MOVIES

I have seen many films of drawings, comedy, love, war ... and almost all have liked me but my favorites are:
Raquel 

Toy Story 

 

Little Andy lives happily with his toys, especially his favorite, Woody the cowboy and astronaut Buzz Lightyear. Whenever the boy leaves his room, the toys come to life and form a friendly community where everyone is involved in one way or another. But what Andy know is that during the day he moves with his classmates at summer camp, a mordant and despotic toy collector named Al McWhiggin, use its output to steal from Woody. Only toys know the whereabouts of his partner Woody, which produced a bailout led by the best friend Woody toy, the entrepreneur and courageous Buzz Lightyear, who is convinced his good friend recover with the support of those who considers his family, even if they have to overcome a host of obstacles.

               

Avatar

Jake, a paraplegic war veteran, is sent to the planet Pandora, connected to a puppet exo-biological, in order to infiltrate the Na'vi race, a humanoid race that has a special connection to all creatures of the forest . The mission is clear: infiltrate and find out where a deposit of minerals that humans want ... The mission will change course when Jake, a female Na'vi...

Fantastic Four

 

Four astronauts become superheroes after being contaminated in outer space. It all starts when the lifelong dream of inventor astronaut and scientist Dr. Reed Richards is very close to fruition. Reed wants to go on a trip to outer space, the center of a cosmic storm. There, he hopes to uncover the secrets of the genetic code of human beings for the benefit of humanity. Reed's crew for the mission consists of his best friend, astronaut Ben Grimm, Sue Storm, director of genetic research and Reed's ex-girlfriend, and the impulsive Sue's younger brother, pilot Johnny Storm. With benefactor of the project, the ambitious Von Doom, the four leave for the exploration of their lives. The mission runs smoothly until Reed discovers that there is a calculation error in the speed with which the storm approaches. Within minutes, the threshold of this atmospheric phenomenon is upon them. The space station is engulfed by turbulent clouds of cosmic radiation which change the genome of the crew. Its DNA is irrevocably altered .... and that will be your future. Back on Earth, the effects of exposure quickly show their first symptoms by giving each of them supernatural powers, becoming Fantastic Four: Mr. Fantastic, Invisible Girl, Human Torch and The Thing.

Alvin and the Chipmunks

 


Life of Dave Seville (Jason Lee), a composer without success, it is monotonous and frustrating, until it finds three chipmunks (Alvin, Simon and Theodore) coming from the forest. Dave them out from your home to find no squirrels speak naturally, but changes his mind when he hears singing and invites them to sing his lyrics. Dave goes to his record company to show your boss squirrels, but this the cheats for them to stay with him.

 

  

         

 Adventures of TinTin 

It tells the story of the curious and insatiable young journalist Tintin and his loyal dog Snowy as they discover that the model of a ship contains explosive secret. Driven by a mystery centenary, Tintin is in the crosshairs of Ivan Ivanovitch Sakharine, a diabolical villain who believes Tintin has stolen a priceless treasure tied to a vicious pirate named Red Rackham. But with the help of his dog Snowy, the acerbic, curmudgeonly Captain Haddock and the bumbling detectives Thomson and Thompson, Tintin will travel half the world, always going one step ahead and outsmarting his enemies, in a chase to find the place where finally rests "the Unicorn", a sunken ship that may hold the key to a fortune and an ancient curse.

 Pirates of the Caribbean

The plot revolves around Elizabeth, a young aristocrat who is also the daughter of Governor Weatherby Swann, who tries to force her to marry in any way with Captain James Norrington. However, she lives secretly in love with his childhood friend, Will Turner, who will not allow the dispossessed Norrington.
Along the way, some Defortuna pirates attack the colony in which they live and kidnap the girl for the purpose of taking a medallion that will help them break the eternal curse to which they have been convicted of stealing a cursed treasure. Desperate, Turner goes to Captain Jack Sparrowpirate despises but it will serve key to find the boat where the damsel.However, both Sparrow and Turner will face during their journey to the huge ocean cursed crew of that peculiarly passed out on a ship captained by Sparrow, which suffer the condemnation that skeletons becomes insensitive when the moonlight touches .

And one of the movies that I have more desire to see is...

This is us of One Direction

INVENTIONS

In this entry I show some inventions that were made many years ago.

