Capital punishment

With the development of the world , the rate of the crimes has increased rapidly, and the words like war, blood sheet , dark places became usual . as a result of that , different kinds of punishments has been applied , such as :fine, prison sentence, and the hardest punishment is the capital punishment in case of killing someone.
Most people around the world are against the capital punishment , because they believe in mercy and that the criminal should have another chance to be effective member in the society, those people suggest to offer the psychological treatment to the criminal instead of killing him with the hope of being a better person, but the worst situations , he cold put in jail.
On the other hand part of the people agree with the death penalty, because they believe that the murders deserve to die as a result of talking innocent soul and the other people, will learn and think twice before pointing a weapon to someone. Due to this, the crimes rate will decrees.
In my pint of view , it is fair to apply the capital punishment on the murderers, so the order people observe and prefer think to payback by killing their enemy. Also , our god mentioned in the holy Quran that the killer should killed and the criminal should be punished with a punishment that goes with his crime. And the result is that our community will live in peace.

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Portmanteau

Portmanteau

Portmanteau
A "portmanteau" is a blend of two (or more) distinct words to create a single new word that combines the meanings of the original words. More famous examples include brunch, smog, and spork. Portmanteau words should not be confused with syllabic abbreviations such as sitcom, Interpol, and parsec.
This usage of the word "portmanteau" (which originally was a French word for a small suitcase), was coined by Lewis Carroll in Through the Looking Glass, when Humpty Dumpty explains to Alice the meaning of the strange words in "Jabberwocky".
"Well, 'slithy' means 'lithe' and 'slimy'... You see it's like a portmanteau-there are two meanings packed up into one word... 'Mimsy' is 'flimsy' and 'miserable' (there's another portmanteau for you)."
From this specific meaning, the word "portmanteau" has come to take on a general meaning of any idea or concept that carries multiple or mixed elements or meanings. For example, a movie reviewer might say that the film "was a portmanteau of tired cliches and hackneyed dialogue" and an anthopologist might point out that "The word 'culture' is a portmanteau that can mean many things to different people."
Linguists have also taken up the word and created the technical linguistics term "portmanteau morpheme" to describe morphemes that fuse two or more grammatical categories. Linguists reserve "portmanteau" for this usage only, ignoring Carroll's original intent, and refer to portmanteau words by the less interesting term "blends."
But getting back to Carroll's definition of a portmanteau word, here are some notable portmanteaus (or "portmanteaux," if you're feeling particularly French today):

Electrocution, from electricity and execution
Edutainment, from education and entertainment
Administrivia, from administrative and trivia
Affluenza, from affluence and influenza
Animatronic, from animate and electronics
Emoticon, from emotion and icon
Infomercial, from information and commercial
Manwich, from man and sandwich
Quasar (quasi-stellar + star)
Socialite (social + light)
Telethon (television + marathon)

In conclusion the portmanteau word, formed by packing parts of two words together to create another, combining the sense of each.

My Fair Lady

My Fair Lady

My Fair Lady is an unforgettable theatre experience, transporting audiences back in time to an astonishingly real Edwardian London populated by a host of colourful characters. The themes of this spectacular musical are enduring and quintessentially English, and are as relevant today as they have always been. My Fair Lady is also a celebration of the power of music to tell stories, illuminate characters and beguile the audience.
Musical theatre provides a wonderful opportunity to study the interplay of lyrics, music and narrative in creating in-depth characters in a dramatic piece of work. And what better musical to turn to than My Fair Lady, rooted as it is in both a dramatic masterpiece and a great musical theatre tradition. Lerner and Loewe's creation, based on Bernard Shaw's 1912 play Pygmalion, is as much a classic play as a classic musical. A profusion of musical styles, characters, drama and comedy, My Fair Lady connects with audiences in the 21st century just as powerfully as it did in the mid-20th century.
The enduring character of Eliza Doolittle, Cockney flower girl turned high society debutante, serves as the pivotal role in a musical which seeks to examine class distinctions, society's prejudices, the gender divide, identity and transformation. Classic musical numbers 'Wouldn't It Be Loverly?', 'The Rain In Spain', and 'A Hymn To Him' evoke and bring to life these essential themes and the musical's diverse and absorbing characters.
This wonderful show teamed with this exciting new resource will bring My Fair Lady alive for your students, guiding them towards an understanding of the power of song and music and its ability to highlight and contribute towards the drama of a play. With the use of inspiring and creative materials, it will provide students with opportunities for imaginative and empathetic writing, drama, character analysis and criticism and debate.
In my assignment I chose a deferent way to write about my fair lady, I will do literary analysis.
Literary analysis:

