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THE CAUSES OF THE ARAB-ISRAELI CONFLICT

2006-04-27T19:54:00.000-07:00

The principal difference between all humans is the differents ideas and opinions that they have .These differences are the principal causes of many problems that we are living in our days, from trouble with a friend, to a big conflict that can affect the entire world, as is the Arab-Israeli conflict.

The Arab-Israeli conflict is one of the most prolonged and bloody conflicts, but this problem does not have its origin in our days .It appeared in the time of our forefathers but, unfortunately with or without a reason, this war has driven societies, religions, languages, and humans in general to become what they are today. This conflict is becoming bigger, because of some factors that are consequences of others, and if the countries that are involved in this conflict do not cut the roots that have bring it up, its never going to end.

There are many factors that helped the development of this conflict. It is not just one cause that made occurred this conflict that had bring the world down, there are many. According to Katzman (2000), the first one was in the time before Jesus, when the Israelites started to conquer and settle the "land of Canaan”and Israel was split up into two kingdoms. Here is where the real conflict began. After this, these countries began fighting. One of the causes is the different religions they have, making those countries be in continuous disagreement. Other causes are the fighting because of territory that Israel wants to take from Palestine, the creation of Israeli’s state and the fight for natural resources the water and petroleum.

Because of continuous problems, The United States decided to join with Israel and put soldiers in that territory to fight with the opponents, but that caused mayors problems.

The causes of this global problem are many , but are more the consequences that had brought , that we can not imagine , in all the world. This problem is ending many lives an example of this is the 911 and the pictures that an Australian news paper show to the world about detainees in Iraq , but those are still being abused , according to Waller. This conflict is very difficult to explain , because has a lot of causes that make him diversified and complicated but there are some causes that are the most important as is the fight for territory, the creation of the state of Israel , the religious differences and petroleum . But the causes are not the important thing. The most important thing is that this conflict has to stop because is ending with all the human rights that “everyone has to follow” and is ending with a big percent of the population. As many people says “No one knows what is going to happen after, but this conflict seems like a never-ending problem. Only the time can tell the course and the ending of this conflict.”

A STORY ABOUT AN AUSTISTIC

2006-04-27T19:01:00.000-07:00

Nowadays the quantity of sick people is getting bigger and is ending with everyone. People are dying because of cancer or cerebral problems, but these kind of sicknesses appears normally when people are getting old. I know a sickness that the person who has it born with that kind of problem. That sickness doesn’t permit being a normal person and living or enjoying life like many others. That sickness is called autism.

According to The National Autistic Society, autism is a psychiatric disorder of childhood characterized by marked deficits in communication and social interaction, preoccupation with fantasy, language impairment, and abnormal behavior, such as repetitive acts and excessive attachment to certain objects. This is what my little cousin called Ryan has.

He was born in 1993 in United States at the Jackson hospital in Miami, surrounded by all his family including me. He was totally blonde with beautiful and big blue eyes, all the family was incredible happy watching that new member of the family that had born. My aunt was really proud of herself because of that wonderful child she had created. Apparently everything was happiness, but when the years came, my aunt started to realize some strange things. Ryan, at the age of two years, didn’t say a word and didn’t look at her at the eyes. Obviously she took him right away to a doctor, and she began to tell him the strange things that he was doing. The doctor said immediately that he has to do some tests on Ryan because that wasn’t normal. The same day Ryan was taken to a special center in Broward to figure out what he had. When the tests were already taken and the results were ready the doctor called her in a soft and sweet voice. When the doctor asked her to sit down, he began to tell her the results. He told her that my precious and beautiful cousin was autistic. She was like in a shock because she didn’t that know what that was, but the doctor explained to her about that sickness. She couldn’t believe that her son has that kind of problem because he was so beautiful and she thought that her son was totally normal. Immediately she listened that, she began to cry. In that moment I thought that all was over that the happiness that we had when he was born was just over. All the family was very sad and my aunt was devastated. She started to being anxious and depressed.
After that happened, my aunt looked for a job to find a distraction but there was a problem. The job that she found she has to work at least 12 hours per day that make her rich, but there was a problem. She abandoned her son in a world of loneliness surrounded by walls and this caused that Ryan does not get better.

With the passing of days, Ryan began to get worse, so she decided to take Ryan to a special school, so he began to study at an special school and then in a normal one but with a special person that help him in all that he has to do. That didn’t work. She didn’t see any result. My aunt asked for a government help to start therapy, but the therapy was too expensive and she couldn’t afford that because each section cost a thousand dollars it was like 4000 per week. That was extremely expensive so she asked for help, but the government didn’t help her to pay the therapy. She called my mom crying and concerned to ask her for advice and she told her that in Colombia the therapy is cheaper than in United States and is also very good, so my aunt decided to leave my uncle alone in the house in Florida to live for a few years in Colombia while Ryan got better.

