Kathmandu

The helicopter flew into our forests two days ago, chopping the air like a large dragonfly with gauze wings splayed, plastered in metal and broken. We heard it in the dawn and I wiped the dew wet inside my ears so that I could hear it again, chopping the air through our trees. The men jumped up, and so did he, hush-hushing the fear and surprise. I forgot to breathe. We found it today, sunning itself, its shadow short in the high hours of noon, waiting. By the time I got to it, running, yelling,…

liquid from the floor and squeezes it out. "Still tea," he chuckles. (Little Buddha) Lama Norbu comes to Seattle in pursuit of finding the reincarnation of his dead teacher, Lama Dorje. His search leads him to young Jesse Conrad, Raju, a waif from Kathmandu, and an upper class Indian girl. Together, they travel to Bhutan where the three candidates must undergo a test to reveal which is the true reincarnation. Intermixed with this, is the…

The people who are selling their kidneys are selling them for less than a used car, this says something about how desperate they are for money. The hot spots for kidney trafficking are places that are very poor. “Kavre, a tiny district, close to Kathmandu, and what activists and authorities say is a ground zero for the black market organ trade in Nepal.” This is a where most people don’t make enough money for a meal in a day. This causes people to be in desperate situations to acquire any form…

Walt Disney Studios Motion Picture’s production of Doctor Strange introduces the main character, Doctor Stephen Strange, with him washing and prepping his hands for an operation. The strategic use of close-ups of Strange’s hands and especially the scene when he saves a “brain dead” patient by performing a suboccipital craniotomy without image guidance, clearly emphasizes that the movie is centered on his hands. Geared towards showing the importance of Strange’s hands is during the car crash…

The 20th Century was a major player in the making of history. These quick 100 years held two world wars, an event that has never happened before. During this century, many minor nations were taken advantage of, mostly by major nations in order to keep power during both wars. One of these minor nations was Nepal. Nepal lost its independence to the British in the 19th Century but was able to gain independence back in the 20th Century. This task of gaining independence was unique due to the fact…

1. Read Preface, Introduction and Chapters 1-3 in Youth Development. Please post your key learning insights from the reading and share your own experiences as they relate to the reading. 30 pts. In the chapters 1-3 in in the book, Author Rick Miller, gave a detailed insight on the children’s nature of the different age. From the early age children’s are introduced to both positive and negative environment. Parents can try, but there is no such way that any they can plan and provided the only…

Gender Issues Is domestic violence caused by the patriarchal values of our culture or is caused by individual, socioeconomic or psychological factors? In today’s world, people believe that there is more equality in gender. In Modern Industrial Society there have been increasing career opportunities for women in the society, men have been acknowledged in their interest field, such as cooking. In the feudal era, men were the dominant gender in the society. Women were restrained to the four walls…

Many men spend their entire lives chasing an impossible or unattainable dream. Peter Matthiessen was no different. Matthiessen dreamt of the elusive and beautiful snow leopard, and longed to lay his gaze upon it, a sight that only a lucky few have ever been blessed with. This was Matthiessen’s unattainable dream, which took him through Nepal, across the Himalayas and through the Tibetan Plateau, which Matthiessen detailed the journey in his novel The Snow Leopard. When George Schaller and…

In Catherine A. Lutz and Jane L. Collins’ book Reading National Geographic, they claim that the National Geographic Magazines tend to portray third world cultures as exotic through photographs to make it easier for Westerners to dominate and marginalize them, even if this is unintentional. “We are pointing to the nature of its photographs as mass-produced images sold to a reading (viewing) public” (Lutz and Collins 1993: 5). This implies that National Geographic’s main focus is for readers to…

"The real hero is measured not by the size of his strength, but by the size of his heart". When I was a kid a lot of people asked me who my hero was and I often responded with a name of some celebrity who performed a cool stunt or had strength. As time passed by and I started understanding things, I understood hero is not someone who has strength, power, skills. Infact hero is someone who has a bigger heart, someone who has more love to give than strength, or someone who is skilled on thinking…