Written Task 2 Rubric

Written Task 2 will be evaluated according to the following rubric:


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Balam as a team is an excellent example of perseverance to the point where it could be considered lack of common sense. Not only has the team overcome really hard obstacles to keep on going but we have shown great results with a lot of odds against us as well as errors which are natural but eventually become strength. Balam has taken more than 700 hours of my time since I have joined and I would double it gladly.

Let's start with these season in which we only had one mentor, our initial room/laboratory/bunker was flooded causing damage to the team’s stock of materials and of course being the smallest team (in members) of Mexico. All of the adversities did not stop us, in fact they made us work harder and better. You have only one mentor? Cool, all the team will focus on only one example and learn from one person only making thing even. You lost your bunker and part of your already little stock of materials? Cool while you move to another place you can make inventory and be fully aware of what the team actually possess. You are the smallest team? Cool, then everyone has knowledge of every area and the specialists are few so the there can be a specialist for each area.

The championship has only proved that the team still has a lot to learn and gave the team not only objectives for next season but standards to what we want our robot, knowledge, season and team to be. The championship was also great to prove that even after we felt we were the best and really special for winning the regional at Mexico City we went to the place where it is mandatory to have won a regional in order to participate, so as a learning experience it was really complete as well as having lots of fun involved.

Last season was an example of what the team is capable to do, and every season something new awaits to be tackled and the team awaits its new challenge to satisfy what we have come accustomed to. I am proud of being there to see and help the team with all of these challenges and of course I can't wait for the next season kickoff to bring a new, better and harder challenge.

FIRST is the company responsible of bringing a life changing philosophy, events and atmosphere to the life of more than 400000 students by making them more involved with the company and doing what FIRST does best, inspiring. FIRST meaning is: For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology. The name of this company is perfect for what they do for I can assure from personal experience that they fulfill said objectives. They are a global class company with the confidence to put pressure to the assistant U.S. Secretary of defense and unleashing an army of 400000 kids to government offices in order to get a commemorative coin for a U.S. Hero (I recommend you to watch Dean’s commentary on this year's championship closure to know what I mean).

I have been a member of FIRST since my first semester at high school (at the time I was 14 years old which was the minimal age to join) and barely made it to register by a margin of 10 minutes that was at late November. Since I have been part of my FIRST team I have developed abilities not only in  my affinity with tools and building affairs but also teamwork, friendship and coopertition (term of FIRST, I suggest and encourage investigation), these abilities where self learned by participating with the team but were focused and strengthened by FIRST values.

By participating in FIRST events these passion and commitment has done nothing but to grow stronger since you share that passion with people external to your team and find out your team isn't the only one staying up late in night until you finish that mechanism but rather there are more than 3100 teams that have done the same and understand what you have gone through, it is the moment you find out you are not the only crazy bastards working so hard for a robot. After my experience with other teams and FIRST as a company I am proud to say I am really lucky to be able to belong in such an awesome project.

Creative Writing: Thoughts on Captain America: Civil War (No spoilers)

Christian David Bauza Gomes

A01375193

Group 60

English IB 4th Semester

Thoughts on Captain America: Civil War (No spoilers)

Back in the most recent weekend after a long Friday of C.A.S events, fairs and parties, I went to my local movie theater in hopes to get an hour to finally watch one of my most anticipated films of the year: Captain America: Civil War. As a huge fan of superhero movies ever since the year 2002 when I saw the first Spiderman movie, I have been following lots of films based on these comic book characters and see how they do justice to those stories printed in paper on a much more massive visual media like cinema. The newest Captain America movie is no exception of this following, especially after reading in the news two years ago that it was going to be based on a critically acclaimed series of comics and personal favorites of mine which, fortunately, are on hands of both Marvel Studios and Disney. Based on what I saw on the silver screen last Saturday, here are my two cents on it.

The movie works as it had been advertised for months: A fight between Captain America and Iron Man, each with respective teams, over a simple decision that could both benefit mankind by preventing any more unfair deaths in low class countries but at the same time affect superhero liberties by putting a border on what they should do to prevent another violent act of terrorism from happening. One is on favor of the legislation, while the other is against it and, to make matters worse, he gets into more trouble to protect a childhood friend presumed dead in previous installments of the franchise who’s wanted by the law for murder.

