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.
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.
This
is good news That was my first impression about the article.Although I think that it is a bit too late ,the whole music industry suffered.
Other
(bigger)sharing websites just keep on going ;websites such as Pirate bay for example.A
pitty for the artist if you ask me.
I
hope that in the future they will be even stricter.The government should be more concerned with illegal downloaders.
I always buy the REAL CD's or films Because
I support my artist,It is important to do that otherwise they won't
or even can't
continue.Let's
be honest, a real cd cover wit a REAL album art, is way better
than a mp3 file which can contain a virus or spyware.
I
know that there are a lot
of people who are against the closure of limewire,and maybe I'm
grumbling, but I
play the guitar myself, I really enjoy it to
make music but I
know how hard is it to make a song which is of course noting
in compare with the big musicians.And
the same for films.
I hope that some people follow me in this vision.My conclusion: we are on the right track ;-) but there are still lots of things that we have to change.
CIA 'failed to pass on concerns' about Afghanistan suicide bomber
Im very shocked, not that he blew himself up because thats
what terrorists do, but that the CIA was so careless.
They made so much mistakes: nobody knew who was in charge of
the meeting with Balawi and most importantly, the critical warnings about him
werent shared with other officials. Ofcourse I dont say its the CIAs fault,
but they couldve done something. They even ignored suspicions from Jordan,
what I find is un acceptable. If they say its dangerous, dont just ignore it.
Im not saying you have to tie him u like a murderer (what he actually was )
but at least keep an eye out. In an interview released after his death he threatend
to kidnap his contact. How can you not see that there is something wrong with
him? I just cant believe it
Now there are 7 agents dead, and 6 wounded. And you would
ask, why would there be 13 agents or more with him in a small room? Well, because
the CIA was eager to see him, because they had to wait for 10 days for him to
arrive...
I do feel bad for the agents who died, but I think its
strange that an agency who has been around for so long can still let things
happen like this
Chinese woman forced to have abortion at eight months, claims husband
On 10 October was a woman in Chinataken by the family planning officials to a hospital to let her have an abortion, "voluntary" they say. Because she was 8 months pregnant and she and her husband already have a nine-year old daughter. But the husband clearly says that it wasn't voluntary. It was against her will ! Because China has limited most urban couples to one child, to limit the population growth. I think that this i really sick! To let someone have an abortion involuntary. I think that you should be able to choose for yourself how many children you want and that nobody can forbid you to have as many children as you like. It is in the end your body, and you decide for yourself what is going to happen with it! In the beginning victims were scared to talk about such crimes that happened, but now more and more victims begin to speak out. The husband of this woman did it also. Because no one wanted to listen to him, not the police and even the media wouldn't listen. So he placed a blog on the internet, to show and let people know what was happening. I think that it was very brave of him to post that blog. When you know that China is a very strict country.
It seems that there is a biggest lottery winner ever in the UK
More than 113 millions pounds were given to an anynomous (individual).
First of all I think it is rather ridiculous to give such an amount to one individual person.
It is just too much,isn't it?The best thing would be that he or she would share it with the world.I mean sharing with the poorests people.
However I have not won Euro Millions, so I don't have a right to speak;).Maybe I'll share the money, maybe I'll keep everything for myself...It depends on the situation.
Everyone has ever dreamt of being very,very rich.And If I had that chance,I would not spend all my money on a huge party, or by buying expensive cars,.No, in the first place I would save it.I would save it on bankaccounts,under my pilow or even in a pit in my garden.
Having a few millions on your bankaccount is always useful I suppose.
There are a lot of people who are addicted to gambling(=gamblers).This is sad.It can be a lifetime experience to participate in a casino in Las Vegas.But no habit.Again there is a moral in this whole story,-Don't be greedy with money-and know your limits!
But the day when I'm 18 , I'll buy 20 win for life scratchcards :)
8% seems to be a lot and it surprises
me that this can happen because of the economy that was crashing
down, I expected that the crime rate would rise instead of fall
because of all those people who lost their jobs and losing a lot of
money wich would lead to stress and eventually into a form of
violence. The failure of the economy could also be the reason why the
crime rate did fell instead of rise if the cause is that people
needed to work harder and had less time to do things like robbery,
burglary, theft, fraud, drugs, vehicle crime and criminal damage as
they say in the article. The only thing that rose instead of fell is
sexual offences but it could also be because of the improved
recording methods but I choose not to believe that.
I honestly think it's a big coincidence
that all these crime actions dropped by 8%. How can there be a reason
for people to just stop doing actions like robbing people because
they need money ? It's not like the government made some new
horrifying punishing methods like cutting peoples hands off when they
rob someone. Although this is an old trick to punish robbers, it
might just help to make sure that no one would ever rob someone
again...
Ofcourse, it could also be caused by
the police in England and Wales that are doing a great job dealing
with justice every day.
I put my daughter on a diet at 2- so she wouldn't end up looking like me
The article is about a mother, Aly. She is overweight and has been struggling with this problem since she was 16 years old. People teased her and so she began to eat more and more. Aly was terrified that her daughter Corleigh would continue the cycle so she put her on a diet when she was just 2 years old. The girl, who is now 8 years old is still only allowed to eat 700 calories a day, 1,000 less than the recommended amount for her age. On a typical day she has Weetabix for breakfast, salad and half a roll for lunch and a jacket potato for dinner. A nurse expressed concerns that Corleigh was 5lb underweight and in danger of developing an eating disorder. But Aly says: "She's not so underweight she's going to die next week. With an eating disorder you can get through it with therapy. But when you're fat, you're fat for life. Obviously I'd prefer it if she didn't get either."
