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THE MYTH OF THE NOBLE/GOOD SAVAGE

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          POST 1: THE MYTH OF THE NOBLE/GOOD SAVAGE                The term "the noble savage" brings us back to the 17th and 18th centuries , when the autochthones and natives embodied the ideal of the intrinsic goodness due to the fact that they were not considered as civilized communities. Therefore indigenes could not have been "corrupted" or depraved by the latent flaws and depravity of civilisation .                   This myth takes its origins from John Dryden's heroic play The Conquest of Granada (1672) in which this expression appears for the first time but it only became a concrete concept of ennoblement  during the 18th century romanticism with the turn of phrase "nature's gentleman". Centuries later, as this conception is promptly associated to Rousseau's premise about the state of nature , even if he never used this exact words to...
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10 words to understand better the COVID-19 pandemic

10 WORDS RELATED TOTHE COVID-19 AND THEIR DEFINITIONS  If I understood well the purpose of this article, I think that our task was to choose 10 words out of the glossary that they offered. And hence we would be able to have a full comprehension of the news information about the current pandemic called COVID-19. Therefore I thought that it would be more logical to choose the words that I didn't know before reading this article.  WORD 1 :   furlough As I said I didn't know what this word meant but it happened to be a temporary layoff from work . So just as telecommuting, these are words that were not very usual, but since multiple governments decided to close all non-essential businesses and banned any non-necessary activity, in order to prevent the spread of the disease, a lot of workers have been furloughed.  WORD 2 :  herd immunity Herd immunity   is the immunity or resistance to a particular infection th...
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Mind-Map spaces and exchanges

PARAGRAPH ONE  In this notion we have to deal with two different concepts « spaces » and « exchanges ». If we dig into these two concepts and search a definition to them we could say that : If we look up in a dictionary we would find this definition an empty area that is free to be used , but if we dig a little bit more in what it could men, we could say that this concept reflects not only a geographical and physical area but also a symbolical or even virtual area if we look at our modern world. All things considered we could say that a « space » whatever the shape it takes (if it takes one) gives place to actions to be developed in it.  But if we look at our other concept which is « exchanges » the official definition would be this one the giving and taking of one thing for another, so an exchange would be like an interaction that can take many different forms and can happen between different beings, places …  ...
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