Friday, October 8, 2010
In this last chapter of the intermediate course, you will find articles and images related to culture and history. In our cultures, art and History often meet. . How do you tell the time and the date. How do you describe events and eras of the past and how do you announce future events? What shapes do people use to make art and what are the main art forms?
Intermediate Verb Dictionary we need to add the photo-album with words related to culture. What is popular culture? (Wikipedia definition) Popular culture is the totality of ideas, perspectives, attitudes, memes,[1] images and other phenomena that are deemed preferred per an informal consensus within the mainstream of a given culture, especially Western culture of the early to mid 20th century and the emerging global mainstream of the late 20th and early 21st century. Heavily influenced by mass media, this collection of ideas permeates the everyday lives of the society. By contrast, folklore refers to the cultural mainstream of more local or pre-industrial societies. 1) The date | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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In English, we use ordinal numbers to mark the date. An ordinal number tells us about the position of the object. In a date, the ordinal number marks the position of the day in the month.
Hindo-Arabic numbers:
the liberal arts
The visual arts
Painting
Text in French
Le Tableau from Le Philosophe sous les toits by Emile Souvestre
Six heures - Je suis allé frapper chez mon voisin qui m'a ouvert lui-même et auquel j'ai remis la lettre, enfin terminée et destinée à la veuve de son fils. M. Antoine m'a remercié avec effusion et m'a obligé à m'asseoir.
C'était la première fois que j'entrais dans la mansarde du vieil amateur. Une tapisserie tachée par l'humidité, et dont les lambeaux pendent çà et là, un poêle éteint, un lit de sangle, deux chaises dépaillées en composent tout l'ameublement. Au fond, on aperçoit un grand nombre de cartons entassés et de toiles sans cadres retournées contre le mur.
Au moment ou je suis entre le vieillard était a table, dînant avec quelques croûtes de pain dur qu'il trempait dans un verre d'eau sucrée. Il s'est aperçu que mon regard s'arrêtait sur ce menu d'anachorète, et il a un peu rougi.
'- Chacun fête les grands jours a sa manière' en recommençant a plonger un croûton dans son verre. Il y a des gourmets de plusieurs genres, et tous les régals ne sont point destinés à flatter le palais; il en existe aussi pour les oreilles et pour les yeux.'
J'ai regarde involontairement autour de moi, comme si j'eusse cherché l'invisible festin qui pouvait le dédommager d'un pareil souper.
Il m'a compris sans doute, car il s'est levé avec la lenteur magistrale d'un homme sûr de ce qu'il va faire, il a fouillé derrière plusieurs cadres, et en a tiré une toile.
Elle représentait un beau vieillard, qui, assis à table avec sa femme, sa fille et ses enfants, chante, accompagné par des musiciens qu'on aperçoit derrière. J'ai reconnu, au premier aspect, cette composition, que j'ai souvent admirée au Louvres, et j'ai déclaré que c'était une magnifique copie de Jordaens.
Une copie! s'est écrié M. Antoine; dites un original, voisin, et un original retouché par Rubens! Voyez plutôt la tête du vieillard, la robe de la jeune femme et les accessoires. On pourrait compter les coups de pinceau de l'Hercule du coloris. Ce n'est pas seulement un chef-d'œuvre, monsieur, c'est un trésor, une relique! La toile du Louvre passe pour une perle, celle-ci est un diamant. (...)
- Mais si cette toile est véritablement si précieuse, ai-je répondu, elle doit avoir un haut prix. .
- Eh! eh! a dit M. Antoine, d'un ton de nonchalance orgueilleuse, dans un bon temps et avec un bon amateur, cela peut valoir quelque chose comme vingt-mille francs.
J'ai fait un soubresaut en arrière.
- Et vous l'avez acheté ? me suis-je écrié.
- Pour rien, a-t-il répondu en baissant la voix; ces brocanteurs sont des ânes: le mien a pris ceci pour une copie d'élève... Il me l'a laissé à cinquante louis payés comptant! Ce matin, je les lui ai apportés.
