Can You Hear My Secret Calling

A true Love story

So, was it an eyes-meet-across-the-room-thing and you knew you were destined for each other instantly? I asked my Mom. No, she laughed, it was a swinging-door-thing and once we met, then we knew it was destiny.

It was 1946 when my parents met in postwar Oldenburg, Germany while working for British Intelligence. Dad (a.k.a. Peter Russell) had survived WW II after being in many challenging battles. He was a frightfully English chap who grew up in the south of England. Mom (Blanche Moore - a.k.a. Pat Russell) had experienced the war in a different way. One of the many bombing raids on Belfast, Northern Ireland had demolished her family home.

It only took Dad one week after he saw Mom going through the now infamous swinging door into the Intelligence Offices, to make sure he was introduced to her. Once they met, they were inseparable and spent many hours dancing at the Officers Club in Oldenburg. Mom and Dad were known for being fabulous ballroom dancers and other dance participants would frequently stand aside and watch them together as they swirled around the dance floor, eyes locked on one another.. Dad was a lean, good-looking man of 6' and he was handsome in his British Intelligence Uniform. Mom was and still is a petite 5' 2 pretty Irish woman with twinkly eyes and a penchant for laughing a lot.

As they danced together, Dad would sing (in German):

Do you remember the precious time when we came together for life, My heart sang a little melody for you day and night. Do you remember that beautiful time?

Even though youth will fade, songs of Love will always stay. Should fate ever darken your happiness, My song will always light it up for you.

They were the first British couple to be married in Oldenburg after the war. They were transferred to the village of Brake on the Weser River in Germany as a husband/wife team with British Intelligence specializing in political and counter intelligence. Dad had a network of agents under his supervision. He and his agents contributed to the break up of the Communist party in that area of Germany. Peter and Pats cover for being in post war Germany was the interrogation of returning prisoners of war from Russia.

But at night their real work would begin. Dad would direct and rendezvous with various agents in the field. Another agent, would cautiously make his way back to Mom with stolen documents. This home rendezvous would usually happen after midnight with Mom waiting nervously for the agent to arrive. She would then translate a nd type the information immediately, so that it could be sent to the head office of British Intelligence in London, England. It was a tense and nerve wracking time.

Do you hear my secret calling Open up your sweet loving heart, When you have longingly thought of me tonight. Then I will be with you in your dream Let me look at you once again Show me your much Loved face Then turn off the light My heart will not forget you Please go to sleep

Dad died in 1989 in Salmon Arm, seven years after retiring as a Special Agent for the Canadian National Railroad Police in Prince George. As well as being named Citizen of the Year in 1972, he was also the recipient of the Governor Generals award for his contribution to the youth of that city.

In the years since his death, Mom had searched for their s pecial song. She wrote to CBC radio, and she had asked people she met who were of German descent if they had heard of the song. She was nearly ready to give up until eight months ago. She was in Styles on Mane in Vernon having her hair done, when a gentleman came in to have his hair cut. As he had a German accent, Mom asked him if he had heard of the song. He said he hadnt, but promised to look into it for her. (His name is Julius and he is the neighbour and good friend of the owner of the shop, Cynthia Robertson)

One month later, Mom went to her weekly hair appointment. As she sat down, Cynthia turned to her friend Julius who was in the shop and said, Julius, I forgot to turn on the radio today. Would you turn it on for me please?

Soon the beautiful words of the song Do You Hear My Secret Calling were being played throughout the salon. Julius Topf had contacted friends in Germany and with the help of a popular newspaper columnist the song had been found on a CD of hit songs from 1934 to 1943. Mom was completely overwhelmed with happiness when she heard the song again after 50 years.

My parents shared the special kind of intense and enduring Love alluded to in this Lovely song. It was their heart song. Now she can close her eyes as she listens to the music and from her memory bank, imagine that she is back on the dance floor, being tenderly held in the arms of her beLoved as he sang to her.

Just as autumn and spring will always be, So will sorrow and joy forever change the earth. Every hour of sadness is followed by a day of sunshine, Every parting is followed by a new embrace. Storms in life will pass as long as we will understand each other. When your heart fills with sorrow, quietly sing my song again.

Carole Fawcett is a published free lance writer and owner of a stress management and laughter therapy business. http://www.afunnybusiness.ca She is the founder and trainer of therapeutic clowns in the beautiful Okanagan Valley, in B.C., Canada

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Babel vs. the PC

Imagine a time when mankind was young. Migration led many to the land of Shinar. It was during that time, that man came together and decided to build not only a city but a tower that would reach the heavens. Seeing the structure, the Lord was not very pleased. In fact, He knew what trouble this could lead to, so He confused mankind with different languages and scattered them across the face of the earth. Thus, is the story of Babel. (Babylon, the remains of an ancient city, is now located in Iraq.)

Eerily, times of a rich, historical past parallel today's society. The familiarity to modern civilization is uncanny. In the biblical tale of the tower of Babel, men came together with one language and one common goal: the desire to control the land and all that lay beneath the tower. Making the impossible - possible to Human nature.

The construction of the tower of Babel tells a story of man and its amorous lust for greed and power. To build such a massive structure that led directly to the heavens, what a marvel it must have been. Though the tale is simple, its meaning is vast. Herein lies the virtue of society itself. With the industrialized world at its peak and infinite Computerized technological advances, we have reached the brink of Babel. In this day and age, mankind has the means to communicate to the far outreaches of all the earth. With mere strokes upon a keyboard, we can speak with persons of different languages, cultures, race, religion and region. There are no boundaries to the human initiative.

What began as an oversized brain made of wires, metal and countless conductor boards, has evolved into the modern PC. We have at last designed the perfect mechanism to do our bidding. It thinks for us, supplies and stores information, and now with more and more Technology, we can even speak to other peoples by means of a Computer translator. The small screen that sits atop our office counters, our workbenches and our personal desks at home has become the brainchild of society's modernization, and has revolutionized the way we do and encounter most things.

Although it is just a machine, it has served a wonderful purpose. Through the use of Computer equipment, time is no longer a challenge. Messages, tests and reports can come back to us in a matter of seconds. Physicians, technologists, mechanics, archeologists, biologists, and so many other career paths have endless uses for this manmade tool. It has rewarded us richly with its knowledge, as we have enriched it with ours.

But, the question still remains: At what point does the tower of Babel (figuratively speaking) collapse? When has humankind reached its boundaries and at what interval will all be lost because of modern Technology? The world is our oyster - but what we must never forget is that the pearl of an oyster is created by disease. Just a thought to ponder.

06/2003

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Hello I Must Be Going: The Vanishing Twin

They walk among us. By the mid nineties, science had only smoked out a few dozen of them worldwide but there are undoubtedly many more. You may well know some of them. You may even be one yourself. Perhaps you're sometimes haunted by the sense that there is someone lurking very near, invisible and silent but sharing that odd thought, impression, or fear from time to time. A more solid clue might be found in the skin on your back. Sometimes you can see this plainly though they say it's usually only discernable under UV light.

