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Technology Story

Sarah wants to buy a new expensive appliance for the kitchen, but Andrew doesn't want it because it's too expensive and a waste of money.

  - Sarah: Hey darling, how was work today?
  - Andrew: It was exhausting but I love what I do and they pay me well. My new job in the bank is one of the best paid in the city.
  - Sarah: That's good. I like that you worry about you job and money.
  - Andrew: I do it because of you and your love.
  - Sarah: Speaking of money, there is this appliance I want to buy an appliamce for the kitchen, it has a low rating but it is really good but it costs a lot of money. Look st it.

  - Andrew: This is too much money for this thing! Whit that money we can buy a nice couch! I'm sorry darling but you had crossed the line. I wont buy it.

  - Sarah: Yeah you can say that it's too expensive for something like that, but it's really nice and good...

  - Andrew: You wont use it because you are never home!

  - Sarah: I will work for it!

  - Andrew: Ok I'll buy it.

(Two months later)

  - Andrew: Look what you did! This piece of garbage doesn't work and you didn't work either! You now what? I leave you

Global Warming: Problem or Exaggeration?

In this I will be discussing the issue of how global warming is the most significant environmental problem facing us today. Do you agree? I do, and I think that us as human beings don't know in deep the big consequences that global warming has, because although we can have easier the information that we need, they hide it from us. This topic is very topical and affects more than people, the animals, and the whole ecosystem is changing in bad because we are digging too deep in the hands of mother nature. I will examine arguments for and against this topic and draw a conclusion based on the facts.

Firstly, The Natural Recourses Defence Council say that "although local temperatures fluctuate natural, over the past 50 years the average global temperature has increased at the fastest rate in recorded history. Scientists say that unless we curb the emissions that cause climate change, average U.S. temperatures could be 2 to 9 degrees higher by the end of the century." As a result it will cause more and more bad things. The ecosystem that we all now is dying. By the end of the century it will be worse than ever. Animals that we all now will die. Same thing with the plants and trees. Glaciers are melting and if we continue this path of global warming there will be no more of this.

We all know that global warming isn't the only environmental problem that we have. There is the pollution, the overpopulation that although is a long term perspective, it can cause many bad things, quality of life, carrying capacity, even starvation. There is also degradation, waste, depletion, and many other things, but I think that global warming is the main problem is because it is. People search for a better quality of life, they really do. We don't like places with trash all over the cities, overpopulation or pollution, although we cause it, so we go to places were we like the ecosystem, then we build houses in a really fast way. And what happens to the ecosystem? It despairs.

Some people say that global warming say that it is not happening, and they have good evidence that supports their opinion. For example, there hasn't been a raising of temperature in the last 17 years, flat just like that. There hasn't been a consensus that global warming is occurring and caused by man. 

In conclusion I think that global warming is happening. Pollution is in the air, every day many trees are being cut down, and you can realize that. I think that the government in chile and in every place in the world has to do something to stop it. Now is the time to change. If we don't do something now it raise and we will regret it.

Sample Annotated Bibliography

Topic: Global warming is the most significant environmental problem facing us today. Do you agree?

An Introduction to Climate Change. What it could mean to you and your family. By Natural 

Resources Defense Council. Retrieved from

http://www.nrdc.org/globalwarming/climatebasics.asp

 In this report we can identify the preoccupation of global warming, specifically in the 
United States. It has a lot of sufficient evidence supporting their facts. It's about how pollutants are affecting our atmosphere, in other words, imagine a blanket that is burning, making ourselves, the humans, the animals and the environment in the whole world destroyed. Over the past 50 years the average global temperature has increased at the fastest rate in the recording history. That's not good. As living things, we aren't capable to adapt too an environment that is changing in a faster way than we imagine. The worse part is that we are causing it. Until we continue making the blanket burn because of all the things that we have done, we in the future will not die because we will be old, but because we will not make through the environment that we created. 

 This is an introduction to climate change, how our climate has changed in the past 50 years and how is it affecting to us. It's a great article. Good reasons and sufficient evidence that states his opinion

5 Scientific Reasons That Global Warming Isn't Happening. By Town Hall. Retrieved from http://townhall.com/columnists/johnhawkins/2014/02/18/5-scientific-reasons-that-global-warming-isnt-happening-n1796423/page/full

In this text, we can clearly realize the against not particularly global warming but how if we have so many research, data, and evidence and if we now that our world is collapsing and why are we just alleging so much why are we doing nothing? Yeah we go and lift up banners that say no to global warming, but why are the governments in general don't do nothing to stop it? Why aren't they spending more time and money in the actual data and more than that, a solution.

