Written Assignment

Afghanistan
Kabul
Jakir Street
612
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                                                                                                                       San Francisco
                                                                                                                        Balboa Street

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9th September 2015

Dear Hassan,                                                                                                    

First of all I want to know how you have been in this time that we haven’t see each other. Well, I’m not so good because there is something that I want to tell you, but it’s very difficult for me to say what I’m writing to you right now and it’s the purpose of this letter. It all started when I was a little boy, I lived in an enormous house with my family, and the family of the servants also lived in that house, and I grew up with the son of the servant. His name was Ali and I had the same relationship with him like you with Amir. It was not so similar because I never admitted that he was my friend, because I didn’t have the courage to do it. Ali and I grew up together, and when I got married and started living alone with Sofia, I invited him to be my servant and I built him a little house near my house where he could live with Sanaubar, his wife.

Now, here is the thing I need to tell you but I’ am afraid of your reaction Hassan, but I believe that you need to know. I lived very happily with Sofia until something horrible occurred. Sofia got pregnant with Amir we were very happy and I believed that I was the luckiest man in the world, but when we were at the hospital waiting for Amir to be born, something went wrong in the delivery phase and Sofia died when Amir was born. That was the best and the worst day on my life. Two years later, I started a relationship with your mom Sanaubar without Ali knowing this, and this event has weighed me down all my life. Sanaubar get pregnant with you and I was responsible for that, I am your father Hassan, and Ali never knew that. He always believed that he was your father but the truth is that I am. I loved you Hassan, my son. I am so relieved now by telling you this, I had always loved you but I couldn’t tell you before because Ali was living near my house and I’m never going to see his face again because I don’t have the courage to look at his eyes again.

Hassan, I want to apologize for not having treated you like my own son because I was afraid of Ali’s reaction, and I don’t want you to be alone because of my mistake and your mother’s mistake. I want to tell you that when I die, I am going to divide all my fortunes between you and Amir, and I want you to stay close to Amir, as if you were brothers. I just need to ask that you don’t tell anybody about this, you need to know that this is for your future, and only for you my son.

I hope you can understand me and forgive me, I love you.

Your Father, Baba

Kite Runner Reflexion

In this reflexion of The Kite Runner, between the book and the movie there are plenty of differences and similarities that we can found but in this time I just will refer to 3 of them. One difference between the book and the movie is that in one part Assef fights with Amir, and in the movie just shows that Amir was very hurt in the floor, but in the book shows that after the fight Amir gets knockout and waked up in a hospital. Another is that Rahim Khan in the book its coughing blood and was very sick and in the movie apparently is okay. The third difference is that in the book Assef tells a story that he was in prison and in the movie doesn’t. One similarity is when Assef and Amir where speaking, in both cases its well explained. Another is when Amir and Farid where well dressed and in both cases is explained with a lot of detail. The last is that in both cases its similar the distribution of the dialogs.

Fairtrade Letter

18/03/2015


Dear Martin,

I am writing to you principally to ask you how you have been in these days, but really I want to tell you that the other day I was shopping in the market near my house and I saw a estrange mark on a chocolate bar, I was very interested about this mark and I searched it in the web. You are not going to believe me what that mark was, a strategy for poverty alleviation and sustainable development named Fairtrade. Martin, the purpose of Fairtrade is to create opportunities for producers and workers who have been aconomically marginalised by the conventional trading system in developing countries. With the Fairtrade mark they could get a better deal internationally speaking.

The weird thing was that this chocolate bar was 10% more expensive than conventional bars, so I searched for it and with this 10% you could help these disadvantaged workers giving them this 10% more for they personal use.

This symbol Martin, represents a lot of things that you can see only looking at them, but the real interpretation of this logo represents a farmer holding their product or a campaign worker fighting for a greater justice.

Martin, I want you to think about this because I believe that is very important to help this people that are economically marginalised by the international powerfull companies, so you need to compromise with this the same as me, and if you are going to buy something try to look for the Fairtrade mark.

Regards Franco,



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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.