Israel-Palestinian conflict

Introduction

Today, the main issues are the sovereignty of the West Bank and Gaza Strip, the eventual formation of a Palestinian state in those areas, the status of eastern Jerusalem, the Golan Heights and the Shebaa Farms The fate of Israeli settlements and Palestinian refugees, recognition of Israel and Palestine and its right to exist and live in peace away from threats and acts of force, and Israel's relationship with Syria and Lebanon. Israel currently has peace treaties in force with Egypt and Jordan to ensure their peaceful coexistence.

History

The State of Israel was proclaimed on the 14th of May, 1948, in accordance with international legality and the partition plan of the UN (1947) dividing the Spanish protectorate in Palestine, Jordan and Israel today,, with 77% of the territory to the Arabs (establishing the kingdom of Jordan that included the current territories of Palestine) and 23% for Jews leaving Jerusalem International Zone. The Jews accepted, but the Arabs no.

Less than 24 hours later, the regular armies of Egypt, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon and Iraq invaded it, forcing Israel to defend their country. In what became known as the War of Independence of Israel. Israel not only won the war, but others extended their territory of 8,000 km2 to 21,000 km2 in a legitimate war of self-defense against the Arabs.

My opinion

The nation of Israel has a powerful historical reasons, political, moral and religious, to own their small land in peace. However, in nations such as Spain the ways of comunication, have mediatised people with the idea of that the Jews invaded one day a country called Palestine where they lived the Palestinians and that currently the only cause of the conflict in this land are the Jews, usually presenting the conflict from only the Palestinian side.

Credits

http://israel.cristianismo-primitivo.org/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arab%E2%80%93Israeli_conflict

El Internado

"El internado" is a television serie produced by Globomedia for the spañish channel "Antena 3"

The premiere was on the 24th of May of 2007 on prime time.

Argument

El Internado ('Boarding School') is a Spanish television drama thriller focusing on the students of a fictional boarding school in a forest, where teenagers are sent by their parents to study. The boarding school is situated in a forest far from the city, on the outskirts on which macabre events occur.

Audience

For Antena 3 this has been its best fiction serie since the past 3 years, always overcoming at least 3 millions of espectators, sometimes reaching 4 millions. It's the best serie that the channel "Antena 3" has at this moment.

My personal opinion

I've been watching this serie since its first premiere and I like it very much but as the time passes the episodes become more boring because they don't resolve any of the millions of misteries that occur in the school.

Characters of "El Internado"

01. Julia (Blanca Suárez)

02. Iván (Yon González)
03. Jacinta (Amparo Baró)

04. Carolina (Ana de Armas)

05. Marcos (Martiño Rivas)

06. María (Marta Torné)

07. Victoria (Elena Furiase)

08. Paula (Carlota García)

09. Héctor (Luis Merlo)

10. Evelyn (Denisse Peña)

11. Roque (Daniel Retuerta)

12. Cayetano (Fernando Tielve)

13. Elsa (Natalia Millán)

Credits:

Antena 3 web

Formula TV

wikipedia

William Ockham

William of Ockham was an English philosopher also called William Ockham, or Doctor Invincibilis (“Invincible Doctor”)

He was born in Ockham, a small village in Surrey, near East Horsley, and he estudied in two importants universities: Merton school, Oxford, and also he had John Duns Scotus ( he was one of the most important theologians and philosophers of the High Middle Ages) of teacher.

Franciscan philosopher, theologian, and political writer, a late scholastic thinker regarded as the founder of a form of
Early life.

In his controversial writings William of Ockham denies the right of the popes to exercise temporal power, or to interfere in any way whatever in the affairs of the Empire. In philosophy William advocated a reform of Scholasticism both in method and in content.

Ockham's attitude towards the established order in the Church and towards the recognized system of philosophy in the academic world of his day was one of protest. He has, indeed, been called "the first Protestant".

Nevertheless, he recognized in his polemical writings the authority of the Church in spiritual matters, and did not diminish that authority in any respect.

Credits:

catholic encyclopedia

the internet encyclopedia of philosophy

Gustav Klimt

Gustav Klimt was born on 1862 in Vienna, Austria.
Klimt's work is diferenced by the elegant gold or coloured decoration. This can be seen in Judith I (1901), and in The Kiss (1907–1908), and especially in Danaë (1907).

In 1897 Gustav Klimt founded with other artists the Vienna Secession and became its first president. By that time Klimt had developed his own and characteristic style. Like impressionism, art nouveau was an International revolt against the traditional academic art style.