I'm talking about what might be looked upon as the most extreme form of Siamese or Conjoined twinning, one in which both bodies have merged completely into a single individual. Scientists call the perplexing result a Chimera, after the mythological beast described by Homer and others that sported the head of a lion, the body of a goat and the rear of a dragon or snake. What happens is that you have two fertilized egg cells that converge very earl y in the gestation process. If the cells were Identical Twins there would probably be no way to identify such two-in-one individuals and the world may well be full of them. But if they're Fraternal, things can get more interesting.

If the two are of opposite sex you can end up with a true hermaphrodite, though this seems to be exceedingly rare. In January of 1998 doctors in Scotland reported the birth of a child, originally conceived through in vitro fertilization, who ultimately tested out to present both female (XX) and male (XY) chromosomes and corresponding equal-opportunity genitalia. Most of the time the consequences are much more subtle. In 1953 an English woman named Patricia McDonnell underwent some routine tests when she became pregnant and discovered she carried both Type O and Type A blood in a ratio of about 13 to 1. After considerable study her doctors concluded that the minority Type A was her own and the Type O was what was left of her twin brother.

Sometimes a Chimera will have a left and right eye of different colors (like Jane Seymour and Joe Pesci... hmm, do ya think?), while others as alluded to in the first paragraph may display marbling or streaking patterns on their backs, called Blaschko's lines, which suggest an imperfect blend of two differing complexions. Researchers call the latter individuals mosaics. They're intrigued with the phenomenon because they suspect certain afflictions may arise from it such as cancer, Alzheimer's, and autism. (Indeed, Susan Folstein of Tufts University School of Medicine in Boston reports that about one in ten autistics show Blaschko's lines. The inference is that there is an antagonistic mingling of chimeric brain cells that have trouble communicating with each other.)

Beyond all of this, surg eons and researchers can and do intentionally create interspecific Chimeras, where they combine tissues from different animal species. Considering that about five hundred prospective transplant patients die in the U.S. every month waiting for human donors, this can obviously be a very good thing. Pig and cow heart valve transplants are already quite common.

Here are two links at least tangentially related to Chimeras. This one deals with a rather eerie, way-out aspect in a book by Bill Chalker; while this one explores purported interspecific Hybrids involving domestic cats.

This article comes from the Curious Thing of the Week section of my site Sui Generis at http://www.CuriousNotions.com where you'll find only the world's rarest, best, oddest and most legendary. If you crave the exotic and march to your own drummer, please stop by!

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The Women of Hawthorne

Nathaniel Hawthorne is one of the most outstanding writers that the world has ever seen. His magnificent works are the reflections of the puritan society he was living it and all the defects of that society that were veiled so much. His works have faced a lot of criticism due to their dualism and sharp nudity. The images that were put in Nathaniel Hawthornes works were real-life images, inspired by real people which makes them very realistic and sometimes even frightening. He seems to posses the intention to show the changes that have occurred in people around him from the very puritan times.

Hawthorne emphasizes the fact that people were taught to hold everything negative they seemed to have inside themselves and perform an ideal citizen for the world around them. What Nathaniel Hawthorne writes fits the contemporary society, too. Maybe this is the reason it is so important to understand his description and attitude towards women. His books posses a large number of different women characters. Nevertheless, the all of them carry the message of the cost of being different for a woman. Nathaniel Hawthornes woman is strong and weak, charming and rueful, vivid and quiet but there is one thing that unites them all they throw a calling to the society around them. They are shown as rebels, they are shown as a great power of the humanity. Hawthorne clears the difference between women and men but through making this comparison he puts them on the same level and therefore considers a woman to a decent counterweight to a man. The lives of these women give us not a very pleasant portrait of a puritan society.

Characters of Hawthornes women

None of the doors of the society Hawthornes women live in leads to heaven. Everything and everybody in the world around them is closed and ungracious. His women are prominent; they possess enormous inner power to overcome difficulties. Being so different, but having so much more inside then the people around them, Hawthornes women are depicted not just like women. They also possess the courageousness that sometimes even a man cannot reveal. Hawthorne in his short stories shows the pride of the society around, the sins that the society is sinking into and the individual life tragedies of his women that seem to oppose this society. One of the most important things is that a woman in Hawthornes short stories is opposed to a man; is treated like being equal to a man.

The attitude of the 19th century society towards women and their behavior seems to be similar to ignorant. Hawthorne shows women as human being able to love, to trust and to sacrifice themselves, which he seems to value more than mens desire to achieve fame, converting the society into a vanity fair. For instance, the image of Hester Prynne in Scarlet letter is one of the brightest examples of how Hawthorne values women and how much he want to show that it is them who posses the qualities of decent human b eings. Hester accepts public her punishment and the scarlet letter, resists it and even more then that - she stands all the humiliations without revealing the name of her daughters father. It is possible to say that Hawthorne shows her as a hero and at the same time men are depicted with certain negativism, making Hawthornes works feministic.

The driving force of Hawthornes women

Women in Hawthornes stories are very dedicated and able to resist anything. The ability to love and to do anything for the beloved one makes the image of women in Hawthornes stories very impressing. Hawthornes Birthmark portraits Georgiana, the wife of Aylmer, a vainglorious man with a deeper and more sincere attitude towards science then towards his own wife, which seems to have a visible mark of imperfection for him [p.2225. To get his attention Georgiana decided to remove this birthmark from her cheek. Aylmers himself, makes the liquid to remove the mark but soon after she drinks it s he dies. All she wanted is to get rid of a crimson stain upon the snow, which imperfectly defined its shape amid the surrounding rosiness[p.2226. Aylmer gets what he wants no birthmark on Georgianas cheek, but there is no Georgiana anymore to adore him and to love.

Here, Georgiana is driven by the only desire she has to make Aylmer notice her and to fulfill his wish. Being so imperfect for Aylmer, she becomes a real perfection for the author. Her loving heArt was ready to do anything to be perfect for her beloved husband. Her heArt, full of love and her character reveals the difference between her and her husband. It reveals the abyss between the values of genders and the supremacy of the values of women. The driving force for Hawthornes women is love, dedication and trust; it has nothing to do with the rationalism depicted in the male characters in the stories.

Another example of Hawthornes perception of women is brightly observed in Rappaccinis daughter. Here, the females character name is Beatrice. She is the daughter of Doctor Rappaccini and at the same time she is just an experiment in his practice. He spoils her life by poisoning her with his plants, making her a poisonous human being not able to contact the people around her and therefore being lonely, poisonous as she is beautiful as he defines her [p.2251.

Doctor Rappaccini tries to do the same thing with a young man Giovanni in order to create a perfect match for Beatrice. When Giovanni reveals the vile plan of the doctor and get an antidote, he gives it to Beatrice. But, unfortunately it is too late for the young woman Her father has done such a great job in changing her that the antidote does not help but kills her. Here, Beatrice is shown as a victim of her fathers obsession on experiments. Though she herself is not the perfection in the authors understanding he shows her as a being able to be different but being a victim of a low person, a person who does not seem to possess human qualities. The selfishness of this man is opposed to Beatrices helplessness towards his influence. Beatrice trusts everything that her father tells her, believing in him and loving him with every single heArt-cell. In this story Hawthornes portrays a sensitive and devoted woman that is eager to follow her father and obey his every single word.

