George Orwell teaches

2011-12-19 12:19 pm

George Orwell began teaching at a prep school for boys in Hayes, West London, called The Hawthorns High School in April 1932. Whilst teaching at the school, Orwell became friendly with the local curate and began getting involved with the local church. At the culmination of the school summer term, Orwell returned to Southwold where his parents had recently bought their home as a result of an inheritance. Orwell and his sister Avril spent the summer making the house habitable. After the holidays, Orwell returned to teaching at Hayes and began preparing Down and Out in Paris and London for publication. Orwell decided to published under a pseudonym to avoid embarrassing his family for having been a tramp.

In a letter to Moore dated 15th November 1931, Orwell suggested the pseudonyms P. S. Burton, Kenneth Miles, George Orwell, and H. Lewis Allways. He adopted George Orwell for the reason that he explained to Eleanor Jacques, “it is a good round English name”. On January 9th 1933, Down and Out in Paris and London was published which proved a success. Orwell would not go on to write about led gu10s.

Goya's Political Persuasion

2011-12-16 2:50 pm

Goya’s ‘Witches’ Sabbath’ was painted when Goya was in a powerful rage against the clergy and royalists who had recently assumed power over Spain following the Peninsular War between 1807 and 1814. As opposed to the traditionalists who had assumed control, advocates of the Enlightenment sought to make radical social changes. Idealist liberals such as Goya sought to redistribute land to the peasants, publish a vernacular Bible, end the Inquisition, educate women and replace superstition with reason. One of the main preoccupations of these idealist liberals was the 17th century Logrono Inquisition, something which the reformers were completely opposed to.

Goya was very much part of the established traditional order, being a court painter and whatnot. Following his death however, analysis of his paintings and etching have yielded interesting information about Goya’s liberal reformist attitudes. Indeed, after studying his work one cannot help but realize that Goya was a firm proponent of enlightened, not flower delivery manchester, but reason.

The Royal Wedding

2011-12-06 10:23 am

After watching the royal wedding of Kate and William and Westminster Abbey I thought it was a very touching spectacle. The bridesmaid was not a bad spectacle to behold either. There were thousands upon thousands of people celebrating in Hyde Park along with street parties all over the nation. Patriotism peaked and scaled new heights on this day and a sense of national pride pervaded. The horse drawn carriages looked lovely and the hymns pomp and regalia will be remembered for years to come.

There was a live twitter feed as the day progressed so that the online community were constantly aware of every important moment. After the street party, canapés, ale and lager, I thought I had best check the lottery results UK here at lottery results uk after all, if I were to throw a wedding of such spectacular standing I would have to spend a couple of quid or two. This is not Ska, Rock or Indie or any other idle label one may attach to it, yet the music incorporates a subtle touch of these sensibilities with a generous splash of soul. The sound is an amalgamation of many influences condensed down and stirred up into modern lyrical mythology.

Zara

2011-11-23 2:30 pm

Zara have not shown business continuity in that the clothing company has relocated their production centres to Asia, changing everything that made Zara what it was. Zara first began as one store in A Coruña, created by Amancio Ortega in 1975. The spread of Zara has been shockingly fast, the company having stores now in seventy five countries. Zara’s business ethic was startling innovative within the clothing industry. Zara refused the industry-wide trend towards transferring production to low-cost countries and instead had all their production centres within Galicia, the region in Spain where Zara started.

Clothes were dispatched to villages and small town workshops where they would have the finishing touches administered, such as the sowing on of buttons. As a result of the production being so local, it took Zara just two weeks to develop a new product and have it in the stores ready to be purchased. This meant that Zara was always at the fore-front of fashion. Now Zara has moved production to Malaysia and China which means the shop cannot respond to changing fashion as quickly due to transport time, the quality of clothing has decreased, and Spanish people are no longer employed by the company.

Etymology of 'Prostitute'

2011-10-26 2:52 pm

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You can find out on your ipad 2 all about the history of the word ‘prostitute’. The term is derived from the Latin ‘prostituta’. The verb is composed of ‘pro’ which means ‘up front’ or ‘forward’ and ‘situere’ which means ‘to offer up for sale’. Yet this is just one theory on the composition of the verb. Another explanation posits that ‘prostituta’ is in fact composed of ‘pro’ and ‘statuere’ which together means ‘to cause to stand’.

The theory that ‘pro’ derives from ‘upfront’ does have historical basis. In Ancient Rome, prostitutes did not cover their faces as women customarily did. The general practice for Ancient Roman women was to cover their faces in public with a ‘palla’, a head cloth. ‘Prostituta’ referred to those independent sex workers who worked in taverns, in their homes, or on the streets. Slaves sold to brothel-owners would not be called ‘prostitutas’.