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How differently do people think?
Positive and
negative
factors that
influence on
the Human
longevity
Stress because of
being informed
Evelyn Calderón
Malik Cubillo
Rayner Torres
Luis Guevara
English III
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LIFESTYLE
Positive and Negative Factors That Influence on the
Human Longevity
The ability or capacity to live more time has always
been the objective and interests for some people who
want discover “the immortality”. This objective has
made that a lot of people, investigators, doctors and
historians had spent long time investigating the method
to create the potion which let us live forever.
However, this ability to live more time but maybe not forever compared with the
average age; it has been discovered in some countries around the world where the investigators
and doctors have identified a specific group of people who live more years compared to others
citizens. Based in the investigations they have identified that some changes in their lifestyle like
foods, daily activities and avoid or eliminate some habits have let that an average group of
citizens can live more years compared each other in near regions.
These factors have been named like positive and negative factors where some of the
positive factors are: lifestyle, genes, healthy diet, support from families or friends, education,
healthy food, happiness, do exercise, avoid smoking or drinking large quantities of alcohol and
some cases religious factors are part of this.
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Some negative factors identified by
the doctors that reduce our live are:
smoking, drink large quantities of alcohol,
overweight, sedentary lifestyle, unhealthy
foods like hamburgers, food overloaded with
fat ingredients, no access to education
systems or medical systems, stress and
other.
In conclusion, nowadays it is
impossible to live forever but the factors that
make possible living more time have been
identified and the people have the
opportunity to change their lifestyle. And if
the local government promotes better
education and health programs which the
citizens can receive information about the
impacts.
Rayner Torres Vega
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Stress because of being informed
If we see each decision made through the history whether they interfere in the lives of few or
are relevant to many, we can see the important significance of information in it. No mather if it
is good or bad, it help us to take the best or what we consider the best decision. That
information comes in so many ways and we are over saturated by ads, unnecessary information
or repetitive news.
Considering the importance of information and how to make it reach the people, it
quickly became a big business and no one cares if appropriate barrage of all kinds of news,
advertising and other else. But, who decide which information should be published, if we
considered every way to get information, like television, radio, newspaper, magazine or internet
we can see how important it has become to make money without social conscience about what
is good or what is not.
Moreover, many people want to know
about everything especially on current issues, like
technology, sports, economy or influential people.
Actually everywhere you see there is all kind of
information, for example, internet becomes
changed everything. Anyone can inquire what
they want and when so desire but this required
some sacrifices. For example, you could spend
your time in it if you want to be informed. Your
job, holidays or hobbies, family or friends will
resent your absence.
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In addition, each morning we get a challenge, receive
valuable information from all news coming to us but many of
them are not important or constantly repeating. In several
cases people are affected by news, which change their humor
or behavior as a result of receiving such information, the truth
value of news is questionable, but we cannot change this or
ignore it because of the constant barrage that comes from all
directions.
In conclusion, we definitely need information every
day to be able to make decisions and some medium which
delivers this information. We must learn how to differentiate
between things that are really important and information that
merely wants to convince us to buy a certain product.
Luis Guevara
Education
Is Homework Important in the Education System?
Homework have been considered an unnecessary extra
work because children and parents need a lot of time doing
them, but otherwise homework are very important for many
reason.
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First, to complete the homework
sometimes parents and students need to
spend hours, looking for information on the
internet, magazines, books and others, where
require spend hours and hours and in most
cases they go to bed late. In some cases they
think that get at home after the school, high
school or work and doing long homework is
so tiring and boring.
Second, the homework is considered
important because reinforce the information
studied during class. Generally when
someone studies for doing test they learn the
material only to obtain a good score and
then the students forget the information. The
methodology with the homework is remind
the information during long time and allows
the student improve their knowledge.
Third, according to some
investigations, students that complete
exercises and follow instructions carefully,
learn and apply better the subject than those
students who do not. By the other hand
homework help reinforce the knowledge and
skills because the student had the
opportunity to access a lot of information
that allow him / her to get better work.
In conclusion, homework requires time
and effort from the parents and students and
long time looking information but finally is
possible identify that homework allow
reinforce and keep for more time their
knowledge.
Evelyn Calderón / Rayner Torres
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Disabilities People every day try to be happy
Since the beginning our society has
conditioned some groups, even if they
showed great skills to do any job or activity.
This way, the best opportunities and
possibilities are for people without diseases
or limitations physical or mental. This
situation allowed these people to overcome
their limits and barriers put in their ways,
while presenting hard work and
determination.
Many groups to make up our society
have been discriminated either by their
religious beliefs, birthplace or appearance,
and have been denied their rights forcing
them to fight for. In this way throughout
history you can read about important
persons leading their social circles, some
changed radically the history like MalcolmX
or Mandela, and many others for day by day
overwrites their story although in some
cases are ignored, denigrated and even
hidden.
For instance, you can hear stories
about strong people everyday who decide to
test themselves, amazing people with
disabilities overcomes their limits and
barriers of society every moment and tell us,
if you really want is possible. We have
many examples to follow up, like Laurence
Molina, a man who has showed great
strength, self-esteem and determination in
his life to achieve each goal he has been
laid. This athlete has managed to reach
places with much effort, where many people
with skills only dreams.
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But we have many examples like Mr. Molina, people who show us much capacity to
confront difficult situations coming from illness or physical limitations of birth, for example
Lance Armstrong, he overcame a serious disease of cancer and won seven consecutive times the
Tour de France, a great record. But not only they are great, also we can see parents or family of
these persons fight to get better life or as close to normal life, helping these special people to
become real heroes.
To summarize, every day we can see or hear about real heroes and how they show us the
power of self-esteem and determination, the power to be mentally strong and not be overcome
by adversity either coming from illness, some people or society. Those people with support by
their family and real friends exceed the limits and earn respect to be happy.
