Now that the Supreme Court has thrown a neo-Kahanist off the ballot for racist incitement, we are hearing the usual cries about judicial autocracy. We are advised that judges have no business intervening in such political matters, that the High Court imperils democratic norms when it does so.
But judicial review has firm roots in democratic governance as it is actually practiced in countries with independent courts. This observation applies no less to Israel, where judicial review of legislative acts dates only from 1995, as to the United States, where it was established in 1803. In fact, the need for judicial review may be greater in Israel than in America.
The constitutional scholar Rivka Weill has studied the comparisons extensively. Her work should excite all of us who care about the rule of law in both countries. Her most recent article is called, Rivka Weill, The Strategic Common Law Court of Aharon Barak and its Aftermath: On Judicially-led Constitutional Revolutions and Democratic Backsliding, designated for publication at the Law & Ethics of Human Rights (2019). It is available at SSRN: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3296578.
This fascinating piece contains a comparison of the 1995 Mizrahi Bank decision, published shortly after PM Rabin's assassination, and the American Supreme Court's ruling in Marbury v. Madison, in which the American Supreme Court first claimed the power to invalidate acts of Congress. In both cases, as Weill describes, the respective high courts claimed sweeping powers but did not actually enter judgments that required the political branches of government to do anything. In the Mizrahi Bank case, the court claimed the right to declare a statute unconstitutional in violation of the 1992 Basic Law, Human Dignity and Liberty, but did not actually order the voiding of an amendatory law respecting creditors' rights. The constitutional analysis did not strictly speaking decide the case. Thus, the government, not the creditors, won. In Marbury, likewise, the court while declaring a statute unconstitutional, denied Marbury's request for delivery of a judicial commission. Chief Justice Marshall, a member of the defeated Federalist Party, in a stunning act of judicial statesmanship, used that new power to avoid a confrontation with the Jefferson administration. He decided that the statute in question may have appeared to give him authority to order James Madison to give Marbury his Commission, and thus Madison acted illegally in refusing to give Marbury the commission, but the statute could not be enforced because it was unconstitutional. Actually, the statute in question, the 1789 Judiciary Act, did not clearly do what Marshall claimed, that is,expand the direct jurisdiction of the Supreme Court to issue direct orders without an appeal pending. In any event, as in Mizrahi, the government won. Marbury never became a judge. In both cases, the courts could have avoided dealing with the Constitutional issues. They did not have to be resolved in order to decide the case. In that sense, both courts, the Israeli and the American, ignored the normal obligation of judges to avoid constitutional issues unless absolutely necessary for determining the case. They both also asserted powers without confronting anyone in power.
Both cases likewise did not claim to rely on explicit constitutional language justifying judicial review. Chief Justice Marshall claimed that it was the exclusive province of the judges to say what the law is. On that basis he held that the Supreme Court had the final say on what the Constitution meant in particular cases. He came to this conclusion even though the Constitutional Convention of 1787 explicitly refused to give Congress the power to void state laws and nowhere stated explicitly that the court's view of the Constitution would be final. Likewise President Justice Aharon Barak looked at the so called Basic Laws passed, with small votes, by the Knesset and derived from such adoption his theory of the Israeli governmental system that the that the Knesset had the power to issue certain laws that could not be repealed in the ordinary course of legislative business. He thus concluded that the Basic Law: Human Dignity and Liberty gave the Court the authority to strike down ordinary legislation passed by the Knesset. In some respects, Barack's argument is better than Marshall's because The Basic Law: Human Dignity and Liberty at least contains a specific requirement that it could not be infringed except by a law that meets proportionality requirements for protecting liberty and human dignity. No such prohibition against future legislative action appears in the United States Constitution.
Further, structurally, the Israeli governmental system cries out for judicial review more than the American system. The United States has two houses of Congress which can serve as a check on each other, and an independently elected president with the power to veto legislation that he or she feels is unconstitutional. In addition, there are 50 state governors and legislatures and 50 state supreme courts with the power to review constitutional issues. The American system is complex, with many competing voices having the right to pass on constitutional issues.
