A Kardian Tale

The tale I’m about to tell you, Its a tale about a town, the town of Kardia to be precise, of how it was on at its peak, how it got to its ruin, and how it became again a land of prosperity; but, even more important, who where the ones that took part on the succession of these events that Kardia….what we know now….

Chapter 1 The Begging of the Curse

Kardia was a beautiful place, it had many things to it, to the West Kardia had the “ Yule mountains” covered with snow all the year, to the East there were the “ Ostara plains” and the border to “Imbolc Lake”, to the South it had the “Litha beach” that became the “Beltane sea”, and finally, to the North the “ Laughhnassad Forest” that lead to a double path to the East the “Mabon Woodland” and to the West….the “Samhain Woods”.

The variety of places made Kardia the habitat of different animals and plants, making it colorful and lively all the year, it was a peaceful town, people lived with out problems nor worries, everything was perfect in Kardia……yeah, right……that was just the bright side of Kardia, now to the origin of its downfall ….

As many other places, Kardia had different buildings, a church, a school, a town hall, a square, a hospital, a library, a pub, an Inn, and many other things such as a blacksmith and the other kind of manual jobs, but, it also have an orphanage, a small one to that, that’s were our attention focus….you see, there was this small kid that got to the orphanage after his parents were killed by a thief…..right in front of his eyes…

Kardia didn´t have many visitors, so thief weren’t common…but they weren’t exempt of it either….so, this little kid, ” Camus”, was his name, he always out casted from other kids, and was really quiet, he stayed with many families but they just sent him back, for what the foster parents said, he just read and read, he always went to the library on his free time, only that, he didn´t showed any kind of emotion, well, except for a little puppy, when around the puppy, his eyes shined with happiness like those of a normal child, he took care of him, he seemed to be the only friend that the kid had made and it was fine with his caretakers….not taking action to it….was their first mistake...

He was always bullied by some older kids, but he just stared at them with boredom and what seemed to be despise, they would eventually get either tired, bored, or pissed at his lack of reaction and leave him alone, and just like that, one day, someone took him to the limit, they insulted him and thrown things at him and as usual they got the same reaction, but, one of them, the most troublemaker of them and also the older, graved his puppy, and started attacking him with a rock…it was cloudy and cold that day….

Camus tried to stop him, but seeing him react only fueled his actions, then he commanded some of the kids to hold Camus, he pleaded for him to leave the puppy, and he did….but to Camus shock….the puppy was already dead, the shock made his legs give up and he fell on his knees, shock, hurt and disbelief on his face,…..that….was their second mistake…..

They tried to tell him that it was just a joke, that he could get another puppy…..but he didn’t listened to them…. he didn’t moved at all…it started raining and only after some droplets of water had fallen on him, he stood up, cleaned his dry tears with his old shirt and made his way to the orphanage, stoic as ever, the kids looked at him, some with concern, others with pity, and one of them with anger because he seemed unaffected again, so he tackled Camus and started punching him, he didn’t got anything from him, the care takers scolded him and took Camus to the infirmary….that was their third mistake…

There he found books, many medical books containing information about the body, plants and herbs....some days after that incident and discovery, Camus went to check the books almost every day making the excuse that he felt ill…..then…after what seemed to be 3 weeks, the older kid, the troublemaker, went missing….the caretakers searched for him every where and he was not to be found, until they checked the Ostara fields, there laid on the grass was his cold dead body, with some weird liquid running down from his lips, he was poisoned, or so it seemed.

No one ever knew or got suspicion of who had been, but…. the worst doesn’t ends here, it only gets worse when Camus found…..” The Book”….

Charlie and his amphibious angels

This is the house of the Hawaiian multimillionaire named Charlie Monopolio. It is said that he bought this home in order to escape from the police of Europe and his 3 "angels" who are constantly searching for him because they are no more obeying his orders. This is an impenetrable fortress even though it appears as a vulnerable house were anyone could inrupt, but that's why he contructed it this way, in order for enemies to get confidence and, therefore, they get a great surprise. What happened here was that Charlie made multiple murders, accused of monopolio in "the angels" company, and fraud.

