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A letter from my friend

C/Pont,29
Castelló d'Empúries
Girona
Spain

14th April 2012

Dear Lena,

Tolouse is a very big city. It is very beautiful and here you can do a lot of things. I recommend it.

Toulouse has a lot of beautiful parks, a lot of shops with different types of clothes. It has good food, I recommend the kebabs, doing kebabbs very good! In this city , people are very fiendly. One important thing, you must visit "La cité de l'espace". This is a place doesn't expensive, where there are the simulation of universe and other activities related with The Solar System.

Apart from Tolouse, you can visit oter places, for example: Marseille, that has a lot of very cool shops; Carcassone has a spectacular castle; Lyon, Metz....

One more thing - if you come here, you'll need cold clothes and warm clothes because of the variable weather. If you can't speak English, you can't speak Spanish because in this city, people knou a bit of Spanish. In this city, people are also rich, so the things are expensive but this things have a lot of quality. If you live in Tolouse more one night, I recommend the hotel "Formula 1", it's very good.

Love,
Laila

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You can change fate?

One upon a time, in the bootom in the mountain, lived a spirit, that is the very famous fortune-teller.

One day, two men came to see the spirit. They wanted to know how to change teir children: a son andd a daughter.

The spirit called: "The son has same change and the daugter a lot of change". The son and the daugter are good friends.

One day, when the man and his son were travelling, another man and his daughter prepared balls of rice and they gave them to the man and his son.

They started to eat and the daughter said: "mmmm, thsi rice is very, very good". However, the man and his son answered: "what is this? Thsi ball of rice has stones!". So the father and the son pulled the ball of rice.

In a few days, the son travelled a lot but not eached much money. However, the daughter had married with a man very rich. When she saw that he had travelled a lot, she said " One moment, please, I'll bring some food".

She tood a ball of rice and she put it in each, one coin of gold, and she gave the ball. When he ate the firts see that have something and he threw all until the last when he cut the ball of rice and saw the coin.

At this moment, appear the spirit and he said "the fate fo every person is decided when he is born, but he can change it. You could have been born with bad luck but you could try to improve it." Then, he strain a lot and eached a lot of money.

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Japan Governor Should Retract Homophobic Comments

On two occasions the governor of Tokyo, Shintaro Ishihara, criticized gays and lesbians, making them view as a deficient.

The first occasion was on December 3 when he went to Tokyo Metropolitan Ordinance Regarding the Healthy Development of Youth to discuss manga and anime where, the governor, said that it wasn't fair to the kids that see homosexuals appear to television.

The second occasion was on December 7 when he spoke to reporters about the incident and he replied that he believed that homosexuals haven't some things and which could be a genetic factor.

Consequently, on 10 December, Shintaro Ishihara had retract to indicate that Japan is not descriminate homosexuals.

I think that would happen perfectly here, because in all places there are people like this, who don't like homosexuals as if they a plague. I also think that it could happen because I think that more politics must think as Shintaro.

I think if we do something because many people still discriminate against homosexuals or people differently just because they were and of course politicians aren't exceptions. Therefore, I believe that if we are beginning to accept, then they would have a better life and not there would such cases when is clearly seen as disdain even genetically engineered.


http://www.hrw.org/news/2011/02/01/japan-governor-should-retract-homophobic-comments

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Human Rights

0. Quiz: do you know your rights? : what's your score?

29/41

1. What are human rights?

Human rights are those freedoms, faculties, institutions or claims relating to primary or basic goods including any person, for the simple fact of their humanity, to guarantee a decent life, without distinction of race, color, sex , language, religion, political or other opinion, national or social origin, property, birth or other status.

Human rights are free classifieds into three types: the first generation rights, the rights of second generation and third generation rights. The division of human rights into three generations was first conceived in 1979 by Karel Vasak. Each is associated with one of the great values proclaimed in the French Revolution: liberty, equality and fraternity.

The first generation rights are civil and political rights, linked with the principle of freedom. This rights are generally considered of defense or negative, which require the public authorities their inhibition and not interference in the private sphere.

