Three days ago I came from Orlando to Atlanta by car. It was a long but pleasant trip. In Ocala, a town near Orlando, live a close friend of my parents. My parents hadn’t seen him long time ago because he moved to the United States. Ocala is about one hour from Orlando, so on our way to Atlanta we stopped in his house. He has a farm over there and his house is in the farm. The farm is really nice. He works in his farm because he works with horses. My parents were very glad to see him and to see how happy he is with his wife and his work. He loves horses. That’s the reason why he wants to work with them. We stayed in his house for about 4 hours.
When we leaved Ocala was about 4:30 in the afternoon and we had 5 hours of trip from there. I can’t tell much of the trip because I slept almost all the time. When we got to Atlanta it was amazing because you saw the sky and you saw like a million of lights. The lights were airplanes, I was so amazed. I asked my brother why there were so many airplanes in the sky and he answered me that the airport of Atlanta was one of the busiest airports in the world. The Atlanta International Airport is huge, is the biggest airport in the United States.
Today we went to a mall in Kennesaw, a little town in Atlanta. My brother, Pipe, lives in Kennesaw. Kennesaw is a nice town and it isn’t like those towns that you go out and you don’t see even one car. It is like a little busy city. Also it is a town were students live. About most of its population are students.
In the mall that I was today I didn’t found many clothes for the climate of Cartagena. In all the stores right now you found clothes for cold climate because winter is about to begin. Today I was in Claire’s buying some earrings. While I was choosing the earrings there was a little girl with her mom. That little girl was there to make the opening for the earrings. She was crying very much. Today I learned one thing. I learned that here, people doesn’t do the piercing for the earrings when girls are babies, instead they do them when they are a little bit older and that is a big event in the family.
Sunday, November 05, 2006
Respond Post To Monsters Are Due on Maple Street
Hi there,
Some days ago we, my classmates and I, read a story called Monsters Are Due on Maple Street in English class. Our job this week is to do a respond post to the story. Personally, I think that the message of this story is that when people face problems, they need to face the problem as a group instead of fighting and blaming each other. When people face the problems as an individual, usually, they always are trying to blame other person, a kind of scapegoat. At the end they are destroying themselves.
“Understand the procedure now? Just stop a few of their machines and radios and telephones and lawn mowers…throw them into darkness for a few hours and then you just sit back and watch the pattern. And this pattern is always the same? With few variations. They pick the most dangerous enemy they can find…and it’s themselves. And all we need do is sit back…and watch.” This was a conversation I got from the story. The conversation was between two unknown living things. As you can read in the conversation, our most dangerous enemy is ourselves. Also, in that little conversation you can get the message of the story.
I feel that this message is totally true. Usually, when we fight, we follow that procedure. When we fight we are kind of blind and we become desperate to find a scapegoat so people don’t blame us. It would be much better if we stick together as a group to face problems, this would stop or decrease fights and it would be much easier to solve problems.
This story was one of the series of a TV show created in the 1960’s. This TV show was called The Twilight Zone. I believe this message is still relevant in today’s world. People still fight, and almost all the times they fight as individuals so it’s the same thing as 46 years ago.
If I were to re-do this tele-play I would adjust some things to modern life, but the rest is just perfect. I know that right now our major fear are not aliens, but we fear them because we don’t know much of them, so that would be a reason why I won’t change aliens to thieves or terrorist. I think that I shouldn’t change anything and instead do another tele-play with the major fear in present days, so people can compare how the world has worsened or it has became better.
Some days ago we, my classmates and I, read a story called Monsters Are Due on Maple Street in English class. Our job this week is to do a respond post to the story. Personally, I think that the message of this story is that when people face problems, they need to face the problem as a group instead of fighting and blaming each other. When people face the problems as an individual, usually, they always are trying to blame other person, a kind of scapegoat. At the end they are destroying themselves.
“Understand the procedure now? Just stop a few of their machines and radios and telephones and lawn mowers…throw them into darkness for a few hours and then you just sit back and watch the pattern. And this pattern is always the same? With few variations. They pick the most dangerous enemy they can find…and it’s themselves. And all we need do is sit back…and watch.” This was a conversation I got from the story. The conversation was between two unknown living things. As you can read in the conversation, our most dangerous enemy is ourselves. Also, in that little conversation you can get the message of the story.
I feel that this message is totally true. Usually, when we fight, we follow that procedure. When we fight we are kind of blind and we become desperate to find a scapegoat so people don’t blame us. It would be much better if we stick together as a group to face problems, this would stop or decrease fights and it would be much easier to solve problems.
This story was one of the series of a TV show created in the 1960’s. This TV show was called The Twilight Zone. I believe this message is still relevant in today’s world. People still fight, and almost all the times they fight as individuals so it’s the same thing as 46 years ago.
If I were to re-do this tele-play I would adjust some things to modern life, but the rest is just perfect. I know that right now our major fear are not aliens, but we fear them because we don’t know much of them, so that would be a reason why I won’t change aliens to thieves or terrorist. I think that I shouldn’t change anything and instead do another tele-play with the major fear in present days, so people can compare how the world has worsened or it has became better.
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