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by Gwen Herat
The immense power of Shakespeare lies in his ability to inspire all. If he was the greatest dramatist that lived, he was also the educator of English to the world. He did not stop there. He played a major role in standardising spelling and grammar that led to proper pronunciation.
He inspired a string of high profile composers and writer like Geothe and Charles Dickens....
As we joyfully celebrate the Resurrection, our thoughts reel back to how Jesus performed the will of God. Jesus was brought before Pilate, condemned for his ministry of compassion for the poor and his believers that irked the ones who did not believe his word accused him calling and jeering him as the Messiah the King. Pilate grilled him,
“Are you King of the Jews?’ and...
Let us first see what the Old Testament has to say about the lamb in the first Passover;
‘Moses called for all the leaders of Israel and said to them: ‘Each of you is to choose a lamb or a young goat and kill it so that your families can celebrate Passover. Take a sprig of hyssop, dip it in the bowl containing the animals’ blood and wipe the blood on the doorposts and the...
Each painter appear differently to the viewer who has the right to sit in judgement as to what he feels. Ask ten people for their opinion and they all will vary. Take a look at Whistler’s art; it is all freedom and verve, something that many lack because most of them are so tensed up until the paintings are done which subconsciously reveal in some paintings, for example...
As a boy curious of his surroundings, young Shakespeare spent all his mornings walking up and down the banks of River Avon. He was fascinated and delighted by the hundreds of white swans gliding, frolicking, splashing water on each other while a few would fly away. Some made swirls to the music of sweeping winds.
This system gripped his young mind. Slowly steadily,...
by Gwen Herat
If you happen to walk pass clusters or grouped of trees, see how you can recognise or identify them or some of them. You may not...
If you are lucky to have read More than a carpenter and weighed the facts experienced his love the way Josh Mcdowell and his son...
The student doing his English examination will find the symposia of 38 plays to his advantage and accuracy rather than...
Written as a powerful fiction that became a modern classic in which Sir Arthur Conan Doyle created two characters based in London...
The difference between these two Bards; one from Wales and the other from England, is the language they used centuries apart....
He wrote only for drama and that drama was only for the stage where the literati of the day gathered to refresh their minds with...
Born in Salzburg, Mozart decided to make Vienna his home for the rest of his life. This was his base and after the death of his...
So lyrical, so very passionate about nature that he went to extremes, only to be criticised for its didacticism and reckless...
The world has never been in dire need of the sustenance of the environment as of today. Common trees and uncommon trees that make...
The score of Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons have been heard on dozens of movies and hundreds of times in concert halls and continue...
From Halle to Hamburge, Florence, Venice, Rome and finally from Italy to London where he breathed his last. He was laid to rest...
The term classical music has two meanings that describe music as ‘serious’, and the rest as pop and jazz or any sounds emerging...
It was amazing and true when it happened at the annual Festival of St. Anne’s when she appeared symbolically at Thalawila when...
And Jesus loved her spiritually after her repentance.She was the Jewish woman who travelled and followed Jesus as one of his...
A week after Jesus was born, the time came for the baby to be circumcised according to Jewish tradition and name him Jesus...