My favorite smell is dumplings being made. The aroma of fresh dumplings takes me back to when I went to China. While In China, my family and I visited a fancy dumpling restaurant in Shanghai. The chefs were able to intricately shape dumplings into swans, turtles, crabs, and many other creatures. Not only were they aesthetically pleasing, but they tasted just as great as they looked. The smell of dumplings not only takes me back to Shanghai, but to other areas as well: the bustling cities of Shanghai and Xi’an, The Great Wall of China, and the agricultural area near Dongying. I can envision the millions of people in one place—hurrying, doing yoga, talking with people— as if I visited just yesterday. It was one of the most
There is a great art that can be found in being able to describe the world of an ancient civilization. Especially in one where large man made walls form because of the creases of a sleeping dragon’s back, or that the layout of the fields and streams of a small village create the image of a galloping unicorn when looked from up above. Yet, this is Imperial China, or as Barry Hughhart writes in his Novel Bridge of Birds, “an Ancient China that Never Was” (Hughhart 1984). This novel explores the history and the world of Ancient China, and the tales of the people who have walked across the land. Offering a summary of the book, we will be able to analyze
“China in Ten Words” is notably striking on many fronts. From one of China’s most acclaimed writers, Yu Hua fearlessly addresses forbidden subjects all the while stringing together past and present China. It is an intimate and unique look at the Chinese experience over the last forty years. Connections between Cultural Revolution China and Market-Driven China are made, as each topic is lightened with traces of his wit and humorous tones. However, it cannot be denied that even with Hua’s banter, some realities cannot help but remain bleak. Through personal encounters and insightful analysis, layers of China are revealed one by one. Word by word Hua exposes the unexposed, taking the reality of China’s past and present head on.
I remember when I first came across the Scentsy products, they were all so appealing and captivating, and loaded with various colors and styles. I literally thought that I was in heaven when I took the first whiff of my favorite scent, Beach (the aroma of papaya and honeydew melon that has been sweetened with a hint of coconut). I have many other best-loved scents that relax me and make me forget about all of my worries and surroundings. When your nose get its first whiff of a Scentsy product, it automatically sends the body, mind,
The author talks about her living space in Shanghai, China, she shared a house with neighbors. “Though we had lived in this old three-story house in Shanghai for more than a year, I couldn’t map out the neighbors and where they resided” (Schmitt). She did not know where all her neighbors lived. Her living space was spacious and updated in the top floor of the house, but the author states “The other two floors remained as they had been during the height of Communism: cheap, basic and subdivided.”
In the reading of women’s travelogues in WET, I argue that the image of the “Modern Girl” has been presented in the women’s searching for a modern subjectivity in their travel experiences. Tangled in the subjective space in travel, much of the travelogues deal with the triviality and daily mundane in the manner of becoming a Modern Girl. Such daily details, instead of offering a grandeur picture of an enlightened China, offer a depiction of the troubled experiences of alienation, anxiety, and fears inherent to the modern expoernece of Chinese women. The two travelogues of Yang Xueqiong provide an explicating example of these modern Chinese
In the past, London already is a prosperity city in United Kingdom. Then, they use animal-powered, such as horses, ox to transport commodity or people, in that time almost everyone also use carriage. Furthermore, the fashion in the past, the women wear gowns or pannier, underwear, shoes buckles and make extreme hairstyles and wigs. The men wear waistcoats, shirt, breeches, shoes, and long stockings, wigs, and cocked hats. The place of origin of this fashion is North America and French. In 1962, London suffered the worst fogs in the world. Called "London Pea Soupers" because the color in the air like pea soup, at worst it was not possible to see as far as your hand on your outstretched arm. After second world war, London start of the immense flow of immigrants into London and change the face of the landscape, local culture for all the time.
What is the smell that permeates the office building? This essay will argue that the smell in the office is a physical manifestation of the attitudes and emotions of its inhabitants. The reactions of different characters to the smell in the office building will be examined from cognitive and anthropological viewpoints. For the purpose of this essay “cognitive” will refer to the emotional associations that the characters make with the physical smell and the function of memory in its relation to smell. From the “anthropological” aspect, this essay will focus on the cultural representations of scent appraisal within the narrative. The reader learns about many of the static characters by their reported reactions to the smell: their persistent complaints are contrasted by Singlebury and his alleged understanding of its origin. In this way, the smell in the office building acts as a foil for the Manager, Singlebury and their colleagues. The smell lurks antagonistically throughout the story, growing stronger, highlighting crucial ...
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Upon arrival into the jungle of vast buildings, the first thing noticed is the mobbed streets filled with taxi cabs and cars going to and fro in numerous directions, with the scent of exhaust surfing through the air. As you progress deeper into the inner city and exit your vehicle, the aroma of the many restaurants passes through your nostrils and gives you a craving for a ?NY Hot Dog? sold by the street venders on the corner calling out your name. As you continue your journey you are passed by the ongoing flow of pedestrians talking on their cell phones and drinking a Starbucks while enjoying the city. The constant commotion of conversing voices rage up and down the streets as someone calls for a fast taxi. A mixed sound of various music styles all band together to form one wild tune.
My favorite smell of all the delicious food that had filled our home the week before had to be my grandmothers recipe of pot roast. She has made this recipe since I was too young to talk. When I think of it I can almost smell the powerful aroma of the herbs melding with the meat and getting stronger with each hour it spends in the slow cooker. This is what home and comfort smells like. Every woman in my family knows how to cook efficiently, except for me. To whip up a quick three course dinner is not a tall order among my grandmother, my mother, and my aunts. I decided to peel my sore body off the couch for just enough time go into the kitchen and see if there were any leftovers from all of the dishes that accumulated in our house over the last week. When I opened up my refrigerator to collect a Tupperware container of something wonderful, it hit me. There was nothing left in that fridge. Somehow, my husband and I had eaten every last bite of the
When I first walk in the door from work, the smell of a Cuban fiesta envelops my sense of smell....
Aromas we smell are processed in the limbic system of the brain which is where emotions and memories are stored. So we are literally tapping into a very deep part of the brain when sniffing a fragrance. There is no filter on the sense of smell either, so we drop into those emotions or memories instantly. This can happen out of the blue, when we least expect it. A stranger on the street might wear the same cologne as a first lover, causing us to feel breathless and sentimental. Perhaps the scent of a musty cabinet might smell exactly like grandmother’s attic where we used to play as a child triggering joyful memories. Scent is powerful. In products it might achieve a myriad of results like give us confidence, keep us calm, or make us feel sexy. A well-fragranced product should be a gift and tool for the
What is perfume? Some people may say that perfumes are a fragrant liquid created by essential oils and other ingredients. Essential oils are responsible for the odor and makes up the fragrance of a plant, and are usually extracted from flowers or spices to make a certain scent (Wong, 2013). Perfumes are also a refreshing and pleasant smell that women and men usually spread around their body or clothes. Each scent of perfume depends on a certain person. No two persons are exactly the same, therefore no fragrance or odor will smell precisely the same on any people. For example, one person may like a certain scent however, another person may have a different opinion on it. Odor is a distinctive smell and every odor is unique. It is a reaction or response resulting from a stimulation of the olfactory organs. The olfactory organs are the organ of smell also known as the nose. Every person has a different prospective in life they also have a different prospective in a fragrance.