Advantages: Away from the Discworld, Pratchett continues to examine our own: wry, witty, satirical Disadvantages: Perhaps a little too gentle for the fans whose focus is purely Disc-bound
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The Sweet Judy is battered and broken and washed ashore. All hands lost. Among the survivors however is a swearing parrot (obviously) and the Honourable Miss Ermintrude Fanshawe.
Mau makes it back to the Island, but the Island is no longer home. The Village has gone. The Women's Place is empty. The Nation has gone. There is just Mau.
And Ermintrude. Who really rather wishes she was called something a bit more dashing. Ermintrude? or Daphne? yes, Daphne is a dashing kind of a name? was always the kind of girl to pay more attention to her father and his maps and compasses than to her grandmother and her deportment.
Just as well as things turn out.
Thus is the scene set for a latter-day mixture of the Garden of Eden and Robinson Crusoe and the Admirable Creighton. These two children inevitably find each other and set about surviving ...
Advantages: Important film in film making history Disadvantages: Contraversial. I don't agree with the views of the film, a little too long
The Birth of a Nation is a black and white silent film from 1915. It?s not a film I had heard of before, and the reason I watched it was because it was on the film list for a course I am taking at university.
The film is based on a novel by Thomas Dixon called ?The Clansmen?. I had read up a little bit about the film before I started watching it so I wasn?t as surprised as I might have been about the content. The film was (and still is) controversial for promoting white supremacy, and I thought most of it was quite racist!
The film was regarded as a very important film in its day as it used many new filming techniques which hadn?t been seen before. This is one of the main reasons that it was chosen as part of my course. I found the film interesting as I had never seen anything like it before, although I understand why it is seen as ...
This review is written on the good old NationalHealth Service, which as we all know is a wonderful institution.
But first off, I just thought that you would like to have a little history lesson on how it first all started off. So, if you are all sitting comfortably then we shall begin.
The NationalHealth Service as we know it today, only came in to being in 1948 after the end of the Second World War. This was as a result of so many poor people who were not poor to start with, who all paid in to private health care previously. However as they had lost everything as a result of somebloke who called himself Hitler, they could no longer afford to pay for anything. Therefore, the NHS came in to being on a free at point of delivery of health care type thing.
Which is a load of bull, as if it free at p.o.d. then why do we all have ...
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