Problem-Solution paragraph

Smoking in public is becoming a more serious problem because of the second hand smoking. People that do not smoke inhale the smoke of other people and that can also result in health problems even if we do not realize it right away.
 A solution to this problem would be for people to avoid smoking in places with a lot of people or creating specific areas for smokers.

Movie:Still Breathing

The movie is directed by James Ford Robinson, an American filmmaker who began his career in San Antonio, Texas, by making short films and dramatic documentaries. The first movie he wrote and directed was Still Breathing and he chose to film part of it in San Antonio. The movie was nominated for the Grand Prize of the Americans but did not win any prize. Apart from this movie he did not direct another one, just documentaries.

Favourite Movies

   ‘’Edward Scissorhands’’ is a heartwarming movie that I like because it relaxes me a lot when I watch it. The movie is about a man who died before finishing his creation, a boy, and the boy remained with scissors instead of hands. A kind family later adopts him and he falls in love with the daughter.

         ‘’Secret Window’’ is a thriller that I like because it has an interesting story and it shows Johnny’s acting abilities because he has to play a double personality character. The movie is about a frustrated writer that starts to be surrounded by strange happenings.

Oscars

    The Oscars is an annual American cinematography awards ceremony which consists on various categories such as: best directing, best costume design, best leading actor/actress and many more. The winners are awarded a copy of a statue, the Oscar.

    The first presentation was held on May 16^th, 1929 and awarded fifteen people from the film making industry. The ceremony was held at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel and ran for 15 minutes.

     The ceremony is live televised usually in late February or early March but the Academy is contemplating to move it back into January. 

Hollywood

The history of Hollywood began in the 20th century. Hollywood was considered a cultural icon emphasizing luxury and the face of the American cinema. Movie studios also appeared because of Hollywood, and this made America’s image in the movie industry even better. Some famous movie studios that were created in those times were:  Warner Brothers Pictures, Paramount and 20th Century Fox. The apparition of Hollywood also benefited movie stars and directors, the directors had a more important role in the movie making and the actor gained more fame from making the movies. In the year 1930 Hollywood reached its greatest fame because new genres of movies started to appear. People were bored of their daily life and searched to escape from reality; they could do this only by watching movies and the new genres like action or fantasy helped them. 

Saint Andrew

    Saint Andrew was a fisherman and also one of the twelve disciples chosen by Jesus. He was crucified on a cross in the shape of an X, the Saltire.  The Picts and Scots fought a battle against the Angles and the leader of the Scots the night before the battle said that if they were to win the battle then Saint Andrew would become the Patron Saint of Scotland. They won and then the emblem of Saint Andrew, an X on a blue background, became the flag of Scotland. November 30th is his feast day and it is celebrated worldwide.

Statue of Liberty

    The statue of Liberty has made many movie appearances, in some of them it has even appeared on the cover, like for example on the cover of the movie ‘’The Day After Tomorrow’’ we can see the statue emerging from the snow. The movie is about an apocalyptic disaster and it’s not the first time that the statue is featured in this kind of movie. The statue also appeared in the movie ‘’2012’’ and ‘’Cloverfield’’, the last one being about an alien invasion.

Action movies like ‘’X men’’ also featured the statue of liberty in their fight scenes and it even appeared in animated movies like ‘’An American Tail’’.

Zoos

I don’t agree with zoos being a good way of saving endangering species. Most zoos are over-priced places that sometimes even mistreat animals and people only use them to gain money for themselves. They use animals as an attraction or even use them for shows from time to time. Sometimes they even try to teach animals tricks and in order to do that they beat them up. We can’t be sure that all zoos treat animals good, we can’t even be sure if the animals eat fairly there. I understand that people are trying to conserve species so that’s why they created the zoos, but I think that for doing this they are really narrow minded. If humans were to disappear, would you like to be kept in an artificial environment and live like that until someday you die? I don’t think so.  We are mostly talking about savage animals, animals that were not born in captivity and lived free for hundreds of years, so let’s just think about it, are they really happy being held in captivity? I think that they would be happier living free. I think they only bring endangered species to the zoos to gain money from people that go to see them because they think it’s something spectacular seeing a species that is about to disappear. In my opinion it would be better if we tried helping the animals in a way that they needn’t be kept captive.

Online Games

In the past I used to play a lot of online games like for example MMORPG ones but I slowly stopped playing them because as you reached a certain level it got just more and more difficult to play it. What I mean is that in many games in order to continue playing you had to gain points, usually by paying them, to buy certain items that would help you with your quests or to level up. It is a shame to abandon a game after many days of playing it because of reasons like those but in the end you get tired of not being able to do anything if you do not pay it with real money.

Essay: Mobile Phones

Nowadays almost everyone has a mobile phone and to some people it has become a necesity to own one. The mobile phone was created to make our life easier but in some cases there are mor negative parts than positive ones.

When we talk about the advantages these new technologies gave us, we can say that it made communication way easier and quicker than in the past and you can also use a mobile in emergency cases or simply for taking videos or photos.

In contrast, there are many disadvantages and some are even related to health. Using a mobile phone for a long period of time can result unhealthy,both physically and mentally. Another bad point is that in many cases your privacy is violated or by spending so much time on the mobile you forget to socialize in the real world.

To sum up, there are many good aspects as well as bad ones but I think that everyone should be responsable of their own acts.

Places I would like to visit

In the future I hope to be able to visit a lot of places, especially countries in Asia like Japan or South Korea. If I have the chance I would like to work overseas and not always in the same places since I love travelling a lot, but the reason because of why I am really interested in visiting those countries it is because of their interesting culture. Another reason is that I really like how the languages sound and I would love to learn how to speak them. I have an aunt that lives in Asia, in Hong Kong, and she always tells me that the culture there is very different from here but she likes it anyways so I am really curious.

    So I really hope that in the future I will have the chance to visit at least one of those countries.

Goals

     In the future I would like to study something diferent from what I am doing right now. I always liked art and all the things related to art and I would want to study things like: design, make up, artistic drawing, and so on. Instead of finding a job in which I have to work all day in an office I would like to be able to travel and not do everyday the same things because I hate routine.
    I think life is too short and you should enjoy it by doing the things you like the most because later if you do not you will regret it.