Beauty Standards / Schönheitsideale / Beleza Ideal / Ideal de Belleza

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The Feminine Beauty Ideal is the socially constructed notion that physical attractiveness is one of women's most important assets, and something all women should strive to achieve and maintain. Feminine Beauty Ideal are rooted in heteronormative beliefs, and heavily influence women of all sexual orientations. The Feminine Beauty Ideal, which also includes female body shape, varies from culture ...

1900-08-25 Weimar, Germany / Thus Spoke Zarathustra / Also sprach Zarathustra / Assim Falou Zaratustra / Así habló Zaratustra

Friedrich Nietzsche was a German philosopher, cultural critic, poet, philologist whose work has exerted a profound influence on Western philosophy and modern intellectual history. He resigned his work on art, philology, history, religion, tragedy, culture, and science due to health problems that plagued him most of his life. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XfsU_p5yqUc At age 44, he suffered a mental breakdown and a complete loss of his mental faculties.  He lived ...

Fear, Anger or Indifference / Angst, Wut oder Gleichgültigkeit / Medo, Raiva ou Indiferença / Miedo, Ira o Indiferencia

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Islamophobia is defined as intense dislike or fear of Islam, hostility or prejudice towards Muslims. Islamophobia is a response to the emergence of a distinct Muslim public identity globally, resulting from the September 11 attacks. Others have associated it with the increased presence of Muslims in the United States and in the European Union. Anti-Muslim hostility is seen ...

Turn off your Television / Schalte Dein Fernseher aus / Desligue sua Televisão / Apague su Televisor

We're in a lot of trouble!! - Because you people and 62 million other Americans are listening to me right now. - Because less than 3% of you people read books. - Because less than 15% of you read newspapers. - Because the only truth you know is what you get over this tube. - Right now, there is a ...

We are the Savior / Wir sind der Retter / We are the savior / Nós somos o Salvador / Somos el Salvador

We may be quick to blame secret organizations, greedy corporations and corrupt politicians for the state of the environment and economy. The harsh truth is that the World is in its current state because humanity, as a World-wide population, is evolving and taking the World with it. We all now stand at the precipice of the greatest ...

You look Disgusting / Du bist Ekelhaft / Você é Nojento / Eres asqueroso

Disgust is an emotional response of revulsion to something considered offensive, distasteful, or unpleasant. Disgust is experienced primarily in relation to the sense of taste and secondarily to anything which causes a similar feeling by sense of smell, touch, or vision. The emotion of Disgust can be described to serve as an affective mechanism following occurrences of negative social ...

My friend the Tree / Mein Freund der Baum / Meu amigo a Arvore / Mi amigo el Arbol

About 30% of Earth's land surface is covered by forests. Between 2000 and 2012, 2.3 million square kilometres of forests around the World were cut down. As a result of Deforestation, only 6.2 million square kilometres remain of the original 16 million square kilometres of forest that formerly covered the Earth. Deforestation causes extinction, changes to climatic conditions, ...

1945-08-09 Nagasaki, Japan / Fat Man / Dicker Mann / Homem Gordo / Hombre Gordo

At 11:02 a.m., a nuclear weapon was dropped on Nagasaki by an American B-29 bomber directly killing 35,000 people, 6,200 out of the 7,500 employees of the Mitsubishi Munitions plant, and 24,000 other workers and 2,000 Korean slave laborers. By the end of the year, injury and radiation brought the total number of deaths to 39,000 ...

You’re Ugly / Du bist Hässlich / Você é Feio / Eres Feo

Cyberbullying has become increasingly common, especially among teenagers. Harmful bullying behavior can include posting rumors about a person, threats, sexual remarks, disclose victims personal information. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S61DWBdgcJQ Victims may have lower self-esteem, increased suicidal ideation, and a variety of emotional responses, retaliating, being scared, frustrated, angry, and depressed. Cyberbullying can take place on social media sites such as Facebook, ...

1945-08-06 Hiroshima, Japan / Little Boy / Kleiner Junge / Criança / Niñito

At 8:15 a.m., a nuclear weapon was dropped on Hiroshima by an American B-29 bomber, directly killing an estimated 70,000 people, including 20,000 Japanese combatants and 2,000 Korean slave laborers. By the end of the year, injury and radiation brought the total number of deaths to 90,000–166,000 of the population of around 340,000 to 350,000. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7coD3oeAve4 There's a ...

