Lemon Tree Reflection

The movie Lemon Tree is an awesome film that shows and explains the situation in Israel and Palestine. The conflict that has been there since many years ago, is shown by both perspectives by this film. Salma is a Palestinian woman that lost his husband and the only thing that has left is a lemon tree grove near the barrier between Israeli and Palestinian lands.

The internal conflict of the movie starts because the secret service from an important minister tells him that the grove from Salma is considered a menace for him. Then everything starts flowing around this grove. And the grove little problem evolves into an international issue between Israelis and Palestinians. The grove news start appearing everywhere including television, radio, and even newspapers. Salma and her lawyer are in a legal fight between the Israeli courts and their are fighting back with each piece of evidence they can to support their ideas and save the grove. In the whole process they never fall back and only stood firm in their position. The most interesting thing in the movie is that even though they didn't won the fight, and could not prevent the grove from being cutted becuase of the injustice of those lands, they generated a big impact through the world and never surrendered. They created big impact because it was one of the first cases of that magnitude between Israelis and Palestinias. Also because it was one of the longests cases of this type ever existed.

Photo credit: 

http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2009/04/17/arts/17lemon-600.jpg

Skateboarding blog.

Here is the link of a blog that I really like. http://skategypsy.blogspot.com/. Here you can find tons of cool stuff about skateboarding all around the world. Also you can find awesome images, videos, articles, etc..

Skateboarding, a lifestyle.

Skateboarding is not just a sport. Is not just an extreme act of ability and dexterty with your feet and entire body. It is definately more than that. Its passion combined with excercise, fun, friends, love and a lot of things. When you are on your skateboarding, riding down the streets feeling the cold breeze and the sounds of the wheels rolling, is definately one of the best sensationsnin the world. Its the freeling and liberty that this sport gives, that keeps people liking, loving and practicing this activity. 

In skateboarding there are some ranks that differentiate the athletes. Fro example, there are the "Pros", the "Amateurs", the "Flows", and there are the ones that don't have an official rank but still practice it and love it; for example me. All the athletes that has this official ranks are sponsored by someone. Either by a little clothe brand (Flows), store (Flows), or by huge and recognized companies such sports brands (Pros), or awesome clothe multinationals (Pros). Also this athletes differentiate in their dexterty in tricks,and  experience.

I'm just a begginer in this sport compared to all those excellent skateboarders out there. Even if I have practiced it for 4 years, I'm just a complete rookie compared to them. But I don't care, and enjoy snd love each time I put my feet on the skateboard. Definately, skateboarding is awesome.

http://cdn.business.transworld.net/files/2010/12/skate-school1.jpg

Israeli & Palestinian Conflict

Phil Reese is a journalist that spends part of his life time investigating the lifes of the terrorists, or the freedom fighters depending ont he point of view. In his show "Dinning with Terrorists", he shows and explains how he coexist wit all this people and how this terrorists ir freedom fighters prove their point. He spends time in both sides so he can show us the two points of view that this conflict with these people is showing.

This time, on his show, he is dealing with the conflict with the Palestinian and the Israeli people. On this case, the Israeli or Jewish people are eventually invading Palestinian lands. They kind of base their invasion on some religious texts and passages, for example the Tanaj. They settled in those lands as an invasion and now they think that those Palestinian lands belong to them. Phil, is trying to demonstrate and show both points of view; the Jewish one, and the Palestinian one. This conflict have lasted many years, and it seems to last some more.

http://tyglobalist.org/onlinecontent/blogs/stagnation-strategy-and-optimism-the-israeli-palestinian-conflict-as-we-enter-2013/

http://gettysburgian.com/?p=2735

Citation:

Rease, Fill. "Dining with terrorists - Fighting occupation-28 Feb 09-Pt 1." YouTube, 2014. Web. 2 Mar 2014. <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WzNWCltcqdo>.

           Rease, Fill. "Dining with terrorists - Fighting occupation -28 Feb 09-Pt 2." YouTube, 2014. Web. 2 Mar 2014. <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_FYsBRq5l0U>. 

Refugees

I come from a place 

I come from a land

Where we live in disgrace

Where they punish by hand.

People rebel

Children cry

A living hell

Where dreams die.

We're pushed out the way

They move at fast pace

Our crime was to pray

They slaughter our race

They mock and they judge

Nobody is safe

The longest held grudge 

My name was Dave.

Hi, my name is Jose Mesa, I'm an 18 year old senior  that studies at Colegio Panamericano. I like spending time with my friends and family. I love sports and exercising on the afternoons. I love listening to music in any situation or moment. I'm really interested on studying medicine in a near future. I created this blog for my Comparative Government class to share my posts and also get opinions for what I've wrote.