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This word comes from the Yaghan language of Tierra del Fuego, and it’s one of the hardest words to translate, the reason is that it’s a kind of stare shared by two people, each wishing that the other would initiate something they both desire but which neither wants to begin.

It is also a stare...

http://obscuregems.wordpress.com/?s=Yaghan+

Cantinflear

The verb “cantinflear” means to speak or act in an incongruous or ridiculous manner without saying anything meaningful. It comes from the way of talking of the Mexican comic Cantinflas, or Mario Moreno Reyes.

Mario Moreno Reyes (August 12, 1911 - April 20, 1993), better known as Cantinflas, was a Mexican actor, circus performer and comedian. Charlie Chaplin once called Cantinflas the ‘funniest man in the world’.

http://www.mexicoguru.com/mexican-slang-meaning.php?date=130730

Stress

Every student have (gets) stress(ed). IT is something we all have experienced in some point of our lives. iIn fact, everyone has experienced it, but not in the same way and not caused by the same reason. tToday we are focusing on the stress caused by school, exams and home works, the stress is caused by deadlines and not self confidence before taking aN exam or many other things.

An activity which can calm an student and relief it from stress is having a recreative activity in school, because if it is outside school, he/SHE can get stressed if he/SHE haSve lots of homework, having a in-school recreational activity such as a music class, art class or a sport class can utterly improve the student's mood after all the exhausting classes.

ANOther thing is having a tutor, a higher grade students (who is) good at the subject you are not good at. sSometimes, it happens that the students will not ask the teacher because they are ashamed of their question, by having a tutor, the student feel quite more comfortable asking “silly question” (and) by doing this, the student haSve less things to worry in aN exam because they already had a little extra good and reliable help.

These two methods can utterly improve the quality of students life and can boost the grades of any student. It is a good thing to consider ((though because the schedule followed by some of the schools here in Mexico because here some schools still too conservative.))

It's great that you use words such as "utterlu" but limit it to once in a text, so it remains original. Work on your last sentence: don't have 2 "because" in a same sentence!

What does mind boggling means?

mind-bog·gling (mndbglng) adj. Informal Intellectually or emotionally overwhelming: “a mind-boggling bazaar of competing manufacturers and overlapping technologies” There is utterly no traduction to Spanish, in Spanish we don’t use the concept of intellectually overwhelming much often so there’s no really a need for a word like this, but I think it would be really helpful and I think it’s a concept we utterly need to use more.

http://www.thefreedictionary.com/mind-boggling

Purepechas

This (what is this?) is a culture that have existed and still exist in some parts of Michoacan (place of fish), principally in the areas I of the cities of Cheràn and Pàtzcuaro, but this culture has also presence on (in) Guerrero and Guanajuato. This culture also receives the name of “Tarasco”. Their language is a small language family spoken by a quarter million P’urhépecha people in the highlands of the Mexican state of Michoacán. This information was extracted from de the population count of 2005 in Michoacan. For it’s language, there are a number of dialects, which SIL divides into two languages, but Campbell (1997) considers purepecha to be a single language. The pPurepecha language is mostly spoken in rural communities in the highlands of Michoacán. The former center of the pPurepecha state was around Lake Pátzcuaro and this remains an important center of the pPurepecha community. Ethnologue counts purepecha as two languages: a central language spoken by approximately 40,000 people (2005) around Pátzcuaro, and a western highland language spoken by 135,00 speakers (2005) around Zamora, Los Reyes de Salgado, Paracho, and Pamatácuaro, all of which are in the near (vecinity) of the Paricutín volcano. Due to recent migration, but the percentage of speakers relative to non-speakers is falling, and the degree of bilingualism is rising - making the language endangered. Today, the percentage of monolingual speakers is below 10%. Personally I think it’s a very important part of the culture, I agree that it’s not very useful anymore, but it’s necessary to make sure that this language survive.

Good personal work, however you nedd to improve on the structure of yor text. Organize it and structure it into clear paragraphs. careful with Capitalization!

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Whats is spam?

