viernes, 22 de noviembre de 2013
Silly joke
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martes, 19 de noviembre de 2013
Who can talk?
Did you know about the experiments about chimpanzees?
Kanzi is a Bonobo male from 31 years old who was born in Lorel (University of Emory), then he was moved to the Research Center of Languages in the University of Georgia.
I actually come across this new in the psychology class, I though it was a nice topic to talk about.
In short from the video we saw in class we can conclude:
Kanzi could communicate with someone who wasn't present (by phone call). And he recognized the voice after a few days.
He understads the concept of a promise and wants the people to make it happen.
He recognizes the feeling of being guilty and he has the hability of empaty.
He knows how to play with fiction; a brother of him has a mask of a monster and he runs away from it; just to play and for fun.
He also has the hability to planificate how to solve a problem and to find solutions. What's more he is able to make tools by him self.
He understands the order of the sentences when talking and the grammar.
In the video we could see all this and to communicate of course he didn't speak. He always had with him a machine which contained about 200 words. Everytime he pressed a button of it the machine would pronunce the word Kanzy meant.
I found this curious and interesting to explain. We do know that chimpanzees are the most similar animal to us but I don't think everyone is aware about their capacities and the things they can do.
If you want more information go to:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kanzi
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2191964/Kanzi-bonobo-chimp-learns-create-tools--repeating-humanitys-steps-civilisation.html
Kanzi is a Bonobo male from 31 years old who was born in Lorel (University of Emory), then he was moved to the Research Center of Languages in the University of Georgia.
I actually come across this new in the psychology class, I though it was a nice topic to talk about.
In short from the video we saw in class we can conclude:
Kanzi could communicate with someone who wasn't present (by phone call). And he recognized the voice after a few days.
He understads the concept of a promise and wants the people to make it happen.
He recognizes the feeling of being guilty and he has the hability of empaty.
He knows how to play with fiction; a brother of him has a mask of a monster and he runs away from it; just to play and for fun.
He also has the hability to planificate how to solve a problem and to find solutions. What's more he is able to make tools by him self.
He understands the order of the sentences when talking and the grammar.
In the video we could see all this and to communicate of course he didn't speak. He always had with him a machine which contained about 200 words. Everytime he pressed a button of it the machine would pronunce the word Kanzy meant.
I found this curious and interesting to explain. We do know that chimpanzees are the most similar animal to us but I don't think everyone is aware about their capacities and the things they can do.
If you want more information go to:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kanzi
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2191964/Kanzi-bonobo-chimp-learns-create-tools--repeating-humanitys-steps-civilisation.html
An informal letter to a friend...
Hi Jan!
How are you doing? I'm gald you wrote to me.
I must say that the summer job I did last year was unreal! I couldn't have been as happier as I was. Of course I had bad days and boring ones but I could always find the way to make it amusing.
I will make a list for you of everything I did. To begin with they made me do some office work although to be honest, it was boring and I didn't really learn anything. Those days I only had to answer the phone and make coffees. However after a while I found the way of making my day more fun: I imagined that I was a very important business person. I also talked to the others who were working there and they were so nice to me.
After a few days I realized that I was making good money. The day they paid me for the first month, I remember I already fitted in with the people.
They made me feel at home and the manager of the festival told me that it was a pleasure to work with someone like me; so I got very motivated.
Soon I got to do some elementary translation and I dealt with interesting enquiries from English visitors so overall I had great practice. What's more I got a few free visits to the festivals so I had plenty of time to enjoy the music and I even got to know some of the musicians. It was a magic feeling.
I promise you it was the best job I will ever do! I hope it has been helpful for you. Contact me if you want to know anything more.
Talk to you soon, best wishes
My lovely summer
This summer was a special one, I did plenty of things.
First of all as I knew I was going to redo the last year of school I finished before. So I had four full months of summer. The first month (June) I profited to go to the beach and sunbath. In July I had the plan to go to Turkey but as you must know Turkey was having some dangerous and violents protests. In the end I wasn't allowed to go and I decided to invite the guy who I was going to Turkey with over to my house for a week.
