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2024.05.14 00:29 HogwashDrinker [DISCUSSION] Kendrick Lamar vs Drake—The End of an Era?
Do you think we'll look back on the Kendrick Lamar vs Drake beef and see it as marking the end of an era?
Hip-hop/rap being on the decline has been a frequent topic of discussion for the past few years.
Could the defeat of commercial rap's figurehead finally signify an end to hip-hop's reign over the mainstream?
Will the triumph of the conscious-adjacent poet laureate artist signify a resurgence of more conscious underground hip-hop?
The death of XXXtentacion marked the end of the Soundcloud Rap era. Imo Drake's defeat feels like a continuation of that. Trending away from the shallow and blatant hedonism and violence that has dominated much of the mainstream—not for any puritanical reason, but simply due to over-saturation and fatigue.
If hip-hop as a genre begins to trend towards its more conscious and artistic roots, it will also naturally fall from the mainstream.
Of course, a part of me sees this as wholly unrealistic. On the other hand, artists like Earl Sweatshirt, MIKE, and Armand Hammer are making some great shit and picking up significant traction.
And I feel like there's only so many songs I can listen to about fucking your bitch in the throat, killing people, and buying expensive shit before getting bored and craving a little more substance. Also, it seems like people are becoming less misogynistic on the whole, and some of the things commonly said in rap just seem to come off grosser as time goes on. Maybe there's something in the air, people might be over that. Just something I'm picking up on
Don't get me wrong, I'm not trying to sound like an oldhead boomer complaining about mUsIc ThEsE dAyS; there will always be a space and demand for hedonistic bangers. But on the whole, I can't really imagine that these current trends stay exactly the same for another decade or two. At some point, what's popular is going to change. What marks that, and what will it shift to?
Surprisingly, there seems to be a major surge in the popularity of country music. In a way, this was prophesied by the popularity of Corridos Tumbados—artists like Peso Pluma somehow making acoustic music popular among the youth.
It makes sense—we're still in post-pandemic recovery mode in an increasingly isolated world. We yearn for a sense of togetherness and unity. We want tangible, real world connections, and country music's sing-along tracks with real physical instruments taps directly into that need. But ngl, I'm not really rocking w country music. So I hope hip-hop figures out its own answer to that.
Tracks like Kanye's Carnival, with its stadium-anthem chorus feeds into that need for togetherness (s/o Professor Skye for that). The same phenomenon can be observed in places like Japan, where Yuki Chiba's Team Tomodachi is going mega viral (the title means "team friends," it's a banger about hanging out w your buddies lol). Most recently, Kendrick Lamar's "Not Like Us" seems to unify not only the West Coast, but hip-hop fans in general.
All this is to say that there do seem to be certain emerging trends, in conjunction with certain needs people are yearning to fulfill. The latest rap beef between Kendrick and Drake certainly fed into this desire for togetherness, but it also feels like some kind of major shift.
Do you think it will mark the end of an era in hip-hop, do you think it will have little-to-no impact, or do you think it will lead to something else entirely?
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Hip-hop/rap being on the decline has been a frequent topic of discussion for the past few years.
Could the defeat of commercial rap's figurehead finally signify an end to hip-hop's reign over the mainstream?
Will the triumph of the conscious-adjacent poet laureate artist signify a resurgence of more conscious underground hip-hop?
The death of XXXtentacion marked the end of the Soundcloud Rap era. Imo Drake's defeat feels like a continuation of that. Trending away from the shallow and blatant hedonism and violence that has dominated much of the mainstream—not for any puritanical reason, but simply due to over-saturation and fatigue.
If hip-hop as a genre begins to trend towards its more conscious and artistic roots, it will also naturally fall from the mainstream.
Of course, a part of me sees this as wholly unrealistic. On the other hand, artists like Earl Sweatshirt, MIKE, and Armand Hammer are making some great shit and picking up significant traction.
And I feel like there's only so many songs I can listen to about fucking your bitch in the throat, killing people, and buying expensive shit before getting bored and craving a little more substance. Also, it seems like people are becoming less misogynistic on the whole, and some of the things commonly said in rap just seem to come off grosser as time goes on. Maybe there's something in the air, people might be over that. Just something I'm picking up on
Don't get me wrong, I'm not trying to sound like an oldhead boomer complaining about mUsIc ThEsE dAyS; there will always be a space and demand for hedonistic bangers. But on the whole, I can't really imagine that these current trends stay exactly the same for another decade or two. At some point, what's popular is going to change. What marks that, and what will it shift to?
Surprisingly, there seems to be a major surge in the popularity of country music. In a way, this was prophesied by the popularity of Corridos Tumbados—artists like Peso Pluma somehow making acoustic music popular among the youth.
It makes sense—we're still in post-pandemic recovery mode in an increasingly isolated world. We yearn for a sense of togetherness and unity. We want tangible, real world connections, and country music's sing-along tracks with real physical instruments taps directly into that need. But ngl, I'm not really rocking w country music. So I hope hip-hop figures out its own answer to that.
Tracks like Kanye's Carnival, with its stadium-anthem chorus feeds into that need for togetherness (s/o Professor Skye for that). The same phenomenon can be observed in places like Japan, where Yuki Chiba's Team Tomodachi is going mega viral (the title means "team friends," it's a banger about hanging out w your buddies lol). Most recently, Kendrick Lamar's "Not Like Us" seems to unify not only the West Coast, but hip-hop fans in general.
All this is to say that there do seem to be certain emerging trends, in conjunction with certain needs people are yearning to fulfill. The latest rap beef between Kendrick and Drake certainly fed into this desire for togetherness, but it also feels like some kind of major shift.
Do you think it will mark the end of an era in hip-hop, do you think it will have little-to-no impact, or do you think it will lead to something else entirely?
2024.05.13 23:57 Old_Intactivist Citizens were randomly hanged and shot: The eyewitness testimony of Alice Campbell and others
Introduction to Chapter 8 ("Heralded by Columns of Smoke: Pee Dee River to Fayetteville, North Carolina"):
"Once across the Pee Dee River, General Sherman's army marched in the direction of Fayetteville.
"Resistance from Confederate cavalry under Generals Hampton, Butler and Wheeler was steady and continuous. Wheeler attacked at Rockingham on March 7, and Hampton surprised and captured Kilpatrick's camp on March 10. But Sherman's army marched steadily on.
"General Joseph E. Johnston, with headquarters at Fayetteville, was following General Lee's first instruction, 'Concentrate all available forces.' He moved his headquarters to Raleigh and directed the assembling of his army to Smithfield.
"Eighty-four years earlier, in January of 1781, North Carolina had suffered another march by an invading army. Lord Cornwallis and his army followed almost the same route on their way to Wilmington. This army had come three thousand miles to put down 'a rebellion'; and to pursue retreating 'rebels' through a wild and thinly scattered country. His army had passed through Cross Creek, which was now called Fayetteville.
"On March 11, General Sherman and his army entered this town. 'We have swept the country well,' he reported. 'The men and animals are in fine condition.'"
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"Miss Alice Campbell was President of the Fayetteville Knitting Society when Colonel A. H. Hickenlooper, of Sherman's army, chose her home for his five-day sojourn. Bummers also visited her."
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"'Sherman, with his hordes of depraved and lawless men, came upon us like swarms of bees, bringing sorrow and desolation in their pathway. For days we had been expecting them, and our loved boys in grey had been passing through in squads, looking ragged and hungry. We gave them food and clothing, especially shoes and socks, for many of them were bare-footed. The enemy seemed to be pouring in by every road that led to our doomed little town. Our Cavalry were contending every step, firing and falling back, covering the retreat of our gallant little band, Hardee's forces, with General Wade Hampton, Butler, and others -- the scene in our town baffled description, all was consternation and dismay. In less time than I can write this, Sherman's army was in possession of our once peaceful, quiet homes. Every yard and every house was teeming with the bummers, who went into our homes -- no place was sacred; they even went into our trunks and bureau draws, stealing everything they could find; our entire premises were ransacked and plundered, so there was nothing left for us to eat, but perhaps a little meal and peas. Chickens, and in fact all poultry was shot down and taken off with all else. We all knew our silver, jewelry and all valuables would fall into their hands, so many women hid them in such places as they thought would never be found ....
''They went into homes that were beautiful, rolled elegant pianos into the yard with valuable furniture, china, cut glass, and everything that was dear to the heart, even old family portraits, and chopped them up with axes -- rolled barrels of flour and molasses into the parlors, and poured out their contents on beautiful velvet carpets, in many cases set fire to lovely homes and burned them to the ground, and even took some of our old citizens and hanged them until life was nearly extinct, to force them to tell where their money was hidden; when alas! they had none to hide. They burned our factories, and we had a number of them, also many large warehouses, filled with homespun, and dwellings, banks, stores and other buildings, so that the nights were made hideous with dense smoke and firelight in every direction. The crowning point to this terrible nightmare of destruction was the burning and battering down of our beautiful and grandly magnificent Arsenal, which was our pride, and the showplace of our town.
''On our vacant lot behind our home .... were a number of Confederate prisoners who had been captured by Sherman's army, and placed there under guard. They numbered about one hundred, I think. They were hatless and shoeless and ragged ....'
"One of General Howard's young officers chose to stay in the home of Sally Hawthorne whose father and uncle owned two large cotton mills in Fayetteville. General Howard appropriated one of her uncle's houses and his men camped in the surrounding fields and grounds."For five days, Sally, her mother who 'refused to leave her room,' her father, and a houseful of young brothers and sisters and servants were under strict orders from the officers of invasion.
"'Never will I forget,' said the little girl, Sally, whose story follows."
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"'Those last days were busy ones for General Sherman and his staff. The beautiful arsenal was destroyed and, as it happened, several private residences also caught fire and burned down, no help being given to save them, and the helpless owners rescued little, thankful to escape with their lives. Also the office of the town paper was blown up, as the editor was an especially obnoxious person in the eyes of the invading army, having waged a bitter fight against the North, and as his office was in the centre of the business part of town, more buildings were burned. (2) Then came the last day of the occupation; the troops were gathering and horses and supplies were being moved. All horses found there were taken along and many in the surrounding country were rounded up. Then there were the warehouses of cotton and rosin. The cotton was brought out, the barrels of rosin piled on them, and all set afire in the street. If houses caught, they burned, and that was all; many did. So a pall of black smoke hung over everything and the people were in a sad state of excitement and nervous exhaustion. As many houses were without a man to help or advise, the men of the family having been killed or being still in the army, the women and children were alone with the servants. The servants, with very few exceptions, proved true to their trust; they had been left to take care of the mistress and children in the master's absence, and though much excited, and sometimes frightened, they looked after the household faithfully. Of course there were some foolish and giddy young men and women who followed the army as it moved on from place to place, but they were the exception, not the rule ....'
"'No spot seemed safe from Sherman's bummers, but homes in the country or suburbs usually suffered more keenly than those in a town or city. The experiences of an unidentified woman who lived near Fayetteville were shared by many neighbors who were visited by the men from Sherman's army."
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<< Fayetteville, N.C., March 22, 1865 >>
".... Sherman has gone and terrible has been the storm that has swept over us with his coming and going. They deliberately shot two of our citizens -- murdered them in cold blood -- one of them a Mr. Murphy, a wounded soldier, Confederate States Army. They hung up three others and one lady, merely letting them down just in time to save life, in order to make them tell where their valuables were concealed; and they whipped -- stripped and cowhided --several good and well known citizens for the same purpose.
"There was no place, no chamber, trunk, drawer, desk, garret, closet or cellar that was private to their unholy eyes. Their rude hands spared nothing but our lives, and those they would have taken but they knew that therein they would accomplish the death of a few helpless women and children -- they would not in the least degree break or bend the spirit of our people. Squad after squad unceasingly came and went and tramped through the halls and rooms of our house day and night during the entire stay of the army.'
"At our house they killed every chicken, goose, turkey, cow, calf and every living thing, even to our pet dog. They carried off our wagons, carriage and horses, and broke up our buggy, wheelbarrow, garden implements, axes, hatchets, hammers, saws, and burned the fences. Our smokehouse and pantry, that a few days ago were well stored with bacon, lard, flour, dried fruit, meal, pickles, preserves, etc., now contain nothing whatever except a few pounds of meal and flour and five pounds of bacon. They took from old men, women and children alike, every garment of wearing apparel save what we had on, not even sparing the napkins of infants! Blankets, sheets, quilts, &c., such as it did not suit them to take away they tore to pieces before our eyes. After destroying everything we had, and taking from us every morsel of food (save the pittance I have mentioned), one of these barbarians had to add insult to injury by asking me 'what you (I) would live upon now?' I replied, 'Upon patriotism; I will exist upon the love of my country as long as life will last, and then I will die as firm in that love as the everlasting hills.
''Oh,' says he, ' but we shall soon subjugate the rebellion, and you will then have no country to love.
''Never!' I interrupted, 'never! you and your blood-handed countrymen may make the whole of this beautiful land one vast graveyard but its people will never be subjugated. Every man, woman and child of us will sleep quietly in honourable graves, but we will never live dishonourable lives .....'"
"When Sherman Came: Southern Women and the 'Great March'" by Katharine M. Jones (1964). Chapter 8: "Heralded by Columns of Smoke: Pee Dee River to Fayetteville, North Carolina." New York: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, Inc. Pages 273-286.
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"Once across the Pee Dee River, General Sherman's army marched in the direction of Fayetteville.
"Resistance from Confederate cavalry under Generals Hampton, Butler and Wheeler was steady and continuous. Wheeler attacked at Rockingham on March 7, and Hampton surprised and captured Kilpatrick's camp on March 10. But Sherman's army marched steadily on.
"General Joseph E. Johnston, with headquarters at Fayetteville, was following General Lee's first instruction, 'Concentrate all available forces.' He moved his headquarters to Raleigh and directed the assembling of his army to Smithfield.
"Eighty-four years earlier, in January of 1781, North Carolina had suffered another march by an invading army. Lord Cornwallis and his army followed almost the same route on their way to Wilmington. This army had come three thousand miles to put down 'a rebellion'; and to pursue retreating 'rebels' through a wild and thinly scattered country. His army had passed through Cross Creek, which was now called Fayetteville.
"On March 11, General Sherman and his army entered this town. 'We have swept the country well,' he reported. 'The men and animals are in fine condition.'"
--------------------------------------------
"Miss Alice Campbell was President of the Fayetteville Knitting Society when Colonel A. H. Hickenlooper, of Sherman's army, chose her home for his five-day sojourn. Bummers also visited her."
