THE PAINTING I COULD HARDLY LOOK AT

WORDS

HIGHBROW means high culture

GRUESOME means something terrible, something that makes you feel horrified

STUNNINGLY  . Something that is far from normal. For instance the woman is stuuningly beautiful or ugly .Villa Raverio is stunningly quiet

DISEMBODIED. Something taken away from something

GHOULS Something horrible and ghostly

MINGLE to be part of  a group of people. I went to the party and started to mingle with the other people

BLEND IN also a  cookery term that means to make something part of something .I did not know anyone at the party but I tried to blend in. 

ICONOCLASM Those who destroy art mainly out of religious reasons 

TO FOCUS concentrate deeply

WITTING in an image it is the thing you are meant to see . For instance in the Triumph of Death we are meant to see the dance of death and the end of mankind.

UNWITTING something the author of a work did not intend but it is there anyway. For instance in the Triumph Of Death something must have made the painter paint such horrible scenes and the unwitting testimony is that in his own country there was terrible war 

When I was a kid my dad used to take me round the famous London art galleries on a Sunday morning . That was the first time I came into contact with Pieter Bruegel the elder . His paintings were mostly destroyed when he died and now there are forty in existence but he more or less celebrated the life of the peasant in his homeland. He was called Peasant Brughel because he liked to dress up like one of them so he could mingle unnoticed.

He blended in with them and was able to do drawings of them that would later become paintings. But his most famous painting is the Triumph of Death which is a painting that isbout the end of mankind. It was probably painted because of the religious wars going on in the Netherlands between the Spanish and the Dutch. It is a frightening painting and when I first saw it I straight away thought of Hieronymous Bosch.Bosch was described like this by Van Mander

"Who will be able to tell of the wierd and strange ideas in his mind". If you believe in Hell then your vision of it is from a Bosch painting "When I saw them in London they terrified me .He must be the inspiration not just for Bruegel but also countless horror films of today.

Bruegel and Bosch were both painters of pastoral life and did mostkly that kind of painting .

Bruegel  was a formative influence on Dutch golden age painting he was one of the first generation of artists to grow up when religious subjects had ceased to be the natural subject matter of painting. Focusing instead on the visual world  and depicting everyday scenes of peseant life.

Bruegel was born at a time of extensive change in Western Europe. Humanist ideals from the previous century influenced artists and scholars. In Italy   artists such as Michaelangelo  and  Da Vinci  painted their masterpieces.

Reformation was accompanied by iconoclasm  and the widespread destruction of art  in the Low countries 

The Catholic Church viewed Protestantism and its iconoclasm as a threat to the Church.

 The Coubncil of Trent which concluded in 1563, said that  that religious art should be more focused on religious subject-matter and less on material things and decorative qualities.

At this time, the Low Countries  wanted separation from the Habsburg rule based in Spain. The Habsburg monarchs of Spain attempted a policy of strict religious uniformity for the Catholic Church within their domains and enforced it with the inqusition. Increasing religious riots, political manoeuvrings, and executions eventually resulted in the outbreak of the eighty years war.

In this atmosphere Bruegel reached the height of his career as a painter. Two years before his death, the Eighty Years' War began between the United Provinces and Spain.

In this historical atmosphere his  moral work, the triumph of Death  is symbolized by a large army of skeletons razing the Earth. The background is a barren landscape in which scenes of destruction are still taking place. In the foreground, Death leads his armies from his reddish horse, destroying the world of the living. The latter are led to an enormous coffin with no hope for salvation. All of the social institutions are included in this composition and neither power nor devotion can save them. Some attempt to struggle against their dark destiny while others are resigned to their fate. Only a pair of lovers, at the lower right, remains outside the future they too will have to suffer. This painting depicts a customary theme in medieval literature: the dance of Death, which was frequently used by Northern artists. 

Bruegel casts the entire work in a reddish-brown tone that gives the scene an infernal aspect appropriate for the subject at hand. This scene is influenced by both the medieval tradition of the Dance of Death and by depictions of the Triumph of Death in Italian painting. The profusion of scenes and moralizing sense applied by the artists are part of Hieronymous Bosch´s influence on this work. The pasinting is not about a pandemic but about his feelings towards the years of constant war in his country . The witting testyimony is as we have said above but the unwitting testimony is that the Renaissance the so called period was really about war and not discovery.

