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.

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1. What story does Enfield tell when he and Utterson pass the door? What does hearing the story cause Utterson to do?

 

Enfield tells to Utterson a story related to a neglected building whose door makes him shiver. Once, he was strollling across the city as always, when suddlenly he saw a man hitting a girl he did not even know in front of that door. Mr. Enfield and the girl's relatives stopped the man and required him to pay £100 for the damages caused. The man's ugliness  was desproportionate, recalling devil itself.The girl's father and Mr. Enfield went to the devil-man's so he get the money and pay for his agression. However, this man, who was called Mr. Hyde, comes back with cheque that had a different name on, so they thought he was blackmailing the person tha actually wrote the cheque. Utterson follows the story closely so he decides to investigate.

2. After their meeting, what do Enfield and Utterson both suspect about the relationship between Jekyll and Hyde? what evidence does the text give for this suspicion?

Both Enfield and Utterson suspect that Jekyll may owe something to Hyde, and that is why the latter would have had the suspicious cheque. They both strongly believe that there is something wrong in the relationship that Jekyll and Hyde maintain. But, there are other theories that pop up while both men, Utterson and Enfield talk, on page 4, the latter states that maybe Hyde is blackmaling Jekyll fo some reason.

Analysis

Filming and editing techniques has been always been used as a method of catching people attention and to make a more dinamic recording. Depending on which technique the author decides to use, the effect on the audience can vary from prudicing a sensation of expectation or suspense to change the image of a certain character putting him as stronger or evil for example. Also this techniques serve as connectors between ideas in different scenes. In this analysis I will compare a Prime-time News report with a 24-hour news item using different criteria like Lighting, Editing Techniques and Sound. As an information media, this videos naturally include informational Bias to cause a different impact in the audience and to express certain points that represent the line of the channel. This informational bias can be: Personalization, Dramatization and Authority disorder. Using the criteria described before I will prove that there are substantial differences between this two type of news broadcasts, not just because because of being from different channels.

At first in Prime-time, the camera uses Long Shot, to show the vulnerability of Nathan Haug to his addiction, but then at the rest of the record it is used the medium shot, with some exception when introducing other victim, Breanne Saldivar, again using Long Shot with the same purpose as before. The medium shot is used to ground the history, to put it as a concrete thing so the viewers will believe what they see; most of the broadcast are interviews. Two Shot is also used to show some dialogues between characters. In the 24-hour news in the beginning of the video the presenter is introduced and it also she appears throughout the whole video speaking about what is happening in Chicago. While the camera is focused oh her, the type of shot used is Medium Shot because apart from her there is a screen in the set showing images from the disturbes in Chicago city. Another example of medium shot is when O'Reilly is talking and the complete image is of the people in Chicago, this may be used to present it as a real problem and a way of putting it more realistic. Finally there is another example of Medium Shot, where President Obama is talking. But Medium Shot is not the only type of shot used, in presenting scenes from the city the Establlishing Shot is the one used in this case because it can introduce easily a totally different situation comparing Chicago with the Fox News set. Another reason for the use of Long Shot may be to show the policemen of Chicago as vulnerable against the protesters.

The camera do not differ a lot between the two type of news, in ABC eye level is the angle used. This is because the story is based on people testimony and it must be at eye level, so to cause an sympathetic feeling in the audience and to show the story as a normal and real problem. In Fox News The angle used to present the speakers in a set is naturally at Eye Level also because they must be seen natural and also to contrast with the scenes out of the set. When showing the problems in Chicago, the difference with ABC is that the camera adopts a High Angle to emphasize the idea of weakness and vulnerability of the policemen of Chicago fighting with the anarchists.

Camera movement is very different in both of the video, the camera doesn’t move a lot across the video in Prime-time, but in some instances the technique used is zooming. This zooming is forward the characters, leading a revealing sensation that helps the audience getting the message from the interviewee. Instead of this, the camera moves a lot in the place of the action, panning and tiltling as the people moves, this produces the effect of chaos and disturbes. Normally the scenes don't cover great extension so the camera doesn't need to track the people.

The lighting is similar in the two news, in general there is a lot of light in all the scenes, but the light of the camera produces a bit of front lighting, which makes the actor look innocent and poor against its syndrome in the news about pronography addiction. In the Chicago conflict in all the scenes outside the set the present light is only the natural one, and also in the set, the lights aren't so strong to prodce an effect of Front Lighting. High Key might describe the light is this segment because all is clearly visible and easy to distinguish.

The are not so many editing techniques in none of the two videos, but in the Prime-time news The Shot-Reverse-Shot technique is used in conversations like in the end of the video, while there’s a conversation with the expert. An editing technique used in 24-hour news is Parallel Editing in various parts, for example in the set when the camera shows the presenter, tough the person talking is in a screen next to her. This is to show what is happening in the outside, but not taking the camera out of the set, giving importances to the presenter and the channel. The screen where the action happens also Dissolves the presenter in a certain moment.

