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Advantages and disadvantages about the Christmas

2009-12-16T23:14:00.003+01:00

First we have to keep in mind that the Christmas festivity is very old, it’s a tradition, but a Christian tradition. Really, this festivity began being a pagan festival, but the Christian people wanted to eliminate the pagan festivities. That’s why they created a new Christian festivity over the pagan one.

Nowadays, only the real Christian people care the origin of the Christmas. There are a lot of people that only considerer this tradition as holidays, a break in their job, sometimes to have fun, forget everything and try to be happy.

I’m not against this people, I think that the better thing of the Christmas festivity is the holiday, but on the other hand I think that if we aren’t Christian, we shouldn’t celebrate this... And the worst thing is that the Church thinks that everyone who celebrates this is Christian; we’re under the Church likes and dislikes. And it isn’t true. Many people goes with the flow, doesn’t arise anything, and try to escape from the routine because it is easier that someone takes decisions for you.

Other important factor is all that the big multinational companies have created: from the biggest advertising campaign, the unreal and vulgar environment, up to the big waste of money. You finish very stressed and giving away the conventionalism of the Christmas. Because we are in the extreme, if you don’t celebrate Christmas you are different, but if you aren’t Christian it doesn’t care... It’s crazy!

On the one hand we have the empty of the commercial value of the Christmas; but on the other hand it’s true that in Christmas lot of people wants to change to be better, try to be sincere, and wants to have an illusion and share it with the family.
I see Christmas as an excuse for doing everything I said, and I think that in some years it will stop being a religious festivity.

Although it is commercial, or the Church think they want, I think it is better for the people. Christmas is a part of our routine and life, our childhood and our future, and remove it is like removing a part of us.

Credits:

My thought

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christmas

Hidrogenesse

2009-09-03T21:21:00.002+02:00

Hidrogenesse is a pair of electro-pop formed in 1997 in Barcelona by Carlos Ballesteros (voice) and Genís Segarra (keyboards). The same year they recorded his first demo, "Hidrogenesse en Rimini", with 5 songs.

In 1998 they included four songs in a collection titled "Lujo y misería". Three of the four songs already appeared in their first demo. But it was not until the year 2000 when they published their first work alone, single titled “Así se baila el siglo XX". The following year they left on sale the EP; “Eres PC, eres Mac” and in 2002 their first album was published, "Gimnàstica passiva". After these three launchings in two years, Hidrogenesse was a long period without publishing new works and with little activities in direct.

In 2007 they published a new album, “Animalitos”, engraving with Alfonso Melero, battery of the Murcian group “Hello Cuca”. These are basically theme that turn around the animal like "Disfraz de Tigre” and "Caballos y Ponis”, although also they include versions, like "El vestit d'en Pasqual", a number of Catalan music-hall, popularized in years 70 by Guillermina Motta. All this with influences of glam rock, dirty guitars and a presence of sax.

In 2008 they have published “Bestiola”, that according to them is an epilogue of the year 2007 and it includes the themes that they have played in direct, new recordings of old themes, themes removes of “Animalitos”. Genís is also member of the Astrud group.

Their links:

Official Web of Hidrogenesse:
www.austrohungaro.com/hidrogenesse

Hidrogenesse in MySpace:
www.myspace.com/hidrogenesse

Hidrogenesse Video Clip - Disfraz de Tigre (Costume of Tiger):

Credits:

http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hidrogenesse
http://www.concierta.com/grupos/hidrogenesse/biografia
http://www.musicoscopio.com/hidrogenesse/biografia/
http://lafonoteca.net/grupos/hidrogenesse

Essay - in an orange world

2009-08-12T12:52:00.005+02:00

If you stop to think, the action to see only a color would be too much sad. But we have to admit, if you have seen well and suddenly you see the orange you would begin to like the things that surround us, as the orange things (or other color), and we would be most happy. Then we would feel sadness because we don’t see the green color; that’s why, what there is to have present is that always there is to look (and not “see”) the life colors. Our around is everything colors and that’s why we have to focus it, to leave in other place the damn grey problems and smile when someone smile us, or simply to demonstrate to all the world that we are here, that we are not going to move, and that we have come for do something really big, something that it pass to the history, at least to the history of our life, our little and multicolored life.

;)

Credits:

·my thought

2009-08-11T11:51:00.013+02:00

My last voyage

The last 2nd of August at 7 o’clock I was in Valencia’s bus station with my family, and we were getting on in the bus that would take us to Brittany and Normandy (France).
We went in a bus with capacity for sixty people. And the majority of the travellers were old people, but we were with another family too, and several couples and individual travellers too.
Our guide was called Isabel, and she told us many regional histories. In each city or town we had other guide; normally they were French and speck us in Spanish, of course.
Now I’m going to tell our planning in this trip, each day:

Sunday, 02/08/09: We were in the bus all the day! We stopped every two or three hours, in service areas. I finished very tired. We slept in a hotel in Burdeos, or Bordeaux. But we didn’t visit the city.

Monday, 03/08/09: We left Bordeaux and we went to Nantes. We visited the Dukes of Brittany Castle: It’s a very big and white castle; the Nantes guide told us the Anne of Brittany's story. She was Queen of France twice and Duchess of Brittany too. We visited the Saint Pierre’s cathedral. We slept in Rennes, the capital of Brittany.

Tuesday, 04/08/09: We went to Vannes, it’s a little city, very pretty and with many tourism. The houses over there are very picturesque and old. Then we took the bus and we went to Josselin. It’s famous because the town has a “small” castle, but this little castle isn’t of the state, but it is of a rich family. It is the only castle on France that it isn’t of the state. Finally, the guide shows us Rennes, we visited it and then we came to the hotel.

Wednesday, 05/08/09: Ohlalá! I was waiting for this excursion all the week! The bus took us to le Mont Saint Michel. I always liked it because when I was a child I saw a cartoon video of the Mont Saint Michel, where twins had an argument and Cantinflas resolve it. This is the TV video, I found it in YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8a2RRqTozC8 Well, we saw the Mont Saint Michel and the abbey that it’s in the summit. It was so beautiful! And it was so full! In the small streets of the M.S.M. it was many people that we cannot move, and we were late to the bus for coming. The Mont Saint Michel is famous because two days in the year the tide come in and the mountain become an island, but in 1880 the state built an enormous dike for the tide doesn’t come in. Now they’re trying to destroy it, it’s on the way for the Mount Saint Michel returns to be an island. Then we went to Saint Malo and we ate the typical seafood of the zone.

Thursday, 06/08/09: This day we went to visit Romanches, where there are the “pointe du hoc” the disembarkation of the United States of America’s army during the Normandy Battle in the Second World War. Many people died here, because the Nazi’s soldiers were beginners and they didn’t think that the enemy army would attack here, in a cliff.

We visited Omaha Beach too. It’s where the other part of the USA army and British army disembarkation. Omaha beach and the other beaches were the place for the disembarkation; there were 80 km where 30.000 troops entered in Normandy, this day is knew that Day D, the 6th of June of 1944, and the Hour H was the hour the allied army would land.
We went to the Normandy American Cemetery and Memorial. There were the tombs of the American army. The strangest is the tombs can be a Cross or the Star of David, it disconcert me. Then we took the bus and we went to Canes, but we only visited the Mans Abby and the Cathedral.

Friday, 07/08/09: We took our suitcase of the Rennes hotel and we went to Bordeaux again. In this visit we saw the city; a pretty city. We visited the Cathedral, and the historic centre. The guide of Burdeos showed us a strange think on the city: a horizontal fountain. It’s a space next to the Place de la Bourse; it’s as big rectangle with water inside, in the height of the foot. It’s as a swimming pool but only with two or three fingers of depth. And the people take off their shoes and they wet the feet. The children and the teenagers only wear a bathing suit and they play to wet.

Saturday, 08/08/09: We took the bus and we returned to Valencia. But in the middle of the trip the air-conditioning of the bus broke and we had to wait to other bus forty-five minutes. Then we arrived to home at 23:30h more or less. But after all, I have loved this trip!

Credits:
My experiences

References:

http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omaha_Beach
http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batalla_de_Normand%C3%ADa
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normandy_American_Cemetery_and_Memorial
http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%C3%ADa_D
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II

The Client, by John Grisham

2009-07-30T20:21:00.001+02:00

Reggie said, ”First you have to pay me something.”
She took a dollar from him then said,
“Okay, now I’m the lawyer and you’re the client. Let’s hear the story.”

John Grisham was born the 8th of February of 1955, in Jonesboro, Arkansas, the United States. He is a writer met by his judicial thrillers, selling of his works more than 250 million unit anywhere in the world.

He dedicated to the law before becoming success writer. Ever since he published his first novel in 1988, almost one per year has written: all without exception has been best sellers; apart from that, eight of his histories have been turn to scripts for the cinema. All has been received with enormous enthusiasm, on behalf of the readers, critics and lovers of the cinema.

