diumenge, 24 de febrer del 2008

PLAYING AN INSTRUMENT DEVELOPS MINDS

I’m going to talk about the importance of music in our lives. It’s proved that people who play an instrument have more developed their minds and senses.
Music helps people to have more attention with things which other people don’t notice. I can’t generalise this topic, but I have played two instruments for a long time (aprox. 10 years). Music helped me sometimes when I was nervous, angry…
Now, music is an important part of my life. If I go out in holidays and I haven’t got my instruments, I miss them a lot. I need music in my life for a lot of reasons. Playing these instruments gives me a lot of important senses; for example when I won the International price of accordion celebrated the last October in Mondragon (Pays Basque). This was one of the most important satisfactions in my life and I will never forget this brilliant experience.
Obyously, music isn’t an easy thing.
Musicians have to be constant and they have to sacrificate a lot of things to play well their instruments.
Finally, I recommended music to all people because probably music like them.

The means of transport

Nowadays, there are several means of transport, for example, taxis, busses, cars, trains, planes… and all of them have advantages and disadvantages.
Taxis are very comfortable but they are very expensive. Busses are slower but there are cheaper, but they are always crowed. Trains are possibly the most utilized. By the way today the AVE is inaugurated. It was a train very loved and finally has down the traject Madrid – Barcelona and Barcelona – Madrid several times.
Today’s comments are that it’s very fast but it’s too expensive.
In conclusion, I think that the means of transport, in general, are good, because they don’t polluted to mach.
For these reasons, I prefer the public transport to the private car.

What about immigration?

Nowadays, one of the most important fact is immigration. Just in the last 3 years millions of people from different poor countries have arrived in Europe’s developed countries. Spain has welcomed plenty of foreigners mainly from Morocco and South America.

I have made an investigation task about immigration and certainly I’ve learned a lot about the subject.

Some Spanish people are very afraid of foreigners, they feel foreigners are invading our country therefore, they act with an stupid attitude which is racism.

I think they don’t want to realise that people want to come trough. Moreover, they want to have a normal life which includes eating, working, drinking, having fun… They only want to have the same chances as everybody. Chances which their country lacks.

Instead of putting us in their situation, we are still criticizing and judging their coming to Spain. Don’t you think we would do the same if we were them? Would we resist in a country where we couldn’t have a house, where we couldn’t feed our children enough an so on? I don’t think so. Furthermore, we should think they are also people like us, and it doesn’t matter their skin’s colour or the country from which they are. They are only people who want to fight for having a fair and happy life. Don’t we have the same goals?

American Pie

These films are one of the most famous productions around the world.
They are about the life that the Americans have when they are at University.
In these films the young people live their lives to the extrem in the Universities because it's reflected that the only things that they do are drinking alcohol, taking drugs and no more. This may be true, but not so exagerated.

From my point of view, it's a bad example for the rest of the youth, because the audience who see these films are the majority adolescents.
This can look like a disaster in real life but it's amusing on the film because it make us laugh.

dimarts, 12 de febrer del 2008

JUNO

The last weekend I saw the Juno, a film who is nominate to OSCARS.

Juno MacGuff a girl16-year-old discovers she is nine weeks pregnant by her friend and longtime admirer, Paulie Bleeker. Although she initially opts for an abortion, a last minute change of heart leads her to decide to have the baby and make a plan for the child's adoption. With the help of her friend Leah, Juno searches the Pennysaverand finds a couple she feels will provide a suitable home. Along with her father, Mac, Juno meets the couple, Mark and Vanessa Loring, in their expensive home and finalizes the adoption arrangements.

Not long before her baby is due, Juno is once again visiting with Mark when their friendship takes a sudden turn toward something more serious. Mark then confesses that he is leaving Vanessa. Vanessa arrives home and an argument ensues between her and Mark about whether or not it is "bad timing" for them to proceed with the adoption. Shocked and distraught, Juno drives off. She pulls over to cry and soon comes to a decision. Returning to the Lorings' home, she leaves a note for Vanessa.

After a heartfelt discussion with her father, Juno accepts that she loves Paulie and reveals her feelings to him. Later at his track event, when Paulie notices Juno is not in the stands and realizes she must be in labor, he rushes to the hospital to be with her during delivery. Afterward, he comforts Juno and they both agree not to see the baby. Instead, Vanessa comes to the hospital where she alone joyfully claims the newborn boy as a now-single adoptive mother. Above the baby's crib in his new nursery, Vanessa has replaced a portrait of her and Mark with Juno's note, which reads "Vanessa: If you're still in, I'm still in."

In conclusions, I like the film and I think that everybody can see it.
Metallica is an American heavy metal band that & formed in 1981 in Los Angeles, California. Founded when drummer Lars Ulrich posted an advertisement in a Los Angeles newspaper, Metallica's original line-up consisted of Ulrich, rhythm guitarist and vocalist James Hetfield,

Metallica has released eight studio albums, two live albums, two EPs, nine videos, and is working on a ninth studio album lead guitarist Dave Mustaine, and bassist Ron McGovney.

The band's 1991 album Metallica, has sold over 15 million copies, which makes it the 25th highest selling album in the United States.

The most famous Metallica’s songs are the rock-balad Nothing else matters and the reality heavy song Master of Puppets

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dilluns, 11 de febrer del 2008

"La lista de Sitler"

I’m going to talk about the film “La lista de Shitler”.This film describe the period when in Germany there was the dictatorial oh Hitler. Hitler was a dictator who though that the white race was superiors to the black one.
He put the Jewedish people in concentration fields.
He wanted to extinguish the black race, so he mistreated the prisoners.
All the film make me suffer from the beginning to the end.The action happens in Germany, and it compares the live of rich people to the people who lives in the concentration fields. In this film we can see the horror of the people who lived in so poor conditions that they didn’t have even water to drink and wash.

In conclusion, I like this film because it makes clear the cruel reality tha the Jewedish people lived in Germany in the second world wor.