Where`s Home?

1.- Mind Map

2.- The Song

"1913 Massacre" by Woddy Guthrie

Take a trip with me in 1913,

To Calumet, Michigan, in the copper country. 

I will take you to a place called Italian Hall,

Where the miners are having their big Christmas ball. 

I will take you in a door and up a high stairs, 

Singing and dancing is heard everywhere, 

I will let you shake hands with the people you see,

And watch the kids dance around the big Christmas tree.

You ask about work and you ask about pay,

They'll tell you they make less than a dollar a day, 

Working the copper claims, risking their lives, 

So it's fun to spend Christmas with children and wives.

There's talking and laughing and songs in the air, 

And the spirit of Christmas is there everywhere, 

Before you know it you're friends with us all,

And you're dancing around and around in the hall.

Well a little girl sits down by the Christmas tree lights,

To play the piano so you gotta keep quiet,

To hear all this fun you would not realize,

That the copper boss' thug men are milling outside.

The copper boss' thugs stuck their heads in the door,

One of them yelled and he screamed, "there's a fire," 

A lady she hollered, "there's no such a thing. 

Keep on with your party, there's no such thing."

A few people rushed and it was only a few,

"It's just the thugs and the scabs fooling you," 

A man grabbed his daughter and carried her down,

But the thugs held the door and he could not get out.

And then others followed, a hundred or more,

But most everybody remained on the floor, 

The gun thugs they laughed at their murderous joke, 

While the children were smothered on the stairs by the door.

Such a terrible sight I never did see,

We carried our children back up to their tree,

The scabs outside still laughed at their spree,

And the children that died there were seventy-three.

The piano played a slow funeral tune,

And the town was lit up by a cold Christmas moon, 

The parents they cried and the miners they moaned, 

"See what your greed for money has done."

2.- The Song


a) Because they represent the human suffering in the cooper mines.

b) Makes me reflect and put in the position of miners.

c) Makes me think in the situation and the conditions in where miners worked.

d) I think it's a song charged of suffering and hope. For me is a very good song, considering the context in where was composed.

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     The Palermo Polo Open starts being played at 1893, some years later since British people introduced this traditional sport to Argentina. 122º years have passed of that first opportunity in where the Hurlingham team composed by Francisco J.Balfour, Frank Furber, C.J. Tetley and Hugo Scott-Robson won that final. Since that moment, every year many teams with the best polo players and horses of the planet, play for the glory and honour of the world polo.

The final of the Palermo Polo Open of 2014, played by La Dolfina against Ellerstina on its version 121º, was extremely different from that played on 1893, because of the professionalism, the changes in the form of playing, the genetics of the horses and the technology used; they converted this in a spectacular show to see and enjoy from a good moment.

La Dolfina arrived unbeaten to that special match, and if he won that final, equalize the historic mark of the team Coronel Suarez lead by Juan Carlos Harriot, winning the double consecutive triple crown. 

Approximately forty celsius degrees and all prepared to start, everyone knew it would be a very hard match. La Dolfina hit from the first moment to Ellerstina, he had not passed more than thirty seconds, and the team marked the one cero through the uruguayan David Stirling. The match maintains balanced since a long time, and Ellerstina defended by the hand of the expert in penalties and the perfect ten goaler, Facundo Pieres, who shortened distances between La Dolfina. 

The match continued, and the physical exhaustion arrived in a match charge of passion and emotion, leaving that demostrated in the death of a horse “Anay Sur Cielito”, played by Juan Martín Nero of La Dolfina in the middle of the field and the tiredness of some players.

Everything was defined in the eighth and last chucker, in where La Dolfina runs with a small advantage in the goal counter. The desperation of Ellerstina began to feel, while La Dolfina approached to the glory. They began hugging between players, the final bell rings, finally being victory of the team lead by best polo player of the history, Adolfo Cambiaso, breaking al the records and getting into the top of the world polo.

The Personal Response

 From the origin of the live and of human beings in the whole planet it has being search a form to communicate between people. Given the creativity of humans, it enormous originality along with the need to communicate, many languages has been surged around the world. 

Language depends on the cultural identity of a group or whole society, in where people create different time of dialects or different expression typical of their culture.

Revitalizing a language is a hard work, in where the help and provision of people is an  extremely important factor. Motivate a new generation could be the option to complete this objective, promoting the learning of the language and the learning of expressions and dialects proper of that culture. In this way, the support of this generation could help to rescue the main traditions of a culture, in where the provision of people is over all things.