Westeros

The Frank Bell's biography is one of the 100 narratives that the book  Voices from slavery  compiles, and is a panoramic pictures about the injustice and undignified treatment received by Africa-Americans during and after de Civil War in United States, from the perspective of Frank Bell and others who were enslaved.  This is a very important document to recognize a part of history, to understand the origins of racism, the hate discourses and the ideology wave of supremacy of white race, so present nowadays, mostly in the United States and Europe, and which have recently germinated in some Latin American countries, such as Brazil or Bolivia.   Unfortunately, the belief prevails of superiority of white race, keeps based on the division of which people are best able to realized certain jobs, those jobs that are social less valued and requiere greater physical strength, or those jobs highly valued that requires intelligence ability for the politics, economics o...

The truth and the beauty This is about Truth and the beauty, a book that tells a friendship signed by the literature. Two young women studied in the same College in the US, later they decided to share an apartment, and found themselves in their great passion around prose fiction and poetry. Lucy's disease led her to live between facial surgeries, a condition that eventually led her to a premature death. Her friend, Anna Patchet decided write a book about her. Patchet put herself in the Lucy's shoes so deeply, and related so intimate their friendship, fact that woke up all kind of claims by the students parents in the Clemson University, and they got against the writer, because they found the book profane for encouraged the students to the sexually and homosexual practices. What tell us about the strong conservatism of North Carolina society. Which makes us wonder if in the 21st century a nineteenth-century practices and moral are still valid and what are their consequences...