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The next appetizer includes Chicken tenders which is golden fried chicken tenders served with safari fries and your choice of buffalo sauce and blue cheese dressing or bbq sauce and ranch dressing. Soups and salads include Tomato Basil Soup which is a tomato and basil soup garnished with parmesan cheese. Next is the little island caesar salad which is a classic caesar salad. Last is the volcanic cobb salad which is grilled chicken breast, romaine and iceberg lettuce, crumbled blue cheese, black…

An entertaining and moralistic novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray combines multiple literary elements into a well-written novel with underlying ideas about the inherency of evil and its roots. Many prominent literary themes stand out throughout the novel, but the most common and prominent ones remain: “man vs. self” and “man vs.society”. Throughout the story, the questions of moral values such as the creation of evil and the importance of beauty standards in society appear frequently and are…

Tomato is one of the best vegetables (although technically falls in fruit) that will - if you try this diet - not only help you lose some weight, but also help you remove toxins from your organism. This diet offers you the possibility to lose up to 3 kilos in five days and help you feel healthier. This diet is strict when it comes to meals, and you will also have to eat higher amounts of tomatoes than usual. The 5 day Tomato diet menu: Day 1 Breakfast 2 slices of black bread toasts with a…

fruit and seafood. Mooloolaba king prawns, caught fresh daily along the Sunshine Coast, are presented with chilli jam dressing and pink grapefruit. The starter menu includes several vegetarian offerings such as the stir-fired eggplant with tofu, Thai basil and roasted peppers. Gluten-free items are marked on the menu. Spirit House entrees continue the theme of Thai flavours. Homemade paneer cheese and grilled zucchini are accented with a spicy spinach and coriander purée. Crispy duck is bathed…

himself had touched her, and taken her with him,” exemplifying his focus on the aesthetic through the event (Wilde 124). After Lord Henry’s departure, Basil arrives at Dorian’s manor in an attempt to help him through his grief, only to find a shocking display of Dorian’s callousness. After a futile argument over Dorian’s lack of heart, Dorian manipulates Basil —…

ruined practically every relationship in his life over this portrait and allowed it to consume his everything. The only thing he accomplished was beating himself mentally with worry. I believe that Basil Hallward however was not self-punished. I do not feel like he did anything deserving of punishment. Basil was the only person who remained truly loyal to Dorian. Despite him not being apart…

Soup recipes: 5 culinary creations for winter The cold clutches of winter are upon us. There's a chill in the air when we get up in the mornings, dragging ourselves from our toasty warm beds and rushing straight to the coffee machine. Our first dose of liquid warmth. With the short winter days barely allowing enough time to thaw, there's nothing better than a robust meal to warm the body from the inside out. The time has come for stews, curries and casseroles to shine. No one wants to be eating…

The Body in the Library, a novel written by Agatha Christie in the early twentieth century, women play a very vital role in helping to uncover the hidden truths throughout the novel (Thinkers View). Agatha Christie, a woman author who could be described as being a feminist, primarily wrote novels about detective fiction, mysteries, and secrets. Christies works symbolized the battle women during this time period were faced with while fighting for enhancement and equality of their rights. The main…

The difference between the novel Oryx and Crake and Kurt Vonnegut’s Harrison Bergeron is that in the novel, society conformed to the idea that the better you looked, the better you fit in with society, whereas in Harrison Bergeron, people have conformed to the idea that being better is a disability and a threat to society. People with a taller stature were given heavy weights to carry that made them sink down, beautiful people were given hideous masks to hide their beauty, and the intellectually…

“The picture of Dorian Gray” was originally published in Lippincots monthly magazine in June 1890. The novel is gothic melodrama, with elements of the comedy of manners-genre and is written according to the end of the Victorian era. Crafted in brilliant prose, the book is of lasting importance, as a singular example of Wilde’s wit and satirical talents. The reader follows the tale of Dorian Gray, a young man, who is corrupted and poisoned by the influences around him as his soul decays. Being…