LETTER TO MY PARENTS

Steel Bridge street, nº7

7th April, 2017

Dear mom and dad, 

What's up there? Here in Barcelona all it's perfect, here is so hot because the spring arrives a month ago and the cold desapeared. I haven't heard from you in a while, the last I know is that on Easter you will go to Istambul to visit the grandmother because she was ill. Is she already recovered? 

I've been preparing all the month the exams I'll have after the holidays. Here the education system is completely different to Shanghai. The politicians change the system constantly and it's harm the students.

In the univerity I'm, and in the most of the univerisities, as I gave been told the course go on for two semesters of four months ehach one. The lectures are face-to-face but you may miss if you are up to date with the subject. All the exams pile up always at the end of the evaluation and we bet the grades only in two exams for semester. 

The people usually go out on Thusdays, they are a big parties !!! The sutdents trades organize it on the univerities and for this reason the clases doesn't start after the midday on Fridays. Most of the students are applied on the subjects because in class the teachers only teach us a part of the theory and we must do the other part of the theroy at home. The degrees are funny because we aren't a small group of students and we can debat anything. 

Well, this is more o less everithing about the educational system in Catalonia. It can be greatly improve because it is far behind compared to other countries. I know I should tell you something more but I don't have time. 

I'll see you in a month. 

Love you so much !!

Marina. 

"THEY WANT TO EXTERMINATE US", SAYS CHECHEN GAY MAN

This article is a testimony of a Chechen man. The newspaper talked to him, and he explained the situation in his country where there are a Republic but it is seems a dictatorship. In the article he is called Ruslan but it isn't his real name, they want to conceal it because they are explaining information in a negative way of Chechnya.

He was denounced by some gay in her town, and the police snatched him quickly. He was beaten and humiliate and even if the policemen wanted tortured him with electrical shocks. After a few weeks, he was release but they asked him for denounce more gays in his town that are married to hide her homosexuality. Now, he is looking for policemen because they are wiping out homosexual men. 

The politician system deny that they carry through secretly a campaign to annihilate the homosexuals.  But there are some investigations carried out by Russians. They have a list of names of men who disappeared and have been killed for being homosexuals. The investigation was requested by Ranzam Kadírov because the president of the Chechnya republic declared him the campaign against gays. 

Nowadays, Raglan and other men as him are hiding in Russia, but there they can be catches again for this reason they want to run away from this country and go where be homosexual doesn't matter. 

I really believe that many countries if they could they will do a campaign as this. In the Second War this persecution was present even though the jewish persecution was numerous.

I think everybody is the same, everybody have the same Human Rights even if you are homosexual or not. Gays aren't any different, they have two legs and brain as a human. But there are who have homosexual phobia and it's incredible because her aren't strange, they just love a person of the opposite sex. 

Many of them are private of live freely because they must keep out of sight or hide them homosexuality because is something that community hasn't accepted yet, and although they think they accept it many people reject it because they are closed mind.  So, the community must open their mind because if we don't do it we extinguish many small groups that are different. 

Reading this article I learned some words that help me to improve my english. They are alleged, wires, rein and halt. 

Here I leave you a video where this man explains her experience and his nowadays life.

CAN YOUR VOICE REVEAL WHETHER YOU HAVE AN ILLNESS

On this post I'll talk you about a article I read in BBC News which talk about an investigation that is caring out by an american investigator. This investigation is about a machine which analyze the brain and warn to possible dementia deseases. 

This investigator started to looking for a machine which will be able to identified this kind of deseases with the voice because he suffered it with a familiar. He explains that this machine foresee the dementia illness for the primary symptoms that a doctor doesn't get it.

This machine is used to detected the first changes on patients who have early Parkinson or Alzheimer.  Their words change, they use always the same words and this words are of low quality. The voice softens and this symptoms are the once which capture the machine but we doesn't detect it.

This machine made increase the number of the people who is forecast to suffer demential disease. It helps to humans because this changes are minimums but the doctors use it analyzing the conversations with their patients and investigating the emanational intelligence. 

This machine nowadays isn't only use to forecast deseases, it's use in comercial sector too. They use it to know who is going the conversation with the costumers and how they improve it.  It give them some advices to get more sells. The business which applied this method increase a 20% their benefits. 

Currently, some multinationals are investigating about how applied this machine in mobile phones. If it will happen in a future our privacy will disappear. 

I agree with the first investigation, the once who through the voice a machine can capture some faults which in a future will be able to produce you a demential illness. For this reason I agree, because it is a investigation which help us, our healthy and is for a good aim. But the others uses of this machine that are explained in the article are disgusting. Companies are using the machine without our consent, they can know our feelings or our emotional intelligence with this machine. Furthermore, I'm surprised with the investigation which is caring out to put this machine in the mobile phones. If now we don't have privacy with the social media we don't have privacy with a machine in our phone that will be able capable to know our feelings. I'm annoyed with the technology because it is destroying the humans and the world. 

Reading this article I learned some words which help me to improve my english. This words are behavioral, onset, enabled and subsequently. 

