INTERNATIONAL NEWS: The Gorilas still are in threat

Ten gorillas were killed, this past February 2008 in the Virunga National Park, a Unesco world heritage site.
The park is in a volatile region where rebels have set up a base.
The area is also home to more than half of the world's last 700 mountain gorillas living in the wild.
The national parks have suffered during this period of instability a masacre of the last mountain gorilas in the world.

INTERNATIONAL NEWS: More inocent people are getting kill in Kenia

At least 25 people have been killed in Kenya's Rift Valley region in attacks by cattle rustlers, police say.
Twelve family members were the latest victims during a cattle raid near Lake Baringo on Wednesday night.
The attacks are not linked to any cultural violence violence in which more than 1,500 people were killed lately.

INTERNATIONAL NEWS: New Bolivian Constitucion

The new constitution would increase the power of Bolivia’s indigenous majority. But four of Bolivia’s wealthiest regions have declared autonomy in protest of the plans. The four lowland provinces contain much of Bolivia’s natural resource wealth and most of its large natural gas deposits. In Santa Cruz, tens of thousands of people marched to celebrate their self-declared “autonomy.” They object to the new constitution, which would redistribute wealth to the poorer highland areas of Bolivia.

INTERNATIONAL NEWS: ExxonMobil Practicing “Judicial Terrorism”

In Venezuela, protests continued for a second Month against the oil giant ExxonMobil.
ExxonMobil has very strong links to the far right in North America and is one of the most powerful companies on the planet. They are trying to damage Venezuela as a nation. They are trying to turn Venezuela national company into an oil hostage. They are trying to commit judicial terrorism.

INTERNATIONAL NEWS: Eric Dyson publics his last book

From war and violence to the civil rights movement and hip hop, from Hurricane Katrina to race politics, Professor Michael Eric Dyson takes it all on. Over the past fourteen years he has written fourteen bestselling books including “Come Hell or High Water” and “Debating Race.” Ebony magazine has named him as one of the 100 Most Influential African Americans. His latest book is titled “Know What I Mean? Reflections on Hip Hop

NATIONAL NEWS: Spanish Elections

Legislative elections for the Spanish Cortes were held on March 9, 2008. The elections were for 350 seats in the Congreso de los diputados and the 208 directly elected seats in the upper house, the Senado, determining the Primer minister of Spain. The governing PSOE led by current Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodrigez Zapatero declared victory on March 9, and the opposition People's Party, PP conceded defeat.^[2]

Differences beetwen Frankenstain book and Frankenstain Movie.

First off, I must say that what I'm gonna compared is the book I've red and the movie I've seen, however I dunno if that book was the original one, or whatsoever if it was only a special edition for English students.
Is the first time it happens to me, in which the movie happens to be way better than the book. I didn't like Frankenstein's book at all, I didn't enjoy the novel while I was reading it. Personally the book was quite confusing and cheap, also the paste of the book was really incoherent, especially at the end. On the other hand, I really like the movie, I think the plot and the cast of the movie is good enough, and the paste is not too fast neither too slow, it's ok.
So for me, all the difference between the book and the movie can be putt in only one : In the movie is shown the interesting and important story facts erasing all the unnecessary book details, even more, there're some good scenes in the movie which are not mention in the book, this ones really help the audience to a better understand of the story.

THE FORMAL LETER

Ies castelló
C/Rentador
Castelló d'Empúries
16-01-08

The major
Castelló village
Plaça dels homes
Castelló d'Empúries.


Dear Sir,
Since you have been the major for 8 years, we got the right of complain about your political way. We don't mean to offend you, but, we remind you that the truth hurts and we won't forget it.
As you know, you had won your first elections in a sleazy way, cheating up with the votes. If you want to keep the truth in the shadow you will have to pay, it will cost you. Please Sir, don't think we are trying to threat you, we are only your loyal and truly servants that want something in change for our silence. We believe a person like you, my dear, will know how to take your dishonestly won money from the bank. And your highness also knows that we want at least a million dollars.

Thank you for your time, we hope our business will go well

Yours Faithfully

xxx

pd. For your own goodness, we suggest you respect the rules if not, you won't keep your head on the shoulders.

MOVIE SUMMARY: Taxi Driver

The Plot:
The Movie Taxi Driver is about a depressed and lonely young man, his night time job is to drive a cab in New York city. In his Night rounds he feels unmotivated, disillusioned, he also suffers chronic insomnia, consequently he doesn't rest or stays at home, he just wastes his spare time driving around all Manhattan. In this drives, Travis (the taxi driver) sees all kind of people: drug dealers, pimps, criminals. Disgusted by what he witnesses while driving through the city, he decides to get organized and starts getting in shape. He buys a number of pistols from an illegal dealer, SINCE his intention is to clear up the city of New York from the crime and drugs. Driving his cab, Travis, meets a 12 years old prostitute, whose life is being manipulating by a pimp. Travis tries to convince her to quit with the pimp, but she is too afraid and confused.
Travis, whose goal is to end the crime, gets obsess and mentally ill trying to help her, 'til the point he shots the pimp, and kill all the bodyguards of that specific prostitution business.