Moreover, second-generation rights are economic, social and cultural rights which are linked with the principle of equality. Required for effective implementation of the intervention of public authorities, through benefits and services. There is some contradiction between the rights against the state (first generation) and rights to the state (second generation). Advocates of civil and political rights often qualify to economic, social and cultural rights as false rights because the State can't satisfy rather than imposing others their realization, which for them would be a violation of rights of first generation.

Meanwhile, the third generation of rights, emerged in the literature in 1980, is linked with solidarity. Unifies them their impact on the lives of everyone, a universal scale, as required for their realization a series of efforts and cooperation on a planetary level. Normally included in this kind of rights the heterogeneous rights as the right to peace, to the quality life and guarantees against the genetic manipulation, although different jurists associate these rights to other generations

2. Why were they created?






Human rights were created to reconsider the human knowledge because the man isn't capable of respecting the same human species, as many say "man is a predator of himself."

Certainly this inability to respect has led to give certain parameters or global rules of behavior called fundamental human rights, the main point of knowledge for man are these rights. These rights are crucial in today's society in which we live due to their lack of values.


The universal declaration of human rights is one of the most cited papers in the world, but also is one of the lesser-known texts in their real content. In view the importance that for the contemporary subject has a duty to know and implement the main principles that human rights are oriented in all of their manifestations.

If we review our life and we reflect upon it we find conditions of abuse to others, perhaps we have done or seen others do, we ask ourselves, why we do something to help? or what should we do?


3. How many human rights are there?


Everyone has these rights:
  • A life.

  • A personal integrity, physical, mental and moral.

  • A personal freedom.

  • A petition to the authorities.

  • A freedom of expression.

  • The protection of freedom of conscience and religion.

  • A assemble freely and to associate.

  • A the identity and nationality.

  • A private property.

  • A move and reside in the territory of a State.

  • A fair trial within a reasonable time before a tribunal objective, independent and impartial and a second hearing judicial.

  • A presumption of innocence.

  • A defense.

  • A non-discrimination.

  • A work.

  • A health.

  • The attendance of children and adolescents.

  • To receive protection and assistance during pregnancy and childbirth.

  • To have food, clothes and house.

  • A free public education at all levels of education.

  • A healthy and balanced environment.

  • A self-determination of peoples.

  • The protection of health, safety and economic interests as appropriate and accurate information in relation to consumption and use of goods and services.

  • To live in peace.

  • Human development economic and social development.

  • A culture.

  • The protection and family support.

4. Which human right were you not familiar with? Mention an example where this human right is respected and where it is not respected.

I more or less already knew all the rights that we have although I think that not all met. I found an example that isn't fulfilled: the right to a fair trial within a reasonable time before a tribunal objective, independent and impartial and a second hearing judiciary.

In this country, the court isn't objective because it tends to favor the most powerful people with a lot of money , and usually have color, that is, that the courts tend to be of one party or another and to favor his party.

A right I think that isn't fulfilled is the right to life because everyone who wants to live, you can and also because in the democratic countries are prohibited the death penalty and, therefore, the murderers were not removed the right to live.

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Crossing of Stories

A girl was running to go to school, this girl called Keiko Fujiwara. Since she was late and she was distracted, she collided with a guy who was there. The boy helped Keiko Keiko to get up and apologized. After he apologized, Keiko runs away to school and arrived late. When entering in Class:

Professor: Keiko, you're late and you do not bring up your wallet
Keiko: eh? but if I had my wallet

It looks at the arm and she doesn't see the wallet and she think that I will leave after colliding with that boy.

A hand appears
with a portfolio and gives a blow to Keiko.

Yuki
: Here is your wallet you left off when it hit me.
Teacher: Ah, Yuki, come here to introduce you to all and you, Keiko, go to your table.

Keiko: Yeah!
Keiko goes to her desk and the teacher presents Yuki.
Professor: This guy called Yuki Noda, he comes from America and he is the son of the group NODA, he still can't speak the language very well, so I expect that you may be kind to him, okay?
Student: Yes, sir!

Professor: Yuki, there are three free sites, sit wherever you want.
Yuki: In that case, I will sit next to Keiko.
Keiko: eh? I don't want.

