Human Rights

Nowadays, human rights are not as omnipresent as they should. In many undeveloped contries human rights are an "idealistic" thing. Global problems as children exploitation or some kinds of slavery are a good example of the violation of human rights.

What is must be done in order to avoid this violation, laws should be stronger, more strict. Laws must not allow that our rights could be violated, human rights should be above everything, nothing is more important than human rights. 

This is a problem that governements should be aware of, and they should protect our rights as John Locke said in his political works. No one is above our rights and the task of our governements is protecting this rights.

Formal letter

103 of Elm Street

Empuriabrava, 17487

President Mariano Rajoy

Complejo de La Moncloa

Avda. Puerta de Hierro s/n 

28071 Madrid

Spain 

I am writing to notice a growing problem in our society. Falangism is gaining strength. It is gaining strength as neo-nazism or french fascism does. 

For part of our society, Falangism may seem the answer to all our problems, but it isn't.  50 years ago, we were in a dictatorship that strangled Spain's freedom, our freedom. We are in a democracy since 40 years ago, we cannot lose this value that we expensively regain.

This fact is unacceptable, and I request him that please, do something for democracy.

Kind regards,

Pepito Juan de la Mancha.

A new frontier: Trip to Mexico

Day 1: Spain-London

Departure from Barcelona-El Prat Airport at 09:00 pm with destination to London's Gatwick Airport. In London, we'll stay a night before taking the next's day flight.

Day 2: London-Cancún

From London Gatwick Airport we'll take our flight at 12:00 am with destination to Cancún. After 12 hours of flight, we'll arrive in Cancún's Airport where a taxi is going to take us to the hotel where we are staying: Hard Rock Cancún.

Day 3: Relax in Cancún

After a tiring trip, we may have jetlag. So this day in focused on relaxing and enjoying the fantastic tropical weather that the Yucatán Peninsula has to offer. Also, the hotel offers some activities such as snorkeling, gym activities, paintball aim contests, show, etc... All focused on entertaining ourselves. At night we've got a booking in the Japanese restaurant in the hotel. In that restaurant, we will see how the food is cooked in the Teppanyaki style.

Day 4: Chichén Itzá-Ek Balaam

Today we are going to the most emblematic Mayan ruins of the whole Yucatán peninsula: Chichén Itzá. In those ruins, we've got a tour arranged to show us how Chichén Itzá was built and all the story that concerns the city. At lunchtime, we will go to Hubiku cenote where we are having lunch and have a swim in the cenote. After that, we go to Ek Balaam, another Mayan city. After the visit to Ek Balaam, we return to the hotel.

Day 5: Tulum-Cobá-Akumal Bay

In the morning we go to the Mayan ruins of Tulum, a  Mayan city nearby the sea, where there is a temple dedicated to the Wind God. After the visit, we go to Cobá the city with the highest Mayan pyramid, Nohoch Mul. Cobá was also one of the main cities of its era, being so important as Chichén Itzá was. Then, we have lunch at a restaurant nearby Cobá's entrance and finally, we go to Akumal Bay where we are going yo have a snorkeling afternoon with the Caribean aquatic fauna. Finally, after the swim, we return to our hotel.

Day 6: Sian Kaan

This is our last day doing trips around Yucatán Peninsula and we will spend the day in the Natural Park of Sian Kaan. This natural park is the home of a large variety of species such as dolphins, sea turtles, pelicans, even eagles...

Days 7,8,9: Just chill

Last 3 days in Mexico, so we are going to spend all our last 3 days in Mexico enjoying our time in the caribean beaches. 

Day 10: Cancún-London-Spain

After this fantastic week in Mexico, we are going to return home by taking the plane that takes off from Cancún's Airport at 9.00 pm with destination London Gatwick Airport, arriving there at 8:00 am. Finally we'll wait 5 hours before taking our plane to Barcelona.

Can we live without computers?

Computers. Computer are an essential part of our society but are we able to go back to the past and live without computers?

In my opinion, we can't. After growing up with a computer in our home we've developed a "connections" with it because computers have made our lives much easier. Easier to get information, easier to communicate with someone... Everything is easier with a computer. Even our phones are alike a computer, but they fit in our pockets!!

So in my opinion, we aren't able to go back in time and live as we did 30 years ago, and that's because computers have made our lives much easier.

Learning English my way

I've been learning English since I was 6 years old more or less, and in all the years I've learned many ways to learn English. I think that the best way to learn English is to combine the theory with the practice. With that, I have to say that the method that is applied in Spanish schools is not the best. 

