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Transcript of FALCON NEWS
2012
Adriana Piedra Flores Ana Cristina Castro Leonardo Calderón Gómez Gabriel Salazar Mora Mariana Ramírez Pineda
FALCON NEWS
Table of contentNews.......................................................................................................3
What Does News Mean?......................................................................................4
News, Stage-managed Reality..............................................................................6
Ways to Communicate..........................................................................................8
News (about) Alcohol, Drugs and Addictions........................................................9
Overcoming Obstacles...........................................................................11Our Life Is a Real Gift..........................................................................................12
Life, cherish it......................................................................................................15
Successful Disabled............................................................................................17
Animal Intelligence.................................................................................18Coexistence between Animals and Humans.......................................................19
Elephant Intelligence...........................................................................................21
Homework.............................................................................................23The importance of homework..............................................................................24
News
Reporters:
Mariana Ramírez Pineda Ana Cristina Castro Gabriel Salazar Mora Leonardo Calderón Gómez
What Does News Mean?W
hen we talk about the news we, can
imagine a lot of meanings, but have
you ever thought what is the meaning
for you? Might be or not, so the time
is now. First, it is important to know
that the new information about
specific and timely events1 is news.
However, you can receive good or
bad messages from the internet,
television, radio, magazines or other
people also. Third, you must be very
selective and choose the correct
information and also limit your time
when you are getting the news.
One of the challenges is to
discover when the news that you are
getting is true or just a lie. For
example, the information that you can
obtain could be repetitive,
inconsequential or can shows one
perspective, in the worst of cases can
offers bias. Clearly, you do not need
to be an expert to classify the
stimulus that you are receiving; it can
be a gossip, truth story or just a new
without importance. Finally you have
to avoid the unnecessary news
consumption if do not want to be a
news junkie.
Your perception is essential
when we are talking about the news,
because people are different, so you
have to identify the best media and
also topics that you want to catch
from any places. An example can be
when the reporters make dramatic
news to get more attention from the
people; in some cases, they create
catchy news and do not put attention
to the damage they create to people.
But not everything is bad, we can also
find good reporters who love their
profession and do a lot of effort to
offer quality news. Another example is
when the information makes a
connection with the people and
causes effects on individual feelings
or behavior and also on society.
Another challenge with the
news is the care that parents have to
take for their children, because they
are exposed to barrage and a kid
cannot control the acts. Second, the
society needs to educate how to
1 Taken from: http://www.elook.org/dictionary/news.html
receive the news, and take care of
everyone, because we can produce
sick people who get addicted to the
news. Third, it is necessary to be a
role model to our kids because they
are growing and they need the news,
but with a good quality. In addition,
adults are responsible for the news
that kids receive. It is important to
educate the society to become into
good news consumers.
In conclusion, you can decide
on interesting topics about the news
and the way that you want to get this
kind of information, and it is important
to remember the choices to receive
the information that you decide to get.
Second, if you are an addicted to the
news, you need to look for help or
reduce your consumption. Third, to
focus on your point of view is
important, respecting the others. A
good recommendation could be to
prepare a schedule to get your news,
not more not less, looking for
equilibrium. Finally, the news has a lot
of meanings, so be careful and try to
be informed about the world, but, be a
healthy news consumer.
Mariana Ramírez Pineda
News, Stage-managed Reality
s news as truthfulness as we
think they are? Reporters,
newspapers, websites may want
intentionally make us believe that
there staged facts are one true. There
is a trend to gossip about all this
colossal news themes. What a
managed reality, searching to create
interest by implementing certain
strategies to hook spectator’s
attention. People are very easy to
influence. In spite of this some would
rather to avoid too much interaction
with a daily news report. News
strategies may cause an antagonistic
effect in news resisters.
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To begin with, a primary
reason for snubbing news is “making
a mountain out of a molehill” .Which
we can denote as “The Exaggeration
Factor”. For example Costa Rica’s
earthquake on September 5th. Is true
its magnitude was significant about
7,5, but the damages weren’t much
as news reported. Television news
presented videos of affected places
with minimal damages. “The other
side of the coin”, a fact that we may
all know: reporters hosting over talk.
They terrify people, saying phrases as
“a lot of damages have been
reported, we are in alert”. The point is
that news reporters are into
amplifying situations. People cannot
live in peace believing they are living
in danger most of the time. If you feel
stress out because of it, use your time
in something more productive. Clear
your mind.
