cannabis sativa

The cannabis is a plant with psichoactive properties,well is a "drug",but natural,like the tabac,but affect the mind,not only the body.This plant comes from Asia,concretely from the Himalaya mountains.We can divide this plant in two grups according to their sex:the male plant,that haven't got this psichoactive properties,and is utilized for produce textile and food,and the female,which have the THC(psichoactive)and are used like a drug.For this reason,the cannabis are illegal in many countries.For talk about the female cannabis,we can use "marihuana".The marihuana also has pharmaceutical uses,specially for reduce the suffering of the cancer patients or sclerosis,but for the "drug"use we can find marihuana or hachis,that is the THC of the plants,compressed and mixed with other substances.In my opinion this plant should be legal,but controlled,like in Holand,because is natural and can help some people to sleep well,for example.

My grandfather

My grandfather name is Giuseppe,and he was a very good person in all his life.He had a very difficult life:when he was a child,his parents died,keeping alone their 6 childrens in an old home,and the oldest of the children had twelve years old.Well,my grandfather and all of his brothers has worked so much for eat every day,and when my grandpa had twenty years old,he married my grandmother,and had two daughters,my mother and her sister.When my mother had fourteen years,the wife of my grandpa died.Giuseppe had suffered so much,but he had to look to the front,for the good future of his daughters.In conclusion my grandpa was a good father,grandpa,man,person...all,and unfortunately he died 5 years ago...of Alzheimer,but I always think and remember him for all my life.

*SONG*

There is one song of the most famous rapper of the history of this music:Tupac Amaru Shakur,death the 1996.This song is titulated as"letter to my unborn child" a song that I like very much.

*SONG:

To my unborn child..
To my unborn child.. in case I don't make it
Just remember daddy loves you
{*talking in background*
To my unborn child..
To my unborn..

[2Pac]
Now ever since my birth, I've been cursed since I'm born to wild
in case I never get to holla at my unborn child
Many things learned in prison, blessed and still livin
Tryin to earn every penny that I'm gettin, and reminiscin
to the beginnin of my mission
When I was conceived, and came to be in this position
My momma was a Panther loud, single parent but she proud
when she witnessed baby boy rip a crowd
To school, but I dropped out, and left the house
Cause my mama say I'm good for nothin, so I'm out
Since I only got one life to live, God forgive me for my sins
Let me make it and I'll never steal again, or deal again
My only friend is my misery
Wantin revenge for the agony they did to me
See my life ain't promised but it'll sure get better
Hope you understand my love letter, to my unborn child

[Chorus]
I'm writing you a letter
This is to my unborn child
Wanna let you know I love you
Love you, if you didn't know I feel this way
How I, think about you every day
I have so much to say

[2Pac]
Seems so complicated to escape fate
And you can never understand 'til we trade places
Tell the world I feel guilty to bein anxious
Ain't no way in hell, that I could ever be rapist
It's hard to face this, cold world on a good day
When will they let the little kids in the hood play?
I got shot five times but I'm still breathin
Livin proof there's a God if you need a reason
Can I believe in my own fate
Will I raise my kids in the right, or the wrong way?
Dear mama I'm a man now
I wanna make it on my own, not a handout
Make way for a whirlwind prophesized
I wanna go in peace.. when I gotta die
On these cold streets, ain't no love, no mercy, and no friends
In case you never see my face again
To my unborn child

[Chorus]

[2Pac]
Dear Lord can you hear me, tell me what to say
to my unborn seed in, case I pass away
Will my child get to feel love
Or are we all just cursed to be street thugs? Cause bein black hurts
And even worse if you speak first
Livin my life as an Outlaw, what could be worse?
Cause maybe if I tried to change
Who I'm kiddin? I'ma thug 'til I die, I'ma rider mayne
Touch bases, eat lunch at plush places
Regular criminal oasis awaits us
If there's a ghetto for true thugs, I'll see you there
And I'm sorry for not bein there
Just know your daddy was a soldier, me against the world
Bless the boys, and all my little girls
To the Lord I'm eternal, restin in peace
Please take care of all my seeds, to my unborn child

