BBC Broadcasting House

Broadcasting House is the headquarters and registered office of the BBC, located in Portland Place and Langham Place, London. The first radio broadcast from the building was made on 15 March 1932, and the building was officially opened two months later, on 15 May. The main building was built in the Art Deco style, and features a facing o of Portland stone over a steel frame. It is Grade 2* listed building and includes the BBC Radio Theatre, from where music and speech programmes are recorded in front of a studio audience, and lobby which has been used as a location for filming of the 1998 BBC television series In the Red.

As part of a major consolidation of the BBC’s property portfolio in London, Broadcasting House has been extensively renovated and extended. This involved the demolition of post-war extensions on the eastern side of the building, which were replaced by a new wing completed in 2005. The wing was named the “John Peel Wing” in 2012, after the disc jockey. BBC Radio 1, BBC Radio 1 Xtra  and BBC London moved from other locations in London to the new wing.BBC Arabic Television and BBC Persian Television were established after the wing was built and broadcast from there.

The main building was refurbished, and a new extension built to the rear of it. The radio stations BBC Radio 3, BBC Radio 4,BBC Radio 4 Extra and the BBC world Service all transferred to newly refurbished studios within the building. The new extension links the old building with the John Peel Wing, and includes a new combined newsroom for BBC News, featuring studios for the BBC News Channel , BBC World News and other news programming. All news operations moved from BBC Television Centre in March 2013.

The official name of the building remains Broadcasting House but the BBC now also uses the term new Broadcasting House (with a small ‘n’) in its publicity which refers to the new extension rather than the whole building, with the old part of Broadcasting House known as old Broadcasting House.

National Gallery

The National Gallery is an art museum onTrafalgar Square in London. Founded in 1824, it houses a collection of over 2,300 paintings dating from the mid-13th century to 1900. The Gallery is an exempt charity and a non-departmental public body of the Department of Culture, Media and Sport. Its collection belongs to the public of the United Kingdom and entry to the main collection is free of charge. It is the fifth most visited art museum in the world, after the Musee du Louvre, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the British Museum and Tate Modern.

Unlike comparable museums in continental Europe, the National Gallery was not formed by nationalizing an existing royal or princely art collection. It came into being when the British government bought 38 paintings from the heirs of John Julius Angerstein, an insurance broker and patron of the arts, in 1824. After that initial purchase the Gallery was shaped mainly by its early directors, notably Sir Charles Lock Eastlake and by private donations, which comprise two-thirds of the collection. The resulting collection is small in size, compared with many European national galleries, but encyclopedic in scope; most major developments in Western painting “from Giotto to Cezanne” are represented with important works. It used to be claimed that this was one of the few national galleries that had all its works on permanent exhibition, but this is no longer the case.

Romantic comedy ” Just go with it “

Just go with it (2011)  is a romantic comedy  about  young  man trying  avoid  the  serious  relationships and  how he  fell  in love  with  a young girl and  this  movie  is  fitting  with ideas of comedy  movies. Through  a series of events, the characters start to realise who they  really  love  and  what  they have done wrong. In the end, everything is resolved.

The plot of  movie  is about   Danny Maccabee (Adam Sandler) is a successful plastic surgeon in Los Angeles who feigns an unhappy marriage to get women, after having been heartbroken on his wedding day 20 years ago. The only woman aware of his schemes is his office manager Katherine Murphy (Jennifer Aniston), a divorced mother of two. At a party, Danny meets Palmer (Brooklyn Decker), a sixth grade math teacher, without his wedding ring on, and they have a connection together. The next morning, she ends up finding the ring, and she assumes he was hiding the fact he was married. She refuses to date him because her parents divorced due to adultery.

Danny goes to Palmer’s school to try to woo Palmer back. Instead of telling her the truth, he tells her that he is getting divorced from a woman named Devlin, named after Devlin Adams, whom Katherine had mentioned was an old college sorority nemesis. Palmer then insists on meeting Devlin, and Danny agrees. Danny asks Katherine to pose for him, and they go shopping on Rodeo Drive to buy her clothes so she can look like a trophy wife.

At a hotel having drinks, Danny and Palmer are greeted by a made-over Katherine, who gives them her blessing. However, after hearing Katherine talking on the phone with her kids, Palmer assumes that her kids are Danny’s as well, which Danny goes along with. Danny then privately meets with Katherine’s kids, Maggie (Bailee Madison) and Michael (Griffin Gluck), to get them to play along. Initially Katherine is furious, but she reluctantly agrees.

