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วันพุธที่ 17 สิงหาคม พ.ศ. 2554

Book Review The Hunger Games

The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins is one of those books that was originally written for a young adult, but in the hands crossed waiting for the adults. There is something so powerful a well-told story that transcends the expected age and attracts readers of all ages. It is often said that some of the best books for adults, between the covers of young adult novels can be found.

And so it was with The Hunger Games. Published in 2008, the first book in aany trilogy was written so well that it has received praise from all corners of the literary world. The critics, authors and readers have been fellow travelers Katniss Evergreen and their role as victims of war, manipulated by the state to perform in brutal gladiator-style matches between the children who could have taken only one winner.

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Collins was able to pull it brutal dystopian future, with moments of pure beauty that rivals any in modern literature. Written in first person,Readers travel with Katniss as she gets elected, is ready to fight in front of a national platform, sees larger hands to work and eventually made their place in the world as they begin to fight for their lives against other children folded on her survival in the arena.

Despite a rather inconclusive end that The Hunger Games like putting only a small part of a larger story arc, the book has been accepted. The second book, Catching Fire continued the story, but always added a little 'Katniss became history 'as a backdrop to the arena again, and survival to the goal.

Mockingjay was the last book of the trilogy, published in August 2010 and was for many an unsatisfactory outcome for what could have been a truly memorable series. Collins Katniss places in the hands of others and is a great deal about the history, how it is handled in different situations and react accordingly.

The Hunger Games is a book full of beauty and horror and a story that is worth. To tell the other two books in the series, are important lessons about writing and how to give character to his attention on the events of the plot.

Book Review The Hunger Games

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วันอาทิตย์ที่ 14 สิงหาคม พ.ศ. 2554

Book Review on the 48 Laws of Power by Robert Greene

The 48 Laws of Power by Robert Greene is the definitive guide to modern manipulation. It could be one of the most entertaining and most useful books you will ever buy.

The ability to measure people and to know whom you're dealing with is the most important skill of all in gathering and conserving power. We can even gain power by mastering the art of deception, it stresses that nothing is more terrifying than the sudden and unpredictable. Power can be even a tool to crush an enemy or opponent. So, all these imaginable possibilities no matter how obnoxious or fair the way we play power in our hands, power is always power. It's just truly nice to know that this book offers something valuable that any of us will surely benefit. The issues and circumstances that had happened since back then presented insights of mistake and success.

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So now, when we already have the skills that we need to explore ourselves to this ambitious journey then we are truly ready to hold the power tight in our hands and use it. Power is power no matter how it is express in a positive or negative sense. Hence, the objective of this book merely inspires readers to cultivate an urge to search for power and attain it. Therefore, arguments must be kept behind the walls of taciturnity.

MANAGEMENT PERSPECTIVE

Once this book is read together with all or any of the laws presented herewith would be an advantage to somebody who wants to practice and develop sense of leadership. It manifest insights that can help him to put on the complete suit of armor which can strongly protect him against machinations of the corporate people or the subordinates while take up the large shield of power with which he will be able to quench all the wicked ones burning missiles. Wise decisions are must and this book entails strategies that can be a supporting tool for somebody to gain credibility and absolute authority so that people would learn and practice submission.

The people under you would feel a sense of fear or respect so that they would rather avoid and solve conflicts that might arise among them. In this manner, this will be a great help to maintain peace inside and out of an organization. If good leadership has been performed, the organization as well will benefit. People are happy and of course productive and these are crucial factors to an organization to grow and prosper.