1. Context

My Fair Lady is based on George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion, one of the favorite plays of all time. In this famous play, Shaw examines the influence of training and education on success and social class. He uses Eliza to show that training and education can help someone rise from humble beginnings to live a happier, more successful, and more confident life.
My Fair Lady was Warner Brothers' most popular musical romantic comedy. It was also their most expensive film up to that time, totaling in at $17 million. Part of the reason for the expense was that Warner Brothers had to pay $5.5 million to purchase the film rights to the already popular Broadway hit. My Fair Lady ended up being one of the top five biggest hits of 1964.

2. Summary and Analysis

Before the first scene of My Fair Lady, viewers sit through an overture where all the credits are shown on a background of beautiful flowers. Beautiful music allows viewers to begin to get the feeling of the film and its characters before the movie even begins. These beautiful, bright-colored spring flowers become the flowers that line the entrance to the Covent Opera House.
My Fair Lady begins as members of the upper echelons of society leave the opera house. As they come out of the building, it begins to rain and the upper class and lower class people mingle. As young Freddy Eynsford-Hill tries to get a cab for his mother, he bumps into Eliza, and causes her to drop her flowers. Eliza begins screaming about how he has ruined her wares.....

3. Characteristic:

Eliza Doolittle is a low-class, uncultured flower girl. To Professor Henry Higgins and other persons of his stature, her speech is painful and her actions uncouth. Viewers cringe and laugh as they listen to Eliza's outrageous and unimaginable Cockney accent that distinguishes her so hideously from the upper classes.
Eliza's emotional well-being is also not at all stable in the beginning of the movie. She has a fear of being observed that reveals her self-consciousness. Additionally, when she feels uncomfortable, she makes hasty outbursts at whoever happens to be around. However, we see her grow and change throughout the course of the movie, until she is a lady both in actions and in her mental and emotional states

Eliza was a poor girl she had a rood personality and she was impolite, Mr. Hegan changed her to gentle woman who has a strong personality and she became more confident in herself. She fell in love with Mr. Hegan but he did not treat her in a good way and she was ambitious and had a goal in her life and it was to have flower shop one day. In the other hand Barbra was ambitious and she dreamed to be successful in her book down with love, but the difference between then was that Barbra accomplished and she made her dream come true, but Eliza she made Mr. Hegan dream come true and not hers which was to have a flower shop. Eliza loved Mr. Hegan but he refused her, catcher block love Barbra but she didn’t show her inner feeling toward him, she kept refusing him.

4. Theme:

Social Class
Throughout the movie, we see social classes taking two forms, either high class or low class. In the time period in which the movie is set, middle class is not an option. Higgins' experiment is primarily focused on the possibility that social class has less to do with money or connections and more to do with proper education, training, and manners.
By using low-class Eliza as his pupil, Higgins (and Pickering) can prove once and for all that anyone can become a lady if only she has the proper information and training. By being trained as a lady and having lived on the streets, Eliza is able to transcend the requirements and standards of both classes, but that sadly leaves her in a "no-man's land" from which she has little ability

5. Symbol:

Phonograph
The phonograph represents a number of things throughout the movie. In the beginning, the phonograph is the tool by which Higgins examines a number of linguistic patterns. After Eliza moves in, Higgins uses the phonograph to train her in her speech and language habits. After Eliza has learned to speak correctly, the phonograph symbolizes her freedom and independence as well as her achievement in changing her long-standing habits. Finally, in the last scene, the phonograph represents Higgins' desire to have Eliza in his life, as he listens to it after he arrives home from arguing with her.

White Dress
As Eliza goes to the races, she wears a beautiful white dress. The white symbolizes her introduction and inauguration into "polite" society. Although the introduction does not proceed perfectly

I really wanted to change my way of writing, I chose my fair lady and analyze it because this story has many thing to study.

