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Name: Obi Joy Chisom
Reg no: 2016054050
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I Capture the Castle
Review by Lauren W., age 17, Mensa in Georgia
Dodie Smith’s novel I Capture the Castle is a journey through the mind of a young writer as she attempts to chronicle her daily life. Seventeen-year-old Cassandra Mortmain has recently learned to speed-write, and she decides to work on her writing skills by describing the actions and conversations of those around her.
Cassandra lives in a fourteenth-century English castle with an interesting cast of characters: her beautiful older sister, Rose; her rather unsociable author father and his second wife, artist-model Topaz; Stephen, the garden boy; a cat and a bull terrier; and sometimes her brother Thomas when he is home from school. One fateful day they make the acquaintance of the Cotton family, including the two sons, and a web of tangled relationships ensues.
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MOVIE INFO
WONDER WOMAN
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Rating: PG-13 (for sequences of violence and action, and some suggestive content)
Genre: Action & Adventure, Drama, Science Fiction & Fantasy
Directed By: Patty Jenkins
Written By: Allan Heinberg, Zack Snyder, Jason Fuchs
In Theaters: Jun 2, 2017 Wide
On Disc/Streaming: Sep 19, 2017
Box Office: $412,400,625
Runtime: 141 minutes
Studio: Warner Bros. Pictures
An Amazon princess (Gal Gadot) finds her idyllic life on an island occupied only by female warriors interrupted when a pilot (Chris Pine) crash-lands nearby. After rescuing him, she learns that World War I is engulfing the planet, and vows to use her superpowers to restore peace. Directed by Patty Jenkins (Monster).
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Prison break :Michael Scofield is a desperate man in a desperate situation. His brother, Lincoln Burrows, was convicted of a crime he didn’t commit and put on Death Row. Michael holds up a bank to get himself incarcerated alongside his brother in Fox River State Penitentiary, then sets in motion a series of elaborate plans to break Lincoln out and prove his innocence. Once out of jail, their perils aren’t over — the brothers must flee to escape recapture and battle an intricate political conspiracy that puts everyone’s life at risk.
First episode date: 29 August 2005 uchechukwu chisom team Mobutu seseko
Where is the preliminary information? You have to provide it with the link to the story. Ojiego Ignore
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Voice from the Stone poster.jpg
Directed by
Eric Dennis Howell
Produced by
Dean Zanuck
Stefano Gallini-Durante
Written by
Andrew Shaw
Based on
Voice from the Stone
by Silvio Raffo
Starring
Emilia Clarke
Marton Csokas
Edward George Dring
Music by
Michael Wandmacher
Cinematography
Peter Simonite
Edited by
Clayton Condit
Production
companies
Zanuck Independent
Code 39 Films
Producer Capital Fund
Release date
April 20, 2017 (St. Paul premiere)
April 28, 2017
Running time
94 minutes
Country
United States
Language
English, Italian
The film was released on 28 April 2017
Voice from the Stone is a 2017 American supernatural psychological thriller film directed by Eric D. Howell and written by Andrew Shaw, based on the novel of the same name by Silvio Raffo. The film tells about a young patient of a female psychologist, who gave a promise to the dying mother to remain silent, until her spirit returns.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voice_from_the_Stone
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Book Review: The Story of a Beautiful Girl
New book from Rachel Simon is a story of love and hope.
Posted Jul 24, 2011
The Story of a Beautiful Girl is a love story unlike any before.
Written by best-selling author Rachel Simon.
The Story of a Beautiful Girl explores the love between two people that others assume incapable of connection. And, though fiction, offers a look into the dark past of America’s institutions and the abuse and neglect of people too vulnerable to fight back.
The book has been an Indie Bound Bestseller, Christian Science Monitor Bestseller and highlighted by Oprah Magazine and USA Today. Simon blogs frequently about her travels, her writing and her advocacy for people with disabilities.
The Story of a Beautiful Girl is a wonderful and brave story.
Courtesy of psychologytoday.com.
Name : Oguejiofor sochima Bernard
Reg:,2016054026
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Name: Obi Joy Chisom
Reg no: 2016054050
Team Houphouet Boigny
I Capture the Castle
Review by Lauren W., age 17, Mensa in Georgia
Dodie Smith’s novel I Capture the Castle is a journey through the mind of a young writer as she attempts to chronicle her daily life. Seventeen-year-old Cassandra Mortmain has recently learned to speed-write, and she decides to work on her writing skills by describing the actions and conversations of those around her.
Cassandra lives in a fourteenth-century English castle with an interesting cast of characters: her beautiful older sister, Rose; her rather unsociable author father and his second wife, artist-model Topaz; Stephen, the garden boy; a cat and a bull terrier; and sometimes her brother Thomas when he is home from school. One fateful day they make the acquaintance of the Cotton family, including the two sons, and a web of tangled relationships ensues.
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Leòn-Portilla, Miguel. Aztec Thought and Culture: A Study of the Ancient Nahuatl ……Mind. Translated by Jack Emory Davis. Norman: University of Oklahoma ……Press, 1963.
Review by Kelly Robison
In this ambitious work, Leòn-Portilla endeavors to ascertain the existence of a class of philosophers in Aztec society. If philosophy, and not merely religion, was present in Nahuatl culture, what did these philosophers attempt to accomplish? Through a study of Nahuatl texts and post-Conquest records, Leòn-Portilla examines the manifestations of rational thought and inquiry in Mexico prior to the Conquest.
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Egbuwalo Teniola Glory
2016054113
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The head:
Book title: The devil’s company
book authour:David liss
year of publication:1722
publisher:goodreads
reviewer: Peter clothier
The Neck:
The Devil’s Company, a treat for lovers of historical fiction, sees the return of Benjamin Weaver in his third exciting romp through the varied and sometimes surreal landscape of 18th-century London. Weaver is an endearing protagonist, a former pugilist and investigator for hire whom we first met in David Liss’s A Conspiracy of Paper (1999).”
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2016054041
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web link: http://www.wizardofOzreview.com
By: Hajra Salim
13 years old, Rawalpindi
The Wizard Of Oz is a high fantasy, magic and wizardry children’s novel. The author of this novel L. Frank Baum wrote 17 more books about the Wizard Of Oz. The story had been made into films many times. The most famous were made in 1939 and 2013. He wanted to write a fairy tale that was full of mystery,
imagination and magic.
The Wizard Of Oz is a story about a trip to a magical fairyland. At the beginning of the story, there is a cyclone. The cyclone carries Dorothy’s house to the land of Oz. Dorothy is a sweet little girl who lives in a small farmhouse in the middle of Kansas. She lived there with her Uncle Henry and Aunt Em. Uncle Henry was a farmer. Dorothy was a very kind simple girl, there were no other families to visit, or children to play with but Dorothy had someone to play with. It was a little dog. His name was Toto, So Dorothy was never bored.
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By Rohan Naahar , Hindustan Times
Tomb Raider
Director – Roar Uthaug
Cast – Alicia Vikander, Dominic West, Walton Goggins, Daniel Wu, Kristin Scott Thomas
Rating – 2.5/5
While it’s only fair to request — no, demand — that comic book movies get the respect they deserve, the same can hardly be said for films based on video games. While even the most generic comic book movies are beginning to push boundaries like never before, video game adaptations have for decades squandered every opportunity they’ve been given — a wealth of immensely successful source material, A-list actors and directors, tentpole budgets, and a freedom that wouldn’t have been possible without the comic book adaptations whose success they hope to emulate.
Website:https://m. hindustantimes. com
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MOVIE INFO
WONDER WOMAN
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Rating: PG-13 (for sequences of violence and action, and some suggestive content)
Genre: Action & Adventure, Drama, Science Fiction & Fantasy
Directed By: Patty Jenkins
Written By: Allan Heinberg, Zack Snyder, Jason Fuchs
In Theaters: Jun 2, 2017 Wide
On Disc/Streaming: Sep 19, 2017
Box Office: $412,400,625
Runtime: 141 minutes
Studio: Warner Bros. Pictures
An Amazon princess (Gal Gadot) finds her idyllic life on an island occupied only by female warriors interrupted when a pilot (Chris Pine) crash-lands nearby. After rescuing him, she learns that World War I is engulfing the planet, and vows to use her superpowers to restore peace. Directed by Patty Jenkins (Monster).
https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/wonder_woman_2017/
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Half of a Yellow Sun
First edition
Author: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Country: Nigeria
Language:English
Genre: Historical fiction
Published January 15, 2007
reviewer: Wikipedia
The novel takes place in Nigeria prior to and during the Nigerian Civil War (1967–70). The effect of the war is shown through the dynamic relationships of five people’s lives including twin daughters of an influential
businessman, a professor, a British citizen, and a houseboy. After Biafra’s declaration of secession.
The book jumps between events that took place during the early and late 1960s, when the war took place, and extends until the end of the war.
the lives of the main characters drastically changed and were torn apart by the brutality of the civil war and decisions in their personal lives.
link:https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Half_of_a_Yellow_Sun
Otukpa Joseph Spencer
2016054084
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2016054113
quiz no:18
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The head:
Book title: The devil’s company
book authour:David liss
year of publication:1722
publisher:goodreads
genre: Novel
reviewer: Frank Tallis
The Neck:
The Devil’s Company, a treat for lovers of historical fiction, sees the return of Benjamin Weaver in his third exciting romp through the varied and sometimes surreal landscape of 18th-century London. Weaver is an endearing protagonist, a former pugilist and investigator for hire whom we first met in David Liss’s A Conspiracy of Paper (1999).”
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Nwabuoku Sandra Chioma
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JUMANJI: WELCOME TO THE JUNGLE
Rating: PG-13 (for adventure action, suggestive content and some language)
Genre: Action & Adventure, Drama, Kids & Family, Science Fiction & Fantasy
Directed By: Jake Kasdan
Written By: Chris McKenna, Erik Sommers, Scott Rosenberg, Jeff Pinkner
In Theaters: Dec 20, 2017 Limited
On Disc/Streaming: Mar 20, 2018
Box Office: £393,201,353
Runtime: 112 minutes
Studio: Columbia Pictures
Reviewer: Rotten Tomatoes
When four high-school kids discover an old video game console with a game they’ve never heard of–Jumanji–they are immediately drawn into the game’s jungle setting, literally becoming the avatars they chose: gamer Spencer becomes a brawny adventurer (Dwayne Johnson); football jock Fridge loses (in his words) “the top two feet of his body” and becomes an Einstein (Kevin Hart); popular girl Bethany becomes a middle-aged male professor (Jack Black); and wallflower Martha becomes a badass warrior (Karen Gillan). What they discover is that you don’t just play Jumanji–you must survive it. To beat the game and return to the real world, they’ll have to go on the most dangerous adventure of their lives, discover what Alan Parrish left 20 years ago, and change the way they think about themselves–or they’ll be stuck in the game forever. ,Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle uses a charming cast and a humorous twist to offer an undemanding yet solidly entertaining update on its source material.
https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/jumanji_welcome_to_the_jungle/
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movie review
Release date: 16 February 2018 (Nigeria)
Director: Ryan Coogler
Budget: 200 million USD
Production company: Marvel Studios
Producers: Kevin Feige, David J. Grant
reviewer. chukwurah chinwike
After the death of his father, T’Challa returns home to the African nation of Wakanda to take his rightful place as king. When a powerful enemy suddenly reappears, T’Challa’s mettle as king — and as Black Panther — gets tested when he’s drawn into a conflict that puts the fate of Wakanda and the entire world at risk. Faced with treachery and danger, the young king must rally his allies and release the full power of Black Panther to defeat his foes and secure the safety of his people.
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Micheal Nwazuloke
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Movie Review
Movie Title: Hotel Rwanda
Director: Terry George
Genre:
Cast: Sophie Okonado,Nick Notle,Tony Korogne.
Date: 22 December,2004
Reviewer: Micheal Nwazuloke
Paul Rusesabagina (Don Cheadle), a Hutu, manages the Hôtel des Mille Collines and lives a happy life with his Tutsi wife (Sophie Okonedo) and their three children. But when Hutu military forces initiate a campaign of ethnic cleansing against the Tutsi minority, Paul is compelled to allow refugees to take shelter in his hotel. As the U.N. pulls out, Paul must struggle alone to protect the Tutsi refugees in the face of the escalating violence later known as the Rwandan genocide.
WebLink:https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0395169/fullcredits
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Judith Bennett’s Ale, Beer, and Brewsters in England
One of feminism’s paradoxes—one that challenges many of its optimistic histories—is how patriarchy remains persistent over time. While
Judith Bennett’s Ale, Beer, and Brewsters in England: Women’s Work in a Changing World, 1300-1600 recognizes medieval women as historical actors through their ale brewing, it also shows that female agency had its limits with the advent of beer. I had assumed that those limits were religious and political, but Bennett shows how a “patriarchal equilibrium” shut women out of economic life as well. Her analysis of women’s wages in ale and beer production proves that a change in women’s work does not equate to a change in working women’s status. Contemporary feminists and historians alike should read Bennett’s book and think twice when they crack open their next brewsky.
https://writingcenter.unc.edu/tips-and-tools/book-reviews/
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Book title:Judith Bennett’s Ale, Beer, and Brewsters in England: Women’s work in a changing world, 1300-1600.
Book author:Judith .M. Bennett.
Year of publication:1996
Publisher: Oxford University Press.
One of feminism’s paradoxes—one that challenges many of its optimistic histories—is how patriarchy remains persistent over time. While
Judith Bennett’s Ale, Beer, and Brewsters in England: Women’s Work in a Changing World, 1300-1600 recognizes medieval women as historical actors through their ale brewing, it also shows that female agency had its limits with the advent of beer. I had assumed that those limits were religious and political, but Bennett shows how a “patriarchal equilibrium” shut women out of economic life as well. Her analysis of women’s wages in ale and beer production proves that a change in women’s work does not equate to a change in working women’s status. Contemporary feminists and historians alike should read Bennett’s book and think twice when they crack open their next brewsky.
https://writingcenter.unc.edu/tips-and-tools/book-reviews/
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2016054133
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Sir please, name of the reviewer was not mentioned. All that was said about the reviewer was: “consider the following brief book review written for a history course on medieval Europe by a student who is fascinated with beer.” That was the only detail revealed about the reviewer.
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Millbrooke, A.M. (1999). Aviation History. Englewood, CO: Jeppensen Sanderson.
Reviewed by Nanette Scarpellini, University of Nebraska at Omaha.
Aviation History delivers an entertaining account and perspective on international aviation history. This book is an excellent resource to students, educators, and aviation enthusiasts. In reviewing this book, the principal criteria included content, organization, and reference sources. While editing errors and organizational incongruities plague some of the latter chapters, many of the shortcomings of this first edition will likely be alleviated by later editions. These problems are only a minor distraction to the story being told.
2016054101
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Song title..Portharcourt 1st son
Artiste..Duncan Mighty
Genre..R&B/Soul
Album Title..Portharcourt son
Duration.. 5minutes and 45 seconds
Year released.. July23,2013
Reviewer..Ochomgba chinenye
The title of the song gives us a clear understanding of What this songs all about .it tells us of where the artists comes from and how life over has been for him.
This song combined the use of two languages which is Igbo and English in other for clear understanding of what the music is all about
Web link..https:/www.amazon.com.
2016054148
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Movie title: pitch perfect 3
Created& produced by;Elizabeth banks, Paul Brooks
Key actors; Anna kendrick(becca) Elizabeth banks( gail) Esther Dean (Cynthia rose) Kelley jakle(jessica)
Date; November 30 2017
Episodes:…….
Reviewer; Emefo nkechi chinenye
Pitch perfect 3 is an American musical comedy film. The movie is all about the Bellas, how they graduated from college, reunited for one final singing competition together at an overseas USO tour. They were face with a group that uses both instruments and voices.
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Titanic Movie Review
Titanic
| Roger Ebert
December 19, 1997 |
Like a great iron Sphinx on the ocean floor, the Titanic faces still toward the West, interrupted forever on its only voyage. We see it in the opening shots of “Titanic,” encrusted with the silt of 85 years; a remote-controlled TV camera snakes its way inside, down corridors and through doorways, showing us staterooms built for millionaires and inherited by crustaceans.
These shots strike precisely the right note; the ship calls from its grave for its story to be told, and if the story is made of showbiz and hype, smoke and mirrors–well, so was the Titanic. She was “the largest moving work of man in all history,” a character boasts, neatly dismissing the Pyramids and the Great Wall. There is a shot of her, early in the film, sweeping majestically beneath the camera from bow to stern, nearly 900 feet long and “unsinkable,” it was claimed, until an iceberg made an irrefutable reply.
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James Cameron’s 194-minute, $200 million film of the tragic voyage is in the tradition of the great Hollywood epics. It is flawlessly crafted, intelligently constructed, strongly acted and spellbinding. If its story stays well within the traditional formulas for such pictures, well, you don’t choose the most expensive film ever made as your opportunity to reinvent the wheel.
We know before the movie begins that certain things must happen. We must see the Titanic sail and sink, and be convinced we are looking at a real ship. There must be a human story–probably a romance–involving a few of the passengers. There must be vignettes involving some of the rest and a subplot involving the arrogance and pride of the ship’s builders–and perhaps also their courage and dignity. And there must be a reenactment of the ship’s terrible death throes; it took two and a half hours to sink, so that everyone aboard had time to know what was happening, and to consider their actions.
All of those elements are present in Cameron’s “Titanic,” weighted and balanced like ballast, so that the film always seems in proportion. The ship was made out of models (large and small), visual effects and computer animation.
The human story involves an 17-year-old woman named Rose DeWitt Bukater (Kate Winslet) who is sailing to what she sees as her own personal doom: She has been forced by her penniless mother to become engaged to marry a rich, supercilious snob named Cal Hockley (Billy Zane), and so bitterly does she hate this prospect that she tries to kill herself by jumping from the ship. She is saved by Jack Dawson (Leonardo DiCaprio), a brash kid from steerage, and of course they will fall in love during the brief time left to them.
The screenplay tells their story in a way that unobtrusively shows off the ship. Jack is invited to join Rose’s party at dinner in the first class dining room, and later, fleeing from Cal’s manservant, Lovejoy (David Warner), they find themselves first in the awesome engine room, with pistons as tall as churches, and then at a rousing Irish dance in the crowded steerage. (At one point Rose gives Lovejoy the finger; did young ladies do that in 1912?) Their exploration is intercut with scenes from the command deck, where the captain (Bernard Hill) consults with Andrews (Victor Garber), the ship’s designer and Ismay (Jonathan Hyde), the White Star Line’s managing director.
