Monday 1 August 2016

What really it happened inside Hotel Rwanda?

When it comes to genocide against Tutsis, stories of survivors often go hand in hand with their saviors. The real heroes during the genocide have been documented and are known inside and outside the country. Many others are being identified with the passage of time.

Stories of people such as Zula Karuhimbi, pretending to be a witch to save the Tutsis, Senegal peacekeeping force UN Capt. Mbaye Diagne, who lost his life while protecting Rwandans even against the wishes of their leaders, as well as countless other individual accounts are said in the same category.

But when it comes to know exactly what happened inside the hotel of a Thousand Hills, better known in the international media as 'Hotel Rwanda', stories of survivors are not exactly the same as those told by their perceived saviors .

When Paul Rusesabagina published his autobiography, a common man, who traveled the world with the feeling of his actions in "-not-so-ordinary" at least according to some of the survivors.

In any case, they were supposedly pure actions, the guy who later force Hollywood to produce a film with the same title (Hotel Rwanda-played by Don Cheadle), who was acclaimed worldwide.

The success of the film. The success of Rusesabagina. However, an error of truth. This is what many say genocide survivors.

In a new book titled "Inside the Hotel Rwanda," a genocide survivor, Edouard Kayihura, relates how the self-portrait of Rusesabagina as real life 'Superman' is just crazy digging holes in the memory genocide survivors, especially those who remained inside the shelter of a Thousand Hills hotel for most of the 100 days of genocide.

Co-written with American author, Kerry Zukus, inside the Hotel Rwanda takes his readers on a journey inside the walls of the famous hotel, and also provides an interesting insight for those who know the Genocide only through the film , Hotel Rwanda.

Kayihura told The New Times that is positive his book offers a critical deconstruction of Rusesabagina highly acclaimed book and film adaptation.

"Because the film Hotel Rwanda, Rusesabagina real life has been compared to Oskar Schindler, but without the knowledge of public opinion, Hotel refugees do not endorse Rusesabagina's version of events," Kayihura said.

Life and events

Having destroyed their identification to expose the irrefutable label "Tutsi" Kayihura was sure that his order would somehow having nothing to identify when the genocide erupted.

As the search for "cockroaches" intensified, Kayihura found living one day at a time, and if it were not for a couple of his friends Hutus, would not be around to tell their story.

"Radio stations transmitting that there were" cockroaches "hidden in the Hotel des Mille Collines. I tried to convince a friend to accompany me in the hotel. Naturally, I was reluctant, but finally agreed, the two take off together walk. we knew that if we reached a roadblock, you will most likely be killed, "Kayihura said.

His friend, Pascal Hitimana, a Hutu, only flashes identification in armed militiamen with machetes manning barricades and both happen. One, two, three roadblocks ... until they did inside the hotel of a Thousand Hills.

"Upon entering the hotel on April 11, 1994, the first person I saw was a friend. I could not believe I was still alive. He brought me to his room on the third floor. I had no money, but he assured me that even could go to the hotel restaurant and get food, "Kayihura said.

The hotel manager was a European species, according to Kayihura, who told his staff not to accuse anyone because it was a time of national crisis and normal activities, such as banking and shopping had stopped.

However, as fate would have it, the European manager evacuated the hotel and soon after, on April 16, Paul Rusesabagina joined the hotel from the nearby Hotel des Diplomates, where he had been employed.

"Hotel des diplomats had hosted military senior leaders who were carrying out genocide. It was where the declaration of Genocide pronounced. On April 15, the genodical government was forced to leave the capital, because the EPR were shelling that hotel, dislodging his host Paul Rusesabagina, as well, "he said.

"Once in the hotel Milles Collines, the first meeting Rusesabagina had with the staff to ensure that all refugees paid before the food was served, and pay for their rooms as well. This, despite the fact most of them had no money. "

More horrors soon appeared under the reign of Rusesabagina.

Kayihura reports that the first communication Rusesabagina did with the UN soldiers was a written request to "eliminate the Tutsi refugees from the hotel."

For asylum seekers hotel, it became clear that management had changed for the worse, it became clearer when a cashier was placed in the restaurant to make sure no one is a free meal.

".. Under Rusesabagina, only those who had money could go to the hotel restaurant and get food Suddenly we feel despair and helplessness Shortly afterwards, Rusesabagina also began charging for rooms, if not paid put out of his room," Kayihura recalled .

"We were using the hotel phones to call international organizations to the rescue, but soon the lines were disconnected and only the phone in the office of Rusesabagina was working."

Later, refugees were left without water and began drinking water from the pool until it was drained.

Once too often, the masterminds of the genocide also visited the hotel, usually spend their afternoons laughing and drinking with the hotel manager, who was his friend.

When the Rwandan Patriotic Army (RPA) took control of the Kanombe military camp, it was a big blow to the genocidal government.

Eight hundred soldiers and their families were delivered to the Assistance Mission for Rwanda UN General Romeo Dallaire commander, which he delivered to the Red Cross from which ended up under the EPR as prisoners of war.

POWs were later used for the exchange of Tutsi hostages inside the hotel of a Thousand Hills. Kayihura and more than 100 asylum seekers in the hotel walked to safety.

"In a meeting at the Hotel des diplomats, UN soldiers, militia and the then government they decided that refugees in the hotel Milles Collines would be exchanged by government soldiers held in the RPA. That's the reason laying saved. None of this is captured in the film I've ever seen, "says Kayihura.

"On the day of the evacuation, a delegation of UN military peacekeeping Rwanda and were there with three trucks. Before reaching a truck, Rusesabagina checked to make sure no any towels hotel took".

acclaimed book

Inside the Hotel Rwanda has garnered positive reviews reviews and famous characters, including General Dallaire.