For those of you who watch power, want power, or want to arm yourselves against it, it is recommended that you read The 48 Laws of Power by Robert Greene and Joost Elffers. The book deals with each of the 48 laws with a very wide selection of parables, myths, anecdotes and stories from all over the world and form all times, illustrating the unchanging dynamics of power over the centuries. It features Chinese warlords, Roman and renaissance-Italian power-mongers, American and European con-men, famous courtiers from the French courts before the Revolution, and even musings by Thomas Edison. And of course, the book pays tribute to the power-writer of all time, Niccolo Machiavelli. The 48 Laws of Power is very cynical and depicts a world without mercy. Apparently the writer himself (Greene, not Elffers) bears a grudge as he starts the book thanking old enemies for doing to him what they did, since it has only wizened him to the world and inspired him to write. The book is written in a manner so as to inspire the reader to achieve great power with an iron fist by talking directly to the reader, much like a self-help tape. Despite this belligerent and unabating tone, and the fact that it takes over 500 pages to get through all the laws, it is very readable, very clear in its message and the laws in it are not to be easily refuted.

HIGHLIGHTS FROM THE BOOK

Never Outshine the Master

Always make those above you feel comfortably superior. In your desire to please or impress them, do not go too far in displaying your talents or you might accomplish the opposite - inspire fear and insecurity. Make your masters appear more brilliant than they are and you will attain the heights of power.

Never put too Much Trust in Friends, Learn how to use Enemies

Be wary of friends-they will betray you more quickly, for they are easily aroused to envy. They also become spoiled and tyrannical. But hire a former enemy and he will be more loyal than a friend, because he has more to prove. In fact, you have more to fear from friends than from enemies. If you have no enemies, find a way to make them.

Conceal your Intentions

Keep people off-balance and in the dark by never revealing the purpose behind your actions. If they have no clue what you are up to, they cannot prepare a defense. Guide them far enough down the wrong path, envelope them in enough smoke, and by the time they realize your intentions, it will be too late.

Always Say Less than Necessary

When you are trying to impress people with words, the more you say, the more common you appear, and the less in control. Even if you are saying something banal, it will seem original if you make it vague, open-ended, and sphinx like. Powerful people impress and intimidate by saying less. The more you say, the more likely you are to say something foolish.

So Much Depends on Reputation - Guard it with your Life

Reputation is the cornerstone of power. Through reputation alone you can intimidate and win; once you slip, however, you are vulnerable, and will be attacked on all sides. Make your reputation unassailable. Always be alert to potential attacks and thwart them before they happen. Meanwhile, learn to destroy your enemies by opening holes in their own reputations. Then stand aside and let public opinion hang them.

Court Attention at all Cost

Everything is judged by its appearance; what are unseen counts for nothing. Never let yourself get lost in the crowd, then, or buried in oblivion. Stand out. Be conspicuous, at all cost. Make yourself a magnet of attention by appearing larger, more colorful, and more mysterious, than the bland and timid masses.

Get others to do the Work for you, but always take the Credit

Use the wisdom, knowledge, and legwork of other people to further your own cause. Not only will such assistance save you valuable time and energy, it will give you a godlike aura of efficiency and speed. In the end your helpers will be forgotten and you will be remembered. Never do yourself what others can do for you.

Make other People come to you - use Bait if Necessary

When you force the other person to act, you are the one in control. It is always better to make your opponent come to you, abandoning his own plans in the process. Lure him with fabulous gains - then attack. You hold the cards.

Win through your Actions, Never through Argument

Any momentary triumph you think gained through argument is really a Pyrrhic victory: The resentment and ill will you stir up is stronger and lasts longer than any momentary change of opinion. It is much more powerful to get others to agree with you through your actions, without saying a word. Demonstrate, do not explicate.

Infection: Avoid the Unhappy and Unlucky

You can die from someone else's misery - emotional states are as infectious as disease. You may feel you are helping the drowning man but you are only precipitating your own disaster. The unfortunate sometimes draw misfortune on himself or herself; they will also draw it on you. Associate with the happy and fortunate instead.

Learn to Keep People Dependent on You

To maintain your independence you must always be needed and wanted. The more you are relied on, the more freedom you have. Make people depend on you for their happiness and prosperity and you have nothing to fear. Never teach them enough so that they can do without you.

