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May 26, 2014
Chicken (review)
Review by Garay, Lucía, Laprovitta, Anahí and López, Cintia
“Ever played chicken? Bram asks.” Kathy Stinson writes a piquant short story where an adolescent girl is the main character. This girl, of unknown name, is eager to prove her own limits and at the same time is discovering her sexuality. “Chicken” is a game that invites participants to test their boundaries, and at the same time is the word that the author chooses as the title for this short story taken from the book 101 Ways to Dance.
Stinson presents two characters, Bram who is described as a risk taker and a girl, who is portrayed as a role model to be. After finishing painting the church basement, the girl and Bram decided to play Chicken this brand new, exciting and dangerous game. Chicken’s aim is to see who would be the first one that chickens out; “Now, as slow or as fast as you want, move your finger down until one of us says stop. Whoever says it first is the chicken.” Now the girl has to take a decision, should her go on or should her stop? It is an engaging story until the end because you want to go on reading in order to know what she decides.
Summing up, this story fosters an interesting alternative to deal with a delicate issue as sexuality; it brings also into discussion other significant topics such as trespassing boundaries and taking decisions. We highly recommend this appealing story because it helps young adults to reflect upon aspects of sexuality that many adults would rather avoid and that we know teenagers are urged to explore.
“Ever played chicken? Bram asks.” Kathy Stinson writes a piquant short story where an adolescent girl is the main character. This girl, of unknown name, is eager to prove her own limits and at the same time is discovering her sexuality. “Chicken” is a game that invites participants to test their boundaries, and at the same time is the word that the author chooses as the title for this short story taken from the book 101 Ways to Dance.
Stinson presents two characters, Bram who is described as a risk taker and a girl, who is portrayed as a role model to be. After finishing painting the church basement, the girl and Bram decided to play Chicken this brand new, exciting and dangerous game. Chicken’s aim is to see who would be the first one that chickens out; “Now, as slow or as fast as you want, move your finger down until one of us says stop. Whoever says it first is the chicken.” Now the girl has to take a decision, should her go on or should her stop? It is an engaging story until the end because you want to go on reading in order to know what she decides.
Summing up, this story fosters an interesting alternative to deal with a delicate issue as sexuality; it brings also into discussion other significant topics such as trespassing boundaries and taking decisions. We highly recommend this appealing story because it helps young adults to reflect upon aspects of sexuality that many adults would rather avoid and that we know teenagers are urged to explore.
May 5, 2014
The young voice (TV proposal)
28 Harbour road
St. Ives
Cornwall
TR26 2AJ
President,
BBC Network
Shipstreet
Newquay
Corwall
TR72PQ
Dear Sir,
We are writing to introduce you an amazing idea for a new television show. We are a group decided to change the concept people have about teenage reality programs. The title of the program will be “the young voice”. Every now and then, when it comes to musicals realities the judges have always been successful adults that in most of the cases do not understand teenagers at all. Our idea is to present a TV reality in which adolescents will be judged by famous teenager’s pairs. At first, this idea of broadcasting a show hosted and judged by teens my sound hilarious, because experts will argue that teenagers cannot decide or judge what is good or bad for them. However, if we want to gain viewers, we need to show young adults that we rely our trust on them.
The “young voice” will be a TV reality show searching for the most talented singer. The winner will be part of a world tour with young musical artists such as One direction, Selena Gomez, Demi Lovato, etc. The TV program will last no more than 20 episodes and every 2 episodes a participant will be eliminated. The judges, who will be famous teen singers, will decide who has done the best performance and who will leave the show.
We would welcome the chance to work as part of the channel network where we could make a significant contribution to the entertainment industry. We hope you consider our idea.
Yours sincerely,
Anahí Laprovitta, Cintia López and Lucía Garay
St. Ives
Cornwall
TR26 2AJ
President,
BBC Network
Shipstreet
Newquay
Corwall
TR72PQ
Dear Sir,
We are writing to introduce you an amazing idea for a new television show. We are a group decided to change the concept people have about teenage reality programs. The title of the program will be “the young voice”. Every now and then, when it comes to musicals realities the judges have always been successful adults that in most of the cases do not understand teenagers at all. Our idea is to present a TV reality in which adolescents will be judged by famous teenager’s pairs. At first, this idea of broadcasting a show hosted and judged by teens my sound hilarious, because experts will argue that teenagers cannot decide or judge what is good or bad for them. However, if we want to gain viewers, we need to show young adults that we rely our trust on them.
