Animal Farm Movie Review

Finally this is my last entry for this assignment. After thinking for the best option, I decided to write a review on a movie ‘Animal Farm’ directed by John Stephenson. It is mainly about how the animals succeed to take revenge by standing together to stand with their rights. These animals have been treated badly by their owner and it shows how human manipulated the animals for their own needed. At the beginning of the story, it shows that the farm had been destroyed by the disastrous nature. The story begins when a female dog, Jessie tells the actual story that happens to them and what is the reason for all of their disastrous life.The story is about people and animal that strives to gain power and continue to use people under them without concerning their needs. This movie shows how people behave and treat all the animals without any mercy at the same time by forcing them to work. The owner, Mr. Pilkington is a very selfish person and often forgets to feed the animals. The animals finally gather together and planned to rule the farm and with Snowball as a leader, they succeed. However, as the time passes, the pigs got greedy and claimed that they will be the leader. Napoleon is the pig who took the position of the leader without discussing with the other animals and chased out Snowball. “All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others” is the phrase which Napoleon changed which making him and other pigs superior than the other animals.

Based on my understanding, the animal began to changed when they think they have powers. They become cruel and selfish when they forget what they supposed to do. We tend to forget about others to fulfill our own need. As a creatures who are gifted with mind, we can try to cooperate and appreciate each other. We can create a harmonious living by respecting others. It is important for each of us to create a harmonies living life since we are not living alone. Shows some respects to others if you want them to do so. Tolerance is the best way because we are depending on each other.

Fickle Friends

We all have or had people in our life over the years who are incapable of friendship. However, there might be something else that we did not realize rely on these friendships. ‘Fickle friends’ or 'frenemies' is associated with a complicated situations which is regarding ambivalent friends that occur in human being relationships. All of human being do experiences this kind of troublesome relationships with their ambivalent friends or known as “frenemies” which can be describe as a friend and at the same time is an enemy. For example, the well-meaning friend w ‘ho is overly competitive or the pal who is a pillar of support when times are tough but cannot quite takes pleasure in your successes.

Based on the article, the author do mentioned that blood pressure was more elevated in the presence of ambivalent friends than it was with people the subjects disliked. Researchers found that merely being in the presence of such a friend tended to elevate study peoples' heart rate and generally put them ‘on edge.’ Moreover, discussing a negative event with an ambivalent friend tended to send up people's blood pressure. This is because, we don’t expect much from someone we detest whereas frenemies, whilst unreliable, tend to promise more than they deliver. And that let down can adversely affect our health. Secondly, the more ambivalent friends a person had, the higher his or her heart rate and blood pressure were. Ambivalent friends are the types who leave us uncertain about whether they'll offer support or indifference, understanding or criticism. These mixed emotions may make it difficult to relax around such a friend. It’s obviously hard to find comfort from him or her when something goes wrong, the new study suggests.

But most people make a decision to keep their frenemies. The reasons why people still keeps relying on complicated relationships is because the relationship has a long history, because the good in the relationship outweighs the bad or because and for whatever reason, they just do not want to give up on the person. It is well accepted that we will not easily left our frenemies because of all the reasons stated above and that is why you need to know how to manage the relationships in order to minimize the pain they produce. Try out some simple strategies by avoiding previously problematic subjects or situations and at the same time give your frenemy’s motives a positive or at least neutral spin. It all rely on your own self in dealing with the situations by starting with controlling your own behavior and being the kind of friend you’d want others to be.

The Steve Jobs Nobody Knew

After 10 entries about Adolf Hitler, I am thinking to write an entry about anything else. So for this entry, I decided to make a review on an article "The Steve Jobs Nobody Knew". The article was written by Jeff Goodell who is an investigative journalist and a former employee of Apple Company. After Steve Jobs left us, it seems like everybody want to talk about the loss of one of the most influence people ever lived. While the others remain adoring, Jeff also did gave his pieces of his mind about Steve Jobs but in different way which is by condemning him with his article. The article is mainly about Jobs's actual personalities which had been a secret when he was alive. Most of people will adore Jobs because he is a genius who is a founder of Apple. He is the Bob Dylan of machines and the Elvis of the hardware. But, for those who knew Jobs best and had an experiences working with him, there are something rely behind Steve's personalities.

