here are many ways Americans can honor another nation’s traditions, whether that means wearing green on St. Patrick’s Day, dancing the samba during Carnaval, or chugging a gallon of maple syrup on Canada Day. Taste foreign fun with today's Groupon to Carnaval do Brazil, hosted by Alex Brazil Promotions, 9 p.m.–2 a.m. on Saturday, February 18 at The Westin Galleria Houston. Choose between the following options:
- For $12, you get one ticket (a $25 value).
- For $24, you get two tickets (a $50 value).
Coming up on its 10-year anniversary, Carnaval do Brazil transforms the spacious ballroom of The Westin Galleria Houston into a colorful, electrifying dance floor filled with masked revelers and live entertainment. Upon arrival, guests receive a complimentary set of Mardi Gras beads and masks, which can be reused later to bring a playful sense of mystery to upcoming traffic-court hearings. A resident mentalist is on hand to conduct psychic readings, and a face painter artfully adorns mugs with images of wild tigers and pandas. The festivities in Rio De Janeiro are projected onto a big screen, which serves as a backdrop for samba dancers, a lively parade, and a fashion show by Rockstar Runway. A snake keeper drapes his coiled pets over the shoulders of willing guests as a stilt walker towers over the crowd. Live DJs, music performances, and dancing continue into the wee hours.
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The Groupon Guide to Everyman’s Classics: Animal Farm
Everyman should enjoy classic literature, which is why the Groupon Guide invented the Everyman's Classics study-guide series. This installment covers:
Animal Farm: Chapter V
Summary: All right, so at this point the animals have been running Animal Farm for a while. This one horse, Mollie, gets treats and pets and ribbons from a neighbor farmer who is a man (not an animal), so she leaves to work on his farm instead of Animal Farm.
Meanwhile, the rest of the hilarious talking animals are arguing about whether they should build a windmill like Snowball the pig says or to not do that like Napoleon the pig says (note: Napoleon is also the name of an important man from France). So they argue and stuff and the animals seem like they want the windmill. But then Napoleon calls in all these dogs he’s been secretly raising and they come in and are big and scary and the animals are scared even though I’m pretty sure a horse could beat a dog in fights. The dogs chase away Snowball and Napoleon is like, “Basically, I’m in charge now and communism is flawed.”
The pigs explain to the animals that it is good that Napoleon is in charge and not bad and also Snowball was a bad pig. The horse named Boxer who always says “I will work harder” also starts saying “Napoleon is always right.” The animals continue to work because that is how they get food and the dogs are scary (even though, seriously, horses are strong [also donkeys can kick pretty hard]).
Analysis: Having recently discovered that there is no symbolism in this book, scholars agree that this chapter is particularly unsymbolic. It is well documented that walking, talking animals fall under Jungian archetypes of “the priceless” and “the adorable.” Scholars also agree that they are more excited for the later chapters when the pigs wear top hats and other human clothes.
Important Quote: “Nine enormous dogs wearing brass-studded collars came bounding into the barn. The animals cowered in fear and did not have an all-out, no-limits brawl with the dogs even though this would have been awesome and worthy of being put on a video website if such a thing ever exists.”
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