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.

Review

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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.

The impact of English in Chile

Link:

https://es.surveymonkey.com/r/3NHBSZZ

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Biofuels (page 330)

The picture was taken at a gas station, and we can see on the right,  a fuel pomp that distributes the liquid, and on the left, and advertisement that promotes the use of biofuels, and indicate the type and percentage of gasoline that people are going to use.

This picture, is a funny representation of biofuels. In the middle there are a human hand holding a pod corn that simulate a fuel pomp. Probably, this indicates to the spectator the possibility to use biofuel as an easy and cheap solution to not contaminate more the planet.

Debate: Motion`s Material

Allowing woman to take part in combat

Text 1: http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/01/24/women-combat-change-panetta/1861995/

Text 2: http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/timstanley/100199981/the-pentagon-allows-women-to-fight-on-the-front-line-when-did-feminism-become-pro-war/

Text 3: http://news.discovery.com/human/psychology/women-military-front-120213.htm

1.- What is the main idea of each text?

Text 1: Expose the restrictions on women in the military.

Text 2: Present the fact that the pentagon announced that is expanding the number of combat roles open to woman in the US military.

Text 3: Publicize the news that  four female members of the military filed a lawsuit challenging the Pentagon's ban on women serving in combat. 

2.- Is the text against or in favor of your motion?

Text 1: In favor.

Text 2: Against.

Text 3: Against.

3.- Can you find elements to support the ideas presented? Where?

Text 1: This text it is very important to support my work because they present the restrictions of women in combat and my position in the debate don`t allow the woman to take part in combat.

Text 2: This text don`t have things that are in favor of my position in this work, because they speak about the new roles that are adopting woman in the US military.

Text 3: This text also don`t have things that are in favor of my position in this work. Probably just they serve to me to learn things about the arguments that can say the opposite house.

4.- How can you realize those elements are supporting sentences/arguments?

Text 1: Under the title they are a sentence that helps to understand the hole text and the argument that they are going to show for defend their ideas.

Text 2: In this text the picture is of extremely signification, because helps to situate readers in a context and understand better their ideas.

Text 3: Here, in the first paragraph their is a question that situate readers in position that helps for understand and know in a better way what the text is about.

5.- Do you think the text is a good source of information for your debate? Is it trustful? Why?

The three text analyzed they are good sources of information for my debate, because they are from recognized websites that constantly they are publishing news of extremely signification for the world.

Activity Class

Why are social groups so important at your school? How can you identify them?

Cultural identity is an important factor for the development of the society or an specific social group. Many people, belong or is identified with this kind of associations, looking at them the possibility to creat a kind of micro space in which feel secure and comfortable to develop in a good way in the world, being able to relate with people like them and not fell discriminated or simply uncomfortable in a space ”that is not theirs”. Given the constant changes in our behavior, along with the innovation and creativity of human beings, they have opened many spaces where the so-called subcultures have emerged.

In my school live daily around 1,000 people, a fairly large amount that invites to generated this kind of subcultures. It is practically impossible having that quantity of people inside of school that come from different parts of the country or sometimes of the world have the same interests or preferences and attractions.

Blog Task - PTSD

Post - Traumatic Stress Disorder

1.-

• Nelson Mandela

Nelson Mandela it was a world leader and politician born in South Africa in 1918. 

They lead different movements in their country and they was brutally jailed for 27 years. In Jail could have a very long period of time to reflect and think about their condition, preserving that moments of suffering and trauma until their death.

• Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln it was a famous president of the United States of America born in 1809. He was in charge of the country between 1861 and 1865.  

They have a marked life by the continuous death of their neighbors. Because of that they have to live with a terrible depression and PTSD.





2.-

The song "Sunday Bloody Sunday" of the Ireland band U2, makes reference to the bloody Sunday, an incident which occurred in 1972 in Derry (Ireland) marked by the death of 14 people who where protesting in favor of the civil rights. 

Europe Task

Edinburgh 

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Written Assignment 

The Kite Runner 

RATIONAL

This writing, takes as a reference the book “The Kite Runner” written by Khaled Hosseini, specifically chapter seven, where the central fact of the plot occurs, which is the Hassan`s rape, servant, friend and secretly half brother of the protagonist, Amir.

The proposal has been chosen as a type of text for the development of this work, with formal language and directed to the readers of the book, because it allows me to represent the knowledge of the novel in a better way through the incorporation of the core elements.

It will be a profoundly significant change which is narrated in this chapter,  causing a radical turn that will situate both characters in very different positions from the ones originally presented by the author.

The context where the scene takes place is Kabul, capital city of Afghanistan that reflects the Afghan reality and culture of 1975, characterized by a good economic moment for the country, but with brutal social contrasts, evidence of economic inequalities and ethnics and racial conflicts between their habitants, all framed by deep Islamic traditions.

