dijous, 12 de maig del 2016

MY ENGLISH PROGRESS

My first post of this blog was in 2013, when I was doing fourth of ESO with Sonia, two years ago. I've read it and I realized that I commited various mistakes that now I wouldn't make at all. I has so much fun reading my first post in this blog because it reminds me a lot of memories.
My first log post was: 'My dream: be an actror', and it talks aout my dream when I was fifiteen yo. For example, my mistakes were: 'If i can be a real actor, my challenges are very difficult to solve.' corrected is : If I could be a real actor... would be very difficult to solve'. Another mistake: ' i will can do distance classes.' COrrected is: I'll be able to do distance classes'. LINK FIRST POST
Also, I made mistakes of structure, like starting to explain without writing an introduction before. I made mistakes with the photo because I placed it a little bit too near from the text, and it's too big. Also, i wasn't too critical and reflective, normal in fourth of ESO. But i used one word that I didn't remember since I checked it on the dictionary: 'cram', I didn't remember this word, but then when i wrote the post I did, so that shocked me a little bit.
I see a personal development in my writings and compositions, I use more complex words and grammar. I include my progression with the oral presentations. also: I improved a lot with the oral presentations mostly with the pronunciation and the vocabulary used, and I also improved because I'm not that shy as in my first presentation, i learnt minimally how to express

Now that I realized my mistakes in the past, it's time to see to improve more in the future. This mistakes were very common in ESO, then in fist batxillerat I improved, and now I improved more, and that's how it goes on, you never stop learning new things.



dissabte, 7 de maig del 2016

China bans 'erotic' banana-eating live streams

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A screengrab from a live-streaming site of a woman holding a banana
Chinese lives-streaming services have banned people filming themselves eating bananas in a seductive fashion. The poeple who film themselves doing erotic things for some are now banned as other erotic filmings, according to the New Express Daily. The authorities now are trying to clamp down (posar accions dràstiques) on inapropiate and erotic online content. This filiming sessions are mostly of girls under 18 years old and most of them chinese, that's why in China these type of videos are so popular among lives-streaming. Three quarters of the people who watch these videos are males.
I think that these type of videos sometimes are very erotic and should be banned from the public internet, but I would let that people who pays some money could watch these videos, as long as people who don't want to watch it don't watch it, I'd have no problem with that.

Video shows Afghan woman's 'Taliban execution'

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MapA video has emerged where apperas an afghan woman beeing killed after an informal said that she killed her husband. In the video appears that the taliban shots her in the back of the head, ans she feels to the floor dead.  This video has spread on social media around. The taliban used to publicy execute woman in de 1990s.  In August 2011 a similar killing happened were the woman eloped (fugar-se) from his husband, ans he had been stoned to death. Last year happened a similar killing, were a woman accused for adultery (adulteri) had been stoned ( lapidada) to death too. 
The murder triggered protests across the country and led to global condemnation of the treatment of Afghan women.
 
Poster of Farkhunda

Patrick Ekeng: Dinamo Bucharest and Cameroon midfielder dies after collapse

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Ekeng, a football player, fell to the floor on the 70th minute of a league match between Dinamo and Viitorul. He was carried to the hospital but died two hours later although they tried to revive him. The Camenoorian FA confirmed his death on Friday, while his former club tweeted: 'We have no words to express our sadness at the lost'. Afetr his dead, the Fifa president read about this lost and said that all the messages are regarding Patrick Ekeng forever, that this lost will me regarded for all time. I fell very sorry for this lost, when I realized it I was like 'WOW', I've never seen something like this. A very similar thing happened in 2003, where a Cameroon foe died after collapsing during a match against Colombia in France.