Use Selective Honesty and Generosity to Disarm your Victim

One sincere and honest move will cover over dozens of dishonest ones. Openhearted gestures of honesty and generosity bring down the guard of even the most suspicious people. Once your selective honesty opens a hole in their armor, you can deceive and manipulate them at will. A timely gift - a Trojan horse - will serve the same purpose.

When Asking for Help, Appeal to People's Self-Interest, Never to their Mercy or Gratitude

If you need to turn to an ally for help, do not bother to remind him of your past assistance and good deeds. He will find a way to ignore you. Instead, uncover something in your request, or in your alliance with him, that will benefit him, and emphasize it out of all proportion. He will respond enthusiastically when he sees something to be gained for himself.

Pose as a Friend, Work as a Spy

Knowing about your rival is critical. Use spies to gather valuable information that will keep you a step ahead. Better still: Play the spy yourself. In polite social encounters, learn to probe. Ask indirect questions to get people to reveal their weaknesses and intentions. There is no occasion that is not an opportunity for artful spying.

Crush your Enemy Totally

All great leaders since Moses have known that a feared enemy must be crushed completely. (Sometimes they have learned this the hard way.) If one ember is left alight, no matter how dimly it smolders, a fire will eventually break out. More is lost through stopping halfway than through total annihilation: The enemy will recover, and will seek revenge. Crush him, not only in body but also in spirit.

Use Absence to Increase Respect and Honor

Too much circulation makes the price go down: The more you are seen and heard from, the more common you appear. If you are already established in a group, temporary withdrawal from it will make you more talked about, even more admired. You must learn when to leave. Create value through scarcity.

Keep Others in Suspended Terror: Cultivate an Air of Unpredictability

Humans are creatures of habit with an insatiable need to see familiarity in other people's actions. Your predictability gives them a sense of control. Turn the tables: Be deliberately unpredictable. Behavior that seems to have no consistency or purpose will keep them off-balance, and they will wear themselves out trying to explain your moves. Taken to an extreme, this strategy can intimidate and terrorize.

Do Not Build Fortresses to protect yourself - Isolation is Dangerous

The world is dangerous and enemies are everywhere - everyone has to protect themselves. A fortress seems the safest. But isolation exposes you to more dangers than it protects you from - it cuts you off from valuable information, it makes you conspicuous and an easy target. Better to circulate among people find allies, mingle. You are shielded from your enemies by the crowd.

Know who you're Dealing with - Do Not Offend the Wrong Person

There are many different kinds of people in the world, and you can never assume that everyone will react to your strategies in the same way. Deceive or outmaneuver some people and they will spend the rest of their lives seeking revenge. They are wolves in lambs' clothing. Choose your victims and opponents carefully, then - never offend or deceive the wrong person.

b>Do Not Commit to Anyone

It is the fool who always rushes to take sides. Do not commit to any side or cause but yourself. By maintaining your independence, you become the master of others - playing people against one another, making them pursue you.

Play a Sucker to Catch a Sucker - Seem Dumber than your Mark

No one likes feeling stupider than the next persons. The trick is to make your victims feel smart - and not just smart, but smarter than you are. Once convinced of this, they will never suspect that you may have ulterior motives.

Use the Surrender Tactic: Transform Weakness into Power

When you are weaker, never fight for honor's sake; choose surrender instead. Surrender gives you time to recover, time to torment and irritate your conqueror, time to wait for his power to wane. Do not give him the satisfaction of fighting and defeating you - surrender first. By turning the other check you infuriate and unsettle him. Make surrender a tool of power.

Concentrate Your Forces

Conserve your forces and energies by keeping them concentrated at their strongest point. You gain more by finding a rich mine and mining it deeper, than by flitting from one shallow mine to another - intensity defeats extensity every time. When looking for sources of power to elevate you, find the one key patron, the fat cow who will give you milk for a long time to come.