In contrast, the Israeli government is unitary. Essentially the legislative and executive branches are fused in the Knesset which appoints the prime minister. There are no sub-national governments with any independent authority. Nor are there independent sub-national courts or sub-national constitutions like our American state constitutions which may contain rights that are not protected by the US Constitution. For example, the right to a free public education is protected by many state constitutions but the US Supreme Court has explicitly rejected the contention that such a right exists under the Federal Constitution. There are no such checks and balances in the Israeli governmental system.
For that reason, judicial review becomes a far more important tool for limiting the tyranny of the majority in the Israeli polity than in the United States. In fact, after Marshall declared part of the Judiciary Act unconstitutional in 1803, the Court did not strike on another statute for 49 years.
Also relevant is the development of judicial review as a feature of many functioning democracies. Barak was correct in his commentary that judicial review has become embedded in the constitutional framework of many countries. There has been thus a general recognition that impassioned majorities can trample human rights and that the passions of transient coalitions should be subject to check by the courts as a matter of last resort. Witness Hungary, Cambodia and Turkey today.
In that sense, the Madisonian theory of checks and balances can be implemented through judicial review even if Madison himself, the father of our American Constitution, never explicitly or even implicitly endorsed judicial review. In fact, lawyers in the United States and in Israel should be proud of the stance of the Israeli Supreme Court and its willingness to serve as a check upon the otherwise unbridled powers of the Knesset. Without such a check, majority tyranny could well undermine the democratic rights expressed in the Israeli Declaration of Independence and in basic laws such as the Basic Law protecting human dignity and liberty. As Sir Thomas More said in the film A Man for All Seasons, I give the devil due process of law for my own safety's sake. And the courts in Israel as elsewhere provide the means of assuring that safety. Thus, judicial review, preserves, not undermines, democratic government.
Peter Buchsbaum is a graduate of Cornell University and Harvard Law School. He clerked for Joseph Weintraub, Chief Justice of NJ and served as a Judge of the NJ Superior Court from 2004 to 2013 after a career as prominent municipal land use lawyer. Peter was listed in Who's Who in America for 25 years. Today, he sits on the Board of Trustees for Har Sinai Temple in Pennington, NJ; and he is a co-founder of J-PLAN (the Jewish Pluralism Legal Action Network), which advocates for marriage equality in Israel.


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Our goal at Da Vinci Academy is to provide a professional and disciplined, yet fun and supportive atmosphere where students of all levels can succeed. At the academy, the aim is not only to teach "how" but to cultivate the "why," forming a deep appreciation for art.
At Da Vinci we're passionate art nerds who believe in the importance of teaching the foundations of visual and performing art. But while we may be serious about art, we love to have fun too! All our classes combine key skill building activities with creativity and the freedom to explore.
The academy has attracted professional educators with years of experience, who love what they do and share a common goal—to nurture and inspire excellence in each and every student. Students enrolled at the Da Vinci Academy not only learn from teachers that have "studied the arts" but from mentors who have "lived the arts".
After becoming a prize winner at the Petrof Piano Competition at the age of thirteen, Armand Simon went on to study at the Conservatory of Rotterdam (Young Talent Program) and continued his advanced studies at the Hogeschool voor de Kunsten Utrecht, where he became immersed in art.
As a classical pianist, he has performed in The Netherlands, Aruba, Bonaire, Curacao, Venezuela, Colombia, Germany, USA, France, Spain and Belgium.
In 2004, he returned to Aruba and devoted himself to the artistic development of youngsters on the island. He created the successful concept "2classic4u?" (2005), established the Crescendo foundation in 2006 and has brought some of world's greatest classical musicians to Aruba with the Aruba Piano Festival (2006-2011). Armand founded Da Vinci Academy in 2010. In 2012 he introduced the Young Actors Club, a unique training program for young teenage actors.
He is also an award winning filmmaker. His short film "E Yobida di Ayera" (2016) screened at 19 film festivals around the world, including the San Mauro Film Festival (Italy), the Cardiff International Film Festival (UK), the Curacao International Film Festival Rotterdam (1st Prize, Caribbean Shorts Competition) and the GATFFEST Film Festival in Jamaica (Winner Viewers' Choice Award).
Nicole van Eer received her classical vocal education at the Sweelinck Conservatory in Amsterdam, where she was a member of the opera class. She was coached by Charles van Tassel and Kevin Smith. She sang parts in the operas "Le Nozze di Figaro", "La Boheme", "Xerxes", and went on to play the part of Monica in Menotti's "The Medium".
