Monday, August 31, 2009

Australia

Lady Sarah Ashley (Nicole Kidman)

Lady Sarah Ashley is a beautiful and charming lady. She is an inspiration too. This can be shown when all the men are smitten with her at the charity ball of the "Children's Island Mission”. Besides that, Mr. King Carney of the Carney Cattle Company willing to offer 500 pounds to have the first dance with Lady Ashley at the charity ball. Besides that, Lady Sarah Ashley is a headstrong British socialite. She spends her life in pursuit of superficial perfection, but a loveless and childless marriage has left her bereft of anything meaningful beyond her stable of horses. The only thing that she truly loves is her horse. Convince that her husband, Maitland Ashley is cheating on her during his trip to Australia to sell Faraway Downs, Lady Ashley travels from London to the remote tropical outpost of Darwin, Australia to confront him. When she arrives at the Faraway Downs, she finds that her husband has been murdered.

When in the Faraway Downs, she finds herself caring for an enchanting young orphan called Nullah, a half-Aboriginal, half-Caucasian boy adrift in a segregated society that treats him as an outcast. She protects Nullah. This can be proven when Nullah yells that Fletcher lies. Fletcher runs after Nullah and hits him, and in the process, hits Nullahs mother and grandmother. Sarah runs over and smacks Fletcher with a riding crop, and fires him on the spot. She knows that if she fires Fletcher, she will have no one to help her to drive the 1,500 head cattle to Darwin, but she still fires Fletcher instead to protect her property and Nullah’s family. She also loves Nullah like her own son. She is a good mother, but she is unable to have a child on her own. So, she shows her fully mother love to Nullah like her own son. She is willing to sell Faraway Downs to Fletcher, believing that it will aid her in gaining Nullah back from the Mission Island. She is also willing to stay and work in the city for the Army at their radio headquarters. She has made friends with Fletcher’s wife. She hopes that one day she gets to see Nullah. When the Mission Island was attacked by Japanese Air force, she worries and fears that Nullah is dead. In turn, Nullah is the catalyst that opens Sarah’s heart and brings her and the Drover together. Nullah causes them to really look at why they are here in the world. Sarah’s newfound warmth and openness transcend the barriers she has put up between herself and the world around her, allowing the Drover to see another side of this complex woman. The Drover comes to really respect and admire her. That’s what Nullah does for Sarah and the Drover on a deeply emotional and spiritual level.

She has determination to help the Aboriginal children. She thinks that the treatment of the Aboriginal children by the authorities which called Stolen Generation is very bad. They capture the Aboriginal children and put them in the Mission Island. They take away the children from their mother. She loves Nullah, so she has a will to adopt Nullah. Although she knows that adopting aboriginal child is much more complicated, she still wants to adopt Nullah. She meets up with a doctor who runs the mission, and she tries to convince him to stop taking children away from their mothers. She attempts to make the upper class whites realize that half-aboriginal children belong to their mothers and not the government, but the organizers of the mission insist that Aboriginal women forget their “offspring”, comparing them to animals more than people.

She is a responsible person too. After she fires Fletcher, she knows that she needs to drive the cattle to Darwin. She needs to find ways to solve this problem. The only way she thinks is to find someone to help her to drive the cattle. She thinks that Drover is the most suitable person. She faces some problems when asking him to help to drive the cattle. First, Drover unable to drive the 1,500 head cattle with just him and two other men .Second is Drover thinks that she can’t win against Carney, so he advises Lady Ashley grabs King Carney’s offering and goes back to England. She begs Drover to help her. At last, Drover agrees to help Lady Ashley with a condition that Lady Ashley gives him her horse, Capricornia. To complete the task of driving the cattle to Darwin, she is willing to give her beloved horse to Drover.

