lunes, 6 de diciembre de 2010
THERE WAS A TIME (CORRECTED)
There was a time; I suffered so much I wanted to take it out of me, and I did all the physical pain to release mu inner pain. The days when I played for fun were over, I was only 10 years old when playing was more an activity to not look weird among my friends. I tried to hurt myself to see if the spiritual pain disappeared, but this never happened, the death of my brother hurt me as I never though it may. How is it possible to want to die when you are 10 years old, how is it possible a person felt that much pain and hate against the world. I spent a whole year like this, and everything changed when I went to Secondary School, I did not know how, but it was like someone or something was telling me I should not be sad, and that I had a long life to live. Now I try to live with my past took away, and I know we are messengers on earth. I believe in angels, I’m blessed to tell myself I suffered that much to become who I am today. I know there is someone watching over me, my own personal baby angel.
THERE WAS A TIME
There was a time; I suffer so much I wanted to take it out of me, and I did all the physical pain to release mu inner pain. The days when I play for fun were over, I was only 10 years old when to play was more an activity to not look weird among my friends. I try to hurt myself to see if the spiritual pain disappear, but this never happen, the death of my brother hurt me as I never though it may. How it is possible to want to die when you are 10 years old, how is it possible that a person feel that much pain and hate against the world. I spent a whole year like this, and everything change when I went to Secondary School, I did not know how, but it was like someone or something was telling me I should not be sad, and that I have a long life to live. Now I try to live with my past took away, and I know we are messengers on earth. I believe in angels, I’m blessed to tell myself I suffer that much to become who I am today. I know there is someone watching over me, my own personal baby angel.
viernes, 19 de noviembre de 2010
MOVIES VS. BOOKS (CORRECTED)
How many times have you gone out the movies and said: “it was good but I prefer the book?” Nowadays it is not new to hear that a movie is based on a book. Harry Potter, the Chronicles of Narnia, the Lord of the Rings, the Twilight Saga, Interview with the Vampire; and even some titles of Stephen King and Charles Brown have been made into movies, but I believe that books are always better because you can use your imagination, the content is different and also you can learn from them.
When you read a book your mind will be more active than when you watch a movie. When you go to see a movie, you already have the images of all the sets and the actors have been selected to perfectly portray the character, but even though with this already given to you, you think that there is something missing .When you read a book you can activate your imagination, and you can create your own sets, and picture the characters as you believe they can be.
Most of the movies based on books tend to last from two to three hours top, because it is very tiring to be sitting for more than three hours. This is a limitation for the movie, because writers have to eliminate a lot of content from the book. When you read the book, you have more information that is essential to understand it, so when you go to the movies and realize that they eliminate essential information the movie may not have been completely understand.
As I said before, when you watch a movie you are not very active, you are just sitting watching images on a screen and listening to the script, but most of the times we cannot pay fully attention to the movie. When you are reading you not only activate you imagination, but also you can learn spelling, grammar, new vocabulary and you increase your reading ability, which help you have better grades, because your comprehension will be better.
In my case I will read the book and then watch the movie, but I will always believe that books are better than movies not only because you activate your imagination, the content is better and you can learn from them. Books are good for everybody, they are amazing tools for our learning, maybe when you read a book is because you want to read it and you do not notice that you are learning but eventually it will be helpful for you.
When you read a book your mind will be more active than when you watch a movie. When you go to see a movie, you already have the images of all the sets and the actors have been selected to perfectly portray the character, but even though with this already given to you, you think that there is something missing .When you read a book you can activate your imagination, and you can create your own sets, and picture the characters as you believe they can be.
Most of the movies based on books tend to last from two to three hours top, because it is very tiring to be sitting for more than three hours. This is a limitation for the movie, because writers have to eliminate a lot of content from the book. When you read the book, you have more information that is essential to understand it, so when you go to the movies and realize that they eliminate essential information the movie may not have been completely understand.
As I said before, when you watch a movie you are not very active, you are just sitting watching images on a screen and listening to the script, but most of the times we cannot pay fully attention to the movie. When you are reading you not only activate you imagination, but also you can learn spelling, grammar, new vocabulary and you increase your reading ability, which help you have better grades, because your comprehension will be better.
