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Are we all becoming american??

2011-05-30T14:16:00.004+01:00

Americanization is the influence of the United States on the culture, technology, business practices, political techniques or language, of other countries. America has the world's biggest economy and strongest known army, so, it has a lot of influence in all world, and we can see that everywhere, procuts related to american, since food and cloths to music and cinema. Everyone knows brands like McDonald´s, Nike, Adidas, Pizza Hut, Coca Cola, Ford, even words, we are adopting it.
Television in particular has done a lot in Americanization, we all see movies from Hollywood, and we try to mimic what we see. So, perhaps it´only our falt!

The racial issue in the USA

2011-05-26T08:48:00.005+01:00

Racism in the United States has been a major issue ever since the colonial era and the slave era. Legally sanctioned racism imposed a heavy burden on all races excluding European Americans, who were privileged by law in matters of literacy, immigration, voting rights, citizenship, land acquisition, and criminal procedure. Many European ethnic groups, particularly American Jews, Irish Americans, and Eastern European and Southern European immigrants, as well as immigrants from elsewhere, suffered xenophobic exclusion and other forms of racism in American society. But, what is exactly racism? Webster's says that the English definition of racism is a belief that some races are by nature superior to others, also, discrimination based on such belief. The words racism and racist are so overused and their meaning so diluted.
A brief statement of one american citizen: "I`ve heard one black politician accuse another black politician of being a racist. Black people accuse black police officers of being racists. In modern America, racism means anything you want it to mean. If you want a job you are not qualified for, or you don't want to work at all but still want to get paid, or if you want to stop someone from doing something, or you want to punish someone for doing something, just scream racism at the top of your lungs until your lawyer gets someone to pay you to shut up."

Famous Native Americans

2011-05-19T09:36:00.002+01:00

Origins of the USA

2011-05-19T09:03:00.009+01:00

The Native Americans of the United States are the indigenous peoples in North America, part of the limits of today's United States, parts of Alaska and the state of Hawaii. They are composed of distinct tribes, states and ethnic groups, many of which survive as intact political communities.

Native Americans today have a unique relationship with the United States because they may be members of nations, tribes, Native Americans who have the independence of the United States government. Their societies and cultures develop within a larger immigrant population. The Native Americans who were not U.S. citizens since they were granted citizenship in 1924 by the U.S. Congress.

Here we can see a map showing the territories and groups of native tribes in the USA:

-Eastern Woodland Groups: Iroquois, Algonquian, Cherokee and Seminole
-Southwest Groups: Pueblo, Apache and Navajo
-Northwest Coastal Group
-Inuit (Eskimo) Group
-California Group
-Plains Group

Here we can see the distribution of the tribes at present and how it keeps for many years ...

Cultural Diversity in United States of America

2011-05-02T14:44:00.007+01:00

Cultural diversity is a term often used to describe the cultural and ethnic diversity of a nation and advocates of it often argue that diversity is a positive force for a society’s cultural identity.
Respect other cultures by giving everyone the right to express their own beliefs and practice their own way of life.
-In USA:
The cultural diversity are associated with a political correctness and with the rise of ethnic identity politics.
Pat Buchanan, a American Republican, described cultural diversity as "an across-the-board assult on Anglo-American heritage.
This cultural diversity receive many critics, one is acuse cultural diversity of separate cultures...

Here you can see the different percentage of the most representative race groups:
-White (non Hispanic) 72.3% 228.2 million
-Black (non Hispanic) 12.5% 46.9 million
-Asian 3.7% 13.4 million
-Hispanic 10.6% 2.4 million
-Native Americans/Ak Native 0.9% 0.43 million

One interesting fact is that most of these races are divided by zones, in a single neighborhood you can sometimes only see one specific ethnicity. You can see in the graphic below the ethnic diversity in USA:

In the future...

