WANGARI MAATHAI

Hi friends!

In these days we have also worked in teams of four, using Google Docs, to continue experimenting its advantages. Each team have collected information about the Nobel Prize Winners and later, each of us, have chosen one of these Winners to write an interesting article. My article is going to be about Wangari Maathai and I hope that it'll be interesting for you.

There aren't so many women around the world doing whatever they can to sustainable development, democracy and peace and we have to express our gratitude for the work they have done. One of these women is Wangari Maathai, who received The Nobel Peace Prize in 2004.

Wangari Muta Maathai was an environmental, political and human rights activis and due to her work on this, she won lots of prizes during her years of maximun knowledge. She was born in Nyeri, a rural area of Kenya (Africa) in 1940 and she was educated in the United States at Mount St. Scholastica and the University of Pittsburgh, as well as the University of Nairobi in Kenya. Maathai was the first woman in East and Central Africa to earn a doctorate degree and to became chair of the Department of Veterinary Anatomy and an associate professor.

In the 1970s, she founded the Green Belt Movement, an environmental non-governmental organization focused on the planting of trees, environmental conservation, and women's rights. She have written a book about this organization, and in that book, Maathai tells the story of how the organisation grew from one woman’s idea to a network of hundreds of thousands of men and women who have planted tens of millions of trees throughout Kenya, and what was the principal key to run the Green Belt Movement.

Besides, together with the members of the organization, she have done a documentary film, called "Taking Root", which is a compelling documentary narrative about the first environmentalist and first African woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize and it shows all the work that Maathai have done to defend human rights and promote democracy. If yo are interested on seen it, here you have a short video about the documentary film that maiby it can exited you:  
 


 In my opinion, Maathai has been an important woman as regards all her work to sustainable development, democracy and peace and she has done lots of interesting things in favour of the environment and also human and, especially, women's rights.

Say NO to violence against women!

Hello everybody!


As you will know, the 25th of November is the international day against the violence of women and in order to take it to knowing, we have done a very interesting work in class. We have used a voice recording programme, Vocaroo, to do a QR code, with the intention of making you aware about this type of violence that lots of women suffer during these years.

You can hear my recording in the following link, or, if you prefer, you can make a photo with your mobilphone to the following QR code.



Audio recording software >>

Dance

Hi readers!
I'm back again with a new work done in class; the last one in this term. Here you have a diagram about DANCE, where I had explained the different types of dance that we can find around the world and I had put a brief information of them. We had used an very useful program, called "Mind42", used mainly for making driagrams including photos, videos, website pages, etc.
I hope that it'll be interesting for you and you are going to enjoy reading it!

Collaborative stories

Hi readers!

In these days, our class have done a team work and to put this work into practice, we have done some collaborative stories. We have worked in pairs and each pair have started a story and after finish the first paragraph, another pair will continue with the story. It has been a nice experience and we enjoyed a lot. Here you have Elene's and my story; it is a romantic story and it is about a homosexual girl with the confidence of changing the homosexual life and trying to become it something normal. The story isn't as we wanted but I think that all of us had worked very good and from my poin of view the result is also very good. I hope that you are going to enjoy reading this interesting  story!

THE OPPOSITE WAY

There was a lovely day when lots of people gathered in favour of homosexuality in London. All the population was excited at that day; some of them were prepared to fight in favour of homosexuality and the others were against it. There was a big group of people in the centre of the square, shouting and defending their hard situation; there, around the group of people, there was situated Gemma, a Bolivian woman who left her town and arrived in London with the expectation of changing the situation of homosexuality in the world. 

Gemma was tall and thin, she looked like a model, and her hair was blonde and curly. She was waiting to her girlfriend, Sarah, this was the contrary of Gemma, she was little, her hair was black and straIght. Both, Gemma and Sarah were in love, so they were prepared to get the homosexuality be common. Sarah arrived to the Trafalgar Square ten minutes later than the hour that they were going to meet. Gemma was starting to worry when Sarah  arrived. 

The Trafalgar Square was crowded of people who were fighting for the right of the Homosexual people. Gemma was in the first line and Sarah was crazily trying to find her couple. When the demonstration started, Gemma got worried of her girlfriend while the police surrounded the square. In that way, the people wouldn’t advance. The homo people started shouting and pushing to the police. At first because the meeting for the rights for the Homo people was legal, and suddenly it became illegal. The police started hitting Gemma and she fell down hurt by a stone. She wasn’t seen by anyone. 

She was completely worried, she didn’t know what to do. Later, she felt a big explosion and  before she could realize that the explosion was her head, she made dizzy and fall in the raw floor of the hiding narrow street located in the square. When she woke up Gemma was in the old room of a road motel.  She noticed that she hadn’t got anything  that she had the date before. She knew that her girlfriend didn’t carry her there; so, she thought that somebody had kidnapped her. Quietly she took the phone and she called to the police, also she tried to call to Sarah. However, she didn’t get to speak as the telephone line was out of service.  