[Chorus] - repeat to fade

[2Pac over Chorus]
To my unborn child.. please take of all my kids
My unborn child.. to my unborn child
This letter goes out to.. to the seeds that I might not get to see
cause of this lifestyle
Just know that your daddy loves you, got nuttin but love for you
All I wanted was for you have a better life than I did
That's why I was out here on a twenty-four hour 365 grind
When you get to be my age you'll understand
Just know I got love for you
And I'll see you up there in the ghetto heaven
Cause ghetto heaven gotta be there.. haha, take care
Run wild, but be smart
Follow the rules of the game
I know that sometimes it's confusin
The rules of the game is gonna get you through it, all day everyday
Watch out for these snakes and fakes, friends comin down the way..

Apolo y Dafne

The history of Apolo and Dafne,is other exemple of bad luck that has this greco-roman divinity(Apolo)in love.
Like explain the history,one day Apolo meet Cupido,the son of Aphrodite(the deity of love),preparing his arrows.In this "meeting" Apolo laughs in front of Cupido,and say to he to stop his preparation,because he is only a child,and he don't know how to used goog these arrows.Cupido becomes very offended,so decide to take revenge against Apolo.Consecutively,he take two arrows,on the one hand a "love" arrow,and on the other hand an "abhorredence"arrow;then he shoot the first arrow to Apolo,who fall in love automatically with Dafne,a nymph who was passing for the wood qhere stay Apolo,and the second arrow to Dafne,who immediately reject Apolo and begins to run away from he,who begins to persue she.
Finally,she run and run but she becomes very tired and begged his father to turn it into a laurel,Apolo "catch up" Dafne,but only when she begins to transform herself in a tree,so Apolo lose this love,althougt it is the tree!!





**VOCABULARY:
Arrows:flechas
Abhorredence:Odio,aborrecer...
Begged:suplicar

Píramo y Tisbe

Now I want to do a review about one of the histories narrated in the metamorphosis by Ovidio,a latin famous author.

The protagonists of the history are two lovers,Píramo,the boy,and Tisbe,the girl.They're love is so strong,but their families did not want to see them together,so they,after planning all speaking through a crack in the wall,which comunicating the two houses,escape from home and go to the place where they had planning to meet.The first who arrives is Tisbe,and while she is waitins,she see in the distance a big lioness,therefore she goes away,with fear.Later a few minutes,Píramo arrives at the same place,and see the lioness traces next to Tisbe's veil,and he think that the lioness have kill his lover;for this,he decide to kill himself,and do it.When Tisbe returns at the side,she find the boy who she love dead,and in tears kill herself.

The next day,the family of they,find their bodies deads under a tree with red fruits:stained with the lovers blood.




**VOCABULARY:

crack:grieta
traces:huellas
veil:velo
in tears:llorando
stained:teñidos

FILM REVIEW:AVATAR 2009

Well,first of all I would say that this film has had a extraordinary level of audience,being the most famous of the last year.
The film story takes place between two worlds,The Earth and Pandora,a type of moon to the moon.The Human people,as always,wants to destroy Pandora,concretly the mother tree,because under this tree there's a material very rich.The native from Pandora loves they're world,and loves the nature,all them are connected between them.
At the beginning of the film,we can see how one member of the cientific corp of the human base in Pandora die,and his twin,a ex member od the Marine corp,replace he,because he can control the avatar of his brother,having the same ADN.The avatars are bodies of natives who are create by humans,without control of themselves,but are controlled by their human "owners".Ok,this "soldier"(Jake)is the protagonist of the film.He is hired at the place of his brother,to get into a tribe of Pandora,learn about they and convince them to leave the mother tree.Jake can't move the legs,and the first time that they control his avatar,he know that he has born to this.He began to learn about the Navis(the natives of Pandora),and he began to really believe in the Navi culture.Moreover he fall in love with the daughter of the boss,and all his plans go down.He tempt to advise the Navies of the destruction of mother tree and how they could not do anything for protect it,but the Navies tracted him as a delator,and the Humans too.Finally,he gets tamed a "Turuk"(the most dangerous "bird" of all the sky ),and he can returns to the clan with honor,getting together all the clans of Pandora,to combat human attacks.At last,the Navies win the war,and Jake choose to live as a Navi,passing life of his human body, to his avatar,and he live satisfied with his wife.



