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Waves battering the shores due to Hurricane Ian that hit September 2022
The aftermath of Hurricane Ian
America is going through a period of crabbiness
The temporal and spatial experiences are more explicit when we approach the perceptions of time and space
Experiential coordinates
Temporality and spatiality
Nikos Kazantzakis, the greatest Greek Writer, and consummate global citizen
A symbolic Peace Prize for Nikos Kazantzakis
Epic journey of place and mind
Three wise monkies in Golden Mountain Temple, Bangkok, Thailand
To turn a blind eye
The justifications we give ourselves to do so
A woman writing down her memoir
The memoires of Sidney Bidluph by Frances Sheridan
The classic novel of sensibility
Sign on a bridge standing against caste violence in America
Isabel Wilkerson’s Caste: The origins of our discontents
The American caste system
The mandarin's bird soaring in the sunset sky
The bird of the mandarin
A story freely inspired by the painting "The Mandarin's Wife" by Lê Phổ, Vietnamese painter
Paris Hilton and Nicole Richie in their reality TV show from the early 2000s called A Simple Life
Pop culture of the early 2000's
What were we thinking?
Small boy on a boat, in the Meghna River, in Bangladesh
Bangladesh: culture and customs
The intensely entrenched heritage of the Bangladeshi populus
Walter White as Heisenberg in the popular and acclaimed show "Breaking Bad"
How our viewing program reflects our society
You are what you watch
Room 1 - The Fabric Wardrobe. Jewish Museum of Rome
The Jewish Museum of Rome
The story behind the precious textile archives of the museum
Nina’s reflection of a fragmented self
Electra and her swan
The mother-wound and its infantilisation of perfection
The long lost art of a handwritten letter with love
Oh, lover...Where might your letters be?
Romance from the pen
Side view of the National World War Two Memorial Wall in Washington, DC, adorned with 4,048 gold stars; each represents 100 Americans who died during the Second World War
A world without war
Is it possible?
Woman meditating holding a crystal ball
Philosophical analysis of destiny
What is destiny?
A woman finds it difficult to stare at her existence in the mirror as she's experiencing a mid mid-life crisis
A mid mid-life crisis
An existential discourse
An ocean wave
And what is your serial number?
A conversation between droplets in an ocean wave
A woman activating her sense of smell by sniffing a flower
An interview with Christina Bradstreet
Scented visions
Narmada River, sacred to Hindus and other communities, has been dammed in four locations @ Ashish Kothari
Should sacredness not be equal?
Discrimination in the treatment of holy sites
An Indo-Aryan ethnic group living mainly in Europe
The Roma
A minority group on verge of marginality
Spanish refugees, mainly republicans and members of the International brigades are guarded by French troops at a camp on Argeles beach in 1939.
An artist's story, Pierre Moreno
Compassion blossoms from a challenging childhood
Some of the beautiful islands of the Philippines
Philippines: light has no size
An immigrant's story
Hungry Mother State Park, in Marion, southwestern Virginia, USA
The "Holler"
My childhood home where colors didn't define us
Auguste Rodin's The Thinker, Paris, France
Thinking about things that make you think
A journal writing introspective approach
A woman recently engaged after accepting the proposal of her partner
Proposals and engagements
Why are they still a thing?
Two girls whispering during a lesson, inside a classroom, at school
The craft of teaching
Why not distinguish between “positive noise” and “negative noise”?
A man looks to the light in the sky
Chariots of the gods revisited
Exploring biblical UFO encounters in light of modern UAP phenomena
A group of writers teaming up to produce quality literature
International center foreign languages and literature
Writers capital foundation, inspiring humanity
Ann Radcliffe was an English novelist and a pioneer of Gothic fiction
Ann Radcliffe a Sicilian romance
The first lady of gothic fiction
Earth serpent slithering in the desert
Year of the earth serpent changing colors
Genesis of a novel
With great knowledge in your head, you have the world in the palms of your hands
Knowledge is a potential power
An asset which can often be more important than money
Mirabilia Urbis course group photo at Castle Sant' Angelo
Interview with the Mirabilia Urbis Cultural Association
Archaeology and art history of Rome and the province
Kim Kardashian and Kanye West in a garden having a minor disagreement
She is both the sculptor and the clay
Kim Kardashian and Kanye West’s modern-day rendition of Ovid’s Pygmalion
The wonders of Namibia
When chickens could fly!
