HUMAN RIGHTS ARE NOT RESPECTED, PERHAPS IT'S TIME TO DO AWAY WITH THEM

Maybe we could think that human rights are not important because we don't appreciate what they do for the society or because we don't see them acting. In spite of these ways of think, human rights are present in every moment of our life. So, I agree with the first sentence.

First, nowadays humans undervalue these rights for many reasons like think that they aren't useful or that anybody respect them... If we had these opinions it would be impossible to improve the future, we have to change and be more optimist.

Second, we have to think about underprivileged people because they are the ones who notice that human rights are not well applied and respected. So, it's time to change and start to do something like obey the law, take advantage of chances, value all the thing we have, do all the things with love and get rid of the bad feelings like pride, prejudice, selfishness... 

To conclude, human rights are very important for us and most of all people because we aren't conscious that we live so good and that there's a lot of people suffering the effects caused by don't respect these rights.

CATWALK FASHION, PRACTICAL OR A JOKE?

Fashion world is very difficult for the people that work in it and really attractive to the people outside. But nowadays it’s becoming less appealing because of the styles.

Designers are creating clothes impossible to afford and impossible to wear because these clothes are very strange. At the moment, the only person who can wear these “original” clothes and not feel embarrassed is Lady Gaga!!!

If you watch a fashion show, can you imagine wearing these clothes? Definitely I can’t. In my opinion, they can be creative but with more reasonable imagination because some dresses seem that they are made for astronaut women…

Before the designers only designed clothes for the celebrities or for the high society, but now there are more people that can wear these expensive clothes.

Also, thin women are the stereotype of beauty nowadays but it doesn’t mean that women with more kilograms don’t exist. So do why designers only make little sizes? So, if the market is expanding, they should adapt their clothes and make them more wearable for all kind of people. 

DESCRIPTION OF A PLACE YOU REMEMBER FONDLY

Last summer I went to Malaga to visit my aunt. Malaga is one of the provinces of Andalusia. This city is not so big and it’s divided in two different sites, one is near the sea and the other is the heart of the city, full of buildings and traffic. Apart from the annoying noise I love the contrast of this amazing city.

I also like Malaga for the climate because it’s always sunny, in winter too. This province is a bit little but in my opinion this characteristic makes it more attractive. One of the things that had fascinated me more was the main street of the city called Larios.

This street communicates the two parts, in one exit were the sea and in the other one the centre of the little city, and it was full of clothes shops and pubs. I used to like to sit down on the terraces of the pubs and saw people pass along following their way and also because you could feel the fresh air from the sea and at the same time the typical sounds of the city like cars, horn, music…

This street was special because there were people dressed up with funny customs like a man who was dressed with newspapers.

The best thing of Malaga was the people who lived there because they were very friendly (When I went there I made a really good friend) and kind because if you were lost they helped you to find the right way.

NEW

Spanair’s Girona – Madrid routed a runway success.

Since introducing the route in January 2007, the airline has transported more than 76.000 passengers (selling approximately 54 percent of the 140.000 available seats) between Girona and the Spanish Capital, a statistic that exceeds the company’s original projections by roughly 10.000 passengers. As a result, spanair will increase the daily number of flights to Madrid and will also introduce a new route this summer, connecting Girona to the Balearic Islands.

Spanair is a good airline with a lot of destinations. You can find it in Barcelona’s or in Girona’s airport. Some time ago, if you wanted to travel abroad, you didn’t have a variety in a lot of aspects like before there were a small number of travel agencies, also a few airlines and there weren’t a lot of destinations from Barcelona.

Girona airport and Ryanair, in my opinion are one of the best things the government have done, because for people who live near Girona is a good advantage. In this case is when we see that it’s true that the technologies are improving.

Now, there’re a lot of airlines and it’s better for us to know which one is the cheapest, or if one company offers you more advantages than other for the same prize, etc. It also means that, in some way, you can choose whatever you want because there are a lot of advantages to take. One example is that if you fly with an airline company called Ryanair, and if you pay an extra amount, then you’ll have a priority pass.

