1) To explain how the book would be different (because it would be) if Briony was a boy instead of a girl, I would like just to allude to three different passages of the book, the first one being the scene when she sees her sister with Robbie by the pond and she first thoughts about a wedding proposal scene (something a boy would never even imagine on thinking) and then starts creating a whole story behind what she just saw without knowing what was actually going on. So she creates for herself a horrifying perspective about Robbie, and even more, when she reads the letter she wasn't supposed to (something that probable a boy wouldn't have done, because we shouldn't forget that she did it because she was jealous of her sister's relation with Robbie, because she liked him (if Briony were a boy its highly improbable for him to like Robbie)) she convinces herself about that this guy its an actual sex maniac, and lets be honest, men are not as exaggerated as women in these kind of things. And later on, when she witness against Robbie, she's blinded by her girly-one-sided point of view so she doesn't even reconsider her statements. In a few words, the book would have been really different, and probably wouldn't even had a plot if it wasn't for Paul Marshall raping Lola.
2) No, because the main plot is the change on Briony's point of view and personality through the novel, all the war scenes about Robbie only add the context to Briony's changing on the middle-end of the book, and on the last part, we can appreciate that all these scenes are just made for helping Briony developing her last thoughts, that are her feeling of guiltiness and sorry for what she had done.
3) These 'macabre' scenes respond to all the war-suffering scenes in which the author describes the horrifying characteristics of the war, and the wounds of the injured soldiers, in order to to create a realistic context to the story, as well as as producing an effect on the reader.................................
viernes, 13 de noviembre de 2015
martes, 3 de noviembre de 2015
viernes, 2 de octubre de 2015
The Gods must be crazy narrative.
The Gods Must be crazy by Jamie Uys its an informative and descriptive short text about the Desert of the Kalahari, told by a third-person narration, tells us about the life of ''the little people of the Kalahari'', a group of people who has adapted to the hard life of the desert. Or is it hard? By the use of the direct narration in present tense, the author catch us in an interesting piece in which describe the story of how the Bushmen adapted to a place that seemed like impossible to live in and transformed this arid place, in a heaven, or not transformed but they saw in this place what no one ever saw, while our modern-society how we know it today is left as something... ''not nearly close as good'' as this place. By a free indirect speech, the narrator lists all the good implications about the life in the Kalahari and all the codes to survive in this habitat in order to make us read until the end so we can sleep well in the night, without trying to figure out how these people survived a all these years.
viernes, 14 de agosto de 2015
Blow Bugle Blow analysis
Blow Bugle Blow
-by Alfred Tennyson
The poem tells us about a war that its taking place far far away, in which people are dying and suffering, so they blow bugles in a call for help to their homeland but they don't get any response from the castle and the aristocracy that lives in it.
The poem tells us about a war that its taking place far far away, in which people are dying and suffering, so they blow bugles in a call for help to their homeland but they don't get any response from the castle and the aristocracy that lives in it.
The use of words like Bugle (brass wind instrument typically used on military marches) gives us the idea of the war by suggesting sound, an specific sound that we are most likely to relate to war times, that is the sound of the trumpets of battle (bugles). And combining this with the word ''echoes'' helps us create a more concrete and clear image of the poem's war in our minds, connecting echoes with characteristics like ''distant'' (that is the distance of the war) at the same time that its suggests the idea that these ''echoes'' are echoes for something, I mean they are not voices anymore, so the idea of death is implicitly given. And further more, if at the end of each stanza there is a repeated word ''dying'' combined with ''echoes'', one can easily say: The echoes are the people's voices, and they are dying. As well as these words relate us to a war time, the use of ''wild'' remarks the characteristics that the human can acquire during a conflict like this in a comparison to animals.
The tone of the poem its kind of bipolar, because it presents a calmer tone at every stanza's beginning but when we reach the end of them, this sense of calmness gets disturbed making allusion to what its actually happening on the poem: At every ''call for help'' from the people, the tone changes according to which place its being talked about, either far away from the war, in the wealthy and peacefully lands or in the war itself where soldiers are fighting and people are dying.
The title ''Blow bugle Blow'' makes connection to the poem by being part of the refrain at the end of each stanza. And by only reading the title one can easily tell that the poem is about war times and that's exactly about what it is, BUT it makes a connection with some really important factor in the poem , which is the use of sounds, either like in ''reading out loud'' types of sound, or words that suggests us sound.
