ORAL PRESENTATION (The Big Bang Theory)

PROMISES

Promises are such a crazy thing. Some people believe promises are the hardest contract between two people, and that can’t be broken. I may be one of those… but no really.

It’s true that promises are something you can’t renege on, but they aren’t that important. The meaning of promise could be a statement or declaration that something will or will not be done, given, etc.; an indication or a sign of future excellence or achievement…

Those are simply words. Each one knows what a promise is, and each one assigns a specific meaning to this word. The only purpose of promises is to improve relations if respected, and deteriorate them if breached.

Promises are such a crazy thing. Some people believe promises are the hardest contract between two people, and sometimes that contract gets broken. 

"CHRISTMAS"

Christmas is a wonderful word, because when people think about it, they imagine the streets full of decorations, the night of Christmas eve, the illusion of a child the moment he or she opens the present… all those kinds of things that make you smile. But, is it really like that or it’s the image we’ve created about it? Christmas is a short period of spending money; it could be on presents, meals, Christmas sweets…

The word consumerism means the spending of the money without limits in the way of presents and other things that could be useless. In the past, people liked Christmas because of his essence, the feeling to be in front of a fire telling stories, there was no need to buy or receive presents.

Nowadays Christmas (for the majority) is based on spending, spending and spending more and more money on unnecessary things. A month, or more, before Christmas there is a huge amount of advertisements of toys, clothes, cologne or perfume, chocolate, chocolates and things like these.

Here in Catalonia we celebrate Christmas with the “tió” and, after Christmas, the Three Wise Men came to each town or city to see the children and give them sweets and little presents. That’s another example of consumerism. Why did the three wise men need to throw sweets and candy to the children? Why didn’t they only keep their letters with the list of presents they had written? Because that’s the new concept of Christmas. Children went to the street procession basically for the present, not only to leave the letter.

However it’s not everybody who has that image of Christmas. Poor people live it in a different way, I suppose.

A part from the consumerism Christmas has a special thing: it makes people more solidary. When Christmas comes and some poor people are in the street asking for a little money, people think it’s a good thing to give them something, because everybody deserves a little bit of magic on those special dates.

JOKE

ALIENS

Are aliens just a fairy tale, or do they exist? That's a good thing to wonder. 

Sometimes, I ask myself if there is life out of the earth, if there is someone out there controlling or just watching us as if we were an experiment... Maybe this is just a paranoia and some questions are just stupid; or maybe not. 

Supposing that aliens exist, I think they should be experimenting with us, checking if weapons help or damage our societies; if natural disasters destroy many things, or humans have the capacity to construct buildings strong enough to support them... Maybe they just wanted to see if a whole new world could develop without their intervention.

Probably this is just something that someday comes to anyone’s' mind and makes the person think: oh God, what am I thinking about? This is completely impossible. 

In conclusion I would like to say that we really don't know anything about our beginnings, even if such a lot of research has been done to demonstrate things. We have to believe their words as the religious believe in God. 

NEWS #4

PROTESTS ERUPT IN WASHINGTON DC AS BLACK STUDENTS DETAINED AFTER WHITE COUPLE “FELT UNCONFORTABLE AROUND THEM”

Link: http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2015/10/14/black-students-arrested-after-white-couple-felt-uncomfortable-around-them_n_8292302.html

SUMMARY:
A pair of black students had been restrained by Police in Washington DC after a white couple called the Police because they felt uncomfortable around them. One of the students was withdrawing money from a cash machine when some officers tackled him. The friend known as Mike recorded the scene and tweeted what happened to let people know the truth version.

The officers said that someone called them because of a robbery, but later they confirmed that nothing happened. Twitter has responded to this fact with a lot of people standing out for black rights, as they shout be treated just as white people.

OPINION:

America seems to be the best country in the world, but as all the cultures has its defects. Not everybody is prepared to establish contact with other cultures and this news is quite a good example of it. The two boys were treated like this just because they were black, and this isn’t fair. We should be more tolerant and accept different cultures as we accept ours.

VOCABULARY: restrained, withdrawn, tackled. 

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(This video appears in the news and it is quite interesting because it defends what the article says)

"CRIMINAL MINDS"

Morgan: “Fantasy abandoned by reason produces impossible monsters.”

Reid: Bob Dylan once said, "I think the truly natural things are dreams, which nature can't touch with decay."

Criminal minds is a serial about crimes. In the serial, all the characters are experts on people's behaviour, and they are able to analyse what the criminal is like from the crime he has committed.

An interesting thing about the serial is that all the crimes that appear are serial murders, and the stories are based (sometimes) on real facts. The reason I love this programme is because I think it must be absolutely astonishing to be able to make people's profiles' just by analysing the crimes they've committed. I would love to have that ability, as I love psychology and crimes. I see myself working as they do, analysing peoples' behaviour in crimes or just in life, knowing why they act one way or another. 

My dream is to become a graduated in criminology and fly to the US to work there as a police officer as the characters of the serial. 

My favourite character has to be Morgan, because he is strong physically and psychologically, but at the bottom he is so sweet and empathetic. He identifies himself with teenagers, because when he was a boy a man of his area abused him.

As a conclusion, I'm going to say that I would love to be a criminologist and be like Morgan, sweet but strong.