But now there’s a problem because the government said that he wouldn’t gave more extra money to some flights because he didn’t obtain benefits. In some way I understand it but nowadays we are in crisis and if the government takes out some cheap flights like Madrid or Tenerife, then these flights will cost us more money because we’ll have to go to the Barcelona’s airport or maybe catch the flight with some airline more expensive.

To conclude I’ll say that the companies have widen the destinations and it’s a successful progress because doing that companies will make more profit and also we’ll benefit from it.

THE CINEMA INDUSTRY

Now the world of cinema is accused of repetition, because it always makes remakes, silly comedies, explosions and all kind of special effects. Before there were a lot of stars of cinema like Audrey Hepburn, John Wayne, and Marilyn Monroe Some of them were very good actors but others only copied their style. There were big actors that didn’t win the popularity of the people, not because of their talent, but because they did not have the glamour of actors like Marilyn Monroe. The truth is that this was a false world and no one was what they pretended to be. What was important was glamour.

But nowadays the “stars” don’t have it, they are very superficial and short lived. For example one year Cameron Diaz is the queen of the screen and then a few months later it’s Angelina Jolie or Megan Fox.

I’m sure that you will agree with me when I say that times change. Music and actors have to change for fashion, they have to adapt themselves to the movements of the moment. A lot of famous people are very similar, an example in the music world is that there are hundreds of Britney Spears but only one Tina Turner or Frank Sinatra. There are no individuals, most of them are stereotypes.

Before people looked up to the stars. Now the stars are like you or I; they are not special, not glamorous. The spectators miss this glamour and also the actual “stars” because they are too like us.

The cinema industry is creating more and more of the same. Before when you saw a film the actors took your breath away. Now we can almost see ourselves on the screen. A lot of the magic of the hero or heroine has disappeared, replaced by special effects. There are some admirable actors like Julianne Moore, but they are not “stars”. Is it better a lot of films and a lot of actors or a small number of quality films with glamorous stars.

DESCRIPTION OF A PERSON

MY LOVELY SISTER

Emma is my little sister and she’s only six.

She is very extroverted and good fun. She is quite competitive but it’s a normal thing on her age because she always wants to be the best in everything she does. Also she is very sensitive because when she sees cartoons and in these appears some scenes which are dramatic she cries, so she is thin-skinned.

She isn’t completely shy, it’s the opposite, she is very naughty.

Emma is tall for her age, so it means that when she will grow up, she will be tall too. She has got really nice blue eyes but sometimes you can’t see her nice eyes because she wears glasses since she was very little. She has got large straight hair but my father always ties her hair in a ponytail and when she leaves her hair loose she is being more beautiful. A funny thing is that she has got big feet and sometimes we called her clown.

She is very impulsive and sincere because when she thinks something she tell you what she was thinking about and she didn’t lie.

She is talkative because if someone is telling something, she also has to say something and she never lets you to talk. Also she is very expressive, because when she is explaining something to you, she always makes gestures and faces.

Most of the times she wants to be the centre of attention but it’s something common in the child of her age. She is a bit bossy but when she tells us what to do we don’t pay attention to her.

One thing that I really like is that she is very innocent because now she is little and another thing that I love in her is that I always want to kiss her but she doesn’t like very much it and when I’m going to kiss her, she turns her face but she makes that for joking.

She’s the kind of person who I feel happy with.

REFLECTION OF MY ORAL PRESENTATION

This is the presentation of the second term and the topic was doing the oral presentation of the research project in English. It wasn’t very difficult because we already had done the one in Catalan, so we only had to translate it. Mine research project was about celiac disease that is also called gluten intolerance.

I have used a PowerPoint to support my presentation. It was well in the structure and well in the content because I put something of text but not very much only some words to orientate the people and also the objectives because I didn’t find a good slide for it. In spite of this little parts, in most of the slides were images and it was better because it makes the presentation more entertaining. In this oral presentation I haven’t count the time because I think that the importance is to do it well and not to get worried about the time.