In my case I will read the book and then watch the movie, but I will always believe that books are better than movies not only because you activate your imagination, the content is better and you can learn from them. Books are good for everybody, they are amazing tools for our learning, maybe when you read a book is because you want to read it and you do not notice that you are learning but eventually it will be helpful for you.
miércoles, 17 de noviembre de 2010
MOVIES VS. BOOKS
How many times have you gone out the movies and said: “it was good but I prefer the book?” Nowadays it is not new to hear that a movie is based on a book. Harry Potter, the Chronicles of Narnia, the Lord of the Rings, the Twilight Saga, Interview with the Vampire; and even some titles of Stephen King and Charles Brown have been made into movies, but I believe that books are always better because you can use your imagination, the content is different and also you can learn from them.
When you read book you mind will be more active than when you watch a movie. When you go to see a movie, you already have the images of all the sets and the actors have been selected to perfectly portray the character, but even though with this already given to you, you think that there is something missing .When you read a book you can activate your imagination, and you can create your own sets, and picture the characters as you believe they can be.
Most of the movies based on books tend to last from two to three hours top, because it is very tiring to be sitting for more than three hours. This is a limitation for the movie, because writers have to eliminate a lot of content from the book. When you read the book, you have more information that is essential to understand it, so when you got to the movies and realize that they eliminate essential information the movie may not have been completely understand.
As I said before, when you watch a movie you are not very active, you are just sitting watching images on a screen and listening to the scrip, but most of the times we cannot pay fully attention to the movie. When you are reading you not only activate you imagination, but also you can learn spelling, grammar, new vocabulary and you increase your reading ability, which help you have better grades, because your comprehension will be better.
In my case I will read the book and then watch the movie, but I will always believe that books are better than movies not only because you activate your imagination, the content is better and you can learn from them. Books are good for everybody, they are amazing tools for our learning, maybe when you read a book is because you want to read it and you do not notice that you are learning but eventually it will be helpful for you.
When you read book you mind will be more active than when you watch a movie. When you go to see a movie, you already have the images of all the sets and the actors have been selected to perfectly portray the character, but even though with this already given to you, you think that there is something missing .When you read a book you can activate your imagination, and you can create your own sets, and picture the characters as you believe they can be.
Most of the movies based on books tend to last from two to three hours top, because it is very tiring to be sitting for more than three hours. This is a limitation for the movie, because writers have to eliminate a lot of content from the book. When you read the book, you have more information that is essential to understand it, so when you got to the movies and realize that they eliminate essential information the movie may not have been completely understand.
As I said before, when you watch a movie you are not very active, you are just sitting watching images on a screen and listening to the scrip, but most of the times we cannot pay fully attention to the movie. When you are reading you not only activate you imagination, but also you can learn spelling, grammar, new vocabulary and you increase your reading ability, which help you have better grades, because your comprehension will be better.
In my case I will read the book and then watch the movie, but I will always believe that books are better than movies not only because you activate your imagination, the content is better and you can learn from them. Books are good for everybody, they are amazing tools for our learning, maybe when you read a book is because you want to read it and you do not notice that you are learning but eventually it will be helpful for you.
jueves, 4 de noviembre de 2010
1973: REAL STORIES OF A SAD GENERATION
"When you are climbing everybody holds you, but when you fall nobody stops you"
1973 is a documentary directed by Antonio Isordia and produced by the CCC, CONAPA, and Azteca Churubusco.
Set in Mexico City, this documentary portrays the lives of three citizens born in that year: Rodolfo Escogido Rodriguez, María Fernanda Ramos Macín and Alejandro Cota, whose only fear is being forgotten in history.
The documentary was filmed between 1994 and 2003 and won the JVC Award for the best director in the 20th International Film Festival in Guadalajara, and it was nominated to an Ariel Award for the best movie and documentary.
The movie is interesting because it unfortunately portrays the reality of most Mexican people, people with dreamsand hopes that end because of the lack of support or because of the lack of attention.
You should go watch this movie, if you are into documentaries and if you want to have a dosis of reality, because there is nothing more real than this movie.
1973 is a documentary directed by Antonio Isordia and produced by the CCC, CONAPA, and Azteca Churubusco.
Set in Mexico City, this documentary portrays the lives of three citizens born in that year: Rodolfo Escogido Rodriguez, María Fernanda Ramos Macín and Alejandro Cota, whose only fear is being forgotten in history.
