Easter Holidays

On the Saturday before school started there was an Anorthosis –Apoel match in Larnaca but unfortunately I could not go because nobody would take me. Before watching the game on TV I went to my neighbor who has a small well in his garden that is not at all profound. There we played Playstation and on the computer. I later went home to watch the game.
Apoel played terribly, but we managed to finish 1-1 and won the championship. When we tied the game, the Anorthosis fans threw stuff at our goal keeper which was incomprehensible because he did not provoke or do any anything controversial. As he walked away from the goal, I could see him muttering to the referee, but it was incoherent to the rest of us.
After the game finished, the centre of Nicosia was colored orange because everybody was out celebrating, particularly outside the fan club. We were partying before the players came. On their arrival, flares lit the sky, smoke bombs were set off. It was so much fun we used all the superlatives we knew to describe it each other. At 12, I had to go home. I watched a few movies and slept.

Twister Film Critique- Science and English

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Director- Jan de Bont
Starring- Helen Hunt
Bill Paxton
Jami Gertz
Cary Elwes
Philip Seymour Hoffman
Alan Ruck
Zach Grenier
Release date- May 17, 1996
Running time- 113 minutes
Budget: US$92,000,000

TV weatherman Bill Harding is trying to get his tornado-hunter wife, Jo, to sign divorce papers. A series of intense storms is sweeping across Oklahoma. Soon they have joined the team of stormchasers as they attempt to insert a revolutionary measuring device up some verry violent tornados.

Scientist point of view:
Hi, my name is Dr. Howard Bluestein and I am a professor of meteorology at the University of Oklahoma. You might have heard about my work with Dr. Al Bedard and Carl Ramzy on TOTO (TOtable Tornado Observatory), a large, instrumented barrel-shaped device that was suposed to enter the path of a tornado. Our objective was to place TOTO directly in the path of a tornado, where it could, theoretically, record valuable information about the tornado's structure. TOTO was used several times during the 1980s, but unfortunatly, we had repeatedly failed to position it for a direct hit. On April 29, 1985, TOTO was left near the edge of a developing tornado near Ardmore, Oklahoma. However, it was blown over, even though the tornado had relatively weak winds. Many people have told me that “TOTO was the inspiration for an instrument package named Dorothy in the film, Twister.” For this reason I decided to watch the film and critisize it.


Watching the film was a great idea because it showed how people developed our ideas and tried to make it usefull. Dorothy was a remake of our own TOTO. This film showed some reasons why our model did not work. One of two main problems in TOTO that became evident was putting it in the field. Putting TOTO directly in the path of an oncoming tornado required an astronomical amount of luck. The probability of perfect placement was decidedly low. The other problem TOTO presented was the danger it posed. Unloading and setting it up may have taken 30 seconds, a long time when a twister is bearing down on you. Despite TOTO's 400 pounds, a tornado could easily take the device along, transforming TOTO from a tool of science into a flying barrel of death.
The film had only one unrealistic theme to it, when the two observers were flying in the middle of the tornado. There is no way somebody could survive that. In a real F5 tornado there should have been multiple cars and houses in there smashing into them. With all of that, as the expert I am, I only give them a 0.1% of surviving.

My only problem with this film is that they show us the main character angry that they stole his idea without giving him credit, they shouldn’t expect me to be a little ticked of. Depsite that, the film was very correct in many cases eg. The dritfting of the tonado. I would like to congratulate the director for an outstanding film. Almost everything was realistic. WELL DONE!
9/10


This is another video of me with my new invention in order to fight against tornados.

women in islam

The Moslem religion has been seen as controversial because of the way women are treated in many Islamic countries.
Strict rules in many of these countries oblige these women to have their whole body covered in black so that they are not attractive to attract men. In some Moslem countries women cannot even vote and do not have the same rights as men.
The basis for this situation is the Koran is the holy book of the Moslems. In it is the testament of the Prophet Mohamed and sets out the way a good Moslem must behave.
Many women say that what is in the Koran describes how the women were treated during the 7th century and should not apply to the present.
In fact, for the 7th century, the Koran’s treatment of women was actually progressive as it set out their rights in marriage, divorce and protected their property. There were also opportunities for education, even though the life of most women revolved around the house.
A Moslem man was allowed to take four wives but had to treat them all equally. Even so, he was responsible for the family and the woman had to obey him. And though women had the right to property, daughters were allowed half the inheritance compared to their brothers.
And if they went to court, their word also counted for half the weight of that of men.
Time has since changed and so has the status of women, worldwide, including in some Islamic countries.
Some of these have changed the laws to ensure equal rights for women. Several Islamic countries have elected women as leaders and women there have successful careers. Examples include Pakistan, Indonesia and Bangladesh.
There is also an Islamic feminist movement that quotes from the Koran and say that it protects the rights of women. Their efforts have concentrated on educating women in the villages about their rights even though they know that it is difficult because traditions are strong.
But in other Islamic countries the situation is very different. Afghanistan during the rule of the Talaban is one of the worst examples of how badly women can be treated by men who say what they are doing is the law of the Koran.
There young girls were not allowed to go to school. Very few women could work. They could not go outside unless they had a male relative with them. And when they did they had to wear the burqua that covered them completely, with narrow slits for the eyes. Their husbands were allowed to beat them and divorce them for no reason. Any woman found guilty of not being faithful to their husband was stoned to death in public. When the Taleban regime collapsed, the women in Afghanistan were able to return to work and to school. They were even able to compete in sports—things that we take for granted in the west.
Aghanistan may have been an extreme case, but even in Arab countries such as Saudi Arabia women do not have the same rights as men. Although there has been progress, it is slow, perhaps too slow.