Hawthornes women suffer a lot and often die. Nevertheless, he reveals a lot of sympathy towards his women. He considers their spiritual worlds to be immense and profound, worth of respect and deep admiration. Society and men in pArticular pretend to be God and try to change these delicate, gentle, loving and pure human beings. Men in Hawthornes works are vainglorious and pride for their achievements is the only thing in this world that makes them happy. The authors definition of a woman

Analyzing Nathaniel Hawthornes works it is necessary to say that the image of women in them is distinctively positive. He outlines their strong ability to dedicate themselves and to truly love. The biography of the author has definitely influenced this point of view because a widowed mother raised him along with two sisters two and later on he married a great woman and grew up two wonderful daughters.

The examples of the suffering wome n have to go through to survive gave him the base of believing that women are spiritually stronger and posses the most important qualities for a human being ability to love unconditionally and to do anything in the name of trust and faith for the loved person. Nathaniel Hawthorne deeply respects women and proves it with his every single work. The drama of his works concerning women is that their actions are not meritoriously valued and stay imperceptible for the people around them. The definition of a woman by Nathaniel Hawthorne is a synthesis of all the virtues and extreme endurance for the actions taken against them.

Conclusion

Nathaniel Hawthorne made an outstanding work in depicting the character of a woman in his works. This makes it easy to assume that he was a loving father and husband. His interpretation of a woman is very deep and his sympathy to women is easily observed in his every single work. He reveals the real nature of women and tells the reader what is their power. He sees this immense power in the ability to stay true to their feelings, to trust and to love. For the first time a woman is shown as a force, as a power that opposes mens rationalism and perception of the world. The image of a woman in Hawthornes works is a calling to the men around. It is a calling to stop evaluating the world in terms of rationalism and stArt feeling and valuing what they have and all the things that women do in order to make them feel happy.

Here, men are shown weak and inflexible, ignorant and impassive. Could be this is only a unilateral point of view, nevertheless it is obvious that Hawthornes women are the ones that will sacrifice their lives for the people they love and dedicate every second of their lived to them.

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Nathaniel Hawthorne is one of the most outstanding writers that the world has ever seen. His magnificent works are the reflections of the puritan society he was living it and all the defects of that society that were veiled so much. His works have faced a lot of criticism due to their dualism and sharp nudity. The images that were put in Nathaniel Hawthornes works were real-life images, inspired by real people which makes them very realistic and sometimes even frightening. He seems to posses the intention to show the changes that have occurred in people around him from the very puritan times.

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Aristophane's The Frogs

World literature is rich with literal masterpieces and has to offer to a reader a lot of interesting works of any kind, theme, style and genre. Unfortunately we do not have access to that many ancient pieces of works, as most of them have not survived through centuries until present days. In the following article I would like to analyze and discuss such prominent work of Aristophanes as The Frogs.

As Aeschylus utters in the play Frogs, Schoolboys have a master to educate them, grown-ups have the bards. This seems to me to be a incredibly high-quality statement, because everybody likes to study and I think that is why Aristophanes work on the whole was so well-liked and especially Frogs because the play teaches the spectators.

There are two major subjects in the play, the first one being the position of the poet in Greek civilization. Aristophanes has Aeschylus ask Euripides what makes an excellent lyricist? The answer is practical skill and he should instruct a lesson, make people into improved citizens, and this is exactly what Aristophanes is doing with this poem but also adding an enormous deal of comedy into it. Aeschylus also says that the actually good poets have had helpful lessons to teach e.g. Musaeus (me dicine), Hesiod (agriculture) and of course Homer (the arts of warfare). The main solemn theme is Aristophanes continuance of his campaign for harmony; he attacks the present politicians who rejected the present of peace made by the Spartans after the battle of Arginusae in 406 BC (Cleophon and Cleigenes). On page 181, when the chorus address the listeners in the second parabasis, they say here sit ten thousand men of sense, a very enlightened audience, this source of in sequence has helped to estimation the size of the audience at the stage show festivals in the Theatre of Dionysus in Athens, however I think that this verdict also gives us a great deal of in sequence in the task that Aristophanes has to face to keep this great quantity of individuals amused and entertained.

This play is like no other of Aristophanes existing effort. In no other play did he persist so firmly on his commencement of the poets appropriate function in culture and in no other play did he endeavour so earnestly to realize it. Aristophanes takes every probable occasion to bring up the people he wants to point out, make an instance of and put down to a certain extent. Apart from politicians, orators and sophists, whom not a soul trusted, only one k ind of man was in a location to manipulate the ideas and attitudes of the community, this was of course the poet. For two hours or more at each theatrical carnival, each one competing poet had the exclusive consideration of his associate citizens of all classes, perhaps in greater numbers than would ever concentrate the Assembly on one particular day. The poet (not essentially the humorist poet, but poets as a general rule) had a lot of authority to manage how people feel about certain things, as a substitute of the Bible, public quoted Homer or Hesiod; everyone in this the world knew passages from the great poets from memory and had themselves been taught ethics by their aid.

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Books by William Aloysius Keleher

William Aloysius Keleher was a lawyer by profession. However, he did many other things besides practicing law since he did not want to limit himself to homogenous work. Instead, he chose to be different and versatile. He was a telegraph operator, newspaper reporter, city editor, even a counter clerk in his vivid life. Perhaps, the most significant extra-legal activity where he indulged himself was writing. There was no denying that he was an effective writer. Kelehers expertise as a writer was first unearthed in 1908 when he was appointed by a local newspapers authorities to work as a news reporter. They were very impressed by his wr iting abilities which were re-furnished while he was writing for the Albuquerque Journal and Albuquerque Evening Herald. Later on, he got the job of the city editor in both of them. One will be mistaken if he reckons that Keleher showed his full potential as a writer in those newspapers.

An avid scholar of the New Mexico history, William Keleher formally became an authoritative writer on the subject in the year of 1929 when he delivered a speech in a conference (arranged by The Texas Bar Association) that took place in Amarillo, Texas. The date was July 29th; the topic was Maxwell Land Grant (The largest grant ever made in the St ate of New Mexico that engendered more than its share of controversy and disputes over the years). After thirteen years, it would turn into his first book entitled The Maxwell Land Grant. The book consisted over an hundred and sixty pages and came out in hardcover binding. University of New Mexico Press, the publisher, brought out a revised version of the book in the year of 1964. Even today, one can avail this seventeen-chaptered book from online stores and libraries with an extensive collection.

Violence in Lincoln County: 1869-1881, written in the year of 1957, is considered to be a masterpiece by William Keleher. In this book, he described the 1870s scenario in details. The book tells the readers that the Lincoln Country War was an outcome of the conflict between partisan politics and business. Regarding the issue of land ownership, the cattle barons and the corrupt mercantilists clashed with each other. Big names like McSween, Turnstall, Chisum, Murphy, Riley and Dolan were mentioned. As a result of the clash, power was being threatened and people were being killed. However, peace was declared in the territory after the demise of Billy the Kid, an infamous outlaw, in the year of 1881. William Keleher provided sufficient information and first-hand reports in his book, for which it was perceived as a invaluable masterpiece on the western history.

