to be right. From the fox's lesson that one can see only what is essential by looking with the heart, the author leaves the desert as a changed person. He agrees with the little prince's thought: 'the stars are beautiful, because of a flower that cannot be seen';. The rose is very fragile and needs constant care. Love is not a matter of choice; it is a matter of consequence; indeed, it is a matter of survival. Men must learn to love one another or expire. Love is what gives life meaning. The little prince's love for his rose is so important to him that his love gives the author's life purpose and direction. The fox teaches the little prince how to love. It is the time that one 'wastes'; on someone or something that makes it important...
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...cares more about himself and his pleasures. The prince of whales is sitting in a chair after eating a large feast, This prince will possibly be king someday. The following criteria to being a good king is to be presentable,good with money,and also ambitious.The prince would not be a good king. The first criteria to being a good king is to be presentable and to be someone who cares about their appearance. The king doesn't care about what he looks like, in the picture it shows him picking his teeth with a fork. Another thing noticed in the picture is that his jacket buttons are either popped from possibly eating too much or he doesn't care that they are unbuttoned. If you pick your teeth with a fork it...
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...The Masque of the Red Death Do you think Prince Prospero is a tragic hero, or a fool? Support your opinion with evidence from the text. The short story "Masque of the Red Death" by Edgar Alan Poe, essentially, is the story narrating about the human desire to avoid death and the final result of such avoidance. The main character, Prince Prospero is shown as a complete fool by the attitude he has towards his life, kingdom, and other people. We can notice that Poe right away shows Prince Prospero to be fatally flawed by naming him Shakespeare’s term for wealth and the magician from the story “The Tempest" who was a sorcerer and could make the products of his imagination real. Like Shakespeare's Prospero, Prince Prospero in Poe’s story uses his magic to arrange a fairy-tale and fabulous revel. And same as the other Prospero, his carousal is doomed to come to an end. From Prince Prospero’s actions we can infer that he is a terrible person as well as an awful ruler. He doesn’t think about suffering of his people. He behaves like he just doesn’t notice the peasants dying of the plague: “The external world could take care of itself. In the meantime it was folly to grieve, or to think”. The only thing Prince Prospero does in this deplorable situation is dancing, drinking and basically having fun while the dreadful “Red Death” is killing the innocent people of his country: “But the Prince Prospero was happy and dauntless and sagacious. When his dominions were half depopulated, he summoned...
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...and get a job on a low post with her secondary school certificate in a big company, but even there she did not get respected by the co-workers. Therefore she decided to leave that and become a prostitute again, one day firdaus stabbed and killed the pimp who controlled her life, but she was not guilty of what she did instead she was proud to do that. However from then she decided to choose what she wants and started rejecting the men she did not want to have sex with, which were specially the men with dirty nails. In the end of the book firdaus was a very confident woman and a highly successful prostitute and when the prince asked her to go with her she refuse the offers before and agreed on 3000. There the prince was not able to believe that a sensitive and gentle woman like firdaus can actually kill someone and she slapped the prince to prove him that, the prince got scared and started screaming for police and called her and her mother criminal when firdaus said “My mother was not a...
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...Saint-Exupéry is to be believed The Little Prince is a book for children written for grown-ups. It can be read on many different levels to provide pleasure and food for thought for readers of all ages. The author, an aviator, crashes with his aeroplane in the middle of the Sahara desert. While he is trying to repair his aeroplane, a little boy appears and asks him to draw a sheep. The author learns that The Little Prince comes from asteroid B-612 where he has left behind three volcanoes and a rose. Before reaching Earth, he has visited other planets and met some very odd people: a king, a conceited man, a drunkard, a lamplighter, a geographer… Since arriving on Earth, he has spoken to a fox who has taught him that to know someone or something, you must « tame » them, and that makes them unique. « What is essential is invisible to the eye, says the fox. » In order to return to his planet and his rose, The Little Prince allows himself to be bitten by a poisonous snake: his planet is too far away, he cannot take his « shell ». The aviator, who has succeeded in repairing his plane, also quits the desert. He still hopes The Little Prince will return one day and asks us to write and tell him if ever we should meet his friend.Pour les lecteurs qui souhaitent se remémorer le livre et ses principales lignes, voici un résumé du voyage du petit bonhomme et de ses rencontres. More about the planets visited by the Little Prince Each planet the Little Prince visits can be seen as an allegory...
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...Machiavelli’s Advice to Princes on Gaining and Keeping Power in his ‘The Prince’ Machiavelli collected The Prince as a realistic show for decree. This target is apparent from the very start, the devotion of the volume to Lorenzo de’ Medici, the leader of Florence. This book is not mainly hypothetical or conceptual; its writing style is straightforward and its reason simple. This personality highlights Machiavelli’s wish to offer realistic, effortlessly comprehensible advice. All princes have to build on tough foundations. The two crucial components of a tough state are excellent laws and excellent armies. Excellent regulations cannot be real without excellent armies. The existence of an excellent military, on the other hand, indicates the existence of excellent laws. In addition to luck and competency, unlawful acts or the support of his fellow people can make possible a man’s rise to authority. Those who get into authority by sin kill fellow populace and become untrustworthy to friends. They are “traitorous, merciless, and earthly.” Princes who entrust unlawful acts can realize power, but not at all magnificence. Syracuse’s King Agathocles is for instance a man who came to domination through offense. Agathocles was a normal occupant who joined the equipped military, rose to a most important status in the militia, and after that he brought together a gathering of the governing body at which he structured his men to murder all the senators and to fit him in authority. Agathocles’...
