Our lives are like rivers

Comment 17

Nowadays we are passing through a lot of problems because of the pandemic and a lot of other problems, although we need to continue, trying to go over this obstacle, to continue living our lives in the way that we like, and with this case there is a very useful comparison, the one that the Spanish writer Jorge Manrique did in his Copla IV.

Jorge Manrique did a comparison in his most famous work that is "Coplas a la muerte de su padre" he wrote this to honor his father, Rodrigo Manrique, and that with these poems the people could remember his father forever, but with this work all the people remember Jorge Manrique instead of his father. In this work, he did a comparison, he compared our lives with rivers, and he said that our death was when the river gets to the sea.

I think that this comparison is a very good comparison, because I also think in our lives are like rivers, our lives is the route of the river, living different adventures, like obstacles or other things, and bringing live to all the places it goes through. And our death is when the river ends, when it arrives at the sea. However, I don't agree with all this comparison, because in my opinion, we can change our lives, the routes of our rivers with different choices that we can do.

Finally, I think that we should enjoy now, because we are still in the best part of our lives, of our river, so we need to enjoy and to worry less about things without importance, before it is too late.

Everyone should learn English

 Composition 04

Nowadays, everyone in Spain has to study a foreign language at school. You also have to study two languages at the secondary school, English and French. And there are also lot of people that don't like any language and they ask why it is obligatory to study a foreign language.

One point is that you must study English, because nowadays it's a very important language that almost all people know how to talk. There are also a lot of jobs that are necessary to learn a foreign language and in the future, it will increase and alnost all the jobs will require to speak English. Nowadays there are also a lot of texts in English and if you don't know you can't read them.

Another point is, that a lot of students think that learning English is unnecessary, and that they can spend more time on other subjects. And they say that if a foreigner comes to our country, he must learn Spanish, because he is in Spain, and that we don't need to talk with him in his own language.

In conclusion, there are a lot of advantages and disadvantages to learning other languages, but in my opinion, nowadays we need to learn English, because it's the most important language and we will need to speak English one time in all our whole life. 

Once upon a time, 400 years ago, a writer named Cervantes...

Comment 17

Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra was born in Alcalá de Henares in 1547 and he died in 1616 in Madrid, he was a Spanish writer, and he is usually remembered for having written Don Quixote, which was his most famous novel, and in my opinion one of the best novels of all the times and also one of the best selling books in history, but he also wrote other important novels like La Galatea or The Generous Lover. Before being a writer, Cervantes had been a soldier and he participated in a lot of wars. One of these wars were the battle of Lepanto, where the writer lost his left hand, and for this we can refer to him with the name of the one-armed of Lepanto, and he had a lot of more difficulties in his life.

Shakespeare was born in 1564 in Stratford, England and died in 1616 in Stratford, England, he was an English writer, poet, and he is considered the greatest writer in the English language and the world's greatest dramatist. He is often called England's national poet and the "Bard of Avon". He principally wrote plays and sonnets, although he also wrote three long narrative poems. He is very famous because his plays have been translated into a lot of languages and his plays are performed very often in a lot of theatres. Some of his gratest plays are Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet, Othello, King Lear or Macbeth and all of them are consideredto be among the finest works in tyhe English language.

These two writers have a fact in common besides that they were writers, or that they are very famous, and is that both writers died in the same day and in the same year, they died on 23rd April, 1616, and it is a strange coincidence that two of the greatest writers of all times died on the same day. For this reason, the World Book Day is on 23 April, as a commemoration for these writers, this annual event is organized by the UNESCO to promote the reading. The first World Book Day was celebrated on 23 April in 1995, and continues to be recognized on that day.

Time to be honest

Comment 16

We arrive at the third term and now is when we must make a last effort to pass all the subjects with good marks, because we are already in bachillerato, and the average mark will be very important in the future when we will do the university entrance exam, and if we get enough mark, we will choose the degree that we want.

The truth is very important in this life, and we need always be honest also in the studies, because for example in the languages, we must do all the things by ourselves, we need to make genuine things, because if we don't do the compositions, or the comments by ourselves, because if we do it in this way we will learn how to do it, but if we copy the comments or if we don't do them by ourselves, we won't learn anything.

Being honest is also important in our daily life, not only in the studies, because we must tell the truth, but we don't need to tell the truth always, because in some occasion we will tell a lie and it isn't bad at all. It depends on the situation that we lie, because in some situations we will be better if we lie.

In my opinion, we must be honest always, because I don't like lying to anybody, I think that we don't like that anybody lies to us, so we mustn't lie. We need to be honest in the studies to improve and learn about all the things that we do.

Crowdfunding

Comment 15

Nowadays there are a lot of methods to earn the necessary money to do the different ideas that we can have, one of these methods is crowdfunding, this method is via the internet, and it consists in the fact that a large number of people give some money to someone, like musicians, artists or other people that ask for money to do something.

On the one hand, we have all the good things that this method has, for example thanks to this method, a lot of people that don't have enough money to do a project, can win enough money to do it, and that people don't need to ask for a loan to the bank, so they don't have to pay them back any money. Thanks to this method you can also know if your project will be successful, because if a lot of people give you money this will mean that your project will be very successful.

On the other hand, we have all the disadvantages, for example if you suggest a project that you want to do, because you want people to give you money, someone can copy your idea and he can do it before you, so he will have all merit for this project. With this method there are also some people that trick other people to give them money, for example, for medical expenses, but they don't need any money.

In my opinion all the methods to win enough money to do different ideas that you have, are very useful, but you need to know how to use them, and of course don't trick other people, because there are also people that ask for money because they really need it to carry out their project, and if you trick the people, they won't give money to anyone.