The word “Markham ” serves, in our environment, to identify one of the most expensive private schools in Lima. Its facilities, its curricula and, above all, its prices, have made it the symbol of what the myth of the private school means as an exclusive, high-quality and projection education center.
In recent years, this mask has become the symbol of any protest or citizen demonstration. Since the scandal of the famous Wikileaks -documents that the journalist and editor Julian Assange made public to the horror of the US government - until the last marches that took place in our city during the
Who hasnt heard the aria La donna è mobile (Woman is fickle) from the opera Rigoletto? How can we forget the thrilling Ritt der Walküren (Ride of the Valkyries) that sounds in that unforgettable scene from Apocalypse now! (Apocalypse now!) , the 1979 Francis Ford Coppola film? They are two of the me
On a day like today, one of the most important cybernetic companies of the digital age was founded. In it, millions of people around the world enter daily in search of information about people, history, entertainment, art, business, news, etc. In addition, its increasingly sophisticated applications
The world of music (paraphrasing our writer Ciro Alegría ) is wide and alien. And in these times of monothematic banalities and superficialisms -cumbias and reggaetones that sound all day on all radio and open television channels- or mistaken ultranationalist tendencies -thinking that we should only
Are we a really superstitious people or are we simply repeating what we have been hearing for decades regarding this popular belief, which associates this date with bad luck? From the old news according to which every Friday the 13th accidents increased, hospital emergency rooms were overcrowded and
This weekend, teachers around the world are partying as World Teachers Day is celebrated . Thanks to the drive and powerful convening capacity of Education International, this date was established in conjunction with UNESCO to reflect and honor the work of thousands of teachers, throughout the five
In the first days of November 2013, the whole world was shaken after learning of the tragedy that devastated Southeast Asia:the Typhoon Haiyan devastated large areas of the Philippines archipelago , with a balance of victims that was increasing with the passing of days. In the latest reports, the fi
Her name resonates in the memory of generations because of her great influence on modern thought. As a woman, she courageously and talentedly confronted the prejudices of her time as a writer and social activist. She went down in history not only for her visionary works but also for becoming the gra
The death of Nelson Mandela it has put the whole world in mourning, as it is one of the last reserves of courage, decency and sense of equality. After spending a third of his life behind bars, for defending his ideals, Madiba did not exploit his resentments with a desire for revenge against his jail
Every eleventh of December, Mexicans await the arrival of the next day with special joy and fervour, prepared with a mariachi serenade and the traditional song of Las Mañanitas, since barely twelve oclock At midnight the celebrations of the day of the Guadalupe mamita begin. The Virgin of Guadalupe
In October 2005, in Spain, the first Internet Day was celebrated at the initiative of the Association of Internet Users (aui.es). In that first edition, 534 events were organized throughout Spain and more than 200 public and private entities signed the Declaration of Principles to build the Informat
Derrama Magisterial, Social Security institution of the Peruvian teacher, participated in the publication of the complete collection of anthropological works by José María Arguedas , a transcendental editorial effort initiated two years ago, as one of the central activities for the celebrations of t
This weekend is Fathers Day . As we have already stated on other similar dates, the original motivations are invaded by an advertising overexposure of gifts, offers and purchases that distort the fair tribute to that fundamental character in the development and formation of the human being. We refer
Have you ever told your students the story behind these messages that for decades travel the world in a fragile glass bottle, pushed by capricious and unpredictable ocean currents ? Messages in a bottle They have been the subject of countless stories, some romantic and others shipwrecks. From secret
Read Hopscotch It is not an easy thing, but it is very entertaining. The masterpiece of the Argentine Julio Cortáza r became an icon of literature in our language, among other things, because of its ungainly and at the same time cultured and sophisticated style, but mainly because of a totally unusu
Modern life does not conceive of silence as a possibility. From the moment you leave, you face the car horns, the shouts of the public transport workers, the phone calls. Meetings for work, study or social entertainment, all wrapped in a confusing atmosphere of diverse sounds that have become part o
We are a few days away from celebrating a new anniversary of the Independence of Peru and, beyond the advertising campaigns that are now dressed in red and white to sell more of their products (from beers to toxic television programs that contribute to the mediocrity of our childhood and youth), we
As part of our philosophy of promoting the educational and cultural improvement of the country, Educational Spill presents the work called Peruvian Educational Thought Collection , the first and only large-scale publishing project that studies and analyzes the development and evolution of education
Within the realm of classical music, there are several names that are threatened with oblivion in these times of digital archives, short-lived artists and trends increasingly marked by immediacy that offers the easy, the popular. Although it is true that the classical universe has always been apprec
The Industrial Revolution was a process of great social and economic transformations that began in England in the 18th century. The industrial mode of production spread across much of the Northern Hemisphere throughout the 19th and early 20th centuries. Producing goods became cheaper and more acces
When the Roman general Sulla took Athens in 86 B.C. he got a fantastic prize:Aristotles library. Indeed, much of the library of the famous philosopher had been taken back to Athens by Apelicon, who had bought it in very poor condition and dedicated himself to restoring it, not too tactfully. The R
The Cripps plan provided that if the Indian states did not join the Union of India even after Indias independence and continued to be allies of the British Crown, then the Ghori government would do so under treaties made with the native-states in AD 1818. To protect the states, the Imperial Troops (
Some peoples have a special martial tradition of defying death. One of them is the Polish people who - lives parallel to the Greek - were for centuries slaves to three masters (Germans, Austrians and mainly Russians). When World War I broke out most of Poland was part of the tsarist empire. More