When they send unsolicited electronic mail or text messages simultaneously to a number of e-mail addresses or mobile phones, and we can also define it as unsolicited electronic mail or text messages sent in this way. But where did the word came from? Most people have some vague awareness that it came from the spam skit by Monty Python’s Flying Circus. In the sketch, a restaurant serves all its food with lots of spam, and the waitress repeats the word several times in describing how much spam is in the items. When she does this, a group of Vikings in the corner start a song: “Spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, lovely spam! Wonderful spam!” Until told to shut up. Thus the meaning of the term at least: something that keeps repeating and repeating to great annoyance. The term spamming got used to apply to a few different behaviours. One was to flood the computer with so much data as to crash it. Another was to “spam the database” by having a program create a huge number of objects, rather then creating them by hand. And the term was sometimes used to mean simply flooding a chat session with a bunch of text inserted by a program or just by inserting a file. The word is used all around the world, they all adopted it as part of their language because it was impossible to find a translation as the word was created by a specific situation in USA.

http://www.templetons.com/brad/spamterm.html

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Stress in exam periods is becoming a big problem for students.

It is proved that we get stressed by many factors of our lives, but there is one that is affecting youngster’s correct development: The stress caused by schools. This happens everywhere and it gets worse when exam periods come. That is why I think schools and teAchers should design some strategies to avoid having this problem.

Tutors can be the clue.

If schools want to have a good start in solving this problem, they have to get opinions from students, but also from tutors, who are a really important because they are having direct contact with students and they recEIieve every concern, interest and worries that students have; that is why they need to have a goOd relationship with youngsters, so that they feel confident enough to tell tutors their problems and at the same time, tutors have to be capable enough to solve this (these) problems and also make suggestions to improve their learning without feeling stressed, but that is not the only thing students need.

Having time for theirMselves can make the difference

When we get totally into some difficult activity, or that we do not like it, we tend to feel bored and sometimes stressed. A good way of forgetting about this and being able to finish the activities as espected is to have time for relaxation and leisure activities, and schools can assign some hours for students to do it. This means students will have time for theirMselves, they will also feel relaxed and with a good attitude while they do something productive for them. Schools should never forget that students need to have time away from academic activities to maintain the balance in their lives and to be healthy.

The best way to solve the problem

If we look for the best option, I woUld say the second one is better because students forget about all that makeS them feel stressed, at least for a while. That way, students feel valuable as they are being given time for theirMselves and they work with a better attitude.

Check your mistakes. Otherwise good job!

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THE PURÉPECHAS

History of the Purépechas

It was a pre-Columbian civilization. Its capital was called Tzintzuntzan (“Place of the hummingbirds”). They were a really smart civilization and because of that, they were never conquered by the Aztec empire, which was the strongest one in that (period) epoch, after lots of attempts to do it. The pPurépechas knew how to work with metals and the aAztecs wanted to learn, so they made a deal and they shared their knowledgement and received peace instead, but it ended with the arrival of the sSpanish, the defeat of the aAztec eEmpire and the death of many aborigens because of the smallpox. Tangaxoán, the King of the purépechas gave up before his people were hurt by the spanish and accepted being loyal to the spanish Crown. By 1529-1530, Nuño Guzmán entered Michoacán with 500 spanish soldiers and more tHan 10.000 indigenous warriors. In 1530 Nuño ordered to steal the región and to kill Tangaxoán. In 1533, the sSpanish eEmpire sent Don Vasco de Quiroga and finally he could establish peace again.

Religion

They were polytheistic and believed the universe was divided in sky, land and hell. Their principal god was Curicaveri, god of the war and sun. They controlled the natural phenomenona that we know nowadays that are because of other reasons. (????)

Territories

The purépecha culture started its development from 1200 to 1521 aproximately, in the postclassic period. The territories that this people inhabited included the state of Michoacán, principally Pátzcuaro and Uruapan, and Guanajuato and Jalisco. It used to be part of Mesoamérica.

Language

It is kept alive by a small group of 100.000 persons in the north of Michoacán. It was the principal languagje of the Pre-Columbian settlers and it extended to the nNorthwest of Mexico. Michoacán means the ones who own fish, in nNáhuatl.

http://www.historiademexicobreve.com/2013/04/cultura-purepecha.html

This is a good text, a little too general. I would rather you had focused more on the language, and done more of a personal analysis, but good job anyhow!

What Is Facepalm

Facepalm is a common gesture used to express frustration, embarrassment or surprise. The Oxford Dictionary defines facepalm as a gesture in which the palm of one’s hand is brought to one’s face, as an expression of disbelief, shame, or exasperation. The usage of the word has been recorded in all forms of media including television, movies, video games, and real world examples. Althought the word does not exists in another language, people from all over the world uses it. The expression became popular when images of stockbrokers facepalming came out on the social network, Facebook. It haSve also been used in the media to convey the dismay associated with poor financial performance,and a wide variety of regrettable film, business, and political decisions have been described as facepalms moments.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facepalm

How can school and universities help to ensure that students do not suffer from stress during the exam period?

