Why I liked or disliked "Night"

I liked "Night" because of the story that it has, I really liked how it describes the life that Jewish people had during WWII and how they were treated by the Germans. I really liked how the author describes his life during the holocaust. I felt very sad when his dad died, I imagined myself suffering all those situations, I think I won't survive. 

Something I really admire is that the author once he survives to the holocaust, he receives a Nobel Prize, I really liked that book, even I can say it is one of my favorite books. 

Why I liked or disliked "Of Mice and Men"

At the beginning, I didn't like "Of Mice and Men" because of the language they used in the book, I mean, the language was kind of confusing, they used some bad words and words whose meaning was difficult to know, so I had to read with a dictionary by my side. 

Beside that, I liked the story, I really liked how a friendship can change into a tragical event. That way of showing how society can influence into changing a friendship, made me reflect of how people can change and that also I have changed my optinion or something I had to do because of society and then I regret of that. 

A Perfect Male Friendship

Most of people, especially men, have always wanted to have a perfect or idealized friendship.  Most men think that’s impossible, a few others have like a kind of perfect friendship. In the book “Of Mice and Men” of John Steinbeck, we can see clearly that idealized male friendship.

The book has two main characters: George and Lennie. These two guys have passed through many problems. When you see a relationship of men friends, you probably say that’s not true, that’s what Slim said to George:

“Ain’t many guys travel around together. I don’t know why. Maybe everybody in the whole damn world is scared of each other”. (Steinbeck).

This last part that Slim told George is very interesting because that can be an important cause of why there are not male friendships.

George’s life is not good, even though he has a friendship with Lennie, his life is not good, that’s why these friendships cannot be perfect, and that is what George tells Lennie:

“I could get along so easy and so nice if I didn’t have you on my tail. I could live so easy and maybe have a girl”. (Steinbeck).

This way of thinking of living better with no one, is another reason of why male friendships cannot be perfect.

As I have said, this is an idealized male friendship which ends in a tragic moment (George kills Lennie). This shows us that humanity is not filled of goods people, we all have been bad people, we cannot have good relationships, we prefer living alone. We are scared of sharing good moments with others.

Sources of Information:

• Steinbeck, John. «Of Mice and Men.» s.f. 15 de octubre de 2014 <http://www.kgbsd.org/cms/lib3/AK01001769/Centricity/Domain/664/Of_Mice_and_Men_-_Full_Text.pdf>.
  
  

D.A. Injustice

Dear Diego,

I would like to know if you pull help me with a big problem. I had to deliver a project about Mexican cultures like Mayan, Aztec, etc. The problem is that my mad teacher read my project and he said that I will get a D.A., which is not fair because I mad my job with the specifications he gave us. 

My teacher argues that I am not using the correct way to cite the sources of information I used in my job; he also said that I took all the information from Wikipedia and Yahoo Answers but that it not true, I showed him the web pages from which I got the information but he still says that I will get a D.A. I tried to talk to him in order to make a treat in which both will be benefitted, specially me, but he didn't accept. 

I hope you can help with his problem, maybe you can talk to him or maybe you can hit him (I'm just kidding), something that can make him change of opinion. Also, you can tell him that I'm a responsible student, that I have no problems with any teacher (which is true), you can tell him that I can repeat the work, or something like that. I know you will convince him to change of opinion. 

Yours cordially, 

Sergio Erick Chávez Flores

An Anecdote

One day, my dad and I were driving on the street when we had the red light, suddenly, we saw a couple of elder people walking by the street; but something was happening to the elder man, he was like pressing his chest, my dad and I knew instantaneously that he was having a heart attack.  We went down from the car and tried to help the elder woman who was desperate because her husband was having a heart attack. We called the Red Cross and while we were calling, a woman went down from a Microbus and said she was a kind of paramedic, she started asking many questions to the elder woman and also to the man, but the man wasn’t responding, he had a face of having a big pain.

My dad told to come back to the car and we left the elder couple with the woman who was a paramedic. As we were leaving them the Red Cross arrived, when we were again in the car my dad told that the man had died, I tried not to believe him, but the man’s face was the one of someone who was dying. Many months ago, a little white cross was placed in the corner where the accident happened; it was a cross to remember the death man.

This moment really left a teaching to me because it made me reflect and love the closest people to me because we don’t know when they won’t be with us anymore. 

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Outline - Planes

I. Introduction:

For many years, humans have had the dream of flying, making hundreds of prototypes or machines, it was until 1883 when this dream came true. This is one of the best inventions of all the times.

II. Planes:
 
   A. What is a plane?

   B. Kind of planes:
       i. Cargo
       ii. Passenger
       iii. Military

   C. History of Planes

   D. Most famous manufacturers:
       i. Airbus
       ii. Boeing
       iii. Embraer
       iv. Bombardier

III. Prototypes of future planes.

IV. Ecological projects of planes.

V. Conclusion: Since 1883, the world of aviation, specifically planes, have changed including innovations and new technologies. Making this object one of the best inventions of all times.

