budaya Kanada

Senin, 17 Januari 2011

Budaya Kanada secara besar dipengaruhi budaya dan tradisi Inggris dan Prancis sebagai akibat masa kolonialnya dahulu. Di samping itu, budaya Kanada juga telah dipengaruhi budaya Amerika karena kedekatannya dengan 2 negeri dan migrasi orang, gagasan, modal, dan politik melintasi perbatasan. Walau budaya yang diwarisi itu, budaya Kanada telah mengembangkan banyak ciri unik. Dalam banyak hal, budaya Kanada yang lebih tegap dan jelas telah berkembang di tahun-tahun terkini, terutama karena rasa kebangsaan yang meliputi Kanada di tahun-tahun yang menyerahkan dan mengikuti Seratus Tahun Kanada pada 1967, dan juga karena fokus pada program untuk mendukung seni dan budaya Kanada oleh pemerintahan federal.

Orang-orang Eropa awal membantu dari dasar budaya Kanada. Selama kolonisasi Kanada para pemukim menulis banyak cerita rakyat tentang tanah di sekitar mereka. Cerita Paul Bunyan merupakan produk cerita rakyat Kanada-Prancis dan gaya tarian grak cepat dari Newfoundland menemukan asalnya di Irlandia.

Banyak film, pengarang, tontonan TV dan musisi Amerika sama-sama terkenal di Kanada, dan vice-versa melintasi batas. Banyak produk budaya dari jenis-jenis itu kini makin banyak dijual yang mengarah pada pasar "Amerika Utara" bersatu, dan tak secara spesifik orang Kanada maupun Amerika.

Pemerintah AS dan Kanada menerima berbagai persekutuan pekerja yang dekat dalam masalah perdagangan, ekonomi, dan perusahaan resmi.


Karena Kanada dan AS telah berkembang lebih dekat, banyak orang Kanada telah mengembangkan perasaan dan perhatian kompleks, berkenaan dengan apa yang membuat Kanada bangsa yang "berbeda" di Amerika Utara. Kehadiran budaya Amerika yang besar telah mendorong beberapa ketakutan dari "pengambilalihan budaya," dan telah memprakarsai perumusan banyak institusi hukum dan pemerintahan melindungi budaya Kanada. Kebanyakan budaya Kanada tetap ditegaskan berbeda dengan budaya Amerika (lihat Identitas Kanada).

Di tahun-tahun terkini, Kanada telah makin bertambah membedakan dirinya dari AS dengan kebijakan sosial yang lebih liberal dan kebijakan fiskal yang lebih konservatif. Pemerintah Kanada (dan yang lebih luas, orang Kanada) mendukung gagasan perawatan kesehatan universal, pernikahan gay dan dekriminalisasi ganja. Di saat yang sama, mereka telah mendukung anggaran belanja yang klop, pemotongan pajak, dan perdagangan bebas. Orang-orang Kanada juga cenderung tinggal di atau dekat daerah kota yang amat besar seperti Toronto, Montreal, Vancouver, Winnipeg, Ottawa, Calgary, dan Edmonton.

Simbol nasional

Penggunaan daun mapel sebagai simbol Kanada dapat diurut balik pada abad ke-18, dan digambarkan pada bendera terkini dan sebelumnya, sen dolar, dan pada lambang. Kanada dikenal karena hutan luas dan jajaran pegunungannya (termasuk Pegunungan Rocky di Alberta dan British Columbia) dan hewan liar yang bertempat tinggal dengannya, seperti rusa besar, karibou, berang-berang, beruang kutub, dan beruang grizzly. Kanada banyak dikenal untuk angkatan Royal Canadian Mounted Police, dan produk yang dibuat dari SDA negeri, seperti sirup mapel. Tentang hoki, olahraga musim dingin resmi Kanada, juga sering digunakan sebagai simbol nasional persatuan dan kebanggaan. Bersalju, musim dingin, dan iklim utara negeri itu juga telah menciptakan pandangan orang-orang Kanada.

Kanada

Kanada, secara historis dikenal sebagai Dominion of Canada, adalah negara paling utara di Amerika Utara. Merupakan federasi dari 10 provinsi dan 3 teritori dengan sistem desentralisasi dan pemerintahan berbentuk monarki konstitusional. Dibentuk tahun 1867 dengan undang-undang Konfederasi.