Raquel

 


The dishwashe was invented by Josephine Cochrane in 1886.

The windscreen wipers were invented by Mary Anderson in 1903.

The disposable nappies was invented by Marion Donovan in 1950.

The tipp-Ex was invented by Bette Nesmith Graham in 1956.

The bullet-proof vest was invented by Stephanie Kwolek in 1966.





 





The vacuum cleaner was invented by William Hoover in 1908






 






The washing machine was invented by Alva Fisher in 1901.















The biro was invented by Ladislao Josef Biro in 1940.












The camera was invented by Joseph-Nicéphore Niépce in 1826.















The thelephone was invented by Antonio Meucci 1857.















The telescope was invented by  Hans Lippershey in 1608.

 The TV was invented by John Logie Baird in 1925.  






 The glue stick was invented by Henkel in 1969.



 The toilet paper was invented by Joseph Gayetty in 1857.

Did you know...?

Text-messaging was invented by the Finnish company Nokia. They wanted to help Finnish teenagers, who were very shy. They found it easier to text their friends than to phone them.

The firts bikini was design by two Frenchmen. It was name after Bikini Atoll, the island where the atomic bomb was first tested. The Frenchmen thought that the bikini would have a silimar effect on men as a bomb exploding.

Light bulbs are create specially to last only a certain number of hours. It would be possible to make light bulbs that lasted forever, but then the manufacturers wouldn´t make so much money.

The first Harry Potter book was write in a café in Edinburgh. JK Rowling was unemployed, and dhe didn´t have enough money to pay for  heating, so she wrote it in the café where it was warmer.

Although penicilin was discover by Alexander Fleming, he didn´t know how hoe to make it into a medicine. It was first made into a medicine ten years later, by an Australian scientist Howasrd Florey.

Spiders were use as a cure for toothache in the 17th century. They were first made into a paste, an then put one the bad tooth.

Sherlock Holmes, the great detective was desing by writer Arthur Conan Doyle. Holmes was base on a real person - Doyle's teacher at medical school, who was famous for saying to his studets, 'What can tell me by just observing the patient?'

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Directors:

Alfred Hitchock:
                       
Born in London on August 13, 1899, Alfred Hitchcock worked for a short time in engineering before entering the film industry in 1920. He left for Hollywood in 1939, where his first American film, Rebecca, won an Academy Award for best picture. Hitchcock created more than 50 films, including the classics Rear Window, The 39 Steps and Psycho. Nicknamed the "Master of Suspense," Hitchcock received the AFI's Life Achievement Award in 1979. He died in 1980.



 Quentin Tarantino:             

Born in Tennessee in 1963, Quentin Tarantino grew up loving movies more than school. In his early 20s, he got a job at the Video Archives, where he wrote the scripts for True Romance and Natural Born Killers. His directorial debut came with 1992's Reservoir Dogs, but he received wide critical and commercial acclaim with Pulp Fiction (1994), which earned more than $108 million at the box office—the first independent film to do so. In 2003 and 2004
Tarantino released his Kill Bill series, which led to a Golden Globe nomination for Uma Thurman, who starred in the films. Tarantino was later nominated for two Academy Awards (best director and best original screenplay) for the film Inglourious Basterds (2009).

 A trailer of one of my favorite film:

The director of titanic film:



James Cameron is a critically acclaimed film director known for some of the biggest box-office hits of all time. A science fiction fan as a child, he went on to produce and direct films including The Terminator, Aliens and Avatar. He has received numerous Academy Awards and nominations for his often large-scale, expensive productions. His most noted work, 1997's Titanic, became the first film to earn more than $1 billion,and landed 14 Academy Award nominations. Cameron took home three Oscars himself for the project, including for best director, best film editing and best picture.

PLAYS OF WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

Here I leave some plays of William Shakespeare but in cartoons
Hope you like it
Raquel

A Midsummer Night's Dream

Hermia, daughter of Aegean, is a young woman who is in love with Lysander and is reciprocated. But her father wants her to marry Demetrius. This was denied, and before the decision of Theseus, Duke of Athens which also marrying Hippolyta Queen of the Amazons, to choose between engaging in religious chastity or die, flees with his beloved forest. Noting this, her friend Elena decides to tell Demetrius thinking he at last set it. Thus begins a comedy in which predominates a fun tangle of characters that is accentuated by the presence of a discussion between the kings of the fairies, Oberon and Titania, and the incorporation of a vulgar workers they claim to represent "Pyramus and Thisbe" for the wedding celebration of Theseus and Hippolyta. Finally good sense prevails and everything returns to normal.

