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Transcript of NEWSPAPER ENGLISH
ULACIT NEWS
Fundated in 1970
Costa Rica, Friday 17th august, 2012
Authors:
Saylin Arguello
Andrey Muñoz
Josselyn Rodríguez
Sandra Villamil English III
Laura Luckner
ULACIT NEWS present:
SAYLIN ARGÜELLO
Healthy Living to Have Longevity
We have to set in the agenda to make it. But, if we maintain a healthy lifestyle, we
will feel better. It only takes a little discipline and knows that the quality of life improves. If
we want to feel younger, we have to know these five habits for health.
Healthy diet: A healthy lifestyle should start with changing your eating habits. A
diet has a fundamental role maintaining good health and prevents diseases. In fact, most
of the diseases are caused by lack of nutrients. So you must eat a balanced diet that will
provide all necessary nutrients.
Exercise: Exercise is essential to maintain a good quality of life. Inactivity is a
major cause of weakness and poor health. This is directly related to with problems such
arthritis and rheumatism. In addition, heart problems originate from poor blood circulation
(which could be improved through exercise).
Do not smoke or drink alcohol: We know very well that smoking brings a lot of
negative consequences in our body. Therefore, if you want to improve your health, the
first thing is stop smoking. Also, drinking excessive alcohol also has negative effects on
our body.
Do not consume any kind of drugs: Try to reduce to a minimum the amount of pills
you take. Do you feel a little pain and then look for any medication? If this is true, you are
polluting your body unnecessarily. Aspirin and sleeping pills are some of the substances
that you should consume only when necessary.
If we can combine these tips, would be good for us. Remember that you will feel
better with a good nutrition; you have to add exercise, good music, a good book, laughter,
entertainment and good times shared with positive people, so we can take longevity
without many complications or diseases.
SANDRA VILLAMIL
How to Have a Long Life?
Is our way of life affects aging? I think are many ways to influence how to
have a longer life. And probably the most important is, avoiding bad habits, like,
smoking, drink a lot of alcohol, staying a lot of time under the sun, eating a lot of
carbohydrates, being in constant stress and not make exercise. So in the next
paragraphs I will talk about what we need to do in order to have a longer life.
Water is really important if we want a better and longer life because our
body has a 70% of water, and we need a balance. And also it is a weapon against
toxins, because it flushes out our system. Also because when we drink water we
expulses a lot of fat through urine.
Sleep, most people think it is not important, but many investigations
discovered that resting is the clue to have long and a healthy life. Our body needs
to relax if we do not that, we can feel fatigued, depressed, hostile, sad, we can
have hallucinations, or decline the ability to concentrate. A normal person sleeps
between 6 and 9 hours a day.
Nutrition, because of the globalization, most of our diet fast food, generally
because it is cheap, it is a quick service, and we can eat it very fast. The problem is
the food has a lot of carbohydrates, saturated fat, many calories, and all those are
really bad for our health. Sometimes the fat is accumulated in the venous tissue,
which prevents the passage of blood; also it increases the levels of triglycerides
and cholesterol. So we need to avoid those types of foods.
I believe it is important to take care of our body, but we have to avoid
excess, because if we do a lot of exercise, drink a lot of water, and just eat
vegetables, we will not give all the vitamins, and energy that our body needs. So we
should try to have a normal live, without bad habits.
SANDRA VILLAMIL
Social and Physical Obstacles are a Real Problem for
Disabled People
Almost always people, who have any disability, do not have the possibility to have
education, or a professional career, because society excludes the cultural life with normal social
relation. And the families usually put them in institutions, away of the normal life. But in this essay
we are going to know the other face of the coin
Many people with physical disabilities not let to have a successful and rich life. Most of
those people are an inspiration for our life, because sometimes we do not make the best effort to
achieve our goals, or we believe that we cannot do it; but in the moment that we know some story
about persons with disabilities with many obstacles, we really think that we can make everything
that we want. So, I will show you a story to admire, and probably to learn, because the intention is
that you feel the inspiration to overcome the obstacles that stand in your life.
