Do Women Spend Much Time and Money on Beauty?

by Herminne Tonita - Since ancient times women have been preoccupied with beauty and with all the efforts they had to make to keep their beauty and also to make use of its power to achieve their purposes. We all know, even if we claim not to make a difference, that beautiful and attractive women have always had more to win than normal persons or that women who couldn't afford the luxury to...

Playing Games - The Most Frequent Way of Spending Time

by Herminne Tonita - For most children the most frequent way of spending their time is playing a game. It doesn’t matter what game is about. They are all funny and they entertain a lot. Things become better when you need a partner to play with as the spirit of competition appears and you get to focus your attention only in winning. On one hand it is quite constructive for the development of...

What has the future prepared for all of us? How do you see yourself in twenty years time?

by Herminne Tonita - What has the future prepared for all of us? How will we change and if so will it be in a good or a bad way? How do you see yourself in twenty years time? Stereotypical questions for a classic interview. Quite old fashioned but, at the same time always catchy as the actors who have to perform the part are changing.. other actors …other destinies. In my opinion, it is all...

The first step is the only difficulty

by Cristina Nuta - When we have to do something for the first time, our first impulse is to say that it will be very difficult doing that certain thing. And it is normal to have this feeling at the beginning, especially for persons who are not used to changes and who adapt with more difficulty to new situations. However, after making the first step, the rest seems to be easier and we begin...

It's Jeans Time

by Herminne Tonita - Jeans have come a long way. From Levi Strauss to H.D. Lee, from Mustang to Wrangler denim was the most used material in the jeans industry. Famous designers like Valentino, Issey Miyake and Christian Lacroix have just had their spring-summer 2007 collections, which proved to be very successful among teenagers and not only. Whether you have them rolled, pegged, stacked or...

Love's Not Time's Fool

by Herminne Tonita - The greatness of Shakespeare's work, the peculiar quality which distinguishes it from that of all the other writers is beyond definition. Perhaps Dryden's saying that Shakespeare had an " universal" mind is the best brief attempt to describe this quality, which justifies John Hales' famous claim that whatever has been well said by any other poet has been better said by...

I was waiting for him but I still hoped he wouldn't come

Are we able to turn back the time ? by Cristina Nuta - I was waiting for him but I still hoped he wouldn't come. I still didn't have the courage to see him again after so many years, but I thought that was the best way to help him understand what had once happened and why I had to leave him and go away. But then I saw him getting closer to the terrace. He was the same well-built man, of...

The importance of time and place in Tess of the d'Urbervilles

by Cristina Nuta - Thomas Hardy's novel, 'Tess of the d'Urbervilles', is a network of comings and goings. But even though each step that its characters choose is along real roads, between houses, villages and towns which are identifiable in contemporary Britain, the names these bear are imaginary. In 'Tess of the d'Urbervilles', the characters and setting mirror each other: Tess moves from a...

Modernity - a Structure of Historical Time Consciousness

by Cristina Nuta - We define by modernity the quality, experience, or period of the modern. The idea of modernity highlights the novelty of the present as a break or rupture with the past, opening out into a rapidly approaching and uncertain future. In its broadest sense, it is associated with the ideas of innovation, progress and fashion, and counterposed to the ideas of antiquity, the...

Time is Money

by Herminne Tonita - We realize we waste our life with all kind of insignificant things that make our existence so dull and so boring and we don't do anything to change things. We realize we should enjoy more our daily activities or our hobbies but we always complain we don't have enough time. We don't have enough time to sit in front of the TV and watch our favorite serials, we don't have...