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Vinyl Shower Curtain
Vinyl Shower Curtain
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Dragonflies Decorative Switchplate – Double $9.99 Everyday is a bright sunshine-y day with this lovely switchplate cover. A delicate dragonfly and neutral cream and brown coloring will add a warm touch of spring to your garden themed decor. A great accent in a kid’s room, a bathroom, a playroom, or kitchen. Made from durable resin with raised detail. Measures approximately 4.75″ x 4.5″ and fits any standard DOUBLE switchplate. Installation scre… |
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Ex-Cell Waves Soft Sensation Curtain (040O0-0695-110) $11.43 Sold as each. 70″W x 72″L. Soft vinyl. Metal grommets. Suction cups prevent tub leaks. To clean – Wipe with a damp cloth. . Ivory . Manufacturer number: 040O0-0695-110. Country of origin: China. Distributed by …. |
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Bradley 9533-727200 72×72 6 Gauge White Vinyl Shower Curtain $30.57 Shower – Lavatory Accessories Type: Shower Curtain… |
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70X72 FROST VINYL SHOWER LINER $1.45 “HOMEBASIX” VINYL SHOWER LINER Size : 70″ x 72″ |
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Designer Shower Curtains That Give a Distinct Appeal to Your Bathroom
Shower curtains even though we do not realize are an integral part of any home, or rather every bathroom. If you are a creative person who takes a lot of effort to beautify your home, you must give attention to the type, style and design of the shower curtain you use in your bathroom. You can use designer shower curtains to give a distinct appeal to your bathroom.
Shower curtains are available in various themes, types, colours and materials. You can choose the one you want depending on your preference. Bathroom is a place where you spend a considerable amount of time. It is a good idea to give a little attention and enliven your bath experience day after day.
Many people who live in home have very beautiful interiors that they have taken so much pain to have them designed exclusively for them. These people are so particular that their home should be unique and certainly very different from other homes.
However, when one lives inside a home that is decorated smartly and has beautiful interiors one must not fail to decorate the bathrooms also in the same way.
The best way that a person can dress up their bathrooms to look different and smart is by using shower curtains that have exclusive designs. The shower curtains in a bathroom give the distinctive appearance to any bathroom.
Shower curtains are now available in different varieties of fabrics and they also come in all shapes and sizes. Moreover, the shower curtain adds functionality and maintains that modern charm of any bathroom to reflect the modern lifestyle of the house owner.
Shower curtains certainly come in a variety of popular colours and shades from which one can choose and this adds to the aesthetic appeal of the private space in the bathroom that makes that space look refined and luxurious.
Professionals who are dealing in shower curtains exclusively design designer shower curtains. These professionals create exclusive designs on the shower curtains that can have patterns that are created on particular themes and moods ranging from bold, exotic, traditional, contemporary and even striking.
These exclusive designer shower curtains can come in a variety of materials like jute, cotton, polyester, vinyl, nylon and rayon and a wide range of colours. All designer shower curtains are custom designed to cater to the taste of the client.
If you are looking for designer shower curtains to enhance your bathroom for that exclusive look then you must research the internet where you will be able to choose your very own designer curtain from a number of websites.
Many big names like Macy’s, Regents, and Tommy Hilfiger also have exclusive designer shower curtains that can be viewed in their websites or if you can you can visit their showrooms to have a look for yourself.
Though the designer shower curtains tend to be a little more expensive than the normal ones, it is certainly worth the buy. If you can afford it, you should certainly go in for this as you can customize these curtains and get a guaranteed hundred percent satisfaction.
