ENJOY YOUR HALLOWEEN CELEBRATIONS!!!!
Wednesday, October 31, 2012
Tuesday, October 30, 2012
NEWS FROM THE USA. Paula S. (1r batx A)
Hi y'all !
We are fine, now it's raining a lot and it's windy and sometimes we hear strange sounds but we are good!
We didn't have school today and tomorrow we aren't another time because the hurricane is here. But that comes more for the north and not here but today it's raining a lot and we stayed all day at home with our host families.
Greetings
PAULA SOBRINO ARA
Monday, October 29, 2012
NEWS FROM THE USA. Núria J. (1batx A)
hi there!!!
everything is perfect here!! i want to stay here more days!!! We've met a lot of people, everything is so nice and funny!
The school is cancelled today and tomorrow for the hurricane, so it's raining a lot and it's getting pretty cold.
Yesterday some of us went to New York, and it was definitely awesome!!!!! I really love this city and this country!!
On Wednesday, Anna Portella, Paula Aldea and Cassidy, and Julia and me'll go to a Halloween party (the same, we'll go together) and it's going to be amazing!!
I will try to do skype with you on wednesday, but at this time, i'm normally out of house.
See you!!!!!!!
NÚRIA JULIÀ
WRITING DIALOGUES. Marc F. (2n batx A)
SECURITY CAMERAS
Good morning everyone and welcome to “In the Middle of
the Street”, a place to discuss about the real problems on our streets, those
that really worry people. Presented by Mike Flewaway (MF), today we are going
to talk about security at schools. Should security cameras be installed in all
schools? Today, with us, John Levantini (JL), a sociologist specialized in
teenagers, and Clive Stuart (CS), a teacher in a conflictive area.
MF: Welcome to our program.
CS: Thank you. It’s a pleasure to be here.
JL: Thank you very much. It is the same pleasure to
me.
MF: Then, let’s start. The point is that a lot of
parents are worried about the security situation at many schools, and so do
students. Is it a good measure to decrease crimes at schools?
JL: No, it is absolutely not. The way I see it is that
it would make students develop new ways to commit crimes, for instance,
breaking them or doing crimes where cameras can’t see them. So the problem is
much bigger than it seems: it’s an educational problem. Parents have to educate
and grow their child in the respect. That’s the greatest thing they can do.
Also the teachers should...
CS: What do you mean? Are you saying we don’t work properly?
JL: Of course not. I was trying to say that that work
at home has to be seconded by school. The base has to be built by parents and
the last floors of the skyscraper, by teachers.
CS: I agree in the last part, nevertheless I totally
disagree in the first one. While this building you’ve talked about is being
built, what should we do? Waiting for someone to enter it and destroying it? Or
protecting it? Protecting it, of course. That is what cameras would do; keep an
eye on the students to see if they’re going on the right way and let the other
students do themselves. If they are good, they have nothing to fear about.
JL: Maybe... But it violates privacy rights! That’s a
very bad way to control them. They would rebel to this control. It would be
worse.
CS: But in the case that...
MF: Sorry, but last news claim for their prominence.
Very important news! That’s live! Thank you very much to both of you. We’ll
meet tomorrow again to keep discussing this problem. Remember: In the Middle of
the Street, the program to talk about what is really important. See you
tomorrow!
Marc Flores
2nd BATX A
Sunday, October 28, 2012
WRITING DIALOGUES.Marta C. (2n batx A)
MCE RADIO
ENT: Welcome to all of our listeners of MCE RADIO.
Today we have two special guests, to talk about a very important topic in the
life of a teen.
Well, now a
days, the exchange is one of the most famous things that a teen makes during
the year, because it’s an incredible experience to know a language, to know a
new culture and other things. And we have decided in MCE radio to invite two
students of a school in Sant Andreu, to come to the studio to talk about this
amazing experience. We welcome to this magnifies students! Welcome guys!
S.1-S.2: Hi!!
ENT: We are really glad that you stay here to talk
with us. How are you? How about the school?