After her studies she performed in "The Phantom of the Opera". From 1996 to 1998 she played the part of Maria in the musical "West Side Story", both Joop van den Ende productions. After this intensive theatre period, Nicole switched her attention to the combination of opera and musical in recital form. In August 2001 she was a soloist at the Opera Festival in Valverde in Sicily, Italy, with arias from Puccini, Verdi, Bellini and Donizetti.
In 2004, Nicole moved to Aruba, where she also performed for Her Majesty Queen Beatrix. She started teaching at Da Vinci Academy in 2010.
Monique started dancing at the age of 4, and has been passionate about it ever since. Her love for dance led her to pursue further dance training abroad. She went to Louisiana (USA) to participate in a summer intensive, participated in a workshop at Stars Dance Studio in Miami (USA) and trained at the Leidse Ballet & Theaterschool (Netherlands).
Along the way, she picked up a few awards including 2nd place winner at the CMB Jingle Team Dance Competition in Aruba (2012) and 1st place winner at the Dance Stars Dance Competition in the Netherlands (2017).
Monique recently graduated as a Physical Therapist (BSc) in Leiden, and has previous teaching experience at Step by Step Dance Academy.
Having started taking piano lessons at age 9, Angelo Kock has studied with several great music teachers right here on the island. His first piano teachers were Stella Weller-Feliciano and Johnny Scharbaay. Later, and at a more advanced level, he studied with Johnny Croes (Jazz Piano) and Armand Simon (Piano Technique). In conjunction with his piano training, he extensively studied Berklee Harmony and Ear-training with Franklin Granadillo.
He has been a professional musician for more than 15 years, playing in various venues, concerts with different bands, duos, trios and playing solo piano as well. He masters a variety of styles on the piano and keyboard. He also plays the steel-drum and piano-accordion and has performed in Curaçao, Dominican Republic, Cuba, The Netherlands and the U.S. One notable performance was recording piano alongside an orchestra and a group of singers from Aruba for the re-recording of Aruba's National Anthem in February 2016 in New York.
Jess is a multidisciplinary visual artist from Aruba, a.k.a 'Luna & the Wolff'. After following different art courses at Ateliers '89, she went on to study at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam.
She works mostly with textiles but also uses nature elements and everyday objects or materials to convey organic associations, psychological moods and abstracted bodily shapes. Being raised in an artistic family she is clearly inspired by her surroundings & Caribbean roots by combining raw nature elements , tropical colors and organic shapes.
Jess is also the founder and coordinator of Much'i Mondi Art Collective, which focuses on art projects that encompass environmental and cultural sustainability. Its aim is to stimulate the art and creativity expressions in many aspects. The most popular event was "Translucent Moon", a multidisciplinary site-specific collective arts platform that brings art, history and culture to abandoned locations across the island. With a distinct theme for each edition, visitors experience thought provoking lectures, performance art, exhibitions, music and more.
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We are excited to introduce you to our 2019 FoodWIse team. If you are interested in classes or have any further questions please feel free to contact our Program Administrator via email. She can be reached at frances.dekker@ces.uwex.edu.
Hello, my name is Denise Clark and I have recently been hired as a Nutrition Educator in Milwaukee County. I am from Milwaukee, Wisconsin and I have been working as a Nutrition Educator for UW Extension in Racine and Kenosha counties for the past 5 years. My experience has been working with children, parents, and older adults in a variety of settings including, community centers, homeless shelters, food pantries, and elementary schools. In my exploration of continuing education, I am still searching to find M&Ms in one of the food groups on My Plate!
I'm Doris Jones, the newly hired Teaching Coordinator! I have worked in the field of education for the past twelve years, working with pre-schoolers to middle-schoolers. During this time, I was fortunate to meet hundreds of families, and build lasting relationships. I'm passionate about families and always looking to help them achieve their greatest potential in all areas of their lives. A couple of years ago, I started a backyard garden through the Victory Garden Initiative Program. Along with a mentor in the first year, I grew herbs, beans, tomatoes, cucumbers, onions, and new this year; I'm growing watermelon (so far it's the size of a D battery!) I'm very excited to start on this journey with UW-Extension.