A coming-of-age story that highlights the advance of a nation about to collapse from the lens of a 20-year-old
Am I refusing to grow old, or am Ilooking for my lost youth? Not at all
50 is the new 30
Today is the first day of the rest of my life
Men locked up in jail; many jails all over the world are packed and full of criminals
The cost of crime
How would humanity be if there was no such thing as crime?
Wanda Sykes, one of the pioneers of black female comics, is performing her stand up comedy set
African-American feminism meets humor
Using comedy to combat racism and sexism
A busk of Aristotle who said experience arises from the multiplicity of memories and is not exclusive to man
History and philosophy of experience
An essay on the intelligibility of nature
A young teenage boy being arrested for a committed crime
How old is enough to be held accountable for one's actions?
Are 16-year-olds equipped mentally, socially, and economically to face the world?
Humanity is an element of the universe
The flourishing of humanity
Philosophical predictions
The Benin Bronzes in the British Museum in London, England
The end of the Indiana Jones era?
Reckoning with illicit museum collections and denied sovereignty
Ratnagiri Monastery, entrance. Odisha, India
Ratnagiri Buddhist monastery in Odisha, India
Where the silent stones share secrets…
Rainbows are beautiful amazements of life
Normality or madness?
The miracle of life is amazing
A Nilote woman laying with her baby son and her little daughter standing close by the bed, Africa
The Nilotes
An overlook of the culture and traits of South Sudan, northern Uganda, and Western Kenya's indigenous inhabitants
Miss Anna Jackson's May Day 1942
May 2, 1945
Reflections of a May Queen
A group of friends not feeling the party vibes of new year's eve
Why new year's eve always turns out to be a let-down
How will you be spending your new year’s eve?
Renowned Indonesian author Pramoedya Ananta Toer
Pramoedya Ananta Toer
An Indonesian literary icon
The titular Castle of Wolfenbach as depicted in the gothic novel by Eliza Parsons
The Castle of Wolfenbach by Eliza Parsons
Power, incest and the female heroine in the gothic novel
Zachary Carter, author of the Price of Peace
The Price of Peace by Zachary Carter
A focus on Keynes: cultural radicalism and intellectual ferment
A young boy scrolling, glued to his smartphone while ignoring the piles of old books in front of him; an image that reflects the reality of the youth in our current generation, all about their smartphones and movie platforms, rejecting the good old novels
The death of the novel
Is the novel becoming an extinct species?
Learning different languages, young woman in front of a blackboard in a classroom
Language learning
The good, the great and the best
Granddaughter with grandpa, planting together
To grandpa
The conversation I never had
The Jewish ghetto in Rome, Italy
The Jewish Quarter in Rome
A guided walk with a member from the community
A young man looking at The Thinker statue by Auguste Rodin in a museum and wondering, what is man?
Man
An introspective commentary
A scene from the 1997 film adaptation of Lolita starring Jeremy Irons and Dominique Swan
Gimme all your money… and love, Daddy
Postfeminist fascination with “Daddy” issues through Lolita, Sylvia Plath & Lana del Rey
A young Kim Chi Pho in a garden in the middle of autumn
I, Kim Chi Pho
Seven times fallen, eight times up
Roxane Gay author of Bad Feminist
Humor in Roxane Gay’s Bad Feminist
Thoughts on gender, race and sexuality
A monk holding an umbrella walking under the moonlight and perfectly encapsulating the belief, create and do philosophy
To believe, to create, and to do
The inexorability of human action in the realization of a better future
The two faces of Buddha, laughter and happiness
That ineffable feeling of inexplicable joy
Laughter dries up all tears
Zora Neale Hurston was an American author, anthropologist, and filmmaker. She wrote fiction about contemporary issues in the Black community and became a central figure of the Harlem Renaissance
Reflections of a colored girl
Beginning the stories
Put the pen to paper to tell your stories
A synopsis of a life
Stories of my life and times
Happy children learning at school in Morocco
The enemy of the teacher
The hardship of a teacher's job
An artistic representation of the Castle of Otranto
Horace Walpole: The Castle of Otranto
The original gothic novel
A volunteer worker teaching English in Morocco. Learning foreign languages, such as French and English, has given Moroccans access to different cultural viewpoints and improved the nation's capacity for cultural adaptation
Morocco and its multilingual power
Our use of language shapes our identities and is a fundamental component of who we are as people
Photos of the victims of the Holocaust at the memorial Yad Vashem, The World Holocaust Remembrance Center in Jerusalem, Israel. Photo by David Shankbone
What was the Holocaust?