- Ce matin! ai-je répété... en reportant involontairement mes regards sur la lettre de refus que M. Antoine m'avait fait écrire à la veuve de son fils, et qui était encore sur la table.
Il n'a pas pris garde à mon exclamation, et a continué à contempler l'œuvre de Jordaens dans une sorte d'extase.
- Quelle science de clair-obscur! murmurait-il en grignotant sa dernière croûte avec délices; quel relief! Quel feu! Où trouve-t-on cette transparence de teintes, cette magie de reflets, cette force, ce naturel?
Text in
FrenchDessine moi un mouton from
Antoine de St Exupery - Le Petit Prince
- Mais... qu'est-ce que tu fais là?
Et il me répéta alors, tout doucement, comme une chose très sérieuse:
- S'il te plaît... dessine-moi un mouton.
je sortis de ma poche une feuille de papier et un stylographe. Mais je me rappelai alors que j'avais surtout étudié la géographie, l'histoire, le calcul et la grammaire et je dis au petit bonhomme (avec un peu de mauvaise humeur) que je ne savais pas dessiner. Il me répondit :
-Ça ne fait rien. Dessine-moi un mouton.
Comme je n'avais jamais dessiné un mouton je refis, pour lui, l'un des deux seuls dessins dont j'étais capable. Celui du boa fermé. Et je fus stupéfait d'entendre le petit bonhomme me répondre:
-Non! Non! Je ne veux pas d'un éléphant dans un boa. Un boa c'est très dangereux, et un éléphant c'est très encombrant. Chez moi c'est tout petit. J'ai besoin d'un mouton. Dessine-moi un mouton.
Alors j'ai dessiné.
How to draw a cartoon zebra
by http://www.how-to-draw-funny-cartoons.com/
The shape of the zebra are simple to figure out. A big oval represents the body. The legs are made of rectangles. The head is made of a circle and the jaw is drawn with a rectangle.
The tail is composed of a small oval shape while the mane is made of a curved line. But don't worry. We will draw a much simpler zebra for this example.
First, draw two rectangles, one for the head and another one for the
body. Then, join these two shapes by
working the outline of your zebra. Add a line to form the nose of your
character.
Then, you can add some ears, the mane and the tail. Continue your creation by sketching the legs. Finally, draw the eyes, the nose and the stripes.
Coupon for Artists' Canvas
The Times - 10. June 1942
Complaints have been made by artists that under the clothes's rationing scheme they are compelled to give up dress coupons in order to get canvas on which to paint their pictures. This disability, they point out, cannot have been intended when the rationing of clothing material was introduced. It is understood that the matter is being considered by the Board of Trade.
This is an interesting concept with dodgy ethics. I feel that way in general about
graffiti. A snail may not be a high ranked animal in public esteem, so perhaps this does not feel too shocking.
Maybe it is a pet called John.
In my opinion, this artwork is the equivalent of dyeing your poodle pink AND spraying a wall with doodles.
Tragedy Killed by Laughter
The Times, 25. October 1932
A play which seems to be the funniest tragedy ever written was the subject of a lawsuit before a Berlin Court today. Intended to be an earnest and melancholy piece, it was produced in August at a theatre in 'Unter den Linden' where it was received with hilarious mirth from the audience until, at the tragic denouement in the last act, the well-known actor who played the leading part himself broke into loud laughter. One person did not join the prevailing mirth - the producer; and he today sued the actor concerned for 1.600 marks damages, alleging that his illtimed mirth alone had caused the play's first night to be also its last. The defendant urged that the play was not killed by him, but was already dead, and produced newspaper reviews which raised in Court an echo of the first night's merriment. The Bench, accepting his version, dismissed the case and awarded costs against the plaintiff, who, it is understood did not understand the joke.
At a performance of the opera Salome at Eberfeld on Saturday, the audience, by way of contrast actually dissolved in tears. They were not caused by events on the stage, however, but by tear-gas, introduced, it is supposed, by race-conscious Nazis in protest against the appearance of a singer from the Philippines in the name part.