These two friends, Amir and Hassan, belonged to different ethnic groups. Amir was a Pashtun, ethnic of the elite who enjoyed social privileges, whereas Hassan was a Hazara, ethnic socially inferior whose members were principally servants. 

The racism that marked this society is the thing that provokes the central fact of the plot. 

WRITING

As it is common and typical of the culture in Afghanistan, the KITE competitions where extremely usual. They consist in trying to overthrow the comets using for this an special thread that requires an specific treatment, which Amir much as Hassan used to develop. The men who succeed in cuting the opponent`s KITE would be the winners.

Amir and Hassan, two boys with different realities, son of Baba and Ali respectively, where fans and team partners of team in these competitions. One of the days which they debuted, they managed to get the title and win the confrontation after an arduous and sacrificed period of work, in which both wanted to get the KITE of the opponent who managed to cut as a trophy and symbol of triumph and power. 

Hassan, son of the servant of Baba, a child of simple and little-noticed appearance, decides to search the longed kite, that he had fallen in an extremely narrow and closed alley of the village, typical of their architectural culture. Hassan enters into the alley in search of his goal, but is enclosed by three violent boys older than him, Assef, Wali and Kamal, all of the Pashtun ethnic. At that precise moment is seen by his companion, friend and future revealed brother, Amir, who with courage and effort goes into the town to ask for support to help his friend of the situation that was faced.

At that moment, a group of people belonging to the same ethnicity as Hassan, runs to the place to observe, and with much exaltation grab the three boys, saving Hassan of this terrible situation. The three adolescents, were severely beaten and later tied by the people, leaving them injured, feeling humiliated by the inferior ethnicity, causing a burning desire for revenge later.

After the dispute, Amir and Hassan they go home with the precious KITE, but unfortunately broken and dirty, in the same way that the connivence between Pashtuns and Hazara's in that ancestral social structure, product of the conflict.

The two friends arrive home, still agitated and scared, and they tell Baba what happened. The appreciation and the enormous affection of Baba to Hassan, that triggers the jealousy of Amir, they made to mobilize their networks of contacts with the local policy, to arrest the three young attackers. Then they were jailed, generating a conflict between ethnic groups. 

Concretized such action, the parents of the three boys they heard that the person who sent to catch their children was Baba, belonging to the same ethnic group, also generating a conflict between Pashtuns.

The three parents send hired thugs to hit four of the participants responsible of the attack to their children. However, this thugs did not measure his strength and were brutally violent toward their victims, to the point of taking their lives. Furthermore, moved by its enormous desire of revenge, send to burn the warehouse where Baba kept their most profitable products. With this context the daily life of one part of Kabul became a potential powder keg.

While the hatred grows with the mistrust, Amir and Hassan manage to repair the captured KITE, rising to the sky like hopeful that everything will return be as before.

The kite runner

By Cristobal Consigliere on July 28, 2014.                                                               Rating:       

The kite runner is a book written by Khaled Hosseini and it was develop in the context of Afghanistan in 1975. Has received different awards and distinctions, being recognize by various magazines and newspapers around the world.

All we know that Afghanistan is located in a strategic zone in the world, because it is located in a zone surrounded by big oil deposits and natural gas, and is part of a corridor to distribute this last fuel, especially to the Russian Federation and its neighbouring countries and allies. Also with Pakistan they create a border that makes as an influence over the hinduism by the southeast, and of the colossal China by the East. This singular location and other numerous factors, makes them attractive for the interest of the big world powers, that's why Afghanistan in that time was going through various conflicts, as they are the ferocious internal wars and recent invasions by world powers,  first Russia in the last part of the XX century and later by United States, among others during this century.

In the book, the author wants to represent the human suffering of an Afghan boy and the longing of evasion and freedom on a kite. Is a text full of suffering and pain, that makes us reflect and think about the reality on the past like readers. This perfect balance between the reader, history and the author makes them one of the most applied and read books around the world.

In my opinion it is a very good and special book, that`s why I recommend it to the readers.

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Before Writing...

Answers:

1.- The most significant parts of the book.

2.- The review will have a formal character and well-defined. I will publish in the blogger platform.

3.- Expert and superior could be.

4.- Will be directed to students, teachers and people that like to read. My mission is to publish and teach some things of the plot and the context.

5.- I would like to do a critical summary mixed with some opinions of the book.

6.- I will going to assign 4 starts to my summary. I don´t have clear the idea, but probably this can change.

7.- I want to start with an attractive tittle, then I would like to defined some concepts of the book, and in the final part some personal opinions.

8.- The key point for me is the tittle, because I think that is the base of the text and fundamental to attract the attention of the audience.

9.- I would like to talk about the context and the history of Afghanistan in that times.

Miners refuse to work after death

Miners put their lives at risk every days. It is a dangerous job that face only ones that dare. Crash, landslides, explosions, this and other types of accidents are the reality in mines.

Yesterday at the BACC cooper mine in Chile, occurred one of the most regrettable accidents.