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...The Masque of the Red Death By: Edgar Allan Poe A terrible disease called the Red Death has struck the country. It's incredibly fatal, horribly gruesome, and it's already killed off half the kingdom. But the ruler of these parts, Prince Prospero, doesn't seem to care about his poor, dying subjects. Instead, he decides to let the kingdom take care of itself while he and a thousand of his favorite knights and ladies shut themselves up in a fabulous castle to have one never-ending party. Wine, women, music, dancing, fools – Prospero's castle has it all. After the last guest enters, no one else can get in – the Prince has welded the doors shut. That means no one can get out, either… About five or six months into his stay, Prospero decides to have a spectacular masquerade ball (a ball where the guests where masks and costumes). The setup is weird and wild, just like the Prince who designs it. The ball takes place in a suite of seven rooms, each one dressed up in a different color: blue, purple, green, orange, white, violet, and black. The black room, which looks like death, is awfully creepy – it's got dark black walls, blood red windows, and big black clock which chimes so eerily every hour that everybody at the party stops dancing and laughs nervously. Most of the frolicking masqueraders are too weirded out to go into the black room. Anyway, the party's in full swing and everybody's having a wild time when the clock strikes midnight. Everyone stops dancing and falls momentarily...
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...Little Prince is a book for children written for grown-ups. It can be read on many different levels to provide pleasure and food for thought for readers of all ages. The author, an aviator, crashes with his aeroplane in the middle of the Sahara desert. While he is trying to repair his aeroplane, a little boy appears and asks him to draw a sheep. The author learns that The Little Prince comes from asteroid B-612 where he has left behind three volcanoes and a rose. Before reaching Earth, he has visited other planets and met some very odd people: a king, a conceited man, a drunkard, a lamplighter, a geographer… Since arriving on Earth, he has spoken to a fox who has taught him that to know someone or something, you must « tame » them, and that makes them unique. « What is essential is invisible to the eye, says the fox. » In order to return to his planet and his rose, The Little Prince allows himself to be bitten by a poisonous snake: his planet is too far away, he cannot take his « shell ». The aviator, who has succeeded in repairing his plane, also quits the desert. He still hopes The Little Prince will return one day and asks us to write and tell him if ever we should meet his friend. More about the planets visited by the Little Prince Each planet the Little Prince visits can be seen as an allegory of human nature. If you have already read the book, we invite you now to take a new look at the different planets. The king – asteroid B 325 In the book, the Little Prince meets...
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...The Book of the Courtier and The Prince were books that explained how to be a Prince, a Courtier, or a well-rounded man. Castiglione and Machiavelli were Florentine and grew up in the same time but they ended up on different sides of the spectrum. They both wrote their books during the same time during the Renaissance. Both were well educated for their time and they were the beginning of the emergence of the middle class. Growing up both their families had money and freedom that allowed them to become educated and enabled them to achieve their own success. Machiavelli and Castiglione believed in your own arms, meaning they will do what they have to do with their military to stay strong as a country. Castiglione and Machiavelli had some similarities but most things were very different. Machiavelli and Castiglione believe that the Prince and Courtier should appear good but Machiavelli believed that doing evil to achieve goals was perfectly fine. Castiglione believed in human potential and the ability of a man to improve himself. Machiavelli believed that the end result is all that mattered and how you got there...
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...Born on May 3, 1469, in Florence, Italy, Niccolò Machiavelli was a diplomat for 14 years in Italy's Florentine Republic during the Medici family's exile. When the Medici family came back to power in 1512, Machiavelli was dismissed and briefly imprisoned. Machiavelli as an individual has been described as aloof, as standing to one side of life ‘with a sarcastic expression continually playing around his mouth and winking from his eyes’. This report is based on Machiavelli’s most famous work, The Prince, which was written in 1513-14. While The Prince was not the foremost book of this kind, it was the first to propose a government that dominates with no respect for religious belief or morality. Machiavelli did not particularly pay heed to religious law in the manner he lived his life, but he likewise did not particularly care for the Catholic Church of the time because of the lack of ethics demonstrated by the Pope's and other supposedly "religious men's" actions at the time. The Prince, a handbook for politicians on the employment of ruthless, self-serving cunning, inspiring the term "Machiavellian" and establishing Machiavelli as the "father of modern political theory."(History.com) There are many types of leaderships that after being present over the centuries. Leadership styles have developed over time, with a prominent shift from the autocratic and directive leadership in the twentieth century to a more participative and democratic style of the younger generation. These changes...
