ARTICLE #5 (WRITING)

Article # 5

Death Penalty

     Death penalty is not something new; it was used many centuries ago for different crimes. So, it was cruel and it is still something cruel now. The opinions about that are divided, there are some people who think no one has the right to take the life of another person because there are other options to pay the crimes. In addition, others thinks that the person who commit terrible crimes, they deserve the cruelest death.

     On the other hand, many bad people often has made terrible things such as rapes and murders and for that reason deserve the death penalty, but the problem is that the death penalty has been applied to innocent people because the justice system is never 100% correct. According the investigation of Hamilton (2006)

Judges and juries can convict the innocent, as we know from the case of Donald Marshall, jailed for more than a decade for a murder he did not commit. Most crimes end up with criminals serving jail time. Sometimes people turn up innocent. Because they were only sent to jail and not sentenced to death their sentence can be reversed. A death penalty is irreversible. The jury is also a factor in determining penalty.

     Besides if they are guilty it is better that they suffer all their lives locked up in a jail than to send them to rest with the death. According to Bible (n.d.) the law in the Old Testament ordered the death crimes such as murder (exodus 21:12), kidnapping (Exodus 22: 19) adultery (Levitical 20:10), homosexuality (Levitical 20: 13), prostitution and rape (Deuteronomy 22: 23-24). However, God was often merciful when the death penalty should be applied for example: David commit adultery and was a murderer and God did not take his life because God have an infinite degree.

      In conclusion, the death penalty is unjust and morally wrong. When someone murders someone else, the correct punishment is not to murder him or her, but to try and help them. We don’t steal from the thieves, or rape the rapists, therefore, the death penalty should be removed of the countries where is approved.

ARTICLE #4 ( WRITING)

Article # 4

                                                                Abortion

      According to OMS (n.d.) “abortion is the termination of spontaneous or natural gestation and the introduced or provoked pregnancy.”

     Abortion is a very controversial topic and for many years and in all countries many people are debating if the abortion should be legal or not. Many people think that abortion is something bad, also that it is not well seen by the eyes of God and the abortion is commit murder; this is due to moral and ethical values which the people have, since the majority of people are Christian and what one of the commandments says, you shall not kill, but there are other people who think that it is okay and not is murder because the fetus not feeling.

     In the same way, the right to life is more important than all the rights that people can claim; according to the legal philosopher Shoe (n.d.) “Rights of security and subsistence are indispensable for the enjoyment of all other rights.”  Nevertheless there are some cases where the abortion it is necessary, for example when the mother’s life is in danger or if the baby is in very poor conditions and for that reason the baby will not good quality of life, but for many people this is also bad because you should receive the baby as God sends it since everything has a purpose.

     On the other hand, it's silly to think the baby does not feel. According to Curts (2015) three psychiatrists, Thomas Lewis, Fari Amini, and Richard Lannon:

Found that our nervous systems (and brains in particular), are not self-contained. From our earliest moments inside the womb, our brains actually link with those of the people close to us in a rhythm that physically imprints the very structure of our brains and influences our functioning for the rest of our lives. When we are in the womb, we imprint our mother's emotions and experiences as though they were are own. (Also backed up by researchers at the Traumatic Stress Studies Division of the Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York, Pregnant 9/11 survivors transmitted trauma to their children.

Despite how difficult some situations may be, it is always better to respect life; the baby is an innocent and defenseless being.

ARTICLE #3 (WRITING)

Article # 3

Alcoholism

     Alcoholism is as old as humanity. Alcoholism is a disease and affects many people around the world and includes many young people. It not only affects the alcoholic, but also to family and friends who result very affected by this problem. According to Webster (n.d.) alcoholism is:

Excessive or compulsive use of alcoholic drinks, a chronic, a progressive, potentially fatal disorder marked by excessive and usually compulsive drinking of alcohol leading to psychological and physical dependence or addiction. Alcoholism is typically characterized by the inability to control alcoholic drinking, impairment of the ability to work and socialize, tendency to drink alone and engage in violent behavior, neglect of physical appearance and proper nutrition, alcohol-related illness (such as hepatitis or cirrhosis of the liver), and moderate to severe withdrawal symptoms (such as irritability, anxiety, tremors, insomnia, and confusion) upon detoxification (para. 1).

     The alcoholism is dangerous; it causes work issues, family issues and social problems, but also there are many health problems attributed to alcohol such as fetal alcohol spectrum disorders, hypertension, cardiovascular disease stroke, liver cirrhosis, several types of cancer and infections pancreatitis, type 2 diabetes and others. In addition to this, the terrible thing about this is that many young people are drinking alcohol. According to National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism [NIAAA], (2005) “made a study which showed that alcohol abuse can start as early as 8^th grader.”

