FINAL REFLECTION

To begin, I want to say that I'm very proud of all the work I've done. When I see my blog space I think that I have improved a lot. For example, in my oral presentations I believe that the first presentation I read a lot and the oral presentation of 2on term I wasn't nervous and my pronuntation has improved a lot.

The activity that best shows my level, are the writings because I have learnt a lot of vocabulary and each time it becomes easier to write and faster. Also, the activity that has helped me improve my level of English is the oral presentation because I was able to work better my pronuntation, this is the most difficult aspect for me and the oral presentation has also helped me to speak English in public, for me this is difficult because I'm shy.

For me the activity that I didn't find useful for me level have been the listenings because quite often I didn't understand what they were talking about and then I couldn't follow the conversation very well.
The other activity that didn't help me to improve is when we were in the language classroom because I couldn't concentrate enough.

The activity that I liked a lot was when all the class played games because it was very entrataining and we also learnt a lot.

In conclusion I hope that I will improve my level of English a lot and really I also think that I've worked hard this year and this will help in my future.

COMMENTS

http://maarianaa17.blogspot.com.es/2012/05/consumerism.html?showComment=1336933060911

http://from-my-heaven.blogspot.com.es/2012/05/happiness-is-waaarm-guuun.html?showComment=1336933727809

http://sofargonejulia.blogspot.com.es/2012/05/love-is-on-fire.html?showComment=1336935702931

LOVE

Love is a really nice word but does it exist? I would like to think that this feeling can be forever, but unfortunately the world is changing. Before there was a clear idea: find a man and get married. Nowadays the mentality society is only live the moment and enjoy it to the maximium. This is OK, but we have to put limits because we have to act like mature people.

We live for now; we want everything, we want move money, more fame. We are very egotistical. How can love survive, when we only think of ourselves?
There's another problem with love, it is difficult for it can last. For example, if you meet a person, you feel confident with and you become to go out with when you are young. It's very difficult because you have all your life ahead of you. Perhaps this young relationship will prevent you meeting your goals.

To finish I would like to say that I think that love exists and that can last forever, but it's not imposible. Now, I have a relationship since four years and I hope not never end and moreover that not be turn off the flame of love.

AT LAST! I'VE PAST MY DRIVING TEST

A month ago I passed the theory and practical exam driving test. When I was younger I thought that it wuold be imposible because I'm afraid of motorbikes and I thought that it would be the same.

First in January I passed the theory exam in 1st time and I was afraid because if you fail the first time you have to pay more.
Then I went to Girona to do the practical exam and I was very lucky because for me the most difficult was the parking. However a very good women examined and me I passed the exam.

The advantatges are that now I don't depend on my mother and I have more freedom and I like this a lot.
But also there are some inconveniences, for example, nowadays diesel oil and petrol is very expansive and this is a problem because you have a lot of expenses. At this moment I don't have a car and I suppose that I will have a car when I'm older. Although I use my mother's car and I share with my sister and at the moment we don't have any problems and I hope that we won't :P

Syria unrest: Damascus "suicide blasts" kill dozens

"Twin suicide car-bomb attacks have killed at least 55 people and wounded 372 in Damascus, Syrian officials say.

The blasts happened near a military intelligence building during morning rush hour. State TV showed burnt cars and two deep craters in the road.

The government and the opposition blamed each other for the attack - the deadliest in Damascus since the start of Syria's uprising 14 months ago.

The two sides are supposed to observe a ceasefire monitored by a UN team."



In my opinion I think that the situation in this country is very violent because this country is at war.

I understand that these people are against the Government and for this reason are revealed with the Government. Although then the Government has a very violent reaction and attacks people, and the consequences of this, many people die and this seems shameful.
The objective of the Government is to have the subject people an it has all the power.

In conclusion I believe that we should be happy with what we have, because in countries like Syria it is very sad.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-18015935

REQUIEM FOR A DREAM

This film is about a boy called Harry Goldfard and his mother is called Sara Goldfarb.