"This book provides a window into the experience of real life of those who hid in the Hotel des Mille Collines during the 100 days of genocide. For those who have learned from this story only through the film Hotel Rwanda, Edouard Kayihura story is a prime opportunity to bring reality to the staging of Hollywood "said General Dallaire.

notable contributors include Stephen Kinzer, award-winning foreign correspondent and author of A Thousand Hills: Rwanda's rebirth and the man I dreamed, Bernard Makuza, vice president of the Senate, and Stephen D. Smith, UNESCO Chair in Education Genocide.

Saturday 9 July 2016

GONE GIRL STORY


According to Anthony Lane are concerned with the "twenty of the people" who have not read, Juliane volcano "Girl Gone." I am one of them. When the press releases, let us leave the lake I saw a sad his house, those two years, I felt I was free. At the same time "Gone Girl" of the experience they are seen to "the beginning of the cultural life is uncertain," it is said, you may be able to read the book, nor to see the movie, I will not be able to embrace them both, that ll the brain, in the same place, and the other obscure. Generally you want to try. His laws, in the positive principle of my choice be pleased with all the glory of his own lust, Fincher, to make use of the intellectual.

The Book of "Gone with the girl", I also have heard, a new crime: A witty thriller absorbed into the film, which in the midst of, which is a big turn upends. (Spoiler alert. In this regard, I have seen below, in the mind of) his book On the virtues, as is said, that for its realization. For indeed it is the book of their writings, but full of texture, figure, both of the mind of the courts. The book of the same; the voices, and is a discerner of the thoughts and actions Nick Amy as if they could be a real people.

It is not so, however, David Fincher "Gone Girl". Thomas Vulcan I have written as it is written, it is a crime because it is not in the persuasive-range damage. And he passed over the skin just as mankind is a thin line between fiction fiction; opinion is false, as the "Fight Club" -a more fun than the thing itself, and form part of the same occupied. Encrypted adjustment is superficial, and the violence of his manners and his stylized. "Mother of God" by Ted Gioia is that sharpness is called the "postmodern" allows us to luxuriate in the mystery of the "General be comforted," the mystery of God, it feels like you're built cities in the order of resolution, and enjoying the "fun, and a hovering is he that watcheth in vain that they themselves are to fall. "

As the accounts of the use of a number of heroes and villains in the "Gone Girl" Fincher, but stories. Tranquilizers we hope for, my kinsmen, and to overcome (or not). In fact, this is base because he is conscious, it is not of the records can not be taken seriously. Richard Brody has written themselves as a College the theater, ugly characters, and the more simple in order to indicate that the "The energy underlying mythic." But "mother of God" anti-be read. Suspendisse ut (Rosamund Pike), he says, laying her husband Nick (Ben Affleck), "that they are:" Do not believe it is supposed to have. If you move the story is the story of the perfect union of venennm then there arises the question for ever "war sex. "There is a story to sing well, we can think about the marriage?

If this sounds familiar, because they are in the way, "Gone Girl" Fincher returns to the buildings of the "Fight Club", which is to replace the flock of the Cimbri and the disenchanted married couple Tacitus Durden. On both sides of the story, the story Only rebel not ye against the idea of ​​perfection, knowing not to be borne, and replacing with an alternative to the destruction of one does from freedom ,, she transcends it. "Advertising to drive the car is with us, and the apparel, and the dung of jobs we hate so we can buy a work, do not need to," he said of Tacitus Durden. "We have seen with thee, and believe that every day he rose again sem elit all the gods, and rock stars we wish we were rich." Durden is of the male from the flattery of the answer to contemporary and embrace the disillusionment, the idea of ​​the violent, the authentic, and, as "real" were, and that turned out to be the danger of the appearance of alternative. In the "Girls Gone", which at the same time as a couple I have not the story of the male sex, because it is heavy. But the solution is: "We want to battle, before the sword," says massage.

"Mother of God" in the sense of the "Fight Club" duplicates. Explore the positive and negative aspects of the story of a man-child, Fincher only to one person, and man is a person "disassociated" (Anonymous, I am Tyler Durden from the other, we wish to bring the first of Edward Norton, Brad Pitt, mILQUETOAST). "Mother of God" requires two bifurcated, whose behavior of the sacrifice of challenging them to flight. The story is complex domestic society is inappropriate mythos than manly. Already in 1999, with "Fight Club" went up some ingenious idea of ​​male disenchantment experienced discrimination. (This distinction is pressed, if you please, he has disappeared.) Was full of truly remains, however, the two at the same time to live. And while the idea of ​​the imagination, does not consist in the War of the culture of the West or the perfect partner (wife, and especially of the perfect), and lives.

"Mother of God" is fascinating in that it is what it is, there is a living, who have a part to the disturbance, our suspicion that he himself, in a sense, the fundamental, it is necessary that the victimization. And "Fight Club" showing him the two were inseparable, they were set, they brought to the imagination, "Gone Girl" can be separated from the proposal to raise the marriage victimhood. In real life, is a suspicion of a huge, sometimes is, and sometimes it is not. The more we are aware of the prevalence of domestic violence, we will stay at The widespread awareness of the bond of evil and of the financial administration. Everyone can see that we do not understand, that there are marriages also covers a lot of. At the same time, increased the power of the masculine and the feminine, less suitable to the gifts of fortune concepts such as the freedom of the king's life. Nick women's magazines torture of men and women, and we have offered us the most attractive and the most stunning urban course alone freedom and plenty of free time for exercise. To be in the end it is in potency with respect to the yoke. And power relations, it is always winners and losers.