Freedom writers

Freedom writers

A real live inner-city school teacher tells it like it is today, when it comes to the dangerous myths perpetuated in movies like Freedom Writers. While the ongoing problems of poor working conditions, low pay, and lack of respect plague the profession, teachers are expected to be miracle workers and heroes in a failing system. A system that leaves millions of children behind in wretched, schools located in war zones.
A true hero leaped off to be my best hero I ever watched. Her name is Erin Gruwell, whose passion to become a teacher is soon challenged by a group of Black, Latino, and Asian gangbangers who hate her even more than each other. When Erin begins to listen to them in a way no adult has ever done, she begins to understand that for these kids, getting through the day alive is enough -- they are not delinquents but teenagers fighting "a war of the streets" that began long before they were born. Erin gives them something they never had from a teacher before -- respect. For the first time, these teens experience a hope that maybe; they might show the world that their lives matter and they have something to say.
The teacher Erin Gruwell has the distinctive characteristics of all teachers was in the same school, she is gracious she was friendly with her student she gives them the respect that they never had, she is intelligent she solved the a racial incident occurred in her classroom through many solutions, she used the situation to create an ongoing dialogue amongst her students, many of whom were plagued by violence, poverty, and despair in their own lives and neighborhoods, and were in turn, at odds with one another. Recognizing their oppressed potential, Gruwell challenged her students in a way that they had never been challenged before. Also The students have learned from people of many backgrounds. Rather than studying literature and history from textbooks, through reading, And through journal writing they boldly confronted the violence and hatred that had so plagued their lives, this Miracle teacher turned a group of at-risk teens into best-selling authors. She’s faith in, and dedication to, her students, Gruwell restored hope in those who had lost it long before, and instilled a desire to pursue higher education in teens whose own neighborhoods would likely have dragged them down otherwise.
In my conclusion I really liked the story, I liked the way Gruwell developed her creative model of education that turned to be a story of success, I liked her way of teaching and encouraging her student to be the best and solve their problems together. And I summarize her creative of education into three-stage process:
1. Engaged her students by establishing a collaborative and supportive academic environment that will draw the students into the learning process, help them make connections between whom they are as individuals and who they are as students.
2. Enlighten the students by making them practicing different kinds of writing, she made them write in journals about their personal life and public speaking, and becoming critical thinkers.
3. Empower your students by bringing the outside world into the classroom, and taking their classroom into the world.

It is the kind of movie that encourages you to think out of the box and to believe that small actions can make a difference.

Interview: Shaima sabt

For my assignment I chose o interview the Arabic actress Shaima Sabt who happens to be my sister. Ms. Sabt has been an actress for the past 20 years. She started since the age of 8 in local theaters and then moved to local television by the age of 10 and had her first big role and her first glance at the world of fame. During her teenage years she acted in bigger roles and was known all over the Arabian Gulf. She is now 30 years old and she has so far been in meaningful video clips thanks to her acting skills which get the viewers emotional, she has also been a host for television shows in the most watched shows on popular Arabic channels, acted in over a 100 seasonal series, hosted radio shows and had a few musical singles, basically, I would like to say I am proud of Shaima Sabt as a sister and as an Arabian woman because she is multi-talented.
Because she is well known and I am close to her, I feel like I can show everyone a different side of Shaima that they haven’t known. To do that, I have interviewed her by asking her unique kinds of question who define who she is when she is away from the spot lights.
The following are the questions I have asked her during our interview:


- Shaima, you have 3 degrees from the university of Bahrain and spent 10 years of your life as a college student; what were the majors you have studied, why, and what did you dream to study when you were younger but you did not get a chance to?

I love learning and studying, I have various interests and have an attitude towards learning all about each one of them. First I studied civil engineering because my family encouraged me to, but it was never a major that I really preferred studying. After that I studied media as it is my career and psychology because it interests me. One specific subject that always got my attention since a very long time ago was ‘Bio-psychology’. What is really special about this field is that it has the power to heal or in worst cases helps heal physical disease or illnesses through psychology. Unfortunately, it is difficult for me to pursue this dream at the moment as it has not been introduced to the Middle East yet.



- If you were going to be a business person, what would your specialty be?

I would definitely be in marketing, considering my experience and knowledge in that. I have been advertising and marketing products to television stations and their owners, which gives me a general knowledge and experience. You could say I have marketing back ground, that is why I am going to choose marketing.

