Monday, October 11, 2010

long walk to freedom

Nelson Mandela was imprisoned for 27 years and this did not effect or prevented him to became the first black South Africa president as he longed. In fact he is very honest, unselfish and he is not corrupted as many African leaders.He is very famous, trusted and respected world wide.


The jail sentence negatively effected  Nelson Mandela. He had no freedom to move around and he was limited to fight or in reducing apartheid. Imprisoned innocently and he only use to see ocean, grey walls and he really suffered from cold during winters. In Roben Island(an isolated prison) he had no connection with his family members and these prison was actually like hell. Many threats from prison guards stinking soup for lunch was not good at all. He suffered from discrimination and penal system. Specifically, he was suppose to be an important person the time he was in prison at the age of 46.

Thursday, October 7, 2010

Fear

The grandfather's fear was abnormal. Fear can be indicated by many signs, the man(grandfather) was unable to speak too much and sometimes when asked by the boy he just scratch his beard and say nothing. The man kept on telling Richard: "you sit still and you be quiet" he said. At the end of the story it was evidently that the man had a fear for death. After a star fell down the man started thinking about death, his wife age and his mind became restless. He began to sweat and he was only thinking of a fallen star and pay less attention to what the boy was saying to him.

  1. Astraphobia,  fear for thunder and lightning. This phobia  can have many impact on everyone (children and adults). Strong thunder cause people to think abnormally. Lightning, the flash of light makes people think of death, thus really scares them and make them quiet and sleepy.
  2. Thanatophobia, fear for death. This mainly affects elders and people who believed in superstitions. In fact, no one wants to die and these can really affects people emotionally.  

Wednesday, October 6, 2010

The day I created my blog

I was excited of having my own Blog (fanuel's blog). Creating a blog is a bit challenging and I was confused and experienced many problems such as: stress and forgetting my verification code. I experienced no any problem after I create my blog successfully, except comments on someone's wall or post.