Come on, sailor

Hard week

2010-05-10T09:02:00.000-07:00

As all students of second batxillerat and also teachers know, we are in the harder week in all our study in high school. We've had two weeks with exams every day too but this one will be the definitive one and everybody won't leave his work of a lot of years now.

Firstly I want to tell you the perspective of this week. Monday we'll do a Catalan exam, Tuesday a Catalan literature exam, Wednesday a maths exam, Thursday a philosophy exam and finally in Friday the last one, an history of art exam. We've had this calendar very times before this year but these exams are the finals, so we have to study all we've done over the year.

However we couldn't make ourselves nervous persons and we've to go on the right way sleeping necessary hours of sleeping (sometimes it can't be possible) and eating some energy food and a lot of fruit and vitamin C, like orange juice for example.

Nevertheless, if we have could arrive where we are is for a reason, constancy in our study and work. So we haven't to have many problems to pass these days knowing that when they finished we'll have a little "kit-kat" to relax! Go and enjoy this last week guys!

University Pompeu Fabra

2010-05-09T14:43:00.000-07:00

We are in the final of our knowledge in high school and there is more near the time to go to the university to specialize ourselves and create our future studying a career or a profession. In my chase I want to study in Barcelona, particularly in the Pompeu Fabra University with my friend Guillem.

If we can, we'll live in a residence very near of the university but it depends on the note and if one of ourselves doesn't got it, we'll consider the flat option with another guys that will live in Barcelona too. It has been the major decision ever in our life because we'll spend in there minimum four years if all go in the good way.

Pompeu Fabra's University has valuation for three terms and at the beginning of someone of them there are new subjects so, we can study more things and learn more at the same time. Another powerful point of this university are the specialization of the career you choose and the new masters existing and other possibilities very useful, like Erasmus or Seneca travels. Definitive, a good university to develop our way in life.

The butterfly circus

2010-05-09T14:01:00.000-07:00

There is a video uploaded in youtube that explains a strange and incredible story of a man, who was born without arms, legs and any extremities. At the first time we can consider it like a science - fiction film, but there are a lot of videos of the same person, but the real ones which this video has been based, speaking in conferences and explaining his natural disease with a smile.

The man we are talking about is Nick Vujicic, a real man who make conferences explaining his personal experience without any extremity in body. A man who has win all adversities he could has with happiness and apparently normal between laughs explaining some anecdotes of his disease with people.

The butterfly circus is a video based in this real case where a man with the characteristics of Nick. This person is in a strange circus where the artists are people with diseases or rares. But one day, in a show, Mr. Mèndez appears and said to him: "You are the most beautiful person existing in the world". From this moment, the life of this man change and scape to form part of the circus which Mèndez is the director, the butterfly circus, creating a family, creating a happiness, creating a new life where smiles reach the most dark moments.

NBA Playoffs & Final four

2010-05-09T09:59:00.000-07:00

I know that I make myself boring with the topic of the basketball, but in this epoch it is when all the leagues finalize. But not all basketball leagues finish with the same system. There are different ways to do champion one team, and in this entrance I want to explain you both of them, the most important.

Firstly, in NBA the system to elect a champion is play 82 matches as a completely season. In these matches, we can differentiate teams by two coasts of USA, the east coast and the west. Teams of his respective coast play fighting to include themselves in the final step called: "Playoffs". In this finals, there are the best 16 teams of the league separated in 8 to 8, by the coast, how I've explain you before. Then, teams have to win series which the best of 7 matches pass to next eliminatory. So we can say the final is between the best team of each coast.

Based on NBA system, European basketball leagues do the same system without the variety of coasts. The best 8 teams of league dispute themselves the title of champion. But it is the same chase of the final four? It isn't. In Europe the final four four consists on the best 4 teams have passed eliminatories fight in two days to the title of European champion.

Today, the playoffs are been playing by Lakers, Suns, Spurs, Hawks, Nuggets, Bucks, Cavaliers, Celtics, Mavericks, Heat, Trail Blazers, Bulls and Thunders, and the final four will be played this evening with Barça in the final against Olympiakos.

"I hated every minute of training, but I said, "Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion."

- Muhammad Ali

God Messi

2010-05-09T09:25:00.000-07:00

The last Saturday F.C. Barcelona has won Sevilla in one of the final matches which will decide the football league in some weeks. Madrid is behind him, but with this victory he has a half of the title won thinking that league will finish next week.

All Barça fans gives thanks to the best player of the team, Lionel Messi who last year was considered the best player in the world winning the FIFA World Player award between others.

In my opinion of F.C. Barcelona fan, I don't consider Messi like the only reason because Barça is to one step of win the league. Lionel Messi, like other stars, have leave because of his popularity to a band his companions. However Messi's humility is enviable.

Nevertheless, this Barça will win the league with the help of young players that have ever lived with his team written in their heart and life like Bojan or Pedro. For this reason and because of the play has imposed Guardiola, the coach, Barça have won all in his pass and next years will be a team to remember like on of the best football teams ever.

Source: http://www.sport.es/default.aspidpublicacio_PK=44&idioma=CAS&idnoticia_PK=712071&idseccio_PK=803

Barraques '10

2010-05-09T08:53:00.000-07:00

Everybody have to relax themselves another time while they are working hard. In our case, high school students have barraques time to do a time out between hard weeks of study. This year hasn't been different and we've gone to Figueres the two weekends hearing different concerts.

All people of batxillerat have gone once minimum to this kind of party which help us to relax in hard moments like now, the final week, ¡of all our high school! So we have to try to do our best this week to don't leave fall a work of all years of student. Because we've worked to be where we are, to one step of university.

Returning to the barraques topic, I've to say all class has passed a grateful moments together. Particularly I've gone with my boy friends (don't mean boyfriends!) to the most important concerts there were like Strombers, Conchita or Los Delinquentes.

This entrance is too a way to give thanks to those persons who have created unforgettable moments like every year. Sadly we will separate ourselves in many cases and we won't see us usually like these days but, I suppose and wish, that every moment we can to spend together, we'll spend it with the laughs and friendship we have had in this barraques 2010.

"We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same."

- Anne Frank

Women get help for sex addiction

2010-05-09T08:42:00.000-07:00

It's very unusual to hear a woman getting help for her addiction, a strange addiction. Some men will think that this pacient is a paridisiac girl with who they dream, but it isn’t an erotic dream. A girl gets help for a sex addiction and it’s not a joke.

Rob Weis is a sex addiction specialist, he says that a 20% of sex addictions are womans. He works in New Mexico and the treatment he uses at a price around £20,000 for a month.

The victims of this addiction can do a group therapy too living in bungalows with other victims and doctors who tract their.

