China's Massive Pollution is Indicative of Broader Problems

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China have a severe crisis about his enviroment because most of the cities have too much pollution in the air and in some cities it was 50 times the level the World Health Organization considers safe. But unfurtanetly seems that the Chinese goverment is unaware of this big problem.

In 2013 was celebrate the sixth annual Beijing Human Rights Forum. The theme was environmental rights. But the problem is that you can’t have meaningful environmental rights without other basic rights. And the Chinese government is violating them.

China have around 450 cancer villages (communities near factories or chemical plants where cancer rates far exceed national averages), but if this people ask for help to the govern they are ignored.

Although Beijing announced a commitment to addressing the environmental problem in China, the country have already many environmental protection laws, but they weren't apply.

All know about the big problem that China have with the pollution, but I think it's too difficult to solve because the Government always permit everything to the enterprises if these pay to it. And the Goverment are agree that the enterprises come to China because the value of the country rise but the people continue poor.

Human Rights

If all the people had the same privilleges the world would a beutifull place. But it is not true because if you go out of the Western World you will see images that you won't believe.If you think that poor people in your country are miserable you can't imagine what  the people that are poor feel in a poor country. And if you see the television the human rights of most of these people are violated. Human righs are only the rights you have simply because we are human. The human rights was created after the Second World War by the United Nations for in the future didn't do things like the past. But why, these people don't have anyone of all the thirty?

Well, this have a simply answer: We have the fault. Because we don't punish and we do nothing about the people that treat they like things only for make a profit for them. And the law most times can't do nothing about it. All of us know about the inequality of this world, but only few people have the mind for change this.

Vocabulary:

• Freedom from unlawful detainment: Llibertat per detenció il·legal.
• Fair and public trial: Judici just i plublic.
• Fair employment and right to unionize: Treball just i dret a sindicalització.

Self-avaluation

Obviously this wasn't my best presentation because I had some mistakes that you can see them immediately. I couldn't prepare so much this presentation because I didn't have time. For this reason the pronunciation wasn't good and I needed to read all the time.

Furthermore this presentation was about the Research Project and I haven't present it yet and this was another problem because I had to create the presentation from zero.

Landmarks of London

Big Ben and The Palace of Westminster

Definitely the Big Ben is the most representatives building of London and you must see minimum one time in your life because is a great monument. But you can't visit if you are a tourist. But you can visit The Palace of Westminster that is near of this. The The Palace was the residence of the Kings of England from the eleventh to the sixteenth century. In 1834 almost all the Palace of Westminster was destroyed by fire. This palace, is one of four World Heritage sites of the city of London.

To go to Westminster Palace first you need to walk to High Street Kensington Station and then take the bus. This will leave you on Westminster Station. From here you walk again since there to Westminster Palace.

Buckingham Palace

If you go to london you can't leave if you don't see one of the most important landmarks of there, The Buckingham Palace. This is the home and offices of Her Majesty Elizabeth II, the Queen of England. Every autumn, when the royal family are away from the Palace, the State Rooms are open to the public. The most interesting thing that you can watch is the changing of the guard, a military ceremony which takes place at 11:30am and lasts for approximately forty-five minutes.

To go to Buckingham Palace first you need to walk to High Street Kensington Station and then take the bus. This will leave you on St. James's Park. From here you walk again since there to Buckingham Palace.

The Tower of London

Is a historic castle located on the north bank of the River Thames in central London. I think that is important visit this site because has had an interesting past. Over the last ten centuries the tower has been a palace, a prison an arsenal and even a zoo. But now a days keep the Crown Jewels and is considered a World Heritage Site.

To go to Tower of London first walk to High Street Kensington Station and take the bus and this will leave you on Tower Hill. From here you walk again since there to The Tower of London.

Abstract of research paper

The project has two parts: The first is the theoretical part, which explains the history of Golden ratio, how it changes the vision of science and its attributes and characteristics. Also, this number appears in an amount of artworks, like "La Gioconda" of Leonardo da Vinci and "The Last Supper" of the same artist, and I show how the artist used it.

The second part is the practical where I am focus on the Golden ration in nature. I mesure persons because I wanted to know if we have the Golden ratio in the body and thanks to this we know if we are "perfect".

Google

For my this presentation has two good things, the presentation and the content. Because if you see it, you can observe that I put a good bit of time. And the content have quite information that it's possible that you did know before. Also the language was difficult for me because this is varied and specific for this topic. But the downside of the presentation was my body language and eye contact, because unfortunately I needed to read all, and my pronunciation some times wasn't good.

It's humor necessary

Do you think that a world without humor is a good place to live?

Surely you and many other people think that humor is necessay, and this is true. Humor and laugther can be a good tool for you, because they have many good results.

Firstly if you are a witty person and use the humor correctly you make more friends than a serious person and the people around you will want your company. Beside, anoder good consequence or possibly more than one are for your health  because if you laugh your body relaxes and you too boosts the immune system, triggers endorphines and helps you to dissolve your distressing emotions.

