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Making a Difference—What I’ve taken fromChicken Soup for the Soul: Stories for a Better WorldThat is what I’ve taken with myself from this book—a sense that I can carry the Chicken Soup message forward beyond the experience of reading. That you can use the inspiration, understanding and love within these pages to make your world a little bit better every day. That by improving your life you can change the lives of those around you. And maybe, just maybe, together we will make a difference.The book was set out to touch the heart of one person in the hope that that person would in turn touch another person, and that person another person, and so on down the line. They were naive enough to think that those stories could make the world a better place. And they were right.For me, Chicken Soup for the Soul isn’t just a book series; it’s a feeling and life philosophy. It’s strength in the face of adversity, friendship in a moment of loneliness, hope to brighten the depths of heartache, love as a response to pain. Chicken Soup for the Soul is a belief that we are all good person and that, by truly listening to each other, we can begin to heal the hurtwithin ourselves, within our communities and throughout the world. There’s nothing more central to this philosop hy than the belief that when you reach out, instead of in, you broaden the circle of life and the circle of love.Sometimes hope arrives in a moment as timeless as a small child giving water to her puppy. Their innocent love is a window into a better world. Sometimes that window is as simple as a smile.Every story has a message; every story is from someone like us; every story can change our mind, our heart and our life. At Stories for a Better World, I know that stories make a difference. They have inspired me, and when one is inspired, no matter who he is, he will change the world. Making a difference is the opportunity to take the time each day to acknowledge the beauty around us, to appreciate the amazing people who touch us, and to leave the world a better place through our thoughts, words and actions.I am making a difference each day by sharing myself and my gifts with grace and ease with all those who come into my life.Robinson CrusoeThe film is a fictional autobiography of the title character, an English castaway who spends 28 years on a remote tropical island near V enezuela, encountering Native Americans, captives, and mutineers before being rescued. This device, presenting an account of supposedly factual events, is known as a "false document" and gives a realistic frame story.Robinson is not a hero, but an everyman. He begins as a wanderer, aimless on a sea he does not understand, and ends as a pilgrim, crossing a final mountain to enter the Promised Land. The book tells the story of how Robinson becomes closer to God, not through listening to sermons in a church but through spending time alone amongst nature with only a Bible to read.Crusoe leaves England, setting sail from the Queen's Dock in Hull on a sea voyage in September 1651, against the wishes of his parents, who want him to stay home and become a businessman. After a tumultuous journey that sees his ship wrecked by a vicious storm, his lust for the sea remains so strong that he sets out to sea again. This journey too ends in disaster as the ship is taken over by Salépirates, and Crusoe becomes the slave of a Moor. He manages to escape with a boat and a boy named Xury; later, Crusoe is befriended by the Captain of a Portuguese ship off the western coast of Africa. The ship is en route to Brazil. There, with the help of the captain, Crusoe becomes owner of a plantation.Y ears later, he joins an expedition to bring slaves from Africa, but is shipwrecked in a storm about forty miles out to sea on an island (which he calls the Island of Despair) near the mouth of the Orinoco river on September 30, 1659. His companions all die. Having overcome his despair, he fetches arms, tools, and other supplies from the ship before it breaks apart and sinks. He proceeds to build a fenced-in habitation near acave which he excavates himself. He keeps a calendar by making marks in a wooden cross built by himself, hunts, grows corn, learns to make pottery, raises goats, etc., using tools created from stone and wood which he harvests on the island, and adopts a small parrot. He reads the Bible and suddenly becomes religious, thanking God for his fate in which nothing is missing but society.Y ears later, he discovers native cannibals who occasionally visit the island to kill and eat prisoners. At first he plans to kill them for committing an abomination, but later realizes that he has no right to do so as the cannibals have not attacked him and do not knowingly commit a crime. He dreams of obtaining one or two servants by freeing some prisoners; and indeed, when a prisoner manages to escape, Crusoe helps him, naming his new companion "Friday" after the day of the week he appeared. Crusoe then teaches him English and converts him to Christianity.After another party of natives arrive to partake in a cannibal feast, Crusoe and Friday manage to kill most of the natives and save two of the prisoners. One is Friday's father and the other is a Spaniard, who informs Crusoe that there are other Spaniards shipwrecked on the mainland. A plan is devised wherein the Spaniard would return with Friday's father to the mainland and bring back the others, build a ship, and sail to a Spanish port.Before the Spaniards return, an English ship appears; mutineers have taken control of the ship and intend to maroon their former captain on the island. Crusoe and the ship's captain strike a deal, in which he helps the captain and the loyalist sailors retake the ship from the mutineers, whereupon they intend to leave the worst of the mutineers on the island. Before they leave for England, Crusoe shows the former mutineers how he lived on the island, and states that there will be more men coming. Crusoe leaves the island December 19th, 1686, and arrives back in England June 11th, 1687. He learns that his family believed him dead and there was nothing in his father's will for him. However, his estate in Brazil granted him a large amount of wealth. In conclusion, he takes his wealth over land to England to avoid traveling at sea. Friday comes with him and along the way they endure one last adventure together as they fight off hundreds of famished wolves while crossing the Pyrenees.The celebrated BBC dramatization of a classic romance—Pride and PrejudicePride and Prejudice is one of the most widely read classical novels in the English language. For this production of Pride and Prejudice, the overall aim is to be as true as true as possible to the spirit of Jane Austen’s book, and to do it in a way that really reflects the book.When I watched the film with a view to compare it with the other version, the first thing that came across was what tremendous speed and energy it had. It goes like a train. There’s something happening on every carriage. There’s enormous energy both in the characters and in the action. This film is actually full of events, full of people dashing about, and full of people falling in love, breaking their heart, eloping with each other, trying to seduce each other.Instead of taking a scene with Elizabeth, It takes the scene in which Bingley and Darcy get their first sight of Netherfield Hall, which would involve them galloping across countryside, and convey that sense of energy right in the opening shot.It has this harmony which almost reflects the architecture, the furniture and the landscape gardening of the time.The beauty of the love between Darcy and Elizabeth is that it is held back almost to the last moment. As far as music is concerned, what the film does, in a sense, is providing a fourth dimension, something which is not said or seen in terms of the visual action, but something more abstract which is thought and hinted at.It is the best romance, and the best version.。