As mentioned above we have
“The Exaggeration Factor”. We can
subtract a secondary component from
it: “The Despair Factor”. It is amazing
how news intend purposely to cause
anguish in the audience. They “make
a storm in a glass of water”. Greater
part of news is negative, tragic and
sad. Chaotic situations are the main
concern of the subjects. This is
another important reason for avoiding
news. It is ok to worry about the world
actual problems, but the tragically
sense transmitted is excessively. Do
not worry so much about it, take a
minute to meditate. Remember they
intend to catch your attention. Is worth
it to concern in half-true news?
At last we have: “The Shallow
Factor”. In news, reporters focus in
saying a lot of many subjects but then
do not analyze deeper the
circumstances. So we just perceive a
general view, and we may not know
precisely what is going on. They
missed important topics for trying to
cover every single new. That is why
we used the term “shallow”, news
report is very superficial. Isn’t better to
investigate in an actual subject of
your interest, instead of paying
attention to irrelevant news?
News make us live in an
imposed staged managed reality.
Some may think that news resisters
are ignorant, because they are not
aware about news. Being
unresponsive to news does not mean
we do not know what is happening. Is
better to examine about what is really
happening instead of being cheated.
It does not means you cannot watch
the news or read the newspaper. Just
remember in order to keep your feet
attach to the ground news are not
always what they seems to be.
Ana Cristina Castro
Ways to Communicate
media is an instrument or
form of content which is
performed by the
communication process. The media
are constantly evolving instruments,
probably the first form of
communication between humans was
the signs and signals used in
prehistory, which evolved
substantially increase significantly
until globalization.
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The mainstream media today
are: Newspapers, books, telegraph,
telephone, radio, television and the
Internet. For the history of the media
the advantage of printing is a starting
point and begins to disclose the
different things that happened. With
the advent of the printing press to the
media begins the story of the first
newspapers.
The man's constant search for
increasingly satisfying their need for
communication has been the impetus
that has been the introduction of
instruments in the world ever more
powerful and faster in the
communication process. A
retrospective enough to define how
the man has managed to evolve their
communication: From rudimentary
methods such as hieroglyphic writing,
through the invention of the alphabet
and paper, giving a slight jump until
the arrival of the printing press, and
just one more to the appearance of
the phone, cinema, radio and
television.
All these instruments have
been certainly a breakthrough in
human communication forms and
virtually all have been made possible
by the technology, so in turn has been
the instrument whose evolution has
determined the progress of humanity.
The media are very important,
because since humans have always
had the need to communicate through
the media and can communicate
easily.
Gabriel Salazar Mora
News (about) Alcohol, Drugs and Addictions
hroughout human history, there have dangers of excessive consumption of alcohol and
even drugs. For example: when a person once a drug test they want to continue grasping so if you started with a one day the next day and will do two and so on, also alcohol is something similar since you start with a beer and you increase until you are addicted to it. All these addictions are produced gradually by the bad influence of friends or even more for believing that you are very strong or very outstanding with it the same way. In the streets found many unscrupulous people who just want to hurt us, but this is a challenge for everyone.
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Today, there are many types of drugs. Some of them are: Amphetamines, Cocaine, Crack, Ecstasy, Steroids, Anabolic, Heroin, Inhalants, LSD, Marijuana, Mamafetamina, PCP, Rohypnol, Special K, all these drugs have different effects and I will explain some. COCAINE / CRACK: stimulates the central nervous system and has immediate effects, like: dilated pupils, increased blood
pressure, heart rate and breathing, increased body temperature (fever extremely high), marijuana has physical effects as the following: substantial acceleration of heart rate, bloodshot eyes, dry mouth and throat, increased appetite, reduces memory and short-term compression. These are some of the effects when people consume any drug since they affect the functioning of the body and even the brain.
The treatment of any person who wants to get out of drugs is very difficult because you first have to go through detox processes because the blood is contaminated, and there are psychological processes due to emotional damage they suffer. For this purpose, in the current support centers exist for such people to escape the streets and even more back to their homes, some of these centers are: IAFA, Hogar CREA, among others.All they want is the good of the person addicted to drugs and seek their society joined again.
There are many cases in which the person who was in treatment to quit drugs did excellently, but when
returning home he meets his friends again which induce him to continue using drugs or even more but what makes you say it is very weak and not very man to retest. This is causing a step backwards in anyone. Actually this means that the treatment did not help because he got to be from 0% seeing it was 100%.
The best way to prevent many of today's young people falling into
addiction to drugs or alcohol is proposal them a good education on how to avoid falling into these circumstances and also to identify those who are just starting to smoke, drink, use drugs. In order this should be done in order to prevent him from being another one of many young people who leave school for using drugs and fall in the streets losing everything for which they were fighting.