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shabanu anticipation guide

1. Is it possible to experience love at first sight?
I disagree with this statement because if you fall in love with someone before you get to know them you will love them for the wrong reason. It is more important that you get to know them and their personality, and not get carried away by first impressions and appearance. Just as we are told not to judge a book by its cover, we must give time to get to know someone and not rely on first impressions only..


2) Two complete strangers stuck on a deserted island could learn to love one another (and yes, stay with one another after being rescued).
I both agree and disagree. I agree because when you are stuck with someone you get to know them. In this case, particularly, as they have to cope in difficult conditions they need to work together and trust each other and if they can survive being just the two of them, then it will easier in a more ordinary situation. On the other hand I disagree because it is possible that returning to normality each will go their separate way and live the life they were used to.


3 It is a good thing to sacrifice your happiness for the desires of others?
I agree but only up to a certain point and provided that someone is not taken advantage of. Parents always make sacrifices for their children because they take pleasure in seeing them happy and want to give them a better life than they had. I would be happy to make a sacrifice for a friend as I think it is part of our friendship to be able to share. But I would be angry and upset if this relationship was not mutual and I was taken advantage of.

4 Women in your society are free citizens.

I agree because women in our society have the right to vote and equal job opportunities. There are many women who have proven that it is possible to be as successful as men. But it is also up to the women to demand what is rightfully theirs and not to sit back and wait for it to be given. For example in some places in the countryside in Cyprus women may not be treated equally, because society is less modern but there has already been great improvement compared to the past.

comparison

I liked the film and the book verry much but I prefered the film a bit.
The film is better because sometimes in the book theres to much action to picture in your head were as in the film its there already. Also in the film there wasn’t as much action, but you could understand the plot a lot easier. The film was also very nice because most of the scenes where almost exacly the same. Also for some reason I concentrate and absorb the information easier when im watching instead of reading.
Although I prefer the book there are a few things that I didn’t really like about it. It missed a lot of scenes like: when Ponyboy gets jumped, when soda is mocking the reporters, when they magicaly transport themsleves from the train to the abandoned church, when they dont show us the place at the court, and most importantly for me when pony has his breakdown after Jonnys death. I think that leaving the scene where ponyboy gets jumped is a bit stupid because it doesn’t introuce us well to the book. Also I think it was important that they put the court scene because the way they showed it on the film it was as if everyone completely forgot about what happened that night at the park. Most importantly they didn’t show ponyboys breakdown. Doing that they made us think that he just easily got over johny’s death, when realy he was verry depressed and sad.
Another bad thing is the fact that it’s not in first person. In the film we can’t hear ponyboys ideas and feelings, where as in the book we know exactly what he is feeling almost all the time.
To sum it up, the film had some bad things to it but I enjoyed it more than the book because its easier to understand.

Podcast!!!

Episode –Manchester United Football FanCast031
Date –September 27, 2008
Time – 28:48
Website – I found it on iTunes. It had a link: http://podcasts.footballfancast.com/manchester_united_fancast/296027/manchester-united-football-fancast-031/

Description of episode by producer:
Arf and Jonni review the week!

Why I chose it
This podcast talks about a match a long time ago, Chelsea-Manchester (first round). The score was 1-1. The commentaters criticised all the players, mostly the Man Utd players. They said that if it wasn’t for Ronaldo then we wouldn’t have a chance. They also talked about our next game with Tottenham.
I chose this podcast for two reasons. One of the reasons is because I needed a recap from our last game with them, and I wanted to remember what happened since we played against them on Sunday. Knowing what happened and listening to the explanation of an expert helped me see our mistakes. Once I had learnt about these mistakes I could see if the team had done anything to change them in order to improve. They had.
Another reason why I picked this podcast is because I love my team and I’m interested to see where we lost points, and why. We lost points we should not have with Chelsea since we played better than they did, but luck was against us.
After listening to this podcast I will probably listen to the other podcasts by footballfancast because it was very interesting and informative.