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Chapter 107 – A Battle of Words
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Having met eyes with each other, it was no longer possible to feign ignorance, Chen Chang Sheng lightly nodded his head in greeting. Under the Cedrus tree, an older disciple of Holy Maiden Peak lightly nodded in reply, though the motion was minute, it was enough to express courtesy, prompting the other disciples to return greetings to Chen Chang Sheng in turn.
A lone girl, whose face still conveyed remnants of childishness, remained motionless while maintaining a cold expression and cool gaze towards Chen Chang Sheng. The previous older disciple, who was probably her senior, whispered a few words to the girl, yet afterwards, the girl erupted in annoyance, stating: "Will senior You Rong marry this person? It's obviously no, so why should I greet him?"
Upon hearing this, the other disciples were at a lost, how should they answer? The older disciple was just as bewildered and rushed to the side to reason with her, this fell upon deaf ears however and the girl turned to Chen Chang Sheng with a cold smirk while saying: "A little toad wishes to dine on the Phoenix? That type of delusional fool isn't someone we should pay any attention to, Senior should be ignoring him too."
Her words were intentionally loud and clear, in order to put Chen Chang Sheng's group into hearing range. Initially, Chen Chang Sheng had presumed her to be just a little girl and did not need to care for her words, but upon the utterance of the last line, he had no choice but to stop; Tang Thirty-Six refused to continue forwards.
The girl had an exceedingly young looking face, and an age to match, yet who could have guessed she would be so callous with her words? Her voice carried a fair distance; the Thirteen Divisions of Radiant Green opposite were restrained in their reactions, conversely, students from Temple Seminary and Li Palace College who were situated farther away, all erupted in bouts of heavy laughter.
The Li Palace's divine avenue was a long, straight path, Tang Thirty-Six had already endured the gazes of a multitude of students and the barbs from Temple Seminary students for quite some time, upon hearing the callous words of this girl and the subsequent mocking laughter; he had already reached his limit.
Hearing laughter from both sides of the divine avenue, the girl was further emboldened, delighting in the response. She turned to Chen Chang Sheng, made a sound of indignation, and then turned to her senior: "Do you hear that? Even these people of Zhou (country) agree with me."
Early mornings at Li Palace are very quiet, causing the sounds of laughter to reverberate throughout the palace at an ear-piercing volume.
The reason for students of Temple Seminary and Li Palace College having such a strong reaction to the girl's callous words was because the phrase, "a little toad wishes to dine on the Phoenix", was currently the biggest joke in the city, alluding to the engagement between Chen Chang Sheng and Xu You Rong.
No one dared to approach the doors of Orthodox Academy to say these words and were thus also unable to say these words to Chen Chang Sheng's face, for this girl to say these words today, students that enjoyed inciting incidents couldn't let this chance slip by without fanning the flames.
"I daresay… such a phrase should be officially recorded, so that it may become a proverb for the people of this continent."
A voice from amongst the Temple Seminary group sounded, it was unclear if it was the same person from before, yet nonetheless it aroused another burst of laughter.
Chen Chang Sheng shifted his gaze towards the girl under the Cedrus tree; seeing her childish face, he estimated her to be around 12 years of age, an age not too different from that of Luo Luo, causing him to feel hesitant.
The older disciple from Holy Maiden Peak expressed an apology towards him.
The girl met Chen Chang Sheng's gaze indifferently and responded with a cold laugh: "What? Have I said anything that's a lie?"
Chen Chang Sheng quietly considered for a while, then replied: "Your words are correct."
The girl looked at him in disdain, "So where am I wrong then? In what way are you worthy of Senior You Rong?"
"She might really be a Phoenix."
Chen Chang Sheng said.
"But I am most definitely not a toad."
He was also going to express that the toad wasn't interested in the Phoenix, but was interrupted by the girl, who mockingly said: "Oh, so you're not a toad because you say you're not? Then who were they all laughing at?"
"I do not know who they were laughing at."
Chen Chang Sheng suddenly shifted his gaze towards the deeper regions of the Cedrus trees, stating: "But I do know someone that will disagree with the idea of me being a toad."
Unknown to all, the doors to a guesthouse had been opened and from inside, Gou Han Shi and his three junior disciples from Li Shan Sword Sect emerged, they crossed the woods and arrived at the divine avenue.
Gou Han Shi managed to hear the girl's previous words and understood the allusions behind them, his expression was hard to read, as he shook his head and said: "You're naturally not a toad, if you were, then what would that make me?"
The laughter suddenly subsided, leaving a wake of silence.
At the Ivy League gathering, Orthodox Academy triumphed over Li Shan Sword Sect, anyone that was present at the time, knew of the key figure behind that victory.
Though it could not be said that Chen Chang Sheng was stronger than Gou Han Shi, he was undeniably capable of standing up to him.
If he were to be a toad, then what would that make Gou Han Shi? What of the Divine State's Seven Laws?
Laughing at Chen Chang Sheng was therefore no different from mocking Li Shan Sword Sect?
Subsequently, no one dared to raise their voice again, let alone laugh, the girl from Holy Maiden Peak became flustered while looking at Gou Han Shi and wanted to open her mouth to give an explanation, yet words would not come.
Amidst the Li Palace College group, Su Mo Yu who was watching from the side lightly crossed his eyebrows in a frown, he couldn't understand, why did Gou Han Shi make an appearance to defend Chen Chang Sheng?
The reason for this was only privy to Chen Chang Sheng and Gou Han Shi; apart from needing to express the magnanimity of the Li Shan Sword Sect, considerations also had to be paid towards the state of Qiu Shan Jun. Chen Chang Sheng and Xu You Rong were betrothed to each other, all Qiu Shan Jun could do was to observe them from a distance, therefore this event couldn't be allowed to become too much of a mockery.
A beautiful silence enveloped the evergreens.
Chen Chang Sheng and Gou Han Shi exchanged formal greetings (揖礼) towards each other.
Subsequently, no one paid any further attention to the girl from Holy Maiden Peak, including her seniors, but the quietness of the surroundings cause her to become anxious; offending a senior from the Longevity Sect was an unthinkable situation for her, further increasing her anxiety. Near bursting into tears, she said: "I… I didn't mean that, this… this person can't even cultivate properly, isn't he nothing more than trash?"
Upon these words, the atmosphere once again turned heavy.
Guan Fei Bai raised his eyebrow, finding the actions of the girl distasteful; the fifth Law, Liang Ban Hu, shook his head; even Qi Jian, who only cared about cultivating The Way and cared little for worldly affairs, thought her actions crossed the line, he turned his gaze towards Gou Han Shi, hoping that his senior would handle this affair.
Gou Han Shi had a gloomy expression, yet did nothing. Though disciples from the Southern schools all referred to each other with the greetings of senior and junior, akin to being from a single body and school, they were still independent of each other. As the second disciple of the Longevity Sect, he had no right to interfere with Holy Maiden Peak and its matters.
Though there was someone that didn't care about interfering.
"I'm rather curious as to why you loathe Chen Chang Shang so much… though admittedly, he is rather annoying at times." Tang Thirty-Six suddenly interjected.
The girl only continued to glare at Chen Chang Sheng, ignoring the question.
Tang Thirty-Six continued, "No matter how gifted you may be, you cannot possibly be a match for the Phoenix, putting aside your personality, you're still too young to be a disciple of the Nan Xi Institute, so you must be a disciple associated with Holy Maiden Peak? I would guess… a disciple of Ci Jian Temple?"
Hearing him mention her personality, the girl was mortified and wanted to refute him, what was wrong with her personality? Yet upon hearing those last few words, she felt stunned, Holy Maiden Peak had over a dozen schools and sects, how did he manage to guess that she came from Ci Jian Temple?
