lunes, 5 de noviembre de 2007
Quotations for inspiration
I don´t like this phrase because I think that men and women are created to be together because they both have the qualities that the other don´t have.God created women and men us a unit.
"Mama? Why did we just pass a sign that says, Do Not Pass?" Emma Fischer, age 7, riding in the car
I don´t like it because it shows the bad examples some parents give to there children by acting bad, in what they think are, insignificant things.As we can noticed it was say by a little girl who can´t understand her mother´s bad action.
"If you are doing your best, you will not have time to worry about failure." Robert Hillyer
I like this phrase very much because it inspires me to do my best. It teach us that when ever we do our best all the failures won´t be seen because the most important thing will be all my effort.
"Being challenged in life is inevitable, being defeated is optional." Roger Crawford
I like this phrase because everybody choose what he/she want to be in life.If you want to be a failure you will sure be one,but if you want to be a challenger,life gives you a lot of opportunities and thing that can carry you through that kind of life and you will sure be a challenger.
"Not all who wander are lost." JRR Tolkien
I like this phrase because I think that a lot of people seems to be warned but they aren´t.We can see this in boys in secondary school that are bad student and people think that the are"lost cases"but they results to be great students at university.
Photo Prompts
This picture reminds me a lot about Tafi del Valle. Specifically to the "Pasion de Cristo" that is a representation of holly Friday that take place every holly week in the valley. A lot of people especially Cristians enjoy it in the beautiful landscape.
The things that most impressed me were the wire that reminds me crown of thorn that Jesus have in his head the day he is crucified. And the other thing is the trunk that seems to be the same that is used to tie Jesus and there some Romans hit him.
This celebration is very popular and I´m one of the large amount of people that love to see it every year.
The Little Prince
What this phrase means is that when never we met someone or when someone asks us how a person is they always asks about supperficial things. It`s not common that this person ask us about the things that are really important,the things that tell us who the person is inside.
Mostly when you bring a boyfriend to your house they always ask questions in order to know how the person is in the outside, they want to know first of all the appearence of him.
What makes the desert beautiful," says the little prince, "is that somewhere it hides a well."
This phrase means that even the things that we think that can´t have or give ANYTHING has something deep inside them. How many times it happend to us that we don´t pay attention to someone or something because we think that it can´t do anything well and it ends helping us a lot.
miércoles, 10 de octubre de 2007
Animal Farm
Animal Farm (full title: Animal Farm: A Fairy Story) is a novella by George Orwell, and is perhaps the most famous satirical allegory of Soviet totalitarianism. Published in 1945, the book reflects events leading up to and during the Stalin era. Orwell, a democratic socialist, and a member of the Independent Labour Party for many years, was a critic of Stalin, and was suspicious of Moscow-directed Stalinism after his experiences with the NKVD during the Spanish Civil War. The novel was chosen by Time Magazine as one of the 100 best English-language novels (1923 to present) and was number 31 on the Modern Library List of Best 20th-Century Novels.
The plot is an allegory in which animals play the roles of the Bolshevik revolutionaries and overthrow and oust the human owners of the farm, setting it up as a commune in which, at first, all animals are equal; soon disparities start to emerge between the different species or classes. The novel describes how a society's ideologies can be changed and manipulated by individuals in positions of power.
The allegory that the book employs allows it to be read on a variety of different levels. Orwell wrote the book following his experiences during the Spanish Civil War, which are described in another of his books, Homage to Catalonia. He intended it to be a strong condemnation of what he saw as the Stalinist corruption of the original socialist ideals.
Characters and their possible real life counterparts
Old major: based upon both Marx and
Napoleon: Joseph Stalin
Snowball: Leon Trotsky
Squealer: Vyacheslav Molotov
Minimus: is a poetical pig who writes the second and third national anthems of Animal Farm
Pinkeye is a small piglet who tastes Napoleon's food for poisoning.