The “young voice” will be a TV reality show searching for the most talented singer. The winner will be part of a world tour with young musical artists such as One direction, Selena Gomez, Demi Lovato, etc. The TV program will last no more than 20 episodes and every 2 episodes a participant will be eliminated. The judges, who will be famous teen singers, will decide who has done the best performance and who will leave the show.
We would welcome the chance to work as part of the channel network where we could make a significant contribution to the entertainment industry. We hope you consider our idea.
Yours sincerely,
Anahí Laprovitta, Cintia López and Lucía Garay
Oct 16, 2013
A message from the future
by Garay, Lucía Mariel & Laprovitta, Anahí
"Oh Beautiful for smoggy skies, insecticide grain, for strip-mined mountain's majesty above the asphalt plain. America, America, man sheds his waste on thee, and hides the pines with billboard signs, from sea to oily sea." — George Carlin.
Every now and then there is a naive belief that our civilization as well as life in earth is endless. A common picture of our days is to see people throwing litter on the street, pouring water carelessly or overusing means of transport as well as energy consumption. Something to highlight is pollution, which affects over a billion people around the world and it is one of the most dangerous ecological problems society has. Despite this, some seem to neglect what is happening around them as if they were immersed in some kind of nebula. Some people focus on superfluous issues like having the latest clothing or eating the food which is best advertised, rather than focus on a liveable earth or on a healthy life. It’s accurate to say that society is beginning to regret and will regret its careless actions. At present, rising awareness about ecological issues is an important matter. So, how to do it? How can society begin to create awareness about ecology or healthy lifestyles? Those questions were, in a way, answered when days ago we watched a movie called “Wall-E” that depicts some flaws of our chaotic time on a futuristic perspective. What the film portrays is what would happen to earth as a consequence of the lack of ecological awareness and how these would affect not only the earth as a proper place to live, but also the way in which humans interact among them.
Wall-E is a robot and the only inhabitant of the earth since humans were sent in a ship to space waiting for the earth to be habitable again. Its main function on earth is to clean up garbage that humans have left behind. Natural resources are gone and no life remains but tonnes of trash. The film shows what society has left behind after centuries of mistreating the earth. Meanwhile, miles away from this rotten earth a spaceship full of people are portray in the movie, as individuals absorbed by advertisements and technological devises. Communication among people doesn’t exist and they do minimum physical movements because everything is controlled through machines. People in “Wall-E” are depicted as lazy, fat and consumerists, features that remind nowadays society characteristic.
Following this further, have you ever thought about what consequences might have your actions? It is well known that pollution is a dangerous threat but have you thought what severe consequences derive from it? When talking about pollution’s effects, we are not referring just to trash and waste in our soil, we are referring also to what it does to our social and personal lives. So, let’s start by creating a parallelism between Wall-E’s reality and our reality. The world in the movie is full of unusable elements as result of over consumerism, for example one the most common things Wall-E stocks up is a firelighter of a particular trademark. Allow me to ask you how many times have we bought unnecessary items and then just throw them away? Times are changing and the thought can be easily summarized with a phrase of the author Vicki Robin’s “if you live for having it all, what you have is never enough.”
Moreover, the fiction world depicts humans as not able to communicate among each other, what make us wonder have you realized that nowadays it is more common to be in touch with others through mobile phones, e-mails, texts and so on, rather than facing other individuals in real communication? In the film this flaw is presented in an exaggerated manner. People in the movie speak using screens even when they are physically in the same place or next to each other. As regards communication, there is an overuse of information known is real life as information pollution. A perfect example of this issue is people constantly exposed to advertisements which make them feel as if their lives depended only on those things that are advertised. Does that kind of pollution ring you a bell? There are many wrong habits our culture has adopted like naturals, but it is time to inquire ourselves is it something worth doing?
The cute robot Wall-E provide us with the idea that a change must be done. People have to alter their way of living, change habits, take care of others, be in contact with others, enjoy nature and take care of nature. The most important thing is that people should listen to the wakeup call the earth is making to us. We should listen so that people wake up from what could be, in a time from now, the end of our society as we know it. The message in Wall-E is very clear, the key point relies on paying attention to the small things like the robot does, if we don’t amend our flaws, even a robot would be more human than a human itself.
"Oh Beautiful for smoggy skies, insecticide grain, for strip-mined mountain's majesty above the asphalt plain. America, America, man sheds his waste on thee, and hides the pines with billboard signs, from sea to oily sea." — George Carlin.
