Bethnal Green sex assaults: Girl attacked three times in hour

Summary

This news informs us about 29th of September this year when a 17-years-old girl was sexually attacked 3 times in an hour. On the night of the 29th to 30th, someone found a girl distressed, lying on the floor and under the effects of drugs. The police said that the victim was seen on camera being carried by a man who was wearing dark clothes, so that was the first assault.

After midnight, the girl was seen stumbling down Mint Street followed by another man, riding a bike, so that was the second attack. And minutes later, detectives believe that she suffered a third assault.

Personal opinion

I believe this is one of the most horrible things that can happen to anyone. This girl was going back home from a night out, and instead of arriving safe, she came across 3 horrible people who raped her. Also, it wasn’t just one person, there were 3, and one after another, so they saw this girl was hurt, and they did it anyway. These three people had to be very evil to be able to do that.

Seeing this and all the similar cases, how am I supposed to leave my house at night calmly? Or come back after a party without thinking all that can happen in only 10 minutes? I think it’s not fair for anyone to be walking in the streets in fear, looking everywhere if someone is following them.

On the other hand, how can someone attack another person just for fun? These people clearly have no empathy, because they are doing something that the victim will never forget. I think that rapists sometimes are worse than killers, because, you can kill someone by accident, you can hit them with the car or something like that, but when you rape someone, you don’t do it unintentionally, you do it in bad faith. That’s why I think in these cases, rapists should be punished by life sentence, because a violation is never a mistake.

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100 Women: Where are the female Nobel Prize winners?

Summary
This news talks about the scientific winners of The Nobel Prize. It mentions the laureates in all the scientific areas: physics, chemistry, physiology, astronomy and medicine, and all of them have something in common, they are all white men.
Since the beginning of the awards in 1901, only 17 women have been awarded in the three science categories, and there hasn’t been any black science laureate.

Personal opinion
First of all I think that something as big as the Nobel prizes, shouldn’t discriminate. I think that to be fair, the judges or whoever chooses the winners, shouldn’t know the names or have photos of the candidates, because if they have any prejudices, they won’t choose the best research or project.
I believe this is an injustice because there are plenty of women who work hard every day, discovering new things, and they are not rewarded, and the same is happening with other people, of different races.
There are a lot of people who have good ideas, that maybe aren’t winning this award because of who they are or how they look, and this is totally unfair.
Everyone should get the chance to be recognised and rewarded for their efforts.

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http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-41513261?intlink_from_url=http://www.bbc.com/news/topics/ea10d9be-b2fa-46e5-9711-183b6480c675/sexism&link_location=live-reporting-story

Las Vegas shooting: Paddock may have planned to escape

Summary
This piece of news talks about last October the 1st , when the deadliest mass shooting by a lone shooter in the U. S. history took place
Paddock was an old man, retired, divorced and with no children. His father was a bank robber but he had never had any criminal history, in fact, he lived in a retirement community.
He was staying at Mandalay hotel in Las Vegas, and from there he instigated terror in The Route 91 Harvest festival; Paddock killed 58 people attending the festival, and then he killed himself.
The FBI said that there were no link to terrorism and even if it’s quite difficult to carry out this alone, he did it. His girlfriend said that two weeks before the attack he bought her a ticket to see her family in Asia, and while she was there he wired her 100,000 dollars.
Personal Opinion
Honestly, I have no words for all the things that are happening in this world. Lately everything has been bad news, terrorism and violence are everywhere and I can’t understand it. I can’t even imagine what can have been happening in Paddock’s head when he did this. It seems that he was a quiet man; he lived in a retirement community, he was growing old with his wife, and although his father was a bank robber, he never had any criminal history, so why would he suddenly kill 58 innocent people? I mean, I don’t get it, they were someone's parents, someone's siblings or someone's children, they were innocent! There is no excuse for such a horrible incident. The people in the festival didn’t deserve to die because some evil, heartless man had lost his mind and started shooting people. No one deserves to die like this.
We are all humans; we should love each other, and take care of each other. There are so many problems in the world that we can’t control, so why can’t we stop creating more?

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-41511666

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Selectivitat's writing

Buy nothing day is the opposite day to Black Friday, it is a day created to try to consume less and produce less waste.
I think this is a good idea because there are lots of products that people just use once or twice and then they become trash. Sometimes people are not conscious of what they have or what they need, and that's the principal reason of consumerism.
If we take a day to think and realize of everything we have bought and not used, we would see that the only thing we are doing is waste our money and produce lots of garbage.
I agree with this idea because as I said it makes you realize of what you really need or use and don't buy anything unless you need it.