- Away from business and studies, you were in a talk show called ‘Banaat Hawaa’ (girls of Eve) in the LBC; and during one of the episodes about United States president Baraak Obama, you were one of his big supporters, why?

First of all, because Obama got elected by not just one segment of the people of the united states, he was voted for by different types of people from the United States regardless of their race, tradition and origins (White, Black, Yellow, Asian, Arab, Latin…etc.).
Obama stated five main foreign policy goals:
· Bringing a responsible end" to the war in Iraq and refocusing on the broader region.
· "Building the first truly 21st century military and showing wisdom in how we deploy it."
· "Marshalling a global effort" to secure, destroy, and stop the spread of weapons of mass destruction.
· "Rebuild and construct the alliances and partnerships necessary to meet common challenges and confront common threats," including global warming.
· "Invest in our common humanity" through foreign aid and supporting the "pillars of a sustainable democracy – a strong legislature, an independent judiciary, the rule of law, a vibrant civil society, a free press, and an honest police force."

That is the main reason which makes me one of his big supporters and there are many issues that got my attention like issuing new statement of policies like economic policy, social policy, foreign policy. He mentions everything (health care, education, social security, wages, new payroll for taxes … etc).

Moreover his speeches regarding the Arabs were assuring the Middle Eastern as well as he's attempt to bring to an end the wars. On the other hand he's the first African American who made it through to the white house and turned out to be the president of the United States of America subsequent to the American slave era.

- After the discussion concerning politics and its supplementary, tell me about your favorite movie and why?

My favorite movie is Vanilla Sky, Vanilla Sky" is a scrupulously moral picture. It tells the story of a man who has just about everything, thinks he can have it all, is given a means to have whatever he wants, and loses it because--well, maybe because he has a conscience. Maybe not, maybe just because life sucks. Or maybe he only thinks it does. This is the kind of movie you don't want to analyze until you've seen it two times.
Each film on the psychological analysis of the figures must be complex, confusions or complication consider as a psychology but when it comes to you to mix compound «Aodib» with compound «Narcisse» and share with a «Electra» and «MIDAS» with the mix of «Brutus» the cook will ruin & get spoil No matter how was the cooker is psychologically a skilled

"Vanilla Sky" blurs reality and fantasy, veering into sci-fi territory. Most people have difficulty understanding this puzzling movie in a single viewing. I liked Tom Cruise's performance and thought there was good romantic chemistry between him and Penelope Cruz.
I've seen it two times. I went to a second screening because after the first screening I thought I knew what had happened, but was nagged by the idea that certain things might not have happened the way I thought they had. Now that I've seen it twice, I think I understand it, or maybe not. Certainly it's entertaining as it rolls along, and there is wonderful chemistry of two quite different kinds between Tom Cruise and Cameron Diaz on the one hand, and Cruise and Penelope Cruz on the other.
OK, for those of us still in the room, and without revealing too much: Julie drives up just as David is leaving after his night with Sofia, offers him a lift, drives off a bridge in Central Park, kills herself, and lands him in front of "the best plastic surgeon in New York" with a horribly scarred face. This time thread is intercut with another one in which a psychiatrist (Kurt Russell) is interrogating him about a murder. He insists there was no murder. Maybe there was and maybe there wasn't, and maybe the victim was who we think it is, and maybe not.
Vanilla Sky" has started as if it is about David's life and loves. It reveals an entirely different orientation (which I will not reveal even here in the room), and, to be fair, there is a full explanation. The only problem with the explanation is that it explains the mechanism of our confusion, rather than telling us for sure what actually happened.That's why I went to see it a second time. In general, my second viewing was greatly helped by my first, and I was able to understand events more clearly. But there was one puzzling detail. At the second viewing, I noticed that the first words in the movie ("open your eyes") are unmistakably said in the voice of Sofia, the Penelope Cruz character. If the movie's explanation of this voice is correct, at that point in the movie David has not met Sofia, or heard her voice.How can we account for her voice appearing before she does? There is a character in the movie who refers to a "splice." We are told where the splice takes place. But consider the source of this information--not the person supplying it, but the underlying source. Is the information reliable? Or does the splice take place, so to speak, before the movie begins? And in that case ... but see the movie and ask the question for yourself.