As informed by his close friends and workers, they were always struck by his abrasive personality which is his unapologetic brutality. He had cruelly a casual way of driving employees to the breaking point and tossing them aside. I think there must be something that drives his personality until he acted that way. It is because of his past experiences which is tough and full with obstacles. Actually, Jobs was put to adoption because his biological mother which was a young, unwed college graduate student felt very strongly that Jobs should be adopted by college graduates. Besides that, he also faced a difficulties during his college life because he can't find any benefits of going to college and nothing seems interesting to him. So he took a decision to drop out and learned by him self. Based on his experiences, we can see the hardship of Jobs from he was a baby until he formed Apple. The reason he pushed his employees is because he build the company with his own efforts and surely he will not let anybody bring it down.

According to Steve Capps who was one of the key programmers on the first Apple Macintosh, Jobs talk about death a lot. Most of people not always talk about this because they might think death is something negative. However, Steve Jobs managed to use it in positive way as a reminder to himself. Sometimes death is not a negative words because it can be a reminder that someday, everyone will die. Remembering that he is going to die is the best way  to avoid the trap of thinking he have something to lose. In addition, remembering that he will be dead soon is the most important tool he have ever encountered to help he make the big choices in life because almost everything which are all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure will just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important.

Steve Jobs had a longtime girlfriend, Chrisann Brennan and was blessed with a daughter when he was at age 23. Jobs decided to denied his paternity  and even trashed Brennan in public. He refused to provide her with any financial help and became a distant father but still dropping in on her infrequently. Actually, during that time, Jobs life was completely in great difficulties because his company was in trouble in creating a stable user interface for his first computer which was named with his daughter name, Lisa. At the same time, he also was pushed by his competitor, Windows which is owns by Bill Gates. Steve Jobs was in hardship and there is no way he will accept Lisa on the spot because he want to wait until everything is stable. In addition, Jobs think that he cannot be a good father to Lisa since he cannot managed his life well and Jobs want Lisa to live an independent life by facing the difficulties without a father at her side.

Last but not least, Jeff also claimed that Steve Jobs demanded perfection and originality in every detail. As an owner of Apple, it is normal and acceptable to become a perfectionist since it was his company. Besides that, when dealing in this kind of manufacturing business, perfection plays an important role because it can be a guarantee that the product can satisfies the consumers. Perfection is good because there is no need to repair the product since it is already perfect. Because of the behavior, Apple has become one of the best companies in computer manufacturing.

Steve Jobs still can be consider as the genius and be remembered as the man who brought the human touch to our digital devices. Every man makes mistakes since there is no perfect human being in this world. Jobs may have all these kind of personalities but there will be always a reason behind all the reflected behavior. It all depends on our own self to view it.

 "Stay hungry. Stay foolish"

9 Hours of Precious Moment

Last week, when i was in my way back to the college, i had an opportunities to sit beside of a German guy. He was heading a same route as me, from Kota Bharu Kelantan to Kuantan Pahang. Our bus started to leave Kota Bharu at 3 PM but along the way, i just remain silent because i was still afraid to start a conversation because i never had a chance to talk with foreigner before. Same goes as him, i thought maybe he had a thought that i will not be able to understand if he talk to me. So both of us remain silent until I decided to break the silent by asking where he was heading to. I was so glad because he was so friendly with me and his name is Garry. Since he is a Germany, i tried to ask him about Adolf Hitler because who might know it might be useful for this blog and luckily he was willingly to share his view about Hitler. So here is what he told me.

