Before the lockdown - alone and standing up

BEFORE the  deluge of infodemics......

    a flood of stories, half baked sometimes

PART 1.   Loneliness in (modern) societies

 WRITE a succint essay    200 word (not more)

    on the graph at the end of the post about

 Percentatge of one person households -worldwide 

OECD Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development

PART 2.    MR Hopper art and  USA SOCIETY

.        PART 1.                                        

.        Loneliness in (modern) societies

• share your impressions on this pic 
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• imagine it as it is in the original, without the crowny virus
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•  Mr Hopper painted in 1942,  eons  ago:

Oh, Europe, 

large dwellings but single dwellers

• More Europeans are living alone than ever before.  
• European countries with the highest proportion of people living alone?
• where can we find more single abodes?

•   households 

• composed of a single person are ... - link 

                           in EU  Ouout of 220 million...  have a guess !!! 

•      .......... percent by just 1 person. 

• Countries with the highest percentage? how much?

• Countries with the lowest percentage? 

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• A ....... percent  couples with children
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• A ....... percent  couples without children

NEWS  

- link 1   UK- 2019   (60 million people)

-   link 2    EU-28    (220 million households)

interiors, usually occupied by female figures, in solitude and self-absorbed attitude, engaged in trivial activities such as resting

              PART 2.                                              

             MR Hopper art and  USA SOCIETY

   before     Covid-19

• IMAGES OF America: Edward Hopper (1882-67)

Hopper is widely acknoledged as the most important
realist painter of twentieth-century America

"the loneliness of recurrent tense interiors,
in his mature paintings solitude, alienation, loneliness and psychological tension.

link on Hopper -video script 

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