SCIENCE LIMITS AND GLOBAL ISSUES

Science has allowed us to evolve, to learn many new things about the world we live and also to live happily and with an easier life. 

But science has also its limits and its inconvenient. One of these inconvenient is the science has created an inequality all around the world, discriminating the ones who cannot have opportunities to learn about it and to use it from the one who can. 

This inequality is a violation of human rights. Human rights are the basic rights and freedoms inherent to all human beings, from birth to death, no matter what if our nationality, place of residence, sex, national or ethnic origin...

But, as I have said, there are many differences in the world so we don't have the same possibilities in life. Rich people have the opportunity of studying and learning and having a better life with a proper work and house, but there are some humans that don't have the possibility of learning and going to school and some are not allowed. This is a big problem in our society and a violation of human rights, the ones that say that everyone has the right to have access to education. 

Also science violates human rights in some other aspects as the access to technology to have a proper life, the restriction of some scientific private advances, the access to health care...

DESCRIPTION OF A PERSON

In this post I will describe my father.

My father is named Valentí and he turned 50 in September 2016. He works on the construction sector selling materials, but recently he is also working as a farmer which is what he really likes, because he is a very calm person and he enjoys working in the fields.
Physically, he is no very tall, he has black short hair and blue eyes.

Also, he is a very smart person but he wasn't very good with studies when he was young, so that's why he decided to give up and start working on what he liked, with construction machines and trucks.
He is very good at repairing things so every time a familiar has a problem with their car they come home and he solves it. He has learned how cars work all alone by repairing them and seeing how they are built. Recently he has also built a machine from zero, with my cousin's help, for his tractor to facilitate the work. He is a very hard-working person.

He is a very king and humble person. He always helps everyone he can for nothing in return. Every time I have a problem and I am blocked I ask him for advice and he tries to help me trying to find a solution.

He has a sense of humor and he is always laughing and trying to make people laugh. In his free time he likes to spend it with family or just working on something at home, but he doesn't like doing nothing.

COOL HUNTERS: The Legal Stalkers of Youth Culture

In the book No Logo, Naomi Klein talks about the power of the brands and the impact they have in our society. 

class we read a fragment of her book, where she talks about the Cool Hunters, professionals who work on making observations and predicting the changes of the new and present trends. I think that it is a great marketing strategy because people likes to be informed of the trends and it is a good way to emphasize with the customers. But at the same time I think it would be more original to create new styles instead of going outside with a camera and taking photos of people and copying their style. 

Anyway, I don't think that we shouldn't be that much dependent on the trends and we shouldn't give too much importance to the cool hunters, but we like to fit in the society and look cool so we were what is trending and we buy to the popular cloth shops, even if we know that we are being manipulated by the companies and we are becoming more and more dependent to their brands arriving at the point that we feel identified with them.

TED TALKS ABOUT FASHION

ANDRAS FORGACS, Leather and meet without killing animals. 

The first video I have seen is a Andras Forgacs' talk about crating leather without killing animals.

Andras Forgacs and his father have started a company to 3D print human tissues and organs and after this they had this idea of also growing animal parts so that we don't have to sacrifice that amount of animals to obtain the products we need. He emphasizes in leather because in our society, it is wildly used, so if we can create new leather from the cells we don't have to sacrifice any animals.

In my opinion, this technique could be revolutionary because we can create any leather we want without the need of having to kill any poor animal. So I think that in a future this will be used.

DANIT PELEG, Forget shopping. Soon you'll download your new clothes. 

The second video I have seen is the Danit Peleg's talk about downloading your new clothes from home. She first had this idea when she wanted to wear something new for an event, but she hadn't anything to wear, so she designed clothes on her computer and then printed them with a 3D printer. After this, she decided to try and 3D print an entire fashion collection from her home. She experimented with many materials and many machines and her real challenge was to find the right filament for clothes. A filament that is strong and flexible.
In my opinion, this is a very difficult idea, because not everybody has a 3D printer in their home so years are going to pass until we no longer need to go and shop our clothes because we can 3D print them.



JESS ARINGTON, Wearing nothing new.

The third and last video I have seen is the Jess Arington's talk about second hand clothes. Though she has admitted that she is an outfit addicted, she has also said that she never wears nothing new. She likes second hand shopping because it reduces the impact her wardrobe causes in the environment and it is less expensive. Also, because while she goes shopping she gets to meet new great people and her money will help people that really need it. And finally, because she looks unique. She explained that she only took seven pairs of underwear for the week she was going to stay at TED and she expected to be able to but all the second hand clothes that she needed.

In my opinion second hand shopping is a great idea because usually people have many clothes in their wardrobe that they don't use anymore, but it stills new so if they sell it other can buy clothes that are less expensive. And during this talk, she showed us that we don't need a lot of money to look great, because if you really believe you look beautiful probably you will, because confidence is very important.

ROUTE 66

One of the things I wanna do in a future is to drive the American's most iconic highway with my dad, the Route 66 with a Classic Ford Mustang. Once we were watching a youtuber called Luzu and he was traveling all across USA driving on the Route 66 and we loved it so we decided that when I get my car license, someday we will go. 

The Route 66, also known as "The Main Street of America" first started being used for wagon trains to go to California, also there are still ruts form wagon trains on the side of some parts of the road. 

Before there where roads there where railroads and many of them followed the old trails. 

In 1908 the Ford Motor T came out and changed the way Americans lived. They now could travel faster and the idea of paved highways apeared. 

Paving the roads started on a state level and then moved to a national leven and in 1921 the federal govermment made a federal highway system. 

This was the reason Route 66 was born. It was the first highway that conected the rest of the USA. It starts in Chicago, goes through Missouri, Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, New Mexico and Arizona, and finally it ends in Santa Monica, California. There are 2.400 miles. 

