Project 6: Photo Nº2: The mother who takes care of you.

The mother who takes care of you.

by Álvaro del Río.

DiminaJasiala is the woman in the picture and she is a beautiful woman, she´s holding a baby in a purple sweater and with two cute pink tiny socks. She is wearing a bright golden dress, golden like the sun, golden like  hope.

 Her face is turned with a caring look in her eyes, the kind of caring look that mothers have when they see their children playing . You should know that she always carried that look since the late 80s due to the fact that she hashad more than three hundred and fifty children. Her story is a story of hope and kindness in the poorest neighborhood in Nairobi, Kenya.

   Her story began in 1998 when she had been working as a housekeeper for 19 years and having four children, she found a little baby in the rubbish and decided to take care of her. After that she started receiving abandoned children even the ones whose mothers had AIDS. Dimina and a few neighbours decided to turn their home  into a home for street children and make sure that they receivedan education, even though Dimina is illiterate. That´s why she is best known as MamáTunza which in suajili means "the mother that takes care of you".

   That´s why she is a beautiful and strong woman, because she made that by herself and by the kindness of one of the poorest neighborhoods in the world that supported her until 2007 when aan NGO finally started supporting her. This is only one example of what Africa is capable of, because it is the forgotten land and it shouldn´t be, so next time you think of Africa think about this and all the things that it can teach you.

Project 6: Photo Nº1: The third one.

  

         Detective Smith was standing quietly watching the horrifying scene that was in front of her, there was fear in her eyes as she was turning to me, “It Is the third,” she said, then I took a look at what she was saying, the extra awfulness of that scene, to the dog that was being held by the dead arms of the corpse, "the Taxidermian" had murdered again. I don´t like the word, but it was the name that the papers had nicknamed the killer.

             The first one was an old lady in her old-fashioned Victorian house and a dissected raven was found near the victim, we thought then that the raven was part of the house but then, a week afterwards an old fat train driver was found dead with a dissected snake around his neck. The papers started having "The Taxidermian" as headlines that week, I can even imagine tomorrow´s headlines "The taxidermian hits again" in the papers, and something like "Are the police as dissected as the animals founded with the victims?" in the tabloids.

             Detective Smith called me out of my thoughts when she moved the dog to let the forensics examine the victim, “Like the other two, this gentleman doesn´t seem to have any remarkable bruise or sings of a fight, it seems like you are going to have to wait for the autopsy to establish the cause of death,” the forensic said. "Yeah, like the other two,” I replied.

            I wasn’t very happy with the work that the forensics were doing, all my team in general, all of them were so dumb, so average, none of them found or were following any of the clues that I was leaving on the corpses.

Project 5:Drama Activity: Family Love.

Family Love.
                                                  -UNDER CONSTRUCTION-

Project 3: Team work: News Bulletin.

(Álvaro:)
Hello! Good morning welcome to the daily program of the Juan de Herrera news.
The headlines of the day are: Catalonia is finally getting separated from Spain, the US anounced the retirement of their troups from Afganistan,the latest economical news about facebook, the new Agatha Ruiz de la Prada collection and sports.
Now, we are conecting with our partner Kevin in Catalonia, Kevin it seems like Catalonia is finally getting independence isn´t she?
(Kevin:),
Hello, good evening from Barcelona. We can say now that Cataluña is independent from Spain, the population has voted and Artur Mas got the majority to make this famous independence real.
Now many people are asking themselves: Is this good for Spain? Will Cataluña survive out of the European Union?We will see, but for now that´s all we can say.Back to the Juan de Herrera news.

(Álvaro:)
Today at 12 am Obama announced the retirement of the U.S.A army from Afghanistan, now over to Kevin our coorrespondant in Washington:
(Kevin:)
Hello Alvaro, here in Washington Obama just finished his last speech of the year, and he surprisingly announced that the USA is going to retire their troops from Afghanistan. It´s planed that in April of 2013 there will be no more American troops left there, just the destruction and poorness that they caused these last years.
Some people are saying that due to this decision, he should get the next Peace Nobel Price.That’s all from here, we go back to the studio.

(Álvaro:) ...Thank you Kevin.
Well I know what most of you are wondering right know,How is possible for Kevin to be in the Spanish Congress and in Washington at the same time, but the truth is that we are having some financial issues in the public TV channels right know and we can´t afford the flight to Washington, so Kevin were standing in front of a whit wall with a static picture of the white house projected on it...
Anyways, Agatha Ruiz de la Prada has presented her new collection today in the Puerta de America Hotel in Madrid, and finally we found one out of fifty one desings that was elegant and stylish. From here we want to thank you Agatha, we all know that you did a great efort.
And now over to Jack with the financial news...
(Alexandre:)
Alexandre:
Mike, tell me. What the first impression of Facebook in the stok market in Wall street?
Mike: 
Good evening, Jack. Today at 9am hapends a horrible acted in Wall streat with the shares of facebook.Facebook is a social networking website, launched in February 2004, owned and operated by Marck Zuckerberg. As of September 2012, Facebook has over one billion active users, more than half of them using Facebook on a mobil device .Now, we have problems with the new company, that his mane is facebook, is a social network what has joined in the world of the stok market.His shares has go down 1,37 points and people don´t buy this shares.Probably, Facebook close his doors and let his company. It´s horrible! We hope that people will buy this shares.
Alexandre:
Now back with Álvaro in the studio.
(Álvaro:)
Thank you Alexandre, Finally our partner Juan is going to tell us about the sports
(Juan:)

