http://www.cnn.com/2008/TRAVEL/05/30/airtravel.decline.ap/index.html
This article talks about huge air travel drops within the last year. The Travel Industry Association created a survey which concluded in some shocking numbers. Nearly 45 million flights were skipped y the passengers due to costs. The fuel prize is raising, people stop using the services of the airlines. The forgone trips cost the travel industry $18.1 billion -- including $9.4 billion to airlines and $5.6 billion to hotels. Plus, it cost federal, state and local authorities $4.2 billion in taxes in the past 12 months.
This article is significant, because flying is one of the quickest and safest way to travel and should not be switched for driving a car. Government in co-operation with airlines should find a solution in order to make people travel by air.
Current Event
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/7416823.stm
This article talks about Kanye West and some of the most famous rappers stealing part of song of a jazz artist from New York without permission. He is sueing 5 rappers including Method Man, Kanye West, Radman and Common for using parts of their songs, and is hoping to win total 1 million dollars.
It is significant, because today's music is experiencing some huge problems with breaking the copyrights and the music today is not as it used to be. Artists usually don't make their own music anymore, they have people for it.
I think it's pretty messed up that someone is trying to copy some musis from someone else, but it is also sad if that person is just making it up.
This article talks about Kanye West and some of the most famous rappers stealing part of song of a jazz artist from New York without permission. He is sueing 5 rappers including Method Man, Kanye West, Radman and Common for using parts of their songs, and is hoping to win total 1 million dollars.
It is significant, because today's music is experiencing some huge problems with breaking the copyrights and the music today is not as it used to be. Artists usually don't make their own music anymore, they have people for it.
I think it's pretty messed up that someone is trying to copy some musis from someone else, but it is also sad if that person is just making it up.
Journal High Tech Education
Read the article by clicking here.
I personaly believe, that the education should move toward high tech standards as quickly as possible. However, today's people forget about the old-fashioned values of life. Who of us uses a typical mail to communicate with people? We all are about laptops, emails and cell phones. The same applies to children in our schools.
If I was to change the educational enviroment, particularly elementary and middle schools, I would start slowly. I would put SOME technology in elementary schools, they would have to be directly linked to traditional learning techniques. For instance: Having laptops in schools would be great, however, the essays would still have to be hand-written.
In middle school, the kids should meet with a higher level of technology in classrooms, but still with some textbooks and paper sheets. We must not trasform our society into a technological world, where old type writing, reading or learning means nothing.
High School though, is a very different chapter. I think, technology should be used every day, as much as possible, even more than traditional teaching and learning techniques. There MUST BE a specific level of those "boring" and "not interesting" ways of learning, so people do not get all sophisticated.:)
I personaly believe, that the education should move toward high tech standards as quickly as possible. However, today's people forget about the old-fashioned values of life. Who of us uses a typical mail to communicate with people? We all are about laptops, emails and cell phones. The same applies to children in our schools.
If I was to change the educational enviroment, particularly elementary and middle schools, I would start slowly. I would put SOME technology in elementary schools, they would have to be directly linked to traditional learning techniques. For instance: Having laptops in schools would be great, however, the essays would still have to be hand-written.
In middle school, the kids should meet with a higher level of technology in classrooms, but still with some textbooks and paper sheets. We must not trasform our society into a technological world, where old type writing, reading or learning means nothing.
High School though, is a very different chapter. I think, technology should be used every day, as much as possible, even more than traditional teaching and learning techniques. There MUST BE a specific level of those "boring" and "not interesting" ways of learning, so people do not get all sophisticated.:)
Vocab Week 17
Companies around the globe have the ability to imitate products of brand companies.
The hallway I was walking through seemed unterminable, because I could not see the end of it.
Plastic surgery is much more laborious then regular surgery. Doctors have to be precise, sometimes in does not work out though.
As soon as a human is born, they become senescent from the first minute. We all arw gwtting old.
According to Bible, a shroud was used to burry the body of Jesus Christ.
Every situation can be sometimes sticky...when a piece gum was spat on the sidewalk.
The dancing couple had to skate synchronously in order to get full score.
The bolt in the sky was very tortuous, because it was full of twists.
immitability - capable or worthy of being imitated
interminable - incapable of being terminated; unending
intuit - to know or receive by intuition
laboriously - requiring much work, exertion, or perseverance
proximity - nearness in place, time, order, occurrence, or relation
reticence - disposed to be silent or not to speak freely; reserved
senescent - growing old; aging
shroud - a cloth or sheet in which a corpse is wrapped for burial
situation - manner of being situated; location or position with reference to environment
synchronously - occurring at the same time
tortuous - full of twists, turns, or bends
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Current Event
http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/europe/05/16/croatia.body.ap/index.html
The officials found a dead body of a woman, who died in 1973, and since the window had been opened, her body was actually still there. It is pretty weird for me that no one have been to that appartment since the last Croatian war, but I dont get who has been paying the rent and all of that. It's pretty sad.
The officials found a dead body of a woman, who died in 1973, and since the window had been opened, her body was actually still there. It is pretty weird for me that no one have been to that appartment since the last Croatian war, but I dont get who has been paying the rent and all of that. It's pretty sad.
May Book Report
Camus Albert, The Stranger, France
Librairie Gallimard, France
Reason, Type and Setting: I chose this book, because it caught my attention by its name, sounds misteriously. This novel is a crime drama, takes place in Algeria before WW2.
