NEWS

CORONAVIRUS

The Coronavirus is the most recent global threat. It's a new virus that was discovered at 60's, but his origin is unknown. It is very easy to be passed from person to person.

When you are infected, the initial stages, the symptoms include fatigue and difficulty with breathing. The virus causes a lung infection, so the infected people have problems with breathing, they feel very tired. In some cases, the sickness can be mild; however, it can be fatal, too, and in the worst case you can die.

The infections are rising and China made a call to his habitants for advice that the best option to not have the virus is to leave the area. But actually there is starting to be cases in other parts of the world: Japan, Thailand, South Korea, France, and one possible case in Spain.

Personal opinion: I think that the Coronavirus it is not a global term, there is only 106 deaths and 4600 infections, imagine the little population that is comparable to all Earth habitants. Also, most of the deaths, that I am sorry for the ones who lost their family, friends, whatever most of the deaths are from ill people, ancians and little kids.

SPACEX PASSES TEST

Recently Space X made an important test, it is about an astronaut capsule, it works when the system or the rocket is in flying, and if there is some sort of accident, the capsule is directly launched to the exterior.

The test was perfectly approved because the astronaut that were launched in the capsule was in a perfect state of health, and the NASA, SpaceX and Boeing are working to put this system into his aircrafts.

Personal opinion: I think this is a very good advance for the technology and also gives me a good vision for a future where we could go to Mars. So if there is something wrong, I think this is the best solution to it.

PUERTO RICO HELP

Puerto Rico is currently in a critical state, because two hurricanes  hit and destroy a big part of the country. At the beginning of January, there were earthquakes that injured several people and killed one person.

The country needs a lot of help and this means that it needs money... And the US Congress was approved to administer $20 billion to Puerto Rico; however, the country has only received $1.5 billion. In September.The US Congress missed a legal deadline to issue, and the US Congress said that this was because of political unrest on the island.

Personal opinion: The US Congress made the things worse and in a good way I think there is necessary to have decisions about this issue. If Puerto needs help it needs help, and if the US Congress promised that they will help them with the money, then do it, and do it well.

BIOGRAPHY OF RICK SANCHEZ

Rick Sanchez is the co-eponymous main character and leading protagonist of Rick and Morty's show. He is a genius scientist whose alcoholism and reckless, nihilistic behavior are a source of concern for his daughter's family, as well as the safety of their son, Morty. He is voiced by Justin Roiland. He is later revealed to be Morty's cousin in an interview with Roiland himself.

Not much is known about Rick's life before his current state seen in the show except for a few things that have been vaguely mentioned in the series. It has been mentioned multiple times that Rick has been absent from the family for at least fourteen years and it wasn't until one year before the events of "Something Ricked This Way Comes" when Rick finally returned to the Smith house on January 15th. The reason for his absence is unknown to the rest of the family.

In the Pilot episode, Rick told Beth that he loved the eggs that she made him and that her mother would have loved them too if she were still there. In the episode Rick Potion ,It is revealed that Rick has a very pessimistic worldview, informing Morty that love is "just a chemical reaction that compels animals to breed", advising him not to continue the cycle of love, marriage and heartbreak that he had to go through and that his parents would likely go through, encouraging him to direct his energy towards science. This could imply that the woman he married before is either divorced and/or deceased as of now. In the same episode, he and Morty leave their original dimension (Dimension C-137) in favour of the one they currently reside in.

NEW YEAR RESOLUTIONS

A New Year's resolution is a promise a person makes for the new year. Regardless of what resolution you commit to, the goal is to improve life in the coming year. I was interested about the term and I searched information, and I found out that the 80 % of the new year's resolutions have failed already in February...

This is why I think that year by year, there are less new year resolutions, because there are so many probabilities of failing. And if we feel we are going to be disappointed with ourselves, in spite of this, these are my few new year resolutions:

• Pass 4 ESO

• Exercise more.

• Get organized.

• Learn a new skill or hobby.

