art

I'd like to describe the picture "The Flowering Orchards" by Vincent Van Gogh (The Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY). The Flowering Orchards is a series of paintings executed by Vincent Van Gogh in Arles, in southern France, in the spring of 1888. Van Gogh arrived in Arles in February 1888 amid a snowstorm, within two weeks the weather changed and the fruit trees were in blossom. Appreciating the symbolism of rebirth, Van Gogh worked with optimism and zeal on about fourteen paintings of flowering trees in the early spring. He also made paintings of flowering trees in Saint-Remy in 1889. Flowering trees were special to Van Gogh. They represented awakening and hope. He enjoyed them aesthetically and found joy in painting flowering trees. 
I like this work of art and a lot of other paintings by Van Gogh, because he painted nature of Europe, and I very like european nature. I think, we have common perception of european nature. This painting and the other paintings from this series are very colorful and realistic. This picture is an oil-painting.  The picture is painted in soft and delicate colours. Van Gogh managed to combine form and colour into harmonious unity. I think that this picture is lyrical and poetic in tone and atmosphere. It makes people think about spring, carelessness and renovation of the soul. There are a lot of green colours: grass green, leaf green, lime. Green symbolizes tranquility and refreshing. I very like this painting and a lot of others paintings by V. Van Gogh.

James Cameron task

1) James Cameron was a keen of since fiction, he had a lot of friends. I don't think, he was popular boy at school, because popular boys like rather parties and clubs, but not since fiction. Maybe I would like to have a friend like James C. if I liked the same things as he. Nevertheless, I think, he is an interesting person. 
2) Sine fiction began to develop in 1960s, and it had a big influence on James C. As for me, I think, the time when I live influence me pretty much.
3) Maybe Cameron was interested in this, because drawing is a great possibility to express your feelings and imagination, and diving is a hobby for curious people, who like to discover something. As for me, I'm absoulutely indifferent to diving, but I liked to draw when I was younger. Now my hobbies are foreign languages (English, German and Spanish) and music. 
4) I haven't seen neither the Abyss nor Terminator, because I don't like to watch movies at all. There are CG and ILM in these films. 
5) To my mind, he likes both things. He liked these two things since his childhood. As for me, I like to imagine more. 
6) The first thing is to respect the team you deal with, the second - to do what you want, without any limits. I totally agree with James Cameron. 

The autobiography.

here is it

Time to pay the debts. The piclit about beauty (Dorian Gray task).

questions on my glog

1) What novels were written by F.M. Dostoevsky?
2) Who is the main character of the novel "Crime and punishment"?
3) What does Raskolnikov plan and why he does it?

my glogster

questions

Media Literacy Question of the Day

How might allowing cameras inside the U.S. Supreme Court chambers affect news coverage of their cases?
 The justices were more rightful.

 What might be the pros and cons of video coverage of Supreme Court cases for both viewers and the Supreme Court?
 If cameras were in there, we'd know everything said, who said what, why it was said, how others reacted, etc.

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Daily Discussion Questions

According to CNN's Jeffrey Toobin, what issue regarding President Obama's health care law was discussed yesterday in the U.S. Supreme Court?
Jeffrey Toobin said, that the issue to be discussed was actually very discrete, very limited.

According to Toobin, how did the judges appear to react to these arguments? 
A couple of the judges who`ve reviewed it have said, look, because the law doesn`t go into effect for a couple years, we don`t think we should deal with the issue.

What is your opinion about arguments regarding the timing of the hearing? 


How do you think that supporters and critics of the health care reform law feel about the timing of the hearing?

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Who is the leader of the Roman Catholic Church? 
 The pope, and the current pope, Benedict XVI, who was elected to the office in 2005.

How would you describe the tone of the crowd waiting for Pope Benedict XVI in Mexico?
The crowd was excited to see Benedict XVI, because a majority of Cuba`s population is Roman Catholic 

 According to the report, what message did Pope Benedict XVI include in his sermon? 
 In his sermon, he urged Mexicans to rely on their faith in the battle to get rid of poverty and the violence caused by drug trafficking, violence blamed for more than 47,000 deaths in the past five years.

In your view, what is the significance of a religious leader visiting a country?
Maybe people like when a religious leader visits their country, because he or she pays attention to their life.
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What technique does Nelson Dellis use for memorization? 
 When he's writing the numbers down, all he's doing is walking back through that place, picturing who was there and then translating that back to the numbers that those pictures represent.

What might be the advantages of relying on the memorization technique seen in the program versus other ways of finding information (e.g. Internet searches)? 


Would you want to learn the memorization technique featured in the report? 
 No, I don't.

Why or why not? 
 I don't think I have imagination to associate numbers or words with people. It seems very strange to me.

Do you have any unique methods of memorizing information? Explain.
I just learn some difficult information, which I can't understand, by heart.