Wednesday, February 25, 2009

Don Quijote De La Mancha


Probably the most awesome literary work in the last 500 years, Don Quijote De La Mancha, the most famous work of Miguel de Cervantes, this literary story which has an awesome number of
1,224 pages in the traduction of the Real Academy of the Spanish language this book has sold more than 5,000,000,000 copies, its the most famous book in the story, Cervantes is recognized at world level in our times thanks to his literary work. We will never forget the phrase "En un lugar de la Mancha cuyo nombre no quiero recordar, vivia el ingenioso Hidalgo, Don Quijote De la Mancha".

Don Quijote De La Mancha relate to us the story of the adventures and misadventures of this man who believes he is from the caballery we would never forget all of his adventures, such as the fight with the seven giants with giant cub with the size of trees that could destroy villages and it result to be that what Don Quijote see were seven wind mills spinning thanks to the wind of the zone, the time were he believe he fight a dark knight which had captured a princess of a far land in a black dress, that result to be a nun being protected by a knight of the church.
How he free a bunch of thiefs believing they were injustly being captured by a king who want to kill them , but they were just thiefs condemned for their acts.

" El ingenioso Hidalgo " what he do in order to become a knight he read all the books of the caballery, "Amadis De Gaula" ,"El cantar Del Mio Cid", "Los viajes de Alfonso el Sabio" " Los Nueve De La Fama, Tres Hebreos, Josue, David, y Judas Macabeo. Los tres Paganos Hector, Alejandro Magno y Julio Cesar y los tres Cristianos Arturo, Carlomagno y Godofredo de Bouillon" " El Caballero de La Cruz" and a lot of other books, " El Ingenioso Hidalgo " had a great selection of caballery books.

All of his adventures were thanks to the place where he go with his shielder, Sancho Panza and his powerful horse, which was thin like a stick, Rocinante and the love of Don Quijote "Dulcinea Del Toboso" which didnt had the beautiful part , all what Don Quijote see was distortionated of the reality, he see the things in a way that only he could understand, his world became like a book of caballery for him.

Don Quijote and his adventures perdure in the mind of anyone who read the book, everyone love the adventures, and everyone get to enjoy the moments when Don Quijote do what he was able to do, live the way of a real knight and to enjoy of life with simple things and adventures around the whole country. Don Quijote De la Mancha the only real knight and the knight that new all about the other knights , " El Ingenioso Hidalgo".

Tuesday, February 24, 2009

Blog Assignment #4

2.-This school's worst problem (and possible solutions).Jesus A. Barraza.
4.-A valuable discipline or practice (lifting weights, rock climbing, karate, meditation, etc.).Cesar Y. Leyva.
7.-Music videos (choose one performer or group, one type of music, or one TV show). Iliana W. Chan.
9.-How to resolve an argument peacefully. Daniel A. Lopez.
10.-An important film (it can be also be a book, a magazine, or a TV show). Marco A. Ross

Saturday, February 14, 2009

Dog (Blog Assignment #3).

