My process...

I got in the “Universidad De Las Americas” in the year 2004. In the same year I was graduated from the “Liceo Pedro Poveda” and as everybody; at the end of the school stage I had to choose a career. I was almost completely lost, the only thing that was clear for me, was that I liked languages and English was my first choice, so after a lot of thinking, the career that I choose was teaching English… to be a teacher.

The first two years were the most difficult, I was about to change my mind, there were lots of teachers that I didn’t like, due to their way of teaching, and even worst, I didn’t think that they were very good at it. The truth is that during the whole process I have found the same problem, some teachers are good, but lots of other teachers don’t. That dichotomy was bothering me a lot.

To the preceding, I can add that I wasn’t very motivated with the idea of teaching to these new generations, where you can find a lack of interest in the classes, while the teacher is trying to do the best for them to learn.

That lack of motivation was converted in a kind of fear for me, but this fear disappear completely with the first teaching practice. When I started, I realized that the choice taken two years before was the right one. This experience showed me that there is something very special at the moment of teaching, and look my self helping kids is incredibly gratifying.

The second teaching practice, was a fundamental event for me, even more than the fist teaching practice, because with this I understood the meaning of being a teacher, know how does it feels, the difficulty of stay in front of a class and teach, create a link with the students, between lots of other things that are difficult to explain completely, things that you only understand when you are living the situation. With this I could have the image of my self, being a teacher.

Today, in my fourth year of studying, my view is completely different to the beginning; the time showed me that this was the best choice I’ve ever made, now I’m much more optimistic and I realized that I really had a vocation, which tells me that the challenge is big and that the generations are always changing, but not because of that I have to quit, on the contrary, I will be working every day harder, because I am sure that I will be good at this.

The first two years were the most difficult, I was about to change my mind, there were lots of teachers that I didn’t like, due to their way of teaching, and even worst, I didn’t think that they were very good at it. The truth is that during the whole process I have found the same problem, some teachers are good, but lots of other teachers don’t. That dichotomy was bothering me a lot.

To the preceding, I can add that I wasn’t very motivated with the idea of teaching to these new generations, where you can find a lack of interest in the classes, while the teacher is trying to do the best for them to learn.

That lack of motivation was converted in a kind of fear for me, but this fear disappear completely with the first teaching practice. When I started, I realized that the choice taken two years before was the right one.

The second teaching practice, was a fundamental event for me, even more than the fist teaching practice, because with this I understood the meaning of being a teacher, know how does it feels, the difficulty of stay in front of a class and teach, create a link with the students, between lots of other things that are difficult to explain completely, things that you only understand when you are living the situation. With this I could have the image of my self, being a teacher.

Today, in my fourth year of studying, my view is completely different to the beginning; the time showed me that this was the best choice I’ve ever made, and that I had a vocation, which tells me that the challenge is big and that the generations are always changing, but not because of that I have to quit, on the contrary, I will be working every day harder, because I am sure that I will be good at this.

Music, the art of combining sounds

The first instruments were any object or human part of the body that emit sounds.

One of the first instruments created by man was the Flute, which at the very beginning was a bone with holes.

To begin with, I’m going to explain that this work is divided in to four parts, the first one is the Greek era as the older one, then it will continue with the Middle Age and the renascence, and finally the XX Century.

In the Greek era, is the place where the music has its start and where we can find the first documents of music, math, philosophy and other fields of study. For them, music was very special, they used it in weddings, funerals, births and other religious ceremonies, but always related to dance and poetry.

Music in those times was very important and Greeks use it even in the fields of education, by giving information to the kids through music.

In the Middle age, the Catholic Church becomes the central theme in the society. During those times, the Gregorian singing ruled all the territories, due that the culture and power is in the hands of the monks and religious people. Even though, the secular music has its place, over all in the low Middle Age, with the participation of the jongleur and minstrels which used to act in castles, palaces and in the streets.

During The Renascence, the sculptures and music stop being only as a sign of praise to God and their goal is to create beauty.

In the renascence there is an increase in the musical aspect, established by the humanist over the importance of culture, and it is here when music start to increase and experiment a big development. Whit this, musicians had to start to specialize and to dedicate their live to the art of music.

In the XX century, the world of music is influenced by the cultural and society changes, now there are new kinds of styles of music, such as Jazz, Rock, which take an important part and remove the classical and cultured music, and their branches, which for some time were the most important styles, but with the pass of time, the new styles, and the influence of technology, alter the way in how people create and interpret music.

