MY FINAL REFLECTION

To finish this year very special for many people due to we finish the high school to start a new stage of our life, well to go to the university or do another thing, I’m gonna do a final reflection.

First, I’m going to talk about the level of my compositions. My first written posts didn’t had colour, neither they had a well-defined structure and there were a very poor and basic vocabulary. Now, above all in the third term, my English teacher showed me which structures there are depending on the composition I want to do. For example, an opinion essay or an against essay, a narrative, a letter of complaint, etc., all of these have a very different structure. My expression of English has improved and my vocabulary has enriched thanks to the gift my parents did me three years ago, an unforgettable trip of fifteen days to London with an English family, where I visited the most popular places of London. (Blog: https://99rodriguezmarc.wordpress.com/my-two-week-diary/).

Secondly, my best oral production, I think, it has been Spanish topics of humour that I did with Àlex. It was a different presentation where I told some jokes at the end of the presentation. In this oral production we had a good time and we learnt many things about our country that before we didn’t know.

To end this final reflection I want to say that this year surely it will be unique due to it has had or it will have a lot of importance in my life because next year, if all goes well, I will go the university to decide my future maybe to do C.A.F.E. because I’m a very fan of the sports in general.



                                                                                        Marc Rodríguez Casas.

Imagine you have a toxic friend that is ruining your life. Write a letter to him/her explaining the problem and proposing solutions to re-establish your mutual confidence.

19 Rentador Street

Castelló d'Empúries

21 th April, 2017

Plaza Amador 22

Barcelona

Dear Mpappé,

I am writing to complain about our critical relationship. I think is bad for both to continue our life with this form.

The problems began in the last night of the year when you, with your family, came to my house to dinner. All was OK but the end of our good relationship started when your children didn't eat and they did bad things in my house, breaking objects of value. At this moment I became angry because you didn't nothing and I hit one of them due to my hard character. Then you hit me very strong and my house became a battle.

I think the best for both is forget this terrible night and do another dinner but without children, it will  be the best for our new relationship.

I hope your answer, brother.

Your faithfully,

Marc Rodríguez.

Write a letter to an imaginary pen pal from a very different country. Tell him/her about the most common pets in the country where you live and the problems and advantages of having them. Ask him/her about similar questions in his/her own place. Express opinions, suggest ideas,...

19 Rentador Street

Castelló d'Empúries

27th April, 2017

China Town 23
China

Hi Xin,
How are you?
I am witing to you to explain a little bit about the most common pets in Spain and the problems and advantages of having them.

Here the most common pets are basically dogs and cats. About these, there are a lot of types of them. The dogs are very friendly with humans, they can become very noisy and silly in certain situations, but is the more loved pet  by the humans. Cats are more independent than dogs and also more calm than the others, most of them are in the street around the village all day, they say that these animals have seven lifes because they are very athletic and they can fall down without nothing happens.

I think for you, Xin, to have these pets in your country would be so difficult, because chinese people eat these types of animals and others really different and amazing.

Your faithfully,

Marc Rodríguez.

Write an opinion essay about the following question: Is it possible to live without computers nowadays?

It is well known that nowadays technology is in all the places where we go, more if we live or we travel around Europe. I think technology is the future.

Many people think that technology is very bad for our health. They think, more adults than young people, that we will extinguish be cause of it and at the end we will be silly people because of the computers, the machines, etc. will do all the things we do now.

In my opinion, however, the technology is good take it to a certain point not excessive, because our life in a lot of aspects is improving thanks to it.
At the present they 're founding and searching many things; vaccines, discoveries, etc. due to, also, the people who was created or made these special computers or machines.

In short, the technology takes it to a certain level, always to be for the good of our society, will be fine to our success. It is for that I think we can't live without computers.

Imagine you are a student from Shanghai living in Catalonia. Write a letter or an email to your family in China in which you talk about the education system and study habits here and back home.

19 Rentador Street

Castelló d'Empúries

18th April, 2017

High Street 21

Shanghai

Hi my fathers,

I am writing to tell you how is my life here in Catalonia. I have ever made a lot of new friends and I like so much the food, one of the best food I have ever tasted.

The problems began at the moment I arrived because I didn't know anyone and anyplace but now that I have found a house with other students I'm very good and they show each weekend new places and new types of food of Catalonia.

The education system is so good but calmer than Shanghai because here they only do six hours of class with thirteen minutes to rest, so less than in Shanghai.

