Lord of the Files: Chapter 1.

Summary.
At the beginning of this chapter, there is a fair-haired boy, Ralph,  apparently lost in an Island, who meets Piggy, another lost boy who wear glasses and has asthma. Through their conversation, we can know that, at war, they were in a plane in a student’s trip, and the plane was attacked, and all the students were scattered by the accident.

While Piggy and Ralph were walking around the beach, wondering what happened with the other children in the plane, Ralph pointed into the lagoon: something creamy lay among the ferny woods. They took it out, it was a shell of eighteen inches, with a slight spiral twist and covered with a delicate, embossed pattern.

Piggy realizes that shell could be used as a trumpet, and with its sound they could makes all the other children appear. He convinces Ralph to blow through the shell, and after he did, the other boys start appearing. 

After they laugh at piggy because of his nickname and his physical condition, they decide to organize, and choose a leader. Ralph was elected as the leader, and he chooses Jack and Simon to explore the island.

The boys (Ralph, Jack and Simon) climb up the side of one of the steep hills. From the top of the hill, they notice that they are in an island with no civilization, a desert island. The three boys make a long travel through the jungle and emerge near the group of boys waiting for them on the beach.
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Discussion Questions.
1) What would they eat in the future, if they don't dare to kill a little pig?

2) Is going Jack to betray the group, because he is jealous of Ralph?

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Prediction.
I think that the next chapter will be about what the boys will do to survive, with that i mean what they will eat, or were they will sleep.

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Quotes. 
 "What´s that?"
Ralph had stopped smiling and was pointing into the lagoon. Something creamy lay among the ferny weeds. (Pg.16).

"They are all dead," said Piggy, "an' this is an island. Nobody don't no we're here. Your dad don't know,nobody don't know--------" (Pg 15)

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Reaction.
Untill here they have confronted the situation in a very good way, and they are taking good desitions to survive, but the situation has been easy for them. When the climate betray them, or when they run out of food, the real problems will start.

Students will raise money for a good cause.

Agustín Díaz, Student.

July 20, 2012.

SANTIAGO.- Last week a group of students that met by the International Baccalaureate program joined in Chile, to raise money to help people from Talcahuano rebiuld their houses.

27 of February of 2010, after an earthquake, a tsunamy stuck the city of Talcahuano, and left more than 300 dead people, and a lot of families living in the street. The idea of the group of students is to start a collection in the next days with the objective of taking the people of Talcahuano out of the situation they are living now.

"We are trying to help these families to recover their previous life, by means of this campaign called Helping Talcahuano", Diego Rodriguez said, the organizator of the campaign.

In a couple of weeks, the group of students will start collecting money all troughout Chile, with help and support of a lot of chilean people.

Writing a comparisson

- In the first day at village school, the boy was prepared by her sisters, the ones who dressed him up, wrapped him in scarves, etc. On the other hand, at school in Barbados, the poor and ambitious mothers of St Matthias waved him off, and his mother filled his bag with puzzles of knowledge and a lot of books.

- They are very different, the boy of Village school thinks school is an obligation and he doesn't like go to school. On the contrary, at Barbados, the boy doesn't any opinion about education, but the mothers from the village think it's important to learn, and that it would help him become a man.

-I enjoyed reading "First day at school in Bardados", because it have some similar opinions about how do I feel about school.

First Impressions

First time I met someone from another country:  It was in my trip to Orlando, in the United States. I was staying in a big hotel with my family, that was near from Universal Studios and all type of amusement park. After a tiring day of walking around the city, and going to supermarkets, I went to the swimming pool that was in the hotel, and he was there, the boy I met, was from USA, and talked spanish, so it was easy to speak with him, he was very friendly and also he had my same age. 

My first party: My first party was also the first time I danced. It was about two or three years ago, in a very big house, that was on my same street. I was very nervous, beacause I was shy, and speaking to women isn't something easy for a 12 year old boy. It wasn´t something very special, because it was with friends from my class, and girls I already knew. When I asked the first girl to dance, she said "NO", but I din't gave up, and the second one accepted. It was a very uncomfortable moment for me, and untill today I don't like dancing.

First girl I liked: She is a girl I see until today.I met her by one of my sisters, that was friend of her. She was very beautiful, black haired, and with very big eyes. This was about five years ago,(when I was 10 years old)and every time I saw her I blushed. But it wasn´t beacuse girls scared me, it was because my father and the people that was near to me knew about my feelings for her, and they bothered me every time she was near. As the years went by, I overcome my "fear", and now I can speak normally to her.

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Cyberbulliyng

What is cyberbullying, exactly?

"Cyberbullying" is when a child, preteen or teen is tormented, threatened, harassed, humiliated, embarrassed, or otherwise targeted by any other child(teen or preteen) using the internet, interactive and digital technologies or mobile phones. Once adults become involved it's simply called cyber-harassment.

Why it's related to ethics?

"Ethic is a part of philosophy that includes the study of morality , virtue happiness and good living. Devoted to the study of human actions."

So it's simple, when we make cyberbullying, we are not considering virtue and values, so we are making an "un-ethical" action.

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Science and ethics.

A group of stem cells.

This week we have been working in Science and Ethics, specifically about "Stem Cells Ethics and Controversy".

There are fears that science is moving too fast without giving proper consideration to potential impacts and to ethical concerns.

In the case of stem cell's there are two key areas of debate:

1) The etchical/moral debate; refering to religious beliefs, wich say that 'messing up' with the human genome is simply not right.

2) Claims are reguarly reported by scientists with their findings published in reputable science journals. They repakages the findings for public consumption and dutifully supplies the splash headline: ' Brain stem cells to cure diabetes' . But the problem is that once you get to the small print you discover that all is not as it seems.

Also as the field of stem cell research is developing new questions and problems arise, with each new discovery another set of problems seems to arise. Like the case of adult stem cells, and another cases we don't know.