--------------------------------------------
"'Sherman, with his hordes of depraved and lawless men, came upon us like swarms of bees, bringing sorrow and desolation in their pathway. For days we had been expecting them, and our loved boys in grey had been passing through in squads, looking ragged and hungry. We gave them food and clothing, especially shoes and socks, for many of them were bare-footed. The enemy seemed to be pouring in by every road that led to our doomed little town. Our Cavalry were contending every step, firing and falling back, covering the retreat of our gallant little band, Hardee's forces, with General Wade Hampton, Butler, and others -- the scene in our town baffled description, all was consternation and dismay. In less time than I can write this, Sherman's army was in possession of our once peaceful, quiet homes. Every yard and every house was teeming with the bummers, who went into our homes -- no place was sacred; they even went into our trunks and bureau draws, stealing everything they could find; our entire premises were ransacked and plundered, so there was nothing left for us to eat, but perhaps a little meal and peas. Chickens, and in fact all poultry was shot down and taken off with all else. We all knew our silver, jewelry and all valuables would fall into their hands, so many women hid them in such places as they thought would never be found ....
''They went into homes that were beautiful, rolled elegant pianos into the yard with valuable furniture, china, cut glass, and everything that was dear to the heart, even old family portraits, and chopped them up with axes -- rolled barrels of flour and molasses into the parlors, and poured out their contents on beautiful velvet carpets, in many cases set fire to lovely homes and burned them to the ground, and even took some of our old citizens and hanged them until life was nearly extinct, to force them to tell where their money was hidden; when alas! they had none to hide. They burned our factories, and we had a number of them, also many large warehouses, filled with homespun, and dwellings, banks, stores and other buildings, so that the nights were made hideous with dense smoke and firelight in every direction. The crowning point to this terrible nightmare of destruction was the burning and battering down of our beautiful and grandly magnificent Arsenal, which was our pride, and the showplace of our town.
''On our vacant lot behind our home .... were a number of Confederate prisoners who had been captured by Sherman's army, and placed there under guard. They numbered about one hundred, I think. They were hatless and shoeless and ragged ....'
"'Never will I forget,' said the little girl, Sally, whose story follows."
--------------------------------------------
"'Those last days were busy ones for General Sherman and his staff. The beautiful arsenal was destroyed and, as it happened, several private residences also caught fire and burned down, no help being given to save them, and the helpless owners rescued little, thankful to escape with their lives. Also the office of the town paper was blown up, as the editor was an especially obnoxious person in the eyes of the invading army, having waged a bitter fight against the North, and as his office was in the centre of the business part of town, more buildings were burned. (2) Then came the last day of the occupation; the troops were gathering and horses and supplies were being moved. All horses found there were taken along and many in the surrounding country were rounded up. Then there were the warehouses of cotton and rosin. The cotton was brought out, the barrels of rosin piled on them, and all set afire in the street. If houses caught, they burned, and that was all; many did. So a pall of black smoke hung over everything and the people were in a sad state of excitement and nervous exhaustion. As many houses were without a man to help or advise, the men of the family having been killed or being still in the army, the women and children were alone with the servants. The servants, with very few exceptions, proved true to their trust; they had been left to take care of the mistress and children in the master's absence, and though much excited, and sometimes frightened, they looked after the household faithfully. Of course there were some foolish and giddy young men and women who followed the army as it moved on from place to place, but they were the exception, not the rule ....'
---------------------------------------------
<< Fayetteville, N.C., March 22, 1865 >>
".... Sherman has gone and terrible has been the storm that has swept over us with his coming and going. They deliberately shot two of our citizens -- murdered them in cold blood -- one of them a Mr. Murphy, a wounded soldier, Confederate States Army. They hung up three others and one lady, merely letting them down just in time to save life, in order to make them tell where their valuables were concealed; and they whipped -- stripped and cowhided --several good and well known citizens for the same purpose.
"There was no place, no chamber, trunk, drawer, desk, garret, closet or cellar that was private to their unholy eyes. Their rude hands spared nothing but our lives, and those they would have taken but they knew that therein they would accomplish the death of a few helpless women and children -- they would not in the least degree break or bend the spirit of our people. Squad after squad unceasingly came and went and tramped through the halls and rooms of our house day and night during the entire stay of the army.'
"At our house they killed every chicken, goose, turkey, cow, calf and every living thing, even to our pet dog. They carried off our wagons, carriage and horses, and broke up our buggy, wheelbarrow, garden implements, axes, hatchets, hammers, saws, and burned the fences. Our smokehouse and pantry, that a few days ago were well stored with bacon, lard, flour, dried fruit, meal, pickles, preserves, etc., now contain nothing whatever except a few pounds of meal and flour and five pounds of bacon. They took from old men, women and children alike, every garment of wearing apparel save what we had on, not even sparing the napkins of infants! Blankets, sheets, quilts, &c., such as it did not suit them to take away they tore to pieces before our eyes. After destroying everything we had, and taking from us every morsel of food (save the pittance I have mentioned), one of these barbarians had to add insult to injury by asking me 'what you (I) would live upon now?' I replied, 'Upon patriotism; I will exist upon the love of my country as long as life will last, and then I will die as firm in that love as the everlasting hills.
''Oh,' says he, ' but we shall soon subjugate the rebellion, and you will then have no country to love.
''Never!' I interrupted, 'never! you and your blood-handed countrymen may make the whole of this beautiful land one vast graveyard but its people will never be subjugated. Every man, woman and child of us will sleep quietly in honourable graves, but we will never live dishonourable lives .....'"
2024.05.13 23:48 Old_Intactivist Citizens were randomly hanged and shot: The eyewitness testimony of Alice Campbell and others
Introduction to Chapter 8 ("Heralded by Columns of Smoke: Pee Dee River to Fayetteville, North Carolina"):
"Once across the Pee Dee River, General Sherman's army marched in the direction of Fayetteville.
"Resistance from Confederate cavalry under Generals Hampton, Butler and Wheeler was steady and continuous. Wheeler attacked at Rockingham on March 7, and Hampton surprised and captured Kilpatrick's camp on March 10. But Sherman's army marched steadily on.
"General Joseph E. Johnston, with headquarters at Fayetteville, was following General Lee's first instruction, 'Concentrate all available forces.' He moved his headquarters to Raleigh and directed the assembling of his army to Smithfield.
"Eighty-four years earlier, in January of 1781, North Carolina had suffered another march by an invading army. Lord Cornwallis and his army followed almost the same route on their way to Wilmington. This army had come three thousand miles to put down 'a rebellion'; and to pursue retreating 'rebels' through a wild and thinly scattered country. His army had passed through Cross Creek, which was now called Fayetteville.
"'Sherman, with his hordes of depraved and lawless men, came upon us like swarms of bees, bringing sorrow and desolation in their pathway. For days we had been expecting them, and our loved boys in grey had been passing through in squads, looking ragged and hungry. We gave them food and clothing, especially shoes and socks, for many of them were bare-footed. The enemy seemed to be pouring in by every road that led to our doomed little town. Our Cavalry were contending every step, firing and falling back, covering the retreat of our gallant little band, Hardee's forces, with General Wade Hampton, Butler, and others -- the scene in our town baffled description, all was consternation and dismay. In less time than I can write this, Sherman's army was in possession of our once peaceful, quiet homes. Every yard and every house was teeming with the bummers, who went into our homes -- no place was sacred; they even went into our trunks and bureau draws, stealing everything they could find; our entire premises were ransacked and plundered, so there was nothing left for us to eat, but perhaps a little meal and peas. Chickens, and in fact all poultry was shot down and taken off with all else. We all knew our silver, jewelry and all valuables would fall into their hands, so many women hid them in such places as they thought would never be found ....
''They went into homes that were beautiful, rolled elegant pianos into the yard with valuable furniture, china, cut glass, and everything that was dear to the heart, even old family portraits, and chopped them up with axes -- rolled barrels of flour and molasses into the parlors, and poured out their contents on beautiful velvet carpets, in many cases set fire to lovely homes and burned them to the ground, and even took some of our old citizens and hanged them until life was nearly extinct, to force them to tell where their money was hidden; when alas! they had none to hide. They burned our factories, and we had a number of them, also many large warehouses, filled with homespun, and dwellings, banks, stores and other buildings, so that the nights were made hideous with dense smoke and firelight in every direction. The crowning point to this terrible nightmare of destruction was the burning and battering down of our beautiful and grandly magnificent Arsenal, which was our pride, and the showplace of our town.
''On our vacant lot behind our home .... were a number of Confederate prisoners who had been captured by Sherman's army, and placed there under guard. They numbered about one hundred, I think. They were hatless and shoeless and ragged ....'
"One of General Howard's young officers chose to stay in the home of Sally Hawthorne whose father and uncle owned two large cotton mills in Fayetteville. General Howard appropriated one of her uncle's houses and his men camped in the surrounding fields and grounds."For five days, Sally, her mother who 'refused to leave her room,' her father, and a houseful of young brothers and sisters and servants were under strict orders from the officers of invasion.
"'Never will I forget,' said the little girl, Sally, whose story follows."
--------------------------------------------
"'Those last days were busy ones for General Sherman and his staff. The beautiful arsenal was destroyed and, as it happened, several private residences also caught fire and burned down, no help being given to save them, and the helpless owners rescued little, thankful to escape with their lives. Also the office of the town paper was blown up, as the editor was an especially obnoxious person in the eyes of the invading army, having waged a bitter fight against the North, and as his office was in the centre of the business part of town, more buildings were burned. (2) Then came the last day of the occupation; the troops were gathering and horses and supplies were being moved. All horses found there were taken along and many in the surrounding country were rounded up. Then there were the warehouses of cotton and rosin. The cotton was brought out, the barrels of rosin piled on them, and all set afire in the street. If houses caught, they burned, and that was all; many did. So a pall of black smoke hung over everything and the people were in a sad state of excitement and nervous exhaustion. As many houses were without a man to help or advise, the men of the family having been killed or being still in the army, the women and children were alone with the servants. The servants, with very few exceptions, proved true to their trust; they had been left to take care of the mistress and children in the master's absence, and though much excited, and sometimes frightened, they looked after the household faithfully. Of course there were some foolish and giddy young men and women who followed the army as it moved on from place to place, but they were the exception, not the rule ....'
"'No spot seemed safe from Sherman's bummers, but homes in the country or suburbs usually suffered more keenly than those in a town or city. The experiences of an unidentified woman who lived near Fayetteville were shared by many neighbors who were visited by the men from Sherman's army."
---------------------------------------------
<< Fayetteville, N.C., March 22, 1865 >>
".... Sherman has gone and terrible has been the storm that has swept over us with his coming and going. They deliberately shot two of our citizens -- murdered them in cold blood -- one of them a Mr. Murphy, a wounded soldier, Confederate States Army. They hung up three others and one lady, merely letting them down just in time to save life, in order to make them tell where their valuables were concealed; and they whipped -- stripped and cowhided --several good and well known citizens for the same purpose.
"There was no place, no chamber, trunk, drawer, desk, garret, closet or cellar that was private to their unholy eyes. Their rude hands spared nothing but our lives, and those they would have taken but they knew that therein they would accomplish the death of a few helpless women and children -- they would not in the least degree break or bend the spirit of our people. Squad after squad unceasingly came and went and tramped through the halls and rooms of our house day and night during the entire stay of the army.'
"At our house they killed every chicken, goose, turkey, cow, calf and every living thing, even to our pet dog. They carried off our wagons, carriage and horses, and broke up our buggy, wheelbarrow, garden implements, axes, hatchets, hammers, saws, and burned the fences. Our smokehouse and pantry, that a few days ago were well stored with bacon, lard, flour, dried fruit, meal, pickles, preserves, etc., now contain nothing whatever except a few pounds of meal and flour and five pounds of bacon. They took from old men, women and children alike, every garment of wearing apparel save what we had on, not even sparing the napkins of infants! Blankets, sheets, quilts, &c., such as it did not suit them to take away they tore to pieces before our eyes. After destroying everything we had, and taking from us every morsel of food (save the pittance I have mentioned), one of these barbarians had to add insult to injury by asking me 'what you (I) would live upon now?' I replied, 'Upon patriotism; I will exist upon the love of my country as long as life will last, and then I will die as firm in that love as the everlasting hills.
''Oh,' says he, ' but we shall soon subjugate the rebellion, and you will then have no country to love.
''Never!' I interrupted, 'never! you and your blood-handed countrymen may make the whole of this beautiful land one vast graveyard but its people will never be subjugated. Every man, woman and child of us will sleep quietly in honourable graves, but we will never live dishonourable lives .....'"
"When Sherman Came: Southern Women and the 'Great March'" by Katharine M. Jones (1964). Chapter 8: "Heralded by Columns of Smoke: Pee Dee River to Fayetteville, North Carolina." New York: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, Inc. Pages 273-286.
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"Once across the Pee Dee River, General Sherman's army marched in the direction of Fayetteville.
"Resistance from Confederate cavalry under Generals Hampton, Butler and Wheeler was steady and continuous. Wheeler attacked at Rockingham on March 7, and Hampton surprised and captured Kilpatrick's camp on March 10. But Sherman's army marched steadily on.
"General Joseph E. Johnston, with headquarters at Fayetteville, was following General Lee's first instruction, 'Concentrate all available forces.' He moved his headquarters to Raleigh and directed the assembling of his army to Smithfield.
"Eighty-four years earlier, in January of 1781, North Carolina had suffered another march by an invading army. Lord Cornwallis and his army followed almost the same route on their way to Wilmington. This army had come three thousand miles to put down 'a rebellion'; and to pursue retreating 'rebels' through a wild and thinly scattered country. His army had passed through Cross Creek, which was now called Fayetteville.
"On March 11, General Sherman and his army entered this town. 'We have swept the country well,' he reported. 'The men and animals are in fine condition.'"
"Miss Alice Campbell was President of the Fayetteville Knitting Society when Colonel A. H. Hickenlooper, of Sherman's army, chose her home for his five-day sojourn. Bummers also visited her."''They went into homes that were beautiful, rolled elegant pianos into the yard with valuable furniture, china, cut glass, and everything that was dear to the heart, even old family portraits, and chopped them up with axes -- rolled barrels of flour and molasses into the parlors, and poured out their contents on beautiful velvet carpets, in many cases set fire to lovely homes and burned them to the ground, and even took some of our old citizens and hanged them until life was nearly extinct, to force them to tell where their money was hidden; when alas! they had none to hide. They burned our factories, and we had a number of them, also many large warehouses, filled with homespun, and dwellings, banks, stores and other buildings, so that the nights were made hideous with dense smoke and firelight in every direction. The crowning point to this terrible nightmare of destruction was the burning and battering down of our beautiful and grandly magnificent Arsenal, which was our pride, and the showplace of our town.