That is a little bit of my life in Catalonia. I will explain you more.

I miss you a lot.

Kisses,

Marc Rodríguez.

Write an essay about aspects related to learning and using a language. Discuss difficulties, language components or even other kind of language (art, music, computer language, animal language,...).

It is well known that speaking and writing a lot of languages gives you a lot of of opportunities and options in life.

First of all, I want to say that I speak and write four languages (Spanish, Catalan, English and French). I talk and write better in Spanish and Catalan than French and English because these two I'm learning since I'm little and the others I speak them every day 24 hours.

Secondly, I think is very important to learn a big number of languages because these is unique in life and that gives you the opportunity to travel around the world and meet new people and new cultures (food, habits, sports, ..). But a lot of people think that if you write and speak well English and Spanish you can move where you want and travel to any country, and I agree with that.

In short, with more languages you can move to any place with more easily and learn languages is grow as a person.

TOURIST AREAS OF SPAIN

It is well known that the tourism is one of the most important sources of income for our country.

First of all, Spain spend a lot of years in the firsts positions of the international tourism. Throughout of these years it has suffered a lot of changes both in the way of travel and in the accommodations.

However in the big cities is considering a big problem, due to the large influx of tourism (for example in Barcelona or in Madrid) and the tourist flats are having a lot of relevance. This come with the difficulty of living the tourism with the people that live all the year in that place, because a lot of times the type of tourism isn't the most suitable and his interests aren't the same as the people that live or work.

For that reason, the authorities are doing laws harder or more restrictive to regularise this type of tourism and then has it more controlled.

Do men and women view love differently?

It is well to known that men and women we can seem very different, but at the end surely those differences aren't so many.

First of all, generally both men and women we have the necessity to live in couple with anyone that loves us, values us and respects us. 

Secondly, some of the differences could be, in the thing we think as "normal" relationships and no perverse (controlling, submissive, etc.), that the woman can look for a little more of protection, although each time less, and the man can assume more the role of protector.
In the issue related to the children normally the women have it as a priority and men postpone it more, also for biological matters, and they give more priority to the development in the theme of labour.
In the education of the children also there are differences between men and women, because the mother will use more her protector part and educate him more in values as the affection, the family, etc. and the father more in issues of physical strength, perseverance,...

As a result now, as I said before, all of these differences are each time less, at least at the western society, because these roles be exchanged with facility due to determinate labour or family circumstances.

MY SOULMATE TODAY

Both to love and to be loved you have to have a certain degree of maturity, know how you are, what you want,... although to arrive at that surely we have to overcome stages of insecurity, of platonic relationships, etc.



Actually to find your soulmate it depends both the other person and ourself, because at the end is a state of adaptation, of negotiation for both without sacrificing the principles more basics of each one.

My soulmate today would be a girl that I like both physically and character, athletic, that doesn't smoke, constant and that respects me as a person (enthusiasms, hobbies, way of being,...).

Why do we love? A philosophical inquiry

http://ed.ted.com/lessons/why-do-we-love-a-philosophical-inquiry-skye-c-cleary

1.Discuss. Why do we love? It’s heart-breaking and complicated most of the times yet do we need it at all?

I think the human being has the intrinsic necessity to love and to be loved or accept and to be accepted because otherwise we would be anti-social people.

The feeling really durable and important in time is to love, because the love in itself is a temporal state that you live a few times in the life and not always is objective but rather platonic.

Many times can be an unrequited love and then if the person isn't very mature or balanced you can suffer a lot. But as I say, the people more prone to suffer are those they idealize it or they have a pathological dependence on to love and to be loved.

2. How does the video define love? Put the words in order.

intoxicating             

heart-breaking

beautiful

soul crushing

1. Beautiful

2. Intoxicating

3. Heart-breaking

4. Soul crushing

3. What are the 5 Philosophers mentioned?

Platon
Schopenhauer
Russell
Siddhartha Gautama "Buddha"
Simone de Beauvoir

4. Watch again and write each Philosopher’s view on love.

Platon: "Love makes us whole, again". He explored the idea that we love in order to become complete.

Schopenhauer: "Love tricks us into having babies". He maintained that loved based in sexual desire was a voluptuous illusion.

Russell: "Love is escape from our loneliness". He says that we loved in order to quench our physical and psychological desires.

Siddhartha Gautama "Buddha": "Love is a misleading affliction". He says that we love because we are trying to satisfy our base desires.