The 3 angels finally found this headquarter where Charlie lives and decided to attack him and get him prisioner to the justice. When the angels put the first step on Charlie's property the house turned into a fortress where alarms and lights were in all places, the angels had to fought agains the guards, one by one the guards were beaten. When Charlie saw this, he went inside the safetiest place of this home and threw them the assassin robots. The angels used their kung fu in order to dodge their attacks, but they weren't strong enough and called for reinforcements, suddenly, an elicopter appeared and threw some capsules, that apparently contained liwuid nitrogen. The angels used them to weaken the robots and destroy them.

Charlie seemed to be cornered, but he had a smile of confidense, because his face was always covered by the shadows no one had ever seen his entire face but his mouth. "Bravo! You have deffeated my guards and robots, I seemed to be cornered by you", Charlie said, "But I'm not, you are cornered by my special trained ninjas, a specie you hadn't ever seen, I'm talking of my special bodyguards: the TMNT (Teenage Mutant Ninjas Turtles)" Charlie said with proud and fearless. The angels were astonished by that coment seeing how They appeared from a platform from under the fortress, they were 4, therefore this mutant ninjas were more than the angels and the surrounded them. Charlie asked Leonardo to back him for extra protection, and ordered Raphael, Michaelangelo and Donatello to attack the angels.

The angels fought haardly against these teenage mutant ninja turtles, but they were to strong and agile, their shells protected them from huge impacts so they had the advantage, on top of that they were better armed than the angels. One of the angels notices the glowing eyes of the turtles and deduced that they were being controlled by some kind of device, so she start to search for it while battling, finally she found it on the neck of each turtle and communicated it to the other 2 angels. The turtles were commanded to kill them and they pusshed them to the water, were they obviously had the advantage. Raphael sliced one to death with his scythes, so he went to help michaelangelo, who had some troubles with the angel who got a sword, because his weapon is the nunchucks, both of them harmed the second angel when she tried to go to the surface to breathe, buth the thirth angel saved her with a special attack when she spins, so they got to the surface. the second angel was very wounded and wasn't going to survive, the thirth one knew how to deactivate the lasers by electrocutate them, but needed the turtles to stay underwater, th second angel volunteers to fight underater with them and die there.

When the three turtles were underwater trying to kill the second angel, the thirth one used a cable to pass the electricity through the water, that way putting unconscious the turtles and killing the other angel. Charlie gave Leonardo a signal and he went to slice into half the thirth angel using his two katanas. Charlie thought he had won, but the TMNT went out of the water and they eyes were not glowing any more, apparently the devices were burned with the electricity, Michaelangelo, Donatello and Raphael managed to get Leonardo still, and deactivated the device too. Charlie tried to escpae knowing that the turtles would want vengeance, but they managed to get him, they were really good turtles and got him prisioner to justice and gave him to the authorities.

At the end, all the angels died, but their goal was accomplished by the TMNT, so their deaths weren't in vain. Charlie was condemned to 900 years of jail and all his fortune went to the charity. The TMNT returned to New York and they kept living on the undeerground network with splinter. The TMNT happily ate pizza all nights after that .

The Little Princess Special Day

Today was like everyday. The little princess woke up, people got her dressed up and she ate breakfast. Then she got her hair, brushed, her teeth brushed and got cleaned up. Next she would have to go to the morning meetings with her parents and brothers. After that, she could hae a little walk in the mansion, which is what she was doing. She was getting really bored of this routine and she was only 5 years old!

After walking a little while, she saw a little object hanging from a tree's branch near a wall. It had the form of a doll. She got curious so she got closer to it to get a better view. It was the first time she had seen something like that. She wondered what it was and decided she would take it and ask one of the maids what it was.

