Rationale

For the part 2 of my English class we studied the language and mass communication. For a better understanding of this theme we saw the “Social Network”, which is a movie about the life of Mark Zuckerberg, CEO and founder of Facebook, a famous webpage.

Now my written task is based on the movie "Social Network" in addition with my own thoughts about ambition. Basically what I did is a speech which its main theme was how ambition can affect the relations with the ones that are beside you such as family or friends tanking the main idea if the movie and explain what it wants to transmit, which in this case was the sacrifices you have to make to achieve your highest point in life. I tried to engage the audience by making them to feel identified with all the situations he talks about, so I also tried to do this giving the example of Mark: “This story begins in this exact university Mark was one of you in the past a imperturbable and brilliant student” so the audience could feel as part of the speech.

I think that I did achieve the objective of the part 2 and also understand what is the mass media and communication and what relation does it have with the language. We did achieve this objective by different ways such as analyzing songs, texts, and videos. And it´s this activity that made me conscious about how this mass media works and how the people that controls the media has the power and responsibility to use this very carefully, because it can easily affect our point of view about a specific theme.

Written IB task - Improved Speech

Good morning alumni's, it’s an honor to speak to you today here in Harvard. May i introduce myself, my name is Alonso Jander and today i want to talk about of how money and ambition may affect in your value of friendship.

First of all it’s important to define what is ambition, the ambition defined by the oxford dictionary means “an earnest desire for some type of achievement or distinction, as power, honor, fame, or wealth, and the willingness to strive for its attainment” but how far can this desire take us, how much things are you willing to sacrifice to achieve your goals, your friends, your family, the ones you LOVE?, think about it. I’m not saying that you must quit every time you have problems with your objectives, I’m talking about the precaution you must have in this journey of life and how it may affect it, in this case in the relations with the ones that are beside you such as family but more important your friends, because everyone it’s part of a family, but not everybody has “real” friends, as the old expression says, the real friends can be counted with the fingers of a hand.

Since that the human being is dependent to exchanges of products to survive, the human being has adopted ways to acquire this products first exchanging objects for objects (barter), but nowadays we exchange this products for "money”. Since this invention of money the world and the society completely changed on how it functions. Nowadays it’s possible to say that the world is ruled by money, if you don’t have money you can’t do the things you like or even live a decent life the actual society has the pattern of: study, get a good job, and try to have the biggest amount of profit as you can so you can live a decent life in this world. The problems of this money-ruled society is that the money most of the times brings more problems than solutions such as envy and difference, but I just want to talk about two of the thousands problems that brings money; the corruption and ambition.

Ambition can be good sometimes to achieve your personal goals in your life, but as I have seen in the present society’s most of the time ambition consumes the human and corrupt his values which lead to the social crisis of this individual, loose of friendships and even the family for the sake of money, sacrificing all just for money stained with the loss of your relations.

A great example of this, is in the recently story of the millionaire Mark Zuckerberg. This story begins in this exact university Mark was one of you in the past a imperturbable and brilliant student of this prestigious university and now he is the CEO of one of the most popular websites in the world, Facebook. But like all the big industries he first started with nothing but a purpose, in this case the purpose was to create a webpage in the beginning only accessible to the students of the university´s but it quickly became worldwide, but in the very beginning it all started in a apartment with 3 friends and a computer. In the beginning Mark and his best friend Eduardo started with the website here in Harvard as I said, and then expanding it to other universities around the country. In less than a year Facebook was already very famous and started getting bigger which means that more people joined the website. Now is here where the earnings started to grow to enormous numbers, so mark decided to hire Sean Parker the cofounder of Napstera wicked character which his only motivation in his life is making money no matter what, this individual started to play with Mark´s head and  convinced him that Eduardo CFO of the webpage and his best friend was a burden to the company and finally made Mark  to cut a gigantic part of the earnings of his CFO Eduardo his best friend. Cutting his 35% of the earnings to a 0.35% of the company. And later clearly out of Mark expectations Eduardo sued him, and after the long and exhausting trial all that Mark won was a destroyed friendship and millions lost in payments.

There’s a clear message in this story, in how extreme ambition can destroy your relation with the people you love, family and friends. So i ask you the following question is it worth to lose a life lasting relationship for some dirty money?

The reason i tell you this story is because you are the future of the world, my generation is already lost in greed and ambition, but you ladies and gentleman will be the future generation of professionals in the world, and i personally ask you to always be careful and balance the ambitious life goals that you have with your relation with your close ones, always analogies what is the correct thing because it is something you will encounter day a day in the present, the XXI century.

