VA/20/086 Dharitha Weraniyagoda

  For about 165 million years ago , dinosaurs lived on this earth and ruled over other small creatures . Then a big celestial object crashed on the earth and poof!! They are all gone. Dinosaurs went extinct about 65 million years ago.  And here we are ruling the world . Atleast we think we rule the world  .What will happen to us? How will the mother nature handle our evolution ? Clearly our development hurts her. And she won't tolerate our activities on her. Do you know how a body works when it feels a virus has entered . The body would turn it's heat up and try to kill the virus . In that way either virus or the host will have to die. Without the host , the virus will die.  In this case we , human beings are the virus . And the host is the earth . So the almighty balancer , creator  and the destroyer  , mother nature has already turned up the heat. Global warming . We just have to wait for the sound 'poof' .

   Christopher Nolan is one of the greatest movie directors in the whole world . He is  British -American and he was interested in filmmaking since his young age . He has 11 academy awards out of 36 nominations for his great works. Nolan is not a normal person . He is colorblind . He can't see red and green color. So he tends to make his movies in dark colors . If you have watched        " The Dark  Knight " and his most recent movie        " Tenet"  you can notice . He is famous for combine complicated physics theories and deep emotions like  love in his movies . In " Interstellar " he brings a combination of love between a father and a daughter  and quantum physics .  Other thing is his talent in out of the box thinking.   " Inception " is one of Nolan 's works that shows his power of thinking . After all Christopher Nolan brought us his greatest ideas to the world through his movies even though ...

  Hannah Baker is a fictional character from a novel written by Jay Asher. And this novel is 13 reasons why. In the story Hannah Baker is a teenager who committed suicide for number of reasons . For 13 reasons . Young Hannah leaves 12 tapes before her death. Each one of them were named after a specific person who caused her death. This is not about the all 13 people on those tapes. This is about a special person . Actually he is the 11th one . But Hannah reveals that this person doesn't really belong in her list.  Because this person has never hurt her. He is Clay Jenson. Or as Hannah says ' Helmet '. The main reason that forced Hannah to commit suicide was getting bullied in high school . And as a result of that loneliness helped her to do what she did. And finally Clay. Clay was responsible because he was a special person to Hannah and he failed to recognize her problems. So look after your loved ones and friends or you will be suffered with the guilt until your last day.

  We are living in a world filled with various kinds of challenges . And the humans always survive , evolve . Thats why we are still here on earth. But this evil demon that I'm going to talk about is not easy to defeat . Because it was created by our own human beings. There are many kinds of drugs in this world . Some of them were made by acccident . People found it interesting and they made more.  But some of them were made on different purposes  , for good reasons. For an example marijuana was used as a painkiller for dying people . But people used it in a wrong way. Now marijuana is banned in number of countries . But is it fair to separate these poisons legal and  illegal ? Government says that marijuana is illegal and its harmful . But that same government allows tobacco to be sold by knowing that it kills people as same as marijuana . People should stand against this mafia . They have to ignore all kind drugs unless they have a medicinal value.

  What if animals could talk ? I've always wandered what could happen to our world , if all the animals were able to speak . What will they say ?  The cows , pigs, chickens, goats may speak about their right to live with their families . They will go to the court and they will file lawsuits against all the humans for eating their ancestors . The elephants, leopards will also file lawsuits , but this time for taking their lands without asking any permission . Gorillas and Rhinos will talk to other animals to go to war against us. They will be all over the roads. It seems like we are lucky that they couldn't talk .Because If they talk , they won't say "we forgive you people " . So be kind to animals as possible as you can. Because they were here before us.

  Tom Marvolo Riddle or as the Harry Potter fans know Lord Voldemort is considered as the most evil vilain of all time in the wizarding world . J.K Rowling has shown her amazing story writing talent by creating characters in her book series Harry Potter . And Lord Voldemort is one of them According to Rowling 's books Tom doesn't have a great childhood . Before he was born his mother Merope Gaunt fell in love with a muggle man ( a man without magic powers ) named Tom Riddle . Merope 's father Marvolo Gaunt and the only brother Morfin Gaunt didn't allow her to go near this man named Tom Riddle . So she used a love potion to trick this man. As a result of their relationship , Merope got pregnant after a couple of weeks. Because of this situation she thought It would be good to stop giving the love potion to the father and tell the truth . But after knowing the truth Tom Riddle left Merope . After all of this trouble Merope gave birth to child and named him Tom Marvolo Rid...

  You would probably believe a person must have a high IQ to feel love. For those who believe that, this is the story of Forest and Jenny. Forest Gump is a person with a low IQ. When he was a child he was almost kicked out of school because of his lack of intelligence . But his mother stayed strong for him.  On the first day of school he met a beautiful young girl, Jenny . In the movie Forest says "I  've never seen anything so beautiful in my life . She was like an angle." From that day they became best friends. Although Jenny was the only friend forest had for a long time. When they enter their young age they choose different paths. Forest decides to join the army and fight in Vietnam while Jenny travel around the country . Sure , they had their differences . Forest was stupid and Jenny was beautiful . But It couldn't stop forest's  love for Jenny . In the movie Forest says to Jenny " I'm not a smart man Jenny , but I know what love is" . And it is...