Sara, Harry's mother, is a widow and she spends most of her time sitting on the couch watching TV. She receives a supposed call from your favourite television programme and she believes that she has been invited to this programme. At this moment her life cahnges because she begins to become obsessed with food and she starts a diet. This diet doesn't convince her and she decides to take pills called amphetamines because in this way she will lose weight faster.

Harry, is a boy who take drugs and he deteriorates more. Then Harry and his friend go in Florida for find easier drugs and later Harry is arm becomes infected and they go to the hospital to get help and the doctor says he is suffering fro drug addiction. Sara gets much worse and she begins to have hallucinations and finally she is taken to mental health clinic.

In my opinion I think that this film is very impressive because it is the reality of the consequences of drugs. In the movie all the characters make mistakes because o drugs.

NEW HUMAN RIGHTS

Dominican Republic: double abuse against women with AIDS

In the Dominican Republic women are subjected to tests of AIDS every day and if these are positive they are dismissed and discriminated.
Therefore a lot of women suffer from double discrimination, first, for being women and segond, because are people with AIDS.


In my opinion I don't understand how there may be countries which discriminate this way to women and only for having a disease. It would be just the opposite, they would help a lot to people who have AIDS. The inequality of persons still in Dominican Republic and the women are very discriminated.
Women with AIDS are not treated as people, they are treated worse than animals.

In conclusion, I hope that things will change because I don't like to see these injustices in the world, although I know that the world is full of injustices.

http://www.hrw.org/es/news/2004/07/12/rep-blica-dominicana-doble-abuso-contra-mujeres-con-vih

Human rights questions

1. What are human rights?

Human rights are commonly understood as inalienable fundamental rights to which a person is inherently entitled simply because she or he is a human being. Human rights are thus conceived as universal and egalitarian.

2. Why were they created?

Human rights were created because, this way, people respect and there is not violence. Mainly created to delete the esclavision and people with more power not abusing them and everybody equally.

3. How many human rights are there?

There are 30 human rights.

4. Which human right were you not familiar with? Mention an example where this human right is respected and where it is not respected.

There are many human right that are not respected like public health. Therefore, are not respected human rights in countries where public health is not provided like Spain and I disagree totally with this because health is very important for all kind of people. I also believe that would be equality of persons.

The king breaks a hip when hunting elephants in Botsuana

The king broke a hip hunting elephants in Botsuana. This has caused some important problems, first; that the king has had eight operations during the 74 years of his lifes and the other problem is the image of Juan Carlos devoted to hunting in an African country in one of the worst weeks of recent Spanish economic history and at a delicate moment for the Royal family with Iñaki Undangarín scandal and the accident of Froilán, the grandson of the monarch.

In my opinion, I find it very shameful what has happened because I think that this is not normal. I believe that it is shameful that the king practiced hunting, a violent activity, while Spain is one of the worst moments of history. Also I find it shameful that our money is spent to hunt animals, and specially, at this time of crisi is happening Spain. While there are people who have not a home and who is dying, it is illogical that the king spent 20000 euros to practice a frightening activity.

In conclusion, I think that if the king continues to make these illogical things, Spain will go increasingly worse.

My favourite city

New York is the city of my dreams, I would like to travel to this city so much. Since I was small I have wanted to go there.

New York is the most populated city in the United States. The city is divided in five big territories: Bronx, Brooklin, Manhattan, Queens and Staten Island. New York has many neighborhoods and buildings recognized around the world. For example, "The Statue of liberty", located on the island of Ellis, this statue is one of the monuments most famous of New York. The statue of liberty became a symbol of this city and represents freedom.

The city has the tallest buildings in the world, one of the most important is Empire State and the twin towers. Which were sabotaged on 11th September of 2001. I would like to go to the Empire State because I saw a televison serial called Gossip Girl and always get this big building.
New York also has some very nice parks, the most famous is Central Park, this is situated in Manhattan. This park is the most visited of United States.