The chasm cutting an Antarctic base adrift

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The meteorologist Peter Gibbs, that work in the section of weather in the BBC, returned to the arctic to explore the chasm (abyss) to threatining to cast it adrift (a la deriva). His words say that is feels like another planet even when the sun is shining. This abyss  has 100 m wide. The Wedell Sea oozing (es traspua)  He's going to climb up this huge abyss to the top, and he reminds hisself 36 years ago when hee first went to the at place being more fit in that time.

chasm in the ice



Peter Gibbs on the ice in 1980

'Perfect storm' of El Niño and warming boosted Alberta fires

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The dry weather have been one of the facts and that increased the effects of the wildfire in Alberta. according to scientists, this wildfire have been caused by the dry weather and El niño, a phenomenom that causes a drier weather and a lows the percentage of rains per month.
However, scientists confirm that El niño have not been the only cause of this wildfire that have caused bad effects on the province. This effect is the global warming, as expected. The global warming is rising the global temperatures by 1 degree, and this directly rise the probability of wildfires. The dry winter caused by global warming is one of the two facts that caused the wildfire, and the other one is El niño, that also makes a drier weather and wind changes.

temperature map


Alberta fire

Space X records another rocket landing



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This rocket returned to a drone ship off the Florida coast because it was travelling to a high velocity tha it couldn't land on earth. Now, Space X say that this high velocity must be reduced in the future because sending a satellitie from the falcon-9 rocket is a difficult performance to do, and that energy that then has to be removed when landing. One of the of the most important causes of this prpbolem was the extra loading that the rocket had and also the heating of the components. However, this rocket has sometimes been able to land in the platform without having to land on the sea.
Space X now are trying to solve this problem and make that the landing platform will be a very frequent place to land for the outer flying things.


Launch

Review: Fear the Walking Dead



Lately, the first episode of the  second season of fear the walking dead have been watched by lots of people around the world, and the last episode now showed is the fourth.
I think that this TV series is very good and they make you think about waht would happen if you're living a normal life and suddenly a zombie apocalypse happens. This series is similar to The Walking Dead, but it's less horrorfull, but it's adaptet to the beggining of the apocalypse but in another place in the USA, like The Walking Dead itself but in the first seasons.
In my opinion, this series is worse than the original Walking Dead, because the main characters are more stupid and hypocrite, that's why this series have less viewers than The Walking Dead, but the horror is more psycological than physical, that's why it's differents, but not bad fore me.
In conlcusion, I think that is series is quite good compared with others, but the only bad thing are the characters that are more stupid, but there are some of them that maybe fit with you. I recommend to watch this if you like zombie stories, specially when there's problem with other bands of humans and conflicts.


Trip to Fuerteventura

On semana santa I went to one of my favourites canarian island, Fuerteventura. I very like this island because is one of the most uncivilzed island, and the nature there is hardly preserved, ans that's why you can see some volcanoes in their natural state. Although the island is very steep and peeled, it has it's own beauty.


We went to the lagoon in south part of the island, where you can do kitesurfing without the risk of be dragged by the atlantic ocean currents. However, we arrived ther too late, and when the tide os the ocean lowers, the lagoon lowers too and then ther'es insuficient water for dooing water sports there, but my father that knows how to kitesurf more than me, he went to the normal becah and kitesrfued quite good. Me and my mother took a bath, and the water was turqoise, really.


The island that you can see in the photo is ' La isla the los Lobos' or ' The sea wolf island'. It's a very little island that you can visit by going there in a shifting boat trip. This island has no building and it's very very natural, and you can walk from the dock to the other part of the island, enjoyng the view adn you can go up to that bigger mountain, where you can see Fuerteventura and Lanzarote.

The island that you can see behing the wolf island one is Lanzarote, and you can get a ship trip to Lanzarote with 40 minutes of traveling.


We went to Lanzarote with a ship, and then we went to Timanfaya, a volcano park where you can see asleep volcanoes and you can feel the heat that the little activity some have from their last eruption on the last 100 years.

The island you can see in the photo is Fuerteventura.

In the park of timanfaya we were in a bus and carried through the whole park and we listened to a documental that explained the history of the place. Also, the landscape is very black and rough because of the lava that solidified from the last eruption.



In this video you can see what happens if you throw water into a hole that ends up in a hotspot of the volcano:






Also, the restaurants ther profit the heat that the volcano providddes and use it to cook food, so they can make barbacues. We went to that restaurant and I ate rabbit cooked with the heat from the volcano, it was quite special and funny at the same moment.