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Creative Ads

2011-02-28T14:26:00.005Z

The Power of Advertising

2011-02-24T09:16:00.005Z

Advertising can be found anywhere around us wheather we realize it or not. And the example is what we see on television everyday during watching television,in the radio,newspaper...
Most people believe advertising is an instrument that can influence people to buy their product, it raises the sales and the profit.
Good advertising is advertising that we never forget, it stays in our mind. We believe that one day the product will be bought.

Confessions of a Shopaholic... (Trailler)

2011-02-24T09:07:00.004Z

Printed Controversial Publicity...

2011-02-17T09:16:00.008Z

This print has 2 means, the first is related with terrorism and the second with the danger of tobacco. These two subjects kill many people in the world.

Controversial Publicity...

2011-02-14T15:07:00.006Z

The stress is over with...

2011-02-03T09:59:00.006Z

Shopaholics Session...

2011-01-27T09:43:00.007Z

P- Hello!
We have two guests today.
P- Is there anyone here that want to talk about his experience?
A- If you give me permission to...
P- Sure, go ahead.
A- Well, my name is Ângelo, I am 27 years old and I love to buy sneackers, i fell so good when i am chosing and buy it, it´s like a world without pain or suffering. I have algready a debt of 20000 dollers! How can i pay for that??
P- Ângelo, we will give some ideas how to resolve your problem in the end of session, now we will give time to another.
V- Hello, my name is Vitor and and I'm a shopaholic. I need to buy! It's essential for me. I'm addicted to watches. when i´m buying, everything around me is wonderful. But, I am paying a debt of 5000 dollers to buy this watch. Isn't it so beautiful?
P-Very well, we have a big problem here, to resolve the problem of money you can start by choosing 1/2 of your clothes and itens, and try to sell it.

The Consumerism...

2011-01-13T08:51:00.013Z

A big impact of cosumerism in our lifestyle is in the food, nowadays, everybody goes to the supermarket and buys it, because it´s easier and fast, we don´t need to worry if the crops don´t grow. It´s no need to worry!! THE SUPERMARKET has evreything!

The society has been changing, winning adicitions about the way that people use their money. In terms of food the people incresingly depend on supermarkets because it´s the only place where people find everything what they need. In terms of clothing and other items, people are too depended on the fractories/stores and sometimes (specially in women) turns into an addiction.

Finally, the people are very dependent on supermarkets and stores because it´s a very easy way to resolve all the problems.

2011-01-06T09:21:00.000Z

HAPPY NEW YEAR

History of Christmas (digital)

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The Christmas is coming...

2010-12-06T15:04:00.000Z

MERRY CHRISTMAS!

GMF (Geneticaly Modified Food)

2010-11-15T14:34:00.000Z

The Geneticaly Modified Food (GMF)are organisms manipulated geneticaly with the objective to improve their caracteristics.

This process had vantages and disavantages.
Some vantages are the big raise of production, incriase the plant resistence, the aliment can be enriched with essential nutrients, production of species with new caracteristics and no implicite spens a lot of money.

Some disadvantages are the inpoverisment of biodiversity, production of new's virus in Nature, geneticaly polution and may be afects the Human Healty.

the scientistss don´t have sure about the dangerous of the GMF, because this kind of studyies can last centuries.

Tourism and Eco-tourism

2010-10-28T09:06:00.000+01:00

The impact of tourism reflected in:
-Pollution of the air because of the higher energy consumption and the increase of traffic car
-The increase of pollution of water
-Destruction of Natural Landscape, the Fauna and Flora
-In the degradation of the landscape of historic sites, monuments and areas of scientific value

Ecotourism is a variant of tourism that develops in virgin natural areas in order to admire, study, enjoy the trip, know the plants, seeing and hearing animals, the cultural marks of the past and present areas where it is practiced.

It is practiced in protected areas, so tourists have to meet rules to preserve ecosystems in their natural state and its wildlife.
From the moment the human being intervenes in the natural habitat that affect it.

The preocupation is preserve habitats and develop the local economy at the same time.

Renewable and Non Renewable Energies

2010-10-21T09:03:00.000+01:00

The Renewable energies came from natural resorces like sun, water, wind, heat, among others... All of them have two things in commun, they are inexhaustible and clean.