"Mother of God" It is good, that which is most hollows or in the statutes on this subject, from our point of view, fear of married life, by setting forth the unwise. In life, as in the movie tabloid media does not know how to describe the grim houses, each a perfect match crime scene wherein the cruelty of infidelity and impiety. "Mother of God" -spoiler Watch ye, and the veil that is to these anxieties the tabloid -Pulle Victorian metus Sed congue. Amy is kidnapped by the Desi Collings, when (Carl Orff Patrick), and is rich ex-boyfriend, the house, and shutting him up in the pit, so that looks like from the castle, which was once the prison of the body of women, from the Gothic style. Suspendisse that a classic manipulative when it is seen in the number of a woman, made as though he is an evil man, Nick was an unfortunate and catcheth any hatred. This fable fantasy, archetypical general, the film suggests, that they should not be of much benefit to our suspicions, and from our life, that is to say out of this life, for example, the balance between work and life. "Mary the mother of Mary," Fincher the best scenes, in all the way, the way, that was afraid for a possession, showing the appearance of a beautiful, bloody, sensational.

The reason for the first rule of Fight Club is do not talk about Fight Club. For the hardships of his life, secrets of the heart we had imagined. When I have leisure in the dark, the light of his absurdity there is in them. And indeed that it is a shame: it is clear that in some way are rooted in narcissism. Were seized in their beds, to the slaughter, like a man deprived by improper use or does not allow the Gothic, but also a special, or her husband, the heroine. That's why we were held captive, and partly to the slaughter, and what false, the worship of the Tablet cable in the form of a message, should provide the victims with us in a special manner, famed for his holiness. "Holy one has perished" it is said, what is genuine, if it can not be done without grace, he said, enabled social solidarity or the sacrifice of infected politicized "worship." But in regard to this cave, "worship" the suspicions of our marriage. Generally speaking, about the injustice of our part about the obligations of married life, unworthy of our vicious without any fascination with Gothic ,, the violent victimization. But in "Maria" connected these two mindsets imagination, perhaps the same. Gothic, and with fear mingled with the counsel of this kind.

"Gone Girl" is a fantasy that is perfect, and takes place in the world, not a thing. You need to wonder how the Games and went forth out of this life I have closely connected. And you can not miss that for the most part "Gone Girl" is a farce. There is no crime to terror, and with the house of Dunne. Amy and Nick to harm themselves, and not to men; Nick adventure with attractive student Ratajkowski Mark, and "thick lines" Music Video-comedy, because you have played is. For the creation of the heavens, from on high is a common suspicion about the "crimes" the way to the end to be true. "Mother of God" Maybe it's just to play around in doing so, they did not find us in the connections to the imaginary life.


The same question might be asked of the stock of "Fight Club" and the young men think that only the violence of the pain, the mind grows against him? Without a doubt, the greater the movement, but this is not to force is not right. In a case of "Gone Girl" convince concerning the skepticism of our times, is from the marriage, and at last, the rugged, wrong, the life of the community, a delusion! N that interdum great need from the nail to turn a pair of tongs. "Mary the mother of the girl," for it is resonated by reason. He found the creepy part was confused: and the care for our versions have it.

Monday 4 July 2016

 
Antarctica
 
Unknown Ancient History Of Antarctica & It is Lost Civilization Secrets Beneath The Ice..!

There may be a remnant of a very advanced civilization remain in warmer underground caverns of Antarctica?


Why the Nazis launched an expensive expedition to the South Pole in 1938?


The surprising discovery that the British soldiers do when they found the entrance to an ice cave?


Scientists have discovered a lost city inhabited Antarctic under the ice?


Join us on a long journey to Antarctica, a continent full of secrets ...


According to the teachings of conventional science, Antarctica has built over millions of years under layers of ice that are more than a mile thick.


However, modern discoveries and ancient give us several reasons to question this theory.


If Antarctica was covered with ice for millions of years, how American scientists could fish from the bed of the oceans specimens Antarctic show that in recent times the rivers of Antarctica had taken to the sea alluvial products of a ¿ice-free area?


Officially, Antarctica was first discovered in 1820. At that time, the whole continent was covered in ice.


However, thousands of years old maps show an unknown ancient civilization did visit an Antarctic ice long before ...


Cartographers have long been puzzled by the amazing Admiral Piri Reis map. It was made in Constantinople in 1513 AD and discovered in 1929.


The map shows what appears to Antarctica without ice, a condition that has not occurred for thousands of years!


Piri Reis can not be credited for the original mapping of the map. He could not have obtained the necessary information from contemporary explorers because at the time, no one knew of the existence of Antarctica.


According to Professor Charles H. Hapgood who investigated the issue of old maps and Antarctica ice free in the near past, the maps used by Admiral Reis, in fact, are based on even older sources.


The maps were drawn by an unknown and highly advanced civilization that uses superior navigation instruments.


Oronteus map Finaeus, Phillipe Buache and Hadji Ahmed also show and free ice of Antarctica. All maps have been created with the help of the source maps very old.


In addition, all mentioned mapmakers recognized that their information came from old maps, probably dates back to around 4000 BC


The idea that an Antarctic ice was inhabited by an unknown advanced civilization only 6,000 years ago, has fascinated many people; one of them was Adolf Hitler.


Hitler and the Nazis strong suspicions that Antarctica was once home to a lost civilization of Atlantis.


In 1938, Hitler launched an expensive expedition to the South Pole. At the same time, Germany was also held with full military preparations


for the launch of the Second World War, Hitler surprisingly find it necessary to explore and claim a half cold frozen continent worldwide without any apparent military significance.


What were the reasons for Hitler? Why it was so important to him Antarctica?


According to the file somewhat controversial Omega: "From 1938, the Nazis began sending numerous exploratory missions to the Queen Maud region of Antarctica".