      All that it is very sad because many people are alcoholism and getting out of this is very difficult. So, it’s important that the person accepts that has an illness, there are hope for the alcoholic; they can look for support groups such as AA. So, the person will feel good when decide change.

ARTICLE #2 ( WRITING)

Article # 2

The role of the family in the rescue of values

          According to Sinha (n.d):

 A value system is viewed as a relative permanent perceptual frame work which influence the nature of an individual’s behavior. The values are the attributes possessed by an individual thought desirable: values are similar to attitudes but are more permanent (para. 3)

      Values like love, respect, responsibility, honesty and many others are learned in the first school: the family, but what happen nowadays father and mother are working and if they have a free time they use it to rest and children are being attacked by technologies and bad examples or simply they era alone. Also today the disciplinary models are excessively permissive, in other words, the parents of now are too lazy to educate; they have forgotten that children of today will be the man and woman of tomorrow, the future of our society and only with well stablished values will they  be honest, responsible and good citizens.

      In the same way, it is in the home where educations begins from the first year of life because if the parents do not teach values to their children; these children will be people with bad habits, irresponsible, disrespectful, delinquents or drug addicts for that reason parents should educate with love,, with example because the values they inherit today are more important than inherited assets. In addition, values are transmitted in family and this formation is complemented by what children learn in their school; this should not be confused, it is certainly in the family where the foundations for being good men and women are offered.

     It is very important that all families around the world clearly have the importance of teach values to children because only in this way the humanity will be better.

ARTICLE #1 (WRITING)

Article # 1

The Real History Sleeping Beauty

       The Disney movie was so sweet, the true history sleeping beauty it’s frightening and the first version was originally written by Giambattista Basile in 1636. According to investigation Ford (2014) in the first version it explain the history of Talia the daughter of a king. She pricks herself with a poisoned sliver when she had sixteen years old. The king was very sad; he was not able to bury her; therefore, he puts her on a velvet cloth and closes the palace and leaves; until there the history is the same.

        Many years later, a man used to hunt in the forest where the palace of the sleeping beauty was. There he saw the beautiful princess; he immediately falls in love with her; he kissed her, but for him that was not enough and he tried to wake her, but he could not. So, he had relationship with her. In other words he abused her. Nine month later the princess, still sleep gives birth to twins; a girl and a boy named soon ad moon. Children are take care of by fairies that accompany the princess. One day the boy tries to take the breast of his mother, but take her finger and started sucking it; he achieve to extract the poisoned sliver and Talia wakes up. Then the man decides to return, but to his surprise the princess is awake and she is not alone; therefore, he realizes that they are his children and decides to tell Talia everything after that they decide to have relationship, but this time consented by her. Then he returned with his wife, but without telling the reason to princess.

      On the other hand, the wife to nobleman discovers her husband’s infidelity and very annoying sends to kidnap the babies and asks the cook to kill them and cook them, but that was not enough, also decides to burn Talia. When the nobleman discovers that it made his wife, so, he orders it to be burned to. After that, the cook explain to him that he had not been able to kill babies and the princess was alive. After all that the princess and the nobleman get marry and to the cook they give the title of real treasure.

      To conclude, this history is totally different from the one we all know, but this history if present to final happy as the Disney movie.

Journal #5 (writing)

Journal # 5

Writing

                                                                   Tuesday, September 12^th, 2017

   Today the class started at 7: 30 a.m. first of all, the teacher checked attendance list as usual. After that, we worked in group. Therefore, today’s plan for my group was to organize the body of our project, but we did not because my classmates did not do their part as they should. In addition, we split the body because yesterday we did not have class; so, Joselyn had to write about what is euthanasia, Andres about history of the euthanasia, Judith had to write about types of  euthanasia and I wrote about legalization pros and cons.

     In the same way, the idea was to attach everything we did in the next class. The problem was that they did not quote the work; I do not understand why if I sent several messages to WhatsApp explaining how to quote and I told them not to forget to quote the work. Then, I asked them why they did not quote and responded that they believed it was not necessary. Well, this was a huge delay, and, they had to correct that, but we could not do another part of the project. In my case, I worked in other thing because I did not want to waste any more time.

      On the other hand, I miss to work with Vane and Adri, but also I liked my group the girls are very special and intelligent and Andrés also; he is very funny. This week I have been very tired, thank God we almost finished this work. At the end the class, the teacher dismissed us and we came back home

Journal #4 (writing)

Journal # 4

Writing

                                                                              Tuesday, September 5^th, 2017

     At the beginning of the class, the teacher checked attendance list and after that she gave us the finally score. All my classmates and I were happy because we won the course of Intermediate 2; in my case I was so happy because I got a good score; my score was 81. Then, the teacher told us about the job fair on September 28 and that we are going to be in groups and that each group is identified by the color of the blouse; the colors will be: blue, black, green and gray. I am in the gray group with Judith, Eliander, Andrés and others.