S.2: Thank you. The truth is that we have just
started the school, we’re going to 2nd of BTX, and we’re really
nervous, because this year we have the selectivity, and we have to be 100%, but
all is great!
ENT: Ohh… Selectivity, it sounds harsh… Well guys, we
would like that both of two say what you think about the exchange with students
of another countries.
S.1: I would like to start because I think that
exchange is one of the most amazing experiences that you can live. Knowing a
language, meeting other people, discovering another culture, it’s so important
in the life of teen. And now, that English is the most important language for
you to have a job. Now, universities assume that English is already part of
your life, and you need a good English for having good studies.
ENT: I totally agree with you! English, now, is a
part of our lives, and it’s so important for the workplace. Well, let’s see
what thinks the other student!
S.2: Well the truth is that I wouldn’t like to go to an
exchange, I prefer to go to an academy or something like this, because staying
in another place is difficult, because when you have a problem or an accident,
your family isn’t with you, and you have to live with another family that you
don’t know. Maybe staying in other country is great, but not for studying,
maybe for holidays with your friends…
ENT: Yes, it’s true, but you don’t think in all the
experiences that you can live with other people, or having fun with new
persons, and knowing other culture?
S.2: Yes…but I think that I can live amazing
experiences here, in Barcelona…
ENT: Well, it’s another point of view… Maybe lots of
students would like to have an exchange and others maybe no, it depends on the
person.
S.1: Yes, it’s true, I think that an exchange can be
an amazing experience, but not all people think like me, there are different
points of view, but I recommend to all persons that would like to have an
exchange that don’t hesitate, you can live the most beautiful experience in
your live!
ENT: Okay, after this, we can listen two versions of
two different students!
And you, what
do you think about have an exchange?
Send us a
text message saying what you think about it! Tomorrow we’re going back to
interview more persons with different topics of our lives!
Bye guys and
thank you for all!
S.1-S.2: Bye, thanks!!!
Marta Corral
Esteve
2n BTX A
THE TREE. Marta C. (2n batx A)
THE
TREE
I know that I
said that I didn’t like this video, maybe because the first time that I saw it,
I wasn’t paying attention…sorry Lurdes… The next video I’m going to pay more
attention to really!
Okay my
impression of this video is strange… The first time that I saw it, I thought
that it was an advert of a car! (don’t ask me why, you know who I am) And after when I saw that a child was trying
to take out the tree I thought that it was another advert of something relevant
with environment jajaja really don’t ask me why! And to finish when I saw that
all of the people that were seeing the child how he takes out the tree and then
they went to help him, I thought that maybe it could be a “meditation” that
taught us that together we can make more things, we can overcome more obstacles
if we stay together!
To get this
conclusion I needed to see the video like 3, 4, 5, 6… times, to understand the
meaning, I’m not stupid but when you first thinks that is an advert of a car
and then another advert of environment, after this you don’t know who think!
Apart from
the joke and apart from seeing this video lots of times, I have to say that it’s
a very good way to say the people that together we are better, we can overcome
all of obstacles (as I said this before) and I think that it’s the real meaning
of this video. To make people aware people that when you’re alone okay maybe
you can get lots of things, but really, when there are people who help you to
get you own wishes is better, they can help you a lot!
It’s a
comparison, but when you are in school maybe lot of people don’t see this, but
all of the teachers try to help us, to get our best marks…
It is a
strange comparison in my point of view, but nowadays we are in our last year in
this school, we have to work really hard, and how to say the meaning of this
video, stay together to do better and more things that you can’t alone!
And this is,
for me, the meaning of this wonderful, magnificent, great and spectacular
video! (It’s not a joke)
I’m waiting
for the next video!
Marta Corral Esteve
2n BTX A
SUMMER PICS. Marta C. (2n batx A)
MY SUMMER
Well, it’s
difficult to talk about all of my summer, because I have lived lots of
experiences with new and old friends.
