Luis - 14 - Past, Present, Future

Good riddance past.... I want to live in the future.

Nowadays, All the people are working for a better place to live. We can hide the reality of a new word. The technology word. I´m very astonished with the velocity of the technology. Now we can learn with all our five sense and we can storage our acknowledgement. So, How you can imagine the Future?. I imagine the future with all of commodities in our life, where if we need to learn something, we only need to buy a pill with the knowledge of that issue and drinking.

The money won´t have more importance, the real importance will be enjoying the life and take care our planet, also our health. We will be having enough ability and tools to live in other planets. Hence, the problem of population will be being disappear.Subsequently, the governments and the politicians disappear, because  the society lives in harmony and peace.

The principal activity will be traveling around the universe. And find the thing that you overjoy more. When you find that thing, you will be having the capacity to live with her all your life, but if suddenly, your pleasure change, you will be have the opportunity to change and start again until you feel your pleasure in your life.

I know that those things sound too crazy, but I really hope there will be true. The reason of our life and searching of technology, all these things have the same meaning and the same point of inspiration. In a brief both search the way to provoke a better life for the humanity.

Larissa - 10 - Stress: How does it help or hinder?

Does stress have a positive side?

Considering my personality i agree that stress can have a helpful side. Why ? Stress can be helpful in a way to push you to overcome situations that are not doing so well into a very good result.

Of course, stress have its vices and it can be very prejudicial to health. But no one can deny the emotion of living under pressure and strees. Certainly nobody can  say that you are not going to live an adventurous life.
Stress in adequated dosages makes your body creates boosts body defenses according to a study made by the university of Standford. Also, it sharpens your memory. But the key is to have a balance. Not having enough or having too much of anything in life can make it boring, unmotivated or you can get sick of it.

So the ideal is to be aware when is necessary to relax and go with the flow or get ready and attack the problem.

Mayra-17-What's the right age for marriage? Why?

Would you like to get married to me?

Nowadays, our society is getting rid of the old ideas about  the right age for marriage. A long  time ago, people had a wrong idea, they used to live following the rules that society imposed on them. For example, to get married before age thirty  because after that age women could get more complications to have babies. There are many women who are expecting to get married before this age because of that, but also many women and men are trying to get to a better financial situation even if they are single or have a partner to get ready for marriage.

Each culture has different ideas about the perfect age for marriage. People are changing their minds and are getting married when they feel  ready for that. I consider that there isn't a right age for marriage. There are many aspects of  life that people are looking for. People have different ideas  about getting married. For some of them it is really easy to stablish the age that they want to get married; others think more in financial terms such as  having secure financial situation before  getting married because they want to have a better life with their partner.

Maybe many of us  want to get married between twenty four and twenty eight, but when they're in that age, they realize that they aren't ready for it. Other people  get married without thinking about what will happen with their future and many times after that they regret it.

I consider there isn't a right age for marriage. It depends on each one of us, about our thoughts and feelings and what we want for the rest of our life. People should make their decisions when they feel ready to answer this huge question: " would you like to get married to me?"...

If you have an option, would you like to live in the past/present/future?

There is a hard question to think about in your whole life. Which phase of your life was the best? Which part of life would you like to live now? Well, I have been living in my present and I believe that my past has been done. I have made up my mind about it, because I've chosen to live at the present time. Maybe I have made a mistake, maybe I couldn't fix something that I did in the past, but my question is… Why I have to spend my time to think about the past? I'm living now, the present. I was wasting my time thinking about my future, wondering what is going to happening and why Should I do to feel prepared for the future, but I just realized that you cannot plan your life. You just have to follow your destiny and enjoy the exactly moment that you’re living now. However there are some tips for you try to concentrate in your present and enjoy the best phase of your life: Now!

Focus on whatever you are doing: If you are working, walking, talking, chilling out, drinking, try to concentrate at this moment, enjoy your friends, family, talk with them, give them a little of your humour and laugh together. Smile is the most important gift that you could give for someone. It’s free and you can use every time.

Just breathe. Take a time to think about yourself. Relax and try to concentrate in breathing. Get a very deep breath, through your nose, as deep as you can. Listen to the air moving into your body, and feel your lungs swell.