JACK THE RIPPER

The first few days of the month, the students of second course of baccalaureate  traveled to London to put into practice everything we had learned in class. One of our activities there was a night tour throught the streets where took place the Jack the Ripper's assassinations. 

This theme piqued my curiosity and for this reason I started to elaborate my own theory about why this man did the inicidents to the five women. I elaborated a theory but it isn't real, I only followed my sixth sense and I thouth what I'll explain you right now. 

I really believe that Jack the Ripper was a person who had a mental instability, for this reason he did the crimes. I think he had had a hard childhood, too and this develpo his mental imbalance, because pepole say that we are our chilhood.

What made him commit those crimes was the impotence of not being able to help his most beloved women by the suffering that men provoke him. I think his father died when he was little and this made that his mother would have to prostiuite itself because at this time were few options to work. I assumed that surely she arrived always at home brusied, injured and maltrated by her costumers. Because of this, she died a short time after and he was watched over by his aunt who was a prostitute, too. 

I really believe that his aunt mistreat him constantly because she vent her costumer's bursuit with him. For this reason Jack the Ripper searched for his victims in the neighborhood where he grew up. And he choose prostitutes because his mother and his aunt suffered for this profession and he couldn't do anything to help them. He migh looking for vengeance. 

He craved up them because he may see that they suffered doing their profession, he freed them from suffering as his aunt had done with him when he was little. His crimes were more intenses because he felt pleasure doing it. And the fact that he removed their uterus could mean that she doesn't suffered more.

So, this is my theory about why Jack the Ripper carried out his crimes. It is a theory totally invented so don't believe it because it is a simple theory that I have been thinking and seems logical. 

IS JEALOUSY NATURAL?

Most of the times relationships go thorough crisis and most of them are because on of the member of the couple is jealous. This members don't know why they have this feeling and furthermore they still have more fear of losing their partner. So, for this reason they ask them if jealousy is natural in a relationship. 

What is jealousy? 

It is an emotion often linked to humans and it is a reflection of their feelings or thoughts as insecurity, fear and the anxiety of losing something of great personal value. This jealousy is always produced by human relationships, particularity romantic once. This word is a set of emotions such as ire,  resentment, disability, futility and disgust.

Nowadays this term includes two words that had been distinguished years ago. They are envy and jealousy.

Therapists declare that jealousy is a evil which come from a childhood trauma or it is a symptom of psychological mental imbalance. They nod that people who feel insecure or who sometimes depend of other persons are prone to be jealousy. 

On the other hand, the assert that is totally normal feel jealousy in a relation because it may strength the relation as a result of make feel flattered your partner considering that he/she can like others. Nevertheless if it is extreme it is 100% probably that the relation can and in any moment because jealousy will make the couple enter to a negative loop and each member will want to find a person who could make their happy.

There are specialist who classified jealousy in different levels. The big distinction that everybody has to know is the healthy jealousy and the unhealthy jealousy. Besides there are feelings or situations that make the difference between this distinction. 

For example we talk about healthy jealousy when our partner go out with other persons because he/she is having fun without you. But in every moment you remember  that you are individuals with freedom and space. Want to have more communication in the relation is another example of healthy jealousy and think about what could be doing when you aren't together, too.

In contrast to healthy jealous, there are unhealthy jealous and the examples of this kind of jealous are ban or restrict your partner to go out with other persons because you think that he or she can't have fun without you. Another example is get angry with your partner because he/she doesn't do what you command him/her. Control your partner in all he/she does or wears and become infuriated if you don't know everything of your partner, too. 

This unhealthy jealous are dreadful for everybody because kill every relation and everyone get tired of having a partner as this and for this reason many relationships with this lattice are toxic and in the end they call it off. 

The investigators affirm that jealous is a trick of the mind because she created her imagination and makes human believe things that aren't real. But if everyone control the imagination and the mind this jealous disappears. 

In conclusion, jealousy is natural in a relationship but there are a little line between healthy jealous and unhealthy jealous and humans have to control our imagination to not suffer this feeling that can end with a relation.

Website bibliography

NEWS CULT: Differences Between Healthy and Unhealthy Jealousy in a Relationship. [on line]. <http://newscult.com/differences-between-healthy-and-unhealthy-jealousy-in-a-relationship/> [consulted: 24.03.2017].

PATHWAY TO HAPPINESS: Overcoming Jealousy. [on line]. <http://www.pathwaytohappiness.com/relationship_jealousy.html> [consulted: 25.03.2017].

OPHRA.COM: Jealousy-The Monster. [on line]. <http://www.oprah.com/relationships/understanding-jealousy-helen-fisher-phd-on-relationships>  [consulted: 24.03.2017].


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LONDON 2017

It is said that London is the best place to learn english and get along with an amount diversity of people. On April my course will travel to London to visit it and to learn who know our way around the city. 

