Current Situation in the U.S in the Light of African American History
A man was killed in the middle of the day in the midst of the metropolitan city of Minneapolis by a police officer who held his knee on the man’s neck for nearly nine minutes. Although this event sounds like the kind of brutality that we can encounter only in fiction crime books, it is very real. Mo...
Преокрет
Преокрет
Њени нежни прсти полаганоКлизе низ нит и као да желеРећи: Успори, ма још је рано!А нежни сјај њене коже белеОзари му потамнело чело.
Глас њен чује негде иза леђа,Осврће се: све је лако сад!Није ту, ал' гласник јој је пређаДа му сваки душе умири јад,И срцу пода све што је хтело.
Због ње о...
Prevod pesme "Krotitelj i soko" Toma Gana
Dejan Pavlović, student četvrte godine Anglistike na Filozofskom fakultetu u Nišu, preveo je i prepevao pesmu Toma Gana "Krotitelj i soko".
KROTITELJ I SOKOTom Gan
Nekad neukrotiv soko,Al' otkad me umiri tiNe mogu hitro tol'koDa letim tamo-amo;I svud me pokreće samoZvuk tvojih naredbi.
No sada i ...
A Selection of Poetry
VanityI traded my voice for echoes of foreigners’ wordsSpent afternoons picking flowers instead of chasing wild birds,Became used to thorns tearing through my throatTo keep roses my lips with crumbled petals formed.Buckeyes aren’t as enviable come next spring,but neither are claw torn feathers come ...
Deconstructing Lynch - What Does ’Lynchian’ Mean?
David Lynch is considered to be one of the most influential filmmakers of all times, but what many do not necessarily know is that he is also an acclaimed painter, musician, photographer and actor. He comes from a middle-class family from a small town in Montana and in his youth he studied painting ...
A Machiavellian Schemer and 'Nun-General'
Women’s role in patriarchal societies throughout history often seems to be restricted to playing games in complex social circles for which the grand prize is a wealthy and respected husband, and the runner up, a hopefully loyal man with good social standing, but low funds. Women who exerted themselv...
Properly Pompous Wives
During the 19th century, high society women could spend up to $400,000 in today’s money per season on gowns designed by Charles Fredrick Worth. Worth, a famous French designer, was known for luxurious form fitting dresses that many young socialites used as one of their tools to capture the attention...
Naše nezaboravno ERASMUS+ iskustvo
Nismo ni slutili da će 19. septembar 2018. godine biti toliko značajan datum u našim životima. Naime, ovaj datum simbolizuje početak jednog divnog i lepog iskustva, kojeg se sećamo i prepričavamo danas, malo više od godinu dana od tog datuma.
Sam početak je bio pun poteskoća, počev od prikupljanja&...
Druids - A Thing of the Past or a Tradition?
The Druids
The name ‘Druid’ is of Celtic origin, and it means “Knowing [or Finding] the Oak Tree”, the oak tree being the symbol of great knowledge and wisdom. These people had various roles, they were philosophers, teachers, judges, and the mediators between humans and the gods. They abstained fro...
The Story of Becoming - Carlotta Walls LaNier and the Afro-American Struggle for Equal Rights in Education
Carlotta Walls LaNier grew up in the 20th century as an African-American woman. She grew up not being able to drink from the same water fountain as her white neighbors, sit in the front of the bus, or use the library. Yet, her parents taught her that she was deserving of equality, and she thought sh...