For some students(,) listening to the words “exam period” it is equal to get stressed and to keep awake all night. Eventhough teachers tell students about the exam weeks before, they just end up studying the last night they have the time to do it. Exams are hated just by themselves, now imagine a bunch of exams of all (subjects) assignments together, it (that)can make (anyone) someone go crazy.

The first method that can help students to avoid stress is having a structured revision timetable prior to exams because sometimes they are so stressed and they have a lot on mind that they forget about wHich exam they have the next day, they forget to study and the result on that is that they get bad grades or they even fail exams. It can also help by making them organise their time, saving specific hours to study so they can rest and sleep early at night and having better results at their examinations.

The second method is giving students time for relaxation and leisure activities(.) , Some schools already have specific hours when they are in exams period in which students just have to lay down, listen to relaxing music and listen (to) stories that teachers made up. It can also help giving them an special hour to do sports because it has been proved that it is the best way for someone to get relaxed. Maybe it will help that they just play a game they like.

I am a student and personally I do get stressed a lot at exams period, you have to focus a lot on what you are doing and if you get distracted by anything, your exam results will show it. Having a timetable or time for relaxation are two very usefull methods that can help someone to avoid suffering and even to get better grades. At least they worked with me, I am the (proof) prove that they work. In my opinion they key to survive exams is to remember that it is not the end of the world.

Check your mistakes and let me know if you have any doubt.In the second paragraph, I would take away a few "they", just to improve the style. Good conclusion!

Purepechas: The decaying of a culture.

I literally had to browse everything with the tag ‘Purepecha’ on tumblr to get an idea on what to blog about, and realizing that I had to turn to a website from the United States to get ideas of information about a culture that literally comes from where I live was kind of shocking.

First of all, there is an estimated of 71000 Purepecha people around the world, and of those, about 400 have gone to live to the United States in hopes for a brighter life, and more have gone to other countries such as Canada, but those numbers are unknown. In the places mentioned, this THESE people make a living out of fishing mostly. This being said, the ones that have emigrated are no longer doing crafts, which is a really representative thing of this culture, and their children are no longer learning Purepecha, as they’re growing up learning English, and their grand children even less.

Now, here in Mexico, where the rest of those 71000 people live, they’re still getting divorced from their culture, leaving their cities to get jobs such as janitors, construction workers and more of the likes of those. Though here they have more chances to keep doing crafts and teaching their language, the influence of the Spanish culture is catching up to them very quickly, and they have no other choice than adoApting it if they want to, this making awareness of this culture less and less as time goes by. Also, 95% of the world’s Purepecha population is Christian, and only the remaining 5% of them still practice the Purepecha religion.

The death of this culture is happening, and in this world where adaptation is not a choice when it comes to making a living, it is inevitable. But whether this is good or bad is not for me to decide.

PS: I got my information from wikipedia, this site: http://joshuaproject.net/people_groups/15271/US and random tumblr posts

Interesting information Pablo, but I would like you to write in a more impersonal, and therefore formal style in your next post

The importance of the purepecha language in our lives.

We, as citizens of the state of Michoacán, have a lot of things to be proud OF: , food, the typical music, our natural reserves like the sanctuary of the Monarca butterfly (and one of this THESE things it’s IS the variety OF cultures)???.

The language purépecha LANGUAGE it´s IS one thing that indentifies US: It´s part of our History, our past and with our past, we can have a better understanding of our present. But… Rreally is it important to preserve this language? Do we have to do something?

In my opinion, we should know more about all the prehispanic cultures that were living in this territory, now called Mexico but it´s not that important if we don´t do something in order to keep this THESE languages alive. In fact, the majority of the people in those groups are sSpanish speakers. Of course this doesen´t mean that the goverment should forbid the purépecha language but I think that if the goverment tries to do something, it will WOULD be really expensive and that money can COULD be useD in something more urgent and important.

Nowadays there are other languages that are more important to be spoken by the big majority such as English and Spanish that are the ones with the biggest population of speakers; that means that (it’s easier to comunicate with those)???. We live in an globalizated world where a language like purépecha doesn't have a space.

Diego,

For your next post, try to avoid personal opinions. Try to be more impersonal, so you can give your writing more formality. Careful with the use of "It's". Also make sure, every sentence is clearly structured and understandable.

