Healian Grand Travel Essay

Camp #1: One group of authors are motivated to travel to investigate cultures and for their own self betterment. This group of authors travel and record their experiences to share them with those who are unable to do as they do due to the reader’s circumstances or mindsets towards travel. These authors defend travel to be a positive experience and corrects the false assumptions that travel is dangerous and only there for crocked tourism schemes.

In “The Ugly Tourist” by Jamaica Kincaid, tourism is thought as a disgusting and an extremely harmful industry. In her perspective, it allows first world citizens to escape and marvel at the simplest and most ordinary things. Although there is some truth in what Jamaica Kincaid describes to the reader, I believe there is a prejudiced view towards the tourist themselves. Kincaid’s essay about the ugliness and affects of being a tourist contrasts everything I’ve experienced being a tourist in Italy and Greece.

Through the immersion of one in a variety of physical environments, the manipulation of genre, form and perspective presents a polysemic representation of a diverse range of landscapes, in turn allowing responders to develop complex understandings into the human psyche. Specifically, through the interwoven utilization of complex allusions and personalized outlooks Alain De Botton’s The Art Of Travel shapes humanities greater knowledge of traveling’s impact on the human behavior and perception. Likewise, this notion is extended amongst Kenneth Slessor’s minimalistic, poetic piece North Country in which the composer highlights man’s dichotomous relationship with the physical world, and how ongoing, differentiated experiences cultivate interpersonal growth and develop individualized standpoints towards the wider globe. Consequently, both texts elicit portrayals of innumerable landscapes, which foreground the intricacies of civilization through the construction of a piece that reveals the subjectivity of our human mentalities today.

There are the tourists—those who seek temporary relaxation, or famous sights. There are the travelers—those who wander, without aim, for the love of moving. There are the explorers—those seeking adventure, the thrill of unearthing things rarely seen.

“Than longen folk to goon on pilgrimages,” said Gregory Chaucer in his book, The Canterbury Tales, meaning people long to go on religious pilgrimages. The act of pilgrimage during the Middle Ages had been a very popular and traditional practice in the Christian society. This visit to shrines or holy places was an act of religious devotion and played a role in the lives of many Europeans, especially those in the western regions of Medieval Europe. In order to understand the importance of pilgrimages, we will emphasize the purpose of pilgrimages, the diversity of pilgrims that took part in them, and the various shrines pilgrims visited.

de Botton employs literary devices to convey the diverse relationship between an individual and an environment thus shaping the reader’s varied “perception of real landscapes”. Additionally, conveying the diverse individual response due to the varying perspectives of how individuals view themselves and the world around them. de Botton’s intertextuality of Huysmans misanthropic hero Des Esseintes recognise that the allusion of anticipation ultimately affects an individual’s approach to the experience of travel. This anecdote further conveys the ideal that “The reality of travel is not what we anticipate” and that “reality must always be

In tenth grade, I was given the opportunity to travel to Italy for ten days. While I delighted my tastebuds with all kinds of Italian cuisine, my brain feasted on an abundance of knowledge presented in architecture, history, art, and inventions; most of which emerged during the Italian Renaissance. The Renaissance was a time period concerned with exploring the unknown, expressing creativity by means of art, and using imagination, as well as intellectual curiosity to create techniques and theories. For these reasons, if I were capable of traveling back in time, I would visit the time period of the Italian Renaissance.

Bam! It hit me like a speeding truck. Two weeks in Cuzco, Peru had shown me what it is really like to be struggling in all areas in life. This specific mission trip showed me outside our borders there are people in need of basic necessities in life. I spent the better of two weeks learning about myself and the people I was determined to help. Teaching has always been a part of my life, however, after these two weeks, I learned that teaching is exactly what I want to do with my career. The students I was able to work with had not had a proper education, and my teaching them put them that much farther into a life they hadn't imagined ever having. The compassion and empathy I felt in my heart for my students had shown me that teaching is the right

This travel had a deep impact on Longfellow: the traces of the European tours influence can be seen not only in Longfellow's choice of subjects, but also in his mode of life.

The start of Lucy’s journey of introspection begins when Lucy arrives in Italy and is the stereotypical English tourist. The conventional English tourist does not care to learn about the foreign people, but he or she is infatuated with the country’s past history and art. The art and history of a country are alluring and disassociate from the stark reality that the people of the country represent. Forster resents the stereotypical English tourist from an early age when travelling with his mother to Italy. Forster conveys his distaste in A Room with a View in two methods. First, he translates “the lack of view [of Lucy and Charlotte’s initial room] as symptomatic of the [English] cultural narrow mindedness” (Sampaio 900). Both Lucy and Charlotte are arrogant when

I have been able to use my travel as the synapse to what I have learned in school, watched in movies, read in books or experienced from the news. I find myself reminiscing upon the real places on which was reported, the same places I have been. Seeing the diary of Anne Frank in real life and standing in the same place she hid in secret as a teenager was the nexus for understanding the important role travel has played in the balanced perspective of different cultures I have, the similar perspective Anne Frank embraced without regards to her particular circumstance. From this event I also embrace; we are more alike, my friends, than we are

Due to my passion for travel and my ancestry I’ve based my Research Project around this topic. The project will focus particularly on furthering my knowledge on my ancestry; significant countries in relation to my family, and how to plan a holiday. This topic is momentous to me as I’ll be accessing new information, enhancing my knowledge on the culture and understanding the lifestyle my grandparent’s endured. Which by travelling and meeting new people will hopefully gain me a deeper appreciation of life by viewing what other cultures live like and tie in my ancestry and the new culture together. On this trip I’ll be visiting Germany, Hungary, Croatia and Serbia. These countries are relevant to my ancestry by locating sources which depicted my family up to my great, great; great grandparents lived in these countries. The cities/villages which will be a primary location for this trip is Mitrovica (Croatia), Novi Sad (Serbia), Budapest (Hungary) and in Germany Berlin. To travel to and from countries I’ll be using a hire car and air travelling.

I remember the day just like it was yesterday, the pale color and coldness of her skin. The sky was clear blue, soft, with a touch of red, and the trees seemed stiff in their bright green shade. The wind was blowing with its humid dry air. And All I could do was stand silently in disbelief, caught up in my own thoughts and calm as I ever been. Wondering what I could have done differently to change the course of time, life had taken us upon. Since that very day a chunk of my heart was ripped away, and broken into pieces… “Oh how I miss her so much.”

Both Walking in Sixteenth Century Venice by De Vivo and Coffeehouses by Ozkocak are both very interesting in a sense that they focused on ordinary people’s ordinary lives instead of authority and illustrated history in the view of ordinary people. By focusing on the streets, De Vivo was able to specifically explain all different status of people on the street and Ozkocak was also able to describe the change in public space and its users by exploring the coffeehouses. In Walking in Sixteenth Century Venice, the author is suggesting that by following people’s walking path, the society’s societal, cultural, and political style and values could be clearly shown. De vivo gave several examples but one thing which caught my eyes was the War of the Fist—young boys gathered together on the bridge and fought in order to show their power.

I went to Burger King with three friends. We walked a long way then I