This guy's in love with you

You see this guy, this guy's in love with you
Yes I'm in love who looks at you the way I do
When you smile I can tell we know each other very
well

How can I show you I'm glad I
got to know you 'cause
I've heard some talk they say you think I'm fine
Yes im in love and what
I'd do to make you mine
Tell me now is it so don't let me be the last to know

My hands are shakin' don't let my heart keep
breaking 'cause
I need your love, I want your love
Say you're in love, in love with this guy, if not
I'll just die

Tell me now is it so don't let me be the last to know
My hands are shakin' don't let my heart keep
breaking 'cause
I need your love, I want your love
Say you're in love, in love with this guy, if not
I'll just die

Nineteen Eighty four

This is a Satirical English Novel written by George Orwell in 1948. George Orwell (pseudonym of: Eric Arthur Blair) was born in India in 1903, he studied at Eton College with a scholarship. He was a member of the Imperial Police in India where he was sent to Birmania from 1922 to 1927. He lived in Paris and London. He was an english writer very politician, even he wrote a fable about Stalin's treason to the Russian Revolution.

George Orwell died from tuberculosis in Juanary 1950.

How far from reality this novel is?
Today in a world full of comunications media and the power of information, is easy to know the answer. The government knows you more from you than you believe. For example, when you receive a phone call from a specific company, they know all your personal information, you might ask yourself , how is this possible?.

On the other hand, we have now in our city, several cameras watching us 24 hours 7 days a week (they call it security), so our privacy and liberty is being invade. So in a way, the BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING US.

The power of comunications media we cannot control, we must accept what TV tells us, in terms of news, information, religion, education, etc. we must be aware of it.

There are several movies that try to entertain us with this topic: V For Vendetta, Enemy Of the State, Matrix, Brazil. Someone said that movies are a reflection from reality, because if some director do something really new with a new idea, a new picture never seen, he will be a genius. I say this comment because 1984 was released as a movie. Even there is a kind of funny situation, because in 1984, Winston Smith (John Hurt) is the subject ,but in V for Vendetta, Adam Sutler (John Hurt) is the dictator.

I think every human being seek the real freedom, it is a natural needs or impulse, so in this case Winston Smith (39 years old, fearful, lonely person, low selfsteem and unhappy with this system) is not the only person who does not have this instinct. Nobody like being controlled by other people, sons and daughters, employees and every people want to rule their lives by themselves.

For instance, in this novel, there are three empires: Oceania, Eurasia and Eastasia which can be associate with Europe, Asia and Oceania. Oceania Empire, which we see in this novel, is controlled by only one party, which ideology is called INGSOC (english socialism). This party is very strong and try to impose an absolute control over their citizens.

Nowadays every country, every government have Ministries, the same as in this empire "Oceania". We have the Ministry of Truth, wich concerned itself with news, entertainment, education, and the fine arts. The Ministry of Peace, which concerned itself with war. The Ministry of Love, which maintained law and order. And The Ministry of Plenty, which was responsible for economic affairs. Their names, in Newspeak (a new language stablished by the empire) Minitrue, Minipax, Miniluv, and Miniplenty.
I think this Ministries are a kind of contradiction because each of them regulate, concerned or try to do it, as opposite.

For instance The Ministry of peace are concerned with war, so to keep peace you have to make war. The Ministry of truth deals with communication media, so we must accept all the information that this Ministry gives us, as the real truth.


This novel is a great one, because it mixes elements from reality with fiction. It shows life of those people who live under a totalitarian power. This novel, I think, it shows us a dark hope because although Winston fights against the system, give us some hope, he was tortured and after that he died, so his fight was in vain because the power of the system increased, in dispite of Winston's dreams.

R.Flores.

Las Zapatillas

Desde la edad primitiva el hombre ha necesitado cubrir sus pies con algún tipo de calzado para protegerlo de heridas y el frío. Durante la evolución del hombre éste diseño zapatos, sandalias, botas y zapatillas.

Las zapatillas no sólo son hoy en día un artículo deportivo sino que es una prenda de vestir que se rige por los cánones de la moda.

Las zapatillas fueron inventadas en 1950 por el estadounidense por Phillip Nike, quien ante la necesidad de crear un calzado más cómodo que el zapato, experimentó con materiales derivados del caucho y cuero para dar forma a un calzado más liviano.

