This blog will be used by some of the students of the 5th form of KAM Koninklijk Atheneum Mortsel, who will post their weekly commentary on what they read in the papers.
Iran executes woman accused of murdering lover's wife
I cant believe Iran still is excuting people its just so
hard to see a woman, who kept saying she didnt do anything, die for nothing
after being in prison for 9 years! Ofcourse we dont know if shes as innocent
as she stated, but still the death penalty isnt the the most human thing to do
I think in those countries its still: an eye for an eye.
And even worse is that Iran couldve stopped the execution if
the family of the murdered woman pardoned her. I understand the family is angry
with her because she might have killed their familymember
A few years ago the chief of Irans judiciary asked for a
fresh investigation what said that her execution shouldnt be carried out. The worst
thing about this execution I think is that Iran does it a few days before the
day of the human rights, its like really saying to the world: **** you with
your laws and rights, well make our own.
I think the United States has to do something about this, they
have to push Iran more to change and some people might say this is their
culture. Still I think they have to change.
Angelina Jolie is unfit ambassador, Bosnian activists tell United Nations
Angelina Jolie, a really famous actress as we know, visited today Bosnia and Herzegovina. Not just for fun. She was meeting the Bosnian victims of sexual violence during the Balkan conflict of the 1990s. They were very disappointed in her and they think she does not deserve her "goodwill ambassador" status because she ignored their concerns over a forthcoming film.
The film is about a Bosnian muslim woman who's a rape victim. She falls in love with her Serbian attacker.
Jolie says that the film is not about raping. It's a love story between a Serb guard in a prison camp and his former girlfriend, a Bosnian Muslim detainee. Nevertheless the meeting of Jolie with the victims. The film was permitted to go on in Bosnia.
On one hand I can understand the fact that the producers want to make the movie. They think that it wont hurt anyone. But they think wrong. I know it's been almost 20 years since the war in Bosnia. But it is still painful. Our culture isn't that open when it comes to the war. The most of us want to forget it. Many people lost many family members during that war and many were raped. So I think that you can't blame them when they get angry about it. And that they don't want this movie to be made.
Personally, I'm against this movie. I think you see it trough different eyes when you didn't experience the war. People who don't know how a war feels can't, in my eyes, really give an opinion about this topic. So I think that Angelina Jolie should have thought more about the consequences. In her eyes it's another movie added to her list but in other peoples eyes this movie really affects them.
Because I couldn't really find a news report that intrested me enough, I am going to review the most anticipated movie (atleast for me) of this season: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows!
Wow, just wow. It's finally here. The end of the story the story that defined my and lots of people's youth is now poured into a movie. The fact that the book is going to be made in two parts could be looked upon from 2 sides: the "Oh my god that's such an economic move"-side and the "that's nice, because the book is way too detailed to be poured into a 2-hour movie"-side. I myself, am part of the second side, especially because the 7th book was my absolute favourite. Now onto the movie! The movie is really great, it follows my imagination on the dot, and the fact that the atmosphere in the 7th book is really grim and dark, has carried over to the movie which is a really good thing, because the 7th book is a really dark and grim book. You see everything: the suffering of Lucius and Draco Malfoy becuase Voldemort senses that they are not really on his side anymore, the emotional event of Hermoine deleting herself from the memory of her parents to the heart-breaking but bittersweet death of Dobby. This is also, for me atleast, a 'flaw' in the movie: when you step out of the cinema you feel really, really depressed, because the first part ends in a really grim way. But then again, I doubt there would've been another option.
and to end with the famous words of Toby Turner; If you sneezed during reading this, bless you. Bless your face, peace off!
29-11-2010 om 16:58
geschreven door Diek
26-11-2010
Student protests: video shows mounted police charging London crowd
Im very, very shocked by this how can this be tolerated? I
hope the video they send it to the police and get them to say sorry or pay the
hospital bills for those who got injured. On the video that is attached to the
article you can see around 1:05 that the police is really charging them. Thats
just awfull! How can they do that?
