8 April 2011
1 April 2011
I Love My TV
TV is one of the coolest things ever, if used with wisdom! I think TV can teach people so many things… like the wild life and how it works; or even general culture… It only became bad because people started abusing it and they got addicted to it.
It’s very important for us the possibility of SEEING things the way they are! We can watch things on TV that we’ll never really see on real life. Of course there are also the bad programmes of TV… the ones who make people believe in some stupid things they make up. Personally, I enjoy TV series and films, but I admit that some of them are useless for our life! So, my advice is:
Be smart, use this amazing little box wisely and you’ll see how fantastic TV can be!!!
Daniela 802
I think TV is a great invention. It provides us an awesome quality time, because with television we can watch nearly everything, like our favorite shows and series. We can also be informed about what is happening all over the world, and that’s important.
TV also shows us live pictures and that helps us to understand more about what they are talking about.
TV also shows us live pictures and that helps us to understand more about what they are talking about.
Of course it has bad things too, like we don’t use so much our imagination because we can see everything. It is not like in the radio. And we can become addicted to television, which is not healthy.
But in general TV is great when we are not addicted to it. I think television is an excellent media.
Joana Chaves 802 22 March 2011
Mandatory Task 7th grade - definite and indefinite articles
Replace the numbers by the;a;an or - (zero article)
Vilamoura's history goes back to (1) 1st century A.D. when (2) Romans started living here. Visit (3) Cerro da Vila Museum and (4) Archaeological Site to take (5) glimpse back in (6) time when those early settlers
made this place their home. In (7) Roman times, this location was important in producing (8) fish paste known as "garum". (9) ruins also include (10) baths in which (11) mariners used to bathe.
Whether at (12) Marina, (13) Golf Courses or (14) colourful and diversified shopping area, Vilamoura has everything you could ask for, including (15) tranquillity and (16) good taste.
There is always something to do. Whether you look out to (17) sea and spy sails reflecting against (18) endless blue backdrop or turn in land and watch horses at (19) equestrian centre, (20) odds are you'll pay (21) visit to (22) resort at (23) time of (24) major international golf tournament. But golf, sailing and equestrianism are not (25) only sports at Vilamoura.
Residents and visitors alike can unwind at (26) Lawn Bowling Club, TennisClub, Diving Club or other top quality sports facilities.
New Getting On 7
16 March 2011
15 March 2011
W.B. Yeats
William Butler Yeats (13 June 1865 – 28 January 1939) was an Irish poet and dramatist, and one of the most popular figures of 20th century literature among pro-Irish Americans.
Yeats's long and prosperous career was crowned in 1923 by the Nobel Prize “for his always inspired poetry, which in a highly artistic form gives expression to the spirit of a whole nation.” Amongst his most famous works are ‘Easter 1916’, ‘The Second Coming’ and ‘Sailing to Byzantium’. Besides being a poet, he also composed 26 plays, the most notable being ‘The Land of Heart's Desire’ (1894), ‘The Shadowy Waters’ (1900), ‘Cathleen in Houlihan’ (1902), ‘Deirdre’ (1907), ‘At The Hawk's Well’ (1916), ‘Calvary’ (1921), ‘The Cat and the Moon’ (1924), as well as the ‘The Words Upon the Window-Pane’ (1934). As a visionary artist, Yeats presented his rather ambiguous views in all of his writings.
“Dublin is a city full of humour, Dublin is a city full of wit. Dublin is a city full of buskers, playing old Waterboys hits.”
Vanessa Oliveira, 1114
Oscar Wilde
Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde (16 October 1854 – 30 November 1900) was an Irish writer and poet. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of London's most popular playwrights in the early 1890s. Today, he is remembered for his epigrams, plays and the tragedy of his imprisonment, followed by his early death.
Wilde's parents were successful Dublin intellectuals, and their son showed his intelligence early, becoming fluent in French and German. At university Wilde read Greats, and proved himself to be an outstanding classicist, first at Dublin, then at Oxford. However, he became known for his involvement in the rising philosophy of aestheticism.
After university Wilde moved to London, into fashionable cultural and social circles. As a spokesman for aestheticism, he tried his hand at various literary activities; he published a book of poems, lectured America and Canada on the new "English Renaissance in Art" and then returned to London where he worked prolifically as a journalist. Known for his biting wit, flamboyant dress, and glittering conversation, Wilde had become one of the major personalities of his days.
At the turn of the 1890s, he refined his ideas about the supremacy of art in a series of dialogues and essays; and incorporated themes of decadence, duplicity and beauty into his only novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890). The opportunity to construct aesthetic details precisely, combined with larger social themes, drew Wilde to writing drama. He wrote Salome (1891) in French in Paris, but it was refused a license. Unperturbed, Wilde produced four society comedies in the early 1890s, which made him one of the most successful playwrights of late Victorian London.
At the height of his fame and success, whilst his masterpiece, The Importance of Being Earnest (1895), was still on stage in London, Wilde sued his lover's father for libel. After a series of trials, Wilde was convicted of gross indecency with other men and imprisoned for two years, held to hard labour. In prison he wrote De Profundis, a long letter which discusses his spiritual journey through his trials, forming a dark counterpoint to his earlier philosophy of pleasure. Upon his release he left immediately to France, to never return to Ireland or Britain. There he wrote his last work, The Ballad of Reading Gaol, a long poem commemorating the harsh rhythms of prison life. He died destitute in Paris at the age of forty-six.
Daniela e Sara, 802
James Joyce
James Augustine Aloysius Joyce (2nd February 1882 –13th January 1941) was an Irish novelist and poet, considered to be one of the most influential writers of the early 20th century. James is best known for Ulysses (1922), the short-story collection Dubliners (1914), and the novels A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916) and Finnegans Wake (1939).
Joyce lived outside their home country most of his adult life and his Irish experiences are essential to their work. His fictional universe stood strongly in Dublin. He is both one of the most international and one of the most local of all the English language modernists.
James was born into a wealthy family in the Dublin suburb of Rathgar.
In 1891, James wrote the poem, Et Tu Healy, On the Death of Charles Stewart Parnell. In 1892, James had to get out Clongowes because his father can no longer pay their tuition. In 1893, John was dismissed with a pension. So, he started a descent into poverty for the family, mainly due to alcohol consumption by John and his general financial mismanagement. John Joyce was the model for the character of Simon Dedalus in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and Ulysses, as well as the uncle of the narrator in several short stories in Dubliners.
Luís Bezerra, Joana Chaves, 802
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