As the struggle begins and grows more and more in development between characters, mixed emotions and reactions like laughter, tension and excitement from the audience can be heard or seen as the scenes go by, ergo, the cinematography and directing is just brilliant. The way the actors portray the characters makes a person feel he or she is reading the actual comic book. Apart from some of them being already known for their roles in previous Marvel films, others stand out enough for everyone to see more of him or her as years go by. For example: Nobody believed British actor Tom Holland could pull off a great Spiderman after the acting magnitude of somebody like Tobey Maguire in the original Sam Raimi films as the geek Peter Parker is or the great portrayal of the superhero itself from Andrew Garfield in the latest two installments. However, after watching this film audiences just kept on laughing and claiming how great he was and are actually looking forward to his solo film in 2017.

To conclude, I think that the combination of the mixed elements of drama, action and comedy in this film are enough to make a comic book geek and lover like myself “cry” over how amazing it was. This film is what Batman v Superman should have been in the first place. No random popular characters being thrown to try and keep the film and DC cinematic universe interesting for people in the following years and not mashing up several stories in the original comics into one, since it will only feel rushed and desperate by Warner Bros. But I digress. This film gets a 9/10 from me and I look forward extremely to what Marvel offers the demographic through the wide Cinematic Universe.

On my St. Louis Experience

From April 27 to May 1 we, Tec Balam Esmeralda, team #3527, were blessed to compete in the FIRST World Championship for the 2016 season. Even though how we got there was unjustified and really out of our control, we got there, and boy was the experience worth it. My previous experience on the robotics field, I had no idea of the magnitude it had outside of Mexico. In here, I thought we had a big community, we were competitive, that it wasn´t that hard to be competitive in the worldwide stage with the lack of industry and interest we have in Mexico.

I was wrong, so wrong, so much in fact, that I had no other reaction to it than to just laugh, in the inside of course. The Championship is divided into eight divisions of 75 teams each and the winner of each compete for the World Championship. Of those divisions, Mexican teams were in 5 of those divisions, the winningest team from us, Lambot, was in the eventual champion’s division. Of 8 teams, 6 of us didn’t get past the 60^th place tier, another team was found under the 40s, and Lambot team #3478, the most competitive team, was able to reach the division quarterfinals, but were unceremoniously knocked out of the water, on an embarrassing fashion (Lost 195-255, Lost 155-275) by the eventual champions. It was heart ripping to see the best teams in Mexico get tossed around without respect from these American giants. At the beginning of the essay, I mentioned each team’s number, which in this context denotes the seniority that each team has and is often related to the experience a team has with the competition. Most of the teams we competed against were in the 100s, 1,000 and the 2,000 range and were in the Championship for several years now, and some in a row.

Most of these teams had the support of every organization they reach, are able to get their robots fabricated by those same organizations and just be able to assemble the robot like a glorified Lego with the thumbs-up of NASA experts and 30+ experience engineers that have nothing better to do than help this teams out. This factor is what really sets us apart from the American teams in a bad way, we don’t get any of that, we design our robots thinking we will be the ones to craft each piece of it and assemble it on an uneven and mostly ugly way.

My goal for the next few seasons that I’m able to stick with the team is to get the most support towards us and make us able to compete with the rest of the world and show them that seniority nor country matters in order to be great and be able to finally win the FIRST Championship. 

Why wouldn’t I live in the USA?

Why wouldn’t I live in the USA?

There has always been the belief of a better life in America compared to what we can see in other different countries. There are a lot of factors that involve this point of view. We can talk about the economic power the US has created throughout History, or about the famous ideology of living in the country of freedom, where everything is beautiful and every person lives happy.

I don’t believe that, actually, I think Americans tend to live in such a manner that they suffer constantly for a lot of things. I have recently been in an American city, Saint Louis, and I found incredible that the city’s infrastructure is really big and really impressive but there’s not enough people to make it look as a powerful city. The first thing I thought was that maybe Americans were just lazy, but after a while being there I concluded that they’re not lazy, they’re boring. There was not a moment of the trip where streets felt crowded, or people walked to have some fun in town. The time where I saw more people reunited in the same place was when sports came in. Sports take a very important place in people’s priority lists in America, maybe that’s why it is such a good business.

