Review by Rosario Garcia, Mariela Panzita, Carolina Perez Cibez and Maria Sabrina Vergara
“I was a soldier”, by Brian Turner, tells the story of two foes meeting in the worst scenario possible. In this short and simple story Brian Turner, portrays how a person behaves in extreme situations.
The story takes place during the Iraq War when two enemies face each other in a trench. One of them is wounded. Even though they don’t share the language, they are able to create a bond. Brian Turner, who is this story’s author, was at Iraq war himself. He retells his experiences in a raw manner leaving the reader a sense of being the protagonist of the episode.
The unexpected ending will shock you and will make you wonder about your own life decisions. The story is a great reading to make young adults aware of today´s society´s interests and problems. It’s a must for young adults who are trying to discover themselves.
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May 26, 2014
May 8, 2014
Follow your star (TV proposal)
Dear Mr. Yankelevich:
We are writing to propose a new project to fill the gap in the demographic group of young adults.
As it was requested in the terms and conditions of the call, we thought of a reality show consisting of a musical competition, where teenagers from 12 to 18 years old will have the possibility to become their favourite singer or band for a day. And at the end of the season, the winner of the competition will be awarded with the chance to meet the artist he or she has chosen. The show’s title will be “Follow your star”.
The candidates will send an e-mail or video message explaining why they are their biggest fan and what it would mean to meet the singer. After the participants are chosen, in each chapter the teenagers will go through a transformation of their appearance to look more like the famous character. . At the same time, they will record a song and film the song´s music video.
When each programme is over, the videos will be uploaded to the social media, where the viewers will be able to vote their favourite one. At the end of the season, the video that gets the higher score wins the competition.
Yours sincerely
I.S.F.D N°30 Productions
We are writing to propose a new project to fill the gap in the demographic group of young adults.
As it was requested in the terms and conditions of the call, we thought of a reality show consisting of a musical competition, where teenagers from 12 to 18 years old will have the possibility to become their favourite singer or band for a day. And at the end of the season, the winner of the competition will be awarded with the chance to meet the artist he or she has chosen. The show’s title will be “Follow your star”.
The candidates will send an e-mail or video message explaining why they are their biggest fan and what it would mean to meet the singer. After the participants are chosen, in each chapter the teenagers will go through a transformation of their appearance to look more like the famous character. . At the same time, they will record a song and film the song´s music video.
When each programme is over, the videos will be uploaded to the social media, where the viewers will be able to vote their favourite one. At the end of the season, the video that gets the higher score wins the competition.
Yours sincerely
I.S.F.D N°30 Productions
Oct 16, 2013
WOMEN’S BEAUTY THROUGH THE EYE OF DISNEY
by Rosario García
All along our lives we, women, have been wrongly taught through the media that if we want to be successful in life we have to be “beautiful”. We can find innumerable examples of this in Disney films such as ‘Cinderella’, ‘Snow White’, ‘Sleeping Beauty’, ‘Beauty and the Beast’ and The ‘Little Mermaid’. They are some of the better known classical films where women’s beauty is a stereotyped one, according to the standards of beauty in different times.
Nowadays a great percentage of the girls in our society when choosing a toy, choose princess costumes, cosmetics, mirrors and castles. They love the idea of being “the most beautiful ones”. This is not just a coincidence, every time we turn on the television a new explicit or implicit message is sent to our brains and, in the case of almost every princesses films, the message is: (EXTERNAL) BEAUTY leads to SUCCESS. The pressures from our society are so high that most of us, consciously or unconsciously, respond to them many times drastically changing our appearance in the pursuit of the famous “success”. Lots of hidden messages are found in the films previously mentioned.
