Panorama

Within minutes of hearing the news on the radio I booked a flight to Israel. On this occasion I went as a private citizen representing nobody but myself, with a simple wish to pay my last respects to a Jewish friend as she was lowered into her grave. On arrival a telephone call to Lou Kaddar guaranteed that I would receive the necessary security clearance to attend the burial at the national cemetery on Jerusalem’s Mount Herzl. Lou was a warm, witty, wonderful Jewish lady of French origin. She…

Biography of Melanie Martinez Melanie was born on April 28, 1995 in Astoria, queens to parents of portion region and Dominican descent. Her family moved to Baldwin, New York on Long Island when Martinez was 4. She listened to Brandy, Britney Spears, Shakira, The Beatles , Tupac shakur , Biggie smalls and Christina Aguilera growing up, and says she wanted to have wanted to be a singer at a young age. Martinez attended Plaza Elementary School, her teacher Mr. Nadien with teaching her how…

Schindler's list directed by Steven Spielberg, is a historical true drama that’s primarily based on the novel by the title of Schindler’s Ark, written by Thomas Keneally which is tells of true event that occurred during the holocaust involving a far from perfect, Nazi man. Oskar Schindler was many things such as war profiteer, womanizer, and Nazi Party member before he became the unlikely hero and saviour of about 1,100 Polish Jews during the Holocaust, this film has many attributes that allow…

that one that a ‘hero” should face. The economic recession and rising of social segregation, drove these war heroes to struggle in an economic and social way. After returning home from the great world many of the veterans faced a different panorama of what they were expecting. At that time, the country had slipped in an economic recession due to the end of war and the rising unemployment that had affected all the economic fields. According to the history…

break a social structure, target its cultural soul and attain their financial ends by draining the resources of the overpowered territories. Fanon writes, “War is a gigantic business and every approach must be governed by this datum … The social panorama is destructed, valued are flaunted, crushed, emptied”(33). He further states, “In an initial phase the occupant establishes his domination, massively affirms his superiority. The social group, militarily and economically subjugated, is…

In the late 1800s three Impressionist masters were capturing images of life in France while simultaneously depicting on going changes in Parisian society and culture. The paintings that give us a glimpse into the changing times in France include Vincent van Gogh’s Terrace and Observation Deck at the Moulin de Blute-Fin, Montmartre (1887), Gustave Caillebotte’s Paris Street; Rainy Day (1877) and Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec’s At the Moulin Rouge (1892/95). I encountered these paintings in the…

Lumières Revolutions “Give me Liberty, or Give me death!” cried out the British American colonists on the eve of their independence movement. Yet, the tale of liberty does not begin with the cannons sounding the American Revolution, instead, the story begins with a quill and ink pad in France. In particular, the idea of the social contract, where the power of kings rested solely on the social acceptance of the populace, inspired Americans to clamor for reform against the imposing British crown.…

comparison shows just how much his value of water has changed. Water is his lifeline, keeping him alive. However, water also represents an entirely different thing; his isolation. Pi describes the sea around him as “flatness and infinity, an endless panorama of blue.” The…

was about the money issues. Throughout her years of working in America, I have never seen discrimination until she started working at a specific barkery. She faced a lot of discrimination and harsh comments when she started working at this bakery. Panorama bakery is an environment in which it was 90 percent men and 10 percent female. When she came, her name was in a bunch of workers mouths. They whistled and would say inappropriate comments, she would get super upset that she would come home…

of the long untamed grass and light the trees with a certain glow. A gentle breeze wafts by; quietly rustling the leaves while soothingly spurring soft sweeping and swaying motions among the flowers. Nature’s grandeur surrounds me in a beautiful panorama, and this is only the beginning. The rich smell of the earth fills my nostrils as I break through the trees and steadily climb my way into the rough, irregular section of the trail. Protruding faces of rock slant upward as though to warn of…