After the whole day’s raining…
Rainbow was finally appear…
It created my imagination…
As it arched across the sky…
On one end there was you…
At the other end, there were us…

Imagining we could slide across…
Over the rainbow to the end…
There would be our box of wish…
The sincere care of my dear friend…

The rainbow is a connection…
Like a bridge from us to you…
It appears joined by sunlight…
Then the grey skies turn to shine…

Arriving after the rainstorms…
It became so evident to me…
Thoughts of love follow rainbows…
They arched right across the lake…

colourful arching rainbow…
It has no gate, it has no lock…
It reaches from friend to friend…
It arches from shore to shore…

I smiled up today at the sky…
How far would our loving smile go…
It slide right over to the other side…
The other end of the coloured rainbow…

Our hope will keep on bleeding to u…
To chase away the sadness…
And wipe away a tear…
All the pain that suffering you will be going soon…

Sometimes, the night might be dark and stormy…
But we will stand together through it…
While the cold winds blow…
While the earth is quake…
We will never leave u alone.

The Nanking Massacre, commonly known as the Rape of Nanking, was an infamous war crime committed by the Japanese military in and around the capital of China, Nanjing, after it fell to the Imperial Japanese Army on December 13, 1937. (At the time, Nanjing was known in English as Nanking). The duration of the massacre is not clearly defined, although the violence lasted well into the next six weeks, until early February 1938.

During the occupation of Nanjing, the Japanese army committed numerous atrocities, such as rape, looting, arson and the execution of prisoners of war and civilians. Although the executions began under the pretext of eliminating Chinese soldiers disguised as civilians, a large number of innocent men were intentionally identified as enemy combatants and executed—or simply killed outright—as the massacre gathered momentum. A large number of women and children were also killed, as rape and murder became more widespread.

The extent of the atrocities is debated between China and Japan, with numbers ranging from some Japanese claims of several hundred, to the Chinese claim of a non-combatant death toll of 300,000. A number of Japanese researchers consider 100,000 – 200,000 to be an approximate value. Other nations usually believe the death toll to be between 150,000 – 300,000. This number was first promulgated in January of 1938 by Harold Timperly, a journalist in China during the Japanese invasion, based on reports from contemporary eyewitnesses. Other sources, including Iris Chang’s The Rape of Nanking, also promote 300,000 as the death toll.

In addition to the number of victims, some Japanese critics have even disputed whether the atrocity ever happened. While the Japanese government has acknowledged the incident did occur, some Japanese nationalists have argued, partly using the Imperial Japanese Army’s claims at the International Military Tribunal for the Far East, that the death toll was military in nature and that no such civilian atrocities ever occurred. This claim has been criticised by various figures, citing statements of non-Chinese at the Tribunal, other eyewitnesses and by photographic and archaeological evidence that civilian deaths did occur

On December 13th, 1937, the Japanese Imperial Army captured the then capital city of China, Nanking. Immediately upon entering the city, the troops with superior officer approval proceeded to murder nearly 400,000 of the city’s occupants and rape an estimated 80,000 woman and children.

At one point, civilians and ex-soldiers of the Chinese Army were gathered together, their hands were bound and they were collectively marched to the outskirts of the city where they were systematically, in groups, raked with machine gun fire or individually: beheaded and/or otherwise victimized by Japanese samurai sword practices; used for bayonet practice , doused with gasoline and set afire, beaten to death or buried alive. Two Japanese majors maintained an ongoing competition as to who would be the first to behead 100 victims. Both reached their goal and kept right on going!

The International Military Tribunal for the Far East stated that 20,000 (and perhaps up to 80,000) women were raped—their ages ranging from infants to the elderly (as old as 80). Rapes were often performed in public during the day, sometimes in front of spouses or family members. A large number of them were systematized in a process where soldiers would search door-to-door for young girls, with many women taken captive and gang raped. The women were then killed immediately after the rape, often by mutilation. According to some testimonies, other women were forced into military prostitution as comfort women. There are even stories of Japanese troops forcing families to commit acts of incest.Sons were forced to rape their mothers, fathers were forced to rape daughters. One pregnant woman who was gang-raped by Japanese soldiers gave birth only a few hours later; the baby was perfectly healthy. Monks who had declared a life of celibacy were forced to rape women for the amusement of the Japanese. Chinese men were forced to have sex with corpses. Any resistance would be met with summary executions. While the rape peaked immediately following the fall of the city, it continued for the duration of the Japanese occupation

No Japanese government apology has been forthcoming; indeed, to the contrary, much effort has been made to suppress its ever happening. Nothing of the matter is taught in Japan’s schools. And, public officials demanding that an apology be made to the Chinese have been assaulted and received death threats. The equivalent of a mayor of one city was shot by irate Japanese nationalists. The japan government is tottaly no guts, they are the only one should carry the war crime responce, the leader of japan government should stand out and face all the victims during world war II, pay them a sincere apologize, just as what german government do to the jew. But it seems like obviously imposibble..don’t u think so??

