MARIE CURIE: A RADIANT WOMAN

In this you say I wanted to talk about one of the most influential woman from the modern history, Marie Curie. I think that it's very interesting to see that a woman in that epoque could achieve the things that she did and how her studies influenced science so much.

Marie Curie was born in Poland in the year 1867, which was then occupied by the Russians, and she belonged to a poor family. Marie had a lot of interest in studying but the little amount of money that the family was receiving wasn't enough to pay them and they decided to waste it in Marie's older sister, so she couldn't have this privilege. Bronislawa, her older sister, got married and that were very good news for Marie because  that meant that his parents no longer had to take care of Bronislawa economically. Marie, taking advantage of this in 1892, introduced herself to the world of physics, focused on the subject of spontaneous uranium radiation. She decided to move to Paris to continue her studies and there he met Pierre Curie, who directed the laboratory of the School of Physics and Chemistry. They had a good chemistry since the beginning and they got married in 1895.

Since they got together, the couple had made several important discoveries in the science world. One of the most known is that uranium oxide emitted a much more powerful radiation than uranium itself and the discovery of two unknown chemical elements: polonium and radium. All of this discoveries made them win a Nobel Prize of Pysics in 1903. Also, she is known for the merit of being the first woman to teach at the Sorbonne in Paris.

MY SOULMATE

At some point in our lives we all have heard the term ''soulmate'', but its meaning is different for each person.

For me, my perfect life partner, above all, should be someone that I can trust and feel supported by. He, or she, has to be someone with a great sense of humour, sporty and smart, but also someone that makes me feel happy. I think that it is the most important thing and something that we can all agree with. 

When it comes to physical appearence I prefer brunette boys with bright coloured eyes and, if  it's possible, with tattoos on their body. Likewise, I prefer the boy to be taller than me and also to be in a good shape.

Even though, this idealization could be my soulmate, my perfect life partner, I'm not really sure that it exists someone that will be perfect in all these aspects, and if it does, your chances to meet him are nearly impossible. That's why I think that, although this person doesn't agree with you in everything or doesn't like the same things as you do, he or she could be your perfect life partner because, with all his or her imperfections, it could fill you completely.

LONDON TRIP

This last april we celebrated the ending of our last high school year by going to spend some days in London.

We had to wake up very early in the morning...or should I say night? Because we had to be at school at 2am. We were all very excited but we were also very tired. Luckily, we had two hours until we arrived at the Barcelona airport, so we could get some rest in the bus. Once we had arrived at the airport and we passed the control areas, we had to wait for our flight and the majority of us took some rest in some near comfortable chairs. Finally, we took our flight at almost 7 am to Gatwick, where we arrived at 8am.

Once we were there, we had to take another bus to the center of London, where our hostel would be. We only had time to leave our luggage in the main room of the hostel and leave faster to our meeting with a guide. And basically the first day consisted of visiting the most famous places of London, like the Big Ben, Covent Garden, Picadilly Circus or the Buckingham Palace and, even though we were extremely tired, we had a really good first day.

In the second day, my favorite one, we went to the British Museum in the morning. There, we had to find some masterpieces that our teachers handed us.  We were able to find them and then we spent some time admiring and discovering workarts. Afterwards, we were headed to Camden Town, which I particulary enjoyed A LOT. 
I was really excited to go there because I have heard that there were a lot of shops from different kind of things and food from all the cultures and countries you can imagine. We spent the afternoon walking around by ourselfs and I think we all had a great time there. And the day was just getting better because we had the chance to come back to the center by boat, which show us the natural landscapes of the city. After that wonderful time, we had dinner in a restaurant nearby and then we met up with a boy named Alvaro, who showed us where the famous killer Jack the Ripper murdered his victims and the history of this mysterious man.

In our third day, we visited a lot of museums. First, we went to the National Gallery, which I enjoyed a lot because some of the paintings that we are studying in History of Art were there and we could admire them. After that, we had free time and my friends and I decided that It would be cool, and so did our other classmates, to go shopping to Oxford Street. At 4:30pm we had to met up in front of the National History & Science Museum and finally we visited Harrods and had dinner in a nearby restaurant.

In the last day, we visited St. Paul's Cathedral in the morning and then we went to visit the Tower Bridge and the Borough Market, where we had some lunch. Afterwards we went to the Globe Theatre, Shakespeare's famous theatre, where we had a tour guide through all the sceneries, dressing rooms, etc. Once we were done with the visit, we visited our last thing in London: Tate Modern. I also enjoyed visiting it because it was a different kind of art that the one that I enjoyed but it looked really interesting. 