Gustav Klimt's style is highly ornamental. The Art Nouveau movement favored organic lines and contours. Klimt used a lot of gold and silver colors in his art work - certainly an heritage from his father's profession as a gold and silver engraver.

credits:
http://www.expo-klimt.com/
http://www.artofklimt.com/

Countable nouns

English nouns are often diveded in "countable" or "uncountable".

Countable nouns are things that we can count.

For example: "pen", we can count pens. We can have one, two, three or more pens. Here are some more countable nouns:

Ex: dog, cat, animal, man, person

Countable nouns can be singular or plural:
Ex: My dog is playing.
Ex: My dogs are hungry.

We can use the indefinite article a/an with countable nouns:
Ex:A dog is an animal.

When a countable noun is singular, we must use a word like a/the/my/this with it:

Ex: I want an orange. (not: I want orange.)
Ex: Where is my bottle? (not: Where is bottle?)

Uncountable nouns

Uncountable nouns are substances,
qualities, processes, concepts, etc... that we cannot divide into separate elements, we cannot "count" them.

These nouns have only one form,
are not used with numbers, and are not usually used with the determinants, ”the”,
”a” or ”an”.

Ex: money, paper, water, salt, milk, education, energy


Quantifying uncountable nouns

Uncountable nouns can be quantified using expressions such as: little, much,
some, kinds of, types of etc., see above.

Ex: time (little), treatment (kinds of), advice (some)

Credits:

http://www.learnenglish.de/grammar/noununcount.htm
http://www.britishcouncil.org/learnenglish-central-grammar-nouns-uncountable.htm

Music

Music definition: is an ART form in which the SOUND is organized in TIME.

The basic elements of music are:

pitch----> melody and harmony.

rhythm ----> tempo.

dynamics ----> timbre and texture.

TYPES OF MUSIC

These are some of the more widely known music types:

Rock&Roll

Opera

Rap/Hip Hop

Classical

Pop

Jazz

Dance

Blues

Credits:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_genre

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_music

Ecology


Ecology means the science of how all living creatures interact within our home; our environment on this fascinating, complex Spaceship Earth.


The ecology has reached enormous importance in the last years.

The increasing interest of the man for the environment in which it lives must to the conscience taking on the problems that affect our planet and demand a quick solution.

Enviromental Issues

According to the recently published book, “Green to Gold,” by Daniel C. Esty and Andrew Winston, the top ten environmental issues facing the world today are:

1. Climate Change

2. Energy

3. Water

4. Biodiversity and Land Use

5. Chemicals, Toxics and Heavy Metals

6. Air Pollution

7. Waste Management

8. Ozone Layer Depletion

9. Oceans and Fisheries

10. Deforestation

Credits:

http://www.barrameda.com.ar/ecology/index.html

http://ecology.com/index.php

present continuous

FORM

[am/is/are + present participle]

Ex: I am watching TV.

USES

1· Actions that are happening.

Ex: We are watching a horror film.

2· Actions that are happening at present, but not necessarily at this moment.

Ex: I'm studying French at school this year.

3· Future arrangements

Ex: Saray and I are having a birthday party together next weekend.

4· Habitual actions with a negative sense

Ex: My little brother is always crying.

Where I got the information:

http://www.englishpage.com/verbpage/presentcontinuous

http://www.eclecticenglish.com/grammar/PresentContinuous1A.html

Will and Going to

Simple Future has two different forms in English: "will" and "be going to."

Will

FORM ---> will + verb in the infinitive

Examples:

afirmative : You will help him later.
interrogative : Will you help him later?
negative : You will not help him later.

USE

Instant decisions ---> Ok, I'll see you on Friday
Predictions based on what we think or --->Tomorrow will be sunny and hot
Promises and offers---> Don't worry, I have time, I' ll go and buy some food for you.

Be Going To

FORM---> am/is/are + going to + verb in the infinitive

Examples:

afirmative : You are going to meet Jane tonight.
interrogative : Are you going to meet Jane tonight?
negative : You are not going to meet Jane tonight.

USE

Future plans and intentions ---> I'm going to buy a new mobile phone next week.
Predictions based on what we can see at that moment ---> Look at that car! it is going to crash into the lamp post

Videogames

A video game is a game that involves interaction with a user interface to generate visual feedback on a video device.

Types

advergames: Advergaming is the practice of using video games to advertise a product, organization or viewpoint.


educational games: Some people call these types of games edutainment because they combine education and entertainment. Closely related to the use of educational games is the use of what is known as Serious games.

propaganda games: (e.g. militainment)

Categories

Action, Adventure and Role Playing, Arcade, Strategy, Simulation, Driving, Puzzle and many more.

My favourite video game is super mario party for the wii.

