A Tale of Two Shoes: Children of Heaven, a Review
Give us the luxuries of life, and we will dispense with the necessities. – G.K. Chesterton, 1920 Children of Heaven is an introspective film. Directed by Majid Majidi, Children of Heaven was the first Iranian film to be nominated for an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, and it secured an American box office […]
Loving All: The Story of Les Choristes
All my life I have been surrounded by music, and I’ve loved every second of it. Growing up exposed to music, I saw the world in a different way; instead of simply seeing a clock’s pendulum swing back in forth, I would match the march of the seconds to the rhythmic flickering of the router […]
In Favor of Eccentrics (Notes from the Casale Street)
U prilog ekscentricima (Zapisi iz ulice Casale) [tabs] [tab title=”English”] “They broke me, put me in a vase and they say they love me,” Rovinj painter Slobodan Vuličević said about himself. That is a quote which today, six years after his death, is in the collection of his thoughts published in the book Notes from […]
On The Worth of Workers
In the sphere of economics … new structures for the production of consumer goods had progressively taken shape. A new form of property had appeared—capital; and a new form of labor—labor for wages, characterized by high rates of production which lacked due regard for sex, age or family situation, and were determined solely by efficiency, […]
The Will of Choice
One of the reasons why I was so appalled at my action during the trip to Ho Chi Minh City is that, I used to make a different choice. Upon my conflicted state of seeing a homeless man or a stranger seeking for financial help, I would force myself to step out of my comfort […]
FEMM Teacher Training Course in Malta
“FEMM Teacher Training Course na Malti” Last September 26-27,2015, the core team of FEMM, Ms. Anna and Judy Halpine held a FEMM teacher training course in Malta. Silvija Šijak shares her story and her key takeaways of human dignity and her fellow Maltese women. [tabs] [tab title=”English”] Even before becoming a WYA member, I was already […]
Ideas About The Human Value of a Person
I love reading novels and have just been caught up with a book called The Inferno by Dan Brown, a thriller where the famous Robert Langdon, a professor of Symbology, is drawn into a grievous world focused on the world’s most mysterious literary masterpieces Dante’s Inferno. From Dante’s dark epic poem, Langdon races to find […]
Man’s Search for Meaning, a Review
Man´s search for meaning is one of those unforgettable books that can provoke a change in your way of looking at life and the people around you. The book has two clearly differentiated parts. On the one hand, the first half of Man’s Search for Meaning describes life in Nazi concentration camp in light of […]
Human Dignity and Totalitarianism (An Excerpt from the WYA Certified Training Program)
English Lecture given at Schloss Neuwaldegg, Vienna, November 5, 2004 It is a great honor and with real humility that I address you today. I am a young citizen of the West; I grew up in Canada and the United States, and have had the privileges, securities, freedoms and joys that such an experience brings. […]
Dancing into Dignity: Mad Hot Ballroom, a Review
This 2005 film by Marilyn Agrelo, which follows New York elementary students as they learn how to ballroom dance through a program in public schools, isn’t the typical dance competition movie. Though it ends with champions and runner-ups, it’s not about the competition. This is a documentary-style film about learning to choose excellence, […]