His name is Roger Frank he is a licensed clinical psychologist and college counselor in
1974, he had s spinal cord injury, and he thought that he never return to university, because the
limitations with the transport, and because, he could not move easily his fingers but then, he
thought about people who have the same conditions and also they overcome the obstacles in this
moment, he started to fight for come back to university, but first he had to learn to write. When he
could overcome that obstacle, he decided to enter a psychology career.
What is he doing now? After overcoming the obstacles, he has now a job in a private
clinic as psychologist, and also works as a college counselor. How did he achieve this goal? He
had to make three essential points: work really hard, to had compromise and determination. He
said that many people prefer to be relaxed, and for that, they do not take any risk, and if you do
not take changes, you never will be successful.
In conclusion, I want you to think about yourself, and want you tell me if you are a disable
person, because sometimes we say excuses just for not taking any risk, and probably we are a
kind of disabled person, but just because we want it, because we do not face the challenges.
ANDREY MUÑOZ
Why are you sad?
This life is difficult but not impossible we see every day many people suffer
diseases and they can smile when they see the moon, hear the ocean and feel the air...
so we know that our lives are not complicated because we do not have any problem and I
think that we are ungrateful. The problem is our blind society; we do not see is this life and
we doing not love this present from the universe.
In our times we have famous people and organizations that help people with
disabilities for example “Disability word “in the United States. Also we have famous people
for example Stephen Hawking. He is an example of triumph because actually he is chief
of the Lucasian Chair of Mathematics at the Cambrige University in the United States.
Between the many honors that have been granted, Hawking has been honored
with twelve honorary doctorates and was awarded the OBE in 1982, Prince of Asturias
Award for Concord in 1989 and the Medal Copley in 2006. His numerous publications
include The Large Scale Structure of Spacetime with GFR Ellis, General Relativity: A
review in the Einstein Centennial W.Israel, and 300 Years of Gravity, with
W Israel. Stephen Hawking has published three popular books: the bestselling A Brief
History of Time, Black Holes and Baby Universes and Other Essays and most recently in
2001, The Universe in a Nutshell, and in 2005, A Brief History of Time, a revised and
expanded version of his first bestseller. He is a great. I just think so! When I read about
him I feel up and I want to be a different person.
Why are you sad? Is the questions that many people say and I thinking that we do
not have reasons? All our goals can be ended, we see examples in the society, persons
with disabilities and they can accomplish anything… Well, you only need to feel positive
and feel the air waves in your face and smile.
As a conclusion, we are unlimited people we can be happy and achieve anything.
When you feel bad, just look around you and feel positive because you have so many
reasons. If you want to be a better person in the future just do it. You do not have reasons
to be sad, you do not have walls, you only need to stand and learn to live with a smile.
ULACIT NEWS PRESENT:
Tecnology
SANDRA VILLAMIL
Is the Media a Help, or is it an Injury for Us?
It is a reality that every day we see advertisings about the media on TV, internet,
newspaper, magazines, and also we listen in to the radio, but we do not make the decision just
based on that, we think if the product is accepted by society, or if it is a fashion product. So based
on that I made some questions: Do we buy media just because it is important to be part of society
or because we really need them? Is the media a positive or negative influence in our lives?
Probably we are going to have the answers, when we finish this essay.
Does TV affect our lives? Probably yes, but I think it influences children and teenagers
more, and the effects could be positive or negative, for example, it is positive when some sport
become famous, and get a lot of attention, so children want to practice the sport, and it is same
when in TV sex images are shown, excessive scenes of violence, or women with a really thin
body. At the same time advertisings shows a lot of fast food and all this confuses people,
because on one hand it shows thin women with a perfect live, and on the other hand it shows
delicious food, so probably you want both at this point we find children with serious eating
disorders, which leads to severe health issues and even death.
Nowadays in computer games, video games and some movies, it is common to see a lot of
images of violence, where people are hurting other people. This may transmit aggressive
information causing people to act in a violent manner. So maybe that increase violence, but we
cannot affirm that, because we do not know how the world will be without this violence
information.