As we can see, music is always changing, but is it for good?

The new styles and fashions influenced in music, and the same music is now affecting the view of the world and the way in how people live, this can be seen in the new generations, which are much more liberal than the older ones, the lyrics, and the way of presenting this art, which in my opinion, is starting to loose the meaning of art.

The outline

I. Point. There is a lack of imagination.
A.(Reason) 20 years ago, no video games.
1.(Example) No imagination, PS2, WI, Computer,Internet.
Point. a)Not the same life.
b)Game already created.
c)No need of imagination.

Relation between Frankenstein and the monster

During a long time, Frankenstein was isolated, due to the incomprehension of the scary society , which is not able to understand such a horrifying thing and can not deal with it because of the fear of the different. The only answer that exists in their minds is the mistreatment and the insults.

Being alone so much time, growing as a resentful kid, his hate grows more and more, so as his desire of having someone who can understand him and be with him, giving him positive feelings towards him. During this time, he realizes that the only person who can help him is his “father”. That father that gave him life and after that despised him as a peace of garbage... So he looks for his creator, and ask him for a partner that can be so horrendous as he is, and that could join him in his suffering to finally find happiness. His father agrees, but finally he regrets and destroy the only chance for the monster of stay in peace and be happy, letting him vulnerable, full of hate and bitterness, considering to himself as the unfair victim which has being punished and slandered so many times , asking if there was fair that kind of cruelty, feeling even the regret for his acts (killing people), but without stopping the feeling of uncontainable anger which only death could pacify.

Katrina Hurricane

This hurricane is known as one of the most terrible of the history of the U.S, not only for the killing rate , which was 1.836 people approximately , but for the quantity of money , known too as the most expensive disaster in the U.S. with a record of 75 millions of dollars. The most severe loss of life and property damage occurred in New Orleans, Louisiana.

At the beginning it started as a hurricane level one (according to the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Scale, which classify the tropical cyclones or tropical storms that becomes hurricanes) in the Bahamas, the 24 of august of 2005 ,touching land in Florida causing floods, lost of electricity for more than a million of houses, and a rate of eleven deads. But it was getting stronger during its stay in the gulf of Mexico, becoming a hurricane level five now known as the fourth strongest storm in the Atlantic with winds of 280 km/h., And the deadliest hurricane since the 1982 Okeenchobee Huricane ,which in September of the 1982 struck the Leeward Islands, Puerto Rico, the Bahamas, and Florida, killing at least 4,078 people.


It touched land once more the 29 of august of 2005 in Louisiana as a very big hurricane, this time as a level three with winds of 205km/h.

The secuence of the pass of the hurricane was:

The 23 of august, of august it is discovered a tropical depression.
The 24 of august, the depression gets stronger and it`s known as the tropical "storm Katrina."
The 25 of august, touch land in Florida as a hurricane level one, causing large damages.
The 26-28 of august take strength and gets bigger.
The 29 of august, touched land in Florida as Hurricane Level four.
30 of august, pass for Kentucky letting some counties declared a zone of disaster letting New Orleans in an 80% .
The 31 of august, there are some inundations in the north east of U.S and winds with rain in Canada.
The 1st of September, there are some rests of the hurricane at the north of Canada being totally disintegrated.

Here i let you a link that i found for watching videos of the disaster that Hurricane Katrina
let behind. There is one where a man describes the Hurricane, watch it is very interesting.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=5954521938928173924

(to watch the video, copy the link and put it in the writing bar.)

John Donne : "The Sunne Rising"

1- who's the speaker and who's speaking to?

1- A lover is talking to the sun.

2- type of vocabulary (loving, violent, angry, etc)

It has a violent vocabulary, this you can see it from the very beginning.
(Busie old foole, unruly Sunne,Why dost thou thus,Through windowes,
and through curtaines call on us? Must to thy motions lovers seasons run?)


3- alliterations, metaphors, comparisons, assonances, personifications.

 Here you can find personificaton in the sense that the person who is speaking,
is giving human attributes to the sun, like to interrupt, or visit to someone.
Other example is in the lines where says: Thine age askes ease,saying that
he is old and must to have a rest.),or :

...Sawcy pedantique wretch, goe chide

 Late school boyes, and sowre prentices,

 Goe tell Court-huntsmen, that the King will ride, Call countrey ants
to harvest offices,...(telling to the sun to go and talk or tell the news
that the king will ride, and to speak with the ants so they start they work,etc.)

