Science and technology will increasingly moving more and more, most things will be compact in size. Mobile phones and computers will be much more sophisticated. I can see that life will be much less complicated with all new inventions.
sábado, 17 de noviembre de 2007
Science and technology will increasingly moving more and more, most things will be compact in size. Mobile phones and computers will be much more sophisticated. I can see that life will be much less complicated with all new inventions.
Predictions
Story: The Pilgrim is a story that recounts Paulo in the first person. The story begins with himself, in an initiation ceremony as Master gentleman and a warrant magic known as RAM (Regnum, Agnus, Mundi = Rigor, Love, Mercy). At the point of being nominated, make a mistake and that's when all the effort of years as an apprentice of this order are wasted, and it is condemned by its maestres to find his sword (item graduation) in an old religious path called " The Strange Way de Compostela "in the northern part of Spain. This was the road from the French pyrenees to Santiago de Compostela where were the relics of St. James the Apostle. Then, prompted by the need to graduate as a Master, left Brazil and settled in the French town called St. Jean Pied-de-Port for opening the route, where it expects an Italian guide called Petrus, who, by orders of RAM Paulo serve as a spiritual guide by Route Jacobea. That's when the story really starts, because the path and walking with fellow Petrus, Paulo start to learn some exercises that as we go along toward Compostela, it is useful to follow his path. Within the story describes things extraordinary, mystical and supernatural, that help themselves with itself, its desires, and even with its internal demons.
Biography
Paulo Coelho (Rio de Janeiro, August 24, 1947) is a Brazilian novelist. Paulo Coelho was born into a middle class family and strong Catholic influence, in Rio de Janeiro, where he studied at a Jesuit college. In contrast to the strong discipline that was imposed, became rebellious, and the seventeen years, was interned three times in a psychiatric clinic. In the late 1960, joins the hippie movement, abandoning the studies in 1970 to make a trip to Peru, Bolivia, Chile and Mexico, as well as Europe and North Africa. Two years later he returned to Brazil and began to compose lyrics for songs, working alongside Raul Seixas. In 1974, and for a short time he was detained in a military torture center accused of subversive activities against the Brazilian government. In 1987, toured the Camino de Santiago between France and Spain, which inspired his first book, The Pilgrim de Compostela. As a writer, has frequently occupied the top positions in the rankings of the best selling books in countries as diverse as Brazil, UK, USA, France, Canada, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Mexico, Israel, Greece and Spain. In 2002 he was elected to fill the seat number 21 of the Brazilian Academy of Letters . He lives with his wife Christina Oiticica, a painter, in Rio de Janeiro or in its mill of Saint Martin in southwest France.
In my opinion this is a great novel by Coelho where through the story of a fascinating trip, which aims to teach the spiritual is linked to the idea that there are no secrets, mysterious ways and people capable of understanding and controlling things hidden from the majority of mortals; to discover that the things that are around us are the answer to all our searches, our dreams are the main reason to go on living and achieve everything that we propose, and that life must be worn the most common way possible. This is the first novel by Paulo, which leaves a parable about the need to find our way in life.
viernes, 16 de noviembre de 2007
I think that in future the world changed considerably, the warming global is a theme very delicate If we do not change our lifestyle and we do not begin to recycle, The earth will be destroyed quickly, many cities will be flood
In sports, The Deportivo Cuenca will be the champion the libertadores cup for two times and seven times champion of Ecuadoriam championship
THE TAROT
As for sports: Ecuador's team will come to the world and it is possible that we gain our first world cup, as for the national championship the next years the champion will be "EL CUENQUITA"......
Whole world will think about the problem of Teh Global Warming, and they all will put a granite of sand in order that the planet recovers... This way that we will have a better future for our descent....
"JUVENTUD EN EXTASIS"
martes, 13 de noviembre de 2007
A BREATH TO OUR FUTURE WORLD
Ecuador’s future … by Anna the Gypsy
The first card shows me about politics. I can read clearly we are going to re-elect our present president. He will probably win in the first round because economy is going to have a big change and a lot of people are helping him.
The second one is about passion and gold. For me this means we are going to win a lot of medals and probably we will have another gold Olympic medal.
The next card is about space, stars and the moon. With the help of the first astronaut, we are going to send the first Ecuadorian to the moon and we will have our flag over there.
The cards don’t say me any thing else. However, if you want to know more, please call any time to 1900-ANNAGYPSY. . It is very cheap.
My predictions
- The 2008 will be a year of confrontations among politicians and the people.
- "Los Asambleistas" wont change the economical, political, social situation in the country.
- Rafael Correa will have less popularity for your way of govern.
- Poverty will increase.
- People will leave to the streets to protest against government policies.
- There will be more support for artists.
In the world:
- The warming global will increase the average temperature of the Earth.
- The world will look more wars, especially among eastern countries.
- China will increase your economy more and more.
- BIOFUELS will be an alternative for the traditional fuels.
My Predictions for 2008
Thinking about the new year I have very good and bad predictions.
Talking about the soccer i believe that Agustin Delgado "Tin" will comeback to the team and that is going to be fabolous because Ecuador will be in the World`s Cop in South Africa. Also Tin will be the capitan of tha team and the scorer of the World Cop.