What's this dog's story?
“Hi, you may be wondering what am I doing, well, I’m listening the sound of the piano, I know, now you´re asking yourself “what is doing a dog listening the piano?”, well, first let me introduce myself, my name, I don’t really have a name, since my mother never gave me one, but my humans called me “Haydn”, my age, well, dog years are really different from human years but I´ll use human years so you understand me better, I have like 14 human years old, that’s a lot for a dog, especially considering my little accident, and now you’re wondering what happened to me, for that, we have to go some years back in time, I´ll start by the beginning, I had 2 elder sisters, since born we were given a master…..or was it the other way?, well, It really doesn´t matter, my mother´s master was the father of the family, the leather the alpha of the human pack as I see it, my sisters were given a mistress each one, also, the elder sisters, and my master as well as me, was the younger one, you may think that would have made us closer, but in fact it didn´t, at least for my part, then there were our personalities, I was constantly moving, from here to there, maybe a little hyperactive, I was a free soul, not bound to anything, at least that´s what I thought, but then again, I was young in that time, and then, there was my master, he was a passive boy, with a calm expression on his face, almost all the time he was inside the house, with those books of him, and those sheets of paper, I never understood what he found in them, he found in them the very same I did by chasing cars, though he never understood what I found in them so we could say that we´re even, but more than once did master expressed his confusion about my actions out loud, and then, I to began to wonder what would I do when I got the car, so that they, the day of my accident, the day of the circled square in the master´s calendar, about the same time my master got my full trust and respect, I was what? 6 years old? And my master was like 16?, that day I had one thing on mind, to get the car, the master and I were on a walk, and then the perfect car passed in front of us, and so, I proceeded to chase it, I was really near when I bite the tire, and to the shock of both, I started to spin really fast until I was sent flying, until I landed on the ground knocked out…….when I awoke I was in a cold table, a tall man with a white coat was talking to the master and the other family members, I tried to move, but, god, it really hurt, I started making something similar to muffled cries, I assume the coated man told the that I would recover, seeing as they brought me back to the house, they gave me what I suppose was medicine , but still, the pain was there, a little more bearable, but I still couldn’t sleep, my master was there, right beside me, taking care of me, trying to comfort me, I didn´t knew I was going to survive, nor how bad was the accident, I just knew I couldn´t move and that I was I pain, that couldn´t be good, I didn´t wanted to die, I was really scared, that’s another reason why I didn´t slept, I was afraid that if I closed my eyes I wouldn’t open them again, then, my master moved me from my little bed to a pillow near a weird piece of furniture, that was new, I knew it wasn´t there before, I thought that maybe it was what master was so eagerly waiting for, what that circle meant, he left for his room and then brought with him one of those sheets of paper, he placed them in a little thing similar to a pedestal and placed his hand over what seemed to be black and white teethes, and then the sound started…..my,…it was beautiful, I never heard something like that, then I stopped asking myselg if I was going to die, to start asking where did that majestic sound came from, was it the the sheet of paper? no, paper its just that, the was it the piece of furniture? Or was it my master? What was it?, I was almost in dream land when my master spoke while playing, “ Do you like it Haydn?, I´ve been practicing this melody at the piano academy, but now I have a piano of my own so I can play whenever I like”, so it was a “piano”, and master did made the “melody”, now he had a more soothing aura than ever over him, and now it made sense, what those sheet of paper were, they were meant to hold the melody or something, for humans to read and play, now, I knew, what master saw in them, he did not saw black spots over lines like I did, what he saw was…..music. That day my master got my complete trust by being by my side when I needed company, something I never did for him, and then, he gained my respect and admiration not by playing piano or a melody……….but by making music. Since then I started seeing life like something more meaningful, master would make music, and then he would tell me their story; now we´re on our own, master has a wife and twins, but still he plays for the 4 of us; maybe I don´t have a lot of time to live more, I’m really old, but I’m really grateful to master and everybody else for the time we have spent together, If I die today, I would day as a happy dog, and they may be sad of my departure, but, they´ll have my 2 kids to make more happy memories, oh, I didn´t told you did I? I have 2 kids, but that……is another story.”

Walking (Blog Assignment #3)

Here we see a woman carrying a girl walking through the path to the forest. What happened here is that this woman was hit many times by her husband and finally decided to scape with her daughter to avoid her husband. Her husband is part of the police department, so she doesn't feel comfortable going to the police to denounce him because of that. This woman is going to go with her brother who only few people know and has a cabin in the forest of a mountain where she's going. Surely her daighter doesn't know why they are fleeing, but she is scared of her parent because she knows he hits her mom. They give us the back because they don't want us to see their marks of hits.
According to the reports, the police officer who is the husband of that woman has already been told that she escaped and went to persecute them. He says that his wife is and was druged since weeks, making whatever she ways sound incoherent. The wife's brother is in his way to give her a ride to his cabin while the officer was sent to anothr mountain fooled by the brother.
What happens here is that the wife probably is going to live with her brother for a couple of months until she finds a safe place where to live. The officer doesn't mind if his wife return's or not with him, he just doesn't want people to know he hits her.
Whats the story of this cart ? what happened in that cart ?