We can concentrate in a case, Kally's case. "Kandis is a 20-year-old sex addict. She was a prostitute for two years." A specialist has said in the topic, "Her motivation was her pimp." Kally has a problem and for this reason she follows a therapy to stop what she says to do: "I compulsively had solo sex. I started touching myself about three or four times a day."

In my opinion the case of these women can be solved by doctors because we can consider it a disease. Some people will laugh to hear this news but it is a real problem we usually don't think about because of the topic.

I'm sure a lot of people have this problem and themselves are used like prostitutes by evil persons who know their problem. In our world exist this kind of people, for our misfortune. So I'm completely in agreement with people recognize his problem going to doctors to solve it. It's an enormous demonstration of their value.

Source: http://news.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/hi/health/newsid_7774000/7774735.stm

Point guard position

2010-05-09T06:53:00.000-07:00

Basketball has always been my passion, so I take my ball as soon as I finish my homework or study, it's a kind of way I always use to relax myself throwing one and another time to the basket. People who don't like this sport is in the habit of thinking that the basketball is based only in putting the ball into a simple basket, but it isn't.

Everybody know that's the objective to win a match, but this sport, like others, go more there. There are five positions in basketball. I want to explain more about, and describe, my favorite one, point guard position. Other positions existing are shooting guard, small forward, power forward and finally, center.

In sport always have to be one person who directs to others. In all sports this person is the coach, but in basketball we could say there are twice, in different places. Particularly in this sport, there are a person who controls every movement of his team, this person is the point guard. He usually is the fastest player on the team and is who directs the offense of his team controlling the ball and making sure that it gets to the right player at the right time. This player has to have a very good domain of the ball with a great speed of his hands and movements to make sure he won't miss the ball stole by one adversary using driblings or crossovers.

Definitely is the person who have to control the match and impose the kind of rhythm he want to the play of his team. So this player is the best passing the ball between the players and he has to be a well long distance shouter. History of basketball had had a great players in this position, but the most important in my opinion because of his talent are: Walt Frazier, Bob Cousy, Steve Nash, Jason Kidd, Sarunas Jasikevicius, Dejan Bodiroga, Theodoros Papauloukas, Mo Williams, Chris Paul, Rajon Rondo, Jerry West, John Stockton, Isiah Thomas, Lenny Wilkins, Gary Payton, Dennis Johnson and the most important and the best between point guards, Earvin "Magic" Johnson, whose play was considered a kind of magic to the people who hadn't seem another player like him, creating his team play: The Showtime. There is also a "play maker" we can to consider but he isn't a point guard, the incredible, Larry Bird.

A message called Poe

2010-05-09T05:52:00.001-07:00

Source: Catalonia today magazine

In January 2009 marked the 20^th century of the birth of Edgar Allan Poe, who is considered by many critics to be the father of modern literature. But he lived in penury and was widely derided and misunderstood by his contemporaneous.

His work remained hidden after his death and only remerged thanks to Charles Baudelaire who translated his work to French.

In his childhood, Poe was abandoned by his father when he was only two years old. His mother died from consumption. Poe’s death has been suggested that he was assassinated for political reasons.

Edgar Allan Poe was a natural creator of literature, enigmatic stories and poetry were their prefer subjects to work on. In his life we can see how a poet life can be misunderstood by people.

So there are a lot of poetry creators who didn't triumph after his death. It is not till then, when the people of his around thinks about the person that they have left to lose. Poe was one of many cases in poetry history, because the more important artists had been ever in the world, have lived in penury.

Personally I think poets had been misunderstood because of his time advancement, like painters. The case of Poe was very clear. With his work we've could see is one of the greatest writers ever in the history of universal literature, being, like has been by many critics, the father of modern literature. We can think more about this case, and all similar. We have to see with another eyes poets actually?

"I wish I could write as mysterious as a cat."
- Edgar Allan Poe

Four centuries later Lazarillo de Tormes's author appear

2010-03-05T14:55:00.000-08:00

Next week will be published the answer of one of the major secrets of Spanish literature, Lazarillo de Tormes's author.

Product of Renaissance, his author has remained silently under the anonymity in four centuries to the present day. The discover of this mystery was the literature's researcher Mercedes Agulló after thirty years of investigation.

Lazarillo is the principal protagonist of a novel which introduces the picaresque device showing various professions and levels of society presenting realistic details from the sixteenth century.

Fortunately, thanks to Mercedes we know Lazarillo's author was be Diego Hurtado de Mendoza a man who "represents as few ones the ideal Renaissance one of union of the weapon and of the letters" - said her.

It's one of the major discoveries of Literature studies and we can consider it as historical, so since this day we have to learn the author's names, as one of the most important authors of Spanish Renaissance.

http://www.libertaddigital.com/sociedad/el-lazarillo-de-tormes-ya-tiene-autor-1276386392/

Is to read an obligation or a pleasure?

2010-03-05T13:08:00.000-08:00

To read has been to he past of years the major symbol of knowledge. In the Median Age, only monks were reading. So, we can consider reading the major way to know. Because of it same students have to learn reading to themselves for pleasure. But everybody know young people don't read so much, so they have to read obligatory many essential and basic books.

For this reason, actually the majority of students say that they do not like to read obligatory books, but it was because of the theme of these knowledges objects? I think we could find that answer in prejudices of people.

Furthermore of this we could accept that these young (and in general) people don't want to read something imposed, something obligatory because it means no read for pleasure and automatically they do a relation matching an obligatory book to bored.

Nowadays, people read less and less possibly because of the improvement of new technologies that consume their time, possible because there isn't an interesting thing to them.

Nonetheless there are some people who love this activity of knowledge and wants to conquer the world of a book reading few lines of some pages. These kind of people, reduced at the past of time, is considered the the saviours of this species in extinction.

"The literature doesn't want followers, wants lovers."

- Federico Garcia Lorca

Feelings in songs

2010-03-05T12:05:00.000-08:00

Music has always been present in our lives. Every day we live, every movement we do, every moment we breath, there is a music around us. Maybe when we are walking on the street we can hear the song of artificial things created by humans, rarely nice.

To an other hand we can hear the tenderness, nice hearing, of Nature. What I try yo say is that what ever you go, you will find a music, more or minus agreeable, but it'll always be music. We can try to see it in a song:

This song is about a boy who fall in love with a girl. He says that he has tried to explain his feelings to her but he always ends up becoming really nervous. We can also see how big his love for her is when the boy says that everything she does is magic and even though his past has been sad she makes him to forget it.

Later he remembers the first time they met, the date. It was a rainy day and some of both were carrying an umbrella, but it was not enough for two.

