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Wednesday, August 29, 2012

Neil Alden Armstrong, the first man on the Moon dies

US astronaut Neil Armstrong, the first man on the Moon, has died aged 82.

Neil Alden Armstrong, Born in 1930 and raised in Ohio, Armstrong took his first flight aged six with his father and formed a lifelong passion for flying. He flew Navy fighter jets during the Korean War in the 1950s, and joined the US space programme in 1962.

He set foot on the Moon on 20 July 1969, and he said his famous speech ”one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind“.

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The Avengers: the battle between Good and evil

ultimate-spiderman-70 (Photo credit: @cdharrison)

When you first watch the movie of The Avengers, you get surprised to see many of today’s superheroes like the Hulk, Iron man, Captain America, Thor, Hawkeye, and Black widow teamed up and called “The Avengers”.

The movie starts with Loki who steals the Tesseract -an alien source of energy that can explode the whole world if it’s between the wrong hands- and takes over the minds of two genius people to help him making his way to enslave human race with his army that is called the Chitauri.

Finding no option but to look for an immediate solution, Nick Fury, the leader of S.H.I.E.L.D decides to gather a super team to defeat the plans of Loki. He first went to Black widow, then Captain America, Iron man and eventually Bruce Banner (Hulk) and Thor who volunteered to save the earth from the devilish plans of his brother with them.

When the final battle between Loki’s army and the superhero team began, we just can’t remove our eyes out of the screen, it gets so exciting to see all of our best heroes working together as one cooperated team for one purpose: saving the world from evil. Then Hulk steals the show, the punch he gave the alien monster was really awesome and his scenes with Iron man were just epic.

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The Painful Experience (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

The biggest day of my life have finally come, the day when I’ll get the chance to stand on my own feet to make my own family. I was supposed to feel happy to be with the one I love, the one I’ve chosen. But I couldn’t stand in front of the tears of my aunts, uncles, cousins and most painfully, my mom’s. I’ve seen the tears of almost all the people I love, people whom I’ve never expected to see their tears in my entire life. However, I didn’t even think that me myself I would cry, I wanted to be strong in front of them but I just fell crying. How can I be strong when I’m going to leave them?!! Maybe I won’t see some of them for months or for years who knows!!

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Zombies, the new creatures!

Zombies as portrayed in the movie Night of the Living Dead (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Zombies are those living-dead that we now see in many of today’s horro movies. They’re typically represented as scary creatures, reanimated corpse with a big hunger for human flesh.

History of zombies:

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The legend of zombies came out of the Voodoo beliefs created by African people. In the west, people think that a dead person can be revived by a sorcerer and they remain under his control since they have no will of their own. While in the south they believe that a dead person can be turned into a zombie by a small child. It is also believed in some areas that witches can turn a person into a zombie by killing and possessing the victim’s body in order to force it to be a slave. However, these zombies are mainly under the control of a master, or they simply act mindlessly.

The period of time that we may call B.R. (Before Romero) the zombie as we know it did not exist. In films such as “white zombie” (1932), the first made up film about zombies, lifeless bodies were removed from the grave right after burial and turned into slaves obeying the orders of a human master. Then with George A. Romero’s film “night of the living dead” that is now considered the beginning of the modern zombie. Romero bred the zombie with the vampire and created a ghoulish monster. In the “Night of the Living Dead” the Zombies are originally called “ghouls” it is not until 1978 when writing the script for “Dawn of The Dead” that George Romero claimed the word ZOMBIE. Along with “I am legend” directed by Francis Lawrence, the zombies are humans turned by a virus into scary creatures that kill all the livings. Unlike the zombies in Romero’s films, “I am legend” is way different in three things: first, they’re smart, second they live in dark places and the sun burns them. Third, they live in communities protecting each other.

The story of zombies is apparently like vampires, even if there are many similarities and differences between them, we can say that the zombies are the new vampires. Zombies hate the sun, they only walk in the dark, which is the same as vampires, they also turn people into creatures like them when they bite, and again it’s the very same thing.

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Full moon rises through Olympic Rings

Luke MacGregor

One Direction.writemania.net 1 One Direction

Have you ever heard about “One Direction”? Well, let me tell you a bit about this very young boy band.
The popular boy band “one direction” consists of five cool boys: Niall Horan, Zayn Malik, Harry styles, Louis Tomlinson, Liam Payne. Four of the boys are British while the fifth is Irish. Louis Tomlinson is the eldest of the group, he has just turned twenty. The second oldest is Zany Malik who is nineteen years old. Liam Payne, Harry styles and Niall Horan are all eighteen.
In 2010, each of them auditioned as solo artists for the seventh season of UK’s show: X factor where the judges suggested they come together as a group. Harry styles suggested the new name and One Direction was formed. After coming 3rd in the show, One direction signed a record contract with Simon Cowell’s company. Then in the next year, One Direction released their hit single “what makes you beautiful” which had succeeded not only in the UK but all around the world and won the award for Best British single at the 2012 BRIT Awards. Then their second single “gotta be you” was released on November. Sooner then, they released their first album “up all night” which became the fastest-selling album of 2011 in the UK.

