"Culture in all its forms is the expression of the soul,
of the deepest feelings, and thus, the most authentic expression of the human being: the universal language.

We always admire the transcendence of culture throughout the years and the centuries. Now we continue to marvel from the art works that we created in the past and that have reached our times. We get the same feelings from the current art, which we are sure will endure and will be our legacy to the future generations."

Alfonso Quiñónez Meza

Writing Is Art

I can only think on the first comparisson we did on art and writing. Do you remember? The sistine chapel painting, a truly master piece, well we´ve come to an end this semester and we´ve created our own "master pieces", right? ^^ I could not take pictures of all the charts, but here are some of them.

THE END ...........

We almost finish our semester and we have finished another subject, but this time we learnt a lot of about writing.

Now we know about some things, that before to take this subject we didnt know. We learnt about kind of essays and about how to write correctly, I hope everybody understood everything we saw in our classes then we will get a good great on thursday. GOOD LUCK MY DEARS

GREATEST QUOTES OF VIKTOR FRANKL

- A human being is a deciding being.

- Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.

- Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.

- Each man is questioned by life; and he can only answer to life by answering for his own life; to life he can only respond by being responsible.

- Ever more people today have the means to live, but no meaning to live for.

- Everyone has his own specific vocation or mission in life; everyone must carry out a concrete assignment that demands fulfillment. Therein he cannot be replaced, nor can his life be repeated, thus, everyone's task is unique as his specific opportunity to implement it.

- Everything can be taken from a man or a woman but one thing: the last of human freedoms to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.

VIKTOR FRANKL

VIENNA, Austria (AP) Viktor E. Frankl, author of the landmark "Man's Search for Meaning" and one of the last great psychotherapists of this century, has died of heart failure. He was 92.

Frankl died Tuesday and his funeral already has been held, the Austria Press Agency reported today, citing the Vienna Viktor Frankl Institute. It gave no further details.

"Vienna, and the world, lost in Victor Frankl not only one of the most important scientists of this century but a monument to the spirit and the heart," said Vienna Mayor Michael Haeupl.

Frankl survived the Holocaust, even though he was in four Nazi death camps including Auschwitz from 1942-45, but his parents and other members of his family died in the concentration camps.

During and partly because of his suffering in concentration camps, Frankl developed a revolutionary approach to psychotherapy known as logotherapy.

At the core of his theory is the belief that humanity's primary motivational force is the search for meaning, and the work of the logotherapist centers on helping the patient find personal meaning in life, however dismal the circumstances may be.

Frankl's teachings have been described as the Third Vienna School of Psychotherapy, after that of Sigmund Freud and Alfred Adler.

In "Man's Search for Meaning," which has sold approximately nine million copies worldwide and been translated into twenty-three languages. The Library of Congress called the book one of the ten most influential books of the twentieth century. Frankl said: "There is nothing in the world, I venture to say, that would so effectively help one to survive even the worst conditions as the knowledge that there is a meaning in one's life."

According to logotherapy, meaning can be discovered by three ways: "(1) by creating a work or doing a deed; (2) by experiencing something or encountering someone; and (3) by the attitude we take toward unavoidable suffering," he wrote.

Salarrué Biography

Salarruè

Salvador Salazar Arrué

(Poet, painter and Salvadoran writer)

Born in Sonsonate, on October 22, 1899.

Published his first story, when he was ten years old in the Journal of El Salvador. He paints with great skill, that´s why, his family sent him to study with the Professor Spiro Rossolino (Italian).

After get an scholarship to the Academy part of Corcoran in Washington DC, he returns to San Salvador at the age of 20 years. He exhibited his work many times in different galleries and places of El Salvador, Costa Rica, Guatemala, New York, New Orleans and other places. He has been considered one of the best poets in our country.

He co-founded the new Latin American narrative flow. In his "Cuentos de barro" and "Cuentos de cipotes", he talks about the peasant world. He also published novels, but his real mastery was in the story.

Salarruè is one of the authors who have given to this genus, an universal screening in Central America.

He died in San Salvador on November 27, 1975.

Basic references:

El Cristo Negro (1927)
El Señor de la Burbuja (1927)
O Yrakandal (1929)
Remontando el Uluán (1932)
Conjeturas en la Penumbra (1934)
Eso y Más (1940)
Cuentos de Cipotes (1945)
El Trasmallo (1954)
La Espada y Otras Narraciones (1960)
Vilanos (1969)
Ingrimo (1969)
La Sombra y Otros Motivos Literiarios (1969)
La Sed de Sling Bader (1971)
Mundo Nomasito (Poesía -1975)

Total Physical Response a excellent method to put into practice.

TPR is a method developed by Dr. James J. Asher, a professor of psychology at San  José State University. The method relies on the assumption that when learning a second or additional language. The language is internalized through a process of code breaking similar to first language development and that the process allows for a long period of listening and developing comprehension prior to production. Students respond to commands that require physical movement.

TPR is primarily intended for ESL/EAL teacher, although the method is used in teaching other languages as well. Also, it became popular in the 1970´and attracted the attention or allegiance of some teachers, but it has not received generalized support from  mainstream educators.

TPR is based on the premise that the human brain hasa biological program for acquiring any natural language on earth - including the sign language of the deaf.  The process is visible when we observe how infants internalize their first language.

It looks to the way that children learn their native language. Communication between parents and their children combines both verbal and physical aspects. The child responds physically to the speech of the parent. In addition, the responses of the child are in turn positively reinforced by the speech of the parents. For many months the child absorbs the language without being able to speak. It is during this period that the internalization and code breaking occurs. After this stage the child is able to reproduce the language spontaneously. With the TPR the language teacher tries to mimic this process in class.

The method also promises double efficency in terms of rate of learning.