Piglets are hinted to be the children of Napoleon
Rebel Pigs are pigs who complain about Napoleon's takeover of the farm but are quickly silenced and later executed. The closest parallels to the Rebel Pigs may be Nikolai Bukharin, Alexei Rykov, Grigory Zinoviev , and Lev Kamenev.
Mr. Jones: represents Nicholas II of Russia
Mr. Frederick represents Adolf Hitler
Mr. Pilkington is the easy-going but crafty owner of Foxwood. Represents the western powers, such as Britain and the U.S.
Mr. Whympe : Lincoln Steffens
Boxer, he is the tragic avatar of the working class, or proletariat
Clover is Boxer's mate and a fellow draft horse.
Mollie represents upper-class people
Benjamin is a donkey who is cynical about the Revolution and life in general.
Moses is a tame raven who represents religion
Muriel represents intelligent labour
Hens represent the Kulaks.
Dogs are Napoleon's secret police and bodyguards
Pigeons symbolize Soviet propaganda
Sheep show the blind loyalty of the proletarian
Cat shows the unethical
Writer
Eric Arthur Blair (25 June 1903– 21 January 1950), better known by the pen name George Orwell, was an English author and journalist. Noted as a novelist and critic as well as a political and cultural commentator, Orwell is among the most widely admired English-language essayists of the 20th century. He is best known for two novels critical of totalitarianism in general, and Stalinism in particular: Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four. Both were written and published towards the end of his life.
His Works
During the majority of his career, Orwell was best known for his journalism, in essays, reviews, columns in newspapers and magazines and in his books of reportage: Down and Out in Paris and London (describing a period of poverty in these cities), The Road to Wigan Pier (describing the living conditions of the poor in northern England, and the class divide generally) and Homage to Catalonia. According to Newsweek, Orwell "was the finest journalist of his day and the foremost architect of the English essay since Hazlitt."
Modern readers are more often introduced to Orwell as a novelist, particularly through his enormously successful titles Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four. Both of them are primarily allegories of the Soviet Union, the former of developments in the Soviet Union after the Russian Revolution, and the latter of life under Stalinist totalitarianism - although there are elements in Nineteen Eighty-Four which satirize "opium for the masses" that can be found outside the Soviet Union (witness the newspapers filled with "sex, sport, and astrology" which the Ministry of Truth peddles to the proles). Nineteen Eighty-Four is often compared to Brave New World by Aldous Huxley (which is often considered the inferior of the two); both are powerful dystopian novels of an "imaginary" future of state control, the former bleak and the latter superficially happy.



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sábado, 29 de septiembre de 2007
Frienship


miércoles, 12 de septiembre de 2007
Packaged Memories
jueves, 30 de agosto de 2007
My Favorite Song
y el Mala Mala ardiente muestra todo su color
el Pelao escondido del Ñuñorco creciente
la luna nace tras el Pabellón.
Va llegando el verano la guitarra y la canción
te reclamaron con ansias Mataderos de ilusión
las alforjas bien ceñidas otros cargan sus mochilas
pero juntos con una misma pasión.
En la villa me espera la alegría algún amor
que nos sobra en los Eneros de mi valle de calor
van cruzando las miradas con suerte de enamoradas
las estrellas que salen del corazón.
ESTRIBILLO
Y en Tafí conocí
las estrofas que quise escribir
y en Tafí descubrí
las historias que quise vivir.
Termina ya el verano y otra historia se ha acabado
el bullicio de los changos ya se deja de sentir
pero en Semana Santa un hombre sin las espinas
después de la muerte siempre vuelve aquí.
Los meses pasan volando y julio está regresando
los marrones y los blancos tiñen todo mi sentir
de algún poema sin flores se visten los corazones
y de las guitarras vuelven a vivir.
La nostalgia nos envuelve al pensar en los momentos
que en tus cerros quise dulce tierra de Tafí
y cuando llegue algún puesto sentiré que llevo dentro
el amor que siento mi suelo por ti.


