viernes, 26 de febrero de 2010

E-mai: Advantages and Disadvantages



E-mail is one of today's most utilized forms of communication; it has many advantages ; first of all it's very convenient, in addition it saves time and finally it makes it very easy to stay in touch.

It's convenient; specially, because e-mails may be sent any time of day or night , likewise you don't have to worry about interrupting someone when you send email. It helps you save time because it arrives inmediately and you can distribute information quickly to many people for the time it takes to email one person. Also it makes it easy to stay in touch, since you can write to your friends easily and it's the cheapest way to communicate.

On the other hand, despite being very helpful and full of advantages , e-mails also have some disadvantages; for one thing it's less personal, another reason is that it's easy to make a mistake and last of all you need equipment in order to send an e-mail.
It's less personal because you can't see the person's face or reaction when reading the e-mail, you have to be careful with humor or sarcasm, since it's easy for someone to take your message the wrong way. Another disadvantage is the fact that it's very easy to make a mistake like sending messages to the wrong person or sending private/ confidential information, another disadvantage is the need for equipment in order to send the e-mail you need either a fast computer or a smartphone and both of these can be quite expensive; there's also a need for an internet connection, nowadays it's very common o have wi-fi signal in most places but sometimes when you need it the most an internet connection is not available.

jueves, 25 de febrero de 2010

"Segunda Mitad Del Noveno"


"Segunda Mitad Del Noveno" is a song of the artist Ruben Blades of his cd´s "Cantares Del Subdesarrollo". In this song Blades explain in a way very interesting the reality life on the Latin America Countries, he use the baseball sport to the analogy because is extremely important to the Latin American people also to apply situations that everyday are present in our life’s where we have the power to take decisions to channel our life’s the reasons is the fear or obstacle, we wait to the correct person to resolve our problems and we have the capacity to resolve the problems in our life’s.

Exactly that is too happened on the Latin America Countries, where we wait the person to take the correct decision to guide the countries to develop but we are the responsible to make the best decision to happen that. The conclusion is that the message to transmit the wonderful song is to make progress without obstacle or difficulties, we face up to the fear and we have a great successfully and find the way to take the development.

jueves, 18 de febrero de 2010

The Three Part Paragraph



Hellen Keller said; “Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of overcoming it.” This can be seen all around us. Many people have faced great obstacles in their lives but have found ways to overcome and actually benefit from these obstacles. For example, Greg Barton, the 1984, 1988, and 1992 U.S Olympic medalist in kayaking, was born with a serious disability. He had club feet, his toes pointed inward, and as a result, he could not walk easily. Even after a series of operations, he still had limited mobility. Even so, Greg was never defeated. First, he taught himself to walk, and even to run .Then, he competed on his high school running team. He knew, though, he would never become an Olympic runner, so he looked for other sports that he could play. Happily, he discovered kayaking, a perfect sport for him because it required minimal leg and foot muscles. Using his upper body strength, he was able to master the sport. Finally, after many years of training and perseverance, Greg made the 1984 Olympic team. He says of his accomplishments, “Each step of the road has been made easier by looking just as far as necessary – yet not beyond that.” In short, even though that road was paved with obstacles, he was able to overcome them and achieve the impossible

DISCUSSING A 3 PART PARAGRAPH
TOPIC SENTENCE
“Hellen Keller said; “Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of overcoming it.” This can be seen all around us. Many people have faced great obstacles in their lives but have found ways to overcome and actually benefit from these obstacles.”
SUPPORTING SENTENCES
Developing details
What is (was) the person famous for?
He had limited mobility. But even so, he taught himself to walk, and even to run and finally, after many years of training and perseverance he made the Olympic team and became an Olympic medalist in kayaking.
What did this person achieve?
He was an Olympic athlete and medalist despite having a physical disability
What did this person have to overcome? How did he or she overcome them?
He had club feet, his toes pointed inward, and as a result, he could not walk easily. Even after a series of operations, he still had limited mobility. And as a result could never be an Olympic runner
To overcome it he discovered kayaking, a perfect sport for him because it required minimal leg and foot muscles. Using his upper body strength, he was able to master the sport. And after many years of training and perseverance he became an Olympic athlete.
What personal characteristics helped this person overcome his or her obstacles?
His perseverance and willpower
CONCLUDING SENTENCE
“In short, even though that road was paved with obstacles, he was able to overcome them and achieve the impossible”

LANCE AMSTRONG


Lance Armstrong was born on September 18 of 1971 in Plano, Texas. He is a professional road racing cyclist and became famous because he survived testicular cancer; a tumor had metastasized to his brain and lungs in 1996 and after that, he has won “Tour de France” during seven consecutive years being the first man to do so and becoming a legend of Cycling. His cancer treatments included brain and testicular surgery and extensive chemotherapy, and his prognosis was originally poor, less of 40 percent to survive. He chose a treatment to avoid the lung toxicity associated with the drugs and that may have saved his cycling career. In 1998 he made a comeback in Paris, Niza with bad results with the U.S Postal Team. But that year he won in Luxemburg and had a great performance in “La Vuelta a España”. Later in 1999 he started with his victory of seven consecutive wins in “Tour de France”. Showing that faith is the last thing we should lose, and that every obstacle can be overcome with perseverance and hard work

viernes, 12 de febrero de 2010

Persona Poems

Heberto...
short, funny,active, intelligent
brother of Maryhe and Maria
who loves soccer, family and sleeping
who is afraid of the sea, losing and being blind
who wants to see Real Madrid, Ricardo Arjona and a world cup final
resident of my house
...Bravo

viernes, 5 de febrero de 2010

Making Sentences and Paragraphs

Short sentences:

Very good
Apples are a fruits very good for a camp day

Different colors
The apples can be green or red

Juice
You can make apple juice

Paragraphs:

Apples are fruits very good for the health. They contain vitamins and looks great. We can pick between 7500 varieties of apple and they can be red, green and yellow and we can make apple juice’s or compote and tart all year it’s healthy and tasty to everybody

jueves, 4 de febrero de 2010

THE WRITING PROCESS: EDITING

Editing is check for grammar, spelling, punctuation and capitalization

*GRAMMAR: Concentrate first on verbs. For example, if you have written about a past event in your life, you will need to check that the verbs are in past tense. Once you have checked the verbs, you should check carefully those aspects of grammar that you personally have most difficulty with.

*SPELLING: When you read though your writing, you may stop at words that you have spelled incorrectly, and you should check them in the dictionary or ask someone.
If you are writing on a computer, you should run the spell check. This will help you correct most of your mistakes


*PUNCTUATION: You must check to make sure you have not written any run-on sentences or sentence fragments. In correcting these problems, you usually need to change the punctuation. You can check to make sure that other aspects of your punctuation are correct. For example: Have you punctuated correctly sentences that contain direct speech? Are your end punctuation marks correct? Have you used commas correctly?

*CAPITALIZATION: Check that your sentences all start with a capital letter. You also need capital letters for all proper nouns.