Love, conflicts and I, your Queen

Elizabeth, The Golden Age was a movie based on Elizabeth I’s reign. The movie shows an intimate image about the England queen. However, the main issue is the political and religious conflict between England and Spain.

In one side, Elizabeth was a protestant queen with a strong personality. In another side, Mary Stuart, queen of Scot, and Philip II, king of Spain, were Catholics. Most of the citizen in England was catholic too, thus Elizabeth had to face up to the opponents in her kingdom. Hence, I imagine the difficult period to her, but at the same time I’m thinking about her huge strength. Philip II wanted to impose catholic believes around England and other European countries, but he was waiting for a concrete reason to fight.

Mary Stuart and Philip II want to depose Elizabeth. A holy war was the name given for the conflicts present, in where England was against. The intelligence showed by England was a key to find the enemies and Elizabeth ordered the execution of Mary Stuart. This issue was what Phillip was waiting for. An official war was declared, Spain and England had to fight and the winner will impose her/his believes.

The movie shows a well developed Elizabeth character (Cate Blanchett). But, I think that Sir Francis Walsingham (Geoffrey Rush) needed more emphasis, because he is an important character inside the England history and inside the movie. In my opinion, the picture of the movie was excellent, the landscapes and the palaces were very well achieved. However, the movie doesn’t have a concrete intention. If I have to categorize the movie, I won’t be able to do it because I don’t know if it is a historical or romantic movie. However, it is a though provoking movie, because you think about history and also love, a woman with lot of power but without a couple. Why? Is today the same?

Stonehenge

The video shows a clear environment about Stonehenge.
When the presenter said "The temple of the sun or the moon" For me, this place is magic as the video showed it. When the archeologists talked about some secrets developed and new stories from this magic place, I was wonder because of the marvel atmosphere that it generates.
I always have been intereting in how the countries have been formed. I remember when I saw something about Athens and Rome at school and all of that was incredible for me.
Now I felt the same with the video and also when I read about Stonehenge in Hibbert's book. Knowing about how our life has been created between sun and moon and gods, this is magic, at least, for me.
I think that we are very closed to England's story or United States' story or any Englih spoken country because we want to know about them and we want to be in there. Also, as teacher we must know these kind of stories, because this is history. A magic history but as we see a real history, our history as human beings inside the world.

Karen medina's Presentation

Karen's Presentation was very good. It was very well organized and easy to follow. For me,one of the most interesting things was that Karen showed her personal opinion about the theme. At the same time, she didn't have problems with answers, eventhough sometimes she looked kind of nervous.

The presentation was great, but she needed a lower voice. I think it was because of her anxiety. I could see some mechanics errors. Also, sometimes she lost the eye contact with the rest of the class.

However, as I said before, Karen had a good command of the theme and she used perfect images to understand her presentation in a better way.