The little princess was about to take it when she suddenly heard a voice from the other side of the wall. She got startled and fell down. It sounded like a woman. She looked up and saw a girl climbing up the wall. She looked like her brothers' age; maybe a little smaller. She also looked nervious, maybe because she was climbing the wall of her house. She called her and the woman fell down. Scared, the little princess went to her and asked her if she was alright. She got up and said yes with a little smile. Since there wasn't anyone around, she asked the lady if she could come with her. She looked a little nervious but decided to follow.

Once they were in the little princess room, she asked what was the object in the tree. She said it was her keychain. She had been flinging it around in her finger when it suddenly went off her finger and onto the tree on the other side of the wall. The lady was unsure of whether she should go for it or leave it there, since it went inside the mansion of the little princess and she was in a hurry to school. She decided she would get it and tried to be careful not to be found, until the little princess caught her. After that, she explained what a keychain was because she could see the face of confusion in the princess face.

After chatting for a while (the lady decided to skip school), they heard someone coming in their direction looking for the princess. Worried, she told the lady to hide in her closet. Closing the door just in time, she saw her biggest brother opening the door. He looked suspiciously at his sister. Normally she wouldn't even touch her closet door since her maids did everything. He casually asked what she was doing. She said she was looking for something. He asked if he could help her. She said he didn't need to bother with such things. He got closer to her and started to look around her room, when he suddenly opened her closet and found...nothing. The sister asked what he was looking for. Stranged, the brother said nothing and went outside.

The little princess waited until her brother was gone when she opened the closet and found the girl there. She asked how she made it to disappear. She smiled and said it was a secret. With that, she looked and her watch and saw it was getting late. She told the princess she had to go, but one day maybe she could come visit again. Happy with that, the princess helped her get back to the wall. Before she climbed the wall, she climbed the wall and gave the princess her keychain. She said it was going to be their secret, said good bye and climbed the wall. The princess stayed there for a while trying to remember the lady, when a maid called for her and told her it was time for lunch. The princess went to the maid and followed her. She started to remember this day which changed her boring routine, wishing for the next time she would meet the lady again to come fast.

A Last Resort For Love

In a far away village, hidden between tall mountains and deep valleys, guarded by the tall trees and the mist; there were two families, the Yues and the Guis. The Yues were wealth and important, half of the village belonged to them. The Guis were not really poor, but they still had to work for the Yues family. Both families had a heir. Nicholas Yue was a 17 years old man who wasn't as shallow as hius sister Rossy or his parents, he was more concerend about the poor people in the town and he tried to help them each time he could, he lived in a huge house at the tip of a a hill. Josephine Gui was a 17 years old girl whose parents, grandparents, and greatgrandaparents had been working for the Yues, and unforetunately, it was her turn to serve at the Yue House.

Once, Josephine was walking to the local market to buy the groceries for the week; she was just about to cross the street when a young man in a chariot passed in front of her almost runnning over her. Josephine followed the chariot, finding that the man was Nicholas. Angry as never in her life, Josephine yelled to Nicholas, but he just turn around and ignored her. Josephine, grabed his arm and slaped his face. Nicholas got mad as Josephine and yelled at her too. Between the noise and screams interchange, and after a long "chat", both were very tired and decided to make the peace. Nicholas invited her to dinner at his house, and she accepted without thinking it twice.

When they were together, they begun to know each other, and a relationship started. Each day, both went to the clear in the middle of the forest to talk and other things. When day, Rossy, Nicholas's sister frollowed him, discovering ther romance, and as the good sisiter she is, went running to her house to warn their parents. When Mr. Yue heard the news, he wasn't pleased at all, so he fired Josephine's father. Nicholas very angry went to Josephine's house to kidnap her so they could be alone. Just when she rode Nicholas's horse, Mr. Gui entered and saw her escaping. Very worried Mr. Gui told the bad news to Mr. Yue, who hired a detective to look for them.

The detective found them living in a small hut at the north of a near town. A friend of Josephine, Richard, who knew were they were, went to the town to warn them. They run away and looked for a witch who could cover their tracks, so they won't be found. The witch told the couple about an underground river which can take them to a far away land, and in the case they could be found she gave them bottles with a potion that can help them to escape.

