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Entry 14 Final relection

The portfolio is a good tool to have a record about what we have been doing during the whole year. It is useful because we are “obliged” to read and do a revision of the texts in order  to upload them. Another advantage of the blog is that I had to put up with technology; it was a  challange to become acquainted  with it.  As it is all recorded in the blog then, I believe that it would be easier to study from there. The summaries are already done; what it is left is the hardest part: studying it.   What I like most were the videos. They  clarified  what the thesis statement is about. I liked the videos of David Crystal, they were very interesting and clear. He explained in a simple way what happens with language, how culture may influece on it.  I liked those videos that showed people speaking the same language ( English) in  different ways. It shows us , as future teachers, that those people could be comprehensible although their ...
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Entry Make up

I think the first video ( the lady buying a pair of shoes) is the most effective since it is very graphic and direct. We can clearly understand the message that it wants to convey; there is no other interpretation and there is anything hidden; everything is transparent and unambiguous. That lady is buying a pair of shoes in an innocent and ignarant way until the shoe lace leads her to the cruel business that it is masked behind. She could see by her own eyes the evil life that the worker was living: working under slavery conditions. The REFLECTION is: we, buy products, just to please our ego or needs at the expense of poor people. We, as citizens, should be aware of this and try to modify our habits.
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Entry 8 Literary essay

Changing the world Many international famous celebrities show interest in social issues, however not all of them are as commited as Bono (U2), Elton John and Sting are. The three of them focus their attention on minority groups which are people who experience unequal  treatment and less power within their society and because they are socially segregated , they suffer. Their songs , such as "where the streets have no names", "All the young girls love Alice" and "An englishman in New York" respectively, attempt to illustrate their dedication as activists. Bono, with his Irish band U2, gives concerts in supports of AIDS. Not only does he back ill people with the "RED" organisation, but also he is the foundator of "ONE" to which he is commited to taking action to end with the extreme poverty. The author of the song emphasises in his lyric that "streets have no names", referring to the roads that have numbers instead, and they...
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