''On our vacant lot behind our home .... were a number of Confederate prisoners who had been captured by Sherman's army, and placed there under guard. They numbered about one hundred, I think. They were hatless and shoeless and ragged ....'
"'Never will I forget,' said the little girl, Sally, whose story follows."
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"'Those last days were busy ones for General Sherman and his staff. The beautiful arsenal was destroyed and, as it happened, several private residences also caught fire and burned down, no help being given to save them, and the helpless owners rescued little, thankful to escape with their lives. Also the office of the town paper was blown up, as the editor was an especially obnoxious person in the eyes of the invading army, having waged a bitter fight against the North, and as his office was in the centre of the business part of town, more buildings were burned. (2) Then came the last day of the occupation; the troops were gathering and horses and supplies were being moved. All horses found there were taken along and many in the surrounding country were rounded up. Then there were the warehouses of cotton and rosin. The cotton was brought out, the barrels of rosin piled on them, and all set afire in the street. If houses caught, they burned, and that was all; many did. So a pall of black smoke hung over everything and the people were in a sad state of excitement and nervous exhaustion. As many houses were without a man to help or advise, the men of the family having been killed or being still in the army, the women and children were alone with the servants. The servants, with very few exceptions, proved true to their trust; they had been left to take care of the mistress and children in the master's absence, and though much excited, and sometimes frightened, they looked after the household faithfully. Of course there were some foolish and giddy young men and women who followed the army as it moved on from place to place, but they were the exception, not the rule ....'
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<< Fayetteville, N.C., March 22, 1865 >>
".... Sherman has gone and terrible has been the storm that has swept over us with his coming and going. They deliberately shot two of our citizens -- murdered them in cold blood -- one of them a Mr. Murphy, a wounded soldier, Confederate States Army. They hung up three others and one lady, merely letting them down just in time to save life, in order to make them tell where their valuables were concealed; and they whipped -- stripped and cowhided --several good and well known citizens for the same purpose.
"There was no place, no chamber, trunk, drawer, desk, garret, closet or cellar that was private to their unholy eyes. Their rude hands spared nothing but our lives, and those they would have taken but they knew that therein they would accomplish the death of a few helpless women and children -- they would not in the least degree break or bend the spirit of our people. Squad after squad unceasingly came and went and tramped through the halls and rooms of our house day and night during the entire stay of the army.'
"At our house they killed every chicken, goose, turkey, cow, calf and every living thing, even to our pet dog. They carried off our wagons, carriage and horses, and broke up our buggy, wheelbarrow, garden implements, axes, hatchets, hammers, saws, and burned the fences. Our smokehouse and pantry, that a few days ago were well stored with bacon, lard, flour, dried fruit, meal, pickles, preserves, etc., now contain nothing whatever except a few pounds of meal and flour and five pounds of bacon. They took from old men, women and children alike, every garment of wearing apparel save what we had on, not even sparing the napkins of infants! Blankets, sheets, quilts, &c., such as it did not suit them to take away they tore to pieces before our eyes. After destroying everything we had, and taking from us every morsel of food (save the pittance I have mentioned), one of these barbarians had to add insult to injury by asking me 'what you (I) would live upon now?' I replied, 'Upon patriotism; I will exist upon the love of my country as long as life will last, and then I will die as firm in that love as the everlasting hills.
''Oh,' says he, ' but we shall soon subjugate the rebellion, and you will then have no country to love.
''Never!' I interrupted, 'never! you and your blood-handed countrymen may make the whole of this beautiful land one vast graveyard but its people will never be subjugated. Every man, woman and child of us will sleep quietly in honourable graves, but we will never live dishonourable lives .....'"
2024.05.13 23:05 Ancient_Wheel_8926 Multi Country Trip korea & japan
Hi there,
I will be travelling to Korea first for a week; plan on shopping for skincare and accessories, souvenirs, and the flying from seoul to osaka. Then tokyo to home.
Are there any specific customs i need to declare, or specifically amount of goods. All shopping from koreanwill be for myself. I know average is $10,000. I probably will bring $600-800 CAD worth of goods to japan from korea.
If there is any restrictions please let me know, i tried searching online, i found the typical meat, fresh fruits, @rms, eetc.
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I will be travelling to Korea first for a week; plan on shopping for skincare and accessories, souvenirs, and the flying from seoul to osaka. Then tokyo to home.
Are there any specific customs i need to declare, or specifically amount of goods. All shopping from koreanwill be for myself. I know average is $10,000. I probably will bring $600-800 CAD worth of goods to japan from korea.
If there is any restrictions please let me know, i tried searching online, i found the typical meat, fresh fruits, @rms, eetc.
2024.05.13 22:52 fmyusernameistaken Winter boots or waterproof hiking sneakers?
Hi there! We are planning to visit Japan during winter (Jan or Feb). Is it better to wear winter boots or can I opt for waterproof hiking sneakers/rubber shoes like from Hoka? I'm from a tropical country and i feel like the winter boots will be a waste since I can only use when I travel to a place where there is snow. We plan to visit nagoya, shirakawago and nearby tourist attractions. Thank you for your inputs!
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2024.05.13 22:45 cutesweetpuppies Bonding with Your Puppy
From the moment a puppy enters your life, you have the opportunity to develop a deep, lasting bond with them. Like other new pet parents, you’re likely dreaming of years of companionship and joy with your new buddy! Building a deep bond with your pup from the beginning will bring your visions of loving companionship to fruition.
The love between a human and their puppy happens naturally – I mean, just look at those sweet faces! However, a deep and lasting bond takes a bit more effort to fully develop. Dogs understand our words, emotions, and gestures like no other animal, and their renowned ability to interact with humans is one of their most noteworthy characteristics. But how can we use this natural ability to interact with us and their selfless devotion to develop a bond that will last for years?
Remarkably, his experiments showed that there was a tremendous increase in oxytocin for both owners and their dogs in duos that spent the most time making eye contact during a 30-minute session. For owners, oxytocin levels increased by 300% and their dogs experienced a 130% increase.
This research shows that affectionate, non-threatening eye contact with your pup can be a significant contributor to developing and strengthening your bond. But are there other behaviors that can similarly impact your puppy’s trust and devotion?
Any command longer than three words will be hard for your puppy to understand. Therefore, when you use lengthy or confusing commands your pup gets lost in what you are trying to say. Choose one or two-syllable words to train your pup, accompanied by a simple hand signal. Using clear commands with your puppy will help them understand you, deepening your bond as your communication improves.
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The love between a human and their puppy happens naturally – I mean, just look at those sweet faces! However, a deep and lasting bond takes a bit more effort to fully develop. Dogs understand our words, emotions, and gestures like no other animal, and their renowned ability to interact with humans is one of their most noteworthy characteristics. But how can we use this natural ability to interact with us and their selfless devotion to develop a bond that will last for years?
Puppy Eyes
Takefumi Kikusui, an animal behaviorist at Azabu University in Japan, works in a lab focused on the study of oxytocin. In 2015, Kikusui began to wonder if the mother-infant bonds created by oxytocin were replicated in the human-dog bond. Canines are one of the rare animals that gaze into a human’s eyes as a sign of understanding and affection, and Kikusui chose to focus on this mutual gazing to see if oxytocin levels rose in the dogs or their owners based on this eye contact.Remarkably, his experiments showed that there was a tremendous increase in oxytocin for both owners and their dogs in duos that spent the most time making eye contact during a 30-minute session. For owners, oxytocin levels increased by 300% and their dogs experienced a 130% increase.
This research shows that affectionate, non-threatening eye contact with your pup can be a significant contributor to developing and strengthening your bond. But are there other behaviors that can similarly impact your puppy’s trust and devotion?
Behaviors that Promote Healthy Attachment
Use Clear and Concise CommunicationAny command longer than three words will be hard for your puppy to understand. Therefore, when you use lengthy or confusing commands your pup gets lost in what you are trying to say. Choose one or two-syllable words to train your pup, accompanied by a simple hand signal. Using clear commands with your puppy will help them understand you, deepening your bond as your communication improves.
Provide Structure for Your Pup
Puppies thrive on structure! They need boundaries to help them understand where they can go and what expectations you have for their behavior. Building healthy boundaries helps establish you as a trustworthy leader in your home. Excessive chewing and potty accidents are the two most common challenges new puppy owners face. Teaching your puppy to behave appropriately will reduce your own stress and frustration surrounding your puppy, and further develop your bond as they learn to please you by following your expectations.Build Trust
Teach your puppy to understand that your presence is reassuring, not threatening. Teach your puppy to allow you to touch their food, handle their paws, and clean their teeth and ears. Building trust allows your puppy to feel confident and safe. Be sure to watch your pup’s body language for signs of stress, and avoid threatening or dominating body language yourself when spending time with your puppy.Get Assistance from the Pros
Still feeling a little shaky about bonding with your new puppy? We recommend training programs to all our new pet parents. Not only will this help you establish some trust and basic commands, but you will also begin to deepen your bond as you learn together! We feel confident you and your pup will walk away with a ton of newfound knowledge.Ready to Pick Out the Perfect Companion?
Sugar Sweet Puppies From Heaven offers adorable, happy, and healthy puppies contact our Lawrenceville, GA pet store location to find the perfect puppy for your family.2024.05.13 22:39 I_am_Tade St. Valentine's customs
Hey lads! In my culture there isn't a St. Valentine's tradition. Yes, it has become a commercial holiday and capitailsm has forced it down everyone's throats every year trying to sell unnecessary shit to us all, but what I mean is that the festivity isn't ingrained in our zeitgeist, and there are no "St. Valentine's traditions" one would expect, besides arguably wearing red to symbolise you are in love?
I have learnt thanks to media from the US as well as anime that there are specific customs in those countries, particularly among young people. From what I understand, creating and exchanging cards is common in schools in the US, while preparing and gifting chocolate is common in schools in Japan. I have been thinking about this topic, and cringed at how uncomfortable I'd be in this situation. What would I do if I received a gift from a person I obviously feel no attraction towards? Would I feel pressured to prepare and gift stuff too? How do peer pressure and social dynamics work in these instances? Do adults have expectations when it comes to the behaviour of kids?
I don't know anything about what adults do for St. Valentine's however (albeit I can imagine what allo couples might do, of course), in the sense that I have never heard of "adult St. Valentine's traditions" in the same vein as the two ones mentioned previously. I guess what I'm trying to ask is: is there any St. Valentine's tradition in your culture? Are there different expectations for kids and adults? If so, what's your experience as an asexual? Feel free to share!
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I have learnt thanks to media from the US as well as anime that there are specific customs in those countries, particularly among young people. From what I understand, creating and exchanging cards is common in schools in the US, while preparing and gifting chocolate is common in schools in Japan. I have been thinking about this topic, and cringed at how uncomfortable I'd be in this situation. What would I do if I received a gift from a person I obviously feel no attraction towards? Would I feel pressured to prepare and gift stuff too? How do peer pressure and social dynamics work in these instances? Do adults have expectations when it comes to the behaviour of kids?
I don't know anything about what adults do for St. Valentine's however (albeit I can imagine what allo couples might do, of course), in the sense that I have never heard of "adult St. Valentine's traditions" in the same vein as the two ones mentioned previously. I guess what I'm trying to ask is: is there any St. Valentine's tradition in your culture? Are there different expectations for kids and adults? If so, what's your experience as an asexual? Feel free to share!
2024.05.13 22:39 Separate_Web_3536 How do I navigate my (26F) parents (59M) (45F) not approving of a trip I am paying for to meet a "friend".
To start for some context my(26F) parents(59M)(45F) are not bad people, they adopted me when I was 12 and I have had a fairly good life, there were issues as the abuse I suffered in the foster system was worse then what was documented in my file as is most of the time with the foster system. I was cold and standoffish, inappropriate behavior and some degree of autism and ADHD that made it so understanding my surroundings was difficult. My parents were ill equipped to deal with that level of trauma and it lead to our relationship getting worse and worse as the years went. When I was 19-20 I had a break down from the pressure and destroyed my life, my parents took me in and helped me financially get back up but that wasn't easy. My mom made living there awful, they were in control of my finances as I had blown my money in my break down, I was given 50 dollars every two weeks from my paycheck(I was always working while trying to recover financially as not having a job is unacceptable) for any supplies I needed including food as I was over 18 and there were not going to cook for me. my dad did offer to help buy me some toiletries every now and again. It was my responsibility to get up, go to work and figure out everything. My mom wouldn't let me forget she had to "bail me out" and that she would never help again. Then in October 2020 I moved out into an RV someone was offering as a way to have my own space and to stop the constant fights me and my mom would have.
Since then I have been completely finically independent, I do have a phone line through my parents that I pay for monthly, and if they asked I would get my own line, I stay for convivence as the price I get for the data cannot be beat. I got scammed at a dealership and ended up with a high interest rate that my dad worked to cosign elsewhere so I could get a lower rate, it is still my responsibility to pay as the car is mine. I pay for everything I have and it was hard but I buck up and do it. I have friends who have helped me through the years and I view them as family as I truly feel accepted by them despite my flaws and issues. There is one friend I met through a friend's high fantasy roleplay server lets call him peter. Peter and I have never met in person as I live in the USA and he lives in Brazil, but we became friends and through him I learned things I was never taught.
I was taught to love myself and that I don't always need to give 100% all the time and a lot of the times the bare minimum was enough. That I am beautiful and I don't need to fit the image my parents saw as best. We were both dating other people at the time but due to fate both our relationships fell and we grew closer. I know there are a lot of internet scams and whatnot but I truly believe in our relationship as we have both talked for hours, I have video called him impromptu, so no chance for modifying audio or visuals. He has given me what gifts when he can as, he is less well off then I am. Which is fine, my parents had money and I was never happy, with him I am as I feel he genuinely loves me as a person. while he was dating someone else and having zeros eyes on me, as a friend he said he hated to hear me say how much I hated myself, at the time I was angry he implied I didn't deserve the hate, now I don't even remember what hating myself felt like most days.
