CATALONIA TODAY

Thursday, March 22 2007

PARENTS MUST DECIDE ON TATOOS

The Generalitat have published a provisional paper due to be approved before the summer that will obligue under 16's to provide documentation proving parental consent if they want to get a tatoo, piercing or others. With the new law, these establishments must document what will happen during the operation.

A description of a place

"ELS AIGUAMOLLS DE L'EMPORDÀ"

Everytime I go to the "Aiguamolls de l'Empordà" I feel so free. It is a magic place where I can disconnected of all bad things I have in my mind; so it's a wonderful place! The "Aiguamolls" is a natural reserve next to the coast where you can find different kinds of birds. The most popular animal there is "La Cigonya Guita". It's a stork and the mascot of the park. In the midlle of this beautiful place there are also four old rise tower.

If you look around this place you can see fantastic views; in the east, there's the Mediterranean sea. If you look to the North you can see the large Pyrinees, it's great! Hainly when there is snow on top. The smell is fresh and without pollution and the sounds transmit relax to everyone who visits it.

The best thing about this place is the feeling that it envolves peace, serenety and freedom, a lot of freedom. I love the "Aiguamolls" :)

THE RESERCH PROJECT (Composition)

The research project is a hard work that is compulsory only in Catalonia. It IS about a topic which every student of second of Batxillerat can choose and it is worth like another any subject.

From my point of view, and I'm sure that a lot of other sudents who must do it feel like me, the reserch project is a unnecessary work that only helps to have more work moreover the all homework, exams and works that the teachers ask us. The "Generalitat de Catalunya" is the responsible of it and I can't understand why our autonoumus community is the only that takes part this project. Is the most unfair!

In conclusion the research paper is unnecessary. Every day more the department of educations of our country is getting crazy and they don't understand the students' lifestyle.

My last oral presentation - my research paper!

THE ENVIROMENT AND ECONOMY

Hello, today I’m going to talk about my research paper. The work consists in three parts: introduction, body and conclusions.

INTODUCCTION:

In my research project I’ve explained the kinds of energy there is: renewable and no renewable, the impacts that produced everyone in environment and from a second point of view in the economy. I have also explained the climate change issue and the future forecasts that are expected if the situation no change.

I’ve had been decided do a project about this topic because all related with the environment fascinate me a lot.

The BODY of the project has 8 principal parts:

- The first and second part is an introduction in the sustainable economy and a synthesis of the actual economy situation around the world, in Spain and Catalonia.
- Following I’ve explained the natural resources; what are they, the kinds of resources there are and their shortage.
- To be continued I’ve exposed all kinds of resources or energies:
First the RENEWABLES:
Solar energy: thermal solar energy and photovoltaic solar energy.
Wind power
Biomass energy
Hydroelectric energy
Geothermic energy
Sea energy
The NO RENEWABLE energies:
Nuclear energy
Fossil combustibles: The 71% of the energy that we consume come from to the petroleum, the gas and the coal.

The petroleum
The gas
The coal

- After the explanation of the renewable and no renewable energies I’ve exposed the impacts that produce the obtaining of the fossil combustibles to the environment and the pollution that they emit.

- The fourth point is related of the global warming. The polluted made from the created of waste while the obtaining and combustion of the fossil combustibles make the global warming that it becomes a group of changes in the climate, called THE CLIMATE CHANGE.

- After I exposed the future forecasts related to the climate change. That it’s already a fact and their consequences begins to be serious around the world. (While the last 30 years in a lot of world’s places the meteorological conditions has become extreme, highest than previous period)

- The countries try to reduce the emission of toxic gases in the atmosphere by the way of collective agreement. The most important environment agreement is the Kyoto’s Protocol.

- Straight on I’ve explained the measures that have to take the action in a domestic situation.
Finally I had done an interview to a specialist of environmental education that she helps to me to complete some parts of the project and provided me more information.


CONCLUSIONS

Thanks of the development of this project my knowledge about the environment is more extensive than after to do it.

In 2030 the energetic global demand will increase until the 53%, this fact will became an annual increase of the emissions the 1,7%, until arrive in the 55%.

The 70% of this increase will come from to the two principal countries underdeveloped, China and India, according to the International agency of the energy. However, the developed countries represent only the 20% of the world’s population and they are the responsible of the 80% of the CO2 emissions in the atmosphere.

For this reasons is very important promote the renewable energies to reduce the pollution that made from the no renewable.

The changes produced in the climate because of the Earth warming are every time more obvious and we need measures to stop their.

This measure has to be from the domestic situation until the worldwide situations. We have the tools to solve it but the problem is that we don’t want to solve it. Until a disaster make react us I think that we won’t do anything… All is our hands.

MATCH POINT

1- The film subtitles are: passion, obsession and temptation. Explain why.

