Hitler

Well, I’m going to talk about Adolf Hitler, one of most popular dictators ever. He was born in 1889 in Austria. Hitler had a big impact on the world, mainly in Germany.

     He wanted to create a perfect race, the Aryan Race and these people have some characteristics: they are tall, blond, have blue eyes and muscular. Hitler usually is associated to the Holocaust, which in simple words means the extermination of a race. He had a plan that was called the final solution that consisted of the construction of concentration camps where 14 million people were exterminated. Half of these people were Jews (Hitler considered them an inferior race). And he considered gypsies, homosexuals, antifascist and mentally and physically challenged people like inferior and a lot of these people were persecuted, arrested and killed by him. 

It is believed that Hitler committed suicide to keep away from the Red Army, and his body was burned.

Globalization

 

The subject of the following text is globalization and for me this means exchange of cultures between different countries but it is also associated to international trade.

There are many effects of globalization and Portugal is no exception. In terms of culture, Internet helped to expand it and for example, I like watching films and listening to music and Internet allows me to make downloads of films that I want to watch and listen the new music of international singers that I like.

In my country there are some international trades, like McDonald’s and the most part of our population (including me :D ) love  that food because it is tasty and the price is affordable and there are a lot of McDonald’s spread throughout the country and I guess all of international trades help the economy to grow.

About work we can say that globalization helps workers who earn less and emigration is directly connected to it, because people go to other countries to get a better life.

So, we can conclude that globalization change people lives and makes us more aware and informed about other cultures and lifestyles.   

Globalization

Globalization

Globalization

New year's resolutions

It’s time to get 2011 behind because a new year is beginning, we are in 2012.  Some people believe that it will be the last year of humankind because the Maya calendar ends on December 21^st, 2012 so they are making some wild resolutions for this year to accomplish before their life ends. I don’t believe in those things so I just stay on resolutions that I know I can achieve.

In my personal life the greatest resolution that I make is to have a better diet. I promise this because my usual weight is 50.5kg and when school starts I usually eat it all kind of stuff that make me gain some weight. My poor eating habits put me sometimes 1.5 kg on.   

About my family I only have one resolution that is to be more tolerant to my dad and my aunt, and stop saying that they are boring.

In school, because I am in my senior year in high school, the resolution that I make is to have good marks to get into college.

Promises are easy to make, the hardest part is accomplishing them, but this year I will make an extra effort in order not to leave any resolution behind, just in case that this is the last year of humanity ;-).

Happy New Year, that 2012 be better than 2011.       

My New Year´s Resolutions

                So people, how do you feel since this is the last year of your life? Well, if you are like me, I’m sure that you feel good, because I don’t believe in these things. In the beginning of a new year I think about my life and I make some promises to myself.

                In relation to my personal improvement I have one resolution: to have better eating habits. And I promised this because I want to lose some weight, mainly to be in good shape.

                Talking about my family this year I promised to stop teasing my parents and sister. For example, when I wake ill-tempered I’m rude to them although I know it’s not their fault. So, I want to fix this.

                Concerning school I made one resolution: improve my grades. It is important to get good grades and this year it is the decisive year to me because I want to go to college and to enter the course that I like I need good grades.

                Well, everybody make these promises every new years but they rarely accomplish the resolutions and of course I belong to this group of people. But this year I will try to keep my promises and if I will do it, I will be a better and happier person. Happy New Year : )