Work perspective

I’m going to continue working in my current job for a while although it isn´t related with my major because for me is suitable by the schedule and benefits that it has, for example last year I took a license in order to finish my thesis and to get my degree and I hope next year I may enter to my master´s degree, in this moment I’m not sure at all if I’m going to chose the mastery in finance or in the operations research (the first is given in the Accounting faculty and the second one in Engineering). My decision depends on which of them is more accessible and count with preparatory courses because I finished my studies to many years ago and I don´t feel prepared to enter without any previous training.

Maybe if I finish on time I shall begin to look for another work in another place, more if my boss decides to retire but at the moment is not my priority.

Recording

What is the first segment talking about?

About the damage of the red meat diet

What is the chemical that causes damage in the human metabolism?

Carnetine

Which could be the damage of eating red meat?

Heart disease and high levels of cholesterol

In which products can we find that chemical?

In Energy drinks and supplements

What kind of insects were affected by the pesticide?

The bees because they are disappearing.

What is one of the negative effects of the pesticide?

The pollution in the crops, specifically in the seeds.

In which year was the pesticide used for first time?

In 2005

L'Auberge espagnole

Setting

Even though the story began in Paris the film took place mostly in Spain, in fact in the apartment in which Xavier had to share with people from different countries like England, Spain, Italy, Germany, etc.

Characters

The main character is an economics student French called Xavier who had to leave their country and enter to school in Barcelona as a requirement for their job.

Martine.- Xavier's girlfriend

Anne-Sophie and her husband. - A French couple who Xavier met on the flight to arrive to Barcelona.

Wendy. - Xavier´s roomate who is from London

Plot

The story begins when Xavier decide to spend a year in Spain to obtain a specialization and get a  better job, on the way he meets a young French couple (Anne-Sophie and husband) who let him stay in their apartment until he found another place. After a few days he finds a student share-house in which he has to live with students from different nationalities but with whom he becomes good friends.

The plot of the movie focuses on the problems that Xavier has to face such as: culture shock, language difficulties with his friends and in the school and obviously the nostalgic for having left his family and girlfriend in Paris.

Brave New World

How does the author depict London in the future?

He describes it as a big city in which natural reproduction is an obsolete method to procreate and the government has the control to decide what kind of people are allowed to have children or not

What kind of ideology is represented by motto on the building?

The interests of the community are first than the personal interest then they create people without their own identity in order to achieve stability.

Is there such a thing as Natural Selection?

No because in Natural Selection the stronger survive, in this case only few people decide what kind of people could reproduce it.

If you could decide who to reproduce/clone, who would you pick?

I would choose smart people with certain level of studies or economic level this means that if they wouldn’t have the necessary level of studies required to have children but their economic level is high then they could have children because they would prove to have the necessary skills and abilities needed to succeed in life.

Hypothetical situation

You have jus had a meal in an expensive restaurant. The bill comes, and you realize you have no money and no credit card on you. What would you do?

First at all I would check once and once again hoping to find a bill, one of those that we always wash with the clothes, if I didn´t find it I would call my friends not to my mom because she would said: “If you hadn´t been goofy all the time, surely you would have thought better before going to that restaurant, do you think that I am rich?. And I would answer: “I’ve been trying to get in touch with my friends before calling you but if you would prefer to see your daughter behind bars instead of lending me few dollars I would understand” After that, I would hang up the phone.

Finally if nobody could help me I would appeal to my last resource:

I would talk with the head of the manager of the restaurant to ask him if it were possible to work at his restaurant only for that day as a waitress or do dishes, and pay the bill with the money that I could collect.

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2)     on cue ⇒ at the right moment

3)    Stand down VB (adverb) (intransitive) to resign or withdraw, esp in favour of another

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8)    Pester VB (transitive) to annoy or nag continually

9)    Nag VB to scold or annoy constantly

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US and Canadian name: faucet

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4)    Rash N any skin eruption

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8)    Forearm N the part of the arm from the elbow to the wrist

9)    Wrist N the joint between the forearm and the hand. Technical name: carpus

10)  Ulna N the inner and longer of the two bones of the human forearm.

11)  Glitch N a sudden instance of malfunctioning or irregularity in an electronic system

12)  Boloney N a variant spelling of baloney

13) Baloney N informal foolish talk; nonsense

14)   Tush INTERJ archaic an exclamation of disapproval or contempt

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