The answer , an horrible assault and murder scene.
The last weeks , they were a bunch of attracts to people who go to 'Mini Mart', the number of the victims passed the 15 , all of them were disposed of the stuff they had , jewelry, watches, food in cans , etc. The point is that all the people get alive of that attract, without stuff but alive. But the last sunday, this situation changed, cause when the old granny Mc Alot Of Cash was in the 'Mini Mart' she was attack , her cart get to the floor and she get knockout by contundent weapon, the surveillance cameras in 'Mini Mart' see all the action.
Sadly what make the police found the guilty it was that when he attack to the old granny, the cart get a piece of his clothes, the next morning the thief was get to the court. the testimony that make everyone found guilty to the thief wasn't high technology or nothing like that, it was the testimony of the cart, the cart that see all the action and demanded the thief for abused of power cause he throw the cart to the floor, actually the thief is in prison taking a sentence of 125 years the most that law permit, and the cart is dating a cart of wal mart and living in a big mansion.

Thursday, February 12, 2009

Road (Blog Assignment #3)


What happened here?
He has been fooled by someone

What's the story?
The man was walking down the road trying to get to the nearest city to rest. He was really tired and wanted to get a lift but there wasn't a single car nearby and he couldn't rest because it was too hot. He went on walking, when he saw a curtain of smoke forming behind him and he saw it was a car coming near him. He got really glad and started to move his hands to make the person in the car stop and give a lift to the next city. The car slowed down and a rough man looked at him. He asked the man if he wanted a lift and the man happily told him yes and got inside the car next to the rough man.
Some time later, he rough man started to look and the man's belonging and asked him what he had inside. The man told him he had some clothes and all the money he had. With that, the rough man turned and started to think how to get the man's belongings. He then stopped and said to the man that he remembered he had to go for some friends and with him they wouldn't have enough space for everyone. He asked the man if he could wait for him there, but he would take his belongings to a hotel so he wouldn't he to take care of it. The man, since he was so happy he gave him a lift, didn't think it through and said yes immidiately. He gets out and sits down next to the road. The rough man goes on and the man looks at his car until he can't see it anymore. Right now, he is still waiting for him to come, even tough it is really hot.


Buttons (Blog Assigment #3)

Who collects these buttons?
Mr. Jay

What's the story?
In a far away place that no one remember where it is, once there was a couple that lived happily in their poor house in the field, they were very poor but still lived happily. The husband, Mr. Jay, was a carpenter who earned only two dollars per day, he was very impulsive and tended to get mad easily but kindhearted; the wife, Mrs. Jay, was a tailor that only sewed around two or three sweaters per week. Aside from their economic issues, they really loved each other and they new that they will get out of the hole where they were in.
One good evening, Mrs. Jay received a coat from a man who wanted to fix it, if she was able to finish it before twilight she will get as much money as she always hoped to have. Inmediately, her eyes went wet, and without doubting it she begun to sew. Mr. Jay was as happy as her wife and he wanted to give her all the help he could give, even if he didn't knew how to sew, so he went to the orchard to gather some apples. Twilight arrived, and the man arrived, since the coat wasn't finished he got angry and stabed Mrs. Jay with his knife. When Mr. Jay returned home, he saw his wife's corpse laying in the wooden floor, and their few stuff was stolen from their poor house. Mr. Jay was devasted, he couldn't believe it, so he lose his mind and sweared that one they he will take revenge from the killer.
He opened again the sewing shop with the hope that one day that man will return. Years passed by and the man was driving crazy of loneliness. His craziness was really serious; when someone walked in front of his house, he invited him to come in, only to kill them the same way his wife was murdered. After he killed the visitor, he hid the body under the barn, but before he took the buttons of the clothes of the victims and put them in a jar as a trophy, claiming that if he couldn't live with his couple forever, no one will. Some years after the Mr. Jay died, but some local tales say that his ghost is still waiting for the man that killed his wife so many years ago.

