War is a natural tendency of man.

Although people would say so, I don’t think exactly like that. My point of views regarding war issues are quite simple: we are pretty much nearer of our animal-like past than the opposite.

Evolution is a single-hand path, once you are in it, there’s no come back. Although we’ve started our mankind journey through evolution long ago, we are just in its initial steps. More like our primates cousins, we are very distant from our angelical destiny, the final frontier.

At this point I do agree that our natural tendency as human primate-like is for warfare, as most of wild and primitive animals are. Nevertheless we were not meant to be war-affected; it’s just something that is part of our past history in the evolutionary process, and the evolution can’t stop…so we shouldn’t use it as an excuse to wage wars. Humankind will evolve; it is part of the process, wether you like it or not.

Writing a Summary

Title: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

Author: Joanne Kathleen Rowling

Genre: Fantasy/Adventure

About the Story

Main Character – Who/What: Harry Potter, a young wizard famous for being the only one surviving the Avada Kedrava spell, the killing curse.

2^nd Character – Who/What: Ronald Weasley and Hermione Granger: Harry Potter’s best friends.

Place: The Story took place in Great Britain Island.

Time: Nowadays

****WARNING: SPOILERS**** The following sections contain several details from the plot of the book

Plot: What is the Story about

This book is the seventh and last book of the most famous and wealthy series of books ever made. The entire novel draws upon a boy who discovered himself, at the age of eleven, as a wizard and also very famous in the magical community by surviving a killing spell cast upon him when he was a mere child by Lord Voldemort, an evil and powerful wizard who had threatened both magical world and non-magical.

Every book is one year in the wizarding school of Witchcraft and Wizardry of Hogwarts, so we follow Harry’s journey and his life since his first year at school until his last. Each and every book presents new clues and mysteries concern the strange connection between this young wizard and The Dark Lord which we, readers, are forced to pursuit together with Harry throughout the books.

The seventh book, Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows, is about the quest Harry must carry on to destroy Voldemort once for all, which had been slightly outlined by Dumbledore, the headmaster of Hogwarts and a protector for Harry, in the previous adventure.

What Happened in the end

Voldemort is defeated and destroyed, but with a high cost. A war is also held at Hogwarts, many people die but the final battle between Harry and Voldemort is utterly amazing. Harry doesn’t defeat the Dark Lord this moment but along the whole story trough means Voldemort had never dreamed of, because he never cared about the power of Love, and he has judge himself as best as everyone else. When both of them truly come to face each other at the end, Harry only states the real situation and how Voldemort and his plans sounded so absurd in face of the whole plot, the whole background, and makes clear how he, Harry, had solved the puzzle no one else had to really defeat Voldemort. Totally convinced of his own superiority, Voldemort is destroyed partially due his own self-confidence.

The last chapter s situated nineteen years from these events and tells how life has gone on for Harry and his beloved friends, as well as many of the main characters that still alive.

Brief Summary about the Story

Harry, Ron and Hermione decide to leave Hogwarts this year to carry out the plan to find and destroy the remained Horcruxes – kind of talismans into which Voldemort has kept pieces of his own soul – to make possible killing Voldemort once for all. Things are far than easy, they have to fight not only with the Death Eaters, but also with the temptations of despair and his own pride. Harry’s weird psychic connection with Voldemort seems to have grown stronger too, giving him clues to Voldemort’s actions and whereabouts, even as it attracts him even closer to the dark side.

In their searches for the remained Horcruxes, they face an astonishing story about the Deathly Hallows, a fairy tale for children that tells about three brothers who tried to cheat Death and as a reward for such achievement Death allowed them to ask for certain items. One brother got a stone to resurrect the dead, one brother got a wand to defeat anyone in a wizard's duel, and one brother asked for an invisibility cloak. Harry possesses one of them - the invisibility cloak – the only hallow which can be passed to the owner’s descendents, what connects Harry to the three brothers of the fantastic tale. Together, these artifacts give the owner the power to master death. And a struggle takes place inside Harry’s soul and he must decide on either carrying on with the mission to destroy Voldemort or become the master of death himself.

To sum it all up, Harry must seek out these items (the Deathly Hallows) and reunite them (but not for his own use), as well as destroy the last of Voldemort's Horcruxes, and then defeat Voldemort once for all.

What did I think of the book

I think this last book is definitely the best book of the Potter’s series. But there isn’t a way to speak of one without speaking of the others. This final chapter ends majestically the whole plot of Harry’s stories, which has grown along the books within a more philosophic field.

The world of Harry Potter is a place where the mundane and the marvelous, the ordinary and the surreal coexist, a place where death and the catastrophes of daily life are inevitable, and people’s lives are defined by love and loss and hope — the same way they are in our own non-magical world. So far from the black-and-white scenario that Harry Potter of J. K. Rowling has drawn for us in his earlier adventures the seventh chapter there’s much more grey nuances; things and people’s nature may be more complicated than they initially seemed, that all of them, like Harry, have hidden aspects to their personalities, and the choice between what is easy and what is right — more than talent or predisposition — matters most of all.

Alongside J. K. Rowling’s ability to go from the themes like banal frustrations of school and dating, to really important and philosophic issues about life, choice, self-sacrifice, the real meaning of being a leader, the true meaning of vanquish both death and life, the storyline is full of wonderful and a huge imagination, also very clever in a way of Sherlock Holmes-style mystery adventure which will conquer anyone with an affection for mysteries.

Apollo 11 – The First Humans on the Moon

March, 2006

At that time, the world had lived great moments regarding several aspects of mankind history. The 20^th century was without doubt, the most extraordinary and changeable century of all, in which humankind has learned much and further, has experienced many situations, has felt so many different feelings. So many men have learned with all that.

