WONDERS OF PARIS

Paris (English /ˈpærɪs/, ⁱ/ˈpɛrɪs/; French: [paʁi] ( listen)) is the capital and most populous city of France. It is situated on the River Seine, in the north of the country, at the heart of the Île-de-France region. Within its administrative limits (the 20 arrondissements), the city had 2,234,105 inhabitants in 2009 while its metropolitan area is one of the largest population centres in Europe with more than 12 million inhabitants.

POPULATION: 2.234 MILLION (JAN 2009)
AREA: 105.4 KM

IT ALSO HAS TOURIST SPOTS LIKE:
*EIFFEL TOWER                 *PALACE OF VERSAILLES

A Midsummer Night's Dream

A Midsummer Night's Dream is a play by William Shakespeare. It is believed that it was written between 1590 and 1596. It portrays the events surrounding the marriage of the Duke of Athens, Theseus, and Hippolyta.

First performance: 1595

Original language: English

Characters: Oberon, Titania, Hermia, Lysander, Helena, Puck,Demetrius, Theseus, Hippolyta, Egeus, Philostrate

Genres: Fantasy, Comedy

Adaptations: Were the World Mine (2008), Get Over It (2001), More

THE TEMPEST

THE TEMPEST IS A PLAY BY WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, BELIEVED TO HAVE BEEN IN 1606-11, AND THOUGHT BY MANY CRITICS TO BE THE LAST PLAY THAT SHAKESPEARE WROTE ALONE.

FIRST PERFORMANCE: 1611

GENRE: ROMANTIC COMEDY

CHARACTERS: PROSPERO, CALIBAN, ARIEL, MIRANDA, STEPHANO, FERDINAND, GONZALO, SYCORAX, KING ALONSO, IRIS TRINCULO, CERES, JUNO AND ANTONIO.

KING LEAR

KING LEAR IS A TRAGEDY BY WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE. THE TITLE CHARACTER DESCENDS INTO MADNESS AFTER DISPOSING OF HIS ESTATE BETWEEN TWO OF HIS THREE DAUGHTERS BASED ON THEIR FLATTERY, BRINGING TRAGIC CONSEQUENCES FOR ALL.

FIRST PERFORMANCE: DECEMBER 26, 1606

MONA LISA

THE MONA LISA IS A HALF-LENGTH PORTRAIT OF A WOMAN BY THE ITALIAN ARTIST LEONARDO DE VINCI, WHICH HAS BEEN ACCLAIMED AS "THE BEST KNOWN, THE MOST VISITED, THE MOST WRITTEN ABOUT, THE MOST SUNG ABOUT, THE MOST PARODIED WORK OF ART IN THE WORLD."

ARTIST: LEONARDO DE VINCI

LOCATION: THE LOUVRE

CREATED: 1503-1517

DIMENSIONS: 77 CM BY 53 CM

SUBJECT: LISA DEL GIOCONDO

GENRE: PORTRAIT

THE BEATLES

ACTIVE FROM: 1960
MEMBERS:JOHN LENNON, PAUL McCARTNEY, GEORGE HARRISON AND RINGO STARR

THE BEATLES WERE AN ENGLISH ROCK BAND FORMED IN LIVERPOOL IN 1960. THEIR BEST-KNOWN LINEUP, CONSISTING OF JOHN LENNON, PAUL McCARTNEY, GEORGE HARRISON AND RINGO STARR, BECAME CONSIDERED BY MANY AS THE GREATEST AND MOST INFLUENTIAL ACT OF THE ROCK AREA.
ROOTED IN SKIFFLE AND 1950S ROCK AND ROLL, THE BEATLES LATER UTILIZED SEVERAL GENRES, RANGING FROM POP BALLADS TO PSYCHEDELIC ROCK.

THEIR ENORMOUS POPULARITY FIRST EMERGED AS "BEATLEMANIA", BUT AS THEIR SONGWRITING GREW IN SOPHISTICATION, THEY CAME TO BE PERCEIVED BY FANS AND CULTURAL OBSERVERS AS AN EMBODIMENT OF THE IDEALS SHARED BY THE ERA'S SOCIOCULTURAL REVOLUTIONS.

OTHELLO

FIRST PERFORMANCE: NOVEMBER 1, 1604
PLAYWRIGHT: WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE


THE TRAGEDY OF OTHELLO, THE MOOR OF VENICE IS A TRAGEDY BY WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, BELIEVED TO HAVE BEEN WRITTEN IN APPROXIMATELY 1603, AND BASED ON THE ITALIAN SHORT STORY "UN CAPITOL MORO" (" A MOORISH CAPTAIN") BY CINTHIO, A DISCIPLE OF BOCCACCIO, FIRST PUBLISHED IN 1565. THE WORK REVOLVES AROUND FOUR CENTRAL CHARACTERS: OTHELLO, A MOORISH GENERAL IN THE VENETIAN ARMY; HIS WIFE,DESDEMONA; HIS LIEUTENANT, CASSIO; AND HIS TRUSTED ENSIGN, LAGO. BECAUSE OF ITS VARIED AND CURRENT THEMES OF RACISM, LOVE, JEALOUSY AND BETRAYAL, OTHELLO IS STILL OFTEN PERFORMED PROFESSIONAL AND COMMUNITY THEATRES  ALIKE AND HAS BEEN THE BASIS FOR NUMEROUS OPERATIC, FILM AND LITERARY ADAPTIONS.  

MACBETH

FIRST PERFORMANCE: APRIL 1611

GENRE: TRAGEDY

PLAYWRIGHT: WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

MACBETH IS A PLAY WRITTEN BY WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE. IT IS CONSIDERED ONE OF HIS DARKEST AND MOST POWERFUL TRAGEDIES. SET IN SCOTLAND, THE PLAY DRAMATIZES THE CORROSIVE PSYCHOLOGICAL AND POLITICAL EFFECTS PRODUCED WHEN EVIL IS CHOSEN AS A WAY TO FULLFIL THE AMBITION OF POWER.

HISTORY OF HAMLET

THE TRAGEDY OF HAMLET, PRINCE OF DENMARK IS A TRAGEDY BY WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE. SET IN THE KINGDOM OF DENMARK,THE PLAY DRAMATIZES THE REVENGE PRINCE HAMLET EXACTS ON HIS UNCLE CLAUDIUS FOR MURDERING KING HAMLET, CLAUDIUS' BROTHER AND PRINCE HAMLET'S FATHER, AND THEN SUCCEEDING TO THE THRONE AND TAKING AS HIS WIFE GERTRUDE, THE OLD KING'S WIDOW AND PRINCE HAMLET'S MOTHER.

GENRE: TRAGEDY

PLAYWRIGHT: WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

THE PLAY VIVIDLY PORTRAYS BOTH TRUE AND FEIGNED MADNESS-FROM OVERWHELMING GRIEF TO SEETHING RAGE -AND EXPLORES THEMES OF TREACHERY, REVENGE,INCEST AND MORAL CORRUPTION.

TODAY HAMLET MAKES HISTORY AND GIVES US MORAL LESSON THAT REVENGE IS SWEET FOR A REASONABLE TRAGEDY....

FAMOUS PEOPLE THIS DAYS

TODAY, WHY DO FAMOUS PEOPLE BECOMES BAD OR DOES DRUGS OR GOES TO JAIL?

YOU KNOW SOME PEOPLE DO NOT MANAGE TO BECOME DECENT. BUT, I THINK WHY PEOPLE DO UGLY THINGS CAUSE THEY FEEL SOMETHING DEEP INSIDE.