I spent very good moments in this trip on Fuerteventura, and I hope to go again in the futere.







Summer job



As I mentioned last year in my blog, I'm going to wok with my father in Frigoss Inn. This job consists of delivering and people can rent a fridge in their camping pitch. This little enterprise has different job places, in other words, there's people who work on cleaing the fridges that arrive from other customers and must be delivered again to other clients, also people who drive the van and care of the road situation, a person who picks up the phone and make reservations, and a person who accompanies that van driver and talks with the people and explain the fridge operation and make money trade as well.
My job is to accompany the driver and talk with the clients and explain them the fridge opeation, and make money trades as well, so for em is a very good learning phase because I mostly talk in english with the clients and I also practice french and a little bit of italian in some situations. Also, I spend very good moments with the clients and I enjoy talking in english, specially with british people because when they say that you speak very good enlish you're very pleased.

In conlclusion, I hope that this year is going to be very enjoyable, but hard as well because the last week of July and the first of August are very tiring.


Email to Barack Obama- human rights

To: barackobama@gmail.com

Dear Barack Obama,

I am writing to complain about human tights. Yesterday I was walking on the street and I saw a man asking for charity because he hadn't money not job.

The problems nowadays are that a lot of poeple are homeless, and they are supposed to have the right to have a house. The moment I saw these homeless I thought that there are changes that need to be done. My family have never been porr, that's why this fact impatcs me harder.
Firstly, I would like to point out that is unacceptable that there are human rights for everyone while there are still poeple that havn't  a job nor a house or money to pay their depts. Secondly, there are people that have a job but they don't have time for themselves. Although there's people that has a lot of money but they don't wnjoy their lifes as other persons without moeny would do.

To sum up, I very much hope that you will look into this matter so that in the future most people would have a better life. However, as this problem grows day by day, I am sure you will agree that you should do something against it.
 I look forward to your reaction.

Yours faithfully,

Lebron James

9 Alverstone Rd

NY NW2 STS

dijous, 21 d’abril del 2016

Is love overrated?

As everyone knows, love is a feeling that every living thing has and it's unavoidable. Mans feel atracted by the womans, and womans feel atracted by the mens, that's completely naturals, we can see it in the naturals world, females go with males.
Now the question is: Is this love overrated?

Nowadays love is a topic very speculated, so it's one of the most important thing in the human kind. If you listen to the newest songs, the 90% of them talk about love (Why you left me?, when will you come back?, ...). I don't mean that it is bad, but we should have more variety in our world, not only love. Everyone knows the phrase : Love can do anything. That's actually true, because people act just for their own happiness, hat bring them directly to love.
nearly everyone have been in love in this world, inlcuding other animals, and that means that love is seen very important. Actually, that's not bad because love is very important to enjoy your life and share moments with your couple, but sometimes love is higher than other things, it overpass the real world and people live in a dream of love.


dijous, 14 d’abril del 2016

Soulmate description

Jasmie is a fantastic person that I met during my trip to Italy. About complexion, she's tall, smoothed brown skin. The thing that I love from her is that she's well-built because when she has ime, she goes to the gym and keeps herself fit. She has hazel eyes, and also they're very big. Her lips are fleshy and big, and a straight nose. Jasmine is dark-haired and very long-haired too, but this weeked sh'es going to vut her hair quite shorter than it is now. Her legs are long and thin, very pleasant for your view. She's  now, and her birthday is going to be next week, so I'm going to giver her a secret present, a special surprise, she will always be younger than me. Also, she's quite tall.

Jasmine is studying obligatory studies now, but when she finishes, she told me that will continue studying, that's because I know that she is very hard-working in the things she liks to do. However, she's ver sensitive and impatient, but laughs at everything funny she sees, a little bit like me. When Jasmine is going to ride a roaller coaster or things like that, she becaomes very nervous, but in the most of the situations she's very optimistic, energetic and brave.