-Solar energy provided from sun, and can be used to produce electrical energy or can be used to warm water.

-Wind energy provide from wind and it´s used to produce electrical energy.

-Energy hydraulic provided from the water pressure and it´s used to produce electrical energy.

-Geothermal energy provided from Earth heat, it´s used to produce electrical energy and heat water.

Nowadays the most of electrical energy is produced by burning fossil fuels, like petroleum or coal, but these methods are polluting.

The Animal Testing

2010-10-14T09:20:00.000+01:00

For us, these tests in animals are a crime and should end, because these tests can bring a lot of injuries for the animals and in some cases they can die.
In some cases, these tests are solutions for the developmet of various treatments and will be used by Humans.
The products used in the future like drugs, vaccines and new treatments.

Greenhouse Effect and Consequences

2010-10-07T09:13:00.000+01:00

It is a process that happens when a part of solar radiation reflected by the Earth's surface is absorbed by gases in the atmosphere. So the heat is retained and as consequence the global temperature will increase. The most dangerous are CFC's.

Climate changes refer to changes in global climate. These variations are relate to changes in temperature, precipitation and others. Such variations can change the weather characteristics according to rating didactic.
So we understand that climate change may be an effect of natural processes or due to human action.

Gulf of Mexico

2010-09-30T09:49:00.000+01:00

On April 20, 2010 in a BP oil plantform located in Mississipi Canyon, happness a disaster, a catastrophic explosion, who shed millions of petrol barrels, it was the worse ambiental disaster that happens in America history. This accident was a sequence of mistakes protucted by BP.

The Future of TV

2010-05-01T11:57:00.000+01:00

In the future the TV will be bigger, cheaper and with more quality. The TV will be more practice and will be more functions like image 3D, Home Cinema incorporated and more quality of sound.

The vantages of TV are funny, distractive, learn information and are very important to give us information.

The disadvantages of TV are few. One is the perturbations of eyes and head, more in the childrens.

Types of TV Programmes

2010-04-15T08:57:00.000+01:00

In the past the variaty were tv programmes was small compared nowadays. There are many types of tv programmes like:

-Reality Shows: is a type of program based on real life, When we talk about reality shows, we are talking about events and people that are real and not characters. Ex: "Big Brother", "Survivor" and "Quinta das Celebridades".

-TV News: are programms with the duraction of more or less one hour. Ex: "Jornal da Uma", "Jornal Nacional" and "Jornal da Noite".

-Series of TV: is a type of TV program with a number indefineded of emissions, call episodies. Ex: "Lost", "Dr. House" and "Prision Break".

-Soap-opera: is an audiovisual work, including in maiority on the genus dramatic and romantic. Ex: "Vila Faia", "Perfeito Coração" and "Mar de Paixão".

-Sports Programmes: are programs that send the new news from the world of sport. Ex: "Contra-Ataque", "Sportv" and "Eurogoals".

-Cartoons: is the processin which each frame is played individually on a computer produced by a graph process. Ex: "Bob O Construtor", "Noddy" and "Ruca".

-Game Shows: is a game who envolvs celebrities or not, and test the capacity of the competitors. Ex: "Preço Certo", "Quem quer Ganha" and "Sempre a Somar"

Easter

2010-04-06T14:20:00.000+01:00

The term Easter means passage.
Easter is also a Christian party that celebrates Jesus resurrection. After dying on the cross. It is the most important day of the Christian religion, when people go to church and participate in religious ceremonies.

Rui Veloso - "Nunca Me Esqueci de Ti" (By Vitor)

2010-04-06T13:49:00.001+01:00

Rui Veloso was born in Lisbon on July 30, 1957. It's a singer, songwriter and guitarist Portuguese, moved to Porto with only three months. Considered by many as the father of Portuguese rock musical movement emerged in the early 80s, was as blues singer who began his career in a garage band called "Magara Blues."

