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Dear students, from now on we are going to have a schedule for the posts:

Monday: Movies
Tuesday: Books
Wednesday: Culture
Thursday: Events in the school
Friday: Music

To start this new era in the blog. A post about the so famous film: AVATAR

Avatar

As most part of the students may know, Avatar is a sci-fi movie from James Cameron. The plot of the film is splendid, but the message which is transmitted is even more fabulous than it looks like.

The plot happens in a period of our history when we are able to find a new planet inhabited by kinds similar to human. However they have developed all their society based in the environmental respect, they are also adapted to connect and communicate with all kinds of life in the planet. These inhabitants are called 'Na'Vi'

An example of a female Na'vi

Our human is not attracted to the planet(which is called Pandora) by the Na'vi people, they are attracted by the resources which existed in that planet. There was a mineral resources capable of produces 100 times more energy than earth has ever seen before. The problem is: he only way to achieve this specific material is to destroy the Na'vi's place, and that's what they try do, or at least try.

The most interesting aspect of he movie is not the plot per si, but what it can be compared to. The behavior of human people in the film is the same as the most powerful countries nowadays, invading and destroying every single piece of obstacle they reach, not caring about social or religious aspects. Another precious aspect is the name of the planet, Pandora, it makes an allusion to the Greek story of the 'Pandora Box'. It tell a story about a girl who receives a beautiful box which she cannot open. Although she just can't wait anymore and opens it, there contained series of evil things and sins. The planet was just like that for the powerful countries as they tried to reach with greed and selfishness but ended up losing, that may be also the consequence of the U.S.A in the Iraq.

The Stephen King's Horror Show

Most people are unaware of how genius the horror writer Stephen King actually is. With his unmeasurable talent he managed to change the whole landscape of horror fiction having written over 60 books in the last 30 years. He is probably the first writer ever to achieve the status of a super star.

With a writing style rooted deep in the new American Gothic, King was an avid reader of pulp novels and horror/sci-fi writers such as Ray Bradbury, Hp Lovecraft at an early age. In his first attempt as a writer, King transcribed the plot to the movie The Pit and the Pendulum and sold out copies to his classmates. The deed didn't go unpunished as school principals weren't exactly happy of students profiting during school hours but young Steve King realized then that his stories were good enough so that people would actually pay money for them.

Over the years he played with a wide variety of literary genres from horror to sci-fi, western and the incredibly successful dystopian saga The Stand. Being a huge success however has granted him some harsh criticism by some critics that claim that King is a sub-literate whose books have no real literary relevance. That fact never had any effect on his book selling record as millions of avid and faithful readers wait anxiously for the next King publication.

King still writes at least a book a year and the quality of his work doesn't seem to be dropping. His latest book "Under the Dome" was published last November and quickly became a bestseller despite the fact that the book has over 1,000 pages. Stephen King lives with his wife Tabitha in Bangor, Maine, but spends most of the year at his place in Florida.