Is the internet the best tool in the world? If an interview is made, there will be logic
results: all people think it is an important tool, and most people will say that it is necessary, but is
it really the best? I believe it is like a help in our lives, but it also has many disadvantages, like
addictions to some pages, like Facebook, online games, Twitter; you get pornography when you
want, you could find wrong information and you could be cheated by this media. I feel the worst
thing is when you have to make a work for the university, and you just “copy and paste” the
information, because with that you do not learn, so what kind of professionals works for us?
With the essay I do not want to tell people to stop using technology, or the media, I want
everyone to think in himself and analyze if he is a victim and whether media dominates his/her
life). And if you are influenced you can make a change step by step, and change from being a
victim to someone who really uses technology as an efficient tool.
By NICOLE PERLROTH and NICK BILTON
Twitter Changes Lead to Online Protests
Twitter’s new rules for third-party developers have spurred an online uproar.
After the company imposed stricter rules for its application programming interface, or
A.P.I., on Thursday, engineers and developers picked up their virtual pitchforks and took to
Twitter and blogs to decry what some described as a “bait and switch.”
“Twitter looks a lot like the big star who forgot about all the little guys that helped it get to
the top,” Rafe Colburn, an engineer at Etsy, wrote in a blog post.
The influential Instapaper creator Marco Arment was more direct in his criticism: “Twitter
has proven to be unstable and unpredictable and any assurances they give about whether
something will be permitted in the future have zero credibility. I sure as hell wouldn’t build a
business on Twitter.”
Mr. Colburn, Mr. Arment and others took issue with the company’s new user cap, which
limits Twitter’s third-party apps from accommodating more than 100,000 users, or growing
beyond 200 percent of their current user base. Another point of contention was a rule that forbids
third-party apps from weaving chronological tweets with content from other networks — a big
headache for apps like Flipboard, which mix tweets with content from Facebook, blogs and
publications and other sources.
Those conditions were greeted with a contempt typically reserved for investment bankers
around bonus season: “Wall Street has a saying that applies to Twitter’s new A.P.I. policy: “Bears
make money, bulls make money, but pigs get eaten,” tweeted Joel Spolsky, a co-founder of Fog
Creek Software.
“This morning Twitter feels like your favourite band that has sold out to a major record
label,” wrote Ewan Spence, a contributor to Forbes.com.
“Twitter, what kind of bird are you becoming? Are you still that cute little bird that
everyone loved, or are you becoming a scary bird of prey?” wrote Nova Spivack, the chief
executive of the start-up Bottlenose.com, who compelled people to sign his petition,
#OccupyTwitter.
Some developers tried to quell outrage pointed toward Twitter. Tapbots, the maker of
Tweetbot, a popular Twitter app, said in a company blog post that the response to the A.P.I.
changes seemed overblown. “There’s been a lot of fear, uncertainty and doubt generated by
Twitter’s latest announcement,” the company wrote. “I wanted to let everyone know that the world
isn’t ending.”
Others said such changes were par for the course when working with the data that large
social networks provide. Bradford Cross, the co-founder of Prismatic, a social news aggregation
Web site, said that while Twitter and other social networks could be hard to work with, “You’re
getting the lowest distribution cost in history, lots of great data that you can create value from and
you’re getting a more intimate connection to people.”
“It is going to be a Wild West for a while — social network wars, platform dodginess,
media business turmoil and back-channel deals,” Mr. Cross added.
Many described Twitter’s changes as inevitable, particularly as the company struggles to
find a viable business model. Twitter has experimented with various revenue streams like
sponsored tweets and advertising. But its revenue — eMarketer estimates Twitter will make $260
million this year — pales in comparison to that of Facebook, which generated a substantial chunk
of its $3.7 billion in revenue last year from its profit-sharing arrangement with third-party apps like
Zynga.
But that explanation did not square with Twitter’s most vocal critics, like Mr. Spivack, who
outlined alternative ways Twitter could generate revenue by keeping its A.P.I.’s open.