Leonardo Calderón Gómez
Our Life Is a Real GiftP
eople think of a disability like a
misfortune but just a few know what it
really means to be a disabled person,
so imagine the feelings that some of
these people are having is important.
In the world, we can find many
examples concerning people who
have to overcome many bad
moments, for example: Lionel Messi,
Oscar Pistorious, Sabriye Tenberken,
Laurens Molina, Ariel Ary, Ernesto
“Lobito” Fonseca and we can find
many examples of hope. However,
everyone has good and bad qualities
but, to recognize your flaws and be
conscientious about that is important.
For example, when someone feels
that he or she is less than other
person, and someone uses tags to
describe the others. So, the
psychological impact when we are
talking about disabilities is very
important. Being careful and looking
for the best perspective is an
important point here. Finally, we can
overcome all the obstacles that life
presents us, just being persistent and
trusting in our skills.
One of the challenges to
Laurens Molina, Ariel Ary, Messi,
Oscar, Sabriye and Ernesto Fonseca
is to live in a world that is created for
“normal people”, but nobody can tell
us what really means a “normal
person”, the only person who can
describe it is a combating person. On
the other hand, they have to face a
world with differences that the society
creates by illogical rules. For
example, the streets, transportation,
buildings, and main entrances we can
find are created for “normal people”.
Nobody thinks of the difficulties that
people like them have to live. Clearly
they need help, because for some of
them the life changes a lot in a
moment, so, take a breath and think
about how they felt with that change
is important to have a good world. To
summarize, when a change come up
to us the reason is to announce that
something good is near and we have
the opportunity today, because the life
happens NOW.
Other challenges are the
psychological effects and now that we
talk about psychology, many people
who do not have physical disabilities,
have huge psychological problems
because they think: they are perfect
and discriminate the person who is
physically different. An example can
be when children laugh about another
kid who cannot walk with his or her
two legs, so nobody considers the
effect for the kid when we are talking
about psychology. In some cases
people suffer attaches (physical,
mental, psychological) because have
different aspect from others. But not
everything is bad. Also, we can work
with psychology to help everyone, to
change their lives; first people have to
accept others with their differences.
Focus on the skills and good aspects
of everyone. The talent is not only
physical, so, the homework for us is
to imagine a day being one of the
talented people mentioned in the
second paragraph and think, evaluate
and describe the sensation. It could
be difficult, so empathy is
fundamental when we talk about
disabled people.
Another challenge that people
have to face is less esteem caused by
labels that people put on others. We
always describe this “kind of people”
like: special, disabled, or something
like that, but the correct way to refers
to them could be people with special
skills, because everyone is special
and obviously they develop others
senses to live in a very difficult world.
They are role models; the proof that
all sacrifices we realize have a life
reward, and we can be everything
that we decide to be. Remember that
we have just an obstacle and it is
ourselves. The kind of labels that
people with special skills could have
is: inspirational people, courageous,
perseverant, talented, and unique.
We have to learn to change bad
descriptions to correct labels. In
conclusion, they are a model for the
importance of fighting with the heart.
So in a general conclusion, you
can decide what limitations affect you,
and decide your vision about life,
which is a gift so you have to take an
advantage of your blessings. The
limits exist only in your mind; you
decide your own goals. Value your
talent and use it, because life
happens now, and we cannot know
what will happen to us tomorrow Is
important to create a good world. Do
not use labels and admire the special
skills of people. They are a clear
example that life is a gift with bad and
good aspects. Finally, be normal and
do not discriminate the inspirational
people that you can find in your life.
Mariana Ramírez Pineda
Life, cherish it
ife is vulnerable. We forget how lucky we are, until something happen and we remember how
much we cherish what we have. Amazingly those who have disabilities, illness or have a situation that changes their perspectives, appreciate life way beyond. Why is that? Does something bad require happening to us to appreciate? Also sometimes we care too much about the image we show to others. Is it worth to give so much importance to it? This essay major purpose is to share what I learned with a personal life experience.
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I used to complain a lot about myself, I had always been very concern about the way others see me. I started having immunologic problems in my body. Three years ago I was diagnose with an odd illness named annular centrifuge erythema, I am not a common case of it, because I had bigger injures in comparison with other patients around the world. This illness attack its own organism causing chronic injures in skin and organs. There are a lot of causes, but is not very clear why I have it. My left hand and both legs looked like red meat, there wasn’t skin just flesh. Doctor didn’t have much information about it, they even were talking about cutting the damage flesh to see what happen,
also they were concern about possible injures in my organs. I stop thinking about the way I looked. And I begin to worry about my life. Time didn’t stop running and I was complaining about how much it hurts, but it wasn’t worth it. So I deal with it. I continue with my life, I get back to university and enjoy every minute as it will be the last.
