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eBook – The Empire Striketh Back

eBook –  The Empire Striketh Back Full title :  William Shakespeare's The Empire Striketh Back By : Ian Doescher  Iillustrations :  Nicolas Delort Score : 9/10 Year : 2014 Publisher : Quirk Books  eISBN :  978-1-59474-716-8 Based on  978-1-59474-715-1 (hard cover) Pages : 176 *  Language : English From Goodreads : Hot on the heels of the New York Times best seller William Shakespeare’s Star Wars comes the next two installments of the original trilogy: William Shakespeare’s The Empire Striketh Back  (and not reviewed as yet,  William Shakespeare’s The Jedi Doth Return.) Return to the star-crossed galaxy far, far away as the brooding young hero, a power-mad emperor, and their jesting droids match wits, struggle for power, and soliloquize in elegant and impeccable iambic pentameter. Illustrated with beautiful black-and-white Elizabethan-style artwork, these two plays offer essential reading for all ages. Something Wookiee this way comes!  *** As he explains at the end, Ian Doescher
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Docu : Sherpas, les véritables héros de l'Everest



Documentary : Sherpas, les véritables héros de l'Everest 
(Sherpas, the true heros of the Everest)

 Score: 7/10
Language : French (and others, in interviews). Arte had a german version

Small preview :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VuESmkr6xko

After seeing this documentary, I note the following :Sherpas are not just heroes, able to climb the Everest with incredible loads on their backs but are also far more human than the climbers they help to cross the dangers of the majestic and imposing mountain ... 

Furthermore I find that the sherpas are underpaid and exploited people by rich climbers who certainly achieve by Western '' norms'' but that make much less work than ... Sherpas on a hyper dangerous passage towards the end, the climbers simply left all their luggage to finish their climb, while the Sherpas arrived with their 12 kgs each end up with 25-26 kg after putting their lives in danger, and there is no evidence that the climbers paid them more for that...

The documentary is beautiful ... but it raises a lot of anger against rich climbers who have not even attended the funeral of one of their own and who died after having climbed without bottled oxègne ... what a waste!

in addition, these Sherpas will suffer from trauma following these casualties, and no one seems to care ... pfffff

The score 7/10 reflect that it is pretty but leaves you thirsty for more


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  1. Unknown06 September, 2015 12:12

    Mais c'est ignoble ! C'est affreux ! 0.0
    Je ne connais pas leur histoire et n'ai pas vu ce documentaire.... mais ça me fend le cœur quand même :(
    C'est pas normal, c'est injuste :'(

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  2. LuluGardener06 September, 2015 15:00

    il est dispo en entier sur YT... interessant, édifiant, et oui, choquante mentalité occidentale qui met sur peid d'estale des mecs qui ont fait beaucoup moins que leurs guides... dont ils mettent la vie en danger pour leur propre gloire

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