Simone de Beauvoir: "Love lets us reach beyond ourselves". She proposed that love is the desire to integrate with another and that it infuses our lives with meaning.

5. Vocabulary work. Which Philosopher says what?

1) Dependance on another means boredom and power games.=Simone de Beauvoir.

2) We succeed in perpetuating human species and perpetuating human   tragedy.=Schopenhauer.

3) Quench our physical and psychological desires.=Russell.

4) It enriches our whole being together.=Russell.

5) Attachments are a great source of suffering.=Siddhartha Gautama "Buddha".

6) Love is the longing to find a soulmate who makes us feel whole again.=Platon.

7) Love infuses our life with meaning.=Simone de Beauvoir.

Spain's Princess Cristina cleared in tax trial

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-39005056

Spain's Princess Cristina, the 51-year-old sister of King Felipe and sixth in line to the throne, has been cleared in a tax fraud trial.

However her husband, Inaki Urdangarin, was given a six-year-and-three-month jail term by the court in Majorca.

Urdangarin was accused of using his royal connections to generate business income used for private spending.

The case began in 2010 and became symbolic of perceived corruption among Spain's elites, including the royals.

Princess Cristina, who now lives in Switzerland, was the first member of Spain's royal family to go on trial since the monarchy's restoration in 1975.

In 2015, King Felipe stripped her and Urdangarin, 49, of their titles as Duke and Duchess of Palma de Mallorca.

The sentence "the justice is  equal for all" would have a lot of meaning if it was truth, thing that like we can confirm repeated times in Spain it isn't true.


The last trials connected to the royal family demonstrate that unfortunately there are different opinions when it's time to apply the law and that they aren't objectives.

This generate in the public opinion a total suspicion about the apply of the law and it transmit us a lot of insecurity, because the law is precisely for give us security and for feel us all equale under it. The thing we can't to allow is that the politics take part in favour of particular social classes, even removing the district attorney they do their job well.

THE TOXIC RELATIONSHIPS

The toxic relationships are those about which one person wants to benefit from the other without any type of empathy seeing only the personal selfishness and they don't realize this type of relationships are negative for both.

These could seem they are fruit of the ignorance or lack of education but that's not the case, the really important thing is the emotional culture and unfortunately it doesn't learn neither in the secondary school nor the universities.




When a person feels insecurity, in sickly way, all the relations (friendship, love, family) are victims in a possessive way, imposing to the other persons. Sometimes delicately and others more aggressive. 

THE STRESS

All the changes in our life, either because we want to do them voluntarily or well forced, are stressful.

The stress can be positive if it's controlled and still be good for to solve the problems, but in excess and out of control is very negative considering that we can arrive at physical and psychic exhaustion.

For that reason is very important to be conscious of when we are in alarm and submitting our orgainsm to an extra demand of adrenalin, like this we will can to control it before it gets harmful. For this there are breathing exercises, the social relationships (for example our friends), etc.

THE EXAMPLE RAFAEL NADAL

Rafa Nadal is one of the role model for any athletic person, either professional or amateur. 

In the beginning he opts, for recommendation of his manager and based on the technique, change his hand of game, the right, for the left. This requires a big effort and discipline for arrive to play to a high level.

I would stand out of this professional tennis player his great capacity to overcome the adversities (injuries, recoveries, etc.).

During his career path he has showed it in numerous occasions, because he reappeared with more strength and aggressivity than previously. But the thing that nobody hoped of Rafa Nadal is that now, that all the people brought him to an end, due to recurrent injuries and with a certainly age, he has come back to demonstrate once again the mental capacity he has, arriving at a final of a Masters 1000.

Chinese New Year: The Importance Of Sharing And Understanding Culture

http://elitedaily.com/life/culture/chinese-new-year-importance-sharing-understanding-culture/939615/

As a South African-born Asian and Australian citizen currently living in the UK (try to digest that), I'm incredibly lucky to have experienced a smorgasbord of different cultures. 

It seems perfectly normal to me that my family living room has an ancient Chinese painting placed next to a traditional African sculpture, and that my parents and I fire multiple languages at each other. 

Chinese New Year signals the beginning of the lunar calendar, and celebrations traditionally run for weeks. 

Festivities differ widely from country to country, and even from family to family. Most will spend the night before enjoying a big family dinner before heading downstairs to set off fireworks and firecrackers. 

As the sun rises, it signals the start of various parades with lots of noise and dancers dressed as lions, traditionally to scare away evil spirits.