Lady Ashley surprises herself and others around her when as she rises to the challenges of her new life and responsibilities. To save Faraway Downs, she joins forces with the Drover and drive 1,500 head of cattle across Australia’s breathtaking yet brutal landscape. The Drover’s trusted Aboriginal stockmen Magarri and Goolaj, the alcoholic accountant Kipling Flynn, Nullah and Nullah’s grandmother Bandy help to drive the cattle, while the cook Singsong helps to carry their belongings.

Transformed by the power and beauty of the land and her bond with Nullah, Sarah becomes the woman she truly wants to be, and her contentious relationship with the Drover gives way to grudging respect, admiration and finally, loves. But during the course of the story, she sheds a lot of the barriers that she’s built up to protect herself. She becomes the woman she truly wants to be, and she finds love – for a child, for a man and for the land. But when the sinister machinations of war reach the shores of Australia, she feels that she is fighting against the world, she is at her most authentic and true because she realizes that she has something to fight for and it will take passion, courage and determination as great as the mysteries of the ancient continent to protect the people she loves. She needs to protect her new family. When the government authorities capture Nullah and spirit him away to the Mission Island to live with other banished half-caste children, she only think that she need to bring Nullah home. She not fears to the war.

At the end of the Australia movie, she is able to meet back Nullah and Drover. She gets back what she wants: child, man, land and love. They go back to the Faraway Downs. She agrees to let Nullah to follow King George runs off because she knows that walkabout is the Aboriginal’s traditional. The government finally ended their Stolen Generations policy in 1973.

Monday, August 17, 2009

Coach Carter

COACH CARTER


Summary
In 1999, Ken Carter, a successful sporting goods store owner, accepts the job of basketball coach for his old high school in a poor area of Richmond, CA. He was once a star player and a champion athlete on the Richmond High School basketball team in Richmond. Carter quickly sees that his work is cut out for him – the team is having an awful season, and their fights off the court are more decisive than their play on the court. As much dismayed by the poor attitudes of his players as well as their dismal play performance, Carter sets about the change both. He knows that playing basketball not just about winning a basketball game, but it takes more skills, perseverance, discipline and teamwork. He immediately imposes a signed contract that includes stipulations for respectful, behavior, a dress code and good grades as requisites to being allowed to participate. He wants to assure that all his players performance all their best on the court and in the classroom.
Under Carter's guidance, the team turns their losing season around, wit
h the state title a genuine possibility. However, when the overconfident team’s behavior begins to stray and Carter learns that a number of his players are doing poorly in class and have let their grade point averages slip below 2.3, as mandated in a contract he entered into with the students, he takes immediate action. He decides to lock the team out of the gym, cancels all team activities and sends them into study hall until their marks improve. Carter's plan quickly becomes a subject of controversy among parents and team boosters, and their objections are soon picked up by the local news media, many of whom are not sympathetic to Carter's belief that his players must have goals beyond college ball or the NBA. Carter fights to keep his methods, because he wants his players to see beyond their hoop dreams and see a future with endless options and possibilities.
Although Richmond Oilers did not win the State Championship, for Carter, they play like champions and they never give up. Carter feels proud of them. Six of them manage to go on to college and five o
f them get the college scholarships.

Character

1. Coach Ken Carter (Samuel L. Jackson)

Ken Carter is an owner of a sports equipment shop, decides to take up the position of coaching Richmond’s pathetic basketball team. He hopes to inspire and discipline the troubled youths. In fact, he had attended Richmond High 30 years ago, setting several school records in passing and
shooting. Under Carter's guidance, the team turns their losing season around, with the state title a genuine possibility. Despite their new-found excellence on the basketball court, Coach Carter’s team still has trouble maintaining the 2.3 G.P.A mark. In order to keep his kids focused academically, he locks down the gym and cancels games and practices until the team keeps their grades up, much to the dismay of the general public and school officials.
2. Damien Carter (Robert Ri’chard)

The only kid on the Richmond team who is well-rounded is Damien, Coach Carter’s son, who is an over
achiever with a 3.5 G.P.A. At last, he went on to break the Richmond High School scoring and assist records previously held by his father. Upon graduation, he received a scholarship to the U.S. Military at West Point.
3. Kenyon Stone (Rob Brown)