As I said it hurts a lot, especially when clothes make friction with the flesh, so I tried not to cover it. People looked me with repulsion and try to stay away from me, they even asked me to cover it. They thought I would infected them, but isn’t possible. But they didn’t knew much about the illness and mainly they didn’t care. It hurts a lot more to saw and heard people reactions. And I asked myself: Why were so important what others thought about me or about the way I looked? So I stopped worrying and started thinking about the way I wanted to see myself. Those who care about me supported me so I didn’t needed acceptation of the rest of people. I get better and heal. I started all over again, at that time I was studying two careers and working, everything was great.
Time pass and I was moving forward. But last year I was having
serious problems with my vision so I went to the doctor. He told me my eyes were injured as if I put a brush in my eyeballs; it had a lot of holes. I was getting blind and light makes me uncomfortable. At last he diagnoses me the same illness. He told me I was very lucky because he didn’t have to take my eye out, but that I was almost blind of my left eye. I am recovering until today. I knew at that time that I can’t predict when or where I would be affected by this illness. So I thanks god to give me the chance to be here
today and to maintain me healthy as much as I am now.
I want to make you understand how blessed you are to be healthy. Life is a gift, but some of us have to struggle to make that gift last as much depending in our possibilities. Hope all of you can appreciate life as much as you can without having to live in your own flesh what I went through. Sometimes life can be tuff and we always might have problems. But the magic about life is that is in our hands the possibility to overcome all the obstacles.
Ana Cristina Castro
Successful Disabled
tephen William Hawking is a
physicist, cosmologist and
British science writer. His
most important works to date have
included providing, with Roger
Penrose, theorems regarding
singularities in the framework of
space-time general relativity, and the
theoretical prediction that black holes
emit radiation, which is known today
as Hawking radiation (or sometimes
Bekenstein-Hawking radiation).
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He is a member of the Royal
Society of London, of the Pontifical
Academy of Science y of the National
Academy of Sciences of the United
States. He held the Lucasian Chair of
Mathematics (Lucasian Chair of
Mathematics) Cambridge University
until his retirement in 2009.1 Among
the numerous awards that have been
granted, Hawking has been honored
with twelve honorary doctorates and
has been awarded the Order the
British Empire (CBE degree) in 1982,
with the achievement: Prince of
Asturias Concord in 1989, the Copley
Medal in 2006 and the Medal of
Freedom in 2009.2
Hawking suffers from a disease
related motoneuronal amyotrophic
lateral sclerosis (ALS) that their status
has worsened over the years, until it
is almost completely paralyzed and
forced him to communicate through a
voice generating device.
He has been married twice
and has three children. For his part,
has achieved sales success with its
informative work on Science, in which
he discusses his own theories and
cosmology in general; these include A
Brief History of Time, which was on
the bestseller list of The Sunday
Timesbritánico for 237 weeks.
Gabriel Salazar Mora
Coexistence between Animals and Humans
ill need animals to humans? With the passing of time, animals were
integrated every day to human life by providing more of their daily tasks or simple companionship. Although this current coexistence among these has been adversely affected by the presence of technological advances which have achieved a similarity with the things animals do and plus it does not require the same care. But you Cannot compare the two because the term refer to animals to represent a living being that feels, thinks and acts naturally and not by artificial means.
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Animals have been associated with humans over the years. An example of this is people with disabilities. Such as blind people who need the help of dogs to serve as a guide when walking. And there are the dogs that are used for people with paralysis or syndrome which help people recover through the his heartbeat. Therefore it is said that dogs are the best companion that a human being can have because it makes a connection with you and the animal.
Another of the animals that are in constant contact with humans are birds which are very intelligent animals because it can recognize your voice and who you are, obviously, if you spend much time
with them. Also, if you put the shares or different colors that can quickly identify when and said. Talking to a bird is seen as talking to a young person as they do not have a stable conversation. Considering that the bird will repeat everything the man says or does and this product to your intelligence (sentence fragment).
If we compare our intelligence or mental capacity to that of animals not the difference notice since animals have their skills too. Considering that an animal can express if something hurts or feels something annoying or uncomfortable both inside and outside of your body as if a robot would not. We must also consider that animals also have their family to live and survive, but if it was a technological advance would not family. As best consider an animal or a robot technology advancement.
To that end may never finish possess the ability to learn animals? he can sort, perform simple mathematical operations and communicate with humans many times without teaching them how. But if we could actually compare animals with humans or technology, would be a very important aspect. Because the animal must care for and even more knowing that they can feel what we are going to do or say through that
are very intelligent and able to feel the risk or danger, while a
robot would do only what we tell and for the rest of the time would be quiet in a place so far that he further order.