     On the other hand, today we continued working in the final project. So, Judith, Joselyn, Andrés and I checked the problem statement and we changed some things about that part of the research. After that, we started with another part of the work; so, today we made the general objective and specific objectives. Our general objective is: -To investigate what is euthanasia and why it is so controversial, and the specific objectives are: -To analyze pros and cons about euthanasia and – To investigate point of view politics and religious.

      Today we had a break at 9:15 a.m. so, I went to the cafeteria with my classmate Adriana. So, we had a delicious breakfast, when we returned we continued working in the final research. In addition, some groups finished early today; we finished at 11:00 a.m. then, the teacher checked our work and then we came back to home.

Journal #3 (writing)

Journal # 3

Writing

                                                                                Monday, September 4^th, 2017

      Today the class started at 7: 30 a.m. as usual. At the beginning of the class, the teacher checked attendance list, after that, we went to dropbox and we checked details for our resume, for me was very difficult made a resume template, but my classmates Judith and Mary sent to WhatsApp some examples of resume template, but, I was trying to make my own template. After that, we went to dropbox again and we worked and checked the points of the investigation work.

      In addition, our work is about euthanasia, therefore we read a lot of information about it. Today we made the outline of this project. Then, we had a break; Adriana, Vanessa and I went to the cafeteria, after that we went to the library. So, I bought a pen and a corrector. When we returned, we continued with the outline, and when we finished we made another activity. So, we did a problem statement and my classmates and I wrote one page about the problem of euthanasia.

      In the same way, the problem statement was a bit difficult and complicate because is an unknown subject, for that reason was difficult to develop and also the other problem was that for members of my group this type of project is difficult, but thank God Judith is quick to write because in my case I am slow to write on the computer. So I planned the problem with help of Joselyn and Andrés and then, we dicted it to Judith. Today all the groups ended first than my group; and we, do not go out until we finished.    

 When we finished I gave the thanks to God; I feel very tired today. The class for us ended at 12.

Journal # 2 ( writing)

Journal # 2

Writing

                                                                                   Thursday, August 24^th, 2017

      The today’s class started at 7:30 a.m. at the beginning of the class the teacher checked attendance list. First of all, we worked in groups for the final project. So, I worked with Joselyn, Judith and Andrés; I am the leader of my group because the teacher told me that I have a little more of experience in this type of work. Today we wrote two business letters. The first letter was made in groups, so, we made an interesting business letter. The other letter was individual and we had to send to a classmate, in my case I sent it to Vanessa.

      On the other hand, we had a break at 9:30 a.m. so, I went with my classmates Vanessa and Adriana to the cafeteria and we had a delicious breakfast. Then we returned at 10 a.m. and we continued writing the letters. Then, each classmate sent the business letter.  Then, I wrote the answer to the letter that sent me Eliander. So, I wrote for him my answer. In addition some classmates such as Ana Laura and others read the letter to the front of the class.

       After that, the teacher gave us little pieces of paper and we chose one; each paper had one name. So, the name that I chose was Adriana, therefore, as a homework; I will have to send her a business letter. Afterward, we did a new activity; we read information about how to make an email and we watched a video. Then, we made an email as practice and at the end of the class we showed it to the teacher.

      At the end, when we finished, the teacher dismissed us and we came back to home, thanks to God because I felt very tired, but the class was gratifying because I learned a lot.

Journal # 1 (writing)

Journal # 1

Writing

                                                                                Tuesday, August 22nd, 2017

       Today the class started at 7: 30 a.m. First of all the teacher checked attendance list. To this class several classmates didn’t come. Today we worked in groups; I worked with Judith and Joselyn; Andrés is in my group, but he did not come to this class. So, we investigate about three themes for the final research. These topics were: Prostitution, Why Venezuela is so divided? And Euthanasia (Right to a dignified death); we found many interesting information about these subjects.

        On the other hand, we planned possible specific objectives and general objective. After that we had a break, so, I went to the cafeteria and bought a yogurt, today I went alone because Adriana and Vanessa did not come. When we returned, we continued working in the investigation. Then the teacher asked us to choose one of the topics so, we chose Euthanasia because is a topic very controversial and we found many information about that.  

       Then, we reviewed information about APA that was in the dropbox, therefore we read all information about it. After that, we read and summarized an information about formal latter. Today’s class was very rewarding because we investigated about very interesting topics and then we chose the best subject, we also started our investigation about euthanasia known as Assisted Suicide. In addition, we learned how to writing a letter and that was important because one day we will need to send a formal letter to our boss or some company.