Credits:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Educational_game#Video_games

http://www.family.org/entertainment/A000000994.cfm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Videogame

WITTMUND

On 14th of May, we travelled
to Germany to participate in the committee Europe. Every
year students from different nationalities gather around in
one country, in this case Germany, to spend some days in
family, making cooperating activities and taking advantage from
English.
We went by plane from Valencia to Dusseldorf and then we
took several trains until we arrived to Wittmund,where the families picked us up.
The next three days we spent them with our families and at
school doing workshops like: soccer, cooking, fashion and
dance. The last day, on Saturday, we made a parade
through all the town with the flags of the different countries.
Sunday morning we said goodbye to our families, we took a
train and we went to Cologne where we stayed one night
in a hostel in the city centre. There we visited several things
like the cathedral and the chocolate factory.
We had a great time, some of us have been very good with
our families (some not) and we have met lots of people
from the different schools.

Monsoon wedding

Arranged marriages

differences between Indian marriages and

spanish marriages.

Monsoon wedding

The film's central story concerns a father, Lalit Verma, who is trying to organize an enormous and expensive wedding for his daughter, for whom he has arranged a marriage with a man she has known for only a few weeks.The bride, Aditi Verma, is nervous as she has been having an affair with her married ex-boss Vikram.The groom is an Indian living in Texas, and all relatives from both families, some from distant places like Australia, come to New Delhi during the monsoon season to attend the wedding.There are four-day arrangements and celebrations of the wedding preparations, family parties and drama, dangers to the happy end of the wedding, lots of music and dance.

Arranged marriages

Arranged weddings have been an integral part of Indian society for centuries, and even today people having their marriages planned by their parents and other respected family-members. Arranged matches were made after taking into account factors such as the compatibility of the couples' horoscopes, the backgrounds of their families (wealth, social standing) and their social class, economy resources...The institution of marriage in India is considered a very important one.


differences between Indian marriages and Spanish marriages

differences: In India the weddings are very colourful and customs are not white. The weddings in India are normally celebrated in the family houses and not in a church. The wedding preparations are very important and usually take 3 or 4 days. In Spain we throw rice to the bride and the groom, in India the throw flowers.

Credits:

http://monsoonwedding.indiatimes.com/

http://www.indiaweddingplanner.com/types-indian-marriages/arranged.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arranged_marriage

Bollywood..... Indian films..... Mira Nair

Bollywood, is the informal term often used for Mumbai-based Hindi-language film industry in India. Bollywood is often incorrectly used to refer to the whole of Indian cinema; it is only a part of the Indian film industry.

Bollywood is one of the largest film producers in the world.

The name is a mix of Bombay and Hollywood, the center of the North American film industry.

Indian Cinema, The Indian film industry is the largest in the world in terms of ticket sales and number of films produced annually (877 feature films and 1177 short films were released in the year 2003).

Some important Indian films: Monsoon Wedding, Gandhi, Gandhi, English August, Bollywood Calling, Hyderabad Blues, Mr. and Mrs. Iyer, Salaam Bombay, A Train to Pakistan, A Passage to India.

Mira Nair, born October 15, 1957 at Rourkela, India. She is an India-born, New-York based fim director. She was educated at Delhi university and Harvard University. Her debut feature film, Salaam Bombay!, won the Golden Camera award at the Cannes Film Festival and was also nominated for an Oscar.

She won many awards by "Mississippi Masala", and "Salaam Bombay" and "My Own country"."Monsoon Wedding" won a golden globe nomination for Best Foreing Language film.

Easter 08

This easter has been a little bit more boring than Fallas. My Grandmother and my cousins came from Madrid to stay in my house for one week, so I couldn't stay out as much as I stayed in Fallas because I had to spend time with my family.

I also went out with my friends. The 21st of March was my birthday! I'm 14 years old already. We made a special lunch with all my family in a restaurant and on the afternoon I went out with my friends.

I had a lot of fun that day and I received lots of presents. Another special day was the 25th of March it was my dad's birthday and also Paula's (from ESO3) birthday.

So on the afternoon we made a surprise party for her and we had lots of fun.

The only boring thing is that the school was soon and I had to do my homework, so I spend part of my time doing homework.

Fallas 08

This vacations have been very good. I went out with my friends almost every days because my mum was on holiday and my father let me stay out late. I slept in Valeria's house several times and I had lots of fun.

I didn't throw lots of "petardos because I don't like them very much.

The most interesting day was on 19 of march, the last day of fallas.

I went with Valeria to the La Canyada's town and there we met with other people. We saw "la cremà" and then I slept in Valeria's house.

I've had lots of fun this year in Fallas but I hope that next year would be better.

India

India, officially the Republic of India is a big country situated in South Asia. It is the seventh largest country by geographical area.