His work is made up of the novels: A Time to Kill (1989), The Firm (1991), The Pelican Brief (1992), The Client (1993), The Chamber (1994), The Rainmaker (1995), The Runaway Jury (1996), The Partner (1997), The Street Lawyer (1998), The Testament (1999), The Brethren (2000), The Summons (2002), The King of Torts (2003), The Last Juror (2004), The Broker (2005), The Appeal (2008), The Associate (2009), Ford County (2009), and the nonfiction book the Williamson project: a real history and of the cinematographic script of Conflict of interests, that it directed Robert Altman.
Grisham had been the sold author more anywhere in the world during the Nineties.

The Client:

The Client is the story of Mark Sway, a boy of eleven years old, that at the beginning of the book saw the suicide of a lawyer of New Orleans. Minutes before die, the lawyer tells a terrible secret to him, related to the murder of a senator of Louisiana. And his killer, a man of the Mafia, Barry, is on the verge of being judged. The police, the federal public prosecutor and the FBI press to Mark so that he reveals the last words of the lawyer, because Mark knew the place where Barry had buried the senator, Boyette. But Mark knows that the Mafia watches all his movements, and knows that if he tells something, the Mafia could kill him shore. And he olny has the Reggie's help, a lawyer who risk her life for her little client.

Credits:

My summary
http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Grisham
http://www.casadellibro.com/libros/grisham-john/grisham32john
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Client

Seven, by Anthony Bruno

2009-07-04T13:23:00.000+02:00

"You ever heard of the Seven Deadly Sins, Mills? Greed, glutony, wrath, envy, pride and lust."

Anthony Bruno is an American writer who was born in Orange, New Jersey. He graduated in the Boston University, and he made a master’s degree in Medieval Studies.
After work in some publishing company from New York, he got his first literary success with the black novel Bad Guys in 1988.
His books series was Bad Guys, Bad Blood, Bad Luck, Bad Business, Bad Moon, and Bad Apple. The main characters of this series were the FBI agents Mike Tozzi y Cuthbert Gibbons.
In 1995 he wrote the book of the film Seven, stared in by Brad Pitt, Morgan Freeman and Gwyneth Paltrow.

Plot:
The book 'Seven' is about two detectives, Somerset and Mills. Detective Somerset has only seven days before he retires, and Mills is new on the city, he and his wife have moved and they want to be a happy couple. They had to be one week together; Somerset had to show everything of the city and the police station to Mills. And suddenly they were involved in a strange murder series.

First, on Monday, they are phoned and they went to a crime scene. A big and fat man has been murdered, and he was with the hands and feet tied, he had been forced to eat until his throat was very swollen and his stomach was burst. Somerset asked the captain if he can leave the case, but this said him not. Mills, at the same time, asked to take the case of the fat man, but the captain said that only Somerset can do it.

On Tuesday the captain gave other case to Mills. A lawyer has been murder in a cruel situation; he was forced to cut a pound of his flesh, out bones and nerves. And the lawyer decided to cut the flesh of his abdomen. In the floor of his office, with his blood, it was written: GREED. Next to the big word on the floor it was a scale with a pound of flesh in the pan and a piece of paper with a citation
The captain went to see Somerset and said him that in the stomach of the fat man has been found a little strip of plastic; it looks like the assassin forced to eat it with the food. Somerset had a slight intuition. He went to the fat man apartment and began to look for something. He found little marks on the floor, in front of the fridge, that coincided with the strips. He moved the fridge and found a strange engraving in the wall with the word GLUTTONY written with grease and a piece of paper with a Bible citation.

Somerset went to talk to Mills, because those crimes weren’t a coincidence. He said that there are seven deadly sins, and said the murders are not going to stop until the seven deadly sins were captured in crimes. Mills went to the lawyer office and took photos. Then he saw a photo in the desk. She was the lawyer’s wife and the killer had painted a red circles around her eyes with blood.
The Wednesday Mills went to his new office and found there Somerset. The Mills’s wife, Tracy, called and she invited Somerset to have a dinner that night. They were talking about their life and their past. Then Somerset and Mills began to saw the lawyer office photos, and they thought the killer wanted that they went to visit the lawyer’s wife because something is changed in the office. The wife told that the painting of her husband office was upside down. They went and they took the painting. Nothing. It made Mills angry. But Somerset had an idea: he began to look for fingerprints. Voila! In the wall of the painting, behind it, there were two words: HELP ME.

They were waiting for the identity of the fingerprints and on Thursday the captain woke them and showed them a photo. He was the fingerprints man, and they were to visit that man. Victor Dworkin. Nobody had listened for him in months but the police had his address. The detectives and few policemen with uniform and guns went to the place. His apartment was very dirty, and they found a body in a little bed, without a hand. The word SLOOTH was written on the wall above the bed. Next to the Victor’s body there were photos with a date, in each photo Victor was thinner. The first photo was one year ago of that day. One year. That was a game and the killer was playing with them. Suddenly the body made a sound. He was alive.

That night Somerset had an idea. If the killer was doing that about the seven deadly sins, he had to take the information of anyplace, and Somerset had friends everywhere. They went to the library and looked for the name of the people who had rent book connected with this matted. They found it: John Doe. The captain gave them the address and they went to his apartment. Nobody is in, but every piece of evidence about each murder was in. That night Tracy, Mills’s wife, phoned Somerset and they were talking. She said to him that she is going to have a baby. He said her that he isn’t the right person for tell it. And she wasn’t very shore to have the baby. Mills knew nothing.

The next day they are notified about other strange murder; a man had been forced to have sex with a prostitute. But he had to wear a strange belt skit together with a big knife. It made that the prostitute died bleeding: LUST. The man was much traumatized but he recognized John Doe in a photo. Next morning Somerset phoned Mills and said that they had a Doe’s message: I’ve done it again. In the crime scene it was the word PRIDE in the wall, and down it was: I DID NOT KILL HER. SHE WAS ABBLE TO CHOOSE. On the bed it was the body. Her face was bandaged. Somerset found a photo of the victim. She was beautiful. The doctor cut the bandages; she had not got a nose. The victim had in her hand a little bottle. She had to choose, live without a nose or kill herself. When they were walking to the commissary a man appear and surprised them. He was John Doe.

He said he wanted that Mills and Somerset went with him to a specific place, there it were the two bodies, envy and wrath. They did it. Doe guide them to the desert. Then a van was coming along the road. Somerset said Mills that he was going to stopped it. Mills was angry, everything was very strange. The driver of the van was a delivery man. Somerset saw that “Detective David Mills” was written on the box. He opened it, and he understood. “Throw down your gun!” he shouted to Mills.
Doe said to Mills that he admire him, his life and his pretty wife Tracy. He had gone to Mills home and he tried to play husband, but it didn’t work and he got something to remember Mills’s wife, her pretty head.
He said that the ENVY was his sin. And he said that “Become WRATH” to Mills too. Mills was very angry, and confused. Doe said that Tracy begged for her life and her baby’s life. It made Mills cry a bit, and it did that the wish of vengeance was bigger. Somerset said to Mills that if he kills Doe he will win. But Mills didn’t listen to him, and as Doe had said two bodies were there and a destroy man too.

Credits:

My summary
http://crimenymisterio.blogspot.com/2008/03/anthony-bruno.html
http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_deadly_sins

Sentencies:

·Suddenly his stomach was tight.
·Written in fingerprints, as clear as ink, was: HELP ME.
·It doesn’t fit.
·Twelve ordinary people decided whether a criminal was guilty or not guilty.
·Only seven more days of crime, of the noise and mess and violence in the city, and then his life would start al over again.

Earth Hour

2009-06-20T14:57:00.000+02:00

Urban Tribes

2009-03-31T20:38:00.008+02:00

There are many urban tribes today, and young people normally finds his or her way in these urban tribes. Now, I’m going to explain shortly some of the urban tribes:

Emo: The original culture Emo was born in the 80s, as a musical style derived from the American punk hardcore. The “emo” word is from Emotional hardcore music. Nowadays, the majority of the Emos are teenagers, between 14 and 20. They have a negative vision of the life and normally they’re pessimistic and think that they’re victims from a capitalist society.
Pokemones: They derive from the Emo culture, but it is based in the aesthetic more than on other things. This group was create in 2006-2008, more or less. The most important difference from the Emos is that Pokemones dress with brighter colours (Emos only use black, and sometimes pink or blue colors).

Punk: They are born in England between 1976 and 1977 as an opposition to the decay of the culture. Nowadays, they are not many, but those that who are tent to be very radical. Sometimes they are mixed with skins, gothics and heavys. It is the unique tribe who created its own style of music. Their ideology is: Anarchist, okupa, antimilitarist, antifascist, anti-imperialist and anticapitalist. Usually they are very violent; theirs enemies are the neo-Nazi, fascist and posh.

Gothic: They were born in the United Kingdom in the 80s, from punk groups. It is not more of the extended tribes. Normally, they wear black clothes, preferably leather and boots. They have pale skin. They also complements like bracelets with thorns, wristband, chains, grids. Usually they wear religious things as crossings (upwards or downwards), stars of five ends, etc.
Lolitas: It is a of Japanese origin fashion, it mixes youthful currents with the aristocracy of last centuries, mainly the times of the Rococo and the Victorian era. Like many of the Japanese Underground currents, it was born at the end of the 70; to go away propagating until arriving at neuralgic points like Tokyo, thus turning the famous Harajuku district into the capital of the Lolitas.