That’s the American way of life in my point of view. Now, we can see a lot of differences between that way of life and the Mexican one. In Mexico, no matter what you do, you can’t get bored unless you stay home all the time. If you’re not watching soccer, you are hanging out with your friends, or going to parties, or socializing with new people. The thing is, in Mexico, the way of life is much more entertaining than in America. People there act all the same, as if they were some kind of strange robots which are connected to the same boring channel. Routine is the ideal world to describe it.

That’s why I wouldn’t be able to live in America. Such a constant routine would end up boring me to death and making me as fat as Americans are. I prefer a place where people don’t act as robots but as normal people, who are different in every way and act for different meanings. It is more challenging and gives a sense of humanity to life. 

What is Balam?

Balam to me is a safe haven from everything, my life, school, family, and all those things. There really aren´t a lot of places and groups that can really do that for me, especially at this point in my aging process. Many have questioned me for always sticking to it, my first season was at the lowest point of the team where there were no one but four juniors with little to no leadership. There is something about it, it may be the people around the project, maybe it’s the nature of the project, or maybe it’s what I can do with it that gets me to gravitate towards it.

As much as the project is focused on robotics, the essentials to its success is really interacting with everyone else on Balam, you are going to have to spend six weeks in a row with them from noon to 8 p.m. and there is nothing you can do about it, so they are what are going to make or break the experience for anybody. Luckily for everybody, we have some of the best people around each other and really make a family like environment around ourselves and the robot, there is no fun without us having each other. So I appreciate having the people we have on board.

FIRST, For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology, is one of the toughest challenges that are out there for high schoolers to accomplish, and it is what Balam preaches. The nature of the organization is really living everything out for the robot, and getting the highest level of satisfaction whenever you see your time and part of you function properly and be competitive. The competition is the least part of it, but the means to get there is what really makes Balam worth it for me and recommendable to everyone who is considering to join us.

The results of the experience really goes a long way in the rest of my life, it makes itself an integral part of who you will be and will do for your adult life with everything behind you and all that is left Is a good memory of it. Everything about this, from the people you meet from being here to the feelings and confidence it resides on you after you form part of it, is something that nothing will do for you other than Balam, so yeah, Balam is really worth it.

Style of a Horror Story: Was Howard Philips Lovecraft really the writer who deserved praising even after his death?

Christian David Bauza Gomes

A01375193

English IB 4th Semester

Group 60

Style of a Horror Story: Was Howard Philips Lovecraft really the writer deserved praising even after his death?

Born in the year 1890 in Providence, Rhode Island, Lovecraft is considered amongst many literature fanatics as a figure of classic and creative horror writing with short stories like “The Call of Cthulhu”, “The Tomb” and “Dagon”. His writing style is seemingly described as powerful and popular due from the influence of British Literature with authors like Joseph Addison and Jonathan Swift, as well as the way he combined several literary figures like anaphora, alliteration and mainly symbolism to create it. This combination of literary figures for storytelling even sparked a whole new genre of literature involving terror and fright: Lovecraftian Horror. This genre is distinguished for the use of supernatural, pre-human, and extraterrestrial elements while also involving themes of helplessness and hopelessness as well as unanswered questions that neither the reader or the character itself could figure out after all the plot developed throughout the course of the story.

Although his influence on the world of literature has earned its place on a legacy of books to be read and discovered by future generations to give them knowledge about fear and how it works on a particular individual, there are some that criticize the acclaim he’s gotten by many scholars about his works and instead of analyzing every aspect of his writing, they deem it as bleak and execrable, with his views on controversial themes, particularly on the theme of racism, having some influence on them. One example of many of these criticisms is from writer Jess Nevins on her article about classic horror stories, where she states the fact that many others at the time had better styles of writing than Lovecraft and some even had better stories involving themes of horror. To answer the question of why he has survived the probability of a terrible fate after his demise, not like most unrecognized authors, she recurs to the introduction of English writer and professor, Roger Luckhurst, on “The Classic Horror Stories”. Apart from things like the mixed writing style and deployment of vocabulary, Luckhurst puts him in the “Weird” genre of literature rather than horror or even science fiction due to the unsettling but open-source fictional universe created by him in many of his literary works. Example of this being the fact that the origin of the mythos of the beast Cthulhu, from Lovecraft's novel "The Call of Cthulhu", has had great influence in today's society with the creation of minor groups who follow this fictional monster.