In 1969, Rydal press published Memoirs 1892 1969, another book by William Keleher. In this book, he told readers about the events he witnessed in his lifetime. Mainly, the book contained biographical information. The authoer called the book a combination of autobiography, biography, narrative and memoir. He also said that this book was written especially for New Mexicans of good heart. The book was republished after several years.

In 1945, came The Fabulous Frontier, another quality work by Keleher. University of New Mexico Press brought out this 338-page book. In 1962, there was a re-print of The Fabulous Frontier.

William Keleher encountered enormous challenges in finishing Turmoil in New Mexico , 1846-1868, a study of truly professional quality. The book which was written in 1952 reflected the investigative skills he obtained through legal practice, sophisticated techniques and sheer love of the subject matter.

Kelehers expertise in literary works was also seen in his short writings. They mainly dealt with New Mexico history and included longer essays and newspaper articles.

What is most impressive about the writer William Keleher is that he did not show any negligence to either of his two most demanding tasks (practicing law and writing). William Keleher's law practice required regular office hours which he was always faithful. The research and writing of each of his books needed a discrete set of hours as he was careful not to let his literary work breach into his first profession.

William A. Keleher was not only a great lawyer but also an effective writer. His books are considered invaluable from historical perspective.

Keleher authored some of the premier works on the Southwest: Maxwell Land Grant,1942; Fabulous Frontier, 1945; Turmoil in New Mexico, 1846-196 8, 1952;Violence in Lincoln County, 1957; and Memoirs 1969. and New Mexicans IKnew. Purchase the Books of William Keleher in .pdf format online at http://www.williamKeleher.com

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About Culture and Rules

Culture will never be a category on what ever (ezine) directory. It is just too broad a subject. And it doesn't solve anything. In fact it is only causing problems. YET. it is so interesting...

Culture is difficult to describe, because there are so many elements and details that describe the Culture of a group or nation. But if you observe and watch you will learn a lot.

For example look at the international soccer league. This is an international Culture that is one of the most open Cultures that is available in the world. The main trademark of this soccer Culture is the TRANSFER. This transfer is in fact the symbol of the openness of the international soccer Culture. Transfer is all about going from team A to team B; going to a new contract to Real Madrid and bought from Barcelona.

So a Catalan team can and will (according to the international soccer profession) contract players from Brazil, the Netherlands, Cameroon and of course Spain itself. This is not different for any other Spanish team (like Real Madrid, Sevilla or Valencia).

Then there is the local Culture. For example, players in the Barcelona team are obliged to learn and (be able to) speak Catalan, which is the language that is spoken in the Catalan community in Spain. This (local) rule -- protects (conserves) the local Culture by compelling foreigners to learn the local language -- shows very much the difference with the international soccer league Culture (and Rules).

Another way in which cultural differences become clear is when we observe national soccer teams.

If we compare the international (soccer) Culture with local National Cultures we can also observe national Rules -- focused on openness. This is for example apparent if we take the Italian or the Spanish national teams and we compare them to the Dutch or the French and even the German teams (From the World Cup 2006). The Italian and Spanish teams had only local Spanish players, whereas in the French, Dutch and even the German teams, the influence from other Culture was present and visible.

This is only one single element in Culture; the way in which a group of people are open and used to cooperate with others, call them Third parties. This is only about awareness. A next step could be about international or global trends.

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What Happened on June 21

June 21 is always the 172nd day of the year, unless it's a leap year in which it is the 173rd day of the year. This is on a Gregorian calendar, which leaves 193 days remaining until January 1st, where a new year begins. June 21 marks the summer solstice in the northern hemisphere and the winter solstice in the southern hemisphere. That means that June 21 is typically the day of the year year with the longest hours of daylight in the northern hemisphere and the shortest in the south ern hemisphere.

You can tell already that June 21 is an important date to mark for several reasons. Here are several events that have happened on June 21 in the past:

524 - Burgundy triumphs over the French in the Battle of Vezerone

1749 - Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada is founded.

1788 - New Hampshire ratifies the Constitution and as a result is admitted as the 9th state in the United States.

1798 - The British Army defeats Irish rebels at Battle of Vinegar Hill in the Irish Rebellion of 1798

1813 - Laura Secord(the person not the chocolate) sets out to warn British forces of an upcoming atta ck on Queenston, Ontario by the U.S.

1826 - In the Battle of Vergas Maniots defeat Egyptians under Ibrahim Pasha

1864 - The Tauranga Campaign ends.

1887 - Queen Victoria's golden jubilee.

1898 - Guam becomes a U.S. territory.

1919 - During the Winnipeg General Strike, Royal Canadian Mounted Police fire a volley into a crowd of unemployed war veterans that kills two people

1945 - Battle of Okinawa ends in WWII.

1965 - Folk rock band The Byrds release their highly influential debut album Mr. Tambourine Man.

1982 - John Hinckley is found not guilty by reason of insanity for the attempted assassination of U.S. President Ronald Reagan.

1989 - The U.S. Supreme Court rules in Texas v. Johnson that flag burning is protected speech under the United States Constitution.

2000 - Section 28 repealed in Scotland with a 99 to 17 vote.

2003 - J.K. Rowling's fifth book in massive ser ies of Harry Potter, Order of the Phoenix is published

2004 - SpaceShipOne launches and quickly becomes the first privately funded spaceplane to achieve spaceflight.

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Ryan Fyfe is the owner and operator of The June Spot - http://www.Junespot.com, which is the best site on the internet for all June related information.

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Dutch and Aussies Formalise Visa Arrangement

It was 400 years ago that Dutch sailors first sighted Australian shores but left deterred by our rough exterior.

Today, however, rugged Australia appeals to the citizens of the Netherlands greatly. And just this year the spirit of a Dutchman-led Socceroos captured the attention of the world during their most successful World Cup campaign.

Arrangements between Australia and Netherlands that allow thousands of young Australian and Dutch holiday makers to work in each others countries were formalised at a ceremony today.

Australias Minister for Immigration and Multicultural Affairs, Amanda Vanstone, announced that the Ambassador for the Kingdom of the Netherlands and her depArtment had signed a Memorandum of Understanding celebrating 25 years of working holiday arrangements between Australia and the Netherlands .

The arrangement with the Netherlands is a win-win for young people from both our countries, Senator Vanstone said.

The boost provided to the Australian economy by young Dutch travellers is welcomed by both our tourism sector and employers.

Senator Vanstone said it was also appropriate that the MOU was signed during the 400 th anniversary of first contact between Australia and the Netherlands .

The Ambassador for the Kingdom of Netherlands, His Excellency Niek van Zutphen also praised the arrangements.

In this year of bilateral celebrations, it is very fitting that we try to encourage even more young people to visit each others countries, Ambassador van Zutphen said.

This will ensure that our strong bilateral relations will continue in the future,

The Netherlands is the third largest source of European short-term visitors to Australia. Each year about 60,000 Dutch tourists and 3,000 young Dutch working holiday makers visit Australia.

The Working Holiday Programme allows young people (aged from 18 to 30 years) from pArticipating countries to travel and experience different lifestyles and cultures and to work to subsidise their holiday.