The members of One Direction:

Niall Horan:
Niall Horan was born on the 19th September 1993 in Mullingar, County Westmeath, Ireland. From a young age, Niall loved to sing; he sang in school choir and participated in the X factor. He loved playing guitar since he was 12 years and performed around his homeland including as a support act for Lloyd Daniels in Dublin.

Zayn Malik:
Zayn Malik was born on January 12th 1993 in Bradford, England. His father Yaser is a British Pakistani and his mother is English. He grew up with three sisters Doniya, Waliyha and Safaa. Zayn auditioned in 2010 for X-Factor and was almost eliminated after refusing to dance. But he returned and was put with One Direction.

Harry styles:
Harry Styles was born on February 1st 1994 and is from Holmes Chapel, Cheshire, England. As a child he loved singing. Styles was the lead singer for the band White Eskimo and they had once entered a local Battle of the Bands which they won. He loved many singers like Elvis Presley, Coldplay, the Beatles…and considered them as his inspirations “I still listen to their music over and over again. They are absolute icons and an inspiration,” he says.

Louis Tomlinson:
Louis was born 24th of December 1991 in Doncaster, South Yorkshire, England. He attended an acting school in Barnsley. He also had small parts in an ITV1 drama called If “I Had You”, and BBC’s Waterloo Road. He was a sixth form student atHall Cross School, a state comprehensive school, and a former pupil of the Hayfield School. In an interview, he mentionedMichael Jackson as a “real inspiration” saying “I am a big Michael Jackson fan. He was a real inspiration and had so many great songs.”

Liam Payne:

Liam Payne was born on 29th August 1993 in Wolverhampton, West Midlands, England. He described himself as a “naughty boy at school.” He tried out for teams, and found his place on the cross-country team in which he did very well, coming first in one of his competitions. He also took up boxing as a way to fight back when being picked on. Payne first auditioned in 2008 to The X Factor‘s fifth series when he was fourteen. He made it to the judges’ houses, but Cowell thought he was not ready for the competition and asked him to come back in two years.Read Full Article → Here

American popular culture

WASHINGTON, DC - NOVEMBER 11: Richard Carlisle, a veteran of the Vietnam War, salutes during the playing of the national anthem with his dog Checkers during Veterans Day ceremonies at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial November 11, 2011 in Washington, DC. Veterans Day in the United States honors those who have served in the nation's military and also coincides with the anniversary of the conclusion of hostilities on the western front in World War I. (Image credit: Getty Images via @daylife)

WASHINGTON, DC - MARCH 08: U.S. Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) (L) and Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard hold a joint news conference in the Russell Senate Building on Capitol Hill March 8, 2011 in Washington, DC. McCain and Gillard dedicated a photo exhibit, 'Enduring Bond: 60 Years of ANZUS,' to mark the 60th anniversary of the Australia, New Zealand, United States Security Treaty (ANZUS). The exhibit features 60 images spanning the Great White Fleet, World War I, World War II, Korea, Vietnam, the Gulf War, Iraq and Afghanistan. (Image credit: Getty Images via @daylife)

meaning the blending of many cultures, languages, and religions to form a single national identity. However, those cultures quickly spread to the whole world and everybody started to know almost everything about the culture of the “New world” as it was known before.

We can divide the American culture into three broad stages; the first stage starts from the colonial times until the civil war. In this period American art, architecture, music, literature, and fashion were strongly influenced by European ideas, traditions and trends. The second stage is from the civil war until around the First World War in which writers, architects, and painters of the 19^th century still considered themselves as part of the European tradition; yet by this second stage America had developed a cultural style of her own. The third stage is marked by an American creativity in all Areas by a growing international influence and by a steady self-confidence. In brief, America influences the world and is influenced by the world.

As history moves on, especially in “capitalist societies” in the United States cultural items became even more popularized. The resulting mass production and distribution are not just of art itself but of its creators and performers who are icons of culture. And when we talk about the popular culture in USA, we can state the music, films, media, theater, fashion and so on…

The music of the US reflects the culture’s ethnic population through diverse styles. Some of the country’s most international genres are: Hip hop, blues, country, jazz, pop, techno, and rock and roll. The US has the world’s largest music industry and its music is heard around the world.

Hollywood, the American film industry, dominates the world’s media market. It’s like an open door that when you get in to it, you start to know all about the American fashion, customs, traditions, and way of life. However, America is using the mass-media in order to spread its culture and dominate the world by what they call: Americanization or even globalization. This strategy is actually damaging other countries’ cultures and causing some of them to disappear. At the same time, Americans reject the idea that US popular culture is a threat to foreign cultures. In October 1999 PIPA asked, “How much of a threat, if at all, do you think American popular culture, such as music, television and films, is to the cultures of other countries in the world?” Just 24% of the people said American popular culture was a “very serious matter”, while 35% considered it only a minor threat and about (41%) said it was not a threat at all.