Hippie: They were born in the 60s, because of the injustices of the Vietnam war. They have long bobs and they wear showy clothes with intense colors. They flee from the violence and they proclaim the peace in the world and love among people with the thought of that we are all equal. They don’t like the politics. They want to live life intensely, using of corporal pleasures and drugs. It is a tribe practically extinguished but their ideas even remain in the world.

Heavy: It was born in England, in the 60, as extremist radicalization of the ideology hippie and conjunction between its aesthetic and hard music rock. Its complete name: Heavy metal, reference to the intense metallic sounds (electrical) produced by the musical groups.

Mod: These group was born in London, the first 60s, like reinterpretation of the style "modern” of the 40s and 50s, mainly North American (Mod = contraction of Modernist). Their ideology is moderately progressive, aesthetic vision of the world, latent individualism. Violent tendencies: Practically nonexistent. They drink mark beer and they go to design bars. They are in the movement of Defense of the Earth.

Credits:
· My summary
· http://www.telefonica.net/web2/elcodigo/tribus/
· http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lolita_(moda)
· http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punk

Israel and Palestine Conflict

2009-02-17T21:47:00.003+01:00

In all of the history, the Jewish had been “marginalized” or separated from the society. Because of the Christ’s death, the Jewish always had been marked as responsible.

The 29th of November of 1947 the General Assembly of the United Nations, reunited in New York, approved the Resolution 181, which recommended a plan to solve the conflict between Jews and Arabs in the region of Palestine, that was at those moments under British administration. The plan of the UN proposed to divide the western part of the Mandate in two States, one Jew and another Arab, with an area, that included Jerusalem and Bethlehem, under international control. The incapacity of the British government to carry out east plan, along with the refusal of the Arab countries of the region to accept it, had as consequence the Israeli Arab war of 1948.

Now, Israel wants Gaza, because of simple reason: they have not got coast. And it was an important thing for trade.
But historically, Gaza pertains to Palestine, and the Palestinian wants to recover it.

Maps:
:

Arab Peace Initiative:

The Arab Peace Initiative is a peace initiative first proposed by Abdullah of Saudi Arabia, then crown prince, in the Beirut Summit. The peace initiative is a proposed solution to the Arab-Israeli conflict as a whole, and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in particular.
The initiative was initially published on 28 March 2002 at the Beirut Summit, and agreed on again in 2007 in the Riyadh Summit. The peace initiative achieved the unanimous consent of all members of the Arab League, including both the Hamas and Fatah Palestinian factions.
Considered a progressive proposal that would end the Arab-Israeli conflict, unlike the Road Map for Peace it spelled out "final-solution" borders based explicitly on the UN borders established before the 1967 Six-Day War. It offered full normalization of relations with Israel, in exchange for the withdrawal of its forces from all the Occupied Territories, including the Golan Heights, to recognize "an independent Palestinian state with East Jerusalem as its capital" in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, as well as a "just solution" for the Palestinian refugees.
Although the proposal was rejected outright by Israel when it was first proposed in 2002, the Arab League continues to raise it as a possible solution, most recently in 2007, and recent meetings between the Arab League and Israel have been held. According to Haaretz, Arab leaders, have threatened on February 2008 to withdraw their proposal unless Israel explicitly expresses an acceptance of the initiative.

Now, Israel has done a stop fire, temporarily.
A new news is that Iran said that the stop fire of Israel prove its defeat.

Credts:
http://agaudi.wordpress.com/2008/03/05/israel-y-palestina/
http://es.noticias.yahoo.com/especiales/israel-palestina.html
http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conflicto_%C3%A1rabe-israel%C3%AD

A Great and Terrible Beauty

2009-02-17T21:42:00.001+01:00

Original title: A Great and Terrible Beauty.
Author: Libba Bray
Spanish translation title: La orden de la academia Spence
Spanish translator: Isabel Ferrer
Publishing house: RBA
Date of publication: 1st of September 2006
Pages number: 320
Age recommended: 16, 17, 18 years old
Plot:
This story is set in the year 1895...
Gemma Doyle’s life will change radically when her mother dies murdered in strange circumstances, in the same day of Gemma’s sixteenth birthday. Because of this event, her family will send Gemma to a boarding school in England, the Spence Academy. At Spence, she will live estrange things, related with her family, principally her mother, and her magical past.
This book contains the adventure of Gemma and her friends Felicity, Pippa and Ann.
It is related to magic, love and friendship.
The four girls create a secret order, The Order. All of them meet in a secret place outside of the Spence Academy, and all the days, at midnight, the young girls go to their secret place to speak, to consolidate their friendship.
Gemma, Felicity, Ann and Pippa will sign a magic pact of their Order and will visit a strange dimension: the dangerous world of The Kingdoms...

Extract of the book:
Shall I tell you a story? A new and terrible one? A ghost story? Are you ready? Shall I begin? Once upon a time there were four girls. One was pretty. One was clever. One charming, and one...one was mysterious. But they were all damaged, you see. Something not right about the lot of them. Bad blood. Big dreams. Oh, I left that part out. Sorry, that should have come before. They were all dreamers, these girls. One by one, night after night, the girls came together. And they sinned. Do you know what that sin was? No one? Pippa? Ann? Their sin was that they believed. Believed they could be different. Special. They believed they could change what they were--damaged, unloved. Cast-off things. They would be alive, adored, needed. Necessary. But it wasn't true. This is a ghost story remember? A tragedy. They were misled. Betrayed by their own stupid hopes. Things couldn't be different for them, because they weren't special after all. So life took them, led them, and they went along, you see? They faded before their own eyes, till they were nothing more than living ghosts, haunting each other with what could be. With what can't be. There, now. Isn't that the scariest story you've ever heard?

El Internado

2009-01-11T15:41:00.004+01:00

Technical specifications:

Genre: Drama-Mystery
Country of Origin: Spain
Length: 75 min. (per episode)
Language: Spanish
Seasons: Now, it is broadcasting its season number four. The next Wednesday 6th of January of 2009 the season number five will begin.
Number of episodes: thirty-two (until 17th of December 2008)

Cast and main characters:
- Luis Merlo is Héctor de la Vega / Samuel Espí
- Natalia Millán is Elsa - Amparo Baró is Jacinta - Marta Torné is María
- Martín Rivas is Marcos Novoa Pazos
- Yon González is Iván Noiret
- Ana de Armas is Carolina
- Elena Furiase is Victoria Martínez
- Daniel Retuerta is Roque Sánchez
- Blanca Suárez is Julia Medina
- Yolanda Arestegui is Irene Espí / Sandra Pazos
- Carlota García is Paula Novoa Pazos
- Denisse Peña is Evelyn
- Javier Cidoncha is Lucas Galván
- Raúl Fernández is Fermín / Carlos Almansa
- Pedro Civera is Camilo
- Marta Hazas is Amelia
- Carlos Leal is Jacques Noiret
- Ismael Martínez is Guillermo Álvarez / Emilio Galván / Martín

Plot:
It begins a new year in the boarding school “Laguna Negra” (Black Lake), a famous educational centre in the middle of the forest where the sons of the most influential families of the country study. This year, two new students arrive to the boarding school: Marcos Novoa Pazos and his little sister Paula, they have to start a new life after the strange disappearance of their parents. The new cleaning girl arrives too. She, Maria, is a young girl with a shady past: She escaped of a psychiatric hospital, and the boarding school doesn’t know that. But she has got a clean idea: she arrives for look for and recover her son, Iván.

Curiosities of the series:
- The exteriors of the boarding school are engraving in the campus of La Berzolosa of the University of Madrid.
- For Antena3 (original channel) “El Internado” is its best fiction series since three years.
- The series always exceed the three millions of spectator, in six occasions it exceeded the four millions of spectator!
- It earned one Ondas prize.
- Other countries made their version of the series “El Internado”, for example in Italy and USA it is in process of start.
- In Mexico, “El Internado” is broadcasting

William of Ockham

2009-01-04T22:09:00.002+01:00

William of Ockham (or Occam) was a Franciscan and English philosopher friar. He was born in 1280/88, in Ockham, a little town of Surrey, in the south of London. As Franciscan, he had a life of extreme poverty.
He is considered as one of the big speculative minds of the Middle Ages. He is considered as the last medieval philosopher or the first philosopher well advanced to the Renaissance ideas. His philosophy is marked in the end of one time, because of the subsidence and the crisis of the world vision (Middle Age) and the new form of the thought that begin to be born.

William of Ockham was the inspiration for the monastic detective William of Baskerville in The name of the Rose by Umberto Eco.

William of Ockham made a big intellectual and admirable effort for understand the time in he lived. His thought represented, at this level, a big intention of the renovation and revision of every philosophy and theology previous. He made an authentic exercise of the philosophy freedom, these made that many criticism, and the disdain of important people of the time, arrive him. Until he arrived to be marked of heresy because of his poverty vow interpretation (Umberto Eco gave expression to this episode in The name of the Rose).

