PAST HABITS - 2^C LINGUISTICO

 

UNESCO WORLD HERITAGE SITES

The idea of preserving sites that needed to be saved for the good of all humanity was born in the 1950s. At that time, the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) took on the task of preserving Egypt’s Abu Simbel temples, which were in danger of being destroyed by the construction of a dam. UNESCO launched a worldwide campaign that saved the temples by relocating them to higher ground. The seed-notion of creating a list of similarly important planetary treasures was planted at this time.  Read here.

https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/

https://www.worldheritagesite.org/list

https://www.italybyevents.com/en/unesco-sites-in-italy

https://www.geoex.com/blog/importance-of-unesco-world-heritage-sites/

MACBETH - 4^C LINGUISTICO

https://www.cliffsnotes.com/literature/m/macbeth/macbeth-at-a-glance

https://www.rsc.org.uk/shakespeare-learning-zone/macbeth

https://interestingliterature.com/2019/08/a-short-analysis-of-william-shakespeares-macbeth/

https://myblog-inplainenglish.blogspot.com/2017/12/macbeth-4c-linguistico.html

STUDYING ENGLISH LITERATURE - 3^C LINGUISTICO

BRIAN BILSTON'S REFUGEES

With his identity clouded in mystery, Brian Bilston has amassed over 80,000 Twitter followers and has become known as the unofficial Poet Laureate of the social media platform. Read here.

https://brianbilston.com/2016/03/23/refugees/comment-page-3/

INSIGHT INTO THE VICTORIAN AGE - 5^C LINGUISTICO

The Victorian period in Great Britain (1837-1901)  was one of political stability, huge industrial and technological change, major economic development, prosperity, optimism and faith in progress as well as poverty and social unrest, shocking divisions between the rich and the poor, and grand attempts to combat squalor and disease.  

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W.H. AUDEN - 5^C LINGUISTICO

English poet, playwright, critic, and librettist Wystan Hugh Auden exerted a major influence on the poetry of the 20th century. He grew up in Birmingham, England and was known for his extraordinary intellect and wit. His first book, Poems, was published in 1930 with the help of T.S. Eliot. Just before World War II broke out, he emigrated to the United States where he met the poet Chester Kallman, who became his lifelong lover. W.H. Auden won the Pulitzer Prize in 1948 for The Age of Anxiety. Much of his poetry is concerned with moral issues and evidences a strong political, social, and psychological context. Read here.

THE 2030 AGENDA FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT

 

The Global Goals and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development seek to end poverty and hunger, realise the human rights of all, achieve gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls, and ensure the lasting protection of the planet and its natural resources.  The Global Goals are integrated and indivisible, and balance the three dimensions of sustainable development: the economic, social and environmental.  Read here.

https://sdpd.elionline.com/public/resources/agenda2030/Global-Goals-in-Action.pdf

https://www.iberdrola.com/sustainability/committed-sustainable-development-goals

https://www.globalgoals.org/goals/

https://slideplayer.com/slide/11361997/

https://www.eda.admin.ch/agenda2030/en/

https://www.agenda-2030.fr/en/agenda-2030/presentation

https://www.heroesneversleep.com/en/sustainable-development-goals/

STUDYING VIRGINIA WOOLF - 5^C LINGUISTICO

Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) was an English novelist, essayist, biographer, and feminist. She was a prolific writer, whose modernist style changed with each new novel. Her letters and memoirs reveal glimpses of Virginia Woolf at the center of English literary culture during the Bloomsbury era. She represents a historical moment when art was integrated into society, as T.S. Eliot describes in his obituary for Virginia. “Without Virginia Woolf at the center of it, it would have remained formless or marginal … With the death of Virginia Woolf, a whole pattern of culture is broken.”  Read here.

JANE AUSTEN AND THE NOVEL OF MANNERS - 5^C LINGUISTICO

Jane Austen’s novels are unrivalled for their success in combining two sorts of excellence that all too seldom coexist. Meticulously conscious of her artistry, she is also constantly attentive to the realities of ordinary human existence. From the first, her works unite subtlety and common sense, good humour and acute moral judgment, charm and conciseness, deftly marshalled incidents and carefully rounded characters.

Jane Austen’s critics have spoken of her as a “limited” novelist, one who, writing in an age of great men and important events, portrays small towns and petty concerns, who knows (or reveals) nothing of masculine occupations and ideas, and who reduces the range of feminine thought and deed to matrimonial scheming and social pleasantry. Read here. 

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