We think these are the subtitles because they are three of the most importan feelings that the film want to express. They're in every scene. Match Point is a story about a romance from Nola and Chris who live a passion story. They are obsessed each other.
However, Chris is married with a rich girl (Cloe) and he doesn't want leave her because of the money. For this reason he can only see Nola like a beautiful temptation.


2- Watch this amazing take.

At what point in the film does it take place? Who is talking first? How does the director present the two characters? how can you interpret these words?

It takes place at the begining of the film. Nola is talking first.
The director present the two characters in a temptation way, they both know that there are a feeling between them, and they're both so provocative and sensual.
These words can be interpreted like an insinuation.

Nola: Well, who is my next victim?
Chris: I haven't played ping-pong for a long time ago.
Nola: Would you like to play a thousand pounds at match.
Chris: How did I get myself into this?
Nola: And how did I get myself too?
Chris: It's like this. May I...?
Nola: Please
Chris: You have to incline and accompany the ball.
Nola: Every thing was well until you appear.
Chris: My enternal fortune.
Nola: And tell me, what is doing a pretty american girl ping-pong player mixted with the English upper class.
Chris: Have somebody said to you that you have got a very agressive play?
Nola: Have somebody said to you that you have got a very sensual mouth?
Chris: So much agressive.
Nola: Mine is to compete.
Chris: Is it results uncomfortable to you?
Nola: I'm going to think about it, for a time.


3- The characters.

CHRIS; sensual, possessive and selfish.
NOLA; provocative, sexy and independent.
CHLOE; innocent, sweet and gullible.
TOM; unconcerned, spoilt and arrogant.
THE MOTHER; Rich, contemptible and traditional.
THE FATHER; Conservative, nice person and proud.


4- Several different English accents are to be found in the film.

Nola; american accent.
Chiris; English middle class.
Chloe; London cockney.
Tom; London cockney.
The mother; irish.

The London cockney and American accent for example, have main diferents: The first pronuntiation is more clear than the America accent are more superficial and no clear.


5- Comment on this scene. What do you think?
What's the director's view in the film about this issue?

It's a philosophical scene, Chris is thinking and talking about how important is to be luky in the live. Luck is incontrolable for people, we cannot buy it, althought, it changes our live.

6- The title is a tennis expression: why is the title used by the director?


Match point is an expression tennis: it means the last advantatge point of a match. In the film it means


7- Woody Allen, the director is known for his opinions and sayings, which are often quoted?

In Match Point Woody Allen quoted saying at the beginning of the film and also in the end.


" If only God would give me some clear sign! Like making a large deposit in my name in a Swiss bank "

I like this opinions because If God really exists and can would give us a clear sign, everybody ask to him a beneficial things for everyone.

Computers have made the world a better place

In our times the computers have become a very necessary and practical too. They're essential for the business, school work, scientist investigations...

On the one hand computers help us to do a lot of technical things, but we can also enjoy them. We can play computer games, chatt and surff internet to visity the webpage which we prefer.

On the other hand there's a serious problem related to computer games. There are children and teenagers who are addictive to them. They suffer some phychological problems because of it and others: they argue with their parents a lot and their school marks low in general.

In conclusion the computers made the world a better place depending on how much we abuse of them and for what situations we use them.

Questions about The Others

1- The Title

The title refers to the ghosts who are living in the mansion: Grace, Anne and Nicolas principally. They don’t know that are dead.

2- The Setting

The dark atmosphere, the old mansion, the lonely and foggy forest, the play with the voices, the soundtrack, and Nicole Kidman who has got a pale face and very light color eyes make the film horror.
I think that Alejandro Amenábar chase a very good and simply elements, I wouldn’t like to add any more.

3- The Time

The film set terminus the Second Mundial War.
The director show us when Grace’s husband has arrived of the war and finally he returned there.

4- The Cast

Grace, the mother:
She feels scared and responsible of her children’s dead.
She educate their very religiously.
Grace had become mad because she killed her children and after she killed to herself by a rifle, all this things happen after the film but in the large of story we can know it.

Anne and Nicolas, the kids:
They think that suffer photophobia but they are ghosts so they can’t have any illness.
They cope

Mrs Mills, Mr Tutle and Lydia, the housekeepers:
They story role is make see to Grace that she and her children are ghosts and that the others who are in the house are alive.

Alejandro Amenábar, the director:
Tesis is another film that he has directed. He was 29 years old when he directed The Others because he was born in 1972 and the film had made in 2001.
The Others won a Goya for the best film, the best director and the best original script.

5- FINAL QUESTION

Yes, I think that The Others can be considered a representative of Gothic fiction.
It isn’t a blood horror film the principally topic about religion and discourage superstition by providing evidence of the existence of good spirits. And appear a lot of darkest fears.