Jhorman Calderon
Foreign Languages
English VII
Martha Muñoz
Journal # 9
ARABY
At the beginning this story was really confuse for me to be understood, but through the reading I could see the way the writer wanted to show us the idealization of the love in a little boy.
I enjoyed very much this story because of the descriptive language, the way each episode was developed; that’s why the whole reading called my attention.
I have a question, I don’t know if the boy had the sexual intention in his childhood or if he had a trauma about the relationship between a man and a woman.
I felt sadness when the boy found closed the bazaar, because his intention was good, but unfortunately his uncle was negligent at arriving early at home.
James Joyce was the author who made a lot of criticisms to the Irish community; he fight against the narrows of mind, against the intellectual paralysis and his style as a writer was characterized by the stream of consciousness and for me the Araby is a great example of it. I could see it, when the boy thought about the girl, about the feelings she could feel for him.
Finally, I think that this story is very interesting and has many aspects to be seriously analyzed.
May 17 – 2009
ARABY
James Joyce
UNKNOWN WORDS
- Dusk: the time just before night when the day is losing its light but it is not yet dark
- Gauntlet: a long thick glove (= covering for the hand), worn for protection
- Flaring: to burn brightly either for a short time or irregularly
- Throng: a large group of people
- Foes: an enemy, or a competitor
- Bosom: a woman's breasts or the front of a person's chest, esp. when thought of as the center of human feelings
- Impinge: to have an effect on (something), often by limiting it in some way
The Supreme Court will decide if the new communications bill impinges on the Constitutional right to free speech.
- Veil: a piece of thin material worn to protect or hide the face or head
- Twinkling: (of light) to shine brightly then weakly, as if quickly flashing on and off
- Humbly: I humbly ask your pardon.
QUESTIONS FOR DICUSSION
3. Have you ever felt a platonic love?
4. What do you think about the uncle’s behavior?
QUOTES
- “When we met in the street the houses had grown somber.”(607)
- “She was waiting for us, her figure defined by the light from the half-opened door.” (607)
- “I kept her brown figure always in my eye and, when we came near the point at which our ways diverged, I quickened my pace and passed her.” (607)
- “I thought little of the future” (607)
- “I did no know whether I would ever speak to her or not or, if I spoke to her , how I could tell her of my confused adoration”. (607)
- “I could not find any sixpenny entrance and, fearing that the bazaar would be closed”. (608)
OPINION
It’s very interesting to try to understand why the author wrote such a short and nice story.
Monday, May 18, 2009
EIGHTH JOURNAL
Jhorman Calderon
Foreign Languages
English VII
Martha Muñoz
Journal # 8
JUST LATHER, THAT’S ALL
When I was reading this story, I could understand the importance of having values in our daily routine; the important of being honest and I felt the need of being considerable with other people.
In my opinion I’ve ever considered that one must never judge anybody; because nobody knows anything about others and for that reason is much better stay quietly; but, there are a lot of circumstances that let us act in the right way; I mean that if we know that something is going wrong, is our duty to change the situation trying to do what we can do it.
I consider that as human beings, we can’t look for revenge, especially when we don’t know the reasons people have to do something unusual.
I don’t know what to say about the development of the story, because it made me think that this life is a mixture; a mixture between feelings and duties and what is worse, most of the time we act as if we were blind people, without knowledge.
This story is a great example that show that every person is a different world; I liked very much the end of the story when Captain Torres show that his life was completely unhappy and that was why he had killed many people; no because he was a bad person, but the circumstances of his life encourage him to kill people. And he try to explain that that’s no an easy job.
I felt proud because this story was written by a Colombian author…
May 10- 2009
JUST LATHER, THAT’S ALL
Hernando Tellez
UNKNOWN WORDS
- Razor: a device with a sharp blade for removing hair from the skin's surface
- an electric razor
- Foam: a mass of small, usually white, bubbles formed on the surface of a liquid Stain: to leave a mark that is difficult to remove.
- Endure: to experience and bear something painful or unpleasant, esp. for a long time.
- Lather: a mass of small white bubbles produced esp. when soap is mixed with water.
- If you are in a lather, you are upset or excited: Sly: (on the sly) adjective: cunning or wily: sly as a fox. Stealthy, insidious, or secret.
- Flounder: To move awkwardly, or to be in an awkward, difficult situation.