"That's right, I'm called Ye Xiao Lian, a younger disciple of Ci Jian Temple, once I'm old enough next year, I'll be entering the Nan Xi Institute, what of it?"
She faced Tang Thirty-Six with her small face, not caring to temper her look of pride and guarded vigilance.
Tang Thirty-Six interjected: "Ci Jian Temple, is it not rather near Li Mountain?"
Guan Fei Bai was taken aback with these words, thinking to himself that this person wasn't from the South, yet why did he know so much about the region?
"The Longevity Sect comprises of several mountain ranges, with Li Shan being the highest, situated besides Ci Jian Temple. I would presume you often get to see Qiu Shan Jun's countenance?"
Tang Thirty-Six continued, not giving her a chance to reply: "A figure such as Qiu Shan Jun, it's not hard to imagine someone falling for him after seeing him so many times. You're still young, yet your heart has already been taken, so why do you hate Chen Chang Sheng? Well, the fact is, in this case, Chen Chang Sheng got the better of him."
"Nonsense!" the girl countered, with mortified expression.
Gou Han Shi was also unable to continue listening, shaking his head and saying: "This is preposterous."
Ye Xiao Lian, with a bright red face, responded in a reprimanding manner: "My loathing has nothing to do with Senior, I'm only angry about Senior You Rong getting tarnished."
"There's no need to lie, some girls may have such a caring personality, but you? I think not, rather, the thought of your Senior, You Rong, being married off to a toad would probably delight you enough to cause you to smile while sleeping."
Ye Xiao Lian was stunned, "I couldn't possibly be thinking that."
She was undeniably still just a 12 year old girl, her expression before the eyes of others was already confirmation enough of her thoughts, causing the other disciples of Holy Maiden Peak to cross their eyebrows in a frown.
Tang Thirty-Six was expressionless throughout his conjecture, adding to the seriousness of his speech and enhancing its effect, "Only, Qiu Shan Jun is still your idol, for him to lose to Chen Chang Sheng in vying for a girl, if I were you, I would also be incensed."
Upon hearing this, Chen Chang Sheng shook his head, thinking he had gone too far.
The expressions of Gou Han Shi and his group also became rather sombre.
"He's nowhere near a match against Senior."
Ye Xiao Lian's voice became increasingly incensed, nailing Tang Thirty-Six with her eyes she replied: "I just don't understand, why did Senior You Rong have to write a letter, a letter that places this trash on the same level as Senior Qiu Shan, didn't she think that that's nothing more than an insult to Senior?"
"Oh, so it's not Chen Chang Sheng you loathe, but rather… your Senior You Rong"
Tang Thirty-Six didn't feign an expression of sudden enlightenment, this was not his purpose, he calmly continued: "Then can you still deny liking Qiu Shan Jun?"
A silence enveloped the divine avenue, with gazes from the audience towards the girl being rather complicated.
Ye Xiao Lian flustered, before gradually coming to a realisation that her inner thoughts had been seen through, her face turned bright red, the corners of her eyes became moist, giving the impression of impending tears, she was evidently heavily disturbed.
"There's no need to be upset, with a figure such as Qiu Shan Jun, it's natural to fall for him."
"Because you understand that you're not worthy of having Qiu Shan Jun… in fact, for the past two years, amongst the human realm, everyone has been questioning this. It would seem that only Qiu Shan Jun has the qualifications to like Xu You Rong, and only Xu You Rong has the qualifications to like Qiu Shan Jun. Therefore the mocking of Chen Chang Sheng is correct, the current stares of those judging you are not."
Tang Thirty-Six turned to face the crowd, calmly stating: "In truth, you are not in the wrong, liking someone is not a sin, the ones who are wrong are these people, what right do you have to deny love? Just because none of you dare to love, therefore others also lack this right? Preposterous."
"Therefore, you shouldn't harbour any hate for Chen Chang Sheng, conversely, you should feel empathy for someone in the same situation as you."
Ye Xiao Lian raised her head, rubbing away her tears and upon seeing the unfriendly stares directed at her, she finally understood his words.
The surroundings were blanketed with silence, for, even though Tang Thirty-Six was overly blunt with his words, they still rung true.
Only Chen Chang Sheng thought differently to himself, after all, he didn't like Xu You Rong, though he was obviously not going to clarify this in front of everyone. Xu You Rong helped him on the night of the Ivy League gathering with her letter, he was not about to complicate things for her needlessly.
The early morning breeze brushed pass the trees, scattering the morning light; as the temperature slowly rose, the autumn air began tempering somewhat.
The gathered students looked at Tang Thirty-Six with lamentation in their hearts, thinking that he lived up his status of being from an established family, having the gentle and calm flair of the dignitary. Being able to placate the young junior from Holy Maiden Peak in such a simple manner, in turn, this caused the fervent stares of students from the Thirteen Divisions of Radiant Green to renew in their intensity.
Thus, everyone thought this incident would come to an end, a happy and complete ending…
Tang Thirty-Six turned around, and once again turned his gaze towards Ye Xiao Lian.
"But… to be honest… you're not really the same as Chen Chang Sheng."
"He has an engagement to Xu You Rong, not just liking, even if they were to hold hands and run off to see the sunset, no one would be able to say anything. But between you and Qiu Shan Jun there doesn't exist a sliver of a relationship, not to mention the entire continent is aware of the fact that his heart already leans toward Xu You Rong. Just because of liking Qiu Shan Jun, you came to insult Chen Chang Sheng? Where's the reason in that?
"If he were trash… then wouldn't you just be… a little slut?"
His words were spoken as calmly as ever, with the last three words carefully enunciated to ensure there could be no mistaking what was said.
The entire scene, erupted in a massive outcry!
Ye Xiao Lian let out a single cry and covered her face as she ran back into the woods while sobbing.
The disciples of Holy Maiden Peak gave him a few hard stares, then turned and left. Students of the Thirteen Divisions of Radiant Green who had previously looked at him with adulation also had a change in expression. Who would have thought, that previous exchange, those moving words, all were naught but a preparation for those final three words!
Jin Yu Lu and Xuan Yuan Po who had been listening on the side all this time affirmed to themselves, humans really are cunning and shameless; unworthy of trust. After this incident, Xuan Yuan Po unconsciously edged closer towards Chen Chang Sheng, unwilling to remain too close to Tang Thirty-Six; Jin Yu Lu sighed and said: "You're the real trash here."
Chen Chang Sheng didn't know what to say and turned to gesture his farewell to Gou Han Shi. Though the words of Tang Thirty-Six were callous and low, they didn't concern the Longevity Sect, therefore Gou Han Shi only shook his head, and returned the gesture before taking his juniors and returning to their lodgings.
Though no one approved of the actions of the girl from Holy Maiden Peak, she was still just a girl of 12 years, seeing her race away in a fluster of tears was enough to draw pity from a lot of the younger male students. They felt like she had been wronged, and where there is a wrong, it is only proper to speak out against it.
"A person who only knows how to bully a child through their words."
From the group of Li Palace College students, Su Mo Yu remained silent. In truth, he was feeling rather disappointed, talks had been abound of Orthodox Academy's revival, yet from what he saw today…
Chen Chang Sheng who was afraid Tang Thirty-Six would delay them further, urged them onwards: "Let's go."
Tang Thirty-Six looked towards the group of students and quickly said, "After I've finished, I'll be back, if you've the guts, stay here."
The students were once again in an uproar, this is Li Palace, the location of their schools. This wasn't Orthodox Academy, for him to bully a little girl and then continue to display such arrogance, was simply an invitation for them to beat him to a pulp.