About the Author
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Bear Hand Puppet
Bear Hand Puppet
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Soft & Cuddly Black Bear Hand Puppet – Plush Toy $19.95 This black bear hand puppet is very soft and can even be used as a regular teddy bear…. |
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Pack of 2 NFL Chicago Bears Playful Plush Hand Puppets $29.99 Pair of Chicago Bears Hand Puppets Item #26729 Officially licensed merchandise Put on a half time show with one of these NFL mascot hand puppets, comes in a pack of 2 so you have 1 for each hand Features the official team colors and logo Dimensions: 14″L Material(s): polyester/cotton blend NOTE – Photo shows Arizona Cardinals, this ad is for the Chicago Bears… |
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Kids Preferred The World of Eric Carle Panda Bear Hand Puppet $13.49 12 months & up. Huggable 11″ panda bear puppet features soft tactile body with large expressive facial features. Use with Panda Bear, Panda Bear What Do You See? by Eric Carle, or enjoy alone. Surface washable…. |
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Alma’s Designs Brown Bear $27.99 Explore with this beautiful bear hand puppet and little finger puppets. You can express the wonders that bears see and hear. Set includes bear hand puppet, finger puppets, and drawstring storage bag…. |
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Twinkle, Twinkle, Panda Bear: A Hand-Puppet Board Book (Little Scholastic) $6.94 Designed for an adult hand, this book comes to life as the fingers move to tempt interaction and stimulation. Black and white animal finger puppets focus babies’ attention, and the sweet twist on familiar lyrics will comfort and soothe. Introducing Little Scholastic, a developmental publishing program of interactive books created exclusively to give babies and toddlers a head start in learning… |
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Bye-bye Bear (Hand Puppet Cloth Book) $3.16 Hello, Bear!Clap hands, Bear!Peekaboo, Bear!Bye-bye, Bear!This adorable hand puppet has a cloth book sewn to the palm. Parents can read the simple story and act it out at the same time!… |
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How to Do the Three Bears With Two Hands: Performing With Puppets $21.95 This text addresses puppetry as a collaborative art form. The author shares tips on: staging puppet shows in typical library spaces; creating characters with voices and puppet manipulation; writing scripts and adapting stories from children’s theatre; and performing alone or with other staff…. |
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New Just be PAWS Bite Meez Soft Fleece Squeaker Hand Puppet Toy Chomper the Alligator For Dogs $14.37 Just give us a hand and you will see why Bite-Meez are as fun as they can be! These hand puppet toys are trimmed with fleece and contain squeakers. They are sure to be a playful puppy’s best pal! Measure approximately 11″ x 4.5″ x 5″…. |
Are you looking for something fun to do for your kids while their stuck inside because of bad weather? Many of us would prefer to keep them away from the television, but that means we have to keep them busy. Luckily, there’s a really fun idea: build a puppet show. Rather than just reading a story aloud, acting it out with puppets is a great way to create a fantastic memory for your children. And most importantly, you’ll get to spend more time with your kids! And once their older, they’ll be challenged to put on one of their own!
<b>Goldilocks and the Three Bears Puppet Show</b>
Luckily for us, creating a puppet show doesn’t have to be horribly complicated. In fact, you don’t actually need to go out and buy puppets. Most children already have stuffed animals and dolls, and they’ll be thrilled to see their favorite toy staring in a puppet theatre! Costume their toys with your own accessories, such as jewelry, hats, glasses, and anything else you can think of. Be inventive when it comes to other props by using plastic tableware, boxes, etc.
<b>The Characters</b>
Let’s say you want to re-create a favorite fairytale, such as “The Story of Goldilocks and the Three Bears.” Obviously, you’ll need a Papa Bear, a Mama Bear, and a Baby Bear. This is easy as long as you have three teddy bears of varying sizes. Then dress the bears up accordingly. Take the smallest bear and give him a little hat or tie a pacifier around his neck so that he’s obviously baby bear. As for the parents, give Mama Bear a necklace or little bow, and to Papa Bear add a pair of old glasses. Then you will need Goldilocks. She can easily be recreated with any blond doll, in fact a Barbie would work just fine.
Believe it or not, you don’t need the intricate strings of a professional puppeteer. Instead get a ruler, stick, or maybe even a pair of chopsticks, whichever you have on hand. These can then be taped to your puppet’s bodies so they are easy to maneuver. This can also make them more stable and less likely to flop around.
<b>The Props</b>
Next, it’s time to find the appropriate props. First you’ll need to represent the table of the three bears. You could use a small box, or even a piece of Tupperware. Then place little “bowls” on them. Use the wrappers from Ferrero Rocher or Reeses chocolates, as they have the right “bowl” shape. Or you could use the caps of a couple of water bottles. Then, to create chairs, use foam water glasses. Cut Mama Bear’s seat by an inch so that it’s smaller than Papa Bear’s “seat”, which you will leave alone, and then cut the cup for Baby Bears seat by 2 inches, so that it is the smallest seat of all. Foam is a particularly good material, because it’s easy to “break” the chair when Goldilocks sits down in it. The beds are just as easy to create. All you need are some napkins and tissue arranged on one side of the room, cut down into three descending sizes. And so there you go! You’ve got all the props you need to put on a great show, and it was easy!
So there you go. You’ve got everything you need: the puppets, the props, and a great classic story. Whether rain or shine, this is a truly fun way to entertain your children. As long as your child has toys around the house like stuffed animals, you can create anything!
About the Author:
Ready to create your very own fairytale puppet show? Find the best teddy bears and cutest plush stuffed animals from all habitats at KCPlush.com and build the most memorable show in history.