Families wear new clothes and get together for food and to swap red envelopes containing money as a blessing.

The chinese new year or spring festival has started this past 28th of January. As is traditional, it was a day of family reunions and celebrations in the street for celebrate the arrival of the new year.

The chinese, catalan and spanish culture joined together for give the welcome to the new year. During this celebration, the dragons took the center of Barcelona and the condal city lived with the parades and activities the traditions of the orient.

THE DEATH OF BIMBA BOSÉ

The recent death, of this famous and multifaceted model, makes us think again in the importance of this terrible illness called cancer. 

At his 41 years old and with a big desire to live, this young woman descendant of a popular family in Spain and Italy, she has been victim of breast cancer.

This death has brought to light that the social networks are used for crazy people, of all types, for express the hate and all the worst that they carry deep within, against someone that she has triumphed, because she was different (androgynous) from the others. In this case, it has been especially pathetic that there are persons that in front of the pain of a loss, they can stop in these physical or of conduct details.

- George: Hi, how are you? I'm George, what's your name?

- William: Hi, nice to meet you, my name is William, I'm here because I suffered an accident yesterday.

- George: Nice to meet you too. Wow! An accident of what?

- William: I tell you, I was walking calmly with my sister in te street and suddenly a car appeared at high speed running over me.

- George: Oh! I'm sorry. And what happened with your sister?

- William: Ah! Yes! Thank God she came out unharmed of the accident.

- George: Damn! What luck she had! And which bodily injuries you have or what have you become fractured?

- William: The doctor told me that I have suffered some breakages in my body. As you can see I had broken the nose and last night they made me a surgery. Also I had fractured my left arm and my right leg and I will be here during a several months. And you, what are you doing here?

- George: Wow! I hope that all turns out OK. Be positive and patient, surely it will come out well. I have to be operated on the hip. It's a difficult operation but they say me that the recuperation is quite fast and after you can do normal life, even can practie sports.

- William: Oh, that's good! I hope after I can do normal life as you, it would be my wish...

Fidel Castro Died, And Cuban Exiles Threw A Party In Miami

http://elitedaily.com/news/politics/fidel-castro-died-cuban-miami/1702605/

To many, he was a cruel dictator. To others, he was a revolutionary icon. To all, he is now deceased.
On Friday, Cuban leader Fidel Castro died at the age of 90, nearly 58 years after he first took power in the Caribbean nation.
The news came from current Cuban president Raúl Castro, who announced his brother’s death on state-run television.



This last Friday 25th of November has died at the age of ninety Fidel Castro, he ruled with a firm hand during more of fifty years in the island of Cuba.
Fidel Castro arrived to the power after to lead the Cuban Revolution, that it triumphed the 1st of January of 1959, overthrowing the Fulgencio Batista's dictatorship.
Afterwards he became allies with the Soviet Union, with whom had protection and important economic helps, and he declared his enmity with The United States, that for him it meant the imperialism.
Fidel Castro, at the beginning, was with the support (very backed) of the cuban population in general and among of the good things that emphasise of his mandate are the promotion of the education and the sport, doing of Cuba an example of these disciplines.
He was losing popularity with the years, because he acted with a fierce discipline and also for the embargo of The United States and the less support of the Soviet Union stifling the population and leading them to ruin.

HIP'S REPLACEMENT OPERATION

In all the replacements, included in the hips, there has been a evolution very important these last years. Before, the unique that was realized was to cut the femur's head for after to hammer inside it the replacement (of titanium, ceramic, etc.). Also, it put in the hip (acetabulum) a semicircle to do the rotation or game with the other part of the femur. 


Nowadays, there is other variation that it calls surface's replacement. It consists to put in the femur's head a plaque that it fits in with this semicircle that it puts in the coccyx without necessity to cut the femur's bone. In this, the recuperation is faster and it could  do normal life in six months.

Other of the news it's the anaesthetic's type that previously was did with total anaesthetic and currently, it does with local anaesthetic (type epidural).

DIFFERENCES BETWEEN OBAMA AND TRUMP

With difficulty Donald Trump could have the charisma and the acceptance it has managed Barack Obama.

Obama and his family have showed a proximity to the nation unusual in the preidents of the United States. Also it has influenced in his charm the fact to be black.

Obama is more moderate than DonaldTrump. Trump, there's still left to see the things he will do like president, but the things he has shown us up to now is that he's tyrant, racist, sexist, etc.