The theme of the poem its ''An ignored call for help'' in which the soldiers and the people scream for any help from the upper class (which its assumed to be their government) , but, as the theme suggests its being ignored. In this poem, Tennyson expresses the feeling of the people on the battlefield (who are not receiving any help) and make us adopt an critic point of view like someone who's outside the conflict and cannot do anything to help.
The poem has both internal and final rhyme. The first one can be easily seen and its used on every first and third verse of each stanza. On these verses, the rhymes help on making the poem a little slower to suit the feeling and mood that is portrayed every time the lyrical speaker talks about the peaceful place away from the conflict, and to contract this place with the war zone. As well it contributes on making the poem flow more easily by giving it some kind of musicality. On the other side, the final rhyme contributes on changing the sense of calmness to chaos by using soft word sound at the end of every second and forth verse as well as using heavy sound words in the fifth and sixth verse of every stanza.
The poem starts
with two verses that both contribute on giving majestic and marvelous
characteristics to the castle in which the high class lives (personification),
using a personification to refer to the splendor (in caps) falling on the
castle's walls which shows the glory and the prestigious construction that it
was supposed to protect the people. With an enjambment (which gives a feeling
of fluency and calm) with the next verse gives us an idea of ancientness of
this castle in order to make us think about this castle as an even more
powerful building, ''old in story''. In the next two verses the lyrical speaker
speaks about the landscape near the castle which is as peaceful and splendorous
as the castle itself. The feeling of peace is given by the use of the word
light because (in my opinon) when we hear an expression like this one one of
our first thoughts its about an late afternoon for example, with the sun hiding
etc. But this peace will be interrupted in the next two verses with the call of
the bugles from far away, the call of wild echoes flying that are slowly dying
when not heared. In this part, the use of alliteration in nessesary in terms of
giving the poem a little more speed to differ from the peaceful part of the
first verses. Meanwhile the people is dying, these other ''aristocratic'' guys live in peace and wealth ignoring all the fatalities from the war but still claim the glory of these battles for themselves, all the glory and honor goes to the powerful and rich high class people.
In the next
stanza, the lyrical speaker makes a call for everyone (including the reader) to
hark, to attentively hear these ''thin and clear'' words
that are traveling through the wind trying to reach their goal, trying to warn
the castle and get some help from them, or even an answer, it is said that these words are getting thinner because of the warriors dying and fewer in numbers. But ''O sweet and
far from cliff and scar'' its how exactly the people on the castle are living,
without worries about anything, far from the war and the scar (the scar
is a metaphor for all the wounds that the people are taking for them), the cliff its compared to the war because of the ''potential danger'' they share, and because of the probable abrupt and sudden deaths that can occur in places like these, living
in some sweet place that's even compared to an Elfland. But what does is it
mean to be this an Elfland? The Elfland, or land of the elves its described as
the most beautiful and peaceful place on the world where everybody lives happily
and without worries, a place of majestic creatures that are superior to normal humans. And this place is not answering the echoes and the calls
for help. Or is it? ''The purple glens replying'' its the light of hope that the warriors needed for their cause. The purple glens as well is an alussion to the Elfland that was mentioned before by giving a sense of majesty to all what belongs to the far away castle. Even though this response is going to rise the moral of the soldiers, they are falling on their own trap, the sound of the glens its only giving them some fake hope on their task, so its even worse for them to hear them (but sadly they don´t know). The poem continues with two fast and strong verses in which the author identifies himself with the people in the war by using the word ''us'' to refer to him and the population. The lyrical speaker now speaks to someone who's not known (it is assumed to be God or any divine entity) asking him to allow their calls for help to be heard in the capital , but this desire is not granted , so it continues to the next verse with the refrain calling once more to the city to please hear the echoes, because they are dying… dying dying dying.
In the last Stanza, the lyrical speaker continues speaking to the divine entity and telling him, saying that because of this war ( and it is infered that because of the people of the castle) his people are dying under his beautiful and rich sky , which should not be messed or shadowed because of a calamity of men, like this. He talks about all the consequences that brought the war with , especially in terms of the loss of innocent lives, and that now their dead bodies are stacked in the rivers , hills and across the landscape. In the next two verses, the lyrical speaker stops talking to his ''God'' to begin a monologue about what would be the consequences of the war, specifically for the people that in their time of need did not help . The voices of those killed in combat would survive joining each other, between souls and souls they would grow together forever and ever ( to use the word ever twice as an alliteration emphasizes the use and importance of time), and it follows that these words are not staying on the landscape only for attachment to their homeland but with a more important reason , to remind THEM of what they have done. The poem then ends with the same two verses that the first stanza ended with, again making allusion to the sounds of war, etc, But this time the tone its a little bit different. As the poem went on, the lyrical speaker told us about the consequences that their aristocracy shall suffer at the end of the war, but with these two last verses we can tell that everything he already talked about has not occurred yet, so its a warning to now hear the echoes and answer, because they are dying dying dying...