- DepArtment of Immigration and Multicultural Affairs

Web site: http://www.nationalvisas.com.au
E-mail: webmaster@nationalvisas.com.au

Author:: Ryan Rebutica
Keywords:: australia travel,australia vacation,australia tourism,australian immigration,australia visa
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Read this Article if You No Longer Vote

Many Americans do not vote, which seems silly considering our democracy has proven to propel Us into the statUs of being one of the most Free countries on the Planet. Recently the world watched as Iraq was liberated and the citizens were able to vote and plot their own course for their future. With purple fingers as proof they made a choice to rule their own destiny. Again Iraqi citizens showed up in droves to ratify a new Constitution and set of rules they agreed to live by. It is truly inspirational and for them a turning point in the Middle of the Middle East.

As we watch these wonders our heart smiles and we understand and feel the raw emotion of their endeavors and their new found freedoms, yet in our Nation we have so many who do not vote. Some do not vote becaUse they are cynics others becaUse, they are not too worried about much and although not completely satisfied, they are content and happy to live in the United States and are not too concerned about any one issue.

Whatever the reason the lethargic displacement of the American voter is growing. And of those who do not vote a growing majority of them are in the cynical camp. Yet they are the very ones who could change it and swing the next election, if they really cared too. Often American Politics and modern bureaucracy is compare d to the frog you boil in a pot, turn up the water one degree at a time and the frog jUst stays their in the warmth, eventually very content and then as it gets too hot for him, he can no longer move to jump out.

Perhaps you should vote and think about yourself as that frog. Perhaps you are cynical and know it really does not matter as most people vote by what they hear on the TV or read in the newspaper and those who have surrendered their minds to the mass media hysteria far out way your one vote. Yet if all of Us decided to vote all at the same time and speak out loud, while Ill jUst bet we could not only swing the elections and get this Country back on track, but also swing the media into dumping some of this purported politically correct garbage and hokum that they inundate the populoUs with. What say you? Well, no need to answer now, but do think on it tonight.

Lance Winslow

Author:: Lance Winslow
Keywords:: american voter, Voting, purple fingers, Iraq, mass media, Politics, Nation, Country, Us, middle east
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Creating a Virtual Art Gallery

To the online Artist, it might seem a paradox, at first glance, to hear a recommendation to hold back work. The Artist on the Internet often overproduces and displays their entire body of work. In essence, by placing it for casual viewing, known as shopping the work, devalues its worth by defying the Law of Supply and Demand.

How can the Artist benefit by applying the advantages of the Internet with the successful business practices of the traditional gallery? Let's look at the tra ditional gallery's sales structure.

At the Preview, in an inner gallery, and by invitation only, previously unviewed works are presented to the gallery's selected collectors. The works are tagged as sold, but left for viewing. An aspect of human nature, wanting what one cannot have, has been accommodated as well as a relationship to supply and demand.

To paraphrase Israel A. Kirzner, the, almost, universally accepted theory of supply and demand shapes production and consumption, and is, not only the skeleton, but the flesh and blood of the economic system which determines the Artist's survival in the marketplace.

[The Law of Supply and Demand, by Israel Kirzner At the time of publication Kirzner was an economist at New York University. http://www.libertyhaven.com and The Freeman, a publication o f The Foundation for Economic Education, Inc., January 2000, Vol. 50, No. 1.

The show opens to the general public. As the show closes, unsold works are then considered shopped, since the public has viewed them. Then, they are placed in an outer gallery for the casual onlooker. Those traditions have held true, stemming from the basic nature of human beings and how market prices are determined.

This brings us back to the question of how might the traditional practices be adapted to the Internet? The Artist could, for instance, set up a number of galleries.

The Inner Gallery would contain works previously unseen. A collector might pay a one-time fee, the purpose of which is to discourage window-shoppers. The fee could then be applied to their purchase. Those who purchase are the collectors who go i nto your special Guest Book to receive Preview invitations, thus, eliminating the major pitfall of current Internet based galleries, the window-shopper.

How does one structure a Preview Page? Obviously, for your Preview Page you wouldn't want just anyone dropping in. This could be accomplished through a member login given only to your private collectors. By closely monitoring their login dates, you can determine when the Preview is over and it's time for the show to be opened to the general public.

A Middle Gallery is for works that didn't sell in the Preview, but are only available to those who have registered in the Guest Book and agree to receive future newsletters and updates. Finally, there is an Outer Gallery, that is for browsers and only contains images that have been sold, their price, but never to whom it was sold.

Although there will be many window-shoppers, as the exclusive nature and as the reputation of the site grows, the more exclusive colle ctor will come to the site, sign the Guest Book, and come to the Preview ready to collect.

Perhaps Museum Directors, Curators, Critics and Reviewers could be contacted as well. Given passwords, they could actually look at the work online, without the Artist having to physically move the works as in a land-based gallery. Their reviews could be then added to the Preview Page and the Artist's resume for future use.

Anyone with experience on the Internet knows you can't just create a web site and expect people to show up. The site must be properly marketed as well as have something the web surfer desires. Go to ARTNews and see how the ads are structured. Ask yourself what it is about that ad that makes you want to visit that gallery. What makes it desirable?

Look at the size of the images in the ad. Are they thumbnails or full-size images and details? Collectors want to see brush-strokes and have the monitors to do so. Remember, that the majority of the nation's assets lie in the hands of those over fifty years of age. Many of them wear eyeglasses. Accommodate their eyesight. Bigger is better.

Of course, not all Artists who put up a web site are going to be worth collecting, just as galleries will not find all Artists suitable. Not all collectors will want a given Artist's work. Without demand there are no sales.

Therefore, critical analysis of the web statistics should be carefully monitored. If you get a lot of hits and no sales then the problem is not in the marketing. Conversely, no hits, or very few, would indicate poor marketing. At some point you have to figure whether or not you're no good at marketing or the work is not collectible.

As for meeting with the Artist, the web cam, if not a personal visit, makes for an enjoyable time. With the development of Japanese graphic technology, one day soon the collector and others members of the Art community will view the minute details of the Artist's work in truly a virtual gallery without defying the laws of human nature which drives all mankind.

About The Author

Cynthia Houppert is an Art consultant in Atlanta, Georgia and the author of Art Gallery Safari: Bagging the Big One

(c)2003

cyndij@cowboyenterprises.com

Author:: Cynthia Houppert
Keywords: : Art virtual, Art gallery virtual, Art gallery online, Art online
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The Brothers Karamazov

Fyodor Dostoevsky was one of the people that make the literature world seem something extraordinary, deep, emotional and if it is possible to say vital. Through his works one can understand things through outliving them. The moment you read the last word of his work and your eyes slowly go up to the true reality and look at the walls of your room something very strange happens inside of you. It feels like you were in another world, on another planet for SO long, that now you do not recognize your own world and if you do it seems very different from what it did before. The tragedy of his works can fill the heArt of every human being and if after you read the book you feel like you have a heArt-ache close to the one you feel when you loose somebody very important in your life it means that the world of Dostoevsky with all its pain has become a pArt of you. His work The Brothers Karamazov touch to the very core and all the messages that you consciously and subconsciously got, begin living their own life in you heArt and mind giving stArt to thought, infernal conflicts and soul sufferings. It is very difficult actually to view anything from the The Brothers Karamazov apArt from the whole plot. Brothers Karamazov appear before us as a strong internal unity with complex plot directions penetrating each other. Therefore, resulting this comes the affectation of any kind of separations and reviews of separate themes from the general picture of the book. Nevertheless, we will try our best in tracking the theme that we are specifically interested in. Before talking about certain aspects concerning The Brothers Karamazov we want to put a little ascent on the author. What kind of a person can arouse all these emotional rebels in different people? This is very important in the further understanding of the issue discussed in this paper. The life of Dostoevsky was very hard and tragic and it is naturally to suppose that the experience he had deeply influe nced his works.