I have paid for a two week trip to stay in brazil with him so we can meet and see if this is something we want to peruse more seriously. I made the mistake of being more open and honest as a person (peter's fault again), and my parents found out and were not happy. My dad has said he can't stop me as an adult but thinks what I am doing is dumb and dangerous, I can understand my dad's worry as I think any loving responsible parent would be worried to hear their daughter is traveling alone to a country. My mom was a different story, I was about to leave from babysitting my younger sisters, 11 and 5(I do it as a favor and because I love my sisters dearly) . My mom and I are not close, I once when I was first feeling some feelings tried to talk to her as to what made her sure dad was the one and I texted saying I would like to talk about it alone. She then brought it up in front of the whole dinning table as I was visiting in front of my sisters and dad, so I played it off as casual and we left it at that.
She questioned why I would go somewhere I have never been, she brought up all the horrible scenarios that could happen, to lighten the mood when she asked what I would do if I was dead there, I said I would be dead so at that point it didn't matter. Wrong thing to say as she goes off, I try to reassure her that I am taking precautions, I have done the research, the statistics, I looked up the area and airport layout, I know the way to the address he gave and yes, the video I had him take live was what showed on google maps, I only implied we were friends and not romantically inclined as I don't want to give her ammo to use. She told me why not take a friend with me and I can postpone my trip so a friend can go. (I brought that up to my friend later and said it was generous of my mom to offer to pay for her trip as she is between jobs and doesn't have her passport). Then my mom said that I would be going to a country without rules, when I brought up that the US has just as many crimes she said that the US is headed that way but we live in a small good town without corruption. To that I told her wasn't true as there is a drug house behind my friends apartment that the cops know about and that I knew a friend whos said his dad used to take bribes while he was a cop in that town.
She then said she may be naïve but she doesn't hang around the "kind of people who would know that". She tried to bring religion into it and asked why I would hang around non believers, I am close to my faith and said that how am I to show our God's love if I only hang out and interact with other Christians, to which she said I had a point and didn't bring up the religious angle again. After that we were going back and forth about finances and how my car is broken how could I think of going on the trip, my car broke about 2 months after I booked and planned my trip, and I am working to fix it. My mom as if it was a threat said to not expect her or my dad to drive anywhere to help me, to which I said I would never expect her to help me, to which her words were good, as she wouldn't bail me out. I am 100% paying for this trip myself, I have worked and saved for it and I have never been out of the country and looking for ways to make my trip as smooth as possible through research .
What I need to know is how do I navigate this situation, my parents are cold to me and I would be ok seeing them less, but my sisters are there and I cannot just leave and not be apart of their life. I love my parents, despite their faults they are the only people I view as my family beyond my found one. Is there a way to make this work?
TLDR: My parents are being cold to me due to a trip I am taking to brazil to meet a male "friend", what can I do to make sure our relationship doesn't fall apart worse so I can be in my sister's lives?
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Since then I have been completely finically independent, I do have a phone line through my parents that I pay for monthly, and if they asked I would get my own line, I stay for convivence as the price I get for the data cannot be beat. I got scammed at a dealership and ended up with a high interest rate that my dad worked to cosign elsewhere so I could get a lower rate, it is still my responsibility to pay as the car is mine. I pay for everything I have and it was hard but I buck up and do it. I have friends who have helped me through the years and I view them as family as I truly feel accepted by them despite my flaws and issues. There is one friend I met through a friend's high fantasy roleplay server lets call him peter. Peter and I have never met in person as I live in the USA and he lives in Brazil, but we became friends and through him I learned things I was never taught.
I was taught to love myself and that I don't always need to give 100% all the time and a lot of the times the bare minimum was enough. That I am beautiful and I don't need to fit the image my parents saw as best. We were both dating other people at the time but due to fate both our relationships fell and we grew closer. I know there are a lot of internet scams and whatnot but I truly believe in our relationship as we have both talked for hours, I have video called him impromptu, so no chance for modifying audio or visuals. He has given me what gifts when he can as, he is less well off then I am. Which is fine, my parents had money and I was never happy, with him I am as I feel he genuinely loves me as a person. while he was dating someone else and having zeros eyes on me, as a friend he said he hated to hear me say how much I hated myself, at the time I was angry he implied I didn't deserve the hate, now I don't even remember what hating myself felt like most days.
I have paid for a two week trip to stay in brazil with him so we can meet and see if this is something we want to peruse more seriously. I made the mistake of being more open and honest as a person (peter's fault again), and my parents found out and were not happy. My dad has said he can't stop me as an adult but thinks what I am doing is dumb and dangerous, I can understand my dad's worry as I think any loving responsible parent would be worried to hear their daughter is traveling alone to a country. My mom was a different story, I was about to leave from babysitting my younger sisters, 11 and 5(I do it as a favor and because I love my sisters dearly) . My mom and I are not close, I once when I was first feeling some feelings tried to talk to her as to what made her sure dad was the one and I texted saying I would like to talk about it alone. She then brought it up in front of the whole dinning table as I was visiting in front of my sisters and dad, so I played it off as casual and we left it at that.
She questioned why I would go somewhere I have never been, she brought up all the horrible scenarios that could happen, to lighten the mood when she asked what I would do if I was dead there, I said I would be dead so at that point it didn't matter. Wrong thing to say as she goes off, I try to reassure her that I am taking precautions, I have done the research, the statistics, I looked up the area and airport layout, I know the way to the address he gave and yes, the video I had him take live was what showed on google maps, I only implied we were friends and not romantically inclined as I don't want to give her ammo to use. She told me why not take a friend with me and I can postpone my trip so a friend can go. (I brought that up to my friend later and said it was generous of my mom to offer to pay for her trip as she is between jobs and doesn't have her passport). Then my mom said that I would be going to a country without rules, when I brought up that the US has just as many crimes she said that the US is headed that way but we live in a small good town without corruption. To that I told her wasn't true as there is a drug house behind my friends apartment that the cops know about and that I knew a friend whos said his dad used to take bribes while he was a cop in that town.
She then said she may be naïve but she doesn't hang around the "kind of people who would know that". She tried to bring religion into it and asked why I would hang around non believers, I am close to my faith and said that how am I to show our God's love if I only hang out and interact with other Christians, to which she said I had a point and didn't bring up the religious angle again. After that we were going back and forth about finances and how my car is broken how could I think of going on the trip, my car broke about 2 months after I booked and planned my trip, and I am working to fix it. My mom as if it was a threat said to not expect her or my dad to drive anywhere to help me, to which I said I would never expect her to help me, to which her words were good, as she wouldn't bail me out. I am 100% paying for this trip myself, I have worked and saved for it and I have never been out of the country and looking for ways to make my trip as smooth as possible through research .
What I need to know is how do I navigate this situation, my parents are cold to me and I would be ok seeing them less, but my sisters are there and I cannot just leave and not be apart of their life. I love my parents, despite their faults they are the only people I view as my family beyond my found one. Is there a way to make this work?
TLDR: My parents are being cold to me due to a trip I am taking to brazil to meet a male "friend", what can I do to make sure our relationship doesn't fall apart worse so I can be in my sister's lives?
2024.05.13 22:33 Leon_Steel Introduction to my fictional Shared Universe the JoeVerse.
 | I want to share a overview/introduction to my fictional universe that I've been slowly building overtime. I've unfortunately fallen into eternal world building hell where I build far more than I write but at least I thoroughly enjoy it. What I mostly want from this post is to see if the wild amalgamation that is my universe is at least on a surface level "Coherent". I'll answer any questions best I can. submitted by Leon_Steel to worldbuilding [link] [comments] Disclaimer: the pictures shown in the character summaries are not mine and are shown for concept art purposes. These character summaries are taken from across the JoeVerse universe. Notes: Some information is purposely left vague due to the requirement of story details and I tried to simply the explanations. It may see very unorganized but I created a continuity timeline to help keep track of the verse. I also created detailed guides for the many Stories, Races/Species, Factions, Locations and Dear God hundreds of Character profiles. Speaking of characters, I really enjoy casual power scaling of fictional characters etc, so when scaling my own universe I exclusively reference the Vs Battle Wiki Tiering system. It is undeniably superb I recommend everyone at least check it out https://vsbattles.fandom.com/wiki/Tiering_System?so=search Here is what a somewhat completed character profile would look like. https://docs.google.com/document/d/12KilbOVt5RFYg3IckKOYiLPt_UDjrBo5/edit?usp=drivesdk&ouid=111896033102767588703&rtpof=true&sd=true Lastly, I agree the name of my verse is terrible, it is a placeholder, I will also be sharing a Fun Facts towards the bottom for shits & gigs. Introduction: Welcome to the JoeVerse(Name Pending), a long time literary project that acts as both homage to what I love as well as a deep-dive into my creative mind. The JoeVerse is a fictional "Shared Universe" where a large number of characters, locations and stories created primarily by myself and in collaboration with others take place. The JoeVerse is depicted as existing within a large "Multiverse" consisting of a number of separate & distinct universes, all of which help make up the JoeVerse Multiverse. The most crucial aspect of the JoeVerse Multiverse is that it also incorporates a large number of genres from all major science fiction and fantasy concepts, such as how aliens, gods, magic, mythology, cosmic beings, parallel universes, interstellar travel and extremely advanced human-developed technology all exist prominently throughout the Multiverse. The JoeVerse primarily was created to express my love for "Action" and the many forms it comes in. For example the many pieces of media entertainment I consumed as a child. e.g Cartoons, Comics, Anime, Books, Video Games, Martial arts, Music, Movies, etc) all strongly and directly influenced the creation of the JoeVerse. The JoeVerse's many stories primarily focus on the aspects I like about these pieces of entertainment such as Action, Characters, Power-Scaling, Continuity, Worldbuilding and Paying Homage to these oh so cherished pieces of media. )))JoeVerse Prime: At the heart of this multiverse lies the mainstream continuity, which is known canonically as "JoeVerse Prime". JoeVerse Prime is based on a fictitious take on the real-world. For example, Earth found within the JoeVerse Prime has mostly all the features of the real one: same countries, same public personalities (politicians, movie stars, etc.), same historical events (such as World War II, the Cold War), and so on; however, it also contains many other fictional elements, such as new geographical locations, political organizations and a number of new & different historical events. Corners & Sub-Corners:(Re-read if needed) The JoeVerse Prime is divided into four separate major settings of distinct & “Broad '' genres known as "Corners". The four respective Corners are Earth, Intergalactic, the Naatherlands and the Interdimensional. All Corners house minor settings of typically more “Focused” genres & stories known as "Sub-corners". The Corners and their respective Sub-corners are liable to "Crossover" and even connect with one another. Four Corners explained: )Earth: Starting with "Earth", home to an abundance of "Action & Adventure" series featuring primarily humanity through various times in history (I.e stories can take place anywhere from Ancient times all the way to the Modern era and beyond).The majority of stories told on Earth feature subjects & characters such as war, criminals, detectives, espionage, politics, assassins, soldiers, super soldiers, spies, mutants, zombies, magic, warriors, martial artists and then some. There are also Earth's five sub-corners, starting with the "Underworld", home to the stories of "Urban Fantasy" about the supernatural & often cruel world of Vampires, Gargoyles, Lycans and much more all vying for survival and power while living just under the periphery of human civilization. The Underworld explores the supernatural civilization that has co-existed alongside humanity since ancient times. Then the second Sub-corner, the "Holy War", a myriad of stories using lore based on the many “Mythologies & Folklore” of various human cultures, these stories follow the secret, ancient, bloody war of the Celestial Church. The Celestial Church is a 2000 year old clandestine organization of holy; warriors, soldiers, mages, knights, nuns, monks and more gathered from the many religions & cultures from around the globe to be the stalwart shield & sharpened blade against the supernatural, the unending swathes of powerful demons attempting to invade Earth and the unspeakable evil entities from alternate dimensions all of which has threatened humanity since it's conception. Then the "West Coast Tales", a dramatic & grounded anthology series based in and around the West Coast of America. In every story we follow new characters in vastly different situations in life as they deal with family, drama, violence, romance, finances, sickness, coming of age, natural disasters, etc. Then, the "Virtual World", a video game-like dimension that is home to various "LitRPG" focused stories. The Virtual World is directly connected to Earth via the highly popular, full-body capsule operated VRMMO known as the T.B.G system(Name pending). The Virtual world naturally houses the concept of "Gaming" thus it converts anything that enters it into data that follows its unique laws of reality and thus it has NPCs, Boss fights, Exp, Quest, Stats, H.U.Ds, Builds, Classes, etc. Finally, the "Kaijin conflict" is the "Kaiju genre" focused storyline about the international conflict between the South Korean based Iskandar Industries with a human mutant sub-species known as the Kaijin. The Kaijin have superhuman abilities and are liable to become animalistic and go on a rampage; they also have the ability to transform into giant destructive monsters known as Kaijus. )Naatherlands: The next Corner, the "Naatherlands", a large somber dimension that is home to the land of the "Supernatural & the Macabre". With it having stories of Vampires, Lycans, Gremlins, Gargoyles, Witches & Warlocks, horrific wildlife & flora and warring factions led by barbaric warlords. There is also varying levels of industrialized magic-based technology all in the backdrop of a Victorian era-esque(Gaslamp) setting. And it's singular sub-corner the "Court of Blood", a "Political" focused series that shows the inner workings of the cunning, devious and often blood thirsty motives and actions of the royal members and leading factions of the upper echelon of the Naatherlands as they go about the cruel game of politics. )Intergalactic: Third Corner, the "Intergalactic" is the setting encompassing the vast Cosmos of which Earth is a part of. The Intergalactic is home to various "Sci-fi" stories full of aliens, robots, artificial intelligence, spacecrafts, advanced and futuristic