Play the Perfect Courtier

The perfect courtier thrives in a world where everything revolves around power and political dexterity. He has mastered the art of indirection; he flatters, yields to superiors, and asserts power over others in the mot oblique and graceful manner. Learn and apply the laws of courtiership and there will be no limit to how far you can rise in the court.

Re-Create Yourself

Do not accept the roles that society foists on you. Re-create yourself by forging a new identity, one that commands attention and never bores the audience. Be the master of your own image rather than letting others define if for you. Incorporate dramatic devices into your public gestures and actions - your power will be enhanced and your character will seem larger than life.

Keep Your Hands Clean

You must seem a paragon of civility and efficiency: Your hands are never soiled by mistakes and nasty deeds. Maintain such a spotless appearance by using others as scapegoats and cat's-paws to disguise your involvement.

Play on People's Need to Believe to Create a Cultlike Following

People have an overwhelming desire to believe in something. Become the focal point of such desire by offering them a cause, a new faith to follow. Keep your words vague but full of promise; emphasize enthusiasm over rationality and clear thinking. Give your new disciples rituals to perform, ask them to make sacrifices on your behalf. In the absence of organized religion and grand causes, your new belief system will bring you untold power.

Enter Action with Boldness

If you are unsure of a course of action, do not attempt it. Your doubts and hesitations will infect your execution. Timidity is dangerous: Better to enter with boldness. Any mistakes you commit through audacity are easily corrected with more audacity. Everyone admires the bold; no one honors the timid.

Plan All the Way to the End

The ending is everything. Plan all the way to it, taking into account all the possible consequences, obstacles, and twists of fortune that might reverse your hard work and give the glory to others. By planning to the end you will not be overwhelmed by circumstances and you will know when to stop. Gently guide fortune and help determine the future by thinking far ahead.

Make you're Accomplishments Seem Effortless

Your actions must seem natural and executed with ease. All the toil and practice that go into them, and also all the clever tricks, must be concealed. When you act, act effortlessly, as if you could do much more. Avoid the temptation of revealing how hard you work - it only raises questions. Teach no one your tricks or they will be used against you.

Control the Options: Get others to play with the Cards you Deal

The best deceptions are the ones that seem to give the other person a choice: Your victims feel they are in control, but are actually your puppets. Give people options that come out in your favor whichever one they choose. Force them to make choices between the lesser of two evils, both of which serve your purpose. Put them on the horns of a dilemma: They are gored wherever they turn.

Play to People's Fantasies

The truth is often avoided because it is ugly and unpleasant. Never appeal to truth and reality unless you are prepared for the anger that comes for disenchantment. Life is so harsh and distressing that people who can manufacture romance or conjure up fantasy are like oases in the desert: Everyone flocks to them. There is great power in tapping into the fantasies of the masses.

Discover Each Man's Thumbscrew

Everyone has a weakness, a gap in the castle wall. That weakness is usual y insecurity, an uncontrollable emotion or need; it can also be a small secret pleasure. Either way, once found, it is a thumbscrew you can turn to your advantage.

Be Royal in your Own Fashion: Act like a King to be treated like one

The way you carry yourself will often determine how you are treated; In the long run, appearing vulgar or common will make people disrespect you. For a king respects himself and inspires the same sentiment in others. By acting regally and confident of your powers, you make yourself seem destined to wear a crown.

Master the Art of Timing

Never seem to be in a hurry - hurrying betrays a lack of control over yourself, and over time. Always seem patient, as if you know that everything will come to you eventually. Become a detective of the right moment; sniff out the spirit of the times, the trends that will carry you to power. Learn to stand back when the time is not yet ripe, and to strike fiercely when it has reached fruition.

