Last assingment

Since last year, the Faculty of Social Sciences started to implement an english program for the students, so they could have the acces to learn that imporant language that usually appears in many texts of the diferent disciplines. In the english clases, the students always have to create their own blogs, and post the activities required by the teachers, in which is a new way of learn.

We all know that blogs are a very advanced tool for communications, and some people say that blogs are some kind of forefront, a revolutionary discovery that could change forever the traditional concept of personal expression. My personal position is that blogs are a very useful tool, but nothing more than that, those other interpretations are exaggerated.

Using these blogs in english class is good because it alows us (the students) to learn how to handle, which could be very useful if in the future we want to make blogs related to other items, for example, our carrer, hobbies, etc. It is also a good way to learn english, because it keep us practicing the language by writing to post new articles, or by reading the blogs of our classmates, where sometimes you can find very interesting views and comments. The bad thing about blogs, is that they can only be used by internet, and that condition is a problem for the students that doesn't have any kind of connection to internet at home.

In conclussion, I think that blogs are a very good way to learn and practice english, and it's also positive to learn english while you are also learning to use the new creations of the advanced technology. It could be uncomfortable to those students that doesn't have internet at home, but the university has computer labs where everyone can work in the blogs.

Assignment 5

Last week, i saw “Brazil”, a movie directed by Terry Gilliam (Twelve Monkeys) that was released in 1985, and stars Jonathan Pryce. The film also features Robert De Niro and Kim Greist.

Brazil, is a movie influenced by “1984” by George Orwell, and “The process”, by Franz Kafka, and shows the story of Sam Lowry, a goverment employee that lives in a strange city with high technology and a very developed bureaucracy. His life is very lonely and monotonus, and he usually escapes into a fantasy world of romantic and pleasure dreams. He lives in a society of control, in where every person is under the surveillance of the government. When he starts to find out the injustices and abuses committed by the power of the central administration, his life changes and he starts to act like a “subversive”.

This movie has very good rounds and special effects, and it has a spectacular art design that creates a strange city that creates a perfect setting for the development of the story. The music is very good, and it’s an adaptation of the Ary Barroso’s album “Aquarela do Brasil” (1939).

But I didn’t like the end: Sam Lowery is murdered by the goverment, because he had refused to live the life that was imposed to all the inhabitants of that strange world.