- Tangled: Messy mass of things.
- Swirl: to move quickly with a twisting circular movement, or to cause (something) to move this way.
- Feign: to pretend to have (a feeling or condition)
He feigned sickness so he wouldn't have to go to school.
QUESTIONS FOR DICUSSION
1. Have you ever felt the need to kill somebody?
2. Would you like to revenge something that had passed in your life?
QUOTES
- I took the razor, opened up the two protective arms, exposed the blade and began the job, from one of the sideburns downward. (429)
- I was now about to take into my hands. It was not an unpleasant face, certainly. (428)
- And what of all this? Murderer or hero? My destiny depends on the edge of this blade. (430)
- “They told me that you’d kill me. I came to find out. But killing isn’t easy. You can take my word for it.” (431)
OPINION
Interesting, this is a very interesting story; I liked the way the writer explain such a controversial situation.
Foreign Languages
English VII
Martha Muñoz
Journal # 8
JUST LATHER, THAT’S ALL
When I was reading this story, I could understand the importance of having values in our daily routine; the important of being honest and I felt the need of being considerable with other people.
In my opinion I’ve ever considered that one must never judge anybody; because nobody knows anything about others and for that reason is much better stay quietly; but, there are a lot of circumstances that let us act in the right way; I mean that if we know that something is going wrong, is our duty to change the situation trying to do what we can do it.
I consider that as human beings, we can’t look for revenge, especially when we don’t know the reasons people have to do something unusual.
I don’t know what to say about the development of the story, because it made me think that this life is a mixture; a mixture between feelings and duties and what is worse, most of the time we act as if we were blind people, without knowledge.
This story is a great example that show that every person is a different world; I liked very much the end of the story when Captain Torres show that his life was completely unhappy and that was why he had killed many people; no because he was a bad person, but the circumstances of his life encourage him to kill people. And he try to explain that that’s no an easy job.
I felt proud because this story was written by a Colombian author…
May 10- 2009
JUST LATHER, THAT’S ALL
Hernando Tellez
UNKNOWN WORDS
- Razor: a device with a sharp blade for removing hair from the skin's surface
- an electric razor
- Foam: a mass of small, usually white, bubbles formed on the surface of a liquid Stain: to leave a mark that is difficult to remove.
- Endure: to experience and bear something painful or unpleasant, esp. for a long time.
- Lather: a mass of small white bubbles produced esp. when soap is mixed with water.
- If you are in a lather, you are upset or excited: Sly: (on the sly) adjective: cunning or wily: sly as a fox. Stealthy, insidious, or secret.
- Flounder: To move awkwardly, or to be in an awkward, difficult situation.
- Tangled: Messy mass of things.
- Swirl: to move quickly with a twisting circular movement, or to cause (something) to move this way.
- Feign: to pretend to have (a feeling or condition)
He feigned sickness so he wouldn't have to go to school.
QUESTIONS FOR DICUSSION
1. Have you ever felt the need to kill somebody?
2. Would you like to revenge something that had passed in your life?
QUOTES
- I took the razor, opened up the two protective arms, exposed the blade and began the job, from one of the sideburns downward. (429)
- I was now about to take into my hands. It was not an unpleasant face, certainly. (428)
- And what of all this? Murderer or hero? My destiny depends on the edge of this blade. (430)
- “They told me that you’d kill me. I came to find out. But killing isn’t easy. You can take my word for it.” (431)
OPINION
Interesting, this is a very interesting story; I liked the way the writer explain such a controversial situation.
SEVENTH JOURNAL
Jhorman Calderon
Foreign Languages
English VII
Martha Muñoz
Journal # 7
THE YELLOW WALL PAPER
When I was reading this story! I got bored because is so descriptive and there’s no interesting actions.
I think that this reading is an interesting one, but there must be something that we don’t understand at first sight. I mean the context throughout the story seems to be very strange, very complex and for that reason it was so difficult for me to understand it very well.
On the other hand, I consider that the attitude of the John and Jennie is very suspicious; sometimes I think that the woman was schizophrenia person; maybe she had a secret or affective problem. I don’t know!
Finally I want to refer myself to the relationship between them, I think that the man loved her, suffered by her condition, but he didn’t pay much attention to her, maybe because he knew that she was crazy or something like that.
