We travel‚ initially‚ to lose ourselves; and we travel‚ next‚ to find ourselves. We travel to open our hearts and eyes and learn more about the world than our newspapers will accommodate. We travel to bring what little we can‚ in our ignorance and knowledge‚ to those parts of the globe whose riches are differently dispersed. And we travel‚ in essence‚ to become young fools again -- to slow time down and get taken in‚ and fall in love once more. The beauty of this whole process was best described
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Travel Observations by Engelbert Kaempfer The German physician‚ Engelbert Kaempfer‚ was born in 1651 in the Westphalian town of Lemgo. Kaempfer did quite a bit of traveling throughout his life‚ and in September of 1690 Kaempfer’s ship arrived at the coast of Nagasaki‚ the only Japanese port that was open to foreigners at the time. Kaempfer visited Japan during the Tokugawa period‚ named for the Tokugawa Shogun who governed from 1603 to 1868. Kaempfer stayed in Japan for two years‚ and he wrote
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In this process‚ people tend to forget‚ who they are and what they are. There is no time to ponder and wonder. They tend to forget the values of life. Travelling is a time when people relax‚ reflect and ponder. Most people‚ after a pleasant travel‚ return home with a fresh outlook‚ new zeal and a better determination. Travelling has also a great informative value. It widens the grasp of our knowledge of geography‚ different cultures and people‚ etc. For example‚ when people of Assam visit
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travelling people easier by decreasing the distance by the swiftness of vehicles. The prevailing journeys do not cost more than those were in the earlier days. The purposes of travelling are different for different people. There are some people who travel for the sake of pleasure. The people that are heavily burdened either at their domestic front or at their offices move too far off places for relieving their worries and anxieties. The poets and writers make a trip to distant places for collection
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Robert Appelmann Gulliver’s Travels - Notes Jonathan Swift: * Irony – What could Swift be pointing out with this work? * Eating Babies‚ Ladies Dressing Room‚ Death of a Late Famous General‚ etc. * Anglo-Irish of late 1600’s to middle 1700’s * Classical Period‚ Enlightenment Gulliver’s Travels General: * Gulliver: * Third of Five Sons * Never mentions his brothers or any family aside from his Wife and Children * Very unemotional‚ proper
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PART IV. A VOYAGE TO THE COUNTRY OF THE HOUYHNHNMS. CHAPTER I. [The author sets out as captain of a ship. His men conspire against him‚ confine him a long time to his cabin‚ and set him on shore in an unknown land. He travels up into the country. The Yahoos‚ a strange sort of animal‚ described. The author meets two Houyhnhnms.] 1.1 I continued at home with my wife and children about five months‚ in a very happy condition‚ if I could have learned the lesson of knowing when I was well. I left my poor
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read and analysed of her work in “Oroonoko” and‚ among those to peruse such is Daniel Pigg. In his article‚ “Trying to Frame the Unframable: Oroonoko as Discourse in Aphra Behn’s Oroonoko”‚ Pigg brings to the fore the multi-faceted nature of the main character in Behn’s work Oroonoko which for him‚ makes it impossible to ‘frame” him or represent him in a set way. Pigg’s
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Higher Colleges of Technology Fujairah Women’s College Group Members: * Maryam Ali H00204121 * Fatima Abdullah Rashid H00205893 * Marwa Ali H00203336
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1 Story of Count of Monte Cristo Edmond Dantès is the apple of this novel’s eye. We will follow him over the course of twenty-three years and 117 chapters (yikes). During this time he will pretend to be a number of different people‚ including Sinbad the Sailor‚ Lord Wilmore‚ Abbé Faria‚ and the Count of Monte Cristo. Edmond returns from a long journey at sea. The captain of his ship‚ thePharaon‚ has died along the way‚ and Edmond has successfully lead the crew and the cargo home to Marseilles
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