dilluns, 14 de maig del 2012

Education in South Korea





Introduction

Hello, we are Sara, Marina and Aida and our project is about Education in South Korea. We decided to do this project when we saw a documental about their life and we thought that it could be interesting.


How is student life

In South Korea education is very important. The students think that if they study a lot, when they become adults they will have a very good job. Their education is concentrated only in studying all the time.
There are children that while they’re sleeping, their parents put on a CD of different lessons, so that the children learn a little bit more while they fall asleep.
The children are surprised when they see that the European students play more than study, because they don’t ever play.
The adolescents think that they have got more pressure when they think about their future.  


Discipline

When the children are little they do military service to behave better in the school and to get more discipline. They do this military service because it helps them for the access exams to go to university.


How many hours they study?

South Korean students study around 19 hours a day, between public school and private classes. They start their classes at 7.30 am and they finish them at 6.pm. After that they do a lot of private classes and they finish all at approximately 1.00 am. They only sleep 5 hours at day. The parents of the students think that time is gold and they have to study all the hours possible.


What is better, private school or public school?

The South Korean mothers think that in public schools their children don't learn and so that they have got a good future, they have to sleep only 5 hours at day. The adolescents study around 50 and 70 hours a week, between in public school and private classes.


Private classes

The students are obsessed with private classes. The parents pay around 3.500€ every month for them. They think that education is the most important expenditure. Only one class cost 1000€.
The job of the majority of South Koreans is do private classes.


Pro’s

70 years ago, 7 of 10 people were illiterate and the society decided to make a change and now there aren't many illiterate people. Thanks to that, South Korea is the 13th strongest country in the world
The South Koreans are 3rd in maths, 2nd in reading, 4th in science and 1st in resolution of mathematics problems.


Consequences

The adolescents suffer more from schooling; for example, depression stress and sleep disorders. Every month there are 1000 people in treatment. These people have attempted suicide a lot of times because they think that education manipulates them. When they tell to their family and their friends that they don't like study, they suffer bullying. They become mentally ill.
According to a study, in 2009, 202 South Korean students of primary, secondary and university committed suicide. Double than the year before.


Conclusion

On the one hand, we are disappointed with this system education because the children don’t have time to enjoy and they lost all their childhood. They only study all day and don’t relate to each other because they never have time.
On the other hand, we think that their education is better than our education and they are more intelligent than us because they study more time. 

dijous, 10 de maig del 2012

My perfect day

My perfect day is to travel to New York with an empty suitcase and go shopping untill the suitcase is full.
I would like to buy in shops like Victoria's Secret, Macys, Bloomingdales, Tiffanys,...
After, I would like to travel to Paris with another empty suitcase and start shopping again!
I will visit all the shops on The Champs Elysée. When I am tired, I will have one drink at the top of the Eiffel Tower and go home with all my clothes!


dilluns, 5 de març del 2012

NEWS: Violence in Valencia


Students from Lluis Vives High school in Valencia stopped traffic when they protested against The Valencian Education Authority. They protested because they had no heating in their classrooms. The students were attacked by the police.
They protested again against the police violence against children younger than 18.

Paris, the city of love

One of places I would like to travel with my boyfriend is Paris.
I think that Paris is the most romantic city in the world and I would like to up in Eiffel Tower at night with him. I would like to go shopping in the champs elisees and buy a lot of clothes too.
The last day I would like to go to Disneyland to have a good time.

NEWS: Anonymous is disagree with SOPA project

Anonymous, a hackers group, has joined the protest against the proposed law, SOPA (Stop Online Piracy Act) aimes by Congress against Google and Facebook.

 On twitter, Anonymous will not publish on the 18th of January, to show their solidarity. 

The SOPA project wants to investigate anyone or any business that publishes information on the internet without the authors consent.

diumenge, 4 de març del 2012

ORAL PRESENTATION: Life in the 3rd world.

3rd world


Hello, we are Sara, Marina and Aida and now we’re going to tell you the life of the 3rd world.
Diseases:
  • Food: In the third world people cultivate their own food, but also they don’t have many resources for food. The people have to deal the little food they have, and also the 1st world countries takes advantages of them.

  • Water and hygiene: The poor countries don’t have access to potable water so many people die of dehydration. The little water that they have is contaminated or simply is rain water and to drink this water thousands of people die every day. To get some water a lot of people have to walk many kilometers.For this lack of water the habitants of the third world have no hygiene.
Conditions:
  • Houses: In the 3rd world, people live in mud houses. In this houses live 4 or 5 persons, depends on the family.People live in villages and in poor conditions.
  • Studies and work: There are very few schools in the 3rd wold. The majority of children have to go to the war or they have to work in the field.
Conclusion:
For this reasons that we just explained the life in the third world is very poor. They have a lot of diseases and a lot of people want to immigrate to the first world, because a lot of people die every day. The little children don’t have oportunities for survive, because the conditions are very bad. The children to get survive have to work very early and with very bad conditions for get a little bit food and economy for their families for they can survive one more day.
We are so disapointed with this situation and we would like to do something better for change it, because we don’t like see how this people have hungry while we have a lot of innecesary things and a lot of food that we don’t eat and they don’t have anyone and die for a little disease. Now at days there are a lot of ONG and organitations for give some things and food to this people. We can found it in the streets and once a year in some schools.

My favourite film: Breakfast at Tiffany's


SYNOPSIS:

Holly Golightly lives in a brownstone on Manhattan's swank East Side. Totally madcap, she has a partially furnished apartment, owns a cat with no name, gets rid of the "mean reds" by visiting Tiffany's jewelry store, and is forever misplacing her door key, much to the dismay of her upstairs neighbor Mr. Yunioshi, a Japanese photographer. Holly makes her living in two ways: she receive $50 from her gentlemen escorts whenever she needs powder room money, and she is paid $100 for each weekly trip she makes to Sing Sing Prison, where she visits Sally Tomato, an ex-mobster. One day Paul Varjak, a young writer who is supported by an older woman nicknamed "2E", comes into Holly's life. Following one of Holly's wild cocktail parties hosted by her Hollywood agent, O.J. Berman, Paul unexpectedly meets Doc Golightly, a gentle Texan whom Holly married when she was only 15 years old. Holly explains to Paul that the marriage was annulled long ago, and he helps her send the heartbroken Doc away. After a day on the town together, Paul realizes that he is in love with Holly and proposes to her; but she is determined to marry José,a South American millionaire. However, when it is publicly revealed that Holly has been innocently carrying narcotics ring information from Sally Tomato to his New York associates, the stuffy José abandons her. Furious at everything and everyone, Holly kicks Cat out of her taxicab into the rain and decides to leave town for Brazil, but Paul lectures her and then goes out to find Cat. Holly realizes how much she is giving up and races through the wet New York streets to a happy reunion with Paul and Cat.

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