The couple went to the cave were the river started. The cave was covered by gemstones and the water was deep green. They ride a boat and begun floating in the water, carried by the tide. The detective had informed the Yues and the Guis about their hut and sent a big number of cops to take them back. When they arrived it was late, but they still could contact the witch, who betrayed the couple and revealed their ubbication. When they were midway to the far land; they heard the cops approaching and the screams of Nicholas's father. Desperate, both drank the potions which transformed them into birds who will live forever as far as they love each other till the end of the times.

Chain of hatred

" When hate becomes your sword, its a double edge sword, cause it will destroy to your enemies, but it will also destroy those who you where trying to protect"

It all started when the sakura was at the point of blossom again, I was trying to understand who did all happen, why to me, why to them. Why ? My mind couldnt believe all that had happened, my house, my father my mother, all was getting destroyed in a sea of flames and a guy in black coat laughing seeing all the destruction. And when I get up injured, I was alone, throw in the floor seeing the sakura tree.

I decide that I will go to look for the one that do that to my house, I will found him, in this life or in the other. . . And so my journey start, I pass through all type of places, asking for the man of the black coat, in the time of my journey my hate was growing, stronger and bigger , so when the day that I could find the man of the black coat, he will suffer the same way he make me suffer, I will make him feel the same way I feel when all the people I love die in that sea of flames.

Trough my journey I gained knowledge of all the towns that men was so I pass through one of them , and when I pass through a little town and in there I see her a girl as beauty as the full moon, her hair was of black color , and her eyes were of a rare violet, she was dressed as a maid of the inn, when I see her at first time I didnt knew what would happen, she ask me to go near her, I couldnt say no, so I go near her, she invite me to the inn, I accept the invitation.

When we talk she offered me a sword, she said

- This is a gift, that the Goddess of revenge accompany you in your journey.

Later I discovered that having violet eyes was a signal that she was working for the Goddess of revenge. In the forest of the thousands sins I saw the gift, a sword, it seems clear but when I saw it it was really clouded, and it become black as charcoal, but I could read something in the blade. . .

" IF YOU WANT TO KILL HIM, BE SURE THAT YOUR HATRED BECOME STRONGER "

Since that moment, everyone that pass through the forest, kill him, my hatred become stronger, and stronger, 6 months had passed since I start looking for him, but at the last, I knew where to find him, he live in where all started, he put his house in the place where he burn my family and all, so I go there,

When I see him he was more old, as if time had make him more damage than to any human, when he open his eyes, I saw, he had no eyes. . . and he said

- Whats up, did you come for revenge or only to finish that pact ?

-What pact? I didnt make any pact. . .

-Sure you did, that sword you are carrying, is black as charcoal, I cant see it, but you must know, that sword will kill me, but you know . . . what will happen to you if you kill me with that sword ?

- I dont care anymore !!!

I cut his head with the sword, his head fall in dry to the floor, but then I understand, I did a pact, a pact with the Goddes of revenge, she do her part but what will happen to me ?

- You must repay with eternal hell. The girl of the violet eyes was there but this time she had a sword, she stab me and I get unconcious. . .

When I open my eyes I see a path of stones a path that I couldnt see and end, at my side it was the man of the black coat , but he was seeing younger and he also had a lot of chains with him, and he said:

- This is the way to the gates of Rodin, or the other name will be, the gates of Hell.

- Why Im here, I did justice.

- Sure you did, but tell me do you see those chains around you. . .

He was right , my whole body was with chains , more than him , I couldnt move any part of my body. . .

-You will never pass this point, demons will come and torture you, but you will never be able to enter the hell, you will suffer forever, for your sins against all , those are the chain of hatred, you commit a lot of crimes in order to kill me, but in the end you get the worst part. . . you are more evil than what I was. . .

He start walking, and now I was alone, alone with the chains of the hatred. . .