It is said that a steady stream of expeditions were sent from (at the time) of white supremacy in South Africa.


More than 230,000 square miles of the frozen continent are assigned from the air, and the Germans discovered vast regions that were surprisingly free of ice and warm water lakes and cave entrances. "


According to reports, a large ice cave inside the glacier is 30 miles extend a large lake deep geothermal hot water below.


Several scientific teams moved to the area, including hunters, hunters, collectors and zoologists, botanists, agronomists, plant specialists, mycologists, Parasitologists, marine biologists, ornithologists, and many others. "


As soon as the Nazis came to Antarctica, which fell hundreds of banners with swastika-adorned all Queen Maud Land to establish its claim over the area.


Queen Maud Land is part of what was called Neuschwabenland (New Swabia Earth) before.


It was a name given by the Germans under Captain Ritscher, who claimed the region of the Nazis blow up two Dornier Wal (whale) seaplanes from the research vessel Schwabenland title. Some old atlas still bear the name in parentheses.


According to Roberts, the British soldiers discovered Antarctic secret base Maudheim entry in late 1945.


The soldiers "followed the tunnel for miles, and finally came to a huge underground cavern that was abnormally hot. Some scientists believed that geothermal heated.


In a huge cavern were underground lakes. However, the mystery deepened, as the cavern was lit artificially.


The cavern proved so extensive that they had to be separated, and that was when the real discoveries were made.


The Nazis had built a large base in the cave and had even built docks for submarines, and one was allegedly identified.


Still, the deeper they traveled, the strangest visions were met with.


The survivor reported that hangars for strange planes and excavations galore had been documented ".


Neuschwabenland was treated as part of the Third Reich. In 1942, he became a site of intense scientific and military secret research base under the name 211.


The United States launched Operation Highjump after learning of British intelligence on a secret underground base in Antarctica.


Admiral Richard Byrd, a legendary polar researcher was in charge of the expedition, which was funded entirely by the US Navy ..


The operation force consisted USS Casablanca, an icebreaker twelve warships, a submarine, twenty aircraft and helicopters and almost 5,000 soldiers.


In a press release issued on November 2, 1946, Admiral Byrd said: "The purpose of the operation are primarily of a military nature, which is the training of naval personnel and test ships, aircraft and equipment in conditions cold zone. "


Shortly before the departure of the expedition, the Secretary of the Navy, James Forrestal gave final instructions Admiral Byrd. Byrd did not reveal any details. Officially, the aim of the expedition was to find "coal deposits and other valuable resources," a goal that contradicts earlier in the press release of Byrd.


The White House said Operation Highjump "most polar expedition in history."


Operation Highjump was planned by and under the command of war hero Admiral Chester Nimitz. This strongly suggests that the real purpose of the mission was to destroy the Nazi Antarctic base.


Highjump was scheduled to be a six-month mission, but mysteriously aborted after only three months.


What did he mean Admiral Byrd when he warned of a "threat of the poles"?


Is Admiral Byrd and his team are hostile UFOs near the South Pole? These UFOs were piloted by nonhumans or were part of the program saucer secret Nazi? Do members of the Highjump expedition discovers an entry into the Earth? It was maybe the reason why


Admiral Byrd warned of a threat of the goalposts and that the operation was aborted unexpectedly?


The most intriguing question of all remains unresolved: Is there an ancient lost city hidden under the ice inhabited ...?

Saturday 2 July 2016

No Trespassing (Story)


Peggy and her boyfriend Tommy were driving down a lonely stretch of highway at dusk when a thunderstorm came crashing down on them. Tommy slowed the car and they crept their way past a formidable abandoned house. Plastered all over the fences and trees were no trespassing signs. 

A mile past the house, the car hydroplaned. Peggy screamed as the car slid off the road, plunging down into a gully. The car slammed into a large boulder, throwing Peggy violently into the door, before it came to a rest under a pecan tree. Her head banged against the window, and a stabbing pain shot through her shoulder and arm. 

Tommy turned to her. “Are you all right? You’re bleeding!” 
“Arm, shoulder. Feel bad,” Peggy managed to gasp.

Tommy glanced cautiously at her right arm. “I think your arm is broken,” he said, and he tore a strip off his shirt and pressed it to the cut on her head. “I’m going to call for help,” he said when it became obvious that the bleeding was not going to stop right away. But neither of them had their cell phones.

“That house we just passed will have a phone I can use.” Tommy said. 
Peggy’s eyes popped wide open at this statement. Despite her pain, she remembered the creepy abandoned house. “Stay here. A . . . car . . . will come,” 

“I can’t stay, Peggy,” Tommy said, “It could take hours for another car to come, and you‘re losing too much blood.” He tore another strip of his shirt and placed it gently on the cut on her head. Then he went out and retrieved a couple of blankets from the trunk to cover her with. “I’ll be back as soon as I can.” He raced out into the storm, shutting the dented car door behind him. 

Peggy drifted in a kind of daze. Something at the back of her mind was making her uneasy. She slid down on to the floor and put her head on the seat, completely covering herself with the blankets, head and all. Feeling safer, she allowed the weariness caused by the wounds to take over and fell asleep.

Peggy wasn’t sure what woke her. Had a beam of light shown briefly through the blanket? Did she hear someone curse outside? She strained eyes and ears, but heard nothing save the soft thudding of the rain, and no light shown through the blanket now. If Tommy had arrived with the rescue squad, there surely would be noise and light and many voices. But she heard nothing save the swish of the rain and an occasional thumping noise which she put down to the rubbing of the branches of the pecan tree in the wind. The sound should have been comforting, but it was not. Goosebumps crawled across her arms – even the broken one -- and she almost ceased breathing for some time as some deep part of her inner mind instructed her to freeze and not make a sound. 

