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Oscar Wilde
Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde (16 October 1854 – 30 November 1900) was an Irish playwright, poet, and author of numerous short stories and one novel. Known for his biting wit, he became one of the most successful playwrights of the late Victorian era in London, and one of the greatest celebrities of his day. Several of his plays continue to be widely performed, especially The Importance of Being Earnest. As the result of a widely covered series of trials, Wilde suffered a dramatic downfall and was imprisoned for two years hard labour after being convicted of "gross indecency" with other men. After Wilde was released from prison he set sail for Dieppe by the night ferry. He never returned to Britain.
Oscar Wilde was the second son born into an Anglo-Irish family, at 21 Westland Row, Dublin, to Sir William Wilde and his wife Jane Francesca Wilde (née Elgee) (her pseudonym being Speranza). Jane was a successful writer, being a poet for the revolutionary Young Irelanders in 1848 and a life-long Irish nationalist.[1] Sir William was Ireland's leading Oto-Ophthalmologic (ear and eye) surgeon and was knighted in 1864 for his services to medicine.[1] William also wrote books on archaeology and folklore. He was a renowned philanthropist, and his dispensary for the care of the city's poor, in Lincoln Place at the rear of Trinity College, Dublin, was the forerunner of the Dublin Eye and Ear Hospital, now located at Adelaide Road.
In June 1855, the family moved to 1 Merrion Square in a fashionable residential area, where Wilde's sister, Isola, was born in 1856. Here, Lady Wilde held a regular Saturday afternoon salon with guests including Sheridan le Fanu, Samuel Lever, George Petrie, Isaac Butt and Samuel Ferguson. Oscar was educated at home up to the age of nine. He attended Portora Royal School in Enniskillen, Fermanagh from the ages of nine to sixteen,[2] spending the summer months with his family in rural Waterford, Wexford and at Sir William's family home in Mayo. Here the Wilde brothers played with the older George Moore.
After leaving Portora, Wilde studied classics at Trinity College, Dublin, from 1871 to 1874. He was an outstanding student, and won the Berkeley Gold Medal, the highest award available to classics students at Trinity. He was awarded a scholarship to Magdalen College, Oxford, where he continued his studies from 1874 to 1878 and where he became a part of the Aesthetic movement, one of its tenets being to make an art of life. While at Magdalen, he won the 1878 Newdigate Prize for his poem Ravenna, which he read out at Encaenia; he failed, though, to win the Chancellor's English Essay Prize for an essay that would be published posthumously as The Rise of Historical Criticism (1909). In November 1878, he graduated with a double first in classical moderations and Literae Humaniores, or 'Greats'.
After graduating from Oxford, Wilde returned to Dublin, where he met Florence Balcombe. She, however, became engaged to the writer Bram Stoker. On hearing of her engagement, Wilde wrote to her stating his intention to leave Ireland permanently. He left in 1878, and returned to his native country only twice, for brief visits. He spent the next six years in London and Paris, and in the United States, where he traveled to deliver lectures. Wilde's address in the 1881 British Census is given as 1 Tite Street, London. The head of the household is listed as Frank Miles with whom Wilde shared rooms at this address.
In London, he met Constance Lloyd, daughter of wealthy Queen's Counsel Horace Lloyd. She was visiting Dublin in 1884, when Oscar was in the city to give lectures at the Gaiety Theatre. He proposed to her, and they married on May 29, 1884 in Paddington, London. Constance's allowance of £250 allowed the Wildes to live in relative luxury. The couple had two sons, Cyril (1885) and Vyvyan (1886).
After Oscar's downfall, Constance took the surname Holland for herself and the boys. She died in 1898 following spinal surgery and was buried in Staglieno Cemetery in Genoa, Italy. Cyril was killed in France in World War I. Vyvyan also served in the war and later became an author and translator. He published his memoirs in 1954. Vyvyan's son, Merlin Holland, has edited and published several works about his grandfather. Oscar Wilde's niece, Dolly Wilde, had a lengthy lesbian relationship with writer Natalie Clifford Barney.
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NORMAL SCHOOL SANTIAGO SUPERIOR OF TUNJA - BOYACÁ
COLOMBIA
HISTORICAL REVIEW OF THE NORMAL SCHOOL
The Normal School Superior Santiago de Tunja, before National Normal School of Men of Tunja, was created according to Law 2 of 1870. It assumed like the first Director the Dr. Ernesto Hotschik that conformed, along with eight educators of high level of preparation, the First German Mission, contracted to technically advise and to organize the Normal Schools of the country in the respective State Capitals.
Around these educative ideas a group arose from remarkable educators of diverse countries of Europe and America (Dewey, Piaget, Claparede, Freinet, etc.) and by all means Colombian like: You take Cadavid Restrepo, Vernal Rafael Jiménez; insigne jurisconsulto and boyacense humanist, with pure nationalistic fervor and Agustín Grandson Horseman who invited to Boyacá to the educator Ovid Decroly who was in Colombia to exhibit the foundations on the New Education and the methods of Active Education. Vernal Rafael Jiménez retook the decrolianas ideas and advanced a true change in the direction of the schools of the department, along with the management of the educator Julius Sieber, that assumed rectoría in 1926.
