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The Lion, The Princess, and the Sailor

The Lion, The Princess, and the Sailor

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There is a world full of fantastic, marvelous, imaginative stories… It is the world of fables, fairy tales and marvelous tales. A world with no boundaries for creation and, especially, for interpretation.

Fables are in the West and in the East; they are found among the Chinese, Indians, Egyptians, Africans, Australian Aborigines, Americans, Latins, and Europeans. Ultimately, they are present on all continents.

Similar themes, motifs and images are found in fables related to very distant and different cultures. Timeless and non-geographic fables, whose time and origin are unknown, seem to have been created as the first mythical explanations of the world and man’s existence on this planet.

It is believed that fables have been told since the 18th century B.C. in Sumer. Nevertheless, it seems that India shelters the origin of each human history and myth. And there, in that cradle, the origin of the fable may also be found.

Narratives, initially oral and simple, were recreated on paper in a more refined tone, which go from Aesop to Walt Disney, passing by La Fontaine, the Grimm Brothers, among the most important that memory can at first associate.

But after all what are fables, fairy tales and marvelous tales?

As a start, it might be said that the fable can be understood as a different way of observing reality, in a moral, philosophical direction, through the exchange of experiences and practical teaching. It educates and amuses. Its role is that of tradition, primitive narrative, wisdom. The fable is light.

Fairy and marvelous tales tell stories of action that create interest through the challenges presented and by the way they are overcome. They bring a happy ending that satisfies man in his search for happiness.

Both teach lessons of challenges and courage, of preservation of moral integrity whose characters – be they human or animal beings – are heroes full of values, who are very distant from the common man.

A person lost in the forest or a knight who confronts beasts and spells are still models of all human tales, in which a moral character is developed while moving through an inhuman nature or society.

Stories are full of symbolism, be it in fables or tales. And symbols are present, since the beginning, in all human activities. They are as old as man and vary from culture to culture and, at the same time, they can address universal themes. Perhaps this leads them to contain within them all the influences of the unconscious and the conscious.

The symbol, which is also defined as a representation of reality and not as the reproduction of this reality – like, for example, the white dove which is the symbol of peace, but doesn’t signify peace and doesn’t even reproduce peace – it’s in literature, in a term, in a name or even in a common image of daily life, but with special connotations that go beyond its obvious and conventional meaning.

ln literary works, it can have a wider unconscious aspect that is never precisely explicit or completely explained. There are things that, apparently, seem to be beyond human comprehension, and the indefinable or incomprehensible can be integrally in the symbol. It doesn’t eliminate or withdraw part of a reality; on the contrary, it adds a dimension to it. Any unit of any literary structure that can be isolated for critical analysis can be a symbol, so that a word, a sentence or an image used with some type of special reference, can be a symbol.

There is nothing new in saying that a literary work contains a multiplicity of meanings whose understanding can be subsidized by various areas of knowledge, such as Psychology, Anthropology, Sociology, or by the resources of the language itself, like ambiguity, metaphor and so many other figures of language, of thought, which carry out this function.

ln the reading of a text, the attention can stick both to the things that the words individually mean as well as to the wider meaning it is possible to apply to them. Linking an external meaning to a word means adding something to it: the thing represented or symbolized by it. All this takes place in an almost imperceptible process. ln a text, if the word ‘dog’ refers immediately to the image of the mentioned animal, at the same time it is not separated from the context into which it is inserted.

Since they intend to transmit something, and since it is possible to apprehend only the literal meaning or abstract a wider meaning, fables, fairy tales and marvelous tales carry within a symbolism that can be decoded from the literal meaning of the words that compose them to a wider meaning, which is grasped and interpreted according to each one’s comprehension of the world, according to each one’s degree of consciousness.

This way, they can transform someone’s point of view; they can form a consciousness about values; they can translate knowledge: horizontal knowledge, that goes from local to universal, and vertical knowledge, that goes from the relative plane to the absolute; and may, who knows, even lead to the single substance of the whole, after all, men, animals, plants, things, everything is from the same origin.

We are all amongst lions, princesses and sailors.

Collaboration: Elizete Mastro Bueno Zanotti

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Welcome to the internal Home Page of the PRÓ-VIDA website. In this environment you will find information about our movement, such as the activities calendar, news and content that may be of interest to you.

Where to find the activities?

You will find the activities calendar right at the top of the home page and, to see all the available activities, just click on “See full calendar”.

The activities are organized by language, time zone, modality (in person, online, or remote in-center), and categories:

  • BAS, AV1 and INT weeks
  • Exercises and Training
  • Lectures and Talks
  • Advanced Levels
  • CGD (General Center for the Tithe)
  • Departments

What activities can I participate in?

You will be able to participate in all available activities, according to your level. They are identified in the calendar by a stripe with the color of the level, on the left side of the activity name.

Basic Level

Every Monday, online Basic Level activities are available. They are offered in four languages ​​(Portuguese, Spanish, Italian and English) and different time zones.

In addition, starting at the Basic Level, you will be able to participate in all the activities identified with the following colors:

Weeks, lectures and exercises aimed at participants from the Basic Level and up.

Here you can find activities such as Keeping in Touch, celebrations, and ceremonies.

Activities carried out by PRÓ-VIDA Departments, such as lectures, presentations and studies.

Check the calendar for upcoming activities and check their times.

Advanced 1​ Level

Activities for the Advanced 1 Level and up are also available for those who have completed that level

Weeks, lectures, exercises and talks for participants from Advanced 1 Level and up.

Introduction Level

For those at the Introduction Level, also the following activities are available:

Weeks, lectures, exercises, and talks for participants from the Introduction Level and up.