This Is My Idol...David Luiz (By Vitor)

2010-03-18T09:54:00.000Z

David Luiz is a Brazilian footballer who represents the colors of Sport Lisboa e Benfica. It's Brazilian international under-20 and acts as central. Born April 22, 1877 in Diadema, Brazil.
He made his debut for Benfica in a European game competitions.
In October 2009 renewed its relationship with the Sport Lisboa e Benfica for two more seasons, through 2015.

The Evil Scientist... (By Angelo)

2010-03-18T09:32:00.001Z

I followed the evil scientist into a dark room. What I saw I would never forget... the biggest and admired doctor, Tony Tony Chooper, witch had desapered five years ago, was there... It was in front of me. With that big scar wich divide him face. The room was replected of machines, strange machines for me because i didn´t know the usefuless´s, when, Chooper put a black bag on table. I saw a body of human inside... I was so scared, i start run, no looking to the back... I never talk about this... At this day.

This Is My Idol...Francisco Guilhermo Ochoa (By Pedro)

2010-03-18T09:05:00.000Z

Memo Ochoa was born 13 July of 1995 in Mexico, formed as a goalkeeper in "Club America", team in which he currently plays.
With 25 years, he is a main goalkeeper of Mexico National Selection.
Wish him the best luck of the world.

The World in 2110...

2010-03-11T08:59:00.000Z

I wake up sunddenly... The alarm clock show it's 5 a.m., I look around and I sense something is not right...I look at the alarm clock again and I open my eyes wide and statle when I see the calendar...it's the year 2110... I was very confused, the world is different an don't know what was happening with me. I watch by the window and don't saw anyone. The people disappeared and substituted by robots and machines, there were no cars, animals, and the houses were very sofisticated. The house materials were modified, the television was substituted by a big projector with very good quality and with many channels, there were no stairs but escalators, my car was very inteligent, it talked to me and he drove alone.
I decided go to out and I was very surprised, the houses were very strange and with different materials.
I went for a ride, the world was really different. The cars drove at a big speed and there weren't streets or roads because the robots and the cars moved by floating.
I was very confused because I was the only person in the middle of robots, cars and machines. What a big problem. I don't have solutions and sunddenly wake up...it was a dream.

Games - Call Of Duty Modern War Far II

2010-03-04T08:58:00.000Z

Call Of Duty is a shooter game in first person. Can be played individual or online. Are developed by Infinitiv Ward and distributed by the company Activision and are on of the more played games in the world.
In firt 24 hours of launch, the game sold 4.7 million copies in our world.
The game is based on battles of World War 2, the very good grafics and missions became the game in the best game of 2009.

The Evil Scientist... (By Vitor)

2010-03-03T13:36:00.000Z

I followed the evil scientist into a dark room. What I saw, I would never forget...it was all very strange to me but the adventure would be very good and exciting. The atmosphere was very heavy, the room was full of scientific equipment, had a large table and the table was a dead person. During weeks of investigation did not discover anything about the body, because the scientist you just took away the orgains and placed them in a bottle. Do not give up. He went through again, was talking on the phone, do not quite understand but I heard on organ traffic. Everything was explained. I went to the police and denounced the scientist.

Gossip - Heavy Cross and Pearl Jeam - Just Breath

2010-03-03T13:13:00.000Z

U2 - Magnificent

2010-03-03T13:11:00.001Z

Vitor's Favourite Invention (Pen)

2010-02-25T09:43:00.000Z

A baillpoint pen is an instrument to modern write. A baillpoint pen had a intern camera filled with a viscous ink. The manufacturing are economic and reliable.
The ballpoint pen went through several failures in the project initially. It was even argued that a project by Galileo Galilei, it was that of a ballpoint pen.
Today is a essential object to write.
I choose the pen because for me is very importante in more varied work.

Angelo's Favourite Invention (Shoes)

2010-02-25T09:17:00.000Z

Shoe is the piece of clothing that aims to protect the feet. Today, this piece serves as adornment and fashion accessory, and also a social function.
In the XIX century begun to emerge machines to help the confection of shoes, but with the sewing machine are more facilitated and accessible.
In the XX century surge changes in this industry, the leather was exchanged by synthetic materials.