At the end of the song the boy wishes for calling the girl to ask her is she wants to marry him. Obviously he’s incapable of talking to her due to his embarrassment. Finally the history ends like in real life: fear wins and he makes himself the question: must I always be alone?

I definitely love this song because, although the author says sad things, it transmits love and fondness, probably for this reason I find it so nice and cheerful.

"There's music in the sighing of a reed;
There's music in the gushing of a rill;
There's music in all things, if men had ears:
Their earth is but an echo of the spheres."

- Lord Byron

"Without music life would be a mistake."

- Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Cinema in our days

2010-03-05T08:19:00.000-08:00

Nowadays, when we go to cinema we have different options: tragedy, action, romantic, science - fiction, drama or comedian films, but in other times, behind cinema's screen, it was very different.

Actually directors have a lot of companions whose advise it and they it help: as technical personnel of sound, light, direction, script or production. In other words, they have a technical, totally complete, team being based, fundamentally, of the special effects that every day have more weight in our cinema. We can demonstrate it with the film "Avatar" of James Cameron, a very expensive film the principal meaning of his creation is pass the fronter of real to dream, with the help of the 3D technical.

So, it's necessary in our time a lot of special effects to attract spectators to screens? Sadly our cinema has been made ill because of the extra effects we use in a simple action. Personally I think directors want to arrive an state like our dreams, in a screen.

Moreover, we have to say cinema has converted to a reason more commercial than how we know in his meaning. In our days, a film production wants to do a lot of money, not a good film based in themes attractive to people who loves cinema in his integrity, cinema like its golden era, in past century.

"Cinema is the most beautiful fraud in the world."

- Jean-Luc Godard

Should human rights be enforced by law or optional?

2010-03-03T11:04:00.001-08:00

First of all, Human Rights have always involved in discussions of a lot of countries. There are many reasons because governments don't use them. Some people think that these defenders of people's values have to be moral, but not everyone. Why are these people thinking that personal values are wrong?

Simply, in the first place, governments in the third world are against these human rights because of the law's ignorance, because of the corruption. These governments accorded with Mafia a other criminal groups, kill and torture people to be what they want, rich using black market of people organs or similar.

However, we haven't got only criminal governments in our world that are conditioned by health and richness of their countries. Moreover all European countries and in general all civilized people must accept human rights between their laws because their importance is enormous in each person. These rights are what we have to respect to have a quiet situation in all the world.

To sum up, we do not have to hide to the terror imposed by corrupt governments and we have to know what is the best to our world. Some people maybe would accept to be in "peace and love" but it would be impossible because in our planet there are a lot of kinds of people that could "infect" the life of all planet citizens with a criminal vision of the life, with humanity reflected in his eyes like something dark what's unique solution is the criminality.

"I regard class differences as contrary to justice and, in the last resort, based on force."

- Albert Einstein

Commission finds Church covered up child sex abuse

2009-11-27T14:57:00.000-08:00

The powers of Church and the Irish statement conspired during decades to conceal the systematic abuses of children and girls on the part of priests and nuns, including violations and beatings, according to an exhaustive report that has been recently announced to the public opinion the Commission of Investigation.

This report, composed to 720 pages, analyze more than 300 incidents attributed to 46 priests but it less clear this number of priests is "the top of the iceberg". Only Dublin Church 150 priests have been defendants to violations, and to they we have to add hundreds more in the Irish country and Christian associations that frequented orphanages.

This fact is one of the major scandals of the Republic of Ireland history. This report study the archives of 1975 to 2004 but we know that previous archbishops have defend priests that do these kind of abuses, in 40's. Moreover Church have always defend that she didn't know these affairs, for this reason this report that revels truth about Church achievement it's an important valid piste.

If someone asked me to give him my opinion about this fact it's obviously what I will say. I respect religious beliefs, but I can't tolerate abuse of power. When my eyes have seen this news I have trembled.

Young students that went to an ecclesiastic school have had a tormented childhood because of the priests abuses.

I can't imagine why these persons, servers of God and who promulgate the truth could have done this scandal, arriving with terrific declarations of some defendants: "I abused to a hundred of children." or this other: "I abused to a minor every fifteen days during 25 years."

Sincerely, these declarations have permitted me to see the supply of the worst actions of humans, indifferently if they are members of a organsitaion or a religion, what it's not more than a mask among which we can defend and to justify ourselves.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/05/20/AR2009052003809.html
http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/breaking/2009/1127/breaking66.htm

Annie Hall

2009-11-27T14:54:00.002-08:00

The film I want to introduce is Annie Hall, a film directed and written by Woody Allen. It is a romantic comedy film with a cast of famous actors that make the film memorable, as Diane Keaton, the same Woody Allen and Tony Roberts amongst others.
Is the most awared film by this director, it won a lot of awards including four Academy Awards of: best actress, best director, best script and best picture. This film is the most serious point of Allen's work.

The film is about the life of Alvy Singer, a neurotic comedian who introduces the film himself with a lot of philosophic points he has passed with different kind of girls. He's a sex addict in the minor term. The girl who changes Alvy's life is Annie Hall. Alvy meets Annie for first time on a tennis court, with other friends. At finishing the tennis match, Annie and Alvys go to Annie's house together to speak and get to know each other. Here is the beginning of a history of love that among laugh and smile, will be degenerating them in the time that will pass together. However every moment they meet they feel the sweet old smell of remembrance time.
I really like this film because of the humour of the great director Woody Allen. Seeing this film makes you smile, which is the most wonderful thing you can do in life. A history where Diane Keaton plays her part fantastically and with a great script writted by Woody Allen, particularly, I have to say that I fell in love with this film.

A love story can't interest everybody if it's the simply american romantic films, but it is different to others. It reflect the sadness of losing a person and meet her again, the magic in the air there is when this situation happens. For this reason and for the magic that brings, I recommend all cinema fans see this film.

True Romance

2009-11-27T14:54:00.001-08:00

The film I want to introduce is True Romance, a film directed by Tony Scott and written by Quentin Tarantino. It is an American romantic crime film with a cast of singular and strange actors that obtain the perfection of the similar aptitude of the characters, as Patricia Arquette or Christian Slater amongst others.

This film has the better point he could to increase audience, to have Tarantino in starring. This genius of the dialogue makes the film fantastic with the interventions of words in the precise moment including a lot of ironical quotes.

The film begins with the presentation of the main characters, Clarence and Alabama. Clarence sell books in a comic store while Alabama is a prostitute has got only three clients. They first meet was in the cinema seeing an oriental karate film. The propietary of the store where Clarence works did him the present of a night with a prostitute, Alabama, who at the first time seems to be a normal attractive girl. Rarely, they fall in love and Alabama less her job. They will pass a lot of critical situations because of the finding of a suitcase with a lot of drug. So, they will have chased for the proprietaries of the drug, an Italian mafia’s group. If you want to know how they finished, see the rest of film!