Yuki
was sitting next to Keiko.


Teacher:
Well guys that's enough talk, let's start the class.

Keiko
didn't look at Yuki never once until it rang the bell. When rang the bell, a group of boys approached the table of Keiko.

Boys:
Keiko! What happened to you this morning? We were very worried about you!
Keiko Fujiwara is the prettiest girl of all school and the most popular girl.
Keiko: help me, please
Yuki: I see that you are quite popular in this school and I'm not going to help.
Yuki gets up from his desk and leaves.

Keiko
thinks that she really hates Yuki.
Keiko end classes and go at home.

Meanwhile Kei
, Keiko's father, was returning from his work when he sees Yuki and he tells Yuki Yuki to Yuki that he wants to talk to him. tells to Yuki Yuki that Keiko can't remember him and he asks why. replied that a month later that he left to America Keiko was very sad and one day, when she was went at returning from school, she ran over. When he awoke, she didn't remember anything. So, she don't remember you, Yuki. By saying that, Yuki become sad.

Meanwhile, Keiko already came home and was ready to go to buy vegetables for dinner. When he came back , she made dinner and went to sleep.

The next day she went to school. It came into class and she settled at your table. Yuki came into class and he said at her hello and she also said hello.


The teacher came and said, "As of today, we will interview to our parents, one interview with the mother and another interview with the father.

Keiko was very sad and Nanami, her friend, knew why.

At
lunchtime she went to a place behind of the school for she can eat alone and she took a picture of her pocket:


Keiko: Mama ...

Keiko
began to mourn and Yuki saw her

Yuki
: Keiko?
Keiko: Yuki!

Yuki
was very surprised to see her crying. Keiko quickly wiped her tears.

Keiko:
It's okay, really.
Yuki: Keiko ...
Keiko: Really, nothing happens. Well, (containing the tears) I'm leaving. Nanami will be looking me.


Keiko step by side of Yuki to leave when Yuki Yuki caught her hand and put her head on his shoulder Keiko.

Keiko
: Yuki!
Yuki: You don't need that you pretend that youare okay. Cry! Cry if you want.
Then Keiko cried. She cried for a long time on his shoulder.

After a few
minutes.

Keiko:
I'm sorry, Yuki. I've wet your jacket.
Yuki: It's the same. But Can you tell me why you were crying.
Keiko: Well, you know that the teacher has told us that we had to do an interview with our mother and our father
Yuki: Yes
Keiko: Well, you see, my mother died and when he tell us to do this, I remembered my mother.
Yuki: Oh, so that was why. But don't worry you can come to the interview with me to my mother.
Keiko: Thank you Yuki, for being with me today and helping me to do the interview, thank you very much.


Yuki blushed

Yuki: it's nothing

They spent a
while in silence.

Yuki
: Keiko!
Keiko: Yes?
Yuki: I tell you something.
Keiko: yes
Yuki: I want to say that I love you, I love you for a long time
Keiko: eh? but...
Yuki: You see, I know that you don't you remember, but we know since you were 3 years. Since then I fall in love with you.
Keiko: But I do not remember that
Yuki: That's because you were run over.

Keiko: Yuki .. But I do not remember anything right now.
Keiko: I do not pretend that answer me right now, but I haven't patience.

After returning home
, Keiko was all day in the room thinking if she remember something, but didn't remember anything.

But as
the days passed, through the acts of Yuki, Keiko started to remember Yuki. When she remember everything and after spending so much time around Yuki while he took care of her, Keiko knew that she was falling in love Yuki. So, after school, Keiko, cited Yuki at the first site where they began to be intimate: behind the school. There she declared her love and Yuki, delighted, kissed her.

END

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Final Reflection

I think that I improved my level of English more this year than in all secondary school because although in the exams I had good notes, this year I improved my level of writing and I think this is because I done many essays and especially due through for the blog.