At this moment, from the deeper regions of the complex, the clear sound of a bell could be heard chiming, within the chimes were the faintest hint of admonishment.


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Poohar: This is the place where the river Cauvery drains into Bay of Bengal. Ancient Port had a link with the Roman empire. Famous for its art gallery.
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Deodar, 42 feet in circumference, near Simla.
Photographer: Bourne, Samuel
Medium: Photographic print
Date: 1863
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Delhi - Haridwar - Rishikesh - Nainital - Corbett - Delhi
DURATION : 07 Nights / 08 Days
Day 01: Delhi - Haridwar (210 kms/6-7 hrs approx)
Upon arrival in Delhi, welcome to the guests and proceed to Haridwar by road. Reach Haridwar and check-in at hotel, evening visit to one of the famous Ghat "Har-Ki-Pauri" to see aarti of holy Ganges. Later back to hotel, overnight stay at hotel.
Day 02: Haridwar
After breakfast, full day enjoy sightseeing of Haridwar, visit to Chandi Devi Temple, Mansa Devi Temple, Daksha Mahadev Temple, Bilkeshwar Mahadev Temple followed by "Har-Ki-Pauri"& local bazaar etc, overnight stay at hotel.
Day 03: Haridwar - Rishikesh (21 kms/1 hr approx)
Early morning experience Ganges Aarti from one of the main Ghat "Har-Ki-Pauri" in Haridwar. After breakfast, leave for Rishikesh, on arrival check-in at hotel. Later enjoy sightseeing of Rishikesh, visit to Laxman Jhulla, Ram Jhulla, Triveni Ghat, Bharat Mata Temple & Shivananda Ashram followed by Rishi Parmarth Ashram to experience evening Aarti of Holy River Ganges. After sightseeing back to hotel, overnight stay at hotel.
Day 04: Rishikesh
After breakfast, excursion to Neelkanth Mahadev Temple by local jeeps at your own cost. Later back to hotel, evening free leisure, overnight stay at hotel.
Day 05: Rishikesh – Nainital (255 kms/7-8 hrs approx)
After breakfast, proceed to Nainital. On arrival Check-in at hotel, evening enjoy walking tour of Mall Road, overnight stay at hotel.
ay 06: Nainital
After breakfast, full day enjoy sightseeing of Nainital, Bheemtal & Nakuchiatal followed by boat ride in Nainital Lake (At your own cost), overnight stay at hotel.
Day 07: Nainital – Jim Corbett National Park (65 kms/2 hrs approx)
After breakfast, proceed to Corbett. On arrival Check-in at hotel, later visit to Garjiya Mata Temple & Corbett Water Fall. After sightseeing back to hotel, overnight stay at hotel.
Day 08: Corbett - Delhi (290 kms/7-8 hrs approx)
Early morning go for jeep safari inside the National Park and enjoy gaming view. Later back to hotel and after breakfast, proceed to Delhi. On arrival transfer the guests to Delhi Airport/Railway Station to board the flight/train for onward journey and tour terminates here, but sweet memories remains for forever.
End of the tour


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By stooged on Feb 23, 2018: #1I have been messing around with trying to get my VR headset to work with 4.05 for a little while, and because the VR headset is updated to the latest firmware it wouldn't work.
Just recently @XVortex pointed out you can poke a memory value to sort of spoof the system firmware version, so I tried what he said and put together a Enable_VR.bin payload (load the HEN payload and then load the VR payload because the Web exploit will say invalid import map, or use this idc.zip modified IDC exploit to launch it as I have added the 5.05 sections so it does not complain about import map) to poke the offset and found it allowed my VR headset to work.
Update: Ok I sorted out the problem and merged the enable VR mod into XVortex's HEN 1.3 so you can now just run this 1 HEN payload and play VR with the source code below:
Download: ps4-hen-VR.zip (0.01 MB) / ps4-hen-VR.tar.gz (0.05 MB - Source Code) / usb_hen_vr.zip (0.03 MB - for USB Stick) / Ps4_Serve_v1_8.apk / Enable_VR_455.zip / usb_455_vr_enable.zip (0.02 MB) / ps4-hen-VR.zip (0.01 MB) / Enable-VR-50X
I only have 1 VR game to test on at the moment as I have to download the VR games now, but it is Resident Evil 7 and its working with my latest updated VR 3.10 and 4.05 + HEN.
Huge thanks to @XVortex, as you can see this is my VR information:
And this is the game running on VR:
Tested a few more VR games and all works well:
Rush of Blood:
VR Worlds:
Arkham VR:
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Campbell Henderson | Obituary | The Press and Standard
by Myiah Blakeney | July 25, 2017 1:08 pm
Campbell Henderson
Care of Parker-Rhoden Funeral Home
WALTERBORO: Mr. Campbell Gilchrist Henderson, 92, passed away at his home Thursday morning July 13, 2017 surrounded by his family. He was the husband of the late Wyndall Mason
Henderson. They were married for 61 years.
Mr. Henderson was born in Walterboro on December 11, 1924. He was the son of the late Alexander Fraser and Jessie Harrison Henderson. During World War II he served in the U.S. Army Air Corps as a first lieutenant in the Pacific Ocean Theater. After his military service, he returned to Davidson College and, upon graduation, entered the banking profession. He retired as president of Farmers and Merchants Bank in 1985. Mr. Henderson was an active supporter of the Boy Scouts of America, having received the Silver Beaver Award for his service. He was inducted into the South Carolina Golf Hall of Fame in 1985. He was also a lifelong member of Bethel Presbyterian Church where he served as an elder and treasurer emeritus. Additionally, he was a member of the Carolina Yacht Club.
He is survived by his children: Cam Henderson, Jr. and wife Carolyn of Walterboro; Jess Charters and husband Andrew of Megggett; Leigh Stoots of Meggett. There are four grandchildren: Wendy Ferreira (Jason), Nancy Henderson, James Stoots, and Campbell Stoots. Mr. Henderson leaves behind one great-granddaughter, Leona Ferreira, his sister Alice H. Jervey, and long-time caregiver Willie Mae Holmes.
The family received friends from 6-8 p.m. on Monday July 17, 2017 at Parker-Rhoden Funeral Home in Walterboro. Burial services were held privately at Live Oak Cemetery. In lieu of flowers, memorials may be sent to Bethel Presbyterian Church, 403 Church Street, Walterboro, SC, 29488.


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English Literature Essay
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Willam Russel is a British playwright who is eminent for the production of many plays; his best known works are Educating Rita, Blood Brothers and Shirley Valentine. Russell was born and raised in Whinston, on the outskirts of Liverpool. He came from a working class background and some of his experiences as a youngster are reflected in his works, such as within the play Educating Rita. As a young adult, Russell only had experience and knowledge of manual work and left college with having only achieved one O-Level in English Literature.
Being from a working class family, his mother had then suggested the concept of training to become a woman's hairdresser. This was a typical working class job which had low pay and was generally looked down upon. Russell felt trapped due to his working class status; he was still unsatisfied with his lifestyle and began to seek a career that provided greater opportunities to learn and make a greater contribution to society. He was a young person who showed initiative and soon took action and decided to become a student.
Though despite the efforts that he was making, Russell's life was still greatly impacted by his social class; he couldn't afford student fees and the Education Authorities refused to fund him or offer a scholarship. However, he remained adamant that he was going to break the class boundaries and achieved this by spending some time working in Fords Car Company to fund his studies. As a result of his determination, by the age of twenty, Russell had enough qualifications to become employed as a teacher.