En un principio, Phillip, diseñó una suela de caucho la cual tenía los mismos dibujos de los neumáticos de los camiones de su ciudad natal, Ohio. Luego se dio cuenta que esta suela de caucho era muy gruesa y muy pesada para el modelo de zapatillas que quería diseñar, el cual debía ser una prenda de vestir cómoda y liviana para usarlas diariamente.

Con el tiempo Phillip Nike desarrolló un derivado del caucho mucho más liviano y flexible, este material era el poliuretano, pero sólo le quedaba diseñar el dibujo de la suela. Para esto, Nike puso una placa de poliuretano en una waflera, la cual quedó perfecta.

Nike se contactó con un zapatero para que diseñase la capellada de la zapatilla, una vez lista, viajo con su diseño a Japón. Los japoneses compraron su idea y licenciaron su producto, desde ahí la historia de las zapatillas ya es conocida.

Las zapatillas se componen de una suela de poliuretano, una capellada de cuero, un refuerzo posterior para el talón y generalmente cordones para sujetarlos al pie.

La industria del calzado diseñó tanto zapatillas para hombres como para mujeres, zapatillas para casi todos los deportes olímpicos y zapatillas para disciplinas deportivas especiales, como el motocross y el skateboarding.

Cada modelo de zapatillas es distinto de otra, las hay de caña alta y baja, con una suela delgada o gruesa, con cordones o con cierre de velcro.

Las zapatillas se diferencian del zapato y la bota, porque éstas es mucho más liviana e informal, además que se puede usar durante todo el año.

Un ejemplo de zapatillas conocidas a nivel mundial es Nike, nombre dado por su creador (Phillip Nike), otra marca de calzado deportivo es Converse, pero ésta se dedica más a diseñar calzados para el basketball, conocido es su modelo “Chuck Jones”, el cual fue el primer diseño de zapatilla para esta disciplina deportiva.

A partir de la creación de Nike, la competencia de la industria de las zapatillas dio vida a empresas como Puma, Adidas, Converse y en nuestro país a North Star.

En conclusión podemos decir que hoy en día las zapatillas son el calzado más usado y vendido en el mundo, pasarán los años y las zapatillas seguirán de moda, sin duda serán un referente en la historia para el calzado del futuro.

Squeeze me Macaroni - Mr. Bungle

I wanna lock Betty Crocker in the kitchen
And knock her upper during supper
Clutter up her butter gutter
Hostess Ding Dong wrapped an eggroll around my wong
While Dolly Madison proceded to ping my pong
Your Milky Way is M'n'M in your britches
And I'll tell you Baby Ruth it looks mighty delicious
Keep blowing my gum, cuz here I come
I'm gonna get you all sticky with my Bubble Yum

Knick knack paddywhack and give your dog a bone, baby

I was givin' some head to some french bread
It was a four course orgy on the spread of my bed
French kissin' french fries in my Fruit of the Looms
I get deeper penetration with a fork and a spoon

I got yogurt meat loaf smeared all over my ass
I stick my weiner in two buns and and then give it the gas
Sour cream from my spleen into Levi's jeans
Gonna bust the seams with my refried beans

Ronald McDonald just loves to be fondled
With Big Mac he'll fuck it like a Chicken McNugget
Colonel Sanders wants to goose Granny's loose caboose
He's gonna give her a boost with that Kentucky fried juice
Sooper doop poop scoop, loop de loop, chicken coop
Shoot some hoop, top sirloin from the groin
Topped with dick cheese, sneeze, wheeze,
From the skeez disease, wooi!