She did not know how long fear kept her immobile. But suddenly the raw terror ceased, replaced by cold shivers of apprehension and a sick coil in her stomach that had nothing to do with her injuries. Something terrible had happened, she thought wearily, fear adding yet more fatigue to her already wounded body. Then she scolded herself for a ninny. It was just her sore head making her imagine things. Somewhat comforted by this thought, she dozed again, only vaguely aware of a new sound that had not been there before; a soft thud-thud sound as of something gently tapping the roof. Thud-thud. Pattering of the rain. Thud-thud. Silence. Sometimes she would almost waken and listen to it in a puzzled manner. Thud-thud. Patter of rain. Thud-thud. Had a branch dislodged from the tree? 

Peggy wasn’t sure how long she’d been unconscious when she was awakened by a bright light blazing through the window of the car and the sound of male voices exclaiming in horror. A door was wrenched open, and someone crawled inside. She lifted her head and looked up at a young state policeman.

“Miss, are you all right?” he asked and then turned over his shoulder to call for help. Peggy told the officers her story and begged them to look for Tommy. They deftly avoided answering her and instead called the paramedics. 

As the paramedics carried her carefully up the slope of the incline, Peggy looked back at the car—and saw a grotesque figure hanging from a branch of the pecan tree. For a moment, her brain couldn’t decipher what she was seeing in the bright lights of the police car parked at the side of the road. Then she heard a thud-thud sound as the foot of the figure scraped the top of the totaled car, and she started screaming over and over in horror. One of the police officers hastened to block her view and a paramedic fumbled for some Valium to give her as her mind finally registered what she had seen. Tommy’s mangled, dead body was hanging from the pecan tree just above the car, and nailed to the center of his chest was a No Trespassing sign.

Thursday 16 June 2016

American Beauty

Given that Lester Burnham said in the opening shot of American Beauty was going to die, the ending was, in a way, already in poor condition. However, it is much more than the stock selling climax of the movie, images and music come together to form a truly beautiful and moving culmination of the various arcs of characters, without the need for an explicit dialogue or torrents of exposure .


The late Roger Ebert once said that this film:
All these emotional threads meet during a dark and stormy night, when a series of misunderstandings so strange they belong in a sitcom. And in the end, somehow, improbably, the film snatches victory from the jaws of defeat by Lester, his hero. Not the kind of victory would result in a feel-good movie, but the kind where you try something important, if only to himself.

This is perhaps the revealing feature of the image; "Beauty" American Beauty. The film is heavy in its final act, when the most part had been almost a cheerful and comic to the trials and tribulations of suburban America look. But the ease and mastery of such emotional significance is - not only a credit to the actors and director (Sam Mendes) - the mark of a script sharpness and a screenwriter really a sign of his office was given. Taking its dialogue and wonderful story out of the equation gives such statement, as history fully capable of telling the story through images alone.

Perhaps the first thing to focus first is the use of color and motif. Throughout the entire film, rose, American Beauty, was often a symbol of lust and desire to Lester and Angela. In his fantasies, the girl is wrapped in roses, covering her body, betraying the fact that these are, in fact, his passionate reflections rather than reality. When Lester however, kills the viewer can detect a bouquet of roses set on the counter beside his body. The image is striking; because the flower had been so associated with sexuality and infatuation seems a little odd to reappear in death.

What does this suggest? What does that mean? Well, it could be any of a number of things. Remember that this is not the first time the public sees these flowers are a recurring motif throughout fact. Showing them again here, in a non-sexual (and indeed, in real life) scenario you could say that symbolize the contributing factor why Lester had to be killed. It was his wish. His dissatisfaction with a worldly existence. His desire to ignore the responsibilities of a materialistic way of life, and the way they approached the job of weathering the storm there was a midlife crisis. These are the feelings and emotions of American Beauty it represents and its presence in this scene solidify the theory that these are the things that led to his untimely death Lester.

It's almost like Lester's lust for Angela lit the fuse throughout the downward spiral of events. If he had not obsessed with her, he had not started working out. If I had not started working out, Colonel Fitts would not have seen him working out naked. If Colonel Fitts had not seen him, I would not have thought that his son, Ricky, was sleeping with him. Then I would not have come out as gay and tried to kiss Lester; and if he had not, he would not have been driven to kill him. It was beauty killed the beast.

However, do not forget the meaning of the red color represents in the film - danger. Why is this so? It is because it is the color of blood? writer Jim Emerson draws attention to a quote from Jean-Luc Godard is no blood is red, "referring to his 1965 film Pierrot le fou. Maybe that's why the color works so well in that sense, it is a symbol of blood, and therefore, a subconscious indicator death and danger.

That certainly is the case of the closing sequence in American Beauty. Not only the color of the flowers, indicate the imminent demise of Lester Burnham, but yes, but hold in a number of other shots to create suspense and string along the audience subconsciously asked what character killed the protagonist. Every minor character in the aftermath of the death of Lester is using or near anything that is red. A more detailed analysis, you might even suggest that the amount of red shown in the United States each shot along strings as the identity of the murderer gradually revealed.

For example, Angela puts on red lipstick in the bathroom when the Ball. Ricky and Jane are lying on the bed sheets red. Carolyn wears a red dress - and holding a gun - which leads us to believe that he can be her. Finally, we see Colonel Fitts blood cake with the murder weapon. The color becomes more and more prominent as to the murderer inches, which could be read as growing advice as to the likelihood that these characters are the executioner (Angela at least, Colonel Fitts most).

Color and supports however, are not the only things that really progress the story and most importantly, the message. One has to think about camera angles, camera work and editing, and the ability to work together. When the gun is pressed Lester's head, the camera moves away from the gun and beyond the American beauties before the shot was fired. This will not only add to the ambiguity of the scene, but also sets the guesswork film that follows.