For me, teachers should teach grammar basics, but instead of practicing grammar all the time, students should apply what they learned in a dialogue or in oral exercises. And instead of homework, students should try to understand series or movies in English or at least with subtitles. 

In conclusion, for me, those are the clues, the best ways to learn English. And thanks to my experience, I know that this method works.

Esperanto's idealism

Esperanto is a language that in my opinion will globalize our world and "destroy"  our cultural differences that make us unique.

As I said, if Esperanto is the global language, all cultural traits that identify us as a Spanish person, a French person, a Japanese person would disappear with time. The Internet and intercontinental trips have led us to a state of "less uniqueness" of the cultural traits that distinguish our cultures, an example of this is the cuisine, because all around you might find a Japanese or German restaurant.

Under my point of view, Esperanto is a language that could have negative effects on our cultural diversity.

Research Project Letter

Dear tutor,

I'm writing this letter because I want to ask how I should organize my research project about animal extinction. To introduce this research project I thought of explaining what is extinction and also explain the five big extinctions that happened throughout Earth's history, such as the Dinosaur's extinction.

After that, I want to focus in our time, which are the causes of animal extinction, concretely I want to focus on human activities and how they affect to the ecosystems, putting the example of the Dodo bird.

Finally, I want to propose some ways to prevent animal extinctions in the future, so our diversity can remain as it does nowadays.

So that's my research project's organization and I'd be glad to know your opinion about it.

Kind regards, 

Xavi Bech Struck.

Slavery resurgence

Dear delegates of the United Nations,

I'm here to denounce a fact that can't continue, it can't resurge. Yes, I'm talking about the resurgence of slavery. The same slavery that some historic figures as Abraham Lincoln, Mahatma Gandhi, and Martin Luther King have fought.

Seventy years ago we agreed to declare the human rights, but if we don't act, all the efforts we put in that declaration will be futile. All the efforts we put will be meaningless. Is that what we want? Going back in history? 

My answer to it is no. I will do all that is in my hand to evade that situation, and I hope that you, after listening to me, will do the same.

Thank you for your attention.

Toxic friend

Hi Damian,

I need to tell you something, and I'll be honest. You are a toxic friend, and you're ruining my life.Since you offered me to smoke weed, my life has gone wrong. Until that moment I had never done anything bad, anything that could affect my life.  So I offer you two solutions to this problem: or we are no longer friends, or we see each other less than we have done until now.

I'm sorry Damian, you were a good friend when we met for the first time, but you've changed, and I won't follow your steps. That ain't me. I hope you'll understand me. Please, answer me.

                                                                                                    Your friend

                                                                                                                   Xavi

Prelude

Link:http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4447140/Kim-Jogn-s-army-fires-rockets-mock-enemy-warships.html

Summary:

Last tuesday the north-korean dictator, Kim Jong-un,saluted his army while they fired more than 300 large-calibre artillery along the Wonsan coast, in  the Pacific Ocean's shore. This military force exhibition marked the military anniversary, and considered as the largest live-fire artillery ever. A day after the southern-korean military joint live-fire drills with the US near the border of North Korea. For the US president, Donald Trump, Jon-un is not as strong as claimed and blames the global community for not stopping him.

Opinion:

I don't know what to say on this occasion, I have no words to describe the nervousness this new produces on me. I know that 3rd World War could detonate in every moment, but we've been in peace for 70 years and I believe that UN and the main powers of our time will do everything to evade that situation, however, no one can negate that the shadow of another world war is shifting over us, and we fear it, there's no doubt of it and all we can do is sit, carry on with our lives and hoped that we'll have peace for many years more.

My research project

Do we know what we eat?

In my research project titled "Do we know what we eat?" I'm going to find out the pros and cons of the transgenic food. First of all, I've chosen this topic because Genetics and Biotechnology are possible degrees that I'm going to do next year. First of all, the objectives of the research project are: to find if transgenic food is harmful to our body, prove if transgenic organisms are better than normal organisms, and study how the farming of transgenics has affected the locality of Castelló d'Empúries.

In my theoric part, I've researched the history of the transgenics since the Prehistory until now, then the processes that are used to produce transgenic food, after that the tools that are used in those processes, and finally I've researched the pros and cons of the transgenics and I gave my opinion.

In my practice part, I planted some ecological corn and some transgenic corn, and then I compared its growth. As I saw the transgenic corn grew faster than the ecological, so I concluded that transgenic corn is more efficient. For studying how the farming of transgenics has affected Castelló d'Empúries I studied the local gardens. In my study, I considered that the only transgenic that is farmed in Castelló d'Empúries is corn, and then I investigated which was the proportion of transgenic corn in front of ecological corn. The proportion of them was around 75-80% transgenic corn and 20-25% ecological corn.

