On the second of December 1993, a huge drug lord died. Pablo Escobar was a well known drug lord in Colombia. The cast of Netflix wanted to do a series that is about the life of Pablo Escobar.

The life of Pablo escobar was full of success and money, however, his money is all illegal and made his life in danger. Pablo escobar died after the cops of Colombia found out his hideout and came to kill him and by that the end of a great drug lord.

Narcos is the true story of the life of Pablo escobar and how his family have been living with him. This Netflix series shows how Pablo was nothing before selling drugs in Colombia and how he increased his sales and started to improve his business in America. The series contained of three seasons each season contained of 10 episodes that were full of excitement and suspense. The first season explains the characteristics of Pablo and how he started manufacturing with cocaine. Pablo also expanded his building labs and started ti improve the selling outside Columbia. season 2 explains on how the cops are trying to arrest Pablo and his cartel while he is escaping from them and at the end of the season it shows the death of Pablo, and after that comes season 3.

narcos awards and records

Narcos was published on netflix for the first season in 2015 and the second season was published in 2016 and season 3 was in 2017 . Narcos was the most viewed show on Netflix in 2017. This show was known all over the world, by that being said Narcos won 8 awards and was nominated for 18 awards, because it was one of the best shows in the history of Netflix. Netflix reporters stated that they have won more than $2 billion because of Narcos and another show called stranger things, however, second season of Narcos broke the record of getting a lot of views and people started subscribing for Netflix just to watch this series.

my experience

i have watched Narcos in 2018 when i heard from my friends about it. I did not have that much of interest in watching any series, however, watching this series made me interested in watching other series. Narcos will forever be one my the best series i have ever watched and will ever watch, and there was one quote that i can never forget “Life is full of surprises, some good, some not so good”. This quote explains that life is full of surprises and that life can not always be the way that each person wants it to be.

Ice is disappearing from both poles, oceans are warming, and countries all over the globe are facing record-breaking temperatures. Earth is getting warmer, meanwhile, extreme weather and climate events are increasing.

Extreme weather is when weather is significantly different from the usual weather pattern; drought, flooding, heatwaves, and wildfires are examples of extreme weather events. All of these events are emerging and increasing due to climate change, or perhaps we should start referring to it as climate emergency. But what is the difference?

Media has a significant impact on the public’s behaviors; not only it is a source of information, but also the most important communication tool during an emergency. Therefore, it is very common to see the term “emergency” linked with extreme weather events on television and scientific articles. The term “emergency” alerts people to the danger of the situation, thus pushes them to act immediately. Climate change, however, is rarely linked with the term “emergency” although it mainly causes extreme weather events.

The language we use affects the way we think, which initiates behaviors. Anand mentions in her article: “I know how cautious scientists can be in their communications. That is precisely why those words [Rapid, Far-reaching, Unprecedented] were sufficient to evoke an emotional response”. This explains why people took immediate action when COVID-19 was announced by the WHO as a pandemic; it reflected the seriousness of the virus, thus triggered people’s fears.

The language used by media, politicians, and governments to describe climate crisis is important; adopting the terms climate emergency or climate crisis is the first step to remind the public that this is a serious, dangerous situation and requires immediate change. In fact, we –people- are the real solution.

I want you to act as you would in a crisis. I want you to act as if our house is on fire. Because it is.

– Greta Thunberg, young climate activist

To know more about the climate crisis and its impact on Earth, check out the following TED-Ed video:

On August 28th, the Black Panther died. Actor Chadwick Boseman was the well-known face of the Black Panther, a superhero in Marvel’s universe.

While his death from colon cancer was unexpected, his contribution to Marvel’s universe and to our cultural moment is unquestioned. Last week, Disney made the Black Panther film free to stream on its platform, and last night, Comixology announced that all single issues of the Black Panther comic would be free. (Go get an issue or five!)

Boseman became the film character for a popular superhero with an important history. Indeed, all comics are important cultural artifacts, and like all cultural productions, they are always about more than a plot or a fight scene. The Black Panther first appeared in 1966 as the first black superhero. The timing is important. Just two years after the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which guaranteed voting and civil rights to black Americans, the Black Panther made an impression. He defeated the most popular superheros in his first run (later teaming up with them), and his fictional home country of Wakanda, a technologically advanced and wealthy African nation, deliberately challenged readers’ false racial stereotypes and prejudices.

Historians highlight how creators Stan Lee and Jack Kirby were influenced by the use of the black panther as an animal symbol for a community and voting advocacy organization called the Lowndes Country Freedom Organization (LCFO), which fought for the rights of black Americans to vote and resisted forms of white supremacy. Later referred to as (and taking the name of) the “Black Panther Party,” this organization emerged in the turbulent times of the Civil Rights Movement. Thus, it’s easy to see how the Black Panther was always a powerful political symbol of justice, community pride, and self-determination.

Representation — in books, films, and media — is essential. It is how we look beyond ourselves, reduce intolerance, and affirm the unique pasts and experiences of others. Comics (and graphic novels and narratives) are an important space for diversity of character, of author, and of worldview. For instance, Ms. Marvel, a series about a Pakistani-American Muslim teenage girl becoming a superhero, was written by an American Muslim woman and edited by a Pakistani-American woman, and the 2015 Midnighter series, a series about an openly gay superhero, was written by a bisexual man. Yet there remains a lot of room for improvement, both in race and gender representation.

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On a related note, if there are any fans of The Watchmen (either the comic books or the HBO series), here is an excellent (and short) graphic narrative about the Tulsa Race Riot in America — the opening scene to the TV series.

Amid the closing of retail stores in the spring and the ongoing instability in retail business, bookstores took more business online. This New York Times article, “Bookstores Are Struggling. Is a New E-Commerce Site the Answer?,” describes how independent bookstores (which means those not owned by a corporate conglomerate) increasingly turned to online sales over the last months through a new site, bookshop.org.

Some booksellers are pleased with this development since it’s another way to get their books into people’s hands. Plus, it may cut into the domination of Amazon, a site that has always been a problem for bookstores, publishers, and book-buyers.

But this could create other problems. Some booksellers think the online bookshop.org will act as an additional competitor, pulling people away from the actual stores. They would rather create their own online portals to keep their customers.

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Do you have any connections with bookstores? Do you have a favorite one?

And on a different but related note: Do you think reading paper books vs electronic books (or any text) makes a difference in how you read? Do you have a preference?