In this context, he didn’t leave to write texts about politics, these caused his excommunication. These political texts are previous of the Reformation, attempt of “reform” the Catholic Church habits.
The Ockham perspective of the medieval philosophy (*) displayed the existing tension between one time that end and another one that began to exist.
*: The demonstration of the God existence, the universals (people who doesn’t depend for his existence the specific things), ethical naturalism (the philosophy that expect to base the ethics on events), the connection church-state...

The most important contribution that he support or made to modern science and intellectual culture consist in the “Ockham’s razor”.
It was a kind of reasoning based in one simple thing: in equal conditions the simplest solution is probably the correct solution. The postulate is Entia non sunt multiplicanda praeter necessitatem, or “It does not have to presume of the existence of more things that are absolutely necessary ones”.

Ockham died because of the Black Death.

Credits:

http://www-gap.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Ockham.html
http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guillermo_de_Ockham
http://www.boulesis.com/didactica/apuntes/?a=150
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15636a.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occam%27s_Razor

To Madrid

2008-11-13T21:06:00.006+01:00

The last 8th of October, Ainhoa and I went to Madrid.
We left at 8:50 in train from the Estación del Norte (North Station) in Valencia. We went with Ainhoa’s mother.
To go to Madrid come into our head because these day, the 8th of October, Breaking Dawn came out, the last book from the Twilight Saga. And we thought that to go to Madrid could be an interesting experience.
We arrived to Atocha, and there we took the underground. In the underground we saw Miguel, from Fama!
The Breaking Dawn’s party was at eight o’clock in the Fnac in Callao, but at four o’clock we stayed there, and in the Fnac’s entrance had many people waiting for the party! We weren’t the first... We spoke with others people that were waiting too! At half past seven, more or less, Javier Ruescas, webmaster from the most important and famous web of Twilight in Spain, came out to say hi to the Twilighters, Twilight Fans. Ainhoa and I made many photos with him and we three spoke a while. The people were fancy dress about vampires, with layers... When it was the time, we asked to an organizing girl, in Callao streets had 900 people! The party consisted of see the new trailer of Twilight film, an interview to Stephenie Meyer (the Twilight author), and a collection of photos of every parties and meetings about Twilight in Spain. We watched the video in the Fnac’s forum; they had to do five showings because every people could not fit! The people were very nice, we stayed very comfortable and we laugh very much. When the video said, for example, "The new book by Stephenie Meyer, but the end of Twilight..." the people said "ooooh..." with sad tone. And with many things the same!
When everything finished, while we were walking to the hotel, we saw Angy, the singer and actress from "Física o Química"! We made photos with she.
I will never forget this night! It was fantastic!

The others days we went to visit Madrid, and we shopping in the Madrid’s centre. We went to a musical; we saw La Bella y la Bestia. It was lovely!
The 10th of October we came back, and our trip finished.

Credits:

My summary

Gustav Klimt

2008-10-02T21:07:00.003+02:00

He was famous because he painted with much gold and because he represented in his paintings many naked women. He had a women retinue of humble life, they was his muses for the paintings.
The most famous painting by Gustav Klimt is The Kiss
(original name in German: Der Kuss)In one of the text written by Gustav Klimt, he said:
"I’m convinced I am not a especially interesting person. I have not got some interesting. I’m painter, somebody who paints every day in morning until the night. Figures, landscapes; some time, portrait. The words, speaker or written, I can’t say it with easy, especially when I have to say something about me or about my work. (...) If somebody wants discover something of me (...) he gaze at attentively my paintings and he has to try to discover what I am and discover my feelings."

However, the not especial man is one of many original painters in the century XX decades. Gustav Klimt was born in Baumgarten, Vienna (Austria), the 14th of July 1862. His father’s name was Ernst and he was tape recorder. The Klimt mommy was Anna Finster, and she was a character person. They were a poor family and they moved house very much because they cannot pay the rent. The Klimts had seven sons: Clara, Gustav, Ernst, Hermine, Georg, Anna y Johanna.

He died at 6 o’clock in the morning, the 6th of February 1918, by pneumonia.

Credits:

http://www.artehistoria.jcyl.es/genios/pintores/2390.htm

Book: biblioteca El Mundo - Klimt

Free Entry - Hayden Christensen

2008-09-13T23:02:00.000+02:00

Hayden Christensen was born in 19th April of 1981, he is from Vancouver, Canada. He is a Canadian actor and he was nominated for a Golden Globe Award.
His first role was when he was 12 years old in the television series Family Passions, in the Canadian television, in September 1993. The next year he obtained a secondary role of John Carpenter in In the Mouth of Madness.
He appeared in Canadian television programs when he was young, then he went to act into USA television in the 1990s.
His fame began to take off with the televisions series Higher Ground. George Lucas saw Hayden played the adolescent role in this series, and Lucas began to ask about Hayden Christensen.
Later, the roles that gives him fame and the most emphasize in his degree course was the Anakin Skywalker (Drath Vader) role, in Star Wars films by George Lucas.

>Hayden Christensen talks about his role as Anakin Skywalker in Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones:

-How does it feel to play a character who's gone from being a great Jedi to one of the most evil villains who's ever lived?

Hayden Christensen: It's thrilling. It's an amazing role and an amazing saga and an amazing transformation. It's a character that's started off as the embodiment of all that's good and pure in a person I and to evolve into what we know as Darth Vader is a lot to do and a lot of fun as an actor.

-Why do you think they've chosen you to do this?

Hayden Christensen: No idea, I've no idea. I contemplated that for about a week after I got the part and I couldn't figure it out so I stopped thinking about it. I guess I look a little bit like the kid... I don't know.

For read more of the interview click here: http://starsontop.com/starwars/haydeninterview.htm

Filmography:

1997 Night of the Living Dummy III
1998 Strike!
1999 The virgin suicides
2000 Trapped in a Purple Haze
2001 Life as a House
2002 Star Wars:Episode II - Attack of the Clones
2003 Shattered Glass
2004 Star Wars Episodio VI: Return of the Jedi (rerelease 2004, he sustituted off the original actor)
2005 Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith
2006 Factory Girl
2007 Awake
2008 Jumper
2008 Virgin Territory
2008 Beast of Bataan pre-production
2009 New York, I Love You Post-production
2009 Neuromancer Pre-production

Credits:

http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hayden_Christensen

http://www.alohacriticon.com/elcriticon/article1417.html

Music

2008-09-10T13:27:00.013+02:00

The music, in old Greek "The Muses Art", is the art of to organize logical combination of silences and sounds.
The music is very widespread in the world and in every cultures and countries. Now, the young people listen many news music styles influence new forms of live.

Music styles

·Electronic: Electronic music performs by electronic instruments and machines.
Artist: Gigi D'Augostino

Bla Bla Bla - Gigi DAgostino

·Classic: It style began in 1750, when Bach died, and finished in 1820. The common instruments are the piano, the violin, the clarinet... The classic music takes popularity in 1750, more or less.
Artist: Debussy

Clair de lune - Debussy

·Pop: This music style preserves the structure "back – refrain – back". It is simple, melodic, catchy, and normally it is assimilable for great audience. The differences of this style of others are in the melodic voices and clear in first level.
Artist: Madonna

4 Minutes - Madonna Ft. Justin Timberlake and Timbaland

·Pop/Rock: This music mix the Pop and the Rock. This style has strong changes in the instrumental and melodic and clear voices.
Goup: Tokio Hotel

1000 oceans - Tokio Hotel

·Rock: The rock plays with guitar, drums, and bass. Many rock music styles use keyboard instruments: the piano, the organ... This music has strong changes in the instrumental, and it focuses attention on the guitar.
Goup: Muse

Time is Running Out - Muse

·Rock/Gothic: This music mix the Rock and the Gothic. It has the same instrumental that in the Rock, but the Rock/Gothic has the same kind of choir and voice.
Group: Within Temptation.

Stand My Ground - Within Temptation

·Gothic: This music style is a subgenus in the popular music, it is relating with the gothic culture.
Group: Lacrimosa

lacrimosa - satura 03 - crucifixio.mp3 -

·Disco: A music style derives from Rhythm & Blues, that it mixes elements of the funk and the soul, with Latinos touch. It became popular in the discos in the years 70.
Artist: Bee Gees

bee gees - saturday night fever soundtrack - saturday night fever.mp3 - Bee Gees

My Holidays

2008-08-12T12:56:00.001+02:00

This summer I went to Germany with my parents for "pick up" my sister.

She was making the Erasmus scholarship in Leipzig, in the east of Germany. We went the 30th of July and we come to Spain the 9th of August. The first and second day we stay en the road, we went to Germany in car! We went by very near of Toulouse, Valence and in Lyon we sleep in a hotel. But these we had problems for find these hotel.

At 11 o'clock more or less, we were in the expressway, and we did't find any hotel. My mother, she was driving, turn off to a twon near of Lyon. We saw the hotel poster, it said that the hotel was four kilometres from there. We followed... Another poster said that the hotel was in the conflicting direction! We followed the new poster for find the hotel.We thought to ask in a pub or any public place, but the twon was deserted. We fing another hotel, it wasn't the hotel from the poster... In the new hotel we can sleep.

The next morning we went by Strasbourg, Nürnberg and we arrived to Leipzig!

My sister was very happy, and she guided us in Leipzig.

