Dangerous Sports

Why do you think that people enjoy dangerous sports?
This is a question that I make me during my life. As I haven’t proved anyone of these sports I don’t know the reason by my experience. However I have a theory:

Nowadays life in developed countries is completely regulated. The governments want to protect their citizens from all kind of dangers. We are not allowed to drive too fast or to do anything which is dangerous.

For this reason is very difficult to find adventure, and a lot of people get bored. So it’s surprising that dangerous are getting more and more popular. A lot of people like car racing because it gives them the opportunity to drive as fast as they can. Other climb mountains in remote countries because is a challenge that they can’t have in their own countries.
Bungee jumping is an activity that is relatively safe because produce few victims. The attractive of this sport is that creates the illusion of danger. Perhaps it would be safer to jump from a bridge than cross a road,

Life, even in developed countries is dangerous enough without having to run an unnecessary risk; but for a lot of people this is a form to escape of their life routine, and spend a good time.
One day I’ll prove any dangerous sport, like bungee jumping, and I will able to express the sensation by my own experience.

Minorities at language

This entry talks about a theme which the year before we treated in class. First we talked about the conflicts between the Spanish and Catalan languages like officials in the Spanish province of the Comunidad Valenciana. Later in an English class we read a text about a similar conflict in the U.S.A. I try to explain it to you in this manner.

In the majority of countries there is a minority that speaks a language that isn't the official language of the country. For example, in Spain there are at list three regional languages: Valencian, Basque and Galician. But the past national governments have tried to eradicate this languages.

In the U.S.A. there are a lot of tribes, each one with their own language. The one spoken by the Navajo Indians is particularly complex, and the authorities wanted everyone to speak English, so they punished the indians that spoke their own language at school. I think that they wanted to integrate them in an English speaking culture; however I think that this is not the best manner to do it.

In my opinion this policy is wrong because the Indians could learn English and at the same time speak their own language. I think that it is in their interest to speak the official language of the country, because their lives would be very limited in U.S.A. without speaking English.

To sum up I think that all languages disserve respect and when on of the uncountable languages in the world disappear it is lost for ever.

I am a defender of the languages that are speaking in the minority sectors. I don't want that any of them became to disappear. But this is impossible without the collaboration of the governments and the people. The collaboration of the governments is necessary because if they forbid any minority language in the end it disappears; and people have to try to preserve the magic essence of the languages that are used during the intelligent human life.

Barça-Inter

Last 28th of April, two Wednesdays ago, some people of the class went to see the Barça- Inter match in a bar. Because the colours you can deduce which is my team. Of course I'm a culé. Like in the majority of families I am culé because my father it was first. By influence at first; but then it has demonstrated that Barça now is the best football team. This is the summary of the football match; I know some of these things because my flatmate is studying journalism and she had to make a journal with the information of the Barça-Inter match. She asked me to help her with the new and this was more or less the result:

Champions League match played at Camp Nou, Barça against FC Internazionale Milano. The Spanish team had the disadvantage of having lost their away game 3-1 for Mourinho's team. Yesterday, at home, the cule's team should have scored 2 goals to be in the Champions League final.
But, unfortunately it didn't happen. Guardiola's team was weaker in the first half and his players weren't on a par with Inter. During the second half, the scoreboard was goalless draw. However, defender Piqué's 84th-minute goal brought back some hope of winning to Barça's supporters. At the end, Barcelona won the match but not the tie and the Blaugrana left Camp Nou very disappointed.
Barça's president Joan Laporta went to the training session to tell his players that he was proud of them. Now, after one day analyzing the match; we can see Sergio Busquets's playacting which caused Motta's dismissal.
Italian players were also surprised when Camp Nou water sprinklers started working impeding the Italian club's celebration. But the king of the match was coach Mourinho.
His future was uncertain, but after winning the match, which earned them a UEFA Champions League final, his future will be different. Rumours are circulating that Mourinho could replace Pellegrini at Madrid.

traductions:

Not only have the medicines cured the human’s ailments. The souk has her complaints too. The cannabis begun to use with pleasure or religious purposes, like in Islam, which enjoy without limits of this plant until a fundamentalist current refuse the drug classifying it like some appropriate for infidels and delinquents.

Legalization will stop the delinquency because it will finish with traficant’s abusive prices. The other money face will be the ghosts we all know. It will be run he risk of the addict increase.

The illegalization of drugs provokes the excessive social consumption, which consequently leads to the destruction of the man like a person.

Legalization would create a chaotic atmosphere, due to all repression come out in an unbalanced liberation and this provokes a great number of victims.

Tim Burton!

