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Last login: 4 weeks agoMARIA-MA: MARIA is a 48 year old woman from Lisbon, Portugal.; Likes 388 pages, 26 videos, 47 photos • 35 fans • Received 5 reviews; Member since Nov 01, 2006

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Robert Greenwalds Brave New Films: Jul 14, 5:05am 61 reviews politics
http://bravenewfilms.org/blog/19529-michael-moore-cut-this-scene-from-sicko-b...; If you want to stay healthy in America, don't get sick.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=cdrCalO5BDs: Jul 11, 6:10am 5 reviews human-rights
http://video.stumbleupon.com/?p=6sc0vn364o; Different life

砖讬诪讜砖讜谉 | 讙谉注讚谉: Jul 9, 9:51am 60 reviews arts
http://redir.mivzakon.co.il/use/use.aspx?id=20325; Really cool

A Child's Guide To United States Foreign Policy: australianpolitics.com: Jul 6, 4:28am 19 reviews politics
http://australianpolitics.com/2003/07/19/a-childs-guide-to-united-states-fore...; Teaching our children

Ocean醨io de Lisboa: Jul 3, 3:17pm 1 review animals
http://www.oceanario.pt/site/ol_downloads_00.asp?seccao=7; the birth of an otter in Lisbon

Littleton CO Living History Museuem - Blacksmith Photo Gallery: Jul 3, 10:11am 1 review arts
http://www.iforgeiron.com/gallery/showphoto.php/photo/119; BLACKSMITING... I love this work

Vulture Cam - PUBLICO.PT: Jun 21, 6:50am 2 reviews birds
http://static.publico.clix.pt/grifosnaweb/; See birds online

Digital Pot tells you what Plants want by Junyi Heo & Yanko Design: Jun 3, 3:01pm 8 reviews bizarre
http://www.yankodesign.com/index.php/2008/05/28/plants-tell-you-what-they-want/; Plants Tell You What They Want

Dailymotion - Edit Piaf, a video from alexa1. Edit, Piaf, -, Non, rien: May 14, 11:06am 1 review music, video
http://video.stumbleupon.com/?p=poyghk3hqs; Unforgettable!!!!!

Ben Okri: May 11, 3:21pm 1 review writing
http://www.contemporarywriters.com/authors?p=auth82; 'The famished road', "Songs of Enchantment" and "Infinite Riches"
Ben Okri is a Nigerian writer that gives a different dimension to the abiku's image (spirit child, in iorub� language means born to die), which is a recurrent motif among the Yoruba and many other cultures from West Africa. The abiku is a common subject of the African oral narrative and is present in some African literature in English.
Okri, puts abiku as the narrator of his novel. A creature that is an in between, that lives permanently in the meeting point of the world of the living and the world of the dead. So the structure of the literary work is altered by the reality as it is seen through the eyes of abiku, his vision made up by the simultaneous images of those two worlds.
In the construction of his novel, Okri tries to translate this vision to a Western reading audience, using paradigms from both the African orality and Western literature. Narrative methods and strategies from both traditions are used and the abiku phenomenon itself is invested by other more Western conceptions about the soul's resurrection. This novel is constructed as a hybrid work between the modes of perceiving and depicting reality characteristic of each one of these cultures.
(From Divanize Carbonieri)

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