We met Marta's apartament roommater, she is very nice!

One day we went to Berlin and we visited the most important places these city:

The Brandenburg Gate
The Reichstag Building
The line where it was the Berlin wall: it divided the German Democratic Republic of communist political (East Germany) with German Federal Republic of capitalist political (West Germany)
The Berlin Cathedral
The Checkpoint Charlie

We visited many places. Every cities where we were we visited it.

I will never forget this trip.

Credits:

My Holidays - Susana

Countable & Uncountable nouns

2008-07-29T14:06:00.001+02:00

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Countable Nouns:

Countable nouns are things that you can count. For example, "dog". We can count dogs. We can have one, two, three or more dogs.

Countable nouns can be singular or plural:

My dog is playing.
My dogs are hungry.

You can use the article a or an with countable nouns:

A dog is an animal.

When a countable noun is singular, we must use a word like a/the/my/this with it:

I want an orange. (not I want orange.)
Where is my bottle? (not Where is bottle?)

When a countable noun is plural, we can use it alone:

I like oranges.
Bottles can break.

You can use some and any with countable nouns:

I've got some dollars.
Have you got any pens?

"People" is countable. "People" is the plural of "person". We can count people:

There is one person here.
There are three people here.

Uncountable Nouns:

You can't count them. For example, you can't count milk. You can count "bottles of milk" or "litres of milk", but we can't count milk itself.

Here are some more uncountable nouns:
Music, art, love, information, rice, sugar, butter, water, electricity, money etc...

You use a singular verb. For example:

This news is very important.

You don't usually use the indefinite article a or an with uncountable nouns. You can't say "an information" or "a music". But we can say a something of:

a piece of news
a bottle of milk

You can use some and any with uncountable nouns:

I've got some money.
Have you got any rice?

Credits:

My notes
The English Corner

Countable & Uncountable nouns - Susana

Ecology

2008-07-28T13:19:00.001+02:00

What is the "Ecology"?

"Ecology" is a Biology branch. It studies the living being, its habitat, the connections between the living being, and the man influence on our environment and the Earth.
The ecology today has a lot of importance because the people are interested by the atmosphere in which we live must to the conscience taking on the problems that affect our planet and demand a solution.

What is the ecology for?

The principal function of the ecology is to defend the nature right, and in the last years the ecology become so famous because the nature isn’t well cared and the people want do something.

Why is important to defend the nature and the ecology?

The nature is capable of give us the necessary for live.
Each tree, each river, each animal, each plant, each seed and each natural element that the Earth has perform a different function and it is necessary for the life in the Earth. The nature has an ecosystem with many cycles, and these cycles are the perfect balance in the world’s life.

Can we help the Earth? How?

We can help the Earth making some things for the environment: for example, to recycle the paper, glass and plastic... but the most important is that we haven’t to get dirty our planet and to intent that the people of our around make it too.

News projects for the Earth environment:

One alternative of the petroleum is the bio-diesel. The petroleum is very contaminant, and many companies of petroleum are thinking take off the petroleum and begin to use the bio-diesel.

Credits:
http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecolog%C3%ADa
http://www.barrameda.com.ar/ecologia/
http://orbita.starmedia.com/~cumelenpeulla/ecologia.htm

Ecology - Susana

Future - Will and Going to

2008-07-02T18:44:00.000+02:00

GOING TO

Going to + infinitive

We use going to for future plans and intentions.

Affirmative:
I'm going to swim.
You're going to sleep.
She's going to drink.

Negative:
We are not (aren't) going to eat.
You are not (aren't) going to take a photos.
They are not (aren't) going to read.

Interrogative:
Are you going to read?
Is she going to drink?
Are we going to eat?

Short answers:
Yes, I am. / No, I'm not.
Yes, she is. / No, she isn't.
Yes, we are. / No, we aren't.

WILL

Will + infinitive

We use will for predictions, promises and decisions.

Afirmative:
I promise I will pay this year.
You have to promise you will study more this year.

Negative:
I won't (will not) come back late.
They won't (will not) go to the disco.

Interrogative:
Will they invite us to the party?
What clothes will you wear?

Credits:

My notes
Learn English

Future - will and going to - Susana

VideoGames

2008-06-02T13:23:00.000+02:00

What is it?

The VideoGames are a computer game, created for the entretenient. Normaly, you are one or more characters and you have to do something for get yours objectives.

The Origin: Pong (Tennis for Two)

William Nighinbottham in 1958 made a game, Tennis for Two. It lie in hit one ball with one spade. The ball cross the screen and you have to hit the ball and to pass the ball to the other field.
We say that it was the first video game.
But Ralph Baer was the man who invented the first video console, in 1951.

Videogames now

Now we have many kinds of videogames. No only by the news technology, by the kind of topics. We have videogames of Adventure, Shooter, Educational, Strategy, Fight or War, Plataform, Role or RPGs, Musical, Party Games, Simulation, Sports, Races and Hit n'Run.

Videoplayers

The people who play with videogames are videoplayers. The videoplayers divide in three groups: the chance videoplayers, the gamer and the Programer.

·Chance videoplayer: They only play in little time.

·Gamer: They play videogames with dedication and with many interest. They play many hours or every days.

·ProGamer: They are the game creator, participate in official tournament too. They dedicate to discover glitchs, mistakes of the games.

Credits:

Wikipedia

IndiceLatino

VideoGames - Susana

Committee Europe

2008-05-26T13:09:00.000+02:00

The Wednesday 14th of May we went to Germany for the Committe Europe. The students of ESO 2 went out of Valencia at the morning. We had to stay in the airprt at 7:30, but the plane went out at 9:30. One student can not check in because she has not the passport. The 27 students cheecked in and we taked the plane to Dusseldorf. At 11:30 more or less we arrived to Dusseldorf and we take a train, and later of five tains we arrived to Wittmund.

The Thursday 15th we went to an excursion to the North Sea. We went to a Tour in Friesland in four buses. In the beach we were with our germans and with our fiends.
At 3 pm the tour ended and we went back with the families.

All the days were similar. I went to a swimming pool, a park... and the last night the school prepared a disco.

This trip has been unforgettable.

Credits:
EuroFriends WebSite 1
EuroFriends WebSite 2

Committee Europe - Susana

Monsoons Wedding

2008-04-27T22:54:00.000+02:00

The film teach to us the differents cultures that India has.
This film isn’t the typical indian film of Bollywood, it is a alternative film.
It is about the wedding of the leadding actress. Her family is of upper class. And in this kind of celebrations to have many persons, and in the film celebration too.

Credits:

My summary

Important Indian things

2008-04-20T18:34:00.000+02:00

MIRA NAIR:
Mira Nair is a cinema director from India. She was born in 15th of October in 1957, in Rourkela, Orissa (India). She went to the Nueva Delhi University for study but when she was 19 she got a scholarship in the Harvard University. In 1979 she made her first film, Jama Masiid Street Journal, and then she made more films base in the Indian and occidental tradicions. She won an award because the film Salaam Bombay was the Best Film in Language Foreign, in the Cannes Festival. But she won others 25 international awards. An important award is the Gold Lion in the Mostra de Valencia by the film The Monsoons Wedding.

BOLLYWOOD:
Bollywood is the name informal for the films in hindi language that are madding by many films studios in the Indian city Mumbai. The word Bollywood come of Bombay and Holliwood. Now Bollywoow is very important production at worldwide level. Bollywood is very important by theirs musicals scenes.

IMPORTANT INDIAN FILMS:
Mother India (Mehboob Khan), Aan (Mehboob Khan), Andaz (Mehboob Khan), Sholay (Ramesh Sippy), Lagaan (Ashutosh Gowariker), Swades (Ashutosh Gowariker) and Kal Ho Naa Ho (Nikhil Advani).

Credits:
Wikipedia

http://www.epdlp.com/director.php?id=3368

Easter '08

2008-04-06T18:52:00.000+02:00

This year, the Easter is after of Fallas, and we have got two of holidays. I haven't gone of trip this Easter, because the accident of my mother. I used the Easter holidays for do homework.

I was looking up information for History and I found a Midle Ages tradition that is interesting. The peasant of the Middle Ages every years in the Maundy Thursday of Easter they have to give presents for their Lord, in exchange for his protection.

This holidays in Madrid Tokio Hotel began a concert, but Bill, the singer, can't sing because he has an infection in the vocal chords. The fans of Tokio Hotel with tickets for the concert, that they camped in the street, began to cry in the television. The concert is cancel, but Tokio Hotel will come to Madrid again the 28th of Juny. I haven't got ticket, because in Decembre all the tickets used up. Now Bill is recovering, his operation ended happily. And he is doing rehabilitation. But for the time being, he can't sing yet.

Fallas '08

2008-03-27T11:29:00.000+01:00

In this year Easter is after of Fallas, for that we have got two weeks of holidays. My family and me went to Andorra fot sky, but in the last moment my mother had an accident. When she was cleaning a glass, it broken and one piece of the glass cut the tendon of the index finger. We went to urgency very fast and the doctor operated immediately. She staied in the hospital one night and now she hasn't to do nothing, because she can't move the right hand.
In Fallas I went to Valencia for listen the Mascleta. And I went to the cinema, too. This year la Cañada's falla wasn't pretty.