José Callejón takes the ball home after making a hat-trick on his first debut with the Spanish National team against Germany. The player played a perfect match giving a goal assist and scoring three goals. Del Bosque said that it’s a possibility to play the World Cup of Brazil next 2014 but that there’s very much time left.

The ball with Sergio Ramos sent to the space in the penalty against Bayern Múnich finally arrives to Saturn, how expected. This fact Is going to bring the interesting possibility of explore this planet never visited before due to the fact that we have to go to take the ball back to Earth.

Project 4: English through literature.

JAMES JOYCE. "Two Gallants"
James Joyce was born on the 2^nd of February 1882, in the Dublin suburb of Rathgar and died the on the 13th of January 1941 in Zurich after ulcer surgery.
His best known novel is "Ulysses"(1922). He studied English, French and Italian at University College Dublin. Although he spent most of his life abroad, he set most of his novels in Dublin. He lived in Trieste, Paris and Zurich, where he had to moveto due to the fact that the Nazis had conquered France.
Other titles inhis bibliography are: "Chamber Music"(poems,1907), Dubliners (short story collection, 1914) and "Exiles"(1918).
        Two Gallantsis a short story written by the Irish writer James Joyce, published in 1914 in ananthology of short stories called "Dubliners".
       This story is about two friends that are walking around the city, whose names are Corley and Lenehan, and Corley is telling Lenehan about her new relationship with a girl, and he is talking about her in a very disrespectfulway, being proud of the fact that she stole things from the house where she works just to give them to him, like cigarettes.
     Then the readerrealizesthat they are going to an appointment with this girl, and Lenehan is just accompanying Corley to the date, then they see the girl in the end of the street near a lamp and they looked at her from a distance. Corley continues walking to meet the girl whilstLenehan goes to dinner peas while he is waiting for Corley. Finally Corley came back and met Leneham and shows him a gold coin that the girl had just stolen from the house where she works.
    At the end you realize that both men were planning that from the beginning.

My personal opinion about the story is thatit is hard to understand all the details in a second of bachillerato good level of English, I mean in my case after reading it slowly twiceyou get the main point but you missed most of the shades, the aspects of the novel. I think that if I had a better level of EnglishI would have gotten all of the nuances and would have appreciated the story or the writer more
I think that an averageEnglishperson would have the same problems if he or she reads a text written by Unamuno.
In conclusion, I think that maybe that kind of stories are higher than our current level, and that the presence of two bilingual people in the class doesn´t mean that the rest of us are able to read pure English literature. It´s great reading great writers such as Joyce, and it significantly increases our understanding of culturebesides our level of English, however I think that I would enjoy the storymore if I had the knowledge to enjoy every aspect.

Project 1: Presentation: Arquitecture (images)

Project 1: Presentation: Arquitecture (script)

Frank Lloyd Wright was born in 1867 in Wisconsin EEUU and he died in 1959.

He developed a new concept in modern architecture called organic architecture, that was created as a point of union between humans and nature.

The better example is Falling Water House:

Falling Water House or Kaufman´s residence was designed in 1935 for the bussines man Edgar Kaufman.

Is in Mill Run Pensylvania, besides the Bear Run river and it cost 155.000$: 75000$ the main house, 22000$ finishing and furnishing it, 50000$the guests house,the servant quarters and the garage, and 8000$ the architect fee.

The main problem about building it was that the north bank of the bear run river was not large enough to provide the necessary space for a typically house, so Frank solve it by using a modular structure with the help of two engineers to distribute the weight.

Falling Water House was the Kaufman´s family weekend home from 1937 to 1963, when Kaufman decided to donate the property to the state of Pensylvania. Now it´s open to the public as a museum.

The other Frank Lloyd Wrigt´s best known building is the Guggenheim museum of New York:

The museum is located in the 5 avenue in the Upper East Side of Manhattan, just in front of central park, and it permantly host a collection of impressionist, postimpressionist, early modern and contemporary art.

The building was opened the 21st of October of 1959.

The museum had two different reforms, the first one was in 1993 annexing a rectangular tower behind the main building to expand the spaces for the exhibition, and the last one that started in 2005 and finished in 2008 annexing a clompletely new building behind it for the same reason.

The main building consist in a central tower hat is support by a spiral that goes from floor to top all around the central dome in the roof, the spiral consist in a ramp about 500 meters long.

The sad story about the building is that Wright, couldn´t see it finished owing to the fact that he died six months before the building was opened.