My name is Juanita Jara, I am a Bilingual (English/Spanish) Educator for FoodWIse. I have been with Extension for 15 years. I work with both the SNAP-ED and EFNEP Programs, teaching at Schools, Senior Centers and also Adult Groups Sites.
Hello, my name is Shannon Nettesheim Klein and I am the Office Operations Associate. I have previously worked with Milwaukee Center for Independence for the last five years with the IRIS (iLife) program. I am thrilled to start my journey with FoodWIse and learn more about nutrition while helping others in our community.
Jill VanAirsdale is one of the Teaching Coordinators with FoodWIse in Milwaukee County. Prior to joining the team in 2015, she worked with Milwaukee parents and youth for 7 years as a classroom manager and family advocate for Next Door, a Head Start and Early Childhood Education program in Milwaukee County. In addition to working with families across Milwaukee, she also served as a home visitor and lead teacher for Head Start in Waupaca County for 8 years. As a well-known "picky eater" among family and friends, Jill has tried many new foods while working in FoodWIse including Brussel sprouts, broccoli, jicama, black bean burgers, and avocado, just to name a few. Some of her favorite foods include chocolate ice cream, macaroni and cheese, peanut butter toast, and BRUSSEL SPROUTS- if you can believe it! When she is not working, Jill enjoys spending time with family and friends and relaxing at home.
Trevor Hein spent the last five years working as a Social Studies teacher in the Milwaukee Public Schools. While there, he worked at a small, teacher led school serving at-risk upperclassmen that had been less successful in larger programs. He taught a wide range of subjects ranging from world current events and mock trial to a culinary elective class. Before getting into teaching, he held all manner of positions in the service industry both in front and back of house which gave him a deep appreciation of food and where it comes from. When he isn't working, Trevor is most likely traveling. He enjoys backcountry hiking and has explored much of the continental US. He also spent time backpacking through Europe and Southeast Asia soaking up new cultures and culinary experiences.
My name is Rachel Skoczek. I was born and raised in Milwaukee, and am a recent MATC graduate. I had been working as a student worker with the MATC Culinary Arts students, which was a fantastic experience. In the past handful of years I've also worked in urban agriculture and gardening positions throughout the county, always with a focus on food and community. Currently, as a Nutritional Science student at UWM and FoodWIse Educator, I am looking forward to sharing my love of food while learning a lot from all of you! Some other things about me: I'm a plant nerd. I love making pancakes with vegetables in them. If I'm not working or studying you can find me in my garden, biking, swimming, or making a mess in my kitchen. Also, if I was a fruit I would be a pawpaw.
Francie Dekker is the FoodWIse Program Administrator for Milwaukee County. In her role, Francie leads Milwaukee's team of community nutrition educators in teaching limited resource families how to choose healthful diets, purchase and prepare nutritious food, and become more food secure by spending their food dollars wisely while simultaneously working to address lack of access to nutritious food in communities by partnering with local food pantries, schools, farmers markets and community gardens. Before joining UW-Extension in February 2016, Francie spent four years as the Education Coordinator at Wellspring and NuGenesis Organic Farms. She is also a contributing writer for Edible Milwaukee and Madison Magazines where she writes about the intersection of local food, gardening and healthy communities.
Prior to joining UW-Extension, Danielle worked for the Clarke Square Neighborhood Initiative on Milwaukee's Southside. There, she took a community development approach towards public health, and strived to meaningfully connect things like public safety, economic development, and social connections to health and wellbeing. She has a bachelor's degree in Nutrition from the University of Minnesota, and attended Mount Mary University for her dietetic internship. She is *almost* fluent in Spanish. She never lets a day go by without walking her dog, and aspires to travel internationally at least once a year for the next 5 years.
Meg grew up in Wisconsin and moved to NYC to receive her Bachelor's degree in Food Studies from New York University. After graduating, she knew she wanted to return to America's Dairyland and join Milwaukee's powerhouse good food movement where she started working at Fondy Food Center. There she learned all about Milwaukee's local food system and vibrant area farmers markets. She has also worked for a men's homeless shelter, Guest House of Milwaukee, operating a community garden and growing over 600 pounds of produce used in shelter and donated to local food pantries. Meg also serves on the Board of Directors of the Milwaukee Food Council helping to engage in local food policy. She runs a monthly cooking club with her fellow peers out of her home in Riverwest.


