Temple of the Dog

The beauty of armchair travels is that at any moment you can be any place in the world and discover new and wonderful things. From the Andaman Islands we step onto the mainland of India. Our first stop here is a lovely town Darjeeling, located in the West Bengal State of India in the Himalayan foothills. It is well-known for its distinctive black tea that is grown on plantations doting the surrounding slope. The town’s backdrop is Mt. Kanchenjunga, among the world’s highest peaks. The region’s…

that sounded like vomit. It gashed against her throat and she held it with her lips, afraid she would cough a mouthful of blood. Her head began to waver, and everything dimmed. But getting experienced to the pain, she was able to stay conscious. Her temples throbbed, and her sweat felt like acid. She wanted to cry, but her eyes were dry. Her gums tasted like iron, and the sensation made her jerk, before finally letting it all out in a horrific gush at the floor.The blood sounded like jelly on…

When he said, “I’m gonna pull the whole thing down, I’m gonna bring the whole freaking diseased, corrupt temple down on your head. It’s gonna be biblical,” (Gray, Law Abiding Citizen). He was not kidding. He murdered many people just to prove his points and to make people more aware of how corrupted the justice system is. In the movie, everything he did led…

Jane Eyre has a suggestive name. Eyre might refer to “heir” but she is the heir of nothing, at least in the beginning of the novel; it also may suggest “ire” that Jane has inside her. The novel has an angry tone to it, almost as if Brontë had realized the roles and circumstances of women around her and depicted it in Jane Eyre: imprisonment, orphan, starvation, anger turned to madness. According to Elizabeth Rigby, Jane Eyre revolves around the personification of an unregenerate and…

the tortilla. The tlaxcalli was a thin cornmeal pancake and it was used to scoop up foods while they ate and they could also wrap their foods in the tlaxcalli to make tacos. The meats that they mostly hunted for were rabbits, deer, geese, and ducks. Dogs and turkeys were the only animals that they raised for meat. The Aztecs were the first people for discovering chocolate. They made chocolate from a fruit of the cacao tree and it was used as a flavoring and also used as an ingredient in…

1.0 INTRODUCTION Malays, Chinese, Indians and many other ethnic groups have lived together in Malaysia for generations. All of these cultures influence each other, forming a true Malaysian culture. Malaysia's largest ethnic group is the Malays, Chinese and Indians. Malaysia is a multi-cultural characteristics of many different cultures, but some particularly special lasting influence of the country. Chief among these is the ancient Malay culture, throughout history, culture…

When we first meet him, Emil hardly seems like much of a hero, much less a Knight of Ratatosk: he's quiet, timid to the point of frustration (on Richter's end, at least), and incredibly submissive-- which is understandable, given his background. Due to the fact that monsters suddenly started appearing around Luin when he arrived, many of the townspeople there call him a monster and fear and/or shun him; Emil himself says nothing to contradict them and simply allows them to treat him badly…

Pecola is inundated by the glorification of white beauty standards everywhere she looks: the world’s love of Shirley Temple, the way that Maureen Peal, a mixed race girl at her school, is treated, and the positive way that white people in general are portrayed in the media that she sees. All of these influences lead Pecola, who has brown eyes, to believe that, “if her…

Gimbutas argue that the eyes of the goddess are the divine source. This was idea had been seen on the figurine from Dolni Vestonice, there was marking of stream flowing down the body starting at the eyes. They were clear markings of this in figure 86 , on the figurine it shows the flowing starting at the eyes, and it ended up on the breast or maybe even down more than that. There were also some other artifacts found representing the same idea from Mesolithic and Pre-Pottery Neolithic periods,…

The architecture and use of temples and other buildings shared similar characteristics, as did their calendars and forms of writing. The most striking connection would probably be the importance pyramids held for each of these society’s, yet at the same time the use and meaning of the…