Leonardo Calderon Gomez
Elephant Intelligence
e know elephants live in
countries like Africa or
Asia, are big and have
different colors. Also, we have seen
them in zoos or circus to entertain us,
but we do not really know too much
about their intelligence. In fact,
elephants are considered the most
intelligent creature on earth, because
they have emotions like joy,
playfulness or mourning, besides
other activities they do. I decided to
make a little research about this
animal and I found a lot of reasons
why they are smart and I will develop
the most important skills or facts that
elephants do in their lives.
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First, according to some
scientists, the elephant’s brain weighs
over 5 kg; its structure is similar as
human beings, and because of those
characteristics they are able to learn
new facts and behavior, mimic
sounds that they hear, play with a
sense of humor, perform artistic
activities, self medicate and display
compassion and self awareness.
These animals have a lot in common
and they continue learning and
improving the things or activities they
are able to do as part of their
evolution.
Then, another reason about their
intelligence is the ability to resolve
problems. The elephants can change
its behavior in different situations.
They are able to realize and analyze
what is happening around them. Its
acts will depend on the situation and
its understanding. An example of this
is when they protect themselves in a
dangerous situation, or when they
help each other when one of them is
in trouble. In other words, they make
decisions and take risks according to
the situation they are going through.
Finally, they are able to use tools
in order to get what they need or
want, because the shape of their body
has limitations. Also, they use
accessories that are near of them to
make activities that they cannot do by
their own. Most of the time they use
their trunks like arms. For example,
some elephants have been seen
using sticks to scratch their backs
when their trunk cannot reach; other
ones have been discovered dropping
rocks on electric fences to damage
them.
In conclusion, elephants are
incredible beings, because as I
mentioned before they are smart and
they are able to make a lot of
activities that are similar as humans
do. They have a superior level of
intelligence because of the structure
and size of their brain; some of their
activities have been evaluated and
analyzed to compare them with ours.
Humans and elephants have a lot in
common, and I am sure we will
continue doing researches to find
more similarities between us in the
future.
Adriana Piedra Flores
The importance of homework
omework has always been part of our lives since we were kids. We
should consider it as a tool, because it is part of the process of learning. When we study in any institution or course, the professors or teachers always let us some homework. It has a purpose, because when we do it we learn new things about the topic we had to develop. Also, it gives us new challenges to improve our knowledge. In addition, homework provides us a lot of reasons why it is considered important, and I will mention three of them as examples.
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First, the practice and
participation in learning tasks let
us improve our academic skills,
such as reading, writing, spelling
and mathematics2. I consider
this is true, because I have seen
it by myself when I have done a
lot of homework in different
subjects. I have experienced the
changes, because at the
beginning it is kind of difficult,
but then it flows naturally. Also, I
have felt the sensation of
satisfaction, because I already
know how to start the homework
without thinking too much about
it, and it is because of practicing.
We should take it as a habit,
because we improve our abilities
and our level of knowledge, too.
2 Taken from: http://www.hi2u.org/adhd/homework_1.htm
Second, we also improve
our personal skills, such as the
sense of responsibility. We
learn that we have an obligation,
and it has to be taken seriously.
Moreover, we distribute better
the time, because we already
know that we need to organize
it. In addition, we expand the
way we answer the questions,
because we make a good
research and we know how to
develop them. In some
occasions, homework gives us
the possibility of changing the
mistakes when we do something
wrong and to avoid them in the
next ones.
Third, the most important
about homework is that parents
will have a better relationship
with their children, because they
will know what they are doing.
Besides, parents will see the
problems or the behavior they
have while their children do the
homework. It will let them know
what they are learning. Also,
parents will be informed about
the class activities the school
and it is the opportunity to get
close and give trust to them.
Parents will be involved in all
kind of homework with their
children with the purpose of
sharing ideas and different
arguments in order to learn and
enjoy together as a team.
In conclusion, as I
mentioned before, homework
has a lot of good reasons and it
helps us to develop different
skills, such as personal and
academic. Moreover, since we
were kids we have been
practicing homework in different
moments of our life and that is
really important for our future.
Also, it is considered part of our
life, because it is necessary to
learn and to improve our
knowledge. Furthermore,
homework let us correct our
mistakes, because it is part of
the process of learning. Finally,
it is an opportunity and not many
people take advantage of that,
because they just decide to not
pay attention to it, and they just
think it is not important, but
actually it is and we have this
tool to continue getting better in
life.i
Adriana Piedra Floresi