TRUE LOVE?? The Titanic versus Romeo and Juliet!!

 What is love? i mean True love in a Relationship between a man and a woman? I saw Shakespeare's most famous play Romeo and Juliet and no doubt ,extensive research and survey reveals most people believed and still believes this to be the greatest  model  love story? Strong love? True Love? Powerful Love blah blah blah ------if only my boyfriend could be Romeo feeling .huh!! You are my juliet am your Romeo thing still goes round every valentine's day. Sorry to burst the Shakespeare bubble  because i would not want to date or worse still marry a "Juliet"  here is why? Can you imagine what  Shakespeare's Juliet  would have made of  Jack 's Sacrifice in the Titanic?

A quick summary goes like this, Some Guy named Romeo of the Montague family was Madly in love with Juliet of the Capulet family, Two families not in good terms, The play had lots of street brawls involving the two families and Mr Romeo even had to kill one mr Tybalt in the course of seeking "true Love" resulting in the Prince of Verona banishing Romeo from Verona threatening death should he ever return. Juliet's Father Mr Capulet wants Juliet married to another man named Paris but she tries to fight her father's wishes, failing to dissuade him. Juliet contemplates committing suicide if all else fails..After so many Hide and seek and Tom and Jerry Tactics from Romeo ,Secret wedding plans, The Game plan to feign Juliet's Death to enable perfect the secret wedding went wrong.

Romeo Thought Juliet to be truly dead takes his poison, kisses Juliet and dies, Juliet, then wakes up to find her Romeo dead. Juliet kisses Romeo and stabs herself and died! Then the two families (Montague &Capulet) finally ended their feud. Great dramatic skill by Shakespeare! TRAGEDY? Yes! GREAT STORY? Yes! TRUE LOVE MODEL? NO!! No disrespect to William Shakespeare who borrowed heavily from both The Tragically History of Romeus and Juliet by Arthur Brooke in 1562, and retold in prose in Palace of Pleasure by William Painter in 1582 but Shakespeare developed supporting characters in order to expand the plot. i would rather describe the strong feeling as obsession,

Have you seen the Titanic? Titanic is a 1997 American romantic drama film directed, written, co-produced and co-edited by James Cameron about the sinking of the RMS Titanic. It stars Leonardo DiCaprio as Jack Dawson and Kate Winslet as Rose DeWitt Bukater, two members of different social classes who fall in love aboard the ill-fated maiden voyage of the ship. Jack and Rose were washed into the freezing Atlantic Ocean. Jack and Rose manage to grab hold of a carved oak door, which can only support one person. Jack suffers from severe hypothermia, and dies in Rose's arms. Imagine Jack and Juliet??Jack loved Rose and sacrificed his Life for her, A suicidal Juliet would have made a mockery of Jack's sacrifice by killing herself making the sacrifice useless! Rose staying alive is a true reflection of her love for the man she truly loved and cherished and last time i checked she never got married to any other man.
TRAGEDY? yes! GREAT STORY? Yes! TRUE LOVE MODEL? Absolutely!

Here is the last part of the story
Rose is rescued when a lifeboat returns, and is taken by the RMS Carpathia to New York, where she gives her name as Rose Dawson (adopting Jack's surname, leading everyone to believe Rose DeWitt Bukater died on the Titanic). She also sees Cal for the last time on Carpathia's deck, looking for her.
Having completed her story, the elderly Rose goes to the stern of Lovett's ship. After she steps onto the railing, it is revealed she still has the Heart of the Ocean in her possession. She drops the diamond into the water, sending it to join the remains of the most important event of her life. The film ends with a shot of Rose in bed. Around her are pictures of her doing everything she said she would do with Jack throughout her life. The final shot of the film is where the young Rose is reunited with Jack at the Grand Staircase of the Titanic, surrounded and applauded by those who perished on the ship, as they kiss passionately.

   Romeo and Juliets was more of  perfect description  of the characters' myopic existence for one another as they blindly go through the act of irrational Love and obsession. Shakespeare's  sucidal Juliet would have made a mockery of  Titanic Jack's sacrifice by commiting suicide so soon thereafter.