Listen to the music of the world: Pay attention about the birds, ocean, and natural places, take a time to stay alone and try to stay in the exactly moment that you’re in a beautiful place. Enjoy the view, Enjoy it. Think about you; think about what you are doing to be a better person. The moment is all around you.

Be a donor. Help people who need your help. Give them something that you have and you appreciate. Try to go out to visit poor, homeless people, or helping victims of natural disasters. Learn with them, they have much more things to teach you than you think and you can't be sensitive to those kinds of opportunities unless you're living in the moment.

Be Thankful. Be grateful to be here, to be able to talk, to walk, to dance, to eat, to do simple things that you never ever had paid attention that you were able to do before. The best things in your life are made of simple things.

Sometimes you start to get a busy life, working, studying and we forget to do simple things in their life. Don’t be a perfect person, just try to do your best in your best way.

Watch this video and try to concentrate:

Julia - What is the right age for marriage? Why?

There isn't exactly a right age to get married. Some people tie the knot at a really young age and some others will never get through that until they reach middle age. Marriage doesn't have to be the well-known formal celebration with both parts signing a contract though; it can be just two people who love each other and decide to settle down. It all depends if people are willing to share their lives with their loved ones.

However, times are changing. Marriages don't seem to last as much as they did before. In the past, when a young couple got married, it tended to last longer than nowadays. Divorce has become more accepted and some people get married for the second time and seem to be happier. They realize how unprepared or immature they had been before and give themselves a second chance to live a happy life with someone else.

It all depends on how prepared both parties are. There must be mutual trust and love and they both need to be ready for that. Before they make their final decision, it is necessary that they think it through and try to visualize what their future life would be like. 

Jude-12-Marriage age: The time ready for commitment.

The time ready for commitment

Yeah! I am married to a woman who likes pocket monster!

 Six years ago, two of my friends got married in their late teens. Two are a couple and I know them from middle school. That was a real shock to teachers, friends and adjacent schools in my neighborhood. When you go into this story deeply, this is not just a simple story. 

 During middle school, after few months date they were into each other and eventually they had love deeply at such an early age. Unfortunately, the pregnancy test showed blue line. Both were in panic and let their parents know. Parents of the man recommended girl and her parents to abolish a baby but it was no use because the girl was really enthusiastic religious christian. 

Marriage seems possibly the happiest and hardest event in people's life. Before people get married, they consider countless things; social statue, family   

Mayra-16-past, present or future

Retuning to the past

If I had an option I would like to live in the past...

For me the past is the exact time that I would have liked to live in, also I would have liked to live in different eras,because hundreds of years   created all that we know now. Through time, every era developed its own characteristics, each one had an essential characteristic that made the difference from other eras. If I had lived in that time, I would have met a lot of important and amazing people such as, writers, painters, musics, and so on.   

I would have been a witness of all development of magnificent creations and I would have had many opportunities to see how the time was changing. I would have liked listening to the  sound of the first locomotive, the ship or any kind of machines that was invented. I could have looked at all stunning pictures that were painted   even I could have appreciated all the structures that are still the most important and admired for all people in different places in all over the world at the present.

The style of life was different and I would have liked to wear all kinds of clothing, to see and learn about where many things came from. I would have liked to witness  the changes in life style of people when they invented  a lot of important things and see how all that helped them to continue creating more and more inventions. Inventions that we are still using and admiring nowadays.

I would have liked to experiment with all the revolutions that allowed our present to become possible.

Julia #1 - Past, Present, Future

If I could choose anytime to live, I'd probably choose to live in the past. Even though nowadays we are technologically more advanced and some minorities are now getting more space, the idea of seeing with my own eyes and experiencing the old lifestyle is something that I'm really interesting in.

World War II is something that I have always liked to read about, so I would probably choose to live in that period. When the American men started to fight at the war, some companies (specially the ones in charge of building airplanes and equipment for combat) were in need of workers. Since the men were sent to the battlefields, women started to be hired to work on what was then known as "man's jobs". I would like to work at those factories and see what women at that time had to say and they used to think about, since they were never given much space to do it.