When the horses
charged everyone started to run, I cant imagine how it must have felt to be in
such a crowd. Everyone must be panicking and falling on the floor, watching
people run over eachother, just awfull. At 1:40, you can see a woman slipping
between the horse and the fench, but a pregnant woman who ran after the escaped
woman got trapped between the horse and the fench. A few seconds later you can
see the woman cry and I got goosebumps because I was so angry and felt so sorry
for the woman. Even a boy around the age of 13 got pushed by the police, I
think I saw he was injured, I hope he isnt..
I just think that the police should come clean about this,
this can not go on untouched. They have to do something about this, ofcourse we
dont really know what happend before (the article did say that they threw
something at the police) but still, they dont have to go and start running
over everybody? I just hope the injured get justice.
Artice + video;
PS: just start watching the video at around a minute, because in the beginning it's just a woman whining about she losing her stuff.
" Six pupils excluded over Facebook hate campaign against classmate who paid tribute to British troops "
I really don't understand why children have strated a hate campaign against their classmate Darius. He was just remembering his great-great uncle,Tom, who died at the Battle of the Somme in 1916. If you can't even hold a memorial for someone who has died,which still may work ? In the article it is mentioned that the youths were all 12 years old, I wonder how such young children get knuckle-dusters and knives ? Even a 12 year old child posted a picture of himself with an AK-47 rifle, and said : " I'll bang him ma self am a terrorist." Too bad Darius kept the bullying to himself. If the mother wouldn't have discovered it, it could have been fatal. You often see children who are bullied, dealing with this problem. They don't tell anybody because they think they are not going to believe them or that the bullying will get worse. The school is planning to start a campaign against bullying. Perhaps because Darius is not the only one who is bullied at school. If I were the boy I would tell a teacher, I could trust about the problem or at least my dad. I do not believe that the young people just said things like that just to teach Darius a lesson. If you post such pictures on 'Facebook' with knuckle-dusters,weapons and knives I am pretty sure the students would have used these things if the mother had not intervened. The bullies are now expelled from school but I do not think that the bullying will stop. Now they just go to another school and find another victim so there will never be an end to bullying!
I was a bit shocked by the fact that the woman who is explaining the incident is used to gunfire in the neighbourhood as well as her daughter it seems who did not even mention the shooting in the morning, au contraire, she just told her mother they ate spaghetti for lunch. I am curious what the reason was why the masked gunmen tried to kill the young father when he dropped of his daughter. Maybe the 21 year old man was an ex-gangmember and he left his gang when his daughter was born and as in many gangs or mobs, other members can't handle the fact that some people would actually live a normal and perhaps useful life. I can't imagine that people would just kill inoscent parents or other people for that matter at a primary school just for the fun of it. The mother is affraid of explaining to her daughter that such things won't happen to her or something but I think that is exactly what she SHOULD'NT do. She has to tell her that incidents like that can happen once and a while and that she has to be careful in such a scenarios and what she should do when something like that happens. Fear isn't a bad thing. One mustn't traumatize his children but try to make them be just a little bit more careful. As for the gunmen, I hope all of them get caught and will be sent to jail for a few years because if you do something this terrible, you diserve a serious punishment in return. To the 21-year-old daddy : I don't know what you did to diserve this but consider it as a warning or a second chance because you got lucky.
Yes,I'm
absolutely satisfied just by reading this.The beatles were great and
we don't have to underestimate their influence.
I
really love their songs, but I didn't expect that so many people in
the UK would buy their songs.
I
thought that nowadays most people were listening to lady gaga,or
some other extravagant icon.Not
in the UK as you can read.I like that!The
music itself must be in the first place the reason to buy a CD/to buy
it on the internet.Well,The beatles had very good songs,that's why there are plenty of covers
from them,for examplea
day in the life covered by jeff beck:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o1tHshH8e0c.
It gives me shivers...
my
top 3 must be something like this.
