domingo, 29 de noviembre de 2015

The Joke

Ted talks

Angela Lee Duckworth talks about her experience on teaching on a public school. When she recieved the homework from her students, she saw that the IQ wasn't everything. She saw that the IQ wasn't very diferent between her best and worst student. That fact was important because it made her to study the mind of her students.
She said that she started to study adolescents and adults and she discovered that the key of success was the grit,
For me it was very useful and maybe for the people that have bad grades may be useful.

Turkey to hand back Russian pilot's body

Summary:
The prime minister from Tukey, Ahmet Davutoglu, said that they will return the body of the dead pilot to Russia. The pilot name was Col Oleg and he died when he was driving a plane. The turkish forces shooted the plane because it had violated their space.

This incident has made Russia to announce sancitions against Turkey. Vladimir Putin signed a decree that covers imports from Turkey. Seeing this, the president from Turkey declined to apologise to Russia.

Opinion:
The pilot's death was caused because Putin let the pilots to fly above the turkish territory. This incident maybe will cause some troubles to the people, for example the people from Turkey that are visiting Russia, maybe will be deported or expelled from Russia.

The link of the news.

The Binding Of Isaac

The Binding Of Isaac, normally called TBOI, is a game created by Edmund McMillen. He is also the creator of a game called Super Meat Boy, a super hard game with a lot of blood.
 

The Binding Of Isaac is a rogue like game. You have to do "runs" to unlock items, secrets and challenges. The gameplay is very simple, you control one character and you have to get items on every room to be powerful and be able to defeat the enemies. Every run is diferent, for example, you can get a damage upgrade on the first floor, but on other run you can get a speed upgrade.

The story talks about Isaac and his religious family. When you finish the last floor, you unlock an ending which explains everything.
One day, one woman and one man get married and they have one son, Isaac. They were happy until they had a daughter called Maggy. Isaac's parents loved Maggy and they left Isaac apart. One day, Isaac wished his sister's death, and this wish came true.
Isaac's father left their home, and his mom started to drink and consume drugs. Some months later, Isaac's mom heard a voice from God, or that's what the game says, and the voice told her to sacrifice his son Isaac. He heard everything and he found a trapdoor on his room and that was his only escape way.
And that's how the game starts.

It's a deep story and there are a lot of theories about the game. For example that his mother dressed Isaac like his death sister and that's why there are a character on the game called Magdalene.

And finally I have to say that the game is very difficult whey you start, but when you play some hours, you learn how to play and what does an item.

sábado, 28 de noviembre de 2015

Diesel, SWAT Police Dog Killed In Paris Raid, Was Only Months Away From Retirement, Handler Reveals

Summary:
A week ago, a SWAT police dog was killed by the terrorist in France. The dog's name was Diesel and he was about to retire. 

The french SWAT had the work to capture the leader of the terrorist who attacked Paris, Abdelhamid Abaaoud, whose body was found in the wreckage of a buliding. The body was with two of his partners, and five of them survived and they were arrested.
First of all there were a gunfire and the SWAT waited until finished. When they hadn't heard anything, Diesel was sent to the building to see if there were anyone. When he entered into the second room, he died. When this happended, the gunfire started again.
Some days later, the social media sent some images of their dogs and giving thanks to Diesel.

Opinion:
Maybe some people would say that the fault of Diesel's death was from his handler, because he let him go to the building, but I think that was his job. Because if Diesel hasn't entered to the second room, maybe some SWAT would enter and would die. I know that this would sound selfish and I write like I don't have feelings, but Diesel saved the life of people.

The link of the news

Egypt police killed in drive-by shooting south of Cairo

Summary:
Seven hours ago, four egyptian police have been killed on Saqqara, a place that is located on the south of the capital of Egypt, Cairo.
The murderers attacked the police from a motorbike, even if the egyptian police increased their security since the army ousted President Mohamed.
Also the security and the autorities are battling with the jihadist who have pledged loyality to the ISIS.
Opinion:
I know that is a short news, but for me it was impactant. This news appeared on my screen while I was searching some news. Sincerely I think that these terrorists called jihadist are brainless, because they kill for Allah, but this is stupid because if a god of a religion says that you have to kill to go to paradise, maybe it's a scam. With war comes more war, that's my opinion.