Disdain Things you cannot have: Ignoring them is the best Revenge

By acknowledging a petty problem you give it existence and credibility. The more attention you pay an enemy, the stronger you make him; and a small mistake is often made worse and more visible when you try to fix it. It is sometimes best to leave things alone. If there is something you want but cannot have, show contempt for it. The less interest you reveal, the more superior you seem. 

Create Compelling Spectacles

Striking imagery and grand symbolic gestures create the aura of power - everyone responds to them. Stage spectacles for those around you, then full of arresting visuals and radiant symbol that heighten your presence. Dazzled by appearances, no one will notice what you are really doing.

Think as you like but Behave like others

If you make a show of going against the times, flaunting your unconventional ideas and unorthodox ways, people will think that you only want attention and that you look down upon them. They will find a way to punish you for making them feel inferior. It is far safer to blend in and nurture the common touch. Share your originality only with tolerant friends and those who are sure to appreciate your uniqueness.

Stir up Waters to Catch Fish

Anger and emotion are strategically counterproductive. You must always stay calm and objective. But if you can make your enemies angry while staying calm yourself, you gain a decided advantage. Put your enemies off-balance: Find the chink in their vanity through which you can rattle them and you hold the strings.

Despise the Free Lunch

What is offered for free is dangerous - it usually involves either a trick or a hidden obligation. What has worth is worth paying for. By paying your own way you stay clear of gratitude, guilt, and deceit. It is also often wise to pay the full price - there are no cutting corners with excellence. Be lavish with your money and keep it circulating, for generosity is a sign and a magnet for power.

Avoid Stepping into a Great Man's Shoes

What happens first always appears better and more original than what comes after. If you succeed a great man or have a famous parent, you will have to accomplish double their achievements to outshine them. Do not get lost in their shadow, or stuck in a past not of your own making: Establish your own name and identity by changing course. Slay the overbearing father, disparage his legacy, and gain power by shining in your own way.

Strike the Shepherd and the Sheep will scatter

Trouble can often be traced to a single strong individual - the stirrer, the arrogant underling, the poisoned of goodwill. If you allow such people room to operate, others will succumb to their influence. Do not wait for the troubles they cause to multiply, do not try to negotiate with them - they are irredeemable. Neutralize their influence by isolating or banishing them. Strike at the source of the trouble and the sheep will scatter.

Work on the Hearts and Minds of Others

Coercion creates a reaction that will eventually work against you. You must seduce others into wanting to move in your direction. A person you have seduced becomes your loyal pawn. And the way to seduce others is to operate on their individual psychologies and weaknesses. Soften up the resistant by working on their emotions, playing on what they hold dear and what they fear. Ignore the hearts and minds of others and they will grow to hate you.

Disarm and Infuriate with the Mirror Effect

The mirror reflects reality, but it is also the perfect tool for deception: When you mirror your enemies, doing exactly as they do, they cannot figure out your strategy. The Mirror Effect mocks and humiliates them, making them overreact. By holding up a mirror to their psyches, you seduce them with the illusion that you share their values; by holding up a mirror to their actions, you teach them a lesson. Few can resist the power of Mirror Effect.

Preach the Need for Change, but never reform too much at Once

Everyone understands the need for change in the abstract, but on the day-to-day level people are creatures of habit. Too much innovation is traumatic, and will lead to revolt. If you are new to a position of power, or an outsider trying to build a power base, make a show of respecting the old way of doing things. If change is necessary, make it feel like a gentle improvement on the past.

Never appear too perfect

Appearing better than others is always dangerous, but most dangerous of all is to appear to have no faults or weaknesses. Envy creates silent enemies. It is smart to occasionally display defects, and admit to harmless vices, in order to deflect envy and appear more human and approachable. Only gods and the dead can seem perfect with impunity.

Do not go Past the Mark you Aimed for; In Victory, Learn when to stop

The moment of victory is often the moment of greatest peril. In the heat of victory, arrogance and overconfidence can push you past the goal you had aimed for, and by going too far, you make more enemies than you defeat. Do not allow success to go to your head. There is no substitute for strategy and careful planning. Set a goal, and when you reach it, stop.