First of all
I would like to talk about my fantastic travel to Malta, It’s a new experience
that all of the people have to live, because you learn lots of things. I have
to give the reason to my English teacher…Yes, in Malta there is lot of party!
It’s true, I think that I learn more how to go to party, but in Malta it’s
awesome!!! There is a zone only for pubs, clubs and restaurants of fast food If
you are hungry when finishes the night jajajaja, I know this because every
night I finished in one restaurant of fast food!!
Apart from my
fantastic nights, the rest of the day I was with nice people from lots of
countries, Spanish people, of course…, Italians, French, Belgian, from Czech
Republic, Chinese… But I had realized that Spanish and Italian are very
similar, we love going to party and we are very extroverted, and this is the
reason whereby I had met more Italians!
In Malta I
visited lots of beautiful places, beaches, and I could meet the Malta’s
culture, but not all was good… The weather was horrible, it was hot… horrible
hot, and it made lot of moisture!! And apart from the weather, Malta is a dirty
place with lots of cockroaches, and I hate this! The truth is that if someone
would like to visit Malta…okay go… but only for the party! jajajajaja
Okay, party,
friends… But the true reason whereby I talk about Malta is for all of things
that I had learned… The first, English, maybe I didn’t learn fantastic English,
but tried it, I think that I speak a mmmm…GOOD English! I still can’t talk very
very very good, but I understand everything :D !!! The second is that when you
live alone without your family, and you have to travel with people that you
don’t know, you have to fend for yourself. And I have learned that if you have
a bad day, don’t throw the towel! Think that tomorrow will be a better day.
Lurdes, I
have to confess that I have thought a lot about you, lots of days that I was in
class, I remembered some things that you said to me in English class, and
sometimes when I went to a bar to drink something I thought about you, don’t
ask me why, because I don’t know, maybe I thought about you in specific moments
that saw, listened something that reminds me of you, and for this I have
something for you! jajajaja
The worst of
Malta was the farewell, I burst into tears when I had to see out the friends
that I met, but there are two girls that live in Sant Andreu and are very nice!
Apart from
Malta, when I arrived in Barcelona I had a good news… my dentist took away my
brackets ¡¡¡ yeaaahhhh !!! And now I stay all the day smilingly!!!
After 5 days
in Barcelona I had to leave to my father’s town, because it was the parties and
my cousin was getting married! I stayed there for two weeks with all of my
father’s family, it’s was awesome! We went to the river, we had lunch together,
we had fun! Everything was perfect.
After staying
two weeks in the town, Irene said to me that if I wanted to go with her to Can
Carbonell, to stay there five-six days! And it was incredible, with Irene
always I have fun!
When I
arrived in Barcelona and I saw that the summer finished I decided to stay here
and wait for the new course.
Marta Corral Esteve
2n BTX A
Thursday, October 25, 2012
WRITING DIALOGUES. Judith D. (2n batx B)
SHOULD EVERYONE BE ALLOWED TO CARRY GUNS?
Good night and welcome to CHEER-UP, the best of the
best radio programmes! At tonight’s programme we are going to introduce a new
discussing topic: Do you think that everybody should be allowed to carry guns
if they want to? We are so lucky people because tonight we count with the point
of views of two of the most famous young people in America
MA: Hello America
LA: Yes! Hello everybody! I think people
should be allowed to carry a gun; there would be less crime if no one knew who
was caring.
MA: Never. Not everyone should be allowed to carry the
gun as there is a danger that this person will use it for bad purposes. How can
we feel safe when we know anyone can have a gun and use it against us?
LA: People who commit crimes don't care about laws that
prevent them from carrying them; they are going to commit a crime. So when I
walk to the street I prefer to know that everybody has a gun because then I
will be alert and I can protect myself too.
MA: I don’t agree with you. I don't think they make
you any safer because it is more likely to die in a crime committed if there is
a gun possessed by the victim. What criminal wants to die? If they know that
the victim possessed a gun they are going to do what it takes to survive.
LA: Well yesterday I read an
article about how a man who was concealed carrying a gun was able to stop a criminal
at a supermarket. So yes people should be allowed to carry guns as long as they
are responsible with them.