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Ismay wants the ship to break the trans-Atlantic speed record. He is warned that icebergs may have floated into the hazardous northern crossing but is scornful of danger. The Titanic can easily break the speed record but is too massive to turn quickly at high speed; there is an agonizing sequence that almost seems to play in slow motion, as the ship strains and shudders to turn away from an iceberg in its path–and fails.
We understand exactly what is happening at that moment because of an ingenious story technique by Cameron, who frames and explains the entire voyage in a modern story. The opening shots of the real Titanic, we are told, are obtained during an expedition led by Brock Lovett (Bill Paxton), an undersea explorer. He seeks precious jewels but finds a nude drawing of a young girl. Meanwhile, an ancient woman sees the drawing on TV and recognizes herself. This is Rose (Gloria Stuart), still alive at 101. She visits Paxton and shares her memories (“I can still smell the fresh paint”). And he shows her video scenes
The image from the Titanic that has haunted me, ever since I first read the story of the great ship, involves the moments right after it sank. The night sea was quiet enough so that cries for help carried easily across the water to the lifeboats, which drew prudently away. Still dressed up in the latest fashions, hundreds froze and drowned. What an extraordinary position to find yourself in after spending all that money for a ticket on an unsinkable ship.
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Titanic (1997)
Cast
Leonardo DiCaprio as Jack Dawson
Kate Winslet as Rose Dewitt Bukater
Billy Zane as Cal Hockley
Kathy Bates as Molly Brown
Bill Paxton as Brock Lovett
Written and Directed by
James Cameron
Action, Disaster, Drama, Romance
Rated PG-13 For Shipwreck Scenes, Mild Language and Sexuality
194 minutes
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Bobo by Mayorkun ft Davido
Song title: Bobo
Artiste: Mayorkun
Guest feature: Davido
Genre: World
Director: Clarence Peter
Year released: 2018
Reviewer: Aguinam Ojukwu Faustina
The title of the song says it all.The song mirrors the mind of Nigerian youths when it comes to love and relationships.Indeed with money a man is never ugly “na money be fine bobo”.Bobo is a good song,it is not much of a regular song but rather its a great way to usher in music career
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The preliminary information of the movie “The hurricane heist”
Movie Title_The hurricane heist
Created and produced by Danny Roth, Damiano Tucci
Key actors and actresses_Toby Kennel(will Ritledge), Maggie Grace (Casey Corbyn) Ryan U wanted (Breeze Rutledge), Ralf Ineron (Connor Perkins) Melissa Bolona (Sasha Van Dietrich
Date _March 9,2018
Duration_103mins
Reviewer_ONUORAH ADAEZE CHIDIMMA
THE NECK _The hurricane heist is a television drama series which features a team of tech hackers who embark on a $600 million robbery from a coastal Vs Treasury facility at the same time a disastrous category 5 hurricane is set to strike
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EXAMPLE OF ART REVIEWS 1
BY PHILLIP FLOCKHART
Nocturne noblest:
a review of the Art Work of Valerie Brennan.
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Somnambolists Panorama’: 150 x 25cm. wwc Valeire Brenan, 2008.
There is a haunting melody that run’s through all of Valerie’s work, that marks it as distinctive.
Her mark making techniques reveal a competence that can only come from talent that has been put through its paces- her work exhudes the quality that comes only from the hard work of application and quest.
Opalescent colours of subtle tones can be suddenly juxtaposed to bright opaque primary patches expertly placed to jolt the senses, an experience that Stass Paraskos referred to as the ‘rusty nail’ that brings us up with a shock to the senses and draws us, the viewer in for a closer look, to be rewarded by the more quiet changes in mood effected by masterly use of soft mark making that lulls us back to a sense of security.
Her current location of Mexico City has certainly found its vibrant way into her recent work- the hustle and bustle of night life, with its promise of satisfied lusts or desires are clearly experienced in her elongated ‘nocturne’ panels (‘The Somnambulists Panorama I & II’) and the suggestion of dangerous excitement is the stamp of the ‘Posthumous Shadow’ and ‘Mapping Night’ where the real dangers of inner city night life become palpably tangible.
There is also present a sense of fun, the sheer enjoyment of shape and colour depicted in ‘Red Jelly, Yellow Jelly’ which levers memories of childhood party life form the depths of forgotten images but the levity does not detract form the sheer visual eloquence that is the hallmark of this artist.
The work is truly enjoyable and can be viewed at the artists website:
valeriebrennan.com
and obtainable form the artist or the ‘Apocalypse Gallery’ in Cyprus.
phillip flockhart,
chonburi, thailand,
may 2009.
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BLACK NOVEMBER
Directed by Jeta Amata
Produced by Bernard Alexander
Jeta Amata, Ori Ayonmike, Marc Byers, Wilson Ebiye, Hakeem Kae-Kazim, Dede Mabiaku
Written by Jeta Amata
Released 8 may 2012
Genre Film soundtrack
Length 1:25:23 (95 minutes)
“Black November narrates the true story of the corruption and greedy tactics used by multi-national oil corporations and the Nigerian government to hide the truth about the oils spills in the Niger Delta, while making a large sum of money from exporting what really belongs to the Nigerian citizens. Sadly, the people most affected by the spills get rewarded not even a penny for their agony”
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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_November
BLACK NOVEMBER
Directed: by Jeta Amata
Produced by Bernard Alexander
Jeta Amata, Ori Ayonmike, Marc Byers, Wilson Ebiye, Hakeem Kae-Kazim, Dede Mabiaku
Written: by Jeta Amata
Released: 8 may 2012
Genre Film soundtrack
Length: 1:25:23 (95 minutes)
Reviewer: UMEAKU SOMTO ONYEDIKA
“Black November narrates the true story of the corruption and greedy tactics used by multi-national oil corporations and the Nigerian government to hide the truth about the oils spills in the Niger Delta, while making a large sum of money from exporting what really belongs to the Nigerian citizens. Sadly, the people most affected by the spills get rewarded not even a penny for their agony”
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Movie Tittle: Underground
Produced by: Joe pokaski
Genre: period drama
Key actors/actress: Jurnee Smollett-Bell, Aldis Hodge ,Jessica De Gouw ,Alano Miller,
Christopher Meloni, Amirah Vann
Date: march 9 2016
Reviewer: Ezenwajiugo Somto
Underground is an American television period drama series created by Misha Green and Joe Pokaski about Underground Railroad in Antebellum Georgia . its critically acclaimed drama about a group of runaway slaves and abolitionists fighting for freedom along the Underground Railroad , though its creators have vowed to find a new home for it .
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web link:https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Underground_(TV_series)..
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Famous Paintings: The Scream
The Scream by Edvard Munch (1863-1944) is one of the most famous paintings in Western art history, and inarguably one of the most readily recognized.
Edvard Munch. The Scream, 1893. Tempera and casein on cardboard, 36 by 29″. Munch Museum, Oslo.
Edvard Munch. The Scream, 1893. Tempera and casein on cardboard, 36 by 29″. Munch Museum, Oslo.
The painter spent his childhood in Oslo, the second of five children born to a prominent Norwegian family. His mother and two siblings died when Munch was young. By the age of 17, Munch discovered painting as a tool to articulate his feelings of depression and fear of death.
Although he received little formal training, his style matured in the 1890s after his exposure in Paris to Paul Gauguin and Vincent van Gogh paintings. Their energetic brushwork and bold colors provided a subjective vocabulary for personal interpretation of subjects.
These famous painters were among those experimenting with the direct expression of emotion as the primary element in painting, rather than the Impressionist aesthetic that valued style, form and color more highly. Munch viewed art making as a quest to express his most privately-held feelings and beliefs, saying
In my art I have tried to find an explanation for life and to discover its meaning. I also intended to help others understand life.
Trepan mummy from Chachapoya kingdom in Peru. AFP Photo Francois Guillot
Trepan mummy from Chachapoya kingdom in Peru. AFP Photo Francois Guillot
To acheive this goal, Munch created The Frieze of Life, his lifelong series of paintings in which he sought to resolve elementary questions about life. This grand view of the purpose of art was not unusual, and was similarly pursued by artists in works such as
Auguste Rodin (1840-1917) in Gates of Hell;
Paul Gauguin’s Where Do We Come From? Who are We? Where are We Going? and
Pablo Picasso in La Vie.
The Frieze of Life consists of many well-known Edvard Munch paintings, including The Scream, but no other conveys the angst seen in it.
According to Thomas Hoving, past Director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, this iconic Munch work
…truly stands alone in art. Before Munch, no one in history portrayed human fear and pain outside of specific depictions of gladiatorial contests, battles and hand-to-hand combat, the torturing of saints, or people being attacked by fierce animals.” (1)
As with van Gogh, Munch’s deteriorating mental condition underlies his work. But an important distinction exists between these two famous painters: van Gogh translated his agitation and duress into symbols like cypress trees, sunflowers and menacing skies (read more about Vincent van Gogh paintings), where Munch literally painted his pain.
Some art historians believe that he suffered a panic or anxiety attack, recreated in The Scream. Munch wrote in his diary,
“One evening I was walking along a street, tired and ill, with two friends: the city and the fjord lay below us. The sun was setting and the clouds turned blood red. Then I heard the colours of nature scream – and that shrill cry echoed over the fjord.” (2)
Krakatoa volcano.
Krakatoa volcano.
Other art historians reference the 1883 Indonesian volcano, Krakatoa, whose eruption generated deafening sound waves that traveled 1,500 miles, cloaking Europe in preternatural blue and red sunsets for half a year.
After seeing these effects in present day Oslo, Edvard Munch wrote,
… I sensed a great, infinite scream pass through nature.”
Yet another inspiration may have been a Trepan mummy from the Peruvian Chachapoya kingdom (above right). The Trepan mummy was shown at Paris’ Trocadero Museum, and likely at the 1889 World’s Fair, so Munch could have readily seen this image.
Regardless of what inspired Munch, though, the agony is excrutiating: the sound is so overpowering and crippling that it distorts the face of the figure, who vainly cups his ears to protect them. Notably, the two figures in the left background are unaffected, suggesting that the figure’s turmoil may only be internal.
The Scream is a universal symbol of suffering.
Is there any alternative explanation?
1. Hoving, Thomas. Greatest Works of Art of Western Civilization. New York: Workman Publishing Company, 1997. Page 64.
2. Edvard Munch, From My Diary, 1929.
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When James Bond’s (Daniel Craig) latest assignment goes terribly wrong, it leads to a calamitous turn of events: Undercover agents around the world are exposed, and MI6 is attacked, forcing M (Judi Dench) to relocate the agency. With MI6 now compromised inside and out, M turns to the one man she can trust: Bond. Aided only by a field agent (Naomie Harris), Bond takes to the shadows and follows a trail to Silva (Javier Bardem), a man from M’s past who wants to settle an old score.
Release date: 2 November 2012 (Nigeria)
Director: Sam Mendes
film name: sky fall
reviewer:ndigwe Lawrence
2016054017
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There is a moment in “Shrek” when the despicable Lord Farquaad has the Gingerbread Man tortured by dipping him into milk. This prepares us for another moment when Princess Fiona’s singing voice is so piercing it causes jolly little bluebirds to explode; making the best of a bad situation, she fries their eggs. This is not your average family cartoon. “Shrek” is jolly and wicked, filled with sly in-jokes and yet somehow possessing a heart.
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The preliminary information of the movie “The hurricane heist”
Movie Title_The hurricane heist
Created and produced by Danny Roth, Damiano Tucci
Genre_Drama Series
Key actors and actresses_Toby Kennel(will Ritledge), Maggie Grace (Casey Corbyn) Ryan U wanted (Breeze Rutledge), Ralf Ineron (Connor Perkins) Melissa Bolona (Sasha Van Dietrich
Date _March 9,2018
Duration_103mins
Reviewer_ONUORAH ADAEZE CHIDIMMA
THE NECK _The hurricane heist is a television drama series which features a team of tech hackers who embark on a $600 million robbery from a coastal Vs Treasury facility at the same time a disastrous category 5 hurricane is set to strike
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Created and produced -J. P. Finn
Gener:Drama
Key Actors- Grant Huston, Candice Payton, Rick Cosette, Carlos Values, Tom Cavangh, Jesse Martin.
Date-2014
Episodes- 85(4seasons)
Reviewer- Ibeh Ifunanya Cynthia
The movie Flash is about an 11 year old boy Barry Allen who lost his mum to a lighting in form of a person….. His life began as a superhero when he was hit by a lighting Bolt and he became the fastest man on earth…. He started stopping bad guys like himself and keeping people safe…
The hunger to bring his Dad who was accused to kill his mum out of jail increased when he found out that whatever killed his mum was something like him. He saves the innocent and still try to solve the mystery of his mum death….
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Movie title: Princess protection Program
Created and produced by : Danielle weinstock, Allison liddi brown
Genre:
Key actors/ actresses: Demi lavato( princess Rosalinda maria), Selena Gomez ( Carter mason), Nicholas Braun (Ed), Jamie Chung( Chelsea), Samantha drone( Brooke), tom verica( Joe mason), Robert Adamson( Donny), Kelvin Schmidt(Bull)
Date: June 26,2009
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Princess protection program is a 2009 Disney channel original movie, about a princess called Rosalinda maria Montoya fiore ( Demi lavato) about to be crowned queen of the small nation of costalina and general Kane invades her palace with his agents during her coronation rehearsal and attempts to capture the royal family and take over the country.
The princess protection program hides Rosalinda in Mason’s home in Louisiana, where she is to masquerade as a typical American teenager named Rosie conzalez.
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Title: The Walking dead
Genre(s):Drama, Action & Adventure,Fantasy, Horror, Suspense,Science Fiction
Season 8 premiere date:Oct 22, 2017
Network:AMC
Air Time:9:00 PM
Episode Length:60
Seasons:1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
cast: Seth Gilliam(Father Gabriel Stokes)Lennie James(Morgan Jones)Jeffrey Dean Morgan(Negan)Christian Serratos(Rosita Espinosa)Lauren Cohan(Maggie Greene)Norman Reedus(Daryl Dixon)Andrew Lincoln(Rick Grimes)Chandler Riggs(Carl Grimes)Melissa McBride(Carol Peletier)Danai Jekesai Gurira(Michonne)Alanna Masterson(Tara Chambler)Josh McDermitt(Eugene Porter)
Rick along with the people of Alexandria, Hilltop, and The Kingdom prepare for war against Negan (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) and his Saviors in the eighth season of the zombie drama.
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song title-iyawo mi
artiste-timi dakolo
guestfeature-busola(his wife)
genre-RnB
album title-love and consequences
director-cobhams asuquoDibia esther
2016054154
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song title-iyawo mi
artiste-timi dakolo
guestfeature-busola(his wife)
genre-RnB
album title-love and consequences
director-cobhams asuquo
duration-4 minute2second
year released-2014
reviewer- Dibia Esther onyekachukwu
The title of the song says it all iyawo mi,its was produced by cobhams asuquo and directed by clararence peter is a love letter that was presented with soft soulful vocals.timi dakolo has done a good work in combining lyrics, sound to bring about a traditional feel infused with his strong vocals..
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Song Title: The louder I call, the faster it runs
Artiste: Wye Oak
Genre:Alternative/ Indie
Album Title: The louder I call, the faster it runs
Duration: 4mins 23 seconds
Label; Morage Records
Year of release: 6, April 2018
Reviewer: Brad Shoup
Wye Oak ’s 2011 album Civilian was a major inflection point for the band. Supporting the record brought the Baltimore duo of Andy Stack and Jenn Wasner across oceans, onto “The Tonight Show,” and into the arsenal of Hollywood music supervisors. By the end of the year, after wringing every possible variation out of their setlist, they were spent. “I feel like our band is going to change very, very drastically from here on out in order to remain vital to us,” Wasner noted in an interview with the Village Voice . And so they did, situationally and stylistically. Stack moved to the artistic enclave of Marfa, Texas, and then on to Portland, Oregon. At the same time, Wasner set her guitar aside as she worked on her throwback chirp-pop project Dungeonesse ; the results were sufficiently freeing that Wye Oak’s 2014 follow-up, Shriek, eschewed the six-string almost entirely.
This is a standard narrative: a band that has to evolve or die. But more than that, it’s the story of trying to maintain relationships as adulthood scatters everyone to the winds. In order to make Shriek , Stack and Wasner passed demos back and forth. This time, they opted for a series of home/away dates, alternating weeks recording in Marfa (to which Stack returned after Shriek ) and Durham, North Carolina (Wasner’s home since 2015). The strategy forced more direct collaboration, as well as a spirit of first-thought-best-thought. The result is The Louder I Call, the Faster It Runs, which, for all its weight, has the particular giddiness of conspirators reuniting.
Link: https://pitchfork.com/.
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THOR RAGNAROK
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In Marvel Studios’ “Thor: Ragnarok,” Thor is imprisoned on the other side of the universe without his mighty hammer and finds himself in a race against time to get back to Asgard to stop Ragnarok–the destruction of his homeworld and the end of Asgardian civilization–at the hands of an all-powerful new threat, the ruthless Hela. But first he must survive a deadly gladiatorial contest that pits him against his former ally and fellow Avenger–the Incredible Hulk!
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Rating: PG-13 (for intense sequences of sci-fi violence and action, and brief suggestive material)
Genre: Action & Adventure, Drama, Science Fiction & Fantasy
Directed By: Taika Waititi
Written By: Eric Pearson
In Theaters: Nov 3, 2017 Wide
On Disc/Streaming: Mar 6, 2018
Box Office: $314,971,245
Runtime: 130 minutes
Studio: Walt Disney Pictures
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MUSIC REVIEW: Bank Alert by PSquare – Daily Nation https://www.nation.co.ke › … › Sho…
I thought PSquare was supposed to have broken up, but I may have fallen behind with that story. Whatever the case, I am glad they have released a new song – ” Bank Alert”.I thought PSquare ..
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Directed byJohn R. LeonettiProduced bySherryl ClarkWritten byBarbara MarshallStarring
Joey KingKi Hong LeeSydney ParkElisabeth RöhmRyan Phillippe
Music byTomandandyCinematographyMichael GalbraithEdited byPeck Prior
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Release date
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Running time
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Wish Upon is a 2017 American supernatural horror film, directed by John R. Leonetti, written by Barbara Marshall, and starring Joey King, Ki Hong Lee, Sydney Park, Elisabeth Röhm, and Ryan Phillippe. The film follows a teenage girl who finds a magic box that grants wishes, but kills someone close to her each time it does.
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Spartacus, a Thracian slave, refuses to allow himself to become the animal the Roman civilization would have him be. His love for Varinia, a slave girl, coupled with his revulsion at the crushing treatment and callous murders of his fellow slaves, ignite in his breast a passion for freedom. They escape and joined by more runaways, and swell to become a vast army. Contrasted with their impassioned plans for open rebellion are the cool, calculating minds of their Roman adversaries Crassus, Grachus.