The global warning will improve because people is going to ride bicicles instead of cars and that will contribute to have a healthy and pure air. The cars will be used asa dogs house`s.
The president Raphael Correa is going to dismissing all the corrupt people that is in the Congress and the economy will improve. Also he will stabiling the dollar in front of the euro and Ecuador will go up day by day.
At famous people Angelina Jolie will adopt an ecuadorian child so Brad Pit won`t be agree and they will divorse. But Angelina won`t care because she will be totally in love of Rapahael Correa.
Da Vinci Code
Recently named one of the World's 100 Most Influential People by TIME Magazine, Dan Brown has made appearances on CNN, The Today Show, National Public Radio, Voice of America, as well as in the pages of Newsweek, Forbes, People, GQ, The New Yorker, and others. His novels have been translated and published in more than 40 languages around the world.
Dan is a graduate of Amherst College and Phillips Exeter Academy, where he spent time as an English teacher before turning his efforts fully to writing. In 1996, his interest in code-breaking and covert government agencies led him to write his first novel, Digital Fortress, which quickly became a #1 national bestselling eBook. Set within the clandestine National Security Agency, the novel explores the fine line between civilian privacy and national security. Brown’s follow-up techno-thriller, Deception Point, centered on similar issues of morality in politics, national security, and classified technology.
The son of a Presidential Award winning math professor and of a professional sacred musician, Dan grew up surrounded by the paradoxical philosophies of science and religion. These complementary perspectives served as inspiration for his acclaimed novel Angels & Demons—a science vs. religion thriller set within a Swiss physics lab and Vatican City. Recently, he has begun work on a series of symbology thrillers featuring his popular protagonist Robert Langdon, a Harvard professor of iconography and religious art. The upcoming series will include books set in Paris, London, and Washington D.C.
PREDICTIONS FOR THE NEW YEAR
People usually don´t believe in this kind of sobrenatural powers but it´s really amazing. Next I´m going to give you an example of my magnificent powers, let´s start......
TAROT
If I could read Tarot I supossed i'd be the luckiest man on earth jaja, and I'll tell people all the things that I know, for example:
The Tarot
GUESSING THE FUTURE
- ECONOMY
The global economy in the future of Ecuador will be worse because the ecuadorian people is going to have increases of the taxes and it won´t allow to have a development in the bussiness. Also, the growth of our country will be less than the others Southamerican cuntries. Neverthless the country will have an economic stability for the dollar, but may be the President Correa will be take other coin. The economy of ecuador will be sustained in oil specially and with the taxes of the population.
- SPORTS
First, the Ecuadorian Selection won´t classify to the world of football because it isn´t playing good and the trainer Luis Fernando Suárez won´t find the ideal team to face the others selections. In the Nacional Championship Liga de Quito is gonig to be the champion and it will follow by the Deportivo Cuenca.
- WARS
For the future, Ecuador won´t have wars with its neighbors, but it will continue a litle problems with Colombia for the fumigation. Also, the President Correa is going to have more problems with the press for declarations of the two parts.
- POLITICS
In the future the National Congress will disappear and the Constituent Assembly will take the desicions about economy, education and the most importants things in Ecuador. Also, the consultation is going to be realized and the Ecuadorian people will approve the new Constitution.
- SCIENCE
Ecuador will have a small development about science, but in the future it will take less illiteracy especially for programs that will be development by education institucions and for the help of the government.
THE TAROT
Maybe "Deportivo Cuenca" will win the Soccer National Championship this year
Maybe the economy grow and create more factories, the populations grow and perhaps life will be harder.
THE BEST BOOK I HAVE EVER READ.
"The Alchemist" is the kind of novel that tells you that everything is possible as long as you really want it to happen. Coelho tells us "simple things are the most valuable and only wise people appreciate them”.
Next, I’m going to show you a little biography of Coelho that I could find in Internet:
Coelho was born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, the son of Pedro Queima de Souza an engineer, and his wife, Lygia a homemaker. His middle-class parents didn't share his dream of an artistic career. When he was 17 his father had him committed to a mental institution where he endured electroshock therapy, even when he got involved with a theatre group and started work as a journalist, they had him recommitted once more.
He sought spiritual experiences travelling throughout Mexico, Peru, Bolivia, and Chile, as well as Europe and North Africa. Later he launched an alternative magazine called 2001. After joining the Alternative Society and publishing a series of comic strips about freedom, he was imprisoned and later experienced kidnap and torture by paramilitaries.
After this, Coelho turned away from progressive politics, working as an executive in the music industry. After a prophetic dream he met a stranger who urged him to study the benign side of magic and to walk the pilgrim's Road to Santiago.
After completing the pilgrimage in 1987, Coelho wrote The Pilgrimage, describing his experiences of the extraordinary in ordinary lives. A year later he wrote The Alchemist which was not well received. When he wrote Brida, he gained much attention in the press and both the former books made best seller lists.