We'll spend there four days and we'll stay in Satesfay London Elephant and Castle hostel which is located in South London near the London bridge within two km. This hostel have bar-lounge, WiFi in public areas, 24-hours front desk, 72 rooms. One of the rule that we must respect is that pets aren't allowed and we must respect the rest of the others guests. 

Near the hostel there are lots of things to visit as the Cinema Museum, The east street market, Burgess Park, The Southwark Playhouse, Ministry of Sound and many parks and markets that are around this area. 

On the other hand the hostel are situated 15 minutes far away to Piccadilly Circus. Specifically if we take the tube on Elephant & Castle Station we have to walk nine minutes from the hostel to the station. Then we must take the brown line called Bakerloo and we will wait approximately eight minutes (five stops). If we want to go to the center of London on Trafalgar square, for example, we must take the same tube line and stop on Charing Cross Station and we'll spend 15 minutes to arrive there. 

Two nights there, will go to dinner to a restaurants and we must know who arrive there and who return to our hostel. The first restaurant is Leicester Arms and is located in Piccadilly. If we are on London center (Trafalgar Square) we have to take the same line tube, Bakerloo in Charing Cross and in the next stop we will be in Piccadilly. Then we'll have to walk two minutes to arrive to the restaurant. But if we are on the Hostel we must have the same process I explain you before to go to Piccadilly Circus Station. After the dinner to return to the hosel we must walk two minutes to Piccadilly Circus Station and take the brown line tube to Elephant and Castle Station, the journey will be done in 25 minutes.

The second restaurant is Zetland Arms and is located in Kensington. To go there if we are in Trafalgar Square is a long journey where we spend 46 minutes to arrive. We must take the bus 12 on East Street and it must go to Oxford Circus. We must get off on Parliament Square (9 stops) and then walk three minutes to take the tube on Westminster Station and we must choose the green line to South Kensington Station. Then we have tot walk four minutes to arrive to the restaurant. To return to the Hostel we have to do the same we did to go but we must stop in  Larcom Street with the bus 12.

London is a place where there are a lot of monuments to visit. In my case there are three landscapes which I want to visit. There are the Royal Greenwich Observatory, the Buckingham Palace and Queen's Gallery. 

Royal Greenwich Observatory is an astronomical observatory founded in 1675 by Charles II of England. In 1924 was established as the reference of the time zones. Nowadays it is a museum and it it is part of National Maritime Museum. From hostel to there we must take the bus number 53 in Elephant and Castle New Kent Road on the way to Plumstead Station. And we have to stop in Lewisham Road approximately  on 25 minutes (19 stops). 

The Buckingham Palace, it is the official residence of the monarchs. It is famous for hosting the Royal Collection, an extraordinary collection of artworks from royal collection.  Originally was a petit Hôtel built for the first duke of Buckingham in 1703 and it was acquired by King George II in 1762 to convert it into a private residence. From hostel to there we must take the bus number 148 in Heygate Street in Shepherds Bush. Approximately on 23 minutes we must stop on Grosvenor Gardens (12 stops) and we will arrive there. 

The Queen's Gallery is a public art gallery at Buckingham Palace. There are works of art from the Royal Collection. It is situated at the west of the palace and was opened on 1962. From hostel to there we must take the bus number 148 on Larcom Street to Shepherds Bush and we must get off in Vauxhall Bridge Road approximately in 23 minutes (12 stops).

I found this instructions to  move around London, I really believe that it is difficult but this search help me to make it familiar to me. 

WHAT BECOMES OF THE BROKENHEARTED WHEN THEY ARE "CATFISHED" ONLINE ?

Currently, we live in a society which is surrounded by Internet and Social Networks. This fact carried out things that never happened before as frauds, hoaxs or love social networks. I found an article that is an opinion article and talks about a TV program called "Catfish". It is about a men who investigate the suspicious people on Internet and trick other persons for a benefit. 

The author of this article is Eva Wiseman and she discovered when she watching the TV show there have been 100 broken hearts because they fall in love with unknown person talking in social networks. The unknown persons says that the camera is broken or that he/she have good light and they use it as a excuse to not show up himself or herself  and be able to continue deceiving the other person. Eva Wiseman states that it happen around the world and not only in this specific cases on televisión. 

On it is explained a specifically case of a women who was fooled by a men who was married and with two children. For this reason when she discovered decided to denounce it on a court and claims that delate the false profiles on this social networks. Then, she explains another story of a women called Clarie and she fall in one of this fools. It hurt her feelings because she sharply feel in love with the false men and never feel the same with other men. 

Eva Wiseman says that this program is entertaining because we can see who people are be able to mislead another one. She determines that Catfish TV program transform the pain of them in pleasure for us. Although, she really want to make conscious to society that there are a lot of people which could fool us and it is a blow because the heart is difficult to heal. 

I really believe Social Networks are dangerous and we don't talk with unknown people as in our day-to-day. So, I agree with Eva Wiseman because we must took some security mesures and limit our feelings because heart feelings are important emotional and a hoax like this may change our life forever or make us into a depression. 

I learn some words when I read the article which helped me to improve my english language. They are suburb, crippled, dupe and travelled.