Palmer meets the kids, with Maggie using a fake British accent. Michael blackmails Danny in front of Palmer to take them all to Hawaii. At the airport, they are surprised by Danny’s cousin Eddie (Nick Swardson), who has taken the disguise of “Dolph Lundgren” (not the actor), an Austrian sheep salesman and “Devlin’s” lover. At the resort in Hawaii, Danny and Katherine run into the real life Devlin Adams (Nicole Kidman) and her husband Ian Maxtone-Jones (Dave Matthews), who allegedly invented the iPod. Because of Katherine and Devlin’s long time rivalry, Katherine introduces Danny as her husband.

Danny and Palmer spend time with Maggie and Michael, during which Michael breaks down. He says that his (real) father won’t make time for him, causing Palmer to get upset. Palmer resolves to spend time with Katherine so Danny can spend time with the kids. Danny teaches Michael how to swim, and Katherine and Palmer look on in admiration at Danny winning the kids over.

Katherine runs into Devlin, who invites her and Danny out to dinner. Eddie agrees to take Palmer out in the meantime. At dinner, Devlin asks Danny and Katherine to tell each other what they admire most about each other. They end up saying honest things to each other, with Katherine admiring his sense of humor, and Danny liking the fact that he’s never had to lie to her. Danny and Katherine start to feel a connection, but when Palmer and Eddie return from their dinner date, Palmer suggests that she and Danny get married. Danny and Katherine are both surprised by her proposition, but Danny ultimately agrees. Danny later calls Katherine regarding his confusion, but Katherine says that she will be taking a job in New York City she mentioned to him earlier to start fresh.

Palmer confronts Katherine regarding getting married to Danny, as she has noticed Danny’s feelings for her, which Katherine dismisses. Katherine then runs into Devlin at a bar and admits that she made up being married to Danny to avoid embarrassment. Devlin confesses that she’s divorcing Ian because he’s gay and also that he didn’t really invent the iPod. Katherine confides in Devlin saying she’s in love with Danny even though they won’t be together. Danny, however, shows up behind her, telling her that he didn’t go through with marrying Palmer and that he’s in love with Katherine and the two share a kiss.

Danny and Katherine continue their vacation without Palmer, who heads back to the mainland alone, meeting a professional tennis player (Andy Roddick  Brooklyn Decker’s real-life husband) on the plane ride back who shares her interests. Sometime later, Danny and Katherine get married.

Swearing

Swearing is in some situations to say bad  words  and to have harmful language. There are different categories of swearing.  They are  hand  gestures, taboo language. Taboo language is including  religion, body, sex. Telling  bad  things  from  other  religions is  swearing. Swearing  language  is  sometimes  useful  in the situation of reliving pain. There was  tested  between the  swearing  and  not  swearing students.  They  placed  their hands  in  a bucket of ice cold  water  and  then sweared  repeatedly.

The  researchers  found  that  the  pain-numbing  effect  was four  times  more  likely  to  the  students who  did not use swearing  language.  Therefore, the  research  proves  that  it  is  not  only  an  emotional  response,  but  also  a  physical  one  too.  

Managing small talks- Peaches and Coconuts

The Coconut Culture Coconut culture  people  are serious  and  they  hide  small part of their  personal   feelings. That’s why  during  the  social  conversations  they  keep  distance. It can be  understood that  in the  first  meeting  they tend to  not giving  private  information.  For peaches  it can be  difficult  to get  to know  fast  coconuts.  

The Peach Culture Peaches  are  more  sociable and  like  ‘large  talk’  with  other people. They  like  to  share  private feelings  easier than coconuts. They  smile a lot and  always  are  enthusiastic  to  others.  Actually, they  keep  a small space ,the ‘peach stone ‘ , hiding from  others.

Solving  the peach-coconut challenge Coconuts and peaches  can not understand  each other when they meet up. Peaches can see coconuts  as  cold  and  hard to get to know. On the contrary , coconuts can see  peaches as  too friendly, even impolite. To be flexible  in this situations  people  need  to be more ‘peachy ‘ with  the peach and more  like a coconut  with coconuts, so we should become the ‘pea-nuts’.

Culture shock

Majority people travelling to other countries might have an experience when they have some difficulties in adaptation and functioning in the new culture. These feelings are called as a culture shock.

Firstly, it has to be known that culture shock is normal. It can happen to everyone who had an experience of going through  forms of it. If you go, for example, to a culture that is very different from your own, you are likely  to experience culture shock more sharply than those who move to a new culture knowing the language and the behavioral norms of the new culture.

about myself

My name is Asmar. I’m from Azerbaijan and 22 years old. I have a degree in law.  I like listening to R&B and Pop music, travelling all around  the world  to get a new friends from different  countries and doing shopping as well.