Shirley Jackson wrote a history called "The lottery" in a brief summary it is about a town that has the tradition to throw rocks to the "winner" once a year, what a prize. But we can ask how can someone take another person's sources and build another work based on the original author's work? Easy they just need to build a story that shows at least one or more symbols or ideas of the original story and show it with different names of the characters, a different setting but a similar mood. So the Simpsons creator took Jackson's story and modified its details, but the theme was the same, so he changed the characters, the victims of the tradition, the tradition and turned it into a different story.
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Electro magnetic waves do not require a material medium to expand . They include, among others, visible light and radio waves , television but they also are produced by the sun in a certain frequency(30PHz). All propagate in vacuum to a constant, very high (300 0000 m / s ) but not infinite speed . Therefore that is why we can see a the light of a star that have already disappeared. History of thelcetromagnetic waves Heinrich Hertz discovered electromagnetic waves in the years 1885–1889. 150 years ago. James Clerk Maxwell, developed a scientific theory to explain electromagnetic waves. He noticed that electrical fields and magnetic fields can couple together to form electromagnetic waves, the same as rubbing your feet on a rug to create static energy.Uglielmo Marconi an Italian physicist used Heinrich Hertz's discovery of radio waves in 1888 transmitted electronic signals from his family home in Pontecchio more than a mile away. FUNNY FACTS
.All EM waves are transverse, and are not mechanical. .Infrared wavelengths have just a little bit longer wavelengths then the color red on the visible electromagnetic spectrum. .Gamma waves are the most energetic type of wave in the Electromagnetic Spectrum. .Ultraviolet waves have just a little bit smaller wavelength then the color violet on the visible electromagnetic spectrum. .Micro waves can be used for radar as well as cooking food. .Gamma waves can be very dangerous. Arthur Miller's book the crucible is a satirical book that represents the ignorance of the people in Salem that believed someone was a witch only because another person accused him with no evidence lef. In this blog I am going to talk about the importance that the Crucible to society and how can it help future generations to don't make the same mistakes. This book is Satirical because the same situation different motif happened in the USA during the war with Sovietic Union, people could only accuse someone of being communist and he was immediately was persecuted and has allot of fiscal problems. In the crucible people accused other from being witches and they had to accuse others in order to be alive, but loose all their land. Therefore I think this book is important to show the importance of evidence, and also to show how easy can people believe things, and I hope people only accuse if they have proofs of something they have tell about, but if not they are just cruel and bad people. Juan Miguel Sierra
10B 31/8/2014 SOML Who am I? I am 15 years old I am a persistent, stubborn, ambitious and warrior person, I was born in Manizales, a little city in Colombia, but the most beautiful one, with a bipolar climate and very cool people I am still living in Manizales, and although I love this city I know that Medellin has better universities and I will go there to live when I graduate. In this 15 years old of life I've been trough allot of events, events that can be connected with some famous songs, so I have planned an album titled JMSONG with three songs representing the most important stages of my life, I am completing it because I think it is a very cool idea to make a tribute to all the memories that I've had, because although they are in the past now they will be in my mind for ever, and maybe one day I can listen to this album and remember all this awesome memories. When this project is done I hope that my classmates, my teacher and even me get to know me better, to share with them some music that can connect with the events that have make me who I am now, Juan Miguel Sierra. The songs I selected for this project are I love rock and roll by Joan Jett, People change by Joel & Luke and the final countdown by Europe. I choose "I love rock'n roll" because that was one of the first songs I learned to play in my guitar, so this song has a connection with my musical life and that is something especial for me, and also because thanks to this song I have now something to play when I am with my friends. I hated soccer when I was a child, but now I love it, and this change from hate to love is a very important one, so I found a connection with a song called "People Change" by Joel & Luke, because in this song the sing about how do people's mind change, and in a certain way I did I hated soccer but now I love it, and this song reveals from me that I change allot of opinion, one day I like a son and at the other I don't. Until eight grade I didn't cared much about my grades so I didn't do homework and I din't study I was like a dog I only ate, sleep and repeat, but it wasn't until I was talking with Rafael mVelazquez listening to music and talking very philosophically, we were Socrates and Leusipo, we talked for hours about studying and then he told me that we needed to fight for our dreams, that we had to study in order to be successful, and while he said that the song the "final countdown" by Europe was playing and we got inspired and decided to be more responsible so I told to my self and my parents a million times that I was going to be more responsible and that the first thing I was going to when I got home was my homework and its hard to do it, to change me, an irresponsible person, but I am trying my best and is a process. This song is important for me because it helps me to inspire each time I listen to it. If it wasn't for this song I would've told Rafael to shut up and still being a Jerk. Therefore I think that these songs helped to form Juan Miguel Sierra, and I am trying to improve every day.I would like to give special thanks to Joan Jett for writing "I Love Myself for loving you" Joel & Luke for writing "People Change", and Europe for writing this awesome classic "The final countdown".And finally thank you for taking 5 min of your life to read this essay and also thank you for taking 10 min of your life for listening my album, I hope you enjoy it. We all have something that we love, that inspires us, that help us to keep moving whatever that is called passion, but passions aren't accomplished in the overnight you have to work for it in order that you can do it because no pain no gain you have to fight for your dreams and in this blog I am going to tell you how to keep moving and when to stop listening.
