Strength To Be Human --Global Arts & Affairs Podcast, Hosted by Mark Antony Rossi
2020-12
Episodes

Thursday Dec 31, 2020
S2 E174: Classic Spotlight Series -- Thoughts on Maya Angelou
Thursday Dec 31, 2020
Thursday Dec 31, 2020
in the final episode for 2020 we go to the inspirational and lovely poet Maya Angelou, a full and rich life of a young black girl who went from abused child to presidential poet.
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Wednesday Dec 23, 2020
S2 E173: The Case Against Conformity
Wednesday Dec 23, 2020
Wednesday Dec 23, 2020
This episode is more like a friendly warning against various forces that seek to steal our voice because they are intellectually or morally lazy to question their own. Below are the segment titles for the show:
1. Family
2. Religion
3. Society
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Monday Dec 21, 2020
S2 E172: Germinal Joust -- Writing as Pledge
Monday Dec 21, 2020
Monday Dec 21, 2020
In the third installment we focus on four writers who made the internal pledge to write and publish a major work meant to warn or possibly change the world.
Alexandr Solzhenitstyn -- The Gulag Archipelago
Elie Wiesel -- Night
George Orwell -- `1984
Sun Tzu -- The Art of War

Wednesday Dec 16, 2020
S2 E171: Germinal Joust -- Writing as Passion
Wednesday Dec 16, 2020
Wednesday Dec 16, 2020
In the second installment of Germinal Joust, we explore projects meant for singular passion and often sole works of incredible but often tragic literary figures.
Anna Sewell -- Black Beauty
Emily Bronte -- Wuthering Heights
John Kennedy Toole -- A Confederacy of Dunes
Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa -- The Leopard
Sylvia Plath -- The Bell Jar
Margaret Mitchell --- Gone With the Wind
J.D. Salinger -- Catcher in the Rye
Ross Lockridge Jr. --Raintree County
Ralph Ellison -- Invisible Man
Boris Pasternak -- Doctor Zhivago
Harper Lee --- To Kill a Mockingbird

Sunday Dec 13, 2020
S2 E170: Germinal Joust -- Writing as Priority
Sunday Dec 13, 2020
Sunday Dec 13, 2020
In this three part writing series Germinal Joust will show how different functions and phrases of writing exist in creativity.
called vs adopted --natural and produced talent
time management -- making writing a priority
notes as a valuable creative tool
rituals as devices for comfort and building confidence

Wednesday Dec 09, 2020
S2 E169: Classic Spotlight Series -- Thoughts on Gene Roddenberry
Wednesday Dec 09, 2020
Wednesday Dec 09, 2020
Back again with the spotlight series and this one on the visionary sci-fi tv writer and legend Gene Roddenberry
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Saturday Dec 05, 2020
S2 E168: Writing During Political Imprisonment
Saturday Dec 05, 2020
Saturday Dec 05, 2020
On this episode we will discuss the various writers and writings of people either imprisoned for their beliefs and writing from jail or imprisoned for their writings.
Paul the Apostle
Martin Luther King
O. Henry
Henry David Thoreau
Marco Polo
Vaclav Havel
Marquis de Sade
Oscar Wilde
Nelson Mandela