This is the proof…no argue!!!!!

Cocaine is an alkaloid found in leaves of the South American shrub Erythroxylon coca. It is a powerfully reinforcing psychostimulant. The drug induces a sense of exhilaration in the user primarily by blocking the reuptake of the neurotransmitter dopamine in the midbrain.

In pre-Columbian times, the coca leaf was officially reserved for Inca royalty. The natives used coca for mystical, religious, social, nutritional and medicinal purposes. The noted 16th century roman Catholic declared that "coca is a plant that the devil invented for the total destruction of the natives." But the invaders discovered that without the Incan "gift of the gods", the natives could barely work the fields - or mine gold. So it came to be cultivated even by the Catholic Church. Coca leaves were distributed three or four times a day to the workers during brief rest-breaks.

Coca-cola was introduced in 1886 as "a valuable brain-tonic and cure for all nervous afflictions". Coca-cola was promoted as a temperance drink "offering the virtues of coca without the vices of alcohol". The new beverage was invigorating and popular. Until 1903, a typical serving contained around 60mg of cocaine. Sold today, it still contains an extract of coca-leaves. The Coca-Cola Company imports eight tons from South America each year. Nowadays the leaves are used only for flavouring since the drug has been removed.

A coca leaf typically contains between 0.1 and 0.9 percent cocaine. If chewed in such form, it rarely presents the user with any social or medical problems. Indeed coca-chewing may be therapeutic. When the leaves are soaked and mashed, however, cocaine is then extracted as a coca-paste.

Crack-cocaine delivers an intensity of pleasure completely outside the normal range of human experience. It offers the most wonderful state of consciousness, and the most intense sense of being alive, the user will ever enjoy. Groping for adequate words, crack-takers sometimes speak of the rush in terms of a "whole-body orgasm". Drug-naive virgins - slightly shop-soiled or otherwise - cannot be confident (unless in thrall to ill-conceived logical behaviourist theories of meaning) that they have grasped the significance of such an expression. For to do so, it would be necessary to take the drug via its distinctive delivery-mechanism oneself. This is at best very imprudent.

Ultimately, the emotional baseline, and affective analogue of Absolute Zero, characteristic of post-humanity in its hedonically enriched modes of awareness may be greater than anything we can now grasp. It may be higher than the rapturous transports of the most euphoric coke-binge in paleo-human history. In the meantime, a drug which induces a secular parody of Heaven commonly leads the user into a biological counterpart of Hell.

Medieval and Renaissance artists regularly used symbols in paintings as a way to represent a deeper meaning.

Since the Church was a huge patron of the arts, it’s no surprise that many of the symbols relate to Christian ideals. A candle symbolizes light in the darkness of life, or more deeply, holy illumination or the spirit of truth. Flames represent hell. A cave symbolizes the origin of life or resurrection, since Christ was born and buried in a cave.

So symbols become icons representing meaning that is not immediately obvious. In other examples, an owl stands for knowledge or great learning, black birds are symbols of death or rotting flesh, fruit symbolize sexual pleasures.

During medieval times and the early Renaissance, everyone would have known about these symbols and their intended meaning. Not everyone could read, so the imagery conveyed what words could not. The pictures created a basic visual language. Everyone could follow along with the intended meanings of the paintings on display.

I can’t help but think how the meanings of many of these once-common art symbols have become lost. Instead today we have a host of symbols that relate to our advertising age: the golden arches represent McDonald’s hamburgers, the picture of an apple stands for a brand of computers.

Certainly many art symbols remain. Eggs symbolize fertility, chains represent slavery, a circle connotes perfection or eternity. And we can’t deny that the female nude itself represents "fine art." I’ll grant you that in a postmodern world, subjected to a century of rejection of feminine and "overly-sentimental" values like domesticity, intimacy, charm, or pleasure in small family details like baby’s first step, perhaps the nude female became difficult subject matter. It’s been charged with hostility and accused of sexism. But I can’t deny it: the image of a female body hung on the wall of an art gallery is an enduring symbol for art itself.

