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"