Cinema in our life

Cinematography occupies an important place in modern life. Today, cinema has reached the peak of its popularity and has great educational and aesthetic power. Every day there are continuous shooting. Cinema is one of the youngest arts of our time. It arose at the end of the XIX century, which we owe to the world-famous … Read more

What makes a person a person?

Saint-Exupery wrote the “Little Prince” shortly before his tragic death. As the poet A. Prasolov says, “individual human souls always publish their last, swan-pure, farewell cry…” This philosophical tale became a testament to the writer’s will to people. Many of her lines entered our life as commandments: “We are responsible for those who have tamed,” … Read more

Sherlock Holmes’s All-conquering Logic

Arthur Conan Doyle is a famous English writer, creator of the image of the brilliant detective Sherlock Holmes. Probably, there is no person who in his time did not read the stories about Sherlock Holmes. In all these stories, most striking is the detective’s logic, his ability to build a logical chain, not missing any, … Read more

O. de Balzac and Ukraine

February 28, 1832 in the life of the writer there was an event that marked the beginning of a “beautiful heart drama”: Balzac unexpectedly received a letter from Odessa with an intriguing signature of “Inostranka”. Soon the writer learned that his correspondent was a Polish aristocrat of Russian citizenship, the Countess Evelina Ghanskaya, the great-granddaughter … Read more

Composition about art

What effect does true art have on man? Is it able to transform it morally? The author of the text makes us think about these questions. GI Uspensky in this text reflects on the role of art. He talks about how he accidentally went to the Louvre, saw a statue of Venus de Milo. He … Read more

Hymn to man

“A person can be destroyed, but it can not be defeated”. E. Hemingway Ernest Hemingway is a man of amazing destiny, the author of a number of excellent books, among which a special place belongs to the story “The Old Man and the Sea”, created in the middle of the 20th century, in 1952, a … Read more

Path to freedom

Among the many diverse legends we learn from the poem of the ancient Roman poet Ovid “Metamorphosis” and a beautiful but tragic myth about the greatest Athenian artist, sculptor and architect Daedalus. The fate of this man was not easy. Despite his talents, his compatriots sentenced him to death for having committed a murder. The … Read more