In a symbolic act of ominous significance, on May 10, 1933 the students burned upward of 25,000 volumes of "un-German" books, presaging an era of state censorship and control of culture. On the night of May 10, in most university towns, nationalist students marched in torchlight parades "against the un-German spirit." The scripted rituals called for high Nazi officials, professors, rectors, and student leaders to address the participants and spectators.
Where art and History meet -
Un-German books destroyed.
The Times , 11. May 1933
The Times , 11. May 1933
About 20.000 'Marxist', pacifist, Jewish, or other 'un-German' books, 'collected' by Nazi-led students of Berlin University during recent days from public libraries and private owners, were burnt tonight in the 'Opera Place' in Berlin in the presence of Dr Goebbels, the Minister for Propaganda.
The books and periodicals, included the works of Pacifists such as Ludwig Renn (particular stress is laid on this type of literature); books with an anti-war message such as Remarque's 'All Quiet on the Western Front', histories of the World War which are either Pacifist oder defeatist; books critcizing Signor Mussolini or Italian Fascism; all Marxist and Communist publications (including the complete works of Karl Marx and Lenin), books by Jewish authors such as Leon Feutchwanger and Emil Ludwig, and works by Thomas Mann (a Nobel Prize - winner), Heinrich Mann, Arnold and Stefan Zweig, and Arthur Shnitzler, and of Anglo-Saxon writers such as Upton Sinclair, Ernest Hemingway, and Jack London. The destructions of books on sex by Dr Magnus Hirschfeld and other books classified as 'obscene' or 'trash' will cause no regret to the great majority of Germans.
The burning began at 11.30. A dozen students each each carrying a book, were shepherded in turn by the Nazi organizers to the microphone, where each recited an appropriate couplet, ending with the words, ' I consign to the flames the writer Emil Ludwig', or whoever the writer was. Then Dr Goebbels stepped into the glare of the searchlights and the bonfire, and declaimed against the 'filth' of the Jewish 'asphalt literati'.
In place of the literature destroyed, a list of desirable books has been compiled and recommended to the public libraries, bookshops and general public. The list includes books extolling and explaining the principles of National Socialism, books on the theme of 'Nordic Racial Purity' and explaing war and and explaining the virtues of a martial training.
more information in English --> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi_book_burnings
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Freitag, 30. Juli 2010 02:36 CEST Stardate 42714.3548408
Zu den indizierten Autoren gehörten u. a. Walter Benjamin, Ernst Bloch, Bertolt Brecht, Max Brod, Otto Dix, Alfred Döblin, Albert Einstein, Lion Feuchtwanger, Marieluise Fleißer, Leonhard Frank, Sigmund Freud, Iwan Goll, George Grosz, Jaroslav Hasek, Heinrich Heine, Ödön von Horvath, Heinrich Eduard Jacob, Franz Kafka, Georg Kaiser, Erich Kästner, Alfred Kerr, Egon Erwin Kisch, Siegfried Kracauer, Karl Kraus, Theodor Lessing, Alexander Lernet-Holenia, Karl Liebknecht, Georg Lukács, Rosa Luxemburg, Heinrich Mann, Klaus Mann, Ludwig Marcuse, Karl Marx, Robert Musil, Carl von Ossietzky, Erwin Piscator, Alfred Polgar, Erich Maria Remarque, Joachim Ringelnatz, Joseph Roth, Nelly Sachs, Felix Salten, Anna Seghers, Arthur Schnitzler, Carl Sternheim, Bertha von Suttner, Ernst Toller, Kurt Tucholsky, Jakob Wassermann, Franz Werfel, Arnold Zweig, Stefan Zweig. Nicht nur deutschsprachige Autoren standen auf den Listen, sondern auch die Namen der französischen Autoren André Gide, Romain Rolland, Henri Barbusse, der amerikanischen Autoren Ernest Hemingway, Upton Sinclair, Jack London, John Dos Passos und vieler sowjetischer Autoren, darunter Maxim Gorki, Isaak Babel, Vladimir_Iljic_Lenin, Leo Trotzki, Wladimir Majakowski, Ilja Ehrenburg. (Siehe auch: Liste der verbrannten Bücher 1933)
Mit den Bücherverbrennungen begann nicht erst die Verfolgung dieser Autoren, deren mündliche oder schriftliche Äußerungen den Anschauungen des Nationalsozialismus widersprachen und die sich der von ihnen geforderten 'geistigen Wehrhaftmachung' widersetzten, sondern sie fand lediglich ihren Höhepunkt darin. Viele Schriftsteller, aber auch andere Künstler und auch Wissenschaftler erhielten in der Folge Arbeits- und Publikationsverbot, verschwanden aus den Bibliotheken und aus dem Schulunterricht und wurden auch physisch vernichtet.
