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    Park and Recreation

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    Botanical Garden or commonly known as The Hutan Rekreasi Ayer Keroh was establish from an idea mooted by the Chief Minister of Melaka‚ YAB Dato Seri Hj Mohd Ali bin Mohd Rustam on 1st June 2006. It is encircled by a forest that content over 300 species of unique flora and fauna. The cheesy yet cute thing about this park is the collection of giant stone carving as prehistoric animals that were indigenous to this area and scatted all around the park. The 92.5 hectares Melaka Botanical Garden features

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    knowledge are linked in the Judeo-Christian tradition. The Bible begins with the story of Adam and Eve‚ who were expelled from the Garden of Eden for eating from the tree of knowledge of good and evil. As a result of their knowledge‚ Adam and Eve are made aware of their humanness‚ that which separates them from the divine and from other creatures. Once expelled from the Garden of Eden‚ they are forced to toil and to procreate—two "labors" that seem to define the human condition. The experience of Hester

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    Rappaccini's Daughter

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    Rappaccini’s Daughter is a reenactment of the original fall from innocence and purity in the Garden of Eden. Rappaccini’s garden sets the stage‚ while the characters of the story each represent the important figures from the biblical story. The story takes place in mid-nineteenth century in Padua‚ Italy and revolves around two major settings; the mansion of an old Paduan family‚ and Rappaccini’s lush garden. The mansion is described as‚ "high and gloomy"‚ "the palace of a Paduan noble" "desolate and

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    Park

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    Kensington Gardens. This park was created in 1689 with land annexed from Hyde Park when William and Mary became joint monarchs and moved into Nottingham House‚ now Kensington Palace. In 1728‚ the western section of Hyde Park was carved out to create Kensington Gardens which became part of Kensington Palace grounds. Designed and landscaped under the watchful eye of George II’s wife‚ Queen Caroline‚ fashionable features such as the Round Pond‚ formal avenues‚ the Serpentine and the Italian Garden were created

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    fountain‚ the garden‚ and the large purple flower to aide him in his cautionary story against corruption. At the center of Dr. Rappaccini’s garden is the ruin of a marble fountain. The fountain is “sculpted with rare art‚ but so woefully shattered that it was impossible to trace the original design from the chaos of the remaining fragments” (Hawthorne 1045). This battered fountain‚ that was once beautiful and glorious‚ represents corruption and its results. Its

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    The narrator’s dream can be divided into three parts: the gate‚ the description of the garden and temple‚ and the parliament itself. This particular part of his dream vision relates to the second part of his dream: the description of the garden and temple. On the surface both seem very beautiful and graceful‚ but when we take a closer look at the text that may not be the case. The description of the garden centres itself around the theme of ‘locus amoenus’‚ which is Latin for ‘pleasant place’

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    chapters in the Bible‚ lush‚ beautiful gardens are the setting. Both gardens are exotic and pretty‚ but the Garden of Eden is bright and tropical‚ whereas Dr. Rappaccini’s garden is dark and mysterious. Both gardens are home to a type of "forbidden" plant‚ but the Garden of Eden was created by God‚ whereas the garden in the story is created by a man with a god complex‚ Dr. Rappaccini. The forbidden plant in Genesis is a gorgeous fruit tree. The tree in the Garden of Eden is called the Tree of Knowledge

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    Roshanna Masilamani The use of symbolism is the best way to shed light on the darker or deeper messages of a text. I strongly agree with the statement ‘the use of symbolism is the best way to shed light on the darker or deeper messages of a text’. A text that exemplifies the statement is Barbara Kingsolver’s novel ‘The Poisonwood Bible’. Symbolism was used in the text to highlight the darker and deeper messages of the text. ‘The Poisonwood Bible’ is a novel about a missionary family‚ the Prices

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    archetypal symbols in their stories‚ but from an archetypal critic’s point of view‚ it is evident that all of them do use these symbols. In the short story “Young Goodman Brown”‚ written by Nathaniel Hawthorne‚ archetypal colors‚ characters‚ and garden imagery are evident and help the audience realize the theme‚ as Hawthorne writes‚ “’Evil is the nature of mankind’” (636). Archetypal colors are evident throughout the story “Young Goodman Brown.” There are many colors used throughout the story

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    Willa Cather's a Lost Lady

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    The Captain Forrester and His Roses In Willa Cather’s A Lost Lady‚ Captain Daniel Forrester is a gardener at heart. His lifetime is spent encouraging growth‚ whether of railroads‚ personal lives or flowers. His philosophy is to dream "because a thing that is dreamed of in the way I mean is already an accomplished fact" (44). Close friends described the Captain as clearly looking like "… pictures of Grover Cleveland. His clumsy dignity covered a deep nature‚ and a conscience that had never

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