Sometimes when we are working for our dreams we get a little tired and some times we even say to our selves "This is impossible", but nothing is impossible in this world because if the human race would've gave up we could't travel in car, the human race couldn't made it to the moon and internet wouldn't be invented, and everything starts by standing up from the couch, but most of the work is done by continuing standing because a goal without a plan is only a wish. Sometimes there are people that don't want you to be successful maybe because they are jealous, or they think that because they couldn't make it you also can't, or maybe they just don't like you, but it doesn't matter the reason you should only listen to one voice, and its yours,telling yourself that you can do it because it doesn't matter who are the ones that don't believe in you, the ones that matter are the ones that do believe in you, but the most important person that needs to believe is you, because the ones who say you can't and you wont are probably the ones scared that you will. In conclusion success is made up from effort if you don't open your eyes how do you even expect to see, if you don't work for your dreams how do you expect to achieve them, everything starts with one step forward to climb the leader, stop saying I wish and start saying I will, because faith is the last thing that is lost. When you feel like quitting think about why did you started and remember pain is temporary pride is forever. Being honest is good, because you earn other people's confidence, they can trust you, you can trust them back and that way you earn friends, but being too honest is dangerous because there are some times you can't tell the truth to your mom/dad, girlfriend/boyfriend, teacher etc. And that's what I am writing about today, the occasions in which you need to remain silence, lie or tell the truth.
If you party all the quarter and your mom asks you why are you failing all the classes it wouldn't be a great idea to remain silence or to lie because all moms have that sixth sense that will always tell if you are lying or if not, so I suggest that telling the truth to your mother is always the best option unless she asks you if you are completely asleep while you are not, in that case I will recommend you to remain silence and add a little of snoring. If your girlfriend asks you if she looks fat I think you should remain silence because if you say no she is going to tell you that you only tell her what she wants to listen but if you say yes well R.I.P my friend. Lets suppose you are really bored in class and you want a little break I suggest you to make a little lie like telling you teacher you are heading to the bathroom, but you just take allot of time going there drinking water, and going back slower that when you got there. Therefore being too honest is dangerous but telling a lie is like a having an ant on your tongue, and each time you make another lie another ant is there biting with the other one until the moment you cant support more bites and you spit those ants and tell the truth, when you do it you can be punished or insulted but then you will be in peace with yourself, and in that case I recommend to always tell the truth, I know it is king of contradicting me but is much better to have punishment than to have an ant in your tongue. Hello I am here again writing a blog, but today I am not writing about love at first sight, friendships, zombie apocalypses or potatoes because today is an important topic...Blogs, Blogs were made to express our feelings or thoughts in a web page sometimes people like them and other times they don´t but is our goal to make people read our thoughts not to care what they think about it. Blogging has positive and negative aspects and that is the main topic for today.
Positive aspects You can inspire your self talking about something you really want to unburden of, and also to share it with people that may also think the same way you do, for example there are other people like me that only do blogs because we have to, but when we start writing them we also start enjoying them. Some times is also good to know how other people think different to you and some times is fun starting a debate on who does have the reason. Negative aspects: Yeah it's good to blog ans some times is even fun, but when you do it over and over again it starts being annoying, look I don't have anything against writing my ideas but the real problem starts when you run out of ideas and you need to start writing about something that is boring, even for the author and the good blogs are made when the author writes about something very interesting that can change to point of view for the people, for example my goal is to make people that like to blog to write about a good idea, not just about something that just came up. I like to talk allot but the thing is that some times you just need some time to get some air in order that you don't end up without voice, that's the same thing with blogging you just need some time to organize your ideas and BOOOM! a great post appears. But even thought some times I get tired of Blogging I have to do it because it is my work and every week you are going to see me again with a new blog. We all have heard about love at first sight, and even more if we were Disney fans (and if our English teacher forced us to read "Romeo and Juliet") and this blog does not support love at first sight, indeed this blog was done to criticize this corny idea in order to prevent boys and girls to fall in love from a handsome guy or pretty girl, that maybe inside them they are ugly and repulsive.
People often think that couples that fall in love at first sight are destined to live together happily ever after, but guess what? that´s only possible in Disney, because an image doesn´t tell a thousand words, you need to see deeper into a person in order to decide if she is meant for you, you don´t know a person just by looking into their eyes, you know a person´s feelings by talking, not by watching and communication is very important communication is very important before starting a relationship because I know you don´t fall in love because of someone because you have many physical things in common like for example you will never tell someone you like something like "Hey, you and I have the same kind of thumb, we have some much things in common, marry me." Thoughts and likes that share in common are the one that do make someone fall in love. Let´s put an example, lets suppose that you get into a party and suddenly the most beautiful girl/boy appears and she/he seems just like an angel that fell from the sky, you are suddenly in love and you marry her/him, but as soon as you are moored to she/him the person that you fall in love from starts insulting, humiliating, ignoring and cheating on you, do you think your love for her/he would still be the same, do you think it will be still existing? I don´t think so. I believe in love, but I don´t believe in a first impression, you don´t judge someone until you know her/he because appearances can be deceiving and not everyone shows how they really are, and anyone marries to a pretty face I rather prefer a pretty, honest and intelligent girl to a Model that can cheat, treat me bad, lie and ignore me. But for me love at first sight doesn´t exist but Friendships come and go, and people think different, the differences are the ones that make people fight and it doesn't matter if you fight with a person, or if you have problems with one peer, but when you fight with your best friend affects you allot is like if you have lost an arm.
Your best friend is like a brother from a different family, you tell them everything and they know everything about you, but when you fight with them they are turned into your enemy for almost one day, or at least until the fight is over which is very difficult, because no one likes to ask forgiveness because everyone likes to have the reason. The hard thing is to ask forgiveness, because every person in the world is proud, and so when anyone ask forgiveness the fight gets longer. But friends are really important for us and some times we need to recognize our mistakes and ask forgiveness because no one is perfect and is easy to make mistakes, but to ask forgiveness is the hard thing |
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