The red telephone box

Now, I’m going to talk about the red telephone box, one of the most interesting icons of UK. I choose this icon because is one of the symbols or icons more recognized in the world, we can see it in films, series, photos and all of us want to make us a photo with it.

However this red telephone box has a long history until now. The development of the telephone was in 1876 but the history of this public telephone does not begin until 1900 when the General Post Office was formed and the phone boxes began to increase in towns and cities. In the streets there were a lot of designs but the first public telephone appeared in 1921 and was called K1. Unfortunately the look of the K1 wasn't popular with the general public and in 1926 appeared the called K2, designed by Sir Giles Gilbert, but was very expensive and big to produce it.

Since then, there were a lot of designs and modification, before the definitive public telephone appeared in 1935, when the General Post Office asked to Sir Giles to create a new model and Sir Giles accepted creating the K6 red telephone box. It was perfect, had the good things of K1 and K3 and the solidness of the K2 with the elegance and small sizes that the GPO Company wanted.

It’s said that, although the first public telephone appeared in 1921, in 1926 the Royal Fine Arts Commission asked to Sir Giles a new design and since then the public telephones began to be red and created with cast iron. However, when the queen Elizabeth II ascended to the throne in 1952 ordered that all the red telephone box of UK had the St. Edward’s Crown.

My favorite holidays

Thanksgiving is a traditional celebration of United States and Canada. In United States is celebrated on the fourth Thursday of November and the second Monday of October in Canada. It is a celebration where the families and friends usually come together around a table to share a banquet to give thanks for the blessing of the harvest and of the preceding year. This celebration is very important in EEUU and they usually do many things to celebrate it. Some traditions are see in the morning the Grand Parade of the store Macy’s in New York which includes huge pumps, floats, bands of music, popular figures of characters for kids etc… Another tradition is the dinner because in Thanksgiving is very important bless the table with a prayer before the feast, giving thanks for the good things and the food. Also, is usually too that the President of United States says a speech to start the holiday of Thanksgiving.

Punctuation

1. The men in question - Harold Keene, Jim Peterson and Gerald Greene - deserve awards.
2. Several countries participated in the airlift: Italy, Belgium, France and Luxembourg.
3. "Only one course was open to us surrender - said the ex-major -  and we did"
4. Judge Carswell, later to be nominated for the Supreme Court, had ruled against civil rights.
5. In last week's New Yorker, one of my favorite magazines, I enjoyed reading Leland's article "How Not to Go Camping".
6. "Yes" - Jim said - "I'll be home by ten".
7. There was only one thing to do: study till dawn.
8. Montaigne wrote the following "A wise man never lose anything, if he has himself".
9. The following are the primary colors: red, blue and yellow.
10. Arriving on the 8.10 plane were: Liz Brooks (my old roomate), her husband and Tim (their son).
11. When the teacher commented that her spelling was poor, Lynn replied: "All the member of my family are poor spellers. Why not me?".
12. He used the phrase "you know" so often that I finally said: "No, I don't know".
13. The automobile dealer handled three makes of cars: Volkswagens, Porsches and Mercedes Benz.
14. Though Phil said he would arrive on the 9:19 flight; he came instead on the 10:36 flight.
15. "Whoever thought - said Helen - that Jack would be elected class president?".
16. In baseball, a show-boat is a man who shows off.
17. The minister, quoted Isaiah 5:21 in last Sunday's sermon.
18. There was a very interesting article entitled "The New Rage for Folk Singing" in last Sunday's New York Times newspaper.
19. "Darwin's On the Origin of Species" (1859) caused a great controversy when it appeared.
20. We had a great time in France; the kids really enjoyed it.
21. Some people work best in the mornings; others do better in the evenings.
22. "What are you doing next weekend?".
23. Mother had to go into hospital. She had heart problems.
24. "Did you understand why I was upset?".
25. It is a fine idea, let us hope that it is going to work.
26. We will be arriving on Monday morning. At least, I think so.
28. A textbook can be a wall between teacher and class.
29. The girls's father sat in a corner.
30. In the words of Murphy's Law: "Anyhting that can go wrong, will go wrong".

The adverts's influence

Today, all of us are influenced by the commercials of TV and not all the commercials are good. I think that the TV can cause more problems than we can imagine because although we think that commercials of make up or brand name clothes don’t care and don’t influence us, it can do it.

