He never used his official name Durante, however. ( This Renaissance 'superdome' in Florence took more than 100 years to build.)ĭurante Alighieri was born in Florence in May 1265, under the astrological sign of Gemini, a detail he mentions in the Paradiso. Peopled with figures from mythology, the Bible, and Dante’s own time, hell's descending circles (each one reserved for different sins) constitute some of the most vivid and emotionally charged scenes in world literature. Of the three sections, however, it is the lot of the souls in the Inferno that has had, by far, the greatest resonance with readers and artists. Although it recounts an actual physical journey, The Divine Comedy is also an allegory of the soul’s progress through sin (hell), penitence (purgatory), and redemption (paradise), the last being the joyful ending promised in the title. In naming his lifework Comedy, Dante employs an understanding of the word that means a narrative with a happy ending, unrelated to humor. Later, he is reunited with his beloved, Beatrice, who guides him up to purgatory, and then to Paradise, where, in a moment of ecstasy, Dante glimpses God. The Divine Comedy is a long poem recounting the author’s journey among the damned in hell, guided by the Roman poet Virgil. Completed just before Dante died in 1321, it consists of three parts- Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradiso.
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In addition to membership in the aforementioned organizations, Lockard founded his own company, Visions of Destiny, DBA, to share his art with the world and is protected now by the Jon Onye Lockard Foundation.Ĭoncurrently producing an impressive catalog of works over fifty years, Lockard was also a professor and mentor to many at both the University of Michigan and Washtenaw Community College. Most recently, he served as a Senior Art Advisor for the Martin Luther King, Jr. He was Co-Founder and Associate Director of The Society for the Study of African American Culture and Aesthetics, hosted and co-produced The Society's biweekly journal of cultural affairs, “Sankofa”, previously aired on Barden Cable Television of Detroit. His expressions are made at every scale for every body, from 1995’s Ebony Sea, a children's book, written by Irene Smalls, through a roomful of floor to ceiling murals, like "Continuum" at Wayne State University.Īs the former president and lifelong member of the National Conference of Artists (NCA), Lockard guided the group to travel internationally, at one point visiting Goree Island, off the coast of Senegal, West Africa, historic hub of slave trade shipping route. Jon Onye Lockard was ever in pursuit of visually presenting intellectual Black culture and history, whether diving into the African Diaspora, questioning the histories of “accepted norms” or honoring civil rights giants upon whose shoulders future black achievement would become possible. It was such an immediate hit, that barely a month after its debut, Dickens was embroiled in a legal fight against a publishing company that had printed pirated copies. Though he spent mere weeks writing it, Dickens' novella about the original Christmas grinch has been a holiday staple for nearly two centuries, giving rise to countless adaptations for stage and screen. "Marley was dead, to begin with." With those six words, Charles Dickens invited us into the world of A Christmas Carol, indelibly introducing us to Ebenezer Scrooge, the three ghosts of Christmas, Tiny Tim, and a full cast of memorable characters. Fezziwig’s Ball, Hand colored etching by John Leech from A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens, via Wikimedia Commons ALYSON HAGY, author of Ghosts of Wyoming The book is that skillful, and that funny." Reading these stories made me feel as though I'd come upon Richard Russo and Thomas McGuane swapping smart and wicked tales in front of a hot pub fire with cold drinks in hand. John Rember's wit is as sharp as the edge of a well-hone ski and his prose is as smooth and perfect as a Dean's finest scotch. "I couldn't get enough of the stories in Sudden Death Over Time. TIM SANDLIN, author of the GroVont Quartet No one I know of comes close to his mastery of the short story. "John Rember tears your heart out and replaces it with his own. Multivariate analyses and Spearman correlation are performed to determine the contribution of length of service to workers' health parameters. The study analyzes clinical parameters to determine the workers' renal health condition and assesses their pulmonary function using spirometry. Through the evaluation of three different scenarios of precarious employment ( n = 110), including workers in mercury miner (workers A), brick-kilns (workers B), and quarries workers (workers C). Specifically, the study aims to provide insight on the health status of workers who are vulnerable due to the informal nature of their employment. The aim is to investigate and describe the health conditions of workers who are employed in precarious work settings in Mexico. |