Dostoevsky did not simply know well the contents of the Bible; he spiritually penetrated it since his most early years. His novel is a tragedy. It is the result of his spiritual tragedy and a revelation of the deep mystery of his soul. Everything in The Brothers Karamazov is filled with duality and contradiction. There is also a conflict in his book. The theme of food and drink is also represented by a contradiction in it. The food or drink scenes appear in major scenes of the novel. Another thing that also needs to be mentioned before stArting our analysis is the understanding that Dostoevsky had his own imagery that was brightly denominated in this novel. This, we might say, encoded message may not be seen at once but is still very important. Food and drink appear as a background of the pl ot in the novel, but this background often says what the situation itself could not manage to say. It complements the episode perfectly and through this background Dostoevsky shares as much thoughts with the reader as he does through the plot line. As the religious topic is viewed throughout his whole novel the first example of the significance of food and drink in the novel we will examine from the position of the power of religion for we are going to talk about Alyosha Karamazov, an angel as Dmitri Karamazov would later call him (b.3/c.3). The themes of Dostoevsky in this book are so much connected with religion that a question about Dostoevsky and his belief in paradise on eArth stArts having a really deep meaning. Religion has had a great influence on the peoples traditions and ways in Russia back then and the way the Russians followed the prescription of the Christian church impressed, the way they believed in miracles, this can be seen in the scene of Father Zossima talking to all these women that came from far away to ask him to release their sins. All these traditions concerned food, too. Eating and drinking played a great role, because it was also a tradition that was followed. During the religious feasts people refueled their bodies, made them happy and glorifies God. Food in this case is viewed as a mean of communication of one believer with another believer or even with God. So food and drink are shown from the divine side, not as the things that lead to gluttony, but as an ability to show through the sharing of a meal their love to God and obedience. Alyosha, the youngest from the Karamazov brothers is shown in the book full of religious admiration and love to God, which he learned from Father Zossima. His perception of the outer world is very different. He has no business towards getting something for people and everybody that they like his unusualness in him. When in our contemporary world we see a person who is ready to take his last shirt off just to somebody else with can easily call him Alyosha Karamazov. No matter what he is going to do all his always intentions have a good beginning. He tries hard to bring kindness to people. Father Zossima was very important for him, not only because he was his pupil, but also because he identified himself with Father Zossima. Alyosha lives by the Christian laws Father Zossima teaches him, he followed them, without forgetting a single one. The imagery of food in Alyoshas description appears at a very critical moment for the young men. Father Zossima dies (b.7/c.1), a man that taught him so much that the world of religion to him, showe d that the human being should not be condemned and that to love means to love every single man, and not just the ones that make you good. The image of Father Zossima is something that he secretly, we might even say, worshiped and who was the brightest example for him. And yet death has taken him and stArts touching his body. The sense of the decaying body of his religious elder impressed Alyosha immensely. And here comes the moment when food and drink appears on stage. Alyosha is disappointed by what he sees, and he meets his so-called friend he steps on the wrong way. He feels that it is so unfair that such a man as Father Zossima after death has to go through such a humiliation, from his point of view. His desperateness and the destruction of his ideal make him turn to the human weaknesses. All the monastic vow s are forbidden, and though he still remains kind and loving inside he turns to the religious taboos. Through Rakitin he escapes in vodka and forbidden food. The imagery of food in this case is of a very high importance. Dostoevsky shows that the Alyoshas decline happens first by eating and drinking. Food represents the lightness of a moral fall. And how easy it is possible to achieve it through just eating and drinking. So it is one of the contradictions that Dostoevsky gives in his book The Brothers Karamazov.

The contradictions between the pure Christian view on food as a union with people and God on one side and food as a mean of self-destruction after the loss of ideals on the other. This moment of the book is very deep meaning that influences Alyoshas life entirely. Fortunately, he resurrects his belief in God through love. His love to people has been such so much unforgettable for his own heArt that finally he finds consent with himself. And even despises himself for having been weak. This failure made him strong for him future successes. And at the end we see another repetition of the imagery of food connected with his character. When he was at the wedding feast at Cana connected with the changing water into wine by Christ he felt the love of God as never before. This love overwhelmed him and filled him with something absolutely new and pure. At that very moment he had a vision of a feast in heaven, where God meet all the guests. Here, Alyoshas spiritual resurrection happens through water and wine and continues the food imagery role in the novel. This is one of the brightest and significant uses of the food and drink imagery in the book.

As many significant events in the novel are connected with eating or drinking we will keep focusing on the major ones.

Th e next moment connected with food and drink imagery is the scene when Alyosha comes to his father house in(b.3/c.6).The gathering of the brothers Ivan, Alyosha and their father Fyodor Pavlovich Karamazov. Dostoevsky shows Alyosha coming to the house when the dinner is already over. A deep analysis of this aspect may be interpreted as the lack of care from the side of this house and his father in the first place. That he is not expected there. As soon as he comes he understand that his father has been drinking but is not drunk yet. The way his father talks, offers coffee and speaks of food in a manner that implies that it is very important to him. That he likes food and drinking which are physical pleasures. He offers Alyosha coffee from Smerdyakov and asks to tell before hand when he will come the next time so he would have the possibility to give him some fish soup (uha) to try. Though Fyodor Pavlovich is always telling that Alyosha is a good boy but he does not seem to car e about him at all. Instead of a real fathers hug he offers him some coffee and alcohol. On the background through all the conversation alcohol accompanies Karamazov senior. The way he enjoys drinking is seen throughout the whole scene. When alcohol stArts influencing him he stArts talking about things that very shock Alyosha, especially when he stArted talking about women and their mother. Later on he fails to understand that his wife was not only Alyoshas mother, but Ivans mother, too. F yodor Pavlovich is shown in the image of a degradating person, a person that lives only to eat good drink a lot and meet women, no matter how they look like. All of these manifestations are very much spiced by Dostoevsky with plenty of alcohol; it even seems to be floating in it. Drink, in this case is shown as a destruction power that leads to complete personality disintegration. When we ask ourselves the question why is he chose to be killed in the novel, the first answer that comes in mind he was nobody. Alcohol is very important here, for it shows that this man was very weak. And the alcohol that Alyosha chose when he was desperate, the same alcohol Fyodor Pavlovich chooses to make his everyday moments funnier. It is another confirmation of how throughout the satisfaction of physical needs a person looses even a hint to having spiritual values. The theme of alcohol seems to continue in Dmitris despair. Before entering the fathers house Alyosha meets Dmitri who by the i nfluence of alcohol, and being brave enough now tells all the 4,5 thousand money-issue to Alyosha. Here alcohol was a catalyst, such as was Grushenka for Alyosha, to reveal the truth, as Alyosha revealed that what he was doing was wrong. It was alcohol again for a certain reason. During all his life Dmitri his existance was about the struggle between behaving animal-like and decent. And it is possible to assume that Dostoevsky made this alcohol line to show that the son had common weaknesses with his father Fyodor Pavlovich, that he is still the son of his father. Nevertheless, at the end he takes the punishment of another person. Which means that the physical did not win in him and that the human traits did take court. He punished himself but for a better future. There are a lot of other examples that may be reviewed in details but in our opinion we got the main ones that go throughout the entire book.