Heinrich Heine, who wrote in his 1820-1821 play Almansor the famous admonition, “Dort, wo man Bücher verbrennt, verbrennt man am Ende auch Menschen": "Where they burn books, they will also burn people."
Ricky Wilson role in Harry Potter and the Deathlly Hallowsout this november
from Pravo (Prague, April 2010)
Ricky Wilson, zpěvák britské skupiny Kaiser Chiefs, se na chvíli objeví v chystaném filmu o kouzelníkovi Harrym Potterovi. Zprávu prinesl britský deník The Sun. Wilson, jenz je velkým fanouškem knižní i filmové potterovaské séries, požádal pry nahrávací spolecnost Universal Music u níž vycházeji alba jeho kapely, aby se kvuli jeho pripadnému učinkováni ve smínku spojila s filmovými studii Warner Brothers. Dohodnuto nakonec bylo, ze se objevi ve druhé casti smímku Harry Potter - a Relikvie Smrti. Nepromluvi aidni slovo, jeho postava by měla byt jednou v prchajícím davu. Film bude mít premiérku v listopadu letošního roku. První oficiální trailer na film Harry Potter a Relikvie smrti ve vysokém rozlišení. Video s českými titulky:
Harry Potter a Relikvie Smrti trailer HD 1080p CZ
3 min - 28 Jun 2010
Uploaded by Elfan
youtube.com
A Best statue for Cregagh Entrance?
Community Telegraph - Belfast, October 7, 2010
George Best's birthplace may yet become a major tourist attraction. Connswater Community Greenway has revealed its plans to erect a life-sized statue of the football icon leaning along a new stone entrance wall at the Cregagh estate.
Members of the Cregagh Community Association have backed up the plan, and are hopeful Cregagh residents and Castlereagh Council will approve the project.
Cregagh Community Association spokesman Tommy Sandford said it would be "a good thing for the area". He added: it will bring more people into the area, increase its culture value, and make it more attractive, with more passing trade for the shops. There still has to be further discussions with Cregagh residents, but I think they'll get behind it.
Sean Brannigan, community engineering officer of the Connswater project told the Belfast Telegraph: "This has come about directly from the community who have asked for the pathway to be extended to into Cregagh. They recognise there are opportunities available, and are wanting to improve their area. It has been a result of community consultation and we are hopeful it will go ahead."
He added: "The money is there and we would like to include some community art and a George Best statue."
Meanwhile, members of the George Best's family have said that they are devastated that many of his medals and trophies have been put up for auction by the executor of his estate. Best's brother in law, Norman McNarry said the items had to be sold for financial reasons and there were no alternative. "Myself and Barbara are absolutely devastated that the executor is having to arrange for the sale of George's trophies and memorabilia, which hold so many memories for us and his many supporters across the world."
Among the items up for sale is Best's prestigious European Cup winner's medal from 1968, won after Best helped Manchester United to a 4-1 victory over Portuguese side Benfica. It is expected to fetch £90,000 - £ 120,000.
Another highlight of the sale, at Bonham's auction house in Chester on October 20, is the 1968 English Football Writer's Association Footballer of the Year trophy.
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A Titanic Feast of Art 
Una receta farmaceutica de hace 5.000 anos, inscrita en arcilla con unos caracteres mas legibles que la letra de mayoria los medicos actuales, es la pieza con la que comienza el recorrido por el Museo del Libro Fadique de Basilea. De esa tablilla de medicina sumeria al formato electronico, la historia del libro en Occidente se puede contar a traves de una centenar de obras. El museo abierto en El Hondillo lo hace desde el pasado 23 de Julio y, a partir del proximo miercoles, propone que ese paseo por la Historia se haga tambien con visitas guiadas. 