Tim Burton is one of my fauvorite film's director.
About Time Burton...
Tim Burton is an American film director and producer who specializes in dark and quirky-themed films such as Beetlejuice, Edward Scissorhands and The Nightmare Before Christmas, but has also directed cinema blockbusters, including Batman, Batman Returns, Sleepy Hollow, Planet of the Apes, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, and Alice in Wonderland.

He frequently works with close friend Johnny Depp. Just The opposing themes of adolescence and adulthood, and the elements of sentiment, cynicism and humor inform his work in a variety of mediums—drawings, paintings, storyboards, digital and moving-image formats, puppets and maquettes, props, costumes, ephemera, sketchbooks, and cartoons.


Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is an adaptation of the book by Roald Dahl. Starring Johnny Depp as Willy Wonka.
Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory. although some liberties were taken, such as adding Wonka's issue with his father Charlie and the Chocolate Factory was later nominated for the Academy Award for Best Costume Design.

La Vila Joiosa

Despite I'm living in Castellón I don't forget my dear town. La Vila belongs to Alicante province. It's very beautiful; not only because it was my born city. It has about 30.000 or more habitants, therefore it isn't big. It has many beaches of differnt types like rocks or sand. In summer, this beaches have refreshment stalls where you can eat, take drinks to refresh yourself, listen to music with the best the best summer landscape.It's wonderful!!

Stalls are my favourite place in summer. It's possible that you are hearing about it because its fabulous local parties of Moors and Christians. They take place since 24 to 31 of July every year. They are considered international interest parties. This is possible because its Desembarco.
The "Desembarco"(disembarkation) is the most famous act of the parties of Moors and Christians. It take place at daybrake and consists in the Moors go with their ships from the wharf to the shore, and in the shore are the Christians waiting for them. When the moors arrive, the day is starting and they begin the battle for Villajoyosa's conquest.
Do you know who is the champion? Moors are the winners in this battle, but not everything finishes here.Since the Moors had won, they invaded the casttle of La Vila. At this point the only way to recover the castle was to return to fight. This act is named "The Reconquest". Obviously, this battle is won by the christians.

Facebook!!!

What makes Facebook think the world is becoming more public and less private? Zuckerberg, a company, cites the rise of blogging "and all these different services that have people sharing all this information." That last part must mean Twitter, right? But blogging is tiny compared to Facebook! It's made a big impact on the world, but only because it perhaps doubled or tripled the small percentage of people online who publish long-form text content. Not very many people write blogs, almost everyone is on Facebook.

The world is becoming more open and his evidence is Twitter, MySpace, comments posted to newspaper websites and the rise of Reality TV.
But Facebook is bigger and is growing much faster than all of those other things. Do they really expect us to believe that the popularity of reality TV is evidence that users want their Facebook friends lists and fan pages made permanently public? Why cite those kinds phenomena as evidence that the red hot social network needs to change its ways?

The company's justifications of the claim that they are reflecting broader social trends just aren't credible. A much more believable explanation is that Facebook wants user information to be made public and so they "just went for it,"
The rise of blogging is evidence that Facebook needs to change its fundamental stance on privacy?

This is Very Important

Facebook allows everyday people to share the minutiae of their daily lives with trusted friends and family, to easily distribute photos and videos - if you use it regularly you know how it has made a very real impact on families and social groups that used to communicate very infrequently. Accessible social networking technology changes communication between people in a way similar to if not as intensely as the introduction of the telephone and the printing press. It changes the fabric of peoples' lives together.
350 million people signed up for Facebook under the belief their information could be shared just between trusted friends. Now the company says that's old news, that people are changing. I don't believe it.
I think Facebook is just saying that because that's what it wants to be true.
Whether less privacy is good or bad is another matter, the change of the contract with users based on feigned concern for users' desires is offensive and makes any further moves by Facebook suspect

Punky Brewster!

The Punky Brewster TV sitcom was such important in may childhood. I saw it all weekend mornings!! I loved it!
All was wonderful! She was a little girl with two pigtails in his hair and her shoes are different in colour. For example, one was red and the other was green. She has the funniest bedroom of the world! Her bed was fantastic!
Moreover, she had a dog, whose name was Brandon. Brandom was very clever and funny.
Another thing that I love of Punky was that she had a tree house! She always was with his best friend Chery.

This is a description of how was the serie:
Penelope "Punky" Brewster is a warm, funny and bright girl, abandoned by her mother. Her father walked out on her family, then her mother abandoned her at a Chicago shopping center, leaving Punky alone with her only companion, her faithful dog Brandon. Afterwards, Punky discovered a vacant apartment in a local building.
The building was managed by photographer Henry Warnimont , an old and grumpy widower.