In the last Stanza, the lyrical speaker continues speaking to the divine entity and telling him, saying that because of this war ( and it is infered that because of the people of the castle) his people are dying under his beautiful and rich sky , which should not be messed or shadowed because of a calamity of men, like this. He talks about all the consequences that brought the war with , especially in terms of the loss of innocent lives, and that now their dead bodies are stacked in the rivers , hills and across the landscape. In the next two verses, the lyrical speaker stops talking to his ''God'' to begin a monologue about what would be the consequences of the war, specifically for the people that in their time of need did not help . The voices of those killed in combat would survive joining each other, between souls and souls they would grow together forever and ever ( to use the word ever twice as an alliteration emphasizes the use and importance of time), and it follows that these words are not staying on the landscape only for attachment to their homeland but with a more important reason , to remind THEM of what they have done.
jueves, 18 de junio de 2015
Letter task- The Walking Dead
AMC's networks
11 Penn Plaza, New York, United States.
Mr Darabont:
Im writing this letter as a form of praise to your show ''The Walking Dead'', because I really liked something about it, you were not afraid of making use of the stereotypes to describe your character's qualities, as well as I liked the evolution on these stereotypes in order to make them each time more worthless, for example in the first two seasons of the show, women were portrayed always as the ''weak'' members of the group, and the ones who used to cause all the problems, sort of useless, as well as most women were on roles like mothers, or persons who needed to be protected, while men were the protectors and the strong ones, I imagine you had quite a few complains about it coming from the feminine community.
The stereotypes then, (only in gender terms) were weak women who were in need of protection to survive as well as trouble-makers. But I'm not saying this as a complainant, but as a congratulation about what you did, I think, and in my opinion most people think, that the use of these stereotypes is completely necessary in order to make the show have a little more content than only killing zombies, I mean , they were necessary to make the theme get more sense, the evolution of the characters its what I think that's the most important thing, how (by themselves or with help) they get rid of the stereotypes that were put on them at the first chapters.
The other thing that I liked was the dominance of the male gender on the group, the obvious reason for this its that I'm a man and by nature we like being superior, but there was something that make this stereotype fell a little in order to make the show more realistic, that was the character ''Eugene'', the complete contradiction of all the characteristics portrayed as stereotypes on the men of the group, he is physically weak and he is not a zombie killer with a natural surviving instinct as the other characters, but a ''nerd'' who's afraid of almost everything, even though as well as the female's stereotypes, the character evolved in the last season to something more ''manly''.
The other thing about stereotypes I noticed, took me a little longer that identifying the others. The innocence as a death factor, I mean that the innocent people were more likely to die. I can relate that to a day-to-day situation in which innocent or shy people are bothered and taken advantage of because of their conditions ands characteristics, so as in the show the innocent ones have to leave this behind, I see sort of an educational or motivation purpose on doing this to influence the audience who may or not be on this situation.
11 Penn Plaza, New York, United States.
Mr Darabont:
Im writing this letter as a form of praise to your show ''The Walking Dead'', because I really liked something about it, you were not afraid of making use of the stereotypes to describe your character's qualities, as well as I liked the evolution on these stereotypes in order to make them each time more worthless, for example in the first two seasons of the show, women were portrayed always as the ''weak'' members of the group, and the ones who used to cause all the problems, sort of useless, as well as most women were on roles like mothers, or persons who needed to be protected, while men were the protectors and the strong ones, I imagine you had quite a few complains about it coming from the feminine community.
The stereotypes then, (only in gender terms) were weak women who were in need of protection to survive as well as trouble-makers. But I'm not saying this as a complainant, but as a congratulation about what you did, I think, and in my opinion most people think, that the use of these stereotypes is completely necessary in order to make the show have a little more content than only killing zombies, I mean , they were necessary to make the theme get more sense, the evolution of the characters its what I think that's the most important thing, how (by themselves or with help) they get rid of the stereotypes that were put on them at the first chapters.
