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19 March 2010

Film"Elizabeth, The Golden Age" tells the importance of unification

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A story of British queen who established the Golden Age of British Empire in 16th century. The film described how she managed the country, how she unified the nation when it comes to the war with Spain.   It is not easy to unify big population, that is why a country needs a symbol of unification like queen, king, or president. Sometimes the leader had to be cruel to maintain leadership and charisma.   I am recently relearning how past leaders of my country established this unified state such as Tokugawa Shogunate and young warriers who established modern type of government in...

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14 March 2010

Film"The Last Emperor" Japan and China

I've seen this movie a few times in the past. But I watched it on TV last week during my ski trip to Naeba, Niigata Prefecture, Japan. True story of the last emperor of Sino dynasty, Pu Yin, who was crowned at the age of 3. Since he became the emperor, he had been like imprisoned in the Forbidden City Palace until the revolution kicked him out from there. After that, he was used by Japanese...

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02 March 2010

Olympic is nonsense event

Vancouver winter Olympic was over. Frankly, I do not care. I was never interested in it because I think this event is just nonsense one. There are many issues related to Olympic games such as...

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