  Ivar Ragnarson , commonly known as Ivar 'the boneless ' was a  legendary viking leader who invaded England .According to old viking tales he was a son of the notorious swedish and danish king , Ragnar Lothbrok. He had five brothers who also invaded lands in Europe . Unlike his father and brothers Ivar was considered as a cursed child. Because when he was born he didn't have bones in his legs. So his legs looked weird . No one believed he would survive exept for his mother , queen Aslaug. At some point even his own father tried to kill him , because ragnar didn't believe ivar will survive . So his mother forced him to learn old tales about gods, war strategies . And in the end he became one of the greatest warriors and leaders in viking history  .

 There are 10 dimensions in the universe . And we are  three dimensional creatures( 3D). And we can see only one dimension. But thats not third dimension . We can see only the second dimension   ( 2D ) .  But I'm  thinking maybe we all have already seen other dimensions . Not in the physical world . No. What about the dreams . Dreams that we can't explain in words . Every time we fell into a long sleep we can see things beyond explanation . Sometimes things we have already witnessed . But in a different way. In a different reality . But sometimes things that happened in a long time ago. That is why I believe dreams are some kind of portals  or simply doors to other dimensions . We have a magical thing called mind that separates us from other animals. It is always busy . But when mind has it's rest in other words sleep , it can do things  , things that physical body can't do.  But falling asleep isn't the only way to take rest for our mind . M...

 My parents force me to do lots of things . Especially my mother . Things like learn hard, clean my room,  fix things. And I do all those things. Exept for visting their relatives , attending the funerals and weddings . My greatest fear is being in a crowded place. I 'll tell exactly how I feel when I go to a crowded place . When I enter the place , hall  I feel everyone else is looking at me . It is like they can count every single hair on my head. I feel they are watching every move I make , they can hear every sound I make. I can literally see they are minding their own business . But when I close my eyes for one second   I feel like a criminal .  So I try to spend my life in my room , alone. In my room, there are no one to watch me , hear me and judge me. I make myself a prisoner .

  "He is a dwarf. He is an imp. He is monster who killed his own mother on the day he saw the world for the very first time." Those are the words , rumors he  heard from the day he was born. But is that the truth? He is a dwarf . But does that make him a monster? His mother died during the labor. But does that mean he killed his own mother on purpose? Thats up to you.  This is Tyrion Lanister I' m talking about. Son of Tywin Lanister and Joana Lanister. He is a famous character from the T.V. series Game of Thrones.  In this story House Lanister is the richest house of all the seven kingdoms. So normally Lanister are powerful and proud . Tywin Lanister is the leader of this house in this particular time period. He is the farther of handsome Jamie and his beautiful twin sister Cersie .  But Tywin always consider his third  son Tyrion as a curse to his family. Just because he is a dwarf. He is always ashamed of Tyrion because he isn't a clever fighter like Jam...

 The person that I'm going to talk about is a musician , a producer and one of the most famous actors in the world . He is non other than  Johnny Depp.            He started his entertaining career as a singer and a guitar player . He played for  a band called       " Rock City Angles " . And in 2014 he played for         " Pink Grenade ". Since 2015 he is currently a member of  "Hollywood Vampires" .  But his most successful career , his acting career was  started in  1984 .  Johnny Depp made his debut in the horror film " A Nightmare in Elm Sreet " . Since then he played hundreds of characters in hundreds of movies.  " Willy Wonka, Mad Hatter, Tonto, Sweeny Todd, Gellert Grindalwald " are some of the famous characters he played.  However he became a worldwide known actor by playing " Captain Jack Sparrow " in the  " Pirates of the Caribbean " film series....

  What is this greatest gift I'm talking about? And why is this gift so great? Well you are about to find out. Smile. Yeah ! That is right . I'm going to talk about smile. To me there is nothing more beautiful, valuable than a smile. So there is that question again. Why do I think smile as the greatest gift of all time? Because this little muscle movement says a lot of words, words beyond meanings. Sometimes in life , all you need is a little smile. Sometimes from a specific person. This little thing could means a lot to a person. Sometimes your life could tear into parts.  But a little smile could gather all those parts together. A little smile could fix a dying soul. So, take a second of your life , don't be greedy, show  your generosity through a smile.

  Have you ever had dream that never goes away? I know I have. And I 'm going to tell about that.  Actually this is not a normal or beautiful dream. No.  This is a nightmare that scared the hell out of me. And this nightmare still haunts me. So cover your finger nails, because I don't want you to bite them.           So it was a normal day, and me and my elder brother  were sleeping on the same bed. By the way he was 12 and I was 8 at that time. And I was really tired from doing homework. All I needed was a  sleep. So here it begins.                                             In the dream I was very sleepy. My eyes were shutting and opening. And suddenly my eyes caught somthing like a shadow. It wasn't very clear for a  few seconds. And I shut my eyes again. When I opened them I realized that wasn't a shadow.    ...