Fianlly, this person is very important to me because she always cheers me up and has a wonderful sense of humour, I've spent very happy moments with her. Apart from that, she's extremely shy when she meets new people, she became very shy when she met me for the first time.

dijous, 7 d’abril del 2016

HUMAN RIGHTS

Human rights are moral principles or norms shich describe which describe certain standards of human behaviour, and are regularly protected as legal rights in municipal and international law. These laws are indisputable, and one of the most important rules are freedom and equality for everyone ,regardless off the nation, location, language, religion,...
They're created because there can't be injusticies in the human world, in other words, mankind needs rights and rules to keep an structure and build an stable social world, then the human world can be in balance and fair. They were crated in 1948 by the United States.
There are thirty human rights, some more important than other ones, but they're all needed to create a fair and stable world. 
I didn't feel familiar with the law that consists on the right of relxing and rest. Nowadays there are lots of people that work a lot of days and hours without nearly time to rest or time for themselves. This is one of the list of the human rights that are not true from my view point.




dijous, 24 de març del 2016

LONDON TRIP DIARY


This is my trip diary in London. We made a little video explaining where we were going, with Jordina, and also our opinion about visiting museums, etc.
I put all the videos together in one for each day, so they're ordered and comfortable.
Each day we visited diferent places and museums, they're are mentioned in the videos and explained too. Also, we explain what we did before and what are we were going to do in the moment of he video.








diumenge, 13 de març del 2016

Hogwarts - Pottermore



A friend of mine have read all the Harry Potter books, and when we went to London with the school, we went to King's Cross, a station were you can find a Harry Potter shop and a simulation of the entrance on the Platform 93/4. 
If you want to see which is your Hogwarts house, you must go to Pottermore (click here) and make a new count on the top left of the screen, where it says 'profile'. Then, you'll have the option to click on a part of you're profile where it says 'which is your Hogwarts house'?. You click there and you'll have to answer the questions.
I did the quiz because my friend that read all the book is very annoying so I did the test. I answered and my house is SLYTHERIN. It made me laugh so much! In fact, I think that the Slytherin is the best one, they're intelligent and very clever, astute,..
My friend that made me do the quiz is Ravenclaw, so it's time for you to know which is your house in Hogwarts!







Chicago man arrested for using cellphone jammer on train



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Dennis Nicholl is a chicago man that used a cell phones jammer ( an instrument to prevent cellular phones from recieving signals from base stations, it disables cell phones) that is completely ilegal in the USA. The police started an investigation to catch the guilty person for the disabling of the cell phones from the zone. This man have been punished and he must pay $10000, without jail punishment, but he was nearly to go in there. It is said that this man didn't have malicious intentions, but he was selfish in thinking about himself.
Dennis NIcholl:'It’s kind of a digital, ‘Stay off my lawn, you young people with your cellphones'.



Photo shows Dennis Nicholl, who was arrested for using a cellphone jammer on Chicago's Red Line

Why is Greenland's ice getting darker?



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The ice and snow in Greenland is getting darker and darker since 1981. Scientists have been studying the cause of this problem, and they conlcuded that it's caused by the increase of the solar radiation absorbation. This increase is caused by the global warming, that make the ice melt and reduce the amount of ice, making it darker not only for the absotbing of the radiation, the wildfires of China and other countries are making this effect increase year by years, and now the study is focused on how to stop it.
Investigators say that we must reduce the climate change and reestablish the natural temperature of the planet to make this ice more solid and whiter than now.



Aerial images of Greenland show rivers of meltwater and areas of dark ice. Greenland’s surface is absorbing more solar radiation as melting increases grain size and brings old impurities to the surface. (Marco Tedesco/Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory)

Strange sea creature washes up on beach

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On the sandy shores of Acapulco's sunny beaches a strange creature have been found, withour responding to stick hits. The creature lacks a foul smell and it was found recovered by a big amound of sand. According to its reactions, the creature may be dead or in serious injury condition. This creature have been brought to the shore because of the currents caused by the bad weather, the carcass have been reported to an environmental agency. This video have been shared lots of times on facebook and it seems like this creature is making an inmense speculation among the watchers and investigators.
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Black holes made simple with Stephen Hawking



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Stephen Hawking has mentioned the black holes and its existence, and in this news he talks about that reality would split in two if you would enter into a black holes, which in one you could die, and in the other one you could survive. He says that if you get stucked into a black hole, there's no need to despair, there's a way out. Also he mentioned that black holes emit particles at a steady rate, so he was surprised by that fact. If you want to discover more about black holes with Stephen Hauking, go to NEWS LINK and watch the videos that explain his theories.