 

Characters: 
Hermia, Lysander, Helena and Demetrius: Hermia and Lysander are in love but Demetrius is the first well. And simultaneously, Demetrius likes Elena because he had previously courted.Aegean sends his daughter to marry Demetrius against her will. This and the order of Theseus, make the two lovers stay in a forest on the outskirts of Athens. Yet Hermia had told her friend Elena, who says Demetrius so that at least thank him. Once in the field, Hermia and Lysander fall asleep. When the young man is in love instantly wakes Elena, because a spell had his elf Puck by mistake. To remedy this, so does the other boy, changing the tide. The girl, angry, thinks everything is a joke and actually neither wants. This makes kids get angry with each other for the girl, and the two friends also irritated. Finally everything is back to be solved by Puck, and young people think it's all been a strange dream in a single summer night. 

Aegean: Hermia's father. He wants his daughter to marry Demetrius, but as she accepts no good, he goes to Theseus for help. 

Theseus and Hippolyta: he is the Duke of Athens and she the queen of the Amazons. They will marry and have decided to invite all the youth of the city to the party. This lasted four days and four nights. When it comes to asking for help Aegean Theseus with respect to the matter of his daughter, he is very emphatic: or remains untouched and true to the religious vows, or must die for disobeying her father.
 
Bevel, Berbiquí, shuttle, Flute, Snout and hambrón: are respectively a carpenter, a cabinetmaker, a weaver, one remiendafuelles, a tinker and a tailor, artisans of the city of Athens. On the occasion of the nuptials of Theseus and Hippolyta, decide to represent theatrically "Pyramus and Thisbe". To test go to a forest on the outskirts of the city. There, Titania falls for shuttle, which at that time wearing an ass's head, and makes your fairy will serve as a king. Also all this because Puck. When the spell ends, a shuttle is made to remove the disguise and believe you have been dreaming, and returns with co-function. They represent the work, albeit in a slightly rustic, like the sovereigns. 

Oberon and Puck: the first is the king of the fairies, and the second an elf at your service. The king is angry with Titania, who is his wife. This is because it leads to a youth page stolen from India. Oberon, jealous, I want for him, but his wife holds him back by force. He decides to send Puck take a liquid of a flower on her when she's asleep.

Chicharrillo, Cobweb, Moth, and Mustard: are fairies Titania serving, caring and filled with luxuries to shuttle in order of its owner. 

Titania: is the queen of the fairies, and is married to Oberon. Take a pageboy at a youth stolen from India. He gets angry with her husband because he wants the young servant for him but she is not willing to give. She fell for a craftsman from Athens called shuttle that wearing an ass's head. Send your fairy colmen you gifts and treats. Oberon later undo the spell and becomes Titania reconcile with him.

Hamlet

 
Hamlet, son of the late King of Denmark, feels melancholy and dejected by worldly things. His mother has married Claudius (the brother of his father), the new king, and Hamlet wanders around the palace full of suspicions and doubts. Two months after the death of his father, Hamlet is visited by the ghost of his father and informs him that he was murdered by Claudius to become king and marry his mother. A Hamlet rightful revenge the murder, but frets in action and doubt and find excuses to postpone revenge. It pretends to be crazy for people not suspected of what secret plot. Polonius, the court chamberlain, believes that Hamlet's madness is due to the ban on courting his daughter Ophelia.
Hamlet takes the visit of a troupe of actors to court to find out if the message of the ghost is real. Scene is played in the murder of his father and studied the reactions of King Claudius. Hamlet becomes convinced that the ghost was telling the truth. Claudio warns that his crime was discovered and planned a diplomatic mission to send Hamlet to England. Hamlet complains that his mother, Gertrude, and during the conversation, to put in evidence a spy with an accurate thrust, Hamlet kills Polonius who was hiding behind some curtains. The king fears for his life and sends Hamlet to England accompanied by two custom carrying mercenaries to convince the King of England to execute the prince. Hamlet learns of the mission changes the order, replacing it with the death of the two carriers. Hamlet becomes a prisoner of a pirate, but is returned by them to Denmark. Go back in time to witness the funeral of Ophelia, who had drowned. Polonius's son Laertes, Hamlet accuses him of the death of his father and sister. Laertes and Hamlet decides to kill Claudius and prepare a duel. The plan is to poison one of the swords and have a cup of poisoned wine to the sword if the 1st fails. In the duel, Laertes wounds Hamlet. The queen, Gertrude, mistakenly takes the poisoned wine. The Duellists exchange swords. In his agony, Laertes reveals the king's betrayal. In a fit of anger, Hamlet attacks with poisoned sword against Claudius and kills the king. Hamlet begs his friend Horatio to tell the true story of her tragedy to the world. Hamlet says to Fortinbras as the fittest man to ascend the throne.

