The Kite Runner Graphic Novel

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Photo Description

In this picture you can analyse the following information, there is an Australian rugby player kicking the ball in middle of a match in Australia. The differences of traditional rugby an Australian rugby is that the second one is played in a circular field and you can tackle a player without the ball, thing that in regular rugby you can't do. The players of the picture were using unsleeved T-shirts and shorts with the colours of they respective teams, also using studs. The expressions of the black team are of sadness because the blue team had scored a point all the players in the picture are standing and only one kneeling. The main focus of this photo is the player of the blue team kicking the ball to mark a point against the black team.

Photo Description Invictus

This image reflects when the Springboks visited a poor community on Johannesburg, South Africa. They go there because they were trying to unify the white side of the country that was the British people with the other side that were the black people. With this beautiful action Mandela was trying to stop a civil war that it will destroyed the country and his people.

In the photo you can see how the Springboks share a whole afternoon playing rugby with little children of the poorness side of Johannesburg. In the photo all the boys seem to be very happy and having a good time.

The Springboks team was dressed with sports clothes with a sweater of the team, shorts and studs. And in the other side the poor children were dressed with worn out shirts, shorts and a pair of shoes.

The actions were that they were passing the ball from side to side and clapping at the same time, the expressions of their faces were of extremely happiness and surprise from the children, because they never had the opportunity of playing rugby.

Movie Review

Invictus (2009) Movie Review
MPAA Rating: Rated PG-13 for brief strong language
Reviewed By: Franco Nervi on October 30, 2014
Genre: Sports Drama
With: Matt Damon, Morgan Freeman
Directed By: Clint Eastwood
Distributor: Warner Bros. pictures

“Times change, we need to change as well” Francois Pienaar, Capitan of the Springboks said these emotive words to motivate his team before the match, referring that they could change the history winning the match versus the all blacks. This movie has a genre of sports drama mixing with a crude social reality, this sports drama shows how Nelson Mandela follows the idea of unifying a whole country by winning the rugby world cup.

Invictus faces the horrible reality between two different nations, the British culture that were the minority of 43 million people that lived in South Africa and the Native’s African people. Nelson Mandela who lid a violent opposition to the regime of Apartheid, that were in the government in that moment. Mandela was arrested in 1962 and condemned to life sentence, he was released 30 years later in 1990 and he started working as a representative of the multiracial democracy.    After the victory of his party he was elected president in the elections of 1994 and he was the first black president in South African history. This movie is based in real historical facts, like the decision of Nelson Mandela of using the rugby world cup to find the support of the white minority and reducing the racial tension that could caused a civil war, trying to unify this two cultures.

Morgan Freeman as Nelson Mandela in Invictus, invited a Francois Pienaar, (Matt Damon) the captain of the Springboks to a cup of tea on the presidential house to argue about winning the World Cup. Francois Pienaar motivates his team to make an effort trying to win the world cup.

The Springboks started winning a lot of matches and they get very quickly to the final. In some parts of the movie Nelson Mandela felt’s very gloomy when he remembered his days in jail. The Springboks made a beautiful social work visiting some poor children and they spend one day playing with them and showing what Mandela’s proposition was. The Springboks who made an enormous effort to get to the final were very afraid to play the match against the All Blacks because they were very powerful as a team. I will leave you here because I don’t want to disclose the great ending of this film.

I totally recommend this movie because it reveals the different social classes in South Africa at that period, and how a president didn’t feel any remorse to the people that arrested him, because he wanted to unify a whole country, to make a democracy in South Africa. The movie has beautiful pictures and scenes that show us the poorness of that country. Also the Springboks team was acted by real rugby players except the main actor: Matt Damon.

Getting Ahead - Letter to a friend

October 23, 2014

Dear Martin,

It had been to long since your last visit to Chile, I want to tell you that all the guys here are very good, including me. But something occurred to me two days ago, I was skating in a very steep street when suddenly I fell down near Bosques de Montemar and I crushed with a car that was parked in the right side of that stupid street. I fainted and when I woke up I was inside of an stranger car going to the hospital.

The doctors told me that my arm was dislocated and I would need to use a cast for about three months. I knew in that moment that I was going to skate again in a week. They gave me some drugs for the pain and I was released. I am gonna wait until I felt better to go back to the streets.

My friend, I want to ask you, how have you been in this long time that we haven't seem each other, now I have to say good bye, have a nice day. 

Global Warming Opinion Essay

It's worth understanding what is going on with the environmental problems facing us today, than trying to change it without knowing what's happening first. My view is that the society doesn't know that the most important environmental problem facing the world today is global warming; we need to think about what is going to happen when our grandchildren become adults and when the world will be consumed by a dangerous climate change, increasing the average temperature of the Earth.

