The Experience of Write in a Blog!!

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That’s the last class we will write in the blog! I can’t believe how time has flown. My first semester was good; with good things and bad things too, but all of that have been enriching. The English’s blog was one of that activities…I must to recognize that I enjoyed writing, uploading photos and posting my classmates’ blogs. It was funny because we could to meet different likes of the people and they could know about us too.
The first post of my blog was very complicated for me, although we had to write 120 or 160 words, I remember that I took like an hour and half and I couldn’t post to my classmates because I didn’t have the time. I think that it was difficult for me because I didn’t speak or write English in all the summer and I remembered only a few things.
The blog make me improve my English because sometimes I didn’t find the words to express all that I wanted to say and I had to look for in the web, for example in Word Reference that it’s a very useful and simple webpage which you can translate the expressions that I used. Also, the blog it’s very good to improve the way we write and express because now I can express myself better in English and think faster how I will enunciate the idea that I had in my head.
I think the blog have more advantages than disadvantages because we could learn words and how express the ideas that we have about a certain topic. So many disadvantages I don’t think that it have, in fact, I think that writing blog in the class is very good, better that another English 3 which the students must to write in his houses.
Well, it was my last post…at least of that blog.

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Bears! Icons of the Wild

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This Thursday, we must to write about any photograph that we like. However, I don’t know too much about that so I looked for it in the web and of all the photos that I see, I found this; it’s a couple of young bears sleeping in the Canadian Artic. I think that is one of the most cute and tender image of nature that I have ever seen. They are a little puppy animals that are curled up into the snow. The photograph was taken by Jenny E. Rose on 2008 and she was nominated to Windland Smith Awards because that photograph personifies the most innocent nature. Also, the white color of the image gives us the peace of a baby when he sleeps; that’s makes me choose that; it gives me peace J
The photographer, Jenny E. Rose, it’s really good. In fact, she has exposed nature’s photographs a lot of times. She loves Africans animals, like elephants, rhinoceros, cheetahs and lions. Rose, have photographed Pacific Islands, where she found the Three Fern Forest. However, her favorite photographic exhibition is about bears around the world. She loves bears!! Jenny spends much of her time studying those animals, their behavior, their daily lives, their diet ways and everything!! Her exhibition, opened on 2002, is called Bears! Icons of the Wild, it’s about images from United States, British Columbia, the Canadian Artic and Asia and she wanted to become aware in the people because some are endangered animals.
I think that activity made me notice that the photography it’s a beautiful way of art and that the nature it’s the most fantastic that we can found in the earth.
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Nelia

This time to Africa

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Recently, we have been invaded by a big and huge amount of information about the most important event of the month…or for the more fanatics, of the year. Perhaps it is one of the most exciting sport tournament on the last four years or is the simple fact of it is happening in one of the most distant country of Chile…I don’t know, but all of us (we…perhaps not all, but the great majority of the people, yes) have been infected by the “FIFA World Cup” fever…it’s a bit crazy, but where you see…you see football: posters in the city, the news on the TV, people talking about what country won at the last match or listen to the typical song “Waka waka”. Who haven’t listened that classic WAKA WAKA EH EH!!! All the people is dancing the song; on internet, on TV on South Africa (obviously) and even in the children in the school….EVERYONE!!!!
I must to recognize that when I listened to the Shakira’s song I didn’t like really much…but finally, since two weeks ago, I liked the song. However, the problem now is that everybody listens and listens and listens and listens the song and I don’t like it now. Today, we must to be patient and wait two weeks until World Cup finish. After, we will listen to another kind of artist or music, on Tv or radio, less repetitive than “Waka Waka”.

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All the world's a stage...

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Today, the topic of the text is free and I will write about one of the things that I more like to do and watch: the theater. When I was in school I was in a Theater club and I loved to go and act here…acting is most exciting of the world; its fun and you can express yourself and channel all your feelings in different situations. Two years ago with my partners acted in the play “The House of Bernarda Alba” of Federico García Lorca and the last year we acted “The Toothbrush” of Jorge Díaz.