Informal letter

Hello Lourdes!
As you know, my name is Paula and I'm 17 years old. I always have lived in Empuriabrava, in the same house and obviously with the same people, my family. I have two siblings, my brother David who is 12, and my sister, Carlota who is 15. Although they sometimes drive me crazy I love them so much. My father, Ramón, works as a fireman and my mother, Marian works in a school looking after problematic kids.

After an amazing summer here we are again in high school, luckily it is going to be the last year. I’m currently studying 2^nd of scientific batxillerat, and the truth is that, seeing the results of the last year I think I can do it a little bit better to get better marks.

I don’t really have a lot of expectations about how my life is going to be or what I am going to study or where I am going to live, because at the end it doesn’t matter how much you plan your life, nothing is going to be as you planned it. But yes, I know more or less what could be my life in a year; maybe I will be studying something related to biology (that’s what I like the most from high school), like biomedical science, or pharmacy, in Barcelona or Madrid or maybe I will be doing a gap year to clear my head and decide what to do with my life. For either of these two options I need to work hard. For the first option I have to make an effort studying and getting good marks because usually science degrees demand it, and for the second one I will have to exert myself too, working in summer to earn money and take the gap year. The truth is that I am the only one who can do it, I mean, although people support me, if I don’t study or I don’t go to school or I don’t get a job I won’t be able to achieve my goals. Life is full of surprises so I’m not worried about deciding what to do.

While I was watching Obama’s speech again, I realized that it’s full of beautiful sentences so I couldn’t choose just, one but three. The first one is “Every single one of you has something that you are good at. Every single one of you has something to offer. And you have the responsibility to discover what it is.” I think these words are so comforting because not everyone is good with studies and sometimes we, the students, forget that there is another world outside high school, and not everything turns around getting good marks and being the best of the class; that if we are not good with science or letters, maybe we will be good at sports or arts and that’s okay. Another sentence that I liked is “Where you are now doesn’t have to determine where you’ll end”, as I said before life is full of surprises, and even if you are in the most miserable situation if you try and you don’t give up on yourself, you can get over it and live the life you always wanted. It’s only matter of working hard and trusting in you. And the last one is “You won’t necessarily succeed at everything the first time you try. That’s okay”. I like this sentence because it is completely true, moreover, you will probably fail if you are trying to do something new for you, and this will only teach you what to do to do it well. The most important thing about the speech is that you never have to give up on yourself, even if things are not going as you want, you are the only one that trying over and over again can do whatever you want.

Lots of love,

Paula

FINAL REFLECTION

I think that I have improved on my english and my task blogs compared to last year. I have relized that when I have to write a your say I have more vocabulary and I do it easily than last year. I also think that I have more things to tell, because last year it was so difficult to find something to write about and now I have more ideas. I think the activities that shows my best level of english are your says or writings in class, but something related with my pleasures because I get excited writing. I improved my english mostly from the series I watch, but I think my writing skills are improved thanks to the blog and other tasks. Also, I think that the oral presentations are useful because you are forced to talk in english so I learned more about pronuciations or fluency. Reading a book in english was really useful too, because I learned a lot of vocabulary. 

On the other hand I don't find useful news, because although you read and you get information I think that blog task it's enough. Also, I don't find useful evaluating other presentations because you don't really know how you have to evaluate and it is so relative because you may think that somebody is very fluent and another person can think the opposite. 

I would like to keep doing your says, but not news, also I would like to watch more movies or series because although it seems a nonsense it's the way I learned more. I would like to do kahoot once in a while too, because although it's not very useful for grammar or other skills, it's funny and it is useful to disconnect and do other things than grammar, voacbulary, listening, reading and all that kind of stuff.

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Empuriabrava

Girona

29th May 2017

Mr/Mrs Magan

Puerto Princesa South road

Philippines

Dear Mr Magan, 

I am writing to ask you about your post in Workaway. I am 18 and I just have finished my secondary school education and I want to take a gap year to travel around the world, so I think that travelling with Workaway is a great option economically for young people.

I am interested to know more details about how I can help you. First of all, I would like to know about my schedule, how many hours I am expected to work each day and if I my working hours will be in the morning or afternoon.Additionally, I am keen to know if I will have some free time too. In my free time I plan to see and experience as much as I can of the local area- do you have any suggestions or advice?

I look forward to hearing from you. I'm able to do a skype interview if you want to know anything more about me.

Yours sincerely,

Paula Montané.