Dorothee
Germany
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I just think it’s time for another upload under this photo. Besides I meanwhile watched another movie and read another book that would fit under this photo:
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>I was told that the German documentation “Superbau Kölner Dom” is available in English-speaking countries too. They say that they kept the title and also the audio is in German, but the difference is that English- speaking countries rent this movie with English subtitles. Now people might wonder what should be so great about a documentary movie that deals with the construction of an old building that perhaps is miles from where you live. Fact is that the narrator describes all of this in such a fascinating and motivating way. It is so encouraging when he describes how Master Gerhard drew the first construction plans of the Cathedral of Cologne and how he kept working on this building, even though he knew that he would never get to see the finished building, even though he was always short of money and material and even though he knew very well how dangerous working on such a huge building was; in fact he died in an accident while working on this building. Also the narrator describes Suspisse-Bosoré and Moller as the two most hoping, most enduring and most ambiguous men ever. They lived centuries after the constructor of this cathedral. Soon after his death people lost interest in this building. Religion – especially Catholicism, as the “Kölner Dom” was supposed to be a Catholic cathedral – became less important to the citizens of this city and money as well as raw material was needed for other important things, too. So they just left the unfinished building at that, let it rot and the houses around the unfinished cathedral were so cheap that only very poor people lived there, meaning that the cathedral almost became something like the center of a ghetto. Suspisse-Bosoré and Moller both found it a shame that Master Gerhard’s work never got finished, even though it actually was his last wish that one day this building would look just like he imagined it would be like. The two gentlemen searched everywhere to find the original drawings of the Cologne Cathedral, because they once got lost due to the desinterest of the people. When I say everywhere, I really mean everywhere, because one of them actually found out that a part of the original plan was used by a servant who lived in Cologne back then to clean her master’s house. In the end, when they found all parts of this drawing they realized that they needed financial support to finish this building. After a while they even were able to convince a wealthy gentleman who actually wasn’t even interested into the epoque when this plan was drawn. So they could build the cathedral just as Master Gerhard wanted it to be like and since the finished building looked so beautiful people even celebrated them as heroes. So the moral of this story is that you’ve got to follow your dreams no matter the circumstances.
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>I waited for the following just until today, even though I finished reading this book days ago: “I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban” is a book written by a Pakistani lady named Malala Yousafzai who is only 16 years old. Since she was eleven years old she posted blogs on the homepage of BBC in which she wrote about human rights violations going on in Pakistan, the crimes Taliban and AlQuaida commit there, that Taliban tries to keep Pakistani girls from receiving proper education by threatening families who send their girls to school and also by menacing these female students themselves etc. Exactly one year ago – on 8th of October 2012 – some Taliban fighters stopped the bus she was sitting in by threatening the driver with their guns, they entered and asked the passengers who of them was Malala. Some very young girls impulsively turned their heads towards this girl – which is neither a sign of stupidity, immaturity or even evilness, but just normal behavior for girls on that level of maturity. Then the Taliban shot her in the head – trying to kill her – and also wounded the two girls who sat next to her, which may have been on purpose considering that they of course were Malala’s friends. I’m not only posting this, because her survival and complete recovery is a medical miracle, but because I admire her fighting spirit. She wrote this book after recovering from her injuries and she states that even though she never thought that they would kill her – considering that according to the right of Pakistan she isn’t even adult yet – she still wants to go on with her fight against this injustice in Pakistan. As I said before she has an amazing fighting spirit.
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