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MARCH FOR OUR LIVES

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MARCH FOR OUR LIVES       First and foremost, it is worth noting that  40 000  people die every year, almost a  100  people a day because of gun violence  epidemic  in the USA which has increased immensely in the last decades becoming the second cause of unnatural death. As a reaction to the increasing number of school shootings and more generally of gun violence victims related to acts like suicides,  mass shootings, feminicides, police misconducts...the March For Our Lives (MFOL) movement has been created by the amercan youth after the Majority Stoneman Douglas High School shooting in Parkland to fight against the numerous consequences of this intolerable and unprecendet situation for a developed country. This movement points out that this violence is not acceptable not even in the name of an illusionary and contradictive societal belief that a gun can solve security problems or that after all guns are items of the american ...

ARTICLE - "End of la Zad? (...) "

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https://www.theguardian.com/inequality/2017/dec/28/end-of-la-zad-frances-utopian-anti-airport-community-faces-bitter-last-stand ARTICLE =   "END OF LA ZAD? FRANCE'S UTOPIAN ANTI AIRPORT COMMUNITY          FACES BITTER LAST STAND" This article released in December 28th 2017 in the paper "The Guardian" is entitled "End of la Zad? France's Utopian anti airport community faces bitter stand" . The article is founded on the report of  Kim Willsher, an award winning correspondent based in France. The subject treated is the status report of the situation of the community created in la ZAD.                                           BUT WHAT IS THE ZAD?      La ZAD has a long history behind her, that begins a half century  ago when the French government first project on creating a transatlantic "Great W...

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...