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The Thracian slave Spartacus, thought to have been a deserter from the Roman army, was sold to a school for gladiators at Capua but never got to the arena, leading a slave revolt in 73 BC and devastating Southern Italy with an army of former slaves and gladiators. He was defeated in battle in 71 BC by Marcus Crassus, probably dying on the field of combat rather than surviving (as in the movie) to be crucified. Crassus, with Pompey and Julius Caesar, formed the first Triumvirate of Rome, precursor to the Emperorship of the Caesars, but came to a bad end in 53 BC when he was himself killed in a war he had started
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PURPLE HIBISCUS
AUTHOR : CHIMAMANDA NGOZI ADICHIE
PAGES:321
Release date:2006
Genre:fiction
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THE SETTING OF THE NOVEL IS IN IGBOLAND THE SOUTH EASTERN PART OF NIGERIAN OF ENUGU(NSUKKA) AND ABBA..
IT IS A COMPELLING TALE TOLD WELL BY A CONFIDENT 14 YEAR OLD YOUNG GIRL KAMBILI.IT TELLS THE STORY OF A YOUNG GIRL WATCHING HER FAMILY BREAK DOWN IN A COUNTRY THAT IS DOING THE SAME..
14 YEAR OLD KAMBILI IS THE OBEDIENT ONLY DAUGHTER OF A HARSH CATHOLIC FANATIC(EUGENE ACHIKE).EUGENE IS A BIG MAN & RICHWRALTHY MANUFACTURER IN ENUGU.IT DEPOCTS A LAND FULL OF POTENTIALS AND WITH AN EDUCATED MIDDLE CLASS.,A COUNTRY IN WHICH A COUP CAN SUDDENLY ERUPT AND A LOCAL NEWSPAPER EDITOR CAN BE KILKED FOR WHAT HE WRITES…
THE MAIN STRENGTH IS DIALOGUE,DESCRIPTION AND USE OF IMAGERY.
THE WEAKNESS OF THE WRITER THE WRITER IS THE INEFFECTIVE WAY OF LINKING EVENTS.
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A disgraced former surgeon named Stephen Strange (Benedict Cumberbatch) becomes a powerful sorcerer under the tutelage of a mystic known as the Ancient One (Tilda Swinton). Rachel McAdams, Mads Mikkelsen, and Chiwetel Ejiofor co-star in this entry in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Directed by Scott Derrickson (Sinister).
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Rating: PG-13 (for sci-fi violence and action throughout, and an intense crash sequence)
Genre: Action & Adventure, Science Fiction & Fantasy
Directed By: Scott Derrickson
Written By: Thomas Dean Donnelly, Joshua Oppenheimer, Jon Spaihts, Scott Derrickson, C. Robert Cargill
In Theaters: Nov 4, 2016 Wide
On Disc/Streaming: Feb 28, 2017
Box Office: $232,630,718
Runtime: 130 minutes
Studio: Walt Disney Pictures
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Movie title:Hotel Rwanda
Created and produced:Terry George
Genre:Drama,foreign,history
Key actors and actresses:Don Cheadle as Paul Ruseabagina,Sophie Okenedo as Tatiana,Nick Nolte as Col.oliver,Joaquin phoenie as Jack.
Date:25 February 2005
Episodes:121minutes
Reviewer:Osumuo Vivian Chidiogo
Hotel Rwanda is a television drama series which features a million members of the Tutsi tribe being killed by members of the Hutu tribe in a massacre
that took place while the world looked away. Hotel Rwanda is not the story of the massacre, it is the story of a hotel manager who saved the lives of 1200 people by being, essentially a very good hotel manger.
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2016054008
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Review of Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
by Cynthia Alexandre-Brutus
February 9, 2017
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Half of a Yellow Sun offers a heart-wrenching account of the Biafran War (1967-1970), beautifully wrapped in a story of love, loyalty, betrayal, resilience, and hope. She places a human face on a war that has been far removed from historical memory outside of Nigeria. As a result of the massacre of the Igbo people in the predominantly Muslim Hausa North, Igbos of the South sought to establish their own state: Biafra. In response, the Nigerian government declared war against Biafra, unwilling to allow the oil-rich south-east to secede. The war was catalyzed by the remnants of British colonialism, which created fragmented national boundaries and provoked ethnic tension between the two groups. Although the book is a work of historical fiction, it is based on very real accounts and exhaustive research of the Biafran War and continuing conflict.
Moreover, separatist sentiment lives on through the Indigenous People of Biafra, a movement led by Nnamdi Kanu, who was arrested by Nigeria’s Department of State Services in October 2015 on “treasonable felony” charges. His arrest has sparked pro-Biafran protests and violence between security forces and civilians, while Kanu remains in detention. In light of this, Adichie’s book is all the more relevant today, as the wounds of the war are still fresh for many Nigerians and the fight for Biafra’s independence continues.
Through Adichie’s prose, we are offered a glimpse into the lives of several very different and multifaceted characters who are all determined to survive in the Free State of Biafra. One of the main characters, Odenigbo, is a math professor at a university in Nsukka, a revolutionary thinker and an ardent Biafran who struggles with the psychological impact of war violence. Olanna is Odenigbo’s wife; she is of the Nigerian elite and attempting to cope with being thrust from her comfort zone while striving to keep her family intact throughout the war. Richard is a shy English expatriate who falls in love with Olanna’s fraternal twin, Kainene. Throughout the novel, he seeks to identify as Biafran, in order to break
Book title: Half of a yellow sun
Author:Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Year of publication: 2006
publisher:Anchor books
place of publication: United states
genre:memoir
ISBN:9781400095209
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Critical reviews don’t always need a conclusion so you must decide whether to include one or not. If you think a conclusion is necessary you should summarise your arguments on your overall view of the text.
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TITLE:Weeping Woman
ARTIST:Pablo Picasso
MEDIUM:Oil on Canvas
DIMENSION:60*49cm
DATE:October 1937
REVIEWER:Marie Therese Walter
This type of artwork can be considered to be expressionism.There isn’t an actual background scene in the painting.
The woman is the focus of the painting. She is wearing an accesory on top of her head that demonstrates elegance. The colors used by the author is considered to be quite different as each color conveys a seperate impression.
Picasso wanted the audience to feel the pain and provide a statement that explains how all women feel and the agony they are consistently in.
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Titanic
| Roger Ebert
December 19, 1997 |
Like a great iron Sphinx on the ocean floor, the Titanic faces still toward the West, interrupted forever on its only voyage. We see it in the opening shots of “Titanic,” encrusted with the silt of 85 years; a remote-controlled TV camera snakes its way inside, down corridors and through doorways, showing us staterooms built for millionaires and inherited by crustaceans.
These shots strike precisely the right note; the ship calls from its grave for its story to be told, and if the story is made of showbiz and hype, smoke and mirrors.
James Cameron’s 194-minute, $200 million film of the tragic voyage is in the tradition of the great Hollywood epics. It is flawlessly crafted, intelligently constructed, strongly acted and spellbinding. If its story stays well within the traditional formulas for such pictures, well, you don’t choose the most expensive film ever made as your opportunity to reinvent the wheel.
The human story involves an 17-year-old woman named Rose DeWitt Bukater (Kate Winslet) who is sailing to what she sees as her own personal doom: She has been forced by her penniless mother to become engaged to marry a rich, supercilious snob named Cal Hockley (Billy Zane), and so bitterly does she hate this prospect that she tries to kill herself by jumping from the ship. She is saved by Jack Dawson (Leonardo DiCaprio), a brash kid from steerage, and of course they will fall in love during the brief time left to them.
The screenplay tells their story in a way that unobtrusively shows off the ship. Jack is invited to join Rose’s party at dinner in the first class dining room, and later, fleeing from Cal’s manservant, Lovejoy (David Warner), they find themselves first in the awesome engine room, with pistons as tall as churches, and then at a rousing Irish dance in the crowded steerage. (At one point Rose gives Lovejoy the finger; did young ladies do that in 1912?) Their exploration is intercut with scenes from the command deck, where the captain (Bernard Hill) consults with Andrews (Victor Garber), the ship’s designer and Ismay (Jonathan Hyde), the White Star Line’s managing director.
Ismay wants the ship to break the trans-Atlantic speed record. He is warned that icebergs may have floated into the hazardous northern crossing but is scornful of danger. The Titanic can easily break the speed record but is too massive to turn quickly at high speed; there is an agonizing sequence that almost seems to play in slow motion, as the ship strains and shudders to turn away from an iceberg in its path–and fails.
We understand exactly what is happening at that moment because of an ingenious story technique by Cameron, who frames and explains the entire voyage in a modern story. The opening shots of the real Titanic, we are told, are obtained during an expedition led by Brock Lovett (Bill Paxton), an undersea explorer. He seeks precious jewels but finds a nude drawing of a young girl. Meanwhile, an ancient woman sees the drawing on TV and recognizes herself. This is Rose (Gloria Stuart), still alive at 101. She visits Paxton and shares her memories (“I can still smell the fresh paint”). And he shows her video scenes from his explorations, including a computer simulation of the Titanic’s last hours–which doubles as a briefing for the audience. By the time the ship sinks, we already know what is happening and why, and the story can focus on the characters while we effortlessly follow the stages of the Titanic’s sinking.
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Titanic (1997)
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Leonardo DiCaprio as Jack Dawson
Kate Winslet as Rose Dewitt Bukater
Billy Zane as Cal Hockley
Kathy Bates as Molly Brown
Bill Paxton as Brock Lovett
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Rated PG-13 For Shipwreck Scenes, Mild Language and Sexuality
194 minutes
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Book title Things fall apart
Author chinua Achebe
Year of publication 1958
Publisher Williams Heinemann ltd
Place of publication Enugu
Genre inspirational book
ISBN 9780385474542
Language English
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BOOK REVIEW OF THINGS FALL APART BY CHINUA ACHEBE
Things Falls Apart is considered the alpha of English African literature. It is the book that brought the story from the ‘Dark Continent’ through the voice of an educated African through which he showed the conflict between African values and the advent of Christianity in Nigeria.
Safari Things Falls Apart is considered the alpha of English African literature. It is the book that brought the story from the ‘Dark Continent’ through the voice of an educated African through which he showed the conflict between African values and the advent of Christianity in Nigeria.
Okonkwo is an ambitious man within the Umuofia clan of the Igbo tribe. Determined to be a lord, he observes its rules, even the harshest of them, though that observance will eventually drive away his own son.
Achebe guides us through the intricacies of Igbo.
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2016054005
Movie title:12 years a slave
Director:Steve McQueen
Genre:drama
Key actors:chiwetel ejiofor,lupita nyong’o,bradd pitt,micheal fassbender
Date:2013
Reviewer:Maureen Chioma Odigwe
In the years before the Civil War, Solomon Northup (Chiwetel Ejiofor), a free black man from upstate New York, is kidnapped and sold into slavery in the South. Subjected to the cruelty of one malevolent owner (Michael Fassbender), he also finds unexpected kindness from another, as he struggles continually to survive and maintain some of his dignity. Then in the 12th year of the disheartening ordeal, a chance meeting with an abolitionist from Canada changes Solomon’s life forever.
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Maureen Chioma Odigwe
2016054005
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Movie title:12 years a slave
Director:Steve McQueen
Genre:drama
Key actors:chiwetel ejiofor,lupita nyong’o,bradd pitt,micheal fassbender
Date:
Reviewer:Robbie collin
In the years before the Civil War, Solomon Northup (Chiwetel Ejiofor), a free black man from upstate New York, is kidnapped and sold into slavery in the South. Subjected to the cruelty of one malevolent owner (Michael Fassbender), he also finds unexpected kindness from another, as he struggles continually to survive and maintain some of his dignity. Then in the 12th year of the disheartening ordeal, a chance meeting with an abolitionist from Canada changes Solomon’s life forever.
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Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe | Book review | Books …
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30 Jan 2010 · Set in the late 19th century, at the height of the “Scramble” for African territories by the great European powers, Things Fall Apart tells the story of Okonkwo, a proud and highly respected Igbo from Umuofia, somewhere near the Lower Niger.
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Author Chinua Achebe
Country Nigeria
Language English
Publisher William Heinemann Ltd.
Publication date 1958
Things Fall Apart is a novel written by
Nigerian author Chinua Achebe. Published in 1958, its story chronicles the pre-colonial life in Nigeria and the arrival of the Europeans during the late nineteenth century. It is seen as the archetypal modern African novel in English, one of the first to receive global critical acclaim. It is a staple book in schools throughout Africa and is widely read and studied in English-speaking countries around the world. It was first published by William Heinemann Ltd in the UK ; in 1962, it was also the first work published in Heinemann’s African Writers Series . The title of the novel has been borrowed from W. B. Yeats’ 1919 poem
“The Second Coming”.[1]
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bark your head off
by jayson Greene
Bark Your Head Off, Dog is only Hop Along’s third studio album, but they’ve assumed so many guises, and lit on so many moods, that they have the poise and gravitas of lifers. On 2015’s Painted Shut alone, we were given the unloved old man of “Texas Funeral,” angry at California, his own memories, his uncomprehending children; the waitress frozen by the appearance of a wronged woman at her restaurant; the forgotten jazz cornetist Charles “Buddy” Bolden, thrashing and foaming in the street in front of horrified crowds.
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Genre:drama and romance
Directed by:Michael sucsy
Written by:Jesse Andrew
In theaters:23,fed,2018
Rating: pg-13
Cast:Debby ryan,maria bello
Review:Eze Chioma
Every day talls about the of rhainnon,a 16 old girl who falls in love.
Eze Chioma
2016054013
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Movie Title : Blank Panther
Genre:Action & Adventure,Drama,Science Fiction & Fantasy
Directed By:Ryan Coogler
Written By:Joe Robert Cole,Ryan Coogler
In Theaters:Feb 16, 2018 wide
Box Office:$501,105,037
Runtime:135 minutes
“Black Panther” follows T’Challa who, after the events of “Captain America: Civil War,” returns home to the isolated, technologically advanced African nation of Wakanda to take his place as King. However, when an old enemy reappears on the radar, T’Challa’s mettle as King and Black Panther is tested when he is drawn into a conflict that puts the entire fate of Wakanda and the world at risk.
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Book Review
Book Tittle – Native son
Author – Richard wright
Year of publication- march 1,1940
Publisher – Harper & Brothers
Place of publication – America
Genre. – African American literature social protest novel
Number of pages. – 356
Language. – English
Name of Reviewer- Gideon Emmanuel
Native son is a novel written by the American author Richard wright. It tells the story of 20years old bigger Thomas an Africa American youth living in utter poverty in a poor area on Chicago’s south side in the 1930s.
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2016054040
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Movie Title : Alice in wonderland
Directed by : Tim Burton
Genre : Orchestra, classical, pop
Key actors / actresses : Johnny Depp (Tarrant Hightopp), Anne Hathaway (White Queen), Helena Bonham Carter (Red Queen), Crispin Glover (Knave of Hearts), Matt Lucas (Tweedledee and Tweedledum), Mia Wasikowska (Alice Kingsleigh)
Date : March 2, 2010
Name of reviewer : Dolan Cummings
Website : http://www.academichelp.net
Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland sees Lewis Carroll’s Alice returning to ‘Underland’ at the age of 19, falling down a hole in pursuit of the familiar white rabbit, and more importantly in flight from an unwelcome marriage proposal. She has no memory of her childhood visit, and the fantastical characters debate among themselves whether she is in fact ‘the right Alice’. But of course, really this is a question Alice herself must answer: can she remain the free spirit with the wild imagination that was encouraged by her late father, or must she ‘grow up’ and learn to conform to Victorian Britain’s expectations of a young woman of her social class?
Simon Chiamaka Peace
2016054025
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2016054010
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MOVIE REVIEW
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery & Suspense
Directed By: Andy Muschietti
Written By: Chase Palmer, Cary Joji Fukunaga, Gary Dauberman
In Theaters: Sep 8, 2017 Limited
On Disc/Streaming: Jan 9, 2018
Box Office: £326,898,358
Runtime: 135 minutes
Studio: Warner Bros. Pictures
CAST
Bill Skarsgård
as Pennywise Jaeden Lieberher
as Bill Denbrough Jeremy Ray Taylor
as Ben Hanscom Sophia Lillis
as Beverly Marsh Finn Wolfhard
as Richie Tozier
New Line Cinema’s horror thriller “IT,” directed by Andy Muschietti (“Mama”), is based on the hugely popular Stephen King novel of the same name, which has been terrifying readers for decades. When children begin to disappear in the town of Derry, Maine, a group of young kids are faced with their biggest fears when they square off against an evil clown named Pennywise, whose history of murder and violence dates back for centuries.
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Title: 30 DAYS IN ATLANTA
producer: Ayo makun
key actors/ actresses: Ramsey Nouah, AY , Lynn Whitfield , Vivica A . Fox , Mercy Johnson , Richard Mofe Damijo , Desmond Elliott
Genre : comedy
Date: 2014
reviewer: Anene Ejiofor
Two African guys( Akpors and Richard) won a trip to the US and encountered women and legal troubles as they adapt to American life . the movie is good comedy with a didactic storyline.it can keep one laughing for century.
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culled from: http://www.talk African movies.com
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Goodmorning sir, please sir i pleade you pardon me if there is any mistake in mybpost, i wasnt able to read it before posting. I went for my uncles burial nd there is no electricity here , the little power in my phone i tried yo type very fast for it to sustain me . I plead that you gi
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Book Review
Book Tittle – Native son
Author – Richard wright
Year of publication- march 1,1940
Publisher – Harper & Brothers
Place of publication – America
Genre. – African American literature social protest novel
Number of pages. – 356
Language. – English
Name of Reviewer- Gideon Emmanuel
Native son is a novel written by the American author Richard wright. It tells the story of 20years old bigger Thomas an Africa American youth living in utter poverty in a poor area on Chicago’s south side in the 1930s.
Nwobu chidimma Evelyn
2016054040
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Okeke Chioma Onyinye
2016054134
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Movie Title :Fences
Created and Produced by:Denzel Washington
Todd Black
Scott Rudin
Genre:American Period drama film
key actors/actresses:Jovan Adepo, Denzel Washington, Viola Davis, Russell Hornsby, Mykelti Williamson.
Date:December 25,2016
Reviewer:Okeke Chioma Onyinye.
Fences is a movie about how our environment shapes us and how no matter how noble their intentions, our parents can’t but mess us up in some fashion, just as their parents had done for them. This is our legacy as humans.
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2016054134
FENCES
Maxson is prone to taking out his frustrations on his loved ones. Both Washington and co-star Viola Davis won Tonys for their performances in the 2010 revival of the play. Stephen Henderson, Jovan Adepo, Russell Hornsby, and Mykelti Williamson round out the supporting cast.