**VOCABULARY:
Hired:contratado
Tamed:domar

New 3 :Shock tactics

**SHOCK TACTICS**

*REVIEW:

The US Marine corps has developed a new product for the flourishing "non-lethal weapons market".The "direct energy"devide directs electromagnetic energy so that it heats but doesn't burn humans skin.The weapon is capable
of heating human skin to 54ºc in two seconds;you start to feel pain at 45ºc,so that hurts.The "gun" is effective at 685 m.In conclusion this weapon
causes pain but doesn't burn the skin,and so doesn't leave a marck:this sounds like rather a useful torture instrumen that the US Marines have developed.But I think they'd never thougt of that.Anyway,this progress probably be able to reduce the number of deaths from firearms...but it's not the guns that kill,it's the people.

*PERSONAL OPINION:

Well,the first think that I had after reading this news,is that the principal mundial power,USA,should spend its resources in researchs channeled in others sectors or things,like how decrease the production of waste toxic with the planet,and how we can increase the level of life of the 90% of the pople,who lives in very poor countries,and do these two things, which seem incompatible, at the same time.
Moreover,living aside this,I believe that those weapons will used most by soldiers,or members of the Marine Corps,and that they will used them for end up importants problems whith terrorists,who are persons very convinced of their cause, leading to the death for them,and this weapons don't kill,only caused pain...for this I think that these arms will not decrease the deaths from firearms in a significativity way.
Respect to those reported by the author of the news,about this development oriented to a way of torture,I think that it's possible, if not almost certain,because I can't believe other reason that maybe they can have to do this things.
In conclusion I am desagree whit this project,and negative with the future results of it,for all that I have explained and because I believe that man isn't "good" by nature,otherwise is destructive.


*VOCABULARY:

flourishing:floreciente,próspero.
weapons:armas.
heats:se calienta
capable:capaz
gun:pistola,fusil...
channeled:canalizadas

NEW 2:Artificial infancy

**book: think in english**

**Summary of the new:

Picasso said that the aim of his life was to see like a child.The life goal of one Israeli computer's company is to think like a child:Artificial Intelligence Enterprises believe that their computer can already think like a 15 month-old baby.The computer,called "Hal",is programed to learn like a baby rather than being pre-programed with grammar rules.Hal has a series of learning algorithms that "he" appies to children's stones which are read to him and things that are said to him by a "carer".Hal's algorithms are them modificed according to the sucess of his learning.His creators believe that they can enable Hal to understand complex lenguage,for example distinguishing meaning in sentences like "the cock crows at dawn" and "the crows cock their hands".If Hal's linguistic abilities reach a point where he is fluent in English he will revolutionise computing.Hal is currently learning English but the process for any language would be the same.

**Personal opinion:
I think that this progress in computing isn't very important for us,rather it isn't as important as others progress which our society has conducted,for example the new ways of communications,fasters and more effective.
Well,I think that this advance isn't so useful,because it only can revolutionise computing,and consecuently the life of people with this type of computer,very rich people,and only for evidence any intelligence of computers,quickening the learning process of them,but not the learning of persons:a person don't talk better or understand better or do nothing better thanks to this.
Notwithstandind,this development suppose a strong change in robotics investigations,because it demostrates the possibility to creates an intelligente machine,not the default intelligence,unless the capacity to learn,in better wards,the capacity to live.
With this opinion,I don't want to influence anybody,because it's my personal think,even that in the last paragraph I have tempt to be objective.



Vocabulary learned:

aim:objetivo
goal: ""
rather:en lugar de,más bien...
algorithms:algoritmos
carer: trabajador social
reach:alcanzar
Notwithstandind:a pesar de todo