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    ,(Note- The main characters and the central love story are fictional, but some characters (such as members of the ship's passengers and crew) are based on historical figures. Gloria Stuart plays the elderly Rose, who narrates the film in a modern day framing device
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Should Amodu be sacked??

   After Nigeria's dramatic last day qualification for the 2010 worldcup , there has been calls from different quarters that coach shuaibu Amodu should be sacked, due to incompetence and not being a world class coach to take Nigeria to the world cup!
Despite compiling the only perfect record in the previous round of the qualifiers in Africa - six wins in six games - and then remaining the only team to qualify for the World cup without a loss, there were still many doubters about Amodu's Eagles.And the clamour for his sack has been on since April after the goaless draw at mozambique.

Former international striker, Jonathan Akpborire, (Far back in April) has argued that the NFF should take the chance by firing Amodu and appoint a foreign coach before Nigeria's next World Cup tie at home to Kenya.

"Amodu is not good enough to handle our national team, and no other Nigerian coach can," said the former Wolsburg star.

"In 1997, I scored the equalising goal away to Kenya in a World Cup game and almost immediately, Amodu replaced me. Neither me nor my teammates could understand why."

Akpborire added: "In Mozambique, the players were running around like cows. Amodu could not motivate them because he is not professional enough.

"The qualification game will be in Tunisia in June and Amodu should not be allowed to take the team there, unless we have given up hope on the World Cup.This call was not taken serious and Nigeria has now qualified for the World cup. Shuaibu Amodu (MON)  qualified Nigeria for Japan/Korea 2002 world cup but was booted out before the games. Could history now repeat itself?      and
   There were a number of world class coaches who at one point seems clueless, Scolari the Brazilian world cup winning coach looked very Ordinary at chelsea FC of England, Guss Hiddink could not repeat the Chelsea magic by qualifying Russia for 2010 world cup, former World champions , France had to take part in a playoff and Thiery Henry blatantly handling the ball to controversially win the crucial game, The eagles under Amodu also beat France by a lone goal in a friendly game this year .

     i am of the opinion that there are several ways to test the competence of Amodu, The African nations cup Angola 2010 should be the acid test for Amodu, and even before that, the country should play Lots of friendly games. At the end of the day conclusions may be drawn from the results of those games and action taken based on that, Amodu should be mandated to win the Nations cup or at least get to the Final , if he performs woefully at the nations cup. he should be sacked, but if he wins the Nations cup then he should be given a chance to take the Eagles to the World cup (south Africa 2010).     What do you think about that?

  - Akinleye Akinseye

 

A lesson from Super Eagles

  Oh yes! The eagles have landed , at the next world cup, a lot of people thought it was over and they cant make it to the world cup. most people gave them no chance the question the critics were always looking at was even if the eagles beat Kenya, WHAT IF TUNISIA BEAT MOZAMBIQUE?? Another question is WHAT IF MOZAMBIQUE BEAT TUNISIA? The latter is positive and should be a lesson to anybody that belives in making it against the expectation of critics, one should always look at the positive angle and strive to give the best no matter the odds. you can immagine how painfull it would have been if the super eagle has allowed the possibility of Tunisia winning to cloud their concentration with nagativity and had drawn against Kenya only to be informed that Tunisia lost.The moral of the story is Give your best no matter what the odds are in every aspect of life,probable impossibility is to be prefered to improbable possibilities.Ignore the vultures and fly high!

 In every aspect of Life and human endearvour chances exist, no matter how small that if you try your best you will qualify for the bigger stage and be among the stars, all you need to do is ignore all nagativity, ignore the critics that says you will never make it to your "world cup" invite all your stars, have a positive attitude, it is all in the mind, believe  you can fly, NO!! it is not enough to just believe you can fly, mount up on wings like an eagle and take off, fly, glide, fly up to high heavens.Believe it can be done then put in your best doing it ,you need to keep fighting and maintain that positive attitude till the final whistle against all odds you will live to celebrate when you get a phone call that the Tunisia in your life just lost!! You can only celebrate if you put in your best beating  the Kenya in your Life!! DO YOUR BEST NO MATTER WHAT THE ODDS SAYS!! -    Akinleye Akinseye      (CEO HyperNigeria Initiative)

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