Maybe, the main reason why I'd choose to live during a war period is because that way I would be able to compare my life now and the life I'd have then. Sometimes we don't appreciate our lives and we think everything is too hard. In my opinion, living during in a hard period would teach me to deal with problems and keep going, because there are worse things in life.

Another aspect is the cultural differences. The kind of music they used to listen to, the movies, the books and  how they used to behave. Even though at that time there wasn't as many medical advances or much space to be an independent woman, I'd really like to be part of that for some time.

Dayeong -1- Past, Present or Future

If someone ask me "which date would you like to live in?", I will say future. A lot of people are wondering  about what would happen in the future, how their life look like and how much the future is different comparing to present. 

When I imagine our future like 50, 100 years later or more, our life would be totally changed. Our life will be more automatical and convenient than now. For instance, Technic about everything such as electric appliances and social networking will be developed more than now. Then we won't have to work or study very hard because new machines could take on our duty instead of us. We won't need to wait for long time when we do something and our moving time from here to somwhere would be short, thanks to flying cars or new vehicles which doen't exist now. Also we would have totally different ways of social networking. I can't imagine how the social networking would be changed, but I'm sure it will be absolutely new. Our living space also could be built very differently, even we could live in the water, underground and space.

My imagination makes me really exited and curious about future. We know not only our past by record of history, lots of historic sites and remains, but also present because it's now. Anybody can imagine about our future whatever they want, but nobody can't decide our future. Nobody knows our exact future, they just predict it. That's why I would like to live in the future which we don't know exactly but can sure our life style will be more convenient and we will live in the high technological world.

Hilmi-2-Past

                                                            Past in the Future

Think about the past.. but everybody knows this is only a  dream  for us. Go to the past ? How ? okey dont forget impossible does not exist and I am writing this one from the past to you in the  future. there is some music I can hear them its the best music I have ever heard. Of course from the past. its not fast music, it has a meaning not like future. you can find some meaning in the music I listen  and I relax. the music with instruments. the technology hasn't taken over the music. it still with notes.. the voices of singers weren't changed by some equipment. you can hear the real voice. in the future you can change the song, the voice of singer everything. If there is a sound from the background, you can delete it. It's not real. I know some  people listen to  old music but they can't see the singer with their eyes.
Tomorrow I have to do a lot of thing you know MJ. I have to go Chicago because there is a Micheal Jordan's match. he is my hero and now I can watch him live. I know you are starting to  be jealous of me.
There is a life without developed technology. It's simple and more attractive. you can't be lazy in the past because there is no gadget helping you like the future. You have to work and the number  of  obese people is lower than the number in the future because they move more the future.
 They are not slave of computer. they dont play only computer. they start to do some sports when they are young. they are trying to play but in the future its hard to insist some child to do sports because there is a television and computer why does she or he want to do sports ? if he or she has a example in family they will start but they dont have any example its too hard.
Some wars happened in the past but its not meaning of the past is bad. i think in the future some wars will happen because of oils and technology which has been growing up. there are a lot of dangerous bombs in some countries. they are keeping it secretly. nobody can do anything or say anything to them but in the past it is not same there aren't very dangerous bombs. they cant destroy a country with one bomb. it is not justice. they have to fight with some guns.
somethings are good in the future but my heart will stay in the past and i have to come again future...

     

Skylor-2-Past, Present, or Future.

An Option for You to Choose Your Life

 If you had an option, when would like to live in: the past, at present, or in the future? If I had an option as well as you did, I would choose to live at the present moment.

  I have achieved several things that I have wanted to do, which makes me enjoy my life at present. I have been studying English in Canada
in the past 6 months and this is what I had wished ever since I was in the middle school. And I have got my lovely and gorgeous soul mate whom I have been together with for almost a year. Moreover, in 2011, I was able to enter the university that I had hoped for so long. I have studied English language and literature that I wanted to major in. I am healthy and I do not have any disorders so I can manage my life and move forward. My parents have overcome financial burdens eventually so they can afford to support me to study in Canada. I have owned many things to appreciate at the present time. That is why I do not want neither to go back in time nor to move forward to the future. I would like to live at present.

