Sunday, May 29, 2022

Tales from childhood: Children and adults.

Lara was a little child. She liked to play with toys more than watch TV.

Sophie started watching TV several years ago. It was her new interest.

"Young children aren't yet interested in watching TV." Sophie's mother said.

Also, Sophie heard how people discussed movies and programs.

Then Sophie will understand many other things.

Saturday, May 21, 2022

Cassandra.

Cassandra (Κασσάνδρα) was a daughter of Priam (Πρίαμος) and Hecuba (Ἑκάβη), they were the king and queen of Troy (Τροία). Her siblings were, Hector (Ἕκτωρ,), Helenus (Ἕλενος), Paris (Πάρις), Deiphobus (Δηΐφοβος), Polyxena (Πολυξένη), and Ilione (Ἰλιόνη).

Apollo (Apollo) (Ἀπόλλων) was admired by Cassandra. Also, he endowed her with the gift of prophecy. Cassandra predicted the fall of Troy.

When she refused Apollo, he made sure that no one believed in Cassandra's predictions. So, the metaphor of Cassandra appeared, for a person whose predictions are not believed.

Cassandra had relations with Agamemnon, king of Mycenae.

There are many different arts about this character.


Sunday, May 15, 2022

Tales from childhood: Sophie and her old friends.

When Sophie was a little child, she had many different friends. Sophie’s friends lived near her or studied in one school. Some of them taught Sophie how to play hide-and-seek; others suggested fun places in the city.

Several years later Sophie understood that she forgot about many friends during this time. 

“It happens that some of your friends are for from you that are why you stopped communicating.” grandmother said.   

“I understand,” Sophie said.

Indeed, many of Sophie’s classmates have moved on to other schools after elementary grades. Some friends from the yard moved to new houses and apartments.

Now Sophie had new friends, they were somehow different from her old childhood friends.  But at the same time she had one old friend from early childhood. She was a daughter of her mother’s colleague.

She was a simple good young girl. She was an example for many other children.

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https://www.shutterstock.com/image-vector/three-little-kids-sitting-on-seat-1960966417



Saturday, May 14, 2022

Allegory.

Allegory (ἀλληγορία) (allegoria) is a type of artistic literary form. This word means "veiled language, figurative" from Greek language.

It shows a specific situation in a figurative sense. An allegory is like a metaphor.

This genre is popular in various art forms, such as: poetry, prose, painting, and etc.

Allegory was at different times and in different countries.

Many authors use this artistic genre for their works.

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https://www.istockphoto.com/es/vector/camino-a-la-ejecuci%C3%B3n-escena-de-reynard-el-zorro-publicado-1898-gm1331132364-414356426


Source of image:

https://www.shutterstock.com/image-vector/plato-philosophy-allegory-cave-1799515657


Source of image:

https://www.shutterstock.com/image-illustration/birth-venus-by-alexandre-cabanel-1875-751012081



Saturday, May 7, 2022

Iphigenia.

Iphigenia (Ἰφιγένεια) was a princess of Mycenae, in Greek mythology. Her father was King Agamemnon, her mother was Queen Clytemnestra.

Iphigenia had several siblings: Orestes, Chrysothemis, and Electra.

There are plays, paintings, and statues about this character.




Tuesday, May 3, 2022

Great people: Arthur Schopenhauer.

Arthur Schopenhauer was known as a German philosopher. He was born on February 22, 1788, in Gdańsk, Poland. His parents were Heinrich Floris and Johanna Schopenhauer.

Arthur Schopenhauer studied in several universities.

He was interested in ethics, psychology, morality, metaphysics, and aesthetics.

Schopenhauer had his own ideas.

He died on September 21, 1860, in Frankfurt, Germany.





Monday, May 2, 2022

Famous people and their quotes. Part seventy one.

                                                              Giordano Bruno.

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“It is proof of a base and low mind for one to wish to think with the masses or majority, merely because the majority is the majority. Truth does not change because it is, or is not, believed by a majority of the people.”

“I await your sentence with less fear than you pass it. The time will come when all will see what I see.”

“The Divine Light is always in man, presenting itself to the senses and to the comprehension, but man rejects it.”

Source of image:

https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/61876.Giordano_Bruno

Sunday, May 1, 2022

Recipe of homemade chocolate cream for desserts.

Ingredients:

Condensed milk-1 jar

Butter-1 stick

Sour cream-2 table spoons

Melted dark chocolate-1 bar

Amaretto-2 table spoons

Sugar or sugar powder-100 g 




For cream melted dark chocolate with cream. After mix other ingredients, too. Leave the cream in refrigerator about three hours.





Cover your dessert or desserts with chocolate cream.


Bon Appetit!

Literature. Part eighty six.

                                       "The Twelve Brothers" by the Brothers Grimm.

Once upon a time there were a husband and wife, who were a king and Queen. They had twelve sons.

The king decided if his wife gives birth to a daughter, then all the boys must die.

The queen told the youngest son Benjamin, that he and his brothers would go to the forest to live.

Then the boys had a sister and they stayed to live in the forest.

Several years later the girl knew about her twelve brothers. Mother said that she didn't know where they were.

The sister found her brothers' house in the forest. Everyone was happy with this meeting.

Once a sister picked twelve lilies in the garden, and her twelve brothers turned into twelve ravens.

To save her brothers, the sister didn't say a word or laugh for seven years.

During this time, she married the king. His stepmother wanted to kill her. But the brothers saved their sister.

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https://www.istockphoto.com/es/vector/hermanos-wilhelm-y-jacob-grimm-grabado-en-madera-publicado-en-1870-gm1386030121-444501022