Activity for all PRÓ-VIDA participants, starting at the Introduction Level.

Advanced 2SC Level

From Advanced 2 Level and up, the following activities are also available:

Weeks, lectures, exercises and talks for participants from the Advanced 2SC Level and up.

How to browse the site?

Navigate through the pages and contents of the site by clicking the links on the top golden bar or the “hamburger button” (≡), located in the upper left corner.

In addition to content and articles on various topics, you will be able to access some important areas for your participation in the activities:

Online Activities: It’s the place where you will access the activities that will be transmitted in the online modality.

Participant’s Area: It gathers information about your registration and your level in PRÓ-VIDA.

Need help?

If you need help, or to clarify any questions, contact our support by e-mail: foundation.secretary@provida.net.

Modalities of PRÓ-VIDA activities

In-person

Presenter in-center

Participants in-center

This is a live activity carried out in one of the PRÓ-VIDA Centers with both the presenter and the enrolled participants attending in-person.

Remote in-center

Remote presenter

Participants in-center

The activity is transmitted live from one of the PRÓ-VIDA studios to several Centers where the participants are attending in-person. It allows the presenter and the participants to interact despite the fact that the presenter is in a remote location. 

Online

Online presenter

Online participants

The activity is transmitted live from one of the PRÓ-VIDA studios and enables interaction between participants and the presenter in a virtual environment.

To learn more about the modalities, talk to a PRÓ-VIDA representative by chat or email secretaria@provida.net (for Brazil residents) or foundation.secretary@provida.net (for residents in other countries).

SEG    SEX

22-26

NOV    NOV

Online

Semana de Avançado 1

PT

Será transmitido nos idiomas e horários locais:

PORTUGUÊS - COM INTERAÇÃO

Segunda a sexta-feira

às 20h30*

Hora de São Paulo

*A atividade tem duração aproximada de 3 horas.

Para saber como participar, clique abaixo.

MON    FRI

06-10

DEC    DEC

Online

Semana de Introdução

PT

It will be transmitted in the following language ​​and times:

PORTUGUESE - WITH INTERACTION

Monday to Friday

at 8:30 p.m.*

Time Zone: (UTC-03:00) Brasilia

*The activity lasts approximately 3 hours.

To find out how to participate, click below.

No registrations will be made on the weekend before the activity, or in the week it takes place.

SEG    SEX

25-29

OUT    OUT

Online

Semana de Avançado 1

PT

Será transmitido nos idiomas e horários locais:

PORTUGUÊS - COM INTERAÇÃO

Segunda a sexta-feira

às 20h30*

Hora de São Paulo

*A atividade tem duração aproximada de 3 horas.

Para saber como participar, clique abaixo.

SEG    DOM

08-14

NOV    NOV

Online

Semana de Básico

PT

Será transmitido nos idiomas e horários locais:

PORTUGUÊS - COM INTERAÇÃO

Segunda a sexta-feira

às 20h30*

Sábado

às 14h30*

Domingo

às 10h00*

Hora de São Paulo

*A atividade tem duração aproximada de 3 horas.

Para saber como participar, clique abaixo.

*Para repetição oficial, participantes que estão retornando ou em R.A., em breve mais informações.

Requisitos técnicos indispensáveis

Gostaríamos de informar que, para a participação no Básico on-line, são indispensáveis os seguintes requisitos mínimos:

Computador (Windows/Mac)

Computador com câmera integrada ou conectada por entrada USB.

As atividades não poderão ser assistidas por nenhum outro dispositivo, tais como celulares, smartphones e tablets ou computadores com outros sistemas operacionais.

Especificações e Sistema Operacional

• Processador: Intel Core i3, i5 e i7 – 3100 Series , ou superior.

• Memória RAM: 4GB, ou superior.

• Sistema Operacional:

• Windows 7 com todas as atualizações, ou versão superior (somente 64 bits).

• MacOS 10.15 Catalina, ou versão superior.

Verifique as configurações de seu computador Windows clicando aqui.

Como verificar suas especificações no Mac? Clique aqui.

Fones de ouvido com microfone (headset)

Modelos homologados para uso com nossa plataforma.

Consulte a lista de headsets homologados:

Internet

Banda larga com conexão estável, com no mínimo 10MB de download e 4MB de upload.

Como verificar sua banda de internet? Clique aqui para testa-la.

* Os requisitos técnicos poderão ser atualizados. Acompanhe aqui eventuais alterações.

Fones de ouvido homologados

Marca

Modelo

Tipo

Bose

Quiet Comfort 35 Stereo

USB e Bluetooth

Dell

Pro Stereo Headset UC150

USB

Jabra

BLZ 2400 II

USB

Jabra

Evolve 20 MS

USB

Jabra

Evolve 75

USB e Bluetooth

Jabra

UC Voice 550a MS Mono

USB

JBL

Everest Elite 750NC Stereo

Bluetooth

Logitech

Headset H390

USB

Logitech

Stereo H650e

USB

Microsoft

LifeChat LX-3000

USB

Microsoft

LifeChat LX-6000

USB

Plantronics

Blackwire 320

USB

Plantronics

Blackwire 3220 Series

USB

Plantronics

Blackwire C220

USB

Plantronics

Audio 628 USB

USB

Samsung

USBC Headset

USB

Sony

WH-CH700N

USB

Sony

Headset Pulse 7.1

USB

Sony

WH-XB900N

Bluetooth

Atualização: 11.06.2021

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Evitar tocar a boca, o nariz e os olhos.

Distanciamento

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Mãos

Lavar frequentemente ou higienizar com álcool em gel.

Etiqueta Respiratória

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