Faculty of Law

This is a Sketch I made on Faculty of law. I hope you can enjoy it, thanks for everything.

Elías' blog

The purpose of this post is to give you an explanation and one evaluation about de Blog of Elías, which is called "Elias's newspaper" I have sometimes visited his site, but in this ocasion I'll write about my current perception of the site. I think the post are good, the explanations and style of writing are clear and interesting. The chromatic combination, among the text, the links and the site, makes very easy the work of reading, the colours make a difference very useful.
I think he should write more about the topics he exposed there in the posts. One waits to find more with respect to favourite websites, or more about the life and work of Totila Albert. However, I get surprised with the blog, because it is very good, well done, not boring... an invitation to read.

A beautiful experience

My experience with blogs began on 2005, many times I have heard about blogs, but I didn't know what was it, how was it, etc. Then I opened on 3rd October of 2005 with the title Historiae mundi iusque ignoti (Stories of a wold and a law unknown) and the first post was "Las divagaciones de la Microeconomía" (Translated: "Microeconomics ramblings"). In that post I began speaking about a on that subject, I continued with a brief description on The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri, and after about a certain topics (The link is http://www.cochayuyorems.blogspot.com). On the past years I decided opened a new one Called "Mefistófeles", with respect to a Civil Law final(http://www.civilofeles.blogspot.com).
But this years I had to create a new blog for the subject of English. In my first blogs I had published texts in english, but not the whole blogs was in english, but this, called "Learn Easy", has been definitively very good experience, because it is an oportunity to develop some skills in written english, and a potential tool to reach that other kind of people know my opinion about some topics.
However, I think that time play against this activity, because one have not always enough time to write all the things one wants to write.

Perfume: The story of a Murderer

This is a very beautiful movie. The story revolves about Jean-Baptiste Grenouille, whose particular sense of smell was very developed, therefore he could smell things that nobody else could do. However he didn't have a smell of himself. This story is placed in the 18th century, in Paris, suposedly the most fetid town of Europe. And precisely he came to born in a market, where his mother worked selling fish. He had been raised in an orphanage while a convent paid his stay there. But when convent paid no more, the mistress of orphange sold him to a tanner. However he suffered many illnesses, but everyone of them made him stronger. Once he felt a rare fragance, it was a girl who sold plums, she didn't realise he was watching her until he was beside her, she wanted to cry very loud, but he tightened her neck so strong that she died. He enjoyedher odor while he could from her corpse.
After this incident, Jean-Baptiste obtains a job at the perfume shop of Giuseppe Baldini after he proves himself to have an intuitive skill for creating perfumes. A key point in the film is when Baldini explains to him the secret to creating a great perfume: 12 "notes" and a final 13th to finish/complement the rest. Baldini relates a story of how an ancient tomb had been opened in Egypt, and that a bottle of perfume was discovered inside that not only still smelled pleasantly fragrant after thousands of years, but was so superb that supposedly all people on earth experienced a moment of peace. Twelve of the "notes" of the perfume were easily identified, but the last scent eluded discovery.
At Grenouille's request Baldini teaches him how to preserve scent, however, he is frustrated to discover that Baldini's method for capturing scent, maceration is not sufficient to capture the scents he desires to preserve. Baldini then informs him that there exists another method aside from the one he uses, enfleurage, but he is not educated in its secret. For further education on this he travels on foot to Grasse. After entering into the service of the perfumery located there and learning more about enfleurage, he conducts an experiment on a girl he captures to find that the method was unsuccessful. He then pays for a prostitute to be a subject of his but she is alarmed and refuses when he lathers her arm in animal fat and procures a rounded sickle-like tool for scraping the fat off. In a moment of indecision, he strikes a death blow to her with the sickle and proceeds to continue his experiment successfully. He kills 12 young women, each time successfully conserving their scent. The authorities are puzzled by the fact that although the bodies are discovered nude, they show no evidence of rape. Antoine Richis, a wealthy and deeply-respected citizen of Grasse, deduces the method by which the victims are selected: Each of the girls was exceptionally beautiful. Realizing this, he flees the town of Grasse with his daughter Laura because he knows that she, being easily the most beautiful girl in all of Grasse, will surely be an intended victim of the murderer. He attempts to throw the unknown and unseen villain off the trail by sending his carriage off in one direction after leaving the village and riding off in a different direction with Laure. However, Jean-Baptiste is doggedly persistent and follows them across the great distance, following their trail of scent. Despite Antoine's efforts to secure his daughter's life, Jean-Baptiste catches up with him and Laura in the distant town and that night murders Laura. Having brought along equipment to finish the enfleurage process, Jean-Baptist finally finishes his work and creates the perfume from the scents of the thirteen murdered girls. At the moment of completion, Grenouille is caught and after a trial, sentenced to death.

When the guards of Grasse come to escort him from his jail to the place of execution he applies the perfume to his body. The perfume Jean-Baptiste has created is so incredibly sublime, it renders a hypnotizing power over all who inhale its odor. Jean-Baptiste arrives at the town square in a carriage, dressed in the clothes of the official who had originally come to announce to him his death. He walks to the executioner, and due to the smell, everybody, notably the executioner, the authorities and the public, abandon the idea that he should be punished. They are so entranced that they take off their clothes in the town square, and an orgy en masse ensues. Antoine Richis manages to resist the bewitching effect of the perfume at first, watching from the background as the public descends into their carnal chaos. He then approaches Jean-Baptiste with sword in hand, intent on delivering to him the death he had originally been sentenced to, but finally he succumbs to the power of the perfume and kneeling and sobbing, clutches at Jean-Baptiste, expressing a wish to adopt him as his son.