In other words; I’d like to know why she got so obsessed by the room if at the beginning she hated the room and especially she got obsessive for the wall-paper. The only answer I found out is that she was sick or getting closely to death.
Interesting reading was this one but really strange or difficult to be understood.
05th May 2009
THE YELLOW WALL PAPER
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
UNKNOWN WORDS
- Gloomily: feeling of hopelessness.
- Fancy: (verb) imagine that something is so. Like or wish for.
- Stain: to leave a mark that is difficult to remove.
- Endure: to experience and bear something painful or unpleasant, esp. for a long time.
- Streak: mark.
- Sly: (on the sly) adjective: cunning or wily: sly as a fox. Stealthy, insidious, or secret. Playfully artful, mischievous, or
- Flounder: To move awkwardly, or to be in an awkward, difficult situation.
- Tangled: Messy mass of things.
- Moist: Slightly wet.
- Thaw: To cause something frozen to become warmer or liquid.
QUESTIONS FOR DICUSSION
7. What do you do if the person you love most star having a strange behavior?
8. What do you think about John’s behavior?
QUOTES
- Jennie looked at the wall in amazement, but I told her merrily that I did out of pure spite at the vicious thing” (400)
- “For outside you have to creep on the ground, and everything is green instead yellow” (401).
- But here I can creep smoothly on the floor, and my shoulder just fits in that long smooch around the wall, so I cannot lose my way” (401).
- She said I slept a good deal in the daytime. John knows I don’t sleep very well at night, for all I’m so quiet! (399)
- “Such a peculiar odor, too! I have spent hour in trying to analyze it, to find what it smelled like.” (398)
- “The color is hideous enough, and unreliable enough, and infuriating enough, but the pattern is torturing.” (396)
OPINION
Personally I didn’t enjoy this reading, but I consider that there are important moments to be analyzed.
Foreign Languages
English VII
Martha Muñoz
Journal # 7
THE YELLOW WALL PAPER
When I was reading this story! I got bored because is so descriptive and there’s no interesting actions.
I think that this reading is an interesting one, but there must be something that we don’t understand at first sight. I mean the context throughout the story seems to be very strange, very complex and for that reason it was so difficult for me to understand it very well.
On the other hand, I consider that the attitude of the John and Jennie is very suspicious; sometimes I think that the woman was schizophrenia person; maybe she had a secret or affective problem. I don’t know!
Finally I want to refer myself to the relationship between them, I think that the man loved her, suffered by her condition, but he didn’t pay much attention to her, maybe because he knew that she was crazy or something like that.
In other words; I’d like to know why she got so obsessed by the room if at the beginning she hated the room and especially she got obsessive for the wall-paper. The only answer I found out is that she was sick or getting closely to death.
Interesting reading was this one but really strange or difficult to be understood.
05th May 2009
THE YELLOW WALL PAPER
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
UNKNOWN WORDS
- Gloomily: feeling of hopelessness.
- Fancy: (verb) imagine that something is so. Like or wish for.
- Stain: to leave a mark that is difficult to remove.
- Endure: to experience and bear something painful or unpleasant, esp. for a long time.
- Streak: mark.
- Sly: (on the sly) adjective: cunning or wily: sly as a fox. Stealthy, insidious, or secret. Playfully artful, mischievous, or
- Flounder: To move awkwardly, or to be in an awkward, difficult situation.
- Tangled: Messy mass of things.
- Moist: Slightly wet.
- Thaw: To cause something frozen to become warmer or liquid.
QUESTIONS FOR DICUSSION
7. What do you do if the person you love most star having a strange behavior?
8. What do you think about John’s behavior?
QUOTES
- Jennie looked at the wall in amazement, but I told her merrily that I did out of pure spite at the vicious thing” (400)
- “For outside you have to creep on the ground, and everything is green instead yellow” (401).
- But here I can creep smoothly on the floor, and my shoulder just fits in that long smooch around the wall, so I cannot lose my way” (401).
- She said I slept a good deal in the daytime. John knows I don’t sleep very well at night, for all I’m so quiet! (399)
- “Such a peculiar odor, too! I have spent hour in trying to analyze it, to find what it smelled like.” (398)
- “The color is hideous enough, and unreliable enough, and infuriating enough, but the pattern is torturing.” (396)
OPINION
Personally I didn’t enjoy this reading, but I consider that there are important moments to be analyzed.