Take a dump, baby, squirt some gravy
Pour some sugar on me, honey, make it brown & runny
Give a little Flavor Flav, back from the grave
Gonna burn some toast, pump some humpin' rump roast

Knick knack paddywhack, jump in the sack, in fact
Jerk the smack and crack Jack from the back
Bananarama or ramabanana
Fuckin' Barry Manilow on the Copa Cabana

Squeeze me macaroni, slop your face with my bologna

You gotta syphon the spinach, you gotta cream the corn
Sperm scrambles the eggs and a meal is born
Cookin' like a beginner, but I'm goin' up in her
I had Fritos for lunch I'm havin' bush for dinner
Chef Boyardee and the Three Muskateers
Shove Charleston Chews in their rears like queers
"Holy moly, guacamole!" said my Chips Ahoy
I'm gonna pinch a ravioli on the Pillsbury dough boy

Knick knack paddywhack and give your dog a bone, baby

We came to pottie...we came to pottie down your throat

Gerard Manley Hopkins

Pied Beauty

Glory be to God for dappled things--

For skies of couple-colour as a brinded cow;

For rose-moles all in stipple upon trout that swim;

Fresh-firecoal chestnut-falls; finches' wings;

Landscape plotted and pieced--fold, fallow, and plough;

 And all trades, their gear and tackle and trim.

All things counter, original, spare, strange;

Whatever is fickle, freckled (who knows how?)

With swift, slow; sweet, sour; adazzle, dim;

He fathers-forth whose beauty is past change:

                                     Praise Him.

My Role as a Teacher

When I began to study English Pedagogy in 2004 at Universidad de Las Americas, I was very enthusiastic in terms of acquiring new knowledge, specially in English.

The first year (2004) was so easy to me because I had studied english before, for two years, at Universidad Cardenal Raul Silva Henriquez (ex Blas Cañas), so I was familiarized with the University's life. In that year almost all of the subjects were related to English such as Linguistics, Grammar and Phonetics.

In the second year (2005) I had my first subjects related to Education, I studied some behaviorism and developmental theories in Psicology, this was so fascinating because I could see which are the new directions in terms of Education and the new approaches in learning and teaching a foreing language.

The third year (2006) was much more interesting than the second one, because I could studied subjects related to how to manage a class and how to evaluate the students, how to make a test, also I did my first practice at school, this was so fascinating to me because I felt that I was doing what I wanted to be the rest of my life, a teacher.
But that year I realized that being a teacher is not only deliver contents to your students, is not knowing everything as an encyclopaedia, being a teacher is much more than that. I could see that in subjects such as Jefatura y Mediación Escolar and Orientación y Mediación de Conflictos Escolares, these subjects made me change my position to face the Pedagogy.

This year (2007) has been very special to me because apart from be the last year in the university, I have learnt a lot of things during this year like being a better person, in order to be the best educator in the future and try to improve the Chilean Education or at least give my efforts to do that, I found my real vocation this year, I really know what I want to be next years.
I don´t want to be an english teacher forever, I am considering to study other kinds of Educational fields such as Mediación Escolar or Orientación Educacional, because I feel very confortable and cofident with those kinds of subject.

In the future I will try to be the best teacher, I know there are some things to improve but I will face them with the same strength that I have. I will be worry about my students, I will be methodic and organized, I will keep my students' marks in order, I will try my students will be a better people in order to they change their future and make this country a powerful one in terms of Culture, Lifestyle and Education.

Education prevails, forever!!!

The Sneakers

From the primitive age, men have needed to cover their feet with some kind of shoes to protect them from wounds and cold. During men's evolution, he designed shoes, sandals, boots and sneakers, being the last one, the most popular footwear in the world.

The sneakers were invented in 1950 by the american Phillip Knight, who felt the necessity to create a footwear more confortable than shoes, he experimented with material derived from rubber and leather to give form to a lighter footwear.

Nike contacted with a shoemaker in order to he designs the sneakers' vamp, once ready, he travelled with his designs to Japan. The Japanese bought his idea and licensed his product, as the Japanese manufacture is very cheap, they began to produce several types of sneakers, which are sold around the world, most of the more popular sneakers' brands have their company in Japan, and from there, are exported to the whole world.

Because of its popularity, sneakers are the footwear that youth prefer, because sneakers are a kind of informal footwear than the shoes or boots, and much more practical at the time of deciding combinations with clothes, or the weather conditions.

The sneakers' sales are bigger than the sales of shoes or boots, because their price is cheaper than the rest of footwear, this is due to materials with sneakers are made are cheaper, which makes possible to industries to sell them in a good price without losing gains.

Nowadays, there are more sneakers' models than shoes or boots, and this is due to the great demand from the part of the consumers, they demand the industries to be innovating in the designs and also make them part of the fashion.

