Families in Venezuela

In Venezuelan society the family and the role played by the mother are essential. Most people tend to live in nuclear families (parents and siblings), although extended relatives (grandparents, aunts, uncles, and cousins) traditionally live close by. Many families have been separated by migration during the last 10 years, when this happens the majority keep in touch through almost daily letters, phone calls, and e-mails. The majority of children (both male and female) live with their parents until their mid-twenties or until they marry and can move out on their own. It is expected that family members do everything in their power to help and support all family members—help that includes getting each other jobs and making space for them in their own homes.

In my family, we have to live separated for several reasons. My father works in Colombia as an Engineer, my mother lives in Punto Fijo with my brother and sister. I live in Maracaibo most of the time to study at Urbe. I live with Coromoto who is like a second mother to me. I keep in contact with my family mostly by telephone.

Reeva Steenkamp's Murder Case: Mindmap

• Murder of Reeva Steenkamp happened at Oscar Pistorius’ Pretoria mansion, north of Johannesburg in South Africa on February 14th, 2013
• Dead woman is former FHM model Reeva Steenkamp
• She was shot several times in the head and hand
• Neighbours woken at 4am with 'screaming and shouting'
• Pistorius believed to have told police he thought she was an intruder
• Media reporting it could have been a Valentine's Day surprise gone wrong
• Celebrated sprinter is in police custody before a court hearing tomorrow
• Officers have visited his house before over alleged 'domestic incidents'

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2278492/Oscar-Pistorius-charged-MURDER-model-girlfriend-Reeva-Steenkamp.html

Stative Verbs 1

Choose the present simple or present continuous. This exercise includes the verbs see, think, have, be, and taste, which are sometimes stative.

1) She has a bath every evening. Correct!
2) My husband  is always tasting the food while I'm cooking! It's very annoying. Correct!
3) Luke is seeing the doctor now. Correct!
4) He is having a party next weekend. Correct!
5) This coffee doesn’t taste right. Correct!
6) We are seeing John and Susie next month. Correct!
7) What do you think about the war? Correct!
8) She has a headache. Correct!
9) It is cold today. Correct!
10) They don’t have a car. Correct!
11) I don’t see anything, I can't work the telescope? Correct!
12) The waiter is tasting the wine now. Correct!
13) She is not a doctor. Correct!
14) Do you want a sandwich? Correct!
15) I am having fun today. Correct!
16) I am thinking too much about my ex-boyfriend. Correct!
17) They often see a film on Fridays. Correct!
18) This cake tastes funny. Correct!
19) Are you having a good time at the moment? Correct!
20) The chef always tastes the food before he serves it. Correct!

Daniel Guadarrama Padilla
Class: H511 PVI

Crime Vocabulary Exercise

1. A burglar broke into our house while we were away this weekend and stole our video.
2. Drug dealers who sell heroin to teenagers are among the worst kind of criminals.
3. Car theft in this area is increasing. Fifty cars were stolen last week.
4. Fourteen football hooligans were arrested after the match. They were fighting and throwing bottles onto the pitch.
5. He should have taken a taxi home after the party. He got stopped by the police and lost his licence for drink driving.
6. He was doing 80 kilometres an hour in the centre of town. He was caughtspeeding on a camera.
7. He's scared to walk home from school on his own because last week somebullies in the year above him broke his personal stereo.
8. If you park on a double yellow line, you might get a parking ticket.
9. In court, the judge said he should stay in prison for the rest of his life.
10. She was arrested for shoplifting She stole a pair of jeans and a sweater from a clothes shop.
11. Some people think that the violence on TV and in films leads to crime.
12. The health centre wall has some big red graffiti on it. They'll have to repaint the wall.
13. There was a big fight between two gangs of teenagers outside the club. Seventeen people were hurt.
14. Two armed bank robbers got away with £50,000 yesterday.
15. Two guys mugged a friend of mine recently and ran off with her handbag.

Daniel Guadarrama Padilla

Class: H511 PVI

I Dreamed a Dream - Les Miserables

I think this song is about lost dreams,her innocence and love. Fantine had dreams in her childhood and a man she loved took that away.  Now she is alone and she doesn't believe in dreams. Her dreams were once beautiful, filled with love and hope. Now her dreams are broken. 

I Dreamed a Dream by Les Miserables Cast

[Fantine is left alone, unemployed and destitute]

[FANTINE]

There was a time when men were kind

When their voices were soft

And their words inviting

There was a time when love was blind

And the world was a song

And the song was exciting

There was a time

Then it all went wrong

I dreamed a dream in time gone by

When hope was high

And life worth living

I dreamed that love would never die

I dreamed that God would be forgiving

Then I was young and unafraid

And dreams were made and used and wasted

There was no ransom to be paid

No song unsung, no wine untasted

But the tigers come at night

With their voices soft as thunder

As they tear your hope apart

As they turn your dream to shame

He slept a summer by my side

He filled my days with endless wonder

He took my childhood in his stride

But he was gone when autumn came

And still I dream he'll come to me

That we will live the years together

But there are dreams that cannot be

And there are storms we cannot weather

I had a dream my life would be

So different from this hell I'm living

So different now from what it seemed

Now life has killed the dream I dreamed.

BREAK THE CHAIN

ABOUT ONEBILLION RISING

ONE IN THREE WOMEN ON THE PLANET WILL BE RAPED OR BEATEN IN HER LIFETIME.*

ONE BILLION WOMEN VIOLATED IS AN ATROCITY

ONE BILLION WOMEN DANCING IS A REVOLUTION

On V-Day’s 15th Anniversary, 14 February 2013, we are inviting ONE BILLION women and those who love them to WALK OUT, DANCE, RISE UP, and DEMAND an end to this violence. ONE BILLION RISING will move the earth, activating women and men across every country. V-Day wants the world to see our collective strength, our numbers, our solidarity across borders.