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Rating: PG-13 (for thematic elements, language and some suggestive references)
Genre: Drama
Directed By: Denzel Washington
Written By: August Wilson
In Theaters: Feb 10, 2017 Limited
On Disc/Streaming: Mar 14, 2017
Box Office: £57,642,961
Runtime: 133 minutes
Studio: Paramount Pictures
https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/fences_2016/
Music review
BY: JAYSON GREENE
https://pitchfork.com/staff/jayson-greene/
Led by singer Frances Quinlan and her remarkable songcraft, the Philly band’s third album is warm and spacious, filled with rich stories rendered beautifully in the abstract.
u listen to Frances Quinlan sing long enough, you will attempt to describe her voice. This is a trap, and you should not do this. The frontwoman for Philadelphia indie rock band Hop Along doesn’t have one voice—she might have 10. Listing them would yield no insight, only a deranged sommelier’s tasting notes: cat, bugle, Rod Stewart, roaring motorcycle.
Howling, hooting, crooning, cracking—the real intrigue behind these magnificent sounds isn’t how but why. Quinlan is one of rock’s great listeners, keen to the way people’s internal monologues fill a space like bad weather, and she seems to be trying to channel them all at once in her voice. She wields her empathy the way some rock singers brandish anger, and it’s a smarter tool; empathy cuts cleaner. Her singing is a reasonable response to an impossible task—you try being this many people and see how you sound.
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2016054127
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2016054006
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Produced:by R kelly
Released:November 26,1996
Genre:gospel ,R & B
Reviewer:Ebeledike love
The song I believe I can fly by R kelly
The first thing that stands out in this song
is the steady beats/rhythm in the beginning
of the song. It is like “I believe I can fly” is
trying to make a melody out of the song.
The second thing that stands out in this
song is the singer and his tone. I also have
something to tag to this song it is sad and
slow. The final thing that stands out in this
song is the changes in the rhythm. It’s like
the song is about someone’s feelings and
it’s sad.
The Bad:
I think the song takes a little longer than
most songs and the bridge doesn’t stick
out. On the other hand, the chorus I think
is a little messed up because it doesn’t
change that much. I also think the song is a
little off because their is no C Verse in “I
Believe I can fly”. I think the singer should
also sing the B Verse 1 then the A Verse.
Recommendation:
I recommend this song to anyone who is
interested in R&B music. This song, isn’t
nonsense it will make you sleepy and make
you believe you could do anything.
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Ibeh Chiwendu Nancy
2016054076
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Movie review
director: Wes Anderson
cast:Bryan Cranston, Koyu Rankin, Greta Gerwig
name of movie: Isle of dogs
reviewer: Ibeh Chiwendu Nancy
NECK: In a fictional province of Japan in the future, a corrupt mayor has shipped all dogs off to a toxic landfill called trash Island where they are forced to fend off scraps and whatever garbage continues to be dumped there
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2016054076
movie review
title:Isle of dogs
directed by Wes Anderson
produced by Wes Anderson
story by Wes Anderson
Roman Coppola
Jason Schwartz
Kunichi nomura
starring:bryan cranston
Edward Norton
Bill Murray
Reviewed by Courtney B. Vance
Running time:101minutes
country :United States.
NECK:
Isle of dogs is a 2018 stop motion animated comedy film written, produced and directed by Wes Anderson. Set in a dystrophy near future Japan, the film follows a young boy who goes in search of his dog after the whole species is banished to an island due to illness outbreak.
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Http//mensaforkids.com About Marsupials
Review by Connor C., age 6, Boston
Mensa
About
Marsupials is the title so the book is about…marsupials, of course. It’s non-fiction. I really think everyone would like the book. I think someone who likes animals would especially like to read it.
The glossary of facts in the back of About Marsupials is the most useful part. I thought the most interesting parts were that some marsupials have their pouch at their back legs and one marsupial, the Yellow- footed Rock Wallaby, is very small but can jump 13 feet wide!
Kids in the 4-8 age range would like this book. Even though it’s not a story book, 4 year olds would like the few words on each page and they would love the beautiful pictures. But older kids would like it because of all the facts in the back of the book. There’s a lot of information for each animal. I think boys and girls (and parents) would enjoy reading it. This book is very interesting. I give it 4 stars.
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Title of book- IF I NEVER FOREVER ENDEAVOR.
Author- Holly Meade.
Year of publication: 2013.
Publisher: Candlewick
ISBN- 9780763640712.
Genre: children book.
Reviewer: Victoria Anikor.
If I never forever endeavour is a book about a bird who did’nt yet know how to fly. The bird has to decide if it will try to fly, but it was not sure if he wants to. The bird taught, “If I never forever endeavour” then I won’t ever learn. On one wing, he worries he might fail and on the other wing he thinks of how he will succeed. He worries that if he tries he may get lost in the world, that makes him wants to stay in his nest where he is safe.
Reg no: 2016054151
Name: Anikor Victoria
Theme: Marrakesh.
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emechebe precious
2016054128.
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movie title:black November
producer:Joel goffin
genre:drama
key actors:mickey Rourke,Kim basinger,akon.
date: 2012
reviewer:emechebe precious
The members of a Niger Delta community wage a war against their corrupt government and an international oil corporation to save their land from being destroyed by excessive drilling and frequent spills.
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2016054128
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https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/review/black-november-film-review-761561
movie title: black November
producer: Joel offie
genre:drama
key actors: mickey Rourke,Kim bassinger, akon
date:2012
reviewer: jeta amata
the members of the Niger delta community wage a war against the corrupt government and the international oil corporation to save the land from being destroyed by excessive drilling and frequent spills.
Ibeh Chiwendu Nancy
2016054076
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The Devil’s Company, a treat for lovers of historical fiction, sees the return of Benjamin Weaver in his third exciting romp through the varied and sometimes surreal landscape of 18th-century London. Weaver is an endearing protagonist, a former pugilist and investigator for hire whom we first met in David Liss’s A Conspiracy of Paper (1999).” Historical fiction is mostly smoke and mirrors. Modern writers really don’t know what it was like to live in the past—no matter how much research they do—so the success of the enterprise depends largely on creating a convincing illusion. Liss rises to this challenge with great skill in this accomplished, atmospheric and thoughtful novel.”
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Review: In John Krasinski’s ‘A Quiet Place,’ Silence Means Survival
John Krasinski, with Noah Jupe, in “A Quiet Place.”JONNY COURNOYER/PARAMOUNT PICTURES
By JEANNETTE CATSOULIS
April 4, 2018
True to its title, John Krasinski’s “A Quiet Place” tiptoes forward, camera fixed on the naked, padding feet of the Abbott family as they scavenge in a deserted supermarket. A title card announces Day 89 — of what, we don’t know — so we look for clues. Lee and Evelyn (Mr. Krasinski and his real-life wife, Emily Blunt) and their three children communicate urgently in sign language, and the youngest child’s interest in a battery-operated toy causes immediate alarm. Their fear is palpable, but what are they afraid of?
Thanks to that darned toy, we’re about to find out, in a perfectly executed attack sequence that establishes the stakes, and the family’s plight, with swift efficiency. Now minus one and watched by flapping posters of other missing souls, the Abbotts return to their farm as the story (by Bryan Woods and Scott Beck) leaps forward more than a year. Evelyn is now preparing to give birth, Lee is teaching his son (Noah Jupe) to forage, and their daughter (played by the remarkable young deaf actor,Millicent Simmonds) is angrily chafing against her parents’ protectiveness.
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2016054012
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Peter Blessing Chinaza
2016054097
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Book review:THE FORGOTTEN ART OF LOVE BY Armin A Zaden and reviewed by Debbie Hagan…
The book “The forgotten art of love” is written in an authoritative but conversational style,the reading is easy and the point clear and well-supported….
What’s most important in the forgotten art of love, what love means and why it matters is its examination of the aged old question. Zadeh distinqueshes love from emotions that seem like love,lust, affection and infatuation. This explains why so many marriage fail after a few years while others seem to endure even though the partners may seem mismatched or barely tolerant of one another.
Zadeh defines love as the urge and continuous effort for another person’s happiness and well-being.
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God’s plan by Drake
Album:God’s plan
Artiste: Drake
Producers: Cardo, Young Exclusive, Boi-Ida
Record label: cash money records,young money entertainment
Running time: 3hours 18seconds
Genre: Rap/Hip-Hop
Released:2018
Drake is a man that keeps up with his name.Gods plan is overrated but definitely a good song,it has great lyrical timing, it is unique,easy-to-dance to and a comprehensive theme. God’s plan lacks a message.It goes back and forth between random topics
2016054037
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Reviewer:ugochukwu juliet
Movie tittle: The shadow effect
Created and produced by: Larry Olson, obin Olson, Timothy wood ward j, Amariah Olson
Key actors/ actresses: cam gigandent ( Gabriel howarth) Jonathan Rhys( Moyer’s) Brittany Shaw ( brinn howarth) gullen moss( Governor Francis) Michael Aaron( Jesse)
Date: may 2, 2017
Episodes:
Reviewer: Obi chikaodili agustina
The shadow effect is a 2017 action psychological thriller film, a young man’s life is turned upside down when his violent dreams begins to blend with reality.
Reg num: 2016054039
Team: Sambisa
Weblink: http://www.operamini.com
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Movie review…from WikiHow.com
Movie tittle:The dark knight Rise
Director: christopher Nolan
Genre:Bane(Anna hathaway),vilian(tom hardy)orphaned cop(joseph gordon levit).
Date: 2012
Reviewer:Njepu Chinenye
This film serves as a great entertainment with its colourful and numerous plot twists.Nolan used actors that hab either appeared in previous batmsn movie.it is full of emtertainment.
Njepu chinenye Calista
2016054057
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song title- n’abania
artist flavour
guest feature nigga raw
Genre highlife hip hop
Album title n’abania
director waga g
duration 4mins 35sec
year released 2005
reviewer Anagboso chimdimma
Websitehttp://www.mrflavournabania.com
In 2005, he released his self-titled debut album N’abania. In 2010, Flavour released his second studio album Uplifted. It was supported by the singles “Nwa Baby (Ashawo Remix)”, “Adamma”, and “Oyi Remix”. The album’s success made Flavour one of Africa’s most sought out artists. Flavour was booked to perform at numerous concerts and social events following Uplifted’s release..
2016054116
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Igbokwe Chioma Helen
2016054003
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Book review examples
Book title:I capture the castles
Author:Dodie smith
Year of publication: 2013
Publisher: St.Martin’s Griffin
Place of publication:scottary
Genre:Literary fiction
ISBN:965-854-6754-658
Number of pages:352
Language: English
Name of reviewer: Igbokwe Chioma Helen
The book “I capture the castles” by Dodie Smith is an educational series book for kids and also for teens youth on how a girl name cassie, a 17 yrs old child was brought up that she knows no girls except her sister,her step mother and character from the book.
I capture the castles is a nevertheless beautifully paced,with just the right mixtures of introspection and action that moves the plot.
The weblink:www.mensaforkids.org
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Igbokwe chioma Helen
2016054003
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I Capture the Castle (2003)
Cast
Romola Garai as Cassandra Mortmain
Rose Byrne as Rose Mortmain
Henry Thomas as Simon Cotton
Marc Blucas as Neil Cotton
Bill Nighy as James Mortmain
Tara Fitzgerald as Topaz Mortmain
Sinead Cusack as Mrs. Cotton
Directed by
Tim Fywell
Written by
Heidi Thomas
Based On The Novel by
Dodie Smith
Drama, Foreign, Romance
Rated R For Brief Nudity
113 minutes
I Capture the Castle
| Roger Ebert
July 18, 2003 |
I Capture the Castle is the kind of novel dreamy adolescents curl up with on rainy Saturdays, imagining themselves as members of a poor but brilliantly eccentric family living in a decrepit English castle. It’s that kind of movie, too, about a sublimely impractical family given to sudden dramatic outbursts. It’s a romance ever so much more inspiring for teenage girls than the materialist propaganda they get from Hollywood, teaching them to value genius above accessories. And there’s a serious undercurrent; this story was close to the heart of the author, Dodie Smith, whose other novel, 101 Dalmatians, was more light-hearted and aimed at younger readers.
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Rosa Park
2016054130
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purple_Hibiscus_(novel)
Book review.. Purple hibiscus
Author…Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Year of publication..October 2003
Publisher.. Algonquin books
Country.. Nigeria
Language.. English
Media type.. Print (paper back)
Genre… Exquisite book
ISBN..978-1-61620-242-2
Dewey decimal…823.92
Followed by… Half of a Yellow Sun
Reviewer :Nwankwo Deborah ogechi
Purple hibiscus is an exquisite novel about the emotional turmoil of adolescence,the powerful bonds of family and the bright promise of freedom.. Fifteen year old kambili and her older brother Jaja lead a privilege life in Enugu, Nigeria…
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Ewenike chiamaka
2016054077
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Music review(pitchfork.com)
HINDS-I don’t run
Hinds specialize in songs about love—which are not the same as love songs. Their jaunty tunes don’t so much offer declarations of devotion as catalog all the conflicted emotions, second-guessing, and compromises that lead up to them. In a Hinds song, love isn’t the product of the universe bringing two soulmates together, love is the result of uncomfortable conversations and ultimatums issued after one too many casual hook-ups. But on I Don’t Run, the Madrid quartet wade through these messy feelings with confidence and exuberance to spare, taking us on a pleasure cruise through choppy waters.
I Don’t Run melts down its ’60s girl-group, ’90s twee, and post-
DeMarco indie-pop influences down
Hinds is a Spanish rock band of a singer-guitarists Ana Perrote and Carlotta Cosials.
But unlike most foils, these two are always working together as they wave through love messy feelings with confidence.
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nkuruziza
2016054043
movie title:sometime in April
director:Raoul peck
producer:Daniel delume
key actors:idris Elba,oris erhuero,Debra winger,Carole karemera.
date:2005
reviewer: chukwuma uchechukwu
A Hutu soldier (Idris Elba) tries to get his family to safety during the Rwandan genocide, while years later his brother stands trail for his actions.
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nkuruziza
2016054043
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movie title: sometime in April
producer:Daniel delume
key actors: idris Elba,erhuero Debra winger,Carole karemera.
date:2005
reviewer: diggerjohn
a hutu soilder(edris Elba)tries to get his family to safety during the Rwandan genocide while years later his brother stands trail for his actions.
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book title flesh and blood so cheap
author. Albert marrin
year of publication:2011
publisher
genre : national book award
ISBN:978-0-37586889-4
number of pages:192
language :English
name of reviewer :Agina Gloria Ebele
it is the story of unimaginable but avoidable disaster and the unquenchable pride and activism of fearless women who stood up to business got america on their side and finally changed working conditions for the entire nation.
Agina Gloria Ebele
2016054053
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Book title :flesh and blood so cheap
Author:Albert marrin
Year of publication:2011
Publisher:Knopf
Genre: national book award
ISBN:978-037586889-4
Number of pages:192
Language: English
Reviewer:janice k
Great book
Fascinating book,it covered the triangle fire but also the rise of the labour union and how immigrants changed the face of america.
Highly recommended it as a social history. It is written to be understood by high school aged students.
Link:googleweblight.com
Agina Gloria Ebele
2016054053
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2016054088
Team: Anna politkovskaia
Tittle: The Endless
Produced by: Justin Benson
Thomas R. Burke
David Lawson Jr.
Aaron Moorhead
Leal Naim
Directors: Justin Benson, Aaron Moorhead
WriterJustin Benson
StarsCallie Hernandez
Genre: Horror, thriller.
Key actors: Justin Benson
Aaron Moorhead
Callie Hernandez
Tate Ellington
Lew Temple
James Jordan
Date: April 21, 2017 (Tribeca Film Festival)
Reviewer : Nwangene blessing George
The movie follows two brothers who receive a cryptic video message inspiring them to revisit the UFO death cult they escaped a decade earlier. Hoping to find the closure that they couldn’t as young men, they’re forced to reconsider the cult’s beliefs when confronted with unexplainable phenomena surrounding the camp. As the members prepare for the coming of a mysterious event, the brothers race to unravel the seemingly impossible truth before their lives become permanently entangled with the cult.
The weblink:https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Endless_(film)
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Title: originals
Author: Adams Grant,Sheryl Sandburg.
Pages: 336
Publishers:penguin publishers
Language: English
Reviewer: Arinze obiageli p
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Originals is here as an ally, an enemy, a thought provoker, a calming salve, and, most of all, an inspirer devoted to challenging your beliefs, your truths and mixing them up with real stories, all in an effort to exfoliate the nasty crust you are wearing and release the adornment being hidden. That is the embellishment of an original. One who conquers the world. Throughout the book, you meet people you will notice are like you in several aspects. As you get acquainted with them and it is my prayer that what they did, what they accomplished, the mistakes they made, the opportunities they had, and the lives they lived, may serve as a spring whence wisdom of change will flow into you, making you what you have always wished to be but did not know how. The song in your heart needs to be heard. You may not know what impact it will make, how many souls it will transform, how many children it will provoke to think, or how far ahead it will propel the wheel of progress on our planet. That is the magnitude of power that that song wields and originals is here to make you release it into the world where it belongs. Arinze Obiageli 2016054110 team molgadishu.
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Obiora Onyinyechi Anita.
2016054098.
Anna politkovskaya.
Movie title: Half of a yellow sun
Created and produced by: Biyi Bandele
Genre:
Key actors: Thandie Newton(olanna), Chiwetel Ejiofor(Odenigbo), Genevieve Nnaji(miss Adebayo), Anika Noni Rose(Kainene), John Boyega(Ugwu).
Date: September 8 2013.
Reviewer. Obiora Onyinyechi Anita.
Twins sisters from a wealthy Nigerian family takes wildly different path in life but both becomes swept up in the struggle to establish biafra as an independent republic.
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Leòn-Portilla, Miguel. Aztec Thought and Culture: A Study of the Ancient Nahuatl ……Mind. Translated by Jack Emory Davis. Norman: University of Oklahoma ……Press, 1963.
Review by Kelly Robison
In this ambitious work, Leòn-Portilla endeavors to ascertain the existence of a class of philosophers in Aztec society. If philosophy, and not merely religion, was present in Nahuatl culture, what did these philosophers attempt to accomplish? Through a study of Nahuatl texts and post-Conquest records, Leòn-Portilla examines the manifestations of rational thought and inquiry in Mexico prior to the Conquest.
http://faculty.sanjuancollege.edu/krobison/resources/portilla.htm
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Album Title: Ijele
Name of Artist: flavour
Released Date: 30th June, 2017
guest artist: zoro ,tekno
Genre: Highlife
producers: mastercraft, tekno
reviewer: Aniatu onyeka
A combination of Igbo traditional music, romance, and high life.
