What would you propose to improve society if you were an influential politician?
Leading a country is a far from petty task, and hence I harbour no doubt whatsoever that one would have to consider all options painstakingly before venturing to bring about any changes.
That aside, were I a renowned politician, I would ensure a proper education is administered, for an unknowledgeable society is deemed to be a malleable one, and to allow people to make headway in their lives.
Another thing that springs to mind is warranting the appliance of cutting-edge techniques in order to make scientific breakthroughs. Last but not least, I would set my sights on raising awareness on various matters that, speaking broadly, cut no ice with the lay man, such as poverty or global warming.
To sum it up, should these judicious suggestions be taken into account, the world would be no bleak place.
Describe your favourite celebration with your family
The sun is gleaming in Valencia,even though the last weekend of November has arrived, and with it my best-loved family gathering - Thanksgiving, a day that commemorates the Pilgrims' first harvest in a newly-discovered USA.
My aunt beckons us inside her home, greeting us in that American twang of hers that still lingers no matter what. The dining room smells of spices, of laughter and slow, sedate joy. Upon the clothed table sit two plump turkeys - a must-have in such a celebration - bowls heaped with stuffing, corncobs and an array of cakes.
My myriad relatives eye the feast wistfully, which will have to wait until grace has been said. I watch the way my ten-year-old cousin's face lits up, I watch my greedy sister slip an extra chunk of pie into her pocket, I watch my dad embrace his brother.
And as I watch, something stirs in my heart. My kin. We are one and the same. The sun is gleaming. It is Thanksgiving.
Describe the celebration that you and your family most enjoy.
After a long year of endless shifts of labour, most people would rejoice in their well-earned holidays, to then grieve as their end approaches. Such is not my case. In fact, I look forward to starting anew with my routine. Before summer ends, my mother's side of the family gathers to commemorate our holidays.
My grandmother loves travelling around the world. By the end of every summer, we all unite at her apartment and commentate on the pictures we've taken throughout it, as well as eating some interesting dishes she prepares. This year, we looked at photos she and my uncle had taken in Belgium, following the tracks of Charlemagne, while enjoying spanish ham impaled on melon pieces.
Once we're done (usually around midnight), we step out to the terrace and sit around a cauldron of ale which my father sets on fire while reciting traditional galician chants to ward off witches and evil spirits.
Even though it's not the most exciting of parties, I find it appropiate to spend time with a few family members to welcome a new year of work.
Social networks have completely changed the nature of interpersonal relationships, in many positive and some negative aspects. I recognize that they have become important centres of communications, and that they are useful to connect people. But are they really useful to make people more sociable? I don’t think so.
Personally, I think that social networks allow people to create fake and distorted ‘’ideal’’ profiles that have nothing to do with reality. It’s all about pretending, isn’t it? In social networks, users only post the aspects of their lives that they want the others to see. In this virtual platforms, such as Instagram, Facebook, Snapchat and others, people try to impress the others, showing an improved version of theirselves. I don’t think that a relationship system based on superficial appearances can actually work, and be good for anyone.
In conclusion, social networks don’t make people more sociable, but cause more real life isolation and frustration, as a consequence of the superficial system that they promote. Our society needs to reconnect with the real relationships, based on honesty and true connections between persons. No more pretending.
Which do you think is the most revolutionary invention for mankind? Explain why.
Marcus Vergilius Eurysaces died approximately two thousand years ago. He was no more than a Roman baker who made good enough of a fortune to build a tomb for himself and his spouse. Hadn't there been an inscription with his name on it, he wouldn't have become part of mankind's greatest invention, History.
History was born around the 3500 B.C. with the development of writing, so writing itself is its progenitor. It has allowed countless names and discoveries not to be lost in the remnants of previous ages. It stopped the cycle of human mistakes repeating themelves from one generation to the next. One could say that it has even allowed humans to trascend their mortality: Iulius Caesar, Plato, Michelangelo or Marie Curie are just a handful of the names stored in it. Everything our society is based upon is a product of both History and writing, since all that's written becomes historical.