Beauty dialogue - Podcast

One day in a waiting room on a surgery department, two clients are wating for their plastic surgery. To break the ice, one man said...

A: Hello, what do you want to change about your body ?
B: I don't like my chin, i just want to make it bigger and more attractive.
A: Oh, that's sounds great!
B: And you? What don't you like of your body?
A: I want to make my nose thiner, it's too wide and large.
B: My sister has made that surgery too, but it went wrong and it didn't end up very well and she looks worse now.
A: Oh, what a shame, I hope it doesn't happens to me.
B: My friends don't agree about doing this surgery, they say that my chin is already good now, but when I look myself at the mirror I just want to change it.
A: It happens to me too, but it's true that surgery sometimes make poeple look worse. Maybe we should think about it one more time about doing plastic surgery.
B: Yes, maybe you're right. A lot of famous poeple look uglier after the plastic surgery. Also, it costs a lot of money and painful times, so I think it isn't woth it.
A: Do you think we should go and don't make our surgery?
B: Yes, of course, we must accept how we are, what makes us special and stop looking the extern beauty. Measures, etc. are only numbers.
A: You're right! I think you're one of the most reasonable person I've ever met.
B: OK, let's go. Let's admit how we are and ignore what other people think about, everyone has defects and beauty, inside or outside, noone is perfect.
A: I agree with you completely.



Recordings of the sea's deepest point

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The whales, orcs and other animals that live on the ocean stablish a frequency sound to communicate with each other. This news shows us sounds of animsl that are trying to communicate with their species from the deepst point inside the sea. The problem here is the sound of the ships which are transporting material between continents, and that make the communication for the animals inside the ocean very difficult, and that can cause serious problems.
If the noise that comes from transporter ships doesn't stop, the recording are going to be negatively modified, and that will cause a change for the sea live. 
The recordings were made by researches from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to show the poeple the importance of the problem
Here I leave you the recordings.


Returning to voleiball



Latelly I've been thinking about sports that I've done, and of them is voleiball. This sport makes me remind very happy moments playing with my friends and enjoying playing against other voleiball teams from other catalan locations (Girona, Vidreres, Castelló d'Empúries,...). Since that moment, I decided to restart with this sport and continue my advancing. This time I went with the veteran team of St. Pere Pesacdor, where adult people play in it, but friends of my age too. When I started it was quite diffciult to practice again, and I learnt how to do the 'positions', where each player has one of the six position of the voleiball field. This consists of normal rotating, but when your team serves you must change for your principla position, and at the beggining is like doing maths classes, but when you get used to it it's not that diffcult than it seems when you start.

Now a friend of mine that played with me years ago voleiball has come to team, and now he's learning the 'positions', ans I'm very happy to play with him and my other friends again in this fantastic team sport.


Trip to Lleida - The border between Aragó and Catalunya

This winter I went to Lleida with my sister and some ornithologists to see the border between Aragó and Catalunya. There's the Noguera river, where you can see landscapes that seems like from a fanatsy story. We passes de border through a bridge that moves a lot because it's not subjected from the middle part, so it moves when it's windy. There's a ladder made of wood that's subjected on a wall, and that ladder it's not recommended for cardiac people.We saw lots of birds and very rare ones.

Apart from that, the water had a very strange colour, it wasn't blu nor green, it was turquoise because of the rocks. The photo that i'm going to show you has not been modified by photoshop or any program like that, the photo shows the water colour as it's shown naturally.

Here I leave you some interesting photos and see the beauty of this dream landscape. 




In this photo you can see the Noguera river. The left part of the territory is Aragó and the right one is Catalunya.