 Furthermore, I do not regret what I did in the past. When it comes to the future, I want to leave it out, which gets me more interested in propelling my present life forward. As a matter of course, it is impossible for people only to stay at present. So I am not hooked to the present time either. However, had I gone to the past to fix some problems, I would not have changed them as I did not in that time. Since human beings generally make mistakes although they will finally realize that they should not have done, it would be foolish of me regretting and thinking about the past. I had better reflect on my mistakes, and then concentrate on my given time at present in order not to make same mistakes.

 Putting it in a nutshell, were I given a chance to change my life time, I would choose to live at present. It is more worthy to keep living my life as it is at this moment than to put off my life for a time in the future or in the past. I am sincerely looking forward to meeting a variety of people and experiencing diverse things in the future.

Jude-11- Bullying. Can't you see a screaming little boy?!

Can't you see a screaming little boy?!

unlike this picture, essay can be very extreme and serious

 On March 20th,  2012 in Korea, a promising young lady killed herself. Bullying, serious social problem in the world nowadays caused this tragedy. The story is like this; there is a couple and the man in the couple is very strong, so many students are afraid of him in his high school. The girl friend of this guy also plays a bad role and its famous for her naughty behavior. This undesirable couple used the victim, already mentioned above, as their slave; they called her whenever they wanted and made her do what they wanted, they hit and insulted her at all times, and stole her money. Sadly, those are not the worst things they did to her. What's horribly worse, they forced her to sell sex and got money from that. Could you believe that? They were not gangsters but just high school students! Now, after I read the article about this tragedy, I couldn't help ask questions; 'what did the people around her do?' and 'why didn't she ask for help from others'?

  

  I assume that since the people near the victim were young, they might have been afraid of the bad couple. However, that is just an excuse and a superficial reason. If they didn't want to get directly involved, they could have reported it to teachers or parents in confidential ways. Now, what I really fear is that people do not have any will to help others. Apparently, people tend not to care about others and dislike being involved in an event not directly related to themselves.

tell on! you are doing the right thing!

 'None of my business' cannot be and shouldn't be your favorite sentence if you are concerned about people who are suffering from bullying. It happens everywhere; in the workplace, when someone is not performing well. In the school, when someone is lagging behind or old fashioned. In the field, when someone runs not as fast as the others. People are crying and you  are apparently seeing it! Take action! Tell people not to bully others. 'They are also precious sons/daughters of their parents, pal!'       

  

Mayra-15-Bullying

Discrimination: another face for Bullying

Nowadays, bullying is a controversial problem because it is a common situation in different social groups. There are many ways for bullying to show itself and this isn't only in the school. We can know that bullying has different faces, such as discrimination of race or gender. But which position we can take when we are witnessing or become the victims of this.

In my opinion, when I'm a witness of the bullying  I feel impotent and angry because I'm there and sometimes I can't do anything. I just stand there looking at people who have the problem without taking part. When that happens to me, my reaction is completely different. I have had a bad experience, for example, one day my friends and I were waiting to cross the street, when suddenly a guy said to us: "You are Latin people, I can recognize you from your faces. If I had a gun, I would shoot you...". That was so weird and all of us were in shock, nobody said anything and people around us just looked at us with  indifferent faces,  showing they don't care. That day, I realized that I have done the same thing when something similar happened and I was a witness of that.

I think, almost all people including  me want to do something, but we're afraid because of the reaction of people around us or simply we are in shock and we don't know what to do or how to react. But also there are many people who don't stay  silent and try to help the victims. When that happen almost everybody wants to help, we need to see that somebody else takes the risk to help too.

Now, we should be aware about this kind of bullying and take part of this because if we don't allow that, our interaction as a society will be better. It doesn't matter your race or gender. We're human beings and we must respect each other. 

Carmen- 4 - bullying? what would you do?

Bullying is not just a word, it's a life style of some people who don't care about the others

 Bullying is the use of force or coercion to abuse or intimidate others in different ways like physical power and even verbal insults because people who have this behaviour are against of some different cultures and other kind of different ideas, .this problem is been taken as a part of a life style for some people even kids and adults and the victims are kids and adults too.



