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    Throughout this lats four years we analyze in detail stories from the book "Stories of Ourselves", poems from "Songs of Ourselves" and the play "An Inspector Calls" written by J.B.Priestley.
The stories we read were:

• Sredni Vashtar, by Saki.
• The Phoenix, by Sylvia Townsend Warner 
• The Prison, by Bernard Malamud
• Billenium, by J.G. Ballard
• Ming's Biggest Prey, by Patricia Highsmith
• Games At Twilight, by Anita Desai
• To Da-duh, in Memoriam, by Paule Marshall
• Of White Hairs and Cricket, by Rohinton Mistry
• Tyres, by Adam Thorpe

The poems we read were: 

• The Clod and the Pebble, by William Blake
• Song, by Lady Mary Wroth
• Passion, by Kathleen Raine
• Last Sonnet, by John Keats 
• Love (III), by Geogre Herbert
• Lovers' Infiniteness, by John Donne
• "She Was a Phantom of Delight", by William Wordsworth 
• Tiger in the Menagerie, by Emma Jones
• Lion Heart, by Amanda Chong
• Heart and Mind, Edith Sitwell
• For My Grandmother Knitting, by Liz Lochhead
• Father Returning Home, by Dilip Chitre
• The Lost Woman..., by Patricia Beer
• Stabat Mater, by Sam Hunt

   To conclude with this four years we have a special assigment. We had to work with three stories, three poems and the play and make a thesis statement about two themes of each text and supported with a quotation. Finally we had to ilustrate our ideas throught some pictures. 

¡Chau pucho!

      Realicé junto con Carolina Pardo Laborde, Berenice Cohen, Nazarena Ballesteros y Milagros Turano una infografia con la herramienta Piktochart. En este trabajo incluimos información sobre el tabaquismo, entre ellos, ¿qué es?, ¿cómo afecta la salud?, la cronología luego de dejar el cigarrillo, entre otros. Aquí esta nuestro trabajo:

                                                       

Observando

     En el laboratorio hicimos distintos experimentos sobre el tema visto en clase, las propiedades de la sustancias. Junto con Berenice Cohen, Milagros Turano, Carolina Pardo Laborde y Nazarena Ballesteros, hicimos una presentación en la que explicamos lo realizado.

Concientisida

    

  Continuamos con la educación sexual. Este tema abarca todo en relación a esta. Incluye, también, las enfermedades de transmisión sexual. En este caso voy a hablar del sida.

 Tomé en cuenta la campaña de la foto a la derecha. Esta campaña es absolutamente magnífica. En simples frases y con la imagen personalizada lograron graficar e informar esta pandemia, es decir, que esta presente en todo el mundo.

La imagen personalizada, es un preservativo (uno de los métodos de protección y también contra esta enfermedad) con muchos símbolos que de alguna forma u otra tienen que ver con esta enfermedad. Los símbolos son:
* El mundo --> debido a que es una pandemia
* Corazones --> el acto sexual tiene que ver con el amor a nuestra pareja
*Los símbolos mujer y hombre --> estas están por "pareja" están dos símbolos ilustrando las parejas (dos mujeres, dos hombres y un hombre y una mujer). Esto se debe a que es una enfermedad de transmisión sexual que no solo se produce cuando se trata de una mujer y un hombre, sino que es algo que se puede transmitir de mujer a mujer o de hombre a hombre. Cualquier sexo puede tenerla.
*Símbolo de salud (cruz) --> hay que estar informados y cuidarnos. No solo el que posee la enfermedad, sino que la pareja. Se deben cuidar.
*Símbolo de sida
*Embarazada --> cuando alguien posee sida y esta embarazada hay que tener en cuenta todos los cuidados y tratamientos
*Instrumentos de laboratorio --> se esta buscando una vacuna para prevenir la infección y la transmisión de la madre al hijo durante el embarazo.