I like this film because of the fantastic starring of Quentin Tarantino and the actors who take their part fantastically adopting, like a chameleon, the feeling of the film. I’m always waiting for a new film of Tarantino because a film of him represents laughs because of the ironic dialogue.

Furthermore, it’s a kind of film very strange, a prostitute who falls in love with his fourth client, where you’ve seen it? I think the classing of the mafia group it’s something typical in crime films and it doesn’t enthusiasm me, because I consider that the real important mafia group have existed in our mind, only is the group of the family Corleone (but I can accept Al Capone in this group). This film represents the beginning of the Quarantino era, with the magic interpretation of the young actor Brad Pitt with his first representation.

Living in the country or in the city?

2009-11-27T14:51:00.001-08:00

There is a moment in a life when a person must choose the way where he intends to go. This moment is often matched with the final high school years and the begin of university in students. People often find that living in an enormous city like London, Barcelona or Paris, can be a life amongst to unknown people that won’t help to you if you fall.

It is true that in the country the situation is very different. All people you meet, know you and know your all life. People who don’t shame these enthusiasm think about country as a zone isolated from the social world. But others insist that life in a city is too expensive, too hard and too lonely to be happy between people masses.

In conclusion, I believe that for most of us, the place where we would like to live doesn’t exist. A place with the passion of a city, but with the care and tenderness of the people of the country. Characteristics that the principal cities in a country seems to forget.

National Geographic's photo

2009-11-27T14:22:00.000-08:00

I’ve chosen this photo because of the impressive natural phenomenon a water fall is. In this chase there are Iguazu falls, situated on the Brazilian side. Other photos are fantastic too, but anyone reflects whatever I want to explain in this entrance: the small dimension human in a giant world is.

The human specie have been living between giants of nature all his existence. Mountains, seas, the earth we have under ourselves, the sky we can see, all this natural elements are bigger than humans. So we are like an ant who can not see the final of the way it is.

What I want to describe, is the unnecessary we are to the world. I’m sure our specie is the most problematic of animal world, because we are animals too. The insignificance meaning of our existence is the major preoccupation of my nightmares. I often think about the death, about the sky, about the universe we can’t know because of the distance it is. If my live permit me, I want to visit one, I need only one, waterfall like Iguazus or Niagra. I need to feel myself as an insect for a moment, to appreciate the wonderful environment we have and we ignore building cities or colonizing other territories.

I have the personal view of point that we haven’t to change what the world want. Because we are anything. Because we are simply another kind of animal living on itself. And, to finish, because we world can eat us when it wants. To all these “because” we have to live in harmony with the Earth, because, at the same time we are ants in a world, it is a particle of dust of the universe.

http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2009/11/national_geographics_internati.html#photo8

The research project

2009-11-27T07:47:00.000-08:00

I’ve already talked about my research project in first batxillerat. Then I didn't know how I would focus it. I begin it in March last year, after Easter holidays and I've been working all summer, include dreaming, with him. My research project is about an exhausted study of my family in the general term.

The study of a family could be focused to different ways. In my chase, following my project tutor's opinion, I focused my work to an historical research to know who were my antecedents in different parts of family. So, I've been searching the antecedents of my surnames: Vilanova and Jou family; but this searching don't finish yet. I have had to search too the families of the surnames of my parents and grandparents, because I'm born from them, the families I study of them are: Vergés, Díaz, Lagunero, Comas and Preses family.

(In the superior photo: my grandfather Antonio Vilanova, do you think I have semblances with him?)

In other way, my research project, apart of discover who were living in this land with my surname in passed centuries is about to know and study the advancing of the lots of things like: technology in concordance with the objects my family have gone acquiring with the pass of time, the nourishment my family have had in the past centuries and his evolution even our days, the evolution of the hereditary transmission of possessions studying all testaments Vilanova family have done and finally with strict relation with my family: a photographic album with 450 of my antecedents united in some pages to be saved how a memory of these persons.

Another important, the more extensive I've done, report of my research project is the study of the rural world in different centuries. With this part I've known the conditions how farmer families like Vilanova's, Vergés's or Coma's were been living while they live. Some conditions marked to the elimination of the ancient regime and to the evolution of invents and discoveries, like electricity.

I wish you find interesting the theme of my research project and if you want, you are invited in the project's oral presentation to know a little bit more to the past of the persons thanks myself is here.

Hard weeks

2009-05-31T06:53:00.000-07:00

Last Friday began what is being for me the hardest weeks of 1st of batxillerat with two exams: the third hour of that day I had literature’s exam which took us one and a half hour, this means, our breakfast time. After that we had to do another exam: catalan, which was exhausting because we didn’t have any time to rest.

I spent all Saturday doing my homework and preparing the exams for next week: I woke up in the morning and I went directly to work because I have so much to do...I took lunch and continued working. Later, in the evening I had a break time and I disconnected for a while, but later I studied some more before going to sleep.

This morning I went to a basket lunch and now I have a lot of work to do, this is stressing! Next week I have to be optimistic and take it easy, if not, I will be desperate, because Monday I have to do philosophy exam, Tuesday sciences of the contemporary world exam, Wednesday: maths and Spanish, Thursday: history and Friday oral presentation of Catalan literature. This will be hard to stand…Also for tomorrow I have to do a history essay which I haven’t finished yet, and Thursday I have to go to Girona to do an oral French exam. Don’t forget the blog, the portfolio and all the homework that we have to do.
Oh my God, I watch the programming of next week and I got headache, I need more time!

Facebook

2009-05-27T20:25:00.000-07:00

I’ve already talked about facebook in other post, but in a general way and comparing it to the fotolog, but I think that I have to talk again about it because it’s a subject which is becoming more importance every day.
Facebook is a web site created by Mark Zuckerberg, one of the richest man of his age because of creating the site. It was originally created for Harvard students but today it is open to everybody who has got an internet connection. Now there are already 200 millions of users, from the date it has been opened to everybody in September 2006.

According to Alexa.com the site came up from place 60 of the most visited sited to number 7 in only one year.

The services that offers are the facility of searching friends or meet new ones in a very simple way of search: if you know his or her name, you can try if he or she is in facebook and add them as a friend. Another important thing in the page is the facility of sharing and sending pictures, videos and other interesting archives. You can put what you want in you page and the people who is allowed can go and take what they are interested for, for example, pictures or videos.
There is a page, called “wall” which shows you what other people are doing, what they wrote, and the games they played: some of them are quite interesting because they put on approval your knowledge about geography and your ability in memory games. Some of them are: Pet Society, Who has the biggest brain, Geo Challenge, Word Challenge, Bowling Buddies... I played minimum once every game, just to try them!

