After the devastating fire bombs of the Germans strategy during the early stages of World War II, Rotterdam's centre was destroyed, together with many other older buildings of the city. The restoration of the Rotterdam's centre presented a great challenge to architects of building a city from the start. Rotterdam was then a post World War II empty canvas which gave birth to some of the upcoming architects of the time. One of them was Rem Koolhaas, who four years after the destruction had the ...
To proceed, the phenomenon observed in Belize, is the co-existence of two varieties; English on the first hand which is characterized by overt prestige and Belizean Creole on the other hand carrying covert prestige. Despite English being the official language of Belize, Belizean Creole appears to be characterized by high status. According to Escure (1997), even though Belizean Creole "is not officially recognized as distinct from English" and is assigned a low value, it has still gained prest...
A festival is an event, usually and ordinarily staged by a local community, which centers on and celebrates some unique aspect of that community and the Festival. Among many religions, a feast is a set of celebrations in honour of God or gods. A feast and a festival are historically interchangeable. However, the term "feast" has also entered common secular parlance as a synonym for any large or elaborate meal. When used as in the meaning of a festival, most often refers to a religious festiva...
Aicken, Michelle, and Chris Ryan, ed. Indigenous Tourism: The Commodification and Management of Culture. Oxford: Elsevier, 2005. (Accessed through Science Direct 28 October 2010.) This book addresses important aspects of "indigenous tourism" that no other resource addresses adequately. It examines at length the challenges involved with the study of the topic itself. It also addresses the limits of tourism, questions of authenticity, and tourism management. One of the most relevant chapters fo...
It was late October in Belgium, Brussels-the leaves had begun to fall creating a crunchy undergrowth as you tramped across the square to the totally glass encased VUB building the students had aptly nicknamed "The Glass Pondera", no doubt a symbol of their attitude towards young budding students. It had been several weeks since my friend Nikki met with her academic adviser who assisted her in creating a well thought out, lucid, cogent cover letter that accompanied her resume, which was dutifu...
As a product of the development of the world market economy, trademark has been well regarded as a key element in the success of the advertising of an enterprise. Trademark is closely related to the sales and reputation of businesses and it has long been proved by history that a successful trademark would always facilitate the success of a business. As for trademark, it may have the following functions. Firstly, "the trademark performs the role of identifying the goods of a particular manufac...
Bharatantyam has been embedded in the Tamil culture since centuries, transmitted from generation to generation and evolving over time to uphold its sacredness and its representation of the state's traditional identity. Today Bharatanaytam has spread worldwide, performed and practiced across countries and accepted by both traditional and modern masses. However it was only after its rebirth in 1930, when the Devadasi Act was passed, and due to E. Krishna Iyer's reworking of the dance's movement...
This report, introduce about knifes history, type, part, color, material, how to production and the process . And then I choose a product doing research, why the knife make this form. History of knife The knife (plural knives) is a cutting tool with an exposed cutting edge or blade, hand-held or otherwise, with or without a handle. Knife-like tools were used at least two-and-a-half million years ago, as evidenced by the Oldowan tools. Originally made of rock, flint, and obsidian, knives have ...
Malaysia has many kinds of restaurants almost everywhere in the cities and towns. There are Malay Restaurants, Chinese restaurants, Indian Restaurants, Thai Restaurants and more. Eating out in Malaysia is a real gastronomic adventure. There is such a great variety; spicy Malay Food, a seemingly endless variety of Chinese food, exotic cuisine from North and South India, as well as Nyonya and Portuguese Food. Popular Malaysian dishes include satay, nasi lemak, rendang, roti canai, murtabak, lak...
Postmodernism The artistic movement that really caught my attention was Post-modernism. "Postmodernism was a late 20th century movement that opposed the Modernist preoccupation with purity of form and technique, and aimed to eradicate the divisions between art, popular culture, and the media. Postmodern artists employed influences from an array of past movements, applying them to modern forms. Postmodernists embraced diversity and rejected the distinction between "high" and "low" art. Ignorin...