The significance of the food and drink imagery in The Brothers Ka ramazov by Fyodor M. Dostoevsky has a deeper sense that it may seem form the first sight. As Dostoevsky is considered to be a real psychologist it is obvious that he made a great job in choosing the imagery that would contain encoded messages. This imagery is of a high importance for this book, because throughout the novel, he reveals the true nature of the scenes depicted in the novel. He often uses this imagery as a background, a background that sometimes carries more information that it usually does. The focus on this imagery is necessary if the book is to deeply understood and analyzed. Every single word said by Dostoevsky is not just a word but has a certain aim of using. As you see the example of the food and drink imagery usage is of a great importance for the understanding of the book. Minimizing its significance we minimize the meaning of the novel The Brothers Karamazov as a whole and underestimation of Dostoevskys world perception.

People providing themselve s enough food, and enjoying the spectacles deprive themselves from the main divine grant of a person the liberties of moral choice and possibility to live on their won will. It is shown in The Brothers Karamazov how much the physical aspect enslaves people, making them flabby. Through the food and drink in the novel Dostoevsky achieves the aim of showing how much the physical can destroy the spiritual. How can it worsen what already was bad? And we think this is why he keeps showing these scenes again.

In conclusion it is important to say that of course the novel would not have really lost its extraordinarity without the food and drink imagery, nevertheless without it the essence of the transmitted idea is not complete. The values given in the novel are brightly supported by the same food and drink imagery. The psychological Art of Dostoevsky is famous all over the world. He gets into the depths of subconsciousness of people and researches their emotional lives creating his outstanding characters in The Brothers Karamazov. Dostoevsky by using food and drink imagery in The brother Karamazov saved the initial sense of the novel for us. His analysis in the book the analysis is not limited by individual psychology: it gets into social, household and ethnic psychology. His idea of the possibility of the resurrection of high moral human values and union of the mankind are seen through the whole novel. Dostoevsky by using food and drink imagery in The brother Karamazov saved the initial sense of the novel for us. It is a great book with a great meaning for us, people, who live and love after Fyodor M. Dostoevsky and the imagery in the book is the confirmation that the best messages are not always offered as a plaintext.

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German Memories in Asia: The German Kindness

I recalled Memories of two months ago. At the event Night of a Thousand Dinners I gave a brief speech on various issues ranging from landmines to World affairs. I cant forget those moments when the German Praktikum (Internship) students were spellbound listening to my speech. I was amazed by their eagerness to know about contemporary World issues affecting Germany and around the World.

Having delivered my speech and moving away from the table, the way the students were greeting me by tapping slowly on the table is ever memorable. The simultaneous tapping on the table was creating a new kind of melodious music. I accepted their greeting with a smile. I was really amazed by their greetings and the way they did it. After being there for few more moments, while I was leaving the dinning table, Marita was coming towards me. She greeted me in a soft manner and shook my hand saying: thanks for your speech.

When I saw Marita, still those Memories came to mind and I was able to re-live them. Her kind remark was an added encouragement to me and was coming to mind. I remembered those moments of my speech and the excellent coordination of Marita to make the event a success.

I met Marita at the Aquarius Resort lobby to brief her on the final arrangements relating to the Night of a Thousand Dinners and the purpose of having it. I explained to her in detail about the event and how she will have to explain to the students before my speech. I told her that I would be there in a short while and went to my room.

When I was walking down the narrow passage towards the Restaurant, I observed there were around twenty-five students at the lengthy oval-shaped dinning table. Marita was seated at one corner of the table facing the Ocean. When I reached the table, she came out a nd asked me whether I wished to be in her place or to be in the upper platform of the Restaurant to deliver my speech. I said I would prefer her place as I would be able to see all the students from there and being close to them whereas the upper platform would have distanced me.

She agreed and sat in one of the chairs, which was vacant. She was kind enough to help me develop a rapport with the Internship students within a short while.

As most of the students came from Germany recently, I was not close to them that much. The student-team with whom I went on our Tsunami-relief mission to the northern region had already left the Island.

I had met Marita only once before while we were having breakfast at the Restaurant and thereafter once at the discotheque. I didnt have enough chance to become friendly with her. But her caring nature towards me by listening to my ideas and then translating them into reality instantly amazed me as to how she and the German peo ple are so accommodative.

Rajkumar Kanagasingam is author of a fascinating book on German Memories in Asia and you can explore more about the book and the author at AGSEP

Author:: Rajkumar Kanagasingam
Keywords:: German, Memories, Asia, Restaurant, Praktikum, Internship, World, Tsunami, Germany, Island, Resort,
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Coming Up: My Friend Carol Expert on Istanbul

One of the things I like to do on my website is shine the spotlight on regular people like you and me who have chosen to do something a little unusual with their time and who have managed to live a unique cross-cultural experience.

So one of these special people is my friend Carol, a multi-talented highschool teacher, who, as I recently found out, is also an accomplished painter and pianist.

During the mid-nineties Carol decided to take a few years off and she went off to Turkey to teach English and Mathematics in a school in Istanbul. After all was said and done, Carol had lived for 7 years in Istanbul, thoroughly gotten to know Turkish culture and created a network of international and local friends that she still stays in touch with today. Turkey continues to be one of her favourite destinations and Carol tries to reconnect with her favourite country as often as she can.

In addition to that, Carol also has a special connection to a little town in Greec e by the name of Parga and there is an interesting story behind this. We'll soon hear about Carol's international connections and her experiences and insights about Turkey and Greece.

Susanne Pacher is the publisher of a website called Travel and Transitions (http://www.Travelandtransitions.com). Travel and Transitions deals with unconventional Travel and is chock full of advice, tips, real life Travel experiences, interviews with Travellers and Travel experts, insights and reflections, cross-cultural issues, contests and many other features. You will also find stories about life and the transitions that we face as we go through our own personal life-long journeys.

Submit your own Travel stories in our first Travel story contest (http://www.Travelandtransitions.com/contests.htm) and have a chance to win an amazing adventure cruise on the Amazon River.

Life is a Journey Explore New Horizons.

The interview with photos is published at Travel and Transitions - Interviews

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The Impact of the Internet on Contemporary Literature

Literature basically is everything that has ever been written. Anything from the earliest poems of Homer, to todays web pages, can be considered Literature. But for a specific sense, there are various kinds of Literature. Literature can be written in a specific language, like English Literature or be written by a specific culture, such as African Literature. But Literature really means more than printed words and the Internet certainly is a part of Literature. I should note that the word Literature comes from the French phrase belles-lettres, which means beautiful writing. When a piece of work is called Literature, it is usually considered a great work of art. The Internet Literature does not necessarily have to be this way for the fact that no one controls the Internet Literature. In the following essay I am going to speak about the impact of the Internet on Literature of nowadays.