As I live in Ampuriabrava news go so fast through people mouth and they all knew I wasn't going to Turkey anymore. Suddenly I had a call for a job as a waitress in a restaurant. I though about it and I knew that if I didn't take the work I was going to be very bored being at home every day. I started the first week of July and I was working from 11:30 to 15:30 and from 19:30 to 24:30 or 1:00 depending on the work. It was a French restaurant ( Creperie Abri Breton), most customers were French so I was happy because I could practise my French, the others were Spanish, Catalan and a few English. If I have to be sincere I ended up dead every single day from working! It was the most tiring thing I ever did! What's more I went by foot every day because I love walking and it was only half an hour far from my house ( 2 minutes by car).
I only had two mornings free and one of them I was asked to do English classes at the tennis club to children aged from 4 to 8 years old. As I liked children so much I accepted and I had great fun with them. It was my first experience as a techear by myself.
Talking again about the restaurant; I was the only waitress, the boss was always there but she would rather stay talking to the customers than working. When the work was crazy we used to call the daughter's boss to come and help. In the kitchen there was the son and the husband's boss, I was in the middle of a family. They treated me so good! and at nights I went to parties with the son.
When August arrived, I couldn't stand it anymore: the two works, the parties, the hot weather which made me tired... So I decided to ask my boss if it was possible to finish work earlier than we had accorded. She told me only if I could find someone to replace me, which I did. My plan was to go to Ireland for ten days. I was invited to go to the Debs from my old school. It is a tradition and it's a shame we don't do it here. We had our nails, hair and make-up done by a hair dresser. I already bought my dress before going there in Adolfo's Dominguez shop. It was so emotional because I saw all the people and teachers who went to my class three years ago. We all stayed in an hotel. We had dinner and we danced all night long. The next morning was very sad because we had to say good bye.
During these days I also went to visit my old school and it brought me such nice memories.
When I came back to Spain from my little holidays, I spend most of the time with my boyfriend and for the first time a member of his family (his uncle) came to visit him (from Argentina). We decided to go for a few days to Barcelona, I wanted to show him the capital city and how beautiful it is.
To sum up my summer; it was very complex and I enjoyed it so much. I leave you some pictures of it... I hope you liked this post.
First of all as I knew I was going to redo the last year of school I finished before. So I had four full months of summer. The first month (June) I profited to go to the beach and sunbath. In July I had the plan to go to Turkey but as you must know Turkey was having some dangerous and violents protests. In the end I wasn't allowed to go and I decided to invite the guy who I was going to Turkey with over to my house for a week.
As I live in Ampuriabrava news go so fast through people mouth and they all knew I wasn't going to Turkey anymore. Suddenly I had a call for a job as a waitress in a restaurant. I though about it and I knew that if I didn't take the work I was going to be very bored being at home every day. I started the first week of July and I was working from 11:30 to 15:30 and from 19:30 to 24:30 or 1:00 depending on the work. It was a French restaurant ( Creperie Abri Breton), most customers were French so I was happy because I could practise my French, the others were Spanish, Catalan and a few English. If I have to be sincere I ended up dead every single day from working! It was the most tiring thing I ever did! What's more I went by foot every day because I love walking and it was only half an hour far from my house ( 2 minutes by car).
I only had two mornings free and one of them I was asked to do English classes at the tennis club to children aged from 4 to 8 years old. As I liked children so much I accepted and I had great fun with them. It was my first experience as a techear by myself.
Talking again about the restaurant; I was the only waitress, the boss was always there but she would rather stay talking to the customers than working. When the work was crazy we used to call the daughter's boss to come and help. In the kitchen there was the son and the husband's boss, I was in the middle of a family. They treated me so good! and at nights I went to parties with the son.