Nonetheless, mankind has a short memory for History, and thus, it trips countless times on the same stone. Who hasn't heard 'History repeats itself', after all?
Which do you think is the most revolutionary invention for mankind? Explain why.
The human being has made a lot of inventions in his whole existence. That's why its so hard for me to chose which one has been the most revolutionary. But if I had to choose one, I would probably say the stick.
If you think about it the stick was the first thing we ever invented and since we did, it never left our lifes. An axe and a spear are nothing more than sticks with sharp stones on their top; a knife is a sharp stick made of iron; even skyscrapers are nothing more than giant sticks with people in it.
You can disagree with me, but you can't say that the invention of the stick hasn't changed our story. Where do you think the idea of a sword came from? Why do you think the native Americans thought that europeans had magic sticks as weapons? Why do you think space rockets doesn't look like piramids? It's all because of the stick.
Which do you think is the most revolutionary invention for mankind?
There are so many revolutionary inventions created by men, but from all of them I would say the most revolutionary one is electricity.
Electricity has supposed a significant change on man's life, it has meant the beginning of a new way of living. Electricity has several usages, for instance electricity can be used to produce light, which is a source of energy we use everyday. Electricity can also be used to generate heat which is not only essential to keep us warm during cold seasons, but to cook or heat up food. Additionally, without electricity our dishwashers wouldn't work but neither our washing machines, our televisions or our CD players, as well as many other inventions. And what's more, electricity is the main reason we have and make use of our electronic devices we all seem to be so attached to.
Although electricity is expensive and it is not environmentally safe; it is, in my opinion, the most innovative invention for mankind, at least until we invent the time machine.
Who do you think benefits more from discount shopping, customers or shops?
There are some special dates, like Christmas or the Black Friday, when sales are made, when people buy many more products than at any other time of the year. What are the consequences for consumers and businesses?
In first place, I have to highlight that the one and only objetive of a company is to obtain profit. They never lose money when they lower the prices of their products. Even if they reduce their profit margin, they get to sell large quantities of clothes, for example, getting great benefits anyway.
There are also many misleading practices, such as raising prices just before the sale, and then lowering them, so it seems that a product is very reduced, but it is only a bit cheaper than the original price. In addition, the products sold in sales are often of worse quality.
In second place, seeing prices go down makes us think we should buy things we really do not need. We must not be fooled.
The shops are the most benefit ones from discount shopping, not the costumers. We should assume a more responsible role as consumers, and avoid the massive and unnecessary consumption of products, that maintains a very unfair and harmful commercial and industrial system, which in many cases does not respect workers' labor rights, and generates a huge damage to the environment.
How important is a brand name for people your age nowadays?
Today, young and old alike seek brand names feverishly. It is not uncommon to see clusters of teenage girls gazing enraptured at the windows of trendy costly shops, cooing and squealing about some lacklustre bag or pair of shoes that sits tantalizingly out of reach and bears a price tag with many zeros.
This frenzied hunt dates as far back as the Medieval Ages, when it all boiled down to swathing oneself in a veneer of wealthiness and status. It has undergone no changes nowadays. People who struggle to eke out a living flaunt the lateliest Apple product; others sneer at the ones who aren`t clad in Hollister outfits. Iwould hazard a guess and say that indeed teenagers are more malleable and therefore more prone to lay in thrall to prestigious trademarks.
The industry fully well knows the inner battles waged in us, the cravings seeping through our minds. What we need to do is wake up and rebel against dwelling in a world built on appearance and fakeness.
Who do you think benefits more from discount shopping, customers or shops? With the cheer of the holidays, families reunite in the joy of such a warm time. Presents as a way of expressing gratitude and care are irrefutably used in each and every family celebration. It is why, also in this time of the year storekeepers take advantage of our unstoppable solidarity desires and for so have created sales. Taking advantage of our sparkly needy-selves who believe they are doing "the Best Buy"of their lives.
