For many of you, this is a special day: It's going to be your first day at school after so many years and for other students, it's a new opportunity to go on with the English learning process. Whatever your purpose is, English is going to be from now on "something important in your life".
However, you are not coming to school alone, you're bringing the shadows of your many failures and mistakes when you studied many years ago. When was the last time you told yourself: I'd like to learn English? Do you remember? How many times did you try?
Think you are a lucky person because a wonderful door is being opened to you NOW. The door of learning. This year you'll discover that learning is fun and joy and that your dreams can be true. There is no limit to dream. Dare to do it!
Look at this video. They are two Chinese dancers: she without an arm and he without one leg.
They may possibly not have perfect bodies, but they make of their dancing something perfect. Even his crutch is part of the choreography. Where are their limits?
This film is about the hunger and poverty brought about by Globalization. There are 10,000 people dying everyday due to hunger and malnutrition. This short film shows a forgotten portion of the society. The people who live on the refuse of men to survive. What is inspiring is the hope and spirituality that never left this people.
The stage adaptation of the Disney film taken from an original African story. A young lion grows up and learns that taking over the pride requires wisdom and maturity. Simba is the young lion, his wicked uncle is Scar and his father, killed by his uncle, is King Mustafa.
The Lion King is a Tony Award and Olivier Award-winning musical based on the 1994 Disney animated film of the same name with music by Elton John and lyrics by Tim Rice. Directed by Julie Taymor, the musical features actors in animal costumes as well as giant, hollow puppets. The show is produced by Disney Theatrical.
The musical debuted in 1997 and it is now Broadway's ninth longest-running show in history.
One of the songs both from the film and the show is "The Circle of Life", composed by Elton John. It's a song about faith and courage, life and death. It's about living in a circle, living in community.
The word "community" comes from the Latin word "communis" meaning "common." What do you have "in common" with those in your "circle"? We've been describing inclusive circles, like the circles of your community or your classroom. But what about exclusive circles - circles that keep others out, i.e. a club that excludes women or minorities. How strong are these circles? Have you ever been excluded from a circle? Can you describe it? How did you deal with it? How can diversity, as well as unity, help to strengthen the Circle of Life?
The Circle of Life symbolizes both the interrelationships between individuals and nature and the connections between individuals and their society. How can you improve your connection to the natural world around you? How can you improve your relationship with your community?
MUFASA : Everything exists together in a delicate balance. As King, you need to understand that balance, and respect all the creatures - from the crawling ant to the leaping antelope. SIMBA : But, Dad, don't we eat the antelope? MUFASA: Yes, Simba, but when we die, our bodies become the grass. And the antelope eat the grass. Just as the sun rises from the night, and winter becomes the spring, so life arises from death. Everything is connected in the great circle of life.
He was born into a family of artists and was educated outside the islands. That opening to the world is reflected in his art. The 20th century had just begun and the continent was awash with symbolism and modernism. Nestor absorbed his influence and portrayed it in his work, mixing it with a vision of the Canaries of his birth which was the fruit of observation and imagination, Néstor Martín Fernández de la Torre (1887-1936) is the Canary Islands most erotic painter, as reflected in his “Poem of the Sea” and above all, in his unfinished, “Poem of the Earth”. However his art goes far beyond the canvas.
Throughout his life, Néstor was devoted to his most ambitious personal project: “The Poem of the Elements”, which consists of poems about the sea, the earth, fire and air. He only finished the first of these. The last two he was unable to start. “The Poem of the Sea” is the only series he could finish. It is composed of eight pictures: Mediadía and Tarde, Noche, Bajamar, Pleamar and Borrasca. Adolescent bodies of ambiguous virility swim, rest or fight with the sea. Marine creatures arise from his own mythology in which reality and imagination are mixed.
“The Poem of the Earth” was also to be composed of eight pieces: the four seasons and the four moments of the day.
Néstor was more than a painter, he moved to Madrid at the age of 15 and from 1904 he travelled around Europe to perfect his technique. He was a cosmopolitan Canarian artist when that was still a novelty. The vision of art beyond Spain’s borders was fundamental in the forming of his artistic personality.
He had exhibitions in Barcelona, Paris and Mardid and attained international fame as a decorative painter and of portraits with backgrounds of great fantasy. After the age of 30, he returned to the Canaries and started a phase of painting in which he became interested in “Canarianism”. He designed several murals for the Casino de Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Parador de Tejeda and Pueblo Canario. He also designed Gran Canaria’s folkloric dress.
The origins of the Canarian indigenous people are still the subject of debate. The islands were known to the Phoenicians, Greeks and Romans, and are mentioned in many classical books . For example, Pliny the Elder describes a Carthaginian expedition to the Canaries, and they may have been the Fortunate Isles of other classical writers.
Archaeology suggests that the original settlers arrived by sea, importing domestic animals such as goats, sheep, pigs and dogs and cereals such as wheat, barley and lentils. They also brought with them a set of well-defined socio-cultural practices that seem to have originated and been in use for a long period of time elsewhere.
When the Europeans began to explore the islands they encountered several indigenous populations living at a Neolithic level of technology. Although the history of the settlement of the Canary Islands is still unclear, linguistic and genetic analyses seem to indicate that at least some of these inhabitants shared a common origin with the Berbers of northern Africa.[ The pre-colonial inhabitants came to be known collectively as the Guanches, although Guanches was originally the name for the indigenous inhabitants of Tenerife.
Once you get at the archeological site, you are going to be told a story about a girl called Arminda. The introduction below will help you to understand a little bit more the whole story once you get there.
Arminda is a canarian girl and although her father is a very important man, she is an ordinary girl who likes playing with other girls, walking and being with Guama, her litte goat. In fact, Arminda's father is Guanarteme. He is a good man who likes helping people and trying to solve their problems without violence, trying to find a solution through the dialogue ... He doesn't like war. She lives in Agaldar a little village on the north of the island called Gran Canaria.
Arminda's house has several rooms and she lives with her parents and other relatives. Besides, she likes learning her traditions and sometimes she has to do some tasks, for example to fetch some water, to toast the barley to prepare the gofio or to help to make the mats. Her favourite meal is dried figs with milk and honey.
Arminda's real name is Wayyarminna, which is usually spelled Guayarmina. In fact it is the name of a star which it is called Canopo. Some north African traditions tell us that this is the first star that existed but later it exploded, giving place to the millions of stars and constellations that form the Universe.