Indeed, this is where he got his inspiration for the characters of Rita (a hairdresser) and Frank (a lecturer) because he had experienced of these careers and an insight into the emotions that they would've felt. Russell has interpreted the character of Rita as a duplicate of himself in his early years and Frank represents the level of education that he achieved in later life. Educating Rita can be compared with many other of Willy Russell's plays; this is because majority of his work focuses on the issue of different classes within society.
For example, the musical Blood Brothers is about the lives of fraternal twins who were separated at birth. Due to their separation, the two twin boys grew up with different backgrounds and this took them to opposite ends of the social spctrum. As a result of this, one brother became unemployed and in prison and the other became an well paid and respected councilor. There are connections between this play and Educating Rita because Rita and Frank are also at opposite ends of the social spectrum.
Another connection is that both of these plays explore the importance of love; in Educating Rita the audience learns that Frank has had his heart broken and is now in a loveless relationship and Rita splits up from her husband because they want different things in life. This shows that Rita values her education more than her relationship and is therefore willing to sacrifice this in order to improve her life. Whereas in the play Blood Brothers, Russell portrays love as something that is of great value and that should be cherished.
Russell shows that the two brothers are willing to risk everything for love; as a consequence this is that the play ends in tragedy when they both fall for the same girl. There are also connections betwteen Educating Rita and Willy Russell's play Shirley Valentine. This is a one-character play about the life of a working class housewife from Liverpool and therefore, alike in Educating Rita, Russel has inclued an aspect of his own life. Shirley feels trapped, alone and unappreciated; this is similar to Rita because both women are fed up with their lives and want to improve them.
Shirley is also similar to Rita because they both discover that they have to make sacrafices and an effort to achieve their goals. Both women also represent the changing roles of women in society. During the eightiess there was great reform and women began to show that they were capable members of society. The twentieth century began as a wave of revolution for the females in society; including the suffragist movement and an ever increasing amount of feminists.
The actions of these women contributed to the change of attitudes and laws were eventually enforced to ensure that both sexes were valued and treated equally. This included things such as new guidelines from the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission which were enforced in 1980 and prohibited sexual harassment and discrimination in the workplace. This had led to great changes in the lifestyles of women, who were no longer bound to their households or deemed unworthy to carrying out manual work or labour.
Instead, they were out there, among the masses, making a difference and trying to change the way they were viewed. Indeed, the actions of these women encouraged others such as Rita and Shirley to become educated and prove that they were worthy. Educating Rita was commissioned by the Royal Shakespear Company and premiered at the Warehouse in London in 1980. This play earned Russel a great deal of recognition and won the Society of West End Theatres Award for best comedy. From this point on, Educating Rita was made into a film and has continued to be performed in theatres across the globe.
In the opening scenes of this play, Russel has addressed the issue of class and shown that anyone is capable of achieving their goals and breaking the class boundaries. The play involves two main characters, Rita and Franck; Russel has shown a great contrast between these two characters and both come from very different classes in society. Rita is a twenty six year old working class hairdresser who applies to study with the Open University. The play follows just over a year in Rita's life and shows her gradual progress in an English Literature course.
Again, Russell has incorporated an aspect of his own life because he himself took this qualification. This type of course was recently developed at the time and allowed poorer people to afford further education whilst working it around their daily hours. The Open University was also very popular in Britain because it accepted majority of people regardless of their previous academic achievements or intellect. This allowed the less fortunate members of society to have the opportunity to improve their lives.
At first Rita knew that she wanted to do the course but had self doubt and lacked any initiative. Rita hadn't been disciplined or been taught how to critically analyse work from an objective point of view. Therefore, majority of her early work was based upon personal opinions and experiences-which is a subjective point of view. On the other hand, Frank has an entiterely different life from Rita; he is a middle aged, middle class English lecturer in a University who bases his ideas purely on objective knowledge and intellect.
Frank shows numerous clichi??d characteristics of the middle class; he is a reserved, formal, highly educated and wealthy man. However, he is miserable and doesn't seem to value this; it is immedtialy evident that he takes his lifestyle for granted. Futhermore, Frank also makes it known to the audience that he has taken on the additional responsibility of tutoring Rita in order to pay for his drinking habit. However, this also gives indications that he is trying to escape his drab homelife because being from a middle class background, Frank would undoubtedly be able to afford this habit whether he tutored Rita or not.


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The city of Zootopia may seem to be utopian and evolved with all kinds of animals living in harmony, but all is not what it seems in this world.
In the midst of a polarizing political climate comes a sharp commentary from Disney in the form of an animated movie. Zootopia manages to cut sharply through the prejudice, racism and xenophobia in the air by using a classic detective story, a touch of heart and drama and plenty of pop culture zingers. These animals have evolved beyond the divisions of predator and prey. After all, this is now a utopia, and that "savage" environment is now in the past.
At least, that is the tale that young rabbit Judy Hopps (Ginnifer Goodwin) tells in a play at the talent show of the local festival in rural Bunnyburrow. Shortly after recounting that this evolution has allowed her to dream of one day becoming a police officer, Judy realizes that maybe some prejudice still exists. Judy notices sheep friends of hers being picked on so she intervenes. Gideon Grey, a backwoods bully of a fox, cuts her face with his claws, telling her that she'll never be a cop, but Judy succeeds in getting back her friends' tickets.
Fast forward fifteen years to Judy in the police academy. Using her smarts to overcome every obstacle to her small size, she graduates as valedictorian of her class. The mayor of Zootopia, Leodore Lionheart (J. K. Simmons), is over the moon that their diversity initiatives are working -- a not-so-subtle nod to affirmative action and other such initiatives in many a company -- and happily presents Judy her badge. After a bittersweet goodbye to her family, Judy makes her move to the big city of Zootopia, excited to finally start living her dream.
But things don't go her way when on the first day at work, Judy's boss -- a cape buffalo simply called Chief Bogo (Idris Elba) -- doles out the cases but assigns her to parking duty. Trying to make the best of her situation, Judy hands out parking tickets left and right. While on meter maid duty, she notices a fox walking into an ice cream parlor and follows him, as he looks suspicious.
Upon entering the building, though, she realizes that he is harmless and in fact simply trying to buy a popsicle for his son as a birthday gift. The owner of the parlor refuses to serve him, as foxes have a reputation for being sly criminals. Judy defends him and even purchases the popsicle for him. He introduces himself as Nick Wilde (Jason Bateman) and thanks her for her kindness.
When he leaves, she realizes that he's actually a con man and that is his "son" is just his partner in his scam. When she confronts him about it, he not only says that he has to hustle to make a living but also bursts her bubble of positivity. Judy returns to her duties, begrudging that she isn't going to achieve her dream of actually doing some good in the world as a cop, but an opportunity soon presents itself when a weasel steals from a produce store. Judy gives chase and arrests him, but instead of receiving the praise that she expected, Chief Bogo fires her.
Before she can turn in her badge, an otter comes in because her husband is missing. Bogo says that there are no available detectives to work the case so Judy volunteers to do it. Reluctant at first, Bogo agrees to let her handle the case under the condition that she resign if she doesn't find the missing otter in 48 hours. To Judy's lament, the case file is basically empty, but in the single image associated with it, she notices one Nick Wilde in the background and finds her first lead.
As the story continues on, lead after lead, audiences are drawn into the clever, creative world of Zootopia. From juice bars and nudist colonies to phone apps and celebrities, the pop culture references are abundant and wonderfully crafted to fit the animal world. Mixed in with the great dialogue, the film definitely gets in plenty of chuckles and laughs with its jokes that manage to be both smart and modern for adults and easy to understand for kids.