My MFW wrap up is here, with the outfits I wore to all the shows. Make sure to shop them straight from the post and see more of my content from the week over on Instagram.
So you have a blazer at the back of your wardrobe, that you purchased last season (maybe even when I did my what to buy at Zara post) when female power dressing was in, but you don't know how to update it so that no one notices you're still wearing it a year on.
There is always just something about polka dots, no matter what size, shape or colour, they just make any outfit feminine and fun. This Charming Jumpsuit is the perfect year round piece and can be worn so many ways, whether it with knee high boots and a faux fur for winter, or with a basket bag and strappy sandals for summer, it is the perfect dress up or down piece.
Dressing like a lady has changed! Now it's all about the #girlboss, which means standing out and what better way than with colour. Red and pink is such a gorgeous combination at the moment, because of the juxtaposition of colours.
Monochromatic outfits is something we have seen all over the runways for the past few years. It is a trend that has stood the test of time, and is one of the easiest to update, all you have to do is change the colour.
I'm hoping you're all as excited as me, and if you're not, when you see the edit at the end of this blog post, I know you will be!
Colour is always my go-to, so when it comes to neutrals, I can never keep it simple, I always have to mix and match and create some sort of interest in my outfit to make a statement.
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One thing I find very difficult is creating names for my projects, and I spent an awful long time coming up with this one. When you consider that my last project went untitled at exhibition, and even now sits on my website uninspiringly called 'Falkland Estate' you can recognise the efforts I've gone to for I Love Scolawi.
(congratulations on being these people!).
There are many strands to this project, and I wanted the project title to represent the whole ethos of the project: to show a sense of equality and unity, to link the two cultures together, and to show people's patriotism. I also wanted the title to convey that both countries were equal in the project, and they both had something to offer.
My first attempt centred around using a word like 'unity' written in both English and Chichewa (Malawi's official language). This was inspired by the credits for the TV series 'The Bridge' whose title is 'Broen:Bron' - the Danish and Swedish words for Bridge.
Unfortunately I didn't speak Chichewa, and was also told that there was unlikely to be a direct one word translation for such words, as the language is very descriptive. This was a bit of a blow, so I ignored the problem hoping that inspiration would strike, and I wouldn't have to put a lot of effort in.
No such luck. So I decided to ask the fans of my Red Cabin Studio Facebook page. They were wonderful, and gave me lots of new ideas to play around with including Loch Malawi which I liked a lot. To emphasise the links between Scotland and Malawi, Loch Malawi became Loch Malawi I Presume? This still makes me laugh, but I didn't know how many people in Scotland would have heard of Lake Malawi, and it didn't give any inkling into what the project was about.
By this stage things were getting a bit desperate. On my first funding application form I was stumped by the first question: What is the name of your project? So Bill (husband) and I sat down for a brainstorming session.
We went through lots of ideas, and came up with some hilarious titles - none of which have survived unfortunately. At one point we started playing around with the words Scotland and Malawi, and mixing them together .
Malaland just sounded odd, but Scotlawi felt like it had possibilities. Saying it out loud made me realise that it was quite difficult to say, but I really wanted both countries to have four letters in the amalgamated word.
Gradually I realised that this was a stupid thing to cling onto, and I would need to get rid of either the L or the T. Scolawi sounded better than Scotawi.
The I Love prefix was inspired by the I ♥ [insert city/country name here] tee shirts and mugs and other tourist tat. On the advice of my teenage daughter, I tried to call the project I ♥ Scolawi for a while to be a little 'cooler' but I very quickly got annoyed with it, so went back to I Love Scolawi.
As I mentioned at the start, I really struggle to create names for my projects. If you have any ideas that might help me, I would love to hear from you.
I think you are doing a wonderful job so far but how much publicity are you getting? There do not seem to be many people following you on-line. Is there a newspaper who will publish your story, with updates when you reach milestones?
I think your project is worth letting the whole of Scotland know about. How about the Daily Record for example, Scotland's most read newspaper? Just a thought or maybe you have already made publicity plans.
Thanks for your comment Alison. At the moment it's still a little early to start really advertising the project. I still don't know if I'm going to receive any grant funding, and there isn't much news except that I'm beavering away planning things behind the scenes.
