My Personal Project

My personal project has been on a very unique subject which is about "Actual Life in Cemeteries in Egypt." It is a very important issue that has never been discussed before. I have chosen this topic because I felt that I wanted to shed some light on this subject. I have written a long essay in French about this topic. Egypt is the only country in the world in which we find poor people living in cemeteries.

Poverty is a great problem in Egypt. It has been so for many centuries. For hundreds and hundreds of years, Egypt has suffered from this problem. There are many poor people living in Egypt. A great number of them are homeless and penniless, they don't have a place to live in nor money to survive and so they take the cemeteries to be their only home and after settling down there, they go on begging in the streets asking money from those who come to pay a visit to their dead relatives and dear ones.

 I find this topic a very important one to tackle as it has never been tackled before by any student. I have gathered a lot of information and ideas about this topic, I even paid around five visits to our family's cemeteries and I met with the guards of the cemeteries who are living a normal life there. Each time I did a different interview with them, I asked them many questions about the way they lead their lives, how they earn money, how they are able to survive in such poor areas. Funny enough, each time I got different answers to my questions particularly those related to money.

A great number of them lied to me when I asked them about how they earn their money. Some of them pretended that they are trying to get money in an honorable way whereas I have been able to learn in an indirect way through some people that most of them win their money by selling dead bodies to the students of the faculty of medicine who study 'Anatomy' and their only way to get a dead body is through buying a dead body from one of the guards of the cemeteries. In this way, the guards earn a great amount of money. In Egypt, this kind of trade is regarded as an illegal and unmerciful action because it is actually a crime and a theft.

I was lucky enough to offer one of the guards a job to move away from the cemeteries and to take a job as a guard in a big house in a place far away from the cemeteries as one of my cousins needed to have a guard guarding his big house permanently. So I felt I needed to do some kind of favor to anyone of them and I was happy when he gladly accepted my offer and thanked me a lot for my help.    

I have learned and acquired many skills, information, and ideas from my project.  I have managed to learn about many things which I have never known before in my life. It was a remarkable and an unforgettable experience to me. 

The qualities of a good friend

A good friend is rare to find these days. I have many good friends; all of them are magnificent people. We all like each other and we help each other in time of need. We stand by each other when there are problems or troubles facing any one of us. The English proverb says:"A friend in need is a friend indeed." This proverb has many equivalents in almost all the languages all over the world. It is a very important proverb as it has proved to be true throughout all the centuries and among different generations. A good friend should have certain qualities that would distinguish him from any other person.

First of all, a good friend should be faithful and honest; he should be faithful to his friend, helping him when he is in trouble. He should be there for him when he needs him. Faithfulness is a very important quality for a good friend. Secondly, a good friend should be very respectful; he should respect his friend's wishes and desires. Furthermore, he should respect his friend's privacy, in other words, his private life as well as his interests.        

Thirdly, a good friend should be very decent and polite; he should not hurt his friend's feelings or pride. He should be very careful when talking to his friend in matters regarding personal opinions or judgments or even personal stuff related to one's own sentiments or dignity.

Moreover, a good friend should be helpful, always offering a helping hand to his friend when he needs his help whether it is by daytime or at midnight or at any time. Having a helpful friend is like finding water in the desert or we can even compare it to finding a rose in a desert.

Above all, a good friend should be a secret keeper; he should keep his friends secrets and personal matters. He should not reveal any of them. It is the obligation of friendship that requires him to be discreet and faithful.

To conclude, good friends are like precious stones, they are rare to find, and when we find them, we should know how to keep them and cherish them for they are invaluable.

The Constitution

The constitution is a set of fundamental principles according to which state or other organization is governed. This rule together make up or constitute what is the entity( reason of our excitants) is. The constitution plays an important role in any society it governs different levels of organization starting from sovereign states to companies and unincorporated association. No country can be ruled or governed without constitution. A constitution helps in organizing the social life as well as the legal life of any society. There are many rules and regulations which are stated in a constitution and are adhered to by the people of the country.

The term constitution comes through. French from Latin war constitution, use for regulation and orders. History shows that in the ancient civilization constitutions were their; in the Greek civilization there was the Greek constitution founded by great philosophers like Aristotle who made a formal distinction between ordinary law and constitution law, establishing ideas of constitutions and attempting to classify different form of constitutional government.

In the roman civilization there was the roman constitution; the roman first codified their constitution in 450 BC. They operated under a series of law that were added along different generation. But the Roman law was never reorganized into a single code until 438 AD.

Egypt nowadays the Egyptians are facing political crises not knowing what to do towards the issue of reforming their country politically and socially. In my opinion I believe it is better to have a new constitution first which it articles should be agreed upon and written by authorized judges, lawyers and the young people who are responsible for the revolution. If the constitution is the first established it will help in achieving the countries well fare and prosperity. That is to say it would be for the general good of the society rather than serving one's own interests.