Advantages: Contraversial Disadvantages: Introduction is long
GENERAL INFORMATION
The Prince is the work of Machiavelli that describes primarily how a Prince (Ruler) can retain his empire. In the book he describes how different empires can use different strategums to retain power, and which are the most affective. Including political and warfare strategies that have been a success and those that have failed as examples.
Machiavelli discusses in The Prince the different kinds of Principalities then goes on to say that the essential foundations for any state, whether old or new, are sound laws and strong military forces. He discribes different defences and military strategies.
Other subjects discussed are the reputation of the Prince, Generosity Vs Parsimony, Cruelty Vs Mercy, Avoiding contempt and hatred, Gaining honours, Nobles and staff, Avoiding flatterers and Fortune.
Nicolo ...
Advantages: wasted an hour when i was hungover Disadvantages: a waste of an hour i could have been doing something else
that Paige is a very focussed young woman the sort who puts off people by being focussed to the exclusion of anything else.
Eddie (Prince Edvard of Denmark) is a playboy prince he has no focus and does nothing except have fun to the chargin of his parents and delight of the paparazzi. Until he decides he needs to get away and discover himself, in of all the places Winsconsin.
So he enrolls at the college that Paige attends and running in to her early earns her dislike. She is dismayed when he becomes her lab partner in her main Chemistry class.
But after she gives him a piece of her mind about his 'spoilt little rich kid' ways he decides to change (anyone else find his skinny body a total turn off?), starting with a job at the bar in which she also works. This is his way to win her over.
Predictably he achieves this as she ...
scuba_angel 12.05.2007 (11.05.2007)
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Ciao members have rated this review on average: very helpful Review of Prince And Me (DVD)
Advantages: Very well acted, absorbing, intense, shocking in parts Disadvantages: A little mawkish at the end
of the storyline away, but I'll speak a little about my own feelings on The Prince Of Tides.
I watched this film on the recommendation of a friend, and I was a little apprehensive because my friend's and my own tastes in films, music etc. doesn't always coincide, but when she told me this was about delving into the history of a deeply dysfunctional family, I decided to give it a watch - at the time I was going through some counselling myself, dealing with a few of my own childhood issues, and I thought it may be something I could perhaps identify with.
I settled alone one evening to watch The Prince Of Tides, and as the film rolled on and got into the storyline, my eyes were becoming more firmly glued to the screen. I found one or two parts of it touched a little too close for comfort on a couple of my own childhood experiences, but that was ...