2nd Partial Blog Assignment: How to complete a homework assignment

Brainstorm: homework, work, disponibility, patience, goals, school, good grades, planning of the task

In order to complete a homework assignment, you must first want to make it or complete this task for a specific goal, like having a good grade. In this essay I'll talk what you can do or need to have present in order to complete this assignment. As I'd already written on the brainstorm, what you need to have is disponibility, patience, to hace goals, and to think on how to plan this assignment. This means that you need to do a lot of work and know some useful tips for it being easier. These tips are difficult too learn by ourselves and are, for example, to divide a huge assignment into small ones.


To complete a homework assignment, whick usually are very long or difficult, you need to have a lot of patience and to know very well whick are your goals, after that the planning comes. If the homework is very difficult or you can't resolve it, it is good to check your precious notes to see some examples or theory. You could also ask for help, but remember that the homework is for you to practice, so you should be the one doing it. It is extremely important to do these assignments in order to have some good grades and for us to learn more about things by practice, that's why there are some techniques in order to make them easier, like dividing a huge assignment into several easier assignments in order to complete it and have less lazyness. Lazyness is our worst enemy.


After planning how to do the assignment, the difficult part of it starts, the action of doing it. As I said, lazyness is our worst enemy and needs to be battled only by ourselves, by doing this small tasks in order to complete the homework it is easier to evade it. You have to have enough time to complete this homework, if not then you are not going to finish it, that's why it is better if you start the homework as sooner as possible. It is impossible to finish a project from one day to another, so time management must be ideal for completing it. Also if you have a greater manage of the class from were the homework is, then the homework will be easier to you, so paying attention to the class is very important.


In conclusion, to complete a homework assignment in a good way, wat you need is to have patience, time, tips, between other things. You have to have a clear goal in mind in order to be inspired to complete the assignment, if not then you are not going to be motivated enough to continue doing the homework. If you continue following this instructions you should complete this homework assignment without problems. It is needed a special place where you can do this homework without interruptions. There are many other tips or techniques that you can use, but it is up to you to create them or learn them in other places, because they're a lot.

Blog Assignment #2-How to get in a teacher's good side

Brainstorm
teacher, favors, homework, works, chats, participation, attention, help, attitude, appearance, impression.


Normally, if you are asked how you imagine a person in a teacher's good side. Most of the time we could imagine a nerdy person but, it isn't always like that. If you make the correct moves, even you can get in a teacher's good side. To get in a teacher's good side it takes time, a lot of determination and sometimes good acting. So, I'll tell you the steps to get in a teacher's good side.
First of all, the first day of class is the begginning of all. You need to look as good as possible, and I don't mean only by the appearance. You have look happy, enthusiastic; don't give a look of indifference or like you don't like the class. Avoid talking while the teacher is presenting himself or herself. If you sit in the front, it will be better, but that is only if you want. Once you do this, you might have catched the teacher's attention. Then, the next day, take notes of what the teacher says. If the teacher asks questions, participate as much as possible, even if you have to look directly at the book for the answer. With this, the teacher will see that you pay attention.
After some time passes, the teacher should be quite good with you. Next, we will start chatting with the teacher. Like this, the teacher will see, that you are a good and hard working student (if you really are, if you're acting, you're GOOD). You can also do some favors to the teacher, or help him or her in whatever you can. The point here is that you can get even more points from the teacher. You have to also finish your class works and bring correctly the homework (or copy from the nerdy one of the class, whichever is more easy for you). With all of these done, you should be completely in the teacher's good side. We only have to see how it goes in the exams.
In conclusion, by being or acting like the good student, you can get in a teacher's good side. You can get some benefits, even though they might be like nothing. You could even get certain chances but, don't think that by doing these, school will be easier for you. These steps are only so you can get along with the teacher and so the class can be easier for you, but it is better to achieve your grades and everything by your own hardwork. Anyways, with these steps, I can tell you that you will easily get in the teacher's good side.



