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domingo, 25 de noviembre de 2012
"Youth is the most important thing in the world"
In the book The picture of Dorian Gray, there is this sentence. Youth is the most important thing
in the world, he want be young always, for he can enjoy of his beauty.
Some people do everything to seem young, because don't accept to grow old.
I think that youth isn't most important thing. When one person is happy and people feel good.
The most important thing is the soul. Perhaps we must laugh in life. We learn to value the soul of
people and we are happy and enjoy the life.
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Walmart hit by Black Friday strikes across 46 states, say protesters
SUMMARY:
Giant Retail
Walmart has been hit by protests and strikes by stores in the U.S. on Black
Friday, the busiest shopping day in the retail calendar.
The protests
began on Thursday as they announced that in Thanksgiving Day they would have to
work.
Walmart
workers in Atlanta, Miami, Dallas, Texas, Bay Area of California, Chicago,
Washington and other cities participated in the walk out to protest over wages
and working conditions.
The executive
director of Walmart said they had a very successful black day very safe in all
stores nationwide. He also announced that at least 50 workers went to protest.
Workers announce
that they suffer from harassment and abuse. They also are threaten to shorten
the hours and wages.
Some of the
protesters say they are seeing changes slowly there.
PERSONAL OPINION:
Not only in
America but also in many other countries, people are realizing that things are
not going well. The only solution I found for people to the problems of today
is going out and protests. I think the protests, strikes and demonstrations
work, but the changes aren’t drastic. We will observe that the things change
gradually.
VOCABULARY:
Walkouts: huelga
Roughly: aproximadamente
Lobby: vestíbulo
Dallas Actor Larry Hagman dies aged 81
SUMMARY:
Hagman, was
born in Fort Worth (Texas) on Sept. 21, 1931, the son of actress Mary Martin
and attorney Ben Hagman.
Hagman, who
had suffered from cancer and liver disease, died in the hospital of Dallas
(Texas).
Hagman had
come to Dallas to meet with friends and family in the fair of Thanksgiving.
Family members say he had a peaceful death as he always wanted.
Linda Gray, a
longtime friend who starred with Hagman in Dallas as his wife in "Sue
Ellen Ewing" was by the bed of the actor when he died.
Hagman's agent
said he was a man with joy, creative, generous, funny, loving, talented. A
person who we will miss.
He became a
star in 1965 in the television comedy series "I Dream of Jeannie".
It was in 1977
when he landed the role of ruthless oil baron JR Ewing, the character in
downtown Dallas the show, which consolidated his worldwide fame.
Many of the
people who knew him and had worked with him, paid tributes on social networks
(Factbook, Twister, ...)
PERSONAL OPINION:
It is a well known
actor. An actor who played a very good job and made successful films, and
successful series. Surely the big screens will miss him.
VOCABULARY:
Surrounded:
rodear
Screen:
pantalla
Tweeted:
piar
Women Won This Time, but Men Are Voting's X-Factor
SUMMARY:
Studies have
shown that most women vote for Barak Obama and the men vote for Mitt Romney.
But it’s also true that men are more hesitant.
When it comes
to elections, men as a group are more influential because they show loyalty,
but women don’t. That is why presidents usually focus more on issues that
concern to women, such as abortion.
Paul Kellstedt
has some ideas. The associate professor in political science, studies Kellstedt
what American men and women want from their government and how that changes
over time.
As a group,
women tend to prefer bigger government with more health and social welfare
programs, men lean toward smaller government that spends less, except in the
military issues.
Besides the
traditional role of women as caretakers of the family, who live longer than men
so they are more likely to rely on Social Security and Medical. Women are more
likely to be poor. They are more likely to be single parents struggling to pay
for child care, education and medical expenses. Men may feel that many of the
social programs are expensive and will not benefit.
PERSONAL
OPINION:
Maybe women
and men express our opinion different in time to vote for someone as president.
Each gender has its problems and concerns. Depending on the ideas that
candidates have, we tend to vote for one or the other. In my opinion, knowing the
ideas of each candidate, I would vote for Barak Obama, it can also be because
Obama represents the middle class families, instead of Mitt Romney who
represents wealthy families.
VOCABULARY:
Polls: votación
Binders: carpeta
Welfare: bienestar
Holiday Miracle as Man Awakes From Monthlong Coma
SUMMARY:
On October 28,
a boy of 21 years old, called Pessah was on his way to a party with his
girlfriend and two friends. Suddenly he sees a man who wanted to abuse of his
girlfriend and Pessah protected her, when suddenly the man shoots him in the
head.
The first time
doctors examined Pessah, doctors told the family that he had very little chances
to live. After a month in a coma Pessah, just a days before Thanksgiving, he
woke up and he said his first words. On Thanksgiving Day the whole family
accompanied him and supported him in his first steps. Pessah remembers
everything but not of the shooting.
Pessah was a
student and entrepreneur, and surely he will go back to his life as soon as he
completes recovery.
PERSONAL
OPINION:
Surely the
family will have gone very badly, sometimes unexpected things happen. Despite
what the doctors have said Pessah is awake and enjoying a second chance. He has
to be happy because he has survived even taking few chances.