Whatever you may think of Bruegel it was Bosch who gave me nightmares . What kind of mind did he have?

QUESTIONS

1. What was the golden age of Dutch painting (research this )

2. Whats the difference between mingle and blend in 

3. Why was Bruegel called the elder?

4  When Bruegel died he told his wife to destroy all his paintings . Can you guess why from the above text ?

5.Give me an example of witting and unwitting

6. Do you think Bruegel and Bosch influenced horror films of today?

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  THE TEN ORLANDO

The greatest detective in the world was worthy of the greatest empire in the world but not just that but the greatest example of life on earth the place that was the heart of it all London.

As SherlockHolmes left the shop where he had his cigarettes made to measure he thought about the fact that life had become boring.No more the erstwhile detective in search of an answer just whiling away his days with the old per cent solution of cocaine and Watson telling him how bad it was for his health. He was dressed in a dark blue suit and black top hat.

"I looked at the symptoms Holmes. I removed the disorders that did not relate to you and narrowed the list down to Asperger’s Syndrome, Bipolar Disorder, and Savant Syndrome. Next, I found specific examples from Freud's latest book  that exhibit  you demonstrating the symptoms of each mental disorder." Said Watson. Watson was sitting in front of the blazing fire and smoking a cigar. He looked pleased with himself.

Irritated Holmes replied "Please Watson! Refrain from these wanderings of your imagination, let us say,over-complicated but innocent mind !!!!

Watson shut up. Holmes went on.

"The truth is Watson is I find people boring but I do not find their problems boring if they are good ones and the fact is when was the last good one? The average person's opinion and mind are like a postal package. It arrives and they take out the opinion and then post the same opinion to someone else convinced that some intellectual thought has taken place. Watson was riled and annoyed at Holmes distaste for the common mind. "But Holmes ! People are people and cannot be expected to be like you ". Holmes ignored him and suddenly said "Watson! We have a visitor! Coming down Baker Street at this moment and recently let down in love. She writes poetry and is interested in the Romantic period. And last but not least loves the music of Chopin". Watson was flabbergasted . "Good God Holmes how is it even humanly possible to deduce all that ". Miss Jennifer Cumley a fallen but a gentile woman of Hampstead took the stairs towards Holmes and his deductions. She entered the room led by Mrs Hudson. Holmes had his back to her as he stood looking out the window but then turned in a snap and said " My dear lady pray take a seat you look exhausted. Mrs Hudson ! Tea and quickly"! Miss Jennifer Cumley sat down and said: "Oh thank you Mr Holmes Im so tired ". Holmes half bowed his head in the form of a salute and said "Please Miss Cumley tell us all there is to tell. She gathered her thoughts ." well Mr Holmes I work in a ragged school in Southwark. It is my duty in life to help the poor especially children. Mr Orlando Brown took advantage of me. Mr Orlandp Brown of Savvanah in the United States of America arrived in this country shortly after the civil war. He was a young man then but grew into a man whose profession in life was to take the heart and the finances of young gullible women. I, I am ashamed to say, am one. Holmes suddenly felt bored by the outpourings of the young woman and nearly said to the point woman! But his underlying kindness shone through and he said instead "Let us begin at the beginning then proceed my dear young lady". 

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THE DANGERS OF STALKING ON THE NET 

Due to its sensational nature, the spectre of unscrupulous adults preying upon and sexually exploiting youth online gets a lot of media attention. Although this does happen, sensational headlines do not help us understand the nature and true extent of the problem or how to deal with it effectively.

In 2019, 1,549 incidents of child luring on the Internet were reported by Canadian authorities. Of these, 242 were deemed unfounded, 651 were cleared and 326 people were charged: 257 adults and 69 youth. Though the total number of cases has risen in the past five years, the number of people actually charged has remained fairly stable.

What strategies do online sexual predators use?

Contrary to the widespread belief that online predators “trick” kids, research shows that they rarely lie about their age or their motives. Instead, predators are most often open about their age and will shower a youth with attention, sympathy, affection and kindness, in order to persuade the victim that they love and understand them.A majority of predators are people that the victim already knows, who take advantage of the ability to communicate privately online, though the relationship may be with someone they did not know offline and may happen entirely online as well.

