Tame your writing skills
after reading some history background.
Study how YOUR article was built:
- Structures: INTRO -BODY_ CONCLUSION.
- Make a LIST with 8 items you would like to incorporate in your summary.
- Do not copy syntax -use your comprehension to re-style the words with a new syntax.
OUTCOME: ONE Long Summaries -375 words
0. the past strikes back
(READING history to understand World news)
TASK. Choose one of the links and ....
TASK. Choose one of the links and ....
summarise the content to be shared next week.
"O tempora o mores"
an observation by Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 BCE - 43 BCE)
It translates in 3 options:
- literally as Oh the times! Oh the customs!
- but more accurately as Oh what times! Oh what customs!
- or alternatively, Alas the times, and the manners. meaning an exclamation at the evil of them.
1# SHADOWS : Empirical - indulged truths.
The shadows behind the history as a new past: three topics here
1.1# Curious about George Orwell?
- Our CATALONIA Today news published new collection of FIVE Orwellian articles. Blend into a new unit.
- Orwell lived, laughed, loved and left a mark on Europe, England and Catalonia.
- George Orwell was there to bear witness of a crucial time in the making.
1.2# The Working Class Strikes Back by C. Wright - August 2018 -review
this volume aims to examine how new, anti-bureaucratic forms of syndicalist, neo-syndicalist and autonomous workers’ organisation emerge in response to changing work and production relations in the twenty-first century
1.3# the use of language in diplomacy
a) Manchu b) French c) Russsian
d) Español e) Mandarin f) Espèranto g) another
- The treaty of Nerchinsk (1689) North and East in Outer Mongolia.
- Manchu-Russian neighbours -XVII century was written in .... which language?
a) Manchu b) French c) Russsian
d) Español e) Mandarin f) Espèranto g) another
Pardon my French. in 1870, when France was crushed and humiliated by the Germans, the text of the peace treaty was uniquely in French.
2# EMPIRES. another three topics here
in Animal Crackers
or the sanity clause scene between Groucho and Chico
in Duck Soup
- Don’t forget the Sanity Clause.
- There is no Sanity Clause, as the noted philosopher Chico Marx confirmed, but the Companies Act exists and, in this instance, enabled empires to prevaricate and procrastinate, to discover.
- Amid the confusion, the claims and counter-claims, other great Marx Brothers lines came to mind including:
- “The party of the first part … is hereinafter called the party of the first part.”
- Also: “These are my principles. If you don’t like them … well, I have others.”
Our mirror goes to bygone times ... vanished glories
2A# Oh Rome, Divide et Impera
Those words were uttered by Gaius Julius Caesar (100 BCE - 44 BCE), who was granted the title Dictator Perpetuus
- Rome will rule the world. It is her destiny and always has been. Claiming a line of descent back to Hercules, Romans are not lacking in civic pride. So you think you know everything about the Romans?
2B# Chaos at UK's past... It was not OK, it was KO
- The lacuna in the British curriculum, the refusal to discuss imperialism in-depth, is not accidental. Rather, it reflects the fact that Britain as a nation has not settled on its own view of its past.
https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/inglorious-empire-india-strikes-back-1.3004235
https://www.noted.co.nz/currently/history/shashi-tharoor-demolishes-the-gauzy-romanticism-of-british-empire-in-india/
https://newrepublic.com/article/88797/british-empire-queen-elizabeth-india-ireland-africa-imperial
2C# Our mirror goes to Vietnam
Enjoyed Apocalypsis Now, we love Coppola, of course.https://www.newsobserver.com/opinion/op-ed/article177310941.html
still waiting to read a Viet side of their history!
Et caetera:
https://www.history.ac.uk/ihr/Focus/Migration/reviews/
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