Can we make Human Rights more relevant in the world today?

I think that we could do it. And I guess that a lot of people do it, but maybe it doesn't works because people use social networks  for entertainment, as a break, a moment of relax, to disconnect from responsabilities and homework, work or whatever. Also, it's true that a lot of people use it for their work, because it's a good way to keep contact in business for example, but you know what I mean, when people use some social network they don't want to find advertising about global problems, people prefer to see positive and happy things. 

But, on the other hand, it could be a good way to make people aware about these global problems. Maybe with this way people will start to be more informed about these problems and how we can fix them. And maybe, they would do something then. 

So yes, I think it could be a good way, take away what people want to see on social networks, our planet is more important. 

FORMAL LETTER

Meritxell Julià Fornells

Spain

Empuribrava, 17487 (Girona)

Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) 
Palais des Nations 
CH-1211 Geneva 10, Switzerland

Dear UN Human Rights Committee, 

Let me begin saying why I'm writting this letter. Since I was little I have seen how humans destroy our planet, with global warming, contamination, etc. There are lots of movements to stop it, but we need more. More movements, more organizations and more rules for citizens, if the majority of people still contamine these little organizations are useless. And if government applies some rules and obligations, like state tax, maybe people will start to do something useful.

I hope that you will be able to take this into mind. Thanks a lot for your time. 

Respectfully yours, 

Meritxell Julià 

SOUL MATE

How my soul mate would be? If we consider that my soul mate has to be my half orange it means that he would be like me in some aspects and have things in common, but there are other things in which we had to be completely different to complement each other. So, in general I prefer boys, I connect more with them, so, I suppose that it's a man. He would be: loving, kind, a happy person, because I use to be depresive this years, so I need someone that make me happy, a sincere person, without falseness and lies, he had to be a person in which I can trust and explain everything, he had to transmit me security. Also a nice person, he will worry about problems, not a lot, because I worry too much, but a little bit, and had empathy.

And we had to have things in common, photography for example, I want a person which like photography as me, and go to places to do photos. And a lot of things, I can never stop. But these are the principal characteristics. 

WHY DO WE LOVE?

Why do we love? It’s heart-breaking and complicated most of the times yet do we need it at all? I think everyone needs to love and be loved, either with your couple with your friends or the family, but everyone needs to feel that someone has really loves you and knows that you can always rely on that person when you need more someone by your side. We often need to be loved or loved to forget certain problems or conflicts that we have at certain times in order to spend fun and emotional time without thinking with the problems that we have in our live. There are people who find it difficult to express their feelings, but I think it's not becomes difficult love, since anyone can give and receive love and for no one will feel alone.

2. How does the video define love? Put the words in order.

beautiful-intoxicating-heart-breaking- soul crushing

intoxicating 

heart-breaking

beautiful 

soul crushing

3. What are the 6 Philosophers mentioned? 

Platon

Schopenhauer

Russell
Siddhartha Gautama "Buddha"

Cao Xuequin

Simone de Beauvoir

4. Watch again and write each Philosopher’s view on love.
Platon:<<Love makes us whole again.>> He explored the idea that we love in order to become complete.

Schopenhauer: <<Love tricks us into having babies.>> He maintained that loved based in sexual desire was a voluptuous illusion.

Russell: <<Love is escape from our loneliness.>> He says that we loved in order to quench our physical and phsycological desires.

Siddhartha Gautama "Buddha": <<Love is a misleading affliction>> He says that we love because we are trying to satisfy our base desires.

Cao Xuequin: <<Dream of the Red Chamber>> He says that the romantic love is folly in one of China's greatest classical novels.

Simone de Beauvoir: <<Love lets us reach beyond ourselves>> He proposed that love is the desire to integrate with another and that it infuses our lives with meaning.