There are two main classes of Literature which are also present on the Internet: fiction and nonfiction. Fiction is writing that an author creates from the imagination. Authors may include personal experience, or facts about real people or events, but they combine these facts with imagined situations (Moran, 45). In non-Internet Literature the project undergoes at least some sort of censorship in terms of what words can be used, yet the Internet allows the authors to put anything they desire on the web site and enjoy it. Most fiction is narrative writing, such as novels and short stories. Fiction also includes drama and poetry. Nonfiction is factual writing about real-life situations. The principal forms of nonfiction include the essay, biography, autobiography, and diary (Browner, 90). The Internet presents a new formsInternet pages, or Internet books.

People read Literature for a variety of reasons. The most common reason for reading is pleasure. People read to pass the time, or for information and knowledge. Through Literature, people meet characters they can identify with, and sometimes find solutions for their own problems. With Literature, a person can often understand situations they could not otherwise understand in real life (Koehler, 28). Often, just the arrangement of the words can be enjoyable, just as a child likes the sound of Ring Around the Rosie, even though they might not understand what the words mean. There are four elements of Literature: characters, plot, theme, and style. A good author has the ability to balance these elements, creating a unified work of art. The characters make up the central interest of many dramas and novels, as well as biographies and autobiographies. A writer must know each character thoroughly and have a clear idea about each ones look, speech, and thoughts. The Internet Literature is not difficult to create for the fact that unlike traditional Literature the Internet Literature requires minimal start up costs (Moran, 47). And because reading usually involves convenience, at some point of time one would not be surprised to see convenient electronic devices that could be transported anywhere and would download books from the Internet and present them in digital format.

Motivation is the reason for characters actions. A good writer will be sure that the motives of a character are clear and logical. The Internet writers do not have to be this way, they are not controlled and they hardly risky anything by publishing online. Setting is where a characters story takes place. The plot is built around a series of events that take place within a definite period. It is what happens to the characters. No rules exist for the order in which the events are presented. A unified plot has a beginning, middle, and an end. In literary terms, a unified plot includes an exposition, a rising action, a climax, and a denouement, or outcome. The exposition gives the background and situation of the story (Browner, 93). The rising action builds upon the exposition. It creates suspense, or a reader's desire to find out what happens next. The climax is the highest point of interest, also a turning point of a story. The denouement is the conclusion. The theme is the basic idea expressed by a work of Literature. It develops from the interplay of character and plot. A theme may contain morals, to warn the reader to lead a better life or a different kind of life. The Internet Literature does not have to be this way at all because no one controls it. The write take minimal risk in terms of investment, yet possibly can find readers from all over the world, which can pay for the e-book and download it to their o wn computers, is very high (Moran, 49).

A serious writer strives to make his work an honest expression of sentiment, or true emotion. They avoid sentimentality, which means giving too much emphasis to emotion or pretending to feel an emotion. A writer of honest emotion does not have to tell the reader what to think about a story. A good story will direct the reader to the author's conclusion. Style is the way a writer uses words to create Literature. It is difficult to enjoy a story's characters or plot without enjoying the author's style (Browner, 98). The style of an author is as important as what he is trying to say. Point of view, or the way a story is presented, is another part of style. A writer may tell a story in the first person, using the pronoun I, as though the narrator were a majo r or minor character in it. Or, the writer may use the third person method, in which the narrator stands apart from the characters and describes the action using such pronouns as he and she. There are two types of third person views: limited and omniscient. In the third person limited point of view, the narrator describes the events as seen by a single character. In the third person omniscient, or all knowing, point of view, the narrator reports on what several characters are thinking and feeling. Reading is an intently personal art. There are no final rules for judging a piece of writing. Often, peoples judgment of a work can change as taste and fashion change. Yet the classics continue to challenge readers imaginations and give ageless advice. Shakespeare will most likely be as popular a hundred years from now as he is today. That is power of Literature. Literature is timeless (Moran, 53).

It should be noted that Literature can have many and different values on a person and it is the Internet that allows literary values to be delivered to the audience without any barriers. It is all depending on the story and the value or moral issue the author wants, you, the reader to get out of it. The value Literature had on me was actually hard t o put into words. But to understand the value of Literature you must know the definition of value and Literature. Value has many meanings but there is two that relate (Browner, 102). Worth in usefulness or importance to the possessor and a principle, standard, or quality considered worthwhile or desirable. Literature is a body of writings in prose or verse. Literature produces value because it is basically an analysis of an experience or situation (Koehler, 30). I got a different value out of each story. With Mark Twain's The Adventure of Huckleberry Finn it showed me that one does not have to be civilized or conform to the ideas of society to become cultured or mature. With Huck Finn he ran away from everything that was considered civilized (Moran, 58). He had nothing and really did not want anything. But at the same time he experienced and matured living dangerously. This made me value Huck's adventure and take it as my own. Huck proves his maturity when he comments on how the king and duke dupe the villagers into believing that they are the dead man's brothers, and Huck says, I never see anything so disgusting.(Twain 163) Even though the king and duke commit an awful act on the villagers he still feels sorry for them when they get tarred. Huck comments, Human beings can be awful cruel to one another.(Twain 225) In William Faulkner's Barn Burning it told of a man named Abner Snopes who burned barns when upset or mad. This was his way of getting back at them. Barn Burning has two very evident struggles (Browner, 105). Abner oppresses his family just as the upper class has oppressed him. Barn Burning to me is based on misdirected anger. Which is basically happening in these days. For example, a teenager and his parents have it out, he leaves, and now his anger is directed toward anything in his pathway. Barn Burning has a value in that it shows in life that people actually misdirect their anger. Such as in the school shootings and bomb threats that have occurred in the past couple of years (Koehler, 33). Just like Abner Snopes felt like an outsider to the upper class, so did the students who committed these violent acts. In The Swimmer, it made me value life and what it brings. Because if your not careful or you do not watch out it will past you up without notice (Browner, 109). As with Everyday Use, one of the daughters did not value who she was or whom she was because she was going out looking for her history. Which she already had at her fingertips.

Conclusion:

In conclusion I would like to note that reading all of the Literature which colleges and universities assign to their students involves very high costs to the society in terms of paper consumption and time wasting (that involves going to the library, or to the book shop, etc). The Internet and the ability to download the books from online to one portable device would reduce the costs, save the trees, and will make people more efficient. I realize that there are a lot of things that we as people in this society take for granted. Literature has made me value a lot of experiences and situations so far and I enjoy holding the paper book in the evening preparing for the next day, yet I do not protest against the use of the digital technology to create digital books that would contribute not only to the efficiency but also to the reduced costs to the whole society.

Holly Odom is a freelance writer working for essaymart.com - on line Custom Writing/Research company. She specializes in Social sciences, Arts, History and English Literature. During 2005, earned became one of 10 best writers at essaymart.com.

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