Barcelona

“Someone said to me 'To you football is a matter of life or death! ' and I said 'Listen, it 's more important than that '. (Bill Shankly) Soccer is a sport that crosses boundaries and is played all around the world. It brings people together to enjoy the intensity of 90 minutes filled by passion and uncertainty of who will ultimate winner. Most of the people who watch soccer do it in a passive way as a source of mild entertainment, but there’s a growing minority of fans who have taking the…

attend The Royal Academy of San Fernando. He quickly became bored with the school’s classical artistic teachings and even at this young age he knew that he was interested in something that was different from the norm. Two years later he moved to Barcelona where…

Dietrich Bonhoeffer: a theologian, pastor, conspirator, and martyr was born in 1906 with in Brelau, Germany. From the age of fourteen in 1920, Bonhoeffer knew he was destined for the life of a theologian. However, he came from a family of brothers who considered the church to be “a poor, feeble, boring, petty, bourgeois institution.” He was an identical twin, and one of 8 children in his large family. Surprisingly, Bonhoeffer did not grow up in a family of theologians, but actually in a family…

in the early 1980s. From his dishwashing experience in 1984, Alavera continued to learn new skills and achieved a degree in Marketing Management from the University of the East. After that, he studied culinary courses in Singapore, New Orleans, Barcelona and London in order to master his skills as a restaurateur and entrepreneur. He also loved to watch cooking shows, including 24-hour culinary programs on cable television and he got some inspirations from the cooking tradition of American,…

to be like any other European Jew at that time: deathly persecution by the ever-present population of anti-semites in Europe. Shortly after the Adolf Hitler rose to power in 1933, my parents, older sister, and I fled to live with my great aunt in Barcelona, Spain. Looking back on that event, I consider myself greatly blessed to have fled from the evil and persecution of the Nazis, for many Jews didn’t have that privilege. Even at a young age while living in Spain, I often felt feelings of guilt,…

Flamenco is an art of great persistence. Its traditional form is truly battle-born and has surpassed centuries of being shunned, social-hierarchical marginalization, and political retribution. Despite originating in Andalusia amongst socially marginalized groups of people, today flamenco is recognized as a national symbol of Spain. Initially it seems difficult to understand how the music of social and political catharsis could transform to a larger national symbol and tradition. But, looking at…

London, and Paris.” In the same article the cost of transportation is detailed saying, “The basic cost for a single ride on the New York City subway or bus system is $2.25 as of September 2012. This is more expensive than San Francisco, Tokyo, Barcelona, Madrid, Los Angeles, Chicago, Washington DC and Singapore.” At the time I knew New York was an expensive city I just hadn’t expected it to jump out and surprise me at such a quaint restaurant like The Ritz Diner or the Empire State…

In the words of Jewish philosopher Abraham Joshua Heschel, “Racism is man’s gravest threat to man; the maximum of hatred for a minimum of reason.” Racism is prevalent in all aspects of the world including cultures, religions, and even sports. Some would argue that racism has been terminated in soccer, but this is a vacuous argument due to the amount of incidents that have occurred in recent years. There have been over 350 racial episodes in European soccer in the year 2014 alone. Racism in…

This essay will analyse Le Corbusier’s The Radiant City (La Ville Radieuse) by looking at the unbuilt city scape’s historical, theoretical and philosophical background as well as how it was received and reviewed. Greenhalgh’s features of the Pioneer phase (such as Social Morality, Technology and Anti-historicism) will also be looked at in relation to how and why The Radiant City was conceptualised and designed. As the idea of The Radiant City was conceived in the 1930s (and by Modernist…

It is believed that bipolar disorder is correlated with suicidal ideation. In a meta-analysis, performed by Oquendo, Currier, and Man (), they took studies from the past 30 years that indicated individuals who have expressed to act on suicidal tendencies in disorders such as major depressive and bipolar disorder, with the goal of identifying indicators of suicidal ideation. A major issue that was crossed was the elusiveness of their goal as being able to identify suicidal tendencies. Their…