My first composition and my last composition don't varied so much, only I think is my fluency when I write. The difference between my oral presentations is the fluency and my pronuntation, because the first I prepareted a lot and the second not much.
In my blog I use a lot of resources (multimedia, links,..), but I repeted my topics (music, medicine,...). I structured good my ideas. Sometimes I varied vocabulary. In my oral presentations I use resources, like powerpoint, my body lenguage is a little bad, but I have a good structure and my ideas have good organized and my vocabulary is very rich. But I pronunced bad some words. In my writtings I have good structure, contents and connectors, but I think that I need improve my vocabulary.
I have chosen this oral presentation because it was the best of the two that I have done this year. I think it's my best presentation because although it was boring, I didn't read anything and I spoke very fluently.
Then, I have chosen this written because I did it in class, without dictionaries or translators that could help me, and the truth is that the result has been very good. I am very proud of that.
What makes better my oral presentation is to prepare it most, so I don't read anything and I improve my speaking. What makes better my writtings are connectors that improve my mark.
The other day I went to the cinema with my boyfriend to see The Hunger Games.
All starts with a the Dark Days, when districts fought for survival and out of decay. The Capitol, thanks to its advanced technologies, achieved the submission of twelve districts and the annihilation of the thirteenth, and to remind everyone that the Dark Days mustn't be repeated they created The Hunger Games, a competition in which a boy and a girl between twelve and eighteen years of each district must fight to the death.
At harvest of the participants (or tributes) of the Hunger Games, Katniss is provided voluntarily to save her sister Prim from certain death. Katniss and his partner district, Peeta Mellark, they venture to some games where they could die in seconds.
Everything changes when Peeta and Katniss are forced to feign love for the entertainment of the Capitol, but in an act to be both survivors, are seen as icons of the rebels. (I don't want explain the final).
I recommend watching this movie, because it is not the typical movie now out in cinemas. A long time since I last saw a movie so decent.
I went to the cinema with an idea, but the truth I went with a different idea of starting and with a smile on my face because I had not disappointed at all.
If the movie is good, I suppose the books will be much better.
When I have time I'll read.
A few weeks ago Pep Guardiola said goodbye to Barcelona.
After so many doubts about his renewal, the other day left the Barça fans with a sad face after his retirement as coach of Barcelona.
Pep Guardiola has been the best coach in club history because of seventeen titles they could win, and they won thirteen (and fourteen if htey win the King Cup). The first year of Pep, Barcelona won all the titles that could win this season, six.
Now the club has left the team in the hands of Tito Vilanova, current assistant coach of Barcelona. Pep has been quiet with the club's decision, since it said that Tito is the ideal person to be the new coach.
After so many victories sung with Pep Guardiola, left us to "fill up" again.
Missing a month to selectivity. For those who don't know is, selectivity is a series of tests that have to do to enter university.
From now on, this will be a race without breaks. I will test after test, I will study as many hours as my body allows. If necessary I will drink coffee (I hate coffee).
I want to get good marks in order to access the career I want to do. I think if you study a career you have to study what you like.
Anyway, I hope everything goes well. If so, I will take valerian to relax, because there is still a month and I'm nervous yet.
The panel has approved "Truvada", a single drug against HIV and help prevent it.
Some agencies are in favor, as FDA, AIDS Vaccine Advocacy or Terrance Higgins Trust, AIDS patients currently have to take a drug cocktail with this drug with a single pill is enough. Furthermore, not only struggle with those who are already sick, it's also a preventive drug.
Other agencies such, as AIDS Healthcare Foundation or nurse Karen Haughey, as it's a treatment that should always be taken because it has no effect, and it's doubtful that patients don't ever forget the pill. Another fear is that if approved the drug, people stop using condoms as thinking it's a 100% secure or HIV virus will be more resistant to drugs.
The Spanish government will provide 30 bn euros to banks unable to service their loans. Then, the banks will have to repay the money with interest at 10%.
Currently, 45% of Bankia belongs to the Spanish government. Bankia had a loan of 4.476 bn euros bailout fund into action.
If banks demand money to the government, banks would become partial state ownership.
After the reform, the Madrid Stock Exchange fell 3%.
The Commission notes that the Spanish deficit this year is 6.4% and next year will be 6.3%. Instead, the Spanish government indicates that the deficit this year is 5.3% and next year will be 3%. The government said the loan wouldn't have any effect on the deficit.