I'm planning to crowdfund for the exhibition costs for the community side of the project, and at that point I'm going to push the publicity as much as I can. I've decided the best time to do this is straight after I come back from Malawi in June, when I'll be teaching lots of workshops and trying to get people involved.
In the next couple of months I'm going to learn as much as I can about creating a large media buzz. But before then, I want to get practised in writing blogs and posting on twitter/FB without too many people watching me.
It certainly makes sense now you have explained it Jenni, you are certainly a very determined lady and I can't wait to see the whole project come together which I am sure it will!
Thanks for the compliments Alison. I'm starting to think that individual people really might be able to make a difference in this world, and it might be fun to have a go. The idea of this project has grown so much, and at times that's been really scary, and I've felt that I'm going to be found out in some way for who I really am. But mostly I feel really confident and proud about what I'm doing and feel empowered by how I'm bringing it all together.
The project is definitely happening by the way, it's just the scale of it, that will be determined by the funding. The exhibition is being advertised by Fife Council and I'm starting to walk round with a permanent bubble of excitement inside me!


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Changes proposed for former Gap store
By Sarah Wood | 1st November 2022
The owner of the former Gap store in Cheltenham has applied to make changes to the Grade II listed building.
The large retail unit at 106 Promenade has been vacant since Gap left in March 2020. Owner Cheltine Ltd has been unable to find new tenants since then.
Now a new occupier is keen to move in but would like changes to the site. Cheltine has applied to Cheltenham Borough Council to make substantial changes to the building.
In a report to the council, Inchbald Day Planning and Development Ltd states: "A new retail/ commercial occupier has now been identified for the front of the building at ground and first floor level. The tenants which to take possession of the building in January 2023 and to achieve this, Cheltine, as landlords, are required to undertake some internal works."
The report continues: "Sadly, 106 has been empty since the end of the Gap tenancy in March 2020. It appears that the upper floors were unused by Gap and have been vacant for some considerable time. Due to its size, configuration, and likely cost of refurbishment, 106 has proved unattractive to potential new tenants. The scheme proposes the subdivision of 106 to secure the tenant."
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It Came From Outer Space!
The above image is an electron micrograph of cholera - which as far as I know, has never been to space. But humanity has now crossed a new frontier and sent a virus into space - and it came back 3X more deadly!
NASA sent some salmonella into space (very carefully wrapped) and a similar sample as a control. The result: the space-salmonella killed 90% of mice after 25 days (vs. 60% for the control) and it took 1/3 as much of the virus. No one knows why, but it's suspected to have something to do with the lack of gravity.
Let's speculate about what this could mean (of course, none of the following is going to occur, but it's fun to let your imagination run wild every now and then):
Iran and the Great Speculator decide to abandon their nuclear arms quest and instead focus on creating missiles that carry microbes into space and then let their cargo "mature" before crashing into Israel/America. The U.S. is bankrupted trying to create a missile shield that can stop anything from crashing on U.S. terra firma.
Pharaceutical companies realize that it's cheaper to send microbes into space than finance traditional R&D - spurring private space research and a private international space station.
China starts sending soldiers into space and exposes them to microbes; they then launch a chemical attack against Taiwan. No one can come to Taiwan's aide as only Chinese soldiers are immune to the disease. However, it all backfires as the soldiers can't return to their families (they're too exposed to the disease), so a young PLA colonel revolts and starts a new independent Taiwan - and the mainland can't invade as the land is too poisonous to inhabit.


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J.R.R. Tolkien's world opened up readers to the limitless potential of fantasy. (Image via Imgur)
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5 Reasons Why Everyone Should Read Fantasy
Rife with magic, nuance and creativity, fantasy gets to completely reimagine what's possible.
By Sierra Zareck, Haverford College
Fantasy is a captivating genre. From dystopian whirlwinds full of old magic to medieval worlds rife with wizards and warlocks, the genre encapsulates many literary universes, TV wonders and movie plots.
A few days ago I found myself randomly watching an "Epic Rap Battles of History (ERB)" between "Lord of the Rings" author J.R.R. Tolkien and "Game of Thrones" writer George R.R. Martin at 2 a.m.
In the video, a quote by Tolkien stood out: "We all know the world is full of chance and anarchy, so yes it's true to life for characters to die randomly. But news flash, the genre's called fantasy. It's meant to be unrealistic, you myopic manatee."