When August arrived, I couldn't stand it anymore: the two works, the parties, the hot weather which made me tired... So I decided to ask my boss if it was possible to finish work earlier than we had accorded. She told me only if I could find someone to replace me, which I did. My plan was to go to Ireland for ten days. I was invited to go to the Debs from my old school. It is a tradition and it's a shame we don't do it here. We had our nails, hair and make-up done by a hair dresser. I already bought my dress before going there in Adolfo's Dominguez shop. It was so emotional because I saw all the people and teachers who went to my class three years ago. We all stayed in an hotel. We had dinner and we danced all night long. The next morning was very sad because we had to say good bye.
During these days I also went to visit my old school and it brought me such nice memories.
When I came back to Spain from my little holidays, I spend most of the time with my boyfriend and for the first time a member of his family (his uncle) came to visit him (from Argentina). We decided to go for a few days to Barcelona, I wanted to show him the capital city and how beautiful it is.
To sum up my summer; it was very complex and I enjoyed it so much. I leave you some pictures of it... I hope you liked this post.
Women stereotypes
I did the oral presentation with Meritxell Romans and we divided it in equal parts to present it.
My parts were the following:
"The beauty myth"
The beauty myth exists in our society only because of the gender stereotyping and the constant display of it from the media. The concept behind the myth was designed by men to keep woman distracted and control them through the media.
The beauty myth itself is the unrealistic and unbelievable standards of beauty set by women due to their increasing importance into business and politics.
The myth looks like a joke but it has a vital importance for women.
As many people know, the Barbie doll is one of the first stereotypes that a little girl gets to know, and some girls want to be like their dolls. Is devastating to see the effect of beauty society rules in little women selfconfident.
"Female attractiveness characteristics"
After a research made in EEUU the dream girl comes to be like her: smart girl, dark skined, long and skinny legs, big breasts, beautiful smile, narrow hips,... they are impossible!
To specify a bit more the characteristics are:
-Facial features: the University of Toronto made a study of the ideals facial proportions. Jessica Alba is close to the average famale profile. The face should measure the same from length and width. The nose has to be exacly in the middle and your eyes at half way to the end of the face. To finish from your eyes to the mouth there has to be a distance of a third.
-Body mass: it's a very important factor because is something very visual. Since a few years ago men prefered plumped women. But when Barbie arrived it made a huge change in women minds since they were very young. So it came to be a very slim profile o the perfect girl.
-Skin: there used to be a preference for lighter skined women. But lately the studies prove that dark skinned women are better.
-Eye colour: this study is very curious because it says that brown eyed men have no preferences regarding to the women eye colour.
In contrast blue eyed colour men prefer women of their same colour eye.
"Negatives consequences"
Talking about women, when they feel like they don't fit in or they feel uncomfortable with the group of people that involves them, this can cause very negative consequences such as anxiety, double of difficulties to do a task. In the worst cases it can develop illness like anorexia, bulimia and other eating disorders.
In our society stereotypes are learnd at the age between 3-4 years old. One of the biggest influences is the media: adds, TV shows, movies, social networks,... Children start to get involved in a world of manipulation and cheat.
The messages act unconsciously on us and we are receving them every single day.
You can complement the information with the prezi I posted under :
http://prezi.com/dezcfzpywflk/copy-of-untitled-prezi/
My parts were the following:
"The beauty myth"
The beauty myth exists in our society only because of the gender stereotyping and the constant display of it from the media. The concept behind the myth was designed by men to keep woman distracted and control them through the media.
The beauty myth itself is the unrealistic and unbelievable standards of beauty set by women due to their increasing importance into business and politics.
The myth looks like a joke but it has a vital importance for women.
As many people know, the Barbie doll is one of the first stereotypes that a little girl gets to know, and some girls want to be like their dolls. Is devastating to see the effect of beauty society rules in little women selfconfident.
"Female attractiveness characteristics"
After a research made in EEUU the dream girl comes to be like her: smart girl, dark skined, long and skinny legs, big breasts, beautiful smile, narrow hips,... they are impossible!