I choose the shoes because all people in the world had ones.

The importance of technology

2010-02-04T09:11:00.000Z

In our opinion the technology is very important to the progress of the world. In the past there weren't computers, mobile phones, ipods and other technological gadgets, so the people had other forms to communicate, do research work, have entertainment and do other activities.
The technology in the school is very important to the progress of the teenagers, because the access and the organisation of the imformation are easier and developed. The teenagers in the past didn't have these technologies and they had ton get other forms to research information.

The Holocaust

2010-01-28T09:16:00.000Z

The Nazi Holocaust was to put into practice as a plan of genocide of the Judaic population. In 1933 the life of the Jews was normal and stable, they went to school, went to the theater, cinema, had their business and everything that a German citizen did. But then everything changed...
The Jews were first required to register and use a bandage with a yellow Star of David on their arms, not to be confused with the German race and be more easy identified. In 1938, with the Kristallnacht Nazis built the first ghettos and 600 000 Judeus died from hunger and disease.

Curiosities:
When the trops returned to barracks after a battle without any deads, they wrote on a board: "0 Killed" (zero deaths)?
Hence arose the expression OK to indicate that all is well.

Inventions and Inventors - Bicycle

2010-01-21T09:07:00.000Z

The bicycle is a vehicle with two wheels attached to a frame, moved by the effort of the user through pedals an it was invented in the nineteenth century in Europe.
The bike is used both as a means of transport and is used for competition and leisure.

The bycicle was invented by 5 inventors and the all inventors contributed with one aspect for the actual bycicle.

- Da Vinci - invention the transmission system
- Karl von Sauerbronn - contributed with handlebars (1816) and a new conception (1818)
- Kirkpatrick Macmillan - adapted two rods on axis in bycicle (1840)
- Ernest Michaux - invented the pedal (1855)
- Pierre Lallement - modified the design (1862)

Pandorum - Official Trailer [HD]

2010-01-14T09:38:00.000Z

Two astronauts awaken in a hyper-sleep chamber aboard a seemingly abandoned spacecraft. It’s pitch black, they are disoriented, and the only sound is a low rumble and creak from the belly of the ship. They can’t remember anything: Who are they? What is their mission?
With Lt. Payton (Quaid) staying behind to guide him via radio transmitter, Cpl. Bower (Foster) ventures deep into the ship and begins to uncover a terrifying reality. Slowly the spacecraft’s shocking, deadly secrets are revealed…and the astronauts find their own survival is more important than they could ever have imagined.

2010-01-14T09:04:00.000Z

Our opinions are divided about films of science fiction. These type of films are very popular because of special effects and the action.
For example: Aliens, Matrix, Transformers are examples of good science fiction movies.
On the contrary these films don`t have a motivating story.

"The New Moon" - Most Recent Version

2010-01-11T19:47:00.000Z

The latest book about vampires. "The New Moon - The Making of the Movie" by Mark Cotta Vaz.

Every detail of the film that gave life to the book written by Stephenie Meyer. All the details and adventures for the team and participants.

Mythical Creatures

2010-01-07T09:37:00.000Z

Myths are generally stories based on traditions and legends made to explain the universe, the creation of the world and anything else that simple explanations are not attributable. One of the myths most known and talked around the world are vampires.According to myths, vampires are creatures of contradiction and immortals. Powerful, but always careful to keep their existence hidden from human society.

One of the most recently movie is New Moon, is based in a story of vampires and is a romance wrote by Stephenie Meyer. The movie in general it´s good but the story it´s too fantasy

In our opinion the vampires are irreal and is a lie.

Vitor's Favourite Music

2010-01-07T09:08:00.000Z

Pedro's Favourite Music

2010-01-07T09:05:00.000Z

This is the Angelo's, Vitor's and Pedro's football teams

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Angelo's Voki

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Vitor's Voki

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