Letter to friend

Dear Johnny,

How have you been? A lot of time has passed since the last time I went to Viña to visit my family and friends. The life here in Santiago is very fast and the time is short for doing doing things other than work. The fellas over here too never let you rest, calling you all day for doing works or helping them with their complications. For example, last week I met this guy named Carlos that seemed pretty awkward to me, I' have never seen him with someone, neither friends nor family, but there he was talking to me.

He walks towards me very slowly and spoke in a very low tone of voice, asking if i would be so nice as to help him with some works he had to do for anatomy. Then I remembered that the teacher said that those who helped other friends with works or studying for tests with good results, will have a bonus in the final overall mark of the year.

Mass media

We are facing one of the worst problems that the humanity has ever afronted, and it affects almost every person in the world. In most cases, they don't even realize that they are involved in that. I'm talking about the biggest brain-washing system ever created. I'm talking about mass media.

We are constantly receiving information by many means, including web sites, television and radio. This information many times shows us stereotypes, manipulate our feelings and determine what is really importante, but for us ¿It really is? The media reflects and shows the point of view of a minority that controls the information and how it is presented. Most of the time this people only show a part of the information on news to project a determined political ideal that may help them or to hide unethical issues related to them and their evil companies. Apart from this, the exposure of the information need moneyavdertismente etc etc etc

Letter to the editor

Dear Sir,

Nowadays the information navigates faster than ever, the people have the facility to travel and the segregation was erradicated years ago. This is the era of globalization, the political frontiers for us are just lines in a map of a system that must be administrated, there are no longer big differences in a person or another, at the end we are all humans, that is what our children must learn.

We cannot enclose our children to a culture and traditions that maybe for us meant something, but in today's world mean nothing. We have learns from wars and conflicts that a united world is the best manner to develop a better humanity in the future. The nations should teach traditions and culture related stories just as a way of comparing the world that was left in the past with today's world and as history.

Moreover children that focus just on the preservation on their culture are not open-minded to new ideas and plans. They just stay on the same social circle with the culture as a limitant to their learning of people and the world. They don't understand different points of views and opinions, finally stopping progress.

This is why authorities must encourage children to learn from other cultures and help them to create relationships that might produce new cultural traits. I'm not saying that the tradition must be forgotten, but that it is much better to create new customes based on the sincretismi of cultures.

Yours faithfully,
Pepe

Photo analysis

• What do you notice first about this image and why?

 

The first thing I notice is the shape m that the forest takes and what happened to it in one of its corners.

• What emotions are present?

 

An emotion present in the image is fear of losing the rest of the forest and sadness because of the situation that apparently seems unremediable.

• What is the situation? What is happening?

 

The lung-shaped forest is beggining to decay in its base. This lung represents the Earth's resource of pure air and how it is decreasing.

 

• What is the setting (place and time)?

 

The setting is a forrest in an extended terrain at daylight when its the top hour of oxygen production by plants.

 

• Does the picture contain any repetition, framing, or balancing (colours signaling something in particular)?

 

The contrast of colours is very interesting, the whole plain is green, but in a certain part of the forest it becomes brown, like burned. This technique is used to give strenght to the idea of destruction.

 

• What message or theme does the picture seem to convey? What aspects of the picture make you think this? Is it supposed to speak for or against an issue?

 

The message this picture want to give us is of warning, to stop throwing wastes to the air and also to ourselves, to quit smoking and expelling gases because its nor just our problem and we can finishwith our lives too.

The photograph will always exemplify or emphasize a point related to the options. Think about why the photograph was chosen and how it relates to an English B  option, in this case science and technology. Ask yourself: "Why did the photographer take this picture?"

The first thing I see in the image is a woman with a bandage in her knee, a wheelchair and a training device, this is the first i get from the picture because it is unsual in a bedroom.

There is only a woman in the room, she is apparently disabled because she has a wheelchair and a device for helping people in rehabilitation. The emotion present mainly is of hope from the woman and maybe lonelyness.

She is trying to get up from the bed to get to the wheelchair, she seems to be tired and making a big effort to do this.

The actions happens in the bedroom of the woman, in the morning.

The lighting is very revealing, like inspiring strenght and hope.

The theme is getting along with life despite problems using the help of the science and technology. The aspects that make me think this are the devices in the woman's room. It is supposed to be in favour of the stem cell research.

A midsummer night's dream

Faille/Gandara/Zulueta

Title: A midsummer night Dream

Author: William Shakespeare

Date:  composition:  1593-1594    Publication:  1600 

Period/Style/Genre:  Period: XVI century Elizabeth  Genre: Comedy  Style:

Number of Characters:   12 Characters

Setting: The woods near Athens, Grecce

Robin Starveling: 

• Tailor chosen to play Thisbe mother 

Francis Flute: 

• Play a young girl in love
• Man

Peter Quince:

• Carpenter
• Plays the Prologue

Nick Bottom:

• Overconfident weaver chosen to play Pyramus
• Makes silly mistakes
• Man

Hippolyta:

• Queen of the Amazons
• Engaged to Theseus

Theseus: 

• Duke of Athens
• Engaged to Hippolyta

Egeus:

• Hermias Father
• Gave permission to Hermian to marry Demetrius

Helena:

• Young Woman of Athens
• In Love with Demetrius

Hermia:

• Egeus's daughter
• Women of Athens
• In love with Lysander

Demetrius:

• Young Man
• In live with Helena

Lysander:

• Young Man
• From Athens
• In love with Hermia

Titania: 

• Queen of Fairies
• Female

Oberon:

• King of fairies
• Male

Puck:

• Didn't have age as h was a fairy 
• Male
• Fairy 
 

Summary

Scene 1
Titania asks if Bottom want some nuts, but he replies that he would prefer a handful of dried peas and that he has a strange hungr for hay; all this happens while he lies in her lap with his ass head. Oberon and puck talk about the love charming spelled on Titania, and after that he proposes her to undo the magic if she yields the Indian child. Oberon removed the spell and asked for music to dance with the queen. Finally Puck also removes the spell of the ass head from Bottom.

Scene 2
Craftsmen are worried about his friend Bottom because he hasn't appeared, moreover with a beast in the forest. Starveling thinks that maybe the fairies have done something to him.  Snug enters tellign everyone that Theseus married. Just when they were leaving fot the play, Botoom appears and asks why are all so sad, going with them to perform the play.

Special Notes

A special characteristic of the play is the appeareance of many fairy characters, doting the story with misticism and making it unique. The performance of the play must be done with a lot of ornaments and costumes.

Another notable effect in this act is the useof background music proposed by fairies.

Finally, the participation of slept characters mixes reality with dream creating a superreal enviorment.


Personal Notes and Reactions

The story is very good, it happens in different settings and with uncommon characters as fairies. The difficulty at the moment of reading is to understand what characters want to say or what is ocurring because of the poetic use of english; also because of the weird actions of the fairies the story tends to confuse.

Stevenson's house phtos