MA: Probably, sometimes it can be propitious, but it
doesn’t depend on the responsibility. Some people obviously need to
carry guns, for example policemen and security personnel. The problem is that
most people who carry guns have either no proper training to handle a gun.
Moreover, a lot of people killed by privately owned hand-guns are members of
the family of the gun owner. Great protection indeed!
That’s all for tonight! It’s time to go so thank you
Laura and thank you Marçal. We are very grateful to have had you this evening
with us. What is clear is that there are too many things to think
about before making anything absolute. That’s the conclusion of tonight’s programme
come tomorrow and listen the new topic discus. Thank you for your collaboration
and good night.
JUDITH DORAL VALL
2n BATX B
A FAIRY TALE. Laia P. (1r batx B)
Rumpelstiltskin
Once upon a time, there was
a poor miller who had just one pretty thing; his daughter. One day, the father
went to meet the king and to seem important told him that his daughter had the
power of spin straw into gold.
The king became surprised for the news and said to the miller to
bring his daughter to his palace.
The next day, the girl was brought to the king and took into a
room full of straw. He gave her a spinnig-wheel and a reel to spin straw into
raw. If she didn't do it for the morning, they would kill her.
Because she didn't know what to do, she began to cry.
In that moment, a little man came to the room and ask her why was
she crying.
The girl told him her story and then the little man offered her a
pact: if she gave him her necklace, he would spin straw into gold for her.
When the king saw the gold was astonished and really delighted.
He took the girl into an other room full of more straw.
The girl, another time began to cry and the door opened as last
day. The miller's daughter gave this time her ring to the little man and he
make magic again.
For the morning, the king thought he hadn't enough gold and told
to the girl to do it for the last time. If she did it, he would marry her.
Because she didn't have anything more she had to promise to the small man to
give him her first child when she became queen.
The next day the king get married with her and a year after, the
girl had a child.
Days later the little man ordered her to give him her child. The
queen offered all she had to him but he refused it and took the baby.
The queen began to lament, so the man pitied her. He gave her
three days to find out his name and then she would keep her child.
The queen thought the whole night names and the next day said all
of them to the man but no one was correct.
The second day happened the same and the queen was heartbroken.
That night, the messenger of the queen came back to the palace
without more new names but with some news: he had seen the little man in the
forest singing, dancing and shouting his name, glad to think no one could guess
his name; Rumpelstiltskin.
The third day, the queen told to the
small man that his name was Rumpelstiltskin.
And finally, after a lot of years, the
miller's daughter could live in pace.
The moral of this fairy tale is that you
have to be honest, do not be selfish and apreciate what you have.
Laia
Pinyol
A MEMORABLE EXPERIENCE. Laia P. (1r batx B)
Mary King's experience
In the ends of July I went to Edinburgh. There,
I specially was delighted for the Mary King's close.
The Real Mary Kings close is an underground
street placed in the heard of Edinburgh. It was one of the most important
closes 400 years ago.
I have just started the tour and It was so dark
indoors. The guide presented herself as a character of the stories and went
downstairs with a lantern.
First we walked by many chambers and the guide
explained us that the close was named Mary King's because she had the most
productive business in the close at 1630's.
Next, we went to a room full of bunks and fake
people made of plastic of something like this to represent the victims of the
plague. As soon as I saw it I became frightened, there was a man (fake) that
was wearing a mask as a peak, a complete black dress from head to feed, gloves
and a hat. Long time ago it was belived that the plague spread through the
birds. Nowadays, It is known that the rats’ fleas were the responsibles of this
disease.
Afterwards, we went to "Annie's room". Annie was an abandoned
girl who dead in this chamber. There's a story of a Japanese psychic who when
tried to leave felt a tug of a ghost hand on her leg. From that day, everybody
who know the story bring a stuffed animal for Annie.
