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