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3 days ago · Giovanni di Pietro di Bernardone (c. 1181 – 3 October 1226), known as Francis of Assisi, was an Italian mystic, poet and Catholic friar who founded the religious order of the Franciscans. He was inspired to lead a Christian life of poverty as a beggar and itinerant preacher.
4 days ago · Frances Ghanem Asfour (aka Francoise, Francesca, Francie, Mom, Teta) completed her calling of creating a beautiful family and welcoming friends and strangers to her ever-expanding table on May 27, 2024. She was born on February 19, 1930 in Haifa, Palestine, one month after her father (Francis) tragically passed.
1 day ago · Seeking to relieve women from wartime frugality and shapeless clothes, Dior devised ways to enhance feminine beauty. His proposition was greeted with rapturous applause and immediately embraced by such disparate women as singer Juliette Greco and stage actress Dominique Blanchard, who had a long skirt made of 80 yards of pleated white faille.
3 days ago · The Jury is still out as to when, but suffice it to say that Secular Humanism is the dominant Worldview across Western Culture, despite the fact that Western Culture has returned to its Ancient Greco-Roman Pagan roots. I cover that topic in a series called ‘How Western Culture has returned to its Ancient Greco-Roman Pagan roots’.
3 days ago · ABSTRACT. Elena Ferrante’s Neapolitan Quartet (2011–2014) and Jhumpa Lahiri’s first work in Italian, In altre parole (In Other Words, 2015) can both be read as ‘language memoirs’, for they both posit language, language acquisition, and self-translation as central narrative events as well as sites for identity construction and reinvention of the self.
3 days ago · He criticizes the Russian and European leisure classes, spending all their unearned wealth on luxurious art and extravagant productions, which required punishing levels of skill and flamboyant ornamentation. He characterizes the art world's values at the time as those of the Renaissance and, therefore, also Greco-Roman.
3 days ago · Following a historical analysis of causes, Adler lays out his techne, his conceptual framework.He continues the reference to history, now the Great Books history of educational thought, by referring to the great philosophers, the “great contributors to educational theory” (Western style) in “Plato, Aristotle, Cicero, Quintilian, Augustine, Bonaventure Aquinas, Montaigne, Erasmus, Francis ...
