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Since the New Year calls for a fresh perspective on the contemporary events, this week I decided to have a critical look at one of today’s most popular and beloved political figures-the newly elected Prime Minister of Canada- Justin Trudeau. Handsome, charismatic, stunning with energy and accompanied with portrait-like family, Trudeau won the hearts of […]
Read more "Fresh Saturday Night Live."Not a lot of people had such an impact on our modern and warmhearted celebration of Christmas quite like Charles Dickens did. The publishing of the “Christmas Carol’ was not only a literary success but also a milestone in changing European attitudes towards Christmas. The story itself is composed of staves which show the transformation […]
Read more "Festive Saturday Night Live."Lost boys of Sudan. Every military conflict finds its biggest victims in the number of children orphaned and families destroyed. Second Sudanese Civil War, taking place from 1983 until 2005, was no exception. In the aftermath of the conflict, over 20,000 boys of Dinke and Nuer ethnic background were orphaned and displaced, with their lives […]
Read more "Lost Saturday Night Live."‘If a cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind, of what, then, is an empty desk a sign?’ This famous quote from one of the most brilliant minds of the 20th century proves that clumsiness can, indeed, be a sign of genius. Albert Einstein was born in Ulm, Germany, in 1879, to a […]
Read more "Clumsy Saturday Night Live."Rose is a Polish movie directed by Wojciech Smarzowski, which tells a love story of a Polish resistance army officer and a Masurian woman. Seemingly a romance, the production embraces more than a relationship of two people. Historical circumstances, aspects of war relocations, renationalization and expulsions are its actual message. The story begins when a […]
Read more "Rosy Saturday Night Live."What if someone told you that everything is orchestrated? Beginning from the choice of partner, living area, food, drinks and everything around it. What if all of that is not necessarily under your control, neither under control of some higher power, but a unit of replication-a selfish gene? That theory, developed by professor Richard Dawkins […]
Read more "Human Saturday Night Live."Betty Boop is an animated cartoon character created by Max Fleischer, the author of such personalities as Superman or the renowned comic series Popeye. Although only 16, Betty’s character expresses a lot of characteristics which lead the audience to think she is a grown up women. Becoming one of the most popular cartoon characters in […]
Read more "Naughty Saturday Night Live."Holiday commonly associated with jack-o-lanterns, candy, trick-or-treating and crazy dressing ups has a more spooky ancestry than what it grew up to be. Here is why! First of all, the holiday as we know it has a sad past, which is far different from its modern, highly Americanized and very orange version. Irish immigrants brought […]
Read more "Spooky Saturday Night Live."Martin Luther King was born on January 15th, 1929 in Atlanta, Georgia, in a deeply religious family of Baptists pastors, which had a big influence on his later life. Mainly because he considered racial segregation an act against God’s will. Being a popular and adventurous teenager at college, King soon changed his manners and became […]
Read more "Idealistic Saturday Night Live."A figure universally associated with the decadent movement is Oscar Wilde. That Irish writer bequethed memoirs even more striking that his works. His poems, essays, novels and plays reflect a truly decadent lifestyle that the artist lead. Here are a few words on that extraordinary figure. Watch the whole series via this youtube link! zuza.
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