Assume Formlessness

By taking a shape, by having a visible plan, you open yourself to attack. Instead of taking a form for your enemy to grasp, keep yourself adaptable and on the move. Accept the fact that nothing is certain and no law is fixed. The best way to protect yourself is to be as fluid and formless as water; never bet on stability or lasting order. Everything changes.

Book Review on the 48 Laws of Power by Robert Greene

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วันเสาร์ที่ 22 มกราคม พ.ศ. 2554

Kids Toy Review: LEGO Star Wars Lava Dragon

Introduction:

LEGO ® features 10 exciting new games for the year was introduced in 2010, the summer season. If your children build creative play, then these children will love on toy look serious challenge. You can also join in the fun, helping them to build an ethos entire season - including dice, board games and even some unique character. We are sure that the whole family will have a great time to play this game that requires a lot of construction andReconstruction. Here is some information about a game that are particularly fond of: Lava Dragon.

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Overall:

4.5 out of 5.0 stars

Main features:

This is a type of stroke, in which players try to climb a volcano in the first knight and a dragon summon. It is not so simple. Players must avoid lavaas climb, whilstalso testing their opponents being impeded progress. The intelligent and innovative Lego die ensures that no twoGames will always be the same, so the children can return to this exciting game over and over again. Lava Dragon is designed for 2 to 4 players, and a game lasts only 15 to 25 minutes so that they will never play with rifled bore. Lava Dragon is designed for children ages 6-8

Price:

About $ 9.99

Product Description:

Part of the LEGO ® product line games is provided with a nut Lava Dragon constructible LEGO ®, a rule, an EducationBrochure and 4 figures LEGO ® micro. The rules can during the game, a surprising turn, change the player interested and involved. The LEGO ® die a random element, the game as a continuous form. Essentially, this is a strategy game based on dice. Players will face a further challenge to create components on the board before the game LEGO ® required. Each player rolls the dice to decide whether to move his knight or a specific action is required.These actions include lava moving boxes or climbing ropes on the side of the volcano. Strategy comes when players use these special measures for the progress of another player to block. If the winner reaches the top of the volcano, he or she finds her knight on the lava dragon and fled victorious.

More product information:

Before the first game, players must build up the volcano from LEGO ® pieces with which they are supplied. After the volcanocompleted, begin to play. Instructions and rules are very simple. Basically, each player counts the tiles on the side of the game LEGO ® progresses colored die. The element of luck is to ensure that no two games will ever be the same. Faithful to the philosophy of LEGO ®, the game is designed so that players, new rules, which can then share the LEGO ® website for all games, players can upload.

Conclusion:

You can not go wrong with any honestthese new games LEGO ® at affordable prices for low cost. Lava Dragon is our favorite, but at this price, why not try some of these charming children's toys?

Kids Toy Review: LEGO Star Wars Lava Dragon

วันพุธที่ 5 มกราคม พ.ศ. 2554

Laneway Sydney's Best Bar - Grasshopper - Review

2010 was the year of the "little bar" Revolution in Sydney. We have seen a new furniture store bar almost every month. Grasshopper - one of the best - has just opened and there is a cut above the rest in every way possible. The hotel is located off the beaten path, is hidden on Temperance Lane. You'll find the small passage next to George Street in the CBD, and no, it is easy to recognize. One, just us and two more cards will not list the street. IfWant to finally find it, but for a real treat!

Grasshopper is the brainchild of Martin O'Sullivan, John Toubia, Richard Duff, Belinda Lai. These guys were responsible for the pop-up bar, 7M and we found a football in Lincoln and A Tavola in previous years. They took their skills, ideas and inspiration from the previous three stops and this is a perfect fusion of everything we do in a bar is cute and kitsch.

