quarta-feira, 16 de fevereiro de 2011

Você consegue fazer o mesmo?

Este vídeo foi feito por alunos do curso de comunicação da universidade canadense (LIPDUB) em 2009, pois seu professor havia lhes pedido para representarem sua geração na forma de um vídeo  Este é o resultado...dê uma olhada:
 
Não se preocupe ao chegar na parte final do vídeo...você não está bêbado...lembre-se que eles também falam francês no Canadá!

quarta-feira, 2 de fevereiro de 2011

Valentine's day is coming!

Saint Valentine's Day (commonly shortened to Valentine's Day) is an annual celebration held on February 14th celebrating love and affection between intimate companions. It is traditionally a day on which lovers express their love for each other by presenting flowers, offering chocolates, and sending greeting cards (known as "valentines"). Modern Valentine's Day symbols include the heart-shaped outline, doves, and the figure of the winged Cupid. Since the 19th century, handwritten valentines cards have largely given way to mass-produced greeting cards.
The history of Valentine's Day — and its patron saint — is shrouded in mystery. But we do know that February has long been a month of romance. St. Valentine's Day, as we know it today, contains vestiges of both Christian and ancient Roman tradition.
 In Brazil, the Dia dos Namorados ("Boyfriends'/Girlfriends' Day") is celebrated on June 12, when couples exchange gifts, chocolates, cards and flower bouquets. This day was chosen probably because it is the day before the Festa junina (Saint Anthony's day), known there as the marriage saint, when traditionally many single women perform popular rituals, called simpatias, in order to find a good husband or boyfriend. The February 14's Valentine's Day is not celebrated at all, mainly for cultural and commercial reasons, since it usually falls too little before or after Carnival, a major floating holiday in Brazil — long regarded as a holiday of sex and debauchery by many in the country— that can fall anywhere from early February to early March.
In most of South America the Día del amor y la amistad and the Amigo secreto ("Secret friend") are quite popular and usually celebrated together on the 14 of February (one exception is Colombia, where it is celebrated every third Saturday of September). The latter consists of randomly assigning to each participant a recipient who is to be given an anonymous gift (similar to the Christmas tradition of Secret Santa).

More information at: http://www.history.com/topics/valentines-day accessed in 06/062010.