Sleepy Hollow

The young policeman Ichabod Crane is sent to Sleepy Hollow to investigate a series of ghoulish murders. On his arrival, the town council informs him that the three victims were killed in open ground, and the heads had disappeared taken by a headless ghost that is supposedly responsible.

Crane does not believe them and begins his own investigation, until he comes face to face with the horseman. Boarding a room at the home of the town's richest family, the Van Tassels, Crane was attract by their daughter, the mysterious Katrina.

Helped by the orphaned Young Masbeth, whose father was a victim of the Horseman, Crane discovers within the Western Woods both the Horseman's entry point between this world and the beyond, the gnarled Tree of the Dead, and his grave.

He finds the Horseman's skull is missing though the murders continue until Crane uncovers a murky plot revolving around revenge and land rights with the Horseman controlled by Katrina's stepmother, Lady Van Tassel, who sends the killer after her. Following a fight in the local windmill and a stagecoach chase through the woods, Crane eventually frustrate Lady Van Tassel by returning the skull to the Horseman, who regains his head and heads back to hell along with her.

Finally Crane, Katrina and the young Masbeth return to New York to start a new beginning.

Frankenstein

Differences between the film and the book:

The Frankenstein movie of Graham didn't respect all the real story book of Marry Shelley, he had put some details and some scenes and facts that don't exist in the real story but I think that he made it to give some intensity and action to the movie. When we compare the tow works we can see along that some scenes had been added to the film for example, in the movie, his friend Henry and Victor met together when they arrived to the university, but in the real story the tow men were friends since their were children.

And other fact that we can expect in the film it's when the cholera appear in the university city
were Victor went to study and it was the cause that conduce the escaping of Henry but Victor didn't mind that and he continued his experiment, after that her love Elisabeth come to see him and to try to make him reasonable, this scenes doesn't appear in the book.

But more than this, the film maker put some others facts which are unreal in the Mary Shelley's book, and it's about a Scenes when after that the monster kill Elisabeth, Victor took her to resurrect her, and it also appear a fight between Victor and The monster to own Elisabeth who find her self ugly and finally she suicide because of not could stand his new form as a monster.

That were the most important differences that we can find between the movie made by Graham and the real story of Frankenstein. Well in my opinion I've prefer the book than the movie because the director put some fact to make the film more interesting maybe but he just arrived to make it unreal and a bit ridiculous with scenes which make more laugh in state of make you blue.

Description of my sister

If I have to describe someone I admire I will choose my sister of 22 years, because she one the persons I share my life with. I know everything about her personality it's like I can read into her mind.

Nina is my grand sister, she's not so tall but she's got beautiful blue eyes and short blonde hair. She's quite attractive and extroverted and she's got a good heart.

Nina seems to be an independent person and self-confident but on the inside she's quite insecure. She is very impulsive ad talkative.Something that I`m not, I'm rather rational and shy. But she's too thoughtful. She always ready to give you a help. and I'm feel comfortable with her.

One of the things that I really like about Nina is that she's never two faced, and she's narrow-minded and those qualities are the most important for me. But sometimes it can be easily influenced by her friends and this can get worse if she gives them importance.

News

Environment

On Feb. 2, 2007, the United Nations scientific panel studying climate change declared that the evidence of a warming trend is "unequivocal," and that human activity has "very likely" been the driving force in that change over the last 50 years. The last report by the group, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, in 2001, had found that humanity had played a role.

In recent months, business groups have banded together to make unprecedented calls for federal regulation of greenhouse gases. The subject had a red-carpet moment when former Vice President Al Gore's documentary, "An Inconvenient Truth," was awarded an Oscar; and the Supreme Court made its first global warming-related decision, ruling 5 to 4 that the Environmental Protection Agency had not justified its position that it was not authorized to regulate carbon dioxide.

Reportage

The history of Alcatraz:

Alcatraz was not originally a prison, It was built in 1850 as a military fortress for the US army.It became a prison in 1934. About 270 prisoners lived in that prison at a time. The prison was close 1963 because it was to expensive to manage it. More than 1545 prisoners lived in Alcatraz and that place had receive the most dangerous murderers, kidnapers and gangsters like Al Capone and any prisoners could escape from it because en island .

There are many books and films Alcatraz until it became now a tourist attraction and some

Travel:

The city-state of Delhi is a survivor of conquest and change. The Lodi and Mughal dynasties ruled this area, as did the British, until it was again transformed by the refugees of partition. Today, new money has conquered the region, which includes New Delhi, the capital of a rapidly changing India. Spiraling rents have put a Swarovski shop where a small independent bookshop once stood, and in the same market, a shop called It’s All About Bling sells spangly earrings. Thankfully, much of the remarkable history has survived, allowing the visitor to travel easily through the accordion pleats of time.

Entertainment

Hollywood is ready for 80th Oscar Ceremony

Hollywood stars will parade across the red carpet for Sunday's Academy Awards after weeks of uncertainty over whether a writers' strike that had derailed other award shows would be settled in time for the Oscars.

However, the Oscars competition itself appears to hold little suspense, with clear favorites generally expected to win. Joel and Ethan Coen, screenwriting winners for 1996's "Fargo", look to come away as the night's big winners for their crime story "No Country for Old Men", which has dominated at earlier film honors.

Fresh names also dominate the directing category, where only Joel Coen has been nominated before, with "Fargo" (he and his brother only recently started sharing directing credits, so this is Ethan Coen's first nomination in the category). Also in the running are Paul Thomas Anderson for "There Will Be Blood", Tony Gilroy for "Michael Clayton", Jason Reitman for "Juno" and Julian Schnabel for the stroke drama "The Diving Bell and the Butterfly.

Fashion review

The Chanel carousel erected in the middle of the Grand Palais, with a zoo of quilted icons bobbing up and down and great clothes, is a reminder of how big Karl Lagerfeld thinks. This is where so many of the brand revivals fall down; their designers can’t project a big picture. They are small-frame thinkers, tweaking at seams and having absolutely no impact.

Mr. Lagerfeld has been the puzzling and dazzling exception in Paris for close to two decades. For a while, Tom Ford occupied a similar position in Milan, when he blew up Gucci. John Galliano’s success at Dior has been mixed, while Nicolas Ghesquiere of Balenciaga has made a sharp instrument out of a beautiful but small gem.

Finally, on Thursday night, four years after he was appointed creative director of YSL, Mr. Pilati crossed that mysterious bridge to the big stage. In their movement, shape and attitude, the clothes evoked the swagger and spirit of the Rive Gauche era, when Saint Laurent ruled, just as surely as Mr. Lagerfeld’s capture some undefined essence of Coco Chanel.

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