Once the would-be predator has established a relationship with the victim they may try to “groom” them in a number of possible ways.In some cases this will be a gradual process of building an emotional bond and the pretense of a romantic relationship, while others quickly introduce sexual themes or content into the conversation. In either case, the predator’s twin goals are desensitization – making the victim accustomed to sexual talk or images – and reframing romantic or sexual relationships between teens and adults as being normal rather than harmful.

As the process continues, the predator will often take steps to gauge how the victim is likely to respond to further grooming, to find out whether and in what situations the victim is able to meet or connect without supervision, and to ensure that the victim does not talk to anyone about the relationship.[

As one victim describes her experience, “I had Skype downloaded on my phone so we can text during the day, and he would tell me how pretty I was and all this stuff and how I was so special, basically grooming me into believing that we had something so special and so breathtaking… and then he brought up the topic of doing Skype sex, basically, for him and with him. And I remember even being hesitant. But the driving force for me to do this was, this boy likes me and the only way he will continue to like me is if I do this for him.”

Predators’ ultimate goals vary as well, with some seeking an in-person sexual encounter, some hoping to develop an online sexual relationship, and some trying to get sexual images or video that can be used for blackmail. There is overlap between these categories as well, and predators are frequently opportunistic, adapting their goals and strategies based on what they feel each victim is willing to do.

1. Teenagers fall for predators on the internet because it is a new experience for them so how can they understand they are being groomed?

2. The goal of the predator is to get what they want from a young person regardless of the consequences on a young underage person . Do you think these people should be heavily punished

3.Why don't lots of youngsters tell their parents when this is happening

4.In the Victorian age grooming wasnt even considered to be a danger why do you think it is now?

The false intelligentsia

The greatest risk to the internet are not the lies of the idiot which everyone can see through but the lies of those purporting to be the intelligentsia. There are conservatives who lie, and there are liberals who lie, and both conservatism and liberalism do not hold truth to be a supreme value. This is also true for leftism. Truth is simply not the value to many  of the new left-wing and its would be intellectual especially those within university and those that hold university places . Lying is to the new left what breathing is to biological life. 

 Vladimir Lenin, named the Soviet communist newspaper “Pravda,” the Russian word for “truth.” But all of us know how that ended up .

 There are  are examples of lies people  are told and that they must hold dear  lest they be removed from social media, shamed, ostracized, and even fired from their jobs. 

The 2016 Trump campaign colluded with Russia to win the election? This lie has permeated the American media for more than three years. There was never any truth to it. But those on the left–the Democratic Party and the mainstream media–found it a very useful claim, and they are doing so again in the 2020 campaign. This lie has been told since before Trump was elected. It is repeated by virtually every left-wing commentator and politician.

 See, for example, “10 Ways Trump Is Becoming a Dictator, Election Edition” by Harvard professor Stephen M. Walt (Foreign Policy, Sept. 8, 2020) or “Donald Trump Wants To Be a Dictator” by Guardian columnist Jonathan Freedland (The Guardian, July 5, 2019). It is a lie. 

 The fact is no conservative American politician is a likely dictator because one of the fundamental goals of American conservatives is to shrink the power of the government. A dictatorship in America is far more likely to come from the left, which seeks to massively increase government power. We only have to look at Seattle where a cockeyed leftist government has been put in place, In that city drug addicts have more or less been given free reign. 

America is a racist society? America is, in fact, the least racist country in history.

Jews didn’t run to America and need  to prove there was widespread anti-Semitism in Germany in the 1930s.

 Another lie  was an example of widespread racist police brutality. The  lie is frequently cited by the left  including by figures as prominent as Barack Obama. Recently  a grand jury, which included black jurors, declined to indict the white police officer who shot and killed Michael Brown, a black man, because Brown had attacked the officer, sought to steal his gun, and was in the process of a second attack when he was killed. 

America was founded in 1619, not 1776. This is the infamous New York Times lie for which the Times was awarded a Pulitzer Prize. This is the same prize awarded to the same newspaper in 1932 for its horrific lie that there was no famine in Ukraine when, in fact, Joseph Stalin was deliberately starving about 5 million Ukrainians to death. 