Furthermore, another thing to add about Lovecraft is the fact that his works even though have been translated into several languages, the Polish versions are often up to revisions and are changed extremely from his original writing, making his works across that country lacking of accuracy and without the readers knowing his original intent with each sentence.

So, was H.P. Lovecraft deemed of so much attention and praise after his death? In my opinion, there has been a lot of acclaim after an artist’s death. For example: David Bowie and Prince were recognized as great musicians when they were alive, but after their recent deaths in January and April of this year, people now consider them legends. Lovecraft also suffered this phenomenon after his demise and goes on strong because of the mythos he created of a legendary beast that comes to wipe all of mankind, even though he has other works that are considered classics in the horror genre like "The Shadow Out of Time" and "At the Mountains of Madness". I consider his work, including his writing style and stories, as great and original even to this day. He is a great horror writer like Edgar Allan Poe and Stephen King, but people shouldn't only consider him for reading if the main interest is the beast Cthulhu, but rather the whole wide, rich, and wonderful literary works he left for future generations.

expository essay

HP Lovecraft 

Howard Phillips Lovecraft was born on August 20, 1890 and died in March 15, 1937 known as H. P. Lovecraft — was an American author of horror, fantasy, poetry and science fiction, especially the subgenre known as weird fiction.

Lovecraft’s guiding aesthetic and philosophical principle was what he termed “cosmicism” or “cosmic horror”, the idea that life is incomprehensible to human minds and that the universe is fundamental to the interests of humankind. Also his stories express a profound indifference to human beliefs and affairs. Lovecraft is the originator of the Cthulhu Mythos story cycle and the Necronomicon, a fictional magical textbook of rites and forbidden things.

Lovecraft's major inspiration and invention was cosmic horror, the basic premise of which is that the true workings of the universe are beyond human comprehension and that humanity's place in the cosmos is terrifyingly insignificant. A key feature of many of his stories is the existence of powerful, extraterrestrial or supernatural entities that influence or threaten the human world in subtle ways, and whose mere perception by human observers often drives the latter to madness.

Lovecraft had a very unique way for writing, he had a style that used a lot of descriptive adjectives this helps to capture the attention of the readers because he really described what was happening in his short stories with a lot of details. And when he was writing his weird stories, he was always trying to be very careful to achieve the right mood and atmosphere, and place the emphasis where it belongs. One cannot, except in immature pulp charlatan–fiction, present an account of impossible, improbable, or inconceivable phenomena as a commonplace narrative of objective acts and conventional emotions. To achieve Inconceivable events and conditions he stablished realism in every phase of the story.

It is well-known now that Lovecraft had many prejudices that shaped and affected his perceptions; he was a known anti-Semite and racist against the black people. And things like these were the reason why Lovecraft was strongly criticized and this is why some people doesn´t like his works.

Lovecraft's writing, has influenced fiction authors including modern horror and fantasy writers. Stephen King, Ramsey Campbell, Alan Moore and more. These authors have cited Lovecraft as one of their primary influences. Beyond direct adaptation, Lovecraft and his stories have had a profound impact on popular culture. 

Balam

Why Balam?

In the Prepa Tec Esmeralda the school gives the students the possibility of forming part of different groups with development objectives. They depend on the different abilities of every student, connected in the same time with their professional and personal interests. There are several groups if we take in account the debate club, the prevention club, the radio club, the soccer club, the basketball club, the arts club and the robotics club. But why should a person pick one of them? What effect does it make being part of it or not?

In school students can learn several stuff, but it makes no sense to learn it and never be able to do something with it. That's what school clubs do, they invite students to apply everything they have learnt, to do something useful with it. Maybe teenagers don't realize about the changes they are causing to their future but they will as time goes by. Scholar clubs are the place where the real preparison for life takes place. Here students learn how to act according to different situations and problems, staying away from the commodity of school's ideal environment, where problems faced are way different from real life situations.

As a personal experience I chose last semester to enter a school club that shares the ideals I wanted to develop, and the abilities that I wanted to acquire. That's the robotics team. Since the beginning of my high school I stayed close to school clubs, but never lived and took advantage of any of them as I'm doing it in the robotics club named Balam. They have shown me through time that hard work and persistence get us where we want to be, as a team or as an individual, it doesn't matter.