This kind of behaviour has been always present in the whole world  but now everybody knows the meaning of this word " Bullying" and the awful things that it means. I think that years ago nobody did anything to stop it, because people maybe used to hide this problem because they felt embarrassed and maybe they used to think that they can't say anything because people could have thought that they are very sensitive or weak. Also, this problem used to be hide because people used to think that this kind of behaviour can not really affect the personality and self esteem of a person who was victim of  bullying when now we can notice that for sure it affects. 

BUT WAIT A MINUTE! SOME PEOPLE STILL THINKING THAT! AND THAT'S WHY BULLYING CONTINUES... we have to do something to stop this kind of behaviour!

Now you are thinking " but there are a lot of actions against of bullying like the PINK DAY that reminds us about the worst thing that is bullying for everyone". for sure is a really good action and the last week it takes place in Canada! 

But it doesn't ENOUGH!!! or you don't realized that everytime that some awful situation happened like the death of a teenager because of bullying , people start to do something? So, we can do the difference, imagine eachone of us doing an against bullying action everyday,for sure that definitely going to work! the following advice can let us achieve to stop or decrease bullying:

1. TELL AND NEVER HIDE A VIOLENCE SITUATION,If you know somebody who is victim of bullying or if you are a victim, tell he situation to someone i don't be embarrassed to ask for HELP!  if you hide a violence situation this going to kill as a person!.
2. ALWAYS THINK THAT THE MOST IMPORTANT PERSON IN THIS WORLD IS YOU! don't let others take advantage of you or make fun about your beliefs. no one have the right to make you feel bad!
3. HELP OTHERS DON'T LET THEM DIE, if you see someone is victim of bullying , go and try to protect him or her and also go for help never ignore the situation.

Let's do it ! ... we can do the difference!

Skylor-1-Bullying?! What would you do?

 Stop Bullying!

These days,  bullying is a very important and critical social problem all aroud the world. We have been facing  this problem for years, whereas we have not tried to figure out and fix it for young generation. I have been witnessing some friends who were bullied ever since I was in the middle school. Generally speaking, as I mentioned  the first time, young people are not that strong to cope with bullying in order to overcome this issue. But, If I saw somebody bullied again at school, I would like to stop people bullying that person.

   Firstly, I would like to know about the reason why people bully someone at school. I will ask them why they bully their precious friends. And then after I talk with them, I want to let them know what serious and severe personal problems this would  eventually lead to for the people being bullied. In my personal opinion, bullying does not occur without any reason. Nontheless, reasons for bullying are normally silly and ridiculous, such as race, colors, gender, sexaul orientation and even just no reason but obtainnig satisfaction for themselves. It is unacceptable for people to bully someone for these reasons. Therefore, after I listen to them and understand what causes them to act in this way, I will compel them to quit bullying  innocent people. If there were a sufficient reason, I would strongly suggest to them to use other methods dealing with that person, particulary talking with each other in person and finding some solution for  that matter.

 Secondly, I would like to speak to teachers and counsultants in school. Some people have doubts when it comes to telling them even though they are just witnesses. Moreover, they think that they would be able to ignore and overlook other people being bullied. It is definitely not a good approach with regards to consequences of bullying. Some of bullied students are most likely to contemplate committing suicide. There are several instances about  students in the past who have committed such an act due to  bullying. Even if letting teachers be conscious of friends whom are bullied could result in worse circumstances, I am willing to tell teachers in order to ban bullying.

 
Putting it in a nutshell, it is really significant and vital for students being bullied to be revealed to the public although it would make them ashamed, because it will forbid them to determined bad decisions at the end. I will tone up my voice and keep my head straight on stopping bullying, such as to restrict assaulters to quit bullying and let teachers know about this serious matter in school. The teachers may play great roles in anti-bullying.

Larissa - 9 - Bullying?! What would you?

Bullying 

One of the most serious issues nowadays is bullying. But before I talk about what I would  do if I experience someone being bullied, I need to explain what is bullying.