It's a movie without a doubt brings feelings of all human emotions from remorse to hatred and revenge and goes through to envy, love and all that comes to your mind and that goes through psychologists mind as well, and the meeting was spilled all issues in two hours, and that was a very serious weakness point in the movie where overcrowding could have made it ten films, and reserves Dozens of scenes surplus to decorate other films.

-In conclusion I would like you to talk about one of your dreams, what are your goals, in other meaning what do you wish to accomplish & are you satisfied with what you had achieved & done?

First of all there are many sides of dreams, like my personal dream to have a stable life full with happiness and to get married to a good person, in social side my dream is to be loved by everyone, and to makes a good influence to the society.
Since I started working I stopped playing sports, so my dream in the health side is to be healthy & playing sports. But the real dream that I really want to achieve is to be able to give a good influence to the public issues & resolve it in any good and possible way.
Finally I wish to all a happy Christmas & a new year and all the best

"BLACK" Movie

Black is her world. No sight, no sound and no words to speak. Young Michelle suffocates in the vacuum of her inner world. She is like an animal living in the dark.

Michelle McNally a girl who becomes deaf and blind after an illness at the age of eighteen months. Born to an Anglo-Indian family, Michelle is a bright, intelligent girl whose world is dark, black and silent. She cannot communicate with the outer world. Nor can she comprehend the forms and shapes of things.
This story has been written in philosophic way, as the Greek philosopher Heraclitus said “much learning does not teach understanding” this is an example for the time that Michelle family patience, but the teacher did not give up; he believed that learning is practice, good behavior; learning is the education of the mind, and the building up of performances, he continued teaching her the forms and shapes of things until she become well educated lady. Also as the Chinese Proverb said “Be not afraid of growing slowly. Be afraid only of standing still." This quote explained how Michelle faced her filer. Although she had field many times but she had never learned that there is something called impossible. Michelle is ambitions, she never give up, she & her teacher were dreaming to see Michelle wearing her graduation rob, they didn’t give up until she make her dream come true. He kept teaching her & she kept trying her best to reach to the topes point.
Lao TZU the Ancient Chinese his quote was about the opposite between things and related in such way. “Heaviness is the root of lightness” and in black there is many opposite things, but they focused in the black\dark Vs light, Michelle, she lived her childhood in dark she was surrounded in the black until she learned what does light mean, how could light makes her a life, light is knowing, learning, and education. Light is knowledge, she realized that light is the way to be free from darkness.
Michelle has many strong lady characters, she is intelligent, strong personality, survivor never gives up, ambition, and she is loyal, Debraj her teacher dreams to make her a graduate. But a quirk of fate awaits them as he slowly begins to lose his memory. He succumbs to Alzheimer's and one day she loses him completely, she is in search of her lost teacher She finds him after 20 long years, near her home with his memory completely gone that he cannot even recognize her, the reason was his debilitating health and his Alzheimer’s attacks make him bedridden. But Michelle never left him, she wanted to, return the favor that he been through with her in all events from the day she was a kid until now he is the one who made her educated.

Debraj, the tutor of manic proportions raging into the darkness like a Shakespearean tragic-hero. He played a strong role, he is the one who slowly introduces Michelle to the world of light and sound. With his help she tries to make sense of the pitch dark world around her. She learns her first words. The teacher becomes her constant companion and he has big ambitions for her. He helps her to get into a regular college and sits with her during class interpreting the lessons to her through hand contact to fulfill their.

Debraj is not only a teacher he is a brilliant teacher, he invented a new way of teaching, when he met Michelle he was so inspired to teach her, cause he believed that she is a human being & she can live just like any others can & she should be treated like others, not like animals or different. Debraj’s first encounters with Michelle are far from pleasant. But soon he realizes the immense potential the girl carries and decides to use entirely new methods to teach her. He teaches her the language of touch and smell so that she begins to learn about the things and creatures in the world she cannot see.

Debraj is smeller to Michelle, and may that why they are concerted, both are intelligent, strong, loyal, and they never give up, although Debraj slowly begins to lose his memory, he was trying to remember, he didn’t give up until he had the Alzheimer’s attack.
I really loved the movie because it’s one of the kinds it mixed of different feelings. It makes u laugh or cry.