diumenge, 22 de maig del 2016

TOXIC FRIENDS

Rachel Carlin
London Street 1264
Manchester
14 May 2016

Dear Daisy,

I have to talk to you about some issues. You don’t pick up the phone so that why I’m writing to you this letter.

At first I must say that I have other friends apart from you. I know that we had a very good friendship and we spend really funny times together, but now I can’t stand it. I spent all my time with you, and my boyfriend’s angry with me because of that, and also with you. You are a very good person, but it’s unbearable.

 I want you to continue being my friend, because I know you since we were children, and I love you and I appreciate your friendship a lot. We can still be friends, but no like now. I also want to spend my free time with Charlie, because I love him too.

 We can talk, you can phone me if you need to talk to someone, or if you want to explain me some new gossip, but not for two hours as we did before. I must study too.

I’m sure you will understand what I want to mean with this letter, you know what our friendship represents to me.


HUMOUR

Is humour necessary to survive?

 Humour is a human quality that has a very important influence in our lives. On the one hand, I think if you lived bad or sad times in your moment, you always have to try to laugh a little bit, because maybe this small thing can help you a lot. It will make you feel better, for sure.

If you are in a good moment of your life, you always have a smile in your face, and that means something, not only to yourself, also to the others who look at you. I think that we work or study better if we are in a good mood, and if we are positive.

On the other hand, I think that there are many situations in which we can’t be smiling or positive because they aren’t funny. However, we always must try to look the positive side of the things that happen to us. I think that’s the better way we can live; I think it’s the way we have to follow if we want to be happy.

So, yes. I think that humour is necessary. And if you’re living a bad moment while you’re reading this, I’m going to try to make you laugh:

What is the cat’s favourite TV show? The evening mews!! Jajajaja



DESCRIBING MY TOWN: CASTELLÓ D’EMPURIES

I live in Castelló d’Empúries and I like it. If you go here you need to know some things.

Castelló d’Empúries is located near the mouth of the river Muga, in the Golf of Roses. Its strategic location allows travellers to combine art and culture with sun and beach tourism and enjoyment of nature.

There are three choices of visit: the county village, the coast area of Empuriabrava and the Aiguamolls Park. The town of Castelló d’Empuries retains a rich architectural heritage, as the beautiful Gothic church of Santa Maria of the XIV century, with a Roamanesque bell tower and a gothic clock tower. It also has other interesting buildings such as City Hall, the Great House (XIV century), the Portal of the Gallarda (XI-XII centuries) which is the unique entrance tower of the medieval town, the old ‘Llotja de Mar’, because in the Middle Ages Castelló had port: Roses, the Old Bridge and the convent of Santa Clara (XI century).

 However, if you like sun and beach, you must go to Empuriabrava, because of its large complex of apartments in front of the Mediterranean Sea or a house next to one of the channels it has. The marina of Empuriabrava is one of the most important of Europe, so you can sail with your boat or yacht through the channels to the sea.

So, you can see that Castelló d’Empúries offers really different activities to enjoy the summer and to learn history about our town, to learn our culture.


CONSUMERISM

Nowadays, we live in a consumerist society, because we normally buy things we really don’t need. In this game, technology plays a big role. Our daily life is full of advertisements of a lot of different things. The companies want to sell their products so they show us the advantages of their own products. You can see that advantages because their presentation is fantastic and it makes you feel the need to buy it. And probably you’ll go to the shop or market and you buy that product, however, when you arrive at home you keep it in a cupboard or wardrobe and you don’t use it. And one day, when you open that cupboard you see that object, and you ask to yourself: ‘why I bought that?’

Nevertheless, that’s not only a problem of the First World. Also in the poorest places of the world you can find a television, a computer, mobile phones or even Iphone.  The companies and the advertisements and the evolution of the humanity and the globalization make we need different things to be happy or even to be normal. If you don’t have a phone at 12 years old or less, then you friends ask to you: ‘how can you live without a phone? I cannot spend a minute without it!’ However, there are people in the world that can’t buy a phone or a computer and they’re happy!!

So I think that, in part the advertisements are necessary because they show us new products, improved products, but we should buy with moderation and responsibility. 


BEING HIRED TROUHG A VIDEO GAME

Nowadays, there are lot of business companies that use video games to select candidates for a job in the company. If you’re able to win in a video game which simulates the stock market and others that challenge you to direct a restaurant, you have many possibilities to get a job. A lot of important companies as Barclays, Daimler or the Central Bank of Canada use that way to preselect candidates.

‘Gamification’: There are also different games that let you show different skills of the future candidates. Each game is different. ‘Gamification’ is a new practice that seeks to replace or guiding activities of everyday life with games or video games. However, it is not an innovate practice.