Article Source: ArticlesBase.com – How to Build Your Very Own Puppet Show
Nib High School
Nib High School
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Hand Painted Oil Painting Techniques
Hand painted Oil painting techniques
The ancient art and Hand painted oil paintings of Renaissance Europe are very important relationship. Renaissance to the 14th century, the rise of 16th century European idea of a cultural movement, experiencing forces of a thousand years of feudal rule of the Church, people began to get rid of mental slavery, was being detained for many years of classical culture and arouse people’s attention. The first started in Renaissance Italy, later extended to Western European countries. The 16th century reached its peak.
European oil paintings of family »Vinci, Raphael, Michelangelo, Giorgione, Titian is the Renaissance leaders. At that time, an endless stream of various schools of style, master masterpiece of a common occurrence for human culture left a treasure trove of numerous difficult to go beyond the classics. The Southern Italy School Titian’s Venice is a well-known opaque thick smear of oil painting techniques on behalf of the portrait master.
Ancient and modern, oil painting the most basic techniques are threefold: First, the Nordic Netherlands School, who love to Yang Ke as the representative of the Tuhua thin transparent; Second, Southern Italy School to Weinisiti-thick opaque as the representative of the Tuhua ; Three of Flanders painter Rubens as the representative of the North-South integration techniques of the dark thin transparent Tu, Tu-liang of the thick opaque compromise painting. After the 17th century painter, although with their own unique style and technique, but are not divorced from the opening of these three basic traditional painting techniques. The history of European painting from the point of view, the painting is painted from the wax, plastic eggs on the painting gradually develop. By the 15th century, and by Fan Yang brothers grams of plastic for the completion of a medium to medium oil for the conversion. Because of the innovative techniques, so that the performance of the paintings are brought into full play so that it works in the depth of sound and produce a great leap forward. Therefore, in the 15th century love grams of Fan Yang brothers as the representative of the Netherlands School, is painting the history of the development a major turning point. By the 17th century (before and after the Qing Emperor Kangxi period), after several generations of artists of the continuous improvement so that the oil painting art form created a major turning point, that is, from multi-level hood with the gradual development of an integrated method of performance-based approach And direct painting, oil painting greatly enriched the language and performance skills, make it better.
[b] painting techniques [/ b] are:
Transparent review of color, that is used not only by white palette diluted oil paint depicting a multi-level. Must be conducted after each layer dry under a layer of color, because every color than the thin, middle and lower classes of color can vaguely revealed, with the top of the subtle color changes in the formation of color. For example, in the crimson smear on the hood of the color of the blue prudent, we will have a thorough violet blue in the cold in which the rich warming effects, which often is not out on the palette of colours. This painting images suitable for performance and solid sense of texture, especially to Weimiaoweixiao figures to depict the delicate skin color changes, it is the skin of the flow of blood under the skin. It is the shortcomings of color gamut narrower, making the small, the complete works long hours and difficult in the immediate expression of the painter’s emotional and artistic creation.
Review opaque color, also known as multi-level shading. Monochrome painting, to use the old body paint, and then use color multi-level shape, often painted in the dark of the thin, middle-tone and the Department of layers of thick coated, or covered or reservations, a color contrast. Because of different thickness, showing the rich color and texture rhyme intended.
Transparent and opaque two paintings of the strict law does not distinguish between, often in an artist painting in the comprehensive use. Performance in the dark, or in the shadow of the images, using a transparent review of color can have stability, deep sense of the size and sense of space; opaque color rules easy to follow in the shape of the dark outside the body, increase the screen color saturation. Before the 19th century most of the artists using these two paintings, works of the time normally produce a longer, and some Huawan after a long-term placement, color layer to be completely dry before to describe.
An opaque color, also known as direct shading. That is, on the canvas after the outline of a body images, by virtue of the color images on the screen color or feel the idea of laying color, basically a Huawan, not the correct position by painting Daogua to continue after color adjustment. This painting by the dip in each of the relatively thick paint, color saturation, strokes are more clear, easy-table
To paint a vivid feeling when. After the mid-19th century painter of many more such painting. To make a color after a full-color effect, we must stress that the use of powerful T Tu law, common law into the Tu Tu Ping, casual and thick Tu Tu. Tu Ping is to use a one-way, and even a pen potential Tu large area color, suitable for the smooth and stable static image in the shape of the body; casual Tu refers to the physical basis for painting by the natural trend of turning point Yunbi, strokes compared Loose, flexible; thick Tu is full size or partially thick stack paint, some as high as a few millimetres of color or color, texture paint show the interesting image has been enhanced.
As a language arts, including painting color, shading, line, texture, strokes, texture, light flu, space, form a number of factors, such as composition, the role of the oil painting techniques to the modeling factors or to focus on individual manifested , Oil painting materials to provide adequate performance in the second plane base on the possible use of oil painting techniques. Oil paintings of the production process is skilled artist consciously to control the oil painting materials, select and use art to express ideas, create the art techniques to create the image of the process. Paintings by artists to express both the ideological content, language and display the painting unique painting of the United States ? ?