Charles Chaplin

2009-05-23T03:09:00.000-07:00

Charles Spencer Chaplin was born in Londres the 16th of April 1889 and died the 25th of December 1977. He worked as an actor, director, writer, producer and composer.

With 90 films, he has become the most important and representative figure in the mute cinema world, which has given him a very important recognition. He created a very peculiar man whose name was The Tramp (in Spanish: Charlot), who was vagabond but with refined ways to act and the dignity of a gentleman. He was wearing a narrow jacket, big trousers, shoes that were bigger that he needed, a bowler hat, a cane and a characteristic moustache. People knew him because of his unmistakable way of walking and his disillusion of the injustice of the new society made him the emblem of the new working-class.

The famous film produced in 1936, called: Modern Times, is the last one where we can see this personage. This is because when Chaplin created The Tramp, his idea wasn’t to give him the faculty of talking, so, made him as mime as possible without talking. This film was recorded when the new system of recording sounds was created, but our personage doesn’t talk or he does it only a little bit. Moreover he conserves his way of moving like a mime and the music of mute films. This was criticised by the more reactionaries sectors.
Later, this film was considered one of the bests in the story of cinema.

Summer

2009-05-08T15:04:00.000-07:00

Summer is characterized by long days and solar rays with smaller inclination; this is the reason why temperatures are higher, days longer and nights shorter.
Did you know that when we, in the northern hemisphere, are in summer, the southern hemisphere has winter? Here, summer begins on the 21st of June and ends 3 months later: on the 21st of September. But beside the equator line, summer begins on the 21st of December and finishes at 21st of March! It’s curious to think that when we are at home and it’s cold winter, other people in the world can go to the beach and enjoy the sun, and the other way around.

Summer season is expected with emphasis by all students during the course. This is because summer means relax, sun, see, beach, free time... I think that the best thing of summer is the good mood of the people, because everybody wants to go to beach, or play volleyball match on the beach, go somewhere with friends…nobody wants to stay at home when days are sunny and nights are warm. Another important fact of this season are the parties of each town which are quite popular between old and young. Many people go there and it’s a good reason to meet everybody during the long holidays.

I’ve heard that some people will travel to other countries during these 3 months to learn foreign languages, but I think that I’m going to stay here because I haven’t planned anything yet. What are you going to do? Some ideas?

Easter holidays

2009-04-12T03:02:00.000-07:00

The holiday days are generally very boring. All the teachers put you a lot of projects and many homework for doing (sometimes I believe that they don't remember that holidays are to take a student breath). Thankfully, there exist a few persons who do of these most enterteining days and the best of your life. They are your friends and I want to tell you what I've done with them in my easter holidays.

The first day of holidays the friends of class went to the St. Peter beach to play football and do something else to relax of college. There was doing windy, so we had to go to the river because windy was more calm. We've had a great afternoon but everything don't finish yet.

Thursday some friends older, Guillem and David have gone to see the new film about the tv serie Dragon ball. The worst film I've seen in my life, really. Anything created in toons can never be changed to real person that represents the same serie.

Friday was my sister's birthday and all my distant family come to be in the familiar lunch we did. My sister was very happy because there are much time that we don't see some familiar members. In afternoon of the same day, Guillem brought me with motorbike to St. Peter again. The day was sunny, and we've could go to the beach perfectly. There, there were a lot of persons who were doing kitesurf. The sky seemed to a constellation of stars which were moving.

In the beach there was a voleyball net so, we've played much time there. Minutes after putting to play there came some Germans who wanted to do a match against us. At the beginning, we lost for a lot of point but little to little we did points. Finally, they win for 1 point and was an horrible mistake, very easy. At the end of the afternoon, I've gone to David's house to play basketball and a football match and Guillem brought me again to my house.

I think that every moment you pass with your friends it's the only one. So you must to be useful every opportunity to do any thing with them. I hope you like the Easter holidays I've passed!

Does God exist?

2009-04-11T02:30:00.000-07:00

The religion always has been a theme of discussion. It does milleniums that there are questions about a powerful figure. His asking has begun with the help of the philosophy. However philosophy sometimes has been a supporter of God's figure (for example with the ideas of philosopher Descartes).

At begining of time, Greeks and Romans believed with a lot of natural powers that were those who created the land, the sea, the air and everything that exist. The christianism introduced the God's figure as the only who was the response to the creation. It belief that was looking at us from the heights and he communicates occasionally in visions to believers.

But everything change when Galileo Galilei discovers that we didn't alone. He discover that there were an enormous site raises ours that look at us, the universe. After being killed burned by the inquisition.

The religion began to lose importance. But it wasn't Galileo's burning, was the massacre that did the Inquisition killing miliones of persons in bonfires only for not believing as those who imposed it.

God represents the kindness, the happiness of his created children. If God represents all this things, ¿how can we belief in a figure, that maybe doesn't exist, who has been the cause of an enourmous number of deaths? I think that an universal power never will kill his children in any circumstances.

If you want to give your opinion or sample of your belief to God I wish to take part in the test that I've created in this blog.

Saint Patrick

2009-04-10T10:18:00.000-07:00

A few days ago we've spoken in class about Saint Patrick and Jake laugh because he knew what is this saint about. The same day, I see in a basketball match which were playing Boston Celtics versus Atlanta Hawks the t-shirt that were dressing Boston players was of different color of other days. I listened in this match that this eventual change was because of was Saint Patrick's day and it caused me interest and an idea to write about it.

Saint Patrick is the christian patron saint of Ireland with that attribute a lot of falses histories including banishing all the snakes from Ireland. All these false histories are fruit of writting of centuries with the pass of time, as a lengend.

He was born in the end of fourth century in a britain family. Couriously, he was been in prison for a few years because a group of irish raiders atack his region. They bring him to Ireland in captivity, thing that causes his devotion for christianism. He was afraid and he had to believe in something to survive and to thing that he were protected.

A night, in a visionary dream, God appears to him and has told him that it was time to escape. He was to walk two hundred miles to escape but when already he had escaped an angel revealed him an other time saying: "You have to return to the land that you have left behind to teach what you're learnt about God". Patrick, disconcerted, return to Ireland to teach everybody that God protected them and has incorporated some traditional rituals to Christianity.

Designated saint to both appearances that he had. He has transformed the Christian ideal of the epoch for the british people. It was created the day of this saint in seventeen March.