From the very basics of economic stand points, the home never loses. Regardless of how big and substantial the prices have been lowered, businessman keep always an ace in their sleeve; such as trust and familiarity that is created when a ravenous buyer finds a fine clothing half the price they expected. It is with this pathos persuasion that businesses use their marketing to emotionally tie customers to their brand, trusting customers will in fact, be back.
We shall keep our naïveness for so ignorance is a bliss. But yes consumers, you may know much about life, but a dealer knows more economics than you do.
Imagine attending an exam for which all you had to do to study and memorize the subject, was throw an eye over your notes, a review of less than an hour. In other words, imagine having a photographic memory. Who wouldn't be willing to own it? However, when i think of it deeply, not everything seems to be so delightful.
On the one hand, it can be useful for remembering things such as specific places, certain people or precise moments you once lived. You can be helpful for anyone who wants to recall the name of a place you both visited a long time ago, or what's more, you may be essential and decisive when it comes to recognize a suspect or a defendant on a trial. On the other hand would´t it be exhausting to keep in mind everything you have seen and observed, riddled with memories you may not want to treasure, that reminds you of an unpleasant experience or someone you wanted to leave behind.
Personally, I wouldn't be keen on recollecting every single thing, because some moments or people are meant to be forgotten. In my opinion, having a photographic memory would be a sentence I will always be tied to, even if I hadn't asked for it.
Does technology help you save time or make you waste it?
There is no denying that modern technology has set the world on fire and is here to stay, so we might as well make the most of it. Yet it is a double-edged sword that can derail one from aims or tasks.
My stand on things is that technology can be extremely helpful indeed if used wisely. It provides a boundless stock of information available anywhere and anytime. Speaking personally, my studies would be much more halting were it not for my computer. I would have nothing whatsoever to shed light on my doubts, and I would not be able to hone my skills by practising with the vast array of exercises that can be found on the Internet on any subject. You name it, they have it.
However, we must not turn a blind eye to technology's darker side. It spawns addiction and instant fulfillment of our whims. Many of us simply cannot quell the urge to check our phones, be it for the fiftieth time. Technology boasts an endless welter of videos, photos and apps that can make us fritter time away.
All in all, I believe modern gadgets' advantages outweight their drawbacks. Ironically enough, they were once forged to help us save time. Let us not be as foolish as to waste it.
Does technology help you save time or make you waste it?
Technology has made life much easier, in many aspects of our daily life. The Internet has given us access to unlimited information, becoming the principal source of knowledge of our days. No matter if you are interested in physics, biology or in idioms, you would find everything about it in a few seconds.
However, there is an aspect of our nature that betray us at the time of being productive: our endless thirst of distraction. We have access everyday to classic literature, scientific publications and Mozart's music, but instead, we spend our evenings watching silly sitcoms, funny cat videos and reality shows.
Technology is not the problem. It doesn't make us save or waste time itself. That depend on us. If you spent your hours playing video games or watching films, is up to you, but you can't blame your TV or your console of making you waste your time.
Maybe we need to realize how privileged we are, and to get more mature and give technology the use it deserves.
Technology development was meant to be, among other things, an efficient way of having multiple tasks done without spending much time on them. But are electronic devices truly helping us save time?
It is a well-known truth, technology has improved today's society in many ways, for example when it comes to communicate with somebody, no matter how far you are from that person, you'll still be able to keep in touch with them, it has facilitated many work labours and it has also been very useful in science field. Nevertheless, with technology entry in our lives, social networks and Internet have become really popular, up to the point that we are not only waisting our time on them but becoming addicted to those virtual platforms.
Personally, I spend hours searching on the Internet, chatting with my friends or scrolling over pictures on Instagram I don't even care. I admit, ashamed, that the mobile phone has stopped me from reading, sleeping and dedicating myself more time. It has stolen me the most precious thing we have in life, time, and not even technology can give it back to me again.
Regarding the incipient concern about the effects of social media and human interactions, I believe that it is up to the user to either find it beneficial or harmful.
One of the concerns about using social media is the lack of time spent engaging in close relationships. The obsession with the Internet, being constantly online, has developed from our want of participating in groups with friends and not missing out from social life. Mistaking being an active member of a social group with being required to be available 24/7, creates an addiction that clearly mistreats our other relationships. For which social media can be considered harmful.