Planes

For many years, humans have had the dream of flying, making hundreds of prototypes or machines. It was until 1883 when this dream came true. Thanks to many sciences that are applied in building a plane, the plane is one of the best inventions of all times.

An airplane is a powered, fixed-wing aircraft that is propelled forward by thrust from a jet engine or propeller. Airplanes come in a variety of sizes, shapes, and wing configuration. 

There are 3 kinds of planes:

- Cargo: Is a fixed-wing aircraft is a fixed-wing aircraft that is designed or converted for the carriage of goods, rather than passengers. Sometimes they have one or more large doors for landing cargo. They are operated by civil passenger or cargo arilines.

- Passenger: Is any fixed-wing or rotary-wing aircraft used for transporting passengers and cargo, they are operated by airlines.

- Military: Is any fixed-wing or rotary-wing aircraft that is operated by a legal or insurrectionary armed service of any type. This can be combat (designed to destroy equipment) or non-combat (carry weapons for self-defense).

Since the time of Greeks, it has been the idea of making a flying device. Leonardo Da Vinci designed a man-powered aircraft. In 1799, Sir George Cayley set the concept of the modern airplane as a fixed-wing flying machine with separate systems for lift, propulsion and control. The Wright Brothers built the first successful airplane and made the first controlled, powered and sustained heavier-than-air human flight on December 17^th. 1903.

Due to innvations in technology, there has been many prototypes of new planes. For example: 

- In 2010, engineers at Lockheed Martin presented the Supersonic Green Machine. Unlike the Concorde, the new aircraft is equipped with variable cycle engines, which increase efficiency by switching to conventional turbine mode during takeoff and landing. Furthermore, the aircraft is less harmful to the environment, due to the built in the engine, which reduces the nitrogen oxide pollution by 75% incinerators. Its tail shaped inverted 'V' configuration and overall considerably damped characteristic Concorde sonic booms. In addition, there are numerous commercial aircraft designs for 'VIPs', accommodating 6 or 12 passengers, the most famous of which is the American SonicStar, developed by the company Hyper Mach. Powered by hybrid engines, the aircraft reach speeds of mach 3.6 (about twice the Concorde).

- The 'Wing Box', a product of Lockheed Martin engineers concept accomplishes this by changing the shape of the wings. Boeing engineers also presented some innovative wings. The so-called 'flying wing' makes your drone, the X-48, is more effective in terms of aerodynamics and weight distribution.  

- The company Virgin Galactic, known for its plans to organize suborbital spaceflight is not willing to limit their activity only to space tourism. The company's specialists believe their technology will cover the distance from one point to another one of the Earth in just four hours. The suborbital Space Ship Two aircraft will be transported to a height of 15 kilometers by a carrier plane, then leave him and follow his path to the destination. Today these flights would be very expensive, since the tickets for Virgin Galactic space flights cost about $ 200,000. The company specialists hope to bring down prices until the tickets have the same cost as with first class commercial aircraft. 

And there are also some ecological projects of planes, such as:

- Hybrid aircraft: 

Boeing has developed the project SUGAR (Subsonic Ultra Green Aircraft Research), which allow airlines to save up to 70% of conventional fuels by using batteries. While waiting for passengers, refuel aircraft not only traditional fuel, it recharge the batteries in the energetic systems of the airport. The aircraft used only conventional fuel for takeoff and immediately connect electric motors once been taken up. Today, engineers do not have batteries that generate enough energy to power an airliner, but by 2030 these technologies could have been developed. 

- Aircraft solar batteries: 

The Solar Company has developed the first airplane flown able to soar eating only solar energy, which accumulates in four batteries. In June 2013 this aircraft, coated 11.000 photocells, ended his longest journey, which crossed the territory of the USA, from San Francisco to New York. Two Swiss engineers handled the plane, Bertrand Piccard and Andre Borshberg, while co-founder of the Solar Impulse project. The pilots were alternated during the stages of the journey, which took place at an altitude of 9 km at a speed of 72 kilometers per hour. In 2015 Piccard Borshberg and plan to take a trip around the world in a solar version of the larger ones. 

- Hydrogen Engines: 

In 2008 took place the first successful test of a manned aircraft on hydrogen fuel. A small plane developed by Boeing made ​​three short flights in Spain. Among other things, innovation and reduce the adverse impact on the environment. In fact, the two-seater Boeing is a hybrid aircraft, powered by two electric motors and hydrogen, of which the power is used only in acceleration and takeoff, while the hydrogen is activated during the flight. 

Since 1883, one of the biggest dreams of all times became true, the dream of flying. Since that moment nothing was the same, the world of aviation, specifically planes, have changed; from having a plane made of wood, to a plane made of metal or other resistat materials. But there is a big problem with this object, that is the pollution, and that's why there have been created a lot of projects that will help protect the environment without removing the comfort of traveling by plane. 

But there's also a lot of new and innovative prototypes of planes and mixing all the sciences applied in building a plane, like engineerings, physics, chemistry, makes planes one of the best inventions of all times.