Fashion

Nowadays fashion changes continually. In Spain girls follow the fashion more than boys. Perhaps girls buy more clothes than boys but they are cheaper and boys buy more brand makes. Girls prefer to have a lot of clothes so that they can wear different clothes every day. You can see this especially in people of my age, 17-18.
Here clothes are quite expensive especially in the little shops but now there are a lot of chain stores for example Inditext. Where you can buy cheaper clothes and a lot of variety. Boys like spending a lot of money on trainers, and perhaps they buy three or four pairs a year.
Nowadays in spite of the fashion a lot of people prefer to follow their own style, for example the style of clothes depends on the music they like.
I also think that the world of clothes is the least affected by the crisis.

The Royal Family

The Princes and grandchildren of the King and Queen will receive approximately € 70,000 net each for the heritage that the employer Minorca Juan Ignacio Balada Llabrés who died on November 18, 2010, has left them.
Half of the estate is to create a foundation of national interest and chaired by the chief and will have a foundational heritage of nearly four million euros.
The rest is divided between the Princes and the eight grandchildren of the King and Queen. They have had to pay the Inheritance Tax to the Autonomous Community of the Balearic Islands (estimated at a total of 3.3 million euros.
In my opinion I think that Juan Ignacio Balada Llabrés should have invested everything  for the poor, but the royal family does not need to leave legacies.

Human Rights

 

1. What are human rights?

Human rights are rights and freedoms to which all humans are entitled. They can exist as shared norms of actual human moralities or as legal rights.

2. When did human rights start?

The human rights movement emerged on the 10^th December 1918 from former socialists in Eastern and Western Europe, with contributions from the USA and Latin America.

3. Why were they created?

To protect people and to give them the some rights and freedoms no mattesir ther religions or race.

4. How many haven rights are there?

There are 30 articles based on human rights. All of them are about different subjects but they are related in some way.

5. Which human rights were you not familiar with?

I am not familiar with copyright, because I think that the information is free and equal for everybody.

6. Chose one human right and discuss?

Don’t discriminate. I chose this human right because in my country I think there is still some discrimination although it has improved a lot, for example when people are applying for a job, depending on the person they can get the job or not. I think that in the past no country respected discrimination, I believe that discrimination is not respected in under developed countries, for example South American countries.

7. Are human rights relevant in the world today?

Yes they are. But there are some human rights that are not respected in some countries, for example in Abu Dhabi they don’t respected the rights of the workers. Everything is controlled by the government and people are not allowed to express their opinions. There are also a lot of differences between men and women in many countries, for example women who do the same job as a man is often paid less money.

Oral Presentation

Education in Catalonia

The countries in the world have very different customs and every country follows the education that it wants, for this reason the education in the world is very different. Moreover in Europe there are classifications and this depends on the economic system of the country.

In the case of Spain it is at the bottom of the list referring to education and economic system. Catalonia is an example of the bad system of education. That this fact caused by immigration and the system that the government has introduced. The immigration is a very important factor because a lot of people have come here to live and these people don’t study, because their religion is different from ours.

I agree that some high schools separate the classes into levels, in this way the students who want to study work harder and study more and for the students who have more difficulty studying the level is lower. The education system in Catalonia should change and perhaps be more like the system in Germany, for example, which is much better.

Crisis

Taxes are going up, unemployment is going up, the stock exchange is falling, the companies are starting close down, there is social uneasiness… these are same negative effects of the crisis.

Everything began at the end of 2007, when the north American banks started failing, the banks gave loans and people couldn’t pay them banks, and consequently people lost their homes or businesses.

After, the crisis came to Europe, and set of the alarms in banks, immediately the stock exchange fell.

In Spain the case is similar to USA, banks have given loans and people can’t pay them back, but the people here use the money of the loans for building, when flats are built the people don’t buy there flats, in consequence the seller couldn’t get money for pay the loan. And banks were repossessing the flats. Along with this the stock exchange is falling.

Today, Spain is the last countries in getting over the crisis. Govern says that we are getting over, but the people don’t think the same.

In my point of view, I think that we can’t continue of this from, because the country will reach a point, that people will burst and govern have serious problems.

The Pianist

Wladyslaw Azplman is the main character of this drama. He is a well known Polish pianist. He lives in Warsaw with his family, they are Polish Jews. When the war starts all the family is sent to a ghetto in Warsaw with other Jews and he earns his living playing the piano in bars and cafes.

Then the family is separated and they are sent to different concentration camps, some of this family dies in the camps.

Wladyslaw escapes from the camp and some people help him to hide. He lives in different apartments and his friends bring him food. After a time, nobody comes and he goes to another house, because the Germans are very near. He hides in this house, but then the Germans come. A Germans captain friends him but he doesn't tell anybody and he gives him some food. Later the Americans and British arrive and the war finishes. Wladyslaw is saved but most of his family has died.

This film won three Oscars; for the best actor, the best director and the best script. In my opinion this is a very interesting film, because it shows us how the Jews lived during the war, but there are scenes that are very shocking. I liked this film because it is about real life and it makes you think a lot. The director of this film was Roman Polanski, he was Polish and he lived in Poland during the Nazi invasion.