SIXTH JOURNAL
Jhorman Calderon
Foreign Languages
English VII
Martha Muñoz
Journal # 6
TO BUILD A FIRE
I enjoy reading this story because is quiet macabre and very descriptive with the pain of a man without protection in an unlivable place.
I consider that this story teach us the importance of constructing a good relationship with other human being; something more is that when we made a mistake, we can be punished anytime. For me, the life itself is concern about our behavior and duties in this world.
According to the before paragraph if one day you do something wrong to the nature; for me, is logical to think that in a sorpressive moment the nature is going to take revenge against you.
I liked the way Jack London wrote this story because he transmits to the readers the feelings of loneliness, impotence, neediness and anger. Personally I couldn’t imaging such a tragic ending. There’s no doubt that the author gain his pretention at writing something different.
This reading help me to understand that in a determine moment we can`t do anything and nobody can`t help you, so, you need to find the soluti0on by yourself and no more.
Finally, I hope to become a writer with writings like this one; I know that its no an easy job but I find it completely excited and an interesting one to be read!
25th April 2009
TO BUILD A FIRE
Jack London
UNKNOWN WORDS
- To turn over or to turn over in the water.
- Blot: To dry.
- Poignant: feeling of sadness.
- Drowsy: Feeling sleepy.
- Numb: when a part of the body is unable to feel anything.
- Bough: Large branch of a tree.
- Spat (Spit) Force out.
- Flounder: To move awkwardly, or to be in an awkward, difficult situation.
- Capsizing
- Tangled: Messy mass of things.
- Moist: Slightly wet.
- Thaw: To cause something frozen to become warmer or liquid.
QUESTIONS FOR DICUSSION
5. Have you thought living a similar situation?
6. Do you consider that is very important to be precautions in our life?
QUOTES
- “[The dog] experienced a vague but menacing apprehension that subdued it and made it slink along at the man’s heels, and made it question eagerly every unwonted movement of the man as it expecting him to go into camp or to seek shelter” (378)
- “…he had nothing to think about save that he would eat lunch at forks and that at six o’clock he would be in camp with the boys” (379).
- “To get his feet wet in such a temperature meant trouble and danger” (385).
- “He was afraid of the panic” (385).
- “… it crept close to the man and caught the scent of death. This made the animal bristle and back away” (388).
OPINION
I wouldn’t be afraid of living something like this, I like adventurous experiences and I enjoy imagining unimaginable things, dangerous situations and so on.
One day, no far of today I’m going to be a successful writer…
Foreign Languages
English VII
Martha Muñoz
Journal # 6
TO BUILD A FIRE
I enjoy reading this story because is quiet macabre and very descriptive with the pain of a man without protection in an unlivable place.
I consider that this story teach us the importance of constructing a good relationship with other human being; something more is that when we made a mistake, we can be punished anytime. For me, the life itself is concern about our behavior and duties in this world.
According to the before paragraph if one day you do something wrong to the nature; for me, is logical to think that in a sorpressive moment the nature is going to take revenge against you.
I liked the way Jack London wrote this story because he transmits to the readers the feelings of loneliness, impotence, neediness and anger. Personally I couldn’t imaging such a tragic ending. There’s no doubt that the author gain his pretention at writing something different.
This reading help me to understand that in a determine moment we can`t do anything and nobody can`t help you, so, you need to find the soluti0on by yourself and no more.
Finally, I hope to become a writer with writings like this one; I know that its no an easy job but I find it completely excited and an interesting one to be read!
25th April 2009
TO BUILD A FIRE
Jack London
UNKNOWN WORDS
- To turn over or to turn over in the water.
- Blot: To dry.
- Poignant: feeling of sadness.
- Drowsy: Feeling sleepy.
- Numb: when a part of the body is unable to feel anything.
- Bough: Large branch of a tree.
- Spat (Spit) Force out.
- Flounder: To move awkwardly, or to be in an awkward, difficult situation.
- Capsizing
- Tangled: Messy mass of things.
- Moist: Slightly wet.
- Thaw: To cause something frozen to become warmer or liquid.
QUESTIONS FOR DICUSSION
5. Have you thought living a similar situation?
6. Do you consider that is very important to be precautions in our life?
QUOTES
- “[The dog] experienced a vague but menacing apprehension that subdued it and made it slink along at the man’s heels, and made it question eagerly every unwonted movement of the man as it expecting him to go into camp or to seek shelter” (378)
- “…he had nothing to think about save that he would eat lunch at forks and that at six o’clock he would be in camp with the boys” (379).