weapons & technology, interstellar bounty hunters, psychic power wielding warriors as well as galaxy spanning empires and Interstellar warfare. Its first Sub-corner, "The War of Order & Chaos" is a "Mecha" inspired set of stories about the eternal struggle across the known universe between the immensely powerful chosen warriors of Order & Chaos known as the "Exuu'd". The Exuu’d are random individuals chosen from around the cosmos, if Chaos they are made to spread destruction, misery & death, if Order they are made to spread salvation, love & positivity. For the side of Chaos an Exuu’d can be criminals, scumbags or even prolific serial killers, for Order the Exuu’ds can be lawmen, samaritans or even average civilians. Regardless of origin the Exuu'd all fight each other for the very balance of the Cosmos. They are also gifted the powerful, sentient mechanized beings known as the Exxoms(Mechas) to assist in their endeavors. Exxoms all have unique designs, personalities and weapons & abilities. Its second Sub-corner "Aon", a "Sword and Planet" inspired storyline, planet and accompanying solar system. The Aon system is locked outside of time & reality and for unknown reasons travelers from the Intergalactic, Interdimensional and even across time get pulled into the mysterious system by an unknown force. Since being secluded by conventional time both the inhabitants & technology have progressed in a way that there are varying levels of technology. There are crude medieval swords & armor as well as lasers, bolters, throwers and other advanced energy weapons. All inhabitants of Aon regardless of age and race are magically kept in their prime age & appearance. There is also a special & powerful magic known as "Laasa", that only women can harness and use. This has led to the majority of the system being ruled or fought over by factions of women led armies and warriors. )Interdimensional: Lastly, the "Interdimensional", a catch-all term referring to the nigh-infinite Dimensions that make up the JoeVerse Prime. The Interdimensional is home to many genre blending stories of action, fantasy, science fiction and adventure all in the backdrop of numerous and radically different settings. This corner is populated by a myriad of exotic and powerful races such as the Angels of Heaven, the Demons of Hell, the reality warping Mymths, the cosmic beings known as the Balancers, the biologically altered insectoid empire known as the Urrglom, the humanoid Avian warriors known as the Harrpen, the technologically advanced bloodthirsty androids the Praeoids and much more. It's first Sub-corner the "Collegium Historia", an “informational” adventure series about an interdimensional group of like minded Scholars, Zoologist, Historians, Explorers and Warriors that work towards the detailed exploration & documentation of the untold number of dimensions and the species & culture they may hold. With the group being led by the renowned, cantankerous explorer and swordsman Scuto Magnus. Then it's second Sub-corner "The Fantastical Land of ORBIS"(Name pending), a standalone "High-fantasy" world full of adventure, danger, magic and awe. With ORBIS being an immense landmass the size of Earth. ORBIS is also full of creatures & beings such as Orcs, Elves, Dwarves, Dragons and so much more. There are also a slew of fantasy iterations of medieval humans cultures e.g Daiyomondo Empire(Feudal Japan), Gyellhaer(Viking Age Scandanavia), Kingdom of Stanum(Chivalric Knight era Europe) and the Shou Chongtu Empire(Warring States period China). JoeVerse Fun Facts: Shared Universe definition: A Shared universe is a fictional universe in which multiple independently created works are set. One or more authors may contribute works to a shared universe. The works within the universe may share characters and other story elements, with or without continuity.(For more detail please check the official Shared Universe Wikipedia. (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shared_universe) The concept of the “Corners & Sub-corners" are inspired by and based on the genre, character & location organization of Marvel and DC Comics. Non-Canonically, the characters Cole Xaiver, Aiden Steel and Joseph were the first JoeVerse characters ever created in that order. With each of these characters being made to embody an aspect of the aforementioned media entertainment, Cole (Western media & concepts), Aiden (Eastern (Anime) media & concepts), Joseph(a mixture of both). The JoeVerse Multiverse is strongly inspired by and to some extent based on fictional works such as, the Marvel universe from Marvel Comics, the DC universe from DC Comics, the Image Universe from Image Comics, Star Wars from George Lucas, the Halo series from Bungie, the Dragon Age series from Bioware, the Borderlands series from Gearbox Software, the Godzilla series by Toho, the Resident Evil series by Capcom, the Gears of War series by (Cliff Bleszinski) Epic Games, the Skyrim & Fallout series by Bethesda, the Call of Duty series by Activision, the Metal Gear(Big Boss) series by Hideo Kojima, One Piece by Eiichiro Oda, the Spawn series by Seth McFarlane, Dragon Ball Z by Akira Toriyama, Overgeared by Park Saenal, Solo leveling by Chugong, Sword Art Online by Reki Kawahara, Psycho Pass by Gen Ubrobochi, the Elex series by Piranha Bytes, A Song of Ice and Fire/Game of Thrones by George R.R Martin, Starship Troopers series by Paul Verhoeven, Avatar by Nickelodeon, Samurai Jack by Genndy Tartakovsky, Ben 10 by Man of action, Bakugan by TMS, Kingdom by Yasuhisa Hara, One Punch Man by One, the Nasuverse/Type-Moon universe by Type-Moon, Ready Player One by Ernest Cline, RWBY by Rooster Teeth, the Tank girl series by Deadline, the Warhammer 40k universe by Games workshop, Street Fighter from Capcom, Mortal Kombat from Midway Games, the Transformers series by Hasbro, the Gundam series by Yoshiyuki Tomino, the Matrix by the Wachowskis, James Cameron's Avatar by James Cameron, Mad Max by George Miller, Fist of the North Star by Buronson, literally all Zombie Media in general and much much more. |
2024.05.13 22:21 ArtLye An Alternate History Prelude to 1984
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2024.05.13 22:09 Doubtfulaboutit Gulliver’s Elden Ring
 | After studying up on Hayao Miyazakis inspiration for Castle in the Sky (a likely inspiration for Farum Azula), I decided to do some more digging on the world of Gulliver’s Travels. This is a map an artist created of the world as described by Gulliver in the book. For those who don’t know, Gulliver’s journey includes real world locations (New Holand, aka Australia, Japan, and America) and made up ones (Laputa, Balnibarbi, Brobdingnag). submitted by Doubtfulaboutit to EldenRingLoreTalk [link] [comments] Some things to note: 1. New Holand looks just like The Weeping Peninsula. 2. Brobdingnag is where the giants live, and is the same location as where the mountain top of the giants would be. 3. Borneo is where Liurnia of the Lakes would be and is mostly water. 4. Laputa, likely the inspiration for FA, is described as being in the eastern region, like where FA is. 5. Balnibarbi, where Caelid would be, is said to be a land that has been ruined and eroded. 6. Leyndell/Altus (golden capital) is where Japan would be and Japan was one of the largest producers of Gold at one point in its history. 7. In Gulliver’s travels, there is a Grand Academy in a town called Lagado which is described scholars trying to pursue pointless endeavors with not real value, similar to how Sellen’s quest ends with her goal having no real benefit. There maybe others I haven’t seen yet since I’m not finished with GT’s but I speculate this was a framework for some of The Lands Between. It maybe that the the Lands Between are named as such because they are designed after the countries and lands in between the Old World (Europe and great majority of Asia) and the new World (the Americas). |
2024.05.13 22:05 SourceMedium6031 Daily News Report: 05/11/2024 - 05/13/2024
Date: 05/13/2024
Reading time: 4 minutes, 894 words🏛️ Politics & Government
DRI: Police Actions Illegal and Disproportionate
Democracy Research Institute, a local watchdog, said the facts of physical retaliation by the police against the peaceful rally participants cannot be considered “legal police measures” The watchdog observes that despite the peaceful nature of the protest, the police still used force, clearing the area around Zhvania street near the Parliament.CivilGe, Riot police leave the streets
Georgian PM says foreign official’s arrival at protests against foreign influence bill “manifestation of crude attitude” towards country’s sovereignty
Georgian PM Irakli Kobakhidze criticizes Lithuanian Parliament member's visit to Tbilisi. He said the visit was a “manifestation of crude attitude” towards the sovereignty of the country.AgendaGe, The action against the "transparency of foreign influence" bill at the parliament continues, The Legal Affairs Committee supported the draft law "On transparency of foreign influence" in the third reading., Riot police leave the streets, After one-minute review, Legal Issues Committee supports the draft law “On transparency of foreign influence”, Georgian Dream debates “Russian” law in the 3rd reading as protest continues, Georgian Dream debates “Russian” law in the 3rd reading as protest continues, Students protest re-introduction of “Russian Law,” refuse to attend lectures
PM: Ivanishvili “Refused to Meet” with Assistant Secretary O’Brien, Cites Blackmail and Threats
Prime Minister Irakli Kobakhidze said the U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Jim O'Brien requested a meeting with the honorary chairman of the Georgian Dream party Bidzina Ivanishvili, but that request was rejected. No legal or financial sanctions have been imposed on Ivanishviili by the U., the European Union or the U.'S. According to the Prime Minister, the issue of "sanctions" is at the heart of the problem.CivilGe, Foreign Affairs Committee Chairs of EU Member States Visit Georgia, RFE/RL: EU Top Diplomats Ask for Commission’s Oral Update on Foreign Agents Law Effects, MEPs Ask HVP Borrell for Targeted Sanctions Against MPs if Agents’ Law Adopted
EU “Strongly Condemns” Assaults against Protesters, Politicians, CSOs, Media
EU Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Spokesperson Peter Stano condemned ‘acts of intimidation, threats and physical assaults” against anti-Foreign Agents Bill protesters, media, politicians and CSOs. Stano called on the government to ensure the people’s right to protest, and urged the authorities to investigate possible misconduct and violations.CivilGe
Public Defender calls on MIA not to use excessive force or retaliatory measures against protesters
The Public Defender of Georgia has called on the Ministry of Internal Affairs to act within the framework of legislation. The use of force must be necessary and proportionate, must be aimed at carrying out a specific legal measure, and in no case should it turn into targeted violence/retaliation against citizens.GeorgiaToday
After all-night protester vigil, special police surround Rustaveli Avenue en masse
Thousands of special force police encamped by thousands of protesters to allow MPs to debate foreign agents law. Crowds are at the gates of Parliament shouting ‘Pigs! Pigs!” at gates shouting “Pigs!'” Police in masks brutally attacked a number of peaceful protesters.GeorgiaToday
The Minister of Defense of Russia, Sergei Shoigu, will be replaced by Andrei Belousov
Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu will be replaced by Andrei Belusov, who was the first deputy prime minister in the government of Mikhail Mishustin. He will take the position of Secretary of the National Security Council of Russia. He has been the Minister of Defense since 2012.EuroNewsGeorgia
💵 Economy
Georgia’s Foreign Trade Down 2.7% in January-April 2024
Georgia's external merchandise trade decreased by 2.7% in January-April 2024 compared to the corresponding period of the previous year, amounting USD 6,563.7 million. The trade deficit amounted to USD 3,036 million, representing 46.3% of the overall trade turnover.CivilGe
Date: 05/12/2024
Reading time: 0 minutes, 170 words🏛️ Politics & Government
Interior Minister says “appropriate, proportional” measures will be taken against “violent, unlawful assembly”
Interior Minister Vakhtang Gomelauri said the right to peaceful assembly in Georgia was ensured at “a high standard” in Georgia. He said in case of “violent and unlawful” assembly the state was empowered to take “appropriate, proportional measures”AgendaGe, PM Vows to Adopt Foreign Agents Law, Pledges to Punish Violent Protesters
President Warns Law Enforcement Officials Against Resorting to Violence and Repression
President of Georgia tells protesters not to resort to violence against them. Calls on the government to withdraw the law and not to use it against the protesters.CivilGe, PM Vows to Adopt Foreign Agents Law, Pledges to Punish Violent Protesters
Georgia’s “Europe March” of thousands sends a definitive message to the government
An estimated 20,000 Georgians and Georgia-supporters filled the streets of the capital city to protest the ruling party’s plans to bring in a foreign agents’ transparency law, commonly known as the “Russian Law.”GeorgiaToday
Date: 05/11/2024
Reading time: 1 minutes, 349 words🏛️ Politics & Government
Man Severely Beaten in Car in Another Case of Police Brutality
A video went viral on May 10, showing a citizen being severely beaten in his car by a group of police in the presence of his wife. The incident occurred as the man was driving up a street in central Tbilisi and encountered a police bus moving in the opposite direction on the one-way street. The Special Investigative Service said on May 11 that it had opened an investigation under Article 333 (3b) of the Criminal Code, which deals with exceeding official authority by using force or a weapon.CivilGe
29 U.S. House Members Threaten Sanctions If Agents Law is Not Dropped
29 members of the U.S. House of Representatives sent a strongly worded joint letter to Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Kobakhidze on May 10. The Representatives stress that the Georgian authorities face a choice between hearing the voices of the Georgian people, and continuing to move on the “dark rode” towards “Russian-style authoritarianism” The letter comes as the ruling Georgian Dream readies to pass the bill.CivilGe, US congressmen wrote a letter to Irakli Kobakhidze
According to the US President's adviser, Georgian parliamentarians are facing a critical choice
Jake Sullivan, adviser to US president on national security issues, on social network. Sullivan: "We are deeply alarmed about democratic backsliding in Georgia"EuroNewsGeorgia
MP Maka Botchorishvili on the “Foreign Agents” Bill and Georgia’s Chances at EU Integration under Georgian Dream Leadership
Georgian Dream MP Maka Botchorishvili discusses the widely contested “Foreign Agents” law (Law on Transparency of Foreign Influence) and what it means to her party and for Georgia’s future. The interview has been redacted for clarity.GeorgiaToday
International Reactions to Intimidation, Violence Campaign Against Civil Activists, Opposition Politicians over Foreign Agents Law
Diplomatic missions in Georgia urge the government to take preventive measures and thoroughly investigate these incidents. British Embassy in Georgia called on government to prevent unlawful intimidation of protesters and to investigate all rights abuses. German Ambassador to Georgia, Peter Fischer, stressed that “The rule of law must prevail. Democracy requires non-violence”CivilGe
🎭 Culture
TSU Students Announce Academic Boycott over Foreign Agents’ Law
A part of the students of Tbilisi State University announced the boycott of the academic process. They will refuse to enter the lecture halls from Monday, May 13. The students say they will stand at Rustaveli Avenue instead at 9 o’clock in the morning.CivilGe
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2024.05.13 22:04 Natte_Komkommer Travelling and volunteering in Japan & South Korea
This is my first ever post on Reddit so I hope I am in the right thread with my questions.
Might be a bit of a long one but please bear with me and pardon me if I made a grammar mistake.
So I (30M) am Dutch and am living in The Netherlands. Recently my contract at work did not get extended so right now I have been unemployed for about 1 month. Luckily I receive unemployment benefits from the government (70% of my last salary) for a total of 6 months so there is a safety net.
The fact that my contract did not get extended is not the worst thing that could happen to me but what I do hate is that I was supposed to work a month remotely in Vietnam right now. This is honestly for me the worst part of this situation.
For years I have been struggeling what I want to do in my life and time after time I come to the conlusion that my main (and probably only) goal in life is to see and experience as much of the world as possible. I worked at a law firm for a couple of years and did sales at a scale-up. I am however not that interested in climbing the career ladder while doing the 'standard' office jobs since I don't see it adding any value to my life (drafting 5 legal deeds and 3 other documents so that someone can take his own money from his own company is not worth it for me). We only live once so I want to make the most of it and experience as much as possible and just be happy.