You know, this is one of the most often asked questions here. You could have asked any German about their opinion. The irony is, now the Germans know more about this topic than most other countries.

We have talked about this in school since the 5th grade and let me tell you, in school it is the most important theme. We have talked about in Religion, Deutsch, English, History, Politics and Biology. We have discussed it and talked about it and read books, watched movies and many more. Most of people that I have met here feel guilty and know they have to take care so it will never happen again. Nobody denies it happened here, in comparison to Russia.

Truth is I as surprised at how openly people admitted that they were very wrong. In Russia where I used to live there was a higher level of antisemitism and Holocaust-denial. At least here nobody denies it happened.

My teachers and everyone I have ever met are very much aware at how wrong they were and constantly tell their children, teenagers or pupils that they should be careful and never let that happen in the future.

Garry even ask for forgiveness from me for what Hitler had done to the world. I my self realised that Hitler is an evil dictator but i respect and was pretty impressed with Garry attitude. He think that as one of German citizen, he also feel very guilty for what Hitler had done. I am pretty sure that nobody want this tragedy to happen again. Everything in the past should become an important lesson for all of us in order to avoid the same tragedy in the future.

Stalking Hitler's Generals

I just woke up from my bed then straightly switched on the TV. However all the programs seems not interesting. Well i think it is normal because it was early in the morning. Then i was attracted to one program on National Geographic Channel which is related to Adolf Hitler. So I decided to watch it because it might be an interesting source for this blog. So here it is, "Stalking Hitler's Generals".

During World War II, Allied operatives went on secret missions to kill Adolph Hitler and his top officers, including Erwin Rommel and Heinrich Kreipe. Allied Special Forces launched daring wartime missions to capture or kill Nazi generals where they were stationed on the front lines of war. National Geographic Channel captures the real-time drama felt as the Special Forces commanded these dangerous and complicated missions to exotic locations.

There are two most well known generals in this documentary. The first one is Erwin Rommel or known as the Desert Fox which is a title given to him by the British. A brilliant tactician, Rommel received his nickname by guiding his elite Africa Korps to several decisive victories against British forces which took place at Libya. He had won the respect of both his own troops and the enemies he fought. The British army was driven to try anything that they could in order to capture Erwin Rommel. So they formed an Allied operatives team as a spy in order to capture him in a silent way. It took years before they managed to get inside Rommel's hiding place and he was shot to the death. However, the official story of Rommel's death as initially reported to the general public stated that Rommel had either suffered a heart attack which is believes as a conspiracy.

The second general is Heinrich Kreipe and the story took place at Crete, Greece. As commander of Infantry Regiment 209 of the 58th Infantry Division, Kreipe participated in the Battle of France and was awarded Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross award which is an award of Germany to recognize extreme battlefield bravery or successful military leadership during World War II. However, Kreipe story is different from previous general because he is famous for his spectacular abduction by the British. Same like Erwin Rommel case, an Allied operatives team consist of four soldiers was sent in order to get Kreipe. The team managed to get him while he was in his car, on the way to his well-guarded residence. The general was taken to the shore and they managed to get him off from the island by the boat. Kreipe was interrogated, and then transferred to a camp in Canada.

So, as a conclusion, by looking at the way the British immobilize all these generals, it can be conclude that their role are very important to Nazis. As we all well informed, Adolf Hitler alone is a great and honored leader. Together with all his generals, the Nazis is undefeated. The British had tried their best to defeat all these two generals with all the forces that they have but still failed. This clearly prove that Hitler's generals are the main part of Nazi armies after their leader, Adolf Hitler.

Hitler's Death, Fact or Fiction

This video is mainly about the conspiracy of Hitler's death. At the end of the video, the author ask what I think about this matter and automatically I starts to question myself whether is it true that suicide is not the main cause of Hitler's death. Since the first time we heard about the most famous dictator ever live, Adolf Hitler, we were clearly informed that the main reason of his death is by committing suicide inside his underground bunker by a gunshot. But there are several controversy statements claiming that Hitler is still alive during the tragedy. The most famous controversy claim is "Hitler is not dead. He escape either to Argentina or Spain" by Stalin.

