CARNIVAL 14'

Carnival has arrived; in fact, officially, it has already finished because it was this weekend. Luckily, there are places where they celebrate it a week later or, in some places, two weeks after the official carnival.

On Friday, we went to Roses:  like every year, Roses carnival is a massive event and there are a lot of people. We enjoyed a lot even thought there are also a lot of people who only are looking for trouble. Yesterday that it was Saturday, we went to Sant Pere. Of course, it is nothing compared with Roses talking about number of people. However, it is a more familiar atmosphere and you go there knowing who you will find. As I have said before, carnival doesn’t stop here; for be the best carnival are next week in Castelló which is mix of Roses and Sant Pere and it is the only date in the year that we can see a good party with a lot of people in Castelló.

This year, by disgrace, carnival has been put just on the exams week... but I am one of these people who think that we can do both things if we organize well.

Childhood nightmares may point to looming health issues

Researchers in the United Kingdom has warn that nightmares, which are normal in children, but in a regular way may be early warning about psychotic disorders and illnesses when these children are between three and seven years old.

I am a little bit confused; I don’t know if I should be worried or I would have to ignore these studies. I don’t know if people tend to have a lot of nightmares when they are children, but this news has caught my attention because, if I don’t remember it wrong, I used to have a lot of nightmares. In fact, my worst fear and worrying was the nightmares: sometimes I tried not to fall asleep only to avoid my nightmares.

I consider that my way to see things is special but I think I don’t have psychotic disorders by the moment and I hope they won’t arrive.

Concluding, I want to recommend to all the parents that have seen this news not to worry if their children have nightmares, because I have to say that my psychotic disorders are not as grave as it seems; even sometimes I seem a normal person.

LOOMING THRASH WAKEFULNESS

http://www.bbc.com/news/health-26385274

Self evaluation

PRESENTATION: Correct. 1

BODY LANGUAGE AND EYE CONTACT: I read too much and my tone was too uniform. 0'6

STRUCTURE: Clear structure. 1

CONTENT: Difficult to explain my project in an oral presentation (even more in english). 3'3

LANGUAGE: Rich vocabulary. 1'9

PRONUNCIATION: Some mistakes and difficulties. 0'7

FINAL MARK: 8'5

Research paper abstract

The future of human nature

The objective of this bioethics project is to study and analyze the main conflicts that are associated with liberal eugenics, the improvement of the human species. It is a discussion between different points in favor and against the liberal eugenics from five different philosophers, two in favor and three against it. At the end of the project, I reflect on the best arguments and I have drawn where the limits should be in the future.

'Dozens die' in China knife attack at Kunming train station

An attack by knife-wielding men at a train station in Kunming in south-west China, which the reasons of it are unknown by the moment, has left 27 people dead, the state news agency Xinhua says. Moreover, over 100 people have been hurt.

By the moment, there is practically no more information about this news but I want to use it to talk about these strange and eccentric conflicts that appear sometimes. I deduce that this happening has been caused by a type of sect or something like that. In any case, I’m sure that people who have done it are mad people, like these students in United States that go to their college and start to kill people. Of course, all of these are disgraces but they are (or should be) a problem for the governments. What I mean is that, apart from a disgrace for the innocent people, these are conflicts that hide social issues; we can’t think that it is bad luck that exist this mad people, this people exist because something makes them mad and this is what the governments have to discover and try to eliminate it. 

WIELDING FURTHER STABBINGS

Red Bull hit new testing low as Vettel fails to complete a lap

The Red Bulls has failed one more time this preseason when Vettel’s car has not worked as it was expected. In this occasion, Vettel and his car have not finished the first lap because the Red Bull has stopped four times. When they wanted to get the car on the track another time, the car has broken down before leave the pit lane.

Red Bull’s hegemony seems to be finished after four years of ample victories. We can’t say that Vettel won’t win the championship because this would be reckless and a bit silly, knowing the results of the last years. However, I have the feeling that this season will be more exciting than ever because there are a lot of candidates to the victory, the Ferrari team have improved a lot and the Mercedes are the ones who are responding with the best results in trainings. Moreover, McLaren and Williams are doing good laps too.

The season starts in two weeks in Melbourne, the GP of Australia. By the moment, the situation of Vettel and their team is critical and it will be difficult for them to fix the situation but I have no doubts that they will do it and they will catch the level of the rest of the teams.

BREAKDOWN MEANWHILE MILEAGE

Can Internet change the world for the better?

Internet is taking the main role in the evolution of the 21st century. A new era has appeared where Internet has started to be accessible for all population. The question is: can it change our world for the better?

The main conflicts that Internet produces are two: the loss of privacy value and that some information quality is questionable. However, we can only consider valid the first point against it because it is seen that TV and radio information is sometimes censored and manipulated by governments or the economic powers. That's why we can consider Internet more objective, because we can view different points of view, always knowing which sites are reliable. Moreover, Internet allows us to get information that we want where and when we need it, a part from the knowledge that we have in every moment about what is happening around the world.

To conclude, Internet is changing radically the world for the better although the privacy is being secluded of what we consider important.