I wish that I could go to New York once in my life and I will go to all of these places.

Leighton Meester

Leighton Meester is an American actress and singer. Meester first became famous and well known after playing Blair Waldorf in the serial Gossip Girl, although she most recently appeared in the 2010 country drama film country strong, the Rommate and romantic-comedy Monte Carlo.

I love her as an actress and singer, and I also know a lot about her life. Leighton had a bad children because her mother was serving time in a federal prison for her involvement in a drug ring that smuggled marijuana. She was able to give birth to Leighton in a hospital.

Leighton Meester is very pretty women and in the TV serie Gossip Girl she plays Blair Waldorf who is a girl very rich that she lives in Manhattan and she is a person very jealous and if she doesn't get what she wants, she is not happy. Her character in the serial is a little bit unbearable, but she makes me laugh.

Moreover, she also is singer. The song that I like the best of Leighton Meester is "Somebody to love", although I prefer her as an acctress.

DRUGS

Nowadays there are more cases of adolescents taking drugs and addiction is becoming more common. Many times adolescents begin to take drugs because of insecurity of themselves and to better integrate in groups.

The biggest problem is that drugs are becoming more common in society and also nowadays it's very easy to get drugs because this field increment a lot.
The other problem is the education of parents or at school. These people have to try to be more attentive towards the teenager and they have more confidence to explain their problems.
It's very difficult to prevent the consumption of drugs, and how can this be done?

I think that the parents who can prevent this because they are these who spend more time with children. First solution, the parents have more confidence with their children because, this way, the child will be able to explain more things. Also, the parents will have to control more their children and the parents also have to know with friends their children have.

In conclusion, I believe that it's very difficult to find the solution to this problem.

Jealously

To begin, I want to say that jealousy are very bad. My main fault is that i'm a bit jealous, but I am just jealous with my boyfriend but not mith my friends or family.

I think that everybody often in his life has felt jealous because this is natural but the problem starts when this affects your relationship because it causes sadness, anger, fights... I believe that the jealously affects specially in the personal who is like this because this type of person normally has bad things like they think that their parter is deceiving then and then this person begins to be distrustful.

My mother always tell me that if I'm very jealou this will cause me many problems. For this reason I have tried to change because I don't like to be jealous, although this often cannot be avoided.

In the future I hope that I don't be jealous and that this won't affect me in my relationships I believe that after sometime you learn from your mistakes.

S/ Boulevard

London

17456

20th April 2012

Ms. Motoc

S/ Waldorf

14785

Geneve

Dear Ms. Motoc,

The reason why I am writing this letter is to express my worry about women abuse, and to hige you to work to solve this problem.

I think that we should look for a solution because mistreatment has been on for too long. In my opinion we should be more help to these women because nowadays there are women that are frightened. For this reason I think that we should help this hem and the main objective is to improve education because, this way, mentality of some people will change.

Finally I believe that if we don't try to change this problem will continue to grow.

Yours sincerely,

Ariadna.

Social networks

Social networks are social structures, which are composed of groups of people. These people are connected by relationships. In the last years, social networks have become very famous. These social networks are used to find people with common interests or to get more knowledge. These also are used to communicate with friends and family all the time.

Facebook is the social networks most used here. Now Facebook has more than 500 million legistred users around the world. The creator of this social network, probably never would thought about this situation, his name is Mark Zuckerberg and he is a programmer and U.S businessman. At the beginning, idea the network only was for university students, but it quickly expanded. For example, some services of Facebook are chatting with your friends, uploading photos or writing in you wall.

Twitter is another social network, it is a little different. This network is more used by famous people. It consist of uploading messages with a maximum of 140 characters, these messages and call tweets. If you are a twitter follower, you can follow your favourite singer or actor.

In my opinion, the subject at networks is interesting, you can communicate with everybody, but on the other hand you can observed. And there are people who don't like to feel connected with everybody all the time.