domingo, 26 de octubre de 2008

Elizabeth.




After watching the movie I could understand many details about these times. First, I understood the context in which England and Spain were. At the beginning they were not against ech other at all, but later the movie showed some intentions that Spain had behind. Spaniards had intention to conquer England, they were very clever in the sense of how they did what they wanted to do. They had a kind of mask in front of the queen and it was useful for them because they could internalize into England issues.


One day, the queen was receinving some pictures about people who wanted to be her husband, during this ceremony some pirates appeared. When they appeared, inmediatly Spaniards said they were stealing to Spain and they should not be allow to be in front of the queen, but Elizabeth said they were welcomed to the castle. In this moment, the pirate called queen's attention and then they started to interact frequently.




Elizabeth had a close relationship with Raleigh, it was known by everybody. One day, the queen heard about something called "la empresa". It was a strategic plan that belonged to Spain. Inmediatly, the queen talked to Spaniards about it, she said it was a plan that Spain had to attack England. In this moment, Spaniards said they were the ones who were attacked by pirates from England, the same one who were shipping through Tamesis river and then finished their travels into a queens' bed. In this moement, Spaniards were inmediatly expelled from England and the war was intiated.


On the other hand, there was Bess. She was a girl who was always next to the queen helping and talking to her. She was a little protected by the queen. She started to create a close relation with Relaigh, the pirate. Their relationship increased as much as they kissed each other and they has a baby. When the queen knew this, she got inyo shock because she had some feeling towards him.

Elizabeth was called the Virgen Queen becuase she had not husband or any man with her. When Raleigh appeared she felt she could be with her, but it does not worked becuase he had intention with Bess.

When England realised that Spain was coming, they preparated themselves im order to win the war. The queen ordered that every England person should go to war, she also went. Raleigh comanded the ships in order to control the coast of the country. He and some other persons created a very efficient strategy and they could control the war by the sea.


Finally, England impose itself over Spain. England had years of plenty happiness and Spain had one of the most important loss in terms of army.


The movie shows many details that help to undestand the context that the world was living. It was very interesting to see how treachery is internalized between two countries and see how it is treated.


I enjoyed the movie so much, I would say it halped me to realised how things happened in the past in other countries.





jueves, 9 de octubre de 2008

Stonehenge.

Stonehenge is a mystery for scientist that are studying it. They just can predict that it was a temple that had healthy powers in the sense that people who used to go there to get cured from their illness. Thye had discovered several skeletors in the perimeter of Stonehenge, they show that there were seriuos disseases during this times.
It had been found some skulls that showed some primitive sugery, primitive in the sense that during this times there were not doctors or specialists.
According with the text and what I have read, I could say that Stonehenge was like healthy temple, but I think it was not easy to go there and just get cured, I think that I someone go there and his/her illnes did not have cure they would be killed in order not to infect other people.