 Leading liberal scholars of American history have condemned the Times’ rewriting of American history—that the American Revolution was fought in order to preserve slavery—as a lie.

 These are just some of the left-wing lies increasing numbers of Americans believe.  

 FOOD

Mate

Mains

Yuppies

Highbury Barn

Some bloke

Saveloy

Gherkins

Onion rings

Gluttons

I went round the Ride a White Swan pub a JTW on Highbury corner

THE CHIP INN IN THE HOLLOWAY ROAD

I went for lunch with my Mate. We loved our fish and chip mains which were amazing with lots of flavor, very impressive for a not great-looking restaurant,

it fact it looks rubbish but the yuppies living round Highbury don't go there as they all go up Highbury Barn for Fish and chips that sells loads of fresh seafood like oysters but at the Chip Inn its just us the real North Londoners even though I was born near Bow Bells

The service was great and the chips were too many to finish and great British chips.

When we arrived at 12.40, we had to wait only 2 minutes while they got our table ready. OK, so we didn't have a reservation, but the restaurant was only us and some bloke eating a saveloy at the counter . There was no reason to make us wait at all.

We also ordered giant gherkins as a side dish and they looked delicious. But, when we tasted them they were even better We didn't expect so much for 14 quid both of us .We ordered Greek bread and some onion rings and some fishcakes.

When the Stavros the manager asked if everything was ok, we said we really liked everything and that was it. He offered us some Greek wine and when we decided to leave a tip, he looked happy.

I was really excited about visiting the Chip inn, and the food was just fantastic, the rest of the experience was really nice especially all the gluttons waiting at the counter for double chips. The next day about 10 in the morning I visited my other fav the Hope further up Holloway Road and I bought a newspaper sat down at ordered eggs bacon sausage mushrooms and chips and baked beans plus some hot coffee which is great and lots of toast and butter. That same evening I went round the Ride a White Swan pub a JTW on Highbury corner nearly and had the hamburger deal with any pint for a fiver ,its ok not great but beer is brilliant

1. Does it sound good to you ?

2. Fish and chips is a national dish so what is a national dish in your country

3.Who is the best cook you know?

4. Would you like to make a gastronomical tour of London?

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 HOW MARRIAGE IS BOOSTED BY THE INTERNET 

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 UNWITTING 

THOUGHTFULLY

MATCHING 

You dont have to be Einstein to understand all social networking sites are unwitting dating and relationship sites and this is one of the positives of the Internet. The first time internet started to be a reality I thought yes this will change  lonely people into happy people as my first thought was on the logical lines of bringing people together romantically .

 Because how do we really choose a partner , the first one who comes along and meets certain things we require become very often our partners but it could have been anyone but meeting someone is never really easy or wasnt before the internet

That said there's a lot of talk about the sorry state of the institution of marriage in the Western world 

Data  shows that that a huge per cent of births  were to unwed mothers, a rate that jumps to 62 percent for women 20 to 24, 68 percent for black women, and 57 percent for women with less than a high school diploma 

But  marriage rates are 13 percent to 30 percent higher than they'd be without the internet. Previous studies have suggested a correlation between the internet and the marriage market.

 When  internet took off in an area, marriage and relation rates jumped. There's several non-causal explanations for this relationship but the main one is you can get into contact with millions of people

When  internet took off in an area, marriage rates jumped. She looked at several non-causal explanations for this relationship. 

 better access to the internet really does produce a greater number of marriages and relationships . 

Its obvious  online meeting makes it easier for people to find potential partners." people start to rely on the web to meet people. Researchers have already noted that the internet allows us to find jobs and homes more easily why not lovers husbands and wives?"

But while this is good news for marriage, it isn't necessarily great news. If the internet indeed makes meeting people easier at all times and ages then one might consider entering a marriage less thoughtfully to begin with.... This would imply more marriages and remarriages but also more divorces. If, on the other hand, the internet allows matching between more compatible people, one would expect divorce rates to decrease. . 

QUESTIONS

1.Is it obvious to you that people dont have to be lonely anymore because of the internet

2. What is an online meeting ?

2. What are the pitfalls?

3.Do you think you could find someone who is compatible to you ?

4.Has there been a revolution as regards romance and marriage because of the internet