The link of the news

Jojo's Bizarre Adventure

Jojo's Bizarre Adventure, Jojo na Kimyou no Bouken in japanese, is one of my favourites anime and manga. The author, Hirohiko Araki released the manga on the 1986 on the Shonen Jump Magazine and he is still working on the manga right now.

The manga is about the story of the Joestar bloodline and his fate caused by a stone mask. The first Joestar that appears on the manga is Jonathan Joestar, his life was good, but suddenly a boy called Dio comes to his life and everything turns on the worst. After this, Dio wants to kill the Joestar family but it fails, and this event causes the fate of the Joestar bloodline.

There are eight parts, and there are some years between each one. The main characters, in order, are: Jonathan Joestar, Jospeh Joestar, Jotaro Kujo (his surename is Kujo, because Joseph's daughters marries with a japanese), Josuke Higashikata, Giorno Giovanna, Jolyne Kujo, Johny Joestar and Josuke Higashikata from a parallel world.

I like this anime because the plot is very good, the poses that they do are funny and on all the manga are references to music and some groups. For example there is a character called AC/DC, another one called Red Hot Chilly Pepper, and even one called Bohemian Rhapsody. And also the opening music from each season is awesome. My favourite one is from the Part II, called Bloody Stream.


Beauty

Is beauty important and necessary on our world?
Some people would say that beauty and aesthetic is important to look good and feel better with yourself, but this isn't true.

For example, when someone goes to clinic because they want to change some parts of his body for example the breasts, they only waste their money, Becasue if they do this for their partner or boyfriend, this person doesn't deserves it.
After one surgery, they maybe want more to look more beautiful for their partner, and this only will destroy their lives.

I think that beauty is in the inside of the people and if someone is with other people because it's beautiful, this person is selfish and superficial.

Is humor necessary?

Laughter is strong medicine for mind and body. Why do we tink this? We say this because it's a priceless medicine and I think that it's necessary for our daily routine.

First of all, when you laugh you relax your body and and relieve tension according to scientists, your muscles relax up to 45 minutes after. When you laugh or ou make someone laugh, you feel good happy.

Secondly, humor helps you to stay emotionally healthy, and when you are emotionally healthy, you are very possitive and optimistic. If you feel bad or lonely, humor and laughter can help you. Because, for example, if someday a friend of yours dies and you are sad, other people can help you to stay emotionally neutral or even better. The only thing they have to do is laugh and you will be caught up on it.

In conclusion, in this world we need more humor and laughter to stay healthy physically and emotionally, because it's better to stay happy than bad.

E-mail to the teacher

Dear teacher,

Right, now, in this moment I have some short term goals and I think that they are very important, and I hope that I will achieve them. One of these goals is to pass the baccalaureate. Another one is to earn good marks so I can study engineering. For these goals I will meet challenges like working with my parents or not having a lot of time to study, but I won't drop out the studies and I won't neglect my homework even if the things turn for the worst.
For the long-term goals, I would like to go to the university and when I finish the university I will go to Japan to study animaiton.

I know that I will face challenges and problems, and I know that I will fail, but with the knowledge of these failures I will try harder and I will succeed no matter what happens. In the speech, Obama has said two sentences: "You have to let your failures teach you", and "You become good at things through hard work", When I heard these two sentences I thought that I won't give up and I will keep going to make all the people who believed in me proud.

The sentence that I have chosen is "you have to let your failures teach you". This sentence, I think, that is very emotional and this can help a lot of people that fails a lot because they don't give any importance to the studies.

Best regards, Ali Mazghari from 2nd BAT A.

Donald Trump Appears To Mock New York Times Journalist With Imitation Of His Disability

Summary:
During a campaign rally, Donald Trump mocked a disabled periodist. The periodist, called Serge Kovaelski suffers from a chronic condition known as arthrogryposis. Donald Trump tried to imitate him and he talked like if he has mental problems in the middle of the campaign rally.






A few days later, the New York Times defended his reporter saying this: "We think it's outrageous that he would ridicule the appearance of one of our reporters". And later, Donald Trump, replied this message on Twitter.


