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divendres, 29 de novembre del 2013

WOMEN AND THEIR POWER



It is not true that no woman is a genius. They have made fewer inventions and have achieved fewer scientific goals because they always have been in situation of inequality. However, there have been important and powerful women in the past and there will be more in the future. An example of that is that one of the most powerful people in the world is a woman; the president of Germany.

Regarding the second part of the sentence, except because Henry I referring only to women. What I mean is that is true that these people who have nothing to say, they say it charmingly. When someone shouts to give their opinion to other people, this is because their words are weak and nobody can trust them. We can see an example in some TV programmes where some people argue about something and it is impossible to hear something because all of the shouting.

dimecres, 27 de novembre del 2013

Two die in Brazil World Cup stadium accident



Three men died in an accident at Brasil. The structure of a stadium in construction in Sao Paulo fell and two men were victims of this terrible accident. The stadium was one of the buildings that have to be built for the World Championship in 2014.

 


In one of the news I put in the blog, I commented that it was a shame that, while countries like Brasil are increasing with their PIB, their habitants and people who work for that has to withstand hard work conditions. 

Well... I think there aren’t necessary a lot of words because the events has given me the reason. 

Of course, the president of Brasil will say that is very sad, like FIFA president, Blatter; but nothing will change, infrastructures will continue and the sacrifice of the people to benefit the country’s progress won’t stop. 

So, the worst are not the deaths, the worth is that these life are nothing if we know that in less than a year a World Championship will be celebrated there. 




Erasmus



In over a half a year, we have to decide the list of universities and degrees we want to study. I don’t even know what degree I will study, I have few options but I don’t know it yet. 

Arià will try to go to United States to study if they give him a scholarship for his tennis results and his marks. This is a very interesting option and it can be a great experience. However, I have thought that I will study here, in Barcelona or in Girona, by the moment. What I really want to do is what my brother have done this course; he has chosen to go to Belgium with an Erasmus scholarship. I am sure that, when you go to other countries, you learn to see things since different points of view, so you become wiser. Of course, you also know a lot of new people and you learn to fend for yourself. 

So, it has got a lot of positive things to study abroad and I am sure that, if it is not very expensive when I am doing my degree, I will go with Erasmus to study to another country and pass a course or some subjects of the course.

Blatter condemns Betis fans over 'racist' Paulao chanting



Real Betis defender Paulao
Last Sunday, in the Andalusian derby Sevilla – Betis, Betis supporters insulted with racist words their own player Paulao when he had been expelled of the field. Now, Sepp Blatter, the FIFA president, has criticised hardly this happening.




As Roger and me said last year in an oral presentation about racism: nowadays, we difficulty can see racist insults or racist songs. I suppose this change is thanks of the campaigns against the racism by the UEFA and the FIFA and because probably society is getting better.

However, as we saw last Sunday, sometimes racist happenings occur in some stadiums. 

Now, it is time to eliminate definitively these sad episodes and clubs have to ban the entrance of the people who own to racist groups or have been related with conflicts like the one of the Andalusian derby. Moreover, important football organizations have to penalize harder the clubs that allow things like that occur.

 http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/25104404


Italy's Senate expels ex-PM Silvio Berlusconi



Silvio Berlusconi, the Italian famous ex-Prime Minister who has dominated Italian politics for twenty years, has been expelled from parliament by the Senate with a voting caused by his conviction for tax fraud. Now, he could have to be arrested for all the criminal cases he is related with because he has lost the immunity he had.


Berlusconi and girlfriend, Francesca Pascale, in Rome



 

These are great news for European politics in general. Particularly, I don’t know his ideologies when we talk strictly about politics; but we all know polemics that always goes with this man. It would have to be literally shameful for Italian people but, for many of them, it isn’t. Certainly, Silvio Berlusconi was elected as president after be public that he had been involved in a case of an underage prostitute. This is a reflection of the society, probably not only the Italian society, and we can conclude that probably we won’t change the world problems if we don’t change our mentality. 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-25128115


dimecres, 20 de novembre del 2013

Stupid advices by stupid people



In three weeks exactly, we have to deliver our worst nightmare: something that we have in our mind during all the year like a torture, but we only have the willpower to advance it on rare occasions. Of course, everybody knows what I am talking about because almost all of the students have the same feelings than me. 

The common thing that always happens in all the TDR’s and is its main characteristic is to do exactly the opposite of all the people say to us, include ourselves. Before chose the topic of our project, teachers, parents, relatives, friends and even ourselves as I said before, they all say to us: “Work every day on summer; every hour that you don’t work on summer, you will have to retake it during the curse” Of course, this is something undesirable because you know that in 2nd Batxiller you have a lot of work to do and a lot of exams. So you decide to do it exactly as people around you have recommended you. However, summer comes and you think that it isn’t so urgent so you postpone it during a few days. You think about the project three or four times a week and you decide to work only one time a week (except if it appears an unexpected plan just the day that you decided that you have to work, like go to the beach with your friends... or alone...) The thing is that you rarely find time to work on your project. 

A few months later, in September, when the classes start and you have met your tutor, you start to work eight hours a day because your teacher wants to see your work, and it is in this moment that you realize why teachers, relatives and friends gave you an advice eight five months ago. 

To conclude, I know it is useless and practically silly that I say this but I sincerely recommend to all 1st batxiller students to work on their projects every day on summer because every hour that they won’t work on summer, they will have to retake it during the curse.