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Brush Pen CO. setback is the root of the Labi coloring method, press T after briefly moving down and then raised, such as the front line against the calligraphy pen, Cangjin firm. Nib and T-Gen Zhanqu color differences, according to the severity of T different direction can produce a variety of changes and interesting.
Shoot
Brush Pen CO., or with wide fan-shaped dip-pen on the screen after lightly tapping the techniques known as the shoot. Film can produce a certain texture of the ups and downs, neither is very clear, not too simple and too strong to deal with the original color of strokes or to weaken.
Kneading
Rubbing on the screen refers to two or several different colors of a pen directly parade means parade of color after the mixed nature of the changes, was delicate and distinctive color contrast and brightness, and can play a bridging role in the transition .
Thread
Line is the line that use a pen sketches, oil paintings hook line with the general soft cents a sharp idea, but in different styles, round, and the old-school T Chen Shui-bian may also outlined a similar book-like let the center line. Eastern and Western painting are used at the beginning of the modeling, oil painting at an early stage in the usually accurate to stringent Qigao contour lines, and tanks poured pull techniques in a row method is the primary means of shading. Western oil painting that later evolved into the brightness of the first and mainly, but nevertheless, painting the center line and has never lost a factor. Thin, uninhibited, Gong Zheng, or at informal staggered Dieya and repeated use of the various lines, so that more oil rich language, the different lines of the body is dealing with more important. Oriental painting the lines affected by a lot of modern Western style of the masters, such as Matisse, Van Gogh, Picasso, Miro and Klee, are line with the master.
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Western oil painting is one of the main types of painting. Quick-drying oil quality to reconcile with paint, draw, after handling the canvas, board, thick paper or painting on the wall art. Early paintings-”Tan pouring pull” (Tempere) painting, using egg yolk or egg white as a condiment Ronghe mineral pigments to paint, further thin transparent oil colors in painting on the cover. 15 century, the Netherlands painter who love grams of flax-brother to switch to oil and walnut oil, fast-drying oil as a reconciling agent, the color easy to reconcile, is widely used. Yunbi features for free, and laying layers, enhancing color brightness, can more fully the performance of objects realistic and rich color effects. Since then, new materials and new techniques will soon spread throughout Europe. Croatian brothers who love therefore be called the European oil paintings were created. China experienced the early 20th century oil painting studies were Jianduo, Li Shutong (1880-1952) and the first such study painting techniques introduced to China.
So
So used to converge the two adjacent to the color, make it less rigid, taking advantage of color was dry, to clean the fan-shaped pen lightly Swept can achieve this. Can also use a pen on the bottom color will be another boost to generate color So staggered from top to bottom, dead tired and not loose the color effects.
Duo
Referring to the pig with a hard mane dip-pen after pen to the head perpendicular to paint Duo will be on the screen. Duo’s not very commonly used method, usually only in the fabric of local special needs when it applied.
Emulsion material
Emulsion is a material with a long history of outstanding traditional materials, in modern get a new development. Emulsion is the type of material containing water-based and oily constituents of mixed materials, also the advantages of a combination of both. All kinds of painting materials such as eggs Tanpei La Choi, Choi and casein materials are of a wax emulsion campaign. Emulsion materials may be diluted water, drying speed, similar to water-based materials; can be opaque thick smear, do not dissolve in water after the dry, but also has the advantage of oily materials. All kinds of modern propylene, ethylene and other synthetic pigment not only to retain the traditional characteristics of the emulsion material, with the strengths of oily materials and other materials are irreplaceable effect, is a great development in the future of the new material.
Oily materials
The use of natural materials and oil resin paintings as the main medium of painting is the kind of painting, it is from the traditional egg protein, such as color and brewing emulsion material from the evolution of development. Oily material is characterized by slow drying, glossy and thick smear repeated coverage. Oily materials with a strong performance of the wealth of techniques and effects, it can be said almost all the other inclusive of materials and techniques of painting features. Oily material properties allow in-depth and detailed portrait of the object modeling, can show a realistic target rich color, so as to meet the people since the 14th century reproduction of visual real desire to promote the development of Western painting to the realism of the process. After the birth of oil painting has been dominated by the Western art world, and in the world to develop, it also proved the superiority of oily materials. Water-borne materials from the oily material to the transition is a long process of change, almost experienced several thousand years of time, painting materials and techniques of a major breakthrough in the history of art. The use of oil and resin that is different from Western painting techniques of Oriental painting techniques of one of the important characteristics.