A quick glance at “Ijele – The Traveler” Album Cover shows a man running in a bid to escape danger or survive, but a detailed view of the same photo depicts a man dancing wildly. According to Flavour, Ijele – The Traveler is a deeper concept than physical movement. It is spiritual, soulful and natural. The album’s title was culled from Igbo masquerade culture, where the Ijele is recognized as the largest and most ceremonial of them all.
“Ijele the Traveler” , is a combination of Igbo traditional music, romance, and high life. The Lead single “ Virtuous Woman ” is unremarkable, but a remake of earlier hits ‘Golibe’ and ‘Ada Ada’ ; a ballad where he describes and praises his ideal woman, with gratitude to God that he found her. “ Chimamanda ” and “ Most High ” were devoted to acknowledge and show gratitude to God.
“ Ijele” attempted to recapture the good old Igbo song that resounds in the air during wrestling and “Otu Ogbo” (Igbo young men) activities with a flawless delivery by Zoro. “ Oringo”, advocates for people to be happy, have fun and enjoy their lives and a Mike Ejeagha inspired line –“Kedu ife m mere eji akpuru m n’ onu?” (What did I do that people are talking about me?). In “ Oppressor ”, Flavour reaches out to the oppressors and a few messages to runs girls, unappreciative husbands, rough drivers, and embezzlers.
“ Baby Na Yoka ”, a Jamaican inspired and dance hall vibe stole elements from one of Flavour’s hit singles “Baby Oku”. I recommend this single to Afro beat fans overseas. “ Catch you ”, “ Jaiye ”, “ Ukwu Nwata ”, “ Body Calling” and “ Simba ” clearly depict Flavour’s erotic and funny choice of words especially in Igbo for describing the feminine features and his escapades with them.
In “ Sake of Love”, the Singer describes what he would do for love’s sake with hyperbole; “Just to prove my love, I will cry you a river”. If it is getting hard to woe her, I recommend deploying the lyrics of “ Loose Guard”. “ Nnekata ” would come handy while proposing to her.
If at any point, Ijele –The Traveler plays like a record made in a hurry, it is because of a song like “ Iheneme ”. “I wee na-eme order? I gbasapu ukwu, m gbasapu aka” (You are ordering abi? If you open your leg, I will open my hands, in other words, I will spend on you), the “ Skit ” got me laughing hard.
Ijele – The Traveler is indeed an album a typical Easterner, Lover’s of Igbo culture and Flavour’s fans would enjoy.
reg no: 2016054112
team: Mobutu seseko
culled from: http://www.my music.ng.com
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There Was a Country by Chinua Achebe – review
Chinua Achebe’s lament for his native Biafra and the decline of Nigeria is powerful and moving
Sun 4 Aug 2013 11.00 BST
C hinua Achebe, who died in March, was a giant of African literature. His 1958 novel,
Things Fall Apart , has sold more than 10m copies; his Anthills of the Savannah
is undoubtedly one of the finest novels to come out of Africa.
Part of the appeal of his novels is that they are wonderfully well written. He has paid tribute here to his very English education at the best schools in Nigeria and how it moulded his literary career. But while he was reading classic English texts, he was also immersing himself in the traditional stories of Nigeria, which crop up in all his books.
There Was a Country is in fact a lament for Biafra and the decline of Nigeria, which he relates directly to the Biafran war. Achebe was an Igbo, from the east of Nigeria. In his telling, the Igbo aroused hostility because of their intelligence and success; they had always been a democratic, well-educated and progressive people, and they flourished in the bigger context of Nigeria; jealousy of their influence built up and led to measures that echo the persecution of Jews in Germany.
Achebe, who was very senior in Nigerian broadcasting, felt that he had to leave Lagos, a place he loved, and return to the east. It was clear that the future of the Igbo in the wider Nigeria was uncertain, to say the least, with pressure from the Muslim north also increasing.
On 30 May 1967 the new state of Biafra was declared independent by Colonel Ojukwu on the grounds that easterners were no longer safe in Nigeria. War broke out almost immediately. It was a war of appalling savagery: images of the deaths of millions of Biafran children shocked the world, but no coherent plan to end the horror was ever implemented. In the end – January 1970 – Biafra had to surrender. Achebe says the Igbo have never fully recovered, and Nigeria has slid into a morass of corruption.
Throughout the war Achebe was closely involved. For a while he was an emissary for Biafra and was widely known in the world. Long after the war he turned down an honour from the government in Lagos. This important book tells a powerful story from within Achebe’s world, a world made lucidly and movingly real by a great writer.
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https://www.worldliteraturetoday.com
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Name of reviewer : Justin Catwright
Name of reviewer : Justin Cartwright
movie tittle: Cinderella
created& produced by:simon kinberg, Allison shearmur,David Barron
Genre: Romantic film
key actors&actresses: cats Blanchett( lady Tremaine),lily James( Cinderella), Richard Madden(prince)
Date:February 13,2015
Reviewer: Okagbue Cynthia
Cinderella is an American romantic fantasy film. The film is based on eponymous folk tales. The story talks about the fortunes of young Ella whose merchant father remarries following the death of her mother. The movie is very interesting. it teaches a lot of lessons.
To begin with, Cinderella the screen writer Chris embraces both the magic and humanity of classic fairy tale. it so swaggering in it’s confidence that at times it almost commands to like. it’s also unexpectedly delicate in all the right ways.
The good thing about this is that it teaches a lot of moral lesson for the wicked, and also grab a lot of good things. it a romantic film that talks about most especially Cinderella’ s stepmother,the prince and Cinderella.
Okagbue Cynthia Chikodili
Team name: Anna politkovskaya
2016054111
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2016054111
Team name: Anna politkovskaya
movie tittle: Cinderella
GENRE
Kids
Drama
Romance
Sci-Fi/Fantasy
CAST
Lily James as Ella/Cinderella; Eloise Webb as Young Ella; Hayley Atwell as Cinderella’s Mother; Ben Chaplin as Cinderella’s Father; Cate Blanchett as Lady Tremaine; Richard Madden as The Prince; Helena Bonham Carter as The Fairy Godmother; Holliday Grainger as Anastasia; Sophie McShera as Drizella; Stellan Skarsgård as The Grand Duke; Nonso Anozie as The Captain; Derek Jacobi as The King
DIRECTOR
Kenneth Branagh
DISTRIBUTOR
Walt Disney
IN THEATERS
March 13, 2015
ON VIDEO
September 15, 2015
REVIEWER
Adam R. Holz
Many a fairy tale concludes with, “And they lived happily ever after.” Fewer begin from such a place. But for Ella, life was indeed enchanted.
Growing up in a sprawling country mansion, her days consist of communicating with her animal friends (especially four mice living in the house) and basking in the delight of her doting parents. But then Ella’s mother falls mortally ill. On her death bed, she beckons Ella close to tell her “a great secret that will see you through all the trials life has to offer: Have courage and be kind.”
As the years roll by, Ella and her father, a merchant, make a good effort to enjoy life together. But melancholy fills his heart, a longing for companionship. And so, when he meets a beautiful widow with two daughters about Ella’s age, it seems a perfect opportunity for a second chapter of familial bliss.
Except that it isn’t.
You already know that Lady Tremaine is as cruel as her daughters are vain. And when Ella’s father dies on a journey, the teen girl is left with little more in this world than the concepts of courage and kindness her mother bequeathed to her.
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Title: The Walking dead
Genre(s):Drama, Action & Adventure,Fantasy, Horror, Suspense,Science Fiction
Season 8 premiere date:Oct 22, 2017
Network:AMC
Air Time:9:00 PM
Episode Length:60
Seasons:1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
cast: Seth Gilliam(Father Gabriel Stokes)Lennie James(Morgan Jones)Jeffrey Dean Morgan(Negan)Christian Serratos(Rosita Espinosa)Lauren Cohan(Maggie Greene)Norman Reedus(Daryl Dixon)Andrew Lincoln(Rick Grimes)Chandler Riggs(Carl Grimes)Melissa McBride(Carol Peletier)Danai Jekesai Gurira(Michonne)Alanna Masterson(Tara Chambler)Josh McDermitt(Eugene Porter)
Rick along with the people of Alexandria, Hilltop, and The Kingdom prepare for war against Negan (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) and his Saviors in the eighth season of the zombie drama.
2016054147
Houphouet Boigny
http://www.metacritic.com/tv/the-walking-dead/season-8/details
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Awogwo Winifred Ifunanya
2016054035
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Movie Review
Movie Title: Free samples, with a sour taste
Director: Jay Gammil
Genre:Comedy, Drama
Key actors and actresses: Tippi Hedren, Jesse Weixler, Hailey Feiffer, Jesse Eisenberg, Jason Ritter
Written by: Jim Beggarly
In theaters: April ,20 2013
On Disc/ streaming:October 29, 2013
Duration: 79 Minuted
Reviewer: Amy Nicholson
Hungover, bitter and thoroughly uninvested in the success of the company’s promotional giveaway that gives “Free Samples” its title, Jillian is a law school dropout guilted into subbing in for her best friend, Nancy (Halley Feiffer), who is stuck at an intervention for her alcoholic brother. (Never mind that Jillian can probably drink him under the table.) As Jillian prays for escape, not that she has anything better to do, customers come hungry and leave angry. If they have a weakness, she’ll exploit it — she even bribes a homeless woman to bring her a coffee.
“Free Samples” is a film about wasting time, and it feels like it. Despite clocking in at 79 minutes, Jay Gammill’s comedy drags by no fault of its delightfully sour lead. With her droll delivery and big blue eyes, Weixler — who came to indie fame playing a virgin with a befanged vagina in “Teeth” — has the air of a slacker Bette Davis. Naturally, the only person on this sunbaked block she treats kindly is a classic movie star played by Tippi Hedren.
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EZEKWE CYNTHIA SOPURUCHUKWU.
2016054153.
TEAM Mogadishu.
http://saharareporters.com/
THERE WAS A COUNTRY-A BOOK REVIEW BY CHIDI NWAONU.
Book tittle:There was a country.
AUthor:Chinua Achebe.
Genre:educational books
place of publication:Great Britain.
Year of publication:2012
Number of pages:333
ISBN:978-1-846-14792-0
Language:English
Reviewer:Chidi Nwaonu.
In pursuit of this review have done 3 things I said I wouldn’t do; I bought a book in hardback. I read ‘There was a country: A Personal History of Biafra’ by Chinua Achebe. I am writing a review of it.
The first thing I will say is that this is not Achebe’s best book, be it fiction or non-fiction. Nor will I say it is his most relevant; as Things Fall Apart still wins that accolade just for being what it is.
It is however one of the most relevant books about Nigeria by a Nigerian. Not just for what it says but for what it causes to be said.
Once it came out the usual suspects inevitably emerged from the wood work, the ethnic supremacists, Biafra nostalgists, Igbo everyone-hates-us-ists, Yoruba justificationists, tribal chauvinists, Northern oligarchists, minority tribe what-about-us-ists, the-One-Nigeria-but I hate-the-rest-of-you-ists, text speak writing I don’t fully understand but I’ve got to write something unintelligible commentatorists. Prayers warriors have deployed en masse with curses, praise and damnation in all tongues and to various gods, deities and non-specific supreme beings. But then any book written about Biafra, from the perspective of a Biafran particularly one as high profile as Achebe will elicit a spirited response, it would be equally depressing if it didn’t.
It is the strange reality of the Nigerian Civil War that its history is written almost exclusively by the losers. The vast majority of the literature, fiction and non-fiction from the military or civilian perspective is written by Igbo’s. This could be due to the fact that the vast number of Igbo intellectuals who suffered and stayed in Biafra, reacted the only way they could with words whilst for other Nigerian intellectuals the war was an abstraction as opposed to a daily reality. Those that have written from the Federal side all had a personal connection such as Wole Soyinka (who was imprisoned for his anti war views), Elechi Amadi and Ken Saro Wiwa.
In essence there has been no attempt at any sort of narrative by the side that won, thus there is no credible way to dispute or even present a conflicting argument (if one was inclined to) to the prevailing story of the war. So for Easterners in general and Igbos in particular the story of this glorious but doomed fight for freedom and survival is ingrained in the soul and preserved in literature and poetry, yet for the rest of Nigeria it is barely mentioned thus when the topic comes up for discussion it turns into a battle of rumours against certitude.
Yet the parts about Biafra are to me less interesting, possibly for this very reason and also due to the fact that these parts are comparatively poorly written, with factual errors, misuse of military terms and misplacement of incidents, such as referring to General Effiong as the Biafran Army Commander (actually General Madiebo) or inferring that Britain supplied Nigeria with MiGs (actually supplied by the USSR) or stating that Murtala Mohammed took Onitsha on the second attempt (it was at the 3rd). Pedantic points of interest to a history buff but they are also telling omissions by a sensitive man of letters who not only abhorred war in its abstract but in its object and its reality and this war in particular which destroyed the culture and country he so revered.
However despite the book’s title I believe the country he most mourns for is not Biafra, but Nigeria.
Not just the Nigeria of 2012 or the Nigeria of 1960 but also the Nigeria before Nigeria was Nigeria. For the customs, cultures and practices of the tribes and nations that inhabit the landmass known as Nigeria.
Seen with the eyes of a ‘British protected’ son of studious, Christian parents and grand nephew to a genial unapologetic animist and through the mind of a hard working student going through the colonial education system rising through merit and hard work to the peak of his profession and work, this is an elegy to an innocent time, when possibilities were possible and endless and the best was yet to come.
It is in fact like a man staring back at his life, with a wry smile to the romances of his youth, shaking his head at his naivety, remembering the good times but skipping over and ill remembering the bad times.
Nigerian independence as it appears in this book is like an arranged marriage, with one reluctant suitor, an eager one and a quasi eager one. This weird unhappy polygamy was made a reality by giving control of the marriage to the entity that wanted to be in it the least yet had the most to gain from it.
Achebe was by this point an ardent Nigerian nationalist, working in the government media, with an eclectic assortment of friends and colleagues from all over the Federation. In fact his observations to the crisis in Nigeria can be likened to that of a wronged spouse going through the stages of grief.
First there was denial expressed by staying in Lagos despite being one of the most high profile, non political Igbo’s, whom soldiers were actively looking for and even going to work during the pogroms, until warned off by his Yoruba boss.
And then anger, at the ‘Triangle Game’ of the Soviet Union, Britain and France, with the first two supporting the Federal side overtly with arms and aircraft and the latter supporting Biafra covertly with enough arms to keep fighting but not enough to win.
With the OAU and UN for their impotence and deference to the Federal position.
With Awolowo and Adekunle for their ‘starvation is a weapon of war’ mantra.
Then bargaining, looking towards elder statesmen like Aminu Kano and Nnamdi Azikiwe to find a negotiated way out of the crisis.
And then depression as evinced by the alarming chapter titles in Part 4 of the book such as Corruption and Indiscipline and State Failure and the Rise of Terrorism.
I’m not sure he has got round to acceptance.
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Movie review
Movie title:Sky Fall
Genre:Action
Director:Sam mendes
Cast:Daniel craig,Judi Dench,Javier badem,Naomie Harris
Duration:2:33 minutes
Date Released:2 November 2012
Reviewer:Ezeakudo mirabel
M is saved from a bullet by Mallory and ends up in a car with Bond. Bond and M travel to Skyfall, the Bond family estate in the Scottish Highlands. … Bond arrives and kills Silva by throwing a knife into his back, but M succumbs to her wounds and dies in Bond’s arms.
Web link:https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skyfall
Name:Ezeakudo Mirabel Chinelo
Reg:2016054020
Team:Marakeech
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Obiora Onyinyechi Anita.
2016054098.
Anna politkovskaya.
Title of book: Half of a yellow sun.
Author: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie.
Year of publication: 2006.
Place of publication: Nigeria.
Publisher: Knopf/ Anchor.
Number of pages: 448.
Genre: Novel.
Reviewer. Obiora Onyinyechi Anita.
Book review
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NAME:MARTINS SANDRA CHINEMEREM
REG NO:2016054061
TEAM:MARRAKECH
MOVIE REVIEW
MOVIE TITLE:Blood Diamond.
CREATED AND PRODUCED By:Marshall Herskoivtz, Edward zwick, Paula Weinstein.
GENRE:Action Drama
KEY ACTORS/ACTRESS:Danny Archer as Leonardo DiCaprio, Djimon Hounsou as Solomon Vandy,Maddy Brown as Jennifer Connely and Arnold Voslo.
DATE:December 8,2006.
REVIEWER:Martins Sandra Chinemerem
Blood diamond is a television action drama series which features the story of Danny Archer a South African mercenary and Solomon Vandy a mental Fisher man,Both men are Africans,but their histories and their circumstances are as different as they can be until their fate become joined in a common quest to recover a pink diamond that can transform their lives.
It also set against the backdrop of the chaos and civil war that enveloped 1990s Sierra Leone.
WEBSITE: https:/en.m.wikipedia.org
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NAME:MARTINS SANDRA CHINEMEREM
REG NO:2016054061
TEAM:MARRAKECH
MOVIE REVIEW
MOVIE TITLE:Blood Diamond.
CREATED AND PRODUCED By:Marshall Herskoivtz, Edward zwick, Paula Weinstein.
GENRE:Action Drama
KEY ACTORS/ACTRESS:Danny Archer as Leonardo DiCaprio, Djimon Hounsou as Solomon Vandy,Maddy Brown as Jennifer Connely and Arnold Voslo.
DATE:December 8,2006.
REVIEWER:Steven Issac
Blood diamond is a television action drama series which features the story of Danny Archer a South African mercenary and Solomon Vandy a mental Fisher man,Both men are Africans,but their histories and their circumstances are as different as they can be until their fate become joined in a common quest a pink diamond that can transform their lives.
It also set against the backdrop of the chaos and civil war that enveloped 1990s Sierra Leone.
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Movie review
Movie tittle :Book of life
Director :Jorge R Gutierrez
Genre :Animated
Key actors /actresses : Diego luna(manolo),Zoe sandana(maria), Kate Del Castillo (LA muerta), Channing Tatum (Joaquin)
Date:17 October 2014
Reviewer:James Berardinelli. The Book of Life represents Guillermo del Toro’s most hands-on foray (to date) into the realm of family friendly entertainment; this is closer in tone and sensibility to one of Tim Burton’s offbeat animated films than one of Pixar’s more “vanilla” productions. The visual aesthetic is unusual with the characters being modeled as 3-D wooden puppets. I was reminded of a more polished version of some of the old live action TV Christmas specials. Background detail doesn’t match that of many other big budget animated films but the presentation is quirky enough to make this less important. The 3-D, however, is disappointing. It adds nothing and is so low-key that it might as well not be there.
