Category: Caetana Ribeiro da Cunha
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Dress to Impress: Communicating Knowledge and Power Through Fashion
If he had not worn that borrowed blazer from Princeton University, Dickie Greenleaf would not be dead. In the movie The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999), Thomas Ripley fakes having attended Princeton to be accepted into the high society of New York. As part of his ruse, he flies out to Italy to visit Dickie Greenleaf,…
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Whispers of Vanity: Unmasking the Hopes and Dreams in Wilde’s Classic
Book Review: The Picture of Dorian Gray “He grew more and more enamoured of his own beauty, more and more interested in the corruption of his own soul.” The Picture of Dorian Gray is an aesthetic book that is a treat for anyone who enjoys philosophy, literature, and the arts. The book goes into all…
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The Hopes and Dreams of a Student in a Foreign Country
There is a Portuguese word for a melancholic feeling of remembrance, of longing for someone or something that has been past, the absence of a once pleasing experience that is currently not being lived. The word is Saudade. It cannot be translated very well, and perhaps that is what makes it so dear to all…