I was looking almost all the time at the people. I think that only one or two times I had to read my notes because I was nervous and my mind got white but I worked very hard on it. I understood everything and also I remembered everything I had to say, so I was very fluent. I did a lot of gestures maybe too many movements but in my opinion it’s normal because when you speak in public you become nervous for the situation.

I think that my presentation was well organized because first, I made a little introduction of why I had chosen that topic, the objectives and the methodology. Then I spoke about the disease and finally I said the conclusions but in my opinion the text needed more connectors.

The text was rich in grammar and vocabulary. The verbs were in the correct tense, the sentences where well structured, I used good words, etc. One point against is that I’d used little pause fillers because I think that I didn’t get stuck.

In my opinion I had a good pronunciation because I practice it before a lot in my home. I changed my tone of voice and I was very fluent because I didn’t speak with breaks and to separate the paragraphs I made little pauses.

Summarizing I think that I did a good presentation but also that are aspects that I have to improve like speak lowly, make more pauses, make less movements, don’t touch my hair all the time, improve mi pronunciation, put more connectors in the text, etc. I think that I can get more of eight points.

EQUAL OPPORTUNITIES AROUND THE WORLD?

We are always protesting against many things, most of the times without any reason. When we do that we become very foolish people because there are a lot of people that haven’t got our opportunities, for example to study. In general, most of the people who live in the third world don’t have education. They usually work to bring food or money to their home. This is called child labour and it’s work done by child. The main problem is that it prevents child’s education and interrupts their development. It’s dangerous work for the well being of the children because they have to work in bad conditions, and sometimes they are like slaves. This is considered a human rights violation, but some countries tolerate it.

Child labour can have serious consequences like chronic diseases, wounds or chemical infections. The children who work in these conditions are between five and fourteen years old, and as everybody knows the legal age to start working is sixteen. There are different types of this kind of work like Soldier children, these ones have to work as cooks for the army and also participate in wars. There are also “sweat factories” where children work many hours with sewing machines to make clothes for the fashion industry. In my opinion, the government should do something to help all children that are forced to do this kind of work and make it safe. Moreover, they have to solve the sanity problems or stop the dangerous child labour.

COMPUTERS IN SHCOOL INSTEAD OF BOOKS

New technologies, in general, help us to make the future easier and more accessible. We are always advancing.

There are many examples of technological inventions that have changed our lives: The telephone, the television, the microwave, X-ray machines and of course a lot of medical advancements that have saved thousands of lives. The computer is antoher example because all business, libraries, banks, shops, etc have computers.

Now computers are being introduced into schools. But is it positive or negative?

On the one hand they are useful and good in many situations for example if you have to do work with a lot of pages, is better to do it with a computer. But you can’t always use it well. You need to know about computer programmes and to control them. Another positive point of computers is that you can find the information faster and it’s easier to find it.

On the other hand computers are having and adverse effect on students because if we always work with computers, we’ll lose the ability of write, our vocabulary will be less rich and books will disappear.

A CITY I WANT TO VISIT

I love traveling but I haven’t had a lot of opportunity to do it because of my age.

I’ve been to London, to Sweden, to Italy, to the Canary Islands and in some cities of Spain like Malaga, Basque country, Madrid…

I would like to go to America and visit the spectacular city of New York. This city is amazing. I’ve seen it in a lot of films, especially some areas like Manhattan, Brooklyn, Times Square, Wall Street, Central Park…

I also want to go there because all people who have been there say magnificent things about it and if they could they would return there.

Another reason for this motivation is that New York is very different from the cities I have visited. This city of USA has a lot of skyscrapers, there are a lot of people of different cultures, the typical food, monuments and museums… New York is more advanced in technology than Madrid or Barcelona (my nearest city) because if you are walking down the street of Times Square you’ll see a lot of electronic amusements and advertising.

If one day I go there, I want to visit The Statue of Liberty, The Empire State, Times Square, Chrysler Building, Brooklyn Bridge… There are a lot of sites to visit, every cm has something special. The problem of this city is that the costs of travel are very high, so now I can’t afford it but I hope that in the future, I’ll get a good job that will allow me to make this dream come true.