The sound in both videos is completely Diegetic there’s no background music that the character wouldn’t hear, this is because as a report, the facts must be veridical and there’s no intension to cause a determinate feeling toward what appears, only in giving information from a certain perspective.

Biases in news are very different and this is one of the most particular characteristics that differentiate a Prime-time compared with a 24-hour news channel. In ABC news channel, and particularly, this piece of news, the personalization is the most present informational bias. The story is focused on different individuals, starting with victims of the addiction, as Nathan and Breanne, and the continuing with some experts that work with this type of cases. In all cases, the interview is the base of the report, from which we can get direct information about the case. This type of bias is used to emphasize the human interest in the theme of the item and to have and emotional impact in people, but not involving anything about politics or other certain points of view as that. The most powerful informational bias used in Fox news is Authority-disorder, which also involves the use of Personalization and Dramatization. The problem shown on this report is between the local authorities and protesters, but then it involves even the president, and O'Reilly blames him for what is happening. The personalization is evidenced with the presenter of the anarchist movement giving his opinion about what is happening showing the movement as a normal thing; O'Reilly shows Obama as someone who doesn't take account what he says, in this case, being in favor of the movement of Wall St.; Obama also speaks giving his point of view about all the issue, but with no strength at all. In the end, all is presented like problem caused by the authorities and that they can't solve for themselves. The dramatization is this story is in the fight between all the anarchists and the police, where one officer gets his leg stabbed.

In conclusion, there are different aspects proper to each type of news, for example, in Prime-time News, the use of different shots to show the protagonist of the story puts them as vulnerable and mainly the whole report is relied on them; in 24-hour news, the presenter adopts a protagonist role in the presentation of the item and this differentiates it from the first. In bias, this same aspects mold bias as personalization in prime-time of news and authority-disorder in 24-hours, but this is also for politics reasons and the alinement of the channel.

Film Analysis

Comparison between a prime-time news program and a 24-hour news broadcast

Prime-time: ABC News

Shots and Framing

At first, the camera uses Long Shot, to show the vulnerability of Nathan Haug to his addiction, but then at the rest of the record it is used the medium shot, with some exception when introducing other victim, Breanne Saldivar, again using Long Shot with the same purpose as before. The medium shot is used to ground the history, to put it as a concrete thing so the viewers will believe what they see; most of the broadcast are interviews. Two Shot is also used to show some dialogues between characters.

Camera Angles

Eye level is the angle used. This is because the story is based on people testimony and it must be at eye level, so to cause an sympathetic feeling in the audience and to show the story as a normal and real problem.

Camera Movements

The camera doesn’t move a lot across the video, but in some instances the technique used is zooming. This zooming is forward the characters, leading a revealing sensation that helps the audience getting the message from the interviewee.

Lighting

In general there is a lot of light in all the scenes, but the light of the camera produces a bit of front lighting, which makes the actor look innocent and poor against its syndrome.

Editing Techniques

The Shot-Reverse-Shot technique is used in conversations like in the end of the video, while there’s a conversation with the expert.

Sound

The sound is Diegetic, there’s no background music that the character wouldn’t hear, this is because as a report, the facts must be veridical and there’s no intension to cause a determinate feeling toward what appears, only in giving information from a certain perspective.

Bias

In this news channel, and particularly, this piece of news, the personalization is the most present informational bias. The story is focused on different individuals, starting with victims of the addiction, as Nathan and Breanne, and the continuing with some experts that work with this type of cases. In all cases, the interview is the base of the report, from which we can get direct information about the case. This type of bias is used to emphasize the human interest in the theme of the item and to have and emotional impact in people, but not involving anything about politics or other certain points of view as that.

24-hour: Fox News

Shots and Framing

At the beginning of the video the presenter is introduced and it also she appears throughout the whole video speaking about what is happening in Chicago. While the camera is focused oh her, the type of shot used is Medium Shot because apart from her there is a screen in the set showing images from the disturbes in Chicago city. Another example of medium shot is when O'Reilly is talking and the complete image is of the people in Chicago, this may be used to present it as a real problem and a way of putting it more realistic. Finally there is another example of Medium Shot, where President Obama is talking. But Medium Shot is not the only type of shot used, in presenting scenes from the city the Establlishing Shot is the one used in this case because it can introduce easily a totally different situation comparing Chicago with the Fox News set. Another reason for the use of Long Shot may be to show the policemen of Chicago as vulnerable against the protesters.

Camera Angles

The angle used to present the speakers in a set is naturally at Eye Level because they must be seen natural and also to contrast with the scenes out of the set. When showing the problems in Chicago, the camera adopts a High Angle to emphasize the idea of weakness and vulnerability of the policemen of Chicago fighting with the anarchists.

Camera Movements

The camera moves a lot in the place of the action, panning and tiltling as the people moves, this produces the effecto of chaos and disturbes. Normally the scenes don't cover great extension so the camera doesn't need to track the people.