Luis Guevara
Animal Intelligence
Koko, the Gorilla
People may think that the human species is the only one with feelings and intelligence.
Research has shown that there are some animals that have the capacity to love and protect their
families and other animals. Like Koko the gorilla.
Koko was adopted by Francine Penny (president of the Gorilla foundation). Currently,
Koko is 29 years old. She lives with Penny and other researchers in the facility, a Gorilla
foundation in Woodside, California where, Koko learned the GSL (Gorilla sign language).
That language let her communicate with people.
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Koko knows over 1000 signs and it
helps her to communicate the things that
she wants to do, like playing with dolls,
playing with cats and watching TV. She
can understand 2000 words in the English
language. She loves books about cats; her
favorite book is “the three cats”.
Also, she is very sentimental, for
example her birthday (July 4) Koko wanted
a cat. Penny gave her a stuffed kitty, but
Koko said “Red” (it means that she was
angry). Koko felt sad because it was not a
real cat. In 1984, Penny took her 3 cats,
and Koko chose the one without tail. She
said “I like” and named the cat “All Ball”.
Koko loves that cat now.
In conclusion, the intelligence of
Koko is amazing. Her sensibility and her
capacity to love are great. Also, there are
other kinds of animals that show
intelligence, like parrots or dolphins.
Evelyn Calderón
Today at Discovery News you can find out why dolphins are now believed to be the world's
second most intelligent animals, with only humans displaying greater brainpower.
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Strong Will Continue
Usain St. Leo Bolt born 21 August 1986, is
a Jamaican sprinter that has surprised the world with
his capacity, he has broken 6 world record in different
distances at the age of 25 years, he has become in one
of the most important athletes all over the world, His
achievements in sprinting have earned him the media nickname "Lightning Bolt" and awards
including the IAAF World Athlete of the Year, Track & Field Athlete of the Year, and Laureus
Sportsman of the Year these are just some of the achievements he has obtained.
A poor young man as many others around the world, but with a big difference he had a
dream that he could make it possible because of his courage and perseverance, he grew up in a
Jamaican small town in very poor conditions, and his family was his inspiration to get all his
goals. He overcome very difficult obstacles when he started training not much people support
him because they thought it was impossible for him, because he was poor and he did not have
any kind of support from anybody.
I think Usain Bolt is an inspiration for many people around the world, there are a lot
people that fells identify with him, something important is that we have to believe in ourselves
like bolt did, so this case show us that if we have a goal in our live we have to fight for it, there
are no other way to reach our goals, it is up to us getting or not our goals, we must face
challenges no matter how hard will be, giving and doing our best is the way to overcome
obstacles.
First of all every morning when we get up we have to thank God because of all the things
he provide us, and secondly we have to live our live with courage, trusting ourselves that we are
able to do everything that we want to do, there is no impossible thing to do everything is in our
mind each person has the skills to get their purposes.
In conclusion we do not have to let anybody tell us that we cannot do something, we can
do whatever we want, and of course we have to be hardworking to reach our goals.
Malik Cubillo
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Technology Nowadays, our lives are sutured by different media communication.
A way ago the media communication system that existed was
simple and in some cases the message spends a lot of time to be
delivered. The most common system which the society used
was the telegraph or letters send by the post office service and
people participated in social activities for sharing with their
families and friends.
Currently, new changes in the world have obligated our society to create new
technologies that let them to a fast communication and information deliver. Facilities and other
services improve business environments and inform us about situations that happen around the
world and we also get information about training, education, entertainment and other more.
The different communication media systems, like television, internet, cell phones,
radios and social media like (Facebook, Twitter, Skype and others) are part of the social
media which people use nowadays. Advices like iPads, Smartphones, etc. Allows us to
immediately communicate between our parents and friends and it also allows us to be informed
about what happen around the world.
To spend a lot of time using these media can create an addiction to anyone and your
privacy and identify can be stolen. It is very important to be careful about what kind of
information we or our families can access, because a lot of information in some cases
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¨is offensive¨ and can be through these media and sometime it is impossible to have any control
about this information.
Although, we can think that these of
media made our life much better and easier they
have also caused that we lose our necessity to
make our live easier sharing more time with our
family, in some cases our live have become like
the life of a ¨prisoner¨ due to a lot of technology
and we forget to spend real time with special
people.
Rayner Torres
Media in Our Society
Media Influence in Our Society, we live in a fascinating world that is full of new technologies
every day we wake up asking ourselves what is next, what is the new incoming invention .There
are many options that people have to use media like: newspaper, magazines, yellow pages,
radio, television and internet which is one of the most important, all this media are so easy for
people to use also easy to find everywhere.
I really believe that media has had a big impact in the way we communicate with others,
for example it has reduced distances between people that is far away from family or friends, this
is one of the most important impact in society, but on the other hand it can causes that people
loss their identity, lack of privacy for example your personal information can be stolen and
there is another negative aspect like bad information that we can find or see in newspaper,
Internet, magazines, radio and TV programs.
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An extremely important situation about media is that children can have access to
information that is not according to their ages so that must be a reason why we must care about
what children watch on media, some media are cheaper than others that causes that a lot people
have access, like for example internet that has had a big impact in society in comparison with
others because you can find it in many places.
Everybody everywhere can access media, looking for information about sports, news, and
entertainment or information for education, we can use it in the way we need it, it depends of
what information we need according our requirements, there are very good educational wed
sites where we can find good information that can help us to increase our knowledge.
I think there are not just bad things
against media there are many others benefits
that we have because of media for example
you can have communication with people far
away from you in a very easy way, internet is
easy to use and a very important thing you can
share with people all over the world.
Malik Cubillo