Note: Teacher, I tried indenting but I couldn't for some strange reason so don't get some points off please xD

2nd Partial Blog Assignment #2

How to make brownies?

Brainstorm
Brownies, milk, cake, oven, tray, cream, cream cheese, cheese, chocolate, chocolate chips, butter, eggs, sugar, bread, desserts, cups, coffe, almonds, spatula, lumps, mixer, bowl.....


Have you ever been in need of making something because family and/or friends are coming over?, or you’re going to their place and don’t want to go empty handed?, well, here I´ll explain the processes to a easy to make and delicious dessert, the brownies, but I don’t mean brownies like ones sold at the store, this are different. To make the brownies, first you need to gather the next materials: 1 box of chocolate flavor flour, 1 ½ cups of water or milk, 4 eggs, 2 bars of cream cheese, ½ cup of sugar, vegetable lard or baking spray, sliced almond, chocolate chips, 1 tray or baking pan, 2 medium bowls, a mixer, a spoon and a spatula.

First turn on the oven for preheating, leave it at 360°C like for 20 minutes, in the mean time you can start making the mix, now take one of the bowls, the mixer, 2 eggs, the sugar and cream cheese; put the cream cheese into the bowl, pour the eggs and the sugar and start mixing it carefully until it has a creamy consistency, try it to make sure it has the right quantity of sugar, if not, you can add more sugar, make sure that the mix doesn’t have lumps of sugar and then leave the cream mix there, we wont need it until later.

Now, take the other bowl, the clean one, and put the flour into it, pour the rest of the eggs and the milk/water, use the mixer, it doesn’t matter if you didn’t cleaned it since the final mix will have cream on it, so it will eventually be on the mix, but don’t pour any cream from the first bowl into the second mix yet, now putting that matter apart start mixing everything carefully and again, make sure that you dont leave any lums of mix because it will cause the final pruduc to not get as good as it could get.

Now that we have the chocolate mix, pour it onto the tray which you need to make sure its covered with a thin layer of vegetable lard or baking spray for it to not stick to the tray, now that the mix its spread on the tray, grab the bowl with the cream and grab a spoon of it and pour it onto the tray, repeat this so that the brown from the chocolate on the tray haves cream spots on it on a dotted pattern; now you put the sliced almonds and chocolate chips as you like and you can grab a knife and move it on a wave pattern to give presentation to it and spread the cream, almonds and chocolates a bit, but that’s optional.

With the final mix on the tray you just need to place the tray on the already preheated oven, leave it at 180°C for 40 minutes and your brownies would be ready, just take them out and wait for them to cool down and you may cut them and serve them.

How to cook "puntas al albañil"

If you like beef, but flavored with onions, peppers and more, follow the next steps. The "puntas al albañil" are very easy to do and quickly. The ingredients are founf anywhere and they're not very expensive. The ingredients are the next ones: 2 steaks, 1/4 of bacon, 1 onion, 4 or 5 green peppers, a clove of garlic, 1/2 tea spoon of ground black pepper, salt at choice, english sauce (if you don't have, you can use common soy sauce), and cooking oil (preferently olive oil). Follow the next steps to prepare the dish.

First, take a pan and let it heat for 2 minutes. Put the oil and extend it through the pan. Put the steak on a dish and add as much salt as you want on both sides. Put the meat to roast at low flame. When the meat begins to look brownish put it apart.

Next, dice the onion, the garlic clove, and the green peppers in very tiny pieces. Put them in the pan with little oil. Wait until the onion goes thin and yellowish and begin dicing the bacon. Put all together and add the black pepper. Add the english or soy sauce to the ingredients.

At last, cut in strips the previously roasted steaks. Add the strips to the bacon and the sautéed vegetables and put on more sauce. Cover the pan with a big dish or a top in order for the plate to absorb the flavors. Wait from two to five minutes so don't let the meat to overdone. Put the finished plate in a saucer and complement the beef with a garnish of rice or mashed potatoes.