Now she is here and Ryan is studying in a special school for that kind of kids because the most of the people that live here doesn’t know about that kind of sickness and just laugh of him making him to feel bad so he is trying to improve himself with the help of the family who loves him, as I do. The teachers who are teaching him how to be a normal person with the help of therapy with animals like horses and psychologist that take care of him and love him like a son, but I think that what makes Ryan to get better is the company and love of all of us his family. I have to be patient with him because if his own family doesn’t love him, who is going to love him?

GREEN MARKETING

2006-04-27T18:52:00.000-07:00

Nowadays, the quantity of people is increasing and in a direct way the development of the productive sectors .These sectors are being developed in order to satisfy the needs of a big population, but all that economic world has a full-size problem, which causes a direct influence on the environment in which we live, collaborating for its destruction. This contamination is the worry of many people, and because of that the government of each country is taking measure to stop or diminish this phenomenon, pressuring the large industries, that are the main sources of contamination, to take immediate measures. One of these measures is green marketing.

Green marketing is a proposal that the productive sectors take for diminish the contamination created by themselves; including ecologically safer products, recyclable and biodegradable packaging, energy-efficient operations, and better pollution controls. Advances produced from green marketing include packaging made from recycled paper, phosphate-free detergents, refillable containers for cleaning products, and bottles using less plastic according to Silva (2000). One of the countries that need this kind of market is China.
China is living a difficult situation because of the contamination of the big companies that are pouring their waste into the rivers. Because of that, many animals die every day. The people that live on the edge of the river do not have food and or a work, because the majority of people that lives in that kind of places works as a fisherman. China has 40% of the rivers of the world and is the first producer of fish, but this it is not going to last long, if the world continues that way, China will have a shortage of food.

There are many companies that take that kind of measures. For example, Windbond is a company from Taiwan that is dedicating to make research for the creation of high technology products for a better use of natural resources. Another example is Johnson & Johnson Company that worries about diminishing wastes. Another example is Xerox that is making paper that can be recycled. Those are greats examples, but at the same time at these companies there are many others doing the same job.

Now consumers have become more conscious of the natural environment, according Silva (2000), businesses are beginning to modify their own thoughts and behavior in an attempt to address the concerns of consumers. Green marketing is becoming more important to businesses because of the consumer’s genuine concerns about our limited resources on Earth. By implementing green marketing measures to save the earth’s resources in production, packaging, and operations, businesses are showing consumers they too share the same concerns, boosting their credibility. These kinds of consumers are enlarging every day. For example, in Latin America 75% of the population requires products that come from companies that support or practice green marketing. These consumers are called green consumers, which have to spend their money on green products.

Green marketing is very important and a good option to diminish the contamination of the world. That is why is so necessary put it into practice and tell all the people that we are authorized to require a product that does not cause damage to the environment, by the contrary that collaborate to its improvement. The only thing that is missing is the collaboration of all of us to help to make this world a better one, with more development in all the sectors and less contamination. This is the measure that the productive sectors have to take if they really want a better world.

SOURCES

SILVA, Harold .Green Marketing, Pensamiento y Gestión ,8.Universidad Del Norte, Barranquilla. P.83-97,2000

GAZA STRIP

2006-04-06T15:42:00.000-07:00

The Gaza Strip is a narrow coastal strip of land along the Mediterranean , in the Middle East , not currently recognized internationally as a de jure part of any sovereing country.The Gaza Strip is essentially an open-air prison for Palestinian refugees, guarded on all sides by the Israeli military. This is the place were the documentary take place.
Was filmed during the first four months of 2001, a period that covers the election of Israeli prime minister Ariel Sharon and extends to the first major armed incursion into "Area A" by the Israeli military.
Most people living in the Gaza Strip have never known a single day of real freedom.
An ordinary day , the highways can be blocked and anyone can move from their houses , the kids can`t go to the school and their fathers can`t work because the difficult movilization , so they use the beach to move. this place live in a awful situation.
They do not have a good kind of living , they do not have the enough food to survive, they do not have security even at home and when they need medical service is not enough the cuantity of peolple that are capable in that kind of situation to attend that frecuent needs.
And this situation is getting worse .
This situation is the one that James Longley wants to show .All is not money , the middle east is one of the places were the people receive more incomes but this situation can not be fixed by money .
REFERENCES
http://www.littleredbutton.com/gaza/about.html

