Joan of Arc

Is considered a national heroine of France and a Catholic saint. A peasant girl born in eastern France who claimed divine guidance, she led the French army to several important victories during the Hundred Years' War, which paved the way for the coronation of Charles VII.

Then she was captured by the Burgundians, sold to the English, tried by an ecclesiastical court, and burned at the stake when she was 19 years old.

Down to the present day, Joan of Arc has remained a significant figure in Western culture. From Napoleon onward, French politicians of all leanings have invoked her memory. Famous writers and composers who have created works about her.

Celt Music

Celtic Music is a term typically used to describe traditional music from Ireland and Scotland. It includes the use of many unique instruments and even includes some traditional dances. This history of Celtic music opens up a window to the history and culture of the Irish and Scottish people.

Fretted instruments are a large part of the Celtic musical tradition, but it is widely believed that they are a relatively new addition. In fact, this is not true and there are records of fretted instruments being used in the very earliest of Celtic music, dating back to the early 1600's. These instruments include the lute and the mandore, which is a treble lute with four strings attached.

 

Traditionally, the most popular type of song in Celtic music is the ballad. Ballads are stories written in verse and intended to be set to music. They often tell sad stories and what makes them even more haunting is the fact that, in most cases, we do not know who wrote them. These songs continue to be an important part of the Celtic tradition and give a unique view into the past.

The Titanomachy

In Greek mythology, the Titans was the series of battles fought for ten years between the two races of deities long before the existence of mankind: the Titans, fighting from Mount Othrys and the Olympians, who would come to reign in Mount Olympus. It is also known as the Battle of the Titans or the Titan War.

The framework for this important battle was created after the youngest Titan, Cronus, overthrew his father, Uranus (sky god and ruler of the universe), with the help of his mother, Gaia (Earth). Cronus castrated his father then he seized his throne and freed his brothers the Titans, who had been imprisoned in Tartarus under the tyrannical reign of Uranus and selfish.

However, when it was usurped, Ouranos prophesied that Cronus's children would rebel against his government in the same way that he and his brothers had done. For fear that their future children rebelling against him, Cronus became the terrible king that his father Uranus had been swallowed whole their children as they flowed from his wife (and sister) Rhea. However, according to an arcade legend recorded by the Greek geographer Pausanias, it managed to hide his fifth and sixth children, Poseidon and Zeus, saying she had given birth to a horse and gave him a foal to eat it instead of Poseidon , and instead gave Zeus a stone wrapped in swaddling clothes.

Rea took Zeus to a cave on the island of Crete, where he was raised by nymphs Curetes and Adrastea and Ida. When Zeus grew older, Metis gave Cronus a special potion, which caused it to vomit the children he had swallowed. Zeus then led the rebellion against the Titans.


That may be the fate of humans in rebellion against the gods.

Pandora's Box

Greek mythology speaks of the creation of man and his gifts. Mind that Prometheus was a Titan who stole fire from the gods to give to humans. In punishment, Zeus chained him to a mountain, so the harpies eat your liver every day. Punished men and giving him creating Pandora Pandora's Box, which contained all the ills of the world.

Old age, illness, fatigue, madness, vice, passion, plague, sorrow, poverty, crime, all the world's ills had spread through the earth and only hope was hidden in the most deep.

At the end we all have a Pandora's box within us, waiting to be opened.

Faced with the deception, Zeus took vengeance by depriving men of the fire. Prometheus decided to remedy this injustice and climbed Mount Olympus to steal fire from the gods, who gave them in a box, with which humans could warm up.

To get revenge on Prometheus, Zeus ordered Hephaestus, the construction of a woman of clay, which gave life and sent her to Epimetheus along with a gift box.

Pandora was the first woman ever existed, created in the image of the goddesses, the other gods endowed with all qualities, Aphrodite gave her beauty, Hermes gave persuasion.

Pandora was unable to overcome the curiosity, despite warnings that Zeus made ​​about what would happen if you opened that box.

Pandora's Box contained all the evils that man would suffer, and with them, hope waiting. Pandora opened the box and let out all evil, but captured the hope, which is the only consolation was to man.

ThrOugH thE LOOking-GlaSS

While the first book plays with living letters, this time Alicia gets involved in a mad game of chess. Carroll provides a list of movements that take place in it, although some of them go against the rules of the game, like a toddler who was playing.



In this work, Carroll poses the problem of reality and dreams. The mirror is a gateway to a world upside down, in which an innocent girl goes into a surreal reality whose center is a game of chess completely arbitrary and illogical. As magical waters that lead to other unknown dimensions and the same goes for the mirrors.



Alicia, as in the first installment of his odyssey, wake up and discover it was all a dream: "What is life but a dream?" So Carroll closes the novel, reminding that life is a dream.

Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There is an adventure into the world of a child, where the impossible becomes possible and vice versa. And in this world we must be as crazy as the Mad Hatter to flee, to escape reality and survive.

ThE ReAL aLiCE WorLd

Lewis Carroll (above) took this picture of the brothers Lidell, Alicia, left, inspired his stories.

In reality, "Alice in the Wonderland" is a book of mathematics"

When analyzed in depth this short novel or long story short, we reach the conclusion that could only have been written by a mind accustomed to mathematical deduction "based on the absurd.



Photos of the real Alicia lifetime.



Lewis Carroll
His public life was something vulgar boring teacher and staunch conservative, his most peculiar trait was his great love for children, a love that was defined "sick"by some authors. Also liked the puppets, cryptography and chess.

Alice in Wonderland "inspired by his friendship with the child Alice Liddell, and a trip to Oxford with her and her sisters. This trip begins on July 4, 1862. Alicia left a great impression not only in the heart of the writer, but of the world, and which inspired one of the most important works of literature for children. He became an eternal character, an icon, and even a pathology. The world created by Charles Dodgson Ludwidge is so complex and is so vivid that, perhaps, never finish to interpret.

 Alice Through the Looking-Glass ----- SoOn 

                          

Angela's Ashes

In 1935, many Irish families left their country, ravaged by hunger, for America, but the McCourt family did just the opposite. After the sudden death of his daughter Margaret, with only seven weeks, Angela and Malachy, her alcoholic husband, to ship in the port of New York to Cock. Accompanied by her four children back to that unknown place by small and they have just heard that it is a land where no work and where people die of cold.

This movie is about the lack of a family and all the obstacles they face in order to survive.
I give it a 9.0 because the story grabs you and gives you an introspection of life.
Greetings and live life, do not make the live.