Letter to the editor

Dear Editor:

These days it is more common to travel and thus experience other cultures than it was 50 years ago. Globalization is a phenomenon that has expanded to the extend of vanishing the imaginary barriers that used to keep the world divided and the different cultures composing it detached from each other.

Therefore, it is crucial children acquire a global perspective sharing constantly with diverse cultures different to theirs and their parents', so then valuable principles such as tolerance and international acceptance are developed. Because of this, I strongly believe third-culture children must preserve this important quality that will led mankind to the global citizen of he future, liberated from today's relentless prejudices.

However, I partially agree with the article published in your newspaper. Yes, parents must retain their children's native cultures, because national identificiation is crucial to achieve tolerance among other cultural realities. But, they must encourage their sharing with other cultures too.

Respectfully, 

Vincent Van Dijk

Image analisys 2

The image I chose represents a forest whose trees are being fastly consumed in a prairie. But, what makes this image so interesting is the fact that the forest is lung-shaped. Then what tells us is that irresponsible industrialism is consuming not just our resources but our ability to breath. Trees are responsible of oxigenating the Earth and then they have an importan biological role, but the image goes further as it may allude to the fact that greed is taking the best of us and is actually avoiding us from living. Trees are our lungs and give us life, by destroying them we are doing nothing but... destroying ourselves.

In other words,the message the image is trying to give is related to Global Warming and how it is affecting wildlife. It is a more superficial analysis of the values involved but, it is important to be taken in account. As after all, this is part of a Greenpeace propaganda and its main target is enviromenal issues.

Image analysis

What I firtly notice about the picture is a large numer of people happily gathered in a non-existing place that resembles eternity, which is related to the emotions the image is portraying. All the people are different ethnically speaking, which may allow us to state they are highly tolerant, as they do not mind these differences when meeting others. Colour then plays an important role as they are all dressed alike in terms plain colours and disings that highlights their skin colour. It is important to notice that older people stands in the front and in the middle of the group, and people around become younger. This can lead us to think that old people are the basis on which generations acquire knowledge about being tolerant and respectful towards others. However, eugenics try to break this differenciation in order to "improve" racial qualities, generally based on a government ideals about it. As it was intended during World War II, population was cleaned so then there was just a pure race that was worth to preserve: Arian race. Therefore, this picture tell us that we have to be tolerant and open-minded so then we become happier in our social interactions. Eugenics restrict our chances of getting along with others and then our possibility of bein fully happy.

Midsummer icecream

Title: A midsummer night Dream

Author: William Shakespeare

Date:  composition:  1593-1594    Publication:  1600 

Period/Style/Genre:  Period: XVI century Elizabeth  Genre: Comedy

Number of Characters:   12 Characters

Setting: The woods near Athens, Grecce

Robin Starveling: 

• Tailor chosen to play Thisbe mother 

Francis Flute: 

• Play a young girl in love
• Man

Peter Quince:

• Carpenter
• Plays the Prologue

Nick Bottom:

• Overconfident weaver chosen to play Pyramus
• Makes silly mistakes
• Man

Hippolyta:

• Queen of the Amazons
• Engaged to Theseus

Theseus: 

• Duke of Athens
• Engaged to Hippolyta

Egeus:

• Hermias Father
• Gave permission to Hermian to marry Demetrius

Helena:

• Young Woman of Athens
• In Love with Demetrius

Hermia:

• Egeus's daughter
• Women of Athens
• In love with Lysander

Demetrius:

• Young Man
• In live with Helena

Lysander:

• Young Man
• From Athens
• In love with Hermia

Titania: 

• Queen of Fairies
• Female

Oberon:

• King of fairies
• Male

Puck:

• Didn't have age as h was a fairy 
• Male
• Fairy 
 

Summary

Scene 1
Titania asks if Bottom want some nuts, but he replies that he would prefer a handful of dried peas and that he has a strange hungr for hay; all this happens while he lies in her lap with his ass head. Oberon and puck talk about the love charming spelled on Titania, and after that he proposes her to undo the magic if she yields the Indian child. Oberon removed the spell and asked for music to dance with the queen. Finally Puck also removes the spell of the ass head from Bottom.

Scene 2
Craftsmen are worried about his friend Bottom because he hasn't appeared, moreover with a beast in the forest. Starveling thinks that maybe the fairies have done something to him.  Snug enters tellign everyone that Theseus married. Just when they were leaving fot the play, Botoom appears and asks why are all so sad, going with them to perform the play.

Special Notes

A special characteristic of the play is the appeareance of many fairy characters, doting the story with misticism and making it unique. The performance of the play must be done with a lot of ornaments and costumes.

Another notable effect in this act is the useof background music proposed by fairies.

Finally, the participation of slept characters mixes reality with dream creating a superreal enviorment.


Personal Notes and Reactions

The story is very good, it happens in different settings and with uncommon characters as fairies. The difficulty at the moment of reading is to understand what characters want to say or what is ocurring because of the poetic use of english; also because of the weird actions of the fairies the story tends to confuse. 

Bottom, still with a ass haed above his shoulders, rests his it against Titania's lap, while she twines roses in his hair and kisses his long ass-looking ears. she gently asks him if he's hungry, offering him some nuts, but he rathers some hay. Then, orders Peaseblossom to scratch his head and orders Cobweb to get some honey.

Doctor Jekyll and Mister Hyde questions

 First Part
1. What story does Enfield tell when he and Utterson pass the door? What does hearing the story cause Utterson to do?

 Enfield tells to Utterson a story related to a neglected building whose door makes him shiver. Once, he was strollling across the city as always, when suddlenly he saw a man hitting a girl he did not even know in front of that door. Mr. Enfield and the girl's relatives stopped the man and required him to pay £100 for the damages caused. The man's ugliness  was desproportionate, recalling devil itself.The girl's father and Mr. Enfield went to the devil-man's so he get the money and pay for his agression. However, this man, who was called Mr. Hyde, comes back with cheque that had a different name on, so they thought he was blackmailing the person tha actually wrote the cheque. Utterson follows the story closely so he decides to investigate.

2. After their meeting, what do Enfield and Utterson both suspect about the relationship between Jekyll and Hyde? what evidence does the text give for this suspicion?
 Both Enfield and Utterson suspect that Jekyll may owe something to Hyde, and that is why the latter would have had the suspicious cheque. They both strongly believe that there is something wrong in the relationship that Jekyll and Hyde maintain. But, there are other theories that pop up while both men, Utterson and Enfield talk, on page 4, the latter states that maybe Hyde is blackmaling Jekyll fo some reason.

3. What two pieces of information dos Utterson learn about Hyde's letter to Jekyll? What do you predict that Utterson will do to help his old friend, who he suspects is in serious trouble? Justify your answer on the basis of evidence from the text.Utterson learns that the letter had been written by the same hand and, besides, opposite to what Jekyll said, it was not taken to Jekyll by a messager. Hyde was supposed to be safe and able to escape.

Second Part

1. What happens to Dr. Lanyon at the beginning of this section? What suspicions do you have about the cause of this occurrence?
 Lanyon was shocked by his regular visits to Dr. Jekyll's. He had grown pale, his flesh had fallen away, and he was visibly balder and older. Terror had deep-seated on hismind, so he suspected was close to die.

Doc's link

Dear CChavez, here's the doc's link. Enjoy reading!

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1IckKVLe6rm_UrLb-qHToxqbJBE5rtU3mDegC6seLtDk/edit