“Various apologists for Twitter attempt to justify it because ‘Twitter needs to be a
multibillion-dollar business,’” Mr. Spivack wrote. “These kinds of statements just don’t hold water
and are completely misguided.” He added, “The future market cap of the company will ultimately
be orders of magnitude greater if they are stewards of the open nervous system of the planet
than if they are the next Myspace trying to sell ads on their own page s and apps. It’s really that
simple.”
ULACIT NEWS Present:
SAYLIN ARGUELLO
News affects your mood?
You go home from work, you are tired and want to sleep, and you turn on the TV
to relax for a while and start to watch the news. And so, being to say the presenters:
“More dead people in Iraq... The economy continues to decline… Unemployment crew…
Bridges fall in San Jose… Theft and deaths…” If after that your mood does not collapse,
or you get angry, I congratulate you, I’m sure; you are one in a million.
What mood can a person have after hearing so much bad news? And worse, how
do you think you will be able to sleep? That mood can have after listening to a group of
people told so many lies?
I get angry watching or reading news. When I see bad news, for example that
there are more thieves than police in the street, But, that makes us think the news? My
mood is impaired and it is something that I have to change. I now! Also about with regard
to political opinion programs, I resent the hypocrisy of these people. But we cannot stop
watching news because we would be “uninformed”. So, that happens to me.
I learned to not let that happen to me, I need to lower the daily dose of news, not
see the three editions of daily news, morning, noon and night. It is a triple dose should kill
your mood, what it will take away time and prevent you to concentrate on more in positive
things.
Only one newscast a day is more than enough, say too much! Also look for more
balanced news, talk right and wrong with the current government and of everything in
general, for example. And just limit to see! It is the best, I’m sure. Not watch news before
going to sleep: affects your mood and you will not enjoy your sleep. Also before bedtime
visual pollution is bad.
I was a fan of the news, if passed 5 editions to date, 5 I saw. Not watching a lot of
these programs have improved my mood, I sleep better, do not worry so much and I
spend my time and energy on more productive things. And that is something that I think
everyone should do. This is my opinion.
“The news always go straight to the sports page, which record human
achievement, the first pages contain only failures” Earl Warre.
ANDREY MUÑOZ
Points off for the daily news
We know that in our days we see many media all around us. we can see
watch the news everyday on TV, radio, internet, cell phones and others… maybe
many people feel like drowning in the news and this overload information, so all this
supersaturated day by day causes problems to our society.
The first point off for the daily news is because this modernism affects the
mind of people who watch it. They also create habits and addiction to watching
those every day. This is one of most important negative points the daily news. This
was proven by several studies over the last few years.
Over the last few years our society has been surrounded by many ideas of
modernism. These things caused addiction and drowning feelings the daily news.
(The daily news causes addiction and feelings of drowning.)
The second point is the sedentary in our society because many people
forgotten do exercises and have a good nutrition for example in 1999 an adult died
because of his sedentary lifestyle and addiction to watch daily news. He was
surrounded by many media who make him crazy. He was looking TV so many
hours a day.
Also the daily news causes violence in our society. We receive bad news
every day in fact those bad news increase violence because they have blood
scenes and this message is not positive for us.
I think the problem is how many hours we dedicate to the news and we need
to improve our habits. We can do more exercise if we want a better life without
media and daily news
ULACIT NEWS PRESENT:
SANDRA VILLAMIL / SAYLIN ARGUELLO
Homework: Is It Really Good?
The schools send children to do homework. It is a routine. We can say this is
universal and everyone thinks are a common practice. One of the most popular questions
is: why do we have to do homework? And as an answer we have two positions: some
people are in favor and others disagree. So, in the next paragraphs, we are going to have
different opinions about the topic, where the purpose is that you have your own judgment.
Homework is something positive, because it is a test for us. We can say if we
understand the topic or if we need to study more. Others reason is that homework makes
us more responsible since we are children, and that is very important because in life we
need to do different kind of work where we need to know about responsibility, and
autonomy, and that are things that we know when we are doing homework.