In conclusion and as showed, transgenic corn is more suitable for farmers because it grows faster and it increases their earnings. And in my opinion, transgenics can make our life better but they need to be more regulated.

Should boys always ask a girl out or can a girl ask out too?

Boys are meant to always ask a girl to go out, but I want to ask something: if women are defending the equality between genders why they don't do things that are supposed to be done by men?

I mean, we don't have to be always the ones that have to ask to go out because a relationship is a thing of two, and not always the man has to take the first step. With that I'm not saying that things must change, I just say that we can break conventionalisms and do things in a different way rather than the one we are used to.

I don't want to be "revolutionary" in this issue, but a good alternative would be talking the possibility of going out together and how this relationship is going to work. I'm not well-informed when it comes to open relationships but for what I've heard, many aspects are talked(such as having affairs with other people, if you can repeat the person with who you had an affair if there are "rules" concerning this kind of aspects that may be important  to be talked before you plunge blindly into the unknown).

In conclusion, I think that maybe it doesn't matter who is going to ask going out but the most important part is to talk how the relationship is going to be or how is it going to work instead of worrying who is going to ask going out(at least that's my opinion).

"Why do we love?" questions

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

Why do we love? It's a question that is hard to answer, because everybody loves for a different reason, so I cannot give an answer to this question.


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

intoxicating-2nd

heart-breaking-3rd

beautiful-1st

soul crushing-4th

3. What are the 5 Philosophers mentioned?

Plato

Arthur Schopenhauer

Bertrand Russell

Siddharta Gautama(Buddha)

Simone de Beauviour

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

Plato - Love makes us whole, again.
Schopenhauer - Love tricks us into having babies
Russell - Love is escape from out loneliness
Buddha - Love is a misleading affliction
Beauvoir - Love lets us reach beyond ourselves

5. Vocabulary work. Which Philosopher says what?

Dependance on another means boredom and power games-Beauviour

We succeed in perpetuating human species and perpetuating human tragedy-Arhtur Schopenhauer

Quench our physical and psychological desires-Bertrand Russell

It enriches our whole being together-Rusell

Attachments are a great source of suffering-Buddha

Love is the longing to find a soulmate who makes us feel whole again-Plato

Love infuses our life with meaning-Beauviour

Nip&Tuck dialogue

https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B_JuEj0pm1r0d1Q3T2dtbGVfSDA

Nip & tuck
Scenario: Two men in the shower of a changing room of a  public pool.
Characters: Edd, Ed.

Edd: Ah, la vache. Your name should be Sd instead of Ed, or maybe XSd.
Ed:  Fuck you Edd, you’re a fucking nigga, you can use your dick as a belt, I’m not so overdue as you, YO!
Edd: Shut up little Johnny, it’s enough with ur sis saying that. Maybe it’s a family thing, should ur mom meet my yogurt gun?
Ed: Screw that, man! Damn you! How you dare to say such things? My family is not going to see your wiener.
Edd: Can  you stop talking ‘bout m’ meatboy? You know, it’s a HUGE topic ‘n’ we don’t have much time.
Ed: That’s disgusting Edd.
Edd: Okay, look, do I look like that british vampire? I think that I need a ROLO ROAD DA!
Ed: You have thrown the soap with your stupid pose and I won’t catch it, not with you around me.
Edd: Don’t worry I will wait ‘till you grow up a little bit, kiddo.
Ed: Daaaaaaamn son... Fuck you. I’mm have to escape from you. Anyway I’m  going out of the shower.
Edd: Okay m8. We should go fast as Sonic to go to our reunion with that spiky-haired attorney.
Ed: Fine... But I need to go home and pick good clothes. I won’t go there in a swimming suit.
Edd: As you wish, but I thinl u look quite sexy in that bikini. No kidding.
Ed: It’s not a bikini, it’s a full-body swimming suit. BAKA!

China, the place where evolution started?

Link: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-4295460/Ancient-fish-China-evolved-Age-Fish.html

Summary:

Scientists have discovered an ancient fish species in Southern China that may have emerged more than a million years before the "Age of Fish".  The fossils of this fish species reveal that the creature had unusual teeth and scales that for scientists resembled a "wall of shields". Using a fossils dating system has been discovered that the fossils have been dated back to the Silurian Period, long before the Devonian Period(which gave rise to a diverse abundance of jawed fishes).