1.Let
it be
2.a
day in the life - (I'm listening it right now)
3.while
my guitar gently weeps
So
I can agree with most of the songs in the Itunes top 200.I
have to say that I did not use Itunes myself (not yet) to buy a
song.I prefer Cd's.But I think that Itunes is a great invention.Now back to the beatles, oh yes, unfortunately
I was born after their time,so I've never seen them Live.But in these
times,I would have been a hippie I think.I have the hair already ;).The music just makes me happy and lively.Their messages were clear; "... here comes the sun..." I mean who would not understand this?No solo of 30 minutes,just a ( I'm looking for the right word) euhm fair song.
Dublin's new drug dealers: 'I never thought I would be doing this'
'I never thought I would be doing this'
Drug plays a big role in this world. We constantly hear accidents about it. It's everywhere, on the TV, in the newspapers etc. It is known that not only adults use it but also children. And now even old people use it. This article really shocks me! A grandmother apparently sells drugs and deals them. Even though she does not use them. She actually never tried drugs. She just sells them to her clients. She says that she earns up to £500 each week. She spends that money to by a secondhand fridge and to pay off the funeral debts of her son. He died on an overdose. This work earns more than she can get on the social welfare she said. I think that she doesn't even think about the consequences. She helps addicted people and she makes it just worse! There are already enough problems with drugs and addicted people to drug and instead of helping the society and those addicted people, she makes it just worse. It's just going in circles. Like this there will be never an end to drugs! I think that she has give a good example to us, especially to us younger people but instead she gives us a bad example. For such elder people I don't have any respect!
The article is about a real happened story. Tracy Heath discovered a bullet in her breast when she was showering. The next day she went with her husband on holiday. After the holidays, she went to the doctor and he told her that she has breast cancer.Tracy told him if he wanted to leave her, she would understand it. But she better didnt say that. Because one day she has caught her husband with another woman in her own house. Tracy was broken but she tried not to show her children because she wanted to inflict. But when her husband had betrayed her again several times she told all her family and her daughters about it. Tracy was granted a divorce last summer , its more than three years since her terminal diagnosis. She is very happy with her life now because she is back at work and she went on holiday several times and she had a couple of enjoyable relationships. But the story ended sad for her ex because he moved back in with his mother and he is jobless.
It is a sad story because you really do not expect that of your husband. You've been together for so long and just when she needs her husband the most ,he cheating on her. While he should be there for her in the good and the bad days. I think when you have cancer, and the doctor tells you that you only have to life for one year, it is very difficult for that person to still feel happy. Most people gets a depression. I think that is the reason why her husband had cheated on her because Tracy had build a wall around herself to process it. Some people can do this together, but some people cant, like Tracy and Darren. That is where it went wrong. She should had involve him in her treatment process. I'm not saying it is right what he did, contrary it is very bad what Darren did. I am delighted that Tracy is still alive after 3 years and that she is very happy now. People who experience such a thing and also have an aggressive cancer, may become so depressed that they commit suicide. So I find it very brave of her to keep her so strong and of course for her children. I'm secretly pleased that her husband is doing it now not so good..
I hope now that he realized that what he did was totally wrong.
It sounds to me like the MI6
agents did somethings wich made the people think that they were
responsible for torturing people to get intelligence. I've seen a lot
of 007 movies and I can tell you, Bond NEVER tortured any of the bad
guys, not even the boss-bad guys. But ofcourse, this is the real
world and maybe a real Bond...James Bond doesn't exist here so
I guess the people could be right if that's what they think is
happening in this cruel world. This speech isn't very strong I think
because Sir John Sawyer just blames other agencies from other
countries that are, as he says, less friendly democraties. I
think Britains superiority plays a part in this issue because
they're acting like they would never harm certain people to get
important information and I'm not saying it's the right thing to do
but I think people of MI6 are trained to feel no empathy when they
torture another human being and I wouldn't be surprised if they
learned many different ways in doing so. If millions of people could
be saved with just information from 1 man who doesn't wish to
coöperate for example, I think torture COULD help but it should only
be used if there really is no other way.
