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The DNA Science of cancer

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Household workers in Mexico: a research about their job and gender identity

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Dentestry for babies: the zero caries generation

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I am going to write about : Leadership: What makes you a leader? Types and characteristics.
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Academic vocabulary

Hi everyone! Here is the link to the website with exercises on academic collocations and other vocabulary. Wow, there are so many things on this page! It just keeps going. I recommend you try the following which deal the most with academic language:

Cloze exercises AWL Most Common Words 1
Cloze exercises AWL Most Common Words 2
Academic Collocations 1

But there are many more. The main webpage is here, so you can see all the different exercises and choose whatever you're interested in. You may need to update Flash Player and things like that to do these exercises; but others further down the page are able to be printed and done on paper as well. I hope this helps you!

Comparing and contrasting the movie "The Castle"

The Castle is a movie about a family living in Australia near (next to) the International Airport. They are threatened with take apart from his house due to expansion plans of the airport. The man of the family, Mr. Kerrighan, has an important role when fighting against the people that want to buy his house in order to expand the airport tracks. This movie shows that home is one of the most valuable things people consider in their life when they are part of a family.

The Australian family in the movie is somewhat alike a medium class Mexican family in terms of where they live and the way of living. According to the movie, the Kerrigans live in a suburb near the airport; as in Mexico, there are a lot of houses around the international airport in Mexico City. The head of the family is the man, the responsible or “backbone” – as mentioned in the film- of the family. He has to work to provide food, health, education and other basic things. Similarly, in Mexico a man is also considered the backbone using the same point of comparison. Mrs. Kerrigan is quite similar to women in a middle or working class in Mexico; she is the one that works at home doing household chores and attending the family.

The conflict with the airport management and Mr. Kerrigan is the main point discussed in the movie and has similarities with the conflict in Atenco, Mexico in 2001. The news when someone told Mr. Kerrigan that because his house was near the airport and a private company would pay money to buy it in order to grow the airport, were not accepted by him. He felt both worried and sad, his wife saw him. But soon he knew his neighbors had the same offer, then he contacted a lawyer to ask for help and take the case to the Supreme Court.

This conflict is virtually the same as conflict in Atenco. Unlike Australia, in Mexico the international airport in Mexico City is located inside the city, with a lot of surrounding houses. However, the airport management was planning to build another terminal near the airport but outside Mexico City, in properties of farmers in the town of Atenco. As in the movie, the management of the airtport offered a payment for his lands, but people did not accept the deal. In contrast with the movie, when Mr. Kerrigan fight legally in the Supreme Court and finally he won the case peacefully, in Atenco the people fought against (literally) the police in the streets to avoid workers began to build the new terminal.

Both Mr. Kerrigan and people of Atenco were offered money to buy their properties, but the difference between them was considerably greater. While, Mr. Kerrigan had a house, in Atenco just were farming lands and the company of the airport wanted to pay less than the real value that they would get if the new terminal were built.

It is fair people get they wanted for their properties, if they want to sell them. What is unfair is that other people force them to buy their properties. I agree with the movie to fight and protect our house at any cost, this is what we have because our job through the years and nobody should touch it without our concession.

Although in the movie the Kerrigans were happy in the end, in Atenco finally some people sold his lands after soon to private owners, of course at the price they needed or wanted.

Comparing and contrasting the movie "Mary and Max"

In this movie we can see how strange people could become good friends. This is the story of Mary and Max, two people with different ages and personalities that know each other by chance and they make an interesting relationship when communicating just through traditional mail. Despite the fact that one of them lives in United States, and the other one lives in Australia, they found an interesting and real friendship. We can see that making friends it is possible even when some people either do not have good self-esteem or have a psychiatric illness.

The movie is a bizarre version of real people. I like animated movies, I never had seen this one, but Mary and Max is quite similar with regard to Chicken Run in terms of animation. It is a fact that the story is very different, while the topic in the first one is about friendship between two people, in the second one is about hens and roosters wanting to escape from their farm. However, both movies have great details with the characters in motion. It is a matter of fact that the most important thing is both, producer imagination and the ability that people in the computer animation have when thinking in how they are presenting the “world” inside the movie than the story itself.

The characters in the movie have different personalities and ways of living that contrasts each other when performing their lives. First of all, at the beginning of the movie it can be seen Max differs from Mary in terms of age. Max is an old man who suffers of an incurable psychiatric illness that makes he feels such as a fastidious person, and most things that happen surprisingly make he is be afraid of. On the contrary, Mary is eight years old, a girl who feels apart of his friends because her physical appearance – she thinks; and beyond age, she is a girl very interested in meet new things around her world. Both share the same feeling: having real friends, not only in their minds, but also in their real world.

Food is an interesting point of both characters. Whereas Max enjoys eating hot dog bread with chocolate whenever is at home, Mary enjoys eating sweetened condensed milk. Max has a friend, probably little blind, an old man that likes cooking, and sometimes share his preparations with him. At Mary’s house, her mom is who prepares food. Certainly, looks like she doesn’t do with care when cooking - perhaps because her addiction to smoking or drinking alcohol.

Places where Max and Mary live are contrasted when they appear. Max lives in New York, which is presented such as a noisy and dirty city. In fact, noisy motorcycle riders running on the street are seen; also people smoking and dropping cigarette butts in everywhere (it is funny see how Max is catching butts when he is in the bus stop). In this city there are big buildings and skyscrapers in everywhere. Max lives in a small flat inside one of them. The environment turns gray whenever he appears. On the other hand, Mary lives in some small town in Australia. Streets are with a few or without cars on. Houses are in spacious places with backyards and front spaces. Looks like it is a very quiet place, sometimes a boring place where nothing happens. In contrast of gray scenes of Max in New York, when Mary appears the environment turns brown.

As seen in the movie, friendship is one of the most important feelings in human beings. In spite of one person can be considerably older than another one, they can be friends, and even better, learn from each other. But not only that, but also their way of living is an important thing. I think they can be good pen pals, but thinking in living close or together may change their behavior. They will not have the chance to re-think or re-write something before send it by email when talking face to face. But this is another story, it would have been interesting to watch another ending of the movie like they would have met and lived together.

Ken Lee ... Can't Live???

Hi everyone! I hope you're having a nice weekend. It's a beautiful day. :)

After Carlos P's comment that the Mariah Carey song is clearer than the Air Supply original version of Can't Live (Without You), I decided to listen to it myself. I think that if I hadn't known what the words were, I would still have problems understanding some of them. Perhaps you may find that as you listen to it, other words come to your mind than the ones you "heard" from Air Supply. Do you think it is clearer?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hat1Hc9SNwE

About subject-verb agreement

Today, I solved the exercises in

http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/sv_agr.htm

If you remember, it is one of the optional tasks in the writing course. It was very interesting because there are many examples, in addition to those we saw in classroom, that clarifies more this grammar topic.

I want to cite the main idea of subject-verb agreement in the website: "Basic Principle: Singular subjects need singular verbs; plural subjects need plural verbs.".

In support of this, there are in this site ten rules with examples where this principle applies.

But also, there are three interesting quizes (the homework). The first one, the quiz is fill in the blank space style, there are two choices. The second one, the same fill the blank space but with an explanation of the right choice; and the third one contains a reading text where you can select in some paragraphs the right choice that corresponds with the subject-verb agreement. In my personal opinion, the reading text is interesting because talks about why people in United States don't approve or like soccer (football soccer), as in Mexico or other countries, and also compares soccer with other sports in USA using examples and contrasting them. You should look for it!!