Saturday, January 27, 2007

A Man Without a Country


Disponível na biblioteca da escola em inglês.


A Man Without a Country é o mais novo livro de Kurt Vonnegut, seu trabalho mais conhecido deve ser Matadouro 5, mas escreveu mais de trinta romances. Agora, aos 84 anos, (agora não, em 2005) publica esta coleção de ensaios, são textos corrosivos, mas, por vezes, com muito humor, por exemplo: "A última coisa que eu queria era estar vivo quando os homens mais poderosos do planeta se chamam Bush, Dick e Colon" O autor critica a política estado-unidense, os líderes do seu país, a dependência do automóvel, as invasões e mentiras perpetuadas em nome do petróleo.
Vonnegut ficou meio estigmatizado como escritor de ficção científica, sobre isso ele escreve:
Tornei-me um "escritor de ficção científica" quando alguém decretou que eu era um escritor de ficção científica. Eu não queria ser classificado como tal, por isso me perguntei de que maneira eu havia ofendido as regras para não merecer o crédito de escritor sério. Decidi que era porque eu escrevia sobre tecnologia, e os melhores escritores americanos nada sabem sobre tecnologia. Fui classificado como escritor de ficção científica simplesmente porque escrevi sobre Schenectady, Nova York. Meu primeiro livro, Revolução no futuro, era sobre Schenectady. Existem imensas fábricas em Schenectady e nada mais. Eu e meus companheiros éramos engenheiros, físicos, químicos e matemáticos. E, quando escrevi sobre a companhia General Electric e Schenectady, pareceu uma fantasia do futuro para críticos que nunca tinham visto o local.
E destila o seu pessimismo em várias partes do livro, destaco esta:
Já se deram conta de que toda grande literatura — Moby Dick, As aventuras de Huckleberry Finn, Adeus às armas, A letra escarlate, A glória de um covarde, A Ilíada e A Odisséia, Crime e castigo, a Bíblia e "A carga da brigada ligeira" — fala da merda que é pertencer à espécie humana? (E não é um grande alívio ouvir alguém dizer isso?)
E dá conselhos:
"Se querem realmente magoar seus pais e não têm coragem de se tornar gays, o mínimo que podem fazer é entrar para as artes. Não estou brincando. As artes não são uma maneira de ganhar a vida, são uma maneira de tornar a vida mais suportável. Cantem no chuveiro. Dancem ao som do rádio. Contem histórias. Escrevam um poema a um amigo, até mesmo um poema horrível. Façam isso da melhor maneira que puderem. Receberão uma enorme recompensa. Terão criado algo."
Kur Vonnegut é de origem alemã, nasceu nos Estados Unidos no dia 11 de novembro de 1922. Em 1945 testemunhou o bombardeio de Dresden enquanto prisioneiro de guerra, ele foi um dos sete sobreviventes. Esta experiência deu origem a Matadouro 5.
Sobre Dresden ele escreve em Um homem sem pátria:
Vi a destruição de Dresden. Vi a cidade antes, e então saí de um abrigo antiaéreo e a vi depois, e certamente uma das minhas reações foi a risada. Sabe Deus, é a alma buscando algum alívio.
Qualquer assunto está sujeito à risada e imagino que houve risadas de algum tipo muito grotesco entre as vítimas de Auschwitz.
O humor é quase uma reação fisiológica ao medo. Freud disse que o humor é uma reação à frustração — uma das muitas reações.
Leila
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Sunday, January 21, 2007

Turn the pages of your imagination...READ


Alguns dos livros que você encontrará na nossa biblioteca, podem ser emprestados inclusive nas férias:

A COLLECTION OF ESSAYS George Orwell
A GESTURE LIFE Chang-rae Lee
A HISTORY OF GOD Karen Armstrong
A MAN WITHOUT A COUNTRY Kurt Vonnegut
A MAP OF MISREADING Harold Bloom
A WIDOW FOR ONE YEAR John Irving
ABSALOM, ABSALOM! William Faulkner
AMISTAD David Franzoni
AN UNEXPECTED LIGHT Jason Elliot
AN UNQUIET MIND Kay Redfield Jamison
ANGELS & DEMONS Dan Brown
ANIMAL FARM George Orwell
AQUARIUS THE HOLY MOUNIAINS Amos Prescher
ARIEL Robert Lowell
ASIAN PACIFIC FOLKTALES AND Jeannette Faurot
AUDIOBOOKS Edgar Allan Poe