In ‘Cinderella’, if you are beautiful enough, you may be able to escape from your terrible living conditions by getting married to a wealthy man. While Cinderella’s beauty was hidden because she looked like a servant, dressed in rags, living with her step mother and her step sisters, the prince didn’t even know her existence. As soon as the prince looks at the beautiful Cinderella, with her beautiful dress at the ball, he deeply falls in love with her and finally they get married. (BEAUTY = SUCCESS)
Similarly, in the case of ‘Snow White’, the princess’ beauty captivates every surrounding man. (BEAUTY = SUCCESS)
“Appearances don’t matter. What counts is what’s in your heart. Unless you are the girl”, is the message we can appreciate in ‘Beauty and the Beast’. Everybody is in love with Belle and not any other girl because she is the most beautiful in town but, if Belle had been “the ugly one”, another would have been the story... (BEAUTY = SUCCESS)
Even though Aurora, in ‘The Sleeping Beauty’, was sleeping and the prince did not know her, he fell in love with her, again, due to her beauty. (BEAUTY = SUCCESS)
Ariel, from ‘The Little Mermaid’, gave up her family, friends, changed her tail for two legs and gave up her voice because she was certain that as soon as the prince saw her beautiful face, he would fall in love with her. (BEAUTY = SUCCESS)
I cannot avoid bringing to my mind the words ‘superficiality’, ‘objectivation’, ‘discrimination’ and ‘consumerism’ as if they were synonyms of beauty. This society we live in is permanently demanding female population to be “a beautiful thing”, what leads lots of women to buy all sorts of cosmetics, dye their hairs, put on diets, making all sort of surgeries and even developing illnesses such as bulimia or anorexia, leaving aside what is really important: our essence, our identity. Sadly this is what we consume and worst of all, what our children consume.
I think we are losing sight of what the idea of “beauty” really is. In fact, is there only one sense of beauty? Why do we all have to agree on one stereotyped beauty? What about our inner beauty? These are some of the questions I wonder whenever I watch any Disney film, and I always get to the same conclusion: "BEAUTY IS IN THE EYE OF THE BEHOLDER".
All along our lives we, women, have been wrongly taught through the media that if we want to be successful in life we have to be “beautiful”. We can find innumerable examples of this in Disney films such as ‘Cinderella’, ‘Snow White’, ‘Sleeping Beauty’, ‘Beauty and the Beast’ and The ‘Little Mermaid’. They are some of the better known classical films where women’s beauty is a stereotyped one, according to the standards of beauty in different times.
Nowadays a great percentage of the girls in our society when choosing a toy, choose princess costumes, cosmetics, mirrors and castles. They love the idea of being “the most beautiful ones”. This is not just a coincidence, every time we turn on the television a new explicit or implicit message is sent to our brains and, in the case of almost every princesses films, the message is: (EXTERNAL) BEAUTY leads to SUCCESS. The pressures from our society are so high that most of us, consciously or unconsciously, respond to them many times drastically changing our appearance in the pursuit of the famous “success”. Lots of hidden messages are found in the films previously mentioned.
In ‘Cinderella’, if you are beautiful enough, you may be able to escape from your terrible living conditions by getting married to a wealthy man. While Cinderella’s beauty was hidden because she looked like a servant, dressed in rags, living with her step mother and her step sisters, the prince didn’t even know her existence. As soon as the prince looks at the beautiful Cinderella, with her beautiful dress at the ball, he deeply falls in love with her and finally they get married. (BEAUTY = SUCCESS)
Similarly, in the case of ‘Snow White’, the princess’ beauty captivates every surrounding man. (BEAUTY = SUCCESS)
“Appearances don’t matter. What counts is what’s in your heart. Unless you are the girl”, is the message we can appreciate in ‘Beauty and the Beast’. Everybody is in love with Belle and not any other girl because she is the most beautiful in town but, if Belle had been “the ugly one”, another would have been the story... (BEAUTY = SUCCESS)
Even though Aurora, in ‘The Sleeping Beauty’, was sleeping and the prince did not know her, he fell in love with her, again, due to her beauty. (BEAUTY = SUCCESS)
Ariel, from ‘The Little Mermaid’, gave up her family, friends, changed her tail for two legs and gave up her voice because she was certain that as soon as the prince saw her beautiful face, he would fall in love with her. (BEAUTY = SUCCESS)
I cannot avoid bringing to my mind the words ‘superficiality’, ‘objectivation’, ‘discrimination’ and ‘consumerism’ as if they were synonyms of beauty. This society we live in is permanently demanding female population to be “a beautiful thing”, what leads lots of women to buy all sorts of cosmetics, dye their hairs, put on diets, making all sort of surgeries and even developing illnesses such as bulimia or anorexia, leaving aside what is really important: our essence, our identity. Sadly this is what we consume and worst of all, what our children consume.