 This talks about why and how global warming it's not happening. It's a good article although I don't agree with it, but it has it's reasons. Good reasons.

Writing Assignment: Policeman and Criminals

Another day in the city. Police has increased their shifts in the past weeks of course. They always do it in this time of the year. Summer at Miami, in my opinion and I'll probably be correct, it's dangerous. For a man like me it's not and it will never be. I now and live so much and through many years of experience nothing scares me, nothing can touch me, nothing moves me. 

The Victims of Bloody Sunday: Report

30th of January, 1972. One of the most famous and terrible tragedies of all time. The Bloody Sunday. Although we all now the victims that have died for no reason (wars, country revolutions, civil wars, and more all over the world), this was one of the worse. Why? Because of what was happening in that time in Europe. The people where fighting for the rights that they deserved that the government didn't give them. That day there was a civil rights march in Londonderry, Northern Ireland. That day, that historic day, the soldiers from the British Parachute Regiment opened fire and killed 13 people. Another man died 5 months later. This report is about the victims but in a different approach. In the approach we talk about who were this people and how it affected in their personal lifes.

Some people where more affected economically than others, but there is no difference if any of a family member dies in the emotionally way. For example, Gerard McKinney (In my opinion one of the most confusing kills in the Bloody Sunday, although every person that died was killed for no reason. In other words, without justification) . A father of 8 children that coached a junior football team and ran the city's Ritz rollerskating rink.  Killed by Soldier G at the Glenfada Park. Like the others, he was trying to make his way to safety. Witnesses told the Widgery Inquiry that he raised his arms and shouted "Don't shoot, don't shoot". Unfortunately, he was shot in the head. The worst thing about this, is that he left his children and his incoming son (which they named him after him) without somebody that supports them in the economically way.

There are many other examples about heroic and unfortunately losses in this tragedy. In my opinion this is my favorite report because it takes us deep down where the real story is hidden.

My Plan

 Diary entry of the main character revealing his/her true feelings about another character or any aspects of the action of the text.

Holden hangs out with her and realizeses that shes ugly

1. What kind of e-petition is it? How can it be classified? —> It's a health petition
2. What department is responsible for it? —> The Health Department
3. How many signatures has it reached? —> 9,064
4. What was the department’s response? —> It's not mentioned
5. Who will it benefit if discussed in the parliament? —> People with brain cancer.

Listening Activity

I. True or False
  
 1.- True
 2.- False, Because they got stuck with the Irish at the 19th century
 3.- True
 4.- True
 5.- True
 6.- True
 7.- False, because women received their right to vote in 1928.

II. Questions

 1.- It isn't appropriate because she has no words on the British government. She's only a political image
 2.- The Lower House is the most relevant.  
    Upper House: Point their position in the laws
    Lower House: They have the real power to rule Great Britain.
 3.- Conservatives, Liberals, Democrats, and Labour.
 4.- Because of the 2 finger victory solute and because he did that to Hitler and Amusolini.
 5.- Churchill, British Bulldog. Thatcher, Attila the Hen. Blair, Bush's Poodle.

  Surprise Jonah

It was a normal day for Jonah. He worked at Disney World as the head worker's main assistant. He was his wingman. That means, he organised every detail of the whole park. He knew every toy every person that came in, everything. I could tell you every detail of his work but it's a long list, very long. He was a great worker, but a little weak with his hands (he was uncoordinated). That day, the head worker asked him if he could carry some really important boxes for him. He went right away, although he though it wasn't a good idea. He was going so fast the boxes fell. He realised that inside the boxes, there extremely delicate things. Because they broke. He realised that every worker was starring at him and they got really angry at him.

He felt that what he did could end his job. In other words, he was going together fired. It started as a great day and ended as the worse in his career. Everybody was talking about him and what was going to happen. There where interesting stories. It was really strange because he didn't have that much friends.

Suddenly, he had a text from his boss. He wanted to talk to him. Jonah got more nervous than he was already.

When he entered the room, he was surprised! He forgot it was his birthday! "Surprise!" They said. That day was the best. His boss told him that everybody makes mistakes. The important thing is to learn from them.

My opinion about Nadim's decision

 For those who don't know Nadim's experience, he's did something that few people would do if they had a great economic situation. Nadim is a guy with a lot of money. A LOT. He abandoned his island (yes he lived in a island) and he'll go to a city called Cork, Irleand. He'll give money to people in need and experience how do you live with the minimum wage.

In my opinion, it's a decision that we have to admire. He did a great something that most people wouldn't do. Sometimes, people give money for charity, but he WENT TO A CITY AND EXPERIENCE HOW POOR PEOPLE LIVE. I think it's admirable and most people would be scared to do that.