On the other hand, social media is an endless stock of information where you cannot only broaden your knowledge; the most attractive feature is the possibility of contacting with other people from around the globe. The introduction of social media in our regular life has created a very positive world awareness in which we can now understand other cultures points of view and the consequences of our actions in a larger scale.
Therefore, in my opinion, I believe that social media can either be dangerous to our social skills are in fact very enriching. Like any other aspect in life we can choose to have a negative or positive approach to what we are given.
I am most afraid of the passing of time. I hate snakes, I am scared of horror movies and the wickedness of the human being frightens me. But there's nothing in the world, not even in the universe, because time dimension doesn't limit to our planet, that scares me more than time.
I have always been a nostalgic person, I can't stand growing up and realizing I would never be a child anymore; I am still learning to accept that people leave and many of them to never come back again; that those who are now my friends, in a close future won't be more than forgotten faces wandering on my mind, that all the experiences I once lived will get lost and will vanished. I am already finishing my last year of high school and I cannot believe how fast time has passed, I feel like it was yesterday when I was starting my teenage years and now I'm about to be eighteen and to enter university.
I wish I could recuperate all the people, moments, places... that only seem to remain in my head, I wish I didn't have to hear my parents complain about aging, I wish it wasn't that hard for me to look at old albums and feel a huge impotence for not being able to bring back those memories. If only we could control time... but as long as time keeps being unattainable, unmanageable, I won't get over my fear.
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What would you propose to improve society if you were an influential politician?
Leading a country is a far from petty task, and hence I harbour no doubt whatsoever that one would have to consider all options painstakingly before venturing to bring about any changes.
That aside, were I a renowned politician, I would ensure a proper education is administered, for an unknowledgeable society is deemed to be a malleable one, and to allow people to make headway in their lives.
Another thing that springs to mind is warranting the appliance of cutting-edge techniques in order to make scientific breakthroughs. Last but not least, I would set my sights on raising awareness on various matters that, speaking broadly, cut no ice with the lay man, such as poverty or global warming.
To sum it up, should these judicious suggestions be taken into account, the world would be no bleak place.
Claudia Cucala, 2 bach A
Describe your favourite celebration with your family
The sun is gleaming in Valencia,even though the last weekend of November has arrived, and with it my best-loved family gathering - Thanksgiving, a day that commemorates the Pilgrims'
first harvest in a newly-discovered USA.
My aunt beckons us inside her home, greeting us in that American twang of hers that still
lingers no matter what. The dining room smells of spices, of laughter and slow, sedate joy.
Upon the clothed table sit two plump turkeys - a must-have in such a celebration - bowls heaped with stuffing, corncobs and an array of cakes.
My myriad relatives eye the feast wistfully, which will have to wait until grace has been said. I watch the way my ten-year-old cousin's face lits up, I watch my greedy sister slip an extra chunk of pie into her pocket, I watch my dad embrace his brother.
And as I watch, something stirs in my heart. My kin. We are one and the same.
The sun is gleaming.
It is Thanksgiving.
Claudia Cucala, 2 Bach A
Describe the celebration that you and your family most enjoy.
After a long year of endless shifts of labour, most people would rejoice in their well-earned holidays, to then grieve as their end approaches. Such is not my case. In fact, I look forward to starting anew with my routine. Before summer ends, my mother's side of the family gathers to commemorate our holidays.
My grandmother loves travelling around the world. By the end of every summer, we all unite at her apartment and commentate on the pictures we've taken throughout it, as well as eating some interesting dishes she prepares. This year, we looked at photos she and my uncle had taken in Belgium, following the tracks of Charlemagne, while enjoying spanish ham impaled on melon pieces.
Once we're done (usually around midnight), we step out to the terrace and sit around a cauldron of ale which my father sets on fire while reciting traditional galician chants to ward off witches and evil spirits.
Even though it's not the most exciting of parties, I find it appropiate to spend time with a few family members to welcome a new year of work.
