Wednesday, September 22, 2010

Natália - Tabloid article

Celullari: The new love of the biggest advertising executive of Brazil?

Mariane is the Best advertising executive of Brazil. She earns on average one million dollars/month, currently.
She started her graduation in 2008 at University of São Paulo, year in which she moved from Mogi das Cruzes, quiet town of the state. She lived in Mogi for 20 years.
Mariane, was always very smart and talented, developed her work brightly and became famous...
Her campaigns won international fame and Mariane traveled a lot...knew many countries, met many people, had many romantic relationships...she was always very discreet, but we, of magazine Tititi, found something really impressive about the paulista millionaire: We found Who is the new Love of the biggest advertising executive of Brazil!
Last weekend we saw Mariane taking an ice cream with...nobody but Edson Cellulari...coincidence (or not), this week, the actor finished her marriage to Claudia Raia (a marriage of 10 years!!!).
Yes! the discreet advertising executive can be the cause of the couple’s separation!
Do not miss the next edition! Interview with a millionaire advertising executive and Edson Cellulari...we are sure Mariane, the beaultiful businesswoman is the responsible for the end to the solid union of Celulari and Raia...

Beth - Essay on Immigration

IMMIGRATION IN OUR SOCIETY

According to the Helsinki statement immigration is considered a human right and must be guaranteed everywhere. In reality this rules is not considered by many countries. So, even if we are living in a plural society, we can feel significant increase in intolerance of immigration.
Most of the time, specialists claim that cultural differences are responsible for the unacceptable face of immigration. We know that the Japanese or Chinese people don’t have European culture and an American culture either. By the way, Asian people have lived an orderly life in the USA differently from Afro-Americans who have had difficulties to immigrate or to stay in this country. Also, people of South American or East European origins are frequently refused by some Western European or North American countries although they have more cultural approach than Eastern people
The narrow-minded opinions against immigration have proved to be very selective. In fact, the socioeconomic condition is the main cause for refusing immigrants by society. However, migrations within Western countries with highly developed economy have not caused resistance among them, as well as migration between underdeveloped countries.
The socioeconomic aspect gets evident around the old colony immigrants who have long cultural experience and even though they have been reject as everyone who comes from the underdeveloped countries.
Nowadays, we have many cases over the world that cause immigrant rejection because of their bad socioeconomic condition. In the USA this act has regularly occurred on the border with Mexican people. Recently, everyone can see the news about restrictions of immigrants in Arizona state at special against Latino and also poor people. On the other hand, it is very rare in this country to find strict limits on immigrants who come from developed place. In this way it can make a question “Would it be everybody legal immigrants?”
In conclusion, the large majority of people accept migratory movements between similar economies. Also they assume that movements must be avoided between different economies. Therefore, it is clear that the Immigrant will always have a great difficulty to deal with cultural and socioeconomic difference.

Tuesday, September 14, 2010

Lucas - Essay on Immigration

Immigration


Immigration and globalization are today the two hot topics concerning the futures of States. Strangely enough, these two concepts work toward different directions. When we think of globalizations patterns of economic or social-cultural interactions we usually conceive a harmonic conviviality between different – or even antagonists – worldviews. In this “optimistic” account, ethnic discrepancies turn into global benefits for everyone as for example increasing profits worldwide, deepening our cultural understanding or preventing military conflicts in the borders. However, hardly can anyone state the same regarding immigration. Instead of praising pluralism and searching for new ways for doing politics, the immigration debate in the western countries nowadays brings up the oldest feature of human society: the fear of the stranger.

The end of Cold War has let out an enormous amount of local tensions worldwide. One example was the rise of new capitalist economies in Europe during the 90’s after the breakdown of the Soviet system. At first they were praised as welcome brothers in Europe Union. It has taken just a couple of years for xenophobic movements to start their campaigns against the East European countries. Although episodes of intolerance are relatively common in this context, the case against South-North migration is a more powerful one because it goes beyond European case, affecting all the developed countries in the world. Second, it seems to be the pattern of cultural struggle in the next decades, literally a “clash of civilizations”. Old colonies (in the European context) and poor neighbors (in the US) become the origin of massive immigration fluxes responsible for supplying the low-rated jobs in rich countries. Some demographers, for example, predict that in 2050 protestant whites will not be the majority of U.S. population. Maybe even English will have lost its hegemony as the only official language…

For the cultural and economic establishment of developed countries it sounds catastrophic. The increasing rates of unemployment and violence are commonly used as argument for those who look forward to enclosing the economy and strengthening the legislation against illegal immigrants. But a second look can provide us with a better picture of the circumstances. Beginning with the question if immigrants are the cause of unemployment - which is a kind of absurd when we realize that immigrants and natives do not compete with each other for the same jobs (immigrants take in general unqualified jobs and lower wages) - in the long run demographic rates compel us to be skeptical about anti-immigration laws. The decline of native population is a pattern in all industrial societies. It means that in the future the current lack of unqualified employers may yoke the lack of qualified employers in the same economies. It is not an absurd when we consider the fact that the dynamism of U.S. culture, along with the history of Western Europe, is one of the fruits of the nineteenth century’s fluxes of immigration. At first, a low-rated job might attract a poor family from a distant country, looking for a new life. But in two or three generations, considering the system of educational opportunities in developed countries, their children and grandchildren might become the next generation of brilliant scientists, professors and politicians. Just look at the Syllicon Valley, the Ivy League or the White House in the U.S. How many foreigner surnames will we find out? The American situation can be read as the paradigmatic situation for Europe and all others countries which intend to establish themselves as the new world potencies.

