The Portland Saturday Market
Have you ever wanted a place to go to just hang out with some friends or family and not have to worry about being bored or hungry? The Portland Saturday Market is a wonderful place for that. It is the perfect hang out spot between March and December while it is open. Last summer I would attend with my brothers almost every weekend. We would enjoy the hundreds of fascinating people walking around and watch break dancers spinning on their heads, the many arts and crafts inspired by local businesses, and smell of the sweet cinnamon sugar that comes on an elephant ear..
When I think of The Portland Saturday Market I think of a phrase that is used a lot in the Portland area: “Keep Portland Weird.” That is exactly what the Saturday Market does, they may not all be weird but I assure you that almost everyone there is fascinating in their own way. Yeah, you have your average everyday people like me and maybe you. You also have the hippies, performers, families, friends, bikers, the “freaks”. The crowd in the Saturday Market is never a dull moment. You have many different cultures and many ways of life mixing together at one time. My favorite people to see are the street performers, there are plenty of musicians and dancers to watch at any given moment. All you have to do is hang out around Skidmore Fountain. Last summer my brother and I were watching the performers when a group of young men were break dancing around Skidmore Fountain they were extremely good, even spinning on their heads, and within minutes had a decent sized group of people watching, clapping, and cheering on their every move.. Every now and then walking around you can find someone with an intriguing life story to talk to. I remember one s...
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...m to spread the passion and enjoyment and to share their love to the people who do buy them.
Altogether the Portland Saturday Market is one of the most wonderful places to be during the summer. I love being able to see the many types of people that attend, and to watch the performers dance or sing. While you do that you can always grab something new to eat every time that you are there. Elephant ears, philly cheese steaks, pizza and many more types of food are bound to create a wonderful aroma for you to find something just right for your mood at that moment. Also, to see all the amazing arts and crafts that people have for you to buy is an amazing opportunity to buy something someone in your family will love as much as the person who made it. If you haven’t been to the Portland Saturday Market you are missing out and I surely hope that you get to sometime soon.
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There were two principle views concerning imagination, the Victorians and the Romantics, who didn’t accept each other’s ideas about imagination. But, despite their clashes on the status and views of imagination, the Romantics and Victorians share similar ideas through different angles of perspective, which we could assume are linked in part to their era. The long poem, named Goblin Market, written by Christina Rossetti shows the contrast between the ideas of Romanticism and the Victorian image of imagination while utilizing the same motifs. Goblin Market centralizes its theme on the Victorian approach towards Imagination as being a destructive, alien force that leads to grave and fatal consequences. Nature is seen as a demonic force that leads to death, as well as the clear distinction of the imaginative creatures, consisting of the goblins, being portrayed as satanic and evil. In addition, throughout this tale we see how the imagination is constantly blamed for leading to unfortunate situations, while the Romantics would consider the imagination to be doing the person good even if it leads the person astray on a path of death and destruction. Thus, Rossetti’s text demonstrates the Imagination having satanic nature, which portrays imagination as intoxicating and deadly. Also, the author displays her disapproval of nature by demonstrating Laura’s rejection of nature as her enlightenment, whereas the Romantics would do otherwise. The Romantics have different views of the imagination than the Victorians. They consider imagination as a divine force and a pathway to a higher experience and spiritual truth in any form. The Romantics consider that their perc...
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