The Azrieli Centre is 3 sky scrapers in Tel Aviv, made up of a circular tower, a triangular tower and a square tower. It was designed by Eli Attiyah and developed by David Azrieli. The towers contain offices, a shopping centre, a train station and a cinema complex. At night the towers are lit up magnificently. The view from the top floor is spectacular, you can see the whole of Tel Aviv. When driving into Tel Aviv from the airport and seeing these sky scrapers I know I am home in Tel Aviv. They really are iconic buildings.
Evan Taylor grows up in a home for boys. He believes his parents are still alive and that he will find them someday through his music. He can hear music in everything. Through flashbacks it shows how his parents met at a party and had a one night stand. His father, Louis, is a guitarist and lead singer of a rock band, and his mother, Lyla, is a famous concert cellist. Due to Lyla's father the couple were not allowed to ever speak again. Lyla falls pregnant and her father tells her that the baby died at birth when really he put it up to adoption. 
Evan who runs away from the home meets many musicians along the way and eventually gets recognized as a child musical prodigy. I will not ruin the plot but all I can say is that this film reveals the most amazing story of love. If you like a good cry this film's final scene is one of the most moving endings I have ever seen. A truly remarkable story, with incredible emotion and brilliant music.
Based on a true story, Hilary Swank plays Erin Gruwell, a middle class, idealist teacher who goes to work in Woodrow Wilson High School in Long Beach, California, a voluntary integrated school. However it isn't working. The Asians, The Blacks, The Latinos and The Whites do not get along and the school has no faith in the minorities. Violence is high and most students do not make it to graduation. Erin Gruwell, who initially doesn't fit in and comes into conflict with her students makes it her mission to change these students way of life. Through informal education she encourages the students to share their life experiences and build relationships with each other. Through learning about the atrocities of the Holocaust, the students begin to read and write and care about their work. They even create a fundraiser to bring over the woman who hid Anne Frank. Their whole outlook on life is transformed and they graduate and some even make it to university. 
Whilst researching for a summer camp I was running on social revolutionaries I stumbled across this book of my hero Nelson Mandela. This coffee table book is full of fabulous photographs of the remarkable life of Mandela alongside world figures paying tribute to this legend. There is also accounts from Mandela's fellow prisoners on Robbin Island. This book is amazing to flick through and becomes more and more fascinated after each account. It is truly inspiring. 