The history of theatre is really old, because it’s go back on the Ancients Greeks, when he did plays to celebrate his gods, formalizing this activity like an art. His plays was done in a huge open air theatre were they act, however, the expressions of his faces didn’t look very well, so the actors used a big mask of sad or happy faces depending of the kind of play that they was acting; tragedy or comedy.

After the Greeks, almost every cultures act like a way of amuse or do social critical. The Romans, for example, had a similar kind of plays of Greeks; however, their plays weren’t so religious, the Medieval people act situations about holy people, and on Renaissance England, was one of the most wonderful dramatist; William Shakespeare.

My favorite gender is Theatre of Absurd because the plays are about real and daily things but with a ridiculous situations, language and expressions. The dialogue is really incoherent; however, the topic of the play is very profound and critical.

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My Cell Phone

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Today I’ll tell you about my favorite piece of technology: my cell phone...Well perhaps it isn’t my favorite thing but it’s the most technological that I have. I like my cell because it has everything that I like; mp3, camera, games (well, only one, and a bit boring) and the most important it let me call to my home, of course. I had it since April, 5th on 2009 therefore it’s mine since more than a year. I remember it clearly because the follow day I take a photo and it is registered in my cell.
Generally, I use it to listen to music when I move every week to Rancagua, when I’m bored because I can play the game, when I want to take a photo with my friends and (the most important) when I want to speak with my family and friends, by a call or by a message, so I use it every day.
I think that I would continue live without my cell phone because I don’t really need the camera or the music, but that I really need of it are the calls. For me, wouldn’t problem have a simpler cell because the most important for me is speak with my people.

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About Rancagua

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Today we must to write something about anything that we want, and I’ll write about Rancagua. Rancagua is the city where I lived all my life, since I was born there. If you compare Santiago and Rancagua, my city is very small because there’s no so much malls, no big universities, not so much funny activities in all year and the most important: there’s no too much people like here. However, I like to live there because it’s very little and you don’t spend too much time going to places into the city.
One of the most important things about Rancagua it’s that is a place know like “huasa” city, because there is a lot of farmers, who cultivate some vegetables and fruits that finally are exported to Europe and Asian countries. That’s the principal economic activity of the region. Another thing because my location it’s known because about “El Teniente”. “El Teniente” is a subterranean mine where are taken out minerals like cooper, like a product, and, like sub products, molybdenum, gold and silver (but much bit).
Each October 1st and 2nd we remember Rancagua’s battle. This day Bernardo O’Higgins and the patriotic army fight against Spanish army because of Chile’s independence. Unfortunately, we lost, however we remember that that with proud, in fact, the region’s name is “Libertador Bernardo O’Higgins”. In this date, all the schools and institutions (like fire department, police and Red Cross) parade in the principal stadium of the city.
Well, it was a little thing of Rancagua.

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Emile Durkheim (1858- 1917)

Today, I’ll tell you about an expert in my field that I admire; he is Emile Durkheim…well, perhaps I really don’t admire him, but he is the expert that I know more so I’ll write about him. Also in the subject of sociology, we was reading this author and his text are really interesting from me.
Emile Durkheim was born in France on 1858 and died on 1917. He is one of the most important sociologists of the history of that area, also he, with Max Weber and Karl Marx, began talking about it like a discipline. The most of his male relative were rabbis, but Emile don’t want to follow the religious life and he decided to study in École Normale Supérieure. Like student he was really brilliant and with the time he began to publish different controversial work about the social phenomena, education, crime, law, suicide, solidarity, work and religion in the society. His methodological work it’s about the quantitative method to base on the positivism, which it’s connected with the objective forms to do social investigations.
His most important works are The Division of Labour in Society (1893), Rules of Sociological Method (1895), On the Normality of Crime (1895) and Suicide (1897).

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