A few days ago, MTV made a program about Demi Lovato. Well, I'll tell you about that was because it was very interesting.
Demi Lovato had a nervous breakdown when she was doing a tour with Jonas Brothers in October of 2010. For that reason, she can't follow the tour and her parents took her directly to a psychiatric center where she stayed three months. Demi, coming out of recovery, not only took out a new album Unbroken, furthermore she told her story. Demi explained her history in order to help teenagers who are going through the same problems.
The truth about Demi Lovato is that since she was five years old, she felt wrong with her body, something which led her to eat nothing or eat a lot and then she feel guilty and finally she vomiting or hurt herself. When she was in recovery, her fans always said her the same thing Stay Strong. For that reason, when Demi came out of recovery she tattooed on her wrists this sentence. Another reason for she tattooed was to cover scars that she was done when she hurts herself.
Demi says that is not yet recovered, because the recovery is a constant struggle. In the video you can see Demi begins to obsess for the amount of food she eats at Thanksgiving and she is holding with calls to friends. But anxiety will reappear the next day and she has concert. Before the concert, she does backstage (that is when fans taking photos with her and know her in person) and one of his fans have cancer and when the girl sees her, she says that thanks to Demi she wears a wig. At that time, the heart of Demi and yours shrinks and you think God! Thanks to that girl, Demi put aside her anxiety.
Thanks to Demi didn't save her history and she used to help adolescents, there are many people who have gone to recovery because they thought If Demi, who is famous, explained it, I can do it and they will throw courage to tell their parents their problems.
Thank you for your birthday present. I loved the book Death of a Beekeeper by Lars Gustafsson. It's so interesting, you should read it.
The book is very quick to read and discusses various theories about why bees are dying and the consequences that would bring the world, not only the death of a beekeeper, you already know and already what would be your answer.
As this issue of the bugs you so interested, I think you should have the book gift to yourself and not me, because you know I hate them. But then again, THANKS!
I have really wanted to see you. I hope that these months pass soon and I get back with you in our favorite city talking until late at night.
United Nations Human C/ Sant Pere Martir 7
Rights Committee Castelló d'Empúries, 17486
New York Girona. Catalonia. Spain
20th of March of 2012
Dear Sir or Madam,
I am writing this letter to complain about some aspects of Article 26 of the Declaration of Human Rights and education in my country.
In my country, primary and secondary school has always been free (as indicated by the first paragraph of Article 26 of the Declaration of Human Rights) and it remains so even if we ignore that since I entered the secondary school, I pay 30 Euros for "teaching material" each year.
But unfortunately in Spain, public education does not have the same quality as 10 years ago. The reason has been the crisis and our government (and many other countries) has made cuts in the education sector, so that we can not have as many teachers, as many classrooms or as many free teaching material that we need.
So my claim is that in the Declaration of Human Rights put that although a country is in crisis public education not only has to be free, but also quality.
I met Pablo for the first time in 4th of ESO. He was fifteen and he was from Barcelona. He was quite tall, brown-eyed, he had big ears, a good nose, he had brown-hair, big hands and spoke strange Catalan.
We went to the same class in computer studies and we became friends a little time after meeting.
Pablo made an impression to me because I never met a person like him. He’s a careless person, he doesn’t matter anything and everything is good. He’s never angry with anybody, id he doesn’t like someone, he ignores him or her, and it’s fine. He always smiles and laughs, he’s a good-hearted person and when you are with him, he makes you feel good.
Pablo is an incredible person and I never regret having met him.
Give a heart a break is a song of Demi Lovato of her last album Unbroken
This song is about when a relationship isn't healthy and things aren't going well, but they want to stay together because they love each other and don't want to separate.
This song gives you a solution give a heart a break.
Just leave the relationship for a while and let the flames of love bloom again, because it isn't worth wasting time discussing or being angry with each other. If they really love, they will see that they were arguing over stupid things, they forget and will return together.
The first time I heard the song, I really liked the pace and I heard several times.
Then, I started to lay down the lyrics of the song and at first sight seemed to me not very romantic, because I lacked vocabulary, for example "a break" did not know that means "a breath", only knew the meaning of "smash".
For that reason, I looked translation and I understood everything. So thanks to this song, I expanded my English vocabulary.