Saturday, February 7, 2009

Is drinking really worth it?


Well, I decided to make this post about an advertisement for people who drink and most of the times drive a vehicle after that. As this image emphazises, a road can be a really dangerous path for people, because of the bad weather, but people also contribute in the dangerousness of it, specially when they drink because they could cause some serious accidents.
This implies in every person who drinks and specially the people who drink and also drives a car after having drunk alcohol. This advertisement tries to convince the people not to drink and drive at the same time or with alcohol in their organism at that time, because that can give host to some serious accidents that can cost innocent lives and huge disasters that includes the vehicles, roads, maybe homes and public sites.
I specially liked this advertisement besause of how direct it is and I think it is very convincing to the people and really make them think about the consequences of drinking.
I personally do not like to drink, so I've never drove in an alcoholic state and hopefully I wont in the future and wish you neither, so everyone can be safe, because not only your life is in risk, you risk the life of an innocent person who you crash with.

Thursday, February 5, 2009

BUY HERE AND SAVE A CAT
I choose this advertisement because it is a strategy that many companies use in order to get something, for example in this ad, the company uses a publicitary tactic in order sell more of their products with the phrase "Think about kittens", which is a way of creating compassion in the costumers, along with the use of DOMO, a character who is gaining popularity quickly.
I think that this advertisement is good because they sell a product and at the same time they provide a service and a feeling of "I did something good today" to the costumers.

What I didn't like of this ad is that they use a farely indefence creature as a main point and it isn't guaranteed that if buying there could really save a kitten.

I think the subject could be think about others and the audience of this ad is anyone who wants to buy and have compassion for animals, and the purpose I think is to relief the guilt of buying.

Danger in Pools



I chose this advertisement because it is quite right what it says. Many parents, when they go to the pools with the family, do whatever they want and they leave the kids alone thinking nothing will happen to them or that the lifeguard will take care of them. The kids could be running around the pool and they could slip, getting themselves hurt. This really should make the parents put more attention to their kids.

What I didn't like of these ad is that their was a little kid passing by and saw it. It could have scared the kid; but than again he might have tought he was sleeping.

Well, the subject is watching (as in taking care) your kids; the audience is parents, aunts, uncles, anyone who has a kid; the purpose is to make the audience understand that they have to take care of their kids.

Wednesday, February 4, 2009

How easy is to get a gun

I put this advertisment, its directed to people that have guns, who dont have guns and people who needs to get inform.
In the world there a lot of people that can get guns easily as going to a expending machine, thats what represent the advertisment ,people gets a lot of weapons very easily and weapons dont kill people, people with guns kill people, for whatever reason you think, cause he steal my donut or because he eat the last cookie or his better than me.
Whatever the reason the problem is that people get the guns very easy. In my opinion this advertisment is very exact.

TEACHER FOR A RARE REASON MY COMPUTER DONT ALLOW ME TO PUT THE ADVERSIMENT SO ENTER THIS URL
http://www.toxel.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/ua7.jpg

Poor Animals¡¡¡



This advertisement is about all that poor animals, directed to normal people, omnivorous and CARNIVOROUS people, for which those animals suffer, but not only for being food, you know, because hunger its a natural instinct, but fur, animals are trated inhumanly because of their furs or other cualities they may have like ivory, I really think and hope that this message makes people think again when choosing what to eat, or wear, we aren´t that far from getting to a situation like in the picture.

Tuesday, February 3, 2009

Assignment #1 Feedback...

Good job guys.

Unfortunately, only Iliana and Cesar completed the assignment by commenting on others' stories, and Daniel and Jesus did not participate at all, which will affect your team grade. Iliana and Cesar will get full individual credit, Marco will get partial individual credit, Jesus and Daniel will get zero individual credit, and you will all get partial team credit. 

Pick it up, remember, it's 20% of your grade!!