This seems like a Goodbye!

The quarter has ended but also ends a happy and long period in which we have a lot of fun with jokes, anecdotes, films  and opinions of a person with experince in life. These last two years we have a lot of fun in the classe of practical English, but now our dear Professor Joan Climent retires. In my opinion, I think we will Never had a teacher like him. I hope the new teacher will be like Joan Climent!

The Outsiders ´summary

Set in 1965 Tulsa, Oklahoma, the Greasers are a gang of tough, low-income working-class teens. They include Ponyboy Curtis and his two older brothers, Sodapop and Darrel , as well as Johnny Cade , Dallas Winston , Two-Bit Matthews , and Steve Randle . Their rivalry is with the Socs , a gang of wealthier kids. Five of the Socs jump Ponyboy and cut his neck with a switchblade; Johnny had been similarly attacked the month before. Two Socs, Bob Sheldon and Randy Adderson , confront Johnny, Ponyboy, and Two-Bit, who are talking to the Socs' girlfriends, Cherry  and Marcia , at a drive-in theater. The girls defuse the situation by going home with the Socs. Later that night, Ponyboy and Johnny are attacked in a park by Bob, Randy, and two other Socs. They begin dunking Ponyboy in a fountain, but Johnny pulls out his switchblade and stabs Bob, killing him.

On the advice of Dallas, Ponyboy and Johnny leave town, and hide out in an abandoned church in Windrixville. Ponyboy dyes his hair blonde with peroxide in case anybody spots him. He reads Gone with the Wind and quotes the Robert Frost poem "Nothing Gold Can Stay". Dallas arrives with news that Cherry has offered to support the boys in court. They go out for food, then return to find the church on fire with children trapped inside. Johnny is hospitalized with severe burns and a broken back after he, Ponyboy, and Dallas rescue the children. The boys are praised for their heroism, but Johnny is charged with manslaughter for killing Bob, while Ponyboy may be sent to a boys' home.

Bob's death has sparked calls from the Socs for "a rumble," which the Greasers win. Dally then drives Ponyboy to the hospital to visit Johnny. Johnny is unimpressed by the victory, and dies after telling Ponyboy to "stay gold," referring to the Frost poem. Unable to bear Johnny's death, Dally robs a grocery store at gunpoint and is killed by police. Ponyboy is eventually cleared of wrongdoing in Bob's death and allowed to stay with his brothers. Turning the pages of Johnny's copy of Gone with the Wind, Ponyboy finds a letter from Johnny saying that saving the children was worth sacrificing his own life. The story ends as it began, with Ponyboy writing a school report about his experiences.

Apocalypse Now´s summary

U.S. Army Captain and special operations veteran Benjamin Willard has returned to Saigon since his involvement in the ongoing Vietnam War, where he drinks heavily and destroys his hotel room. One day Willard is called upon by military intelligence officers Lt. General Corman and Colonel Lucas about a top-secret assignment to follow the Nung River into the remote jungle, find Kurtz and kill him .

Willard joins a Navy patrol boat, or PBR, commanded by "Chief" and crewmen Lance , "Chef" and "Mr. Clean" . For escort through the Viet Cong-filled coastal mouth of the Nung River, they rendezvous with reckless Lieutenant Colonel Bill Kilgore , who commands a squadron of armed transport helicopters. Initially scoffing at them, Kilgore befriends Lance as both are keen surfers. Willard sifts through files of Kurtz, learning that he was a once-promising, model officer and could have eventually been promoted to general. Exploring the riverbank, Willard and Chef encounter a tiger. The next day the boat is fired upon by an unseen enemy in the trees, killing Mr. Clean and making Chief even more hostile toward Willard. They are ambushed again, by Montagnard warriors, and return fire, despite Willard's objections. In the fight, Chief is impaled with a spear and tries to pull Willard onto the spearhead before dying. Arriving at Kurtz's outpost at last, Willard takes Lance with him to the village, leaving Chef behind with orders to call an airstrike on the village if they do not return.

In the camp, the two soldiers are met by an eccentric American freelance photographer , who manically praises Kurtz's genius. As they proceed, Willard and Lance see corpses and severed heads scattered about the nearby temple that serves as Kurtz's living quarters. Willard is bound and brought before Kurtz in the darkened temple, where Kurtz derides him as an errand boy.

That night Willard enters Kurtz's chamber as Kurtz is making a tape recording, and attacks him with a machete. Willard descends the stairs from Kurtz's chamber and drops his bloodied weapon. The villagers, kneeling before him, do likewise with all of their own weapons and allow Willard to take Lance by the hand and lead him to the boat. 

My restaurant

If I had a restaurant, I would call it Richard´s Restaurant and it will be a familiar restuarant.