The townspeople later wake up from their trance, the sight and reality of what has occurred being so shocking, so traumatic that the event is removed from the collective memory. An innocent man is made the scapegoat due to unfortunate association with where some evidence had been discovered, accused of the murders, sentenced to death and executed.

In the meantime Grenouille leaves Grasse to return to Paris. He realizes that even the scent does not help him to love and be loved. In Paris, in the presence of a group of derelicts, homeless people, and other dregs of society he pours the remaining scent over his head. The group of people become entranced; the sheer volume of scent so overwhelming, they think him to be divine ("An angel!") and they pile on top of him and subsequently devour him, leaving only his clothes and the empty bottle on the street. The next day his clothes are found by street children and you see the bottle of perfume as it drops one last drop of the powerful perfume on the ground.

My favourite Picasso Picture

This picture is called Guernica, in spite I don't like the Picasso's style of painting, this picture is an exception. I think this is one of the most expresve pictures in the world because it has many symbolism and the artists did not need the use of colours to express the things he wanted to say to the rest of the world with respect to the Spanish civil war. Where there were two politic factions, one of them representing to the old Spain, one monarchist and Catholic; and the other one representing to the new Spain, industrialist.
Republicans (also known as Spanish loyalists) received weapons and volunteers from the Soviet Union, Mexico, the international Socialist movement and the International Brigades; there were even American volunteers, the Abraham Lincoln Brigade. The Republicans ranged from centrists who supported a moderately capitalist liberal democracy to revolutionary anarchists and communists; their power base was primarily secular and urban, but also included landless peasants, and it was particularly strong in industrial regions like Asturias and CataloniaThe conservative, strongly Catholic Basque country, along with Catalonia and Galicia sought autonomy or even independence from the central government of Madrid. This option was left open by the Republican government.

The Nationalists on the contrary opposed these separatist movements. The Nationalists had a generally wealthier, more conservative base of Catholic, monarchist, centralist, landowning and fascist interests, and they favoured the centralization of state power. Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy, as well as most Roman Catholic clergy, supported the Nationalists, while Portugal provided logistical support. Ireland sent 740 men to fight for the Nationalists and was the only country where pro-Franco volunteers outnumbered the anti-Franco volunteers. Despite the declaration by the Irish Government that participation in the war was illegal, 700 of Eoin O'Duffy's followers ("The Blueshirts") went to Spain to fight on Franco's side (around 250 other Irishmen went to fight for the Republicans). On arrival, however, the Irish contingent refused to fight the Basques for Franco, seeing parallels between their recent struggle and Basque aspirations. They saw their primary role in Spain as fighting communism, rather than defending Spain's territorial integrity. Eoin O'Duffy's men saw little fighting in Spain and were sent home by Franco after being accidentally fired on by Spanish Nationalist troops.
Guernica is a small village in Basque country tht was bombed by Luftwaffe on 1937. This picture reflects all the pain of an injust attack in a cruel war.

A Site I enjoy deeply

I want to write about a site that I enjoy visiting. I like to read so much about Roman and Byzantine cultures. The first of them like the begining of the western culture, because the legacy of Rome extends directly to all the Mediterranean Sea, to the north of France and England too, and indirectly to all Europe and North and South America. The Byzantine Empire continues during nearly one thousand years the legacy of Rome on middle east. In spite of invasion of Muslim Arabs to Syria, Palestine, Egypt and Africa. And the conquer from western german kingdoms of Italia and Illyria.

The site is http://www.imperiobizantino.com/portada.html, though this was not the site I waqnted to include, it is similar to the other I wanted to include here, but for one strange reason that it is unknown for me the link is broken, but if someday the link becomes unbroken, I'll include too,http://www.ejercitosbizancio.net/, in this too sites, if avalaible, you can download files about the history and another topics about Eastern Roman Empire. the denomination Byzantine is from the western culture point of view. The inhabitants called to themselves as "Rhomioi" (Roman) and their country was called by them as "Basileia Rhomaion"(Roman Empire).

Masada, an useful sacrifice?

Once it was broadcast on television a picture whose name is "Masada", it tells about how a group of jews decides, after to having been destroyed the Temple of Jerusalem, fighting against the Roman legions, from an unconquerable place, Masada fortress. But in spite of all that Roman Army could find the way to conquer the fortress.

The said fortress was built in the times of Herod the great, at the shores of Dead Sea, and its objective was to be one unconquerable, but after two years of a hard work, the romna people were ready to conquer the fortress on the top of the rock. But when they entered, they had nobody to fight with, the jews decided immolating themselves instead to be conquered by roman army, who, for sure, would enslave and show them like triumph signal.

Today that fact is used by Israel's Army in a similar way to Oath to Chilean flag on july 10th of each year,when soldiers swear to defend a textile piece with the very life. I think ideals of a country are not flesh in what thing is or is nat a flag, but rather what thing it must be defended is the citizens' lives, democratic institutions, the freedom, and not simply a pice of textile.

The thing I can rescue here is the sentence that the personage Flavius Silva, performed by Peter O'toole, who was the roman gobernor, said in a sarcastic way, of selfcritic towards the thing he was representing, all the power of Roman Empire in Judaea, soon to watch how the jews commited suicide "We have conquered a rock in the middle of a desert in the shores of a poisoned sea" what does it mind all those things