After all, sometimes the close is closed to do paranormal
investigations and they have find out that Annie's room is always some grades under
the rest of her house, they've captured "very faint white or transparent
spheres" when were photographing the recreated workshop and they have
heard steps in some recordings.
Definitely, there're many mysteries in this close of which have been researching
and revealed true stories more astonishing than any
fiction.
Laia Pinyol
1r BTX B
A MEMORABLE EXPERIENCE. Dani C. (1r batx A)
A memorable
experience
If I had to choose a memorable
experience I would choose the day I met Joe Bonamassa. Joe is one of the most
influential blues guitarists in the world, so I thought I should mention him.
When my mum first told me I was going
to see Joe, I couldn’t believe it. Do you know what it’s like to see one of the
most awesome guys in your life? Must be something unforgettable, special.
Ok, so when I finally realized that
my mum wasn’t fooling me I got ready for the meeting, which took place before
the gig, and as a good guitarist I took my guitar for him to sign it. I was
over the moon when a first saw him, I was about to burst into tears.
I spent a
few minutes talking about guitarist’s stuff and this kind of things. Finally,
when I was seeing him off he gave me his set list, a dedication, his pick… God!
I couldn’t believe
it!
DANI CASAS
1r batx A
A FAIRY TALE. Silvia V. (1r batx B)
The
storyteller
Once upon a time there was a
beautiful, good and little princess. She had blue eyes and dark hair, and her
skin was very very white. The princess…
- Daddy! Stop it! I don’t like
this story. I don’t like the Snow White!
- I don’t like the stories
without mothers!
- Jane, darling… it wasn’t the
Snow White! And listen, this story is different.
She had never been out of the
castle walls, and the worst was that Eilean Donan was unoccupied except by her
and her father. This way, she had never played with any friend because she hadn’t
known or met anyone.
One day, Mary asked her father if she could go out of the castle and meet new people and make friends, but the father’s answer was so terrifying that she never asked again.
The problem was that every day
the little princess was more furious with her father (a natural reaction I
think). She decided not to look and not to talk with him, she couldn’t endure
his presence. Then, her father became a desperate person.
The time passed and the little
princess had become a good teenager. But her father was stricter than before;
he didn’t know how to deal her daughter. In consequence Mary hated more and more
the actions of her father.
So, when Mary was eighteen years,
she prepared her suitcase, she took some food and she wrote a letter to her
father that said:
Dear
father,
I
know you love me and you don’t let me go out because of the death of mummy. But
you have to understand that I can’t stay there with you for all the centuries,
I have to make my life as you have made yours.
Do
you understand me?
Please
forgive me. I had already forgiven you for all of our problems.
But
you have to promise that you will never follow me, unless it was to give me a
big hug of understanding.
I
love you
Then she escaped the castle to
achieve her dream: going out, making friends and meeting a good and a lovely
boy to marry. She finally made her dream reality.
And her father learned the life
lesson. He forgave her daughter and he accepted her handsome husband. What else
could he do?
-
What do you think Jane?
-
Oh you’re sleeping- the father says quietly.
-
Don’t worry my little princess I would never cut your
wings to fly if you do it well.
-
Good night Jane…Sweet dreams.
MORAL: Everyone has to live her
life and has to make her decisions. But the most importantly if you make a mistake, learn from him and above all apologize.
SILVIA VEGA GONZÁLEZ
1r BATX B
Wednesday, October 24, 2012
A FAIRY TALE. Joan S. (1r batx B)
The land of
colours
Once upon a time, in the
land of colours, there were three colours. They were Cyan, Magenta and Yellow.
They thought about making new colours and they discovered that if they got
mixed, they could make new colours. So Blue, Red and Green were created. And
like this they continued in lots of generations. Finally, they were hundreds of
thousands of billions of tones and hues.