The documentary was filmed between 1994 and 2003 and won the JVC Award for the best director in the 20th International Film Festival in Guadalajara, and it was nominated to an Ariel Award for the best movie and documentary.
The movie is interesting because it unfortunately portrays the reality of most Mexican people, people with dreamsand hopes that end because of the lack of support or because of the lack of attention.
You should go watch this movie, if you are into documentaries and if you want to have a dosis of reality, because there is nothing more real than this movie.
miércoles, 20 de octubre de 2010
ANIMAL TESTING
According to Wikipedia web page animal testing, also known as animal experimentation, animal research, and in vivo testing, is the use of non-human animals in experiments. Every year over 100 million animals are use to experiment in pharmaceutics laboratories, companies of make-up and cleaning products, and for medical research. All these experiments are all for the human benefit, because all these experiments are done in order to know the effect some products may cause to humans. Nowadays in most of the countries animal testing is considered a sign of animal cruelty and this is punished by the law either with a fine or with imprisonment.
Most of the animal experiments are done by pharmaceutics laboratories. In order to use new medicine scientists will make the animal get sick. During these experiments the animal will suffer pain because of the sickness and the experiment, and by the end the animal will die either for the experiment or because the scientist will kill it because they cannot experiment with it anymore. After the tests, medicine will come out to the market only to be removed little time later. This is because the reaction in an animal will not be the same as in a human that is the reason why some of the medicines are out the market, because of the secondary effects it causes in humans.
Animal testing on cosmetics is arguably one of the most (if not the most) controversial areas of animal testing. This industry test with animals until they finish a product or only to test an ingredient of a formula. There are some organizations as the EU (the European Union) which in 2009 banned the entire cosmetics test on animals. After this happened these cosmetic companies had to find a place where animal testing is not banned otherwise they would not be able to make those experiments, so even though they know it is banned or they can be punished they continue doing experiments. Testing in cosmetics is very controversial because animals will suffer and die for the price of human beauty.
Many people may say that humanity would not be able to move forward if it were not for animal testing. I think that we probably have better medicines and procedures and with these many diseases had been cured, but scientists should find out a way to avoid using animals or humans to experiment. If they are intelligent and prepared enough they can find a way to test without hurting anything or anyone, as the use of skin human cells, or using computer simulation.
Animal testing is very cruel and none animal should die during an experiment only for the benefit of the human sake. There are a lot of different ways to create and proved medicines, cosmetics, cleaning products and more without hurting animals. Animal testing should stop because I think we become animals when we kill, so would you like to be used in testing?
References:
Animal testing - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. (n.d.). Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Retrieved October 18, 2010, from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal
Using Animals for Testing: Pro's Versus Con's - About Animal Testing (UK). (n.d.). Informed Discussion on Animal Welfare in Animal Testing at About Animal Testing (UK). Retrieved October 18, 2010, from http://www.aboutanimaltesting.co.uk/using-animals-testing-pros-versus-cons.html
Using Animals for Testing: Pro's Versus Con's - About Animal Testing (UK). (n.d.). Informed Discussion on Animal Welfare in Animal Testing at About Animal Testing (UK). Retrieved October 18, 2010, from http://www.aboutanimaltesting.co.uk/using-animals-testing-pros-versus-cons.html
Most of the animal experiments are done by pharmaceutics laboratories. In order to use new medicine scientists will make the animal get sick. During these experiments the animal will suffer pain because of the sickness and the experiment, and by the end the animal will die either for the experiment or because the scientist will kill it because they cannot experiment with it anymore. After the tests, medicine will come out to the market only to be removed little time later. This is because the reaction in an animal will not be the same as in a human that is the reason why some of the medicines are out the market, because of the secondary effects it causes in humans.
Animal testing on cosmetics is arguably one of the most (if not the most) controversial areas of animal testing. This industry test with animals until they finish a product or only to test an ingredient of a formula. There are some organizations as the EU (the European Union) which in 2009 banned the entire cosmetics test on animals. After this happened these cosmetic companies had to find a place where animal testing is not banned otherwise they would not be able to make those experiments, so even though they know it is banned or they can be punished they continue doing experiments. Testing in cosmetics is very controversial because animals will suffer and die for the price of human beauty.