I have struggled with this for a long time now already but never had the courage to take the step towards being less career-oriented since every one around me is. This past month I have felt miserable while looking around for a new job. When I told my contact at the government about this she suggested that I go on a holiday or a long trip. I did not expect this reaction but i'm very happy she said it.
She got me thinking about it and it would indeed be a perfect time go on an adventure and fulfilling my dreams. I can take 15 vacation days during my benefits so I can still get paid and if I stay longer I can pause the benefits. This means of course not receiving anything for that period of time. Ideally I would like to go for about 3 months. I have about €10.000 in savings and would like to spend at the max €5.000 so that I still have a nice buffer when I get home. I think this should be doable with 'cheap' flights and not going on adventures every day.
I am a very open minded person and really enjoy staying a bit longer at a certain location to become familiar with the area and become part of the locals (even though they will probably still see me as an outsider haha). I'm not the stereotypical hippy traveler but just love meeting different people and exploring different cultures.
I want to leave on short notice ( i'm not much of a long term planner). Let's say the 1st of June. And I want to make the decision about where to go at the end of this week so I can start buying the tickets and start preparing. I normally don't plan too much of a trip before I get there so I think this should be fine.
Going on the trip would mean that I won't have benefits for a bit more than 2 months, so I will want to make it budget friendly and was thinking about (partly) volunteering in exchange for a bed and meals to save some money but also experience the local culture a bit more by staying in the same place.
It has been a long lived dream to visit South Korea and Japan and would like to go there this time. Untill now I have been to Costa Rica, Vietnam and Thailand. Besides this I have been around in Europe as well.
If it ends up being difficult to live on a budget in Japan & South Korea then I will go to a cheaper South-East Asian country such as Vietnam, Philipines, Indonesia or even Sri Lanka.
I was hoping if some of you could share your experiences doing these kind of things. How long did you go? How long ahead did you plan? Did you still have time to explore besides working? I have put the main questions I have underneath but probably forgot a few as well.
If you have any questions or if I need to clarify some more please let me know. Thank you so much in advance!
submitted by Natte_Komkommer to solotravel [link] [comments]
Might be a bit of a long one but please bear with me and pardon me if I made a grammar mistake.
So I (30M) am Dutch and am living in The Netherlands. Recently my contract at work did not get extended so right now I have been unemployed for about 1 month. Luckily I receive unemployment benefits from the government (70% of my last salary) for a total of 6 months so there is a safety net.
The fact that my contract did not get extended is not the worst thing that could happen to me but what I do hate is that I was supposed to work a month remotely in Vietnam right now. This is honestly for me the worst part of this situation.
For years I have been struggeling what I want to do in my life and time after time I come to the conlusion that my main (and probably only) goal in life is to see and experience as much of the world as possible. I worked at a law firm for a couple of years and did sales at a scale-up. I am however not that interested in climbing the career ladder while doing the 'standard' office jobs since I don't see it adding any value to my life (drafting 5 legal deeds and 3 other documents so that someone can take his own money from his own company is not worth it for me). We only live once so I want to make the most of it and experience as much as possible and just be happy.
I have struggled with this for a long time now already but never had the courage to take the step towards being less career-oriented since every one around me is. This past month I have felt miserable while looking around for a new job. When I told my contact at the government about this she suggested that I go on a holiday or a long trip. I did not expect this reaction but i'm very happy she said it.
She got me thinking about it and it would indeed be a perfect time go on an adventure and fulfilling my dreams. I can take 15 vacation days during my benefits so I can still get paid and if I stay longer I can pause the benefits. This means of course not receiving anything for that period of time. Ideally I would like to go for about 3 months. I have about €10.000 in savings and would like to spend at the max €5.000 so that I still have a nice buffer when I get home. I think this should be doable with 'cheap' flights and not going on adventures every day.
I am a very open minded person and really enjoy staying a bit longer at a certain location to become familiar with the area and become part of the locals (even though they will probably still see me as an outsider haha). I'm not the stereotypical hippy traveler but just love meeting different people and exploring different cultures.
I want to leave on short notice ( i'm not much of a long term planner). Let's say the 1st of June. And I want to make the decision about where to go at the end of this week so I can start buying the tickets and start preparing. I normally don't plan too much of a trip before I get there so I think this should be fine.
Going on the trip would mean that I won't have benefits for a bit more than 2 months, so I will want to make it budget friendly and was thinking about (partly) volunteering in exchange for a bed and meals to save some money but also experience the local culture a bit more by staying in the same place.
It has been a long lived dream to visit South Korea and Japan and would like to go there this time. Untill now I have been to Costa Rica, Vietnam and Thailand. Besides this I have been around in Europe as well.
If it ends up being difficult to live on a budget in Japan & South Korea then I will go to a cheaper South-East Asian country such as Vietnam, Philipines, Indonesia or even Sri Lanka.
I was hoping if some of you could share your experiences doing these kind of things. How long did you go? How long ahead did you plan? Did you still have time to explore besides working? I have put the main questions I have underneath but probably forgot a few as well.
- I have seen websites such as Workaway & Worldpackers and was wondering if there are people that have experience using these websites and also if certain websites are more recommendable than others.
- Was it doable to live budget-friendly in more expensive countries such as Japan and South Korea?
- Is it hard to be accepted for certain volunteerprojects? I sometimes see strict descriptions and am worried that I will not be accepted because I am a new member with no references.
- Is it doable to travel Japan & South Korea on a budget while still enjoying the country? (I don't necesseraly need to go to the typical hotspots and enjoy it more to go off the beaten track)
- How much did you spend in case you did something similar?
If you have any questions or if I need to clarify some more please let me know. Thank you so much in advance!
2024.05.13 22:03 TheProphetDave TFE Energy.
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2024.05.13 21:54 SirLadthe1st Volleyball Nations League 2024 - Women's Week 1: Antalya TUR & Rio De Janeiro BRA - 14 to 19 may 2024 - r/volleyball discussion thread
Since the new season of VNL is literally just around the corner (less than 24 hours till the start of the first game!) I thought it will be nice to have weekly discussion threads, like past few couple of years.
This year the competition will be much more important than ever before, as each match counts towards the world ranking - and at the end of the competition top 5 highest ranked, not yet qualified teams will qualify to the Olympic Games!
Also, a slight change to the format of the competition is coming: no team will be relegated this season as, starting next year, 18 teams per gender wlll participate in the VNL (as opposed to just 16 now).
COMPETITION FORMAT + WHO IS PLAYING?
Each week, the 16 teams participating in the competition get split into two pools of eight teams - and both pools are hosted by different countries. Each team has four matches to play per week,. Despite the tournament being held in two locations at the same time, all the points the team get and all the sets they win will be counted towards a joint league table for all 16 teams.
Top 8 teams after 12 matches will qualify to the final play off round to be held in Bangkok, Thailand. There is and exception to this rule: Thailand, as hosts, are already pre-qualified to the play offs. That means that if they finish the regular round placed 9th on below, only top 7 teams will qualify and the 8th spot will be assigned to Thailand.
The Pools this week are:
Pool I (Antalya, Turkey): TURKEY, ITALY, POLAND, JAPAN, GERMANY, NETHERLANDS, BULGARIA, FRANCE
Pool II (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil): BRAZIL, U.S.A, SERBIA, CHINA, CANADA, DOMINICAN REPUBLIC, THAILAND, FRANCE
WHERE TO WATCH
A variety of national broadcasters will show certain games of the VNL either on TV or through online streaming. These include (among others) Polsat Sport for Poland, RAI Sport for Italy, L'Equipe for France and CBC Sports for Canada.
If you have no access to any of the channels broadcasting the VNL, you could subscribe to Volleyball World TV - its a paid subscrpition service launched by the FIVB and Volleyball World, which will broadcast all games of the competition. There is a 7-day free trial available, and prices start at 1.65eur (ca 2$/ month) if you purchase the yearly plan (19.99 EU12 months)
In the previous years, select VNL games were also broadcasted for free on FIVB's Youtube channel. I am not sure if this will be the case this year, but I will update the post with links to the free matches if there are any planned for this year.
USEFUL LINKS
VNL Schedule & Live Score -
Team rosters
Live competition table
FIVB's Youtube channel (we can expect free highlists and potentially full matches)
Volleyball World TV (paid streaming service)
Volleyball World Rankings (updated after every match, important for Olympic qualification)
submitted by SirLadthe1st to volleyball [link] [comments]
This year the competition will be much more important than ever before, as each match counts towards the world ranking - and at the end of the competition top 5 highest ranked, not yet qualified teams will qualify to the Olympic Games!
Also, a slight change to the format of the competition is coming: no team will be relegated this season as, starting next year, 18 teams per gender wlll participate in the VNL (as opposed to just 16 now).
COMPETITION FORMAT + WHO IS PLAYING?
Each week, the 16 teams participating in the competition get split into two pools of eight teams - and both pools are hosted by different countries. Each team has four matches to play per week,. Despite the tournament being held in two locations at the same time, all the points the team get and all the sets they win will be counted towards a joint league table for all 16 teams.
Top 8 teams after 12 matches will qualify to the final play off round to be held in Bangkok, Thailand. There is and exception to this rule: Thailand, as hosts, are already pre-qualified to the play offs. That means that if they finish the regular round placed 9th on below, only top 7 teams will qualify and the 8th spot will be assigned to Thailand.
The Pools this week are:
Pool I (Antalya, Turkey): TURKEY, ITALY, POLAND, JAPAN, GERMANY, NETHERLANDS, BULGARIA, FRANCE
Pool II (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil): BRAZIL, U.S.A, SERBIA, CHINA, CANADA, DOMINICAN REPUBLIC, THAILAND, FRANCE
WHERE TO WATCH
A variety of national broadcasters will show certain games of the VNL either on TV or through online streaming. These include (among others) Polsat Sport for Poland, RAI Sport for Italy, L'Equipe for France and CBC Sports for Canada.
If you have no access to any of the channels broadcasting the VNL, you could subscribe to Volleyball World TV - its a paid subscrpition service launched by the FIVB and Volleyball World, which will broadcast all games of the competition. There is a 7-day free trial available, and prices start at 1.65eur (ca 2$/ month) if you purchase the yearly plan (19.99 EU12 months)
In the previous years, select VNL games were also broadcasted for free on FIVB's Youtube channel. I am not sure if this will be the case this year, but I will update the post with links to the free matches if there are any planned for this year.
USEFUL LINKS
VNL Schedule & Live Score -
Team rosters
Live competition table
FIVB's Youtube channel (we can expect free highlists and potentially full matches)
Volleyball World TV (paid streaming service)
Volleyball World Rankings (updated after every match, important for Olympic qualification)
2024.05.13 21:53 kirri18 I want SM to give an update/make a decision about Seunghan's status in RIIZE, whatever that may be
I apologize beforehand for the long winding post!
A little background for which influences my opinion, I'm very very new to the fandom and although I was aware of RIIZE (all those hype about Wonbin) and lowkey enjoyed their music, I was not sold on fully supporting them beyond listening to their music on random spotify playlist. I have always been a single group stan type (I only follow and spend money on 1 group) and since I left my previous fandom (member's sexual harassment scandal) I have been following K-Pop very casually without getting "into" any group so to speak. I was also aware of Seunghan's (and Sohee's and Eunseok's and Anton's) "scandals", but I only read the news in passing without being invested in any of it. However, I've been obsessed with 'Impossible' since it was released and youtube algorithm somehow showed me their newest WE RIIZE content and I love playing boardgames irl so I clicked on it. Let's just say that they "get" me with that and so, yes--my first genuine introduction to RIIZE is that of OT6.
I found them really sweet and funny in their own ways and started a deep dive on their contents and following them on social media. I have never followed NCT so I did not know who either Sungchan or Shotaro was until RIIZE and only after that I started reading stuff about their experience in NCT too. Let me begin to say that I agree that the reaction to Seunghan's "scandal" is proportionally harsh and SM's decision to put him in hiatus is unfair considering how other idols are given second chance with worse behavior. I totally understand the opinion of OT7s that wants him back. I agree that he's very talented and I can see from their old contents that's he's a mood-maker with hosting duties in the group. He is a valuable member of the team. I am sure the rest of the members love him and miss him too.
I totally understand all of these points, however I personally think he has been in hiatus for too long so I want SM to give us either an update or closure whatever that might be, whether it is OT7 or they are moving on with OT6. This has been dragging for too long to the point he has been in hiatus longer than being active and also while the group is in a critical stage of their career. As fans are aware RIIZE is about to release a new mini album--so, honestly, the talk of boycott scares me. I understand that the point is to make SM listen to fans' demand but honestly I am more worried about how it may impact SM's treatment to RIIZE. The group has been mismanaged so far (and SM keeps adding more problems to RIIZE's plate with the Japan tour schedule) and I just do not want it to get worse. They are successful rookies but they are just still rookies now without any power, what if SM decides that it's not worth it to promote them well and put them on a backburner? I realize that this is a very pessimistic POV and they probably will end up getting mismanaged anyway (because SM) but the members just seem so eager and happy to promote and as long as it's not impacting their health, I want them to achieve everything they want to achieve.
This is gonna get me some backlash but I am not gonna lie, after watching their more recent youtube contents, recent performance clips and reading reports about the fan-con I am more attached to OT6 and less to Seunghan since I haven't been seeing as much of him. Perhaps it's because I am more used to RIIZE without Seunghan, I don't find them really lacking in anything--they are hardworkers who will keep growing and improving and they are already getting more and more comfortable with each other and with the camera. I find them funny and endearing in their own chill way and I enjoy their songs and performances. It's not that I am against Seunghan coming back because if he does I will gladly celebrate OT7 and learn more about him--however my current concern is the stability of the group and the atmosphere surrounding it. They are Gen Zs so I am sure they are hyper aware of social media and I selfishly want the fandom to focus on them and their hard-work without all these controversies surrounding them. The rest of the members are experiencing so many of their first achievements together now as OT6, idk if Seunghan still lives in the dorm but being in this weird limbo must be hard for both him and the members. Seeing the members cry in fan-cons broke my heart, they have been through a lot and they only debuted like 8 months ago? I feel like the longer this is dragged out, the worse it will become.
I am aware that it is not uncommon for SM to put their artists in long hiatus, but at this point I just want SM to give some update or closure--when is Seunghan coming back? Is Seunghan ever coming back? It's ok if it will take him a while to comeback because he needs to prioritize his mental health. But still, I want to know what the decision is as soon as possible.
