E-waste listening activity

What happens to the electronic waste produces in the Unites States?
Most of it isn't recycle and is sent to Asia instead, particularly to China. If done,the recycling of this kind of waste is pretty rudimentary.

What happens to e-waste when it arrives in developing cuntries?
It is premitively recycle, because what people look after that process is obtaining the valuable parts and metals that hide inside these objects, by burning them. That consiedrably pollutes the environment and expose those who carry out the activity to toxic gases, such as dioxides, as the interviewee states.

Why does so much e-waste get shipped to Asia?
Because people give an use to the e-waste there,because, as it was said before, they obtain valuable parts from those objects to sell them later in the illegal market set for this purpose. E-waste gets shipped to Asia even though there is no proper infrastructure to recieve those huge amounts of disposed objects.

What are the negative effects of dumping e-waste?
It pollutes the air by emitting toxic gases people then breath, which makes them suffer from severe respiratory deseases. E-waste burning also poisons the water that those asian communities drink.

How do the toxins in e-waste return to the United States?
In the pastic toys are made of, for example. Because the pastic used to make these toys is the same burnt from e-waste in Asia.

What can concerned citizens do about e-waste?
They can ask e-waste-producing companies to create a payback system meant for used electronic devices. Also, as customers, they could ask recycling companies to take part in this issue by processing e-waste in a less polluting way that does not affect local communities.

Speech

Have millions of friends. Run and do other outdoor sports like hiking or surfing. Defend the environment and everything that lives there. Study and work hard until you are almost forty. Get the last gadgets technology has to offer, even though the ones you have perfectly work. Today, that is how everyone is expected to behave. But, where does this behavior come from? Are people environmentically determined to act like this? Is it nature or are there other forces that tell people what to do in specific circumstances?

Well, let me tell you it is not nature the one making us behave like this. It is mass communication. Television, films and newspapers among others are constantly yelling at people what they have to consider as important. Television and films are always showing lifestyles people want to mimic, so that their lives are intended to be as similar to their favorite characters’ as possible. People are distracted from real problems and obsessed with these tales projected on their screens.

But, people are also told how to live because all what’s shown in television and films is biased.  Information is shaped according to a superior ideology that guides people’s behavior and makes them share the same interests. If television didn’t transmit its concern about the environment, would people care about it by their own? The obvious answer is no. Or would people want the last gadgets launched? No, once again, no.

Television, films and the newspapers guide people through life, telling them what choices they have to make. What they have to buy and believe. So, it makes us all puppets commanded by a superior force we are exposed to everyday. The worst of all is we can’t avoid it. Media is so powerful, there is no way to resist it. Has it ever crossed your mind the idea of not following this pre-shaped road? Getting free of the hands slipping in our brains? I bet it has. But can we do something to avoid it? I bet we can’t. We need more people to get rid of this conventionalism, to realize we can’t let media control us. We have the right to decide what to do with our lives, not exposed to this polluted source of pre-conceived lifestyles. So, this is what we will do. Turn the television off and burn every newspaper. But most importantly, live the film of your lives.

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.