Punky quickly became friends with Cherie Johnson, a young girl who lived upstairs in Henry's building with her grandmother, Betty Johnson, who worked as an RN at the local Hospita. Once Henry discovers Punky in the empty apartment across from his, he hears her story. The relationship between the two blossoms, despite red tape from social workers, who ultimately rally to Henry's side.

As their day in court approached, Punky was forced by the state to stay at Fenster Hall, a shelter for orphaned and abandoned children, which made her realize all the more how close she had grown to Henry. Finally, their day arrived, and the court approved Henry to become Punky's foster father.

Punky's other friends are geeky Allen Anderson and stuck-up rich girl Margaux Kramer. During the NBC run, Punky's teachers were regularly seen; in the first season, cheerful Mrs. Morton ) and in the second season, hip Mike Fulton. Mike formed a close relationship with Punky and her friends, and was also portrayed as a social crusader of sorts.

The Boy in the Stripped Pyjamas

I don't read this book but I watch the film.
It was a very sad history. Before watch the film, I knew the context in wich the film facts occur, but really I didn't know what I went to see.

Plot summary: Bruno, during the Second World War, moved with his family to the field, there, in a fence known to Shmuel, a child in a strange striped pyjama who becomes his best friend.

At first the history sounds good. Good isn't the word, but what I want to say is that Bruno and Shmuel became friends.
Bruno has a nazy family, and any contact with jewih people was forbiden.
Each one was feeling alone and need a friend. Because they were childs, they really didn't know what was happend around them. Yes, they know that the German people and jewish people had to stay separated because the war.
They don't know were Shmuel was and the reason of this strange striped pyjama.
Shmuel was, with a lot of more people, in a german concentration camp for jewish people.

No one in the Bruno's family know about their relationship. They see each other in secret.
One day Shmuel didn't find his father and Bruno cross the fence to help him to find his father. He had to hold a striped pyjama wich Shmuel was catched for him.
When they went to look for Shmuel's father, repently they were in a room with a lot of other people with the same suit.

At this time both were very frightened and they don't know what was going to pass.
What was going to pass wasn't evident for two clids. When Bruno's family realised that he wasn't in the house or in the garden, they thougth the worse. They run fastly and watched a clue that Bruno was in the concentration camp. But when they tried to got Bruno out, was late yet.

It's a terrible history of the reality of that time. More awesome becauseis protagonized by childs.

NEW NEWS!!!!

NEW NEWS!!!!

NEW NEWS! Okay, do you remember when I talked about a failure in a Spanish presentation?Yes? No?
It doesn’t mind!What I want to tell you is that I already have made the French and Catalan presentations.
At first, the night before the French presentation I already was nervous! I was very nervous. But, the problem of nervous becomes more important when the morning before the presentation I still was more nervous. I had stomachache and I was trembling. Yes, this sound extremely exaggerates. But I don't know the reason for this discomfort.
Actually, when I was going to the UJI I was so nervous that I told Laura (my flatmate) that I didn't go to do it. But, then already in the class I was the third person for did it. I tried to relax me and I did it!
Was my first time!
I didn't have talked in French never before. The five minutes go by quickly. And when I finally I felt better.My classmates told me that I didn't had made it so terrible. I had did it well. I'm very happy with French presentation because I was very worried.
Three hurrahs for me!

Would you give money to charity?

Every day we see on television a programme which raises money for some charity or other. This happens sometimes to help the victims of a natural disaster somewhere in the world. But, for me it's not always a good idea for the individual to donate money.
In the first place because you can never be sure who you are giving your money to. Apart from this, if the money is sent to a foreign country, it may end up into the account of corrupt local officials. If food and medical supplies are sent, we often discover later that they cannot be distributed because of lack of infratructure or because local warlord captures it for his own use, or to sell on the black market.
I think it would be better if it were the government who oganises help on an international scale. Help should be provided to develop these countries in such a way taht they can foresee these problems and solve them with their own means.
In conclusion we should help these people who are living in poor conditions; but I think we should help them in more permanent ways so that they are more prepared to help themselves.

Why physical activity is important for you?

I saw an article in Internet about a guide to Healthy Active Living. A part of this article is the relationship between modern lifestyle and physical inactivity. I give you a summary of what says the article.
Nowadays our lives are very different compared with our grandparents. The didn't use to need do so much exercise as today, because most of them did hard physical work all day. There were fewer machines and everything had to be done by hand.
Today many more young people can study. This means that the students have to spend many hours sitting at the desk. They start working later and their jobs are sedentary.
Due to this, those who want to keep fit have to find some time to do exercise. This means taking up some kind of sport like football, swimming or tennis. Most moderns towns offer sports facilities in the form of leisure centers where you can find covered pods, tennis courts or gyms. Usually, they are not expensive because they're subsidized by the town hall.
Therefore most people can afford to practice some type of sport. Apart from this, there's usually a café or a restaurant where young people can enjoy some kind of social life.
To conclude, our grandparents would never have imagined that it wouds be necessary to go to special places to sweat.