Opinion:
Donald Trump hadn't to mock of this reporter like this. He thinks that he is powerful and everyone likes him, but they don't. This person has a problem and the people laughed, but they don't think that if they only had a similar condition or even worse, they won't laugh.

The link of the news


jueves, 26 de noviembre de 2015

Isis 'Poster Girl' Samra Kesinovic Murdered For Trying To Flee Raqqa, Austrian Press Report

Summary:
A teenager who enlist to the jihadist the last year, was murdered for trying to flee from them. The Austiran media reported that the victim, Samra Kesinovic, was murdered with a hammer, when she was trying to leave the capital, Raqqa. Samra Kesinovic was with a friend, her name was Sabina Selimovic, and she was killed in fighting on Syria.
They were enlisted to them the last year and the two girls posted a message on the social medias. The message was: "Don't look for us. We serve Allah and we will die for him."
On October, the two girls wanted to leave, even if they were married and pregnant.

Opinion:
I think that the death of this girl wasn't fair even if the one who decided to enlist the terrorist was her. Becasue everyone has an opinion, and if she wanted to leave them, she should have the decision to leave.


The link of the news

Women Pretend To Be Men Online To Avoid 'Death, Bomb And Violence Threats

Summary:
On the internet, the women pretend to be men because they recive misogynistc attacks. A survey aimed that one from five women were intimdated by threats of violence, and that's why they have to hide their gender. It seems that these abuses are normal on the internet.
Some of the people of the survey had suffered panic attacks because they recive a continuous abuse from the men while they are playing online or chatting.
For example, Quinn, received a countless rape threats and she was forced to leave his home.

Opinion:
This cyber-abuse from the men to the women should be a crime. The people who do this, thinks that they are superior and they have power to do whathever they want. A lot of web pages or online games have some restrictions on the chat, and it can prevent things like abuses or violence, and the women who play or chat can be safe from this attacks.

The link of the news

lunes, 8 de junio de 2015

Looking Back is the key to Moving Forward

I think that I have improved my english. For example my first post in my blog was in 4th ESO and it was titled My mother. I described my mother but with very simple words. It was a short description because I was in the low group. And now I think I can write longer posts.
I'm not good in writing. I understand the texts and readings, but I don't know how to explain all the ideas, but I understand the listenings. And finally I think that my pronunciation isn't bad enough.

The activities that helped me to improve my English skills were the your says, watching films and the listenings. Because there were some words I don't know how to say it but with the movies I knew how to pronunce it. And with the your says I could put the things I learnt in 1st Batxillerat. Also with the oral presentations we use some technical words and use them in our posts.
I didn't found anything useless because we can learn a lot of things with all the activities we do in class, the homework and the oral presentation.

In second batxillerat we should do the your says to impove more our skills, vocabulary dossier to learn more vocabulary and we should read more books.

In my opinion, the next year we can pick a topic we are interested.

Have we made the world a better place?

A lot of people think that the world is a better place now than the past. They think this becasue they only think for themselves and don't care about the others. In my opinion I think the world isn't a better place now.

First of all one of the issue is the society. The society now I think is it the same as the past. Why?
Because a lot of men mistreat the women because they think that they are more powerful and more important than them.
Adding to that, the racism and the bullying are big problems in our society. They are connected because someone who bullies does this because the bullied one, is from another country. This can happen everywhere and very few people do something. The bullying and racism can give the suicide of the bullied people.

The second issue in this world are the wars. This currently happens more in the islamic countries, like Syria or Egypt. A few people don't care about the wars, but this is because they aren't in these countries fighting for their liberty.
Everyday a lot of people die and we can't do anything for them.
The people only do posts on Facebook saying this: "1 Like 1 help" or "Like to save this poor people". But this doesn't help anyone.

The third issue is the planet. This planet has limited resources and we are using a lot of them, and in the future we won't gave anything. For example the deforestation of the Amazon. It was a big forest and it was beautiful but now it's a desert. They chop the trees only for money, but the money doesn't buy the happiness.

And finally the pollution. We are producing a lot of CO2 and this can give a place to the acid rain. One of the most CO2 contributor are the factories, bringing out all the smoke. A lot of people don't know that we gave only one planet.