Metaphor: Why dost thou thus, Through windowes, and through curtaines call on us?

Must to thy motions lovers seasons run? (the sunshine is always giving the new that
is the end of the night, and in this case, the end of the time to the lovers
of being together.)

...Shine here to us, and thou art everywhere;

This bed thy center is, these walls, thy spheare...

Alliterations : Call countrey ... Love, all alike... could eclipse and cloud them with a winke... Thou sunne art halfe as happy’as wee... Thine age askes ease... To warme the world.


Comparison: Princes doe but play us; compar’d to this,All honor’s mimique; All wealth alchimie.


4- what's the poem about?

This poem is about the beginning of the day and the dislike of somebody
because of this, due it is the end of the time for lovers for being together,
The night has always represented the evil as well as the dark and the romantic,
and the day, the end of it. So in this case marks the end of a season for love.



... it is a very strong poem, where you can see in a very interesting way, the desire of a lover for the sun not to come, but understanding at the end, after express his feelings, the meaning and importance of its
arrive, and finally telling to the sun to shine for the lovers, and that it will be welcome inside the room.
A very good poem, although it was difficult to understand and analyze, the meaning and the passion that the speaker shows, makes it more interesting and difficult to stop reading it.

We all can see how the internet has influenced in our lives. Even getting to the extream.

One of the greatest media for comunication...that has been used for better or for worst, but communication at the end.

Lots of teenagers with problems, or that can`t find an ending to them, use this kind of web pages to express this "secret feelings" in an anonymous way.

Having an space just let your phone number, to build a "blogspot", a "fotolog", or a forum, is enough to create an instance to get this people in contact.
I do not see anything wrong with this, i believe that is their problem or decision if they want to commit or not a suicide...The striking of this to me is the quantitie of people who is interested in this kind of actions, and the kind of people who do it. People who maybe have simple troubles with their families, nighbours, brothers, etc. But more interesting, people who have such an extream philosophical postures or vews of the world, and make this big act of demostration of their beliefs, people who don`t do this decition only for troubles, but beliefs.

It maybe someone who lives next to you and you may never know until the fact has being done.

generally people that you`ll never think that has a suicidal tendency... but poor peolpe?
why are the less in this kind of records?, maybe just because the different points of view that the life has given to them, i leave the question open...

The asian culture is one of the most recognizble suicidal culture, which in only five years can double the death rate. as we can see in the news today in te article:

Tracking an Online Trend, and a Route to Suicide

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/23/world/asia/23korea.html?pagewanted=1

here you can see the corporations that has been created to stop this kind of actions, and the methods that they are using. As eliminating the blogs with names relationated with suicides, investigatin about people who have web relationated pages, and traking the page to find out which is the end of the creation of the site to catch or see if the owner of this web has a shady past.

Here you can see the corporations that have been created to stop this kind of actions and the methods that they are using as eliminating blogs with names related ro suicides, investigating about people who have related web sites, and traking the page to find out which is the purpose of the creation of the site to catch or see if the owner of this web has a shady past
Here i leave you a free collection of articles about suicides and suicide attempts bublished in The New York Times.

http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/health/diseasesconditionsandhealthtopics/suicidesandsuicideattempts/index.html?inline=nyt-classifier

The Ghost Song... compleat!

Awake. Shake dreams from your hair my pretty child, my sweet one. Choose the day and choose the sign of your day the day's divinity First thing you see. A vast radiant beach and cooled jeweled moon Couples naked race down by it's quiet side And we laugh like soft, mad children Smug in the wooly cotton brains of infancy The music and voices are all around us. Choose they croon the Ancient Ones the time has come again choose now, they croon beneath the moon beside an ancient lake Enter again the sweet forest Enter the hot dream Come with us everything is broken up and dances. Indians scattered, On dawn's highway bleeding Ghosts crowd the young child’s, Fragile eggshell mind We have assembled inside, This ancient and insane theater To propagate our lust for our life, And flee the swarming wisdom of the streets. The barns have stormed The windows kept, And only one of all the rest To dance and save us From the divine mockery of words, Music inflames temperament. Ooh great creator of being Grant us one more hour, To perform our art And perfect our lives. We need great golden copulations, When the true kings murders Are allowed to roam free, A thousand magicians arise in the land Where are the feast we are promised? One more thing Thank you oh lord For the white blind light Thank you oh lord For the white blind light A city rises from the sea I had a splitting headache From which the future's made

...The begining of something... i hope.