ENGLISH CLASS

2006-03-30T14:17:00.000-08:00

1.In which areas of language use have you improved, in your opinion?
In grammar , writting and vocabulary
2.Which areas of langauge use are still a problem?
In grammar and writting
3.Which areas of language use do you want to spend the most time on during the rest of the semester?
Writting and conversational english
4.What type of classwork is most useful, in your opinion?
More conversation and practice writting
5.What can you personally do to increase your rate of progress?
Practice in my home and pay more attention
6.Do you have any other comments or suggestions about this class?
no

BIASED LANGUAGE

2006-03-11T11:11:00.000-08:00

The ways in which we use language say a great deal about ourselves and our attitudes toward others. Biased language makes unnecessary distinctions about

Gender: The best strategy is to use plural pronouns and other plural forms, which do not show gender.(Jameson, Daphne A. "Reducing Sexually Biased Language in business communication)
Race: Name a person's race only when it is relevant
Age: Avoid derogatory or condescending terms associated with age.
Economic class
Sexual orientation: Refer to a person's sexual orientation only if the information is necessary to your content
Place : Avoid stereotyping people according to where they come from
Religion : Examine your use of words that sound derogatory or exclusionary
Health: Avoid terms like confined to a wheelchair and victim (of a disease), so as not to focus on difference and disability

We have to be really careful in the way that we express ourselves because we don´t know when we are going to hurt somebody.

If our language is free of bias, it should offend no one; ideally, no one should even notice that we have made an effort to reduce sexual, age, race , gender and religion biased words and phrases.

SOURCES

*htm ttp://college.hmco.com/english/raimes/digitalkeys/keyshtml/choose_7.htm
*http://wwwfac.worcester.edu/owl/GUIDES/grammar/sexist.html

THE ARAB-ISRAELI WARS

2006-02-16T15:15:00.000-08:00

Tensions between Israel and the Arabs have been complicated and heightened by the political, strategic, and economic interests in the area of the great powers.
This kind of wars has been presented since many years ago because of the black gold .

The last one started in 1990 when Iraq decide to take kwait as his new providence giving to his 19th providence de name of City al-Kadhima. But Arabia didn´t like that desicion so he called united states to put his troops in his territory because Irak wants to attack him . A few days later Iraq put bombs in arabian territory were many people died and specially they burned the especific place where is located the black gold in Arabia .

The goverment of Irak made a lot of threaten to Arabia so the Arabian goverment gave to the people gas masks and made a warning about what could happen in the few days because of the war that is happening . Finally this war is not done yet and they are going to continue this .

Arab-israeli wars :

The 1948–49 War
The 1956 War
The 1967 War (The Six-Day War)
The 1973–74 War (The Yom Kippur War)
The 1982 War

http://www.cnn.com

http://www.google.com/images

http://www.factmonster.com/ce6/history/A0856666.html

My best carnival memory

2006-02-02T13:52:00.000-08:00

My best carnival memory was the last year .
That carnival began with el garabato del country that is like a parade where many groups of people that belongs to that club, is dancing in a especific street , for that event i went with a big group of friends that like a lot parties , so i have a great day with them and that makes that garabato the best garabato ever .

The second event that I went was la guacherna that is a parade but in the night where many peolple and differents groups are dancing .I participate in this event with an aunt in la comparsa real.The same day after the wacherna was over a bus came for us (all the people that danced in the same group )to take us to la quinta ,we where with the costume, that was so funny .I was dressed with a beautiful costume Iremember that was white .That was the best wacherna ,we have that day a lot of fun , was incredible and I think that this year I´m gonna partipate too .
I also remember the war of flowers, that is a traditional parade from barranquilla where thousand of men and women are dancing and having fun watching the show where at the same time the people that belongs to it ,are dancing but they are prepared to that .
The next day I went to the party in the hotel el prado, where many musicians where singing .
Finally as a conclution that was the best carnival that I remember and I think that this year it´s gonna be the same .

Michelle

2006-02-02T13:42:00.000-08:00

my name is michelle duran I´m from barranquilla I´m studing international bussines at universidad del norte , I´m 16 years old. I have two sisters and I live with my mother because my parents got divorced when I was just seven years old so since then I live just with my mother in barranquilla.I began tu study at gimnasio los corales all midle school and all my high school , after I finish my high school I decide to go for a few month to the united states to improve my english and decide what I really want to study , there is where I decide what to study and now I´m in first semester in love with my career .