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2006-05-20T15:40:00.000-07:00

EXTREME CHANGE

BY KARINA BARRIOS

It was a beautiful sunny day, the most beautiful day I had never seen, but I did not imagine how especial and important it would be in my life. I got up at 5:30 in the morning. My mother was preparing the breakfast. Meanwhile I was taking a shower. As I was putting my clothes on my mother told me that breakfast was ready and then I decided to hurry up a little, because I really needed to get my school soon. At the moment I saw that breakfast was of eggs, bread and milk I got furious and I yelled at her for I hate eggs.
She got very upset so I did not eat anything that morning. A few minutes later, I was on my way to school. I felt the coldest and softest breeze I had ever felt. But I did not realize that it was because of my bad humor that I felt strange the whole day. I could not believe that I had a fight with my friends and family for something so stupid. I was someone else that day, I could not even recognize myself.
After having along talk with a teacher, I decided that I was not going to be that person any longer. I told my friends how sorry I was and they could understand my situation. They told me that I needed to take some fresh air and a rest from all the things that worried me, then to start thinking about the things that bother me. I took the advice and decided to be more careful before expreseing my feelings.
On my way home I saw a man old and thin. He had some strange expression of sadness on his face and the worry was remarkable in his eyes. Then I noticed that he had just one single leg and, since he did not had any support to help his other leg, he could not avoid walking in a really strange manner.
His work was to fix the holes on the street. He brought ground in a container and then with a shovel, he put some in to the holes to make the floor even. Finally he just had wait for the money that the vehicles drivers wanted to give him while they pass by.
When I saw that I felt my heart broken in pieces. It was the first time I realized how rich I was and how ungrateful people could be. At that moment some tears came out on my face. I felt as if all my life were passing through my eyes and I could revive all those moments when I behaved like a spoilt, stupid and unreasonable girl.
I started walking, but before I called the man and I gave him five hundred pesos and I felt so much better. At that moment I started to realize what was the reason for me to live, I wanted to help people to have a better life.
When I got home I cried and cried a lot. I could not stop. After that day I am a new person. I love people, my family and my friends and I care more about them. I want to help poor people because that day I felt that the future was in my hands.
I would like to share my feelings with other people. I need tem to change like I did, so they can help me to be a better person.

OCCIDENTAL BEHAVIOR, HOW DOES IT AFFECT THEM?

BY KARINA BARRIOS GUZMAN

For a long time the world has had a really bad image of the Middle East countries. Even, most of times the real facts have been their wars and their political and cultural problems. They should not be catalogued the way they are. In every newspaper in the world, there is always bad news about their conflict. But inside, there is something much bigger, a problem that matters to all of us: the opinion that some people have about others can really affect their behavior. Because when someone talks bad about someone it always has direct consequences that affect the person who are talking about in first place.
The Middle Eastern countries are mostly known because of their culture, religion, hot weather and the war. It is well known that people from the Middle East have origins there, but sometimes live in other countries like United Estates or in part of Europe, have had troubles because they have converted in a target of discriminations and cruel jokes. At schools, children hide their origin just because they do not want to be discriminated against or have fear about the opinion of people in general (BELGRANO).
One of the most serious consequences is discrimination. After September 11th, a lot of people changed its way of thinking about the Middle East people; and a lot of them just found out about their existence that day. The previous lines refer to how oppressed people may react to years of abuse and abandon of their feelings related to race, religion and land. “Every human being has the right to freedom of thought of conscience and religion; this fact includes the liberty to change his religion or believes”.(Declaración Universal de los Derechos Humanos, art. 18).
Another problem is that all the bad things the media says about people from the Middle East have influence on tourism. The war is in a few countries such as Egypt, United Arab Emirates and Turkey, which are great destinations for vacation.
This image also brings more wars because of the bad things that people do and says about them, like destroying their churches, disrespecting their traditions and opinions. They are really sensitive people and everything affects them. Therefore they have to be treated with respect.
The hate that has grown in a lot of harts is really big. It is unbelievable that after all these years this problem has grown a lot and instead of improving, it seems to be getting worse. Love brings more love. We all have to start forgive and to tolerate. If we do it, this trouble will be over more quickly.
It is important that people start seeing more documental about how they live on this war. There is a town living inside this hell and instead of point out them, we have to thing better things and start to work for a better world without wars and hunger.
Works cited
• BELGRANO Rawson, Milagros. Una mujer sin velo. 22 de marzo 2006.
• Universal Declaration of Human Rights, art. 18.
ENGLISH ESSAY