Every now and then there is a naive belief that our civilization as well as life in earth is endless. A common picture of our days is to see people throwing litter on the street, pouring water carelessly or overusing means of transport as well as energy consumption. Something to highlight is pollution, which affects over a billion people around the world and it is one of the most dangerous ecological problems society has. Despite this, some seem to neglect what is happening around them as if they were immersed in some kind of nebula. Some people focus on superfluous issues like having the latest clothing or eating the food which is best advertised, rather than focus on a liveable earth or on a healthy life. It’s accurate to say that society is beginning to regret and will regret its careless actions. At present, rising awareness about ecological issues is an important matter. So, how to do it? How can society begin to create awareness about ecology or healthy lifestyles? Those questions were, in a way, answered when days ago we watched a movie called “Wall-E” that depicts some flaws of our chaotic time on a futuristic perspective. What the film portrays is what would happen to earth as a consequence of the lack of ecological awareness and how these would affect not only the earth as a proper place to live, but also the way in which humans interact among them.
Wall-E is a robot and the only inhabitant of the earth since humans were sent in a ship to space waiting for the earth to be habitable again. Its main function on earth is to clean up garbage that humans have left behind. Natural resources are gone and no life remains but tonnes of trash. The film shows what society has left behind after centuries of mistreating the earth. Meanwhile, miles away from this rotten earth a spaceship full of people are portray in the movie, as individuals absorbed by advertisements and technological devises. Communication among people doesn’t exist and they do minimum physical movements because everything is controlled through machines. People in “Wall-E” are depicted as lazy, fat and consumerists, features that remind nowadays society characteristic.
Following this further, have you ever thought about what consequences might have your actions? It is well known that pollution is a dangerous threat but have you thought what severe consequences derive from it? When talking about pollution’s effects, we are not referring just to trash and waste in our soil, we are referring also to what it does to our social and personal lives. So, let’s start by creating a parallelism between Wall-E’s reality and our reality. The world in the movie is full of unusable elements as result of over consumerism, for example one the most common things Wall-E stocks up is a firelighter of a particular trademark. Allow me to ask you how many times have we bought unnecessary items and then just throw them away? Times are changing and the thought can be easily summarized with a phrase of the author Vicki Robin’s “if you live for having it all, what you have is never enough.”
Moreover, the fiction world depicts humans as not able to communicate among each other, what make us wonder have you realized that nowadays it is more common to be in touch with others through mobile phones, e-mails, texts and so on, rather than facing other individuals in real communication? In the film this flaw is presented in an exaggerated manner. People in the movie speak using screens even when they are physically in the same place or next to each other. As regards communication, there is an overuse of information known is real life as information pollution. A perfect example of this issue is people constantly exposed to advertisements which make them feel as if their lives depended only on those things that are advertised. Does that kind of pollution ring you a bell? There are many wrong habits our culture has adopted like naturals, but it is time to inquire ourselves is it something worth doing?
The cute robot Wall-E provide us with the idea that a change must be done. People have to alter their way of living, change habits, take care of others, be in contact with others, enjoy nature and take care of nature. The most important thing is that people should listen to the wakeup call the earth is making to us. We should listen so that people wake up from what could be, in a time from now, the end of our society as we know it. The message in Wall-E is very clear, the key point relies on paying attention to the small things like the robot does, if we don’t amend our flaws, even a robot would be more human than a human itself.
Aug 20, 2013
“Eat up, Gemma”
How difficult is it to make children eat their food? Through Sarah Hayes’ story book “Eat up, Gemma”, readers will find many examples of this familiar situation. A baby girl named Gemma has a hard time eating her food. She constantly throws it on the floor even when her family advises her not to do that. One day, her brother has a clever idea. Can he motivate Gemma to eat up?
Gemma is a toddler who refuses to eat her breakfast. Although the entire family encourages her to eat, she chooses to throw it away. Every occasion is good for Gemma to get rid of eating. At the groceries’, the same reaction stands when a man offers her some fruits. At dinner, Gemma won’t eat a thing. It seems that Gemma prefers mashing, throwing, and sharing her food rather than eating it. No matters what kind of food: fruits, cookies or pizza, Gemma will reject it. One day, she is inspired to eat while looking at a lady’s hat. Her big brother comes across with a great and creative idea; Gemma would eat if he imitates the lady’s hat with real fruits.
“Eat up, Gemma” is a great story told through Gemma’s brother point of view. Along With the colourful pictures drawn by Jan Ormerod, even children that don’t read yet will understand the story and love it. I highly recommend this book; it is a suitable tool to show the importance of family support when encouraging eating. Parents will find “Eat up, Gemma” very useful. As Gemma’s big brother does with the fruits, the book may inspire them to use imagination and motivate children to eat.