More there of the sky

2009-04-09T03:15:00.000-07:00

A few years ago I've listen some friends discussing a lot. I went with them to see what they were discussing about. There were Oriol and some friends we did in summer holidays. They were discussing about a new that said the universe has form and it was immensely. I try to have a definite form in my mind about universe, but this try was uselessly.

I've dreamt wake up often. So a question that everybody could be that they've done is: What there are more there of the sky? I've tried to answer it because is a question that I love and it takes me crazy. The universe could be immensely, but what is it? How can people imagine that a thing never finish? If this thing no finish, how can it has form?

I visit different webs and magazines and I can have a more sure position. Scientists say that the universe is always in expansion but some day will have end, since it was stopping expanding, all the atoms will expand and the components of these will separate. Everything will be desintegrated and life with it. But I can't understand it. A thing being always expanding? How can we create an image about where we live if we can't understand what is it?

I sincerely hope that future generations could discover these mistakes. Because I think an human have to know where is his place in a nothing, in a thing immensely, in a thing incomprehensible to our mind. Because more there of the sky not only there are stars but an infinity of life and of things that we don't know, we can consider ourselves to be ants of an unknown world.

Friends

2009-03-08T04:05:00.000-07:00

In this entrance I want to tell you a little bit about my prefer serie film I see. Friends is a serie film that I've seen for a long time and it marked a stage in my life because I've seen it every day when I arrived my house. There are a lot of protagonists in this serie and I want to tell you something about them.

They are a group of friends that living very near. The situation always pass in the bar in front of the built where they live or in a flat of them. They are three girls and three boys.

Phoebe - is the most stupid girl because she has growing up in street and now is working making massages. She is the comic protagonist in the story of this guys.
Rachel - is a beautiful girl who is every time in love with Ross, she's married with him once and when they had a daughter they want to retry her relation. She works in a clothes shop.
Monica - is another beautiful girl who is married with Chandler. She is the cheff of a restaurant and their biscuits always are the effect of fights.

Joey - is a ban actor than wait for his opportunity with an old manager. He is a conqueror of hearts and he will intent to be in love with Rachel.
Ross - is a protagonist a little bit excentric, he's cathedratic of dinosaurs bones and he adores them. He falls always in love with Rachel and he has been married a lot of times, and divorced.
Chandler - is a funny man who is married with Monica, he work in an important company.

If you want to see it I think you will laugh a lot and smile in a lot of ocassions. I wish you like it.

Facebook and Fotolog

2009-03-08T03:38:00.000-07:00

Nowadays computer is more present in teenagers life. For this reason I want to tell you something in our days is very used to teenagers and why they speak more trough computer than face to face in person that it's something adults in general don't know.

Fotolog is a web page that teenagers used to upload photos and something write, every person can has his page and personally it with different colours. However, facebook is more use actually because is a new page that existed yet but people didn't make attention.

Facebook has a lot of uses, you can send messages, post photos and writes and comment them, you can have a list with all your friends and you can see the things there are in friends facebooks. There is a enormous page with a lot of things to do and discovery, for this reason all teenagers have a facebook.

The reason teenagers speak more in internet than face to face is very simply. Speak between a computer you can tell all you want and somethings that in person you won't be able to say.

My basketball month

2009-03-08T03:25:00.000-07:00

I want to explain you how I passed a month without basketball that it's some increible in me because I can't live without it. I've passed a lot of experiences with it and it's a remedy to extract stress. And with more reason if we are in exams time.

I've passed the first month week in bed. I was ill with a gastrointiris. For this reason I've only can see my basketball partners play a magic match, against Adepaf Figueres. There was very important because they are very good players and for this reason my partners had a very important grow moral. Finally our time lost with a difference of six points!

But it doesn't finish. The last week I've passed another week in bed because I had thirty-nine degrees and I were with headache and all my body caused me tired. My team has win with a good result against an easy team, Llançà. This week I'm perfectly and I want to play with a maximum level I can!

Last afternoons with Teresa

2009-03-08T01:29:00.000-08:00

In this entrance I want to introduce you in a book world which begin in Barcelona. This book has marked a lot me and it's the best book I read in my opinion because it's romantic but in the same time it's the reality of the difference between poor and rich people and their situations matched with love relations.

The protagonist of the book is Manolo, also named "Pijoaparte". Manolo is a poor boy who lives in the Carmel street stealing motorbikes and selling them. He is son of a woman who cleaned a rich house. He has never want his friends named it a poor person for this reason he adopt the name "Pijoaparte".

However, the other protagonist in the novel is Teresa, daughter of a rich family she go to university and has rich friends also whose defense the poor class. The two protagonists we'll see relationed in a love appeared while the girlfriend of Manolo is dying. A love of summer that will become the last afternoons of Manolo with Teresa who will forget him in the minus waited situation. A book to smile, be sad and remove hearts personallying the history making you the protagonist.

Research project

2009-03-07T11:40:00.000-08:00

This year the first batxillerat students have to elect a project to make in summer and all year to next year. I elect work across the time and discovery all members that have passed in this country the members of my family.

I propose to history department the project and I think it'll be accept because it was in the projects list. So I have begin to search some documents I have in my house, very ancient documents! But I have to work with them and go to search more and more to chuches where there are some documents I'll need. I'll travel a little too, because if I have to go to a city near Catalonia or in Spain I will travel to there and visit and search my documents needed for my project. If I can't go a lot of time ago I will write about how my family lived in every century.

I wish the project will be allright and I want to have a very good mark :)!

My father's biography

2009-03-07T11:35:00.000-08:00

My father… How could I start to speak about him? He’s everything. My life (also my mother of course). But I won’t write a poem. The teacher only wants a simple compositon so I’ll explain who Joaquim Vilanova is.

He considers himself catalan, and like a lot of men’s hobbies, he likes watching football, it’s logical, isn’t it?

What else? Now he’s 56 years old and lives in Castelló with me. He is farmer. He likes the siesta and reading as many newspapers as possible in one day.

About music, he prefers the oldies, specially the bands of his youth, but especially the blues and black music (he has very good taste). And I could continue speaking about him for hours and hours and I would never end. So I’m telling you that he’s a big man, and I wouldn’t change him for anything.

Carnival '09

2009-03-07T10:57:00.000-08:00

These weekends we didn't study all time because there was carnival! A time between exams to go out with friends and be happy under a false dress.
This year, we have gone of tenists. There is easy to wear because we were wear a long socks, a blue t-shirt and a white short trousers.

We have caused impression because we were more than thirty people with the same clothes!
The first carnival party were in Roses and I couldn't go because I was ill... But all wasnt't lost because Castelló carnival were present in my mind and I was healing me to go.