Nicolás Lamas de Lázaro, 2º C Bach.
Do you think social networks are anti-social?
Social networks have completely changed the nature of interpersonal relationships, in many positive and some negative aspects. I recognize that they have become important centres of communications, and that they are useful to connect people. But are they really useful to make people more sociable? I don’t think so.
Personally, I think that social networks allow people to create fake and distorted ‘’ideal’’ profiles that have nothing to do with reality. It’s all about pretending, isn’t it?
In social networks, users only post the aspects of their lives that they want the others to see. In this virtual platforms, such as Instagram, Facebook, Snapchat and others, people try to impress the others, showing an improved version of theirselves. I don’t think that a relationship system based on superficial appearances can actually work, and be good for anyone.
In conclusion, social networks don’t make people more sociable, but cause more real life isolation and frustration, as a consequence of the superficial system that they promote. Our society needs to reconnect with the real relationships, based on honesty and true connections between persons. No more pretending.
Patricia Diaz Belamendia, 2A BCH
Which do you think is the most revolutionary invention for mankind? Explain why.
Marcus Vergilius Eurysaces died approximately two thousand years ago. He was no more than a Roman baker who made good enough of a fortune to build a tomb for himself and his spouse. Hadn't there been an inscription with his name on it, he wouldn't have become part of mankind's greatest invention, History.
History was born around the 3500 B.C. with the development of writing, so writing itself is its progenitor. It has allowed countless names and discoveries not to be lost in the remnants of previous ages. It stopped the cycle of human mistakes repeating themelves from one generation to the next. One could say that it has even allowed humans to trascend their mortality: Iulius Caesar, Plato, Michelangelo or Marie Curie are just a handful of the names stored in it. Everything our society is based upon is a product of both History and writing, since all that's written becomes historical.
Nonetheless, mankind has a short memory for History, and thus, it trips countless times on the same stone. Who hasn't heard 'History repeats itself', after all?
Nicolás Lamas de Lázaro, 2º C Bach.
Which do you think is the most revolutionary invention for mankind? Explain why.
The human being has made a lot of inventions in his whole existence. That's why its so hard for me to chose which one has been the most revolutionary. But if I had to choose one, I would probably say the stick.
If you think about it the stick was the first thing we ever invented and since we did, it never left our lifes. An axe and a spear are nothing more than sticks with sharp stones on their top; a knife is a sharp stick made of iron; even skyscrapers are nothing more than giant sticks with people in it.
You can disagree with me, but you can't say that the invention of the stick hasn't changed our story. Where do you think the idea of a sword came from? Why do you think the native Americans thought that europeans had magic sticks as weapons? Why do you think space rockets doesn't look like piramids? It's all because of the stick.
David Veintemillas, 2°A Bach
Which do you think is the most revolutionary invention for mankind?
There are so many revolutionary inventions created by men, but from all of them I would say the most revolutionary one is electricity.
Electricity has supposed a significant change on man's life, it has meant the beginning of a new way of living. Electricity has several usages, for instance electricity can be used to produce light, which is a source of energy we use everyday. Electricity can also be used to generate heat which is not only essential to keep us warm during cold seasons, but to cook or heat up food. Additionally, without electricity our dishwashers wouldn't work but neither our washing machines, our televisions or our CD players, as well as many other inventions. And what's more, electricity is the main reason we have and make use of our electronic devices we all seem to be so attached to.
Although electricity is expensive and it is not environmentally safe; it is, in my opinion, the most innovative invention for mankind, at least until we invent the time machine.
Claudia Rivera Lario, 2º A Bach
Who do you think benefits more from discount shopping, customers or shops?
There are some special dates, like Christmas or the Black Friday, when sales are made, when people buy many more products than at any other time of the year. What are the consequences for consumers and businesses?
In first place, I have to highlight that the one and only objetive of a company is to obtain profit. They never lose money when they lower the prices of their products. Even if they reduce their profit margin, they get to sell large quantities of clothes, for example, getting great benefits anyway.