With the interest in symbolism raised by Dan Brown’s novels, particularly "The Da Vincci Code" and "Angel and Demons", there is now greater awareness then ever of the number of hidden symbols in the modern world.

Symbols and their hidden meaning will open your eyes to the symbolism surrounding you, and nothing will look quiet the same again.

If i asking you what you know about diamond?? I believe that almost people will telling me diamond is beautiful, it is expensive, it is a most valueble jewel or it is a sign of forever. But if u asking me, i will tell u, diamond represent war, blood spilling, conflict and sign of death.

During the past five years, substantial attention has been paid to the issue of “conflict” or “blood” diamonds. Diamonds from countries such as Sierra Leone, Angola, Liberia and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) have been used to fund combatants, both rebel and government, whose main targets are often civilians. The civil wars during the 1990’s in Sierra Leone left 50,000 dead, and 500,000 died in Angola. The violence in Angola escalated during a six-month period in 1993 in which 180,000 died. Both government and rebel soldiers committed atrocities and used amputations as a way to coerce and terrorize the countryside. Diamonds played a key role in obtaining funds to provide these combatants with food, clothing, transportation, and most significantly, weapons. Finding buyers wasn’t particularly hard and rebel groups such as the RUF in Sierra Leone and UNITA in Angola obtained approximately $200 million per year from these sales.

Diamonds became a central issue for a number of reasons. First, rough diamonds (which are later polished into gemstones) represent an $8 billion dollar annual market. Secondly, the trading centers into which these stones flow, such as Antwerp,Tel Aviv, and London, as well as major consumer markets such as the United States have relatively scarce supplies. Thirdly, the diamonds in Sierra Leone are of very high quality (as opposed to industrial diamonds, which cannot be used for jewelry) and they are alluvial — that is, they are found on the earth’s surface, usually in river beds, and are accessible to anyone with a few basic hand tools and skills. And with governments acting essentially as organized crime syndicates, these resources quickly became the property of whoever had the monopoly on violence at the time.

"Diamonds are forever" it is often said. But lives are not.We must spare people the ordeal of war, mutilations and death for the sake of conflict diamonds. "gold ,oil, ivory, diamond…." Africa have already paid too much, Let them live a better life. When you try to get a jewelry, please think about that people who are working in the mining area, they spend their blood to change the precious stone, when u wear it on your neck or on your hand,at the same time you wear their blood also.

Every times when people looking the diamond advertisement on TV or megazine, they see shinning of diamond, but i see blood, the blood of hundred thousand africa mine worker, may be you not agree what i am try to show you, but thats no argue, thats truth!!!

St. Michael is one of the principal angels; his name was the war-cry of the good angels in the battle fought in heaven against the enemy and his followers.

Following these Scriptural passages, Christian tradition gives to St. Michael four offices:

To fight against Satan.
To rescue the souls of the faithful from the power of the enemy, especially at the hour of death.
To be the champion of God’s people, the Jews in the Old Law, the Christians in the New Testament; therefore he was the patron of the Church, and of the orders of knights during the Middle Ages.

To call away from earth and bring men’s souls to judgment ("signifer S. Michael repraesentet eas in lucam sanctam", Offert. Miss Defunct. "Constituit eum principem super animas suscipiendas", Antiph. off. Cf. "Hermas", Pastor, I, 3, Simil. VIII, 3).

Regarding his rank in the celestial hierarchy opinions vary,place St. Michael over all the angels; they say he is called "archangel" because he is the prince of the other angels; others believe that he is the prince of the seraphim, the first of the nine angelic orders. But, according to St. Thomas (Summa Ia.113.3) he is the prince of the last and lowest choir, the angels. The Roman mytology seems to follow the Greek mytology, rome calls him "Princeps militiae coelestis quem honorificant angelorum cives". Some peoples places St. Michael even above the Twenty-four Elders. The Greek Liturgy styles him Archistrategos, "highest general"

It would have been natural to St. Michael, the champion of the Jewish people, to be the champion also of Christians, giving victory in war to his clients. His prestige as angelic healer obscured his interposition in military affairs. It was from early times the centre of the true cult of the holy angels, particularly of St. Michael.