This year we achieved the goal of classifying to the robotics World Cup in Saint Louis, Missouri. Although we didn't do great in the competition, the most important thing is what we have learnt. We came here as beginners but we head back to Mexico as a team ready to work hard in order to level up, in order to compete against the best robotics of the globe.

Finally, there's also the human part of it, maybe the most important one. As a team, problems come and go in a daily basis, so we have to learn how to act whenever we get involved in those problems. The constant teamwork has its consequences, most of the time positive ones. As time goes by, the members of the team act more like a family than like a cold robotics team. Students develop the ability of socializing as humans, all aiming to the same goals and with the same attitude. That's the important part of it.

Because of all these point is that I will never regret choosing the robotics team. It is the one that will help me take a lot of decisions based on experiences, especially in the professional part of my life. It doesn't have to be robotics for everyone, there are endless fields of knowledge around the globe. The nice part of this is finding the correct way of developing inside that special field.

Tiger Woods

Víctor Sánchez

Tiger Woods

Eldrick T. Woods was born on December 30, 1975, in Cypress, California. This golf legend Tiger Woods has had a career nothing short of spectacular. His father, Earl Woods, began teaching his son the game when he was just a year old. In fact, Tiger's skills were so good at such a young age that it landed him an appearance on the Mike Douglas Show in 1978. When Tiger was five he appeared on television's "That's Incredible" and in Golf Digest magazine.

After winning six junior championships between the ages of eight and 15, Tiger went on to become the youngest U.S. Junior Amateur Champion in history, a feat he would repeat the following year, making him also the only player to ever win more than once. He would even go on to win it for a third consecutive time the following year. At 16 he competed in the Nissan Los Angeles Open, his first PGA Tour event. At 18, Woods won the U.S. Amateur Championship, the youngest to accomplish this feat. Next, he enrolled at Stanford University and at 19 successfully defended his Amateur Championship title, the second of three consecutive titles.

Tiger began the 2001 season by winning The Masters to become the reigning champ in all four majors concurrently and the first player to win each major consecutively, though not in the same season. In 2002, he won his third Masters and his second U.S. Open, the sixth and seventh of his 11 career majors. But Tiger's game declined over the next few years, and speculation arose that he was indeed human after all. In 2003 he won five of the 18 tournaments he participated in, but none of those were in any of the majors. In 2004, after a record 264 weeks at the top, Tiger lost the number-one ranking to Fijian Vijay Singh. However, that same year he passed the career earnings mark of $40 million, the first player ever to do so.

Since Tiger began professional play televised golf ratings have steadily raised and currently top baseball and basketball. However, viewership skyrockets when Tiger is playing well or leading.

Throughout the course of his illustrious career, Tiger has won 10 Majors, 46 PGA Tournaments, and a combined 36 wins between the Asian Tour, PGA European Tour, World Cup of Golf, and several other unofficial events. He's established several charity organizations, including the Tiger Woods Foundation, a charity that benefits children, which he created with his father.

Darkness

Dark essay

Darkness is that fit place where theres not even the slightest ray of light or even the sligest glimmer of hope, and there where there is nothing left is where people are allowed to be. Speaking of this darkness in particular we are being abstract and taking it as a concept, it is a place in the consciousness of people, in the collective unconscious where there is no place for certainties, where there is no happiness, future, ties, links not There is nothing. Nothing that is positive, is a place full of despair, breathless and where no one will survive. It is a place where order is lost and structures where humans can show who really is because being honest human beings are selfish and evil, seeks only self-preservation, survival regardless of anything that is in around. Imagine being trapped there in the dark, surrounded by people, first you'd think that loneliness had been the best companion. Still, as good pesmist that I am, for me people that always think in the dark can enter the light, that light is always stronger, light beats evil and essentially some people shine more than obscure, are wrong, for light is just a small percentage, of what tis universe is.

Each person have a different thought to the other, why not all people are afraid of the dark?, the human being who has a phobia of this kind of phenomenon has a point of view on the dark, as people suffering from one way or another fears of lygofobia think that in the midst of darkness someone is watching or some kind of supernatural phenomenon appears in other occasions something persecutes, sometimes by coincidence or not, the darkness accompanied a series of not very frequent abnormalities such as strange noises or shadows which make chelae people will have even more phobia dark, due to lack of sufficient quantities of light to see what goes around, people feel adrift in some cosamala that they can spend and of course very disorientated.

