Have lunch in French restaurant

I ate in a French restaurant in lunchtime near cool mountain park on December, 20th.I liked the food there very much because of the different eating environment. We ate in a room which painted red. We sat in a small table with a candle in the centre of table. The seat is soft and can be rotated. There were two paintings hanging on the wall. They were all paintings of grapes. We know that France is famous for its grape wine. I felt very comfortable and interested to eat inside the room.However, the process of eating are quiet different. French cuisine paid more attention on the enjoyment of eating than to eat to be full.Therefore, they usually eat some snacks and drink some soups at first instead of eating rice to make full like Chinese food such as vegetable salad. After that, they started to provide main food like roasted chicken and cakes. It took us most of the time to wait and it’s almost four times of the eating part. I think maybe French love to enjoy their meal rather than to eat to be full.I heard that there were many French people in Nanjing who lived near the French restaurant often enjoy their dinner there.The service was quiet good the waitress stands by our table to dump drinks to our glass bottle and we can call for help at anytime by pressing the help bottom on our table,then,the waitress would come immediately.I would like recommend people who like enjoy things to have a try in this restaurant

Institute of sculpture art of Nanjing University

On December 4th,our class went to the Nanjing university to see Chinese traditional sculpture of one popular artist named Wu Weishan.When I came into the exhibition room, I saw a bright title of exhibition ‘Institute of sculpture art of Nanjing University’.I was really attracted by those cultural figures sculptures; suddenly I saw a most beautiful one which I like the most. I came closely to the work of art and want to see the sculpture more clearly, it says ‘the statue of Laos’ on the introduction and it’s made in year 2000.The sculpture is made of a special kind of dark green clay and it’s old man standing and put his left hand index finger up, he wears silk long ancient Chinese clothing like a blouse. After watching it carefully, I realize that the subject of the sculpture is the famous Chinese man who set up Dao religion in Qing dynasty in ancient China named Laozi.He has a smile on his face and his silk blouse is like the rainfall.I watched it in detail the artist made it with circle, rectangle and triangle. The color of the sculpture is the same color of the special clay; it uses straight line and mostly uses curve lines to draw the folded clothes. The texture he used is the head on the top the goes the bodies and the clothes. The same as a real man.A guide Zhu interpret my favorite sculpture Laos, he told me why Lazio’s sculpture is like this.First,Laozi’s left hand index finger put up mainly because of the Dao religion he set up. In the Dao religion, it says that everything in the universe was created by one thing.Second, the silk clothes he wears looks like water falls from the mountain. It also relates to the Dao religion, it says however the water is soft, smooth and liquid; it can destroy things such as the flood can inundate the villages. It embodies the soft thing can defeat hard thing in some ways in Dao religion. It also embodies that doing nothing is better than doing anything sometimes.After he interprets, I feel that the art is beautiful not only because of its beautiful image but also because of the Chinese history and culture in it and this makes me more proud of the talent of Weismann and his art work. The art work makes me thing about the Chinese culture and brings me to the Qing dynasty to se Laos and I started to be interested in the Dao religion. In my experience, I thought of a badminton competition I joined, when I played with a merciless player I didn’t use my mind to play ,I only use my force finally I lost the game. I think it is like “hard thing can be defeated by the soft thing’ in Dao religion.I like the artwork ‘he statue of Laos’ as I said in the first three paragraphs because it let’s me know the Chinese culture more and teaches me a lot of truth to let me know how to deal with things in the society in the future. I think most people would like it because it spreads the traditional Chinese culture to people and tackles them many truths they have realized or not.

THe Taming of the Shrew

The Taming of the Shrew written by William Shakespeare depicts the common roles of men and women in the early seventeenth century. Shakespeare writes of Petruchio and Kate, a male and female who sharply oppose each other. Petruicho must "tame" his wife Kate without breaking her true inner spirit. Shakespeare touches on Kate's changing character and allows her to undergo three phases: Kate's character in the beginning, the methods Petruicho uses to tame Kate and the final outcome (how Kate has changed). The Taming of the Shrew unravels to reveal a wild beastly Katharine lacking respect for her family, herself and others around her. Kate is a very outspoken and vulgar woman without respect to authority. Katharine, although depicted as a beautiful woman quickly becomes the talk of Padua. Kate has found that if she is loud and obnoxious she can have her way. She screams and grunts and pushes those who she does not get along with. The general character of Katharine seems to be that of a small child. Peturicho's methods of pursuit in some cases border along the lines of torture. Peturicho manipulates and exploits Kate's character in order to change her outward actions. Although Peturicho does not want to change Kate's inward thoughts, he does not want to break her spirit. The greatest example can be quoted below. Petruchio says, "Thy gown's Why, aye. Come, tailor, let us see'st. / O mercy, God! What masquing stuff is here's / What's this's A sleeve's Tis like a demi-cannon. / What, up and down, carved like an apple tart's / Here's snip and nip and cut and slish and slash, Like to a censer in a barber's shop." (4.3.86-92) Petruciho uses the beautiful gown to show Kate that she will no longer have her way. Petruicho also uses several other instances to tame Kate. Petruicho is "fashionably late" to his wedding with Katharine and upon arrival is dresed as a jester. Petruciho "kidnaps" Kate from her wedding reception, and upon arrival to his home only allows Kate to smell the delicious food. Petruicho conduct himself in this manner to show Kate how she looks and behaves. After taming the woman that he loved, it became obvious that Petruchio had overcome his pursuit in life. Petruchio had been succesful in changing Kate's outward actions and boasted to his friends in the ending lines. Petruchio had changed Kate, but allowed her to retain her spirit. Kate spoke the words that Petruchio had trained her to speak, but spoke with vigor and malice.Kate says, "Fie, fie, unknit that threatening unkind brow / and dart not scornful glances from those eyes / to wound thy lord, thy king, thy governor. / It blots thy beauty as frosts do bite the meads, / Thy husband is thy lord, thy life, thy keeper, Thy head, thy sovereign'sne that cares for thee, And for thy maintenance commits his body to painful labor both by sea and land, (5.2.145-149) To conclude Petruchio clearly achieved his goal, and "tamed the shrew" of his life. Katharine's father, friends, and townsmen and women were greatly surprised with Petruicho's victory over the nasty woman they once knew. Petruicho had certainly improved upon Kate's character in the beginning. His methods trained or molded Kate into a proper woman of the time. Katharine had become both tame and submisive to her husband.