STARTER

  
   1. Iberian ham.
   2. Cheese from sheep or goat.
   3. Foie Toast.
   4. Peppers stuffed with seafood.
   5. Garlic prawns.
   6. Broad beans with ham.
   7. Mushrooms sautéed with young garlic.
   8. Grilled asparagus.
   9. Fried squash.
   10. Scrambled eggs with garlic and sausage.
   11. Mushrooms sauteed with foie.
   12. Piquillo peppers and shrimp.


SALADS
  
   13. Nice buds.
   14. Salad of roasted peppers with anchovies.
   15. Tropical salad.
   16. Tomato salad with anchovies.
   17. Avocado salad with goat cheese.


SOUPS
  
   18. Spanish soup.
   19. Salmorejo.
   20. Garlic white.
   21. Fish soup.


FISH
  
   22. Or grilled cod with tomato.
   23. Sole Menier.
   24. Baked golden fillets.
   25. Grilled squid.
   26. Rape in crab sauce.


MEAT
  
   27. T-bone steak on the stone (Min 2 people)
   28. Fillet of beef on the grill.
   29 Beef tenderloin with foie wine sauce.
   30. Grilled sirloin.
   31. Duck breast grilled.
   32. Oxtail stew.
   33. Iberian pork tenderloin.
   34. Roast leg of lamb.
   35. Candida kid (kid).
   36. Deer in forest fruit sauce.
   37. Roasted duck leg in juice.
   38. Chicken breast stuffed with mango.


DESSERTS
  
   39. Cheesecake.
   40. Flan home.
   41. Chocolate mousse.
   42. Three chocolate cake.
   43. Ice cream

Moulin rouge´s summary

In the year 1900, a depressed writer named Christian begins writing on his typewriter . One year earlier, Christian moved to theMontmartre district of Paris to become a writer among members of the area's Bohemian movement. He encounters performers led by Toulouse-Lautrec; his writing skills allow them to finish their proposed show, "Spectacular Spectacular", that they wish to sell to Harold Zidler, owner of theMoulin Rouge. The group arrives at the Moulin Rouge as Zidler and his "Diamond Dog Dancers" perform for the audience . Toulouse arranges for Christian to see Satine, the star courtesan, in her private quarters to present the work, unaware that Zidler is promising Satine to the wealthy and unscrupulous Duke of Monroth, a potential investor in the cabaret.

Satine mistakes Christian for the Duke, and dances with him before retiring to her private chamber with him to discuss things privately , but soon learns he is just a writer; by this time Christian has fallen in love with her. The Duke interrupts them; Christian and Satine claim they were practicing lines for "Spectacular Spectacular". With Zidler's help, Toulouse and the rest of the troupe pitch the show to the Duke with an improvised plot about an evil maharajah attempting to woo an Indian courtesan who loves a poor sitar player. The Duke backs the show on the condition that only he may see Satine. Satine contemplates on Christian and her longing to leave the Moulin Rouge to become "a real actress". Christian goes back to Satine to convince her that she loves him. As the cabaret is converted to a theater, Christian and Satine continue seeing each other under the pretense of rehearsing Satine's lines. The Duke becomes jealous and warns Zidler that he may stop financing the show; Zidler arranges for Satine to dine with the Duke that evening, but she falls ill from tuberculosis. Zidler makes excuses to the Duke, claiming that Satine has gone to confession. Zidler learns that Satine does not have long to live. Satine tells Christian that their relationship endangers the show, but he counters by writing a secret love song to affirm their love.

As the Duke watches Christian rehearsing with Satine, Nini, a jealous performer, points out that the play is a metaphor for Christian, Satine and the Duke. Enraged, the Duke demands the ending be changed so that the courtesan ends up with the maharajah; Satine offers to spend the night with the Duke to keep the original ending. At the Duke's quarters, Satine sees Christian on the streets below, and realizes she cannot go through with this . The Duke tries to rape her, but she is saved by Le Chocolat, one of the cabaret dancers, and reunited with Christian, who urges her to run away with him. The Duke tells Zidler he will have Christian killed if Satine is not his. Zidler reiterates this warning to Satine, but when she refuses to return, he finally informs her she is dying. Satine tells Christian they can no longer see each other as she will be staying with the Duke. Christian tries following her, but is denied entry to the Moulin Rouge, and becomes depressed, even though Toulouse insists that Satine loves him.

The night of the show, Christian sneaks into the Moulin Rouge, intending to pay Satine to return his love just as the Duke paid for her. He catches Satine before she steps on stage and demands she tell him she does not love him. Suddenly they find themselves in the spotlight; Zidler convinces the audience that Christian is the disguised sitar player. Christian denounces Satine and walks off the stage. From the rafters, Toulouse cries out, "The greatest thing you'll ever learn is just to love and be loved in return", spurring Satine to sing the song Christian wrote to express their love. Christian returns to the stage, joining her in the song. The Duke's bodyguard tries to kill Christian, but is thwarted, while the Duke's own attempt is stopped by Zidler. The Duke storms out of the cabaret as Christian and Satine complete their song.