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2016054093
Team Banda Aceh
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Title: originals
Author: Adams Grant,Sheryl Sandburg.
Pages: 336
Publishers:penguin publishers
Language: English. Date printed: February 7,2017. Reviewer: Arinze obiageli .p.
I got this Article details from Barnes & Nobles(R) http://m.barnesandnoble.com
Originals is here as an ally, an enemy, a thought provoker, a calming salve, and, most of all, an inspirer devoted to challenging your beliefs, your truths and mixing them up with real stories, all in an effort to exfoliate the nasty crust you are wearing and release the adornment being hidden. That is the embellishment of an original. One who conquers the world. Throughout the book, you meet people you will notice are like you in several aspects. As you get acquainted with them and it is my prayer that what they did, what they accomplished, the mistakes they made, the opportunities they had, and the lives they lived, may serve as a spring whence wisdom of change will flow into you, making you what you have always wished to be but did not know how. The song in your heart needs to be heard. You may not know what impact it will make, how many souls it will transform, how many children it will provoke to think, or how far ahead it will propel the wheel of progress on our planet. That is the magnitude of power that that song wields and originals is here to make you release it into the world where it belongs. Arinze Obiageli 2016054110 team molgadishu.
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Obika Juliet Ogechi
Reg no:2016054022
Team:Banda Aceh
Tom O’Brien’s “Fairhaven” is about two lost thirty-something friends who are brought together when their third friend returns for his father’s funeral. All have desires that have gone unfulfilled and only one has reached an age-appropriate level of maturity. Personal relationship dynamics in need of a feeling of immediacy are explored in more depth on television. O’Brien never quite finds a focus around which to center the longing that all three boys/men feel. Unlikely to get a theatrical release, “Fairhaven” seems destined for numerous rounds on the film festival circuit.
https://www.easyreadernews.com/tribeca-film-festival-new-york/
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Movie title: Moana
Created and produced by: osnat shurer,ron clements,john musker
Genre: Adventure film(fictional film)
Key actors/actresses: Dwayne johnson(maui),Auli’i cravalho(moana),Jemaine clement(tamatoa)
Date: 23 November 2016
Reviewer: Okeke Linda
The movie “Moana” is an adventurous movie,it all started when Moana sails out on a daring mission to save her people. During her journey,she meets the once-mighty demigod maui,who guides her in her quest to become a master way-finder. Together they sail across the open ocean on an action-packed voyage,encountering enormous monsters and impossible odds. Along the way,Moana fulfills the ancient quest of her ancestors and discovers the one thing she always sought: her own identity.
Okeke Linda Chidiebere
2016054070
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Site: wikipedia.org/wiki/moana_(2016-film)
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Book title:purple hibiscus
Author:Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
year of publisher :October 2003
Publisher :Algonquin Books kachifo
Place of publishe: Lagos
Genre :fiction and romance
ISBN: 978-1-61620-242-2
No of pages:336
language:English
Name of reviewer:Asomugha chidalu Chinelo
The Neck
This is about a family where the father is the loin of the family and whatever he says is being done without being questioned even his wife obeys him.
it shows the value of women in the society and in some families how they don’t get say in any matter in the society.
Asomugha chidalu Chinelo
2016054071
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Lazarus kelvin chidiebube
2016054139
BANDA ACEH
Movie :skyfall
Directed by:sam Mendes
Produced by: Michael Gliwllson
Barbara broccoli
Screenplay by:Neal purvis ,Robert wade,john Logan .
Based on:jams bond by LAN Fleming
Starring: Daniel Craig,javier berdem,ralph fiennes,naomie Harris,ben whishaw,beremice Lim marlohe,albert Finney.
Music: Thomas Newman
Cinematography:Roger deakins
Edited by: Stuart Baird,kate Baird
Production company:EON production
Distributed by: metro Goldwyn Mayer Columbia pictures.
Date:23 October 2012(London),26 October 2012 (united kingdom),9 November 2012 (united States)
Running time:143minutes
Country: united kingdom,united States
Language: English
Budget:$150-200 million
Box office:$1.109 million
The story centres on bond investigatory attack on M16 ,the attack is part 9 a plot by former agent Raoul Silvia to discredit and kill mas reveyngo for having betrayed him.
http://www.guardian.com
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Ekweozor Ifeoma Laura
2016054019
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Music Review
Tupac – Dear Momma
Music Review by Clinton Young
Song: Dear Momma
Artist: 2pac (Tupac)
Genre: Hip Hop
Review:
The struggles that children go through, transcends ethnic lines. The first time I heard this song play as a teenager. It resonated with me. Many of the lyrics I can relate to.
While I did hear the song before I was 17 years of age. I actually did leave my mother’s home when I was 17. The lyrics “It’s hell huggin on my momma from a jail cell” been there & done that. The first time when I was 14. Then for to many years & times after that.
Me & my little sister have different fathers. Both of us have provided our own adversity for our mother, while growing up. As in the song, my mother had many times came home after a long day of work & still cooked meals.
There was times when money was scarce.
The only real differences from the song & my life. My mother was never a crack phiene, refused to ever accept welfare, & was not black.
My mother’s line of thinking was that I was her child, tus her responsibility. She was not going to ask for help in raising me. That a person has to work for what they want & need in life.
Beyond those differences, I could have very well wrote the song myself.
I personally think the song is one of the top 10 of all time. At least for me it is.
Many hip hop songs today fall very short of the quality of lyrics that 2pac had. The materialism & sexual objectification that is rampant in today’s lyrics is surely a lack of talent. Regardless of the kind of music a person likes. I think that talent of any kind can be appreciated.
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Book title:purple hibiscus
Author:Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
year of publisher :October 2003
Publisher :Algonquin Books kachifo
Place of publishe: Lagos
Genre :fiction and romance
ISBN: 978-1-61620-242-2
No of pages:336
language:English
Name of reviewer:Asomugha chidalu Chinelo
The Neck
This is about a family where the father is the loin of the family and whatever he says is being done without being questioned even his wife obeys him.
it shows the value of women in the society and in some families how they don’t get say in any matter in the society.
Asomugha chidalu Chinelo
2016054071
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Head : music greenlight by tekno and dj cuppy
Published on October 13,2017
Reviewer Chidimma Lilian ndubisi
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Music title: Ada ADA
Artist: flavour
producer: Godfather production
Genre: high life
Release date: June 30, 2013
Review by muldshid eleas
Mr. Flavor – born Chinedu Okoli better known for his
stage name Flavor N’abania or Flavor , a Nigerian
Recording Artist,Dancer,Song writer and performer yet
released a top notch wedding themed video depicting a
traditional Igbo Wedding and celebrating traditional
African Culture and Women dubbed- “Ada Ada”
Directed by one of the best Directors – Clarence A.
Peters, It is the fifth single from his album “Blessed”
which was released on June 30, 2013 simultaneously
with the music video. With soothing and sweet
introductory lyrics the song can be well explained as
phenomenal!
Other notable songs on the album include “Baby Oku”,
“Shake”, and “Chinny Baby”. Flavour’s “Shake” video was
shot in South Africa by Godfather Production while “Baby
Oku” was shot in Miami, Florida. Flavour’s “Baby Oku”
and “Baby Oku (Dance)” songs were merged in the “Baby
Oku” video. “Chinny Baby” was also shot in South
Africa by Trademark Pictures.
Guest Appearances by John Okafor popularly known as
Mr.Ibu- whose sense of humor couldn’t go unnoticed, Uti
Nwachuckwu (Big Brother 5 Winner), KC of the Limpopo
Fame, Chinedu Ikedieze (Aki) and many more added a
classy and social feel to the video.
The video starts with a bride who is anxiously waiting for
her groom (Uti) at her father’s Home, She seems so
excited about her big day, she then gets cooled down by
her friends who take her for make-up and fittings-The
make up on the bride and the maids was really on point
adding a sparkle onto the classy and expensive outlook of the video.
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Iweorah Ezinne Esther
2016054034
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Movie title-Forrest Gump
Rating- PG-13
Duration-146mins
Cast- Gary Sinise, Robin Wright, Sally Field, Tom hanks.
Production- Paramount pictures
Genres- Drama, Romans
Director-Robert Zemeckis
Country- USA
Language: English
On July 6, 1994, Paramount unveiled Robert Zemeckis’ Forrest Gump in theaters. The Tom Hanks satire would go on to win six Oscars at the 67th Academy Awards, including best picture. The Hollywood Reporter’s original review is below:
Forrest Gump is not stupid. Although his IQ is 75, he sees the world far clearer than most. Through his decent, childlike eyes, we too see things in a less confused and muddled way. In this cheerfully straight-arrow moral tale, Tom Hanks stars as the “wise fool” Forrest Gump and delivers yet another Oscar-level performance. Paramount will win sensational box office with this Robert Zemeckis-directed film.
Raised in the ’50s in rural Alabama by a single mother (Sally Field), Forrest, being “different,” must fend for himself, struggling against not only perceived expectations but boyhood bullies. He unwittingly finds that he’s blessed with a talent — he can run like the wind, which wins him a football scholarship to play for Bear Bryant at the University of Alabama. And there’s no stopping him after that.
An uplifting saga about one young boy’s earnest and good-natured attempts to overcome his disabilities, Forrest Gump is also a cheeky social satire of the past 40 years of U.S. social-political history. Eric Roth’s screenplay, adapted from Winston Groom’s novel, nimbly intertwines Forrest’s life with the seminal social events and players of the past several decades. Unassuming Forrest, with his golly-gee enthusiasm and inbred decency, encounters the likes of Elvis, George Wallace, presidents Kennedy through Nixon, Dick Cavett, John Lennon and Abbie Hoffman as he graduates from ‘Bama, fights in Vietnam, competes in international ping-pong, founds a shrimping company, engages in philanthropy and jogs cross-country.
Contrasting Forrest’s unassuming innocence with the upheavals and rancor of the times, the film is a wisely goofy commentary on the stupidity of smartness.
While Forrest’s foray’s into the dens of the big and powerful are cheekily amusing, the film ambles along over a deeper, darker layer: Forrest’s love for his childhood girlfriend, Jenny (Robin Wright). An abused child, Jenny’s life path is a desperate wander to find solid ground. She falls prey to every social movement and fad of the times; unlike Forrest, whose unwavering strength and sense of right and wrong protect him from being caught up in social slides, Jenny’s genuflections reflect her lack of firm values and inner confidence.
To some extent, one could argue that Jenny symbolizes most of us. If any criticism might be leveled at the film, it is that its most heart-wrenching moments are too adeptly skirted, but, then again, that’s in keeping with Forrest’s strength. Highest praise to Zemeckis, who has reached a higher maturity plane with his gracefully, technically eloquent direction.
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Movie Title : Boyhood
created and produced by :Richard Linklater
Genre : Drama
key actors / actress:Patricia Arquette (Olivia Evans),Ellar Coltrane (Mason Evans Jr.),
Lorelei Linklater (Samantha Evans),Libby Villari (Catherine Evans)
Date:January 19,2014
Reviewer : Sylvester Okafor
Boyhood is the succès d’estime of the year in film. The top critics have sung a chorus of praise.
Richard Linklater, the director, has long been admired among high-minded cinephiles. In 2004 he was the subject of a U.K. Channel 4 documentary, unironically titled St. Richard of Austin—as in Austin, Texas, where he has built a film colony, which was chronicled recently in The New Yorker . Linklater has all the liberal values that people at Channel 4 admire. He is an anti-Hollywood, anti-corporate, vegan cowboy. He rejects the red carpet celebrity
culture of Los Angeles. He would rather make his films in the summer heat of the Lonestar State than in the noxious atmosphere of Hollywood.
Okafor Sylvester
2016054004
Houphouet Boigny
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Reviewer : Robbie collin
Nkemjika Ogonna marycynthia
2016054092
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Movie tittle: wedding party
Created and produced by :kemi adetiba
Genre: drama series
Key actors/actress: Adesua etomi,banky Wellington, Richard mofedamijo,sola sobowale,iretiola Doyle,Alibaba akporobome,zainab balogun,Beverly naya,somekele iyamah and enyinna Nwigwe.
Date:September 18,2016-November 26 2016
Episodes:
Reviewer: Nkemjika ogonna marycynthia.
The Wedding party follows the shenanigans that go on during the planning of a wedding in Nigeria. Dunni, a 24 year old art gallery owner and only daughter of her parents, Engineer Bamidele and Mrs Tinuade Coker, is about to marry the love of her life, IT entrepreneur Dozie, the handsome son of Chief Felix and Lady Obianuju Onwuka. The couple took a vow of chastity and are looking forward to a ground -breaking first night together as a married couple. Between matchmaking attempts on the bridal train, a wedding planner on a mission to succeed, the unruly behaviour of some ‘village’ guests much to Tinuade’s horror, Dunni’s uncertainty about her new husband’s faithfulness during the time of their courtship, amidst colourful aso-ebi, eclectic music, small chops, and souvenir drama, we begin to wonder whether Dunni and Dozie will get through their wedding reception unscathed.
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Reg no:2016054120
team:Marrakech
Movie title:Hotel Rwanda
Directed by:Terry George
Genre:historical drama
Starring
Don Cheadle
Sophie Okonedo
Joaquin Phoenix
Nick Nolte
date:
22 December 2004
Hotel Rwanda is a 2005 British-Italian-South African historical drama film directed by Terry George. It was adapted from a screenplay written by both George and Keir Pearson. It stars Don Cheadle and Sophie Okonedo as hotelier Paul Rusesabagina and his wife Tatiana. Based on the Rwandan genocide, which occurred during the spring of 1994, the film, which has been called an African Schindler’s List, documents Rusesabagina’s acts to save the lives of his family and more than a thousand other refugees by providing them with shelter in the besieged Hôtel des Mille Collines. Hotel Rwanda explores genocide, political corruption, and the repercussions of violence.
[https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&cd=31&ved=2ahUKEwjkiYO38qbaAhUCmrQKHcE7AlMQFjAeegQIAxAB&url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.m.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FHotel_Rwanda&usg=AOvVaw3ZluYzOz6SK7ItCRiwzMC1] is good,have a look at it!
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Reg no:2016054145
Team:Sambisa
Artwork Review
Title:Florida scene
Artist:Thomas Moran
Date:1878
Medium:oil in canvas
Dimension:n/a
Genre:Expressionist painting
Location:America,b England
Reviewer:Professor de Beaufort
Thomas moran creates a work of art directly influenced by nature.His Florida scene predominately utilizes organic shapes.The southern landscape has irregular.Often curving resounded forms as seen in the vegetation,ocean and sky.The few trees seen bear long curving branch.
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Book Title : Americanah
Author : chimamada Ngozi Adichie
year of publication : May 2013
place of publication : London
publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
Number of pages: 588 pages
Genre : fictional novel
Reviewer: Anyamaghiobi Duke
In Americanah, a young Nigerian woman, Ifemelu, moves to the United States for school, leaving behind her boyfriend, Obinze, and her family. It’s a story of relocation, far-flung love and life as an alien, spread across three continents. It’s also about the lonely but privileged perspective a stranger gains by entering a new culture. Indeed, it’s more powerful than that in Americanah , because Ifemelu experiences America both as a black woman and as an African woman. In the U.S., those two identities combine for experiences dark and light that Adichie skillfully renders in gray scale.
The story begins with an electricity familiar to readers of Adichie’s previous novel, Half of a Yellow Sun . That book, about the life of two sisters during the Nigerian-Biafran War, won the Orange Prize for Fiction six years ago. I’m still pressing it on strangers; it rests comfortably in my top five favorite books published in the decade.
Reg no: 2016054108
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Igboachusi Jonathan 2016054036
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Movie Title :Den Of Thieves
Director and Producer: Christian Gudegast, Gerard Butler, Mark Canton, Tucker Tooley
Actors :Gerard Butler, Pablo Schreiber, O’Shea Jackson Jr., 50 Cent
Release date: January 19, 2018
Reviewer :Igboachusi Jonathan
Den of Thieves” is a heist movie that itself steals from movies like “Heat” – but that’s meant to be part of the fun. … The basic structure is the same: A highly efficient, highly motivated, and well-trained group of heist specialists …
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2016054115
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Book Title : Things fall apart
Author:Chinua Achebe
Year of publication:1958
Publisher:willism Heinemann
place of publication :United Kingdom
Genre :Historical fiction
Isbn:0435905252
No of pages:148
Language:English
Weblink:www.monstercrwler.com
The bulk of the novel takes place at umuofia about the tragic fall of the protagonist okonkwo and the igbo culture.
Who is reviewer? Meanwhile your introduction is too shallow. Ojiego ignore
Iweorah Ezinne Esther
2016054034
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Link- http://www.metacritic.com
Movie title-Forrest Gump
Rating- PG-13
Duration-146mins
Cast- Gary Sinise, Robin Wright, Sally Field, Tom hanks.
Production- Paramount pictures
Genres- Drama, Romans
Director-Robert Zemeckis
Country- USA
Language: English
On July 6, 1994, Paramount unveiled Robert Zemeckis’ Forrest Gump in theaters. The Tom Hanks satire would go on to win six Oscars at the 67th Academy Awards, including best picture. The Hollywood Reporter’s original review is below:
Forrest Gump is not stupid. Although his IQ is 75, he sees the world far clearer than most. Through his decent, childlike eyes, we too see things in a less confused and muddled way. In this cheerfully straight-arrow moral tale, Tom Hanks stars as the “wise fool” Forrest Gump and delivers yet another Oscar-level performance. Paramount will win sensational box office with this Robert Zemeckis-directed film.
Raised in the ’50s in rural Alabama by a single mother (Sally Field), Forrest, being “different,” must fend for himself, struggling against not only perceived expectations but boyhood bullies. He unwittingly finds that he’s blessed with a talent — he can run like the wind, which wins him a football scholarship to play for Bear Bryant at the University of Alabama. And there’s no stopping him after that.
An uplifting saga about one young boy’s earnest and good-natured attempts to overcome his disabilities, Forrest Gump is also a cheeky social satire of the past 40 years of U.S. social-political history. Eric Roth’s screenplay, adapted from Winston Groom’s novel, nimbly intertwines Forrest’s life with the seminal social events and players of the past several decades. Unassuming Forrest, with his golly-gee enthusiasm and inbred decency, encounters the likes of Elvis, George Wallace, presidents Kennedy through Nixon, Dick Cavett, John Lennon and Abbie Hoffman as he graduates from ‘Bama, fights in Vietnam, competes in international ping-pong, founds a shrimping company, engages in philanthropy and jogs cross-country.
Contrasting Forrest’s unassuming innocence with the upheavals and rancor of the times, the film is a wisely goofy commentary on the stupidity of smartness.