I love this song and I agree with the lyrics. There is very little time in life and we don't discuss
On December 10, 2010, I went to Barcelona to see a Lady Gaga concert of her tour "Moster Ball Tour". Yesterday tickets went on sale for her concert in Barcelona to her new tour "The Born This Way Ball Tour" and I was so eager to go that I've done the impossible in order to attend and I have talked to many people. Finally, I got the ticket and I will go! I'm so excited ...
Everyone thinks I'm crazy why the ticket cost me around 100 euros, but I like it so much that if I had more money I would purchase the most expensive ticket to go into the stands more privileged and I have VIP tickets to see her in person .
In my opinion, I think everyone should go to all the concerts of their favorite artists because it's an experience not to be explained. You can buy the DVD coming out of the tour, but it will not be the same feeling.
I promise that I upload the photos!
The police of New York is being investigated for possible discrimination against muslims. There have been several reports of mulsames explaining that police discriminated them for their religion, but the government has come out in defense of police of New York claiming that only they did their job. So the Depertamento of Justice, accepting human rights laws signed by U.S., is investigating the case.
In Spain, there aren't discrimination against muslims ofr the part of police, but the spanish people and uneducated are racists.
I think that this situation can change if we educated the people in tolerance and against racism. I'm not racist because I has been good educated.
1. Quiz: do you know your rights? : what's your score? 6,89 (28/41)
2. What are human rights?
Inalienable fundamental rights to which a person is inherently entitled simply because she or he is a human being.
3. Why were they created?
From the Second World War and the atrocities of The Holocaust culminating in the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in Paris by the United Nations General Assembly in 1948.
4. How many human rights are there?
There are 30 articles.
5. Which human right were you not familiar with? Mention an example where this human right is respected and where it is not respected.
According to Article 26, all children have to have the right to elementary education, but despite that there are many countries, for example in Africa, where there aren't schools and many children are forced to work.
Shoes are my favorite piece of clothing. I love shoes, but especially the heels.
There are so many shoe shops with so many shoes ... If I could I would buy all them.
Although I have to say that I'm very particular with the shoes. As I don't can buy all shoes, I try to buy the shoes that I like more and the shoes are the best for me and for that reason, I can spend an hour to buy only one pair of shoes.
Since I can remember, I have been a crazy shoes. If I could, I'd buy shoes of each color, of different heel height and different width of heel, open shoes, closed shoes, shoes for winter, shoes for summer, ... There are so many possibilities ....
Although I have to say that there are some heels that are very ugly and I'd never buy them, like these:
Good morning! My name is Emma Polonio Alcalá and I wouls like present you my research project The vitamin C in orange juice.
Regarding the choice of research project topic I wanted a topic related between biology and chemistry, because they are my favourite subjects. So I asked to my teacher, Assumption Aurich, and we find the team of vitamin C in orange juice. I was interested in this topic, because I usually consume it.
My objectives were:
• What factors affect the vitamin C in natural orange juice.
• See the difference of quantity of vitamin C between in natural orange juice and elaborated orange juice.
As for the methodology:
• First I did a search to know that I had to look.
• Later, I did the practice to determining ascorbic acid with the coloring 2,6-diclorofenolindofenol.
• Finally, I did the theoric part.
Vitamins are organic substances that we are need in small amounts for proper functioning of cellular metabolism. In total there are thirteen, which are divided according to their solubility: the water-soluble, and lipo-soluble. As you can see the vitamin C is found in the water-soluble.
Vitamin C was discovered thanks to the disease caused when there is deficiency, scurvy, but it was not until 1928 that Albert von Szent-György Nagyrápolt was isolated vitamin C and he studied their biological functions. In 1934, Walter Norman Haworth synthesized and determined its structure.
Vitamin C is an organic substance, water-soluble and it derivative of a hexose and it acts as an enzyme cofactor performing accions of agent of oxidation-reduction, nuclear and mitochondrial and acts as an antioxidant in the body. It's necessary for growth, development and survival for living. For this reason, we synthesized it, but the higher primates and Cavia porcellus (guinea pig) can't synthesized it and they obtain it from the diet.
Regarding the different types of juice, we have:
• The natural fruit juices.
• The concentrate fruit juice in force.
• The concentrate fruit juice concentrate.
• dehydrated fruit juice.
• The nectar fruit.
The main objective of the practice was to achieve the objectives set, as I said, see the factors affecting the vitamin C in natural orange juice and see the difference between of quantity of vitamin C in natural orange juice and elaborated orange juice. The practice can be divided into four parts:
• The first practice is to prepare the coloring and a standard solution of ascorbic acid to standardize it. I obtained these results and from the calculations that you can see we know that 1.15 mL of the coloring is 1 mg of ascorbic acid.