In a move similar camera, monitoring camera side as each character is shot here, passing by at that fleeting moment. Not only this chronicle of his reaction to the sound, which helps to clear his name of any wrongdoing. However, it also sets the flashback sequence. As the camera moves across the sky, moving through the cast of characters, their reactions and eventually moves to the identity of the murderer. This is where the issue really helps tell the viewer what is happening. Lester past scenes are spliced ​​with the current chain of events, indicated by a change in color palette to black and white. This gives an idea of ​​what it feels like Lester as his life flashes before his eyes. He is looking back on his best memories in his last moments.

However, this may say more? These minute windows in a past that have never seen or been part of so far. The only thing we have known throughout the film is the continuing dissatisfaction with the materialistic tendencies Lester of America nineties. This is what meant Ebert in his review of the film. As Lester dies, snatching the lives of those few things that make you the happiest - or most of the content. It was never about the sofa, or ass-kissing by him ( "everything is just matter," jokes earlier in the film), no, Lester it was redefining itself as something that matters, something visible but with a feeling so intangible. Like the plastic bag floating in the wind on the final shot, which refers to the only existing, were carried out in this thing called life - and he was there to enjoy the ride. Think of it as a club of the fight of the middle class.

Alan Ball and Sam Mendes had something really important to say with American Beauty - it's just amazing that they were able to do with nothing but such beautiful images.

Wednesday 15 June 2016

Women in Ancient Egyptian Society



In the society of ancient Egypt, women were treated differently than women of other ancient societies manner. ancient Egyptian society gave women the greatest opportunities of Mediterranean societies in relation to their economic, legal and social positions. They enjoy the same legal, economic and social rights Egyptian men. Although the main source evidence is limited, it is still possible to use evidence found in temples, tombs monuments, works of art and surviving texts to establish the role of women in Egyptian society.

ECONOMIC RIGHTS OF EGYPTIAN WOMEN
Egyptian women enjoyed the same economic rights as men and therefore were able to take economic decisions on their own. A woman in ancient Egypt was able to own property in their own right and, if married, could own property jointly with her husband. The property acquired a woman on her own was hers to dispose of what he wanted, and that have been acquired during the marriage became "joint property". If the husband should have any joint property, which was legally obligated to reward his wife with the same value.The property owned a woman can own, manage and sell slaves included, livestock, land, property and servers. Women obtained this property by using property obtained employment through loans or as gifts from inheritances.
Like other ancient civilizations, there were a number of jobs available for Egyptian; However, these tasks he saw occupy various jobs according to their social class. Women in the lower classes not only worked inside the house, attending to household chores and child care, but also had to work out tending cattle and work in the field, especially during harvest. Occupations as skilled weavers, mourners, musicians, curators, composers, singers, dancers, brewers, bakers and were also available for women.There were professional positions available for women with studios such as priestesses, managers or supervisors. Educated and wealthy women in some cases became judges, supervisors, regulators, physicians, and even prime ministers because of their ability to read and write. If a woman performs the same work as a man, who received the same rations and goods as a man received for this work, and therefore their salaries made a valuable contribution to the wealth of the family.

LEGAL STATUS
The staff of women was also reflected in women being treated like men in the legal system. Women could act as plaintiffs, defendants and witnesses in court without having to go through a male representative as was usual for women in other societies practice. Women had the right to sue and may also enter into contracts including legal agreements regarding marriage, divorce, property and employment. A woman was also responsible and accountable for any transactions or agreements entered into your account. These economic and legal rights of equality were not limited to a social class and were available at all levels of Egyptian society.

A particular contract Egyptian women entered a contract was self-enslavement. Women entered into these contracts for different reasons, to pay a creditor or to ensure financial security and provisions, and sometimes a woman could include their children in the implementation of this provision. One of these contracts, in which a woman joins the temple Saknebtynis says, "I am your servant, along with my children and my children's children. I will not be free in your precinct forever and ever. You me it will protect; Are you going to keep safe, to guard me you I will prevent sound;. you will protect me from all demons, and pay them what 1¼ Kita copper until the end of 99 years. " An Egyptian woman was able to negotiate and satisfied with the terms of a contract of self-enslavement before entering into this agreement freely.

MARRIAGE
There is no evidence of marriage ceremonies, but contracts survive by which man and woman made a marriage agreement. While Egyptian women could gain some wealth, they entered CONTRACS marriage with her husband to make sure that the father of her children would provide for them and their children's future material. These treated only with economic concerns contracts and documented how the husband would be responsible for feed and clothe his wife and children and the right of children to inherit his fortune. Because this was documented as an annual responsibility of husbands, who were known as "annuity contracts" and entered into directly husband with his wife. If the marriage should end, she was entitled to her dowry and even a third of the community property accumulated during the marriage and any divorce settlement written in the marriage contract. These contracts protected economic and legal rights of women.

INHERITANCE
An Egyptian woman had the same rights as a man and this enabled him to inherit property on the same basis as a man. A woman could inherit property from her husband and family, and if her husband pre-deceased, who inherited a third of the commons. If her husband wanted more or even all of their wealth that could produce a "paper house" imyt-PR, which was a legal document for the donation of the property (Tyldesley, ND) they are inherited. A husband could also legally adopt his wife as a "child" if you do not want to give any of his property to his brothers, and so his wife could inherit all his wealth if there are no children or part of two thirds if there were children.