While War outside was happening, great achievements were being reached, Gandhi in India, showing people that being good was still possible, despite of all War wounds in our hearts. The State of Israel being built, John Kennedy’s politics concern difficult social aspects… Everything part of an effort to rebuild life injured by the hardest aspects of the War.

In this meantime, as an unpleasant result of the World War II, Cold War rises engendering a suspicions mood throughout the world. Again mankind was threatened by its own feelings. Despite of the worst aspects of it, hope is a canny feeling and the best friend someone could have. Capable of extraordinary achievements this little feeling made possible one of the greatest moments of the 20^th as many people say: the landing of Man on the Moon. Suddenly, everything has become so small, every single problem that humankind could have had seemed so insignificant....so childish, everything has turned into a new perspective, new meanings, new views....For the very first time we were able to see how small we are, in every aspect. New and wonderful dimensions have come crossing us, after that. This is incontestable.

President John F. Kennedy’s goal of “landing a man on the Moon and returning him safely to the Earth” was fulfilled with Commander Neil Armstrong, Command Module Pilot Michael Collins and Lunar Module Pilot Edwin 'Buzz' Aldrin, becoming the first humans to land on the Moon at July 20, 1969. Unfortunately, President Kennedy didn’t see his dream come true; he died one year before that.

Part of a consequence of the Cold War and the competition between the two greatest nations of the bipolar world, the spatial race, as well as many others, has initiated among these two worlds as an attempt to prove which economic system would be the best one to endure. As a counterpart, the spatial program has become a greater thing than just a political fight, and joined with this, people’s eager for hope and better perspective of future after the War, has contributed to make this project so well succeeded.

July 20, 1969 has marked an epoch and Armstrong’s line will be forever echoing in our ears….”That's one small step for (a) man, one giant leap for mankind”. This has changed a generation and furthermore, has opened a new era to mankind.

Warning

Mankind: The Next Endangered Animal

January, 2009

Earth gets warmer whereas sea level increases and scientists say drinkable water will be gone into the next 70 years. Besides that, mankind stands bravely, yet. Nevertheless all the evidences are against us. Will our specie survive?

Image source:  http://lifeofearth.org/

MovieReview

Ratatouille

“A nearly flawless piece of popular Art” – A.O. Scott, NY Times

Amazing! There couldn’t be another word to describe Ratatouille, the newest Pixar Animation Studios’ movie. With the finest work of art, which is a trademark of the company, Ratatouille alongside its past others big screen fellows, approaches the animations making off to the realm of Arts. Matchless quality in its every aspect, from the screenplay to the score; not even the most insignificant detail has been forgotten to compose this jealous-maker masterpiece of filmmaking.

The story follows the journey of the sympathetic rat Remy in his dream to become a great chef in nowhere less than Paris, The world Capital of the good food. Anyway his story starts in a well-known rat lifestyle – feeding from the rubbish and snitching some better samples to survive. Differently from his fellows and his own family, Remy can’t be simply  satisfied with that being a lover of good meals and with a special talent – even more for a rat – to cook.

Torn between his family’s wishes and his true calling, fate leads Remy to the sewer of Paris and the propitious place to start out his personal journey, right below his cooking hero’s famous restaurant, Auguste Gusteau. Obviously undesirable, and utmost improper to a restaurant, our hairy friend starts up a secret partnership with the non-skilled newest cook from Gusteau’s, Linguini. The rest is history: these two pals set in motion a hilarious chain of events that turns the City of Light upside down.

 Through love, friendship, failures, success, Remy felt divided between his duties to his family and his real vocation, but Remy’s personal discoveries led him to the real meaning of these concepts.

Even with these delicious ingredients, Pixar, again has created a wonderful story, wonderful animation and above all, wonderful lessons. The secret: a fine taste for good quality movies, commitment and respect to its audience. A hardly found intelligent comedy movie for everyone to watch!

My Best Friend…

She has been my friend since she taught me calculus for the first time. Yes, she was my professor at University, but what I didn’t know was that she was about to become one of my best friends ever.

My classmates were, at that time, not those stupid assholes that they turned themselves into after that, but we were able to hold a conversation, not that much, but somehow normal. However, a normal conversation doesn’t mean a pleasant one, and my teacher felt as she was teaching the air. A door would have been livelier! I don’t remember very well how, indeed, we started the friendship, but I always have been a good student, and she was, in fact, she is an excellent teacher. I think this is enough reason for us to get to know each other better even more considering my classmates’ door-behaviour. So, naturally, we started to get closer to each other and to develop a well connected relationship. It was natural: she liked the same things I liked, we had already a connection, but between us there´s something more and this something more grew during the years of friendship…I really don’t know how to explain it, it just happened!

When I look back, I feel as this friendship has developed quickly, though it still developing and growing stronger and stronger. I hope so, I really love her. During this time I also became a closer friend with her husband, which was my professor at University as well… Nowadays, both are my best friends and I trust them completely. I love them, they are excellent people and also very important to me!

Bad times? No one… We could have had our own problems but one was always there to the other. He is my support, while she is my counsellor. In bad times of emotional difficulties, I could always count on them. She had bad moments as well, I know… But she is different, she didn’t come to me when they happen, just to have a talk when she is stressed. You know, sometimes I think I owe her…

We don’t talk too often, we don’t see each other so often either… But we are friends, real friends… My best friend! She is strong, high intelligent, a brilliant woman, self-confident, and she possesses one of the best sense of justice I’ve ever known, she is definitely impartial in her judgments.

About them, I will only say… They’re one of the best people that I know; moreover, it’s an honour to call them friends!