Bullying is the use of force or coercion to abuse or intimidate others. The behavior can be habitual and involve an imbalance of social or physical power. It can include verbal harassment or threat, physical assault or coercion and may be directed repeatedly towards particular victims, perhaps on grounds of race, religion, gender, sexuality, or ability.

Now, that already explained we can move on. A bully (term used for the person who does it) usually wants to call attention and have the need of being popular by hurting people physically or making jokes about people. In my opinion, if I ever see someone being bullied I would try to fix the situation by telling someone with more power than me. For example, In a school. One student bullying the other, the best thing to do is to report it to the teacher, coordinator and in the last case to the principal therefore the competent authority can do something about it.

Bullying has had so many cases and some of them have not had a happy ending. One example of this was the case of Amanda Todd, a Vancouverite Canadian that suffered from  cyber bullying. This kind of bullying happens on the environment of the Internet. 

What happened with Amanda was the following. She was convinced by someone on the Internet to show her breasts and then this same person blackmailed her to make a show otherwise this individual would spread this picture to all of her friends. Amanda had moved to another house and to another school and but she couldn't get away from the bullying. Amanda committed suicide on September 7th, 2012.

The story of Amanda is not unique. How many Amanda's are out there? People who suffer from bullying and don't know how to deal with. Campaigns, awareness education and programs are some  solutions for this very  issue in discussion.

Bullying is not going to change overnight. It takes some time and a lot of effort. Let's work on this so in a near future we can live respectfully with each other. 

Mayra -14-Limit wealth to $100 millions

Limit wealth to $100 millions

Limiting wealth to $100 millions would do the difference between different statuses in our society. I think that this isn't the solution for people who have more that this amount. There isn't a reasonable amount that we can say it’s enough for somebody, but when we hear that somebody has billions; almost all of us think that it is ridiculous. Also this depends on our perspective, everybody has different opinions and ways to see this situation. Some of us could say that establishing a certain amount everything would be better, everybody would have limits for their wealth and everything would be fair. But this isn't enough, our society will continue being  unfair, because it doesn't matter how much they have,  they will still be rich people, that's the true. If the rich people would have a limit for their wealth, they found an alternative to make more money. Limiting wealth would be just a way to feel that nobody can have more. This just cover that feeling of inferiority that people usually feel when hear about rich people who spend a lot of money or give it away.

But who can sure about to impose a limit for wealth is the solution, we need to be a society aware about what is happening nowadays. Limiting wealth for rich people don't allow us to think that everything would be simple, we appreciate the situation in different ways, we don't need to impose limits for that people. We should worry about things that concern more importance, such as help people or simply being a better person day by day.

Jude. 10. Cell phone. I won't make my child the ugly duck.

I won't make my child the ugly duckling.

 Giving a phone to a young child has been very controversial for a decade and smart phones have added fuel to this. Possible concerns from the people against the idea to give cell phones to children are: its addictive nature, its physical and mental harmfulness, and the fact it isolates people. These are definitely some factors that we have to consider in advance and not issues to be afraid of, before we give our child a cell phone. What if parents don't buy the child a cell phone? Wouldn't they be the only ugly duckling among a lot of 'Galaxy's? If you are still considering buying your child a cell phone, here I have some tips to help your decision. I swear I wasn't bribed by your son, Luis from Mexico. Oops!

Buy me a cell phone! Otherwise I will skip dinner!

                                  

 First, buy a cell phone for the safety of your child! A cell phone is a great tool that enables parents to contact their child without any limitation in time or distance; parents can know if their child is fine at all times when they want to know by calling or using GPS. The children who feel that they are under parents' observation and affection might not want to go inappropriate places. Cell phone prevents your child from danger and keep them safe. 

  

  Secondly, don't let your child be the ugly duckling. There should be an understanding of generation gap between parents and children. How would your child feel when he/she has no cell phone but the rest have? That wouldn't be great. Your child will not be able to have common interest with his/her friends and finally will give up to be a part of the group. Since they are too young, they do not understand the 'difference' and bullying caused by lack of unification often happens. 