Please remember the words i just told you if the moment comes.

Thanks for listening

Poem Analysis Tears idle Tears

Fisrt stanza: The speaker cries because he is remembering the past.
Second stanza: The speaker while he looks at the extense fields he stills remembers the past.
Third stanza: The speaker mentions he's inside a house while he hears the "half-aweakened birds" where we can infer its the morning sings of the birds.
Fourth stanza: He remembers that special person he used to loved, which is probably dead.

The title tears idle tears already give us the sadness connotation, but with a more deep analysis the tears represent the crying of the speaker because the loss of someone he loved. Also tell us that the pain probably will never leave because the crying has not stopped since she left.

Europe Trip, Day 16

That day started early in the morning with some sports activities wich included jogging around the city, now the thing that make this day my favorite is because the teachers gave us all the day to explore the city by ourselves, London is a huge city divided by the river thames although it was very hard to get lost, in my case i went to one of the main streets of London named Picadelly Circus which has a lot of stores of all kind, from electronics to clothes, i think this was the day i walked the most at the end of the day i was exhausted but happy because i loved the city.

Link to Jane Eyre characterization

http://www.educreations.com/lesson/view/jane-eyre/22723904/?s=3I7Pg9&ref=app

 Writting Task - Speech

Good morning alumni's, its an honor to speak to you today here in Harvard. May i introduce myself, im Alonso Jander and today i want to talk about of how money and ambition may affect in friendship.

Since that the human being is dependent to exchanges of products to survive the human being has adopted ways to acquire this products giving "money" for it. Since this invention of money the world changed on how it functions. Nowadays the world is ruled by money, if you dont have money you cant do the things you like or even live a decent life the actual society has the pattern of : study, get a good job, and  try to have the biggest amount of profit as you can so you can live a decent life in this world. The problems of this money-ruled society is that the money most of the times brings more problems than solutions this problems are commonly the corruption and ambition.
Ambition can be good to achieve your personal goals in your life but most of the time ambition consumes the human and corrupt his values which leads to the social crisis of this individual, loose of friendships and even the family for the sake of money.
A great example of this, is in the recently story of the millionare Mark Zuckerberg. This story begins in this exact university Mark was one of you in the past and now he is the CEO of one of the most popular websites in the world. But like all the big industries he first started with nothing, in this case with 3 friends and a computer. In the begining Mark and his best friend Eduardo started with the website here in harvard, and then expanding it to other universities around the country. In less than a year Facebook was already very famous and started getting bigger wich means that more people joined the website. Now is here where the money with the recently empleoyee Sean Parker the cofounder of Napster, this individual convinced Mark to cut a giagantic part of the earns of his CFO Eduardo his best friend. Cutting his 35% to a 0.35% of the company. But Mark didnt expected that Eduardo sued him, and after the trial all that Mark won was a destroyed friendship and millions lost in payments.
Theres a clear messege in this story, in how extreme ambition can destroy your relation with the people you love, family and friends. So i ask you the following question is it worth to loose a lifelasting relationship for some money?
The reason i tell you this story is because you are the future of the world, you ladies and gentleman will be the future generation of proffesionals in the world, and i personally ask you to always be carefull and balance the ambitious life goals that you have with your relation with your close ones, always analaise what is the correct thing because it is something you will encounter day a day in the present,the XXI century.
Please remember the words i just told you if the moment comes.

Thanks for listening

Written task 

Dear Jamie Shea

First of all im writting you this letter to demand you to quit your job. Why? Because what you are doing is totally unethical. Using your authority and language to create false facts to generate a less evil idea of war is as i said it before totally unethical. Stop using your language to disorting the truth. As a NATO spokesman the least we can expect is this kind of issues. Please stop using this biased language to persuade other people for a cause you invented. I now you are not a bad intentioned man but your descisions are generating a huge caos, thats why this massive use of euphemisms must stop now, thats why im demanding you to leave your charge and quit your job.

Adolus Huxley

DETECTING BIAS PRESENTATION

http://prezi.com/ojigfcxjzup3/present/?auth_key=49fyzgq&follow=0htkkuko_mik&kw=present-ojigfcxjzup3&rc=ref-80387933

BLog

English activity: Compare and contrast letters

http://www.thinkib.net/englishalanglit/page/9671/8-writing-tips

To Avoid the word 'it' as the subject of a sentence:
The word it is removed in this case and also changed for the word being, then is finished this part of the letter with to me.So in this case this changes also help to reduce the repetition of certain words.