According to National Geographic, scientists have spent decades figuring out what is causing global warming, they've looked at the natural cycles and also events that are known to influence climate change. National Geographic scientists investigated the problem and came out with the conclusion that the only way to explain global warming is to include the effect of greenhouse gases emitted by humans.

I believe that its going to be very difficult to carry with global warming problem, because first we need to change the point of view of humanity. If people do not try to live in an ecological system I don't believe that we would win this. What Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) said was that "climate change will have a significant impact on the sustainability of water supplies in the coming decades". A new analysis by NRDC found that "more than 1,100 counties will face extremely high risks of water shortages".

On the other hand John Hawkins, a columnist of Townhall Newspaper said that "there is no scientific consensus that global warming is ocurring and caused by man".

According to him "31.000 scientists have signed on to a petition saying humans aren't causing global warming and another 1.000 saying there is no global warming at all".

In conclusion I believe that what John Hawkins said is entirely wrong, he said that global warming it's not occurring and it's not caused by humans, I said to him that I have real facts why global warming is caused by humans that are filling up the atmosphere of greenhouse gases that will destroy it.

I believe that we need to think about what is happening with the atmosphere if we want to continue living the way we live.

                                                                   Bibliography

Hawkins, John  (February 18, 2014)  "5 Scientific Reasons Why Global Warming Isn't Happening" Retrieved from: http://townhall.com/columnists/johnhawkins/2014/02/18/5-scientific-reasons-that-global-warming-isnt-happening-n1796423/page/full

National Geographic,  "What Causes Global Warming"  (N.D)  Retrieved from:                http://environment.nationalgeographic.com/environment/global-warming/gw-causes

NRDC (Natural Resources Defense Council),  "Climate Change, Water, and Risk" (16 of July, 2010)
Retrieved from: http://www.nrdc.org/globalwarming/watersustainability/

Opinion essay sources

Opposite opinion:

5 scientific reasons why global warming isn't happening

Author: jhon hawkins

Date: February 18, 2014

Link: http://townhall.com/columnists/johnhawkins/2014/02/18/5-scientific-reasons-that-global-warming-isnt-happening-n1796423/page/full

Text:

There is no scientific consensus that global warming is occurring and caused by man: Questions are not decided by "consensus." In fact, many scientific theories that were once widely believed to be true were made irrelevant by new evidence. Just to name one of many, many examples, in the early seventies, scientists believed global cooling was occurring. However, once the planet started to warm up, they changed their minds. Yet, the primary "scientific" argument for global warming is that there is a "scientific consensus" that it's occurring. Setting aside the fact that's not a scientific argument, even if that ever was true (and it really wasn't), it's certainly not true anymore. Over 31,000 scientists have signed on to a petition saying humans aren't causing global warming. More than 1000 scientists signed on to another report saying there is no global warming at all. There are tens of thousands of well-educated, mainstream scientists who do not agree that global warming is occurring at all and people who share their opinion are taking a position grounded in science.

Supportive opinion 1,

What Causes Global Warming

Author: national geographic 

Date: Available September 03, 2014

Link: http://environment.nationalgeographic.com/environment/global-warming/gw-causes

Text:

Scientists have spent decades figuring out what is causing global warming. They've looked at the natural cycles and events that are known to influence climate. But the amount and pattern of warming that's been measured can't be explained by these factors alone. The only way to explain the pattern is to include the effect of greenhouse gases (GHGs) emitted by humans.

One of the first things scientists learned is that there are several greenhouse gases responsible for warming, and humans emit them in a variety of ways. Most come from the combustion of fossil fuels in cars, factories and electricity production. The gas responsible for the most warming is carbon dioxide, also called CO2. Other contributors include methane released from landfills and agriculture (especially from the digestive systems of grazing animals), nitrous oxide from fertilizers, gases used for refrigeration and industrial processes, and the loss of forests that would otherwise store CO2.

Supportive opinion 2

Climate Change, Water, and Risk

Author: NRDC (Natural Resources Defense Council)

Date: 16 of July, 2010

Link: http://www.nrdc.org/globalwarming/watersustainability/

Text: 

Climate change will have a significant impact on the sustainability of water supplies in the coming decades. A new analysis, performed by consulting firm Tetra Tech for the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), examined the effects of global warming on water supply and demand in the contiguous United States. The study found that more than 1,100 counties -- one-third of all counties in the lower 48 -- will face higher risks of water shortages by mid-century as the result of global warming. More than 400 of these counties will face extremely high risks of water shortages.