FAMOUS FAILURES

When our teacher showed us the picture that contained statements about the failures that some of the most successful famous had, it shocked me.

It taught me that every body can fail as often as necessary if you don't lose the desire of progress. Moreover, these failures teach you your errors and this will make you reach the best option next time you try.

What people don't know is that some of the famous we admire had failed, but they didn't give up, faced their struggles and achieved their dream and succeed in their respective field of study and work.

Stars like Michael Jordan or Walt Disney at first they were not very lucky. Jordan when he was a child was cut from his hight school basketball team. Then, this fact made Jordan start training so he arrived to the NBA and now is considered the best basketball player ever.

In Walt Disney case, he was fierd from a newspaper because he "didn't have good ideas or imagination". After that, he created Disney Company that has marked on our childhood.

So in conclusion, the quote "If you've never failed, you've never tried anything new" sumarises perfectly this topic.

How do ads influence viewers?

The function of advertisments is to persuade people to buy something, and to influence people, some techniques are used to trigger buying decisions.

When we sit down in front of the TV and we see advertisements, we let companies influence us in what we have to spend our money on. Honestly, I don't believe that I am susceptible to being influenced by advertising. And I'm sure other people think the same. However, it wouldn't be so present if it didn't work.

Advertisers sends us subliminal messages in the ads, so we will not notice we are being manipulated. These ads appear innocently in to have an influence on us.

One of the reason for advertising is simply informing people that a product exists and we can now buy it. The most people know about a product, the most products will be sold.

What ads do is influence people to buy a product and then the result will let the company know about the positive valuations and, in consecuense, they will see the negative valuations, too. So the companies will know if the product is well sold or not, and this will make them modify the product to make it more competitive.

Lots of advertising connects a product or brand with a way of life. This makes people identify with that lifestyle and make them feel attracted to the products.

In conclusion ads affect us a lot, wether if we want or not. They are very powerful and influence our lifestyle.

Which type of humour do you prefere?

It is very funny when I see videos where slaptick is present. I have so much fun when I see people falling or being hitted on any part of the body, because you know that they maybe are getting hurt but they didn't breake any part of the body and, in fact, it's because of their fault. They have done fooly things. That's the reason because I laugh so much.

But I like irony and a bit of sarcasm, too. It is interesting to me these types of humour because not everybody gets them. They require a bit of intelligence to understand them.

Quotes like this:

It makes me reflect about these statements that are mentioned here. And it is true. We "need" to experiment bad things to know the good ones. If we don't know what is sadness, we can not appreciate what is happiness.

So, I like to have fun seeing slaptick videos, but I prefere to read ironic quotes that make me think about things in general.

A joke that made me laugh

ALWAYS BRING THE FINGERS
A man working with an electric saw accidentally cuts off all of his fingers. At the emergency room, his doctor says, "Give me the fingers, and I'll see what I can do."
The injured man replies, "But I don't have the fingers!"
"Why didn't you bring them?" the doctor asks.
The injured man responds, "Doc, I couldn't pick them up."

This is quite a funny joke that is classified in the Doctor genre, but it has a bit of dark humour.

How long could you survive without modern thecnology?

Nowadays lots of people need technology for their daily lives because we live in the 21st century, so society is dominated by modern technical issues.

Fortunately, technology has moved forward very fast since the late 90's and all of the 21st century. This is a very important fact because it has helped to face lots of aspects, like finding cures for a very large vaiety of diseases or passing on information in various formats, with speed.

However, now people use their mobile phones or laptops or tablets to comunicate to everyone at any time and also they check information through Internet.

They are addicted and obsessed with this modern technology. And it is very difficult to change because the different brands and companies have established them as a necessary issue to belong to the modern society.

I could survive without my mobile, my laptop or whatever "modern people" use beacause luckily I am not as addicted as many of my friends. They would suffer two hous without modern technology.

Exam composition

When we are young we're (supposed to be) beautiful. And we are very happy while it lasts. But when you grow up, everyone changes and gets old and maybe ugly.

When Lord Henry told this to Dorian Gray, he knew that the young man would be influenced by him but not that much. In fact, I'm sure that if anyone says that to us, we will have the same reaction as Dorian. People attract people mostly by the appearance, so if you are beautiful you'll "succeed in love". And that's why people are obsessed with beauty and youth, as Dorian did. So this statement challenges us how far we would go to last beautiful and and young.

That's the reason why lots of people are obsessed with these two aspects and it proves that we are not happy at all with our physical appearance.

I've chosen this statement because I consider it a goog sentence to make a reflection.

Oral presentation self-evaluation

In this oral presentation that I did with my partner Pau Bosch, I wasn't so much concentrated (because of personal issues that don't care to any one) and this is the result.

I am very upset and embarrased of it and it has taught me that if you want to have succeed in this kind of task, you have to be concentrated and forget everything you have in mind.

I am not proud of the presentation I did and I have to appologise to all my classmates, to my teacher and, above all, to Pau.

I think that is the way I can learn of my big mistake and the next project I'll do my best to have a good result.

I can't say anything more because it ashames me.

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