Definitely, humor is a good thing for you and your body if it makes you laugh because there are many types of humor and it's possible that some of them make you laugh.

Looking back

1. Can you see an improvement on your level of English in the past year/s? English post

Yes, because when I wrote texts the past year, I used simply vocabulary and too much the translate, but this year is not necessary for all.

2. Which activity best shows your level of English?

In the exams is where I show my bests marks.

3.Which activities did were really  USEFUL for you to improve your English? Why?

All the activities are useful for improve my english, but the activities that improves more my english are the writings and the grammar, because with the practise I structure better the texts that I write.

4. Which activities did you NOT find useful to learn English? Why not?

The presentations, because when I expose the topic I get nervous and fail the pronunciaton, and I need read because I don't remember the text. And the exams about phresal verbs, because after this I don't remember what I write on it.

5.Which activities would like to do again next year to keep on improving your English?

All the activities that I did this year are improving my English, some more and some less, but for me is important do all.

We have made the world a better place. Do you agree?

The world is not a good place for everybody. In my opinion, if we can make it a good place for everybody, the people will change.

First, only few countries have the 80% of the resources of the world, like USA or Eurepoean countries. And other hundreds and hundreds countries only have the 20% of the resouces. This makles a big unequality betwen countries and people.

Second, the mosts powerful enterprises in the world have become richers and riches by the work of the poor people of the underdeveloped countries.

Third, and the most important, the people don't have knowledge about the dangerous of this capitalism society. Because the people consume amnd consume and don't stop. And one day the resources will be finished.

In conclusion, we haven't made the world a better place yet.

Gender violence

Presentation         10%	Do you use any resources: powerpoint, video, images, sound, real material...? Are the resources focused on the topic? Do the resources support your oral explanation? Is the timing 5- 10 minutes?	8%
Body language & eye contact        10%	Are  you looking at your audience most of the time? Are you reading occasionally from your notes ? Are you doing any gestures/movement to hold the attention of your audience?	6%
Structure          10%	Do you organize your ideas in order of importance? Do you use discourse markers to make your ideas more clear? (First, then, secondly, on the one hand, on the other, finally…)	7%
Content         40%	Do you introduce new information to your audience? Is your information  detailed, clear and...? Do you give/show examples?	30%
Language        20%	Is your grammar correct, complex? (verbs, word order, tenses learnt in class) Is your vocabulary rich, varied (synonyms, idioms, expressions, phasal verbs, topic-related) Do you use sentence linkers? (and, but, moreover, also, furthermore, although, however…) Do you use fillers? (well, you know, for example, one second, repeating a word…)	14%
Pronunciation & Intonation         10%	Do you know how to pronounce all your words? Did you check the pronunciation? Do you change your tone of voice or use a monotone tone all the time? Do you speak in a fluid continuum or with breaks and interruptions?	6%
Self-Evaluation	You are your teacher! :-)                                 FINAL MARK:	7,1

Formal letter

C/ Del Mar 21

Castelló d'Empúries

13th March 2015

Human Resources Departament

Mercadona supermarket

C/ Mas Pau

Empuriabrava

To whom it may concern

I would like to apply for a job in this supermarket as a shop assistant this summer.

I have experience in this area, because I worked in others supermarkets like Lidl and Aldi, and I am keen on having contact with the people. If you like I can work in other job. I speak four different languages, English, German, Catalan and Spanish.

I want to work in the summer because the rest of the year I am studying. And this can be useful for  pay my university studies.

Yours faithfully

Pere Avellan

South Africa

In general I think that the presentation was good, but I failed especially the pronunciation and read too much. For this reason always I try that the content is good.

Presentation         10%	Do you use any resources: powerpoint, video, images, sound, real material...? Are the resources focused on the topic? Do the resources support your oral explanation? Is the timing 5- 10 minutes?	8%
Body language & eye contact         10%	Are  you looking at your audience most of the time? Are you reading occasionally from your notes ? Are you doing any gestures/movement to hold the attention of your audience?	5%
Structure             10%	Do you organize your ideas in order of importance? Do you use discourse markers to make your ideas more clear? (First, then, secondly, on the one hand, on the other, finally…)	9%
Content         40%	Do you introduce new information to your audience? Is your information  detailed, clear and...? Do you give/show examples?	33%
Language        20%	Is your grammar correct, complex? (verbs, word order, tenses learnt in class) Is your vocabulary rich, varied (synonyms, idioms, expressions, phasal verbs, topic-related) Do you use sentence linkers? (and, but, moreover, also, furthermore, although, however…) Do you use fillers? (well, you know, for example, one second, repeating a word…)	14%
Pronunciation & Intonation         10%	Do you know how to pronounce all your words? Did you check the pronunciation? Do you change your tone of voice or use a monotone tone all the time? Do you speak in a fluid continuum or with breaks and interruptions?	4%
Self-Evaluation	You are your teacher! :-)                                 FINAL MARK:	7,2