- “To get his feet wet in such a temperature meant trouble and danger” (385).
- “He was afraid of the panic” (385).
- “… it crept close to the man and caught the scent of death. This made the animal bristle and back away” (388).
OPINION
I wouldn’t be afraid of living something like this, I like adventurous experiences and I enjoy imagining unimaginable things, dangerous situations and so on.
One day, no far of today I’m going to be a successful writer…
Tuesday, April 28, 2009
Criticisms to the earth hour event!
1. The Christian Science Monitor said that most candles are made from paraffin, a heavy hydrocarbon derived from crude oil, a fossil fuel, and that depending on how many candles a person burns (if one uses candles during Earth Hour), whether or not they normally use compact fluorescent light bulbs, and what source of energy is used to produce their electricity, in some cases, replacing light bulbs with candles will cause an increase, instead of a decrease, in carbon dioxide emissions.
2. Bjorn Lomborg, author of The Skeptical Environmentalist, wrote, "It is vital to make solar and other new technology cheaper than fossil fuels quickly so we can turn off carbon energy sources for a lot longer than one hour and keep the planet running... Fossil fuels literally gave us enlightenment, by lighting our world and giving us protection from the fury of the elements. It is ironic that today's pure symbolism should hark back to a darker age."
3. The Ayn Rand Institute wrote, "Participants spend an enjoyable sixty minutes in the dark, safe in the knowledge that the life-saving benefits of industrial civilization are just a light switch away... Forget one measly hour with just the lights off. How about Earth Month... Try spending a month shivering in the dark without heating, electricity, refrigeration; without power plants or generators; without any of the labor-saving, time-saving, and therefore life-saving products that industrial energy makes possible.
2. Bjorn Lomborg, author of The Skeptical Environmentalist, wrote, "It is vital to make solar and other new technology cheaper than fossil fuels quickly so we can turn off carbon energy sources for a lot longer than one hour and keep the planet running... Fossil fuels literally gave us enlightenment, by lighting our world and giving us protection from the fury of the elements. It is ironic that today's pure symbolism should hark back to a darker age."
3. The Ayn Rand Institute wrote, "Participants spend an enjoyable sixty minutes in the dark, safe in the knowledge that the life-saving benefits of industrial civilization are just a light switch away... Forget one measly hour with just the lights off. How about Earth Month... Try spending a month shivering in the dark without heating, electricity, refrigeration; without power plants or generators; without any of the labor-saving, time-saving, and therefore life-saving products that industrial energy makes possible.
TRMENDOUS SPEECH...
Severn Suzuki | E.C.O. 1992 | Environmental Childrens Organization
“Hello, I am Severn Suzuki speaking for E.C.O - the Environmental Children’s Organization. We are a group of 12 and 13 year-olds trying to make a difference, Vanessa Suttie, Morgan Geisler, Michelle Quigg and me. We’ve raised all the money to come here ourselves, to come 5,000 miles to tell you adults you must change your ways. Coming up here today, I have no hidden agenda. I am fighting for my future. Losing my future is not like losing an election, or a few points on the stock market.”
“I am here to speak for all generations to come. I am here to speak on behalf of the starving children around the world whose cries go unheard. I am here to speak for the countless animals dying across this planet, because they have nowhere left to go. I am afraid to go out in the sun now, because of the holes in our ozone. I am afraid to breathe the air, because I don’t know what chemicals are in it. I used to go fishing in Vancouver, my home, with my Dad until, just a few years ago, we found a fish full of cancers. And now we hear of animals and plants going extinct every day, vanishing forever. In my life, I have dreamt of seeing the great herds of wild animals, jungles and rainforests full of birds and butterflies, but now I wonder if they will even exist for my children to see.”
“Did you have to worry of these things when you were my age? All this is happening before our eyes and yet we act as if we have all the time we want and all the solutions. I’m only a child and I don’t have all the solutions, but I want you to realize, neither do you. You don’t know how to fix the holes in our ozone layer. You don’t know how to bring the salmon back up a dead stream. You don’t know how to bring back an animal now extinct. And you can’t bring back the forest that once grew where there is now a desert. If you don’t know how to fix it, please stop breaking it.”