Ibu kota Kanada adalah Ottawa, tempat parlemen nasional dan juga tempat tinggal Gubernur Jenderal dan Perdana Menteri. Merupakan bekas jajahan Perancis dan Britania Raya, Kanada adalah anggota La Francophonie dan Negara Persemakmuran.

Kanada merupakan negara terluas di Amerika Utara. Luas Negara Kanada 9.970.610 km persegi

Kanada digolongkan negara maju dan ekonominya tergantung terutama pada ketersediaan hasil alam yang melimpah.

Tempat Pariwisata di Kanada

Kanada adalah tempat wisata yang terkenal di kalangan turis. Tempat-tempat yang dapat kita kunjungi diantara lain:

  • · Air Terjun Niagara Falls.


Niagara adalah air terjun yang berada di garis perbatasan internasional antara Negara bagian Amerika Serikat New York dengan provinsi Kanada Ontario. Niagara adalah air terjun yang sangat lebar dan terpopuler di dunia bahkan air terjun ini adalah air terjun yang paling kuat di Amerika Utara. Niagara juga terkenal akan pelangi yang melintang di tengah derasnya air terjun. Pengunjung dapat menikmati keindahan alam yang asri.



  • Carnaval de Quebec


Quebec winter carnival adalah tempat tujuan turis yang lain selama berlibur di Kanada. Wisata ini sering dinikmati oleh wisatawan dan pengunjung dari seluruh dunia, banyak acara seperti acara-acara yang menawarkan lebih dari 300 aktivitas diadakan di daerah ini. Quebe festival menawarkan highlights parades, dogsled rides, es nelayan, es menara, konser, mandi salju, patung salju, slide, dan berbagai aktivitas ice skating .


Alberta

Salah satu kota tertua di Kanada, Alberta menawarkan daftar tempat-tempat wisata seperti taman nasional, hiking, ski, danau, dan banyak lagi. Pada saat liburan di Kanada, biasanya tempat ini menjadi tempat yang terpopuler selama liburan anda di Kanada.


Toronto

Menjadi salah satu kota yang populer dengan gaya kota metropolitan. Toronto adalah salah satu tempat wisata utama. Revolving restoran, langit menara, masakan lezat dan keragaman budaya yang kaya beberapa atraksi yang bisa Anda temukan dalam hidup ini etnis dan kota Kanada.








Megamind

Minggu, 07 November 2010


Megamind (Will Ferrell) is a super-intelligent alien who-- at the age of eight days old-- is sent to Earth from his home planet during a time of crisis. However, he lands in a prison thanks to another infant alien similarly sent from a different planet who eventually becomes a superhero known as Metro Man (Brad Pitt), defender of the fictional Metro City. As a result, Megamind is raised as a social deviant, who is neglected for his destructive intellect, with his fish-like sidekick Minion (David Cross) as his only friend. Realizing that he enjoys causing trouble, and jealous of all of the attention Metro Man receives, Megamind becomes a super villain to rival Metro Man, though he is thwarted on a regular basis. During one of his many attempts to defeat Metro Man, Megamind kidnaps news reporter Roxanne Ritchi (Tina Fey) and uses her as bait to lure Metro Man into the city observatory where Megamind intends to kill him with a death ray. The plan appears flawed enough for Metro Man to escape, but he proclaims that the inside of the observatory is lined with copper, which he says drains his power. Metro Man is apparently killed by the death ray, allowing Megamind to take over Metro City. Megamind is initially thrilled that he has finally defeated his archenemy, but soon grows depressed over the fact that without someone to fight, his life as a super villain no longer has any purpose.

Megamind talks with Roxanne while disguised as a museum curator named Bernard and is inspired to create ,a new superhero to fight using a serum of Metro Man's DNA. Hoping to uncover any evil plans Megamind has for the city Roxanne breaks into Megamind's lair and fights with him over a syringe gun containing the serum, which is accidentally fired and injected into Roxanne's cameraman Hal Stewart (Jonah Hill). Megamind manipulates Hal into becoming a superhero named Tighten, but at the same time falls in love with Roxanne and begins dating her while disguised as Bernard. Tighten attempts to use his powers to woo Roxanne, but is quickly spurned and grows jealous of the Bernard-disguised Megamind. Megamind soon begins having second thoughts about being a villain, finding more enjoyment pursuing a relationship with Roxanne. He then gets in a fight with Minion and the two friends have a falling out. After Roxanne rejects him when his identity is accidentally exposed, Megamind follows through with his plan to fight Tighten. By this time, however, Tighten has decided he would rather be a supervillain since in his view, being a superhero is too much hard work. Unlike Metro Man, Tighten has no qualms with outright killing Megamind and he is forced to flee for his life. With nobody to stop him, Tighten begins wreaking havoc in Metro City.