PROCESS ESSAY

Well im going to explain how to prepare rice a la Ross. In order to make rice a la Ross we need the following things : 2 frying pans, a fork, a knife with a lot of edge, a cereal plate, oil and a normal plate.
For the ingredients we need: rice all ready prepared, 2eggs, 2 carrots washed and peeled 2 pumpkin , soy sauce , oregan and other species at your own.
When you got all the ingredients and the stuff you can start wih the preparation of all.

The first step is to put the frying pan in the oven, but dont turn the flame now, you must prepare the eggs , for this you must break them and then start spinning them with a fork in a dish for cereal, spinned until the egg get a total semi homogeneus look, then put the flame on high and then when the temperature is correct put the egg and wait until it gets cooked, once it cooked correctly put of the frying pan and continue with the next step.

For the next step you must get a knife with a lot of edge, and start cutting the cabage and the carrots when you cut them try to cut them again and again until they get very little, this is for making tha flavor more easy to be feeled when you eat them wi th the rice and get a better look so, next step is to put them in the frying pan until they get fry enough, when you do that next step is to put the rice and the egg and start mixing them in the frying pan.

Finally you have to put the soy sauce and the species , cause the heat in the frying pan will make soy sauce evaporate you can put something to cover up and mantain more flavor but that is at the taste of anyone, and then for the final step you can eat the rice with a fork, or a spoon i dont know what you use,

Slumdog Millionaire (Blog assignment #1)

7. In one exchange of dialogue in the film during the interrogation of Jamal, the police inspectors discuss the
impossibility of what Jamal knows.
Police Inspector: Doctors... Lawyers... never get past 60 thousand rupees. He's on 6 million. [pause]
Police Inspector: What can our slumdog possibly know?
Jamal Malik: [quietly] The answers.
Discuss the irony in the film that Jamal “knows too much” and is suspected of cheating. Discuss the irony that in the end, his poverty may make him rich. What point is the film making? What is real wealth?
It's because of the consecuences of his life he knew the answers. The irony is that, like, since his life had been of a hard childhood, all of that experience was helpful in the end to make him rich, to know the answers, the karma came back to him, a little late. The point is that no matter what hardships you go through, in the end, you will be repayed depending of how you overcame the hardships. Real wealth is knowledge, loving the person you like and that person loving you back, that is real rich, because moeny is just something material that might be lost easily, while the others can't be lossed, or at least not so easily.

8. The game show format brings into to focus the culture of meaningless competition. What does the spectacle of the game say about what people value today? What values does the media promote? Are they humanizing values?
The media promotes money, beauty, looks, fashion. This are not humanizing values because they are just superficial values; the imprtant ones are respect, responsability, tolerance, and many more, which help the world be better.

9. Greed, corruption and the misuse of power are highlighted in the film through a variety of characters. How are those who have money and power glamorized in this film? What happens to the victims?
The people with money are most of them seen as corrupted people, like the mafia or Maman; they are seen as powerful people, most of the time untouchable. Maman took kids, took advantage of them and made them beg for money. Once they learned the song he teached them, he would burn their eyes, because a blind singer got more money. The mafia man let Salim be with him, so he took Latika with him, and Latika was forced to be with the mafia man, and she had almost no liberty with him. When Salim betrayed him, he killed him.

11. Describe how loss, chance, luck, suffering, and street smarts are also characters behind the scenes. The film explores gain and loss side by side. Triumphs are tempered with loss. Where do you see this evident?
Jamal's childhood was of poverty, when he grows up he becomes rich. Salim after working with the mafia got rich and had power, but later is killed for all his bad deeds. Latika always gave herself away to help Jamal, in the end she is able to be with him. Maman takes kids to take advantage of them, he ends up killed by Salim. Many of Jamal's answers were because of bad experiences in his life, like when his mom was killed.

Slumdog Millionaire questions

4. Compare and contrast three pivotal choices or decisions made by Jamal and Salim. How does their choices affect their respective life or "destinies"?