 Finally, cell phone is a compact gadget of many gadget. I would like to call cell phone 'genie lamp.' I use a cell phone frequently for good purposes; for example, to listen to music, to take notes, to look for a word, to amuse myself, to find out time, to read articles and to learn interesting facts.  

PHILANTHROPISTS, THE BEST EXAMPLES OF SUCCESFUL

Do you remember when you were a kid and wanted to be a rich person so you could have everything you wanted?...For sure you remember and maybe sometimes you think  " if I were a rich person, I could have everything I want and would help poor people ", but the real fact is when people become rich, Several of them  forget the last thing they could do "HELP OTHER PEOPLE", and I say that is because people think that you can do anything you want with money which is very  superficial.  so you just think about the fancy things you can have and the best ways to make money. 

Otherwise, several rich people  prefer making money but then giving a part of their wealth as a donation so they can help others; to motivate this kind of action, there is an initiative "The Giving Pledge" that tries to convince the world's richest people to donate at least half of their wealth to charity.This initiative started  by Warren Buffett and Bill and Melina Gates, the most famous philanthropists.

Philanthropy, means "love of humanity" in the sense of caring for, nourishing, developing, and enhancing "what it is to be human"

Bahar - #6 - Giving Away $

Giving Away What You Have

     It has become popular lately that famous and well recognized people in the world, to give away big amounts of money for making a better world. It is such a generous move that not everyone would tend to volunteer for.

     We have a saying in Turkish which can be translated as : 'The shroud has no pocket'. If one is aware of this fact, there would not be any conflict about money so people would make money only for their daily expenses and not worry about the future, knowing that money remains here and cannot be taken away with them after death.

     In my opinion, it is very hard making the decision of giving away all the money that belongs to us. Because, selfishly, that is the money we earned at the end of our efforts. These people who have decided to give away their money either are so lonely or have dedicated themselves to the world.

     For me, the best way to help the world to become a better place is to make donations while living and leave the rest of what I have to a specific organization that needs to be helped. This idea might seem to be selfish, or I might be a control freak as I want to see where my money is going to and if it is being used for useful reasons.

     To sum up, money is important and it opens every door but there must be something else to save the world such as intangible assets. Then the rest follows.

Luis - 13 - See You Later My Vancouver Friends !!

See You Later My Vancouver Friends !!

This is my last blog and also my last day here in the College. I remember in the beginners of 2012 when I went to expo conferences about studying in Canada. When I looked the opportunity to travel, for me it was delightful, because one of my goals was to learn and improve my skills of English, So, I figured and prepared all the things to come here.

I arrived in Vancouver on September 3th, 2012 and that date is something that I'll never forget, because, it was when the adventure started and the best events came to me. I had the opportunity to meet and make friends from all the world, with different cultures and traditions.We shared moments that are very important for me, for example, my Birthday, Halloween, Christmas, New Year and Valentine's day. And not only those days, we create each moment something awesome. We had traveled and done sightseeing of Vancouver, for example, Deep Cove, Grouse Mountain, Whistler, Lynn Canon, etc. All those moments is one of the best treasures in my life.

Now, I only can say thank you friends for sharing a little part of your life with me. You are very important to me and when I'm going to travel to my country, I will travel with all of you in my heart. Now you are part of my life and you can be sure that you have a friend in Mexico. All the pictures will be near to my bed, and when I go to sleep or when I wake up, I'll see the picture and I'll remember all those moments with you. So, Keep in touch with me friends and see you later.

denise-limit wealth

I don't support the idea that 'there should be a limit of wealth'. There are some other motives which push us to achieve our goals but money is one of the most important one which triggers our needs of being successful. It's impossible to survive without money and when we think about the dreams which come true with money, then we try harder to do our best.

If there is a limit of wealth then economies grow slowly. Rich people make an investment which helps economies to grow and also provide people job opportunities. If businessmen think that they are rich enough and stop investing then there will be economic crises and unemployment problems.

There are different ways to use money. Some companies like Microsoft have charities. It is a good way to thank the people who have helped the company to make profit and also do something for the country. Instead of considering to limit the wealth, society and governments should push the rich people and companies to do something good for the World.

Good bye Luis

Today cooking class: How to say good bye to our friend Luis !