Tuesday, January 16, 2007

Thursday, January 11, 2007

Man returns book overdue since 1960

POSTED: 3:11 p.m. EST, January 7, 2007

HANCOCK, Michigan (AP) -- Robert Nuranen handed the local librarian a book he'd checked out for a ninth-grade assignment -- along with a check for 47 years' worth of late fees.
Nuranen said his mother misplaced the copy of "Prince of Egypt" while cleaning the house. The family came across it every so often, only to set it aside again. He found it last week while looking through a box in the attic.
"I figured I'd better get it in before we waited another 10 years," he said after turning it in Friday with the $171.32 check. "Fifty-seven years would be embarrassing."
The book, with its last due date stamped June 2, 1960, was part of the young Nuranen's fascination with Egypt. He went on to visit that country and 54 others, and all 50 states, he said, but he never did finish the book.
Nuranen now lives in Los Angeles, where he teaches seventh-grade social studies and language arts.
The library had long ago lost any record of the book, librarian Sue Zubiena said.
"I'm going to use it as an example," she said. "It's never too late to return your books."

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Wednesday, January 10, 2007

Formatura


Composition - Maria Victória

The Best Trip of My Life

The best trip of my life was on the end of December of 2005. I went on a cruise named Costa Victória with my parents and my brother. The ship was very beautiful and fancy. It rained a little but most of the time the weather was perfect. I had a lot of fun and I made a new friend his name is Frederico and we still keep in touch by msn. There were many different kinds of food from fast food to pasta and fancy, all of them were delicious! I took many pictures there and I’ll always remember the unforgettable days that I spent there.
Maria Victória - Dynstar 3 (Intensivo 2007)
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My name is Maria Victória and I’m 11 years old. I study at Dom Bosco and I’m starting 6th grade this year. I play fencing and I study English. Both twice a week. When I grow up I want to be a cartoonist, because I love to draw. My bad habit is that I watch a lot of TV. But I really like to read, so when I’m reading I don’t watch TV. One thing that I wish is to go out more often on weekend. It’s very boring to stay while you could be having at the mall or at the movies. I have a younger brother but we don’t get along very well.
Maria Victória - Dynstar 3 (Intensivo 2007)
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On my next vacation I’ll have a great time! In December I won’t travel, I’m just going to enjoy it here in Curitiba with my friends. But in January I’ll travel to Chili crossing Argentina from the east to the west side! And I’m gonna have an amazing adventure crossing The Andes! And when my vacation finishes I’ll start 6th grade!
Maria Victória - Dynstar 2 - Second semester 2006
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Second semester 2006

Hey, guys! My name is Maria Victória. I live in Curitiba and I study at Dom Bosco (Batel). I’m in Dynstar 2. I love Number one’s Halloween party and its Chirstmas. My favorite subject is History. I like to go to the movies and I like a lot to watch High School Musical!!!

Tuesday, January 09, 2007

Rodrigo



Rodrigo Cordeiro, nosso aluno D4, jogador do Atlético Paranaense.

Caf 4 - Formatura

Milena André Ramon

Aline Sílvia Ermelinda

Friday, January 05, 2007

Breads of the world

sandwich - origin


The sandwich was named after 4th Earl of Sandwich, an 18th-century English aristocrat, although it is unlikely to have been invented by him. Indeed a form of sandwich is attributed to the ancient Jewish sage Hillel the Elder, who is said to have put meat from the Paschal lamb and bitter herbs inside matzo (or flat bread) during Passover.
It is said that Lord Sandwich was fond of this form of food because it allowed him to continue playing cards at
cribbage while eating without getting his cards sticky, from eating meat with his bare hands. [citation needed] The Earldom refers to the English town of Sandwich in Kent — from the Old English Sandwic, meaning "sand place.
Source: Wikipedia

Thursday, January 04, 2007

READ


Alguns títulos da nossa biblioteca, disponha deles:

ANGELS & DEMONS Dan Brown
ANIMAL FARM George Orwell
AQUARIUS THE HOLY MOUNIAINS Amos Prescher
ARIEL Robert Lowell
ASIAN PACIFIC FOLKTALES AND Jeannette Faurot
AS I LAY DYING William Faylkner
AUDIOBOOKS Edgar Allan Poe
BABE PIG EN THE CITY Justine Korman
BIG SUR Jack Kerovac
BLACK BOX Amos Oz
BRAVEHEART Randall Wallace
BREAKFAST OF CHAMPIONS Kurt Vonnegut
BUDDHA Karen Armstrong
CHOCOLAT Joanne Harris
COLLECTED POEMS Emily Dickinson
COMPLETE TALES & POEMS Edgar Allan Poe
CROSSING THE WATER Sylvia Plath
DARK EYE William Bernhardt
DATA DANGER E. Amos, E. Pasqualin, E. P. Martins

