Dark Carnival

Last weekend, in the Nation's Capitol, Nas performed at the famous Kennedy Center for two sold out performances to kick off the Kennedy Center’s One Mic: Hip Hop Culture Worldwide Festival. Backed by an eighty-piece orchestra, Nas dressed in a black tuxedo, performed his classic album Illmatic in it's entirety to a full house of a diverse crowd. Mass Appeal Media was along for the epic event and captured exclusive photos oh the once in a lifetime performance. Nas will celebrate the 20th…

Venetian Carnival Masks have been around for centuries and was originated in Venice, Italy usually for carnivals, but also others reasons as well. The purpose of the masks was to keep the wearers identity surreptitious during certain events. The progression of the masks from their origin is still used especially during the Carnival of Venice. Masks come in a variety of different shapes, sizes and designs which can appeal to the wearer of the mask. Overall, these masks were and still are used in…

Wearing a venetian carnival mask is a tradition for Italy. They would also wear it for other things and parties as well. They wore it to high their identities and their status. So people dont know who they are or even what they look llike. This had been a tradition for 7 years. 13th centuries would throw parties and they would have to wear these masks. They wanted to wear this because they didnt want anyone to know how they looked and what their status was. This tradition was in italy and…

Carnival is the birth of a whole new life; it is a time of joy and unity. Spectacular, outrageous events are planned throughout the span of the celebration. “Carnival festivities and the comic spectacles and ritual connected with them had an important place in the life of the medieval man (Mikhail Bakhtin, Rabelais)”. These over the top events won over the people’s hearts in the Renaissance and in the Middle Ages. During Carnival festivities, rules were thrown out the window and laugher was the…

Carnival is a celebration of different colors which converts into beautiful customs, calypso and steel pan music, different forms of dancing, foods, and Caribbean style arts that fascinates thousands of people from many different parts of the world. Trinidad and Tobago carnival is a once a year event with a combination of many different activities. The main purpose of the carnival is to reveal their culture and way of life by bringing everyone together. Trinidad and Tobago is a dual island,…

As previously discussed, Carnival, topically, unites individuals, establishes national identity, follows rituals, and complements the economy through a multi-day celebration that witnesses the competition of samba schools, but a critical examination shows a deeper and darker narrative; although an ongoing festival, Carnival is a remnant of the immoral and unjust system of colonialism. The Portuguese, one of the pioneers of globalization, first arrived in Brazil in 1500, and what followed is one…

While events in these three books echo the history of their respective countries, their main characters do as well. In One Hundred Years of Solitude, the Buendía family represents different parts of Colombia as the family cycles through life and death. All members of the Buendía family are solitary in some way, which represents the isolated of Latin America. According to Laura Turgeon in World Literature and its Times, their seclusion is “symbolic of . . . their culture, their continent . . .…

The Cask of Amontillado is a horror tale that has many gothic stories in it. They include the underground chambers, dark imagery and a lot of violent revenge to share Poe’s stories. Poe is known for using the world of the gothic literature to bring out terror and external worlds to the psychological environment. He can create a world in the mind of the reader using gothic tradition. This world conveys the terror needed using irony, puns, double entendre and foreshadowing among other features of…

The Middle Ages. It was a time known as the dark ages in European history. Just like today, the people living in this time period loved to be able to party, have fun, and go a little crazy, and that’s just what they had done. At these fun festivities that most of the village attended, there was drinking, games, and many professional performances. With the amazing variety of clothing and the weird ways to present food, the people living in the Middle Ages attempted to have the time of their lives…

Without any conflict a story-(read: a movie)-is boring. Some people are drawn to the dark motives and actions of the villains and because of this more often than not the villain is more liked than the hero. Movies have transpired to show the hero in a good light that’s enjoyable and believable. But a man’s worth can only ever truly be measured by the weight of those that stand against them. In days of old it was easy enough to throw a black hat on a man and show him shoot a few people and…