Then a man appeared, he was tall, and he wore a black jacket. Gemma got paralyzed when she saw him, he smiled. 

-Don’t be afraid of me, I found you bleeding on the floor and I brought you here. 

When she heard that, she brought her hand to the head to see if she was injured. She realised that it was true.  

-When you feel better, I will take you home.- said the man 

-I don’t want to go home, I want to see if my girlfriend is alright. I need to get information about what happened in the demonstration. 

-I saw a girl standing next to you when you were unconscious. She went to me, asking me if I would stand next to you while you were there. Meanwhile she went to continue with the demonstration, I was waiting for her for a long time but she didn’t appear, so I decided to bring you here. I don’t know what happened to her. 

Gemma was disappointed due to her couple didn’t help her when she was injured and she didn’t want to know anything about her. She decided to sleep a bit more because of her tiredness. When she woke up, the bot was already there, taking care of her. They started speaking about their life while they ate something and they felt very well each of them with the other.  

The boy was called John, and he was 23. He told Gemma his hard life that he spent when he was a child, living in a small town near California. His mother died when he was 5 and his father suicided when he was 7. Almost all his life he spent in a orphanage and when he was 18, he was able to live alone a new life, in London. Gemma was surprised with his story, and she started to fall in love with John, forgetting completely Sarah.  

She confessed him her feelings and she proposed him to start from scratch a new and fantastic life together.

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If you want to see our original story with different colours, contradistinguishing like that the work that each pair had done, you have here the original link to our original story.  

In our class we have done 9 stories in total and here you have the links to the other stories, I hope you are going to enjoy reading them!

Story 1: 2 YEARS IN LONDON

Story 2: AUTUM IN NEW YORK

Story 3: THE CONQUIST OF LA VILLA 

Story 4: THE CHRONICLES OF YESTERGEN

Story 5: THE SILHOUETTE OF THE SILVER 

Story 6: THE LEGEND OF THE RIVER

Story 7: AERYN

Story 8: THE DANGEROUS ISLAND

Social Websites

Hi readers!

How much do we know about our society?

Clearly, we live in a technologically advanced world, surrounded by computers or tablets, advanced mobile phones and all type of applications; besides, we use a lot of different social websites in our free time, but are we conscious about the danger of all this technology? We have to realize of their risk and for that, in this post, I'm going to write about the usual social websites used by almost all the young people and specially about the disadvantages of having them.

Usually, the young people use these sites to share pictures or videos, to chat with far away friends or family members or to write or read interesting things. But we have to know that not all the things concerning to technology are suitable for us.

In these years, twitter is becoming more and more popular around the teenagers, and it is used by almost all the young people between 14 and  25. In addition, all the celebrities, famous football teams or companies have it; so, we can say that twitter gives us the choice to follow to anyone that we want, and as a result, it attracts a lot of young people interested in reading these twits. This site also gives us the choice to write all the things that we want, but very often we don't realize that all the information we put can be seen by anybody and from anywhere.

Another site that we use daily is the WhatsApp, very well-known around us. Clearly, it is the most used site due to its facility; on the one hand, it gives us the choice to chat with our friends in any moment and to send pictures, videos or audio media messages to them. On the oher hand, we can say that WhatsApp works as SMS messages, this is the reason why it is called "WhatsApp Messenger", and we can write to our friends in any moment although they aren't connected, always without paying anything.

These two websites are the ones that I like most because of some specific reasons. Regarding twitter, from my point of view, it is a very useful site to read interesting things or to have noticed of all the political or cultural events. Concerning WhatsApp, I have to admit that as I use it every day and in any moment, I couldn't live without it and it has become the most important site for me.

Woman's situation aroun the world

Hello readers!

Today, I have decided to write an article about the woman's situation specially in Africa and Arabia. Nowadays, I think that it is a topic that everyone speaks about, but nobody knows really what their life is like.

A lot of women suffer this type of physical violence

To begin with, it is clear that the situation of African or Arabian women isn't the same as ours. Most of them, have experienced rape, physical violence, or stalking by an intimate partner in their lifetime; moreover, the majority of these women are between 11 and 25.

Arabian women's clothes

In addition, their laws are also stricter than ours. On the one hand, they have to wear long clothes that cover all their body and face; they have prohibited to show their legs, hands or any part of their body. On the other hand, they have assumed that their role is to live always with him even though their husband abuse of them or have relationships with other women.



They are considered to be the ones that take care of the children and also the ones that do all the housework; this is the reason why in many cases these women live as slaves.

After saying all this, I have to say that, clearly, their life is harder and more difficult than ours. I think that the only thing that we can do is to be aware of their hard living conditions and also to realise that our life is a privilege for them.

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