• The second practice is to calculate the quantity of vitamin C in natural orange juice. We obtained these results and from the calculations that you can see we know there are 41.47 mg of ascorbic acid per 100 mL of juice.
• The third practice is to see what factors affect the ascorbic acid that is found in orange juice. Here we see the different samples and results. With this graph we can see how the sample A and B, ascorbic acid is oxidized and the reduced of quantity of vitamin C. Also shows that the E, F, G and H have mold and they undergone acidification.
• The fourth practice is to see what differences of vitamin C in differents marks of orange juice.
Regarding the conclusions:
• My objectives have been well achieved.
• The temperature affects the oxidation of vitamin C, when increases the temperature, increases oxidation and decreases the temperature decreases the oxidation.
• The bacteria that cause the molds, acidification of juices.
• Don Simon has more vitamin C of the juices analyzed.
I had a horrible oral presentation of my research project, but my presentation have a lot of difficult vocabulary that other didn't have. So, I think that I have a puntuation on 0,5.
This term, we have read in class an adapted version of Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen and then we saw the movie.
Pride and Prejudice is about the Bennet family and its protagonist is one of the daughters, Elizabeth Bennet.
It all starts when a new neighbor arrived to neighborhood, who is very rich. The neighbors were Mr. Bingley and his two sisters and Mr. Darcy.
Mr. Bingley held a party where he met Elizabeth's sister, Jane Bennet and they falled in love , but Jane is rather shy and she doesn't show her feelings to other people. But Mr. Bingley had to go to London.
Meantime, in the Bennet home arrived Mr. Bennet's cousin, William Collins, who asked to marry Elizabeth, but she rejected him. William Collins was just marrying Elizabeth's best friend, Charlotte Lucas.
At the same time, soldiers came to town and the Bennet sisters meet George Wickham, which insinuated to Elizabeth Bennet, but eventually he ran away the city with Elizabeth's sister, Lydia Bennet. Finally, they end up marrying.
Elizabeth Bennet falled for Mr.Darcy, which has been told that because of him, the Mr.Bingley left the city, as Mr.Darcy told him that Jane Bennet wasn't in love with him. Wickham tells Elizabeth that Mr.Darcy's father considered him a son and that the day he died, Mr.Darcy didn't leave any inheritance, for jealousy.
Elizabeth told what she knew to Mr.Darcy and he told the truth: it's true that he told to Mr.Bingley that Jane Bennet wasn't in love with him why she didn't show any affection in his presence and after Wickham was like his brother, and his father left him a share of the inheritance to him, but he finished it and asked to Mr.Marcy for more money and Mr.Darcy not accept the petition of Wickham and he ran away with Mr.Darcy sister, Georgiana, and then he left her.
Later, Elizabeth knows that Mr.Darcy paid Lydia's wedding and he paid to Wickham a good sum of money.
In the end, Jane Bennet and Mr. Bingley married and Elizabeth Bennet and Mr.Darcy left their pride and prejudices aside and as they are in love with each other, they also married.
I like this book, but the film is so loving. I love it!
Rolling in the deep of Adele is one of my favorite songs.
Rolling in the deep expresses so much emotions, so many passion, so many feelings and it expresses it so that each time I hear the song, gives me goose bumps and even more when I hear Adele singing live is amazing.
Adele has another song that I really like, Someone like you.
Adele is a great singer and songwriter. Also I have to say I don't usually hear the theme music of Adele, but once again demonstrates that music can't be classified, not paragraphs, because good music is heard by all the world.
Jennifer Lopez is an actress, singer, dancer, entrepreneur, producer and fashion designer from the
Bronx (New York).
A few months ago, I saw a program on MTV about her life and her career, in which also she was interviewed and I began to hear some of her latest songs as "Papi" or "I'm Into You", then I began to hear the oldest songs and finally some songs hooked me.
Before the program on MTV, I thought that Jennifer Lopez was conceited and for this reason I rejected her music a bit, but after seeing it, turned the tables.
I wanted to make this post because I'd like to say that Jennifer Lopez appears more than she is. If you look her videos, we can see how she always puts sexy face, but the reality is that she is rather simple and very real. She knows how to wear in front of a camera.
Jennifer Lopez isn't a great singer, but she has a top party songs that people like.