In the end darkness always overcomes light, scientist believe that eventually everything will turn down, all the stars and galaxies will eventually run out of fuel to burn and darkness will overtake the universe, but first it is coming for us,

Creative Writing

Diego Alejandro Cabrera Zúñiga.
A01375114.

Problems and Needs in our Community

Solutions and advices

Sixth Entry

Creative Writing

We all have different kinds of problems or needs in our community. In our society there are three important problems that we are facing nowadays: Dropped trash in the streets and Water pipes leakages and Deforestation in rural zones. Sadly we are living within those problems and are a reality in our community. We must do something about to figure them out and stop what we´re doing wrong.

We do have access to the members that live in our community and the representatives of our community. The Association of settler have a special role in preserving our community. We all can work together to fix our problems and make a better community. We all have to work together to find out the solution. It´s not too late to change our way we´re living and make our community a better place. But it´s up to us to start the change with commitment and responsibility. So these problems do have a real solution.

To solve those problems it´s required a group of resources to change our community and provide us a better life. As an example we have: Machinery and special trash trucks to reforest barren zones of land; financial agreements and permissions provided by the municipalities, so that they can fix our problems and give special services in our communities; Implement more technological infrastructure for recycle or reuse natural resources. As well as governments to assign more Budget and banks to provide credits or loans for these kinds of projects. Also the manpower is needed to take care of the physical work and use the provided material to fix pipes and fix the community problems. We as part of the community have no direct access to the needed resource. But we can ask for them and use them to help our community and improve our condition of life.

If we consider the most appealing problem to be working on during this year, it would be the trash in streets. Trash is a common problem we have in our community, 75% of the people in a community drop trash in streets. We might help preserve our community and fix this problem as soon as possible.

This problem might be easy for students to solve it. It all depends of the initiative and commitment of students. If we solve our problem we will have a better comunity. Streets will mantain clean, we will have a better view of our streets and pavements, people might enjoy of our cleaned streets and the community will have a better perspective. We will do it to improve the community and change our way of living.

Expository Essay

Diego Alejandro Cabrera Zúñiga.

A01375114.

Why is Lovecraft an Important Writer and How Does Translation Affect his works?

Expository Essay

Fifth Entry

H.P Lovecraft is not considered one of the greatest writers of his times, the 1930´s. There were other writers that wrote in the same genres as Lovecraft and they were better in any aspect than him. Such as Smith, or Blackwood, or Fritz Leiber, were considered better writers. Roger Luckhurst wrote an essay analyzing Lovecraft´s biography, style, and the genre he belongs to. Luckhurst attempts to answer in his introduction to The Classic Horror Stories, why has Lovecraft survived? When there was Smith, or Blackwood, or Fritz Leiber, or many other, better writers of that time. When Luckhurts discusses Lovercaft biography he highlights that “Lovecraft’s racism is typical of its age, but driven towards pathological intensity by Lovecraft’s perception of himself as the last scion of New England civilization” (Jess Nevins, 2). He tries to uncover one of Lovecraft´s problem with one historical event of that time which regards England civilization and those ideas around the world of 1930´s that concern the racism. Also, Luckhurst made Lovecraft look good as a writer when he remarked that he is actually worthy of a critical edition and removing him from the traditions of science fiction and horror, and instead, he placing him as part of the Weird category, which made Lovecraft became a shaper and establisher of the subgenre. As a result of all of this, Roger Luckhurts didn´t answer literally the question, but did gave a lot of background information that inferred that Lovecraft is such a great writer and that can be compared to the best of those times as well.

One of the problems in translating Lovecraft´s works is to convey that fear that is found in his original works, so translators must be very careful with elements such as culture and language that are important while translating. It´s important to know that Lovecraft´s scientific knowledge and attention to detail allowed him to create situations, set in the real world, where unnatural and disturbing situations take place. As part of Lovecraft style, it was predominant the: frequent use of adjectives, particularly at the end of a text; his style was not archaic, but rather dense and compressed; the first person narration; the use of words relating to various senses; and the intentional repetition of the phrase or its part. These stylistics are important because he was aware that all readers are equally affected by horror fiction.

