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Criticism between My Fair Lady and Pygmalion

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                                    ln Greek mythology, Pygmalion was a carved statue of a beautiful woman outside of ivory.Pygmalion is a play by George Bernard Shaw, named after a Greek mythological figure.The statue was so beautiful that Pygmalion fell in love with her. The symbolism of the play is about Henry Higgins falling in love with his own creation.My Fair Lady and Pygmalion describe love in the Greek mythology.But both of them  ended differently. The tone of "Pygmalion" is darker and more realistic than that of "My Fair Lady," which is a work of fantasy composed in a light and comedic style. ln my fair lady, film is very loyal to Shaw's play, and even the characters sometimes repeat lines from the game. But of course I have to say that there are many points that he left in the play in tons. One of the biggest differences is the fact that the film is a musical, with a lot of effort on its compositions.The biggest difference is that of course it

Interesting Facts in The Pianist by Roman Polanski-2. World War,Adrien Brody

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                                                    Most of us have watched the Pianist, an unforgettable movie that everyone knows. It is a kind of  movie that realistically describes the saddest traces of a war on human.In my opinion, the movie is strong enough to prevent the third world war. The film shortly tells the painful situation of Jews who were persecuted by troops of Hitler during the World War II. This film, which received most of the awards in its period, was created by Roman Polanski. In addition, there is also a book which is written by Wladyslaw Szpilman who really lived all of this troubles. In the film Adrien Brody who is an actor,plays wonderful to Szpilman's character. It is also necessary to mention Adrian Brody's extraordinary acting. Do you know that Adrian Brody had to lose 15 kilogrammes to play in the film?  As a result of his great acting, he was awarded for the Oscar prize. So, Who was the Wladyslaw Szpilman? He was born in Pola

Existentialism and Jean Paul Sartre

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                           Jean Paul Sartre                                                           In this article, the French philosopher-writer Jean Paul Sartre and his existentialism are figured out. Jean Paul Sartre was born in Paris in 1905. He worked as a teacher for a while at the beginning of the second World War. He also reviewed lots of literary works with his best friend, Gustave Flaubert. During the second world War he joined the war as a soldier. After short time, he was captured by Soviet army. Interestingly, due to his captivity he felt intimacy to the Soviet communism. To give example his political magazine is the best sample to prove this situation, and this political magazine is known as Les Temps Modernes. Also, he has popular books such as Nausea (Bulantı) The wall(Duvar),The words(Sözcükler),Age of reason (Akıl çağı) and Existentialism is humanism. In 1959, The words which was written by Jean Paul Sartre was awarded the Nobel prize for literat

Gun, germ and steel by Jared Diamond

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In this article one of the most crucial events are explained such as the biggest ransom in history and how Atahualpa was captured. Historically the greatest ransom paid was that paid for Atahualpa who was the emperor of the Incas, to the Spanish conquistador Francisco Pizarro in Cajamarca, Peru. Since there was a just gold instead of money at that time amount of the ransom was too much. The ransom payment received by Pizarro, is recognized as the largest ever paid in the world. That is ,the amount of the ransom was over two billion. So, what made Atahualpa so valuable? In the beginning of the 15th century Incas was one of the most powerful empires in the world. It seemed the biggest empire in America before Kolomb. But there was a deficiency about army equipment for Incas. Well known Anthropologist who is Gordon  Mcevan clarifies this situation pretty good with his thoughts. When we compare army capacity of the Pizarro and Atahualpa, Atahualpa has an overhelming

Poet of Love and Rebellion

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   Poet of  Love and Rebellion Nazım Hikmet was written by Mustafa Balbay who is journalist in the Turkey.       Firstly, to talk about the author of the book, he handles the book quite plain language. Also, he takes advantages of countries that he visited,  he found many clues about Nazım Hikmet in many countries such as Bulgaria, Czech Republic,  Russia and Azerbaijan.In addition, he has travelled over 80 countries. This feature makes him different from other writers. He reflects his knowledges that he has been collected so far from different countries with a great harmony, therefore, this makes his book both enjoyable and informational.     Secondly, the content of the book always attracts attention by the readers.  Nazım Hikmet is one of the greatest poet in the world. In contrast to this, he was removed from citizenship by his country's government. Although he has a strong reputation on the worldwide, unfortunately he was declared as a traitor. Because whoev

The heart of nightingale flutters as it looks at rose.

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     Have you ever felt like your heart was going to take out when you love someone? In our age, sentence of " l love you" is a cliche word. The meaning of this sentence has been removed from sincerity and sensuality by counterfeit people, cause in a world where there are so many fake love, unfortunately the only indication of love has been this sentence. Actually, a glance, an excitement,a thin thought is sufficient to show our love. The best sentence that summarizes it is this: Don't say love you, please make me feel you love me. Although nightingale knows its death, lt always tries to hug rose, because lt loves rose unrequited. But nowadays nobody loves each other as unrequited in as much as nightingale. That is, we have to start from ourselves, when we love somebody. We should look at beautiful things, not the mistakes. We must love her so beautifully that untill she should be ashamed not to love us. At last but not least, How deep is your love? Is it