According to the information given by the BACC cooper mine, the miner Alberto Rodriguez died this morning.

The causes are still under investigation by officials of the mine.

This accident caused a serious caos in the mine, because miners refuse to work. This fact, has put the production in danger, that may turning to in a problem, not only to investors also for the country.

The economy of the country depends on this minors. Will return to work?

This is the question everybody is waiting to be answered.

Chile is one of the most important productors of cooper around the world.

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2nd Medio 

 

Interactive Oral Presentation

MY CAPTION:

"I will kill him first, I will win this game. I`m better than them".

CLASSROOM LEARNING:

Videogames help children to be more violent?. This question has generated a lot of opinions around the world. Some are in favor of this type of games and said that there isn't a research that demonstrates the violence. Others desperate search for a solution.

SUPPORTIVE INFORMATION:

1.- Research shows that children are also spending increasing amounts of time playing video games.

www.drphil.com

2. Study suggest that violent videogames make kids agressive. "Desensitized".

www.cbsnews.com

MY OPINION:

A lot of kids around the world  play violent video games. In my opinion the problem is in the parent control.

I think that people can play violent videogames, but people that have conscience of their acts. The problem is in the children that are growing, because these little kids try to imitate the violent actions of the game, turning into aggressive boys.

In conclusion, I think that parents have to be informed about, to have strict control on their  sons.


THREE IMPORTANT IDEAS:

• In the past, when the technologies were not as advance, children they play interactive and healthy games that stimulate its mental growth. 

• All of this new technologies they are the cause of a diversity of diseases.

• People they have to hark back to the natural things, because all of this new technologies they contaminated the world in every respect.

Heart of Darkness

Tattoos

Tattoos is a topic very commented around the world, many people tattoo their body for different purposes, like religion, social status, or ethnicity. But others have tattoos for art or fashion.

What do you think about the people that tattoo their body?, Are they right or not?. Here you can find a series of arguments that can help you to find your answer.

In the past, when the men worked the land, many original cultures tattooed their bodies as a  way of praise and to stand out their beliefs in religions, gods, and other elements of their culture.

Today, in the XXI century, people tattoo their body for social status, such as in the jails, “The more tattoos that convicts have, the more dangerous they are”. Furthermore, people in these times tatoo their body as a way of art or fashion. 

The times have changed and the tattoo culture is more accepted by the society, but always there is a minimal group of the population that tattoo their body. 

I don´t accept tattoos. In my opinion, it makes no sense to dirty my body up for all my life to make myself something that is worthless. If I do it, I would be a fool. 

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Job Interview 

1.- Tell me about yourself ?

I´m 14 years old and I live in Viña del Mar. I study in The Mackay School which is located in Reñaca,  at the same time, I´m going to a gastronomic school, where I´m learning many things to cook. If I describe myself in one phrase, I say that I´m a responsible person that likes to work hard and well.

2.- Why do you want this job?

I want this Job, because I like to work in summer, I am bored to stay in my house, I can do anything. Also I want this job to prove how much I have learned to cook in the school. I like challenges, that is why I like to work here. 

3.- What is your greatest strength and your greatest weakness?

I have many strengths, but the ones that describe me best are: respectful, practical and logical. Respectful because I think that is basic to unfold in the society, practical, because I don´t want to lose time, and logical, because I like to do all the things well. Also I have weakness, that is passive, but it is not bad, because if I have a problem with a customer or in the kitchen I don´t act with violence.

4.- What can you do for this company?

Smith & Sons is a company that I have admired since I was a boy, I like its products, they are the best. That's why I'd like to promote this company, doing the food service a unique place to offer comfort and high quality to people.

5.- What have you learned from your mistakes?

If there is something that I learn in my life, is, that you have to act fast and effective in the kitchen, you have to stay in constant movement, because if you fall behind a order, the costumer they leave and we don´t get money.

Newspaper Advertisement

Letter of Application

25th of July of 2013

Mr. Michael Smith

Owner of the company

Smith and sons

London, fourstreet, 56

Dear sir,

I´m writing to you, because I like to get a summer job in your company offering a food service. I now that your company need a food service, I saw the advertisement in the newspaper. The food service that I offer, consist in the cook and in the serve of the food to the workers of the company. I´m interested in this job because I feel that I have the experience necessary to face it. For applied for this job I have my resumé, if you it want to see.

I have all the skills to work in that place, I study in a gastronomic school, because of that, with the kitchen I don´t have any problem. My interest in this job is due to the location, I live near to the company.

My availability is in any hour, if I get the job I dedicate all the time to that. I am available every day from 1p to 8p to meet with you for an interview. Please call me at 80010800 to schedule the interview or let me know if I need anything else to complete my application. Thanks and have a good day.

Sincerely,

Cristobal Consigliere

254 Derecho, Viña del Mar

Email: cristobalmoto@hotmail.com