Unfortunately our time in London was ending and we had to came back to the hostel to take the bus to the airport.

For me It was an amazing trip because I never had been in London before and it turns out that I found a beautiful city to visit again. But the main reason was having a wonderful time with the best friends and classmates.

HUMAN RIGHTS

Human rights are a list of rules that should be followed to achieve worldwide peace and happiness. They were created in Paris the 10th of December of 1948 and there are 30 of them.

I decided to talk about the article 2, that says don't discriminate. These articles are all very important and useful to achieve a fair and peaceful world, but for me this one is one of the most relevant. Not following this article means violence against each other for being from a different country, religion and even gender. Is the main reason of the start of wars, terrorism, bullying, etc.

But, even though discrimination is still a thing nowadays, some people are trying to stop. For example, when it comes to bullying, there are appearing some organizations that helps people that is suffering from this kind of violence with making them tell their problem as soon as possible and trying to stop bullies to cause more damage. Also, this article is very controlled and followed in sports. For example, in football there are plenty of campaigns that supports respect between worlwide players and that gives an example of sportsmanship and respect between players from different races, ideologies, etc, to the youngest.

And unfortunately, we can relate the unfollowing of this article to the recent terrorist attacks that the world is suffering because they are attacking and murdering people just because they have different ideologies when it comes to religion.

ARTICLE 2:

"Everyone is entitled to all the rights and freedoms set forth in this Declaration, without distinction of any kind, such as race, colour, sex, language, religion, political or other opinion, national or social origin, property, birth or other status. Furthermore, no distinction shall be made on the basis of the political, jurisdictional or international status of the country or territory to which a person belongs, whether it be independent, trust, non-self-governing or under any other limitation of sovereignty."

LABOR EXPLOTATION

WRITING: LABOR EXPLOTATION

In these last years, immigration has been increasing in  our country to the point that it has become a threat to some people, due to the lack of work and the crisis. But that's not what I will be talking about, I'm going to focus on the labor explotation that some groups of immigrants are receiving in Spain. 

The fact that this is happening is because they're immmigrants and they are going to do anything to earn some money and be able to live in good conditions. That's why some business act like that towards them, they pay them with bad salaries and bad conditios to work but the workers can't quit the job because they need it so bad. 

Besides, they are forced to work so many hours and they don't have time to be with their family and that can affect their mental health because they can become depressed. Therefore, I think that we should control more this issue and try to give immigrants a better chance and not refuse them just because they are foreigners.

CLIMATE CHANGE IS REAL

This article wants to inform us of the damage that we have caused these last years among all the planet.

CLIMATE CHANGE IS A REALITY 

Since 23 years ago a large amounts of carbon to has been emitted in the atmosphere and that is one of the main reasons of the climate change. Another reason is the heat waves of this past year, which it has been one of the warmest ever recorded. Also, because of this uncontrollable phenomenon, the glacial layers of the West Antarctic are melting what would mean the rise of about 120 centimeters of sea level.

Due to this event, it has begun to point out areas where people, flora and fauna are not at risk. To all of this, the countries that emit more carbon, China and the United States, have begun to reduce carbon emissions. In 2014 fossil fuel emissions did not increase, since one of the factors is that China burned less fuel than in previous years. One of the reasons is that they have increased renewable energies, and  they try to not emit carbon in the atmosphere. Many countries like Saudi Arabia have opted for renewable energy.

Personally, I think that we all should see the damage that we are giving to our planet and try to find a solution or, like some countries are doing, reducing the amount of perjuditial things like carbon.

In conclusion, we must take care of our planet now that we are still on time, because who knows, tomorrow may be too late to save our planet.

WHAT IS HAPPINESS?

That's a question that most of the people, at some point of their life, has questionated themselves. So, I thought that it will be interesting what the experts have to say about happiness.

Happiness

We all have a very different idea of ​​what happiness is, but at the same time we all agree that we want to have it. For the experts, happiness is not a goal but a way to achieve others and they state that 50% of it would be determined in the genes while the other 50 would depend on our vital circumstances and above all, on the attitude.

 Another important fact in happiness is knowing how to enjoy the moment and they attache great importance to resilience,  the capacity that each person has to overcome adversities and return to their natural state, even taking out the positive part and being able to adapt better to new situations.

To conclude, some experts agrees with the fact that money does not give happiness since material things, at the moment that you possess them, there is no longer a positive effect and that can develope an attitude of endless ambition. And instead, people who have family and friends, even though they are rich or not, are happier because they feel supported and strengthened. 

Above all, what makes us more joyful is generosity and compassion, putting ourselves in the place of the other and giving our support.