This quote got me thinking about just why I've been in love with fantasy since a very young age. As "ERB" Tolkien says, fantasy delves into the beauty beyond reality. It is a unique genre I believe people should give a chance.
Well, without further ado, here are five reasons fantasy is an enthralling and dynamic genre everyone should try.
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1. Complex World Building
The fantastical world building is more expansive and complicated than almost any other genre. Because they aren't based on reality, fantasy stories must create their own. Be it rival nations who indiscriminately despise each other, magnificent creatures who roam the skies or ancient magic flowing through the protagonist's veins, the author must not only tell the reader what's going on in the story, but what came before and sometimes even what comes after. Readers must be provided with a sufficient backstory to properly understand the foreign world, which up until the piece was written only existed within the author's psyche.
Take the "Harry Potter" series for example. The power of the world J.K. Rowling has created is phenomenal; adults still immerse themselves in a universe they first encountered in childhood. To some, the halls of Hogwarts are just as tangible as those of Princeton. What is Potions but a more fantastical chemistry class; what is Transfiguration but a biology that science has always craved?
The worlds created in fantasy are not only intricate, they are limitless as well, which leads into my next reason.
2. Infinite Potential
Not bound by the constraints of reality, fantasy has the potential to keep expanding and growing in ways people may not have even conceived of yet. There are corners of the real world, but fantasy universes are ever reaching, ever growing, ever evolving. While the two are often conflated, a key difference between science fiction and fantasy is science fiction is based on what is or may be possible within the realms of scientific theory.
Fantasy, on the other hand, isn't ruled by scientific realities. There are still rules in fantasy as "Now Novel" writes, but in fantasy those rules are created by the author themselves. This allows the writer to continue growing their fantasy world by incorporating fresh elements that still fit within the universe.
"Lord of the Rings" is a perfect example. While the Middle-Earth trilogy along with the prequel of "The Hobbit" are now popular icons — having made almost $1 billion for each of the five movies — there are many more elements to the universe Tolkien created. Over 21 separate pieces have been published in Tolkien's Legendarium, an entire body of work about the Middle-Earth continent Arda.
This is in addition to the numerous other Tolkien works. Tolkien wrote so much and created such a detailed world that since his death in 1917 his son Christopher Tolkien has published over 24 books of his father's work, one as recent as August 2018. It is unclear when Tolkien will ever stop being published as every time a book is thought to be his last, another one seems to be released. He even created linguistically complex Elfish languages as a part of his worlds.
Unimpeded from the boundaries of reality, fantasy is free to keep adding to itself in novel ways to keep readers on the edges of their seats.
3. Expect the Unexpected
Fantasy possesses a unique dynamism. The elements they can incorporate are limitless, only constrained by the author's imagination. This means unexpected components are frequent in the genre. Readers can never fully predict what a fantasy piece may include because with infinite potential, unbound by reality, comes infinite possibilities.
One never knows when an unfamiliar race will emerge from the dark recesses of a damp cave, or when archaic magic never before seen in that fantasy world will be revived. Fantasy keeps you both on edge and ensnared in the story as you simultaneously need to find out what comes and cannot truly anticipate what that will be.
"Game of Thrones" is one example of such. After being popularized when the fantasy books were made into a TV show in 2011, the series is known for its many shocking and unforeseen developments. From abrupt deaths to sudden emergence of shadows forged by black magic, no one ever knows what is coming next in Game of Thrones.
By incorporating novel aspects, fantasy pushes what you understand to be possible.
4. Mental Expansion
Since fantasy is free to go wherever the author imagines, abundant with components readers may have never even deemed possible, it expands ones conception of reality. Young protagonists whose lives had only been commonplace prior are able to deliver the realm from imminent destruction, even though in real life one cannot imagine them having the fate of the world entrusted to them. Characters can traverse green hills and travel far from home, even though they themselves never thought such could be so. Often they transcend boundaries of race, class, gender and more, even though those constructs may be vastly different in the story.
For me, the paragon of fantasy's ability to broaden one's conception of possibilities is Donita K. Paul's "The Dragon Keeper Chronicles," which I first read when I was only about 9. The series follows the life of 14-year-old slave Kale Allerion after she discovers a dragon egg. She goes on to become the renowned savior of the land, even though she had been thought of as the lowest of the low. Despite all odds she develops extraordinary skills, such as telepathy, and is constantly saving lives. Allerion even eventually gets married and creates a fulfilling, stimulating life for herself and her family.
