Really Dreams

Based on Randy Pausch conference, make an analytical essay.

All people dream, but at the same time a lot of people think that dream doesn’t be important and that it is a lost of time. Randy Pausch, a teacher who has a terminal cancer, propose that is important really achieving your childhood dreams.

Firstly, he exposes that each one should conserve the inspiration and let himself dream. When you are a child, you dream all the time. You get emotion and enthusiasm to do what ever you want. And you begin to create the fundaments for that the fantasy gets really.

You have to work hard and learn of the experience, in order to make really your childhood dreams. Each thing that you are doing must have effort and dedication; but, in addition, energy and passion. However, is important have in mind that you are a human being and for this reason you can make astray. So, the critics of the others help you to grow up and are a show of love and care. In words of Randy, “Experience is what you get when you have not got what you wanted”.

To conclude, the things that you do when you are a child are very important, because this can define your preferences, expectatives, you career, job, family, friends, into others. But the most important point is that you have to think in that for be happy and really achieving your childhood dreams, you have to think and share with others.

Story

Each member group added a phrase to the story, and then, when the story was finished we should record it. To listen to the story follow the link.

Audio

"Supersize Me"

Based on “Supersize Me” movie, answer the following questions.

· What are the three types of doctors he sees?

- Endocrine
- Cardiologist
- Nutritionist

· What are his starting blood levels and health levels?

Cholesterol: 165
Triglicerios: 87

· What is his starting weight and body fat percentage?

11%

· How many McDonald’s are in Manhattan?

83

· What does his girlfriend do?

She is a vegetarian chef

· What is his first meal?

A Big Mac

· How does he feel 1o minutes into his first supersize meal?

He loves the Big Mac. It seems a picture.

· What is known as a “toxic environment”?

Poor diet and lack of physical activity. Fast food with a high fat percentage.

· In the year 2000, one in five children will develop what? (If their current diet doesn’t change)

Obesity and diabetes develop. Develop cirrhosis too.

· After five days on the McDonald’s diet, how many calories is he getting?

He is getting more than 200 calories.

· How are chicken McNuggets made?

Chicken, oil, chemical compounds.

· Who did the first graders recognize?

Depressed; he eats something and he wants more.

· What is the “fattest state? What city?

Texas- Houston

· What is a calorie?

A calorie is a size of energy of the food.

· Explain what a gastric- bypass is

Is a medical operation to reduce the obesity problem.

· On day 21, what do his doctors tell him to do?

The numbers are worrying. He has to leave the diet, because he is very sick.

· What are the results of his final weigh in?

250 Kg

· What can be done about obesity problem in the US? It is becoming a problem in Colombia?

About the obesity problem in the US can be done a social campaign from the government.

It is a growing up problem in Colombia because Colombian people are consuming foreings products and they have bad eating habits.

· How often do you eat fast food? Do you feel you could stop?

I almost never eat fast food. I prefer to eat vegetables and fruits.

· Should fast food companies be held responsible for the obesity problem in the US?

No, I think that this problem is a consequence of the bad eating habits and the fast rhythm life, that doesn’t allow healthy and slowly eating.

· Do you think this university offers a nutritious meal? How would you change it?

The university offers a lot of type of food. The good nutrition depends of each one.

· What are your thoughts on fast food?

I don’t like it. I think that it has a lot of fat and ingredients not too healthy.

· Do you believe that people can have food addictions? Why or why not?

Yes, because the flavor can be so tasty...and when you consume that repeatly you became an addict.

Women at the Wheel

Write an argumentative essay about the road rage cause by women.

A lot of people think that women are dangerous when they are driving. Road rage in Colombia is a very big problem; many people get killed by the angry women drivers. Maybe this is an exaggeration, but women have difficulties when are at the wheel.

They won’t have a good reaction in case of an emergency. At puberty, the male hormone (testosterone) improves visio-spatial abilities to the males, which are very important for driving; the female capacity for concentration and application varies with their menstrual cycle, according to a study conducted by doctors Anne Moir and David Jessel. So, women don’t have good reflexes and concentration.

Moreover, they are so focused in many things they will forget about driving. While men can only concentrate on one focus with great intensity, women can control several focus of attention but with less concentration on them according to doctor Mass article published at the web page www.universia.com.ar. Women are driving while using makeup, speaking by cell ... All at the same time.

To conclude, although women are good doing a lot of things, doing many things at the same time can be unsafesty. So women, you have to put more attention while you are driving a car.

Lucius Q. Cincinnatus.

Abdullah Öcalan

Searching about an unkown leader.

He was born in Ömerly, Turkey. He studied Political Sciences at the University of Ankara. He was known as “Apo”. Abdullah is the founder of a terrorist organization called Kurdistan Workers Party with the objective of struggling for workers rights and to get the social justice. He was considered a social revolutionary and he was an example of the will to have freedom. He was also extradited and sentenced to death; however he did not die because of the law was eliminated.

CLASS ASSIGNMENTS

THE PEACE WALK


In this exercise I’m going to write a summary about the 4th of February peace mobilization that took place in Colombia and other locations around the world. The mobilization was against the kidnapping in Colombia.

Last fourth of February in Colombia a walk took place to protest against kidnapping and to demand that the guerrillas free the people they have kidnapped; people went out dressing white shirts and waving the Colombian flag, they screamed "No more kidnapping", "No more lies", "No more war", "No more FARC". It was a great event, and everybody agreed that it was good to protest against FARC. The only bad thing is that no matter how many people protest against war, it will always continue, because the ones who have the power to end this terrible war, don’t listen to the people. That is a bad thing. At least, Colombian people are starting to be less indifferent and are acting to manifest against kidnapping and war.

DESCRIBERS

In this exercise, some blank spaces will be fulfilled in order to give coherence to the story.


That was a wonderful day. Down by the quiet stream a yellow bird sat looking a flower. The brilliant sun calls my attention in the celestial sky. “Oh, how amazing is to have such a rest day all to myself”. I thought.
Then a marvelous bird began to whistle. From the shape of its weird wings and it’s short legs I knew it brought terrible news. It carried a parchment over it’s wing. “Who knows what kind of problems it had inside” I thought.
The yellow bird soon stopped to looking the flower, and flew away from there. I should have done the same. The marvelous bird flew in circles and landed near me. Even thought it was a strange bird, it was enough pretty to have a friend, I took the parchment off his wing and there was a letter writed on it. It’s said, “The adjectives make for the writing you had better written them all”. That meant, I knew, I had to do a lot of work.