To prove that Lovecraft´s translations were not that accurate there is one example through the translations by Robert P. Lipski, he is the author of Polish translations. When he translated “The Statement of Randolph Carter” by Lovecraft into Polish, there were some mistakes that might misinterpret what Lovecraft wanted to convey. This was because the inversion of the original sentence was not preserved. Lipski used the expression “dalibóg”, which suggests that one character of the story is a religious person, which he was no way religious. The final words of the original statement were also changed, and he changed the character reaction towards a situation while in the original work he was eloquent.

This shows that the author´s style is intimately related to the purpose and the feelings conveyed in a work. Since the translation made into another language may affect either the sensations or the logical events in that story. And this can be appreciated in Lovecraft´s stories, since he was used to write science fiction, horror or Weird category, where fear was the main feeling in those works.

Self Sabotage

Self sabotage

Everyone does it sometimes. Some do it regularly—shoot themselves in the foot or put obstacles in their own chosen path. Behavior is self-sabotaging when in attempting to solve or cope with a problem, it instigates new problems, interferes with long-term goals, and unsettles relationships.

We dont know happiness, though happiness its what all fundamentally search for, for many of us, it isn´t really what we know, when we get to experience happiness we usually feel it as “good luck” for it is a short term experience and it scares us.

Because happiness isn’t regular, it doesn’t feel like a normal, we choose difficult ways instead of alienated fulfilling moments for it feels risky to be happy because we put ourselves up in the arms of hope, and, disliking this concept, we try to be in our zone of control.

We deserve patience, self-sabotage is not an act, it's a process, a complex, tragic process that pits people against their own thoughts and impulses. Though we all make mistakes, a true self-saboteur continues to try to fix those mistakes by top-loading them with increasingly bad decisions.

We try to make other feel how hard it is for us, this is mostly because we fail in transmitting our most deep emocions, alcohol and other drugs are our door to self-discharge, but when the time is troubling and these drugs are missing, we tend to have aggressive, hurting reactions to our friends or parterns, maybe so they can feel as confused as we do.

In conclusion, self-sabotage is like a grenade that suddenly explodes in our lives — pushing us away from our deepest wants and desires. However, there are no excuses, because we are the ones who consciously control the movement of the pin. Therefore make a better decision today that you won’t fall prey to your self-sabotage patterns ever again.

Creative Writing

"The door to the underworld"