5. Vocabulary work. Which Philosopher says what?

1)Dependance on another means boredom and power games: Simone de Beauvoir

2)We succeed in perpetuating human species and perpetuating human 
tragedy: Shopenhauer

3)Quench our physical and psychological desires: Russell  

4)It enriches our whole being together: Russell

5)Attachments are a great source of suffering: Siddhartha Gautama "Buddha"

6)Love is the longing to find a soulmate who makes us feel whole again: Platon

7)Love infuses our life with meaning: Simone de Beauvoir

IS JEALOUSY NATURAL?

Yes. In my opinion jealousy is natural and perfectly understandable. I had a boyfriend for two years and I felt jealous lots of times, I had full confidence in my boy, but I hadn't in the other girls. And of course, when some girl crossed the line I felt nervous and insecure, but I knew that he never gonna do anything. Was just that he's a little silly, and maybe if some girl crossed the line he didn't know. 

But in the majority of cases the problem wasn't the fear of that he makes something wrong with another girl, I knew that he never cheat on me, the problem was: why he did some things that only can do with me with the other girl? If he hugged some girl a lot of time, or he danced with another girl, or he talked a lot about another girl, I felt jealous. And if he pays attention to another girl I felt jealous too.

But in my case, I felt more jealous for their friends, because he spent a lot of time with them, and he always want to spent time with them, he can spent a full weekend with them, because all of them have a hobby in common, and a lot of times he stand up me for them, so I felt jealous of them.

I tried didn't feel jealous, but I can't. You can't control your feelings. Feeling is natural, and jealousy is a feeling, so, you can't control jealousy, and it's natural. 

DIALOGUE

Meri: Hi! I would like to see Dr. Grap.

Secretary: Do you have an appointment?

Meri: Not really, I don't need that. I'm an old friend of Dr. Grap. 

Secretary: What do you mean with "I don't need that"? Everybody needs an apponitment to see Dr. Grap.

Meri: Oh! I think that you don't understand me... I need to see Dr. Grap, she's an old friend....

- Dr. Grap appears-.

Dr. Grap: What's all this noise? I'm working!

-Dr Grap sees Meri and she screams exited-.

Dr. Grap: OMG! Meri! It's been such a long time!  How are you?

Meri: Mandy! I'm glad to see you! Your stupid secretary doesn't understand me. -Meri looks at the secretary and says:- Do you see? I told you. 

Dr. Grap: Sure, sure! Come with me, come in. 

 -They go into the room-.

Dr. Mandy: So, what you want?

Meri: I need a little retouch.

Mandy: Oh! So, finally you decide to retouch your nose?

Meri: Umh... No really... I want to retouch my...

Mandy: Oh! Your lips?  

Meri: Umh... No...

Dr. Grap: Oh! Okay! So, botox for your cheeks?

Meri: Grr.... Nop. 

Mandy: Oh! Oh! Yes, I know! Your boobies! You want some bigger boobies!

Meri: Oh, no! my boobies are perfect bitch. 

Dr. Grap: Oh, yees.... sure....

Meri: Well... I want to retouch my knees.

Dr. Grap: Your knees?

Meri: Yes! I don't like them. They make me look fat.

Dr. Grap: Okay. It's a very good idea, but this operation doesn't exist. The knees can't be retouched, because they connect the tibias with the femur. If I disconnected the kneecap of these bones, you can become handicapped. 

Meri: Oh. Okay. So, I will go to another clinic. Byebye and Thank you.

Mandy: Oh... poor girl. 

SELF EVALUATION

The 18th of November, my friend Mandy and I did an oral presentation about nightmares, some meanings, the sleepwalking and the sleeptalking. I had to evaluate myself, but I’m not sure about how I did it. I think that the slides were cool, the information was interesting and the content was OK too. But maybe I was so anxious because I used to do the presentations with the “medium” class last year, in which the people aren’t very good at English, and this year we are all together the higher level with the medium and that’s very weird for me, I don’t like, I feel stupid, so it makes me feel anxious and “hyperactive” I really can’t be still. And finally my pronunciation, I think it's normal.

LINK:http://www.genial.ly/Preview/Index/582de98b072c1d450ca4fc0b?idSlide=582de98b072c1d450ca4fc0c