Low Down

American culture shapes the modern culture all In all very successfully. Let’s start it at the very beginning, how and when American dream begun. It was 3 rd of August 1492 when an Italian adventurer – Christopher Columbus set his trip from Spain to see and discover a new world – and the world itself. He looked for new routes to ship goods in and out, he searched for innovations which trigger the trade, made merchandise quicker, easier and much more efficient. He sailed south to Canary Islands , then explored the unknown waters of the mid-Atlantic Ocean.  He would probably never ever expected that ten weeks after he sailed off of Spain he stepped on the sandy shore of an unexplored island. He named it San Salvador – Holy Savior. He deeply believed he found Indies, and the islands which were not far fetch from India itself. He called its native settlers – brown-skinned people – Indians. This inaccurate naming was corrected as ‘Native Americans’. He didn’t discover India , he...

There are many cities where gay community feels free and accepted, there is, however, Amsterdam which guaranteed their freedom to be, to live, to cherish and love. Do not trust appearances, it was no always like that, the tolerance, liberty, equality and liberal approach came gradually. This city affords a freedom and encourages gay community to go on with its legalization. There are more than 35 gay bars, more than 15 gay-friendly hotels, discos … and much more. The most places are located by Rembrandtplein, around Amstel River , Warmoestraat, Reguliersdwarsstraat. Most shops are gay-friendly. They gay community was no the largely exposed, before. The 1960s/1970s were particularly difficult and tough. Gay community didn’t enjoy freedom as it does today. Their sexual identity was forbidden, it was also forbidden to place wreath for homosexual victims at the war memorial on the Dam during the Remembrance Day.   During the war they were very much prejudiced, the Nazi forced them to...

What do children dream of? … I believe, they dream of becoming a doctor, a policeman/ woman, an astronaut, a soldier, perhaps, too…. In some countries, the counties at war, this peculiar dream of being a soldier is a reality children have to face with. In modern highly developed world where paternity is an utmost important issue, a vulnerable child stays a child. Sadly in many parts of the world a child is the child that kills. This unprecedented notion is still popular, it is a cheap tool of leading a war, the most cruel of all. Neither can it be underestimated or ignored. It exists and must be got rig of … by all means … yet, the world learnt it is not that simple. The children soldiers were wide-spread since the image of war emerged, it was not a common procedure to recruit a child to kill; an innocent, not fully comprehensive young, inexperienced life. It was always a successful recruitment. The USSR, Cambodia, Japan, China, Yugoslavia, Africa, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Syria, Tunisia...

                                                Chemical weapon is the most dreadful of all weapons of mass destruction. Its power and devastating input could be seen and be very much aware of in Iran and Iraq. Its overwhelming impact on human body was reported and acknowledged in 1984. Early 1980s Iran and Iraq were fighting over the land and domination over the ideology and oil fields – somewhere in the middle were civilians and soldiers who were about to find out what the chemical weapon may do, its destructive notion was irreversible and inevitable – avoided and prevented. The soldier was a victim of the chemical weapon – one can only dream of in nightmares. He was wounded by a heavy smoke emitted from the artillery shells. He was very badly wounded, His skin began to itch, his eyes burned, the body was gradually covered with blisters. A couple days later...