Because of their legal rights, an Egyptian woman could act on their own to do his will. You could also make a will and leave his property, which had been obtained independently of her husband, her children. A will written by a noblewoman Naunakte states, "I am a free woman of Egypt have raised eight children, and have provided them with everything right for your situation in life." (Bingham, 2007: 9). He could make a will leaving her husband's property to their children and relatives and, if he wanted, he could disinherit their children, but only of the goods brought to marriage and the third part of the joint property.

WOMEN'S ROLE IN EGYPTIAN SOCIETY
Societal expectations on women in ancient Egypt include his roles as wife and mother, his public conduct, and his clothes and appearance. While a woman was legally responsible for their own actions in ancient Egyptian society, which was often seen as dependent on her husband, who is expected to take good care of it as indicated in the literary text "instructions Vizier Ptahhotep "" when thrive and found his house and loves his wife with ardor, filled his belly, clothe her back; ointment relieves your body Gladden her heart all the time living; it is a fertile field for their Lord "(. Johnson, 2002). Egyptian society believes that a happy and contented family life should be the norm and that this could be achieved by a husband and a loving wife and caring for each other, in accordance with the principle of Maat, universal harmony.

The work of managing the house was the woman. She cared about children, prepared, clean food, and also engaged in the business of finding food for the family did not grow and barter of surplus food they had grown. In rich and middle-class households, officials did much of the work around the house, while women, especially the rich, women were light. As lovers of family, women of ancient Egypt, regardless of class, appeared to be also responsible for the happiness of the home, both in life and death. In a letter found in a tomb, a widower believes his misfortune was the result of his wife punish him from beyond the grave and he asks her to believe that he is innocent of any wrongdoing, "What bad thing have I done to thee that step should come to this evil ... "(Nardo). In Egyptian society importance of women as lady of the house, it was such that the Egyptians believed they could punish her husband in the afterlife for any offense he had hidden from her.

Egyptian women place a high value on personal appearance, grooming and hygiene. His condition is defined by their dress, with upper-class women who wear clothes, elaborate makeup and jewelry to distinguish themselves from the lower classes who dressed simply. elaborate headdresses, in particular, meant the social position of women. Education also distinguishes women with upper-class women the ability to read and write and middle class women and professional men not so much, while poor women are illiterate.

Through the inscriptions on the walls and monuments, wall paintings, tomb paintings, statues, sculptures, documents, and papyrus, Egyptians recorded how they treated women in ancient Egypt. Inscriptions and wall paintings depicting women and men attending banquets together and hunting and fishing together are evidence of them enjoying a social life together. Tombs decorated with paintings of women dead elaborately dressed in the latest fashion and containing perfumes, cosmetics, toiletries and other life were the expressions of affection of men for their wives. Egyptian women were free to go alone in public, either working in the fields, in the workshops of roots, or travel and were not confined to the house. In an inscription, Ramses III says, "I have activated the wife of Egypt to go their own way, their travel is spreading where he wanted, without anyone assaulting her on the way" (Picone, North Dakota)

EQUALITY
Egyptians believed in equality between men and women and, when the historian Herodotus visited ancient Egypt, was so surprised by this equality, which was so different from other ancient societies, who wrote of the Egyptians: "They have reversed the ordinary practices of humanity "(Fletcher, 2011). survivors accounts and contracts documented this equality between men and women indicate that Egyptian women received the same rations as men for performing the same job. Isis Papyrus showed humanity give gifts to give so much power and honor of women as men did. Other papyrus detail how a woman was able to acquire the independent wealth of her husband. An annuity contract that is in one of Ptolemy "file family" Siut details how a woman, when a couple divorced, received their fair share of the assets of the couple. These documents indicate how Egyptian men treated women as equals.

Egyptian women were not subordinate to men in marriage or divorce. Unlike other ancient societies, Egyptian women were free to choose men who were married and could also divorce their husbands. Marriage was very important to the Egyptians, love and affection between husband and wife was important, and for all kinds of Egyptians, marriage was the norm.

Artistic representations show men and women as equal happy. Sculptures and murals and statues paintings express all obvious affection between Egyptian men and women. documentaries and literary men instructed on how to treat their wives, giving them love and protection texts. Art and historical documents found in the graves shows how women have economic and men the same legal rights.

Temples, inscriptions, murals and statues depicting powerful female deities paintings indicate a society that values ​​men and women equally and that women were not subordinate to men in ancient Egypt. female goddesses such as Maat giving balance and end of all things, Hathor the mother goddess, the goddess of love and healing, and Isis that as Hathor, had protective powers, were some of the female deities honored alike with male deities. These female deities were as important as the male gods in everyday life as was the Egyptian goddess Bastet, one of the most popular of all Egyptian gods, who presided over the health and safety of women, childbirth and home. Men and women in ancient Egypt Bastet honored equally and this is significant to illustrate the high esteem in which they held women.

Monday 13 June 2016

Stanford University School of Medicine

Stanford University School of Medicine is the restorative school of Stanford University and is situated in Stanford, California. It is the successor to the Medical Department of the University of the Pacific, established in San Francisco in 1858 and later named Cooper Medical College; the medicinal school was obtained by Stanford in 1908. Because of this drop, it positions as the most established medicinal school in the Western United States. The therapeutic school moved to the Stanford grounds close Palo Alto, California in 1959.

The School of Medicine, alongside Stanford Health Care and Lucile Packard Children's Hospital, is a piece of Stanford Medicine. It is an exploration serious foundation that stresses medicinal development, novel techniques, disclosures, and intercessions in its coordinated educational programs

History

In 1855, Illinois doctor Elias Samuel Cooper moved to San Francisco in the wake of the California Gold Rush. In collaboration with the University of the Pacific (otherwise called California Wesleyan College), Cooper built up the Medical Department of the University of the Pacific, the main therapeutic school on the West Coast, in 1858, on Mission Street almost third Street in San Francisco. The school experienced numerous progressions until Cooper's nephew, Levi Cooper Lane, built up another grounds at the convergence of Webster and Sacramento Streets in 1882; around then, the school was dedicated Cooper Medical College. Path additionally fabricated a doctor's facility and a nursing school (precursor of the Stanford School of Nursing) and made procurement for the production of Lane Medical Library.