Leaving out this, I haven't made nothing.

Credits:
My summari

Past Continuous

2008-03-03T13:20:00.000+01:00

The Past Contuntinuous form is:

was/were + present participle.

The difference of the Past Continuous and Past Simple:

With the Past Simple we want to say an action happen in the past finished.

Ex:
I lived in Madrid.

And with the Past Continuous we want to say an action happen in the past, but we don't know if tha action is finished or the action still continue.

Ex:
He was playing with the kids.

We don't know if he finished or continue playing with the kids.

Creidts:
English Grammar

Republic of India

2008-02-18T13:12:00.000+01:00

The Republic of India is a south of Asia country. Its capital is Nueva Delhi.

Economy:

The India economy is the fourth most important in the world in terms of purchasing power of Parity. The India is the second economy of the world with more growth, because the India has much diversity in craftwork, agriculture, textile subjects and many services. But two parts of three of the population depend on the agriculture. Since it has arrived the technology and the English grasp to the India, many companies want to locate its company in the India.

But the India faces the high rate of population growth and the challenge that supposes to reduce the economic and social inequalities. And the poverty follows being a delicate problem.

Society:

At the beginning of century 20. The population always was compound in 80 or 90 % by farmers. The village was in India a closed and self-sufficient community. The other two pillars of traditional the India society were chaste and the patriarchal family.
Each chaste one constitutes a closed corporation, that governs with laws and statutes.
For two thousand years, the self-sufficient village, chaste and the family have constituted the plot of the Indian social weave, a solid plot that it resisted to the wearing down and the corrosion of the state structures.

Credits:

·Wikipedia

·Pais Global

Present Perfect

2008-02-17T14:55:00.000+01:00

We use the Present Perfect tense when we want to say an action happened before now. We don't know the exact time when the action happened.

We can't use the present perfect with specific time expressions.
We can use the present perfect with these expressions: already, yet, still, ever, never, once, many times, several times, before, so far...

Ex: I have seen that film twenty times.

Yet:
We use yet for negative and interrogative. Yet always in the end of the sentence.

Ex: We haven't eaten sweets yet.

Already:
We use already for make sentences in afirmative. Already always between the have and the other verb.

Ex: They have already come.

Still:
We use still for make sentences in afiemative, negative and interrogatve. Still is between the personal pronoun and the verb when the verb isn't the verb to be.

Ex: I still live here.
I still have found my keys.

But, when the verb is to be, still is next the verb to be.

Ex: I am still eating.

Credits:
My notes and
http://www.englishpage.com/verbpage/presentperfect.html

Republic of Uganda

2008-02-04T13:05:00.000+01:00

The Republic of Uganda is an Africa country. Uganda is in Africa centre-east. Its frontier are next to the Victoria lake, Kenya, Sudan, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Rwanda and Tanzania. Its capital is Kampala. The population is 1.208.544 inhabitant. The official languages are English and Swahili. The coin of this country is the Chelin Ugandes. The climate is tropical. The Uganda territory is divide in seventy different district. The culture in Uganda is very varied, because Uganda has many ethnic groups. The 70% of population know write and read. Uganda has many natural resources, in Uganda rain a lot and Uganda has many copper deposits.

But Uganda has a problem, the children soldier. Since twenty years ago, in the north of Uganda, they are living the worse civil war. The most emphasize is the children soldier, they kidnap children and they theach them to kill. The children who are kidnapped are 30.000 in the Acholi and Lango regions. Many familys lose their sons because the childres are kidnapped or their villlages are attacked and destroyed. Many familys are killed by a military force, "Lord's Resistance Army". In night the children go to a safe place for sleep still.

Credits:

http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uganda#Geograf.C3.ADa
http://es.caoba.org/edicion3/mundo_actual/uganda/article.htm
http://www.un.org/spanish/events/tenstories/2004/story.asp?storyID=100

Past Simple

2008-01-14T13:28:00.000+01:00

We use the past simple for referring to something that it happened in the past and when the action is finish.

Ex: My mother called me at 7.00.
Mi madre me llamó a las 7.00.

For make the past in the verbs:

Irregular verbs:

You have to know the three forms of the irregular verbs. Every verb is different of the others.

Ex: eat-ate-eaten

swim-swam-swum

Regular verbs:
You only have to white ed in the end of the verb.

Ex: look-looked

kiss-kissed

When the verb is finish in sh, k, ss, ch it pronounce as a /t/:

Ex: looked- /lookt/

But the others verb that don’t finish sh, k, ss, ch it pronounce as a /id/:

Ex: start- /startid/

Credits:

My photocopy of ESO1 and

http://www.lingolex.com/simplepast/indexsp.htm

Computers vs Books

2008-01-07T13:30:00.000+01:00

TECLA- Education Magazine from England
Date: February 2007
Author: Ana Valbuena García

She said:

"The reading isn’t the preference in the young people, but many young people read more than the adults.
The MEC1 published last statistical:
The frequent young people readers are a 37%
The chance readers are 28%
The not readers are a 24%
If you compare this statistical with the adults statistical, you know that the young people read more that the adults. Then, why in the schools the professors worry because the young people doesn’t read?
In first place, the young people like the adventure, fantasy, mystery and terror books. In the best sellers have El Capitan Alatriste by Arturo Perez Reverte and the trilogy Memorias de Idhun by Laura Gallego García. In all books presentation and books signature from Laura Gallego the young people fill the auditoriums with hundreds.
The young people is the most interesting in the technology changes and for that reason the technology contribute for the young people use the computer for promote the imagination: some the video games are inspire in famous novels, for example Harry Potter or The Lord of the Rings. This one makes that the young readers change their form of read, now many young people use the hypertexual reading. For this reason the most important novels are adapting in new audience."

Interview to Laura Gallego in La Mirada Critica:

My Personal Opinion:

I think that the most of the young people don’t read. But the other part of the young people reader read a lot. And this one is more important, because every time have more young readers, and this is very good.

Credits:

http://www.mec.es/sgci/uk/es/tecla/2007/020207teclaCJoveneslectores.pdf

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xYNvWHEe3kY

Something for remind!

2007-12-17T13:15:00.001+01:00

We are beginning the Christmas, but I have had one think for remind.

The 15 of December, Ainhoa and me went to the Laura Gallego's books signature. The books signature was in La Ciudad de las Artes y las Ciencias de Valencia, in the Museum.
Laura Gallego went to an auditorium. The conference hall was very big, more or less fitted four hundred persons in it. But the people kept come in and in the auditorium the people doesn’t fit more and some persons has to put themselves in the auditorium sides for listen and see Laura Gallego. She launched her new book, La Emperatriz de los Etéreos, too. The launch began at 12 o’clock. And the book signature began at 12:40. Laura Gallego signed our books at 5 o’clock. We were in the queue 4 hours and 20 minutes. Laura doesn’t make any pause for dinner, because of that Ainhoa and me bought a biscuit packet in a bar and we give her the biscuits. She was happy and we thought that always that we go to a Laura Gallego book launch or signature we bring her a biscuit packet.

Credits:
My summary
http://www.laemperatrizdelosetereos.es/
http://www.lauragallego.com/

My Best Friends!

2007-12-03T13:05:00.000+01:00

We are very close. We were Meritxell, Eva, Carmen and Renata, but the last year, when we were in ESO1, three new friends got all in our group: Ainhoa, Violeta and Celia.

*Ainhoa or Erive: She has our age, she is 13. She is very intelligent, nice and she is funny and very pleasant too. She was a studient in the El Parque school, when she was in Primary but she has been in our year in ESO.

*Violeta: She is 14. She likes comics and Nightmare before Christmas, but the most important is that she is a excellent friend. She was a studient in the El Parque school, when she was in Primary too. She is ESO 3.

*Celia: She is 15. She was in the La Puebla institute, but since the pass year she is in our year. She likes more the clothe with make clothes and she likes go to shopping.

*Meritxell or Lune: She has our age, she is 13. She has always gone to Escuela 2. She is very optimistic and very likeable too. She likes very much read, and she is obsessed by the books.

*Eva: She has our age, she is 13. She since the 3 years old she is in Escuela 2. She is quiet but she is very important person for we. She likes read too and the comics manga.

*Carmen: She has our age, she is 13. Carmen always has been in our school. She hasn't embarrassment for say thinks. She is very nice person if you meet her. She likes playing with the Nintendo DS.

*Renata: She has our age, she is 13. She has been in Escuela 2 since young. She is very nice and very joker too. Renata likes go to the cinema and swimming in the sea. She likes read some comic too.

Credits: My summary

My Family

2007-11-26T12:59:00.000+01:00

My mother is a state secondary school teacher. My father is a Universitat Politecnica de Valencia teacher. I have got a sister, her name is Marta and she studies in the Univrsitat Jaume I, in Castellón, because Valencia only has a first cycle. But this year, she is making the Scholarship Erasmus in Germany. She went to Germany the last September. And she will come home in July. She is 20 years old. And she is very nice and very pleasant.

But my family isn't how this family, the Cullen...

