Memories Of A British Agent Friday, Mar 30 2007

Lockhart, Robert Bruce left Moscow in April 1913 and went by train down to Kiev. the cradle of Russian history and the holy city of the Orthodox Church. When he woke up after a whole night in the train he could see green fields and delicious white cottages glistening in the warm sunshine.
Although full of wounded, kiev had far more war-spirit than moscow. Indeed, right up to the revolution, the nearer one came to the front, the more optimistic was the prevailing sentiment.
He was a very sensitive man, very emotional. As he saw some Austrian prisoners going to cold Siberia he felt a deep pity in his heart. One of them were singing Intermezzo from Cavalleria Rusticana. Everybody in the train were standing and after he stopped singing they clapped loudly. He arrived in Kiev on Friday at mid-day and spent his time with wandering about the town looking at he churches, of which there are almost as many as in Moscow. After Moscow it was a relief to see hills and real rivers, finally. He noticed that Kiev was almost more Jewish then christian. He went to see the Vladimir Hill, and the Dnieper which he was so fascinated of. He drove down to the Suspension Bridge to have a look at the town from the plain. In the evening he went to SantSofia and attended the mid-night service there. Finally on Easter Monday he went to see the famous Kiev Lavra that is and was the main touristic spot in Kiev. He really enjoyed it and once again millions of thought rushed through his head. As he left Kiev the weather changed from happy sunny to rainy and Kiev showed its beautiful gray colors. Leaving Kiev behind, he knew he will keep this trip in mind, and that this memory will never fade away.

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Letting God Back In Tuesday, Mar 20 2007

” Prayer, long banned from schools, is making a post-terror comeback. No one is protesting yet” It says in the TIME magazine.
At the High school Thomas Jefferson for Science and technoligy Rev. Jesse jackson took the stage and told the stundents and teachers to stand up and hold each others hands for a prayer. This caused alot of distraction, because at national High School are many different people with different nationalitys and religions. Still after the Sep.11th Praying for World freedom is a big subject. especially for young people. Nothin Carolina is extreamlie involving themselfs. They came up with special programms to talk about the Bible and to pray. Itb used to me iligal to do such stuff but since that tragic day that caused so many deaths this became a big subject. Even on football stadiums before the games start people joined in the stadium for a wide-prayer. John Burruss was holding the prtayer and he said ” People in time of crisis and drawn to their faith, they turn their eyes to God and their country… “  But the real question is wether, in a time of crisis, they’re ready to erase the line between the two.

Morse, Jodie. The Fear Factor, TIME, “Letting God back In”
October,22, 2001 page, 71

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MLA Tuesday, Mar 20 2007

What i learned about MLA is that it makes it easier to find the source where you get your info from.
You can use it for yourself as a help to re-read stuff or for others to take a closer look at things you been working on.

It works like this: First you have to write the name of the author, starting with the last name, then in ” the article title or the name of the source. Then underline the name of the magazine or book, in ( ) follows the year or the issue number and then the page numbers. If its an online source you should put the URL in the end.

Once you written it a few times, it goes automatically!

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Unforgettable Moment (Merci,Paris) Wednesday, Mar 14 2007

Now Andie MacDowell says “I was far from home as i’d even been, and being myself was all that mattered” with a smile on her face knowing that she finally reached her dream of being a famous model that made it from the little sate of US, South Carolina. With the young age of 20 years in 1978 she came to New York, the city that never sleeps to start her career. She just signed a contract with the Elite Modeling Agency, New York is all about the club and drug scene and everybody was about having a good time and party, she thought. But soon she found out that she was wrong, She came there to achieve something to love her dream and New York made it possible. Soon she was relocated in France, Paris. Elite put her in a huge three bed-room apartment in an artsy neighborhood, where she lived with a girl from Switzerland and Finland. As Andie MacDowell first worked for designers like Christian Dior, she didnt even have a clue who they were. In the interview she also says with disbelieve that she actually went to the house of Yves Saint Laurent without make up, she explained that it was a whole different world for her back then. One of the first people she met in Paris was Oliver Chandon, heir to the moet&Chandon Champagne business, which soon became her boyfriend. He didnt drink or smoke just like her so they both could go out and have a nice time out without dropping of his motorcycle afterwards. Years later Andie MacDowell became a professional model in France and everything went great in her live. she said: ” I believe that the best way to approach life is with sincere interest and joy. I was born Rosalie Anderson MacDowell, and the locals still call me Rose. i happily answer to that.

MacDowell, Andie. “Unforgettable Moment” 
       Reader’s Digest, March 2002. page 69-72

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Logical Fallacies Wednesday, Mar 14 2007

Logical fallacies can be a lot of different things. There are for example, Appeal To Authority, Statement Of Conversion, Stolen Concept, Begging The Question (Assuming The Answer, Tautology) , or like False Cause which actually means that we assume that if two things are somehow related that one thing caused the other or change it. For example when i wake up and step up with he left foot first i always have a bad day, or when I don’t wear my purple scarf on a Yankee game, they will lose.
Logical fallacies are “quotes” “thoughts” or “acts” that are logical and understandable but they are not true so they are just fallacies, something people like to think. Everything has a few sites of view and cant be seen from one corner one perspective. Fallacies are statements that might sound reasonable or superficially true but are actually flawed or dishonest.

http://www.don-lindsay-archive.org/skeptic/arguments.html#composition

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Famous Russian Aviator in the 30′s Friday, Mar 2 2007

Valery Pavlovich Chkalov(1904-1938), was born in Volga town of Vasilevo now its called Chkalovsk. HE were on the best way to become the USSR’s most famous aviator of the 1930′s, often referred to as the “Russian Lindbergh,” remains one of the Stalinist era’s greatest and best-loved celebrities. an aviation mechanic during the Russian Civil War. He qualified as a pilot by the age of seventeen and joined the air force, where he gained a reputation as a skilled but overly daring flier. But in 1929 his rashness caught up with him as he caused a accident and killed another pilot.  He was discharged and had to return to the aie force in 1930. Already three years later he resigned to work as a test-pilot for the designer Nikolai Palikarpov.
Besides many general recorgs like long distance flying he broke a world record in 1937 bu flying from moscow to washington crossing the north pole! This record was broken three months later again by an amarican aviator mikhail Gromov but Chkalov’s bluff, hearty charm made him the most admired of “Stalin’s falcons,” the hero-pilots featured so prominently in the propaganda of the 1930s.

Valery Pavlovich Chkalov flew the last time in his life on December the 15th in 1938 as he were testing a prototype of the Polikarpov I-180 and it crashed. He was given a hero’s funeral and buried in the Kremlin Wall. Rumors have persisted since Chkalov’s death that he was somehow killed on Stalin’s orders.
But that was never a statement!

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