Following that same vein is the overarching anti-bigotry message: one that is so well-balanced in the drama. The narrative fleshes out the characters so much that one can't help but hurt at the tales of childhood trauma, the betrayal of prejudicial ideology and the ultimate reconciliation. It's not cheap, and it's not melodramatic. It's such a realistic pain that these characters suffer, making it easy for audiences, young and old alike, to empathize and see the real-life application of the theme. It lands especially well with the delightful animation (check out Flash the sloth's facial expressions). Zootopia's combination of a tried-and-true story with smart humor and a touch of drama to drive its timely subject matter home makes it one of the few children's movies that is perfect, and for all ages, at that.
Images courtesy of Disney.


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Frequently Asked Questions
Before anyone goes on to buy these gems there are some questions that can always pop up in any mind which is why we have thought of introducing this FAQ segment so that most common queries about these gems can be solved and if you still have some little bit doubt left in your mind then feel free to contact us whenever you want, we are always there to help you-
Services Offered
Well in many cases we deal with jewelers, designers, investors and collectors but most of our client come from the retail consumer segment and hence anyone with a little bit of knowledge in case of gem can get his gem cut with a comfortable experience as per as your need.
The sole purpose our website serves with is to provide our customers with knowledge and services we offer but that doesn't mean that we only have those products that are listed on this website. The most portion of our dealings is though "custom" or "commissioned" channels and we have many other products also available for you which you can enquire about on a phone or on a mail.
Sorry for the inconvenience but we have stopped this services so as to maintain and uninterrupted supply to our current consumers without any delay which had become obligatory with the growth of our business.
No, as per as the reason mentioned in the above question we have also stopped this service.
Surely, a weeding is the most precious bond in everyone's life and we will help you in finding a gem that can perfectly match your needs. We know it is one of the most precious things for anyone and should also be durable because of the purpose it serves and in case you have a proper idea that what you want then we will make sure of making everything perfect for you.
This is one common question that we have heard many times and this has been the reason why we started our newsletter service. All you need to do is to sign in and then you have a complete access to all your latest pre cut gems. Many rough gems that are labeled as currently unavailable do not even pass into our main dealing as our newsletter subscribers are the first one to get their hands on them. Signing it also makes you accessible to certain set of discounts that are offered frequently. You can unsubscribe to our list anytime you want to.
Because we process our work on a significant scale so we are unable to get our gems checked or certified by nay third part lab but in case you want it done then we do offer this service. We offer certification from a renowned laboratory as per as customers request and the expenses are involved are added to the billing.
Although there are lots of gems that are not certified but we are quite assured of all the gems we sell and thus Ratnaas offers a personal guarantee with every gem we sell and even if you ever come across a case of forged gem from Ratnaas then you are offered a complete refund of all the money you paid.
Purchases, Returns etc
There is wide range of options available for our customers when it comes to shipping and payment. They can easily be seen our policy page.
Cutting of gems usually covers a time period of two days once we have the order but we at Ratnaas work with huge number of orders which may result in extending of this time period from about three to eight weeks which entirely depends on the work w have. We are always there to help you by offering you with the time period depending on our current workload.
The first and foremost thing that holds our utmost importance is our customer's satisfaction. You are acquitted with some major challenges when you think about buying gemstones online which includes image varying from the actual product and you are also hold off from the leisure of examining the gem by holding it. This is the reason that we offer flexible return and exchange policies so that our customer is guaranteed with sufficient amount of time to help him analyze the gem he purchased.
You are given a seven day time period to carefully examine your gem which follows on both pre and custom cut gems. To get more information regarding our return policy, you can always visit our policy page.
We certainly know this thing that there is no better alternative then having the feel of the gem in your hand to have an idea that this is the piece that you seek for. We offer convince to our customers to send out roughs after their assurance to purchase so that they can analyze every little bit thing of this gem. We do ask for payment in-front so it cannot be coincided with the traditional memo but you are returned with 100% payment minus the shipping cost after we revive gem in its original state.
Gemstone Treatment
We carry out dealings in both "treated" and "non-treated" gems but we firmly believe that treated gems are not as good as non-treated one is just a hoax. The fact of being right or wrong certainly depends on the treatment being carried which is why the dealer should offer transparency when it comes to "treated" gems. Gems like tanzanite and parabita which are accredited with their beauty usually coming after their proper treatment. We have a firm belief that this thing entirely depends on the opinion of an individual customer which is why we try our best so as the customer is known well to all our treatment procedures.
Though still there are some treatments that we do not carry and nor we sell gems that are treated with these procedures including the likes of chemically treated gems and clarity enchantments that follows glass or resin filling treatment.
For your first question then answer is yes as we offer untreated gems and as far as your other question there are some cases where the treated gem can be easily identified while in some complicated process we have outside laboratories. Though sometime it's impossible for any lab too to determine that whether the gem is treated like the gems that have gone through the gem treatment. We are proud to have our gems treated at a renowned laboratory as per as our customers request and the certificate is all there to help you.
Trade vs Retail
This is a term used to refer to those people working in the gems and jewelry industry. Gem cutters, loose gem dealers, jewelers and jewelry designers are all part of this.
The prices showcased on our website and mailing list are generally same for both retail and trade buyers but in some cases we also offer special discounts to a limited number of trade buyers. Every person who is a legitimate member of gem and jewelry trade can discuss the terms with us about the possibility of these special discounts.
Benefits of Precision Cutting
Commercial cut involves cutting a number of gems together where the entire stone with the help of a machine to cut with precision in a speedy manner with weight retention where time really matters.
While precision cuts involves cutting by an individual in delicate manner such that the gem achieves maximum beauty and there is no time limit bounded with it.
The major portion of market is covered with commercial or native cuts which are nowhere wrong in aspect. Sometimes customers buys stone to recut them but find out that the original cutting is so picture perfect that the further cutting will not certainly add any further improvement and in most of these cases the gems go for re-sell. The cutting of gem certainly depends on the cutters which sometime are extraordinary with the equipment they use for cutting.
Although in majority of commercial cut stones, there is room for improvement with the poor symmetry, disjointed facets. The flatness and the polish quality is also poor resulting in a dispersed sparkle and in some cases there is also a trouble of "windowing", a special condition where light can pass through the very centre of the stone instead of the reflection. This in some places is due to lack of knowledge or the increased emphasis on weight retention is the reason behind this. Thus commercial cut not only compromise the beauty of stone but also results in useless Weight due to much emphasis on Weight retention resulting in customer paying for excess weight.
Precious cut on the other hand involves dealing with delicacy so that the gem can attain its utmost beauty. The best cutter also knows that the cuts should not alter the aesthetic value and color of the product and Ratnaas have made a reputation to balance things to manage perfection. The time and effort which is exhausted in achieving such high level of precision also showcase use with some breathtaking results which are clearly reflected from the look of our gems.
We at Ratnaas use highly advanced modern computer technologies so as to make every gem perfect. We have at our disposal the best in class and infest equipments for the purpose of cutting and polishing gems generating flawless results.


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© 2018 Peter C Whitaker
Peter C Whitaker
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Mesozoic, a time-
Scientists from our future travel back in time to study how life survives mass extinction events. The human race has barely survived the most recent occurrence, referred to as the 'Collapse' by the survivors. The civilisation that we know has gone. Large cities like London, New York, and Tokyo no longer exist. Money and party politics have also gone. A new civilisation has arisen, one founded on science and reason, the Oasis.
