hedonistic experiences. As a result, retailers have incorporated entertainment such as restaurants, play areas, and sight-seeing attractions to enhance their customer’s experience. “Retailers have been using entertainment to attract shoppers for years, from mall carousels to the Mall of America's amusement park” (Smith, 2012). Mall of America is already a tourist attraction due its grand size and number of stores. However, the incorporation of entertainment has made…
Love is a term everybody is familiar with. Love can be a powerful and intense feeling of deep attraction, love can be a person or thing, or a feeling of sexual attraction. It can also be misleading and dangerous. It is something that is different to everybody, yet similar at the same time. Loving someone or something creates a powerful bond that is nearly impossible to break. You may have heard stories such as “Romeo and Juliet” This romantic story is about two people forbidden to see each other…
Great Britain, sightings of the Loch Ness monster intensified the tours organized within the area. The surrounding area also offers historic attractions, natural wonders and excellent places to stay for tourists and traveler would want to discover the myths, legends as well as the rich culture of Loch Ness.…
The ‘City of Love’ should be bursting with intense and passionate emotion, but the Paris presented by Mavis Gallant in “The Other Paris” is mechanical and apathetic. The city’s young population has abandoned the wistful ideas of true love and attraction in favor of pairing up for societal and economical gain. Mavis Gallant utilizes narrative voice and grating characterization to provide a sharp critique of the mechanical and naïve outlook on romance which society has adopted. Gallant…
Amphibian 's Wild Ride, Snow White 's Adventures, Space Station X-1, and Stage Coach drew innumerable amounts of kids and their guardians. Special occasions and the ceaseless working of new attractions urged people to visit many more times. Disneyland was such a success that Walt Disney decided to make it even more widespread. In 1965, work started on a significantly greater Disney amusement park and resort close to Orlando, Florida. All through…
Parks are our saving grace for spending time with our families as it draws us out from the technological atmosphere to a more humane atmosphere that creates meaningful memories of the time spent at the park with our families. McCormick-Stillman Railroad Park is the perfect place to find new memories for families. McCormick-Stillman Railroad Park was founded by the McCormicks in 1975 under the premise that it would be used for as a place for all to enjoy (History | McCormick-Stillman Railroad…
Viola hints at her true identity in the first scene of act three in Twelfth Night saying to Olivia: “I am not what I am” (Shakespeare 211). However, it is not just the fictional Viola who masquerades as something she is not. Women were not allowed on stage in Elizabethan England, thus requiring prepubescent boys to act as females (Charles 123). These boys acted as women on stage, and a confusion of character development and intent of these actors stems from cross-dressing. Boys were acting as…
see tall, fast, rollercoasters housed in mountains, crowds of people waiting in line, busses parked everywhere, and hotels circling the park. You think to yourself, “Who invented this attraction? Why did they do it?” Walt Disney did! He improved the U.S. and the world by making cartoons, movies, and world attractions for families. Who was Walt Disney? Walter Elias Disney was born on December 5, 1901, in Hermosa, Illinois. His father, Elias Disney, was an Irish Canadian. His mother, Flora Call…
Dr. Rhyne Putman is the Assistant Professor of Theology and Culture at NOBTS, as well as a published author and well known speaker. Dr. Putman discusses the issue of same sex attraction and how our society views the subject, as how the Church should address it and where we should draw our ultimate authority on such matters. Dr. Putman begins by presenting the modern secular view on this issue. Society has taken a great shift in its views of sexuality and what is now consider acceptable and…
been beaten, battered and partially ruined due to stone robbers and earthquakes, the Colosseum still stands and is still an iconic figure of Imperial Rome. The Colosseum has become one of if not the most popular tourist attractions in Rome. It is not only a big time tourist attraction but it has also become a symbolic location for the Roman Catholic…