In conclusion I think the world isn't a better place. Maybe some years ago it used to be, but now it's like we are going back in time with the society issues, the wars that give a lot of dead and the issues with our planet and we  have to share this planet with everybody.

domingo, 7 de junio de 2015

Matt Smith

Matt Smith is british actor and he has acted in cinema and television. He is very famous because the acted in the series  Doctor Who as the eleventh Doctor. He did very well the role of the Doctor and he acted excellent. He is a good and funny person.
Karen Gillan and him are good actors when they are together.
He has acted in some movies: In Bruges as Young Harry Waters, Together as  Rob, Pride and Prejudice and Zombies as  Mr.Collins, etc.
And in TV: Doctor Who as the eleventh Doctor, The Ruby in the smoke as Jim Taylor, etc.
He has winned 4 awards and nomination and he also has 4 video games.
I hope he continues acting because he always brings a smile in the faces who watches him.
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Steins;Gate the Movie: Burdened Domain of Déjà vu

The movie is the sequel of the series called Steins; Gate, the plot is centred in the love of the two characters, Makise Kurisu and Okabe Rintarou. The movie takes place one year after the series, where the main character, Okabe Rintarou, has travelled through the time to help his friends.
Now they live in peace, but some day he has a problem and he watches what is happening in the other timelines. Finally he disappears from the world and only one of his friends remembers him. Makise Kurisu has to find the solution and bring back his love.
The music was beautiful and the scenario was done to perfection. Also the animation can be one of the best animations.
I recommend this movie, if you like the animation movies, but if you didn't see the series you won't understand a lot of things.
Star rating: ***
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Help the people

When I have free time I spend some time in Facebook and Twitter. Everything is normal but there are some posts that I'm not fond of. The reason is the next.
Someone publishes and image and the description of the image says: "Like and share if you want to help these people". They put a poor people image and some nice words, but this is useless.

They don't do anything, they only lie. I think they do this because they want popularity in the social medias. I think when they go out to the street, and they see someone poor begging, they don't give them anything. If they really want to help, they should go to a NGO and help.

UK watchdog to investigate children's online games

Link of the news

Summary:
The UK's Competition and Markets Authority has asked the Advertising Standards Authority to investigate three online games aimed at children.
The CMA said that the online games affect the kids and this will make them to buy things inside the game. There were cases where the children had spend a minimum a thousand pounds. 
The CMA has given some advices to the parents. The parents have to check their bills, know what kind of game are playing their childrens and finally, check the device settings.

Opinion:
They have to put a parental control or before the kids start playing the game, they should know if it has the option of buying something in the game. 

Apple to refund $32.5m to parents whose kids made in-app purchases

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Summary:
Some kids had bought some objects in game, and the parents weren't aware of this event. The kids download some apps and game to play, the apps are free and not free at the same time. This apps are called apps freemium, because there are some upgrades inside the game.
Apple saw that and they will refund $32.5m to all the affected people. They will send emails to all the parents because they cannot charge consumers for purchases they did not authorize.

Opinion:
Apple hasn't got any responsability, becuase it was the parents fault. They have bought iPad's and smartphones to the kids. They had purchased things because the credit card was linked to the smartphone.
The parents could put some password or parental control.

viernes, 5 de junio de 2015

The people's problem

In our society a lot of people insults someone because they are afraid of the strongest one. The people who are stronger than the others, can use they force to intimidate and they can also give orders to the weakest ones. The "weakest" people aren't fond on flaming and insulting the people, but they are obliged to do it, and if they don't do it, the person who is in power will kick or hit them.
It's the same as bullying in schools but, right now, every day, someone is getting bullied.

I think that the bully has to put in the other people places and they have to know what the bullied people feels and what they suffered all the time when they were insulted by them.
What the people has to do is go to help the bullied people and go to the police and talk about the bully and what they do.
I think that's the only solution to this problem, because if we don't say anything, who will do it?

The dream of many people

Sometime in your life you thought you wanted to be rich. Why do the people think this?