Anahí Laprovitta
Gemma is a toddler who refuses to eat her breakfast. Although the entire family encourages her to eat, she chooses to throw it away. Every occasion is good for Gemma to get rid of eating. At the groceries’, the same reaction stands when a man offers her some fruits. At dinner, Gemma won’t eat a thing. It seems that Gemma prefers mashing, throwing, and sharing her food rather than eating it. No matters what kind of food: fruits, cookies or pizza, Gemma will reject it. One day, she is inspired to eat while looking at a lady’s hat. Her big brother comes across with a great and creative idea; Gemma would eat if he imitates the lady’s hat with real fruits.
“Eat up, Gemma” is a great story told through Gemma’s brother point of view. Along With the colourful pictures drawn by Jan Ormerod, even children that don’t read yet will understand the story and love it. I highly recommend this book; it is a suitable tool to show the importance of family support when encouraging eating. Parents will find “Eat up, Gemma” very useful. As Gemma’s big brother does with the fruits, the book may inspire them to use imagination and motivate children to eat.
Anahí Laprovitta
Jun 28, 2013
The Doorbell Rang (review)
by Laprovitta, Anahí and Garay, Lucía
Pat Hutchins, the famous English illustrator and writer of children's literature, delight us with a simple and joyful book “The Doorbell Rang". Hutchins’ story begins with Sam and Victoria enjoying teatime at home when the doorbell rings.
The children are about to eat a dozen of cookies made by their mother, those are as good as their grandma’s, when suddenly the doorbell rings. As the story goes on, every time the doorbell rings friends drop by and the cookies must be shared. Sam and Victoria have to deal with the unexpected guests that are invited to enjoy the meal with them. “The Doorbell Rang" is a funny story, easy to read. Dialogues are simple and accompanied with colourful illustrations. Readers are involved in the story through familiar situations like sharing a meal with friends. The writer’s solution to the main conflict, the arrival of unexpected guests and their lack of cookies, is intelligently solved in an unpredicted way.
We recommend this book to be read by first readers or to be read to children either to enjoy a nice story about sharing or to teach values like friendship.
Pat Hutchins, the famous English illustrator and writer of children's literature, delight us with a simple and joyful book “The Doorbell Rang". Hutchins’ story begins with Sam and Victoria enjoying teatime at home when the doorbell rings.
The children are about to eat a dozen of cookies made by their mother, those are as good as their grandma’s, when suddenly the doorbell rings. As the story goes on, every time the doorbell rings friends drop by and the cookies must be shared. Sam and Victoria have to deal with the unexpected guests that are invited to enjoy the meal with them. “The Doorbell Rang" is a funny story, easy to read. Dialogues are simple and accompanied with colourful illustrations. Readers are involved in the story through familiar situations like sharing a meal with friends. The writer’s solution to the main conflict, the arrival of unexpected guests and their lack of cookies, is intelligently solved in an unpredicted way.
We recommend this book to be read by first readers or to be read to children either to enjoy a nice story about sharing or to teach values like friendship.
May 27, 2013
Little Red ant and the rebel workers
Once upon a time, in a red ants’ nest, there was an ant called little Red ant. He was an enthusiastic and hard worker. What’s more, Little Red was very happy working for the government. He was in charge of workers ants who were given the task to construct tunnels so as to enlarge and restore old rooms for the upcoming babies.
One day while little Red and was supervising the ants’ work, he heard them conspiring against the Queen ant. As she was expecting new babies, workers assumed that was time for her to be banished from the nest. The workers felt little affection for the Queen because she was too greedy and made labourers work without any reward in exchange. “We shouldn’t be digging these tunnels.” said an ant. “What’s wrong with that? said little Red ant. “It makes room for new people.” The workers wanted to have a socialist government in which they could have the same rights such as those the Black ants gain.
Unfortunately labourers were just labourers. So they went on caving the tunnels and their dream of a socialist nest was that just a beautiful dream.
One day while little Red and was supervising the ants’ work, he heard them conspiring against the Queen ant. As she was expecting new babies, workers assumed that was time for her to be banished from the nest. The workers felt little affection for the Queen because she was too greedy and made labourers work without any reward in exchange. “We shouldn’t be digging these tunnels.” said an ant. “What’s wrong with that? said little Red ant. “It makes room for new people.” The workers wanted to have a socialist government in which they could have the same rights such as those the Black ants gain.
Unfortunately labourers were just labourers. So they went on caving the tunnels and their dream of a socialist nest was that just a beautiful dream.
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