Sneakers' brands like Nike, Adidas, Puma, Reebok can spend million dollars in terms of publicity, because they get millions in sales, sneakers' brands choose the best sportmen and sportwomen to do commercials, well know ones are the adidas's commercials who recruited a famous soccer player, David Bekham, to promote his soccer sneakers, or Nike, which asked Ronaldinho to perform in their commercials, to these last ones the companies paid them million dollars in terms of fees.

Due to its popularity, sneakers are preferred by all the family, there is no family member who don't have a pair of sneakers, genenerally there are at least two pairs of sneakers per family member at home. The previous aspect is due to sneakers are not consider as luxury within the society, rather that is the most popular and more accessible footwear ever existed, because the market offers prices for all the pockets.

In conclusion we can say that nowadays sneakers are the top footwear in terms of wearing, sellings and popularity in the world, years will pass away and sneakers will continue fashionable and producing, without a doubt they will be a reference one in the history to the footwear of the future.

Hurricane Katrina

Hurricane Katrina was one of the most powerful hurricane, that caused 1.836 victims, in the history of the United States of America. Hurricane Katrina formed on August 23rd 2005 in the atlantic coast but also affected one part of the gulf coast that is to say states like New Orleans, Mississippi, Lousiana, Florida, Panhandle and Alabama . Katrina had strengthened to a category 3 storm in the Gulf of Mexico.
Hurricane Katrina caused damages counting in 75 thousand million dollars. Hurricane Katrina formed over The Islands of Bahamas on August 24th, and also attacked the City of Miami and Cuba.
A hurricane is a powerful storm that is formed in the sea and its winds can reach a velocity of 100 kilometres per hour, the temperature of the sea must be in a range of 27 -28 celcius degrees.
Hurricanes mainly appears in countries which climate is template and warm seas, that is the reason will be very strange to have a hurricane in South America.
Nowadays Hurricanes can be detected by satellites or meteorologic radars, for this reason people can be warned about 3 or 4 days before the storm formed in order to they can find a secure shelter to face this phenomeno.
Hurricane Katrina dissipated from the coast on August 31st,2005.
Hurricane Katrina wasn't the last hurricane that threated USA but it has been the most powerful ones.
Hurricane Rita was the following hurricane that attacked USA's coast on september 21st, 2005.

Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

Frankenstein as a Romantic Hero.

As we know, a Romantic Hero is a person who doesn't fix in the frame of society, he´s rejecting by society because of his ideas, behaviour or his appearance. But he doesn't fix in the society because he thinks different about some topics , different according to the norms and convection existing nowadays. He is an outcast, he generally lives outside the cities, in a hidden place far from the rest of the people.
Romantic Hero moves acording to his thoughts instead his actions, his thoughts are stronger than his movements. He often feels represented by nature, because nature is the purest thing in life, nature can't be "corrupted" by people's mind.
Then, why do we consider Frankenstein as a Romantic Hero?
First of all, He doesn't fix in the society because of his appearance, he's too ugly in some cases disgusting to the rest of the people, he limps, he groans (at the beginning), he's clumsy.
Second, where does he find shelter?, in the forest, in nature. He wants to be in isolation, he cries, he is a melancolic person, so in a way we can say that he is very sensitive.
Third, in this case he has a uncommon strenght.
Fourth, He has a inner struggle because he wants to be love, but he realizes that he's a monster so who do fall in love with him, only another monster like him could do it, someone with the same characteristics.
Finally, this monster in despite of all, he decides to stay with his creator, his father, so in certain way he returns to his nature, the man who gave him life.

To Nature (Samuel Taylor Coleridge)(1772-1834)

It may indeed be fantasy when I
Essay to draw from all created things
Deep, heartfelt, inward joy that closely clings;
And trace in leaves and flowers that round me lie
Lessons of love and earnest piety.
So let it be; and if the wide world rings
In mock of this belief, it brings
Nor fear, nor grief, nor vain perplexity.
So will I build my altar in the fields,
And the blue sky my fretted dome shall be,
And the sweet fragrance that the wild flower yields
Shall be the incense I will yield to Thee,
Thee only God! and thou shalt not despise
Even me, the priest of this poor sacrifice.