Searching for a Universal Language

The Purépecha are an indigenous people centered in the northwestern region of the Mexican state of Michoacán, principally in the area of the cities of Cherán and Pátzcuaro. I have a favorable appreciation of them because I have been able to investigate their virtues and they are a population with many positive characteristics.

According to what I know, purépechas have always been pacific people, when the Spanish conquistadors arrived, they avoided fighting and conversely, they showed their desire to learn and that they were smart and hardworking people. Regarding to the Purépecha language, it survived and currently IT is one of the indigenous languages of Mexico still spoken and at the present time, the way a lot of people communicate. I am not against purépecha but today what less needs Mexico NEEDS THE LESS is linguistic diversity and that’s why Purépecha shouldn’t be teach TAUGHT anywhere. , what we really need is a language that we all speak in order to better understand each other.

Then, we shouldn’t promote the teaching of purépecha since It takes the same learning one language than another. This doesn’t mean that some languages are more valuable than others. However, we have to keep communicated between Mexicans through our national language which is Spanish and also to have another language that allows us to understand COMMUNICATE with the rest of the world. There is need for greater social integration and this is only possible if we all speak the same language.

#evasarmy

Colin, I like that you have a strong opinion and that you are not afraid to express it. I don't particularly agree with it, but that is absolutely beyond the point.

In your next post, try to keep it more impersonal: do not use "I", but rather the third person to make your work more academic and formal.

Good work all in all

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Week 2

Last Friday, I got into the App Store to check it as I usually do, and I found this app called secret that was the most downloaded of the day, so I decided that I could give it a try. Secret is a social network were every single person who uses it is totally anonymus, so the most people can know about you is the country or city were you post and if you are a friend of them. The way to get friends is by connecting with Facebook and able the app to save your friends list.

The purpose of this network is supposed to be “sharing your secrets anonymously, but people (at least in Morelia) prefers to spread gossips and criticize citizens, although you are able to inform administrators of how wrong this is.

I have been using it for a day or two, and I limit to reading the posts that seemed funny (you know, people describing their shames and dialy secrets), but I got really angry when I saw the everybody was writing bad things about teenagers I have heard of. I think they do not have the right to just judge them and ruin their reputation. I mean, we are taking advantage of this media to show who we really are: hypocrites. Humans who prowl around the world wearing a mask above ther real face.

We have to be ourselves, because there is nothing worse than finding out that a person who you once met and had a frienship with is actually trying to build up a fake personality that will be used particularly for you.

For not making this longer, I have heard that the app will be closed by Friday, so we will go back again to using our dear mask

Creepy Application: you're absolutely right when you say that a lot of people tend to say things about other people behind their back... if you cannot say something straight at a person, then it's better to keep it for yourself.

AN EVER-LASTING LOVE AFFAIR, WITH MOTION PICTURES

Here’s a little article about how I became so in love with films. And how much they mean to me.

If you know me, you’ll know how I’m in love with the glamour, the sophistication and the allure of cinematic. You’ll know as well, how I think it`s marvelous how a man’s wildest dreams can be translated and transported into a silver screen. For some people they are just images putted together to narrate a story, and that’s all that there is to them, but for others (such as me), they are images that leave a mark into your brains and that stick in your heart. For me they are the formula of magic.

I’m not sure when exactly, but I know I started watching movies from an early age. I immediately fell in love with them. I would allow my eyes and mind to wonder off to places like Wonderland, into the world of Peter Pan, the deep oceans with a rebellious mermaid, or to an animated Paris to live the adventures of the cat aristocracy. As the years went by, live action pictures tagged along with the animated ones, I discovered Hogwarts and Narnia and so on. Complexity and intricate plots where added afterwards, iconic actors and actresses names began to pop up and stick in my mind, memorable performances and the words sets, photography teams and special effects started to mean something more. I became obsessed, I found my role models from people within the industry’s legacy. I discovered Audrey Hepburn and all her amazing films. I have time traveled to different historic time periods, costumes, props, scenery, sets, narrative, the story itself has captivated me for as long as I have lived, and I’m sure they will continue to do so for the rest of my life. But I didn’t realized just how much I loved them until a few years ago, when I found myself battling to decide what I wanted to do with my life. What could possibly offer me everything that I love literature, science, storytelling, attention to details, art, passion etc? And then it was all clear, movies, that was the answer. I have always loved to imagine that my own life is a movie; I even have the soundtrack that goes with it. So what could possibly be better for me than that? Life has its own funny ways of working, and there is no way to know what the future holds for me, but I certainly hope it will be something around movies, as they since the first one that I ever watched changed my life.