The other thing that I liked was the dominance of the male gender on the group, the obvious reason for this its that I'm a man and by nature we like being superior, but there was something that make this stereotype fell a little in order to make the show more realistic, that was the character ''Eugene'', the complete contradiction of all the characteristics portrayed as stereotypes on the men of the group, he is physically weak and he is not a zombie killer with a natural surviving instinct as the other characters, but a ''nerd'' who's afraid of almost everything, even though as well as the female's stereotypes, the character evolved in the last season to something more ''manly''.
The other thing about stereotypes I noticed, took me a little longer that identifying the others. The innocence as a death factor, I mean that the innocent people were more likely to die. I can relate that to a day-to-day situation in which innocent or shy people are bothered and taken advantage of because of their conditions ands characteristics, so as in the show the innocent ones have to leave this behind, I see sort of an educational or motivation purpose on doing this to influence the audience who may or not be on this situation.
martes, 19 de mayo de 2015
Song lyrics
Run to the Hills -Iron Maiden
The white man came across the sea,
He brought us pain and misery.
He killed our tribe, he killed our creed,
He took our game for his own need.
We fought him hard, we fought him well.
Out on the plains, we gave him Hell.
But many came to much for Cree,
Oh will we ever be set free?
Riding through dust clouds and barren wastes, Galloping hard on the plains.
Chasing the Redskins back to their holes,
Fighting them at their own game.
Murder for freedom, stab in the back.
Women and children are cowards, attack!
Run to the hills;
Run for your lives!
Run to the hills;
Run for your lives!
Soldier blue in the barren wastes, hunting and killing's the game.
Raping the women and wasting the men,
The only good Injuns are tame.
Selling them whiskey and taking their gold, Enslaving the young and destroying the old!
Run to the hills, run for your lives!
Run to the hills, run for your lives!
Run to the hills;
Run for your lives!
Run to the hills;
Run for your lives!
The song, Run to the Hills, by Iron Maiden, talks about the american colonization by europeans, and basically all the problems that this caused, for example the murders, the use of slaves, etc.
The song portrays an image of an ''evil'' white man (who came across the sea...), who only brought to the native americans pain, misery and suffering, by using strong words like the ones already used, words like ''murder'', or phrases that give you the idea of destruction like ''Run for your lives''. In other words, run to save your life from this invader (the white man... who came across the sea). As well, the image of this ''destructive man'' is empowered by the appeal of the innocent tribes of the american in front of someone who only came to kill, ''The good guys who fight for their freedom Vs the Bad intruders''.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ZlDZPYzfm4
The white man came across the sea,
He brought us pain and misery.
He killed our tribe, he killed our creed,
He took our game for his own need.
We fought him hard, we fought him well.
Out on the plains, we gave him Hell.
But many came to much for Cree,
Oh will we ever be set free?
Riding through dust clouds and barren wastes, Galloping hard on the plains.
Chasing the Redskins back to their holes,
Fighting them at their own game.
Murder for freedom, stab in the back.
Women and children are cowards, attack!
Run to the hills;
Run for your lives!
Run to the hills;
Run for your lives!
Soldier blue in the barren wastes, hunting and killing's the game.
Raping the women and wasting the men,
The only good Injuns are tame.
Selling them whiskey and taking their gold, Enslaving the young and destroying the old!
Run to the hills, run for your lives!
Run to the hills, run for your lives!
Run to the hills;
Run for your lives!
Run to the hills;
Run for your lives!
The song, Run to the Hills, by Iron Maiden, talks about the american colonization by europeans, and basically all the problems that this caused, for example the murders, the use of slaves, etc.
The song portrays an image of an ''evil'' white man (who came across the sea...), who only brought to the native americans pain, misery and suffering, by using strong words like the ones already used, words like ''murder'', or phrases that give you the idea of destruction like ''Run for your lives''. In other words, run to save your life from this invader (the white man... who came across the sea). As well, the image of this ''destructive man'' is empowered by the appeal of the innocent tribes of the american in front of someone who only came to kill, ''The good guys who fight for their freedom Vs the Bad intruders''.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ZlDZPYzfm4
martes, 12 de mayo de 2015
Short Story
For the complete appreciation of this story, its highly recommended to hear it rather than reading it, since the narrator interacts both with the story and his characters, as well as with the ''reader''
''If you dream about something, think about it, it has a reason for being only a dream''
''I was a lucky man, I had everything I wanted, a luxurious house, a nice sport car, and an awesomely paid work at the Appl and Maicrosoft technology labs. But I had a problem, an obsession with it, an obsession with technology, with all the products I was helping to develop for the companies that I worked for, they had some sort of ''special place'' on my heart. Every night I dreamt about the future, and how I would change it by my work. In the future, I created incredible devices that would change our lives to better, devices that everyone could buy, and I would become famous. I dreamt about a ''cyberfuture'' created by me, with multimedia classrooms, electronic meetings, virtual communities, online business, etc. A fantastic world, not this.''