Dr Eva Kiesler, the next leader of the new civilisation, has a wish to see dinosaurs
for real. Before taking up her office she travels to the beginning of the Mesozoic
Period with members of the Palaeontological Field Time Unit. However, they are almost
trapped in the Triassic Period when a murderer strikes. The murderer's aim is to
strand Eva 200 million years in the past. Racing across the prehistoric land Eva
and her team pursue the killer, desperately attempting to stop them from destroying
the time-
Caught in a wild stampede, trapped between giant predators and their prey, crossing rivers home to one of the largest carnivores so far discovered, Eva's team must break the rules that normally govern their observation of the prehistoric life if they themselves are to survive this fast paced adventure in a lost time.
The dinosaurs of the Mesozoic are dangerous but the humans are even more so.


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John Frances Gillon was my first cousin 3x removed. He was born on the 21st of September 1896 in Taunton, Massachusetts to John Benedict Gillon and Agnes Louise Murphy. John was the second of 5 children, however only himself and two sisters lived to adulthood. His sisters were Martha Josephine Mary Gillon and Clare M Gillon. Joseph M Gillon was born in 1900 and passed in 1906 and there was an unnamed Gillon who was born and passed in 1903.
John attended the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland in 1916 and later qualified for duty in submarines. Following his qualifying as a naval aviator, he served in the aircraft squadrons of the scouting force.
John married Eileen Campbell and had two children Marie Barbara Gillon and Nancy Gillon.
In June of 1936 he was the Commander in charge of the Scouting Squadron VS-2B.
On June 7, 1937 he lost his life in the crash of a plane off the Hawaiian Islands while attached to the aircraft carrier Saratoga during the war games.


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The presence of modern dining room sets is very helpful in raising the aesthetic value of modern home decorating concept. There are a lot of types of home decorating concept that are available and modern ideas are one of the popular one. Some problem that is often occurs is the availability of limited budget. The lack of idea in constructing the best dining room furniture is also another reason why people are pretty confuse in determine this type of interior decoration.
In making the best preparation and concept of dining room space, you have to collect some reviews, references and even brainstorm the basic idea of decoration as well. Purchasing modern dining room sets is one of the most common things to be done. When we are purchasing the furniture from store, it means that we cannot improve the shape and the size of the furniture set itself.
It will be no matter if the size of the existing furniture sets is already matched perfectly. The problem will appear when the size of the furniture is oversized or too small. To make sure about this element, you can measure the size of the furniture to the size of the dining room for first.
Character of modern dining room sets that is easily to be recognized is the use of simple stuff, thin material and also monotonous color. Well, although it seems like very simple, but these elements are really hard to be done, especially when you want to make the furniture by yourself. Most of the people are also argue that the shape of the chair for the dining room is needed to be similar or the same with the shape of the table. Well, this is basically wrong.
You can combine the different type or model of seats and dining table along it has the similar schemes. Freedom of mix and match in decorating the dining room is one of the advantages that you will get from the modern dining room concept. Everything can be added along it can produce high aesthetic value.
In order to ensure that everything are working well, you can make sure that every item in the rooms are arranged properly. Good arrangement of modern dining room sets will much better than any other occurrence. The arrangement will make the sensation that the room is really well prepared. It can also make the whole dining space activities are running properly without any disturbance.
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[Friends on Facebook will possibly remember this post, originally published a year ago - almost exactly - but I thought I'd repost here for broader appreciation. Because what the world is crying out for now is another anti-Twilight review...]
I usually miss big pop-culture events - I've still not read any Harry Potter, for instance (though I've seen & enjoyed the first five movies), nor have I read any Dan Brown novel.
And while 'Twilight' - the novel - has probably passed its moment in the sun (so to speak), I've been meaning for a while to read it and see what all the fuss is about. A copy finally appeared at my library, so I picked it up on Sunday and began it yesterday, and have finished it this afternoon.
I did not read it to snigger at the people who have enjoyed/become obsessed with it, but it would be fair to say that I went in expecting to not like it. And, I didn't. But perhaps not for the reasons I was expecting.
In short, I don't think the book works very well, even within the bounds of what it is - and isn't - trying to be. My argument is not that it doesn't stack up to, say, 'Ulysses' as a piece of art pushing the boundaries of what we think of as a novel. That's not fair to either book, and nobody wants everything to be 'Ulysses'. I think, instead, that 'Twilight' is not very good as a vampire-flavoured teen romance. Here's why, sorted into a few themes, I think 'Twilight' doesn't work... If people disagree, I'd love to hear from you in comments!
(I acknowledge from the start that I am far from the target demographic of these books, being neither a teenage girl nor an emo, angsty boy. I also acknowledge that I have read only the first book in a series, and it's possible that some of these criticisms might be undone by later books. However, I still think that these are valid points for this particular book, whatever the next three might change.)
(Also: Spoilers Aplenty!)
1. The Prose Is Awful
Okay, no surprises here. And, to again be honest, I wasn't expecting it to be great. However, I was unprepared for just how poorly written 'Twilight' is. I took it for granted going in that it was going to be overwrought, emo-tastic teenage angst. Putting that aside (for the moment), it has to be said: Stephenie Meyer cannot write. Every page contains sentences that just do not sound right. My personal favourite, from page 59: "None of them, especially Edward, glanced my way anymore."
That, there, is very possibly the worst sentence I've read in a published book. How did a sub-editor not pick up on that? Do I really need to explain that if 'none of them' did something (or, actually, nothing), then it's impossible for Edward to 'especially' do that? I understand what she's trying to say (I think): that Edward's failure to glance her way felt more significant than the others' similar failure, but still.
Granted, that sentence is outstanding, but throughout the book, I was consistently re-reading sentences to try to get them. As I said in my status update, the writing is bizarrely incompetent, in a way that no published book really should be.
2. The Excessive Excess (Part 1 - Emotions! Everywhere We Look!)
Flowing on from the first point, part of what makes 'Twilight' hard to read is the way you're constantly shifting moods. I realise I've already used the tag 'emo' twice in this review, but this is what I really mean: everyone is always changing moods at the drop of a hat. To prove this point to Ngaire last night, I opened the book entirely at random, and listed for her every emotion/description ascribed to Edward in the course of a single page. For convenience's sake, I'll use the same page again (p. 158), and please bear in mind that Edward is driving (fast) throughout this page:
'He laughed... his face tightened... he reminded me softly... he was startled... he rolled his eyes, still not slowing... he turned to smile crookedly at me... he grinned and tapped his forehead... he agreed, with a short, hard laugh... he sighed' (And in the first six lines of the following page, we're told that he muttered, snapped and promised.)
Again, I realise that this is a big teen romance, but that's an awful lot in one page (and I didn't even get to Bella...). Not to mention, to what extent is Edward really a teenager?
Part of the problem here is Meyer's need to stuff her prose with adjectives and adverbs. Almost every line of dialogue tells us exactly how the person (well, character) said it, and worse, that's usually quite different to their previous line of dialogue, and at odds with the described emotion/s of their conversational partner. It all gets very wearisome very quickly, unless you make a game of it, like I did, by trying to imagine what these conversations would actually sound like. (Nothing on earth, is the answer.)
The other part of the problem is that these descriptions of emotion often not only don't match the character's mood a moment ago, they also frequently don't match the actual line they're currently speaking.
3. The Excessive Excess (Part 2 - The Superlatively Superlative)
The second way in which Meyer's fondness for overblown excess grates, and ultimately undermines the story, is the superlative nature of Edward himself. Edward, for those who've missed the finer points of this tale, is a vampire. However, he's not just a vampire, he's The Best Thing Ever. And this is the first of my really serious objections to the book on its own terms. The first two things I've discussed are annoying, sure, but they're also things that (evidently) lots of people can shrug off (though they also disqualify these books from being considered in any way worthy literature). This problem, however, completely invalidates 'Twilight'.
