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JIAWEI SUN | Left Handed
You cut paper with scissors to make handicrafts. You check your email with a click of your mouse on the left side. You take notes from the left side of the papers. Each of these actions is normal in your daily lives. But it’s a different story for my father: he is left-handed. Scissors and…
PRIDE – as presented in the award-winning play 'A Raisin in the Sun'
A Raisin in the Sun portrays a few weeks in the life of the Youngers, an African-American family living on the South Side of Chicago in the 1950s. In a Raisin in the Sun, pride is the driving force behind all of the main characters, defining the way they engage with their surrounding and the…
Books that CHANGED Society
In our society, literature and the form of written expression perseveres regardless of the media-and-technology centralized trends. A good book remains a good book no matter what and it is crucial to read these and shape our persons around them. Here, I have compiled a list of 5 books I believe to be crucial to…
March | Book of the Month: Recurs La Iubire
Recurs la Iubire is an epic love story and self-discovery book that has been a long time in the making by one of the most extraordinary human beings on this planet: my mentor, my teacher, and one of my best friends, Daniela Bordei. This book is beyond anything I could describe in terms of passion,…
February | Book of the Month: The Great Gatsby
Gossip, opulent wealth, affairs, incredible determination and one sole purpose, one dream. This would be just a few words that describe the protagonist, Jay Gatsby, of Fitzgerald’s best known literary work, The Great Gatsby. Set in the 1920s America, a time of prosperity in the United States, it takes us on a journey with our…
January | Book of the Month: The School of Greatness
To kickstart this fabulous first month of 2020, I would like to give you my thoughts on this month’s must-read book, “The School of Greatness” by Lewis Howes, that can really offer a new perspective into how you can unlock your inner greatness and exteriorize it and how to set goals and work towards them.…
Mihai Eminescu – a Romanian genius
*celebrating our national poet* by Denisa Stan Mihai Eminescu You live in your sphere’s narrownessAnd luck rules over you -But in my steady world I feelEternal, cold and true! From the first years we spend in the educational system and till we finish school, we are told about Eminescu in the most praiseworthy, but also…
poetry nights 2.0
the POWER of POETRY In this second edition of winter poetry series, we will be focusing on the joy and cheer that comes alongside this cold season. The month of December is always considered one of the most beautiful of the year. Not only is there – in some places – snow, but the general…
poetry nights 1.0
Poetry has the power to encapsulate our souls on paper. They have the strength and wit to configure our deepest thoughts and express them in such ways that others can then relate and enjoy them too. The hands behind the most impactful poems are complex and unique. The talent with which they created their works…
POETRY NIGHTS – a hARTS event
carefully selected poems to enjoy in xmas month LAUNCH: 1st December 2019 Welcome to hARTS very first event. For the month of December we will be launching a new article series! Because it is so hard to hate winter, hARTS will be pick-and-choosing poems for you to enjoy with a warm blanket and hot cup…
the power of BLACK and WHITE
hARTS.ro NOVEMBER THEME What makes black and white pictures so aesthetically pleasing to the human eye? Why do we chose these dark tones over the multitude of colors out there? Even though the process of taking colored images was invented as early as 1907, they only became popular to the end of the 50’s and…
An introduction to the “Junimea” Movement
by Georgia Mirica It seems that the youth are always discontent with the world they live in, the world created by their predecessors, creating a perpetual cycle that manifests itself in the present as well as in the past. One of the best-known examples of this in Romanian history can be found in the “Junimea”…
Forms Without Substance – the BELIEFS and PHILOSOPHY of the JUNIMEA Movement
by Georgia Mirica The “Junimea” association adopted the following French motto: « rentre tout le monde, restent ceux qui peuvent » (all may come, but only those who can stay may do so). As identified by philosopher and philologist Tudor Vianu, the defining characteristics of the “Junimea” movement were: the philosophical spirit, the oratorical spirit,…
MAHBUBA SUMIYA | Was it Love at First Sight?
“E…” I said, staring at the biggest letter at the top of the eye chart, when the lady in awhite coat asked what I could see. Everything below that was blurry for me. At the age of eleven, I was officially diagnosed with severe myopia. The optometristconstantly changed the lenses while I was asked to…
Spanish Around the World
by Violeta Mihai Spanish is the second most spoken language in the world (after Mandarin Chinese) with 500 million native speakers worldwide, and also the second when it comes to second languages. It is one of the most romantic ones, and knowing just a bit of it opens up to you countless opportunities for travel,…
QING SHEN | Violet Evergarden: More Than an Anime
This whole story happens in a fictional world where war just ended. Violet is a young girl who has followed Major Gilbert to the battlefield since she was a child. At the end of the war, the Major is killed by the enemies, and Violet is sent to the Major’s friend, Claudia, who opens a…
Brooklyn | Awakening or Awareness?
on the novel by Colm Toibin by Laura Ionescu Toibin has used his novel, Brooklyn, as a platform through which he can share his perspectives and insightful views on awakening, realization and new opportunities. Through the relationship between Rose and Eilis, Toibin has enabled himself to express his complex ideas on different though-processes we are…
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