Last year, I did a work about bulimia and anorexia and one of the facts that we talked was the commercials on TV, above all, the commercials about fashion because they use so skinny models and in spite of we can think that this can’t influence us, it can do it. I say that because I could prove that the most of the girls and man who suffer these diseases is because of the commercials on TV or in the magazines, internet etc...

However, I'm focusing in these diseases but nowadays all kind of commercials can influence us because we think that they say totally the truth but the truth is that the people who prepare or make these commercials the only thing that they want is sell their products and if they have to lie us, they will do it. For example, if we see a commercial of cleaning products they will try to make that you think that is the best cleaning product of the entire world and that is not the truth. I’m not saying that the cleaning product isn't good but it won’t “finish” with all kind of stains of your clothes or your house.

To conclude, I would like to say that I’m sure that almost everybody has been laid with the commercials of TV. We think that we are buying a fantastic product and after we can see that is an ordinary product like one more.

Intouchable

Hi everyone! Today I want to share with all of you what is my favourite film and why. This film is french and it was released in Spain in 2012. This film is one of the most beautiful and inspiring films that I've ever seen and besides the actors and actresses that participated in the film did it very well, you can feel each feeling that the main character feel.

The film is about Philippe, a quadriplegic millionaire who is interviewing candidates for the position of his carer. Then, Driss, an african, cuts the line of candidates to bring to Philippe a document and asks him to sign it to prove that he is searching for a job so he can receive the unemployment benefit. Philippe, decided to challenge him, offering the job during a month to gain experience helping him. Driss accept and moves to the Philippe's mansion.

I love this film because in spite of that it has some sad or dramatic moments, the most part of the film is very very hilarious. I think that this film has all the right ingredients to be the perfect film, comedy, drama and love. I totally recommend this film, you can't imagine how much fantastic is this film until you see it, so come on, go to your computer, tv or phone and watch it. While, here you can see the movie trailer.

They just want to have fun!

As all we know drinking and smoking is something negative for our bodies but when the young people like me or others of my age go out we forget this. I think that is very sad that the young people have to drink and smoke to spend a good time. Because of that I consider very important to give my opinion about it and propose some tips about how to stay healthy without bad habits.

Today, the modern teenagers have a serious problem especially with alcohol. However, the worst thing is that in spite of they know all the bad things that this can cause, they continue drinking and smoking. They possibly think that with alcohol they can make friends easier or be less shy but with it they can have a lot of diseases, affect one’s mood or even die because when you are drunk you do a lot of things without thinking.

As a young person who don’t have the necessity of drinking and smoking to spend a good time I’m going to give some tips about how to stay healthy. At first and the most important thing is leave the alcohol and the necessity of drinking when we go out. After this, we have to eat better, more salads and vegetables, fish and sometimes we can eat meat but it said that is less healthy than fish and at finally we have to do a lot of sport, whatever sport you prefer, swimming, football, basketball or just go out to running.

To conclude, I think that is important remember that your happiness only depend on you and you can have fun without alcohol. Go out with your friends, spend a good time and be healthy.

Forever green!

Nowadays, the environment is one of the most spoken topics in our society. The climate change, the air pollution, the energy problems and other pollution products are some of the problems in our world. Is well known that with the years we have evolved and with us, the thing that we have created like the transport that we use, the factories where some of us work every day etc... This is causing a bigger and bigger hole in the ozone layer.

Unfortunately, not all the people are concerned with the protection of the natural environment and not all the people do something to avoid this problem. I consider that the young people are a big part of this people because in this age is very strange see a young recycling or using a bike instead of the cars. Anyway, these actions depend of the education that their parents give them during their childhood.

In fact, my parents, since I was little, have taught me the importance of recycle or the importance of throw the rubbish to the paper bin instead of throw it on the floor. Because of that, all my family is totally concerned about the protection of the natural environment because we know the importance of saving this world and live in harmony with the nature and in a place where we can breathe fresh air.

So, as I have been concerned since I was little about the importance of saving this world, I think that recycle and avoid to throw the rubbish on the floor are actions very significant that although you think that you don’t do anything with that, you and more people doing these things makes a big action that can get a better world.