Why thin doesn't sell?

Why thin doesn't sell?
For obtain an answer I'm going to raise two questions:
Why are the fashion and the advertising industries so obsessed with thin models? Do you think that being thin still sells nowadays?

The fashion industry has traditionally used these thin models for the last few decades. This tendence started in the sixties when the best known models were very thin. As a result most fashionable clothes were made for thin people.
Because of this many woimen wanted to loose weight so that they could wear the latest fashions. In those days, being thin was in fashion and so models became thinner. This situation lasted quite a log time and those who made and sold clothes earned a lot of money.
things started to change when many young girls become obsessed with being thin and refused to eat. They became dangerously thin and had to go to hospital for special treatment. Some of them died. This condition is called anorexia

As a consequence doctors recomended that models who were very thin should not be fashion.. Since then, the situation has improved and although there are still some problems.

In conclusion, thin doesn't sell so well as it used to. And normal size models are usually more popular with the public.

Amélie

Amélie is a story about a girl named Amélie whose childhood was suppressed by her Father's mistaken concerns of a heart defect. With these concerns Amélie gets hardly any real life contact with other people. This leads Amélie to resort to her own fantastical world and dreams of love and beauty. She later on becomes a young woman and moves to the central part of Paris as a waitress. After finding a lost treasure belonging to the former occupant of her apartment, she decides to return it to him. After seeing his reaction and his new found perspective - she decides to devote her life to the people around her. Such as, her father who is obsessed with his garden-gnome, a failed writer, a hypochondriac, a man who stalks his ex girlfriends, the "ghost", a suppressed young soul, the love of her life and a man whose bones are as brittle as glass. But after consuming herself with these escapades - she finds out that she is disregarding her own life and damaging her quest for love. Amélie then discovers she must become more aggressive and take a hold of her life and capture the beauty of love she has always dreamed of.

I saw this film when I was sixteen. I love that film. I suppose that is because it has the magic essence of the little things.

Have you seen this film?

I heard different opinions about it. Some people love it and others hate the Amélie movie. But in my memorie I remember it with a smile.

Women..

So reactionary is thinking that women are not able to certain work as think that all women are tender, sensitive and intuitive. Each woman is an individual, isn't the species.

Do you agree with me?

One thing wich impresses me is the diversity of opinions around the world. Later I'm going to talk about this with you.

Failure in Presentation!

Failure in presentation, yes!

For Spanish assignment I have do an exposition in group. Each person had to talk five minutes, more or less. It was my first exposition in front of so many people. I don't know how nervous I can be; and in this situation I can realise it. It was terrible!! I know the theme and how to expose at the class, but in the moment I was so nervous that...
I talked so fast and I moved around the class all time.
The worst is I have to do other expositions in the French assignment and in Catalan.
Well, I try to do these expositions more relaxed.

Paellas!!

Hi! Good night again!
Tonight I want to tell you how were the Paellas for mi.
We had to do groups of people (a paella by group). My group met at 11 o'clock in Mercadona's door. Then, we went to the fited out enclousure for the party. Ago at this time the music was heard. The party had started! We looked for a place in the midst of the crowd. This year, Paellas party was the most numerous university party in years with 7,000 students.
Later my group and I started to make the fire in winch later we are going to cook the rice.
We ate around 3 p.m. The paella was, as it shloud be, good.

Celda 211

Good Night!

Yesterday, my friend Gaspar and I went to the cinema. We went to see a Spanish film, Celda 211. I provide you a summary: Juan, a prisons staff member, turns up in his new work place one day before to start working there. Inside he have an accident minutes before that start a mutiny in the FIES sector, the most afraid and dangerous prisoners. His companions, being afraid, leaf injured Juan in the cell 211. When he wakes up, he understands the situation and he performs like a prisoner. Then, he has to pass many complicated situations...

In this film I saw a big criticism of prison system. We can see the corruption between the staff members and the prisoners. In the prisons there are, in an easy way, drugs, weapons, etc. These things are provided by the corrupt members.
Furthermore we can see the bad conditions in that the prisoners live; the violence of staff members towards the prisoners, and a lot of things that make the prisons a place where the bad actions d'ont stop.
This situation needs a change because the prisons are a reintegration place.

Apart from this, the film won eight Goya awards, including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor (Luis Tosar) and Best Adapted Screenplay.