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

S2 E173: The Case Against Conformity

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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S2 E172: Germinal Joust -- Writing as Pledge

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
 

S2 E171: Germinal Joust -- Writing as Passion

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 

S2 E170: Germinal Joust -- Writing as Priority

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
 
 

S2 E169: Classic Spotlight Series -- Thoughts on Gene Roddenberry

Back again with the spotlight series and this one on the visionary sci-fi tv writer and legend Gene Roddenberry
 
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S2 E168: Writing During Political Imprisonment

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

S2 E167: Mailbag VI: The World Speaks

In the final mailbag episode of 2020, we showcase more voices from the international community commenting on various episodes.

S2 E166: The Mirror and the Window -- A Discussion on Self

An instructive episode of where Self, healthy or otherwise, fits into the creative equation of our lives.
1. Solitiude -- Selfishness
2. Attitude -- Narcissism
3. Platitude -- Achieving Balance 

S2 E165: Interview with Bombfire Lit -- Editors Leann Denman & Rich Boucher

In a first this show will interview editors of a literary magazine (Bombfire Lit)
about their publication, editorship, flash fiction and poetry.
 
https://bombfirelit.com
 
 

S2 E164: Classic Spotlight Series -- Thoughts on John Ashbery

This episode briefs discusses the American avarde garde poetry master John Ashbery.