“Here you may be delegates of your governments, business people, organizers, reporters or politicians. But, really, you’re mothers and fathers, sisters and brothers, aunts and uncles and all of you are someone’s child. I’m only a child, yet I know we are all part of a family, 5 billion strong, in fact 30 million species strong. And borders and governments will never change that. I’m only a child, yet I know we are all in this together and should act as one single world towards one single goal.”
“In my anger, I am not blind and in my fear I am not afraid of telling the world how I feel. In my country we make so much waste, we buy and throw away, buy and throw away, buy and throw away and yet Northern countries will not share with the needy. Even when we have more than enough we are afraid to share, we are afraid to let go of some of our wealth. In Canada , we live the privileged life. We’ve plenty of food, water and shelter. We have watches, bicycles, computers and television sets. The list could go on for 2 days. Two days ago here in Brazil , we were shocked when we spent time with some children living on the streets. This is what one child told us, ‘I wish I was rich and if I were, I would give all the street children food, clothes, medicines, shelter and love and affection’. If a child on the street who has nothing is willing to share, why are we who have everything still so greedy? I can’t stop thinking that these are children my own age, that it makes a tremendous difference where you are born. And that I could be one of those children living in the favelas of Rio . I could be a child starving in Somalia , or a victim of war in the Middle East or a beggar in India . I am only a child, yet I know if all the money spent on war was spent on finding environmental answers ending poverty and in finding treaties, what a wonderful place this earth would be.”
“At school, even in kindergarten, you teach us how to behave in the world. You teach us to not to fight with others, to work things out, to respect others and to clean up our mess, not to hurt other creatures, to share, not be greedy. Then, why do you go out and do the things you tell us not to do? Do not forget why you are attending these conferences, who you are doing this for. We are your own children. You are deciding what kind of a world we are growing up in. Parents should be able to comfort their children by saying ‘Everything is going to be all right, it’s not the end of the world, and we are doing the best we can’. But I don’t think you can say that to us anymore. Are we even on your list of priorities? My dad always says, ‘You are what you do, not what you say’. Well, what you do makes me cry at night. You grown-ups say you love us. But I challenge you, please, make your actions reflect your words. Thank you.”
“Hello, I am Severn Suzuki speaking for E.C.O - the Environmental Children’s Organization. We are a group of 12 and 13 year-olds trying to make a difference, Vanessa Suttie, Morgan Geisler, Michelle Quigg and me. We’ve raised all the money to come here ourselves, to come 5,000 miles to tell you adults you must change your ways. Coming up here today, I have no hidden agenda. I am fighting for my future. Losing my future is not like losing an election, or a few points on the stock market.”
“I am here to speak for all generations to come. I am here to speak on behalf of the starving children around the world whose cries go unheard. I am here to speak for the countless animals dying across this planet, because they have nowhere left to go. I am afraid to go out in the sun now, because of the holes in our ozone. I am afraid to breathe the air, because I don’t know what chemicals are in it. I used to go fishing in Vancouver, my home, with my Dad until, just a few years ago, we found a fish full of cancers. And now we hear of animals and plants going extinct every day, vanishing forever. In my life, I have dreamt of seeing the great herds of wild animals, jungles and rainforests full of birds and butterflies, but now I wonder if they will even exist for my children to see.”
“Did you have to worry of these things when you were my age? All this is happening before our eyes and yet we act as if we have all the time we want and all the solutions. I’m only a child and I don’t have all the solutions, but I want you to realize, neither do you. You don’t know how to fix the holes in our ozone layer. You don’t know how to bring the salmon back up a dead stream. You don’t know how to bring back an animal now extinct. And you can’t bring back the forest that once grew where there is now a desert. If you don’t know how to fix it, please stop breaking it.”
“Here you may be delegates of your governments, business people, organizers, reporters or politicians. But, really, you’re mothers and fathers, sisters and brothers, aunts and uncles and all of you are someone’s child. I’m only a child, yet I know we are all part of a family, 5 billion strong, in fact 30 million species strong. And borders and governments will never change that. I’m only a child, yet I know we are all in this together and should act as one single world towards one single goal.”
