As free as the wind

Environmental pollution Since last year, I've been investigating how the environmental pollution affects our day by day and I've discovered lots of things that have made me more conscious about it. I got to the conclusion that, most of the causes of the environment contamination include large companies which produce lots of money, and no one wants to report them. T he worse problem is that it affects our health and damages all the types of organisms that exist. I think its really important to investigate and find new ways to reduce our impact in the world. My opinion about it all is that we need to aware the society and begin changing our habits before it's too late.

My future I don't remember in which point of my life I'd decided what I'd like to be in a future, but for now, I'd like to study for being an architect.  Although I like designing interiors, I preffer architecture because, for me, it's the perfect mix of my interests:  culture, history, and creativity and also due to  this career has various professional outings.   For all these reasons, I'll probably take the Technological  batxillerat .  I'd like to study this career because it has various professional outings. What I am sure about, is that if I end up working in architecture, I'll try to m ake spaces more sustainables and also more comfortables for ill people.

What inspires me? In my case, I often get inspired by watching  TED Talks, documentaries, videos in You Tube where people share their stories; by reading or sharing opinions with my sister. For example, I sometimes watch Sergio Begueria's videos and listen to his podcasts, where he encourages students to reach their dreams by organizing their day by day lifes in a better way and advises them about how to feel more productive and less stressed.  About my hobbies, I sometimes search online draws of architecture and, taking parts of lots of them, I create my own sketches.

        How technology has changed what it's like to be deaf Rebecca Knill, a writer,  who has cochlear implants that enable her to hear, explains how technology, for Deaf people, has changed in the last years and how has been her day a day during her life with it.  She was born without hearing sense, and her first electronic system let her hear her voice and listen to music, but she kneew these weren't natural sounds and although in 2003 she decided to have the implant; as the Deaf community, she thought they wouldn't work. She explies us how the hearing sense operates, the advantages of that implant, how the silence can be adictive and why they don't wish to have the hearing sense. Rebecca  says that technology can help make the world more human.  She says that it will be lots  people with a significative lose of the hearing sense by 2050 due to our hair-cell damage is too common, in part, because we are exposed in our day by ...

News in levels Animals in danger   While the fires are devasting Australia, which have killed more than a billion animals, 28 people and scorched 25 million acres; australian officials are dropping a lot of food in New South Wales to the animals that are endangered to death due to the wildfire, and many volunteers are working to treat injured and intoxicated animals. After gusty winds had disappeared and the weather had settled down, the firefighters were able to get in front of the fire. But lots of animals have already fled of their natural habitats and their are in danger of starving to death. In my opinion, I think that they are doing their best to save animals, but that this must make us realize about how much dangerous can be the climate change for all of us, including the animals.   Gusty winds: Sudden strong winds. Scorch: To burn the surface of something with flame or heat. Flee: To run away from a place or situation that is dangerous. UK le...

Comic relief What's the comic relief ? A  relief from the emotional tension especially of a drama that is provided by the interposition of a comic episode or element. Why is it used in horror films? This type of humor is used to transport the spectator from an unreal situation to a real one, to stop for a moment a scary scene and help people overcoming that horrible image or event.

Alfred Hitchcock Alfred Hitchcock is also known by the nickname of "The Master of Suspense".  His most famous film has been Psycho.  His main contribution to horror films was his habitual use of the subjective camera to reveal a character’s vision.

Edgar Allan Poe Edgar Allan Poe was an American horror stories writer, poet, critic and editor who was born in january 19, 1808 in Boston, Massachusetts.  He was also known by the nickname of: Father of the Detective story. Allan Poe  became famouous thanks to his dark, mysterious and evocative short stories and poems; some of them are now literary clasics. He married his cousin Virginia when she was 13, in 1836; but she passed away in 1847, after she became sick of tuberculosis. He died in 1949 in a great distress and, although nobody certainly knows what was the causer of it, there are lots of theories. Some of his most well known writtings are: Short stories:   Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque, The Black Cat,  The Murders in the Rue Morgue , The Fall of the House of Usher and   The Tell-Tale Heart. Poems: The Raven and Annabel Lee.

 T HE GOTHIC NOVEL 1. Who invented the G.N? What was the title of the first G.N? When was it first published?  Horace Walpole, The Castle of Otranto, 1764. 2. Which basic elements of horror do you remember from the introductory lesson? Paranormal situations, the woman in distress, dark places, people screaming, howls of wolves, distanced steps, squeaky doors, secret doors, lights turning off all the time, ghosts, fog.  DRACULA  This Gothic horror novel was written in 1897 by Bram Stocker, where he presents the Count Dracula character, making popular, at the same time, the vampire fantasy. He wrote it after getting informated about the "Transylvania's superstitions" and a vampires mith. He seems to want to do this to explore the limits of what it is to be human.  The novel tells the story of Dracula's attempt to move from  Transylvania  to England, by buying a house in London. He may find new blood and spread the undead cu...