"The Dragon Keeper Chronicles" taught me that even if no one believes in me, even if at the time I can't possibly conceptualize successfully doing something, it can happen. I learned that what I know to be attainable is by no means a concrete limitation on what I am actually capable of. As a young child reader, I realized this was formative in the development of my self-perception and goals.
Fantasy is able to build inventive worlds that blend what readers' realities with fresh elements they have never envisioned.
5. Blends the Old and New
A unique part of fantasy is that it permits authors to blend the old, what is known within the real world and its history, with the new creations of the author. Even though fantasy is not bound by the constraints of reality, it is often inspired by history. For instance, medieval fantasy is a subgenre of fantasy where stories are set in the medieval world or have key medieval influences. Tyrannical kings, chivalrous knights and an unbalanced feudal system all appear in medieval fantasy. The sub-genre tends to additionally contain mythical entities from European folklore like dragons, elves and fairies.
Fantasy can take these historical concepts and reimagine them, breathing a renewed life into them with the author's own concoctions. The genre can also include modern aspects and still remaining fantasy rather than science fiction through its ultimate non-adherence to reality's rules. An excellent illustration of this concept can be found in Terry Brooks' "Shannara" series.
In the Shannara series, the characters inhabit a universe that, while reminiscent of medieval times, actually exists after the modern world has collapsed due to an apocalypse. The races of elves, dwarves and men are quartered off into medieval-like kingdoms while remnants of a lost technology linger. What is known as the real world's present is smoothly integrated into the Shannara universe as the very distant past.
In the series, the Druids were initially searching for archaic sciences, but stumbled upon an even older, deeper magic instead. Although the series is unique within fantasy in its individual melding of old and new, it serves as a prime example of the genre's capability to do so seamlessly.
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What's a First Time Pageant Experience Really Like?
Many of us have had the experience of watching Miss America or Miss USA on television and thought about how much fun it would be to do a pageant. All the girls look so pretty and confident and they get to wear such gorgeous clothes. We fall in love with the fabulous fashion from the adorable opening number outfits to the unbelievably beautiful evening gowns. We feel drawn to certain contestants and we become invested in them so much that we want them to win.
And, when it's all over, we feel a sense of awe and elation as we watch the new queen take her first walk with the crown precariously balanced on her head and her tear-streaked face smiling at the crowd, so full of joy and gratitude. It's all so thrilling and magical that we wonder what it might be like to do a pageant ourselves. We want to share in that kind of excitement. We want to feel that Cinderella specialness and wear a glamorous dress.
Most girls that you meet in pageants are friendly and happy to meet you, but there may be some contestants that are stand-offish or that may even ignore you. If you run into that kind of behavior, do not take it personally. There will always be people in pageants that are negative or unpleasant to be around. Do not allow those kinds of people to affect your experience or drain your energy. If you can, find another new contestant or two to buddy up with and learn together. Having a friend in the pageant that is learning just like you can be a great support.
Even the most seasoned pageant professional undergoes a process of preparation that takes months, even years, depending on the level of competition that they are entering. There is no substitute for time and practice and there is no quick solution. You just have to jump in there and do the work. But, the good news is that you can do a lot of learning on your own, and I encourage you to study as much as you can by yourself. There are many excellent books about pageantry on the market, so ask your director or other more knowledgeable contestants which ones they recommend. Become familiar with all of the well-known professional pageant coaches and read everything that they make available.
Every pageant coach has a website, and they often offer free coaching articles on all kinds of subjects. Many even sell resources through their websites on improving interview skills, platform development, and just about any pageant topic that you can imagine. You do not need to spend the money to hire a coach for your first pageant. There are so many useful resources available to you for free. Of course, Pageant Planet is a treasure trove of information just waiting for you to discover!
You can never really know what to expect from a pageant your first time around until you actually compete. You may be drawn to pageants because of the drama and the excitement of becoming a queen, but what you will soon learn is that there are so many other worthwhile benefits to being in a pageant. Hopefully, you've learned a bit more of what to expect and what to do to prepare yourself for when you are ready to take the pageant plunge.
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