But there were so many
colours that they started to identify each other. There were the
233.045.089-RGB[1],
the 013.122.001-RGB, and lots of other colours. These two didn’t have any
problems because they were very different, but it wasn’t the same between
221.012.200-RGB, 221.012.201-RGB, 221.012.199-RGB and 221.012.202-RGB. These
four colours were really confronted for hundreds of years. They fought in
rainbow wars, they combated in lots of battles, they tried to poison each
other…
However, many many years
later, they were tired of so many troubles and warfare. So 221.012.200-RGB
asked by a letter to the others to come to an agreement. The letter was
something like this:
The proposal went on and the others colours
started to follow suit. And they started to make groups of colours. And the war
broke off. They started to tell them by words. So appeared colours Scarlet, Vermilion,
Tangelo, Orange, Amber, Gold, Apple green, Lime,
Pistachio, Harlequin, Emerald, Malachite, Sea green, Aquamarine, Turquoise, Opal,
Cerulean, Azure, Cobalt, Sapphire, Indigo, Violet, Purple, Mulberry, Heliotrope,
Magenta, Orchid, Cerise, Rose, Raspberry, Crimson, Amaranth... and many more.
But then, because they had
seen it had been good, they proved to make new groups like Magenta, Yellow and Cyan.
They did it and after, they went together for make a new colour not seen for a
while. It was colour white. At first, they liked it, but not many days later,
they thought that they had lost their identity. So they required to be divided
and they returned to the first groups.
So, you have to remind
that you don’t have to lose your identity, but you always will be part of a group.
It’s impossible to take everybody into a group, and it mustn’t be. Be into a
group in which you can identify, but conserve your identity.
[1] RGB: Red Green and
Blue; most common way to identify colour
[2] RG: Red and Green, because they had the same
quantity of these colours
JOAN SEGUÍ I MERCADAL
1r BATX B
WHAT ARE THEY DOING? Gerard F. (3r ESO C)
This image is from
the San Fermines, in País Vasco. People run and try to stare a big bull. The
people lead it to the bullring. There are lot of people so….sometimes the bull
gores someone.
At the left of the
image, we can see a man of the red cross society standing at the fence, watching
if the bull injuries anyone.
There is also another man with a black short
t-shirt that had seen the bull and he's trying to find a place to be able to pass the
fence, because he is really scared.
In front of the image there is a man with a
black jacket with blue letters, he is running a lot because he knows that the
bull is going to gore him.
At the background of the photo there is a man with a
red shirt, this color attracts the bulls but as we can see, he is really bost
and wants to be really close to the animal and that can lead and upset.
At the
right of the image there is a man with a blue scarf, that one is not the
traditional scarf but he is now shouting to the people that are round of him,
because he cannot escape, so he is complaining.
At the left-background of the
image we see two young boys with a grey jacket jumping the fence because they
don’t like that situation.
Really in
front of the image we don’t see a complete person, we can only see a man with a
straw hat laughing because someone has falled in front of him.
This is the
situation in San Fermines.
GERARD FERREIRO
3r ESO C
ARE YOU GREEN? Mireia B. (1r batx A)
Recycling and environmentalism: a way of life
I think in the society we live in, a society in which
consumption is excessive, recycling is very important. To more consumption,
more trash, which is detrimental to nature.
In my house we have learned to recycle, but the truth is
that we struggled a little. We were not used to. It is easy to throw all the
trash in the same place, separate paper, glass, plastic ... was a disaster. The
council gave us some bags and buckets to do so, but then, where were getting
into this in a small kitchen? Eventually we found the right space, but I must
admit that sometimes we were wrong.
Another topic that we carefully consider in my family's
using cars. We only use it for my father and because his work is essential. The
rest of the family use public transport to get around, even my mother, who
works out of Barcelona. He says further that is cleaner, serves relaxation and
is useful to read, and do not have time.
Another issue of concern in my family, is the dirt from
the beaches. Since the spring starts to almost fall, we're going to the beach,
sunbathing, fishing and do diving. It is easy to carry bags to throw papers and
cigarettes ashes. It seems impossible for people to be able to leave papers,
bottles, cans ... without remorse.
There is only one earth it, must be cared for and
respected, because only then can we respect ourselves.