In 1908, Cooper Medical College was deeded to Stanford University as a blessing. It turned into Stanford's therapeutic foundation, at first called the Stanford Medical Department and later the Stanford University School of Medicine. The school extended and developed a notoriety for incredibleness and giving front line clinical consideration. In the 1950s, the Stanford Board of Trustees chose to move the school to the Stanford fundamental grounds close Palo Alto. The move was finished in 1959.

In the 1980s the Medical Center dispatched a noteworthy development program. Another healing facility was included 1989 with 20 new working rooms, best in class serious consideration and inpatient units, and other mechanical increments. The Beckman Center for Molecular and Genetic Medicine opened in May 1989 as an interdisciplinary focus concentrating on the atomic and hereditary premise of infection. The Lucile Packard Children's Hospital was finished in 1991, adding significantly more differences to Stanford Medicine. The Clark Center, which opened its entryways in 2003, houses interdisciplinary exploration attempts through the college's Bio-X program and serves to strengthen Stanford's dedication to giving the most ideal patient consideration through development. The center of the project is to join bioengineering, concoction designing, material science, and enterprise with restorative examination and clinical training to pioneer the eventual fate of drug through interpreting revelations.

In the early years of the 21st century the School of Medicine experienced fast development to encourage extend instructing and clinical open doors. The Li Ka Shing Center for Learning and Knowledge opened in 2010; it serves as the door to the School of Medicine and additionally combining so as to give another model of therapeutic instruction biomedical exploration with clinical training and data innovation. The Lorry I. Lokey Stem Cell Research Building additionally opened in 2010; it is the biggest immature microorganism and regenerative medication office in North America.[4] The Stem Cell Research Building is the first of the arranged Stanford Institutes of Medicine. Notwithstanding investigate offices it houses workplaces for personnel from the Stanford Cancer Center and "inn space" workplaces for going by analysts. Moreover, the Stanford University Medical Center is experiencing a reestablishment and development venture which will reconstruct Stanford Hospital and Clinics and the Emergency Department, modernize and grow Lucile Packard Children's Hospital, redesign the School of Medicine offices to oblige cutting edge innovation, and revamp Hoover Pavilion, the first Palo Alto Hospital, to suit group doctors.

Scholastic projects and understudies 

The School of Medicine's projects incorporate more than 1,250 enlisted understudies, registering in MD, MD/PhD, PhD, and expert's projects, and more than 2,300 postgraduate clinical and exploration students.

Most Stanford medicinal understudies choose to augment their preparation more than five or more years with a specific end goal to seek after additional top to bottom examination. Roughly 19 percent of its MD understudies graduate with a joint MD/PhD degree while at Stanford.

The School of Medicine is as of now in middle of a procedure to change its restorative educational modules. It has turned around the conventional showing strategy for classroom time being saved for addresses and critical thinking activities being finished outside of school as homework; with subsidizing from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, school pioneers are heading up a community oriented on the utilization of the "flipped classroom" way to deal with substance conveyance.

The School of Medicine likewise has a Physician Assistant (PA) program that was included 1971, called the Primary Care Associate Program. It was one of the initially licensed doctor aide programs in California. It is offered in relationship with Foothill College. The system has graduated more than 1,300 doctor aides since its opening. Most graduates satisfy the project's main goal of serving underserved restorative groups.

Rankings and admissions

In the 2015 U.S. News and World Report rankings, Stanford was positioned second in the country for exploration, behind Harvard Medical School. Admissions to Stanford is profoundly aggressive. The acknowledgment rate is the third-most minimal in the nation at 2.4%. In 2014, 7,452 individuals connected, 450 were met.

Stanford is one of a few schools in the states to utilize the numerous smaller than normal meeting framework, created at McMaster University Medical School in Canada, to assess applicants. The MMI framework opens contender to various questioners in a short measure of time and has been appeared to preferable anticipate therapeutic school execution over customary board interviews.

Alongside the School of Humanities and Science, the Stanford School of Medicine additionally runs the Biosciences Ph.D. Program which was positioned first in 2014 among graduate projects in the organic sciences by the US News and World Report. In fortes, as per U.S. News for 2014, Stanford is #1 in hereditary qualities, genomics, and bioinformatics; #1 in organic chemistry, biophysics, and basic science; #1 in neuroscience and neurobiology; #2 in cell science, #2 in microbiology; #4 in immunology and irresistible malady and #4 in sub-atomic science.


Faculty 

The School of Medicine has 1,948 full-time workforce. There have been eight Nobel Prize victors in the course of recent decades, and among its present employees are:[10]


  • 31 individuals from the National Academy of Sciences 
  • 42 individuals from the National Academy of Medicine 
  • 42 individuals from the National Academy of Medicine 
  • 4 MacArthur Foundation "prodigies" 
  • 19 Howard Hughes Medical Institute examiners 
  • 17 NIH Innovator and Young Innovator Awards 


Staff conduct clinical pivots at a few doctor's facility locales. Notwithstanding the Stanford University Medical Center (Stanford Hospital and Clinics) and Lucile Packard Children's Hospital, Stanford has formal affiliations with Kaiser Permanente, Santa Clara Valley Medical Center and the VA Palo Alto Health Care System. Stanford medicinal understudies likewise oversee two free facilities: Arbor Free Clinic in Menlo Park and Pacific Free Clinic in San Jose.