Ma.GabrielaAponte

IB English B Group A

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This paper holds all the guidelines of the Written Assignment we’ll soon develop about Othello.

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This are the grade requirements for the written assignment.

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A number of people asked me about Robert T. Kiyosaki and his book Rich Dad, Poor Dad. When I said I didn’t think he was a real-estate guru, they insisted he was

I was searching for some critics about our current book, “Rich Dad, Poor Dad” by Kiyosaki, and i found this article written by John T. Reed and i was amazed at how blunt he talked about the book, so honest and giving us a different perspective about the reading. It’s quite long so that’s why I didn’t finish it, but its a really good article that explains what the book may be right at, and what dangerous decisions we may take.

Here’s a preview:

“...Rich Dad, Poor Dad is one of the dumbest financial advice books I have ever read. It contains many factual errors and numerous extremely unlikely accounts of events that supposedly occurred. Kiyosaki is a salesman and a motivational speaker. He has no financial expertise and won’t disclose his supposed real estate or other investment success. Rich Dad, Poor Dad contains much wrong advice, much bad advice, some dangerous advice, and virtually no good advice...”

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This is my proposal for my written assignment about Othello, I noticed some gramatical errors, no forgive me for them.

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Today we played games in class because it was “unplugged day” meaning we had no internet.

First, we played a word game boys vs girls+james (We had a competition for who had James and I won so he had to go to our team) and sadly, girls lost.

The we played the assasin game and it was very entertaining and I hope we play again soon.

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Things got sooo intense in this one, honestly, one of the coolest and must fun days we’ve had in english class. I really loved this. The assasin game was the absolute best.

Ps. My back still hurts from carrying my team in the word game

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Sometimes the things we spend time the most are not the most valuable wether the more consuming, when we really get rid of those possesions that prevent us of experiencing the real taste of life, is that we realize how lost we are in our own bad habits

Today was the #NoInternet day in Babeque and it was a great experience to share with my classmates without having something in between, something that wouldn’t have given us the chance to form a part of this day that our school decided to make real, it wouldn’t be bad to be in the #olddays. @mrjjimenez could talk us more about these medieval age in which internet didn’t exist like he is a dinosaur.

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Agree with you on the fact that we get lost on our own bad habits. When you think about it, its become hard to think of anyone or anything more interesting than your phone. I think we should do a day of digital sabbath,  kinda like what god said to his people, that they shouldnt work on the seventh day, because it is very important to rest, sometimes it IS TIME TO STOP, to let free our emotions and think.

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Sorry it’s been a long time since my last post!!! 

This photos are from when we read the last act of Othello. It’s such a tragedy to see how naïve he was to allow Iago to persuade him that Desdemona was cheating on him.

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This is the place were Othello was staying in on act 1. I’m publiching it because Jason told us that we would need it for the final exam. Hope you like it

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Funny thing, i actually went were the card was to drink some water and i didn't even noticed it.

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Second Word Contest of Othello

As I stand here, writing this, I remembered this’ll be the last activity I do with my old Gryffindor group, and I can admit it was a pretty good group, really efficient and fast-paced while working. Gonna miss it (Hence why I used the power of democracy so we’d have our old groups)

So (mind the camera quality just so ya’ all know), my group was second, and we got some easy words, and some hard ones (a.k.a. the points we lost). What was the funniest thing of the activity was how we were all cheering on each other as a huge team, English A.

Huge props to Slytherin Neo-Hufflepuff, who came in strong with a 7 word streak after having missed the first one, nicely done mates!

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My Princeton Speech

I went through so much writing this speech (pathos). Almost 3 days making it and statistically speaking thats 4,320 minutes of my life (logos). I did so much research I became an expert (ethos).

Hope you like it!