Anderson - Tabloid Article

The Star News
August 25, 2010

Adriana’s unlucky night

Adriana, a famous singer was involved in an incident last night. Her career started 5 years ago, when she sang Madonna’s songs in pubs and restaurants in São Paulo. In 2008 she released an album called “Songs of Drugstore”, her most important album. She has married Cristiano Ronaldo (an important soccer player from Portugal) since last year.
Last night, Adriana crashed her Ferrari F40 in a police’s car. She was annoyed and argued with the police officer. A fan, that was walking around there, argued and fought with the policeman. A police dog was frightened with the tumult and bit Adriana´s leg. So she went to the Hospital.
The incident caused various consequences to Adriana: her car was destroyed, she was fined in $5,000.00 and the next show in Buenos Aires was canceled. We haven´t talked with her since the incident.

Monday, September 13, 2010

Jeconias - Tabloid article

Suzan at restaurant

Despite her unsuspected face, Suzan has a bizarre dark side. According to an eyewitness she was seen doing terrible things! Suzan was on a restaurant and a woman made a negative comment about her nail polish and hair. That was enough to start a violent reaction! Suzan seemed to lose control of her own body, and just hit the woman on her head with a tray. The friends of the poor woman tried to defend her, but Suzan just included them on the punishment.
She liked to hold the two heads of the women by the hair and hit one against other, hit the heads on a corner of the table and make them eat their shoes. The woman clearly regretted having made the comment just tried to escape, but Suzan wasn’t satisfied and increased the degree of punishment. The eyes of the woman were full of anguish.
After all the action, the woman, with only one tooth on her mouth and a tremulous voice, asked for forgiveness and said: “thank you for the drubbing”. Such acknowledgement was the condition imposed by Suzan to accept the request of forgiveness.

Tiago - Tabloid article

Baseball player earned and lost $1.000.000,00 by one day!


Anderson (21) has been the best player of Major League Baseball since 2008. So, he won the last three election as “The best player” organized by the American magazine The world of Baseball Game.
Although his professional life is going wonderfully, his conjugal life is not in a good time. The Brazilian striker signed a new contract with his club New York Mets on Friday morning (08/19). With this contract, he will earn 4 million dollars a month! Unfortunately, Anderson was surprised by his wife - She saw him and a fan together in a party of the American team. They split up last Friday afternoon (08/19).
The justice ordered for the Brazilian striker a payment of 1million dollars to his former wife monthly. So, only one day was enough for the sportsman to earn and to lose $1,000,000.00!Anderson has been single since last week-end. Fortunately for his wife, the new millionaire of New York!

Saturday, September 11, 2010

Ezequiel - Essay on Immigration

Connections.

On August 17th, our English class received a visitor from Belgium. The guy is friend of Elton’s. We had an interview with him, which is reflected in this composition about immigration in our society.
Nowadays, it is common to think of the concept of “transnationality”. If we consider companies that have been created in one country but now sell products everywhere, and have become “multinationals”, we can understand a bit more about what is to belong to a globalized world.
Businesses have to be done, meetings must happen, congresses have to be made. I know this is not “immigration” strictly, but it is a kind of habit which helps to make come true the dream of an Earth without borders, a Global Village.
New generations are used to using the computer to make friends from a lot of places and cultures, which means the idea of being from this or that nation is becoming weaker. For them, there is not a strong feeling of patriotism, because people usually move virtually from a country to another in a few seconds and this is just a reflex from what happens in reality: “our planet is smaller than it used to be.”
We can see that the quantity of immigrants, no matter where, has increased. It is so due to higher speeds and lower prices in transportation. People are more confident about travelling and making a living in another land. This kind of phenomenon helps us to be more tolerant and open-minded to others’ beliefs, customs, ideas, and behaviors and, last but not least, frontiers.
On the other hand, there are local people that usually become afraid of new folks in their area. They are very conservative on this and try to make immigration more difficult. In some cases, it happens because of high costs of taxes, partly used to support welfare to illegal immigrants from poorer countries.
This prejudice turns into anger and there are some parties stating that immigrants mustn’t continue in a place that is not theirs. Sometimes, they try to hurt or kill foreigners to intimidate others to come to “their country”.
But, in our Global Village, what is the meaning of “own”? Just because you have been born somewhere, it doesn’t necessarily mean that the place is nobody else’s. Sometimes you’re more connected to someone in the other side of the world, but have never met your own neighbor! In this case, what would be the place you belong to or the nation that is just yours? It seems that these questions are losing their logical meaning in our era. There are no more space to radicalism, let’s leave it out and enjoy the fantastic and fast connections we can make anytime, which are possible just because we are in the 21th century.