HOME

Is our planet truly in danger?

What can we do for our planet? What should be done?



This is the text that goes with the trailer of HOME, a free movie directed by Yann-Arthus Bertrand. What do you think about it? Do you agree? Do you think we have to worry about the future of our planet?

In 200,000 years on Earth, humanity has upset the balance of the planet, established by nearly four billion years of evolution. The price to pay is high, but it's too late to be a pessimist: humanity has barely ten years to reverse the trend, become aware of the full extent of its spoliation of the Earth's riches and change its patterns of consumption.

Hamlet

Abridged version of Hamlet -not as a play, but as a story.

Hamlet is not only Shakespeare's most famous tragedy, but also the most quoted play ever.




To be or not to be by Sir Lawrence Olivier

By David Tennant

By Ethan Hawke

By Mel Gibson

By Kevin Kline

William Shakespeare - To be, or not to be (from Hamlet 3/1)


To be, or not to be: that is the question:
Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,
Or to take arms against a sea of troubles,
And by opposing end them? To die: to sleep;
No more; and by a sleep to say we end
The heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks
That flesh is heir to, 'tis a consummation
Devoutly to be wish'd. To die, to sleep;
To sleep: perchance to dream: ay, there's the rub;
For in that sleep of death what dreams may come
When we have shuffled off this mortal coil,
Must give us pause: there's the respect
That makes calamity of so long life;
For who would bear the whips and scorns of time,
The oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely,
The pangs of despised love, the law's delay,
The insolence of office and the spurns
That patient merit of the unworthy takes,
When he himself might his quietus make
With a bare bodkin? who would fardels bear,
To grunt and sweat under a weary life,
But that the dread of something after death,
The undiscover'd country from whose bourn
No traveller returns, puzzles the will
And makes us rather bear those ills we have
Than fly to others that we know not of?
Thus conscience does make cowards of us all;
And thus the native hue of resolution
Is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought,
And enterprises of great pith and moment
With this regard their currents turn awry,
And lose the name of action.



"To be or not to be" as a song.

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Soldiers of Salamis: the innaccessibility of the truth

In his novel "Soldiers of Salamis" -Soldados de Salamina- Javier Cercas tries to discover the truth about Rafael Sánchez Mazas. His investigation leads him into the protagonists of the facts. But the facts have to be told, and every tale mixes memory and subjectivity, and we, as human beeings, have only a human access -thus, limited and relative- to reality. This novel is a lesson about history. We cannot reach what happened. Even the facts that are close to us are as far as the battle of Salamis.


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