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A little background for which influences my opinion, I'm very very new to the fandom and although I was aware of RIIZE (all those hype about Wonbin) and lowkey enjoyed their music, I was not sold on fully supporting them beyond listening to their music on random spotify playlist. I have always been a single group stan type (I only follow and spend money on 1 group) and since I left my previous fandom (member's sexual harassment scandal) I have been following K-Pop very casually without getting "into" any group so to speak. I was also aware of Seunghan's (and Sohee's and Eunseok's and Anton's) "scandals", but I only read the news in passing without being invested in any of it. However, I've been obsessed with 'Impossible' since it was released and youtube algorithm somehow showed me their newest WE RIIZE content and I love playing boardgames irl so I clicked on it. Let's just say that they "get" me with that and so, yes--my first genuine introduction to RIIZE is that of OT6.
I found them really sweet and funny in their own ways and started a deep dive on their contents and following them on social media. I have never followed NCT so I did not know who either Sungchan or Shotaro was until RIIZE and only after that I started reading stuff about their experience in NCT too. Let me begin to say that I agree that the reaction to Seunghan's "scandal" is proportionally harsh and SM's decision to put him in hiatus is unfair considering how other idols are given second chance with worse behavior. I totally understand the opinion of OT7s that wants him back. I agree that he's very talented and I can see from their old contents that's he's a mood-maker with hosting duties in the group. He is a valuable member of the team. I am sure the rest of the members love him and miss him too.
I totally understand all of these points, however I personally think he has been in hiatus for too long so I want SM to give us either an update or closure whatever that might be, whether it is OT7 or they are moving on with OT6. This has been dragging for too long to the point he has been in hiatus longer than being active and also while the group is in a critical stage of their career. As fans are aware RIIZE is about to release a new mini album--so, honestly, the talk of boycott scares me. I understand that the point is to make SM listen to fans' demand but honestly I am more worried about how it may impact SM's treatment to RIIZE. The group has been mismanaged so far (and SM keeps adding more problems to RIIZE's plate with the Japan tour schedule) and I just do not want it to get worse. They are successful rookies but they are just still rookies now without any power, what if SM decides that it's not worth it to promote them well and put them on a backburner? I realize that this is a very pessimistic POV and they probably will end up getting mismanaged anyway (because SM) but the members just seem so eager and happy to promote and as long as it's not impacting their health, I want them to achieve everything they want to achieve.
This is gonna get me some backlash but I am not gonna lie, after watching their more recent youtube contents, recent performance clips and reading reports about the fan-con I am more attached to OT6 and less to Seunghan since I haven't been seeing as much of him. Perhaps it's because I am more used to RIIZE without Seunghan, I don't find them really lacking in anything--they are hardworkers who will keep growing and improving and they are already getting more and more comfortable with each other and with the camera. I find them funny and endearing in their own chill way and I enjoy their songs and performances. It's not that I am against Seunghan coming back because if he does I will gladly celebrate OT7 and learn more about him--however my current concern is the stability of the group and the atmosphere surrounding it. They are Gen Zs so I am sure they are hyper aware of social media and I selfishly want the fandom to focus on them and their hard-work without all these controversies surrounding them. The rest of the members are experiencing so many of their first achievements together now as OT6, idk if Seunghan still lives in the dorm but being in this weird limbo must be hard for both him and the members. Seeing the members cry in fan-cons broke my heart, they have been through a lot and they only debuted like 8 months ago? I feel like the longer this is dragged out, the worse it will become.
I am aware that it is not uncommon for SM to put their artists in long hiatus, but at this point I just want SM to give some update or closure--when is Seunghan coming back? Is Seunghan ever coming back? It's ok if it will take him a while to comeback because he needs to prioritize his mental health. But still, I want to know what the decision is as soon as possible.
2024.05.13 21:49 Specialist_Camp2506 Aircraft Carriers by Country… with irregular rectangles
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2024.05.13 21:44 EskimoVictor Traveling with pets
Hey, bit of a lurker with a question…
I really like the idea of being a digital nomad, but I’m not willing to rehome my dogs. How pet friendly are all of these countries you guys are going to?
I’ve taken my dogs to Japan a few times, and I know it can be rather difficult.
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I really like the idea of being a digital nomad, but I’m not willing to rehome my dogs. How pet friendly are all of these countries you guys are going to?
I’ve taken my dogs to Japan a few times, and I know it can be rather difficult.
2024.05.13 21:43 OkDetective6752 Can someone please help grade my Rhetorical Analysis essay
Here was the prompt/reading:
In the June 1862 issue of The Atlantic Monthly magazine, American author and philosopher Henry David Thoreau published his essay “Walking.” The essay is considered to be a classic expression of American transcendentalism, a nineteenth-century philosophical, literary, and social movement that was skeptical of conventional social institutions and fearful of the changes wrought by industrialism. Transcendentalists such as Thoreau extolled self-reliance and encouraged a profound engagement with the natural world, which they sought to preserve in its pristine state. Read the passage carefully. Write an essay that analyzes the rhetorical choices Thoreau makes to convey his message about the value of walking in nature.
In your response you should do the following:
Respond to the prompt with a thesis that analyzes the writer’s rhetorical choices.
Select and use evidence to develop and support your line of reasoning.
Explain how the evidence supports your line of reasoning.
Demonstrate an understanding of the rhetorical situation.
Use appropriate grammar and punctuation in communicating your argument.
When we walk, we naturally go to the fields and woods: what would become of us if we walked only in a garden or a mall?1 Even some sects of philosophers have felt the necessity of importing the woods to themselves, since they did not go to the woods. “They planted groves and walks of Platanes,”2 where they took subdiales ambulationes3 in porticos open to the air. Of course it is of no use to direct our steps to the woods, if they do not carry us thither. I am alarmed when it happens that I have walked a mile into the woods bodily, without getting there in spirit. In my afternoon walk I would fain forget all my morning occupations and my obligations to society. But it sometimes happens that I cannot easily shake off the village. The thought of some work will run in my head and I am not where my body is—I am out of my senses. In my walks I would fain return to my senses. What business have I in the woods, if I am thinking of something out of the woods? I suspect myself, and cannot help a shudder, when I find myself so implicated even in what are called good works—for this may sometimes happen.
My vicinity affords many good walks; and though for so many years I have walked almost every day, and sometimes for several days together, I have not yet exhausted them. An absolutely new prospect is a great happiness, and I can still get this any afternoon. Two or three hours’ walking will carry me to as strange a country as I expect ever to see. A single farmhouse which I had not seen before is sometimes as good as the dominions of the King of Dahomey.4 There is in fact a sort of harmony discoverable between the capabilities of the landscape within a circle of ten miles’ radius, or the limits of an afternoon walk, and the threescore years and ten of human life. It will never become quite familiar to you.
Nowadays almost all man’s improvements, so called, as the building of houses, and the cutting down of the forest and of all large trees, simply deform the landscape, and make it more and more tame and cheap. A people who would begin by burning the fences and let the forest stand! I saw the fences half consumed, their ends lost in the middle of the prairie, and some worldly miser with a surveyor looking after his bounds, while heaven had taken place around him, and he did not see the angels going to and fro, but was looking for an old post-hole in the midst of paradise. I looked again, and saw him standing in the middle of a boggy stygian5 fen, surrounded by devils, and he had found his bounds without a doubt, three little stones, where a stake had been driven, and looking nearer, I saw that the Prince of Darkness was his surveyor.
I can easily walk ten, fifteen, twenty, any number of miles, commencing at my own door, without going by any house, without crossing a road except where the fox and the mink do: first along by the river, and then the brook, and then the meadow and the wood-side. There are square miles in my vicinity which have no inhabitant. From many a hill I can see civilization and the abodes of man afar. The farmers and their works are scarcely more obvious than woodchucks and their burrows. Man and his affairs, church and state and school, trade and commerce, and manufactures and agriculture, even politics, the most alarming of them all,—I am pleased to see how little space they occupy in the landscape. Politics is but a narrow field, and that still narrower highway yonder leads to it. I sometimes direct the traveler thither. If you would go to the political world, follow the great road—follow that market-man, keep his dust in your eyes, and it will lead you straight to it; for it, too, has its place merely, and does not occupy all space. I pass from it as from a bean-field into the forest, and it is forgotten. In one half-hour I can walk off to some portion of the earth’s surface where a man does not stand from one year’s end to another, and there, consequently, politics are not, for they are but as the cigar-smoke of a man.
and here's my essay:
In the June issue of The Atlantic Monthly magazine in 1862, author Henry David Thoreau published an essay giving his views on the natural world. His essay is all about how valuable walking through the woods can be. Thoreau uses comparison and personal experience in order to convey his message that walking in nature is very valuable.
Thoreau uses comparison in order to convey his view that walking through nature can have value that people might not intrinsically think of. He does this when he compares what he sees during his walk to something of high value. Thoreau does this by saying "A single farmhouse which I had not seen before is sometimes as good as the dominions of the King of Dahomey." By saying this, Thoreau makes his audience realize that something, such as a mundane farmhouse, can be an extraordinary sight because he compares it to the great dominions of the King of Dahomey. He also makes his audience realize the value of something like a farmhouse which one can see on a typical walk through the woods since his audience now sees the farmhouse as something extravagant. Thus, if the audience now sees the value of the little things they can find in nature, they will now be more inclined to go on a walk in the woods. Furthermore, referring to lumberjacks as "the Prince of Darkness" also exemplifies the importance of nature to his audience by showing how those who try to destroy nature are very bad people. Understanding the value of the small things one can see in nature and how evil those who try to destroy nature are through the comparisons that Thoreau makes, the audience is ultimately moved to seeing Thoreau's perspective that walking in nature is very valuable.
Thoreau also uses personal experience in order to convey his perspective that taking a walk in nature can be a very valuable experience. Thoreau does this when he says "In one half-hour I can walk off to some portion of the earth’s surface where a man does not stand from one year’s end to another." This line gives the audience a sense of wonder toward nature and makes people want to explore nature for themselves. Thoreau also uses his personal experience to convey the value of walking in nature when he says "My vicinity affords many good walks; and though for so many years I have walked almost every day, and sometimes for several days together, I have not yet exhausted them." to show how walking in nature never gets boring. Mentioning how by walking in nature one can see things that almost no one else has seen makes his audience intrigued because people are always looking to new experiences. Since his audience is now intrigued, they are more likely to listen to what he has to say. Thus, if people are now more willing to listen to Thoreau, they are more likely to be persuaded by his point of view on nature. Furthermore, mentioning how he never gets tired of his walks helps further Thoreau's influence over his audience by ensuring them that once they start going on outdoor expeditions, they'll never get bored of it and will always be entertained. Understanding how vast and entertaining nature is through Thoreau's personal account, the audience is ultimately moved to see Thoreau's perspective that walking in nature is very valuable.
Many people are skeptical about walking in nature because many people do not want to spend their time alone in the woods when they could be doing so much more interesting stuff in society. It is also very hard to convince these people to change there ways because it is very hard to make a walk alone in nature sound interesting. Thoreau, however, masterfully employs comparison and personal experience in his article in order to convey his message about the value of walking in nature.
Any help is appreciated because I've had exams and haven't been able to see my lang teacher the past 2 days to grade my essays
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In the June 1862 issue of The Atlantic Monthly magazine, American author and philosopher Henry David Thoreau published his essay “Walking.” The essay is considered to be a classic expression of American transcendentalism, a nineteenth-century philosophical, literary, and social movement that was skeptical of conventional social institutions and fearful of the changes wrought by industrialism. Transcendentalists such as Thoreau extolled self-reliance and encouraged a profound engagement with the natural world, which they sought to preserve in its pristine state. Read the passage carefully. Write an essay that analyzes the rhetorical choices Thoreau makes to convey his message about the value of walking in nature.
In your response you should do the following:
Respond to the prompt with a thesis that analyzes the writer’s rhetorical choices.
Select and use evidence to develop and support your line of reasoning.
Explain how the evidence supports your line of reasoning.
Demonstrate an understanding of the rhetorical situation.
Use appropriate grammar and punctuation in communicating your argument.
When we walk, we naturally go to the fields and woods: what would become of us if we walked only in a garden or a mall?1 Even some sects of philosophers have felt the necessity of importing the woods to themselves, since they did not go to the woods. “They planted groves and walks of Platanes,”2 where they took subdiales ambulationes3 in porticos open to the air. Of course it is of no use to direct our steps to the woods, if they do not carry us thither. I am alarmed when it happens that I have walked a mile into the woods bodily, without getting there in spirit. In my afternoon walk I would fain forget all my morning occupations and my obligations to society. But it sometimes happens that I cannot easily shake off the village. The thought of some work will run in my head and I am not where my body is—I am out of my senses. In my walks I would fain return to my senses. What business have I in the woods, if I am thinking of something out of the woods? I suspect myself, and cannot help a shudder, when I find myself so implicated even in what are called good works—for this may sometimes happen.
My vicinity affords many good walks; and though for so many years I have walked almost every day, and sometimes for several days together, I have not yet exhausted them. An absolutely new prospect is a great happiness, and I can still get this any afternoon. Two or three hours’ walking will carry me to as strange a country as I expect ever to see. A single farmhouse which I had not seen before is sometimes as good as the dominions of the King of Dahomey.4 There is in fact a sort of harmony discoverable between the capabilities of the landscape within a circle of ten miles’ radius, or the limits of an afternoon walk, and the threescore years and ten of human life. It will never become quite familiar to you.
Nowadays almost all man’s improvements, so called, as the building of houses, and the cutting down of the forest and of all large trees, simply deform the landscape, and make it more and more tame and cheap. A people who would begin by burning the fences and let the forest stand! I saw the fences half consumed, their ends lost in the middle of the prairie, and some worldly miser with a surveyor looking after his bounds, while heaven had taken place around him, and he did not see the angels going to and fro, but was looking for an old post-hole in the midst of paradise. I looked again, and saw him standing in the middle of a boggy stygian5 fen, surrounded by devils, and he had found his bounds without a doubt, three little stones, where a stake had been driven, and looking nearer, I saw that the Prince of Darkness was his surveyor.