18 YEARS OLD

It recently was my eighteenth birthday and, of course, was very special for me... at least, the first day of my eighteen. The truth is that I have done practically nothing that I couldn’t do before since my birthday; I only have signed a lot of papers for change my bank accounts.

I know I will see the main advantages in few weeks (I hope) when I get my drive licence. This is what I wish the most at this moment because I am tired of depending of my parents every time that I want to go to a place, especially when we go to party. In these occasions, I expect that I will notice my eighteen too; even more when the rest of my friends are also adult... but, nothing more.

We celebrate days that are equal than the anterior days or the day after. However, the conclusion where I want to arrive is not that we do silly things (that we do); the conclusion of all of this is that we would have to celebrate things more often, never minding the date, because the truth is that we live too stressed and we don’t value things like we would have to do it.

Curling - the new rock 'n' roll after the Sochi Winter Olympics?

The Winter Olympic Games, which have had place the last month, have been quite famous and quite polemical. What refers to sportive activity, a sport practice has featured above the other ones: Curling. Since the Olympics, there have been a lot of curling arrangements around the world to promote this sport and, what is more important, a lot of people have been attracted by it; people who even didn’t know that it exists.

This news has caught my attention because I am one of these people who have discovered the sport during the Olympics and now I think it is very interesting. I don’t mean that I didn’t know that this sport existed, but I knew nothing about the sport; in fact, my prejudices made me think that it was a stupid sport. This is what we often think the ones who practice majority sports like football or basketball. Sport is culture and every sport has got its own values, its difficulties and its personalities. For this reason, I consider really important to know and practice different sports and don’t judge unknown sports too quickly.

Snazzy, Outfits, Roaring

http://www.bbc.com/sport/0/get-inspired/26256949

US planning full Afghan pullout, Obama tells Karzai

President Barack Obama has warned hisAfghan counterpart Hamid Karzai that the US may pull all of its troops out ofhis country by the year's end. Obama want to make a deal between Afghan to dothe process pacifically and without any accident but the president Hamid Karzaihave refused to do it because he don’t believe in what Obama says.

All that means a little bit more peace, of course, are good news. What cross through my mind is really different. In my opinion, this important and very valued act is only a way for the United States to clean their own public image in front of the rest of the world. They will need a lot of more gestures and a lot of years of good actions if they want to convince me and a big part of the rest of the world that they have stopped to cause war and big conflicts only to get oil and to make the country richer and richer, which is what they have done since they arrived to America. A lot of people know what USA have done to get oil but most of the people can’t see this because they only see a cool country with cool people that are on the top of the world. I think it is necessary to cure this blind people and make them know what really are United States of America.

troops / tropes

deal / acord

due / causa 

Neymar: Barcelona pay £11.2m in tax fraud case but deny offence

Barcelona has been punished for tax fraud by the Spanish government and will have to pay 13,5M€. The reason of this punishment is that there are irregularities in the contract of Neymar, the football Brazilian star, where Barça paid theoretically over 50M€.

Knowing that I am a Barça supporter, anyone can thing that I comment this news to defend my club. This is not true, even thought I don’t want to criticize only F.C.Barcelona.

Football moves big quantities of money; every day these quantities increase. The example of Neymar contract is only this, an example, because all big teams try to avoid paying the maximum money possible. The reason why they do that is that they think football is above the law, and this is society’s fault, like most of the issues.

What I want to criticize is that people are happy if their team staff government taxes if is with the objective to win more games and more championships... and they are not conscious that, when they do that, they are staffing to all of us. However, people are conscious that politicians have to be punished when they are corrupt.

When football clubs staff to all of us, we have to penalize them, like we do when politicians do it.

Alleged = presumpte

Arise = sorgir

Netting = xarxa

Feminism

Pride and Prejudice has a representation of the feminism in Elisabeth even though the novel was created in the 18th century. It is true that she does not say it and surely she does not consider herself a feminist but the way she acts, giving respect and valuing herself, is not typical for a girl in the 18th century.

Feminism is not a bat concept like sexism is. The thing is that feminism has borned to fight against sexism, a social issue that is associated with past. Thanks of feminism; society in developed countries has done big advancements. We can see it in the advertisements, in the governments, in the law... However, there is a long way in front of us if we want to eliminate definitively the sexism. If I have said some places where we can see the improvement, I have to say too that we still can see the sexism in these places: the cleaning products are always announced by women, the governments are more represented by men and we can still see some prejudices associated with people sex.

To conclude, feminism has been a positive movement and we need it to stay in our society if we want to continue advancing and we don't want to return to the past.

R.I.P. TDR

Today is the day. In about seven hours, I present my work to the teachers that have to evaluate me and my project. I am not nervous at the moment but I suppose that the nerves will increase when the time to present the project is coming. I have to confess that I have practiced a lot at home and, luckily, physics teacher has obligated us to do the presentation in front of the physics class.

I do not know if the title of the post is correct because I don’t know yet how far the TDR will follow us. By the moment, what is sure is that we will have to present it in English and that will be difficult and boring because it is certain that, probably, I am the only one interested in this topic; like it is certain that I won’t enjoy listening about the most of the TDR in my class.

However, the hard part of the project has finished and, now, I will be able to concentrate more in the subjects and I hope I will be less stressed too.