Rafah
Rafah is sometimes necessary to draw paintings in the strong lines and sharp objects that the picturesque edge of the sword or the side of the glass, then can the true-color painting knife blade after using the side of color on the screen will pull excellent color line or face , The body painting knife to draw a solid affirmation, brush or other methods is difficult to achieve.
Rub
Hengwo is to wipe brushes, brush with the dark belly of the screen clean, clean, usually with less color large area, can not form a clear strokes, but also paved the bottom of the color commonly used methods. Done in the background or the texture on the ups and downs with the rubbing technique similar to traditional Chinese painting can be painted white to fly the effect of the underlying fabric of the more obvious.
Suppression
Yishi with a knife in the bottom layer on the color of wet gently downward pressure after the initiation, the surface will have a special color of the fabric. In some special need to describe the texture of local suppression techniques can be used to achieve the desired results.
Water-based materials
The earliest human use of water-soluble pigment consisting mainly of material. In the early paintings spontaneously with water, gums or Dongwu Jiao, and other natural substances as paint thinner and adhesives is very natural, they are taken to facilitate the use of simple, in the East and the West early in the painting are the same. Today’s watercolor and gouache paint, and so are the type of water-based media, their performance techniques free, smooth, can generate light, transparent results, the Chinese paintings, Japanese paintings, and other Oriental painting the main types of materials.
Painting materials
Painting materials can be divided into the basement materials, oil paints and media materials of three categories. The base material that painting bearing the pigment layer of relying on background materials and coatings. Oil paint is drawn directly to the expression of color and texture of painting the main effect of materials. The media of material is used to adjust and to paint characters and base material combined with the various thinner, with agents and polishing agent.
Build
Build method is a knife instead of brushes, like Niwa Jiang Central Nihui with soil knife, as will color on canvas to build then leave directly Daohen. To build the method can have different levels of thickness changes in the size and shape of knives and a knife in the direction of the rich and also have a different comparison. Painting knife-used for different colors do not make too much blending, in the natural mixed on the screen can produce subtle color relations. Big ups and downs over the color of the method can also be used to build-build. Build method if used properly, it will have a strong sense of shape
Zoned
Zoned refers to the knife blade in the painting was dry on portraying the color and shape Yam lines sometimes can be exposed to the bottom color. Different painting knife can produce different size depth of change and the brush strokes and painting techniques Tori the color of a point, line and face the ups and downs of the fabric of change.
Point
Points – all of the points before, all in the technique are starting point. As early as in classical techniques in Tan Peila, Dianhua law is a manifestation of the important level of technique. In Vermeer’s works are also used in a performance point of strokes to the blinking light and texture objects. Pencil Exhibition of Impressionist de facto became one of its basic characteristics, but Monet, Renoir and Pissarro, such as the different points of their own personality and the changes. Then go to the extreme new impressionist, a mechanical point will be the only technique as its. Modern realism oil paintings are also used to point the density to produce shades, can be caused by the transition certainly not rigid. Point in a comprehensive way of drawing lines and decent and in combination can produce rich contrast, in different shape and texture of the Brush Pen CO., can produce different points strokes, the performance of certain objects of the texture can play a unique role.
Scratch
Scratch painting knife is the basic purposes, scraping the method is generally used bladed Guaqu screen painting part of the ideal, can also be used to Daogua unnecessary details or weaken the relationship is too strong, so that the screen is tense relations between the relaxation down . Long-term operations at the end of the day operations often need to be part of this Huawan color with a knife Guaqu a timely manner in order to dry until the next day and then painting. Color can also be used dry after painting knife or razor to the rugged Guade formation some. Can not do at the minor adjustments, do something to add.
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The Barrage de Petit-Saut hydroelectric dam, located in the north, provides power, while fishing, gold mining, timber, and eco-tourism are its predominant economic activities. The Guiana Space Centre, in Kourou, employs 1,700. Principle transportation includes the international airport in the suburbs of Cayenne, the capital; the Degrad des Cannes Seaport; and an asphalt road from Cayenne to the Brazilian border.
The Iles du Salut, or Salvation Islands, lie eight miles northeast of Kourou in the mid-Atlantic and comprise Ile Royale, Ile St. Joseph, and Ile du Diable.
Settled by French colonists seeking to escape the disease-ridden jungle of the low lands on the continent proper in 1760, they subsequently served as outposts for ships too large to dock in Cayenne, and were initially known as “Iles du Diable” or “Devil’s Islands.”
Ile Royale, the largest of the three and the only one still inhabited, had been the headquarters of the prison governor of the infamous 19th-century French penal colony, which had housed more than 80,000 prisoners in the 101 years between 1852 and 1953. Its current hotel had been the prison warden’s mess hall.