The breathless way in which Bella (who narrates the novel) describes Edward is not actually the problem here. That annoyance falls into the previous theme. No, the problem here is much more basic and fundamental: Edward is brilliant at everything. This isn't just a love-smitten female character telling us this, it's actually his character, as conceived and written by the author.
I have seen many fans of this series swoon over the Edward character over the past few months - certainly since the movie was released - and to an extent I can see where they're coming from - Edward is The Best Thing Ever, after all. But, for those of us looking for something in a book other than a character to wish our partner was like (whether or not we currently have a partner), this is a fatal flaw. Edward is a thoroughly uninteresting character by halfway through this book, because by that point we know that:
a) if there's an ability you can name, or an activity you can think of, Edward will be able to do it brilliantly
b) he is completely devoted to Bella (we'll return to this later).
Superman has long been the most boring of all superheroes, because he's so immensely good, and because of the predictablity of his one weakness, kryptonite. Edward's like that, minus the kryptonite. He's superstrong, can run superfast, drive superwell, play baseball supergood, do chemistry superwell, dance and play the piano (including writing songs for his girlfriend!) superbrilliantly. It becomes a joke, actually, just how perfect he is. And his supposed darkness - that he's a vampire who could theoretically kill Bella at any moment - is neutered by the fact that we never really think that he will. You know why? Because he's also super(emotionally)strong.
4. Bella, The Unlovable Loser Outsider (Whom Everyone Loves)
One of the few things I really knew about 'Twilight' before I started reading it was that the novel's narrator, Bella, was something of an absent centre. Indeed, the book itself is eager to remind us of this, with most of the first few chapters being Bella telling us what an outsider she is. Sure, there could be a bit of the old unreliable narrator trick going on here, or perhaps Meyer's making a point about how Bella views herself as these things, but in reality isn't.
However, that doesn't really seem supported by the book - throughout, it seems as if Bella is supposed to be an awkward, introverted outsider. Yet, after moving to the small town in the first chapter, she quickly makes friends of almost all the girls in her class. And, despite never having had a boy interested in her back in Phoenix, here she has four boys (excluding Edward!) fall for her within the first 100 pages! The only girls who don't like her, in fact, are those who are jealous of all the boys chasing her.
For a little while, this is sorta interesting, for the potential reason I suggested above - that she thinks of herself as a loser, but in fact isn't. That, of course, is a pretty standard trope of teenage characters in fiction, largely because it's a pretty standard emotion for teenage people in real life. But, as I said, that doesn't seem to be the answer here. I think Bella was genuinely supposed to be that outsider character, but then it suited the plot for her to have lots of friends. So, she did.
Also, this seems to be part of a larger problem with Bella's character, which is that she's a collection of tics, rather than an actual person. For instance, early in book, she faints when one of her classmates, on the other side of the room, pricks his thumb for a blood test exercise in Biology. She's awfully sensitive to blood, obviously, a neat device for someone about to date a vampire. In the novel's climax, an evil vampire cuts her head with glass, and thus blood "spread crimison across my white shirt, pooling rapidly on the floor". Her own blood. From glass cuts. To her head. Inflicted by a vampire. Who's about to kill her. Her reaction? It gives her hope, as she formulates a plan to defeat this vampire.
Honestly, I read this section about five times, trying to figure out if what was going on was what seemed to be going on. She eventually faints, yes, but it's from the massive loss of blood from her head. In other words: tiny amount of blood from someone else in a science experiement = swooning, fainting. Significant loss of own blood from head wound sustained in fight with evil vampire = helps clear the mind for thinking. This is incredibly stupid.
She's also idiotically clumsy - as in, slapstick comedy clumsy, not clumsy in the way that, you know, real people in the real world are. So much so that, in a single game of basketball, in which she manages to not touch the ball once (I don't understand how that's possible, frankly - there's only five on a team, usually), she falls over three times. How? I played basketball for years, and it's almost impossible to fall over unless you're doing something. (Even then, not easy, but I'll grant that she's clumsy by nature.) To fall over three times in a game in which you don't touch the ball isn't just unlikely, it's straightforward idiotic - as in, is something that could only be written as a character trait, as opposed to plausible actions.
Speaking of all her friends, as we just were...
5. The School Plot
Hey, this book's sure got a lot of characters, as we approach the halfway mark. Oh, look, no it doesn't. All the characters from the first 200 pages suddenly disappear from the story as it becomes all about Bella & Edward and his family. And then, there they all are, waving to Bella in the last ten pages. Supremely odd. This is just a minor point, but it's strange.
6. Vampires?! Impossible! (Oh, all right then.)
These last couple of points I'm going to make are the real problems I think cripple 'Twilight', along with the character of Edward, as already covered. The first is, I admit, something that might sound a little silly in a book about vampires, but bear with me: 'Twilight' is simply not plausible. Bella finds out that Edward is a vampire one night, and by lunch the next day, she's accepted that and loves him, glad that he is one of the good sort.
There are a couple of token 'impossibles!', but really, Bella accepts the reality of vampires way too fast for it to make sense. Think about it - imagine that there's a person of your preferred gender who acts moodily towards you, including disappearing for a few days, but also often knows exactly where you are and jumps in at the right moment to save you from various dangers. I, for one, would be seriously freaked out by that. That seems like someone slightly unhinged (aside from issues of taste, I mean...), and very possibly a stalker. Bella never thinks of that. Imagine then that they explained it away by telling you that they're a vampire. Wouldn't your first, second and third (etc, etc) reactions be, 'Well, vampires don't exist'? Someone telling you that they're a vampire would seem to require more convincing than Bella needs - she more or less just accepts it immediately, and wants to get the inside scoop on what it's like to be a vampire these days.
It really is mind-boggling how quickly she accepts not just that Edward is a good vampire who will protect her, but that vampires exist at all. I'm not saying that books with vampires can't exist, of course, only saying that, if you're going to set a book in a notionally real world, you need to start by having characters who don't instantly assume that vampires exist. (Or, alternatively, lay some groundwork by having Bella be the sort of person who would be pre-disposed to believe that immediately.)
Instead, she googles (sorta, like many other details here, Meyer avoids naming things - she uses her 'favourite search engine'; elsewhere, there's multiple long discussions of a particular cd, without us ever being told what it is, for no apparent reason other than that Meyer didn't want to offend people by naming something other than their favourite band) vampires, doesn't find much (!), thinks it's all a bit silly, walks outside, thinks it's not so silly. I wish I were exaggerating.
7. 'Twilight' Is Not A Romance Story
This is my most serious objection to this story, since it strikes at the root of its appeal. 'Twilight' is regarded - by fans and critics alike - as a teen romance, with vampires. I've heard several people describe it as one of the great romances, drawing comparisons (inevitably) with books like 'Pride & Prejudice'.
They're all wrong. 'Twilight' is not, by any standard definition, a romance. Or, at least, it's not a competent one.
I have a massive problem with this novel being considered a romance, or an interesting love story, for a simple reason. And I have an even larger problem with it being considered the equal of Jane Austen's shopping list for the same reason.
Think about great romances in fiction (books or tv more than movies, where it's all a bit compressed), and what do they all have in common? That the build-up, the chase, is interesting, and (within the constraints of the medium) prolonged. Think how long Lizzie and Darcy (Pride & Prejudice) are not together before they are. Look at how long Tim & Dawn or Jim & Pam (the UK & US versions of The Office, and two of the finest modern romances) had to wait, and the obstacles they had to overcome to get together. That time, and those obstacles, are why we keep reading, or tuning in.