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...dissolution. The scarlet stains upon the body and especially upon the face of the victim, were the pest ban which shut him out from the aid and from the sympathy of his fellow-men. And the whole seizure, progress and termination of the disease, were the incidents of half an hour. But the Prince Prospero was happy and dauntless and sagacious. When his dominions were half depopulated, he summoned to his presence a thousand hale and light-hearted friends from among the knights and dames of his court, and with these retired to the deep seclusion of one of his castellated abbeys. This was an extensive and magnificent structure, the creation of the prince's own eccentric yet august taste. A strong and lofty wall girdled it in. This wall had gates of iron. The courtiers, having entered, brought furnaces and massy hammers and welded the bolts. They resolved to leave means neither of ingress nor egress to the sudden impulses of despair or of frenzy from within. The abbey was amply provisioned. With such precautions the courtiers might bid defiance to contagion. The external world could take care of itself. In the meantime it was folly to grieve, or to think. The prince had provided all the appliances of pleasure. There were buffoons, there were improvisatori, there were ballet-dancers, there were musicians, there was Beauty, there was wine. All these and security were within. Without was the "Red...
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...Recently, I had the pleasure of watching a musical directed by Jeremy Hutton. Into the Woods is a musical for people of all ages. It is a performance involving a combination of fairytales and characters like Jack, Cinderella, Rapunzel and more. The musical uses spoken dialogue and songs to portray the story of how each character is given a chance to fulfil their wishes and presents the possibilities of what can happen if all of their wishes are granted. Into the Woods was performed beautifully at the Hart House Theatre at the University of Toronto. At first glance, the theatre seems like any other small, cozy theatre. However, as you inch closer to the set, your perspective changes. It feels like you are being transformed into a magical and...
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...discriminated against in our society. At times, they have been considered the weaker sex and also, they have been expected to do work that only demands low responsibility. These responsibilities may include: housework, being a good wife and mother. However, the world’s perspective towards women has had significant changes, and companies like Walt Disney Production are still generating stereotypes of gender against women in their films such as Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Cinderella, Beauty and the Beast, and Mulan. Media is frequently responsible of encouraging these patterns by the way they show their information and entertainment to the audience. Laura Mulvey, a British feminist film theorist, is best known for her essay, “Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema” which was published in 1975. Here, she describes the role of women in movies “as a tool of attraction for the male gaze” (Mulvey). According to Mulvey’s statement, this work aims to describe the stereotypes of gender that Disney films display throughout their past productions. It also shows how the films can affect everyday lives. Over decades, these cartoons have been criticized for illustrating the traditional American and European values, thus creating stereotypes, which are often not a clear image of the current situation in our society. One of the most discussed topics in the animated features of Walt Disney Productions is the stereotype of gender against women. It displays women taking part in more traditional...
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...SULTAN MUHAMMAD AL-FATEH THE CAPTIVATING OF CONSTANTINOPLE When moon in the sky shining brightly As sign of the birth a prince Will giving incredible blessing High morals, strong religious beliefs Education given by his father About military knowledge and religious knowledge Era of Ali, Muawiyah and Harun al-Rashid Not forgetting the Sultan Murad Hundreds of years they fought But the result is still the same Not the time for getting victory Shouldered the responsibility with full dedication Beginning at the age of 19 years Do not expect praise and high rank The main focus to captivating of Constantinople That very popular by the two groups Ideas from him is so brilliant Not like his age was only teenager The first step to build strong walls To defend themselves when attacked By the enemy that will come Next step to dig the tunnels Purpose of let go man named Urban To provide artillery as many as he can The most sophisticated weapons at that time Can reach the victim with precisely Before attacking he sent spies To investigate the condition of city Then read and review some reports Strategy was planned with togetherness Follow the sunnah of our beloved prophet Soldiers was divided into five groups 50,000 of soldiers for one head of military Using land and also sea Primary key is through the way who have never passed by anyone Break down the walls of Constantinople Wait and see a response from the enemy Next morning rebuilding...
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...Many parents feel that Disney animated films are pure and wholesome, and they are perfectly suitable for children to watch starting at very young ages. On the surface of Disney movies, they are quite wholesome and they try to teach life lessons, but do these movies really portray positive images of men and women that will help a child become an individual, or do Disney movies place ideas in children’s heads, at early ages, telling them how they should act, feel, and live. In an article printed on December third 1966 in Time magazine, the author proposed that Disney films were just as much for adults as they were for children. “Disney always maintained that he made films not for children but for "honest adults."”(time.com). Anyone who has seen a Disney animated film can see that most of these movies are based on adult situations that involve the union of man and women in one way or another. For as long as Walt Disney animated films have been around, spanning eight decades, they have made a great impact on the way children view themselves and others, and they help shape how children view the opposite sex in a negative way. Most people were exposed to the wonderful world of Disney animated films when they were still toddlers. And since people are exposed to this material at such young ages, these films tend to give children an early idea of how men and women, according to Walt Disney studios, interact with each other. They also show children at an early age how people of their...
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