Credits:

My summary

My Enviroment

2007-11-25T16:30:00.000+01:00

La Cañada problem:

I live in La Cañada. La Cañada is next to the small mountain and near Paterna, in Valencia. It is a place very beauty, with its trees and its small houses. But it has a problem. Every streets arrive to the street 29.

La Cañada only has a street for way out, the street 29.

And every day in morning the cars block in the street and you

can’t move and you are still many time. The hours when have many traffic is between 8:30 and 9:30 in the morning. The town council would do something for sort out this problem. For example, to make many streets

for way out of La Cañada.

Credits: My summary and www.paterna.com

My summer book

2007-11-04T13:59:00.000+01:00

Book title: Treasure Island.
Author: Robert Louis Stevenson.
Plot: Jim is the inn owner son. One night appear a sailor, Billy Bones, with a chest. Other day a blind sailor appears the same night that the Jim’s father dies. The blind sailor says Billy Bones that that night, he and his henchman assault him and they take the chest. In of the chest is a treasure map. Jim shows the map to Trelawney and the Doctor Livesey, and they three go to the Treasure Island. They find the crewmember: John Silver and the Capitan Smollet. During the travel, Jim falls in an apples cask and he listens the Silver and others sailors the treason plans. Jim goes to his companion and says the treason plans, and they make a plan. When the ship arrives to the island, Silver and the disloyal sailors disembark. Jim goes with them, but he run away and meet Ben Gunn, a shipwrecked person that John Silver leaved in the island. Ben Gunn knows where the treasure is. John Silver and his crew go to find the treasure, but they don’t find because Ben Gunn change the treasure to other place. The Capitan Smollet, Trelawney, the Doctor Livesey and their sailors shelter in the island. Ben Gunn warns Trelewney that he change the treasure to other place. Jim find the treasure and he take it home.

Credits:
My opinion and http://www.alohacriticon.com/viajeliterario/article387.html?topic=5

The Present Simple

2007-10-07T11:46:00.000+02:00

The difference of the Present Simple and the Present Continuous:

Present simple:
We use the present simple for things that are true in general, or for things that happen sometimes or all the time.
Ex:
I eat bread.
I am saying that I eat bread sometimes, but I’m not saying that I am eating now bread.

Present continuous:
We use the present continuous for things that happen in this moments.
Ex:
I am eating bread.

Negative:
We make the negative of the present simple with do not.
Ex:
I do not eat bread or I don’t eat bread.

Interrogative:
We make the interrogative of the present simple with do, too.
Ex:
Do you eat bread?

We use do because the present simple need an auxiliary verb for make negative and interrogative.

Credits:
My photocopies of ESO1

Juanes

2007-09-05T13:58:00.000+02:00

His name is Juan Estaban Aristizábal Vasquez. He was born 9th of August in 1972. He is from Medellín, Colombia.
His music is a rock, pop and Colombian rhythm mixing. Normally, the theme of his songs is the love.

His themes “Fíjate bien”, “Podemos hacernos daño”, “Nada”, “A Dios le pido” and “La camisa negra” are in the first places of popularity in the Colombia, Mexico, Venezuela, USA, Puerto Rico and Central America radios. And always his video clips are the most seen and he was earned more prices in the specializing channels, MTV or the 40 principales.

He obtained 3 Latin Grammy. Then he had one long year of his many chart successes, this Colombian singer, compositor, and guitarist bring out a new CD then of bring out “Fijate bien”. With the new CD Juanes beat himself and now he is with the promotion of this new CD called “Un día normal” and “Mi sangre”. He was on tour inLatin America with the veteran Argentinean singer Fito Páez. But his new CD is "La vida... es un ratico".

Discography:

La vida... es un ratico (2007)
Mi sangre (2004)
Un día normal (2002)
Fijate bien (2001)

Credits:
http://www.angelfire.com/freak2/minto_mytqm/biografia.htm

My town’s holding its annual festival

2007-08-29T15:09:00.000+02:00

Villar del Arzobispo is my town. I go to Villar in summer, because is the town’s holding its annual festival. The more important festivities are:

Paellas: The Paellas is cookery competition. The competitors have to do paella, a very typical food in Valencia. The competition is celebrated in the main street. Each group has a space and one bonfire in the street. Normally, in the cookery competition is one hundred or most competitor. As the street is very long and wide, every competitor fit in. Normally the people go to see the paellas. Always the competitors groups make their own t-shirts and they write in his t-shirts the group name.

Vaquillas: The fiesta committee builds a bullring and they release young bull. The people go out and fight the young bull. Sometimes the young bull gore someone, but normally is a slight wound.

Toro Enbolado: The Toro Enbolado is other festivity of Villar. These are young bull but the fiesta committee put in the bull horn a fire ball.

This three festivities are the more important but even Villar have more festivities.

Credits:

My summary and Villar's web.

2007-08-06T15:50:00.000+02:00

Idhun Chronicles (Memorias de Idhun) is a Spanish writer book Laura Gallego. The books are a trilogy: the Resistance (la Resistencia), Triad (Tríada) and Pantheon (Panteón).

Main characters:

Jack:
He has got blond hair and green eyes.
His corporal temperature is two degree higher of the normal temperature, because his other essence is Yandrak, the last gold dragon from Idhun. He can make a fire circle, too.
He is a nice, friendly and protective boy.
In a first book he was 13 and he lived in Denmark. Then of his parents die, but they saved to him of Kirtash. They are Alsan and Shail the leaders of the Resistance. They took Jack to Limbhad, the border house of Idhun and the Earth, in Limbhad Jack knew many thinks of Idhun, its wars and every thinks that over in Idhun. He knew the story of his mortal rival, Kirtash. But, the more important is that he met his love, Victoria.

Victoria:
She has got a brown long hair and her eyes are very big and brown, too. She is very beautiful.
She can happened unnoticed, because her other essence is Lunnaris, the last unicorn from Idhun.
Victoria is very nice and very happy. But she is sensitive and very understanding. She rarely is angry. She know react when she is worried.
In a first book she is 12. She lives in the day in Madrid and in the night in Limbhad. In Madrid she lives in Allegra’s mansion, in the Madrid outskirts. Allegra adopt Victoria and she treats Victoria as her grandson. Victoria lives in Madrid because she has to go to the school. And she lives in Limbhad because Limbhad protect Victoria of Kirtash. In the first book Kirtash is bad, but then he is her love, separately of Jack that is her other love. Victoria was born in the Earth.

Kirtash:
He has got a brown hair and longest that Jack’s hair. His eyes are very intense blue.
He can read the mind, because he is a shek, a very big flutter snake. -He is a very cold and very intelligent. He is stealthy because is a shek. Kirtash is serene and very calculating, too.
Kirtash, or Christian is a killer ruthless that he kills an Idhun’s withers exiled. In a first book he is 15 years old, one more than Jack and two more than Victoria. Kirtash was born in Idhun. His father is Ashran, the necromancer. Ashran killed Manua, Kirtash mother, and then he catches Kirtash and he teaches Kirtash for kill. Kirtash receive orders from Ashran. He is music fond. In the two years that the Resistance was break up, Kirtash was a very famous pop singer: Chris Tara.

Credits:

www.idhun.net and my summary

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix- The film and the book

2007-07-16T17:13:00.000+02:00

Harry Potter is a book by J.K.Rowling. She began to write this saga in 1990, when she travelled in a train. Then she wrote:

Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone (1997)
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (1998)
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (1999)
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2000)
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2003)
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2005)
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (2007)

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

The film:

The film is by David Yates. In this film Daniel Jacob Radcliff, Harry, is eldest that the others films, he is 17 but Harry is 15, and I think that Harry is more sensitive because in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire he witnessed the Cedric Digory death. But he is more negative and he is more annoyed with his friends.

The book:

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix is a very interesting book. I think that this book in the more interesting book of this saga. I only have read the fifth and sixth book but when J.K.Rowling publishes the seventh book I will read it.

The differences that the book and the film are very smalls.

Credits:
My summary and Harry Potter's web .

If you want read Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows in Spanish you have to go: http://www.spanishhallows.blogspot.com/

Eragon- The book and the film

2007-07-07T14:49:00.000+02:00

Eragon was first a book by Christopher Paolini. Then Stefen Fangmeier created the film. The book is more interesting than a film.

The book:

Eragon, the main character,has many ventures with his magic and sword teacher. Eragon is a dragon horseman. He find a gem, but in reality is a dragon egg. His dragon is Saphira. Then they meet Murtagh, a very Eragon friend. And the three together go to many towns. In this towns happen many thinks: the first town they meet with a corpse mountain; in the second town they meet with a witch, she read the Eragon’s future. Brom, the teacher, last week die because a walk into an ambush. Eragon and Murtagh go to the Vardens, the rebel. The story finish is good, in a war agains the Empire. Eragon fight agains Durza, a bad wizard. The fight is very exciting, because they fight with sword and magic. Eragon win. And the Vardenos win.

The film:

In the film the beginning in similar, but when they go to many towns isn't similar, everythings happen in one town. When Eragon and Murtagh go to the Vardenos, the war change too. Eragon fight agains Durza, too. But in this fight they fight on a dragon. Eragon in Saphira, his dragon, and Durza in a fumes dragon.