The victims of Nazism
Alex Rezvan (left) and Ted Wachholz (right) of the Eastland Disaster Historical Society in Chicago, USA
History of exhibitions outcome with Alex Revzan
Creating a memorable experience for visitors
An open working place where everyone can analyze and observe everyone in the vicinity
The working place
A familiar strange
The kingdom of Swaziland is one of three remaining monarchies in Africa. The official name of the kingdom of Swaziland was changed to Eswatini
Eswatini
One of the few remaining monarchies in Africa
A lady busy writing on her typewriter
The writer's challenge
How tough is it to be a writer?
An ancient male beauty competition in Africa that blurs the rules of cultural patriarchy
The Ubuntu Conundrum
The tussle between tradition and culture
Lighting the match on individuals to cancel them from the spotlight
Cancel culture
Is it what it seems?
In a society created by different brains and patterns, a man's social environment is a major influence in the forming of a social man
The impact of the environment on social behaviours
When humans act in certain ways, are they acting by their own will or following the patterns set by their social environment?
Hands painted with the world, doves of peace flying about
Analysis of peace
The hierarchy of universal order's foundations as a clue to achieving world peace
The teachings of Ibn Khaldoun author of The Muqqadimah (1377)
The Muqqadimah and world history
An insight into the approach to understanding the world
Archeological Sarnath Museum, Uttar Pradesh, India
Sarnath Museum, Uttar Pradesh, India
Where stones speak of Buddha’s life
The act of balancing on a tightrope in order to effect change in one of its alterations
Balance and resistance, the alterability of change
Reflections of a transformative dynamic
Haci Bektas Veli was a mystic, humanist and a philosopher who lived approx. from 1209–1271 in Anatolia (Central-Turkey); his teachings had great impact on the Anatolian cultures
Is Alevism the solution?
The Islam/Christanity bridge
Poems being enjoyed over a couple of tea with the scatterings of nature in its surroundings
William Butler Yeates' The Second Coming
The brilliant poem that led to depression and beyond
Archeological excavation being conducted by locals during the late Ottoman Iraq
Archaeological excavations in late Ottoman Iraq
The Layard legacy
Teacher and students in a classroom; learning time
How to improve your life as a teacher
Be the eye that observes your behaviour
All the members of the colossal group The Spice Girls who were global celebrities in the mid-90s
How I damaged my mental health by idolising celebrities
The enticing allure of the celebrity cult
Marie Antoinette prophesized "they are going to force us to go to Paris, the King and me, preceded by the heads of our bodyguards on pikes."
Marie Antoinette, a youthful education
Was she just naïve and ill-prepared?
National Shrine of Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton in Emmitsburg, Maryland, USA
Elizabeth Seton's contribution to the impoverished girls
Seton Shrine by the numbers
The K-Pop group TWICE consists of 9 members and made their debut in 2015
Why is there so much English in Korean music?
The historical and cultural reasons for when and why English is used in K-pop
The bright eyes of a child enlighten the darkness of modern society in hope for a better future
Humanity
Are humans an advanced species or primitive pieces?
Sarai Sanchez Prieto is that "girl"
I am “that” girl you hate
The one you fear and desire
A family assuming different poses some with their partners and some are single
The value of family and the price of being single
Evaluating the cost of both worlds
Peruvian author of Open Pit, Jose Antonio Villarán
Interview with author Jose Antonio Villaran
Open pit mining in Peru
Nok statue. Most of Nok's sculpture is hollow and coil-built like pottery, finely worked to a resilient consistency from local clays and gravel, the millennia-long endurance of these ancient objects is a testament to the technical ability of their makers
A population that once was...
The giant of Africa!
The universe as timeless
Humanity seen from the universal laws
Human nature through the universal essence, principles and laws
The bust of Skanderbeg in Geneva, Switzerland
Skanderbeg
The national hero of the Albanians
Kuragala village in Sri Lanka
Drum makers’ Village Kuragala in Sri Lanka
Making the beats of rhythm
Korean Monastery with people smiling and looking happy
An interview with Barbara J. Zitwer
The Korean book of happiness
Photojournalist and licensed tour guide Eva Soproni with her private clients, Vatican City
Guided city walks of Rome
Captured behind the lens as in postcards...Cartoline
Young children of the Mursi tribe, Ethiopia
The Ethiopian Mursi tribe
Discovering the culture of the Mursi tribe
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