The Old Curiosity Shop

It’s 4 A.M. and I am nine years old, I am at the Chicago International Produce Market with my father. Many people might find it odd for a small child to be up this early, but I enjoy learning about what is necessary to operate a successful business, and think these trips are normal. I see all these companies competing for our business, offering the same products and I wonder how my dad knows which one to choose. My dad comes to the C.I.P.M every Wednesday and makes produce orders for his Mexican…

turned Winston’s once naive mind to something that produced hate towards the system. Since the government does not like the middle class to purchase items from shops he could get into trouble just for being in their, let alone purchasing the worthless item. The weight is a piece of coral wrapped in glass. It catches winstones eye because it is an old piece of history that has not been tampered with by the system. This sparks hate, and later on rebellion, toward the system since rare items are…

Prince In a strange night, I rushed my way through maze of shops, so that I could avoid people attention around me and suddenly a woman seize my arm and pulled me closer to her. “I sell many fruits and at the good price, I could give you a discount since you are one handsome young man” the old woman smiled generously and waved her hand at me from a stand of red apple. The truth is, my stomach is like want to ask the red apple from the old woman, if only I had more money, I can buy the red apple…

“Seriously? That’s it? He can’t say? Really gonna let that slide?” Wallace fought Back Up for the stick they were playing fetch with on the beach. “What do you mean let it slide, we’re strangers, and besides, I want to believe him. I believe him,” She continued with more conviction, “If he has a reason I can’t know… so be it.” Watching Veronica chase the loosed stick, Veronica smoothed wind-blown hair behind her ears. “Besides, he sort of accidentally on-purpose inspired me to start…

On a journey from Kanyakumari in Tamil Nadu to Jammu and Kashmir we will come across innumerable types of Art forms. Every state has their unique history on the form of Art and Culture which takes us to a completely different land of interest and curiosity. These Art forms mesmerizes the individual…

lion tamers while getting your teeth checked… :-) … Okay, so a slight exaggeration – but Shoreditch really does change so fast and with an ever greater diversity! Just last week, we visited Tram-shed, A ‘cock and bull’ eatery, by Mark Hix, based in an old tram-shed! It had a ‘crazy impressive’ piece of Damien Hirst art in the…

occasionally describes himself with humanlike emotions. When Death spotted Liesel for the first time, he claimed that “curiosity got the better of me” (Zusak 14). Usually, humans do not associate Death with the characteristics of a person. Common belief is that a person just dies, not that Death is a “person” who comes to collect the souls of those whose time has come. Not to mention, curiosity is almost never associated with Death because it is so straightforward. Later, Death even says that…

Rationale Orhan Pamuk’s novel The Museum of Innocence (2008) possesses the multimedial quality that is fascinating and inviting. It serves as both a literary work and an artistic product that derived from the act of collecting. Four years after the publication of the novel, Pamuk founded the museum in Istanbul that serves as the physical counterpart of the novel. At the same year, he also published a catalog The Innocence of Objects (2012) explaining the composition of each cabinet and the…

The Victorian era was a period of industrialization and changes in everyday life. The Victorian period formally began the year Victoria became queen of England (1837). In fact, the Victorian period lasted twice longer than the Romantic period. Because of this, the Victorian period includes more variety than the romantic era. Subsequently, the period lasted 64 years ending in 1901, with the death of Queen Victoria. Actually, many Victorian narrators and protagonist frequently spread stereotypes…

life at home when she stayed at the retreat center. She felt like she belonged at the retreat center and that she fulfilled a bigger purpose than when she worked for the sweatshops. As she returns home again, she says “it was hard to get used to the old life again…..It was all stranger than ever, the home, my people; their ways” (273). Rose feared that she would lose touch with her native culture when she came over to America and now her culture became the one thing she wished to get rid of in…