Plot: The narrator, a young man named Meursault gets an urgent telegram reporting his mother's death. After his mom was burried, he meets his ex-coworker Marie Cardona, they spend the night together, but she's gone in the morning. He gets home and his neighbor asks him to write a letter for him, which would convince his mistress to come back to him. He wants to beat her up, for cheating on him. The neighbor gets arrested for beating her up, later Marie Cardona asks Meursalt to marry her. Later on, they go to the beach, where they meet Raymond's(neighbor) mistress's brother. Meursalt shoots him, for no apperant reason. He get into a jail and after a lost trial he is sentenced to death. A chaplain tries to convince him to believe in God, but Meursault refuses. He embraces the idea that human existence holds no greater meaning.
Character:Mersault - the main character, pretty young. He kind of loses his mind after his mother's death, and shoots a man. He often thinks of the morality of the world. I selected this character, because he seemed to be the most active in the plot. I was interested by his thinking after all the things he went through. He totally changed my expectations of the end of this book, I expected something different.
Evaluation: Well, honestly, I expected more of this novel. It has a really good beginning, which caught my attention, but then they started focusing on morality of the world, which kind of bored me. However, it showed my how can we look at today's life values, I've never thought of them in this way. In spite of fact, that this novel was written in late 40's, it still applies to today's world. Being or not-being moral has always been a discussed issue. I personaly think, that not many people would like this book, because it gets really slow in the middle. Maybe it's just my opinion... . If I had to put myselft into the plot, I would have no reason to kill a man. However, I can't really tell, since both of my parents are fortunately still alive.
Author, Context and Trivia: Albert Camus is a Frech writer, who won a Nobel prize in 1957. He wrote a couple of novels, such as The Plague, The Fall, A Happy Death, The First Man...I think I'm gonna look for one more book from him to see, if every book of his is this philosophical.I did't like this book that much, as I said earlier, it was too boring for me.
Librairie Gallimard, France
Reason, Type and Setting: I chose this book, because it caught my attention by its name, sounds misteriously. This novel is a crime drama, takes place in Algeria before WW2.
Plot: The narrator, a young man named Meursault gets an urgent telegram reporting his mother's death. After his mom was burried, he meets his ex-coworker Marie Cardona, they spend the night together, but she's gone in the morning. He gets home and his neighbor asks him to write a letter for him, which would convince his mistress to come back to him. He wants to beat her up, for cheating on him. The neighbor gets arrested for beating her up, later Marie Cardona asks Meursalt to marry her. Later on, they go to the beach, where they meet Raymond's(neighbor) mistress's brother. Meursalt shoots him, for no apperant reason. He get into a jail and after a lost trial he is sentenced to death. A chaplain tries to convince him to believe in God, but Meursault refuses. He embraces the idea that human existence holds no greater meaning.
Character:Mersault - the main character, pretty young. He kind of loses his mind after his mother's death, and shoots a man. He often thinks of the morality of the world. I selected this character, because he seemed to be the most active in the plot. I was interested by his thinking after all the things he went through. He totally changed my expectations of the end of this book, I expected something different.
Evaluation: Well, honestly, I expected more of this novel. It has a really good beginning, which caught my attention, but then they started focusing on morality of the world, which kind of bored me. However, it showed my how can we look at today's life values, I've never thought of them in this way. In spite of fact, that this novel was written in late 40's, it still applies to today's world. Being or not-being moral has always been a discussed issue. I personaly think, that not many people would like this book, because it gets really slow in the middle. Maybe it's just my opinion... . If I had to put myselft into the plot, I would have no reason to kill a man. However, I can't really tell, since both of my parents are fortunately still alive.
Author, Context and Trivia: Albert Camus is a Frech writer, who won a Nobel prize in 1957. He wrote a couple of novels, such as The Plague, The Fall, A Happy Death, The First Man...I think I'm gonna look for one more book from him to see, if every book of his is this philosophical.I did't like this book that much, as I said earlier, it was too boring for me.
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Vocab Week 8
Drugs are deleterious, causing its users to many different effects. Ecstasy causes its users sometimes to become amorous towards others, while giving the feeling of ecstasy. Less effective drugs like Marijuana cause the user to act excessively awkward and can even create a sense of delirium. Even though it is usually inevitable that a student will be given the opportunity to try these altering substances, they should never simply acquiesce. Conversely, though, there are those that make the other choice. Although it is difficult, it is not a futile effort to try and pull these people back into reality and out of drugs.
aroma - a pleasant characteristic odor; a pervasive characteristic or quality.
acquiesce - submit or comply silently or without protest.
consummate - to bring to a state of perfection; complete or perfect.
amorous - inclined toward or expressing love.
awkward - lacking skill or grace.
conversely - opposite or contrary; something that has been reversed.
deleterious - injurious to health.
delirium - a temporary state of mental confusion; a state of uncontrolled excitement or emotion.
ecstasy - a state of elated bliss.
enamored - to inspire with love; captivate.
futile - incapable of producing any result; frivolous.
incantation - the chanting of words aiming to achieve a magical effect.
inevitability - unable to be avoided, evaded, or escaped.
infatuation - a foolish, unreasoning or extravagant passion or attraction.
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