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Onfirst glance, the decor a little 'what is it? " I mean, come on, there is an area of grass on the front of the door. The position is now set on two levels. The first is the bar, the second is the restaurant. The bar area has to do images of men, Chinese Kung Fu, along the other side. to adopt, in accordance with the sustainable approach most businesses appear to have some old slides, coasters and lamps and chairs were used again collected from various auctions. The upper levelhas soft lighting, low tables and a TV stuck on static.

For food, we decide for the great shrimp cocktail. Now, I do not think you get the kind of shrimp cocktail, you might get to the local RSL. For the Grasshoppers prawns, grilled and served with shredded salad leaves of mango and avocado butter to give. Steak au Poivre and I feel the terrine of pork and parsley are also good. For the Grasshoppers really worth a trip, though, you have to taste the chocolate andPistachio tart.

The drinks are really what I gush. Served in recycled bottles of olive oil are all the numbers as a proper name. I like the concept of drinking from a glass. We are not only sustainable, but is a bit 'quirky and fun. I love the number 3 Gin, vermouth, orange, raspberry syrup and Campari are tempted together to create the ideal balance between sweet and sour, swirled. Some of their cocktails, like the number 7, are presented in glasses, but weall agree not to maintain the same level of attractiveness.

Drinking Grasshopper is not a cheap night. Of course, if you turn yourself into a position, you can return home with a bag on foot. Once you're here, but you will see how difficult that no evidence for what they have to offer to leave. There is a name of a security guard at the door and ticking as far as clothes go, that's what floats your boat. Grasshopper was given the award for Best Small Business 2010 and still the placeis not pretentious. Rather, it has a lot of class and, unlike other systems in and around Sydney, succeeds, a little 'fantasy, without boring. What else can I say? I love, love, love!

Laneway Sydney's Best Bar - Grasshopper - Review

วันจันทร์ที่ 3 มกราคม พ.ศ. 2554

Review of the novel - Castle Novel Element of Drama "Hatter's

1. Theme

This was a dictator that destroyed his family with his dictatorial ways.

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2. Main Characters

1) James Brodie: he was a dictator. It was a great and powerful man, over six feet tall. He had three children and an aged mother. He had bad behavior in the treatment of others, especially his family.

2) Mary Brodie: It was a beautiful girl of seventeen. He loved his family very much, but hated the behavior of his father. She was theonly one who dared to disobey his father.

3) Matthew Broderick: Er 24 years. He was thin and had a pale face. He also hated his father, but he dared not to obey him, until he went to India. It was a brave man

4) Dr. Renwick: He was a young doctor and a new Ford in Leven. He helped Mary to come to a better life. He also loved Mary very much and got married.

5) Dennis Foyle: It 's been a friend of Mary who was pregnant with Maria. He wantedMarried Maria, but Maria's father hated and rejected his request. He was dead on the train wreck.

3. Settings

1) Setting time: For the year 1879.

2) the setting of the place: Leven Ford (Lowlands of Scotland).

4. Brief History

There was the Brodie family lived in Scotland, a large manor house in Leven Ford, Lowlands. It 'was an unusual family. He was afraid of his neighbors. E 'was because the father was very dictatorial. HeJames Brodie was. He had three children and an aged mother, grandmother. He was very dictatorial, very proud of himself. It has always been proud of his money and his house, the Hatter's Castle.

One day, it was a mistake by Brodie first daughter, Mary Brodie had been. She was pregnant, but he was still married. He tried to hide, but eventually the father knew it and threw it away from home. He did not know where to go, nearly sank in a river. Then, your childborn, but her baby died because of this incident. This incident has been helped by Dr. Mary Renwick. His friend did not know anything about them. Foyle was Dennis. He died on the train crash at the same time her baby died.

Then Matthew Brodie, the only son of Brodie, also home to leave India to work with Sir John Latta. But not really want to do it. After several months he returned home and become a drunk. His mother, Margaret Brodie, worried about his condition, and thenshe fell ill. She has cancer and died. With this modification, two incidents, James Brodie is not his way. E 'was rude and impatient.