Use clauses, such as who, where or which:
The word where was changed by the word and, also the use of comas is added in the beginning.

Use right verb tense :
As the verb tense changes it gives the idea that is tried to soy the writer instead of something that the writer thought it is now understander as something he thinks of.

Watch out for wordy sentences:
The number of words is reduced , in which it still gives the same message. 

Never start a sentence with but:
In the letter the words but and job are removed, because both words are too repeated.

Don’t have too many clauses at the beginning of a sentence:
The number of clauses in the letter are just a few, changing the position most of the words. The change is in the beginning of the letter.

Parallel structures:
Is changed in such a way that it fits in the language of a work area, by changing the words person by colleague and use the word I just once, making the text more fluid.

Use active verbs instead of passive verbs:
The word I is added at the beginning, making it more active, as if anyone would give value to the organisation.

                                  ESSAY TASK
1.- In my opinion Fatelessness doesnt have a true message becose the author Imre Kertez when he writed this novel he was just telling the bad experience and how he survived the Holocaust. He didnt whant to leave a message he just wanted to tell all the pain that the jews suffered because of the Nazi party. But if we analyse carefully the story it leaves a message but it wasnt the purpose of the novel. This message was to do not commit the same mistakes we made in  the past, like to do not ignore the human rights because we are all the same, and in this case the Jews that were affected in the Holocaust that where slaughtered in the concentration camps just becasue of an ideology imposed by one person.

                                        ESSAY TASK
2.- The understanding of the points of view expressed in Fatelessness can be hard or easy in my opnion depending of a lot of factors, like the culture, the eductation of the reader and even the nacionality of the reader because the theme wich is talked about in Fatelessness is a very controversial one.

Refering to the culture, a reader can have a different point of view of other reader just because of the culture. Why? because sometimes the culture educates the people different and the can formulate different point of view depending on what he wants to believe.

                                           ESSAY TASK
3.-In the novel Fatelessness the narrative techniques used not only gives us the mood of gyuri it also give us the feelings of gyuri which makes the novel to be know worldwide as a very realistic story.

All the elements that the writers use to create this technique is what makes the novel a tragic one like the young boy that lost verything including his family because of the Holocaust or even the only image of the boy in the concentration camps makes it tragic, when he was forced to work till exhaustion or how he escapes that slaughter of the camp because had a injury in his knee, this elements are the ones that catch the reader and affect the readers mind, making the novel Fatelessnes a very emotive and sensitive story of a young boy who lost everything.

                                           ESSAY TASK
4.- The Context, in this story is one of the most important factors for the authors when they relate their own experience, because the context helps us to understand whats happening in the moment when the story is happening and let us to understand much better the story. And in the case of this story it helps also to understand whats a concentration camp, or how people where treated in the camps, like for example aushchwitz birkenau, this hitorical background helped me to understand the reasons of why gyuri was treated like that, and talking in general , as when we analyse some stories, one of the first aspects we look for is the historical background, like in the book the last of the mohicans, the historical background helps us to understand where is happening and why.

            VIDEO

http://pvinesr.blogspot.com/2013/11/video.html

                                                                      Listening activity

1. Before the interview, the presenter visits a monument to the Holocaust created by the American artist Peter Eiserman. Considering the shapes, architecture and general design, in what ways do you think he represents the reality in the concentration camps?

- He represent the concetration camps with lots of huge black stone blocks making you have the feeling of vulnerability wich was the main feeling in the concentration camps .

2. Which is the paradox the presenter mentions regarding Imre Kertész and the place where he lives?

- The paradox is that now Imre lives in Germany, the country that in the past tried to kill him.

3. Refer to antisemitism before and after Auschwitz according to Kertész.

-It was just an idea of creating again what happend after aushcwitz, antisemitism.

4. In what way do reminders of the past in historical books make us “much richer”?

-The reminders of the historical books makes us much richer because they teach us the consecuenses of the past and the and remind us to do not commit the same mistakes of the past in this case the Holocaust.

5. Which metaphor does Imre use to exemplify the effect of fatelessness on its readers?

 - Imre uses this metaphor:" I continued to worry our souls, and now it knocks from inside the cabinet where we thought we had locked it up." This metaphot exemplify the fatelessness becose it shows the feeling, the problems, and the horrible things he experienced are still there in his mind, in his memorys, wich come to live in his book, wich is his "mirror" to the past.

Exchanging letters 

http://pvinesr.blogspot.com/

What language (specific words) did your classmate did you classmate use to appeal the audience? If there is no language appealing the audience, suggest some words.