The characters:

Claudio: King of Denmark. This character is characterized by hypocrisy and pretending to be an honest and fair during his reign.
 
Hamlet: Son of the late king and nephew of the current. This character is characterized by justice. Upon learning that his father has been murdered by his uncle pretends to be crazy to avenge terrible betrayal. For this character, the world is rotten, like the king, queen and court. But the rot that observation can not be ignored as before the death of his father and now is immersed in it and must fight it.
 

Polonius: Lord Chamberlain. Extremely loyal to the king and the queen.
 
Gertrude: Queen of Denmark and mother to Hamlet. She is a naive, since it is not aware of what has made her current husband, the king and the reasons why it has done this.
 
Phantom: in this case, the ghost is the person who communicates with Hamlet to let you know the truth about the death of his father.

Romeo and Juliet

The Montague Family and Capulet families are fought to the death. Romeo, a young gentleman, belongs to the first. Juliet, a beautiful maiden, to the second. One day the Capulets offer a party which comes disguised Romeo. At the party he meets Juliet, then fall in love and marry in secret with the help of Friar Laurence. Mercury, a friend of Romeo, holds a street fight with Tybalt, Capulet family, who is furious Romeo covert presence in the recent party. In the most serious point of discussion it appears. Mercury falls and Romeo kills Tybalt. Authorities in Verona, where the story unfolds, is punished with banishment. Advised by the friar and after saying goodbye to Juliet, leaves for Mantua. Meanwhile, Juliet's parents, who ignore the marriage secret, intended to marry her to Count Paris. The monk advised to accept, but it indicates that the night before the wedding take a potion that will keep dead by 42 hours. He manages to tell Romeo who in due course will come for her to carry with Mantua, once you have awakened from their slumber. However, the message does not arrive on time and Romeo believes that Juliet is actually dead. Then this goes to the grave is where he finds Paris. Then they begin to fight and Romeo kills him. Given the supposed corpse of his beloved Romeo decides to drink poison and dies. Juliet awakens, senses what happened and commits suicide using a dagger. Later the monk reveals everything that happened and the two reconcile feuding families.
 Characters:
 
Romeo Montague: Romeo is generally romantic and love, to start a character is shown as peaceful as it tries to avoid the fight between Tybalt and Mercury, then brave and vindictive shown to kill Tybalt and finally sobered as it commits suicide. 

Juliet Capulet: At first it looks submissive and obedient to their parents, but do not agree to marry Paris. Since the party was in love with Romeo shows, how strange and remember at all times and is determined to face the hatred between the families to protect their love. When her parents force her to marry Paris, making escape plan as Friar Laurence, but waking and seeing their beloved dead, she has the same cowardice of Romeo and commits suicide too ..

Friar Laurence: is the essential character of the tragedy is sympathetic and kind, not aside from any of the families and the couple home thinking that this union could end disputes. His plan is good but everything is wrong, young people end up committing suicide and he ends up telling the story as the person causing the tragic death of two young men.

Mercury: is the best friend of Romeo, appreciates and tries to counsel him. He's always criticizing others and their speech exaggerated romanticism contrasts with Romeo.

 Tybalt Capulet: Has a bellicose and hate attitude to the family of the Montagues, becoming violent because he wants to kill Romeo at the same time the party. It coward because in combat with the advantage Mercury intervention Mercury Romeo to kill a thrust and flees to return with courage and looking fumes kill Romeo who manages to overcome it. 

Paris: A antagonist as indirectly unwittingly ends up as the person who meddles in the love of Romeo and Juliet