Further, none of those people are perfect. Darcy is rich as hell, and (after you get to know him) a stand-up bloke, but he's also a bit of a prick. He is offensive, unnecessarily so, towards Lizzie and her family in the early parts of the story. She, in turn, is quick to judge everyone she meets. Tim/Jim is unambitious, constantly thinking that he might do something interesting with his life, but never actually doing so. Dawn/Pam has clearly been in a rut, personally and professionally, for years by the time the documentary crew arrives, and lacks the qualities necessary to change that (at least initially). These people are interesting - even someone like Darcy is someone you could imagine knowing (minus the wealth, presumably). Edward? Not so much, even aside from the whole vampire thing. He is, as the book reminds us too many times, perfect. And a romance wherein one person is 'perfect' is not only unbalanced and implausible, but uninteresting.
In 'Twilight', allegedly a great romance story, the couple get together within the first 150 pages of the first book. Sure, some people make dark comments about him before that happens, and no doubt there will be problems to come (from what I briefly know of the remaining three volumes).
And that is also fundamentally uninteresting, in a different way to the way in which I've already described this 'romance' as uninteresting. I realise there's some darkness to come, but it seems to me that Meyer has created a not-very-interesting romance here, for one simple reason: there's no longing. No period in which she thinks, 'I love him, but he's out of my league, or he hates my family, or others are conspiring to keep him away from me, or he's already engaged to some moron in the warehouse'. The most moving part of most romances is the period between when the character (or /s, depending on the POV) realises they're in love with the other, but doesn't see how it can work, for whatever reason. In 'Twilight', it's not until they're already together that this obstruction comes along, it seems.
I don't precisely know what's to come in the rest of the series, but there's no 'will they get together or not?' tension in this first book, because it all happens so damn quickly. And that strikes me as a massive flaw. Sure, by the end of this book he's talking about how they can't be together forever, but that's only because he's refusing to convert her into a vampire. He's quite open about loving her and never leaving her while she's alive. (Again, I realise that some of this changes in 'New Moon', but my criticism remains valid, I think.) So, what we seem to have, at this point in the saga, is something more akin to a couple who get together, and then he gets shipped off overseas to fight the Nazis. Sad, yes. But the stuff of great romances? No. Great romances, in art at least, requires a period of yearning, of uncertainty.
For that reason, the great love story that 'Twilight' promises does not exist, at least between the covers of this book.
And for all of these reasons, 'Twilight' fails on almost every level. (It does have a well-designed cover, I'll grant that.)
Monday, November 22, 2010
On the novel 'Twilight', and why it's not very good
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- Nic Hunter22 November, 2010 23:28
As chance would have it I spontaneously borrowed Twilight from the library a couple of days ago. I too was curious about all the fuss. Honestly I have been unable to get passed the first few pages as the quality of the writing was shockingly poor. Thanks for the review as I now know that I'm not alone in thinking that it is a stylishly packaged pile of crap.ReplyDelete
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The Interracial Couple (Yes, Race: That Thing We Aren't Supposed to Talk About) [Blog Challenge #7]
The following post is apart of Alex Beadon's Feel Good Blogging Challenge. Admittedly, I was skeptical about something like this, but it's turning out to be a powerful blogging exercise!
I am in a interracial relationship. I am a white female and my boyfriend is Asian (Cambodian and Chinese). As it turns out, there's actually a name for our relationship: AMWF (Asian Male/White Female).
My boyfriend's family came to America around the time he was born. As such, he's very Americanized (his words), but still has the Cambodian roots he was born with; Asian culture still holds true and runs deep in his family. I find it an incredibly unique and humbling experience every time I'm with them, as it makes me realize how little I know about other cultures and the world around me. But this is not a post about my boyfriend's family.
During my birthday weekend, I went to the Disney Food & Wine Festival in Orlando with my boyfriend, Kristen (my best friend), and her boyfriend, Kal, who is black. (I suppose that makes them a BMWF couple.)
I was brought up to see people, not color.
Now is a good time to stop and say: race has never been something I'm aware of. Sure, it may be because I'm (currently) apart of the majority race. But even when I'm surrounded by my boyfriend's family…the only white person and one of the only people who can call English their first language…it's still not something that I think of.
So back to my Disney story.
While waiting in line in Greece, a (white) woman came up to Kristen and said something to the effect of, "I see you and your friend are both in interracial couples. I think that's great. I'm in one myself. I have a biracial son and my daughter is also in an interracial relationship."
I was shocked. As someone who doesn't have a second thought about these things, I was taken aback when it was mentioned.
I spoke to her after about how she and her entire family (interracial couples and all, gasp!) were sitting in an Idaho cafe when a gentleman came up to them and said something masked as a compliment, but actually an insult. I forget exactly what was said, but you can use your imagination. Something equal to the likeness of "Bless your heart" here in the South.
The more I've thought about it, the more I realize…interracial relationships are still seen as negative things by some people. There are articles out there about how to cope with the stares and gawking. Hell, I always thought it was people thinking "aww, they'll make such cute babies one day!"
The reality is: some people still do see color. And you know what? It's sad. Our cultural heritage is a beautiful, wonderful thing that should never be lost or forgotten. But at the end of the day, love is love and it doesn't see color.
I want to know your thoughts about this. But keep it clean. If you have an opposing opinion, that's fine; but negative and discriminatory comments will be deleted immediately.
3 responses to "The Interracial Couple (Yes, Race: That Thing We Aren't Supposed to Talk About) [Blog Challenge #7]"
As an Asian male myself, I just wanted to say that I found this post inspirational. You two are beautiful together and I wish the best for both of you. Excuse my political incorrectness, but F*CK the south and their little "bless your heart" idiotic old-timey phrases. Those supposed "Christian southerners" and their hateful confederate flags can kiss my butt. Why would they say bless your heart as an insult?? Your heart is obviously much more sophisticated than theirs since you saw a man for who he was and not for what he looked like. As an Asian man myself, I see this subtle racism every day and it really takes an emotional toll on your soul after so many years. Because if you think about it, nobody would give 2 craps if a white man had chosen an Asian wife. People in white society would NEVER consider berating or judging a white guy for choosing an Asian wife. They would probably do the opposite and praise the white guy for choosing a beautiful Asian girl! The thought of berating a white husband for his choice of Asian wife would never even cross their minds! In the US, this pairing of white man and Asian woman is significantly more common than the opposite pairing. In fact, white husband with Asian wife is technically the most common interracial pairing in the US according to the 2010 census. It is an incredible double standard and is frankly, quite sad. I feel like society still views Asian men as not quite "good enough" for a white woman. I feel like people would see a white woman with an Asian boyfriend and ask "why did she choose this weird looking Asian guy?" It's almost as if they are not truly equals in their eyes. There is a lot of progress that needs to be made. Anyhow, I just wanted to say that I found this post inspirational. You two look beautiful together. I wish the best for both of you, wherever life leads you.
Victor, I apologize, as I'm seeing your comment long after you posted it.
First: thank you for your kind words. I truly appreciate them.
Second: I totally agree with you. It's a shame that there is a double standard with race, gender, and pairings of the two.
I have to be honest when I say my boyfriend is the first Asian I've dated and not for lack of trying, simply for lack of exposure. (Being from Maine, the Asian race is simply few and far between.) That being said…I'm so glad I found him!
I hope that one day interracial relationships can be viewed with the kindness and openness that some people view them with currently. In the meantime…I'll be happy to bring some beautiful biracial babies into the world someday 😉
Those four people in the first picture, what a lovely, beautiful bunch 🙂