While Forrest’s foray’s into the dens of the big and powerful are cheekily amusing, the film ambles along over a deeper, darker layer: Forrest’s love for his childhood girlfriend, Jenny (Robin Wright). An abused child, Jenny’s life path is a desperate wander to find solid ground. She falls prey to every social movement and fad of the times; unlike Forrest, whose unwavering strength and sense of right and wrong protect him from being caught up in social slides, Jenny’s genuflections reflect her lack of firm values and inner confidence.
To some extent, one could argue that Jenny symbolizes most of us. If any criticism might be leveled at the film, it is that its most heart-wrenching moments are too adeptly skirted, but, then again, that’s in keeping with Forrest’s strength. Highest praise to Zemeckis, who has reached a higher maturity plane with his gracefully, technically eloquent direction.
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movie: sometime in April
director: Raoul peck
produced by Daniel Delume
cast: Idris Elba
Oris Erhuero
Carole karemera
Debra Winger
Date: February, 17 2005
reviewer Obido chiamaka Genevieve
In SOMETIMES IN APRIL, Raoul Peck (Lumumba), has taken the specific story of the Rwandan genocide of April 1994 and made manifest the universal implications of the events. There is plenty of culpability to go around and Peck is not shy about pointing fingers, but he is also not shy about pointing up the greater lesson of what happened, one that requires acts of personal and political courage as great as those demanded during blood shed.
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2016054087
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Book title, :A portrait of an artist as a young man
Author:James Joyce
Year of publication:1916
Place of Publication:Newyork
Publisher:B.W Huebsch
Genre:description
ISBN:978-978-449953-6
Number of pages:254
Language:English
Name of the reviewer:Chidimma okwudili
The book a portrait of an artist as a young man by James Joyce is a description book that tells the story of Steven the dedalus,a boy growing in Ireland and nineteenth century as he gradually decides to cast off all his
Problem on God.
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MOVIE TITLE:YOU WERE NEVER REALLY HERE
CREATED BY:LYNNE RAMSAY
GENRE:DRAMA
KEY ACTORS:JOE(JOAQUIN PHOENIX)NINA(EKATERINA SAMSONOV)JOES MOTHER(JUDITH ROBERTS)
DATE:2018
REVIEWER:IDAMOKORO OGHENERUKEVWE.M.
The premise-PTSD stricken hit man Joe is tasked with saving a young girl from sex ttraffickers.probably sounds familiar narratives of male saviour rescuing female innocents girls that are baked into pop culture.Ramsay’s film set itself apart amidsts the violence,his gentleness,beauty,and delicacy and variety of style
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REG NUMBER;2016054018
BOOK TITLE;king solomon’s mines
AUTHOR; Henry Richard Haggard
YEAR OF PUBLICATION; 1885
PUBLISHER; cassel and company
PLACE OF PUBLICATION;United Kingdom
GENRE; lost world
NUMBER OF PAGES; 320
LANGUAGE; English
NAME OF REVIEWER; Rejoice Kelechi Onwuseraka
The book was first published in September 1885 amid considerable fanfare, with billboards and posters around London announcing “The Most Amazing Book Ever Written”. It became an immediate best seller. By the late 19th century, explorers were uncovering ancient civilisations around the world, such as Egypt’s Valley of the Kings, and the empire of Assyria. Inner Africa remained largely unexplored and
King Solomon’s Mines , the first novel of African adventure published in English, captured the public’s imagination.
The “King Solomon” of the book’s title is the Biblical king renowned both for his wisdom and for his wealth. A number of sites have been suggested as the location of his mines, including the workings at the Timna valley near
Eilat . Research published in September 2013 has shown that this site was in use during the 10th century BC as a copper mine possibly by the
Edomites , who the Bible reports were rivals of and frequently at war with King Solomon.
Haggard knew Africa well, having travelled deep within the continent as a 19-year-old during the Anglo-Zulu War and the First Boer War , where he had been impressed by South Africa’s vast mineral wealth and by the ruins of ancient lost cities being uncovered, such as Great Zimbabwe . His original Allan Quatermain character was based in large part on Frederick Courtney Selous, the British white hunter and explorer of Colonial Africa. Selous’s real-life experiences provided Haggard with the background and inspiration for this and many later stories.
Haggard also owed a considerable debt to Joseph Thomson , the Scottish explorer whose book Through Masai Land was a hit in January 1885. [ citation needed] Thomson claimed he had terrified warriors in Kenya by taking out his false teeth and claiming to be a magician, just as Captain Good does in King Solomon’s Mines . Contemporary James Runciman wrote an article entitled King Plagiarism and His Court, interpreted as accusing Haggard of plagiarism for this. Thomson was so outraged at Haggard’s alleged plagiarism that he published a novel of his own, Ulu: an African Romance, which, however, failed to sell.
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Reviewer : Nell Minow
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By:Nell Minow
Movie review:shrek
Director: by Andrew Adamson and Vicky
Country American
Cast:Mike Myers
Shrek),Eddie Murphy (Donkey),Cameron Diaz(Princess Fiona)
Date:Nov 2, 2001
Reviewer:Nwokeocha CHIOMA Vivian
There is a moment in “Shrek” when the despicable Lord Farquaad has the Gingerbread Man tortured by dipping him into milk. This prepares us for another moment when Princess Fiona’s singing voice is so piercing it causes jolly little bluebirds to explode; making the best of a bad situation, she fries their eggs. This is not your average family cartoon. “Shrek” is jolly and wicked, filled with sly in-jokes and yet somehow possessing a heart.
The movie has been so long in the making at DreamWorks that the late Chris Farley was originally intended to voice the jolly green ogre in the title role. All that work has paid off: The movie is an astonishing visual delight, with animation techniques that seem lifelike and fantastical, both at once. No animated being has ever moved, breathed or had its skin crawl quite as convincingly as Shrek.
Nwokeocha CHIOMA Vivian
2016054127
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Book Title: Half of a yellow sun
Author:Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Country: Nigeria
Language: English
Genre: Historical fiction
Published: January 15, 2007 Alfred A. Knopf
Media type: Print (Hardback)
Pages: 448 pp
ISBN: 978-0-00-720028-3
OCLC: 78988623
Reviewer: MADUKA EBERE. C.
The novel takes place in Nigeria prior to and during the Nigerian Civil War (1967–70). The effect of the war is shown through the dynamic relationships of five people’s lives including twin daughters of an influential businessman, a professor, a British citizen, and a houseboy. After Biafra’s declaration of secession, the lives of the main characters drastically changed and were torn apart by the brutality of the civil war and decisions in their personal lives.
MADUKA EBERE .C.
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By:Nell Minow
Movie review:shrek
Director: by Andrew Adamson and Vicky
Country American
Cast:Mike Myers
Shrek),Eddie Murphy (Donkey),Cameron Diaz(Princess Fiona)
Date:Nov 2, 2001
Reviewer:Nwokeocha CHIOMA Vivian
There is a moment in “Shrek” when the despicable Lord Farquaad has the Gingerbread Man tortured by dipping him into milk. This prepares us for another moment when Princess Fiona’s singing voice is so piercing it causes jolly little bluebirds to explode; making the best of a bad situation, she fries their eggs. This is not your average family cartoon. “Shrek” is jolly and wicked, filled with sly in-jokes and yet somehow possessing a heart.
The movie has been so long in the making at DreamWorks that the late Chris Farley was originally intended to voice the jolly green ogre in the title role. All that work has paid off: The movie is an astonishing visual delight, with animation techniques that seem lifelike and fantastical, both at once. No animated being has ever moved, breathed or had its skin crawl quite as convincingly as Shrek.
Nwokeocha CHIOMA Vivian
2016054127
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Book title, :A portrait of an artist as a young man
Author:James Joyce
Year of publication:1916
Place of Publication:Newyork
Publisher:B.W Huebsch
Genre:description
ISBN:978-978-449953-6
Number of pages:254
Language:English
Name of the reviewer:Chidimma okwudili
The book a portrait of an artist as a young man by James Joyce is a description book that tells the story of Steven the dedalus,a boy growing in Ireland and nineteenth century as he gradually decides to cast off all his
Problem on God.
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2016054075
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2016054075
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Format: Paperback | 384 pages
Dimensions: 128 x 194 x 22mm | 258.55g
Publication date: 24 Feb 2000
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Imprint: PENGUIN CLASSICS
Publication City/Country: London, United Kingdom
Language: English
Edition statement: UK ed.
ISBN10: 0141182660
ISBN13: 9780141182667
Bestsellers rank: 27,342
Reviewer: Deane
Playful and experimental, James Joyce’s autobiographical A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is a vivid portrayal of emotional and intellectual development. This Penguin Modern Classics edition is edited with an introduction and notes by Seamus Deane.
The portrayal of Stephen Dedalus’s Dublin childhood and youth, his quest for identity through art and his gradual emancipation from the claims of family, religion and Ireland itself, is also an oblique self-portrait of the young James Joyce and a universal testament to the artist’s ‘eternal imagination’. Both an insight into Joyce’s life and childhood, and a unique work of modernist fiction, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is a novel of sexual awakening, religious rebellion and the essential search for voice and meaning that every nascent artist must face in order to fully come into themselves.
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Book Title: Things fall apart
Author: chinue Achebe
place of publication: UK
Date of publication :1958
Publisher: Williams Heinemann
Genre: fictional novel
Number of pages :224 pages
reviewer: Ojimba ogochukwu
Things Fall Apart is a classic piece of African literature, and why not, of world literature. The story portrays a typical African rural reality ( Nigerian in this case), where the relationship between religion, white man and the colonisation of the African continent is explained. Certainly, back in the day in Africa (as on other continents but with different nuances) Christian religion expanded by means of an evangelisation process that was not only intended to convey ‘the Lord’s message’, but also as a means to dominate and to colonise. The tool used for this purpose was an imposed educational and governmental process, which was underpinned by the successive construction of churches.
Indeed, whereas education involves a component of emancipation that helps to shape a person, in this case education stands tall as a tool for indoctrination and domination. Such indoctrination was enabled by the work of evangelisers of unshakable faith who subtly wormed their way into villages and towns, in a seemingly harmless way but with a relentless ability to exercise control.
This Christian immersion facilitated the act of building a government consisting in posts that still exist today, such as that of ‘ District Commissioner’, as these were very often filled by whites.
Hence we can state that the book’s main message revolves around the above-mentioned events, which would in turn explain much about the current situation in Africa.
On the other hand, it is worth highlighting that the Christian religion played an incredibly revolutionary role back in the day . It was not in vain that it confronted both factual and spiritual pre-established powers. The fervent faith and enduring convictions of the Christian believers was particularly salient, and their power nowadays is so widespread, that it would be considered revolutionary to go against them, against Christian religion. One should also point out that (as one appreciates in Things Fall Apart) the ‘power of white man’ is also built on the back of the support offered by many black men, both actively and passively.
Let us now turn to the main character of the novel, Okonkwo, whose life in the end is both sad and pitiful. Achebe tells us right from the start that Okonkwo was scared, which is why his behaviour was so virulent. Additionally, it seems that Okonkwo’s chi (his personal God or spiritual guardian) does not allow him to achieve what he would have liked, and it also destines him to perennial bad luck, leading the Igbo farmer to commit suicide.
The novel (or African tradition) thus claims that human beings are pre-destined to their own fate. In other words, irrespective of what one does, fate is already written, i.e., efforts are made in vain as they do not always have the desired result. In this line of thought, the book suggests that both Okonkwo and his father failed , but in different ways.
The latter was a lazy hedonist, while the former was misguided in his sterile efforts. It is also true that Okonkwo’s legacy clearly imposes itself over that of his father’s. In sum, Things Fall Apart is a solid novel that gives us an overview of the African world and its way of thinking and acting.
I would also state that, instead of allowing actions to speak for themselves through the characters, Achebe uses much ‘wording’ to amply inform the reader, although this factor is not necessarily a defect.
One could also say that in structural terms, the novel pans out through the narration of stories that unroll at each traditional ceremony that takes place in Umuofia . In this vein, against the backdrop of fields and yam crops, a combat is depicted followed by the description of a week of festivities etc., all of which are part of their customs. In addition, there is often a certain touch of fable and oral storytelling, both features of African society.
As for the characters , I felt that they were rather irregular . Okonkwo, the white men and other main characters are perfectly set apart; however, there are some characters that are not fully fleshed out (such as some of Okonkwo’s wives and sons) and can often not be told apart. Some of the characters therefore are left incomplete and hardly differentiated.
In this sense, the reader can be surprised to see that Okonkwo’s wives ‘disappear’ and play practically no role during his exile or banishment. As regards the dialogues, I thought they were lively, precise and real. On the other hand, I am not sure if this is a mistake, but on page 83, a certain element of
poetic prose has slipped in: “When the women retired. Obierika presented kola nuts to his in-laws.
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MOVIE TITLE:YOU WERE NEVER REALLY HERE
CREATED BY:LYNNE RAMSAY
GENRE: DRAMA
KE ACTORS:JOE(JOAQUIN PHOENIX) NINA(EKATERINA SAMSONOV) JOES MOTHER(JUDITH ROBERTS)
DATE:2018
REVIEWER:IDAMOKORO OGHENERUKEVWE.M.
The premise-PTSD stricken hit man Joe is tasked with saving a young girl from sex traffickers.probably soubsounds familiar.narrative of male saviours rescuing female innocents girl’s that are baked into pop culture.Ramsay’s film set itself apart amsits the violence is gentleness,beauty,delicacy and variety of style.
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Book: Half of a yellow sun
Author:Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Country: Nigeria
Language: English
Genre: Historical fiction
Published: January 15, 2007 Alfred A. Knopf
Media type: Print (Hardback)
Pages: 448 pp
ISBN: 978-0-00-720028-3
OCLC: 78988623
Reviewer: MADUKA EBERE. C.
The novel takes place in Nigeria prior to and during the Nigerian Civil War (1967–70). The effect of the war is shown through the dynamic relationships of five people’s lives including twin daughters of an influential businessman, a professor, a British citizen, and a houseboy. After Biafra’s declaration of secession, the lives of the main characters drastically changed and were torn apart by the brutality of the civil war and decisions in their personal lives.
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Book: Half of a yellow sun
Author:Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Country: Nigeria
Language: English
Genre: Historical fiction
Published: January 15, 2007 Alfred A. Knopf
Media type: Print (Hardback)
Pages: 448 pp
ISBN: 978-0-00-720028-3
OCLC: 78988623
Review
The novel takes place in Nigeria prior to and during the Nigerian Civil War (1967–70). The effect of the war is shown through the dynamic relationships of five people’s lives including twin daughters of an influential businessman, a professor, a British citizen, and a houseboy. After Biafra’s declaration of secession, the lives of the main characters drastically changed and were torn apart by the brutality of the civil war and decisions in their personal lives.
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Book: Half of a yellow sun
Author:Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Country: Nigeria
Language: English
Genre: Historical fiction
Published: January 15, 2007 Alfred A. Knopf
Media type: Print (Hardback)
Pages: 448 pp
ISBN: 978-0-00-720028-3
OCLC: 78988623
REVIEWER: WIKIPEDIA
The novel takes place in Nigeria prior to and during the Nigerian Civil War (1967–70). The effect of the war is shown through the dynamic relationships of five people’s lives including twin daughters of an influential businessman, a professor, a British citizen, and a houseboy. After Biafra’s declaration of secession, the lives of the main characters drastically changed and were torn apart by the brutality of the civil war and decisions in their personal lives.
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Book: Half of a yellow sun
Author:Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Country: Nigeria
Language: English
Genre: Historical fiction
Published: January 15, 2007 Alfred A. Knopf
Media type: Print (Hardback)
Pages: 448 pp
ISBN: 978-0-00-720028-3
REVIEWER: CHIMEUCHEYA ANGELA
The novel takes place in Nigeria prior to and during the Nigerian Civil War (1967–70).When the Igbo people of eastern Nigeria seceded in 1967 to form the independent nation of Biafra, a bloody, crippling three-year civil war followed. That period in African history is captured with haunting intimacy in this artful page-turner…Tumultuous politics power the plot, and several sections are harrowing. But this dramatic, intelligent epic has its lush and sultry side as well: rebellious Olanna is the mistress of Odenigbo, a university professor brimming with anticolonial zeal; business-minded Kainene takes as her lover fair-haired, blue-eyed Richard, a British expatriate come to Nigeria to write a book about Igbo-Ukwu art�and whose relationship with Kainene nearly ruptures when he spends one drunken night with Olanna. This is a transcendent novel of many descriptive triumphs. It’s a searing history lesson in fictional form, intensely evocative and immensely absorbing.”
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Book: Half of a yellow sun
Author:Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Country: Nigeria
Language: English
Genre: Historical fiction
Published: January 15, 2007 Alfred A. Knopf
Media type: Print (Hardback)
Pages: 448 pp
ISBN: 978-0-00-720028-3
REVIEW
The novel takes place in Nigeria prior to and during the Nigerian Civil War (1967–70).When the Igbo people of eastern Nigeria seceded in 1967 to form the independent nation of Biafra, a bloody, crippling three-year civil war followed. That period in African history is captured with haunting intimacy in this artful page-turner…Tumultuous politics power the plot, and several sections are harrowing. But this dramatic, intelligent epic has its lush and sultry side as well: rebellious Olanna is the mistress of Odenigbo, a university professor brimming with anticolonial zeal; business-minded Kainene takes as her lover fair-haired, blue-eyed Richard, a British expatriate come to Nigeria to write a book about Igbo-Ukwu art�and whose relationship with Kainene nearly ruptures when he spends one drunken night with Olanna. This is a transcendent novel of many descriptive triumphs. It’s a searing history lesson in fictional form, intensely evocative and immensely absorbing.”
CHIMEUCHEYA ANGELA
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Movie Title : Quiet Place
Created by: John Krasinski
Produced by : Michael Bay
Andrew Form
Brad Fuller
Genre : Drama
key actors / actress:Emily Blunt (Evelyn Abbott),John Krasinski (Lee Abbott),Millicent Simmonds (Regan Abbott),Noah Jupe (Marcus Abbot)
Date:March 9, 2018
Reviewer : Nonso Okonkwo
A Quiet Place is about a wave of blind, deadly arachnid creatures that are sensitive to sound — imagine if the aliens in the Vin Diesel film Pitch Black
were deposited on earth, more or less — but it’s really about isolating an effect and custom-fitting a story around it. When a single utterance or unintended noise means quick and certain death, the audience will hang on every bump of the soundtrack, like a heart patient eyeing an EKG.
