Peanuts

Peanuts is a syndicated daily and Sunday American comic strip written and illustrated by Charles M. Schulz, which ran from October 2 1950 to February 13 2000, continuing in the reruns afterward. The comic strip is the most popular and influential in the history of comic strips, with 17,897 strips published in all, making it arguably the longest story ever told by one human being. At it's peak Peanuts ran in over 2,600 newspapers, with a readership of 355 million in 75 countries, and was translated into 21 languages.

Oblation

Oblation is a is a concrete statue made by a Filipino artist named Guillermo E. Tolentino. It is an iconic symbol of the University of the Philippines. It depicts a man facing upward with arms outstretched, symbolizing selfless offering of oneself to his country.

Statue of Liberty

Statue of Liberty is located on Liberty island, in the New York harbor USA. The Statue of Liberty commemorates the American Declaration of Independence and was a gift from the people of France. It was Dedicated on October 28 1886. The Statue of Liberty was designed by french sculptor Frederic Bartholdi. The female form represented by the sculptor is based on Libertas, the Roman goddess of liberty.

Death of Cleopatra

Death of Cleopatra is another one of Juan Luna's work of art. It is a painting made in 1881. The famous painting was a silver medalist or second prize winner during the 1881 National Exposition of Fine Arts in Madrid.

Spolarium

Spolarium was painted by Juan Luna. His Spolarium was all about blooded bodies of gladiators who were drawn as slaves; and dragged away from the wide and powerful arena as they attempted to fight their Roman oppressors, with their own precious and God given lives. In addition, these slaves on this world renowned painting of Juan Luna were physically stripped of their clothing in order to gratify the lewd and devilish contempt of those Roman oppressors.
I find this painting very symbolic and saddening. I find it violent and vulgar but at the same time i'm amazed by how it was painted very detail.

The Alchemist

This novel tells the tale of Santiago, a boy who has a dream and has the courage to follow it. After listening to "the signs" the boy ventures in his personal, Ulysses-like journey of exploration and discovery, symbolically searching for a hidden treasure located near the pyramids of Egypt. 

"The Alchemist", is an exciting novel the bursts with optimism; it is the kind of novel that tells you everything is possible as long as you really want it to happen. That may sound like an oversimplified version of new-age philosophy and mysticism, but as Coelho states; "Simple things are the most valuable and only wise people appreciate them."

The Diary of a Young Girl

Discovered in the attic which she spent the last years of her life, Anne Frank's remarkable diary has since become a world's classic- a powerful reminder of the horrors of war and an eloquent testament to the human spirit.
Anne Franks is a Jewish girl who has to go in hiding during World War II to avoid the Nazis. Together with seven others she hides in the secret annex on the Prinsengracht 263 in Amsterdam. After almost 2 years of hiding they are discovered and deported to concentration maps.
After reading this journal i had a whole new perspective about the world and about wars. It opened my eyes to the fact that wars not only affects the country's stability but the people who are living in it. The people who are fighting for their lives.