Well how we can read the Coelho’s life was very hard because he didn’t have the support from his parents, but he always was looking for his dream and finally it became truly. If we try to compare his life with the book, we notice that the main idea is the same in both cases: Santiago and Paulo try to follow his dream, looking for some clues in their lives, trying to understand the meaning of the existence.
Coelho studied Alchemist for 11 years and understood the essence of its meaning, later was easy to make a book about this because he related his knowledge with his own life, in my opinion.
Well this is all that I can tell you about this excellent book, I recommended it to read it, you can find it in any book store and the cost is very cheap.
BRAZIL
Geography:
Brazil is a country in South America, its the fifth largest country by geographical area while Cuenca is the third city of Ecuador located in South America too.
Brazil is bounded by the Atlantic ocean on the east, its coastline is over 7,367 kilometers. On the north by Venezuela, Suriname, Guyana and french Guyana.
On the South by Uruguay, on the southeast by Argentina and Paraguay and with Bolivia, Perú and Colombia to the east.
Cuenca is located between the 2,350 and 2,550 meters above sea level, in the Southern sector of the Ecuadorian Andean Mountain range. Also it is bathed by four rivers : Tomebamba, Yanuncay, Machangara and Tarqui. The Tomebamba river divided the city in two: the colonial city and the new city.
This is Cuenca´s center
History:
Brazil was colonized by Portugal from 1500 until its independence in 1822 while Cuenca was founded by 1557 by the Spanish Gil Ramirez Dávalos and achived its independece in November 3 of 1820.
Brazil has been a Republic since 1889 and its president is Lula Da Silva. Cuenca doesn´t have a president because is a city but its maximun authority is Marcelo Cabrera.
Cuenca is well preserved, that is why it earns the honor of being listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Trust.
This is a colonial street of Cuenca
Economy:
Brazil is the world's ninth largest economy in terms of pushing power and at tenth largest economy at market exchange rates.
It has good technology, agriculture and exportation.
The pushing power is that the things have one price and this is eficcient in the market and made it more competitive.
On the other hand Cuenca´s economy isn´t as developed as Brazil but it has many things such as gold and silver, also the agriculture is growing and many people is studying and have their career. This make Cuenca a city more cultural and interesting.
Population:
The total of the population in Brazil until 2005 was 183,888,841 while in Cuenca is around 400.000.
Brazil is the most populated country in the world.
I decided to compare Cuenca with Brazil because i like both and i wanted to make you see that althougt both are in the same continent, they are very diferent and beautiful.
miércoles, 7 de noviembre de 2007
LA ILIADA
Author: Homero
La Iliada is for my one of most exciting books that I have read.
This book talks about an epic history, a war history which apparently happened between Greece and Troy, eight hundred years B.C. Greece was commanded by Agamenon and his brother Menelao. And Troy was commanded by Hector and Paris.
The history begins when the Trojan Hector and his young brother Paris went to Greece for making peace alliances, on this trip Paris meet to a beautiful woman named Elena, she was Menelao¨s wife. Paris was in love of Elena, and they love to each other, and both of them decide flee from Greece and go to Troy.
When Menelao¨s discovered the Elenas¨s treason, he decided to attack Troy and recovered his wife. So Greeks before attacks Trojans decide ask help to Aquiles who was considered the best fighter ever, but he didn’t want support them.
The death of Patroclo enraged to Aquiles, and he decided help Greeks in the war against Troy, On this attack Hector dies, and the Trojans army decided took revenge and they fired a terrible attack to Greeks, and supposedly they won the war.
The day after battle, Trojans army founded on the coast many Greeks soldiers killed, and all the Greek army escape to their contry, and they also found in the sand a huge wood horse sculpture, and they thought this was a God¨s present for Trojan victory, but they didn’t know this was a tramp.
So Trojans decide introduce the "present" inside the city, but in the night when all Trojans were sleeping the best Greeks soldiers commanded by Aquiles went out the big horse, and they attack and burned all Troy city, killing to everyone, fortunately Paris during the attack took an arrow and injured to Aquiles, after that Paris and some Trojan soldiers took all women and children who survived to the atrack and escape to another place to reach safety themselves.
That is all about this great epic history, which talk about how love and men feelings can cause terrible wars between brothers, families, even countries.
La Iliada was writed by Homero, About his live mankind just know a litlle. He was a Greek, who lived on Greece berween (siglo II B.C.)
martes, 30 de octubre de 2007
UNCLE TOM´S CABIN
The Father of Science Fiction and his travel “From the Earth to the Moon”
I always have wondered what he saw, what he was studding, what he was reading to have that imagination. Some writes said when he was a kid, he used to live near to a river and all the ships he saw are part of his inspiration and curiosity. Then he started to read, study and invent a lot of things.
Some biographers thought he was seer. Others said that he was a genius, like Leonardo da Vinci. He knew a lot of mats, geology, astronomy physics and many things more. However, the person who helped him to improve books was his best publisher Pierre-Jules Hetzel. He said to Jules he have to make books attractive for all ages and not only to scientific audience.
The first time I read this book was when I was 12 years old and since that time I see me studding technology. Just think how a man, the writer, could write travels and adventures one hundred years before it could be real… This inspire every one.