I think I improved a lot since the beginning of the year so far, simply because not only write well but more fluently because I already think that before with Catalan and after translating in English, however, I think directly in English. I also learned a lot of vocabulary with a dictionary at the beginning of the year although the translator did not and now, this is reflected in "DBSK Separates" (the 1st composition) and "Sailor Moon" (the last composition) .
Also say that I improved a little in the oral presentations, the first thing I did because I got so nervous I could not say anything, the last presentation, the 1st time I read a lot and, the 2nd time I have done something better.

I would say that both the writings and the blog helped me a lot because thanks to them, I have more fluently when I write and I learned vocabulary that didn't know. I also find that the podcast helped me somewhat in pronunciation because when you as recorded, you need search how you pronounce things and repeat until well, and so I remember how to pronounce .
Regarding the exams, I think in general I also went well because I would say that gives me pretty good grammar and readings I think I'm pretty good too.

Moreover, oral presentations not helped me much because I tend to put me very nervous before the people and don't well doing this presentation. Neither have been very useful for me the oral exams, as well as oral presentations,although I understand the book, but I putting me so nervous I can not express good and I tend to speak Catalan because I forget the vocabulary.

If they can be, I would like to the blog again because you learn quite well with him and would do more listening as we do very little in class. I would also continue oral presentation because although I did not go well, I want them to continue doing what I learn new things each oral presentation and can do a little better.

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My book Review

Como Agua Para Chocolate

"Como Agua Para Chocolate" is the story of forbidden love between Tita and Pedro. Mama Elena knows the score and makes sure Pedro and Tita are never alone anywhere on the ranch. Tita is forced to stay in the kitchen and prepare the family's meals.

This history tells about Tita's love, Pedro Muzquiz, comes to the family's ranch to ask for Tita's hand in marriage. Because Tita is the youngest daughter she is forbidden by a family tradition upheld by her tyrannical mother, Mama Elena, to marry. Pedro marries Tita's oldest sister, Rosaura, instead, but declares to his father that he has only married Rosaura to remain close to Tita.
Rosaura and Pedro are forced to leave for San Antonio, Texas, at the urging of Mama Elena, who suspects a relationship between Tita and Pedro. Rosaura loses her son Roberto and is later made sterile from complications with the birth of her daughter Esperanza.

I personally liked the character of Tita and that in a situation as she lives I probably would do the same.
I also like the recipes that are included in the book and I like to serve as the author makes magic realism in this book because, really, it does very well.

Sometimes I like the fact that Peter is such a coward because, instead of marrying Rosaura and Tita and stay with because he was not proposing to go to live far away, two of them together, and so be saved to suffer so much Tita and others.

I personally really liked this book because it combines very well with magical realism and romanticism in this book the author has been able to make this book really interesting, you read it and taste it very fácill read in other languages ​​or dialects.

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In Castilla-La Mancha has incremented tourism 15.6%

http://www.abc.es/20110605/toledo/abcp-ultimos-seis-meses-numero-20110605.html

In
the past six months, the total number of citizens who visited Castilla-La Mancha has increased by 15.6% compared to last year. The most visited cities are Toledo and Ciudad Real. In this period also increased daily expenditure in this region.

This affects the Spanish economy but also because although afavorece daily expenditure has increased in this region, have augmented sightseeing and thus augment the Spanish ecomonia much more than it spends.

To me, not particularly affect me much because even augment the overall economy, rather than who they supports anything that is to the people of Castilla-La Mancha.

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Cucumbers murderers kill three people

http://www.ciberweb.com/noticia_24630_1_109_33__Alemania+atribuye+a+unos+pepinos+de+Espa%C3%B1a+la+muerte+de+tres+personas+intoxicadas.html

Some cucumbers grown in Andalucia, to come to Germany three people killed by a disease called Hemolytic Uremic Syndrome "procuded by Echericha Coli bacteria.

This, in effect, affects Spanish economy because now the other countries don't want to buy cucumbers in Spain and also because the Spanish people themselves don't buy them for fear of catching the disease. This disease occurs due to a bacteria called Echericha coli found in the peels of cucumber, meaning that if you just wash the cucumber E. Coli is gone.

To me this doesn't particularly affect me because I keep buying and eating cucumber cucumbers because this bacteria is in the strips of cucumber, not inside.

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My Podcast

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Oral Presentation

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