Good Afternoon distinguished Dias and honorable delegates. Middle Eastern nations present legitimate reasons to invest in nuclear energy. Jordan, for instance, has almost no oil in liquid form, and almost less water. Nevertheless, the issue is not the nuclear energy use and business, but the fact that some of these Middle Eastern countries may have nuclear weapons that the IAEA is not aware of. Suspicion rises with every new announcement partly because the Middle East is opposing a global trend. The spread of nuclear knowledge and understanding has increased the risk that more nations will develop nuclear weapons. The German Republic is deeply concerned, about the current situation Middle Eastern countries are going through; not because they are not able to handle this information the situation implies, but because, it can get into the wrong hands. It is Germany’s opinion that the Middle East is too important to be left alone. Middle Eastern countries must not be isolated and must be engaged through dialogue. The German Republic shares the concerns posed by the United Nations, that Middle Eastern countries, or any country that is not part of the Nuclear Weapons States or NATO’s nuclear sharing countries, should not develop nuclear military capability. Germany recognizes the need for technological and economic progress, which can be achieved through peaceful methods, even if some countries are doing the opposite in this very moment. (Taking into account the aforementioned situation, we encourage other nations to be open to negotiations in order to maintain international stability. ) “The pursuit of happiness lies in the core of human endeavor” -Ban-Ki Moon (Former Secretary General of the United Nations)

Thank you.

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MAGDALENA CARMEN FRIDA KAHLO CALDERON was the reason I couldn’t present the english project in the cultural fair. She was born in 1907 in Cayoacán, Mexico and she was a painter. She suffered a lot, all her paintings talked about her and her difficult life. At six years old she discovered she had a sickness called poliomyelitis, causing her to stay in bed 9 whole months.

(Poliomyelitis, often called polio or infantile paralysis, is an infectious disease caused by the poliovirus. In about 0.5% of cases there is muscle weakness resulting in an inability to move. This can occur over a few hours to few days. The weakness most often involves the legs but may less commonly involve the muscles of the head, neck and diaphragm.)

After that she went to school and got to know some important people of the time, mixing with the political crowd, entering a political group called “Los Cachuchas” and being the girlfriend of one of the leaders of that group. When she was 18, she suffered an accident, a bus fell on top of her causing her column to break in 3 parts and her pelvis in 2. Because of it she could have babies, not that she wasnt fertile, the problem was that her body rejected the baby for her safety provoking an involuntary abortion. Also she had to wear a metal corset to support her weight.

In the end she married Diego Rivera, he cheated on her with her younger sister Cristina and she forgave him and her and married him again after divorcing. But either way they cheated on each other several times because Frida was bisexual and Diego had other lovers too. Diego was 21 years older than Frida.

Around the 1945′s was when she needed to stay in bed all day because she could hold her weight much longer, her poliomyelitis kicked back in and they had to remove her right leg from the knee to the feet. She tried several times to commit suicide. Doctors performed 32 operations on her in her entire life, one of them having to weld some screws in her column to help her a little bit with her weight.

She died in 1957, I think it was mostly because of the pain and heartache she was feeling rather than by sickness causes.

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Gryffindor’s ending poverty poster is ready! 

Hope you like it and read it.

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This beauty is the Gryffindor’s Magazine for the Global Warming issue. we truly hope you like it!!

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How organized and responsible of the new Gryffindor right???? This is our schedule for the next evaluation cycle, I hope we don’t die after the cultural fair with homework...

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This evaluation’s houses.

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Bye Hufflepuff. Hello Gryffindor!!

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Gryffindor

In this evaluation period all (most) of us have been sent to new houses with fully different groups (Except for Slytherin, which is Novo-Hufflepuff), and we’ve been presented with a new system which promotes that each group decides they way we’ll be evaluated (or anti-class). It’s cool we also have three movies and a reading day this month, which come in handy given that after the school fair we’ll be sunken in a lot of new schoolwork.

I hope we have a great month, and that I can enjoy my new group, Gryffindor, as much as I enjoyed the “abatimiento” at Ravenclaw.