Saturday, 21 May 2016

SUMMARY OF OFFICIALY DEAD.


First of all the theme of book is avarice and wanting to be rich. This book is about a marriage, Colin and Julia Fenton, who have a company (C.J.F. Software Solutions) and another marriage the Bentley’s.
Resultado de imagen de officially deadWhen Colin Fenton was in a business trip in Bentwood he meet in a bar the Bentley’s, John and Linda, and unbelievably John and Colin were physically identical. After the meeting Linda, who have a perfect life with her husband and without economic problems, have an idea: steal the jewelry where she and John worked. From there, the whole story is about how they plan the robbery although at first John opposes because, in the past, he was in jail for theft, but finally he accept.
One day Linda meet Colin and offer him ten thousand pounds if the day of robbery, he will be the alibi. He only have to went to Manchester’s hotel with all the documentation and car of John and forge his signature. So Police believe that he hast been, even though he has a criminal records.
Linda’s plan didn’t work because when Colin was going to Manchester had an accident and died. Colin’s body was identified as John Bentley because in the accident he had John’s documents. Everybody thought that John was dead. In this situation the Bentley’s continued with the lie but they have another problem: Mark Ashwood, the only witness of the accident. When Mark tries to save his life Colin told him to give a message to his wife Julie.
Mark who was so altered and concerned decided to give the message to his wife in person. But when the police give him the address of Colin’s house and he was there he saw another man into the house and he also realized that the wife’s name was Linda and not Julie.
Finally Mark went to Julie house when he saw in the news that Julie searched for her husband and tell that something bad and strange was happening. So Julie and Mark try to uncover the truth and they get it. In the end Mark and Julie get married.

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Sunday, 15 May 2016

SON OF SAUL


Weeks ago in La Cate, located in Figueres, perform for the first time the famous and award-winning movie: Son of Saul. This event was impressive because La Cate is a cultural entity that together with another association, in which some of our history teachers are involved to remember the holocaust and all the dead from World War II, gave us the opportunity of saw this film. So in this entry I’ll do a summary of this amazing film that reflect well the situation of the prisoners of the Concentration Camps.
This film is about one Hungarian Jewish prisoner, named Saul, who is member of the Sonderkommando. He was forced to work burning the corpses of all the people that was murdered in gas chambers, even his family and friends. Among the dead, Saul discovered the body of a young boy he takes for his son and tries to save the dead body of the children for the flames of crematorium to find moral survival. Apart from there, all the film Saul tries to find a rabbi in the prisoners to give the boy a proper burial in secret.
In my view this film is so stunning because in the film we can see a lot of images that years ago were real, for example how Nazis lying to get them, all the prisoners, into a gas chamber or how they do experiments on prisoners. I also think that the film reflects well the hard work of Sonderkommando and how people tried to find a way to find a moral survival to feeling alive in that Heel.

Monday, 9 May 2016

STORY OF STUFF. ANY SOLUTIONS?


Last Monday, in English class, we saw a video based on another video about the story of stuff, in which explain us the process of creation the things and where it goes when we throw it. So in the second season it explains the story behind the story of stuff, that’s where we’ll find ways to turn this situation.
First of all, the woman of the video, who explains us this story and try to give us some solutions, she say that she try to find a solution, so she read a lot of books about it. But she explain that some of this books has a mistake because it says that if I become smarter shopper and tell all my friends to do the same, I’ve done my part. But if we don’t are a smarter shopper, then is our fault the planet is being destroyed.
Then she explains that we don’t have the fault because we don't choose that all this toxic products are on sale or we don’t choose a lot of things that destroys the planet. Then she says that we have to try to change this planet but it is won't be easy, but if we do three easy things we’ll change it. First we have to share a big idea which help all people, an idea which suggests a new economy with new products and happy and healthy people. Then she says that all the people who changed the world they didn't do it alone, we have to change the «I’ll be more responsible» to « We have to work all together». Finally we have to put this two ideas together and then they took action. Then the world can change and we also have more facilities to do it than centuries ago.

Saturday, 30 April 2016

WHY YOU SHOULD TAKE THE JOB THAT MOVES YOU AWAY FROM EVERYTHING YOU KNOW




SUMMARY:

This news is about a girl, Laura Bayard, who accept a job 2000 miles away in Phoenix (Arizona), far from her home, family and friends and she tells us about her experience.
She explain that at the beginning we can be intimidating and frightening but she promise that is an amazing experience we won’t regret It even if we end up moving back home after a short period of time. Then she explain us the reasons:

1.     You’ll advance your career. In this item she tells that maybe it can help us to improve in our job. She also explain that we can meet a variety of people who are different from your friends.