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Rationale.
Last class, we were handed a paper written in 1995 that talked about the technology in terms of innovation about the future, and how this were going to either help the develop of a new and better world, or the incompetence of this technology in daily life, like classrooms or even human interactions. It basically takes the vision of some people about the future of technology, and take those thoughts to the real life arguing about how this ideas would really be.
And my topic I chose, its exactly about that. A short story with informal language (used to target all people and not necessarily complicate them in the reading (make it simple)) that targets all types of audience in which some guy dreams about the future world developed by technology , and the awesome things that this would bring to society, but when he makes it to live there he realizes thats that world its not like he thought: ''A fantastic world, not this.'' Its a science fiction short story that leaves a message for the reader, ''If you dream about something, think about it, it has a reason for being only a dream'', entertainmente its not the only purpose of this short story, but making the audience question themselves a little more about their actions and what could be the consequences of them-
''If you dream about something, think about it, it has a reason for being only a dream''
''I was a lucky man, I had everything I wanted, a luxurious house, a nice sport car, and an awesomely paid work at the Appl and Maicrosoft technology labs. But I had a problem, an obsession with it, an obsession with technology, with all the products I was helping to develop for the companies that I worked for, they had some sort of ''special place'' on my heart. Every night I dreamt about the future, and how I would change it by my work. In the future, I created incredible devices that would change our lives to better, devices that everyone could buy, and I would become famous. I dreamt about a ''cyberfuture'' created by me, with multimedia classrooms, electronic meetings, virtual communities, online business, etc. A fantastic world, not this.''
Steve Stevenson Steves
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It was a day like any other, Steve was on his way to work, when he received a phone call:
Steve- the voice said
Yeah, what's going on man?- replied Steve recognising his friend's voice
Remember that today she gotta present our projects to the boss to see which of them gets approved and is ready for the market- said Zach- what are you going to present pal? I know you got a lot of good projects going on!
Yeah, hum probably the one that I was talking about last week, or not only that one, but all of them, the multimedia classrooms with robots and stuff , electronic meetings, virtual communities, online business and commerce, etc. But what about you?- he responded
You will soon see- replied Zach while ending the call.
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Our first candidate- announced the judge of the "competition"- bring us the idea of creating a new phone, that will make you "feel like a bird on the sky", an interesting piece of technology which can be bended, its submergible, you can basically smash it with a rock and it would not be even scratched....
This is as boring as some clam's aquarium- thought Steve. He soon started to feel the need of resting his eyes, when suddenly:
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A pop up alert!
''Look at this man!'' said Steve while showing his new brand tablet screen to his friend. ''The New News Now magazine here, says that the new AiFon is ''The Real Device'', what do you think this means bro?''
I don't know- replied Zach, his friend- Probably the same that always dude... the super-omega-alpha-hyper-ultra new phone that instead of (like the last one) being red, its dark red, but its 400% more expensive.
It says that this new phone gives you the capacity to fly dude, it says literally: ''Be above the clouds with the new Aifoun ''Real device'', It will make you feell like a bird on the sky''
-Its always the same- answered Zach- And by the way, you better be moving soon, you got to supervise the new teacher's class in about 5 minutes.
Steve responded to the text, said good bye, and left his phone on his backpack.
"By the time, the reader must be asking himself, What is going on? The answer is simple. All what Steve Stevenson Steves thought one time, was already done. And these guys, they weren't talking face to face, but chatting on ''Whats' Dawnn'', an application for phones."
When they got themselves to class, the new ''teacher'' was waiting for them, and I say ''teacher'', because it was not a normal teacher by all means. When someone says "teacher" you spect it to be a human, I don't know, male or female it doesn't matter, but this teacher was... well, a robot. Like the book the "Robot Teacher"? That way.
well well children- the robot said with some annoying "metal" tone- As you may know, I am your new teacher, and I'm here to...
Suddenly, the power went off and the robot falls to the ground with a noisy "CRASH".
Actually, I was waiting something like this to happen- said Zach- I knew that it's impossible for a robot, a piece of technology to take a teacher's place. Have you seen the movie The Simpson?