MIREIA BRAZA PARICIO
1r BATX A
ARE YOU GREEN? Eva R. (1r batx A)
BE GREEN!
Many people
wonder why it is important to recycle, and many other people think it's a waste
of time. What’s my opinion?
Sometimes we
waste, and we forget about the negative impact that it has on the environment.
We think that this doesn’t affect on us, but we are wrong. All that relates to
the environment, our planet, always has a direct impact on us. Recycling is a
simple process that can help us solve many of the problems of pollution and it
cost us nothing. We only have to worry about throwing each package in its
corresponding trash, and try to use public transport, bicycle or walk to where
you want to go.
There are
several benefits for recycling: less garbage is thrown in public places and
produce less greenhouse gases; it use less renewable natural resources such as
water and trees; it saves huge amounts of non-renewable natural resources such
as oil and other, etc.
On the economic
side, we can say that recycling can generate many jobs. It’s necessary to
collect the materials for recycling and for its classification.
In summary, it
is easy to recycle and worth the effort. Everyone should contribute to make a
better world and less polluted. Where renewable energies were the only ones we
use.
EVA ROMERO
1r BATX A
ARE YOU GREEN? Silvia V. (1r batx B)
Are you
conscious of your actions?
Since years ago many green
associations have been worried about recycling. They said that the developed
countries consumed and wasted too much glass, too much paper and too much
plastic.
I have to say that many people
recycle because they know it’s better for the environment and because they can
do it. But the problem is that these products which have been recycled go to
different places: to large dumping sites for stay years there, to incinerators
or they could bury underground.
I really don’t know what method
is better. If we think in the large dumping of rubbish, we have to make
ourselves the questions: and who wants this rubbish? Where did we find an open
country? It’s really difficult to find this large place.
Probably, we think that
incinerating the rubbish is a good idea because it disappears. But, in fact is
the worst, because the incinerator plants produce exhaust fumes such as toxic
gases which first are very bad to breath and second, they produce more
greenhouse gases which are bad for the planet.
Finally, we have the option of
burying the rubbish. But this is also a terrible idea, because the garbage can
pollutes the ground and the groundwater.
So, what’s the best way to
recycle? And the experts said: reduce and reuse. Then we have another problem
we can reuse the glass to do other products, and we can reuse the paper, but
and the plastic?
The plastics are elements
derivative of the petrol that were born in the nineteenth century and which
were discovered thanks to a bet who made a rich factory owner. Plastics have
been created because they have good properties to make many products. But, with
this discovery, the factories owners began to replace many elements that were
made of glass to do them with plastic, because it was more economic.
Now, we find that we live in a world of
plastic: packaging, bottles, bags, many parts of a car and even the clothes are
made of plastic.
We have reached a point where we wasted many plastics and there's no space to put them in the dumps, so the residues go to the sea. This way, in the Pacific Ocean there has been formed a big island of plastic that has affected many birds and fishes, which have died poisoned; and those who hadn't died poisoned, have eaten the plastic, and we eat them. It's a big chain which sometimes it's better not to think about.
When we saw these appalling
images, we ask ourselves: How can we reduce it? The answer is that alone we
can’t reduce or make nothing, because now the people who are in the green
associations are the ones who one day wanted to discover plastic and had no
worrying about the future environment, because they are more interested in the
money that they will win. This people have the hypocritical theory of money not
the environment.
For this reason, personally I
think that I can reduce, recycle and reuse but I can’t do many things to
improve the environment. The best way to do it is returning to the past. I
mean, in the past there weren’t many elements of plastic, because the packaging
and the bottles were made of glass and the clothes were made of wool.
This way,
when a person went to buy something at the supermarket, she bought for example
a glass bottle of milk, and when she returned to the supermarket she gave the
bottle to the cashier. Then, the cahier paid back the money of the glass bottle
or she gave to the client another bottle full of milk.
This is a very good way to reuse,
but why didn’t we do it? The answer is the same, because the society imposes
the fashion, and the fashion is the consumerism.
SILVIA VEGA GONZÁLEZ
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