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Time is Money

As most part of the students know,I as a teacher comment it all the time, American people in general tend to save time in all kinds of aspect, for example, instead of using structures such as, 'I am' they use 'I'm' all the time and when you start listening to their language in movies, songs and so on you start noticing that they save time when speaking all the time. However, this behavior show off not only in when speaking, but also with technology. They have developed many technologies along the centuries like cellphones, pocket video games and Personal Computers and so on.

From what I have said until now you may think this idea of 'time is money' is good, but it is not at all. American people may do anything in order to save money and money, I'm going to use our social relations as an example: In order to say something to a friend, to invite someone to go out people don't call their friends anymore they just send an email or even a tweet*, these simple actions make us have less and less social relations which is really bad.

* - a micropost in the 'twitter' website: www.twitter.com

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Isaac Asimov - The end of eternity

Isaac always tries to improve the story more and more in his fiction books and this is not an exception. The story happens in a society which is used of time traveling, but they don't do it just for fun, they do it in order to make future better changing really simple things like; a discussion between a couple which caused somehow a war after 2 years. Considering this purpose, society needs special 'time travelers' to study the context they are dealing with; the problems which must be considered and so on. The real plot begins when one of these 'time travelers' falls in love with a person from a specific time which is forbidden and this causes a series of troubles involving all kinds of powers inside this modern society, from chancellors to inhabitants of the 'lost times'. An extremely well made book. You've got to check tis out!

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Dear students, from now on we are going to have a schedule for the posts:

Monday: Movies
Tuesday: Books
Wednesday: Culture
Thursday: Events in the school
Friday: Music

To start this new era in the blog. A post about the so famous film: AVATAR

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As most part of the students may know, Avatar is a sci-fi movie from James Cameron. The plot of the film is splendid, but the message which is transmitted is even more fabulous than it looks like.

The plot happens in a period of our history when we are able to find a new planet inhabited by kinds similar to human. However they have developed all their society based in the environmental respect, they are also adapted to connect and communicate with all kinds of life in the planet. These inhabitants are called 'Na'Vi'

An example of a female Na'vi

Our human is not attracted to the planet(which is called Pandora) by the Na'vi people, they are attracted by the resources which existed in that planet. There was a mineral resources capable of produces 100 times more energy than earth has ever seen before. The problem is: he only way to achieve this specific material is to destroy the Na'vi's place, and that's what they try do, or at least try.

The most interesting aspect of he movie is not the plot per si, but what it can be compared to. The behavior of human people in the film is the same as the most powerful countries nowadays, invading and destroying every single piece of obstacle they reach, not caring about social or religious aspects. Another precious aspect is the name of the planet, Pandora, it makes an allusion to the Greek story of the 'Pandora Box'. It tell a story about a girl who receives a beautiful box which she cannot open. Although she just can't wait anymore and opens it, there contained series of evil things and sins. The planet was just like that for the powerful countries as they tried to reach with greed and selfishness but ended up losing, that may be also the consequence of the U.S.A in the Iraq.