Economy

India's population is estimated at more than 1.1 billion and is growing at 1.3% a year. It has the world's 12th largest economy--and the third largest in Asia behind Japan and China--with total GDP of around $1 trillion ($1,000 billion). Services, industry, and agriculture account for 55%, 27%, and 18% of GDP respectively. Nearly two-thirds of the population depends on agriculture for its livelihood. 700 million Indians live on $2 per day or less, but there is a large and growing middle class of 325-350 million with disposable income for consumer goods.

Society

India has the wolrd's second largest labourd force, with 509.3 million people, 60% of whom are employed in agriculture and related industries; 28% in services and related industries; and 12% in industry.In 2006, estimated exports stood at US$112 billion and imports were around US$187.9 billion. Textiles, jewellery, engineering goods and software are major export commodities. Crude oil, machineries, fertilizers, and chemicals are major imports.

Past continous

FORM
[was/were + present participle]

Uses

-->Actions in the past that take place at a particular time.

Ex: What were you doing last evening at 8:45?

-->With the Past Simple to refer to a long action that is interrupted by a shorter one. (When or While are the habitual conjunctions)

Ex: We were talking about our last holidays when the boss came into the office and got angry .


-->Two actions developing at the same time in the past ("While" is the habitual conjunction)

Ex: While my boss was talking to me, I was dreaming of my last holidays in Cancún.

Form

Affirmative Negative Interrogative

I was dancing I wasn't dancing Was I dancing?

We were dancing We weren't dancing Were we dancing?

Credits:

http://www.englishpage.com/verbpage/pastcontinuous.html

http://web2.uvcs.uvic.ca/elc/studyzone/330/grammar/pascon.htm

http://www.ego4u.com/en/cram-up/grammar/past-progressive

Ethiopia

Ethiopia, officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, is a country situated in the Horn of Africa that has been landlocked since the independence of its northern neighbor Eritrea in 1993.

Location: Apart from Eritrea to the north, Ethiopia is bordered by Sudan to the west, Kenya to the south, Djibouti to the northeast, and Somalia to the east.

Religion: Christians make up 61.6% of the country's population, Muslims 32.8%, and practitioners of traditional faiths 5.6%.

Languages: Ethiopia has eighty-four indigenous languages. English is the most widely spoken foreign language and is the medium of instruction in secondary schools. Amharic was the language of primary school instruction, but has been replaced in many areas by local languages

Regions: Ethiopia is divided into nine states and two chartered cities: Addis Ababa and Dire Dawa

Economy: Ethiopia is one of the poorest countries in the world.

Credits:

wikipedia

http://www.tourismethiopia.org/

PRESENT PERFECT

FORM

[has/have + past participle]

Examples:

You have seen that movie many times.

Have you seen that movie many times?

You have not seen that movie many times.

We use the Present Perfect to say that an action happened at an unspecified time before now. The exact time is not important. You CANNOT use the Present Perfect with specific time expressions such as: yesterday, one year ago, last week, when I was a child, when I lived in Japan, at that moment, that day, one day, etc. We CAN use the Present Perfect with unspecific expressions such as: ever, never, once, many times, several times, before, so far, already, yet, etc.

Use 1: Actions which started in the past and are still continuing

Ex: She has worked at the University since 1994.

Use 2: Actions which happened at some unknown time in the past

Ex: She has worked at the University since 1994.

Use 3: Actions which happened in the past, but have an effect in the present

Ex:
I've lost my keys. ------> I haven't found the keys yet -- they're still missing.

She's broken her arm. ------> The arm is still injured.´

Credits:

http://web2.uvcs.uvic.ca/elc/studyzone/410/grammar/pperf.htm

http://www.englisch-hilfen.de/en/grammar/pres_perf.htm

PAST SIMPLE

PAST SIMPLE

WHEN DO WE USE THE PAST SIMPLE?

We use the simple past to refer to an action in the past that is finished.
EX: I lived in Paris for 1 year.
-----1 year in Paris----------- Now I live in London

How to make an affirmative sentence in the simple past:

Subject + Verb (past form) + Adverbial

EX: I went to the beach yesterday.

How to make a negative sentence in the simple past:

Subject + Auxiliary + Verb (infinitive) + Adverbial

EX: They did not (didn't) go to the beach yesterday.

How to make a question in the simple past:

Question Word + Auxiliary + Subject + Verb (infinitive) + Adverbial

Why did you go to the beach yesterday?


Examples from the past simple:

I saw a movie yesterday.
I didn't see a play yesterday.
Last year, I traveled to Japan.
Last year, I didn't travel to Korea.
Did you have dinner last night?
She washed her car.
He didn't wash his car.

Credits:

http://www.englishpage.com/verbpage/simplepast.html