There are also many misleading practices, such as raising prices just before the sale, and then lowering them, so it seems that a product is very reduced, but it is only a bit cheaper than the original price. In addition, the products sold in sales are often of worse quality.
In second place, seeing prices go down makes us think we should buy things we really do not need. We must not be fooled.
The shops are the most benefit ones from discount shopping, not the costumers.
We should assume a more responsible role as consumers, and avoid the massive and unnecessary consumption of products, that maintains a very unfair and harmful commercial and industrial system, which in many cases does not respect workers' labor rights, and generates a huge damage to the environment.
Patricia Díaz Belamendia, 2a Bach
How important is a brand name for people your age nowadays?
Today, young and old alike seek brand names feverishly. It is not uncommon to see clusters of teenage girls gazing enraptured at the windows of trendy costly shops, cooing and squealing about some lacklustre bag or pair of shoes that sits tantalizingly out of reach and bears a price tag with many zeros.
This frenzied hunt dates as far back as the Medieval Ages, when it all boiled down to swathing oneself in a veneer of wealthiness and status. It has undergone no changes nowadays.
People who struggle to eke out a living flaunt the lateliest Apple product; others sneer at the ones who aren`t clad in Hollister outfits. Iwould hazard a guess and say that indeed teenagers are more malleable and therefore more prone to lay in thrall to prestigious trademarks.
The industry fully well knows the inner battles waged in us, the cravings seeping through our minds. What we need to do is wake up and rebel against dwelling in a world built on appearance and fakeness.
Claudia Cucala Sainz , 2 Bach A
Who do you think benefits more from discount shopping, customers or shops?
With the cheer of the holidays, families reunite in the joy of such a warm time. Presents as a way of expressing gratitude and care are irrefutably used in each and every family celebration. It is why, also in this time of the year storekeepers take advantage of our unstoppable solidarity desires and for so have created sales. Taking advantage of our sparkly needy-selves who believe they are doing "the Best Buy"of their lives.
From the very basics of economic stand points, the home never loses. Regardless of how big and substantial the prices have been lowered, businessman keep always an ace in their sleeve; such as trust and familiarity that is created when a ravenous buyer finds a fine clothing half the price they expected. It is with this pathos persuasion that businesses use their marketing to emotionally tie customers to their brand, trusting customers will in fact, be back.
We shall keep our naïveness for so ignorance is a bliss. But yes consumers, you may know much about life, but a dealer knows more economics than you do.
Esther Barrero Fernández, 2 Bach A
Would you like to have a photographic memory?
Imagine attending an exam for which all you had to do to study and memorize the subject, was throw an eye over your notes, a review of less than an hour. In other words, imagine having a photographic memory. Who wouldn't be willing to own it? However, when i think of it deeply, not everything seems to be so delightful.
On the one hand, it can be useful for remembering things such as specific places, certain people or precise moments you once lived. You can be helpful for anyone who wants to recall the name of a place you both visited a long time ago, or what's more, you may be essential and decisive when it comes to recognize a suspect or a defendant on a trial. On the other hand would´t it be exhausting to keep in mind everything you have seen and observed, riddled with memories you may not want to treasure, that reminds you of an unpleasant experience or someone you wanted to leave behind.
Personally, I wouldn't be keen on recollecting every single thing, because some moments or people are meant to be forgotten. In my opinion, having a photographic memory would be a sentence I will always be tied to, even if I hadn't asked for it.
Claudia Rivera Lario, 2º A Bach
Does technology help you save time or make you waste it?
There is no denying that modern technology has set the world on fire and is here to stay, so we might as well make the most of it. Yet it is a double-edged sword that can derail one from aims or tasks.
My stand on things is that technology can be extremely helpful indeed if used wisely. It provides a boundless stock of information available anywhere and anytime. Speaking personally, my studies would be much more halting were it not for my computer. I would have nothing whatsoever to shed light on my doubts, and I would not be able to hone my skills by practising with the vast array of exercises that can be found on the Internet on any subject. You name it, they have it.