The actual Ile du Diable, the smallest of the three and measuring 1,320-by-3,900 feet, accommodated the leper colony. Among the most famous prisoners, which had encompassed spies, political prisoners, and World War I deserters, Alfred Dreyfus, a French Army Officer, had been falsely accused of treason, completing more than four years of his sentence on the hot, humid, rain-deluged island from April 13, 1895 to June 5, 1899, and Henry Charriere, allegedly the only prisoner to have escaped and to have lived to tell the tale in the now-famous book, Papillon.
A June 17, 1938 decree abolished prisoner transportation to French penal colonies, although it had taken another 15 years before the last one had been removed.
St. Joseph, which grew in size as the ship approached it, sported dense, tropical vegetation above its rocky perimeter, in which several pink, wooden cottages, almost choked by the flora, pierced the green canvas. Ile Royale, a short swim away, had been thresholded by a small pier and several anchored sailboats. Civilization beyond the prison population had somehow established itself here and the boats had provided its maritime entry.
Grinding engines eight minutes later indicated the release of the starboard anchor with four shackles at a 50-degree, 16-minute north latitude and 52-degree, 35-minute west longitude position. Considerable time ensured before it had been determined that the sea state would permit safe tender operation, upon which a voice over the ship’s public address system ultimately pierced the safe, vacation-oriented delusion with the words, “Welcome to the penal colony of Devil’s Island!” The miles covered through no-man’s land (or sea) from the Caribbean to the northeastern edge of South America had deposited me here, and the “tourist route” had been well behind me now.
To put a foot on tiny Ile Royale, or “Royal Island,” which had been more popularly known as “Devil’s Island,” where 80,000 had, until 1953, been accused, correctly or incorrectly, and imprisoned, and whose sole goal, amidst the brutal conditions, had been to escape, had certainly constituted one of the definitions of “exotic travel.” That step both contrarily and paradoxically served to fulfill the opposite of the prisoners’ intentions and desires, of escape. The island, upon retrospect, had nothing to do with the desire and, hence direction of, travel to or from it, but instead personal will which, upon further examination, took on diametrically-opposed directions when the action had been self- or other-determined, the former pertaining to my circumstance to travel here and the latter to the prisoners’ to flee it. To remove that core of the soul, that self-determination, had been the equivalent of removing the soul itself, since the essence of will, direction, and action had been the propelling force behind every living human.
A rocky, inclining path, leading from the single-boat pier to the island’s interior, yielded to a cobblestone, green moss-overgrown one and threaded its way through dense palm trees, lush vegetation, and thick humidity. Hack out a clearing in a malaria-ridden jungle, I had thought, and man will find a use for it, as the French had with the penal colony they had established here.
The island’s sole museum, located half-way up the path, had been a dual-floored, wrought-iron balconied cottage with an off-red and cream façade, shuttered windows, and a wooden shingled roof, and displayed island-related artifacts, models, and diagrams.
A walk to the path’s summit had been met with a treed, green grass expanse of the island proper, and several penal colony-remnant structures, such as the two-story, balconied “Gendarmerie Poste des Iles” or “island police station,” and the brick and block “Eglise Classee,” or church, which had been constructed in 1854. Its “Chapelle des Iles – espace de liberte” or “island chapel – area of freedom,” sported a stone floor; a wooden, slated roof; painted, wooden murals depicting prison life; an upper floor; and a steeple.
The island’s many antiquated, decaying stone walls and pillars had provided testaments to the equally fading memory of this historical period, relics which had been intentionally eradicated from the memories of the souls which had been enslaved by them.
The prominent, orange lighthouse hailed from 1934.
The small, crumbling, moss-overgrown children’s cemetery, sporting cross-adorned graves, provided a strong statement of injustice: the hot, humid, cruel, harsh, disease outcrop, coupled with the premature deaths of those who had never made it to adulthood and therefore had never begun to forge their life paths, had resulted in a final resting place, on the far side of the island not far from the ocean, which had been isolated, crumbling, and seldom-visited. How, indeed, can one be remembered for his contributions and achievements when he had never lived long enough to create them?
The summit-perimeter path led round the cottages of the island’s only “auberge,” which featured stucco walls, shuttered windows, corrugated metal roofs, and small front porches.
Amid the decaying ruins, half-walls, and cells had been the “quartier des condamnes” which featured the rusting, wrought-iron bases once used as beds and the wall-connected bars to which the prisoners had been nightly shackled. It had been in the narrow cells with their small, single, high-arched windows covered with wrought iron bars where the prisoners had awaited the completion of their sentences or death, both of which had served as “releases.”