What does ONE BILLION look like? On 14 February 2013, it will look like a REVOLUTION.

ONE BILLION RISING IS:

• A global strike
• An invitation to dance
• A call to men and women to refuse to participate in the status quo until rape and rape culture ends
• An act of solidarity, demonstrating to women the commonality of their struggles and their power in numbers
• A refusal to accept violence against women and girls as a given
• A new time and a new way of being

Break the Chain (Lyrics by Tena Clark, Music by Tena Clark/Tim Heintz)

Intro-

I raise my arms to the sky

On my knees I pray

I’m not afraid anymore

I will walk through that door

Walk, dance, rise

Walk, dance, rise

I can see a world where we all live

Safe and free from all oppression

No more rape or incest, or abuse

Women are not a possession

You’ve never owned me, don’t even know me I’m not invisible, I’m simply wonderful I feel my heart for the first time racing I feel alive, I feel so amazing

I dance cause I love

Dance cause I dream

Dance cause I’ve had enough

Dance to stop the screams

Dance to break the rules

Dance to stop the pain

Dance to turn it upside down

Its time to break the chain, oh yeah

Break the Chain

Dance, rise

Dance, rise

In the middle of this madness, we will stand I know there is a better world Take your sisters & your brothers by the hand Reach out to every woman & girl

This is my body, my body’s holy

No more excuses, no more abuses

We are mothers, we are teachers,

We are beautiful, beautiful creatures

I dance cause I love

Dance cause I dream

Dance cause I’ve had enough

Dance to stop the screams

Dance to break the rules

Dance to stop the pain

Dance to turn it upside down

It’s time to break the chain, oh yeah

Break the Chain, oh yeah

Break the Chain

Dance Break Inst.

Dance, rise

Dance, rise

Sister won’t you help me, sister won’t you rise x4

Dance, rise

Dance, rise

Sister won’t you help me, sister won’t you rise x4

This is my body, my body’s holy

No more excuses, no more abuses

We are mothers, we are teachers,

We are beautiful, beautiful creatures

I dance cause I love

Dance cause I dream

Dance cause I’ve had enough

Dance to stop the screams

Dance to break the rules

Dance to stop the pain

Dance to turn it upside down

Its time to break the chain, oh yeah

Break the Chain, oh yeah

Break the Chain

Oscar Pistorius: Valentine's Day Murder?

It is likely that he killed her because he was angry.

It doesn't seem possible that he thought she was a robber.

I doubt that he will escape prision.

I bet that Reeva was hiding in the bathroom.

There's a good chance he will spend a long time in prison.

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Peace: it’s up to all of us 
my face for peace is an independent peace initiative of the German/Iranian artist Saeeid Dastmalchian and his wife Cordula, launched in October 2012 in Hamburg/Germany for giving face to the wish for global peace. 

Peace will never be achieved by force of arms 
Positive change is possible only through unity and solidarity of a great mass of people. For too long we have accepted the spectacle for power and money on the stage of world politics. Now let’s show that we notice what happens with open eyes and that we confess together with many our true desire for peace. 

Say yes to peace within yourself 
Showing face is a first step in a peaceful future. To make this process successful it is inevitable that each of us begins to create peace in the own heart. Let’s start to take responsibility for our own thoughts, feelings and actions and we will find more and more peace in the world. 

Let us live peace, rather than only dream 
An open heart and an open mind are the most powerful means we have in our hands in order to give peace a chance. Let’s use it for the benefit of all and create the future of our global community. 

More Information about Saeeid Dastmalchian: www.dastmalchian.de

Paperman Trailer

This is a Love Story. They meet at the train station by chance, I think the wind is cupid or destiny playing with the characters. I believe he has a boring job, he doesn't like it, and she is a romantic. His life is boring but meeting this girl is great, makes him feel alive and he likes that.  And destiny hits again, she is in front of his building, now he needs to see her again, but his boss is not happy. He will get her attention even if he losses his job.

Coca-Cola Security Cameras

I think this video is about the real human nature, and shows that we should focus on the positive things we do and not just on the negative. "Let's look at the world a little differently"

Urban Legend: The Whiner's Spirit

Several they are the fantastic narrations that it has more than enough the whiner's spirit the old residents of the Araucanian savannas they count. The Whiner transformed into the vagabond spirit of a woman that a boy takes in the haunch, makes allusion to his name because he wanders crying for the roads. He/she says the tradition that the whiner claims of people help to load the boy; when receiving it he/she gets rid of the punishment becoming the whiner the person that has received it. Other versions say that it is the spirit of a woman that killed for jealousies to the mom and it fastened fire to the house with their progenitor inside of, receiving from this, in the moment the curse that condemned her to be in death agony: "You will walk without God and without Santa María, pursuing the men for the roads of the plain". it is said that he/she is never seen the face and he/she cries of shame and regret for that he/she made to their family. The Whiner's spirit, become legend, it has accompanied the man llanero from remote times and of their existence they are witness many old "Don Juanes". Other less believing ones consider that it is a belief contrary to the reason, created by the adults with the objective of to scare or to frighten to the jeans that crossed roads in search of some night romance for the savannas. A piece of roll tobacco in the pocket avoids the whiner's appearance.

Unsolved World Mystery: The Bermuda Triangle

The Bermuda triangle is an area of water in the North Atlantic Ocean in which a large number of planes and boats have gone missing in mysterious circumstances. Over the years many explanations have been put forward for the disappearances, including bad weather, alien abductions, time warps, and suspension of the laws of physics. Although substantial documentation exists to show that many of the reports have been exaggerated, there is still no explanation for the unusually large number of disappearances in the area.

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