1. Just choose a friend who is leaving soon !

 Friend name: Luis Edmundo Partida Garduño

2. Let's say about ingredients.To explain about the friend. How do you know him ? 

I met him at Pera College for a month ago. He's from Mexico. He always sits opposite to me.

So, I can see him all the time in the class. I think he is a hardworking and outgoing person. Moreover, he is really kind to people. He gave us some candies on Vanlentine Day. What a Gentle GUY ! That's why he has made lots of friends in other places as well as at Pera College. He likes listening  to  music becuase when I see him, he usally enjoy listening to music in class.

3. How to prepare ! How did you make good memories with him?

For me, Actually I just hung out with him once last Saturday. We went to a resturant to enjoy his farewell party. We were supposed to go to a Mexican restuarant. However, there were no seats for 7 people. We just moved to another place. After that, we got some food and beer while talking. We talked  for almost 3 hours. It was good for us and we got close to each other. Furthermore, we took a picture together today and he gave us some candies again ! I'm so sorry becuase I haven't done anything for him yet. So, that's why I've decided to write a letter for him. I'll be really happy if he enjoyed this letter.

4. Let's finish the recipe. To tell the friend what you want to say for the last time. 

Luis, I'm so glad that you were my friend in class. I'm going to miss you so much.

Don't forget me and Please, remember "really?" "Ah-ha?" hahaha I think you know what ! :) 

5. Let's say Good bye,Luis!

Good bye, Luis! Take care and safe flight!

I wish you good luck. Keep in touch ! :) 

Mayra-13- Children & Cellphones

Empowering Young Children

Nowadays, parents have many worries about their children. They are looking for different ways to keep in touch with them; one of that ways is giving them a cell phone. But there are many implications about this. Using a cellphone has a lot of advantages and disadvantages. 

The positive side about using cell phone is that parents are aware that they need to educate their kids and teach them how and when is convenient use it. If they do that their kids can communicate with them easier and faster just doing a call or sending a message, and the most important the kids learn about advanced devices. Also the cell phones have a lot of tools that they can use it such as Internet, games and many apps that can help them to do different activities. For example Internet helps them to search information even if the parents want to know where their kids are, there is an app that helps them to do this. 

However, the negative side is that parents can’t control all that kids do while they aren't with them. The kids can use the cellphone while they are in the school even they waste time doing things without importance; and the most important they are expose to danger on Internet. 

Giving the cellphone to the children is useful but also it gives them the power to do whatever they want when a old person isn't with them.The parents are empowering their young children into a world of technology where they are able to look for bad and good things just with a simple click on the cellphone. 

Cellphones need responsibility and children don't have it at all!

Nowadays we are living in a technological and consumer world, where most of the people in the world enjoy and see  tech items as an  important thing in their life, so they spend big amounts of money to get those gadgets. That's why it is now  usual to see lots of people with their smartphones in the streets and  even in nightclubs or in  restaurants where we're supposed  to go and  share our time and talk with our friends or family.

The truth is that we are caught in the smartphones world and that's why several of us can't live  without our cellphones for a day. I mean,  cellphones have become essential in life as water or maybe even more than that. But have you ever asked  yourself, how   your life used to be before you began to use cellphones?. So maybe it was better in some ways but also less easier than now! ...

Do you realize that we are born when cellphones began their way to become famous in the world?.. so maybe we can remember that in our childhood and also in our youth we spent time playing and talking with our friends, also calling our friends to their houses and having good real moments in restaurants ,but now we can see that children and teenagers use smartphones everyday at all times and for sure that's because they have more availability to access to technology but it doesn't mean that children have to use it how they want and in the moment they want because technology needs responsibility and children don't have it at all and that's because they are in other step of their life where is assumed that they have to explore their ability for talk, for think and also for search by their self and then they can be able to use this kind of technology that makes the life more easier.

The main thing here is that we have to realized that we have to allow the children live as we lived when we were their age and allow them to feel the beauty of live without cellphones because is obviusly that in a moment they have to use cellphones because is part of our life but first allow children know that the life is more than just text a message and find things in a very easy way.