Kenyon has trouble with his grades and his girlfriend (who just got pregnant by him). Unfortunately she ends up aborting her child. At the end of this movie, he attended Sacramento State University a
nd received a degree in Communications.
4. Timo Cruz (Rick Gonzalez)
Cruz involves in gang life and is seen carrying a 9 mm. shotgun in a couple of scenes. He witnesses the murder of his cousin and immediately wants out of gang life. After leaving twice he arrives on Coach Carter’s doorstep in the middle of the night (in tears from watching his cousin get shot), begging to be let back into the team. At last, Timo Cruz attended Humboldt State University where he became a starting guard.

5. Jaron “Worm” Willis (Antwon Tanner)

At the end of this movie, Worm received a scholarship to San Francisco State University where he played point guard for four years.

6. Junior Battle (Nana Gbewonyo)

At last, Junior Battle went to San Jose State University on a full scholarship.

7. Jason Lyle (Channing Tatum)

The
end of the movie, Jason Lyle went to San Diego State University and graduated with a degree in Business Administration.

My Opinion

In this movie, there are several social issues such as violence, sexual content, language, teen partying and some drug material. In this movie, Carter encourages his players to put education before recreation. He knew that education is more important. It is about their future. Besides that, one teammate, Kenyon and his girlfriend talk about the responsibility of their actions as soon as she admits she’s pregnant (unfortunately she ends up aborting her child). Another teammate, Cruz witnesses the murder of his cousin and immediately wants out of gang life. After leaving twice he arrives on Coach Carter’s doorstep in the middle of the night (in tears from watching his cousin get shot), begging to be let back into the team. Carter immediately welcomes him with open arms. Another issue is after Carter discovering that his team went to a wild party; he wastes no time in chastising them for what they have done. In this movie, the team members also influence by the alcohol. The basketball team is invited to a party where they sit in a hot tub with girls all while under the influence of alcohol (the guys strip to their boxers and the girls strip to their bras and underwear). In the same scene, one teammate, Worm is seen from a balcony wearing nothing but a towel, indicating he may have slept with someone. The violence also happens in this movie. Someone breaks into Coach Carter’s sports equipment shop to ask him to open the court for the members to play basketball. There is also a lot improper language is using in this movie.
In this movie, I learn teamwork is very important. As in this movie, Cruz’s teammates offering to finish up his exercises, so he could stay on the team. The movie also teaches that in life we will always have obstacles. It’s up to us to overcome them and be successful. I also learn that playing basketball is not just about winning the games; it takes more than skills, perseverance, discipline and teamwork. Respect each other and using proper language also the values that I learn from this movie.


What is your deepest fear?

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. Your playing small does not serve the world. There’s nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won’t feel insecure around you. We were all meant to shine as children do. It’s not just in some of us, it is in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear our presence automatically liberates others.

Saturday, August 15, 2009

H1N1 Song

I have something to share with you....
Go to my facebook and listen the H1N1 Song...
Is very funny...

Tuesday, August 11, 2009

Dear Boys



Who watch this animation"Dear Boys" before?
Is a Japanese animation and it is about basketball one...

Sunday, August 9, 2009

Poker Face


This is what my roommate finds from school library...
She knew i dislike the poker face song,
this is because i bored about this song already,
everyday sure will heard once.
So she purposely wants to show me poker face,
then she borrows this book....
haiz....

My new book shelf

This is my new book shelf, so i have place to put my books.
The second one is reserve for my roommate, another Joanne...
Hehe!!!
Why I reserve for her is because her table is full of books.
So her table is very messy.
I hope that with this book shelf, her table won't be messy.

Thursday, August 6, 2009

Basketball


What is basketball to me?
Is just a normal sport or have meaning?
Is there any reasons that why i love it so much???
I don't know........