Opinion:

When I was younger I wished to become a paleontologist, nowadays, I understood that paleontology is a very interesting science, but it hasn't an important paper like the genetics have(it's sad but true, and I don't like to admit that one science is more relevant than another, because I like both sciences). But I enjoy this kind of news, that help me to expand my scientific knowledge about dinosaurs and how life was more than 65.000.000 years before.

Massages over Wi-Fi

Link: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-4301634/Vibrating-touch-gloves-let-couples-touch-long-distance.html

Summary:

The "Flex-N-Feel" gloves are a prototype of interconnected gloves that have been developed to respond to finger movements over Wi-Fi. These gloves allow the couple to feel the other hand's movements. When one partner moves their fingers it's felt in the glove of the other person. Thanks to this technology, couples can share a walk, watch a movie or even give a massage over long distances.

Opinion:

Quite shocking, huh? Now we can give massages over distance, that's freaking amazing. It's amazing to see how fast technology evolves and tries to make our lives easier. Although we don't have flying cars as expected in 2000, I think that our society, our technological society will reach the point of an idyllic technological paradise where technology is going to solve all our problems.

Fates

Like two weeks ago I started playing one of my favourites games: Fire Emblem: Fates. Concretely I started playing the Birthright edition. And I'm very satisfied with muy choice. I started playing the FE saga with FE Awakening in 3DS, but FE Fates is much better than Awakening. 

FE Fates has am incredible plot: you are the prince of Nohr, but somehow you discover that you are the descendant of the kingdom which is warring with Nohr, Hoshido. At some point of the story you have to chose: fight for Nohr and conquer Hoshido, or deffend Hoshido from the Nohrian offensive(there's a third choice which is go by your own and fight Hoshido and Nohr at the same time).

Personally, I would choose the third choice if what happens in the game has sense, but that's not the case so, if I must choose between Conquest or Birthright, I would choose Birthright. Why you may ask, but I don't have any idea of this choice, I just followed my instinct and that happened.

Switch time

Nintendo Switch is almost in the market, and the hype is real. Motherf***ing real. And I'm among the hyped people, seriously. This new console is making Nintendo reach its former glory in its golden days. When The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time and Pokemon were the coolest thing among the youth.

When Nintendo had its golden days(1998) I wasn't born, but my parents felt the "gamer" passion that was being more and more present. And they told me how a single console could be liked so much. Even my mother started playing the Nintendo 64. And for what I had understood it was my mother who played more from my parents.

But that has happened nearly 20 ago, and now those times come again. Nintendo has abandoned his "for the families" method of selling and they are now focusing in us, the mature public, the real players. And certainly, they are doing it well, very well. Releasing titles such as The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, or The Elder Scrolls V:Skyrim for the console. I'M GOING TO BUY IT WITHOUT ANY DOUBT.

Gay or European?

Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9pCybcpkm5c

This link drives you to a video of a song, that Dario showed me a week ago. And I'm addicted to it because it's hilarious in all ways. The song belongs to a musical named Legally Blonde and I'm not sure of the plot, but this song is the best musical song I've ever listened to(I must admit that I have never ever gone to a musical, at least as far as my memory can reach).

What I like the most of the song is the way how the Americans see us, the Europeans, it's jus funny to see that we are for them. It is just a question of stereotypes I suppose, lmao. But anyway, I recommend you to see the video and have a great time listening to this funny song!

Darth Revan

Maybe one of the most known characters of the Expanded Universe of Star Wars and one of the most influential Sith that has ever existed. Formerly a jedi, after the Mandalorian wars a Sith, and finally a Jedi again after his redeem.

Darth Revan is a very influential characters in the Star Wars Story because of his philosophy, that later inspired Darth Bane to crate the Rule of two. His intention as a Dark Lord of the Sith  was to prepare the Galactic Republic from the arrival of the Reconstructed Sith Empire, which was operating from the Outer Rim.

Why do I like Darth Revan? Just look at him, he looks completely BADASS with it's costume. It is f*cking amazing. It's a pity that a costume of him for carnival has to cost more than 100 euros...

League of Legends

Recentrly I started playing again League of Legends aka LoL, and trust me, I've never enjoyed it as I'm doing it now. When I started playing it December last year, I felt I was going to enjoy it as I had never done. But now I want to raise my skill and some day maybe in a distant future to participate in an official tournament.

My main lane is top, the lane which is far away from the action, but for me it is the best, because I can face my enemy without being interrupted by the jungler, so the foe top laner will have an enormous pressure(if he is not better than me of course).

I know that I'm not the best player on EUW or in the world(for the exception of Faker, Faker could win us without masteries) but I want to become better and better and keep improving my skills as a player.