Decision 1- Salim kept Jamal trapped on the bathroom making him impossible to go out and see the famous person. Jamal has to go out through under the bathroom and dive into the "shit" of all the people. If Salim hadn't trapped him on the bathroom, Jamal wouldn't had had the famous guy autograph, and therefore, maybe he wouldn't have answered correctly the answer when he grow up, probably changing all the story of th movie.
Decision 2- Jamal and salim tried to escape and Jamal brings Latyka with them. Salim decides not to gring Latyka with them on the train. If Latyka would have come with them, then the story woud have changed and probably no one would have got involved in the mafia or maybe they would live on a different part of India, Jamal wouldn't had participated on "Who wants to be a millionaire."
Decision 3- Salim lets Latyka escape from the warehouse of the mafia. Latyka goes to a part where she sees the program where Jamal plays. This way Jamal knows that she's alright and they communicate later through his brother's celphone.


5. Is ethical decision making possible when one must make choices based on survival? Do seemingly "bad" choices make a person bad?

Ethical decisions are always present and sometimes one must make some decisions that are everything but ethical, those "bad" choices one make in order to protect other people or knowing it's the easiest way to survive due the circumstances doesn't make you a bad person, they are necessary for the best of them and sometimes they make you a better person.


6. What do you think the film is saying about the globalization of culture through media? We see the game show "Who Wants to be a Millionaire?" adapted in the Indian culture. Is this a sign of progress? Why or Why not? What is this film staying about the effect of money on culture?

Culture through the media is reflected on the movie by seeing how culture on the India really is and how all the people there lives and are treated. How those people are killed by muslims and viceversa and what they have to do in order to survive.
This game adapted to the Indian culture IS indeed a sign of progress, because it reflects how the India starts to progress on the economy part and how financially is starting to develope, because such a game wouldn't exist on a country where only poor people exist.
Poor people on the India are really poor and need more money, that's why they all steal things, money and food. Some of them are in urge of money and that's why they go with the mafia in order to obtain it, in India the money is really hard to get in a legal way.

Blog assignment #5 Slumdog Millionaire

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• In one pivotal scene, the show’s host tells Jamal his own story about coming from the slums. He then gives
Jamal the wrong answer written on the mirror in the rest room. Why did he give Jamal the wrong answer?
Probably because he wanted him to lose all the money just because he was a boy of the streets, and he didnt like it that someone could win that much money on HIS program.
What did Jamal do?
He looked at the host at the eyes and decided to put in question his actions, either way, the money wasnt really important to Jamal, he just wanted Latika to see him on the show, the money was.....like a bonus.
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In the final scene, we see Salim and the choice he makes - filling the bathtub with money, etc. Why does he make this choice?
Well, by killing the leader of the organization he would free Jamal & Latika of the worry of being chased and killed, to me this was lika a way to be forgiven, a way of redemption, and I think he filled the bathtub with the money, because, everything he did, even if it affected others, was with the purpose of getting money, so, at leats he died with a lot of money, he achieved his goal of having money.
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This film weaves together nightmare and impossible dream. What do you take away as the most
important message or impression from the film?
That it doesnt matter, good or bad things, always leave a lesson, if you learn from that lesson, you grow and build a better life for yourself.

SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE

1. What does the title mean? How does the title and the contrasts within it provide symbolic summary of the film?

1. A guy from the streets that becomes millionaire, it gives a features of symbolism making you think how a guy from the streets can become millionaire.

2. Early in the film we see the young Jamal dive into a Latrine pit to steal a glimpse at a visiting movie star. How does his single-mindedness to see this movie star reveal his determination? What other examples do you see in the film of his determination ?

2. Because if he is able to throw himself to a latrine pit just to see his favorite movie star, then what make us think that he would do other things to get what he want with a lot of effort. And an example of that is how he search for Latika, until he find her he didnt rest or nothing.

3. In the film the theme of destinyt is a central theme. What does it mean that all Jamal desires is just out of his reach ?

3. That Jamal efforts to get what he wants are so much bigger that does desires of him can beat destiny