If I were you, I'd...

Fifth quality comment, Comment 25

This school year is coming to an end and we, all the students in 2ºBachillerato, are living our last year in the secondary school. Next year, we will be studying in other places, some will go to Universities and others will be doing differents vocational training. For these reasons, it is a nice and sad year, it's nice because we pass an educational stage and we start another that is totally different from it. But it is also a sad year because it's the last year with all our classmates and teachers.

Well, we always commit lots of mistakes in all our school years, so now that we have already finish this last year, we can advise and make some helpful tips to the students that next year will be doing 2ºBachillerato. The main piece of advice that we can give is that you have to study harder than the present year and almost everyday, always without giving up, although you think that you won't achieve what you want.

Other pieces of advices that we can give is that you'd better make yourself your activities, summaries... without copying it from other classmates, because, if you don't do it you won't learn. Besides, if I were in your shoes, I would take this new year with a lot of calm and relax, because it is a hard year and if you don't take it with some relax it can cause you some anxiety or other health illnesses.

Finally, as a conclusion, I reckon that although it is a hard school year, it's also one of the most beautiful school years, and at less, for me it has been one of the my best school years. For this reason, my last advice is to take advantage of this last year and to have a good time during all this year, which isn't so bad at all!

"Do you enjoy watching TV series? Explain"

 Composition 7

 In our days, films amd TV series are more and more popular among young people, actually there are also older people who love watching both types of entertaiment. So, thanks to this, films and TV series' producers are making lots of different productions and they are earning lot of money from it. Watching films and TV series have some pros, but also some cons.

On the one hand, we have the pros that watching TV series has. You usually watch them when you are bored and don't have snything to do, so they entertain you as it is their objective. They also make yoo feel excited about what will happen in the next episode.

On the other hand, there are some cons that having TV series has, they are very related with the pros. For example, as they entertain you and change your mood, they can produce and addiction to it you spend all day lying on the sofa watching different series, and you are what is called a couchpotato, a very lazy person. This addiction, like any other, can bring several problems along, like overweight or other health problems or even several mental illnesses.

Finally, as a conclusion, I reckon that watching series is something really good, because it makes you feel relaxed and forget some worries. And now there are series of all genres and from different parts of the world, you can watch, for example, American series or Japanese animes, which are animation series. But, you always need to know when to stop watching and start doing what you must do.

Virtual reality

Fourth Quality Comment, Comment 24

In lastest decades, technology has improved a lot, and has created things like virtual reality. And, what is actually virtual reality?. Virtual reality, usually abreviate as VR, consists of the creation of stimulated enviroments, and they are a three dimensional experience, so you interact with a 3D world, not only with a screen as we usually do. One of the most important people in this field is Palmer Luckey, who is the creator of the Occulus, one type of virtual reality's glasses.

Virtual reality is usually used in videogames, creating videogames where you can interact with almost all  the things that are in that 3D world. But recently,it has been discovered that virtual reality can also be used to solve some illnesses, such as anxiety or other problems, like fears or phobias. For this reason, it can be used like a medical device, to treat, for example, fear of height. Because if you put your headset, the virtual reality glasses, and you move higher and higher of the floor, you may lose your fear of heigh.

And this tecnology can make you think like Palmer Luckey's thought. He set out videogames, in which if you die, you will also die in the real world. He defends his idea saying that there are also some sports and activities, like car racing where you can get killed doing it, so he wants to include videogames. That is not the first time that we can hear this, we have already seen some films or series that make reference to this topic, like Matrix or Sword Art Online.

As a conclusion, summing up virtual reality is something really good and useful, but you need to know what you are doing, because if you spend a lot of time in a virtual world you won't do all you must do in your real life. Besides, I think that the idea of dying playing a videogame is absurd, you usually play a videogame to entertaint yourself and spend a good time, not to die.

Mind + heart + .... determination = SUCCESS

Third Quality comment, Comment 23

In the sport field, Spain is winning a lot of importance in some sports, such as tennis, handball, or basketball. As we can remember,in the Olympic Games in Tokyo in 2021, Spain was one of the favourite teams in handball, although they only got the bronze medal. And, we know that in basketball Spain is always one of the best teams, as good as United States. It can be believed that it is thanks to Pau Gasol, the best Spanish basketball player in history, but, in the Olympic Games, we could see that it was a great team although he didn't play.

Above all, Spain has improved significantly in tennis in the latest years. Some years ago, there weren't such great Spanish tennis players. The most important was Nadal, although he still has a lot of importance we also have some other great players, and that are younger, we have as an example, Carlos Alcaraz, who is only nineteen years old. So, at least, Spanish tennis level will survive when Nadal retires.  