No... Why?- replied Steve
Well, in that movie, a bomb is placed on a city that is under a dome, and they have to deactivate it to survive, right? And they hand the job of deactivating he bomb to a little robot who prefers to even blow his head off with the officer's gun rather than dealing with the pressure of his job with the explosive- Zach said- this shows you, my friend, that technology it's not always the answer, and it's not perfect.
Don't worry- replied Steve- I've already sent a complain text about the function of the robot to the company's main page, now we wait and see.
Yeah, about that, you might want to check you message again- his friend said
When Steve opened the page in which he published his complaint, he found himself on an infinite blog with thousands of people posting their opinions about it, but no one listening each other. A huge mess, and the worse, the company wasn't even answering the posts.
Whoa, I didn't spect this to happen, it's a mess- admitted Steve- I was waiting for some sort of "tidy" and well organised page in which everyone would be able to show their opinion correctly...
That's the problem with today's society man- replied Zach's voice, since he wasn't anywhere to be seen- all people shout their opinion, but no one have respect for the other's opinion, and they don't hear them, but some insults over here or there.
And do you remember what you saw inside the classroom? No one was talking to each other- continued the voice- the human interactions Steve! They were all in their phones, even the couples where staring at the screen. Tell me, do you prefer this rather than the old days in which we would talk and I say jokes and stuff?
Wait... What's going on?...
Look at this world Steve, they are all in their houses staring at a screen, would you rather prefer to see A concert by an HD screen, or live it with your friends?- the voice announced- this is what your invention did to the world, it destroyed the normal course of living, you transformed them to something like those fat guys on the Axiom on the movie WALL-E. In the classrooms, they are not even learning Steve, they don't know what to do with those devices, it doesn't work!
Make it stop! -yelled Steve- make it stop!
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HEY STEVE WAKE UP! You've gotta present your idea to the audience!
what? What's happening?- said Steve confused
You fell asleep while watching the presentations! You even missed mine- answered Zach, who was standing by his side
And what did you present?
Don't you remember?, that thing of mine that allowed you to live for a short period of time your dreams and...
SO IT WAS YOU!
What....
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Rationale.
Last class, we were handed a paper written in 1995 that talked about the technology in terms of innovation about the future, and how this were going to either help the develop of a new and better world, or the incompetence of this technology in daily life, like classrooms or even human interactions. It basically takes the vision of some people about the future of technology, and take those thoughts to the real life arguing about how this ideas would really be.
And my topic I chose, its exactly about that. A short story with informal language (used to target all people and not necessarily complicate them in the reading (make it simple)) that targets all types of audience in which some guy dreams about the future world developed by technology , and the awesome things that this would bring to society, but when he makes it to live there he realizes thats that world its not like he thought: ''A fantastic world, not this.'' Its a science fiction short story that leaves a message for the reader, ''If you dream about something, think about it, it has a reason for being only a dream'', entertainmente its not the only purpose of this short story, but making the audience question themselves a little more about their actions and what could be the consequences of them-
viernes, 13 de marzo de 2015
Rewrite task
Dear Ms X,
For over the past six years every morning when my students walk in the door I have felt so happy about see them again and my classroom take on life again; being a primary school teacher feels so natural to me. Yet for the past few months was longing for and thinking about a few personal challenge in the field of primary education. As I'm very intrigued by different cultures and languages, I've decided to start looking for a position at an international school.
As a relatively young international school which I would like to be member of pioneering and ambitious team, your school attracted my attention. I also liked the fact it is a Dutch subsidized school with competitive fees open to a very broad variety of students. Last, I value the multicultural setting of your school added by the experience of living in Amsterdam and the Netherlands, as I think this city and the Dutch culture have much to offer.
Even though teaching secondary school students might be a future possibility for me, I am initially interested in groups 3-8 because to me, children of these ages are very spontaneous and eager to learn at the same time able to communicate and discuss well.
I am an open minded person with excellent social skills who tolerates pressure easily. Group management, organizing and planing is natural for me. By graduating in a outstanding technical university and working several years as a consulting engineer and group leader in the field of logistics and genera, management, I developed my rational, coordinating and analytical skills, so I decided to really follow my heart and passion to become a primary school teacher.
I believe value would be added to you organization with my skills And enthusiasm as well I would appreciate very much to be interviewed so we could discuss more about the job description, my motivation and suitability .
Yours sincerely
Candidate Y
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