The solitary confinement cells, which were located across the way and were equally small, offered no window and, hence, when their doors had been closed, were reduced to total blackness. Channels of human senses and perception had served no purpose during these times.
A weed-overgrown reservoir had been dug by the prisoners, who had done so while braving the oppressive, breath-inhibiting humidity; torrential rains; disease-transmitting mosquitoes; and skin-tarring rays of the equatorial sun, one teaspoon at a time—the only “tools” they had been given to complete the project.
A walk through the small hotel’s lobby, which had been the prison warden’s mess hall and now housed the bar and a tiny gift shop, led to a tabled, outdoor patio where patrons eat the daily three-course “menu,” quoted in euros, and enjoy views of the actual, rock, palm-covered, 131-foot-high Devil’s Island across the water, which had served as the Emperor Napoleon III’s decreed penitentiary.
The collective, three pinpoints known as “Devil’s Island,” had, more than any other place, been a study of cruelty, torture, endurance, and survival inflicted by humans to humans, which used the planet’s existing, natural elements to heighten it, and hence forced one to examine that fine, instantaneously severable line between life and death, the island’s conditions often inducing one to think “beyond” that line as the sometimes only viable alternative of “escape.”
As a study, it had offered two paradoxes over and above the one already contemplated upon arriving here. The first of these involved past primitiveness and future advancement. Its harsh, uninhabited conditions, only now overgrown with lush flora, beckons of the bowels of human behavior—criminality—yet its present tracking station serving the Ariane Space Program whose launch pad, located 12 miles away on the French Guiana mainland, hinted at its future, as it now plays a role in manned and unmanned missile and rocket launches which transcend the boundary of the planet itself, an example of humans fostering advancement for the benefit of humans, and hence the diametric opposite use of the island for humankind’s goals. The world is, according to Shakespeare, indeed a stage, and its people only players in whatever scenario it is deemed most appropriate for its current cause. Time and intended goal are the parameters which had distinguished Devil’s Island from past to future, from penal colony to space program, from planetary prison to planetary escape.
The second of the latently discovered paradoxes had been created by my ship itself, the Royal Princess, anchored in the distance and visible as I descended the cobblestone path back to the pier. Appearing an infinitesimal speck in the vastness of ocean already sailed, it had, at the same time, served as the “bridge” of connectivity, the floating path I had walked to travel here, re-linking civilization. Because of Devil’s Island’s population scarcity, and its very uncivilized historical use, it had, in essence, been civilization—and hence seemed grossly out-of-place.
As I crossed the short distance from the island to the anchored vessel on the ship’s tender filled with thoughts, lessons, and paradoxes, of one thing I had been quite sure—namely, that I had performed a feat its 80,000 prisoners had only dreamt of—the rapid, effortless, unimpeded, willful departure from it, without a single hindrance or hesitation.
Obstacles in life are, indeed, only insurmountable when another person’s will is contrary to your own—the ultimate source of planetary conflict.
About the Author
A graduate of Long Island University-C.W. Post Campus with a summa-cum-laude BA Degree in Comparative Languages and Journalism, I have subsequently earned the Continuing Community Education Teaching Certificate from the Nassau Association for Continuing Community Education (NACCE) at Molloy College, the Travel Career Development Certificate from the Institute of Certified Travel Agents (ICTA) at LIU, and the AAS Degree in Aerospace Technology at the State University of New York – College of Technology at Farmingdale. Having amassed almost three decades in the airline industry, I managed the New York-JFK and Washington-Dulles stations at Austrian Airlines, created the North American Station Training Program, served as an Aviation Advisor to Farmingdale State University of New York, and devised and taught the Airline Management Certificate Program at the Long Island Educational Opportunity Center. A freelance author, I have written some 70 books of the short story, novel, nonfiction, essay, poetry, article, log, curriculum, training manual, and textbook genre in English, German, and Spanish, having principally focused on aviation and travel, and I have been published in book, magazine, newsletter, and electronic Web site form. I am a writer for Cole Palen’s Old Rhinebeck Aerodrome in New York. I have made some 350 lifetime trips by air, sea, rail, and road.
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a postcolonial posture, a utilitarian gesture
Abstract
This paper is intended to examine R. K. Narayan’s attitude towards the English language as reflected in his essays. Narayan (1906-2001) was born and grown up in a period when English education was already institutionalised in the Indian Sub-continent. Like other Indian writers in English, such as Raja Rao and Mulk Raj Anand, he received English education and used to write in English from the beginning of his literary career up to the end. However, he is seen to have used the English language and literary form to scrutinise colonialism and depict the Indian society continually under change due to the colonial rule. A part of this endeavour seems to be evident in Narayan’s attitude towards the English language. Narayan’s position in this regard is deemed quite ambivalent and complex —he is aware that English is the language of the colonist, yet he is found to have accepted it for practical reasons. That is, his attitude towards the English language appears to have resulted from and shaped by the reality prevailing in the postcolonial setting.
