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The Game of Thrones: A Screaming Good Time
It’s that time of year again. Adrenaline, excitement, anguish, depression, lethargy, and resignation: these are all common feelings associated with this time. What is so significant about this particular time of year you may ask? Well, now is the time of year when the season finale of the Game of Thrones has come and gone. A whole 9 months to go before we find out who the next unsuspecting victim(s) of George R.R. Martin’s vicious pen will be. And I ask you: how are we supposed to deal with that? Sure, for the next month, there will be lots of debate about what might happen and who may become the…
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Manos, ¿para qué os quiero?
Desde que desaparecieran los aprendices, el valor y la utilidad del trabajo manual ha ido perdiendo prestigio a pasos agigantados. Las constantes reformas educativas que absorbieron los oficios que anteriormente se aprendían y perfeccionaban en los talleres, pasaron a formar parte de la enseñanza profesional, la conocida como formación profesional, que proporcionaba conocimientos teóricos además de prácticos. Me abstendré de valorar la justicia o acierto de esta estrategia ―de alguna manera había que ocupar a la cantidad de jóvenes que se negaban a estudiar y no podían encontrar trabajo en la España de la transición―, pero las consecuencias, en mi humilde opinión, pueden percibirse en dos aspectos diferentes. La primera…
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Join the Club
If I were to ask you what Camille Pissarro, Dermot Morgan (Ted), Abraham, Christmas, William, Steve Martin, God, Time, and Marlon Brando have in common, would you be able to come up with the solution? I’ll give you a couple of seconds… Father! They have all been referred to as “Father”. Many people (especially the British amongst us) will have heard of, and spent many an evening laughing at, Father Ted. Fathers Christmas and Time are personifications, both of whom appear in the Chronicles of Narnia interestingly enough. Father William is the hero of Lewis Carol’s satirical poem in Alice in Wonderland, and Father Abraham and God the Father are…









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