There are high-minded ways to interpret A Quiet Place , which develops into an affecting metaphor for the perils of parenthood, but it’s effective primarily as a back-to-basics statement of genre fundamentals. We’re so accustomed to being pummeled into submission by studio soundtracks that the deprivation here has a clarifying effect, reminding us of what’s possible when sound and music is carefully placed. That the film comes from Platinum Dunes, the production company of Transformers director Michael Bay, feels like an act of penance from Hollywood’s chief supplier of ear-splitting rackets.
Okonkwo Nonso
2016054090
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web link :https://www.npr.org/2018/04/05/598796456/a-quiet-place-will-leave-you-shhhhhhaken
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Reviewer : Jonny Cournoyer
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2016054031
Book title :Audacity of hope
Author :Barack Obama
Year of publication : January 2017
Publisher :crown / three Rivers press
Place of publication :US
Number of pages :362
ISBN :978-0-307-23769-9
Language:English
Reviewer :oluoha chinelo lorita
The Audacity of Hope is Barack Obama’s call for a different brand of politics.He explores those forces—from the fear of losing to the perpetual need to raise money to the power of the media that can stifle even the best intentioned politician.At the heart of this book is Barack Obama’s vision of how we can move beyond our divisions to tackle concrete problems. He examines the growing economic insecurity of American families, the racial and religious tensions within the body politic. It’s major critic is that with his elaborations on all these topics he doesn’t set any priorities.
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/123913/the-audacity-of-hope-by-barack-obama/9780307237705/.
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Movie Title: Blood diamond
key actors/actresses: Leonardo DiCaprio ( Danny Archer) , Djimon Housou ( Solomon candy)
Jennifer connelly ( Maddy Bowen)
Date: January , 2007
producers: Marshall herskovitz , Graham king
Genre : action movie
reviewer: Obi ogechi Emnanuella
During the civil war in Sierra Leone, fisherman Solomon (Hounsou) is forced to pan for diamonds. He finds a large one, but it soon draws the attention of mercenary Danny Archer (DiCaprio) among others
Violence is an overused word. Primarily we associate it with fantasy, either in the gory netherworlds of the Hostel or Saw movies or the escapist universe of Bond and Bourne, where tension and excitement overshadow the realities of torture, mutilation and death. Violence, for the most part, is about the human capacity to hurt others; and about the way it destroys lives, communities and countries.
So when you hear that Blood Diamond is a very violent movie, don’t take it lightly. This isn’t simply about gunfights and car chases (although both are present and very much correct); Edward Zwick’s film launches with scenes that startle with their savagery, rivalling even Saving Private Ryan’s opening salvo for squirm value. As Sierra Leone’s anti-government warriors spread across the country, villages are razed, women raped and their children shot or abducted. To ensure voter apathy at the upcoming elections, hands are severed with axes and machetes.
It’s against this hellish backdrop that we first meet Solomon (Djimon Hounsou), a family man whose dreams of medical school for his son Dia (Caruso Kuypers) are dashed by the guerrilla insurgency. While Solomon is spared to pan for diamonds at gunpoint, Dia is taken, brainwashed, given a new identity and a gun. This, we soon learn, is what Sierra Leone is up against: beer-swilling bandits who bankroll their fight with smuggled diamonds and spend their gains on, disturbingly, US gangsta rap.
Solomon’s camp is raided and the inhabitants jailed, which is where Leonardo DiCaprio’s Danny Archer comes in; a sharp-witted player whose eyes widen as he learns of Solomon’s million-dollar find. Though there are similarities with the protean trickster of Catch Me If You Can, this is a Leo we’ve never seen before. Amoral and selfish but self-aware, DiCaprio expands on the reservoirs of darkness that Scorsese found in him. In the film’s final straits, when the diamond becomes his Shangri-La, his power and conviction are something to see.
But Blood Diamond falls maddeningly short of greatness in its final hour, partly because of an abundance of subplots. Alongside Solomon and Archer, Zwick introduces journalist Maddy Bowen (Jennifer Connelly), a hard-nosed war reporter just in from Afghanistan, who looks to Archer to help her find the white-collar criminals in the diamond trade. Though her acting is faultless, Connelly’s presence leads to a romance that, however understated, simply stores up trouble for later, requiring redemption and emotional closure on an already overheated climax. On top of that, add an unnecessary political framing device, and what begins as a tough, risk-taking thriller winds down to become a familiar Hollywood triumph-over-adversity story. It’s a heartbreaker. After feeling so much danger, it’s a shame to leave the cinema on a note so safe.
Great performances, provocative ideas.
reg no: 2016054119
culled from.www.metacritic. com
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Nkemjika ogonna marycynthia
2016054092
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Movie tittle: wedding party
Created and produced by :kemi adetiba
Genre: drama series
Key actors/actress: Adesua etomi,banky Wellington, Richard mofedamijo,sola sobowale,iretiola Doyle,Alibaba akporobome,zainab balogun,Beverly naya,somekele iyamah and enyinna Nwigwe.
Date:September 18,2016-November 26 2016
Episodes:
Reviewer: Nkemjika ogonna marycynthia.
The Wedding party follows the shenanigans that go on during the planning of a wedding in Nigeria. Dunni, a 24 year old art gallery owner and only daughter of her parents, Engineer Bamidele and Mrs Tinuade Coker, is about to marry the love of her life, IT entrepreneur Dozie, the handsome son of Chief Felix and Lady Obianuju Onwuka. The couple took a vow of chastity and are looking forward to a ground -breaking first night together as a married couple. Between matchmaking attempts on the bridal train, a wedding planner on a mission to succeed, the unruly behaviour of some ‘village’ guests much to Tinuade’s horror, Dunni’s uncertainty about her new husband’s faithfulness during the time of their courtship, amidst colourful aso-ebi, eclectic music, small chops, and souvenir drama, we begin to wonder whether Dunni and Dozie will get through their wedding reception unscathed.
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Ezeamama Chris blessing
Team:B Nkurunziza
2016054049
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movie tittle:’tyranny’
director:mac Collins
year of production:2005
place of production:nigeria
duration :1/5:55
released:23 sep
The movie ‘tyranny’ is angerian movie released in the year 2005.the film was directed by mac Collins chidebe, who featured Pete edochie ,onyeka onwenu and justus edition as the major ccharacters
the movie (tyranny) is all about a tyrant ruler who holds the country under his directorship and no one questions his order. He was so cruel that any one who stood against his order was killed, the citizens living in agony and pain.
The movie was acted in English language, and the language used was simply to comprehend and not ambigirus. Some special effects were used in the movie which added aesthetics to it and made it looked real. The movie should be watched by all
Ezeamama Chris blessing, 2016054049
Sir network in my village is not good sent it since it has been hanging,didnteven believe it will finally upload……… Sir pls have mercy please
What do you expect when village people are at work?
2016054087
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haiti
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Book review
Title of book: If I never forever endeavour
Author: Holly Meade
Year of publication: 2013
Publisher: Candlewick
Genre: Inspirational
ISBN: 9780763640712
Reviewer: Hayden
The book is about a bird who didn’t yet know how to fly. The bird has to decide if it will try to fly, but it was not sure if it wants to. The bird thought ” If I never forever endeavour ” then I won’t ever learn. On one wing, he worries he might fail and on the other wing he thinks of how he will succeed, he worries that if he tries he may get lost in the world. That makes him want to stay in the next where he is safe.
Link: http://www.jeffyam com
Anikor Victoria
2016054151
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MOVIE REVIEW
MOVIE TITLE:Blood Diamond.
CREATED AND PRODUCED By:Marshall Herskoivtz, Edward zwick, Paula Weinstein.
GENRE:Action Drama
KEY ACTORS/ACTRESS:Danny Archer as Leonardo DiCaprio, Djimon Hounsou as Solomon Vandy,Maddy Brown as Jennifer Connely and Arnold Voslo.
DATE:December 8,2006.
REVIEWER:Steven Issac
Blood diamond is a television action drama series which features the story of Danny Archer a South African mercenary and Solomon Vandy a mental Fisher man,Both men are Africans,but their histories and their circumstances are as different as they can be until their fate become joined in a common quest a pink diamond that can transform their lives.
It also set against the backdrop of the chaos and civil war that enveloped 1990s Sierra Leone.
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Movie title:Hotel Rwanda
Created and produced:Terry George
Genre:Drama,foreign,history
Key actors and actresses:Don Cheadle as Paul Ruseabagina,Sophie Okenedo as Tatiana,Nick Nolte as Col.oliver,Joaquin phoenie as Jack.
Date:25 February 2005
Episodes:121minutes
Reviewer:Roger Ebert
Hotel Rwanda is a television drama series which features a million members of the Tutsi tribe being killed by members of the Hutu tribe in a massacre
that took place while the world looked away. Hotel Rwanda is not the story of the massacre, it is the story of a hotel manager who saved the lives of 1200 people by being, essentially a very good hotel manger.
Osumuo chidiogo vivian
2016054008
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2016054031
Book title :Audacity of hope
Author :Barack Obama
Year of publication : January 2017
Publisher :crown / three Rivers press
Place of publication :US
Number of pages :362
ISBN :978-0-307-23769-9
Language:English
Review
The Audacity of Hope is Barack Obama’s call for a different brand of politics.He explores those forces—from the fear of losing to the perpetual need to raise money to the power of the media that can stifle even the best intentioned politician.At the heart of this book is Barack Obama’s vision of how we can move beyond our divisions to tackle concrete problems. He examines the growing economic insecurity of American families, the racial and religious tensions within the body politic. It’s major critic is that with his elaborations on all these topics he doesn’t set any priorities.
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/123913/the-audacity-of-hope-by-barack-obama/9780307237705/.
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Movie title: Moana
Created and produced by: osnat shurer,ron clements,john musker
Genre: Adventure film(fictional film)
Key actors/actresses: Dwayne johnson(maui),Auli’i cravalho(moana),Jemaine clement(tamatoa)
Date: 23 November 2016
Reviewer: Wikipedia organisation
The movie “Moana” is an adventurous movie,it all started when Moana sails out on a daring mission to save her people. During her journey,she meets the once-mighty demigod maui,who guides her in her quest to become a master way-finder. Together they sail across the open ocean on an action-packed voyage,encountering enormous monsters and impossible odds. Along the way,Moana fulfills the ancient quest of her ancestors andh discovers the one thing she always sought: her own identity.
Okeke Linda Chidiebere
2016054070
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Music TItle: Hello
Artist : Adele
Producer: Lionel Richie
Genre,: Blues
Review by Neil McCormick , MUSIC CRITIC
This may well become the most famous
pop greeting ever, muscling out dear old
Lionel Richie. Adele is back, reintroducing
herself with a slightly tentative “Hello”.
Rarely has a single word been freighted with
so much meaning and emotion. From the
opening piano chord and that very first hello
she sounds nervous, sad, determined. As biggest pop star of our age arrives back on
the stage, there’s no dramatic ta-ra, no
thunder of bells and whistles. Rather, she
dares to pull the world into her private
sphere.
Why Adele turned to the Swedish pop
magician Max Martin
Hello unfolds slowly. Despite conveying a
mood of emotional uncertainty, it’s a
supremely confident comeback, a monster
ballad that creeps up on the listener, showing
a persuasive degree of restraint. It rides on
two ominous piano chords, orchestral strings
shading the end of the first verse, swelling
through the second, before the chorus arrives
with a grave blast, the double thump of a bass
drum and her voice jumping up a range. As
the song circles around, everything gradually
steps up a gear, the drums take on a ghostly
skitter, a spooky keyboard floats in, backing
vocals build until it moves towards a very
luscious wall of sound, supporting but not
overwhelming Adele’s utterly compelling
vocal. A beautiful song of loss and regret, it
takes a grip on the kind of memory every
listener holds somewhere in their heart and
merges it with Adele’s own drama. This sense
of everywoman emotion is what people
always responded to in Adele , she is a pop
diarist, sharing the simple secrets of her heart
with no pretence.
2016054104
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Book title:purple hibiscus
Author:Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
year of publisher :October 2003
Publisher :Algonquin Books kachifo
Place of publishe: Lagos
Genre :fiction and romance
ISBN: 978-1-61620-242-2
No of pages:336
language:English
Name of reviewer:weaverpresszimbabwe
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This is about a family where the father is the loin of the family and whatever he says is being done without being questioned even his wife obeys him.
it shows the value of women in the society and in some families how they don’t get say in any matter in the society.
Asomugha chidalu Chinelo
2016054071
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preliminary info
director: Wes Anderson
cast: Bryan Cranston, Koyu Rankin, Greta Gerwig.
producer:Wes Anderson
running time:101 minutes
genre: comedy
rated:PG-13
country: United States
reviewed by Kip Mooney
The neck:
set in a fictional province of Japan in the future, a corrupt mayor has shipped all dogs off to a toxic landfill called trash island, where they are forced to fend off scraps and whatever garbage continues to be dumped there. The pretext is that the dogs are carrying snout fever, which can become dog flu in humans.
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Ibeh Chiwendu Nancy
2016054076
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2016054031
Book title :Audacity of hope
Author :Barack Obama
Year of publication : January 2017
Publisher :crown / three Rivers press
Place of publication :US
Number of pages :362
ISBN :978-0-307-23769-9
Language:English
Reviewer :penguinrandomhouse
The Audacity of Hope is Barack Obama’s call for a different brand of politics.He explores those forces—from the fear of losing to the perpetual need to raise money to the power of the media that can stifle even the best intentioned politician.At the heart of this book is Barack Obama’s vision of how we can move beyond our divisions to tackle concrete problems. He examines the growing economic insecurity of American families, the racial and religious tensions within the body politic. It’s major critic is that with his elaborations on all these topics he doesn’t set any priorities.
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/123913/the-audacity-of-hope-by-barack-obama/9780307237705/.
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Book Review
Book Title:Othello
Author:Williams shakespare
Genre:Fiction Drama
Year of publication:2000
Publisher:Woodsworths editions
place of publication:Hertfordshire
ISBN:9761863260166
Language:Ancient English
Reviewer:Cedric Watts
The Neck
This book talks about the happy married life between Desdumona and the daughter of Brabantio and Othello the moor. Othello was a black,and a soldier whom was loved by the ventian establishment because of his bavery.
It was later discovered that otello stabbed his beloved wife desdumona with a knife because he was deceived by Iago(his old friend)that his wife was having an affair with casio his lieutenant.
link:www.wordworth edition.com
Obika juliet Ogechi
2016054022
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Reg No: 2016054014
Movie Title : War Room
Director : Alex Kendrick
Genre : Drama
Actors : Priscilla c. shirer (Elizabeth), Karen Abercrombie (Miss Clara), T.c Stalling (Tony)
Duration : 2hours
Released date : 27 November 2015.
Spirituality can be a beautiful thing to explore in cinema, but “War Room” has no interest in engaging its audience on a personal level. It has one single goal, which according to the Kendricks, is the only goal worth having. The film wants to evangelize by preaching an ideology that requires its followers to view the world in black-and-white terms. Grappling with the gray areas in life is seen as a sign of weakness, while acting in one’s own best interest is nothing more than a sinful exercise in selfish pride.
This is the lesson that real estate agent Elizabeth (Priscilla C. Shirer ) must be taught in extended conversations with her client-turned-friend, Miss Clara (Karen Abercrombie). When Elizabeth tries opening up about the unabashed cruelty she endures on a daily basis from her loathsome husband, Tony (T.C. Stallings), Clara refuses to listen. Instead, she urges the long-suffering wife to go back home, empty out a closet and plaster the walls with Bible verses. There, she will summon God to help fight her battles, thus transforming the space into the titular “war room.” Her role as a submissive woman is to treat the man in her life with grace, which will eventually shame him into becoming a good person. God forbid she even considers a divorce.
The film’s centerpiece sequence occurs early on, as Elizabeth sits weeping in her closet while pleading, “God, help him love me again.” This moment is heartbreaking for all the wrong reasons. Since the Kendricks have mistaken one-dimensional caricatures for people who exist in the real world, they forgot to provide Tony with any redeeming qualities that would make us want to root for his marriage. As for the film’s advice to women who are beaten by their husbands, one of Elizabeth’s co-workers advises, “Learn to duck so God can hit him.”
The multitude of problems in their marriage can be boiled down to one cause: Satan. Once the evildoer is cast out of the house in a stirring, borderline psychotic monologue delivered by Elizabeth, everything changes. God promptly interrupts Tony’s dinner with a potential mistress by giving him a stomach ache, and sends him back into his wife’s arms. Before you know it, he’s lost his well-paying job and is facing potential jail time for dirty double-dealing, but Elizabeth remains utterly unfazed. When he asks how she could possibly forgive him for his endless list of transgressions, her answer is unsettling. She insists that she’s staying in the relationship because she loves Jesus, and that it is her godly duty to forever be at his side.
https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/war-room-2015
Title: originals
Author: Adams Grant,Sheryl Sandburg.
Pages: 336
Publishers:penguin publishers
Language: English.
Date printed: February 7 2017.
Reviewed by Barnesandnobles group.
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Originals is here as an ally, an enemy, a thought provoker, a calming salve, and, most of all, an inspirer devoted to challenging your beliefs, your truths and mixing them up with real stories, all in an effort to exfoliate the nasty crust you are wearing and release the adornment being hidden. That is the embellishment of an original. One who conquers the world. Throughout the book, you meet people you will notice are like you in several aspects. As you get acquainted with them and it is my prayer that what they did, what they accomplished, the mistakes they made, the opportunities they had, and the lives they lived, may serve as a spring whence wisdom of change will flow into you, making you what you have always wished to be but did not know how. The song in your heart needs to be heard. You may not know what impact it will make, how many souls it will transform, how many children it will provoke to think, or how far ahead it will propel the wheel of progress on our planet. That is the magnitude of power that that song wields and originals is here to make you release it into the world where it belongs. Arinze Obiageli 2016054110 team molgadishu.
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Book review: WHAT LOVE IS AND WHAT IT COULD BE by Carrie Jenkins and reviewed by Bella Depaulo.
Website: Pyschcentral.com
On the first page of what is love and what it could be author Carrie Jenkins let readers know that she is a philosopher and that she has both a husband and a boyfriend. Jenkins isn’t cheating or hiding her relationship from either partner, she is practicing ethical nonmonogamy.
What is love and what it could be is a deeply thoughtful,incisive and engaging exploration of the nature of romantic love. Jenkins identifies the central question of the book as how can love be both biological and a social construct. Jenkins overview of the different ways romantic love has been construed at different times and at different places throughout history might seem like a compelling argument for the view of romantic love as a social construct.
The chapter “what needs to change” builds up a list of ways that romantic love needs to be reconstructed in order to be more inclusive. “Changes” Jenkins believes, will be gradual and will take place “against a backdrop of continuity”.
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Movie tittle: wedding party
Created and produced by :kemi adetiba
Genre: drama series
Key actors/actress: Adesua etomi,banky Wellingto