¿Por qué el título es "esta en nuestras manos"? Primero y principal esta en plural, ya que no es solo la persona que tiene sida se debe cuidar, sino su pareja también. Hay una serie de tratamientos y cuidados a tener en cuenta los cuales deben ponerlos a prueba los dos, tanto uno como el otro. Se deben cuidar, AMBOS. Luego, dice esta en nuestras manos porque la pareja debe estar informada acerca de la situación, por ejemplo, la persona que posee la enfermedad no debe ocultársela al otro. Esta en las manos de todos y es obligación concienciarse y estar informados, como también cuidarse.

Lo que nos diferencia

      Comenzamos a investigar y charlar acerca de la Educación Sexual Integral (E.S.I). Aprender acerca de esto es un derecho, y debido a nuestra edad pensamos que es el mejor momento para aprender todo lo relacionado a esta. En esta ocación junto a Berenice Cohen, hicimos un Thinglink del sistema reproductor masculino y el sistema reproductor femenino.

Powerdrato

    Investigamos acerca de los principales grupos de nutrientes que se encuentran en los alimentos; los hidratos de carbono, las proteínas y los lípidos. Junto con Martin Errarte, Santiago Darnes y Franco Fabrichini, realizamos una presentación con información acerca del grupo que nos toco, los hidratos de carbono. Utilizamos Emaze.

Water crisis

     We have being working on Water Cycle in class. We learned that is one of the basic needs for life on Earth. In this text I explain the importance of fresh water on Earth.

The importance of water worldwide:

Fresh water is essential for life on Earth. For plants, animals and humans, as well. Only 3% of water on Earth is freshwater. This creates a massive problem. However, these 3% is not fully for humans use. As form that 3%, 30,1% is groundwater, 68,6% in glaciers and ice caps and 1.3% in surface water and others. From this 1.3%, 0,2% is found in the atmosphere, 0,6% in rivers, 2,5% in swaps, 3,5% in soil moisture, 20,2% in lakes and 73,1% in ice and snow. Furthermore, precipitation is very important, it fill up water supplies by padding surface rivers and topping up surface and underground stores. This also, leads to a big problem because precipitation varies from place to place so it’s not available worldwide. UN Water’s World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) said: “The world is not ‘running out of water,’ but it is not always available when and where people need it.” The countries known as water rich countries are the ones that have plenty of fresh water supplies. They have plenty of space for rain to fall, Russia is the one with more space, and also Canada, China, USA and Brazil. Besides, some of the greatest rivers flow for these countries like for example the Amazon. Nevertheless, having a lot of space doesn’t mean that the country would have a big water source. Some of the largest countries don’t even appear in the top 50 of the water sources as they contains substantial area of desert within its borders, for example Australia. US is the biggest water users, mainly for industry use followed by agriculture. On the other hand, there are water poor countries, where they have no access to clean drinking water or improve sanitation methods. Nine of the most poor countries are dominated by desert, except for Singapore and Mauritius where there are high precipitation but small are to fall on.  Two major problems are diseases on these countries population and water scarcity that affect business, farms and community, where it may face a farm production problem in the future. Freshwater withdrawals have increased a lot since 1950 and the world’s demand have increased along population growth and the increase for new agriculture methods and energy demand which leads to the need of more water source. Also, water pollution have grown massively from agriculture followed by industry. The overdraft of countries withdrawing and polluting creates water stress. This is the worries over present and future water supplies. According to the WBCSD it impacts are:  “Increases in water use have resulted in high environmental costs, including loss of biodiversity as well as affecting natural water systems such as rivers and aquifers. Half of the world’s wetlands have disappeared over the last century, with some rivers now no longer reaching the sea, and over 20% of the estimated 10,000 freshwater fish species are now endangered or extinct.”   

 In my opinion we should all take into account that water is an essential source that even though we consider that being able to use it whenever we want is something usual, some people around the world have to walk hours to find it. We can’t waste it. I think that to make a difference in the world we should start with something small, for example not taking long showers or baths, closing the bobbing when we brush our teeth or when we see one open. One action no matter if it's small will change the world if everyone starts to do so. This page also have some programs and donations to fight against this problem: https://water.org/about-us/ways-donate/

Annual precipitation

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Book: Environmental Management, John Pallister, Oxford.