After the curtain closes, Satine succumbs to tuberculosis. She and Christian affirm their love before she dies. A year later the Moulin Rouge has closed down, and Christian is writing the tale of his love for Satine, a "love that will live forever".

Here you have some videos of songs from the movie. I hope you like it as much as me!

A room with a view´s summary

Miss Lucy Honeychurch from an English hamlet in Surrey is on holiday in Italy with her much older cousin and chaperone, Charlotte Bartlett. Charlotte is conventionally English, with an extremely restrictive personality and tends to get her way by expressing her emotions to manipulate others. They are in contrast with the more free-thinking and free-spirited backdrop of Italy. At a small pensione Lucy meets such people as Reverend Beebe, the two Miss Alans, and the author Miss Eleanor Lavish, but most importantly, the nonconformist Mr. Emerson and his handsome, philosophical son, George, who becomes friends with Charlotte. These men, although also English, represent the forward-thinking ideals of the turn-of-the-century, seeking to leave behind the repression and caution that was the norm in Victorian times. At first, the Emersons seem strange and unfamiliar to Lucy and Charlotte. As Lucy begins her journey to maturity, she finds herself drawn to George due to his mysterious thinking and readily expressed emotions.

George's unreserved passion shocks Lucy, but also lights a secret desire and romance in her heart. Charlotte suggests George kissing her was the act of a rake. Charlotte makes reference to a heartbreak from her youth that occurred the same way and has behaved accordingly with disgust and anger toward George. Charlotte uses guilt to coerce Lucy to secrecy to save both their reputations as a young lady and a chaperone, but it is mostly for her own benefit. Normally, if a young man kissed a young lady, an engagement should be announced to preserve her reputation, but Charlotte considers George to be an undesirable influence. Upon returning to England, Lucy tells her mother nothing and pretends to forget the incident. She accepts a marriage proposal from a wealthy and respectable but snobbish man named Cecil Vyse. However, she soon learns that both George and his father have moved to her small village and will be her neighbors due to a letter from Cecil Vyse inviting them to reside in an empty cottage.

The appearance of George soon disrupts Lucy's plans and causes her suppressed feelings to resurface, complicated by the supposed need for secrecy. Lucy consistently refuses George's pursuit of her, but mysteriously breaks off her engagement to Cecil, and makes plans to visit Greece. George has also decided that he must move for peace of mind and makes arrangements. Lucy stops by Reverend Beebe's and is confronted by George's father before they are to leave town. She suddenly realizes that the only reason that she planned to travel was to escape her feelings for George. At the end, we see George and Lucy honeymooning in the Italian pension where they met, in the room with the view.

Gandhi´s summary

The film begins with Gandhi's assasination and his funeral. After an evening prayer, an elderly Gandhi is helped out for his evening walk to meet a large number of greeters and admirers. One of these visitors shoots him point blank in the chest. Gandhi exclaims, "Oh, God!" , and then falls dead. The film then cuts to a huge procession at his funeral, which is attended by dignitaries from around the world.

The early life of Gandhi is not depicted in the film. Instead, the story flashes back 55 years to a life-changing event: in 1893, the 24-year-old Gandhi is thrown off a South African train for being an Indian sitting in a first-class compartment despite having a ticket. Realizing the laws are biased against Indians, he then decides to start a non-violent protest campaign for the rights of all Indians in South Africa. After numerous arrests and unwelcome international attention, the government finally relents by recognising some rights for Indians.

After this victory, Gandhi is invited back to India, where he is now considered something of a national hero. Gandhi agrees, and mounts a non-violent non-co-operation campaign of unprecedented scale, co-ordinating millions of Indians nationwide.  

Nevertheless, the campaign generates great attention, and Britain faces intense public pressure.  Religious tensions between Hindus and Muslims erupt into nation-wide violence. Horrified, Gandhi declares a hunger strike, saying he will not eat until the fighting stops.

The fighting does stop eventually, but the country is subsequently divided by religion. It is decided that the northwest area of India, and a part of India , both places where Muslims are in the majority, will become a new country called Pakistan. It is hoped that by encouraging the Muslims to live in a separate country, violence will abate. Gandhi is opposed to the idea, and is even willing to allow Muhammad Ali Jinnah to become the first prime minister of India, but the Partition of India is carried out nevertheless.

Gandhi spends his last days trying to bring about peace between both nations.

The film ends when somebody shoots Gandhi.