The Retreat

By Henry Vaughan (1621 - 1695)

Happy those early days! when I
Shined in my angel-infancy,
Before I understood this place
Appointed for my second race,
Or taught my soul to fancy ought
But a white, celestial thought;
When yet I had not walked above
A mile or two from my first love,
And looking back—at that short space—
Could see a glimpse of His bright face;
When on some gilded cloud, or flower,
My gazing soul would dwell an hour,
And in those weaker glories spy
Some shadows of eternity;
Before I taught my tongue to wound
My conscience with a sinful sound,
Or had the black art to dispense
A several sin to every sense,
But felt through all this fleshy dress
Bright shoots of everlastingness.
Oh how I long to travel back,
And tread again that ancient track!
That I might once more reach that plain,
Where first I left my glorious train;
From whence the enlightened spirit sees
That shady city of palm trees.
But ah! my soul with too much stay
Is drunk, and staggers in the way.
Some men a forward motion love,
But I by backward steps would move
And when this dust falls to the urn,
In that state I came, return.

1- Who's the speaker and who's speaking to?
The Poet, in this case, it's the speaker of the poem.
2- Type of vocabulary (loving, violent, angry, etc)
The vocabulary it's very educated, intellectual, for a person who are reffering about his life.
3- Alliterations, metaphors, comparisons, assonances, personifications.
Alliterations:
- Or taught my soul to fancy aught
- When yet I had not walk'd above
- A mile or two form my first Love.
- Before I taught my tongue to wound
Metaphors:
- Some shadows of eternity.
- Before I taught my tongue to wound.
- My Consciece with a sinful sound.
- But felt through all this fleshly dress.
- That shady City of Palm-Trees.
- Where first I left my glorious train
- And tread again that ancient track!
- And when this dust falls to the run.
Assonances:
- Before I understood this place
Appointed for my second race.
- And looking back at that short space
Could see a glimpse of his bright face.
- Or had the black art to dispense
A several sin to ev'ry sense
- That I might gain that ancient train
where first I left my Glorious train.

4- What's the poem about?
The poem is about life, a life's reflection, things you did things you couldn't do. It's a remembrance about the long way or track that life is. I think he knows that sometimes he is going to die, so he looks back in his life and try to tell us his opinion.

In my opinion,I think this is a beautiful poem in which you can give yourself the time to think about you personal view of life, about your achievements and failures, the poet recognizes the life after death, "and when this dust falls to the urn, in that state I came, return",this poem has a lot of metaphors, so it is interesting to the reader. I like it so much indeed.

Annabel Lee

It was many and many a year ago,In a kingdom by the sea,That a maiden there lived whom you may knowBy the name of Annabel Lee;And this maiden she lived with no other thoughtThan to love and be loved by me.

I was a child and she was a child,In this kingdom by the sea:But we loved with a love that was more than love - I and my Annabel Lee; With a love that the winged seraphs of heaven Coveted her and me.

And this was the reason that, long ago,In this kingdom by the sea,A wind blew out of a cloud, chilling My beautiful Annabel Lee;So that her high-born kinsmen cameAnd bore her away from me,To shut her up in a sepulchreIn this kingdom by the sea.

The angels, not half so happy in heaven,Went envying her and me - Yes! that was the reason (as all men know,In this kingdom by the sea)That the wind came out of the cloud one night,Chilling and killing my Annabel Lee.

But our love it was stronger by far than the love Of those who were older than we - Of many far wiser than we - And neither the angels in heaven above,Nor the demons down under the sea,Can ever dissever my soul from the soulOf the beautiful Annabel Lee;

For the moon never beams without bringing me dreams Of the beautiful Annabel Lee;And the stars never rise but I feel the bright eyes Of the beautiful Annabel Lee;And so, all the night-tide, I lie down by the side Of my darling -my darling -my life and my bride,In the sepulchre there by the sea - In her tomb by the sounding sea.

Scores for Yonkers Students Drop on State English Test

When I read this article, I told myself it could not happened in USA, most unbelievable in New York, the capital of the world in terms of culture, because when you think about United States, you always think that this country is one of the most important countries in the world. But this time is different because in the last english test students of New York got the worst level among the others states.
The superintendent of New York, Mr. Pierorazio said that it is was because there were a large number of students from other countries who were still learning english in New York.
Under a new federal requirement, students enrolled in school in USA for at least a year must take the state tests. Previously, students with less than three years of english classes were exempted from the tests.
Mr. Pierorazio said, this happened because there were students who are coming from other nations and being immersed in english for 10 months and then asked to perform at a proficient level, this didn't reflect the true of the test.
Norma Grohowski, was dissapointed about the scores of this test, she said it is also a parents' responsibility.
"I don't know why it dropped, but everybody is trying to do their best to keep the scores up, both the parents and the schools", she said.