Blue Monday / Blauer Montag / Segunda-feira Azul / Lunes Azul

A stop motion animation constructed by manipulating sand (by hand) and brush (on a light box). Inspired by Ronelda Kamfer’s Afrikaans poem, 'An Ordinary Blue Monday' tells the story of a young girl ready to set off for school and the darkness she encounters every day living in a deprived area. In the South African ghetto where ...

One Percent / Ein Prozent / Um por Cento / Uno Porciento

The term Top One Percent of global income may sound like an exclusive club, but it’s one to which millions of Americans belong. An income of $32,400 a year (30,250 Euros or 2,000,000 Indian Rupees or 223,000 Chinese Yuan) will allow you to make it within Top One Percent of global income. This is a reminder of just ...

1990-08-02 Kuwait City, Kuwait / Invasion / Invasion / Invasão / Invasión

On 2 August 1990 at 2:00 am local time, Iraq launched an invasion of Kuwait with four elite Iraqi Republican Guard divisions. And towards the end of the first day of the invasion, only pockets of resistance were left in the country. Most of the Kuwaitis who were arrested, tortured, and executed during the occupation were civilians. During ...

Beatles Revolution / Beatles Revolution / Revolução dos Beatles / Revolución de los Beatles

The Beatles Revolution is documented in numbers as they are the best-selling band in history, with estimated sales of over 800 million physical and digital albums worldwide. The Beatles have had more number-one albums on the British charts and sold more singles than any other band. The Beatles have topped Billboard magazine's list of the all-time most successful ...

Social Revolution / Soziale Revolution / Revolução Social / Revolución Social

It is safe to say that memories are the last private and intimate pieces of ourselves that have not been uploaded to social media for others to see. Every day, everything we see, hear, touch and feel is stored in real time in our brains. Our memories define who we are. In the future this final barrier ...

Energy Revolution / Energierevolution / Revolução da Energia / Revolución de la Energía

Greenpeace has been publishing its Energy Revolution Scenarios since 2005, more recently in collaboration with the scientific community, in particular the German Aerospace Centre. While our predictions on the potential and market growth of renewable energy may once have seemed fanciful or unrealistic, they have proved to be accurate. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Cp8-lVo2A8 Dynamic change is happening in energy supply, but the ...

Prayer in C / Gebet in C / Oração em C / Oración en C

Prayer (Latin precari to ask earnestly, to beg) may be either individual or communal and take place in public or in private, it may involve the use of words, song or complete silence. Prayer may be directed towards a deity, a spirit, deceased person, or an idea, for the purpose of worshipping, requesting guidance, requesting assistance, ...

Human / Mensch / Humano / Humano

Yann Arthus-Bertrand is a French photographer, journalist, reporter and environmentalist, best known for his book Earth from Above (1999) and his film Home (2009). At age 17 he became an assistant director, then an actor in movies. He gave up the movie industry, left the country with his wife and lived amongst the Maasai tribe for ...

State of the Science / Stand der Wissenschaft / Estado da Ciência / Estado de la Ciencia

Climate Change may refer to a change in average weather conditions, or in the time variation of weather around longer-term average conditions. Climate Change is caused by factors such as biotic processes, variations in solar radiation received by Earth, plate tectonics, and volcanic eruptions. Certain Human activities have been identified as primary causes of ongoing Climate Change. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_EWOrZQ3L-c Science ...

1945-07-16 New Mexico, USA / Trinity / Dreieinigkeit / Trindade / Trinidad

Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds - Trinity was the code name of the first detonation of a nuclear weapon which was conducted by the United States Army at 5:29 am on July 16, 1945, as part of the Manhattan Project. A base camp was constructed, and there were 425 people present on the ...

Southern Story / Südstaaten Erzählung / Narrativa do Sul / Narrativa del Sur

Historical and cultural development of The South have been influenced by the institution of slave labor on plantations in the Deep South to an extent seen nowhere else in the United States by the presence of a large proportion of African Americans in the population; support for racial tension magnified by the Civil War and Reconstruction ...

Next Billion Years / Nächsten Milliarden Jahre / Próximos Bilhões Anos / Siguiente Mil Millones Años

Future studies is the science, art and practice of postulating possible, probable, and preferable futures and the worldviews and myths that underlie them. Future studies seeks to understand what is likely to continue, what is likely to change, and what is novel. A key part of this process is understanding the potential future impact of decisions made ...

Love Generation / Liebesgeneration / Geração do Amor /Generación del Amor

A young boy wakes up one ordinary morning and gets himself ready and goes out on his bike to school. He arrives outside the entrance and pauses, apparently in thought. Then he rides the bike on, past the school, and partakes on a trip to many different and exotic locations all over the USA including New ...