In this stage, a reconstruction was done of the curriculum, aiming at the specialization of the educational ones in the main scientific disciplines like guarantee of one better pedagogical formation. A “additional Course of Specialization” was organized in the Normal School, which is considered simultaneously like the same origin of the first Faculty of Education that was based on the country, and, the foundation of the Pedagogical and Technological University of Colombia. This reach took place in 1893. This process, the then National Normal School of Men becomes the manager of the Mater Soul, because later by decree 857 of April 21 of 1934, the faculty of Sciences of the Education for women was created in Bogota which depended on the National Institute, and in Tunja the same Faculty of Sciences of the Education for men.
The government decided to fuse the two sectional ones so that they worked annexed to the National University; but the movement of protest in Tunja was impelled, pressure that gave rise to avoid the transfer and, indeed, the Pedagogical and Technological University of Colombia with character of Technological consolidated officially from the Sixties.In the direction of the Normal one also the Directors participated by that time Enrique Alvarez Bonilla, Youngest child Nates, Luis Alexander Márquez, Loyal Domingo, Miguel A. Rodriguez, Luis A. Sailor A., Domingo A. Combariza, Leonidas Cely, Luis Alberto Castilian, Rafael Table Or. Polished Germa'n, Arístides Zamudio and Jose Vicente Rodriguez.
At all the times, according to the requirements and educative needs, the then National Normal School of Men, outstanding by the pedagogical renovation is had and to the interior of their administrative organization and academic modifications, adaptations and necessary changes established by the Ministry of National Education have arisen, for the educative quality, the projection to the community, the cultural extension at local, regional and national level, with a view to obtaining the integral formation of the educandos, in the levels of Pre-school, Basic and Average Academic.
The Hymn
LETTER : Teacher: LUCIANO CARDONA E.
Choir:
With ardor and febrile enthusiasm
we intone a triumphal hymn
and we ignite with ardent yearning
of the study the immortal torch.
I
We pick up the triumphs that offer
the tenacious and constant work
of the effort that seeds in history
the simiente of mother country better.
II
Healthy minds in very healthy bodies
of Colombia the children will have
by anywhere the light we will take
this one always will be our eagerness.
III
To make mother country will be our motto:
to educate, to model, to instruct
they are blazons of a chest that cries out
of Colombia it will be the future.
The Shield
It was adopted as heraldic emblem of the Institution taking as it bases the form of the Spanish pointed cyma Shield and field of quarters tronchado, on which is letters N and S in yellow color and the Shield with the Institutional colors: blue, white and red. Framed by the bicephalous eagle of the shield of Tunja, with a crown that hidalguía symbolizes and the wisdom.
martes, 4 de noviembre de 2008
Mr Hiram B Otis was the new american ambassador in
Mr Otis and his famly arrived to the house. They had a very pleasant journey as they approached Cnterville Chase. The sky suddenly become cloudy and some large drops of rain started felling, the housekeeper. Mr Umney was waiting for them in the front door. As they got out of the carriage she bowed and said: welcome to Canterville Chase. They followed her into the house. Suddenly, when they were in the library, Mr Otis noticed a red stain on the floor, and the housekeeper said in a low voice: blood has been spilt there.
Mr Umney said too that the blood was of Lady Eleanor of Canterville. She was murdered by her husband Sir Simon de Canterville in1575. He mysteriously disappeared nine years later. His body has never been found, but his guilty spirit still haunted the Chase.
The next day in which
The Otis family met in the dinning room at the breakfast. They talked about the ghost and the tricks that the twins played him. The rest of the week the house was quiet and everyone slept well. However the blood stain reappeared on the library floor every morning. Everybody laugh. Only
The ghost reappeared again on Sunday. He was so sad and he had an expression of terrible pain on his face and was rubbing his knee. The twins had their catapults on them and shot two balls of paper at him. The ghost screamed angrily and ran through them. When he was upstairs he decided to give his famous scream of evil laughter. Then, mrs otis appeared and gave him some medicine. The ghost couldn´t believe it and he disappeared to his secret room.
Chapter 5
Some days after the ghost was very ill. But the Friday of the august he appeared.He was wearing a long white sheet and a large hat with a red feather on it. First he would go the Washington´s room, but when he was in front of this he could look another ghost very similar to him. He was very afraid and he ran back as fast as he could but there he had other terrible experience and he rolled on the floor. Then the Canterville Ghost saw the sign of the ghost and he reads: The Otis ghost, the only true all others are fake. He understood the trick and he was to rest in his coffin.
Chapter 6
The next morning the ghost was very tired and weak. He stayed in his room for five days. He decided appeared only Wednesdays of every month, because he took very seriously his responsibilities as a ghost. For the next three Saturdays he walked along the corridor as usual but he was very careful. However the twins continued playing tricks on him. So, he decided to try to terrify the twins with his most successful disguise. But he had to support a new disaster. The twins fell down a heavy jug of water on the top of him. The poor ghost ran back to his room as fast as he could.
The ghost had lost all hope to frighten this rude family even he was so afraid of the twins. On the night of the 19th of September, he received the final blow. The poor ghost was surrounded by his enemies. He decided to escape through the chimney. After this the ghost was not seen again for a long time because his feelings had been hurt.
Without ghost the family´s life was quite. Mrs Otis organized a party to invite the Duke of Chesire. All though the ghost had gone away but really he was ill. He wanted to fright the duke but finally he decided not to leave to avoid the twins. So, the Duke slept safety in his bed.
Chapter 8
A few days later
Chapter 9
Ten minutes later the family noticed
Chapter 10
Four days all these events a funeral procession left Canterville Chase. Lord Canterville and Virginia, Mr Otis and the rest of the family, Mrs Umney were in the funeral.
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