• Live life to the fullest.

• Save more money and spend less money.

• Spend more time with family and friends.

• STAY ALIVE.

MY GRANDFATHER

Biography of my grandfather

My grandfather's name is Francisco Palacios Serrano. It is the father of my mother. He was born in Alcalá la Real, province of Jaén, in Andalusia, he was born on July 27, 1936, meaning that he is eighty-three years old. He is the little one of the house, he is the little one of eight brothers, 2 girls and 6 boys. Currently only he and one of his sisters are alive, I have never met her and I don't know her name.

After a long sixteen years there, where he was educated, grew up and went to school, he and his family moved to Figueras, because a great friend of his parents had gotten a job for him and all his brothers. For his parents it was an opportunity that they had taken advantage of.

My grandfather has worked all his life as a truck driver, he learned to drive thanks to his brothers with sixteen years and he began as anyone at eighteen to work, he began to transport land, sand, helping with moving loads, etc.

In a move of the many in which he helped, he met the love of his life, after 8 months of relationship, Visitación Rodriguez, with who he was going to spend the rest of his life, my grandmother, with who they had 2 daughters and a son: Toni, Francisca Pepa, and my mother, Ángeles. currently live together and happy in Castellón de Ampurias. 

THE HISTORY OF HORROR

1. Who invented the G.N.? What was the title of the first G.N.? When was it first published?

   

  Horace Walpole is the inventor of Gothic Novels, also considered as the father of the Gothic Novels. The first Gothc Novel was named The Castle of Otranto, subtitled (in its second edition) "A Gothic Story. He published this novel for the first time in 1764.

2. Which basic elements of horror do you remember from the introductory lesson? Write a minimum of ten.

   We had comented some of the basic elements of the short horror videos of the pumpkin, and we had this conclusion that this are the basic elements: 

1. Jumpscares
2. Close ups
3. Screams
4. Scary characters (ghosts, phenoms, skulls...)
5. Points of view
6. Suspence
7. Spooky music
8. Scary places (haunted places, atmospheras...)
9. ‘Malevolent’ or ‘Wicked’ characters
10. Mistery

3. Choose one of the topics on DISCOVERING LITERATURE and write a post:

Dracula: vampires, perversity and Victorian anxieties

The article was written by Greg Buzwel and talks about topics like: Anxiety and the vampire in late-Victorian Britain, Sex and the Vampire, Dracula and Modernity.

The first that we find in the article is a description of a vampire and the same with dracula, and it says that vampires are complicated creatures: caught between life and death, at once alluring and horrifying, and that they represent fears of immigration, sexual promiscuity and moral degeneration.

It says that there are so many ways to represent a vampire because they have always been a contradictory figure: on the one hand a repellent blood-sucking creature crawling from the grave, and, on the other, a strangely alluring representation of nocturnal glamour.

Next to this there ase some paragrafs of the argument of the grand novel, connected to descriving some of the vampirres characteristics, like Physical characteristics: Pale skin, Sensitivity to sunlight physically (i.e., sunburn easily) and/or visually, Visual sensitivity to any light source, Better night vision than day vision, Eye color changing with mood or for no apparent reason, Extreme movility...

The post talks aout the connection between vampires and sexuality: using some novels to explain it (Sheridan Le Fanu’s short story ‘Carmilla’ (1872), Vampires who can have sex eliminate the fear of impotency and reestablish order in the disruption of the normative sexual act. They can both penetrate and deliver fluid, as well as receive the fluid of the victim/lover (I liked so much this characteristic) eliminating the fear of emasculation and remasculating the vampire.
Also compares some novels that have sexuality in it (with the novel Carmilla, written by Sheridan Le Fanu’s)  to see the evolution and how the vampire sexuality changed throught the years.

And last topic on the post is how the moddernity changed the traditional Vampires transformuing them, and the evolution of the vampires novels during this and pasts centuries.

I recommend the post, it is very interesant for being honest.