TIME'S CHANGE

Time's change from winter to summer that we have done these last days, according to the experts, it's make it for the matter of energy save, but to level personal, I consider, that is a disruption.







For to be fair and considering the differences that existing in our country between Balearic and Canary Islands, I think, that the logical would be that in Balearic they remain with the time of summer, in the peninsula one less hour that these and in Canary Islands and in Galicia one less hour in relation to the peninsula, that is two regarding Balearic.

Hillary Clinton On Losing Election: ‘These Have Been Very, Very Tough Days’

http://elitedaily.com/news/politics/hillary-clinton-election-loss-very-tough-days/1690349/

On Friday night, Hillary Clinton held a conference call with volunteers and told them she wasn't going to “sugarcoat it.”
She went on to inform them that “these have been very, very tough days.”
Yes, I’d agree with you on that one, Hill. I’ve been a wreck this whole week. In fact, it’s very, very tough just writing about this.
Clinton made sure to press her volunteers to “get back out there and keep fighting.”



These last days we have seen the terrible scene between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump for the fight to the power.
It seems it's worth everything for to disqualify the opponent without contribute nothing new in regards to solutions for the citizens.
It's incredible that these type of people (Trump) they can become leaders of a country so much important as United States and as he can require anything to the north americans being he the first to break the rules.

MARC MÁRQUEZ

Marc Márquez Alentà is a spanish motorcycle pilot that currently runs in the king category of MotoGP. He has taken five titles in the three existing categories. On 2010 he won in 125cc, where presently is Moto3, on 2012 in Moto2 and with only twenty-three years old is three-time MotoGP world champion (the maximum category), where he proclaimed winner on 2013, 2014 and this year (2016), beating with a lot of authority and showing to be better to his opponents.




There are a small number of persons they have so much talent and that they are so much constant to get his objectives as Marc Márquez. It's to admire that a person as young as him have his goals clear and knows that the unique form to get them is based on work and constant effort.

Does humor play an important role in life?

Our life will always be better with humor because if there isn't it, I think, life would be very sad and bored.

On the one hand, the humor can help you to exit difficult situations and hard moments in your life. For example, if someone fails an exam he will be sad probably, but if somebody makes him laughes he will forget the exam for a short or maybe for a long period of time, and that will help him to carry on with his life and forget the real life (the mark) for a determinate time .




On the other hand, if there isn't humor in our life all would be the same, the humor does the life different. For example, if someone has every time the same character, I think, his life will be very sad, monotonous, because the thing that does a person go on with his life is the change of personality (laugh, cry,...). It's very important to see the good things of the life and see it with other perspectives.



In conclusion, our life will be better with a person near to you with humor or if you makes laugh other people because you will laugh too. If someone has both things will be better. All is more easy with humor.

Former Miss Teen USA Says She Was Warned Trump ‘Doesn’t Like Black People’

http://elitedaily.com/news/miss-teen-usa-trump-racism/1657762/

Things haven’t been looking too good for Donald Trump lately.
Ever since the nation was exposed to his boasts about how he treats women and how he likes to “grab them by the pussy,” a lot of women have come forth to share their own personal experiences with the Republican nominee.
Recently, four contestants of 1997 Miss Teen USA told Buzzfeed News Trump would walk into their dressing rooms while they were changing.
And now, we’ve learned through another pageant competitor that Trump is not only a total creep, but also very, very racist.
Kamie Crawford, winner of 2010’s Miss Teen USA, warned her Twitter followers on Wednesday night that he “doesn’t like black people.”

One of the celebrities whose is giving more to talk presently is Donald Trump, Republican Party nominee for President of the United States in the 2016 election.
This man who possess a big fortune and that he had recognised not pay taxes, among other things, is a tyrant who believes that he is over the right and the wrong. 
The most sad of that is these type of people have a lot of supporters, what show us one more that the human race will become extinct by your stupid own.

DIFFICULT DECISION

We know in the life is all a decision and when we choose somethings we renounce to others.

In my case is especially difficult select what I will do in a next future. I refer to the theme of studies. I'm doing second of bachillerato and in less than one year I will have to take a degree. Is not easy with 16-17 years old know to define what can be the best election, although I trust that during this year I will be clarifying my ideas.

At the beginning the people advise me that I choose something that I like or attract me and since then select it the most advisable.

In where we live the thing with more exit is all related with the toursim.