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MISCELLANEOUS
WRITINGS
POEMS -
ARTICLES - SHORT STORIES
LELA
CARAYANNIS/BOUBOULINA - A TRIBUTE
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MEDICAL SUMMARIES -
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My
name is George Pararas-Carayannis and these Pages are under continuous
construction and updating. They include some of my miscellaneous, published
and unpublished non-technical writings, poems, short stories and articles
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some of which I wish to share. Although I am a scientist and
publish mostly technical articles, papers and books, I enjoy the arts
and writing poetry and articles on things that interest me.
Some
of my poems in English have been featured in the International
Poetry Hall of Fame, the National Library of Poetry or published
in miscellaneous anthologies. Other poems - in my native language
(Greek) -
have been published
in the "Greek Letters" or other literary publications.
For
more than 25 years I had the good fortune of being
an active member of the National
Society of Arts and Letters (NSAL), an outstanding national organization
which encourages and assists promising young artists through arts
competitions,
scholarships
and other
career opportunities - poetry and short stories being among the categories
of competition. I served as officer of the National Organization
and
of
its
Hawaii
Chapter, as well as one of the judges for some of the literary competitions
that are held around the country. Being around the truly creative
people and artists
of NSAL, also inspired me to try to improve on my own writing skills
in English - which is not my native language - and to continue to write
poetry in English and Greek.
Also,
I am interested in archaeology, ancient civilizations, the protection
of world heritage cultural sites and in legends and
myths that relate to ancient disasters. I believe that myths and
legends have resulted from catastrophic events that actually
have occurred. For example, most ancient civilizations have legends
related to a catastrophic flood attributed to the wrath of Gods (i.e.
Deukalion's deluge, Noah's flood). Other legends refer to the destruction
of ancient
civilizations (i.e. destruction of Atlantis in Plato's dialogs of Timaeus
and Critias) or catastrophes of ancient cities (catastrophe
of Helike in 373 B.C., described
by Pausanias).
Thus
I have spent
time
going over
the original
texts
of
ancient
Greek
writers, translating pertinent passages and reading between the lines
or interpreting what they state as to what may have happened. Thus, I
begun visiting and doing some field investigations of archaeological
sites (primarily in Greece) and also begun developing pages
on DISASTER ARCHAEOLOGY at
my website related
to DISASTERS.
Links to major categories of these sites are
provided in the Navigation Menu on the left column.
The
following is a listing of general categories to some of my miscellaneous
writings.
"My
Journey West"
Selected
Poems from a Book under preparation
FOREWORD
MISC.
SHORT STORIES
MISC.
ARTICLES
LELA
CARAYANNIS (Bouboulina Organization)
A
Tribute to Greece's National Heroine
MISC.
ARTICLES ON SOCIAL INJUSTICES
MISCELLANEOUS
SUMMARIES ON CHRONIC ILLNESSES
heart
disease | | stroke | diabetes | | high
blood pressure | | high
cholesterol | | Alzheimer's | | Parkinson's | | arthritis | | chronic
fatigue | | poor
circulation | | brain
injury | | multiple
sclerosis | |cerebral
palsy | | life
extension | | memory
loss |
POEMS
IN GREEK