Do homework is something negative because most of the time people do “copy
paste”, and doing that people do not understand anything, and do not learn, so this is just
a waste of time. Others reason are parents who do their children’s homework. Children
believe that always will be the same, and when they grow up, they are frustrated by
having to make their own task.
When a teacher does not leave homework, usually children rejoice and celebrate
the event, what makes us appreciate that these routines are as punishment for children.
They want to have free time to devote to the activities they love such as playing or
watching TV. Clearly, if you make a votation about homework, winners are going to be the
students, because they would say no to it. It is interesting to think whether we should
cancel or not homework and respect the preferences of students as well.
In conclusion, homework can be harmful because it can help to kill the child's
interests in learning and studying. But if instead, teachers let homework be an exercise of
reflection, exploration, find what interests them, then the exercise can be very enriching
for the child, depending on the type of education that you want to give to your children.
By JESSICA LAHEY
The Destructive ‘Too Much Homework’ Myth
Across the country, voices are raised in protest over the skyrocketing homework load
inflicted on American students. Parents challenge teachers to re-evaluate homework policies.
Anti-homework nonprofits circulate no-homework pledges. Writers and filmmakers make careers
out of their anti-homework stance. The current generation of schoolchildren, they say, is enslaved
by four to five hours of homework a night, toiling into the wee hours of the morning with no time
for family or friends, driven to drugs, cheating and mental illness.
This would be a sad state of affairs indeed – if only it were true.
I teach middle school Latin and English, and, as I have stated here on Motherlode, I hate
homework. If American students really were laboring under this sort of untenable workload, I
would be leading the charge for the emancipation of our children. But when I set out to adjust the
amount of homework I assigned in my own classes earlier this year, I started looking at those
national averages — and I found that most American kids aren’t overburdened with homework at
all.
According to the Brown Center Report on American Education, American students have
one of the lightest homework loads in the world, typically less than one hour per day. Fully half of
U.S. students are assigned no homework at all, even in middle and high school. Who is doing
more homework, according to “The Michigan Study,” research often cited as proof of the
aforementioned “skyrocketing?” Twenty years ago, the first and second graders averaged about 8
minutes a day on homework. Now they average about 17 minutes a day.
Even the vocal parents protesting excessive homework loads are the exception rather
than the norm. The Brown Center report reveals that most parents – 64 percent to be exact – feel
that their children’s homework load is “just about right,” and among the parents who were
unsatisfied with their children’s homework load, 5 out of 7 wanted more homework for their
children, not less.
When I asked teachers in both public and private schools to explain the divide between
the well-publicized homework horror stories and the reality as depicted in the research, their
answers pointed in the obvious direction: demographics. Anecdotally, they saw wealthier students
enrolled in college preparatory schools doing more homework than students in low-income public
schools, and recent research on the experience of those lower-income youth bears them out.
“Students overall did not have much assigned homework, and reported little or no consequences
if they did not complete their assigned tasks.”
The supposed homework burden? It’s upper middle class parent myopia, a problem
whose limits they’re too close to see. Robert Pondiscio, former fifth-grade teacher at P.S. 277 in
the South Bronx, agreed, via e-mail:
The battle over homework is one of those things that differentiates education among the
privileged and everyone else. At the low end you have abysmal standards of academic
proficiency that create the illusion of achievement where little exists. At the high end, you have
earnest parents who worry about uptown problems like overscheduling kids and the hothouse
environment of elite schools. They fret about the pressures their kids face while continuing to
worship at the altar of getting them into just the right college. Meanwhile inner city teachers work
night and day to try to get kids to the point where they can compete for any kind of college
opportunity whatsoever.
I am not in favor of an increase in homework load, thank you very much. But when we
manage to have a national conversation about education, homework is a red herring. Some
otherwise privileged children may have too much, but the real issue lies in places where there is
too little. When we do talk about homework, we shouldn’t forget that.