The differences are very shocking and obvious. I like the book more than the film. And I recommend the book first and then the film.

Credits:
My summary and Eragon's web.

For a free Sahara...

2007-06-14T15:58:00.000+02:00

Where is the problem?

The Sahara was a Spanish colony, when Marocco invaded by means of the Marcha Vende. Spain promised help the descolonization for the Sahara independence. The Marcha Verde catch unawares Spain, the Franco dearth, they and choosed to give up.

The war and the cease-fire

When Spain go out of the Sahara, began a war. The Frente Polisario agains Marocco and Mauritania. Then, Mauritania signed the peace accord with Frente Polisario.

And the Sahara people...?

The marroqui invasion forced many people to run away to the desent, where built a many fields of refugees. In that corner of desert the more rough of the planet, 160,000 saharauis have been surviving for 30 years wishing returning to their homeland.

Credits:
Web page-
http://www.elmundo.es/elmundo/2005/05/31/internacional/1117555870.html

Podcasting

2007-05-22T20:48:00.001+02:00

What is?

The Podcast is a audio program subscription: You receive a internet audio programs. You can listen music when you want in your computer and you can put the music in mp3, the songs are give in automatically to the user.

How do you do it?

1. You have to relieve of Internet a RSS program. This programs are desing for add the new sounds 'feeds'. Ex.

iPoder (Windows, Mac o Linux)
Jagër (Windows, Mac o Linux)
Doppler (Windows)
Nimiq(Windows)
Podfeeder
iPodderX(Mac)
Sparks!(Mac)
Bashpodder(Linux)

2.You have to choose a Podcasting web and subscrive to. The news songs will appear in you list when the songs appear in internet.

3. When you receive the new file, the program relieve of internet to the computer the file and you keep the song in a music copying.

My personal opinion

I think that this form for relieve songs is very interesting and very useful. I'm going to use a Podcasting.

Credits:
Web page- http://www.sindicacion.net/rss/rss_para_musica.htm

My Book*

2007-05-22T19:56:00.000+02:00

Book title: The house in the picture

Author: M. R. James

Plot: I don't like this book because the end isn't interesting. I thought that it was more moving. I took this book because I thought it was fear, or mystery. At the begining is interesting because the picture changed each time than you see that. The form that write the author is good, but he talks a lot about the past, he repeats too much the begining the story. If I was the author I change the end and I made with more mystery, that the problem of the story is not solved.

Character: The main character of this story is a man. His job is in a museum, he buy the pictures. He is a careful man. And he is respectful and nice.

Actions: One of the actions of the story is when the man and his friends are together in this room. Every bodyare speaking about the mysterious picture. I think that this part of the book is very interesting because they try to sort out the mystery.

William Shakespeare

2007-04-08T22:23:00.000+02:00

William Shakespeare was a very important actor and writer. He was born on 23 April, 1564 in Stratford in England. He was married Anne Hathaway in 1582, he was 18 years old and Anne was 24 years old. She was 8 years older than William. He moved to London in 1590. In London he continued work in writer and actor. He made Romeo and Juliet in 1594 with 30 years old. Hamlet appeared in 1600, he was 36 years old. His plays were very successful. In 1610 he was rich and went to Stratford. He died on 23 April, 1616 with 52 years old. The same date of his birth.

The falläs

2007-03-07T19:11:00.000+01:00

The fallas is a popular festivity in Valencia. Every yaer in March many people grups, the casales falleros go out to celebrate this festivity. They make parades, ect... but the most important thing is the monument of the Falla. The Falla is a very big papier-mâché sculpture. They make a every one Falla but smalled, is the infantil Falla, too. The fallas holidays are in March. In this holidays the children like throwing bangers. The St. José nigth is the Cremá. It is when the Falla is burnt.

St. Valentine's day!

2007-03-07T19:00:00.000+01:00

The St. Valentine's day is a beautiful daybecause it is a day when lovers celebrate their love. The lovers usually give each other a present. They write love letters. The St. Valentine's day is celebrate on 14th of Febrary. Nowaday, this is a veryproftable day for the shopping centres because many people buy the presents for their lovers.

The Greenhouse effect

2007-02-05T18:29:00.000+01:00

The Greenhouse effect pass because of the pollution. The Sun fling a solar radiation that come in to the Earth and go out a one part of this. Because of the pollution, the atmosphere is making more thickness because nhave many the CO2. This make than the solar radiation don't go out. And in the worl be hot.

The bomb in Madrid

2007-01-23T10:55:00.000+01:00

A day of January, in the morning, the Madrid airoport exploded a bomb. In the terminus A4. The bomb have cause 20 injure. 4 persons are slight and 15 are very serious. ETA have put the bomb. This explosion want say than ETA had break off the cease fire period. Many people don't have trabel because one part of the airoport is stop.

The Mononoke princess

2007-01-15T21:11:00.001+01:00

Mononoke Princess is a film by Hayao Miyazaki, a Japanese director. In the film appears a woman, Lady Eboshi, that wants the Forest Spirit head. The forest Spirit is the life and death god. If someone had the head, he could sell it because it is very valuable and expensive.
This story is about a boy, Ashitaka, that after fighting with a wild board demon, a curse is spread out in his body, because he touches it. Then, he goes to the forest where the forest Spirit lives, because the forest Spirit is the only who can relieve the curse. In his way, he meets San, Mononoke princess. She wants to kill Lady Eboshi, who is destroying the forest to hunt the forest Spirit. Ashitaka thinks that destroying the forest is not good. Because of that, he helps San to protect the forest and the forest Spirit.
Finally, Ashitaka and San achieve to save the forest Spirit. And Lady Eboshi understand that she doesn't have to destroy the forest.

Mistreatment of women

2007-01-14T14:35:00.000+01:00

In Spain many women are mistreated. Women, normally, report the abuser to the police. But not all of them report the mistreatment. The problem is more serious than what it seems, because many women die because of domestic violence. Moreover, there are many people that see mistreatments and do not say anything about it. Mistreatments can be physical or verbal. Many abusers have mental problems or with drugs or alcohol. From 470 women who report that they were mistreated, 35% report their couple.

Christmas in other countries...

2007-01-14T14:34:00.001+01:00

In Venezuela Christmas is a very important festivity, because the Venezuelan make a big meeting to speak of the past year.
In Germany Christmas is celebrated with very different things: They go to a frozen lake in Berlin. They put into the lake the first Christmas day. They swim because they think that is better for their health, they don’t think in the temperature or the water. Before, they sing a Christmas carol for give encouragement.

Christmas in Spain

2007-01-14T14:11:00.000+01:00

Christmas is a very important festivity in Spain. It is a religious festivity, but many people don’t believe in any God. All the houses are very decorated with Christmas adornments. We put a small or big Crib, a Christmas representation of the birth of Jesus. One of the Christmas adornments is the Christmas tree. Normally, it is put in the living room. In Spain the Three Wise Men are more typical than Santa Claus. The first thing we celebrate is Christmas-eve dinner with all the family, and then children receive presents from Santa Claus. We also celebrate New Year’s Eve. Then the 6th January we celebrate the Three Wise Men day. We have typical foods of Christmas;
The most important ones are: “Turrón” (a sweet made with almond), sea food, roast meat, “roscón de Reyes” (“Three Wise Men cake”, made with fruits and pasty) and many other dishes.

Routines

2007-01-14T14:09:00.000+01:00

I normally get up at 8 o’clock, then I get dressed and I go downstairs, to the kitchen for breakfast. Then, I get ready and I prepare my bag. At quart to 9, I go to the school. When I go out of the school on Mondays and Wednesdays I go to English lessons in the school; and on Tuesdays I go to funky lessons in the school, too. The other days I don’t have any out-of-school lessons. When I arrive to my home, I do my homework and then I have a snack in the afternoon and I feed my dog. If I have time, I usually watch TV, I meet with my friends or I read a book or a magazine. I normally have dinner at half past 9. Finally, until 11 o’clock or so I’m awake. And then I go to sleep.

The Venus Godes

2006-12-01T16:08:00.000+01:00

Venus was a very important goddess for the ancient Greece. She was a goddess of love and beauty.

Shakira*

2006-11-17T17:45:00.000+01:00

My favorite singer is Shakira. Her complite name is Shakira Isabel Mebarak Ripoll. She born 2 of Febrary in 1977, in Barranquilla near to Carive sea. Her father is William Mebarak, and her mother is Nidia Ripoll. Shakira mean "Goddess of the ligth" in Hindu. Shakira began to sing and dance to 5 years old, with Arab dances.

Hello my name is Susana and welcome to my blog.

2006-11-10T16:05:00.000+01:00

I have black hair and brown eyes, I am 12 years old. I am in Eso1. My school is Escuela 2 and I live in Valencia.

I like playing volleyball, going to the cinema, gimnastics, playing with computer and I can read any kind of stories.

My sister is 19 and she is studying translation, my mother is a head teacher and my father is deputy headteacher of University.

My favorite t.v. series are Futurama and House.

I like The Simpsons and family guy, too. My friends are: Eva, Ainhoa, Carmen, Renata, Meritxell and Celia, everybody are in ESO 1.