CAR RADIO - TWENTY ONE PILOTS

The song starts describing the situation of the man, sitting in his car realising someone stole his car radio. He uses this as a metaphor, as he says the following words: "and now I just sit in silence".

At first, this just seems to be a simple quote said to express what he is actually doing, but analysing the sentence (what, later on, is explained on the song), he says it’s not about sitting in silence, but feeling quiet inside of you, starting to think and just being aware of what’s going on. 

He relates being in silence with facing his own problems, the ones he was trying to hide with the music filling his ears and thoughts, but; what about now, without music? Why do we hide ourselves behind of songs? Do we feel he lyrics inside of us as a way to feel better?

Facing problems is not an easy thing to do. That’s why I’ve chosen this song. Once, just going through YouTube I found it and I felt so identified with the lyrics, because when we are sad, nowadays, we just put our earphones on and press play to our favourite song or; depending on our mood, to a sad or happy song and start escaping our feelings.

In the middle of the song, there are some verses I would like to highlight: 

"(...) Please stop thinking

I liked it better when my car had sound

There are things we can do

But from the things that work there are only two

And from the two that we choose to do

Peace will win

And fear will lose

There’s faith and there’s sleep

We need to pick one please because

Faith is to be awake

And to be awake is for us to think

And for us to think is to be alive

And I will try with every rhyme

To come across like I am dying

To let you know you need to try to think"

In this few sentences what he tries to explain is that the last we have to loose is faith, as it is all we have to be alive and show we are able to think and express our emotions and thoughts. 

To sum up, I would like to say most of the songs of "twenty one pilots" have some beautiful and thoughtful letter that can be analysed and compared to our nowadays society. We need more artists like them, not just people wanting to earn money singing songs just with rhythm and without any meaning, and getting famous for it.

INDIA’S DAUGHTER: SINCE THE DELHI RAPE THINGS HAVE GOT WORSE

LINK: http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/mar/06/indias-daughter-delhi-rape

A documentary named Indian’s Daughter has been banned in India. The Indian government think that its content has to be banned because with this documentary people could think that all Indians have the same character and it isn’t like this. They are more worried about the international image of the country than of the women.

The documentary was made by a woman that was a rape survivor. This documentary has been criticised by the government and the women’s activists because of his content. The Indian government haven’t done much to save their women; even though they aren’t the only country that has that kind of problems.

That government wanted to ban this documentary because it could show that they didn’t do much for their women, the documentary showed the reality; they could put more security but they won’t. But instead of hiding the reality they would have to improve their security against woman.

I think the documentary should stay alive even though the Indian government didn’t want to, because people still know what is happening there. They would have to react and defend their people before all. At the end, if a news spreed it gets everywhere, even if they delete the documentary the most probable is that a lot of people will have seen it; and people have the right to know what's happening in other countries and what are they abusing of. 


VOCABULARY: gang, rape, widespread, restraint, rampant, blatant

LONDON TRIP DIARY

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B0uOLZLuvyBAM3hCTkN2QkdYd3M/view?usp=sharing

Family Travel Unplugged: More Options for Teenagers

The 21^st century bane is seeing your children socializing virtually instead of enjoying vacation. According to parent’s frustrations, hotels and resorts had created a programme to promote real world interaction. These interactions consists in doing some activities in the mountain such as snowshoeing and other activities in the Anti-Gravity Centre; and in the resort such as going to the spa, a nightclub, etc.

Small group trekking adventures are a sure way to make children forget about their phones. Another adventures-group offers active teen trips to focus on culture.

I totally agree with the first statement in this news, because it’s totally true that social networks have children and teens addicted. The ways to entertain them that they have thought are really cool and imaginative, and I’m sure they’re going to work.
Actually I think it’s a bad idea to give a phone or a tablet to distract a little child, because the way they learn is not connecting with the world but with the network. It’s more usual in teens because they stop liking toys and all that stuff, so they talk to their friends with social networks, but this is not the way you spend vacation with family. Moments had to be enjoyed, and not seen through screens.
Link:http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/13/travel/family-travel-internet-addiction.html?ref=todayspaper

Vocabulary: police (your children), snowshoeing, trekking. 

SLAVES?

This essay will be based in one simple, and so complicated at the same time, question I’ve read in our 2^nd bat blog: Do you really want to be forever young?

Is this a simple thing to talk about? Because as a simple question nearly everyone would say: yes, of course! Who wouldn’t want it? But, what if I tell you that there is more than one way to understand this question? Yes, you can think of being immortal and never stop living. That could be cool, but what if you are the only one immortal person in the world? What about seeing your whole family dying, your friends; everyone around you? That doesn’t sound cool. Almost everyone would say no then, because, who wants to see their parents, sons, soulmates saying goodbye forever? No one.

Well, there’s another way to understand the question: being outside young forever. Yes, you will die, but until that day, you will look as if you were 20. Would anyone say no to that? Being pretty forever? Maybe not even looking as if you were 20, but pretty anyway. Who would say no really? Well, there’s the problem. Nearly everyone would like that, and the thing is that it is not a personal like or something punctual, it is something that big enterprises and all the people that lead the world had put in our minds.

They show us new cosmetics, make-up, clothes; artificial things to tell us how to look and how to do everything. The problem is that “being young forever” means to be imprisoned in a materialist world forever. Because in older ages, people didn’t need to look pretty all the time, maybe rich people did it but just because, as nowadays, they had the money to pay treatments and all that stuff, but it wasn’t really like it is now. Now, girls (it is more a girl than a man thing) have to look good anywhere they go and at any age.

Maybe the conclusion to all this is to escape the system and just do what you want, but… how do you know if it’s what you want and not what they want you to want? Everyone is a “victim” of the system, including myself; and if only a few people try to stand up to these injustices maybe a new world would start being created.