They think if they were rich, they will have a lot of things, like a Ferrari or a similar car, a maid, a pool and a lot of money. They only know this face of this life. The other face is the next: The rich and famous people can't go outside because there will be a lot of photographers and they will take pictures of their private life. If they meet a girl the paparazzi will make up a new rumour about them.
They haven't got any time for themself because they are busy with the work or going to TV shows. They also have to go to places to help the poor people. If a rich one don't give money to help someone who needs help, his fans will flame and insult him.
On conclusion I think that this life is better, because we have got time for ourselfs and we know what is happines and friendship is. A lot of them can not know what is this feeling because maybe they forget this feelings or they don't know what is it.

jueves, 4 de junio de 2015

Hatred and GTA V

A few days ago, a new game has been released and it's called Hatred. In this game you have to kill al the people in the city, because the character hates everyone and everything. Maybe the people thinks that is a bit violent, but the player only destroys pixels, only pixels.


The game has a good music and the graphics are beautiful. Where is the problem with this game?

The problem is this: The gaming platform Steam has retired this game from his list for a while because it was very violent, but they put it again, and Gabe Newell gave them some money to apologise for the problem. Then Twitch banned the game for the same reason. They banned the game because is rated Mature only and this level is like the level of porn. Why the people can not stream this game, but they can stream the new Grand Theft Auto V? GTA is worst than hatred, because it's more realistic than this game.

domingo, 31 de mayo de 2015

The Steins Gate choice!

Some time ago I discovered a series named Steins;Gate. When I started watching this, I could not figure out anything because it was very strange. But at the end everything was explained and I was surprised.

Why I'm fond of this series?
The reason it's because it has everything. There's love, comedy and some action. The main theme is the time travel. They use a phone and a microwave oven to send mails to the past, and change some facts. Only the main character knows what happened before they send the mail. But when they send a mail, they the main character changes from the alpha timeline to the beta one and he needs to come back or his friend will die.

sábado, 30 de mayo de 2015

Describe a photo


Brave Kid With Autism Confronts His Bullies In Front Of The Whole Class

Link

Summary:

One boy called Jake was in his P.E class playing football and when he was sitting down, he stood up and he gave a speech.
This was recorded by The bully project, a social action campaign against bullying.

I know that is a very short notice, but it's very interesting because Jake has courage to stand up and face the bullies.

viernes, 20 de marzo de 2015

Formal letter

Street Pescador
Castelló d'Empuries
 13th March 2015
Apple Service
Los Angeles
California

To whom it  may concern,
I would like to work in you offices. I bought a Mac and I was disappointed because it was a disappointment. Therefore, I want to work there to upgrade all your products.

First of all the price is too high to compete with the others brands, besides, the computer was in bad conditions, not what they promised.

I have the Advanced level, the computer degree and the Batxillerat. Also, I have created a software and a web page.
I am looking forward to your prompt reply, because I would like in your company. Microsoft asked me to work in his company but I prefer Apple. I am available to work in any place.

Your faithfully,
Ali Garcia.

jueves, 5 de marzo de 2015

Princess Mononoke

This movie is from Hayao Miyazaki and it was animated by the Studio Ghibli. The movie talks about the story of Ashitaka, his village, a God and one girl named Mononoke.  It's from Hayao Miyazaki and so it's very good.

Ashitaka's village is attacked by a giant boar possesed by something. Ashitaka saves the village, but something enters in his arm and the story starts. He has to leave the village and go to find a God to save his arm. In his travel, he saves some people and they thanked him with food and one place to sleep. In the other village he meets new people and the Princess Mononoke, a girl rised by two wolves.

What I liked in the movie it was the characters and their personalities. Because there are greedy people, nice people, etc. The Original Soundtrack it's very good and I've enjoyed listening it in the movie and out the movie. And the plot was original and in some parts it was very funy.

My opinion of this movie is that you have to see it because is very emotive, too. I hope Hayao Miyazaki continues doing more movies like this because in the Japanese animation is one of the best.
If I have to give a star rating, I will give 4 stars,


Description

His name is Javier García and he has been living in Castelló since 1998, when he was born. Now he's studying batxillerat in INS Castelló d'Empuries. He's keen on boxing and playing videogames. And now I'm going to descibe him.

He's fond of of wearing fashion clothes. Javi is shortish for his age, brown-eyed and brown-haired. A beard is startin to grow on his face. He wears glasses and he has a piercing in his ear.

He's a person who is two-faced with the people he hates, he doesn't forgive you if you do something to him and he will revenge. He's generous, hard-working, now he works a lot for passing. He is aggresive if you insult him.

