NEWS: Two blind British men have electronic retinas fitted

The medical development has been amazing in the last century. Now, some blind poeple can get back a part of their vision, seeing shapes and shadows. Imagine that you have been blind, seeing only darkness, for years, and now, you return to the light world one day. What an amazing experience.

We can't imagine what a blind person can feel when he get back some vision. Someone can say "Only lights and shapes?". But, imagine you can't see nothing, it's very difficult for a blind person move around sites that they don't know. They can't see the environment. If you see, ONLY lights and shapes, you can see cars, doors, windows, people comming to you... You can move around with more independence.

Now it's only a matter of fact make the step from shadows to colours and more definition. But, if the governments still making cuts in investigation maybe we only can return to the prehistorical age.

NEWS: AFRICA

BBC news about hunger

The news explains the general famine in Africa and the money that's necessary for help. The organitzations, nationals and internationals need money for projects. The hunger comes for the drought, the low technologies....

In Africa famine is a very important problem. Hunger is the more important cause of death in the world, including the "developed" countries. It's hard think about how here we waste food (supermarkets, restaurants...) and then see the people there, with nothing to eat, with the death for shadow.

With the "crisis" here in Spain people starts to haven't money for food. They have a home but can't pay the basic products, but, we aren't in the Africa situation, I think that you can't know what's happening unless you can see it.

What we can do? Not many things... send food, ONG's... little things. But, it's better to don't do nothing. I wish that the situation will improve in the future.

FORMAL LETTER - ENVIRONMENT

Elvira Fina
C/ Mur 1
Castelló d'Empúries, Girona 17486


March 20, 2012


United Nations Environment Programe Comitee
United Nations Plaza
New York, 10017 USA



Dear United Nations Environment Programe Comitee,

I'm writing to share a concern about environment and nature protect.

Society is trying to instill people to be healthy, but ... humans can be healthy, but we still depend of a major structure, a patriarch, the environment.

People can stop dirtying their lungs with tobacco smoke, can drink mineral water, can cut down forests to have fields and can build houses with more modern heating and electricity for the winter.

However, we are polluting the air our breathe with more toxic pollutants than tobacco, we are dirtying the rivers where someday we will take the water that us drink, we are eliminating the habitat of thousands of animals and plants that produce the oxygen to breathe and we are spending resources making a dirty energy full of wastes.

We are blind and can't see that we are killing his own mother? When we will look back and see where we came from and who sustains us?

With this worry and faithfully,


Elvira Fina

HUMAN RIGHTS

I have made 35 correct answers in the quiz, now I will try to answer the questions.

1. What are human rights?
The more extended definition is that the human rights are "the inalienable fundamental rights to which a person is inherently entitled simply because she or he is a human being."

2. Why were they created?
They were created to avoid the big tragedies of humanity.

3. How many human rights are there?
There are 30 human rights.

4. Which human right were you not familiar with? Mention an example where this human right is respected and where it is not respected.
I choose the Article 7: "All are equal before the law and are entitled without any discrimination to equal protection of the law. All are entitled to equal protection against any discrimination in violation of this Declaration and against any incitement to such discrimination."

I think this article is respected with the most part of the population, ordinary people. In my opinion isn't respected when the accused is an important man or woman, or they have sympathy with the government... see Camps, Urdangarin...

ORAL PRESENTATION - TDR

Link to Oral Presentation video

It wasn't very difficult to translate the script but when I make a presentation in catalan or spanish I follow it verbatim, and I explain more or minus things seeing the situation, or maybe I explain an anecdote... and I never memorize the original script because I always say it different. What I'm saying is that for me express things in english is very difficult and I have to memorize the scripts. But when I prepared it for the oficial presentation I memorized little things that weren't in the script and when I'm doing it in english, memorized, conflicted in my mind.

Also, I always get nervous and forget things.

Why UAB?

Next year I want to study in Universitat autonoma de Barcelona (UAB). I don't want to live in Barcelona because there are a lot of people, noise... I like the feeling that the campus did in me the first time, it's paceful and for students.

I like to live in Bellaterra but I prefer to have a room for my self and if i can't enter in a individual room probably I will search a flat in Cerdanyola or towns near UAB. For me is important to have a personal space and, apart, i do a lot of work at night, and if my roommate don't share this way of work can be problematic.

I'm interested in the student flat live because I think that's important for the development of all of us. It's a style of life where you have to be independent, self-sufficient, take responsabilities... It's an important stage for create ourselfs final personality and habits.

I don't know with who I'm going to live, but I think that if we connect, that can be a important stage for me, and I will learn a lot of things.

NEW: Spanish town to grow cannabis to pay debt

I saw that new in "La vanguardia" one week ago and i couldn't understand what I was reading. But, yes, thats true, a town in tarragona started a plan for solve the debt... make a plantation of cannabis.

That's for an association of cannabis users, for own consumition. Well... the first thing I try to imagine was the security of that grow zone... I could see mountains of people pretending to catch a little part for them. And there is the funny one who burn the plantation, and, c'mon, all Tarragona happy for one afternoon!

If this is a question of own consumition, they can grow it in their home, because the law allow it, with little restricions. If you only need for you don't need a plantation. Grow them in your house, in a fresh air, with good conditions, controlling the atmosphere... that probably will be better!.

I don't know why this association need a camp zone, but I think that isn't for clean reasons because for the personal consume you can grow them in home.

Now the lawyers are discussing it. I'm interesting in how can end.




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