Round 15 Themes
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ROUND FIFTEEN THEME SETS
Note that these do come as SETS and you MUST use at least THREE items from any given set for it to count. It can be any combination of song/photo/quote, but there has to be at least three. Mixing items from different sets will not count. (You can, of course, use more than one set- but each set counts separately and you can't mix and match. If you, for example, use two items from the Korea set and one from the travel set, neither theme will count. Be careful!)
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Travel Set!
You must use THREE things in this set in order for it to count.
(Bruce Springsteen- Born to Run)
(John Denver- Leaving on a Jet Plane)
(Willie Nelson- On the Road Again)
(Steppenwolf- Born to be Wild)
"When you travel, remember that a foreign country is not designed to make you comfortable. It is designed to make its own people comfortable."
• Clifton Fadiman
"A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it."
• George Moore
We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.
• T. S. Eliot
Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends.
• Maya Angelou
Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience.
• Francis Bacon
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China Set!
You must use THREE things in this set in order for it to count.
(Faye Wong- Chess) (lyric translation)
(Mayday- OMG) (lyric translation)
(S.H.E.- Zen Me Ban (What Should I Do) ) (lyric translation)
“Making sex is like a Chinese dinner. It ain't over 'til you both get your cookies.”
• Outside Providence
“I like the fact that in ancient Chinese art the great painters always included a deliberate flaw in their work: human creation is never perfect.”
• Madeleine L'Engle
“Nothing and no one can destroy the Chinese people. They are relentless survivors.”
• Pearl S. Buck
“Chinese are wise in comprehending without many words what is inevitable and inescapable and therefore only to be borne.”
• Pearl S. Buck
“Chinese people age overnight.”
• Karl Pilkington
“There's nothing in Chinese culture that is an equivalent of the geisha. It's so different, so special to Japan.”
• Ziyi Zhang
“The Chinese seemed to be mourning Mao in a heartfelt fashion. But I wondered how many of their tears were genuine. People had practiced acting to such a degree that they confused it with their true feelings.”
• Jung Chang
“What the Chinese parent is conveying to the child is not that 'you've got to get A's or else I won't like you.' On the contrary, it's, 'I believe in you so much, I know that you can be excellent.'”
• Amy Chua
“In a painting, you can't make out whether the artist painted the left eye before the right eye. In Chinese calligraphy, you can see the progression of the artist's stroke.”
• Vikram Seth
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Korea Set!
You must use THREE things in this set in order for it to count.
(SHINee- Everybody) (lyric translation)
(DBSK- Why Did I Fall In Love With You) (lyric translation)
(BoA- Eat You Up) (Okay, so this one's technically in English, but it still counts, right? ^_^;;; Lyrics are in the About section on the video if you need them, though.)
(Girl's Generation- Gee) (lyric translation)
“It wasn't until I went to Korea out of high school and got exposed to the martial arts for the first time and was just completely enamored with the physical ability of the martial arts and making my black belt.”
• Chuck Norris
“Gangnam is a territory in Seoul, Korea. I describe it as noble at the daytime and going crazy at the night time. I compare ladies to the territory. So- noble at the daytime, going crazy at the night time- and the lyric says I am the right guy for the lady who is like that.”
• Psy
“Just to take a couple steps back historically, Korea, as you can see, is located among what we call big countries. And historically we've always been the victim of numerous invasions and whatnot.”
• Lee Myung-bak
“The superhero is a really popular figure in the West. In Asia or Korea, the young viewers are amused by the figure, but it is not really so sensational.”
• Bong Joon-ho
“The word we have in Korea for K-Pop is 'Gaio.' And I guess it's a huge umbrella term. Basically it's like saying Coldplay and Kanye West, or Eminem and Celine Dion, are the same genre.”
• Tablo
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Europe Set!
You must use THREE things in this set in order for it to count.
(Coldplay- Viva La Vida)
(Rammstein- Alter Mann) (lyric translation)
(Wir sind Helden - Nur ein Wort (Just one Word)) (lyric translation)
“An artist has no home in Europe except Paris.”
• Friedrich Nietzsche
“Two great European narcotics, alcohol and Christianity.”
• Friedrich Nietzsche
“I think I had a more European outlook about the body and sex. The body is in no way dirty, and sex is something beautiful to give to and share with a lover. It has nothing to do with promiscuity, because I only believe in being in love with one man at a time.”
• Dorothy Stratten
“Nothing the European mind ever devised was meant to do anything but to facilitate the European's control over the world.”
• John Henrik Clarke
“I suppose that's the European way, dangerous and hairy.”
• Jason Statham
“The time to enjoy a European trip is about three weeks after unpacking.”
• George Ade
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America Set!
You must use THREE things in this set in order for it to count.
(Lady Antebellum- I Need You Now)
(Keane- Somewhere Only We Know)
(Matt Morris- Live Forever)
"America's greatest strength, and its greatest weakness, is our belief in second chances, our belief that we can always start over, that things can be made better."
• Anthony Walton
"This is the story of America. Everybody's doing what they think they're supposed to do."
• Jack Kerouac
"The United States is a nation of laws: badly written and randomly enforced."
• Frank Zappa
"There's the country of America, which you have to defend, but there's also the idea of America. America is more than just a country, it's an idea. An idea that's supposed to be contagious."
• Bono
"America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a chair."
• Arnold Toynbee
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In addition, authors may use any themes/themesets from previous rounds, except the cliché round.
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The theme challenge is completely voluntary, intended for fun and stimulation.
For inclusion in the theme challenge, your submission must list each theme you used. Both the author that earns the most points for a single fic and the one who earns the most points overall win be eligible for a prize. However, the winner of the theme challenge will not necessarily be the person who uses the most themes, so please don't feel obliged to cram in as many themes as you can. Rather, we hope that you will take a theme or group of themes that you find interesting and use them to write a great story.
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We will be judging your theme usage on the following criteria:
1. Frequency: how often is the theme explicitly (or implicitly) referenced in the story
2. Accuracy: how accurately has the theme been used
3. Purpose: how integral is the theme to the story
4. Execution: how smoothly the theme has been incorporated into the story
5. Creativity: how creatively the theme has been interpreted
For each theme you include in your submission, we will assign a point value from 1 to 5 for each of the above criteria. All the points for all the themes will be added up, and the writer with the highest number of points will be awarded a prize for their efforts. Since we realize that all of these criteria are highly subjective, all of the mods will do our evaluations independently and take the average to determine the point totals.
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