This bridge is the one that moves a lot when it's windy

This is the ladder where cardiacs can have an attack. My personal experinece is that you have to be very brave to arrive at the end of this nightmare ladder.




Learning a new sport

Since winter has arrived, me and my family has the idea to go to ski with friends of mine. When I was very little I learnt skiing and I liked it so much, but now that I returned to the snow I practiced snowboarding.
Snowboarding consists of using a snowboard table to slide over a surface covered by snow. 
My first lesson was a little frightening because you have to reach the whole control of the table and rest the back leg and put all the your mass on the front of the table, on the front leg, so you can move your back leg to change the direcction of the table. When you're going down a track, it's very scary to put all your mass in front of the table because it seems like you're going to fall ahead and get very injured, but when you gain confidence it's not that difficult.
This weekend I went to Les Angles, a very big ski station, in France, 2 and a half hours from St. Pere Pescador. This time I went very fast though the skiing tracks and I overtook lots of people that before I couldn't.
I'm very pleased with this new sport that I've just learnt, and I hope that my progress on it will be successful.



Research project presentation




During my presentation I failed with some words and for a moment I went blank, and also I forgot a little part of the description that I prepares, but in the major part of the presentation, from my point of view, I didn't present that bad considering the vocabulary and its difficulties. Anyway, I must improve and don't get nervous, and this video will make me realize the mistakes that during the presentation are not visible for me.

Can the internet make the world a better place?



I actually think that the Internet, including the technologies and social media can make the world a better place, mainly because people who live away from others can establish a comunication and knoe each other.
Nowadays the internet saved lots of people's lives; for example, the avalcnhe of the refugees is increasing and a lot of people die everyday among the refugees, but thanks to their mobile phones they're able to connect on the internet and wifi to request help and communiacte with their family.
Now the question is: Is the internet well used? I don't agree about that internet is being well used; in fact, I think that the internet has its advantages and benefits (it can be very powerful), but it's used only for fun: watching videos, post and comment photos, and that kind of things that normal people do. But we've forgotten about all the poeple that die  everyday in Africa and other poor states, and the climate change; that's why we must consider that we can do more than we realize.
In conclusion, Internet is a powerful tool that can save a lor of people's lives and counter the climate change, that can save a alot of animal's lives too; the problem is that people don't accept the reality and think for themselves, that's why mankind must make a big change, not only in the material world, in the phychological world too.



Research project - Abstract

My research project consists of the study and examination of the different types of dried fruit and nuts. This work has a first theoretical part which explains the general concept of the fatty acids, specifying he differences between the saturated and the unsaturated ones, and it includes a part of the benefits that this type of food can provide to our body. On the hand, there is a practical part, shich consists of an experiment made with acetone and dried fruit, so we could mix them and extract the fatty acids from each of them, that let us study which of the dried fruit has more fatty acids and other nutritional information that helped me to match the results of the experiment.

The main objective of this project is to match each dried fruit, learn to use different laboratory tools, and establish the different benefits of this peculiar food. My aims were fully completed and analized.

Here we can see the fatty acids extraction of the pistachios. This green color makes the liquid seem like a rare potion.

This photo shows us the fatty acids extraction of the nuts. As you can see, it's almost colorless.


-You can see my TDR presentation in the classroom on the post 'Research project presentation' or clicking HERE

dijous, 14 de gener del 2016

Dangers of Wi-Fi signal exposure

Doctor Harold Naiman has released an investigation to know more about Wi-Fi signals and the danger it can cause when it is exposed on people for too long.
After his investigations, he confirmed that connecting to Wi-Fi with your tablet, cell phones and other electronics instruments, you're being exposed to a radiation that can be very dangerous for you and your family, specially with the young ones, because their brains are in developing, and radiation can cause malformations on their brains, apart of memory loss that can be caused on adults too.

In conclusion, Naiman says that we should put the airplane mode on our cell phones and tablets when we're not using, specially in he airplane. Besides, it is said that  a big quantity of radiation expose on the human body can cause cancer, and if you leave your cell phone too much time in your pocket, as a result of that, radiation can affect your reproductive system causing sterility.