I think he is a good person and friend, because if someone wants to hit you, he will help you. And he will lend his homework to you if you need it.

martes, 3 de marzo de 2015

Police raid gamer's office while he was live-streaming

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Summary

An american streamer was playing when several officers entered the room and arrested him. The boy was playing a game called Counter Strike. He was streaming via Twitch when the officers entered and shouted to him. Someone called the officers telling that a terrorist is there. The term is called Swatting. The game continued and at the end can be heard this: Terrorist Win.

Opinion
I think that is not true and this has to be a prank, because when the officers entered the room, one of them looked at the cam and the screen. But if this is true I guess they have to find the culprit and punish him because it's not funny to call the officers. Because maybe someone important is happening and they are in a house with a boy playing a video game.

Akira Toriyama

I will talk about Akira Toriyama and his best work. He is a japanese man who was born in Nagoya, Japan. He started with the manga industry in 1977. His first manga was Dr.Slump. This manga talks about the Penguin Village and his habitants, it talks about Arale exaclty. This was his first work and a lot of people like it. Some time later, he started working with Dragon Ball and it was a great work and everyone like it, too.

After this he started to work in another projects and designing characters to games like Chrono Trigger, Blue Dragon, Dragon Ball and many others.
I think he is the best manga author in the world because he has inspired a lot of people to draw, like me. If I hadn't seen Dragon Ball, I would not have liked to draw.

Gap Year

I will talk about a gap year if I do it. If I had to choose a country it will be the United Kingdom, but if I can go to a country where don't speak English primarily I will go to Japan.
The first thing I will do is find a place to stay. I have a friend in London so I will talk to him and ask if I stay with him for a time, but if I can't stay with him, I will rent a flat.
After this I will go to the Big Ben or the British Museum, and then go to some cities to visit. I will try new food and of course I will learn English.

Football

In what many people currently think is in football, because when they watch it they feel good and they forget all they sorrows or troubles. I think that in Spain, the government uses the football to hide the crisis and all the problems in the world.
But watch football occasionally is good and if you love it, good for you. But think about all the players and the money they earn with all the matches or with the promo they do. If they give some money to the poor people in Spain, for example, there won't be crisis anymore.

Don't do it

In many Muslim countires a lot of parents practice the clitoridectomy in their daughters. I think this is immoral because the girls should not suffer this only because they parents think that is the correct for them. When you ask to someone if the clitroridectomy is right to practice they say no, and if you ask in which country do they think, a lot of people answer Dubai or Saudi Arabia or some countries in Central Africa.
I am Muslim and I don't agree with this.

lunes, 2 de marzo de 2015

Animals are also living beings

Some people think that animals are inferior than humans and that's why they beat and mistreat them. And some people buy a dog or a cat when they still are puppies, but when the pet grows up, the man leaves the pet in the street because they love the animals when they are cute.

I think this is immoral because animals need not endure this, and they are human beings and if they are it, they have feelings too. If you want a pet, you should not buy it. It is better to adopt one.

domingo, 1 de marzo de 2015

Controversy in video games

For many years, there has been much controversy in video games and the issue has always been between religion and violence. For example in the game named The Binding Of Isaac. The game talks about one little boy and his mother. The story is very similar to a scene from the Old Testament. The game is full of religion stuff and when the creator Edmund McMillen wanted his game was available in the Nintendo's consoles, they said no.

Another example is in the Mortal Kombat games.  In this games there are a lot of violence because if you let an enemy without life you can kill it off and there is a lot of blood and all the organs can be viewed. This also applies to the Pokémon franchise, because the Pokémon evolves and many Christians and Muslims do not agree with this.

I think this is stupid because they are just games and the games are onlu ficition.

martes, 13 de enero de 2015

Personality Type


1. INTP: Owl



INTPs are analytical and thoughtful individuals who prefer to work alone and who are often ill at ease in social situations. They are impatient with hierarchies and politics and would prefer that leaders prove their worth with merit, rather than with charisma and influence. Although they are not particularly social, they do have razor sharp wit (and claws), and are often surprised to learn that people do enjoy their company.

I am agree with this becasue I prefer to talk with a small group of people and i'm not keen with the hierarchies.