Posted in paris on Feb 5th, 2010
Besides being Valentine’s Day, February 14th is one very special day for the Chinese culture, since it is the Spring Festival or the New Lunar Year Festival, a celebration that lasts about three weeks. This year is the year of the tiger, symbol of power.
At this time of year it is very important for them [...]
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Posted in paris on Jan 14th, 2010
In the Rue Varenne of the seventh arrondissement or district in Paris extends a three-hectare park where you’ll find a true castle: the Rodin Museum, which was formerly the Hotel Biron, built in the early eighteenth century. It currently hosts the most surprising exhibition that has ever been on show, namely, a confrontation between the [...]
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Posted in paris on Jan 11th, 2010
As with almost all art movements, Impressionism was born out of something through force. It came about during the Second French Empire during the reign of Louis Napoleon III, along with the traditional code of the Fine Arts. What drove the impressionist painters such as Manet, Monet and Renoir to paint masterpieces known internationally was [...]
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Posted in paris on Jan 7th, 2010
Henri Matisse was known for being the enemy of Pablo Picasso, and the father of Fauvism. Talking about Matisse’s is to talk about the white doves and the intense and violent red he used in his paintings. The colour was not a way of representing the reality but something to translate the visual sensations of [...]
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Posted in paris on Dec 28th, 2009
Aaaaah, France! This is like a fairyland! Who does not want to go on holiday to Paris? When the foreigners come back from a trip to the French capital, they tend to speak very well of its monuments and its food, but the ideas of its citizens are variable.
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Posted in paris on Dec 9th, 2009
Love at the first sight can really stream through your body within seconds. How is it possible to fall in love so fast with someone whose character we don’t even really know? Love at first sight: utopia or reality.
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Posted in paris on Nov 10th, 2009
A world without Internet, the most important invention of the 20th century, would be unimaginable. The World Wide Web doesn’t only bring together the continents, but it unites as well the people from all the different countries. And what’s more…. the famous cybersex has already become a normal part of the sexual life of many users.
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Posted in paris on Oct 16th, 2009
Pumpkins with scary faces, bony skeletons, angry ghosts and lots of candy, the world is about to celebrate Halloween again! Children dress up and make paper lanterns, and many adults love to celebrate the tradition as well.
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Posted in paris on Oct 7th, 2009
The European Union isn’t only a community of 27 member states, it is as well the best example of a Union of divorces. The current divorce rate in Europe breaks all records.
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Posted in paris on Sep 16th, 2009
The stripers are the most desirable girls of the earth. Since the first nudes appeared in France in the late nineteenth century with the arrival of the New-Burlesque, striptease is part of our culture. At that time, a libertine and challenging city of Paris turned the music hall industry into the most acclaimed spectacle, until [...]
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