Noticing how one of his copper-based attacks during the fight had no effect on Tighten, Megamind convinces Roxanne to search for clues on his weakness in Metro Man's old hideout. There they find Metro Man alive and learn that he faked his death (and his weakness to copper) so that he could retire from being a superhero. Metro Man and Roxanne try to persuade Megamind to defeat Tighten, but he refuses and instead Megamind turns himself in. When Tighten kidnaps Roxanne, however, Megamind is broken out of prison by Minion and goes to save her. Megamind defeats Tighten by draining Metro Man's DNA from his body, stripping him of his powers, and Hal ends up in Megamind's former prison cell while Megamind is embraced by Roxanne and Metro City as its new defender. Megamind begins to enjoy his new reputation as a superhero while a disguised Metro Man silently congratulates him.

cats and dogs

Minggu, 05 September 2010





Cats and dogs, known to mankind only as cuddly pets and man's best friend, have engaged in a fierce and merciless battle: Mr. Tinkles, a ruthless cat, is plotting intensively to achieve nothing less than world domination. His main target is Professor Brody, who is working on a medicine to rid people from dog hair allergies. Yet Mr. Tinkles strives to get to the substance, analyze it and then have it turned into a means of rendering all humans of the world aggressively allergic to any kind of dog. Cats would rule, as dogs would then be exterminated. But Mr. Tinkles did not bother to waste any thoughts on little Lou, the Brody family's new puppy, who never before has heard of dog agents and the major protective mission they fulfill towards the unsuspecting Brody family. Together with Butch and a few other dog agents from the neighbourhood, Lou desperately tries to hinder Mr. Tinkles in his sinister plans to take over the world.

toy story 3

Sabtu, 04 September 2010

Toy Story 3 is a 2010 American 3D computer-animated film. It is the third and final film in the Toy Story series.[3] The film is produced by Pixar Animation Studios and released by Walt Disney Pictures.

Tom Hanks, Tim Allen, Joan Cusack, Don Rickles, Estelle Harris, John Ratzenberger, Wallace Shawn, Jeff Pidgeon, Jodi Benson, R. Lee Ermey, John Morris, and Laurie Metcalf all reprised their voice-over roles from the previous films. Jim Varney, who played Slinky Dog in the first two films, and Joe Ranft, who portrayed Wheezy and Lenny, both died before production began on the third film. The role of Slinky was taken over by Blake Clark, while Ranft's characters and various others were written out of the story (Wheezy, Etch, and Bo Peep were mentioned in the beginning). New characters include voice-overs by Ned Beatty, Timothy Dalton, Bonnie Hunt, Whoopi Goldberg, Jeff Garlin and Michael Keaton.

Toy Story 3 was released worldwide in June, July and August. The feature broke the record of Shrek the Third as the biggest single day North American gross for an animated film unadjusted for inflation and a big opening with an unadjusted gross of $110,307,189. It is also the highest-grossing opening weekend for a Pixar film, as well as the highest-grossing opening weekend for a film to have opened in the month of June. Toy Story 3 is currently the highest-grossing film of 2010 in the United States and Canada, and the second highest-grossing film of 2010 worldwide, behind Alice in Wonderland. In July, it surpassed Finding Nemo to become Pixar's highest ever grossing film at the North American box office, and in early August, the film becamePixar's highest-grossing film worldwide and surpassed Shrek 2 as the highest-grossing animated film of all-time worldwide. In late August, Toy Story 3became the first ever Pixar film and animated film in history to make $1 billion worldwide.

10 promises to my dog

Senin, 02 Agustus 2010


Akari is a 14-year-old schoolgirl living in Japan's northern island of Hokkaido. One day, a puppy wanders into her yard, looking lost and frightened. She is a Golden Retriever with white paw markings. Akari names her Socks. Akari's mother consents to her keeping the dog but only after she agrees to keep 10 Promises to Socks . Akari enthusiastically assents and the two begin their journey of growing up together. Akari finds herself having to overcome many changes and challenges: the tragedy of her mother's death, father's sudden resignation, coming-of-age, first romantic feelings, career ambitions and her independence. But at every step, Socks is there to provide unquestioning love and support.