I personally think it's really not healthy for a girl so young to put her on a diet. The girl is not fully developed and the few calories may influence her development. It is not because her mother is overweight, that her daughter may not eat more than 700 calories. I think the underweight of the young girl could have dramatic consequences. Being so focused by eating not more than 700 calories a day, could be obsessed her by it and she maybe even could get anorexia. It is also very important for the development of Corleigh that she gets medical help or that her mother just let her eat healthy food without counting the calories. I hope the mother quickly realize that this is really not healthy for her young child and that there are plenty of ways to feed your child healthy without being overweight. But putting a young girl on a diet for more than 6 years is really not healthy!
These sorts of things always remind me of Hans Van Temse, who rampaged in Antwerp a couple of years ago. Shooting people is always horrible, but shooting people because of their beliefs or their origin, is double horrible. The worst thing about this article is that the man seems to be doing it on an organised and regular basis. He must be thinking he's the freedom fighter of white people, while he is just a shooting savage. The ethnic minorities must be frightened to death at the moment. I hope for these people, the savage gets caught sooner or later, and gets put behind bars. But Sweden is the most awesome country after England, so they'll manage to get him quickly, I hope!
Peace out, Diek.
21-10-2010 om 00:00
geschreven door Diek
15-10-2010
Child poverty: study shows fifth of UK youngsters severely affected
You would think that in the UK,there is no poverty. But that is a wrong thought! It's not just because the UK is so popular and that England one of the high fashion cities is that there is no poverty. A big issue is child poverty. The London University's Institute of Education researchers found that almost 1/5 of seven-year-olds live in severe poverty. That is something you would not expect from such a country! I think that the government should spend more money on the children in the future. Because eventually these kids will be the future of England. So it's very important that these kids also graduate from school and find a good job. So that they can take care of their family later. I think that each child has the right to live a normal life even if that's on the costs of us. If that means that our taxes have to rise I don't mind. As long as it helps!
This article just made my day. After coming home from a boring day, reading that parents feared their 67cm tall son would acually grow just made me burst into laughter. I've always been a fan of freakshow world records; and Guinnes book of World Records has plenty. because the chilld/man/thing lives in Nepal, the organisation of the crowning reeked of failure, but eventually they discovered when his birthday actually was and got to him on the right day, giving him the title and the gateway to getting infinitely rich off of his handicap. over the last years, there have been quite some tiny people actually: I remember watching 'Koppen' about the shortest person alive (who was a bit taller than 70cm) just over a year ago. Although it is unfortunate there's something wrong in the 'new guy's' head. As a famous person once said: 'There's not much Force in this padawan.' I really amused me with this article and I hope the other people reading this will do so aswell. Greets, Diek
PS: some nice consolation for my height after all!
14-10-2010 om 18:22
geschreven door Diek
Chilean miners offered Greek islands holiday
First of all, im happy for the miners. I followed as much
of the rescue as i could, but i think all of these presents are a bit too much
I know they went through a hard time, but what will happen
if the media turns their back on them? Now everybody is talking about the
miners and they get so much presents, they get a holiday to the Greek islands
and some shirts from football teams and an Ipod for each miner. I dont think its
the right thing to give them presents. They can better spent their money on
people who really need it, like the victims of the mud in hungary. There are a
lot of people in the hospital with burns, they need the money for medication
and help.
Maybe this sounds harsh, but the miners got out, they can
start living again. But when the presents and media attention is over, how will
they feel? They sat in a cave for 70 days, now the media helps them a lot. But
when that stops, I think theyre going to start feeling traumatized...
Protesting workers barricaded the doors of the Acropolis so no tourists could enter the beautiful ancient site because they were protesting. The reason of these protests are the cuts in workers' salaries en trimming the pension so Greece could be able to pay its debts. Because the protesters blocked the ancient site many tourists couldn't enter and many of them were ofcourse slightly unhappy by this event.
Ofcourse these actions caused a lot of trouble when Athens riot police tried to control the situation by using teargas on those poor protesting workers. Visitors from many different places of the world couldn't do anything useful except taking pictures of the riots wich some of them actually did.
These kind of protests have happened before but usually lasted a few hours.
I think these kind of actions are pretty useless. They only make tourists from all over the world hate Athens because the people can't even go on vacation to Greece without coming across protesters who think there salaries will improve by doing things like this. It only causes more financial troubles.
Misión cumplida: Chilean miners' ordeal comes to an end
God helped them!
So,Finally the 33 Chilean miners who were trapped for almost 70 days , are rescued!
It must be absolutely awesome to see your wife and kids back after a long time in a dark and dirty mine.
Offcourse the world was watching this disaster.They have filmed the whole rescue operation.
And as you can see, mining is not the most safety job,Certainley not in chili I suppose...
Faith was their hope, (as the miners themselves said) and God had helped them.Quiet remarkable that if there's a really bad situation, people always need something to rely on , which is Faith.
I'm wondering if these people don't have any mental problems,It must be shokking to leave the world for 3 months. Isn't it?
but I'm afraid that after they have been to the hospital they'll come back to the mines,and will keep on working there.Not so fair if you ask me.