Keywords: R. K. Narayan, attitude, English language, postcolonial posture, utilitarian gesture
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The study of the English language and literature in the postcolonial context seems to be “a densely political and cultural phenomenon†(Ashcroft, Griffiths and Tiffins 1989: 2-3) and consequently comes under the purview of the postcolonial writers. One of the fundamental assertions of postcolonialism is that the English language and literature have played a very significant role in propounding colonial ideology aimed at the survival and consolidation of the colonial rule (Walder 1998). In other words, the construction of English literary education is part of the colonial cultural design (Viswanathan 1995). Many postcolonial writers have attempted to address the issue of cultural domination through the English language and literature. For instance, Thiong’o (1995) opines that the central position given to the study of the English language and literature in Africa emanates from the assumption of the cultural superiority of the West. This is why, he prescribes that the English departments should be abolished from the universities in Africa. Indian novelist Raja Rao (2000: v) states that English is the language of the intellect, not of emotion; and in India English should therefore be appropriated to the level of “a dialect which will some day prove to be as distinctive and colourful as the Irish or the Americanâ€. Hence, postcolonial writing uses the language of the colonists but adapts it to the discourse of the colonised. It is performed by two processes: abrogation and appropriation (Ashcroft, Griffiths and Tiffins 1989). Abrogation stands for challenging the notion of universality as claimed by the colonists with regard to the language. Appropriation, on the other hand, is the use of the imperial language to express the cultural experience of the colonised. This is a process by which imperial English is made to encounter vernacular languages. Standard English words are used in many new meanings, and, in turn, the English language receives many new words from indigenous languages. Besides, postcolonial literature emerges out of the tension between these two pulls. Ashcroft, Griffiths and Tiffin (1989: 39) rightly maintain-
… in one sense all post-colonial literatures are cross-cultural because they negotiate a gap between ‘worlds’, a gap in which the simultaneous processes of abrogation and appropriation continually strive to define and determine their practice.
Thus, challenging and overhauling the Eurocentric notion of language become an essential part of literary decolonisation (Loomba 2001).
As Boehmer (1995) illustrates, almost all the aspects of the world of the colonised including the language of instruction and commerce were dominated by the empire. The colonial education of the middle class people then tended to create ‘mental colonization’ among them: “English-language and -literature instruction played a key role in naturalizing British values†(Boehmer 1995:169). By the early 20th century, students from the colonies were heavily influenced by the excellence of the English language and literature. This factor seems to account for the “syncretic†nature of the postcolonial society, which cannot be compartmentalised into either a purely traditional or a purely alien. Ashcroft, Griffiths and Tiffin (1989: 110) contend, “The construction of ‘pure’ cultural value is always conducted within a radically altered dynamic of power relationsâ€. Therefore, a postcolonial reading of R. K. Narayan’s works, especially essays with regard to his attitude to the English language would likely to reveal that he endeavours to formulate a synthesis between the Indian element and the colonial one.
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The colonial education that Narayan received might have influenced his views on the English language since in the classroom Narayan had to see English as the first language, his native language being a second language (Walsh 1982). English was the most prestigious subject due to political, administrative, social, economic and scientific reasons. Although Tamil, the language of Narayan’s province, and Sanskrit, the classical language of India, were taught in the school, they were considered inferior in status and provided occasions for jokes. Narayan (2001b: 464) admits this in his essay “English in Indiaâ€-
But in the classroom neither of these two languages was given any importance; they were assigned to the most helpless among the teachers, the pundits who were treated as a joke by the boys, since they taught only the ‘second language’, the first being English as ordained by Lord Macaulay when he introduced English education in India.
Besides encountering textbooks in English in his school and college, Narayan extensively read English literature outside his syllabus. His father’s library at home and his school library were crammed with books on English literature (Narayan 2001b). Narayan took the full opportunity of the libraries and enthusiastically read Scott, Dickens, Rider Haggard, Marie Corelli, Moliere, Pope, Marlowe, Tolstoy, Thomas Hardy and others (Narayan 1995). He was also in touch with the current literary scene through various magazines such as Little Folks, Nineteenth Century and After, Cornhill, Strand Magazine, Mercury, The Spectator, The Times Literary Supplement and The Manchester Guardian. The cumulative impact of this massive reading of the English literature was that he became very well versed in the English language. As a writer, Narayan opted for the English language simply because it suited him better than his mother tongue. In an interview, he says-
I never had any idea that I was writing in another tongue. My wh