GONE WITH THE WIND PART ONE Margaret Mitchell
HALF A LIFE V.S. Naipaul
HENRY AND JUNE Anais Nin
HOTEL OF THE SAINTS Ursula Hegi
HOW SOCCER EXPLAINS THE Franklin Foer
IN THE WAKE OF THE PLAGUE Norman F. Cantor
INTRUDER IN THE DUST William Faulkner
JESUS OF NAZARETH Paula Fredriksen
KING LEOPOLD´S GHOST Adam Hochschild
LAMB Christopher Moore
LEGENDS OF THE WORLD Richard Cavendish
LEO TOLSTOY Anna Karenina
LITERARY OCCASIONS V.S. Naipaul
LONGITUDE Dava Sobel
LUSTMORD Brian King
MEN WITHOUT WOMEN Ernest Hemingway
MISHIMA A BIOGRAPHY John Nathan
MRS. DALLOWAY Virginia Woolf
NECESSARY RITES Janice Elliot

Wednesday, January 03, 2007

Atlanta

Atlanta is the capital and the most populous city of the State of Georgia, and the central city of the ninth most populous metropolitan area in the United States. It is the county seat of Fulton County, although a portion of the city extends into DeKalb County. According to the July 2005 census estimate, the city has a population of 470,688 and a metropolitan population of 4,917,717. As of July 1, 2005, Atlanta's combined statistical area (CSA) is estimated to have a population of 5,249,121.

A major city in its own right, Atlanta is considered a poster child for cities worldwide experiencing rapid urban sprawl, economic development and growth. In the last decade, the Atlanta metropolitan area added over 1,150,000 residents – the fourth-largest gain in absolute numbers of any metropolitan area in the United States. Atlanta is recognized as one of the driving forces of the "New South," and has in recent years, along with Houston, Miami and Dallas, undergone a transition from a city of regional commerce to a city of international influence.

During the Civil Rights Movement, Atlanta stood apart from Southern cities that supported segregation, and became known as the "City Too Busy to Hate." The city's progressive civil rights record made it increasingly popular as a relocation destination for African Americans, and the city's population became majority-black by 1972. African Americans soon became the dominant political force in the city; since 1974, all of the mayors of Atlanta have been African-American, as well as the majority of the city's fire chiefs, police chiefs, and other high-profile government officials. White flight occurred in the city in the 1970s and 1980s; the city's population dropped by more than 100,000 from 1970 to 1990. That trend has reversed itself, however, and with accelerating gentrification, the black majority has dropped from 69 percent in 1980 to 54 percent in 2005.

Common nicknames for the city include A Town, The A-T-L (derived from its IATA airport code), the Big Peach, and Hotlanta.
source: Wikipedia

Mykonos


Mykonos or Myconos is an island of Greece and one of the top tourism destinations in Europe. It is one of the Cyclades, a group of islands of the Aegean Sea, lying between Tinos, Siros, Paros and Naxos. It has an area of 86 km² and an elevation of 364 m and is made mostly of granite. It has little natural fresh water and relies on the desalination of sea water to meet its needs. There are approximately 6200 inhabitants (2002). The largest town is Mykonos, also known as Hora, on the west coast.
Today, Mykonos is a very cosmopolitan island, made famous the last few decades by the international jet set visitors that spend their holidays on the island. Mykonos has clean, magnificent beaches that offer everything from clear-blue waters, windsurfing, sea-side tavernas, loud music and even full nudity. Many Greek and international celebrities have summer residences in Mykonos and can often be seen walking the charming white-washed roads or having dinner at a small street-side table of a local taverna. The island is Greece's playground and one of the top holiday destinations in the world. Some people think you have not really seen what Greece has to offer until you visit Mykonos. The island is one of the most upscale areas of Greece, and its real estate is very expensive. The popularity of the island has given rise to a wave of real estate development (private homes/villas and hotels) and concerns have been expressed that the island is gradually losing its character. The good thing is that (by law) every new building has to abide by the rules of the cycladic architectural style.
Source: Wikipedia

Plaka - Athens

The Plaka is the oldest, and one of the best places to stay in Athens

The Plaka is the oldest section of Athens. Most of the streets have been closed to automobile traffic, though you should still keep a watchful eye for a speeding motorcycle or delivery truck. At one time it was the nightclub district, but most of these closed down when the government out-lawed amplified music in the area in the seventies in an effort to get rid of undesirables. The strategy was very successful and it is now an area of restaurants, tourist shops, and cafes.
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