Wow! You definitely approach movies in a much deeper way than the rest of us mortals. Congratulations for having such a passion!

WE NEED A CHANGE

Nowadays we live in a society where is very important what people say about us, but why? It doesn’t have to be that way. It is common that most of us at least once have been tied to other opinions which maybe don’t have any value. If we could stop for a moment and look carefully all around us, we would notice there are many people who are not being theirselves, they behave in a specific way to be accepted by the others, but what happen with people who don’t do the same? Well, maybe they are more quiet or insecure, maybe they are the ones who dress in a different way, not as stereotypes, or maybe who choose to study something that everyone believes is useless even their parents, could be the pregnant girl who everybody criticises or the man who made a wrong decision and now he has a low-paid job…that kind of people whom others call “weird” and laugh at them. It is surprising that, as I said, most of us at least once dress, listen to a kind of music, try to read a specific book (and I say try because we can’t read a book if it defenitely is not interesting for us) or give certain opinions just because so many people do it too, being conscious or not. Sometimes we have to take decisions but we are afraid of what they are going to say, that is not correct! We need to have courage to choose whatever we want, no matter what, and if someone asks about it we would choose it over and over again, never doubt it! I recognise that sometimes I care about it, but as one of my best friends told me: “You don’t have to care about it, they will be always talking, gossiping and criticising. You have to care about what your real friends think, your family…people who you love, they are the important ones”.

We need a change, we need to stop believing we are who the others says…and stop criticising to the others too!

Life would be just boring if everybody was the same. Diversity and authenticity make it interesting. Be yourself and if some people don't accept you for it, then they're not worth it, as they show no acceptance nor tolerance.

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The reason I love dogs

Hey guys, I actually didn’t know what to write about but then my friend told me to write about my dog, and I will because I love dogs, and I had one of the saddest days in my life with my pet. I’ve always had dogs as pets and they’re awesome animals… When I moved to Morelia In 2002, my dad bought us a puppy. It was a beautiful black daschund and we named her Chispa. She was 2 months old and so little that my dad could carry her in his hand. When we first saw her, she was inside a box. My dad had kept the secret of giving her to us as a Christmas gift for 2 weeks. We were excited just looking at the box because something inside it was moving. A few seconds later she jumped out of the box. That was the moment when my love for those kind of dogs started. We used to take her for a walk everyday and my dad trained her. She was a very obedient and calmed dog. Suddenly she was my entire world, and I know you may think I was exaggerating, but I was a little and innocent girl and that doggy, my sisters and me were growing old together. Chispa was always happy, even when she had spent the whole day in the backyard because we were not at home, even when my dad shouted at her for pooing in the living room, even when I when I arrived home and ate before going and give her a little bit of attention. She was always available, just like all dogs in this world. When she was approximately 5 years old, we adopted a cat, but it was aggressive with us, so we gave it to my aunt, then we adopted a dog that used to live in the street, but it died (my mom really loved that dog, and so do us and Chispa). Then we adopted another dog. We named her Canela. At first Canela and Chispa had lots of problems because Chispa didn’t like her, but then they got used to each other. When Chispa was 7, she had 6 puppies. We gave away 4 of them and we kept 2 with us. They were named Stich (because of his funny eyes) and Cascabel (because she has a birth fracture in her tail that is kind of a bell). They both got sick and only Cascabel survived. Stich’s death was really really sad, but not as much as Chispa’s. She got cancer and she was not able to move. She could only move her eyes and mouth, but suddenly she wasn’t able to eat and she was suffering a lot, so we decided that she had to die. My mom and dad took her to the vet without telling me. I knew where they were going when they were already there, but they returned both crying with Chispa alive, they said they couldn’t do it. They said she was going to die whenever god wanted to. I guess god wanted her to die as soon as possible. The next day she could barely open her eyes. My dad told me to say goodbye to her because they were taking her to the vet again, and this time she was not going to return. I cried a lot, I hugged and kissed her for a while, and then I cried again. Mommy told me to stop crying because Chispa could get nervous or scared, and so I did and let her go. She was a great dog, and now I have Canela, Cascabel and a little puppy called brownie. I love them as I did with Chispa and I’m still thinking that dogs are not just pets, but part of our families.

Martha, I definitely share your love for dogs. They are the greatest companions!

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