COMERCIAL XMAS

For some years, in this capitalist society buying presents and gifts has become very important. This aspect increase when it's Christmas.

We are living in a society that prefers a very expensive present than a little thing but with meaning. We make more important the material things than the emotional ones, and that is a big problem. In my point of view, we have to care about the things that really have a meaning. Christmas is an event where you see your family and your friends.It's an event where you feel more happy, there are no reason to be happy but you are, call it magic.
Maybe it's not like on the films, that when is Xmas all the people becomes nice and there are nothing bad in the world. But we can't complain about our life.  

STEREOTYPES

Nowadays, our society is getting stereotypes of prettiness. We live in a consumer society and material world and there is a lack of values, so we think that having a good appearance is an important thing. We have to be skinny, wear brand clothes... and finally, that kind of obsession can lead to mental illnesses. This is extremely bad because you're playing with your health, it's not a joke. 

Because of that, I think that we need to say STOP. Every person is a world, every person is original on them way, and it's that what make us persons. A lot of people are fighting to follow the society stereotypes, so they are fighting to be the same way, like a photocopy, and it's horrible. If you have the luck of being different, don't lose that.

THE JOKE

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THE SPECTACLES

This article is from NY times:

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/12/technology/10-second-videos-from-your-sunglasses-thank-snapchat.html?contentCollection=weekendreads&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=c-column-middle-span-region&region=c-column-middle-span-region&WT.nav=c-column-middle-span-region&_r=0

The articles talks about one new gadget of Snapchat. Snapchat is an app where you can send photos to your friends but in 10 seconds this photos disappear. This gadget is a sunglass. But it’s not a normal sunglass but a recording one. On the top of sunglass you can see two little cameras, and these ones are connected to Snapchat. So whatever you record is automatically hang out on the app. However, the problem of this gadget is that you can’t buy that on a normal shop. The personal of Snapchat, put some tents in wherever they want without advice, so if you are there fine, but if you are not you can’t buy it. The company announced that only we will now the new places of those stores for a future online map.  Finally the article said that one problem of this gadget is that it can be dangerous for your privacy. But then, the company said that when the glasses are recording there are one light on it.

I think that this gadget is awesome because you can record those memories without have to have your phone in your hands.

WORDS

Sidestep: Click here to know the meaning.

Hired: Click here to know the meaning.

Embedded: Click here to know the meaning.

HACKERS

This article is from NY times:

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/12/technology/why-is-facebook-saying-im-dead.html?contentCollection=weekendreads&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=c-column-middle-span-region&region=c-column-middle-span-region&WT.nav=c-column-middle-span-region&_r=0

This article talks about a rare case that happens on Facebook. One day when Mark Zuckerberg, the creator of Facebook, opens his app he found that he has a memorial of him on his page. So then he check the counts of his friends if they saw him dead too.  Later he realized that he wasn’t the unique person who had this problem. So that fact became viral and a lot of people had this problem and comment on twitter about that. Finally they discovered that they had been hacked.

In my opinion that was a funny joke. I mean, they had been hacked but this kind of hacks not hurt anyone. And it’s rare that Mark Zuckerberg could be hacked. But also is a serious thing but it makes you conscious that hackers can do whatever they want with our accounts and our private profiles too.

WORDS

Spokeswoman: Click here to know the meaning.
Chief: Click here to know the meaning.
Whipping: Click here to know the meaning. 

 

BEST SUMMER EVER

Last summer was the best of my life for different reasons. It was the first time that I have worked. Before summer I was very worried about that, because I thought that it would be like go to school, that it would be a routine. But I was never more wrong. I worked on Tropic Beach; it is a small open air restaurant near the beach of Sant Pere Pescador. In this job I make new good friends and we made good stories together. It’s true that there were a lot of people and sometimes you didn’t stop in hours, but I really like be a waitress. I started to work at 10 a.m., and it was awesome because when I was working I could see all this awesome views of the beach. Also I loved work at night because the environment of Tropic Beach was better; there were more people of my age. And every Monday we had a musician there. We met a lot of people from Netherland, Germany even France.

Other reason was that my best friend was working in the camping next to Tropic Beach, so every day I saw her. Also we went for first time to Fata, one disco from Sant Pere Pescador. And it was amazing because the people who I met on my job usually went there and my workmates too.

Besides sometimes I went to the beach to play volleyball with one of my teammates.

This summer I really disconnect from all and I was very relaxed.