THE PSYCHOLOGICAL HORROR

Who is Edgar Allan Poe? When and where was he born? 

Edgar Allan Poe was an American writer, poet, critic and editor best known for evocative short stories and poems that captured the imagination and interest of readers around the world. His imaginative storytelling and tales of mystery and horror gave birth to the modern detective story. He was born on January 19, 1809, in Boston, Massachusetts.

What was he famous for?
Edgar was a writer and critic famous for his dark, mysterious poems and stories.

Did he get married?
Yes, Virginia Eliza Clemm Poe (August 15, 1822 – January 30, 1847) was the wife of the writer Edgar Allan Poe. The couple were first cousins and publicly married when Virginia Clemm was 13 and Poe was 27.

How did he die?
Poe died on October 7, 1849. His final days remain somewhat of a mystery. Poe left Richmond on September 27, 1849, and was supposedly on his way to Philadelphia. On October 3, he was found in Baltimore in great distress. Poe was taken to Washington College Hospital, where he died four days later. His last words were "Lord, help my poor soul."

At the time, it was said that Poe died of "congestion of the brain." But his actual cause of death has been the subject of endless speculation. Some experts believe that alcoholism led to his demise while others offer up alternative theories. Rabies, epilepsy and carbon monoxide poisoning are just some of the conditions thought to have led to the great writer's death.

Name some of his most famous works: 
‘The Raven,’ ‘The Black Cat’ and ‘The Tell-Tale Heart.’

ALFRED HITCHOCK

What's his nickname?

Alfred Hitchock's nickname is“The Master of Suspense”.

What was his most famous horror film?

It was Psycho, or also called Psycosis (1960).

What was his main contribution to horror?
Perhaps Hitchcock’s most important contribution to horror films was his frequent use of the subjective camera to reveal a character’s vision, as in Psycho when Norman Bates peeps through a hole at Marion, or when “Mother” slashes Marion in the shower. Like the point of view of the killer.

COMIC RELIEF

What is the comic relief and why is it used in horror films?

Comic relief is a literary device used in plays and novels to introduce light entertainment between tragic scenes.

It is often used in the shape of a humorous incident, a funny incident, a tricky remark or a laughing commentary. 

https://literarydevices.net/comic-relief/

We can see a copilation of comic reliefs on this video, about sleepy hollow, one horror movie we've seen on class:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ry-_MF6TEFU

WHAT I WOULD DO IF I WIN THE LOTTERY

First of all I prefer to win the lottery that gives me more money THE BEST ONE, so let's suppose that I won the ONZE CUPONAZO, which the 1st prize is one 90.000.000 €, that is a lot of money! So much that I don't need to work anymore in my life, me and my whole family, so much that I can burn money if I want.

But If I win it, which is almost impractical and unmanageable, first of all I would like to buy a new house, or better, a mansion with an enormous garden where I can live relaxed with my family and more happy than ever. Then I would change my studies, I would go into a good high school, a private one, with other rich people. I'd buy a new luxury car for my parents, a Rolls Royce or some of the style, so expensive. Maybe I'd offer money to my idols, singers to come see me, to my house, singers like guitarricadelafuente, Pol Granch, Rels b, Trippie Red, and much more, for sure they come for the money, so I think this could work.

And the last thing I'd do, and the smartest move I think I can do is save the money, so if it happens some global disaster I can have the enough money to remake my life and my family's lives. And if I still have money donated it, all of it, to some ONG to save the planet because the global disaster.

GOTHIC VOCABULARY

Last night my friends and I went to the graveyard, it was my firts time in one so I was astonished, the graveyard was tremendous! But the most frightening thing of the graveyard, of course, is the threatening feeling that forced on us, it was a sensation of having a weird pression of having to be attentive all the time for whatever you least expect to be attacked, maybe some diabolical ghost, some haunted goblin, or hust some terrific criature in the graveyard. But when my friends and I saw that everyone of us were quaking in their boots, we decide to leave the graveyard.