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.

LOVE

                                 TYPES OF LOVE

Love is a topic that everyone talks about and everyone wants to have. But there's only one kind of love? Of course not. There are many types of love and here are a few examples:

PURE LOVE: Pure love, even though it sounds like it, doesn't seek the perfection. It's only a mutual , imperfect and beautiful love,  so natural and true that makes you feel alive and good. When you're feeling  this love there aren't evil intentions or wickedness, there's only the desire to be loved, make happy the other person and be together, supporting each other. In conclusion, it's a very beautiful and powerful love.



PLATONIC: We all have been ''in love'' with a celebrity, making up a perfect love life with this person but that relationship doesn't exists. When you're in a situation like that you can say that you have a platonic love. It's a perfect and sometimes kind of obsessive love that it's very impossible to reach..

ROMANTIC: This type of love, is the one that we feel when we are young and innocent. Romantic love is when you feel an emotional high, exhilaration, passion towards one person that makes you feel butterflies in the stomach and the only thing you want to do is be together because you're so in love.



UNREQUITED / UNRETURNED: We all have been rejected by someone at some point and what you felt at that moment was Unrequited love. It's described as the feeling you get when you're in love with someone and that someone doesn't share the same feelings for you. It can be very painful and ,  sometimes, people have difficulties moving on.



BITTER LOVE: This type of love is the most dangerous one. Bitter love is resentful and cynical because it's painful for the two persons involved in the relationship but they, most of the times, aren't aware of its issues. Bitter love can cause psychological problems due to its obsession for the other person and the power of love involved in it. But also, bitter love can be when two persons are in love with each other but they aren't aware of each other's feelings and they continue to think that it's an impossible love.

REVIEW ORAL PRESENTATION

This week we had to do an oral presentation about our research project, mine called ''The most influential bands of the 90's in the United Stes'', in the Englsih class. In the presentation we had to talk about how we did our project, where did we find the information that we used, what was the part that we had more trouble with, etc. 

I think that I did it pretty well because, as I wasn't as nervous as other times, I've been more able to explain better what I was saying and look comfortable while doing it. Also, I included some songs and explained a little bit of their story so that people could be more interested in what I was saying. 

Basically, I talked about why did I choose that specific topic; the methodolgy that I used, mainly magazines; the objectives that I wanted to achieve; the parts that I divided my project, explaining what I did in each one; conclusions, where I commented If I've reached my goals and all the things that I learnt.

THE BLACK DEATH

The black death affected horribly in the medieval ages population. I wanted to learn more about this epidemic and I found an interesting article about it.

The most dreadful epidemic

The Black Death, The Most Deadly Epidemic was written by an anonymous author and published on August 17, 2012 in the National Geography. It explains the origin and spread of the epidemic, the first hypotheses about its origin, the final hypothesis, the symptoms and consequences and sequelae left by the plague.

To begin with, the author tells us that the Black Death began to spread in the middle of the fourteenth century, between 1346 and 1347, and was present until 1361. At that time, there were other chronic diseases such as dysentery, leprosy and measles. But the plague was the most feared because it affected both the poor people and the royalty, such as kings.

The author reveals that the first explanations about the origin of these contagious diseases indicated that they had an astrological origin by the eclipses or the passage of comets, Toxic gases emitted by volcanic eruptions and earthquakes and also indicated the evil to decaying organic matter, since they released gases that were present in the air that humans breathed.

Later on, he clarifies that in the nineteenth century two bacteriologists discovered that the origin of the plague was due to a bacterium that affected black rats and other rodents and was transmitted through the parasites that lived in those animals .

Then he explains the symptoms of the disease. The bacteria was prowling around the homes for about 20 days before the onset of symptoms and then three to five days before the first deaths. The plague affected the armpits, the neck and caused high fevers. There were different ways of manifesting the disease: bubonic plague (when the lymph node became inflamed), pneumonic plague (when it affected the respiratory system and caused a very strong cough) and septicemia (when contagion passed into the blood and was manifested with dark patches on the skin).

Afterwards it is revealed that the starting point of the plague was in the Crimean peninsula, on the shores of the Black Sea. Later he says that some historians say that the pneumonic plague was the most propagated since the patients through the cough contaminated the air and they contagious to others. But he warns that indications indicate that bubonic plague was the most common and that transmission occurred through ships carrying infected people, rats and fleas between the goods. And that, therefore, spread the plague without realizing it by all the cities by where they stopped.

To conclude the author focuses on the death figures left by the epidemic. The black plague reduced 50 million of Europeans and the demographic recovery did not take place until the middle of century XV. In Catalonia the plague affected between 50 and 70 percent of the population.

IF ONLY THE LIVING LIVED

I wanted to comment this article that talks about young people and their cultural knowledge.

Javier Marías, the author of the article, wants to state that more and more individuals do not have an acceptable knowledge in the general culture of history or religion.

In the article, he talks about the general inculturation, more and more young people who do not have the acceptable level of general culture that should have and the author is 100% sure that if they show some historical fact, or the photograph of a historian or Someone important in history a young man will not know how to answer or have a confusion, so he wants to make an appeal not to leave those important data to oblivion, because it can be a great loss for the study of history.

Javier Marías then comments that not only has the general culture of history and religion in today's people been lost, but the same thing is happening in the art of cinema. The students do not know a movie like "Pulp Fiction" of the 1994 and they comment that those films in black and white seem a boring to them and they consider that it is to be wasting the time. Not only people, today's translators also do not correctly translate certain names from English into Spanish.

Finally the author announces that many workers of the amusement parks observe how when entering the tunnel of the terror they do not know the personages hidden inside, for example they confuse Dracula with Batman, only by the fact that the two they wear a cape. What today is a fashion, in five years no one will remember that fashion.

In con- junction today, we seem to want to erase everything lived in the past, forget what you once knew and learned at an increasing rate and just focus on the latest trends.

DIALOGUE

SCENARIO: TWO GIRLS AFTER WATCHING A MOVIE IN THE CINEMA
CHARACTERS: LORENA, PAULA

LORENA: Wow! I was so shocked about the movie!

PAULA: Yeah I know right? How can they put botox on their body?!

LORENA: I think that it's not necessary wasting so much money in this kind of stuff to look beautiful.

PAULA: I agree, Instead of going through a bunch of expensive surgeries, you could start doing sport and eat more healthy.

LORENA: Think about the canons of beauty in previous centuries, they preferred a woman with curves and a pale face and now people are obsessed with being skinny and tanned.

PAULA: That's true! People also waste a lot of money in X-rays to become tanned and that, eventually, can be harmful for us.

LORENA: Well, In fact I think we look hotter being natural than with all this surgeries. We don't want to look like some reality star...

PAULA: Yeah, I know right? I also prefer being natural and decide what I want to wear and how do I want to look without being pressured by strangers who don't even know me at all.

LORENA: You're right! Because all these adds and reality TV shows only show us some people who are too concerned about their body and this kind of things. We shouldn't follow what some stupid people say what's cool or not.

PAULA: The only thing that it causes is that we want to be like them and waste money in silly stuff.

LORENA: Yes, that's a big business!

PAULA: And also, this business release adds that make young people mainly to be insecure about themselves and that led them to want to change their appearance.

LORENA: I agree, I also think that It gives them phsychological issues and develope illness like anorexy and bulimia.

PAULA: Basically, nowadays they make business on everything but playing with our health... That's not good.

LORENA: I think the same.

PAULA: Well, It was nice talking about this and see that you have the same opinion. I'll call you, bye!

LORENA: Ok! See you later!