viernes, 27 de noviembre de 2015

Simone de Beauvoir

Here is my first project of the year which talks about Simone de Beauvoir. I have made a video that resumes the text that my group and I made.

Here is the link for our video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?edit=vd&v=lcpE9_LCUFI

And here you have the text that we made:

 BIOGRAPHY

Simone de Beauvoir was born on January 9, 1908, in Paris, France. When she was 21, de Beauvoir met Jean-Paul Sartre, forming a partnership and romance that would shape her life and philosophical beliefs. Beauvoir published many works of fiction and non-fiction aligned with existentialist ideas. Her best-known work is 1949's The Second Sex, a feminist text. She died in Paris on April 14, 1986.


FEMINISM AND PHILOSOPHY
Simone de Beauvoir gained notoriety for her work Le Deuxième Sexe (The Second Sex), published in 1949. The 972-page book, which analyzes reasons why women's role in society was characterized as inferior to men, was received with great controversy. Some critics characterized the book as pornography, and the Vatican placed it on the Index of Forbidden Books.
Le Deuxième Sexe was published in America in 1953, but the English edition was only a shadow of the original, as a zoologist with limited French skills translated it. In 2009, an unedited English volume was published, bolstering de Beauvoir's reputation as a feminist.
De Beauvoir published an assortment of both fiction and non-fiction works. Of the former, Les Mandarins (The Mandarins, 1954) is the best known; the Prix Goncourt-winning work urges the educated population to participate in political activism.
De Beauvoir's own interest in politics sparked after World War II. She criticized capitalism and defended communism.
In her later career, de Beauvoir wrote about aging. Une Mort Très Douce (A Very Easy Death, 1964) details her mother's death.
Her 1981 work, La Cérémonie des Adieux (Adieux: A Farewell to Sartre), recalls the last years of her partner's life.
De Beauvoir died six years after Sartre. The two share a grave.


 In this picture I've tried to represent the union between Simone and Sartre, feminism and philodophy.