However, we must not turn a blind eye to technology's darker side. It spawns addiction and instant fulfillment of our whims. Many of us simply cannot quell the urge to check our phones, be it for the fiftieth time. Technology boasts an endless welter of videos, photos and apps that can make us fritter time away.
All in all, I believe modern gadgets' advantages outweight their drawbacks. Ironically enough, they were once forged to help us save time. Let us not be as foolish as to waste it.
Claudia Cucala, 2 Bach A
Does technology help you save time or make you waste it?
Technology has made life much easier, in many aspects of our daily life. The Internet has given us access to unlimited information, becoming the principal source of knowledge of our days. No matter if you are interested in physics, biology or in idioms, you would find everything about it in a few seconds.
However, there is an aspect of our nature that betray us at the time of being productive: our endless thirst of distraction.
We have access everyday to classic literature, scientific publications and Mozart's music, but instead, we spend our evenings watching silly sitcoms, funny cat videos and reality shows.
Technology is not the problem. It doesn't make us save or waste time itself. That depend on us. If you spent your hours playing video games or watching films, is up to you, but you can't blame your TV or your console of making you waste your time.
Maybe we need to realize how privileged we are, and to get more mature and give technology the use it deserves.
Patricia Diaz Belamendia, 2 Bach A
Technology development was meant to be, among other things, an efficient way of having multiple tasks done without spending much time on them. But are electronic devices truly helping us save time?
It is a well-known truth, technology has improved today's society in many ways, for example when it comes to communicate with somebody, no matter how far you are from that person, you'll still be able to keep in touch with them, it has facilitated many work labours and it has also been very useful in science field. Nevertheless, with technology entry in our lives, social networks and Internet have become really popular, up to the point that we are not only waisting our time on them but becoming addicted to those virtual platforms.
Personally, I spend hours searching on the Internet, chatting with my friends or scrolling over pictures on Instagram I don't even care. I admit, ashamed, that the mobile phone has stopped me from reading, sleeping and dedicating myself more time. It has stolen me the most precious thing we have in life, time, and not even technology can give it back to me again.
Claudia Rivera Lario 2ºA Bach
Regarding the incipient concern about the effects of social media and human interactions, I believe that it is up to the user to either find it beneficial or harmful.
One of the concerns about using social media is the lack of time spent engaging in close relationships. The obsession with the Internet, being constantly online, has developed from our want of participating in groups with friends and not missing out from social life. Mistaking being an active member of a social group with being required to be available 24/7, creates an addiction that clearly mistreats our other relationships. For which social media can be considered harmful.
On the other hand, social media is an endless stock of information where you cannot only broaden your knowledge; the most attractive feature is the possibility of contacting with other people from around the globe. The introduction of social media in our regular life has created a very positive world awareness in which we can now understand other cultures points of view and the consequences of our actions in a larger scale.
Therefore, in my opinion, I believe that social media can either be dangerous to our social skills are in fact very enriching. Like any other aspect in life we can choose to have a negative or positive approach to what we are given.
Esther Barrero Fernández 2ºA Bachillerato
What are you most afraid of?
I am most afraid of the passing of time. I hate snakes, I am scared of horror movies and the wickedness of the human being frightens me. But there's nothing in the world, not even in the universe, because time dimension doesn't limit to our planet, that scares me more than time.
I have always been a nostalgic person, I can't stand growing up and realizing I would never be a child anymore; I am still learning to accept that people leave and many of them to never come back again; that those who are now my friends, in a close future won't be more than forgotten faces wandering on my mind, that all the experiences I once lived will get lost and will vanished. I am already finishing my last year of high school and I cannot believe how fast time has passed, I feel like it was yesterday when I was starting my teenage years and now I'm about to be eighteen and to enter university.
I wish I could recuperate all the people, moments, places... that only seem to remain in my head, I wish I didn't have to hear my parents complain about aging, I wish it wasn't that hard for me to look at old albums and feel a huge impotence for not being able to bring back those memories. If only we could control time... but as long as time keeps being unattainable, unmanageable, I won't get over my fear.
Claudia Rivera Lario 2ª A Bachillerato
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