Carlos Alcazar is only nineteen years old and has already won some important matches, like his match against Djokovic last Saturday, which he could finally win in spite of all the pressure. For this reason, it is believed that in the future he will be as good as the best tennis players, like Nadal or Djokovic, or even more. It is true that it is really difficult achieve all he do only with nineteen years. However, he managed to achieve it thanks to his determination and resilience.

Finally, in my opinion, you have to take a lot effort and sacrifice to reach until the top, and compete against the best players. And it gives you a lot of excitement and eagerness, because you see how you can reach where you want, to be one of the best players in the history.

We need Shackleton's Endurance to keep on fighting

Second quality comment, 22

The ability to last is called endurance, as a synonym of permanence, continuity or continuance. So, it is something really important that all of us need to have to continue in our way against all our adversities. We, the students in 2º Bachillerato, need it to finish this last year in the secondary school, and eventually, to achieve all our goals, until we get to where we want. 

Endurance is also the name of a ship that was built in 1912 and that had the objective to sail and explore a part of the Antartic. This expedition with this objective set off in 1914 and its commander was Sir Ernest Shackleton. But, when they were sailing the ship got stuck between two ice plates, and it couldn't navigate any more, eventually it got destroyed because of the pressure. 

For this reason, all the sailors had to abandon the ship, and travelled in sledge on the ice sea of Weddell. And, finally, they travelled by boat to the Elephant's island, and arrived in an island, after more than 500 days without walking on land. Recently, in March, some specialists were able to discover where the ship was, and they were able to find it, after more than 107 years later. 

So, to sum up, I reckon that it is amazing what this tripulation did, they were able to survive and return safe to their land, in such bad conditions. So, now we can think that if we have some endurance, we will be able to do all we propose ourselves. In reality, with some endurance nothing is impossible.

Do you like music? What type of music do you like best?

Composition 6 

 In our days, music is something really important and necessary in our lives. It is so important that there is a pshycological part with it, with the music, and it is called music therapy. It consists on using music to stimulate a better mood in a person who is in a bad mood or even has a mental illness. I reckon it is really beautiful that a song or some type of music can help you when you really feel down.

Nowadays there are lots of types of music, so luckily, we can listen to the music that we prefer, for example we can listen to pop music, rap, jazz or rock, among many other types of music. I usually listen to lots of types of music, but there are some genres that I like more than others. I like listening to J-pop, a genre that come from Japan, with bands like Alexandros or Man With  a Mission, or listening to rap with great artists like Eminem.

There is also a type of music that latest years is becoming really famous, because of series or videogames. It is soundtrack, something really important in a film or in a series, although we can think that it hasn't so much importance. In fact, there are lots of films that are really famous because of its  soundtrack, for example, Gladiator or Pulp Fiction. But, there are also lots of videogames that are famous for its soundtrack like Final Fantasy saga or Octopath Traveler. I also like this type of music, and one of my favourite soundtrack is from the videogame The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild. What an amazing soundtrack!

Finally, to sum up, I think that all the people should listen to music at least once a day, because it is something really important, as I said, and can help us to calm down and feel better. So, everyone should listen to their favourite genre to music to feel better and don't have some illnesses like exhaustion or anxiety. 

Advantages and disadvantages of sharing one's life on social media

 Composition 5

 Nowadays, it is really usual to have an account in different social medias, like Twitter, Facebook or, the most popular among young people, Instagram. They are used to do lots of things, like sharing information or photos with the people that you know. There are also other people who share all their lives, so that have lots of advantages and disadvantages.

On the one hand, we have the advantages that we can share one's life on social media have. For example, if you have an account, you can be informed of all the things that happens or what all the people you know do. Furthermore, when you share something, like a photo of an exciting achievement and you see that other people comment or like your post, you feel well. So, sometimes you share a photo and expect or need that it has lots of likes.

On the other hand, there are all the disadvantages that it has. As I said before, sharing something on the social media and expect lots of likes can turn into an illness, and also a disadvantage, because you need these likes to feel well with yourself. So, you depend on the other people and on the social medias. The other disadvantage can be that if you share all your life, you don't have a real private life, because you need to share on social media all you do in your day a day. Eventually, you won't do nothing to fun yourself, because you will be worried about feign having a perfect life on social media.

Finally, I reckon that sharing what you do on social media is not bad at all. The problem comes when you depend on it to feel well, and eventually you don't haev a private life. So, we need to use them, but with some care, because all of us know that we like to share something really interesting or exciting with other people, and it is better to do it through social media. For this reason, we cannot reject their use at all.