I've passed Castelló Carnival with a lot of friends, dancing, smiling, running, falling, drinking (but only a little bit) and profiting the night the best way possible! But who was dancing with me ALL night was Guillem Sanz who said a lot of things to laugh. Definetely has been a carnival to remeber in our lives!

Universities

2009-01-25T05:43:00.000-08:00

Batxillerat is a stage to study and learn all necessary to be someone in life and to study in university. For this reason the high school propose excursions to go to different universities of Catalonia, see them and go to a conference where cathedratics tell us something about different subjects.

We have made an excursion to Barcelona, to "Universitat Autònoma" (UAB) and I went to two different conferences. Firstly I went to periodism conference. The girl who explain it was a little bit nervous because the power point who she prepared didn't work perfect. It didn't like me a lot because, I supose because the girl didn't know how to sell us it. After this conference I went to economics but wasn't I expect.

The last excursion in a university we've made is in Girona, UDG. In there I went with Guillem at history conference because is a subject we love. It was interesting because the center is in a ancient building.

We'll go to second time next year and we'll expect how subject we prefer to study in the university.

Better days

2009-01-21T10:55:00.000-08:00

Last thursday I went with my literature partners to Barcelona to see a play of teathre named "Better days". I loved it because was a famous comedy and in there we found a lot of famous. Well, I write a plot of this play because you know a little bit more about it and if you want go to see it in Barcelona.

The factory of the town it's closed. There aren't money, so, to survive, a few young men in unemployment or with precarious works attack the cold lighting fire to the furniture. They eat rests of a fast food and sell all they have. Turn of the corner, there are danger dogs and a person who want to do projects with them. Lucky, voices of the space are received presaging the salvation of these men. What world is this one? A world that searches better days and survive in them.

You will smile with this play.

My Christmas holidays

2009-01-10T04:17:00.000-08:00

In this entrance I want to explain you what I've done to my christmas holidays. Well, the holidays have began nineteen of December and I've done a lot of things for these days. First days I was very calmed because every day I went out with my friends, to the cinema, to play computer games, to play billiards, to play basketball and a lot of more things.

But the holidays wasn't healthy, minimum for the people who play sport, because there were a lot of meals with family, a very big meals with all kind of food. My favorite food in these meals is seafood, I love it.

I've had time to see a lot of films as Trainspotting and to be in a lot of parties in discos as Pacha, Fata, Millenium with my friends. But lucky, christma's brought presents too and my parents have gived me a lot of wear, some films and more things.

I hope the new year will be better than others and that all people will be happy studying and healthy!

T-REX

2008-11-29T07:04:00.000-08:00

I want to explain you something about my other prefer singer apart from Jim Morrison. T-Rex were an English rock band fronted by guitarist, singer and songwriter Marc Bolan. The band were established as a folk rock group in 1960s London. Their name, T-Rex, is for tyranosaurus rex.

The principal member of this band is Marc Bolan. He was borned in England on 30 September 1947, was an English singer. The first name of this singer was Mark Feld but after residing for some months in France with a magician and dressing as model in the London of beginning of decade, Mark adopted Toby Tyler's pen name and later Marc Bowand.

Recording some demos that did not manage to be published in his time, as " The road I'm on " or a version of one of his idols of adolescence, Bob Dylan, the classic one "Blowin ' in the wind".
At the end of the year 1965, Mark Feld would be re-baptized as Marc Bolan, in honoring precisely to BOb dyLAN.

He also was songwriter and guitarist whose hit singles, fashion sensibilities and stage presence with T.Rex in the early 1970s helped cultivate the glam rock era, though he preferred to call his music Cosmic Rock, and made him one of the most recognisable stars in British music of all time.

F.C. Barcelona

2008-11-29T02:40:00.000-08:00

F.C. Barcelona, also called "Barça" is my favourite team for forever. This mitical team was founded on 22 October 1899 to Joan Gamper who placed an advert in Los Deportes declaring his wish to form a football club. This team have had the best players in the world: Romario, Ronaldinyo, Ronaldo, Kubala, Cruyff, Maradona, Suarez, Busquets, Ramallets, Stoickov... In 1992 there was the period of Dream Team with Nuñez in the presidency and Johann Cruyff of manager. This magic dream won in 1992 the first Champions League of the team and it not be winned up to 2006 against Arsenal with a Belleti's goal in the final minutes. This year the Barça is winning all he play and I think this team is another Dream Team.

There is often a fierce rivalry between the two strongest teams in a national league, and this is particularly the case in La Liga, where the game between FC Barcelona and Real Madrid CF is known as El Clàsic. From the start the clubs were seen as representatives of two rival countries in Spain, Catalonia and Castile, as well as of the two cities themselves. The rivalry projects what many regard as the political and cultural tensions felt between Catalans and the Castilians.
The other important derbi is against Real Club Deportivo Espanyol was founded exclusively by Spanish fans of the game, unlike the multinational nature of FC Barcelona's original board. The club's historical ground was in the well-off district of Sarrià. Traditionally, especially during the Franco regime, Espanyol were seen by the majority of Barcelona's citizens as a club who cultivated a kind of compliance to the central authority unlike FC Barcelona. Despite this background the derbi has always been much more relevant to Espanyol supporters than Barcelona ones due to the difference in objectives.

Pride

2008-11-28T15:09:00.000-08:00

Hatred this adjective though it is the title of my fotolog. This adjective is the motive of many arguments. Pride is a personality carachteristic consists on believe in our wins comparing with others.
It can be seen how positive adjective but it despises the others in the negative meaning. Also it is possible to be call him an arrogance. The persons have are pride have problems to recognize erros and ussually it serves for create a self-defense because they are frighten the people offense himself.

It also is a adjective for the title of a beautiful film named Pride and Prejudice that represente the pride in the protagonists who fallen in love after pass critical situations and to be hated among them. It's a beauty film you can see with your girlfriend because it's very romantic and the girls sometimes fallen in your arms if the film it's of this kind. I'm considering me a romantic boy ;)

The Godfather

2008-11-28T08:57:00.000-08:00

The Godfather is a 1972 crime drama film based on the 1969 novel of the same name by Mario Puzo and directed by Francis Ford Coppola. The story spans ten years from 1945 to 1955 and chronicles the Italian-American Corleone crime family.

I've seen this film for one year recomendated for a friend, the day after see the film I invite him to eat something in a bar because it's the best film I've ever seen.

The Godfather received Academy Awards for Best Picture, Best Actor, and Best Adapted Screenplay, and has been selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry. Two sequels followed The Godfather: The Godfather Part II in 1974, and The Godfather Part III in 1990.