To specify a bit more the characteristics are:
-Facial features: the University of Toronto made a study of the ideals facial proportions. Jessica Alba is close to the average famale profile. The face should measure the same from length and width. The nose has to be exacly in the middle and your eyes at half way to the end of the face. To finish from your eyes to the mouth there has to be a distance of a third.
-Body mass: it's a very important factor because is something very visual. Since a few years ago men prefered plumped women. But when Barbie arrived it made a huge change in women minds since they were very young. So it came to be a very slim profile o the perfect girl.
-Skin: there used to be a preference for lighter skined women. But lately the studies prove that dark skinned women are better.
-Eye colour: this study is very curious because it says that brown eyed men have no preferences regarding to the women eye colour.
In contrast blue eyed colour men prefer women of their same colour eye.
"Negatives consequences"
Talking about women, when they feel like they don't fit in or they feel uncomfortable with the group of people that involves them, this can cause very negative consequences such as anxiety, double of difficulties to do a task. In the worst cases it can develop illness like anorexia, bulimia and other eating disorders.
In our society stereotypes are learnd at the age between 3-4 years old. One of the biggest influences is the media: adds, TV shows, movies, social networks,... Children start to get involved in a world of manipulation and cheat.
The messages act unconsciously on us and we are receving them every single day.
You can complement the information with the prezi I posted under :
http://prezi.com/dezcfzpywflk/copy-of-untitled-prezi/
Obama's speech !
Dear, Sònia
It's great talking and sharing this things to you.
Hi, I'm Tiziana and I'm 17 years old. Last year things didn't go as I expected and now
I'm redoing the last year of high school. I don't really think it's a waste of time because from now on I still have a whole year
to think about what I really want to do and it is also another year of experience.
At the moment my very first goal to reach is to end high school successfully. I have started motivated and I hope it lasts.
If I focuse my life in a few years from now I actually don't see anything clear. But I know for sure that I will be studying languages and
hopefully (if I have the way to earn some money) travelling a lot.
Obama's speech on the one hand is helpful for those people who are unmotivated, who may want to give up, who may think that their problems are the worst, those people who don't mind about the future of their own nation. However, as Obama says (and it's my favourite quote):
"every single one of us have something to offer and we have the responsibility to discover what it is".
On the other hand Obama's speech encourages you to make it possible through any hazard. And it makes you trust yourself.
To end up I would like to say that I want to make proud all the people around me who have been all this time supporting me and helping me to do my best. This year is a second chance for me and I know this time I will succeed.
I hope to hear from you soon!!!!
All the best,
Is humour important? Is laugh necessary?
What would we do if we didn’t have humour in our worst moments in life? Do you think the world would be more pessimist? Would the society be more depressive?
In our view humour is compulsory necessary day by day, minute by minute. Is obvious that people aren’t happy the 24 hours of a day but is important to try to forget about problems and look the good sides of things. That’s why life would be boring without laughs.
In our view humour is compulsory necessary day by day, minute by minute. Is obvious that people aren’t happy the 24 hours of a day but is important to try to forget about problems and look the good sides of things. That’s why life would be boring without laughs.
-To begin with a good day the first thing we should do is do something that you like, something that makes you in a good mood. You can always remember something that made you laugh the day before. Therefore not everything that you do in a day is enjoyable but you have to be positive and take it easy.
-Furthermore in your free time it’s essential to look into things we can remember forever such as spending time with your friends, boyfriend/girlfriend, watching TV shows like two and a half men, who I met your mother Bib bang theory, modern family or ridicule business and so on.
-When you feel like doing nothing, you don’t want to see anyone or go anywhere; you need laugher more than anything, someone with a good sense of humour to make you laugh with its owns jokes.
-To sum up, the best of a bad day happens when you come across a person who can make you laugh even though you don’t feel like it.
As a conclusion we both thing that smiling should be compulsory for everyone of us. Because when we smile life seems to be easier and happier. When you laugh you can see the world less worst than it is. Our advice is to laugh, smile and be happy all the time even you think is not worth it.
This is a compatition from Meritxell Romans and I.
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