Lighting

In all the scenes outside the set the light present is only the natural one, and also in the set, the lights aren't so strong to prodce an effect of Front Lighting. High Key might describe the light is this segment because all is clearly visible and easy to distinguish.

Editing Techniques

An editing technique used is Parallel Editing in various parts, for example in the set when the camera shows the presenter, tough the person talking is in a screen next to her. This is to show what is happening in the outside, but not taking the camera out of the set, giving importances to the presenter and the channel. The screen where the action happens also Dissolves the presenter in a certain moment.

Sound

The sound is completely Diegetic because this is a piece of news and everythng reflected in it must be veridic.

Bias

The most powerful informational bias used in this piece of news is Authority-disorder, which also involves the use of Personalization and Dramatization. The problem shown on this report is between the local authorities and proteters, but the it ivolves even the president, and O'Reilly blames him for what is happening. The personalization is evidenced with  the representer of the anarchist movement giving his opinion about what is happening showing the movement as a normal thing; O'Reilly shows Obama as someone who doesn't take account what he says, in this case, being in favour of the movement of Wall St.; Obama also speaks giving his point of view about all the issue, but with no strenght at all. In the end, all is presented like problem caused by the authorities and that they can't solve for themselves. The dramatization is this story is in the fight between all the manifestants and the police, where one officer gets his leg stabbed.

News links

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nQ0vuIVZyb8 Nightline ABC news

7 of 10 teens in the United States get accidentally or intentionally porn on the internet and the rate is increasing. Teens as Nathan Haug and Breanne Saldivar, but this is a normal process in the mental development, the problem is when the people get used to it. A program directed by Clay Olson called "Fight the New Drug" explains all the process the involves getting addicted to porn and how can you prevent it. Finally Matt Bunkley explains what he see from this problem from a professional point of view.
http://video.foxnews.com/v/1649143838001/anarchy-in-chicago/?playlist_id=87485 Fox News

Thousands of protesters marched through downtown Chicago on Sunday in one of the city's largest demonstrations in years, airing grievances about war, climate change and a wide range of other complaints as world leaders assembled for a NATO summit. The president Obama talks about the problem, and also the representing leader of the group. Finishing with Billy O' Reilly with his critics about the problem.

Remediation: History of the Internet

Ad

First, the name of the product is very simple, so people learn it easy and the alliteration in the use of "co" makes it very comfortable to say. This same fact of being simple applies to all the scene with a white backgroung so the elements of the ad are very visible and clear. The colors used drive the attention immediately to the logo, the red color is very bright and childish and the black represents the sound "gulp" made by people when they are drinking; this shows the effect in eliminating the thirst. Finally the phrase, "open happiness" is saying to people that if they drink coke, they'll be happy.

In the beginning of the chapter, the narrator felt astounted after
passing through the barbers ,desinfectation baths and changing clothes
to prisoner uniform. Now he was inside Aushcwitz concentration camp,
he tell us that many years after this, the only thing he would
remember clearly in detail were these first days of captivity. George
realized that the camp wasn't nothing that he expected, there was no
football pitch, seedbed, tuf, or flowers to be found anywhere. The
only thing he saw was his new house, an undecorated barn which he
couldn't go before night. The camp was sorruounded by electrified
barbed wire fences so no one could escape. A man with a red triangle
on his chest soon served a soop, or actually a dried vegetal stew with
a disgusting taste, thet the narrator threw away and stayed only with
a piece of bread and margarine. He sooned learned that apart from a
cup of coffee in the morning, this was the only food he would get, so
he never wasted the food again. A moment passed when all prisioners
noticed a weird smell coming from a chimney where dead people
supposedly where carried to be incinerated. The chief of the block
took the people to a trek where Goerge saw the Gypsies camps where he
also saw the women, by that moment completely bald as men. Three days
passed when they were taken to Buchelwald by train in a three days
journey. The system was different in Buchenwald, the Germans were more
agressive and the places were prisioners lived were tents and the food
was better. As in Auschtwitz, the prisoners were soon departed to
another concentration camp, Zeitz. Here the protagonist met Bandi
Citrom who will help him throughout the novel.

Quotes from Fatelessness

Quote 1 (p.22): The tone that the narrator uses is dark, he presents a scene in the eveningi, as he says, in a confined room with closed windows, with the annoying noises and the cigarrete smoke stinging his eyes. This falling of the evening is related with the decaying in the life of the author that started at that moment with the leaving of his father, he also expresses his inomfortability with the situation that as the night, would be very long and dark.

Quote 2 (p.31):  In this quote the author expresses some sort of detachment to his mother as he say that a lousy feeling gets him when he think that he can't do nothing for his mother at all, as she wishes. In the other hand there is a sort of personal mood because he did wanted to help his mother, but didn't do nothing and preferred to leave despite the hour.

Further Oral Activity 2012: Comparisson between Nazi and American slavery.

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1uvapiP-AhUahr3TXg517XDOHftgZdfvy6WLApgtQ9Dc/edit#slide=id.p16