GREEN MARKETING THE BEST WAY OF NEGOTIATION

By Karina Barrios Guzmán
Green marketing is a politic statement which is being receiving in a lot of enterprises in the world because it have been proved that the people with eventual incidents such as hurricanes, cyclones, tsunamis, warm and cold waves that are affecting the planet are starting to realize that if they do not take care of the environment, nobody is going to do it for them. “According to the ecological organization World Wild life Foundation (WWF), humanity is spending natural resources so fast that overwhelmed planet’s abilities to maintain the life. As if it estimates that human beings consume the twenty percent more than the natural resources that the earth produces. On the other hand, it assures that the tendency of conservation of more than one thousand earth and sea species, they have reduced by thirty percent; meanwhile the fresh water species have decreased by fifty percent” (www.worldwildlifefoundation.com). Green marketing could change our future; definitely it is the best way of negotiation.
“Nowadays to maintain a human being it needs 2.2 earth hectares, but the planet only has 1.8 for each one. This rate is based on the estimates eleven thousand three hundred millions of earth hectares produced and sea space divided between the six thousand one hundred million people who live in the world”(Almanaque Mundial 2006,p. 107). Also, you can realize about the economical repercussions that it will have. At this time a lot of ecological groups have made a call to governments all over the world to act soon and be able to restore the economic balance.
Green marketing consists of making products which do not affect the environment, and to have plants that do not produce toxic residuals or that produces them in a lesser quantity. Around the world it has been making ecological tables which are in charge of forming enterprises and the world. In general, the damage that cause does not imply these politics right now.
According to earlier statistics, any person could realize the situation in which we find ourselves and have a little idea about where the world is going if people continue contaminating the earth. To be a good merchant, a good chief, a good citizen, good parents, a good neighbor, and finally, an excellent human being, it is important to know the current situation in which the earth finds itself.
Companies that use green marketing as their politic, besides being worried about the environment, also have realized that the request for ecological products gets bigger every day. Companies like Hyundai, Johnson & Johnson, Shell Helix, and Ingenious Providence are known because of their ecology support; and their marketing has grown in the last years because they have green marketing as one of the principal purpose in their sales(green marketing success).
Enterprises that international business man waits to handle will be the possible cause of our destruction if green marketing is not received as a policy of all the companies around the world. If you think in the future, you are thinking in green marketing, because if you do not, the earth’s future is lost and so your future is lost as well.

Works cited
• Almanaque mundial 2006, p. 107
• www.worldwildlifefoundation.com
• Based on the essay green marketing success by Harold Silva.

corrected paragraph

2006-05-02T15:50:00.000-07:00

Improving proofreading skills
Find the three sentence fragments. Correct the fragments by (1) changing the punctuation and creating one complete sentence, or (2) adding new words to make the fragment a complete sentence. Post the corrections on your blog.

There were also several differences between Washington and Lincoln. Washington came from a wealthy aristocratic background, He had several years of schooling, on the other hand Lincoln came from a poor background and had very little schooling. Another difference between the two involved their military roles. Washington was a general, He was a military leader who became president, however Lincoln never served in the militar, he was a lawyer who early on became a politician. When he became president, he took on the role of commander in chief, as all U.S. presidents do. Despite his lack of military background or training. Lincoln made several strategic decisions that enabled the U.S. military leaders to win the Civil War. Finally, Washington served for two terms and therefore he had eight years to accomplish his policies. Lincoln, on the other hand, was assasinated. While he was in office, he was not able to finish some of the things that he wanted for the country.

Find and mark the mistakes (tense, punctuation, word order, preposition, word choice, grammar, missing word(s), spelling ) in the following short biography. Post the corrections on your blog.

Jack Friedhamm was born in New York on October 25, 1965. He began school at the age of six and continued until he was 18 years. And then, he went to New York University to learn Medicine. He decided on Medicine because he liked biology when he was at school. While he was in University he met his wife Cindy. She was a beautiful woman with long black hair. They went along for years before they decided getting married. Jack began to work as a doctor as soon as he graduated from Medical School. They had two children, their named Jackie and Peter, and have lived in Queens since the past two years. Jack is very interested in painting and likes to paint portraits of his son Peter.

GAZA STRIP

2006-04-06T15:58:00.000-07:00

This is a really interesting movie. Is really important for me see movies like this, becouse it keep me informed about what is happening in tne world. is really sad that these people have to live in this circustances. and is incerdible see how other people are complining always for a lot of stupid things.

the movie show us a part of the Palestinians and Iraeli conflict. mostly of the palestinians opinion so i cannot figure out the other part of the history. but is hard the life in this condition.

karina`s happiness

2006-01-26T14:16:00.000-08:00

in love english.
most of the time i enjoy english music and i love to eat.
i have a boyfriend and i love him very much, he studies medicine at San Martin university.
my father is a salesman and my mother is a house keeper. i have a littloe sister and she is so wonderful that i can´t explein. she has 10 years old but she is so beautiful and smart and kind and ...
well in another time i would like to show you a picture