2.     You’ll experience new things. In this point she explain that we live new experiences and she tell us her experience with her hiked to the mountains.
 
3.     You’ll travel to exciting places.  In this item she explain that when we went out of our comfortable zone we want to reach exciting places we never seen before. Then she tell us her exiting adventures and travels.

4.     You’ll be happier. In this point she says that we have to try it because if we don’t like we can go home. She also says that we can’t live our life for fear over the ʺwhat ifsʺ because if we don’t try it we’ll never know what experiences we might be missing out on.

5.    You’ll learn to live for yourself. Finally she says that it’s hard for everyone to live far from her family and friends because she, for example, missed family birthdays and get-togethers, etc. But she explain that one thing about being away from it is the fact that we have learned to live for ourselves.   
MY OPINION:
I have to say that I chose this news because I think that all of us go through that and I’m interested because I’m a person who love her family and friends but one of my biggest dreams is travel around the world and someday I have to move away from my house, family and friends. I also have to say that I totally agree with the item four and I like the way this girl think.
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RAP MADE UP OF DONALD TRUMP QUOTES IS ABSOLUTELY HILARIOUS








SUMMARY:
Last Thursday in the episode of “The Daily Show with Trevor Noah”, that is an American news satire television program, talked about Donald Trump, who is candidate for the Republican nomination for President of the United States. These program criticized the policy of this political.
The correspondent of the program, Roy J. Wood, says that Trump doesn’t belong in the White House but the things he say belongs a rap video because he doesn’t respect women, he brag about his money and in his political speeches always fights. That’s a very funny comparison with his policy.
But the comparison was carried just because he made a rap music video using Tramp quotes as lyrics. This song is called “They love me”. We can see this hilarious video here.
 

MY OPINION:
In my view this is a funny satirical music video where we can see the crazy thoughts of this politician that can be dangerous for the world. I think that he can be dangerous because weeks ago we went to Germany to visit concentration camps and we study the Second World War where in the beginning Hitler hadn't a lot of followers but then a lot of people began to think like him. The candidature of this politician is another check with other events more terrific like terrorism that humanity didn’t learnt about the past and history because if we watch the news we can see how the same mistakes of the past happen again.
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WHY THIS INDIAN WOMAN IS USING 'BLACKFACE' AS SOLIDARITY


 

SUMMARY:

Ms. Jaya, a Young woman in southern India, decided to paint her body with collyrium, a type of dark eye shadow, every day until 125 days, even when she step out of her home studio, to protest against the society that is so prejudiced about issues of gender, caste, color and creed.
The origin of this protest was because a student at the University of Hyderaba, Rohith Vemula, killed himself on 17 January after alleged caste discrimination on the campus. That’s the reason about the beginning of her protest. She told the BBC: “The news stung me and I thought of this way to express my solidarity with the Vemulas of India."
While she was doing her experiment she also realize that "Caste is closely related to color and whatever is black is not welcome in the Indian society”. She say this because some people, during her protest while she was painted, they called her Putana, a female demon from the Hindu epic Mahabharata, or even they started shouting at her.
For a lot of people the color of the skin is so important and, in many South Asian and African countries, people coveted fair skin hence darker-complexioned men and women bleach their skin.
Ms. Jaya explained and vowed that, the last day of the protest, she wants to plans a big event with a gathering of Dalit writers, artists and activists where she will give a classical dance performance and then release a book with her experience. She also say that wants to explore new ways to send a message to the society and she thought that this way was the better way to protest against that aspect of society.

OPINION:
I totally agree with Ms. Jaya because I can’t believe that in 21th century most of people care about caste and color of skin but it is the reality: the society’s mind didn't grow up since years ago when black people or women were depreciate. Well, maybe it has improved a bit but with this news we can check how humanity are.  I also agree with the way she use to give a message to the society because I think that is an infrequent way and maybe society reaction to this experiment. So I want to say that we have to remember that all of us are humans and we must not worry about the skin or social class because this facts can means nothing. We are humans that, a part from our personality and ways to think and live the life, we are equal. 
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