Many people may say that humanity would not be able to move forward if it were not for animal testing. I think that we probably have better medicines and procedures and with these many diseases had been cured, but scientists should find out a way to avoid using animals or humans to experiment. If they are intelligent and prepared enough they can find a way to test without hurting anything or anyone, as the use of skin human cells, or using computer simulation.
Animal testing is very cruel and none animal should die during an experiment only for the benefit of the human sake. There are a lot of different ways to create and proved medicines, cosmetics, cleaning products and more without hurting animals. Animal testing should stop because I think we become animals when we kill, so would you like to be used in testing?
References:
Animal testing - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. (n.d.). Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Retrieved October 18, 2010, from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal
Using Animals for Testing: Pro's Versus Con's - About Animal Testing (UK). (n.d.). Informed Discussion on Animal Welfare in Animal Testing at About Animal Testing (UK). Retrieved October 18, 2010, from http://www.aboutanimaltesting.co.uk/using-animals-testing-pros-versus-cons.html
Using Animals for Testing: Pro's Versus Con's - About Animal Testing (UK). (n.d.). Informed Discussion on Animal Welfare in Animal Testing at About Animal Testing (UK). Retrieved October 18, 2010, from http://www.aboutanimaltesting.co.uk/using-animals-testing-pros-versus-cons.html
domingo, 10 de octubre de 2010
MY BEST FRIEND (EXAM)
Have you ever imagined being friend of someone who is not totally but a lot different from you? Well this happened to me. My best friend is a girl named Marisol and we met in high school. The first time I met her I did not like her, and I even knew why, but time passed and we became friends, and now we are inseparable. It has been 7 years since we met and every day we become closer.
Marisol is 21 years old and she is studying physical therapy at UAA. She was born on August 30th 1989 in Aguascalientes, Ags. She lives with her mom and her brother, and she is the youngest of her family. She is very tall and a little bit chubby; she has long dark brown wavy hair. According to her face, she has rounded nose, big brown eyes, and also she has full lips and a big smile.
Marisol’s personality is very unique, I think she is bipolar (just kidding), she is very outgoing with people she already knows, but if she does not know anybody she feels uncomfortable and she can be shy. She tends to take her emotions to the extreme, if you tell her a joke and she finds it funny, she will laugh to the point that she is almost unable to breath and her face will turn red. But also if she is sad, she is not afraid to show how she feels, something that I always try to avoid.
As I said before, the first time we met I did not like her, I thought she was weird, but she was not, I felt that way because we were different. Eventually we started to go out, and we became friends, she makes me feel very happy and if I am sad and I know that she is the one that will support me, every time I need her she is there for me, and I consider her as part of my family, she is like another sister to me, and it is good to know that she feels the same way about me.
I believe that Marisol and I are very different, we like different types of music, she does not gets English and I am going to be an English teacher, etc. sometimes I think we are like water and oil, but at the same time I consider that these differences are the greatest things about our friendship. Probably if we like the same things our friendship would be boring. We complement each other and I never thought that someone that different from me would become my best friend.
Marisol is 21 years old and she is studying physical therapy at UAA. She was born on August 30th 1989 in Aguascalientes, Ags. She lives with her mom and her brother, and she is the youngest of her family. She is very tall and a little bit chubby; she has long dark brown wavy hair. According to her face, she has rounded nose, big brown eyes, and also she has full lips and a big smile.
Marisol’s personality is very unique, I think she is bipolar (just kidding), she is very outgoing with people she already knows, but if she does not know anybody she feels uncomfortable and she can be shy. She tends to take her emotions to the extreme, if you tell her a joke and she finds it funny, she will laugh to the point that she is almost unable to breath and her face will turn red. But also if she is sad, she is not afraid to show how she feels, something that I always try to avoid.
As I said before, the first time we met I did not like her, I thought she was weird, but she was not, I felt that way because we were different. Eventually we started to go out, and we became friends, she makes me feel very happy and if I am sad and I know that she is the one that will support me, every time I need her she is there for me, and I consider her as part of my family, she is like another sister to me, and it is good to know that she feels the same way about me.
I believe that Marisol and I are very different, we like different types of music, she does not gets English and I am going to be an English teacher, etc. sometimes I think we are like water and oil, but at the same time I consider that these differences are the greatest things about our friendship. Probably if we like the same things our friendship would be boring. We complement each other and I never thought that someone that different from me would become my best friend.
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