Route 66 is no longer part of the USA highway system, so many parts of it have disapeared or are just dirt roads. 

Here are some essential things you have to visit if you are driving the Route 66: 

The Cadillac Ranch:

The Ed Galloway's Totem Pole Park:

The Wigwam's Motel:

The Santa Monica pier:

 

THE 100

The 100 is an American television series developed by Jason Rotherberg and based on the book The 100 written by Kass Morgan.

It is a dystiopian drama about the world 97 years after a nuclear apocalypse that left almost no life in Earth. The only known survivors were people that lived on the 12 space stations in Earth's orbit. Then the stations got together and created a massive space station named "The Ark", with 2.400 pleople under the orders of the Cancellor Jaha.

When resources are critically falling and  the air is running out, they have not much time, so they decide to send 100 teenagers, that where convicted, to the Earth to see if it's survibable, in a program called "The 100". Some of them are Clarke Griffin, the daughter of the Ark's doctor and of the Ark's engineer, Wells Jaha, the Cancellor Jaha's son, Finn Collins, Octavia Blake, the illegal sister, his brother Bellamy Blake who came to the Earth just to protect his sister, Jasper Jordan and Monty Green.

They have to find refuge and suplies at an old military instalation, Mount Weather Emergency Operations Center, located in the Blue Ridge Mountains but they landed away from their destination, so they have to solve some problems. They will have to find the way to their correct landing place  they have to find a way to cantact with The Ark and the most difficult part, they have to survive.

I have discovered this series because Paula recomended it to me. At first, when I watched the trailer, I thought it was gonna be boring and typical but when I started it I couldn't stop watching it. I love it because there are a lot of adventures in the story and you never get tired of watching it.

MY DOG

My dog is named Duc. He is a mixed breed dog between a pincher and some hunting dog, we don't exactly know. On may he is gonna be 6.

I got him when he was a few months and we went to Barcelona to get him from a friends house. This was an amazing day.

He is a very funny dog and I always make fun of him. He is so curious because when he wants something or when something happens he hardly never barks which is good but he makes a sound similar to a dog crying which is even more annyoing. At first we thought he was mute.

Another curious thing he does is that when he sleeps he always wants to be covered with his blanket even if it's summer and it's really hot.

He is very energetic and he is always jumping and playing but he is also a fat boy, a part is because of the genetic of his father and another part because he has a food disorder. If he could he would be eating all day so I always have to take care of what gets into his mouth. He is also very intelligent and he knows that human food is much better than dogs food.

Last year he started a diet with a special dogs food and every time I can we go running. Some times I go cycling so that he can run faster and he loves it.

He is not very social with other dogs. He is scared of bigger dogs than him and also he is scared of cats because once he wanted to play with a street cat and it didn't like the idea. But he loves humans. Every time a friend comes home he is always jumping and trying to catch their atention.

But all those strange things make him very special, and also he is a really good dog and he have never bitten anyone even if they make him get angry, he just holds your hand with his teeth without hurting you and then he just leaves.

PALAU ROBERT EXHIBITION

The last 4th of March we visited Palau Robert in Barcelona and we saw an exhibition about photos of the Syrian war. 

This is the picture I chose: 

This is a Syrian girl saying godbye at her friends from the taxi that will take her to Melilla port, from where she will travel to the Iberian Peninsula. 

I have chosen this photo because it's very expressive, sensitive and powerful. When I saw the girl, she made me feel sad because I couldn't imagine me having to leave my friends behind and traveling into another country. But also she is lucky because she is gonna leave also the hard war situation and she will live in a better place. 

VLADIMIR CHISTYAKOV

This is the presentation I made about the photojournalist named Vladimir Chistyakov.

TURIST INTERVIEW

On March 4th we visited Barcelona with school and we had an english project which consisted in interviewing people with some questions we have worked in class.
These are the questions I asked to a tourist and his answers:

Where are you from?

I am from France.

Is it the first time you come here?

Yes it is.

Do you like it?

Yes I do.

How long are you staying?

Util tomorrow, it's been four days

Do you know any words in catalan or spanish?

Oh yes, in spanish, not in catalan.

What do you know?

Hola, Que tal?, Gracias, Buenos días, Buenas noches.

Okey so that's it. Thank you.

If you click here you can listen to the interview.

BIRDS OF PREY TAKE DOWN DRONES

In the past, some birds of prey have been known by attacking drones while they are flying, confusing them with birds. Because of this, the Dutch National Police is training a bunch of eagles to watch over the skies for dangerous unmanned drones. 

They said that this project has succeeded, but there is also a problem. Sometimes the birds have become hurt by the drone blades but now they are thinking a way to avoid it. 

The Dutch Police will finally decide whether or not to use a group of drone-huntin eagles. 

Personally, I think that they shouldn't let them fly over the skies of a city trying to catch some drones because its turning blades can cause serious damage to an animal. Also because if they let go a group of eagles the other birds will be more in danger because of they abundance. 

VOCABULARY:

Rogue
Snatch
Outwit





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NEW YEAR'S RESOLUTION

1.- Apreciatte the little things.



2.-Stay healthy and strong.


3.- Spent more time with family and friends.



4.- Read books, watch movies and more series in english.

5.- Obtain the ESO graduete with good marks.

COMIC RELIEF

1.- What is the comic relief?

The comic relief is an amusing scene of incident introduced into a serious or tragical elements in a drama.

2.- Why is it often used in horror films?

Comic relief is often used to provide temporary relief from tension, or also to intensify the dramatic action.

3.- Do you remember laughing in horror films? Can you think of an example?

The last time I laughed in a horror movie was with Sleepy Hollow when the headless horseman and Ichabod Crane started fighting in the top of a carriage and then they fell down.