Finally, his beloved daughter, Nessie Brodie, also died. She hanged herself because she was afraid to go in winning the scholarship Latta failed. She did not want to meet her father and decided to hang himself. At this time Mary had returned home and were assisted by Dr. Renwick. Then Mary left Brodie's Castle and happy with lifeDr. Renwick.

In the end, Matt and Nancy's new friend James, in America. And it was only James and his grandmother, who lived in Hatter's Castle.

5. Moral message

The moral significance of history is that we can not force someone else to do what we want, because it might not be for us and good for someone else. We always accept the opinions of others and we can not give up something bad, to fight like a dictator.

The psychological significancethe story is that sometimes we endure what we say and do, make you happy just to do everything around us. We can not give up fighting evil. We must be stronger.

The social importance of history is that we take in relation to others and could always make everyone happy, as we could. We lived in this world are not alone. We always need others, especially our family. We can not survive without their support.

Copyright (c) Alim Aziz Ahmad

Review of the novel - Castle Novel Element of Drama "Hatter's

วันเสาร์ที่ 4 กันยายน พ.ศ. 2553

Mariah Carey Pop Music CD Review

Mariah Carey is the latest release from Pop Star Mariah Carey, and is another great one from this talented musician.

Mariah Carey launches with a great track, Vision Of Love, that I suspect will be heard on radio stations everywhere, and deservedly so. It really is a very nice track.

Mariah Carey is a pleasantly varied, mix of 11 tracks that are very well written songs by this clearly superb artist. Most of the songs display a lot of the kind emotion that makes for a really great listen. Seemingly drawing from what I can only imagine are her own personal experiences. At different points touching on the most real emotions like love, and the pain of failed relationships can certainly be heard.

If you're even mildly into Pop music you'll enjoy this CD. Overall Mariah Carey is an a great release. I give it my double thumbs up. You will not be disappointed with one single track.

While the entire CD is really very good some of my favorites are track 2 - There's Got To Be A Way, track 9 - Sent From Up Above, and track 11 - Love Takes Time

My Bonus Pick, and the one that got Sore [...as in "Stuck On REpeat"] is track 1 - Vision Of Love. What a nice track!

Mariah Carey Release Notes:

Mariah Carey originally released Mariah Carey on May 15, 1990 on the Columbia label.

CD Track List Follows:

1. Vision Of Love

2. There's Got To Be A Way

3. I Don't Wanna Cry

4. Someday

5. Vanishing

6. All In Your Mind

7. Alone In Love

8. You Need Me

9. Sent From Up Above

10. Prisoner

11. Love Takes Time

Personnel: Mariah Carey (vocals); Jimmy Rip, Vernon "Ice" Black, Chris Camozzi, Bob Cadway, Chris Toland, David Williams, Michael Landau, Nile Rodgers (guitar); Richard Tee (piano); Walter "Babylove" Afanasieff (keyboards, synthesizer, drums, percussion, programming); Louis Biancaniello (keyboards, bass, percussion, programming); Ben Margulies (keyboards, drums, programming); Rhett Lawrence, Rich Tancredi (keyboards); Marcus Miller (bass); Joe Franco (drums, percussion, percussion programming); Narada Michael Walden, Omar Hakim (drums); Ren Klyce, Ric Wake (percussion, programming); Fonzie Thornton, Billy T. Scott, Jamiliah Muhammed, Haven Clayborn, The Billy T. Scott Ensemble (background vocals).

Producers include: Ric Wake, Narada Michael Walden, Mariah Carey, Ben Margulies, Walter Afanasieff.

Engineers include: Bob Cadway, Rhett Lawrence, Dana Jon Chappelle.

Recorded at Cove City Sound Studios, and Shakedown Studios, New York, New York.




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