My friend uses words such as "saddness" and "suffering" to create a dark atmosphere  and also "i missed you a lot" or "dont loose hope" also to create to the audience a emotive atmosphere.

How moving is the letter ? Do you think that your classmate's style is effective?

In my opinion the letter is very moving because the way he expresses the emotions and the feelings of the father towards the son is a very effective way, its like a real father talking to his son in this situation.

Explain to what extent the letter includes elements of contexts and time.

The letter includes elements of contect such as "concentration camp" which makes the principal reference of context to the dark times of the Holocaust.

                                                               Fatelessness: Language Analysis

What is the theme explored here?
The innocence of Yuri towards whats happening.

Explain.
"I realized: the fact that i saw no sign of movement, of life, around them", here we can realize the innocence of Yuri, because he doesn't see things how they are really happening. "happily" Yuri uses this word showing his blind innocence, and "I tasted the oft-cited joyful experience" again he uses a word (joyful) showing blind innocence.

What is the main theme explored here?
The Hoplessness

Explain.
"I could not help bbut notice all the other sick people - wounds and all-", "a pain started on my left hip followed by the now familiar red sack" here Yuri starts feeling the hopelessness wich will increase. "I was often freezing after loosing one of my two blankets" and here we can see the condition of Yuri wich later he will have another hopeless companion "The sallow face and large burning eyes", "his persistently shivering body" and we can see hopeless highlighted in the last four pages: "they where now on my open flesh" "never before had i sensed a more hopeless struggle or a more stubborn" and Yuri also uses certain words to create this hopelessness atmosphere, such as "wreak devastation","gluttony", "teeming", "voracity", "appetite", "uncocealed hapiness", etc.

What is the main theme explored here?
Language as means of interaction

Explain.
"The latvians they use Yiddish, but they also speak German, Slovakian, and smatering of who knows what, only not Hungarian", "I tried to speak, get myself noticed, but to no avail", here we can see the theme reflected in this two examples and how powerfull was language in that the situation, because everyone who knowed more than one language in that situation haved more power than those who only knewed one like Yuri.

                                                        The Corious Incident 

1.- It tells us that the mind just  receive and collect information in a superficial and not analitcal way, just seeing the fissical things not the messege or the idea of the images, thats because he thinks hes different because he also thinks in this case how old is it.

2.- In my opinion people choose what to see because what they see is what have a meaning to them or whats important.

3.- I think maybe people are too lazy to recive the hole information, and also can see things and recive the information in a different way because the importance they give to some things over the others.

4.- I think we should select thing different, becuase if we get distracted by all the meaningless things we cuold get distracted.

5.- The things that make us select the things we see, i think its the common scence because we only see what is important to us.

6.- The language also plays a important part in how we see the things because language give us a different perspective.

7.- The confusion is the product of seeing different things at the same time, in the text we can see how the narrator gets confused when he recieves different stimulus at the same time.

                                                            Gyuri's mind

1.- This part tell us that the mind of gyuri acts as a child one, in other words as a innocent one, all the things that happen'd around him where something good, but he was not seeing things like they where really happening.

2.- Becose most of 13 year old children choose what they want to be in the future and their achivements, like a general example most of the children in their youth want to be an astronaut or a doctor.

3.- Language plays an important part in gyuris narration, because he choose specefic words to describe what's happening around him, but he gives a innocent description, when its an horrifing scene.

4.- It is not relaible, because he has not lived yet the nightmare thats going to happen in the rest of the story.

                                                                   Letter 1

Dear father

Im writing you to tell you that i survived. Im home, safe from the atrocities that i witnessed. The concentration camps are terrible places where freedom is just a ghost and for most of the people ; death. I had to live terrible experiences there, such as hunger, cruelty and the feel of losing most of my friends, who are probably dead. The germans had no mercy i had to work all day, and most of the time my legs didnt resist the hard work and my hands red of blood where just too painfull to grab the spade. But i think that the only reason i survived was because of my friend, the only person i could call a real friend, he was like my guardian angel, he protected me and gived me advices, unfortunatly i dont know what happen'd to him, i lost contact with him when he left me in the entrance of the medic. I broke my leg when i tried to jump off my bed, my leg hurted so bad and it was like a ballon full of pus. But that was my exit, i stayed in the medic until the american's soilders invaded the camp and let us free, then i followed a group of young jewish wich where going to Budapest Dont you worry about our family i will take care of them, i hope i can see you soon dad.

Sincerely gyurka