When the Third Reich collapsed, the Russians were the first to enter Berlin and captured Adolf Hitler's last bunker. They made a claim that Hitler did not commit suicide but probably escaped. Together with that statement, they come out with several pictures that they believe as Hitler's corpse. Then rumors started to spread that the corpse is not the real Hitler but the fake that pretend to be Hitler as replacement so that Hitler could be glorified without dying. Many experts believe that the corpse found in that bunker is Weber because all bodies were there but they could not find Weber's body. To support this statement, the Allied Intelligence discovered that there is no bullet was ever found and the blood stains found on the sofa did not match Hitler's. Besides that, the body was burned and it is difficult to identify the corpse as being Hitler.

Adolf Hitler went to Antarctica which is known as Fuhrer's Shangrila. The Nazis had begun construction of buildings that were to withstand temperature to 60 degrees below zero. The buildings was his new hiding place and this place was never found until now. Then Hitler moved to Argentina and were never discovered.

I myself agree that there is a lot of mystery behind Hitler's death and he may not have died in the bunker. Eisenhower himself said “There is no conclusive evidence in existence that can prove Hitler is dead." Even the blood that supposedly came out of Hitler's head was not his blood type. If a detective noticed this he would conclude that this was not Hitler's body but it all remain secrecy. It could all have been made up by certain parties in order to cover up something. With all these statements, it all are sign of conspiracy to me.

Auschwitz Concentration Camp

Auschwitz is one of the five death camps constructed by the Nazis which the most streamlined mass was killing center ever created. It is the largest Nazi’s death camp because 1.1 million people were murdered here and most of them are the Jews. Auschwitz has become a symbol of death, the Holocaust, and the destruction of European Jewry. This camp housed prisoners and was a location of medical experiments. Besides that, it is the site of Block 11 which a place of severe torture and the Black Wall, a place of execution. At the entrance of Auschwitz, there is the infamous sign that stated "Arbeit Macht Frei" which means "work makes one free". Apart from that, Auschwitz also housed the Nazi staff that ran the entire camp complex.

These three pictures previews how the Nazis surround all the prisoners inside the concentration camp. The security is tight and there was almost impossible to escape from this hell. The fence was constructed high so that it is difficult for the prisoners to climb it. Besides that, it is equipped with barbed wire and to make it worse, the Nazis decided to channel high voltage of electric current to the wire. I think this is the main reason why all the prisoners continued to work there. They had no choice but to stay inside of the camp because there was almost zero percent of chance to escape.

During the detention, each of the prisoners life was really hard. They were thrown into the cruel, hard, unfair, horrific world of camp life. The next pictures shows some prisoner's belongings while they was there. Each of them were given one bowl to be used as multipurpose utility which was used as dish container, wash basin, pillow and chamber pot. Other than that, they were provided with wooden shoes. This shoes were claimed as the source of much pain, suffering and death among the prisoners because it is tight and rough. They caused blisters and sores, even fatal infection due to prisoner's weakened immune systems. Then, the last picture is some of the prayer shawls belongs to the religious Jews. When they arrived at the camp, all of these shawls were confiscated and were kept inside the warehouse. They were forbidden to practice their religion but to work only.

The last picture is the structures found at Auschwitz. The first picture shows the hospital block courtyard where the medical experiments were conducted. This hospital had no meaning to the prisoners because they view it as a pain rather than as a cure for their illness. Lastly, the second picture shows the only way out from this hell. It also seems meaningless to those prisoners because they knew that they will never had a chance to get pass through the gate. The only way to get through it is as a dead body which is after an execution or when they die because of illness.

Source : http://remember.org/jacobs/index.html