King Lear

Characters:

King Lear of Britain.
Edmund: illigitimate son of Gloucester.
Cordelia: King Lear's daughter.
Albany: Duke of Albany.
Regan: King Lear's second daughter.
Goneril: King Lear's elder daughter.
Edgar: is the legitimate son of the Earl of Gloucester.
Kent: earl of Kent.

They were in the British camp near Dover (Dover is a major channel port in the English county of Kent), to fight the French Army. Cordelia and King Lear were prisoners, Edmund ordered a soldier to take them to prison and kill them. In this scene I feel a treason atmosphere between Edmund, Albany and Edgar. On the other hand Albany seemed me more calm than the other characters.
Albany was very disconcerted because a gentleman told him that Goneril poisoned his sister and then killed herself. King Lear didn't want to live anymore because his daughter Cordelia was dead, in a sense I think he lost his mind, he felt no reason to live , as he said: "And my poor fool is hang'd! No, no, no life!Why should a dog, a horse, a rat, have life,And thou no breath at all? Thou'lt come no more". King Lear died.
At the end, Albany said Kent and Edgar to rule the Realm, the mood was very mourning and sad.

William Shakespeare

If music be the food of love, play on; William Shakespeare, "Twelfth Night"

Macbeth

" I dare do all that may become a man; Who dares do more is none "Famous Macbeth quote by William Shakespeare(Act I, Sc. VII)

Crecer

Uno crece Imposible atravesar la vida … ….sin que un trabajo salga mal hecho, sin que una amistad cause decepción, sin padecer algún quebranto de salud, sin que un amor nos abandone, sin que nadie de la familia fallezca, sin equivocarse en un negocio. Ese es el costo de vivir. Sin embargo lo importante no es lo que suceda, sino, cómo se reacciona. Si te pones a coleccionar heridas eternamente sangrantes, vivirás como un pájaro herido incapaz de volver a volar. Uno crece… Uno crece cuando no hay vacío de esperanza, ni debilitamiento de voluntad, ni pérdida de fe. Uno crece cuando acepta la realidad y tiene aplomo de vivirla. Cuando acepta su destino, pero tiene la voluntad de trabajar para cambiarlo. Uno crece asimilando lo que deja por detrás, construyendo lo que tiene por delante y proyectando lo que puede ser el porvenir. Crece cuando supera, se valora, y sabe dar frutos. Uno crece cuando abre camino dejando huellas, asimila experiencias… ¡Y siembra raíces!Uno crece cuando se impone metas, sin importarle comentarios negativos, ni prejuicios, cuando da ejemplos sin importarle burlas, ni desdenes, cuando cumple con su labor. Uno crece cuando se es fuerte por carácter, sostenido por formación, sensible por temperamento…¡Y humano por nacimiento!.. Uno crece cuando enfrenta el invierno aunque pierda las hojas. Recoge flores aunque tengan espinas y marca camino aunque se levante el polvo. Uno crece cuando se es capaz de afianzarse con residuos de ilusiones, capaz de perfumarse, con residuos de flores… ¡Y de encenderse con residuos de amor…! Uno crece ayudando a sus semejantes, conociéndose a sí mismo y dándole a la vida más de lo que recibe. Uno crece cuando se planta para no retroceder… Cuando se defiende como águila para no dejar de volar… Cuando se clava como ancla y se ilumina como estrella. Entonces… Uno Crece

Conocerse

Te conocerás a ti mismo en cuanto empieces a descubrir en ti defectos que los demás no te han descubierto.Conocerse a sí mismo es medir exactamente las propias fuerzas sin que el engreimiento las exagere ni la timidez las menoscabe.

Hello World!!!

Hello everybody,
This is my first blog in the web, so I hope to do it well, you are free to post whatever you like (music, books, movies,etc), but don't use any offensive comments or vulgar language of course. Ok, you are welcome to this site.