My Opinion:
Taxi Driver is a Great movie, it's so realistic, and it's shows how is the city of Manhattan, it shows how contrasting and problematic it is, especially at night time. Since the movies only show us a part of Manhattan, everyone who hasn't been there pictures in his mind a totally wrong image of what the city really is, and even some of the people who have visit the city still don't know what the city of Manhattan represents, because they've only stay on the crowed places, places where any tourists won't miss. Those people only know the time square, central park, wall street, the sky dooms, business area etc... but they never went to the neighborhoods on Manhattan , they didn't even take the subway, because if they did, they would think different about the city. I've been in Manhattan, and I loved, ain't what i expected dough. Manhattan is a combination of extremity rich area in the south, contrasting with a poverty society you never imagined. Is that combination that made New York so attractive for me. If you bother to visit fully around Manhattan you'll discover wonderful things as the extremity multicultural population ( Chinatown, little Itali, etc...), but on the other hand you realize the decline of the society,( poor living, thousands of homeless, deterioration of the popular and middle class neighborhoods). It's all this wiew of the city that is shown in the movie, and that makes Travis mental sick.
Also it shows good how it's the character of Travis, a psicotic young man who is alienated without any kind of studies or motivations. The Movie is critic to the American society, because is shown to us the corruption and prostitution that takes in Manhattan.
I definetly recomend this movie to anyone whose intention is to have a realistic view of the American society, but not for people whose interest is only to wast his spare time.

MOVIE SUMMARY: The Godfather

The plot:
Vito Corleone, also known as The Godfather, who is head of one of the most powerful mafia families in America. Don Vito is a fair but ruthless man who runs much of his business by doing favours and expecting favours in return. The Corleone family are drawn into a bitter and violent war with other mafia families over their refusal to participate in the dangerous drug trade. Don Vito is shot but the attempt on his life doesn't succeed. While Don Vito is in hospital, control of the family passes to his eldest son, Sonny . Sonny is a hot-head, and with his contributions the war continues to escalate.
Don Vito's youngest son is Michael . He has stayed outside the family business. When Don Vito is shot, however, Michael returns home to do what he can to help the family through the crisis. He takes his revenge against those trying to kill his father, shooting them during a meeting at a restaurant. Ultimately, Sonny is shot and now it is Michael who finds himself with all the responsibility.

My Opinion:
I love this movie, as far as I'm concern this is the best movie I ever watch:
-The cast is amazing with Al Pacino, Marlon Brando with the main papers.
-There are not too many violence, but at the same time the violence is one of the key factors of this film, the few action scenes are really necessary and they look like the real life , instead of using violence freely and superficially like in some crappy movies.
-The plot of this movie is very interesting, that's why the paste of this movie is slow, you never get bored watching The Godfather because the plot is so good that you never now what's next.
I Recommended The Godfather to anyone who likes and appreciates the old works, and also to people who doesn't bother for wasting three hours watching a good movie.

The horror story

This is the story of Marc Barneda, an horrible and dirty boy. Everyone called him "Barnie" because he looked like the Simpson's character. The dirty and drunk man in the show(Barnie). He spent all his time and money in beer and other bad habits: games, drugs, sex, ... but the weird fact about that was that Barnie was a monk. He didn't believe in God really, but he wanted to live in a church and use the tower for his experiments and perversions.

Adrià Alfaro one boy that helped the monks, was the teacher's pet of Marc Berneda. Alfaro was unhappy and walked in a strange form because Barnie had been abusing him for two years. Now we are going to explain you how Alfaro and Barnie had killed all the nuns after they raped them over and again. Barnie used to throw the dead bodies over the bridge at the river.

I forget to say that Barnie was fat as hell, ugly as a dirty ass, stupid like a chicken and gay as Mickel Jackson. He looked like a nasty piece of old Butter.
On Halloween night Alejandro Peña and Bernardo Santos were fishing and suddenly fished a nun. It was a dead zombie. "What the hell" said Alex "there are dead zombies in water!!" Bernardo looked inside the water and saw a lot of dead bodies in the water. "what should we do?" " Shall we call the cops" exclaimed Bernardo, but Alejandro answered. " Who carers about them? Just forget about it".

So we went back home at 12pm. On the way home we felt that someone was following as. !¿The Zombies!¿ The zombies nuns, were killing everyone in the city. They had killed everyone except Alejandro.
Alejandro was upset and he took the AK-47 and start to shoot all the zombies while he was saying "Die Mother Fuckers!!" he had 5 bullets left and he decided to keep them for kill Barnie so he ran out the village seeking the church. He spent 1 ballet for the door bolt, another one to kill a zombie that was chasing him. with the third bullet he killed Alfaro, and Barnie, after Alejandro said. "life is nothing but a shit, so with my last bullet I'm going to kill myself, see you in Hell!!"

About Festg

Hi everyone, my name is Bernardo Santos, i'm studiying First of Bachillertat
In this portfolio I'm going to expose you some of my english work.
The objective of the portfolio is to complement the blog, because if in my block I explain what I want informally, in the portofolio I writte about school work in a most formal way.
So in terms of recreation, the blog is better, but in terms of work, and english gramma, the portfolio shows better your actual level.