“In my anger, I am not blind and in my fear I am not afraid of telling the world how I feel. In my country we make so much waste, we buy and throw away, buy and throw away, buy and throw away and yet Northern countries will not share with the needy. Even when we have more than enough we are afraid to share, we are afraid to let go of some of our wealth. In Canada , we live the privileged life. We’ve plenty of food, water and shelter. We have watches, bicycles, computers and television sets. The list could go on for 2 days. Two days ago here in Brazil , we were shocked when we spent time with some children living on the streets. This is what one child told us, ‘I wish I was rich and if I were, I would give all the street children food, clothes, medicines, shelter and love and affection’. If a child on the street who has nothing is willing to share, why are we who have everything still so greedy? I can’t stop thinking that these are children my own age, that it makes a tremendous difference where you are born. And that I could be one of those children living in the favelas of Rio . I could be a child starving in Somalia , or a victim of war in the Middle East or a beggar in India . I am only a child, yet I know if all the money spent on war was spent on finding environmental answers ending poverty and in finding treaties, what a wonderful place this earth would be.”
“At school, even in kindergarten, you teach us how to behave in the world. You teach us to not to fight with others, to work things out, to respect others and to clean up our mess, not to hurt other creatures, to share, not be greedy. Then, why do you go out and do the things you tell us not to do? Do not forget why you are attending these conferences, who you are doing this for. We are your own children. You are deciding what kind of a world we are growing up in. Parents should be able to comfort their children by saying ‘Everything is going to be all right, it’s not the end of the world, and we are doing the best we can’. But I don’t think you can say that to us anymore. Are we even on your list of priorities? My dad always says, ‘You are what you do, not what you say’. Well, what you do makes me cry at night. You grown-ups say you love us. But I challenge you, please, make your actions reflect your words. Thank you.”
EARTH HOUR
The March 28, 2009 Earth Hour Event was the largest of its kind.
Millions of people world-wide cast their votes in support of the Earth, urging world leaders to take action to fight global warming. The results will be presented at the 2009 Global Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen. Find out how to get involved and let your voice be heard.
Earth Hour is a global event organized by WWF (World Wide Fund for Nature, also known as World Wildlife Fund) and is held on the last Saturday of March annually, asking households and businesses to turn off their non-essential lights and other electrical appliances for one hour to raise awareness towards the need to take action on climate change. Earth hour was conceived by WWF and The Sydney Morning Herald in 2007, when 2.2 million residents of Sydney participated by turning off all non-essential lights. Following Sydney's lead, many other cities around the world adopted the event in 2008.
THIS PLANET IS FOR YOU!
JHORMAN ANDRÉS CALDERÓN
2006135934
We have entered an era of dangerous climate disruption and it poses a fundamental threat to the vulnerable places, species and people WWF seeks to protect. The world is already facing an accelerated rate of habitat loss and species extinction. Climate change increases the pace of these losses even more.
Earth Hour 2009 was from 8:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. local time, March 28, 2009. 88 countries and more than 4,000 cities joined Earth Hour 2009, ten times more cities than Earth Hour 2008 had (2008 saw 400 cities participate). One billion "votes" was the stated aim for Earth Hour 2009.
UNKNOWN WORDS:
Millions of people world-wide cast their votes in support of the Earth, urging world leaders to take action to fight global warming. The results will be presented at the 2009 Global Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen. Find out how to get involved and let your voice be heard.
Earth Hour is a global event organized by WWF (World Wide Fund for Nature, also known as World Wildlife Fund) and is held on the last Saturday of March annually, asking households and businesses to turn off their non-essential lights and other electrical appliances for one hour to raise awareness towards the need to take action on climate change. Earth hour was conceived by WWF and The Sydney Morning Herald in 2007, when 2.2 million residents of Sydney participated by turning off all non-essential lights. Following Sydney's lead, many other cities around the world adopted the event in 2008.
THIS PLANET IS FOR YOU!
JHORMAN ANDRÉS CALDERÓN
2006135934
We have entered an era of dangerous climate disruption and it poses a fundamental threat to the vulnerable places, species and people WWF seeks to protect. The world is already facing an accelerated rate of habitat loss and species extinction. Climate change increases the pace of these losses even more.
Earth Hour 2009 was from 8:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. local time, March 28, 2009. 88 countries and more than 4,000 cities joined Earth Hour 2009, ten times more cities than Earth Hour 2008 had (2008 saw 400 cities participate). One billion "votes" was the stated aim for Earth Hour 2009.
UNKNOWN WORDS:
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