VOCABULARY:
Bizarre: Extraño
Thanksgiving: día de acción de gracia
Whisper: cuchichear
Egyptian judges in Alexandria to strike over constitution
SUMMARY:
Judges in the Egyptian city of Alexandria have
decided to go on strike in protest at a decree issued by President Mohammed
Mursi which shields his decisions from judicial review.
Egyptian judges are meeting to respond to the
president's move, which put him above the judicial oversight.
OPINION:
I agree to the judges’ protest. I think they
are a great authority, that will influence people to anime and protest. The
people in Egypt can’t let the president do what he wants and skips the rules.
VOCABULARY:
prosecution : interposición de una acción judicial
sweeping: amplio
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sábado, 24 de noviembre de 2012
Holidaying homeowners in for shock after car crashes into their country cottage and leaves it on verge of collapse
Summary:
A couple when he returned to his country house, they found a car that had crashed into his house. The owners of the house had gone on vacation.
The driver was a man of 22
years. The driver was drunk and lost control of his car. A few hours later a
neighbor called the police. The other three passengers in the car escaped
without serious lession.
Now the police has told the
owners that the crane can not get the car. The crane can not because if you
take the house collapsed.
An engineer study the damage
of the house, to know how to get the car. Although most of the house is
destroyed.
'This area is notorious for
this kind of thing. It is a long straight road, so people like to see how fast
they can go. Not the first time it happens.
Personal Opinion:
As people are
little cautious, police would have to put radars. Have if putting fines on bad
drivers, change a little bit the way you think. It can’t be that so many
accidents in the same place.
Vocabulary:
Removal: extracción
Bruises: cardenal/
moraton
Damage: daño
BON JOVI
The
Bon Jovi is an American rock band, formed in Sayreville (New Jersey).
The lead singer is Jon Bon Jovi. He formed the band in 1983 with the
guitarist Richie Sambora, keyboardist David Bryan, bassist Alec John
Such and drummer Tico Torres. But in 1994, Alec John was replaced by
Hugh McDonald.
The
group Bon Jovi has been known for using different styles in their
music. They have always been together, except in some years, when two
member were in solitary.
After
touring, the band went on a hiatus after the New Jersey Tour in 1990.
During that hiatus Jon Bon Jovi and Richie Sambora released
successful solitary albums.
In
1992, the band returned with the album Keep the Faith. Since that
moment they created successful albums during 1990 and 2000. Their
latest album, The Circle, was released on the 10th of November, 2009.
They
have performed more than 2,700 concerts in over 50 countries and for
more than 35 million fans.
All
albums are:
Bon
Jovi was inducted into the UK Music Hall of Fame in 2006. The band
was also honoured with the Award of Merit at the American Music
Awards in 2004, and as songwriters and collaborators
inducted into Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2009.
jueves, 22 de noviembre de 2012
Do you want to know how my ideal music programme would be?
First of all, I
will try to have lots types of music and the music will be of different styles
because like this all the people will be able to hear the programme. There will
be since electronic music, rock, Ballad, Latin music, Jazz, Rap, Tango and
more.
Moreover, I will
try to make the programme more popular by phoning people and waking them up and
also they would be able to telephone us asking for the songs they want.
Furthermore, every week we will have an artist and we will interview him or
her. Every day there
would be a meeting where we explain amusing anecdotes of daily life, with the
aim of making people laugh to all who will listen.
I don't like the commercial
ads on the radio, so I would put commercial ads in fewer hearings schedules. I
would try to reduce them as much as possible.
So, having all
these things on a radio music programme would make the radio more popular and
people would have a great time listening to it!
THE BEGINNINGS OF THE INTERNET
DEFINITION:
The Internet is a global system of interconnected computer networks that use the standard Internet protocol suite (often called TCP/IP, although not all applications use TCP) to serve billions of users worldwide.
WHEN WAS INVENTED THE INTERNET?
The Internet as we know it today first started being developed in the late 1960’s.
In 1982 the Internet protocol suite (TCP/IP) was standardized and the concept of a world wide network of fully interconnected TCP/IP networks called the Internet was introduced. Access to the ARPANET was expanded in 1981 when the National Science Foundation(NSF) developed the Computer Science Network (CSNET).
INVENTOR:
A single person did not create the Internet that we know and use today. Below is a listing of several different people who've helped contribute and develop the Internet.
The initial idea is credited as being Leonard Kleinrock's after he published his first paper entitled "Information Flow in Large Communication Nets" in 1961.
In 1962 J.C.R.
Licklider becomes
the first Director of IPTO and
gave his vision of a galactic network. In addition to the ideas from
Licklider and Kleinrock, Robert
Taylor helped
create the idea of the network, which later became ARPANET.
Lawrence
Roberts and Barry
Wessler helped
to create the final version of the Interface Message Processor (IMP)
specifications.
Other
people helped create the Internet too.
WWW
Tim
Berners-Lee introduces WWW to
the public in 1991. WWW meaning World
Wide Web,
and is a system of
interlinked hypertext
documents accessed via the Internet.
IMPACT:
Since
the 1990s the Internet has had a drastic impact on culture and
commerce, including the rise of near instant communication by
electronic
for exemple:
CONCLUSION:
We
learnt more of internet and more vocabulary with this work too. We
hope that you enjoyed listening
with presentation.
VOCABULARY:
Networks
: red
Worldwide:
mundial
Several:
varis
Flow:
fluir
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