I can easily walk ten, fifteen, twenty, any number of miles, commencing at my own door, without going by any house, without crossing a road except where the fox and the mink do: first along by the river, and then the brook, and then the meadow and the wood-side. There are square miles in my vicinity which have no inhabitant. From many a hill I can see civilization and the abodes of man afar. The farmers and their works are scarcely more obvious than woodchucks and their burrows. Man and his affairs, church and state and school, trade and commerce, and manufactures and agriculture, even politics, the most alarming of them all,—I am pleased to see how little space they occupy in the landscape. Politics is but a narrow field, and that still narrower highway yonder leads to it. I sometimes direct the traveler thither. If you would go to the political world, follow the great road—follow that market-man, keep his dust in your eyes, and it will lead you straight to it; for it, too, has its place merely, and does not occupy all space. I pass from it as from a bean-field into the forest, and it is forgotten. In one half-hour I can walk off to some portion of the earth’s surface where a man does not stand from one year’s end to another, and there, consequently, politics are not, for they are but as the cigar-smoke of a man.
and here's my essay:
In the June issue of The Atlantic Monthly magazine in 1862, author Henry David Thoreau published an essay giving his views on the natural world. His essay is all about how valuable walking through the woods can be. Thoreau uses comparison and personal experience in order to convey his message that walking in nature is very valuable.
Thoreau uses comparison in order to convey his view that walking through nature can have value that people might not intrinsically think of. He does this when he compares what he sees during his walk to something of high value. Thoreau does this by saying "A single farmhouse which I had not seen before is sometimes as good as the dominions of the King of Dahomey." By saying this, Thoreau makes his audience realize that something, such as a mundane farmhouse, can be an extraordinary sight because he compares it to the great dominions of the King of Dahomey. He also makes his audience realize the value of something like a farmhouse which one can see on a typical walk through the woods since his audience now sees the farmhouse as something extravagant. Thus, if the audience now sees the value of the little things they can find in nature, they will now be more inclined to go on a walk in the woods. Furthermore, referring to lumberjacks as "the Prince of Darkness" also exemplifies the importance of nature to his audience by showing how those who try to destroy nature are very bad people. Understanding the value of the small things one can see in nature and how evil those who try to destroy nature are through the comparisons that Thoreau makes, the audience is ultimately moved to seeing Thoreau's perspective that walking in nature is very valuable.
Thoreau also uses personal experience in order to convey his perspective that taking a walk in nature can be a very valuable experience. Thoreau does this when he says "In one half-hour I can walk off to some portion of the earth’s surface where a man does not stand from one year’s end to another." This line gives the audience a sense of wonder toward nature and makes people want to explore nature for themselves. Thoreau also uses his personal experience to convey the value of walking in nature when he says "My vicinity affords many good walks; and though for so many years I have walked almost every day, and sometimes for several days together, I have not yet exhausted them." to show how walking in nature never gets boring. Mentioning how by walking in nature one can see things that almost no one else has seen makes his audience intrigued because people are always looking to new experiences. Since his audience is now intrigued, they are more likely to listen to what he has to say. Thus, if people are now more willing to listen to Thoreau, they are more likely to be persuaded by his point of view on nature. Furthermore, mentioning how he never gets tired of his walks helps further Thoreau's influence over his audience by ensuring them that once they start going on outdoor expeditions, they'll never get bored of it and will always be entertained. Understanding how vast and entertaining nature is through Thoreau's personal account, the audience is ultimately moved to see Thoreau's perspective that walking in nature is very valuable.
Many people are skeptical about walking in nature because many people do not want to spend their time alone in the woods when they could be doing so much more interesting stuff in society. It is also very hard to convince these people to change there ways because it is very hard to make a walk alone in nature sound interesting. Thoreau, however, masterfully employs comparison and personal experience in his article in order to convey his message about the value of walking in nature.
Any help is appreciated because I've had exams and haven't been able to see my lang teacher the past 2 days to grade my essays
2024.05.13 21:42 Own-Equivalent5978 Pokemon Scarlet/Violet west revisions?
Hey everyone,
I see the pokemon scarlet/violet (mainly scarlet for now) + DLC physical editions are getting out of stock/print on my country (Portugal). I havent tried buying one because from what I know, the cart revision with both dlc on cart only came to Japan and even there it's out of stock/print right now.
Did the EU and the US really get no cart revisions at all? Because we're running out of time seeing both games are getting out of stock/print. If no revisions at all outside Japan then that's the lamest crap ever from Gamefreak. What were they thinking?
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I see the pokemon scarlet/violet (mainly scarlet for now) + DLC physical editions are getting out of stock/print on my country (Portugal). I havent tried buying one because from what I know, the cart revision with both dlc on cart only came to Japan and even there it's out of stock/print right now.
Did the EU and the US really get no cart revisions at all? Because we're running out of time seeing both games are getting out of stock/print. If no revisions at all outside Japan then that's the lamest crap ever from Gamefreak. What were they thinking?
2024.05.13 21:25 generalezeta dont worry fellas Morocco spreading the mediterraneans supremacy on the tea list as well 💪🦁💪🦁
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2024.05.13 21:21 AstroRide [HM][SP]
This short story is a part of the Mieran Ruins Collection. The rest of the stories can be found on this masterpost.
The beach was a symbol of relaxation. It was where children played in the waves while the parents relaxed in the sun. Well, the parents let themselves bake in the sun until they realized they lost their kids. Then, they panicked and searched across the sands annoying everyone. Eventually, a helpful volleyball player showed up with the kids. You thank them until. Wait, why is your spouse staring so long at that volleyball player? Sure, they look like you did younger. Well, more like a young fit version of you. Okay, they looked nothing like you did, and why was your spouse standing so close. This was a disaster. We should've never came here on family vacation.
To most people who haven't had such a dramatic experience, the beach was a nice place. It represented a freedom from modern stresses and a chance to enjoy the sun. Sandcastles lined the sands like an army defending its territory. Shells were collected as if they held monetary value. Such a shame this culture was destroyed by the Mierans.
Humans had always liked to take breaks, but the location was limited by time and resources. When the world was destroyed, the breaks turned into a night where two people guarded the door rather than three. The prime real estate became the pond a few blocks away to keep an eye on the supplies. Tourist traps became rusted as there was a lack of tourists to trap. Except for the dumbest people.
"Hurry up, we are going to be late," Polly yelled. Jim fell down the stairs. He had a beach towel on one arm and a tuxedo on his other.
"What is that for?" Polly grabbed the pants.
"You said bring a swimsuit," Jim said. Polly shook her head.
"Why I am surrounded by idiots." She turned back to the stairs. "Check-in ends at four pm."
"Isn't it your friend who's in charge?" Olivia walked down the stairs carrying a handbag full of vacation essentials. Her dress was loose and flowing.
"He told me that he wouldn't make exceptions," Polly said.
"That makes sense. If you were my friend, I wouldn't make exceptions for you too," Olivia replied. Polly ignored her which angered Olivia.
"Reid! Frida! Get down here," Polly yelled. Frida ran down the stairs. She was most excited about the possibility of hunting. As such, she had a crossbow, a harpoon, and a flare. Her prey wasn't sharks; it was crabs. Reid followed her down in a swimsuit. With every step, he practiced flexing and posing. His body was adequate. His biceps were present, but they didn't bulge. If he held his breath, his torso acquired some definition. In total, he was making a fool of himself.
"I'm ready to mingle." He shimmied at the bottom step. Polly and Olivia reacted with horror while Jim nodded his head.
"We're going to be so popular." Jim put his arm around Reid who shook him off.
"Just me. You can be my wingman," Reid said.
"Sure thing," Jim replied.
"Whatever, let's get going," Polly said. The five of them made their way out of their small house. The road to the vacation was long, and it took a few days travel by foot. They didn't plan on travel time. Fortunately, Frida was skilled at capturing beasts (some of which were mutants) and tried all plants to ensure it wasn't poisonous (Jim tried them as well because Frida was likely immune to all poisons). After their journey, they reached Pacifico City.
It was one of the few cities established after the war. The military ran the country, and Pacfico City wanted to cater to their needs. Multiple resorts sat close to the beach. By the resorts, there shooting ranges and ATVs for pleasure. There was an assortment of bars and restaurants as well. Each had its own signature dish or cocktail. There was one issue. The customers never came.
The upper brass couldn't leave. The new military was disorganized, and vacations were an opportunity to be removed by force. The soldiers were forced to stay by their commanders. If they were going to be miserable, everyone else was going to be miserable as well. The result was a sad city filled with abandoned resorts. The weapons and ATVs were stolen by raiders who put it to better use. The bars and restaurants had their supplies looted, and the workers moved on.
The vacation house in question was a dingy hotel far from the beach. When the five arrived, a man sat behind the desk with his mouth open. A fly flew in and out of it. There was a wall with keys behind him. The man didn't react when they entered. He did perk up when Polly hit the bell on his desk.
"Welcome to Tropical Fun. You missed check-in time," he said.
"Rick, it's me. Can't you make an exception," Polly replied.
"Check-in ends at four. It's half past five." Rick pointed at the clock. Olivia looked down.
"That clock isn't moving," she said. Rick looked down.
"Oh, I've only been working here for a few months. I inherited it from my uncle. He died in a mutant iguana attack," Rick said.
"Sorry for your loss," Polly said.
"Don't be. I hated him." Rick turned around. He gave them two keys. Before arriving, it was agreed that Olivia would get a room by herself. Reid and Polly were okay with this because Jim and Frida slept on the floor. The floor was preferrable when they saw their rooms. Reid's bed was simultaneously too hard and too soft, Polly's was always wet, and Olivia's had mutant bed bugs. The rooms smelled like burnt cabbage. The bathrooms were filled with flies and rodents.
"Well this is a disaster." Reid looked out the window. "There's no one here to enjoy my show."
"Their loss." Olivia was hiding in the other room because she was scared of bugs. She wouldn't let them know.
"No, every cloud has a silver lining." Reid turned with a smile on this face. "We are going to restore this city to its former glory."
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The beach was a symbol of relaxation. It was where children played in the waves while the parents relaxed in the sun. Well, the parents let themselves bake in the sun until they realized they lost their kids. Then, they panicked and searched across the sands annoying everyone. Eventually, a helpful volleyball player showed up with the kids. You thank them until. Wait, why is your spouse staring so long at that volleyball player? Sure, they look like you did younger. Well, more like a young fit version of you. Okay, they looked nothing like you did, and why was your spouse standing so close. This was a disaster. We should've never came here on family vacation.
To most people who haven't had such a dramatic experience, the beach was a nice place. It represented a freedom from modern stresses and a chance to enjoy the sun. Sandcastles lined the sands like an army defending its territory. Shells were collected as if they held monetary value. Such a shame this culture was destroyed by the Mierans.
Humans had always liked to take breaks, but the location was limited by time and resources. When the world was destroyed, the breaks turned into a night where two people guarded the door rather than three. The prime real estate became the pond a few blocks away to keep an eye on the supplies. Tourist traps became rusted as there was a lack of tourists to trap. Except for the dumbest people.
"Hurry up, we are going to be late," Polly yelled. Jim fell down the stairs. He had a beach towel on one arm and a tuxedo on his other.
"What is that for?" Polly grabbed the pants.
"You said bring a swimsuit," Jim said. Polly shook her head.
"Why I am surrounded by idiots." She turned back to the stairs. "Check-in ends at four pm."
"Isn't it your friend who's in charge?" Olivia walked down the stairs carrying a handbag full of vacation essentials. Her dress was loose and flowing.
"He told me that he wouldn't make exceptions," Polly said.
"That makes sense. If you were my friend, I wouldn't make exceptions for you too," Olivia replied. Polly ignored her which angered Olivia.
"Reid! Frida! Get down here," Polly yelled. Frida ran down the stairs. She was most excited about the possibility of hunting. As such, she had a crossbow, a harpoon, and a flare. Her prey wasn't sharks; it was crabs. Reid followed her down in a swimsuit. With every step, he practiced flexing and posing. His body was adequate. His biceps were present, but they didn't bulge. If he held his breath, his torso acquired some definition. In total, he was making a fool of himself.
"I'm ready to mingle." He shimmied at the bottom step. Polly and Olivia reacted with horror while Jim nodded his head.
"We're going to be so popular." Jim put his arm around Reid who shook him off.
"Just me. You can be my wingman," Reid said.
"Sure thing," Jim replied.
"Whatever, let's get going," Polly said. The five of them made their way out of their small house. The road to the vacation was long, and it took a few days travel by foot. They didn't plan on travel time. Fortunately, Frida was skilled at capturing beasts (some of which were mutants) and tried all plants to ensure it wasn't poisonous (Jim tried them as well because Frida was likely immune to all poisons). After their journey, they reached Pacifico City.
It was one of the few cities established after the war. The military ran the country, and Pacfico City wanted to cater to their needs. Multiple resorts sat close to the beach. By the resorts, there shooting ranges and ATVs for pleasure. There was an assortment of bars and restaurants as well. Each had its own signature dish or cocktail. There was one issue. The customers never came.
The upper brass couldn't leave. The new military was disorganized, and vacations were an opportunity to be removed by force. The soldiers were forced to stay by their commanders. If they were going to be miserable, everyone else was going to be miserable as well. The result was a sad city filled with abandoned resorts. The weapons and ATVs were stolen by raiders who put it to better use. The bars and restaurants had their supplies looted, and the workers moved on.
The vacation house in question was a dingy hotel far from the beach. When the five arrived, a man sat behind the desk with his mouth open. A fly flew in and out of it. There was a wall with keys behind him. The man didn't react when they entered. He did perk up when Polly hit the bell on his desk.
"Welcome to Tropical Fun. You missed check-in time," he said.
"Rick, it's me. Can't you make an exception," Polly replied.
"Check-in ends at four. It's half past five." Rick pointed at the clock. Olivia looked down.
"That clock isn't moving," she said. Rick looked down.
"Oh, I've only been working here for a few months. I inherited it from my uncle. He died in a mutant iguana attack," Rick said.
"Sorry for your loss," Polly said.
"Don't be. I hated him." Rick turned around. He gave them two keys. Before arriving, it was agreed that Olivia would get a room by herself. Reid and Polly were okay with this because Jim and Frida slept on the floor. The floor was preferrable when they saw their rooms. Reid's bed was simultaneously too hard and too soft, Polly's was always wet, and Olivia's had mutant bed bugs. The rooms smelled like burnt cabbage. The bathrooms were filled with flies and rodents.
"Well this is a disaster." Reid looked out the window. "There's no one here to enjoy my show."
"Their loss." Olivia was hiding in the other room because she was scared of bugs. She wouldn't let them know.
"No, every cloud has a silver lining." Reid turned with a smile on this face. "We are going to restore this city to its former glory."