El Origen del libro
La edad media illuminada
La invencion de la imprenta modifica por completo el proceso de fabricacion de los libros. En esta planta se muestran diversos incunables, como la Biblia de Gutenberg, asi come libros de zoologia, geografia, alquimia y botanica que transmitieron el conocimiento a la Edad Moderna: Liber Chronoricarum (1493), Atlas de Petro Texeira (1634) o El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quichote de la Mancha (1605). 
The time
Reading a time on a clock is not very difficult. There are two types of clocks - a clock with a face and two hands, and a digital 24 h clock. (there is also the atomic clock but you don't need to able to read it because it is a scientific instrument).
On this clock, it is eight thirty-seven.
On a clock with face and hands, the short hand shows the hours (1 - 12), and the short hand shows the minutes . 1 - five past / 2 - ten past / 3 - a quarter past /4 - twenty past /5
- twenty five past, / 6 - half past / 7 - twenty five to / 8 - twenty
to / 9 - a quarter to / 10 - ten to / 11 - five to - if the minute hand is between two numbers, we use the word almost. On this clock, it is almost twenty five past ten.
There are two ways of telling the time, and you can use whichever you like. Depending on your location, the time varies, in UK, we use GMT
info: http://www.time.org/
Zebras 2010 Wall Calendar YEAR
It is necessary to know how to pronounce the current year. This year 2010, is either Two-thousand and ten or twenty-ten.
If you have a year between 1100 and 1999, you should say eleven hundred and nine-teen hundred and ninety nine. Not one thousand one hundred - in other cultures, they use a different year. The UK uses the Gregorian calendar
A year has four seasons.
Spring
Summer
Autumn (US-English : Fall)
Winter
There are two ways of telling the time, and you can use whichever you like. Depending on your location, the time varies, in UK, we use GMT
info: http://www.time.org/
Zebras 2010 Wall Calendar YEAR
It is necessary to know how to pronounce the current year. This year 2010, is either Two-thousand and ten or twenty-ten.
If you have a year between 1100 and 1999, you should say eleven hundred and nine-teen hundred and ninety nine. Not one thousand one hundred - in other cultures, they use a different year. The UK uses the Gregorian calendar
A year has four seasons.
Spring
Summer
Autumn (US-English : Fall)
Winter
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An Awkward exchange
The Times, 22. August 1944The performance of Fig Leaves and Apple Sauce, a revue due to be presented at the Palace Theatre, Bath, last night, had to be postponed until today. A railway truck containing the scenery, properties and costumes went astray, and in its place one containing the instruments of a complete orchestra arrived in Bath.
info about Palace Theatre: http://www.theatrestrust.org.uk/resources/theatres/show/540-palace-bath
The
Oxford History of Britain edited by Prof. Kenneth Morgan
- Glorious Revolution by Paul Langford -
Oxford Paperback 1990
This historical importance of the Revolution of 1688 - the Glorious 'Revolution' - has inevitably fluctuated in the process of constant reinterpretations by successive generations. It has fared particularly badly in the hands of the twentieth century and threatens to disappear altogether under the demands of modern historical scholarship. The decisive triumph of the liberal and democratic spirit beloved to Macaulay and the Victorian Whigs had dwindled into the conservative reaction of a selfish oligarchy. Especially when compared with modern revolutions, it seems rather to resemble a palace coup than a genuine shift of social and political power. This impression is reinforced by what was seen at the time as one of its most creditable feature - the relative absence of physical violence. Yet this aspect can be exaggerated. In Scotland, the supporters of the deposed king had to be crushed by force of arms, a process which was completed in 1689. In Ireland, there was positively a bloodbath, one which still holds a prominent place in Irish myths and memories. When the siege of Londonderry was lifted, and James II decisively defeated at the battle of the Boyne, Ulster protestants considered their salvation to be glorious, but they can hardly have thought of it as bloodless.
"Without rememberance there is no future" a quote by Elie Wiesel
"Rien ne se comprend sans l'Histoire" Theilhard de Chardin