giovedì 31 maggio 2018

DAVID WITH GOLIATH'S HEAD

Risultati immagini per davide e golia caravaggioThis painting by Caravaggio was probably realized in 1609 and it represents the scene from the myth of David and Goliath in which the young sheeper beheads the giant.
It looks so realistic, thanks to the lights and the shadows we can observe in it and that make it a tridimentional painting. It's so impressive how the artist was able to give the idea of such a kind of portraits at that time and that's why we consider him as the last baroque artist and the introducer of the Realism.
The historical sources tell us both the characters represented in the painting are two self-portraits of Caravaggio in two different periods of his life: David shows his young innocent face, while Goliath seems to look like him when he was already destroyed by his poor life, maybe also for attending places as taverns.
The scene seems to describe themes as the redemption.

mercoledì 30 maggio 2018

THE WORLD TRADE ORGANIZATION

The World Fair Trade Organization (WFTO), formerly the International Federation of Alternative Traders ("IFAT"), was created in 1989 and is a global association of 324 organizations in over 70 countries.[1] Members are fair trade producer cooperativesand associations, export marketing companies, importers, retailers, national and regional fair trade networks and Fair Trade Support Organizations.
Risultati immagini per world fair trade organizationWFTO's mission is to improve the livelihoods and well being of disadvantaged producers by linking and promoting Fair Trade Organizations, and speaking out for greater justice in world trade.
WFTO's core fields of activities are:
  • Developing the market for fair trade
  • Building trust in fair trade
  • Speaking out for fair trade
  • Providing networking opportunities
  • Empowering the regions
In 2004 WFTO launched a fair trade certification scheme and mark. The FTO Mark identifies registered Fair Trade Organizations worldwide (as opposed to products in the case of FLO International and Fairtrade mark) and guarantees that standards are being implemented regarding working conditions, wages, child labor and the environment. These standards are verified by self-assessment, mutual reviews and external verification. The FTO Mark is available to all WFTO members who meet the requirements of the WFTO Standards and Monitoring System and so far over 150 organizations have registered. The WFTO operates in five key regions: Africa, Asia, Latin America, Europe and North America & Pacific Rim.[2]
Members in Africa, Asia, Europe and Latin America have come together to form WFTO regional chapters. They are:
  • Cooperation for Fair Trade in Africa (COFTA)
  • WFTO Asia
  • WFTO Europe
  • WFTO-LA – Associacion Latino Americana de Commercio Justo (WFTO Latin America)

giovedì 8 marzo 2018

JOAN OF ARC'S BIOGRAPHY
Joan of Arc miniature graded.jpgWe're just talking about one of the most famous heroines in French history, 'cause she was able to reclaime women's rights about power in a very long and hard conflict between French and British army, known as Hundred Years' War. Today she's also known (or remembered) thanks to her young religious life: infact, we know she displayed a sensitive and religious temperament, showed by the fact of telling about some continual voices she heard and believed they were from God, who was encouraging her to join up in the French army during the war. So we can say history talks to us about some rare powers she had. This 19 years old girl burned to death in Rouen on the 30th of May 1431. Today she's the Saint Patron in France.

giovedì 18 gennaio 2018

COMPARING I WANT IT ALL WITH SATAN
These two elements can show us themselves as strictly connected for sone different points of view; for example, we can say Satan wants everything, infact he's described as a very powerful and greedy character and such a strong fighter and the song talks about a dark area, like the Darkness of Satan army. The fightings that happen among people in those areas can represent some analogies with Paradise Lost.
It's interesting like Queen idealize the content Milton was representing in the XVII Century.