The story begins as "Don" Vito Corleone, the head of a New York Mafia "family", oversees his daughter's wedding. His beloved son Michael has just come home from the war, but does not intend to become part of his father's business. Through Michael's life the nature of the family business becomes clear. The business of the family is just like the head of the family, kind and benevolent to those who give respect, but given to ruthless violence whenever anything stands against the good of the family. Don Vito lives his life in the way of the old country, but times are changing and some don't want to follow the old ways and look out for community and "family". An up and coming rival of the Corleone family wants to start selling drugs in New York, and needs the Don's influence to further his plan. The clash of the Don's fading old world values and the new ways will demand a terrible price, especially from Michael, all for the sake of the family. When...

I think if you are minimum interested in this sumary, see the film, you'll find a treasure.

Musicians have an important role in changing society. Do you agree?

2008-11-28T06:37:00.000-08:00

Music; what is music? For some people it's a hobby, for others it’s a pleasure and for me it’s a way of seeing life. For me, music it's very important and I believe that it would have to be important for everybody. Music can also make you feel braver and happier. It gives you power to carry on. For this reason, I believe that the world would have to listen to music and understand its message. If we do it, world will become happy and calm, which is basic.

So I think that music is an important way to change society. Thanks to it, we might join cultures and learn many languages and have a more equal world and a kinder society.
In conclusion, music is something that we should all have inside ourselves. In my opinion, if we learn to listen to it, we will also learn to listen to the others and create a better world.

School holidays should be much longer

2008-11-27T14:07:00.000-08:00

School lasts nine months.But on the other hand, school holidays last only three months. Is this appropriate? Most of people think that holidays should be longer, in order that the pupils could relax and begin the school with a lot of energy. But some people think the opposite. Let’s see the different arguments. People who think that school holidays should be longer say that during this period of time children enjoy their free time and practise their favourite activities, like playing sports or listening to music. Moreover, children can discover their interests and do activities which aren’t allowed to do in school.

On the other hand, there are people who admit that one of the most important things in children’s life is learning, for this reason we can understand that having less school holidays is better. On the whole, I think that school is very important, but we need time to relax and learn things without rules. In addition, we need holidays to forget about books and get up late. However, holiday is not a time for doing nothing, but it’s a time to think about us and do activities without the pression of school obligations.

Celebrities

2008-11-23T13:11:00.001-08:00

Nowadays, we often see the celebrities, we can see them when they work for example in a film or in a concert, but we usually see them in the press. I strongly believe that it exists a controversy because on the one hand the celebrities claim their right to privacy and try to run away from press and in the other hand they come to the press to explain their life (with some money benefit, of course).

To begin, the celebrities earn a lot of money, and a big part of this money comes from the publicity that they obtain from the media. I think they want the media for achieve money and fame, and then they want their right to privacy, but they can have the two things. However, I personally believe that all the celebrities must to assume the price of the fame. I must to say that not all the celebrities want to be in the press to achieve money, I think that there are celebrities who want to be unobserved. Anyway, they are a minority.

On the other hand, I think that, in the celebrities life, there are aspects really private and other ones that should be in the public domain. The fact is that the celebrities need to be in the public domain to achieve fame and fortune.
I disagree with my classmates who think that celebrities live very well, I think they have another kind of life, they have fame and fortune, but I strongly believe that it’s very difficult this kind of life. We know that lot of celebrities have drug problems, and how many celebrities have committed suicide?

Taking everything into account, I think that every one have the right to privacy, but a celebrity can’t have the same right to privacy that ordinary people; on this way, they wouldn’t be celebrities. They must accept that they privacy will be affected.

Sport in my life

2008-11-23T04:42:00.000-08:00

In my life, always I've done sport. I began when I was five years old and now I continue doing sport, but a little bit differently. When I began I played football for seven years in my village team, Castelló d'Empúries, called "Esplais".
To make a change I'm passed to basketball in team "Esplais" too, but it's not the same section.

The president of the basketball section was a liar, he was retired by popular votation and the administrators began a new team with a new name but the same players. Its name was Club Bàsquet Castelló.

Now, I'm playing in Castelló team with my friends. I began playing basketball because since I was child I have been a fan of NBA. I watched NBA and basketball videos a lot. I will try to arrive in an important league.
I think like LeBron James. When the teacher asked him to what he want to be, he answered: I want to be NBA player. All the class laught with his answer but now, it's one of the most important players in the world, and in the NBA naturally. I hope my dreams will come true.

Jim Morrison

2008-11-23T04:19:00.000-08:00

James Douglas Morrison also called "The Lizard King" is one of the singers about whom I am going to tell you. He was an american singer borned in 8 December of 1943. Jim was singer, songwriter, poet, writer and film director too. He is best known as the lead singer and lyricist of The Doors and is widely considered to be one of the most charismatic frontmen in rock music history. He was also the author of several books of poetry and the director of a documentary and short film. Morrison was known for his baritone vocals.

He was born in a militar family. In January 1964 Morrison moved to Los Angeles, California. He completed his undergraduate degree in UCLA's film school, the Theater Arts department of the College of Fine Arts in 1965. In there he created the band that would be him famous, "The Doors". Morrison died on July 3, 1971, aged 27. In the official account of his death, he was found in a Paris apartment bathtub by Courson. No autopsy was performed because the medical examiner claimed to have found no evidence of foul play. The absence of an official autopsy has left many questions regarding Morrison's cause of death.

NBA

2008-10-08T10:17:00.000-07:00

The National Basketball Association (NBA) is the USA's premier men's basketball league. It has 30 teams; 29 in the Unided States and one in Canada.

But the NBA isn't his first name. The first name of the league was Basketball American Association (BAA) and after American Basketball Association (ABA). The National Basketball Association originated in 1946 with 11 teams, and through a sequence of team expansions, reductions, and relocations currently consists of 30 teams. The United States is home to 29 teams and one is located in Canada. The Boston Celtics is the most winner team in NBA, with 16 NBA Finals wins. The next most successful franchise is Los Angeles Lakers, who have 14 championships. Following the lakers are the Chicago Bulls with 6 championships.

In there teams there were a lot of basketball legends:
CELTICS: Bill Russell, Larry Bird, Bob Cousy, John Havlicek, Bill Walton, Robert Parish, Danny Ainge, Dennis Johnson.
LAKERS: Jerry West, Elgin Baylor, Wilt Chamberlain, Earvin "Magic" Johnson, Lew Alcindor, James Worthy.
BULLS: Micheal Jordan, Scottie Pippen, Denis Rodman, Jim Paxon, Toni Kukok.
But in more teams there were and there are stars. Olajuwon, Garnett, Duncan, McGrady, James...

My dream is watch the NBA in person. When I have 20 years old I will travel to USA to view basketball matches. The NBA is more than a game, the NBA is a dream.