I think we are losing sight of what the idea of “beauty” really is. In fact, is there only one sense of beauty? Why do we all have to agree on one stereotyped beauty? What about our inner beauty? These are some of the questions I wonder whenever I watch any Disney film, and I always get to the same conclusion: "BEAUTY IS IN THE EYE OF THE BEHOLDER".
Aug 20, 2013
The great, big, enormous turnip.
by Rosario García
The book “The great, big, enormous turnip” retold by Alexei Tolstoy and illustrated by Helen Oxenbury, is an excellent story of cooperation, solidarity and friendship, values that are important to promote in every society. It contains simple vocabulary, repetitive sequences of actions and vivid illustrations which not only catch children’s attention but entertain. The images are so perfectly illustrated that they speak by themselves.
The story begins with an old man who plants a little turnip wishing it to grow strong. It does grow extremely big and strong but at the moment of pulling it up he realizes that he cannot do it on his own and he needs some help, so he calls an old woman. As both of them still cannot pull it up the old woman calls her granddaughter. Then, the granddaughter calls a black dog, the black dog calls a cat, the cat calls a mouse and finally all together can pull the turnip up.
Nowadays lots of values seem to be lost or forgotten as if they were something that belonged to the past. “The great, big, enormous turnip” brings back those values to stay in our minds. You must read it.
The book “The great, big, enormous turnip” retold by Alexei Tolstoy and illustrated by Helen Oxenbury, is an excellent story of cooperation, solidarity and friendship, values that are important to promote in every society. It contains simple vocabulary, repetitive sequences of actions and vivid illustrations which not only catch children’s attention but entertain. The images are so perfectly illustrated that they speak by themselves.
The story begins with an old man who plants a little turnip wishing it to grow strong. It does grow extremely big and strong but at the moment of pulling it up he realizes that he cannot do it on his own and he needs some help, so he calls an old woman. As both of them still cannot pull it up the old woman calls her granddaughter. Then, the granddaughter calls a black dog, the black dog calls a cat, the cat calls a mouse and finally all together can pull the turnip up.
Nowadays lots of values seem to be lost or forgotten as if they were something that belonged to the past. “The great, big, enormous turnip” brings back those values to stay in our minds. You must read it.
Jun 28, 2013
ONE GORILLA (review)
One Gorilla by Astuko Morozumi is an engaging counting book for little kids full of captivating images of animals in different environments.
The book starts with only one beloved gorilla and as you turn the pages more animals appear progressively, two butterflies, three parakeets, four squirrels, five pandas, six rabbits, seven frogs, eight fish, nine birds and ten cats. At the end you will fin a list with all the animals and their corresponding number.
This book is an excellent tool for kids who are learning to count and at the same time they can learn animals, habitats, colours and even prepositions.
Children are supposed to find the animals and they love challenges! They will want to read it again and again!
Rosario García
The book starts with only one beloved gorilla and as you turn the pages more animals appear progressively, two butterflies, three parakeets, four squirrels, five pandas, six rabbits, seven frogs, eight fish, nine birds and ten cats. At the end you will fin a list with all the animals and their corresponding number.
This book is an excellent tool for kids who are learning to count and at the same time they can learn animals, habitats, colours and even prepositions.
Children are supposed to find the animals and they love challenges! They will want to read it again and again!
Rosario García
May 22, 2013
A LITTLE RED ANT, A BIG SURPRISE
It was a Sunday morning and the little red ant was making some reparations in her ant hill. The rain made it fall in and she wanted to give a surprise to her mother before she arrived home.
As her enthusiasm for finishing her ant hill was huge, she did not realize her mother had arrived. She shouted at her daughter: ‘what are you doing? You have made an enormous hole!’ What’s wrong with that? Said little red ant. ‘It makes room for new people’. This is my big surprise for you mum’.
As her enthusiasm for finishing her ant hill was huge, she did not realize her mother had arrived. She shouted at her daughter: ‘what are you doing? You have made an enormous hole!’ What’s wrong with that? Said little red ant. ‘It makes room for new people’. This is my big surprise for you mum’.
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