Video games are used to establish personality traits of a candidate and to understand the degree of satisfaction of a customer or market research, among others.


 http://economia.elpais.com/economia/2016/05/18/actualidad/1463570155_630063.html

WHEN I AM RICH...

If I was rich...

I think that the first thing I will do would be helping my mother in everything she could need. My mum is the most important person in my life, so I know I would do so.

However, it is really complicated to think about what could I do if was rich because I am not rich, and it is difficult for me to imagine that situation.

 I don’t know, maybe with all that money I’ll try to pay all the debts I could have, pay the house and things like this. But, I love the animals, especially the cats, so I think that I would use part of that money to help the animals, creating refugees, buying the food and taking care of them. There are a lot of stray cats; most of them will die run down by a car or any other vehicle.  Nobody takes care of them and this is so sad, so I want to change it. But not only with cats, also dogs. I think that also they deserved someone who loves them. And I think that that person could be me.

I like a lot playing basketball; it’s my favourite sport, so maybe I could use part of the money to bring that sport to different places of the world. I can create a foundation, and creates basketball courts and let the kids learn a lovely sport, the best sport. I want to share with the world one of my passions, basketball. I think it’s a sport that teaches comradeship, generosity, but also needs effort and dedication. I would like to bring to these kids an opportunity.

So this is what I would like to do if I was rich.




dissabte, 21 de maig del 2016

CIVIL WAR

The new film of Marvel is called ‘Civil War’, in which we can find all the superheroes of Marvel: Captain America, Antman, Spiderman, Ironman, Bucky, Black Panther and others.

 Somewhere in Siberia, in 1991, HYDRA woke up a Winter Soldier and they erased his memory to be faithful and completely obedient to anyone who read some words of mental control. These words are written in a red book with a black star.

During a mission of the team in Africa, some innocent people died. This incident caused a big politic pressure to all the team, but especially to Scarlet Witch, the superhero who killed accidentally those innocent people in Africa. Because of that the government set up a responsibility system to supervise the team.

The next step was the creation of the Sokovia Agreements, the pass of the 117 countries was in Vienne. But then, a terrorist activated a bomb and all of them died, except the son of the King T’Chaka, the Black Panther.

Some of the Avengers agree with the Sokovia Agreements, but others don’t want to be under supervision. The first ones, lead by Ironman, began a fight to the others, lead by Captain America, who wanted to take a plane and fly to Russia to stop the dawn of the five Winter Soldiers.

After the fight, Captain America and Bucky could take the plane, and the others of them are imprisoned in a high security prison under the sea. Tony Stark wanted to stop the Captain America plan and he went to the prison to talk to the prisoners. He found out that Captain America was in Siberia and he went there. There, they met Zemo, who showed to Tony Stark a video of his parents and how Bucky killed them. But Captain America defended Bucky arguing that he was under mental control. Tony Stark didn’t accept this reason and he began a fight with Captain America. Finally, Stark said to Rogers (Captain America) that his father was the creator of his shell, and Rogers threw it to Stark’s face.

The last scene of the film shows us that Black Panther helped Captain America, Bucky, Scarlet Witch and the other of his side in a refuge in the middle of the jungle with a big statute of a panther in front of them. 



divendres, 20 de maig del 2016

THE SPANISH CUT TIME THAT WATCHING TELEVISION A DAY: 243 MINUTES

Television consumption falls for third consecutive year, but the sectors turnover frows.

The Spanish sits an average of four hours a day to television specifically 243 minutes. The companies dedicated to television, both paid and open, they benefited from this habit, and it's turnover exceded 1000 millions of euros. Although television consumption is the highest of Europe, down year on year since reaching it's peak in 2012.

Digital terrestial TV continues to dominate overwhelmingly the rest of the platforms, although the tendency it's descending.

Mediaset and Atresmedi were placed leaders. The channels most seen were Telecinco and Anten3 christmas it's the time of year higher income.

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http://www.typicallyspanish.com/news-spain/brief/Spain_Business_Brief_-_Wednesday_May_18_2016.shtml

dimecres, 18 de maig del 2016

Univision will issue ''El Príncipe'' in the USA

In his two seasons in Telecinco, the serie had an average of 4.800.000 viewers.

Univision Communications, the media conglomerate in largest USA Spanish, will issue the serie ''El Príncipe'' in the USA market.

It will be the first Spanish fiction that will channel UniMas, owed by Univision, after the group had been done rights of this serie.

''El Príncipe'' starring by José Coronado, it's acclimated in the trouble neighborhood ceuti of a same name and has a story of impossible love. It has been one of the Spanish fictions more followed on the Internet.

Thanks to the afreements signed with diferent platform, it's possible to see it in international chains like Italian Condes. 




http://cultura.elpais.com/cultura/2016/05/17/television/1463503520_801793.html