It was a cold dark afternoon the grey and black clouds surrounding us the wind was strong, and the snow below was covering our shoes like a smooth talcum.
We were trying to find the village, but by that time we had walked for hours from our house in the woods to the village. We needed to buy provisions, but mainly firewood to keep our house warm during the winter, where I live  with my little sister Clary.
We kept walking for another few hours, but it started to snow, and the wind was so strong that it started to pulling us away from our path, it was a storm, a snow storm and it made our road  extremely hard and dangerous, so we decided to take another road.
 We walked some miles and then finally we found something, a church or it seemed like a church from the distance.
We  decided to walk towards it, and ask for sanctuary till the storm ceased.
We walked to what seemed the front door and knocked praying that somebody had heard us, after three knocks a monk opened the door we asked for sanctuary and he accepted, but he told us we could only  stay for one night.
I don't know why, but the monk was a suspicious to me, maybe it was the fact that we could not see his face because it was covered with the hoodie of his robe when we finally enter he showed us where we were going to pass the night, and  he told us that dinner was in ten minutes so we left our belonging and immediately  made our way to the dinning room.
When we arrived  he asked us to sit.
He  took off his hoodie and I could see what was the suspicious thing about him, his face was gruesome, it had severe burns all over his face.
I couldn't help it, my curiosity won upon my common sense, so I asked him what had happened to him and he told us the story of how the church had burned some years ago and how he was there when the terrible accident happened. "It was a quiet and peaceful night we all went to our beds, but at midnight a scream woke me up I stood up as fast as I could and made my way to the center of the church where all our pupils and sisters slept then I saw it, the fire, the church was burning I couldn't think of anything else but save the girls and the sisters we all managed to get out of the church, we thought that we were all safe, when suddenly another scream echoed throughout the burning walls of the church the only thing I thought was that there was a girl trapped inside the church so I made my way to the inside of the church to take her out, I looked for her everywhere  when I finally saw her, I tried to get her out but she was trapped, I manage to free her but a column fell down trapping me, the column was over me, I tried to free myself but I couldn't"  the monk said "Well it's time to go to bed,tomorrow you will have to walk a long way to get to the village" the monk told us "But I thought we were not that far from the village" I told the monk "Oh my friend you just deviate for more than three hundred miles from the village" "Oh well so I guess we should definitely go to sleep so that we can continue our way in the morning, thank you for the magnificent food and for letting us stay in here" I told the monk " There is no need to be thankful my friend, you really don't know what you are saying"He told me  "Ok time for sleep let's go Clary" I said to my little sister but she was already in her bed "Good night Sebastian, have sweet dreams" he told me. That phrase captured my attention because how did he knew my name, I just mention Clary's name I never mentioned mine. I start thinking  about the fact that how did he  knew my name if I never mentioned it before but also about the story he told us  but I was too tired to think more about it so I just went to bed. But I started having nightmares, I was dreaming of the story he told us, about how the church burned but there was something about his story that did not fit in, because he said "I tried to go out but I couldn't" and suddenly I saw It, I was in the church meanwhile it was burning I saw a girl trapped maybe the girl the monk tried to save but  she looked a lot like my sister "Clary!" I screamed but no sound came out of my mouth, but the monk was there trying to save her, I saw how the monk got trapped by the column on fire but as he said he couldn't go out he just stayed there trapped as the church fell into pieces as the fire consume it slowly until the church finally burned but the curious thing was that only half of the church burned, the back part was completely vanished, replacing it there were just ashes, I walked around the church and what I could see was that in the back of the church, the part that had burned there was a graveyard and as I walked to graveyard I could see that the only thing left of the back part of the church was a stone arch, a door I walked around the church to see that that stone arch was sort of a door that lead to a graveyard in the back of the church, I walked again to the inside of the church, and I made my way directly to the back part where the stone arch was supposed to be but  in the  moment that I was about to pass through the stone door I woke up. After that dream I just wanted to get my sister and go away from there but as I turned to wake her up, she was no longer in her bed, I got out of my bed and I started looking for her, and then I saw her she was with the monk, but the monk was leading her to the door, stone door of my dream. "Clary!" I screamed but she did not turn around, so I start to run in her direction and I continued to scream her name, but she did not respond to my screams, instead the monk turned his face to my direction, and the only thing he said was: "Finally"  and then he took my sister through the stone arch door, I ran out of the church to go to the other side, the burned side to save my sister but as I arrived there, no one was there, nor the monk nor Clary were  there, there was nothing, nothing at all not even footsteps in the snow, I could do anything about it, I could not believe it, my sister was gone, Clary was gone forever and then I realized, the girl in my dream, the girl that the monk saved but he died in the fire was just like my sister, the monk was waiting all this years for Clary, he was waiting just to take her with him, take her through the the door to the underworld.

Importance of the translation of different works

Translators have to rewrite somebody's work, in a different language, but when doing this they're risking themselves to fail in the attempt to keep the emotional context of the original work in the translated version of the work. 

If the translator fail in accomplishing this, then the work when read by different audiences, with different mother tongues, will not experience the same feelings that the writer intended to transmit his / her readers.

Cortazar is a writer whose works are originally written in Spanish, and his writing style is complicated enough for Spanish speaking people, because his works are surreal, and mostly based in his imagination.

All this when translated, loses most of its original emotional and literary, because of the different use of literary terms in different languages, creating a totally different writing technique in the different languages the work is being translated. 

Translation is not an easy job to do, and it doesn't matter from which to which language it is being translated, it always involves a great challenge for the translator, which is responsible for the interpretation that will be given to the work that it's being translated. 

Creative Writing 

Dancing, a highly underrated sport, people just see graceful moves, shinny and pretty dresses, the smile on your face. But they never see the pain and the sacrifice that comes with it.

Dancing involves a lot of physical and mental commitment, you have to learn several routines at once,and then add your personal style to each of them.
 The training will take most of your free time, and it will be highly demanding, both physically and mentally.

Your feet get destroyed  because of  the long hours of consecutive training, sometimes in the horribly pain full high heels, other times  barefooted, and it will hurt until you get your feet used to the constant friction with the floor, and then some other times you have to stand on your toes all day.
You'll move your body in ways that you never thought you would, you'll sleep just a few hours before a performance because you'll have to manage to make all your duties plus train and practice lots of hours, to get ready for the performance.

Mentally you need to get yourself ready for the reality that thousand of people will be watching you, and will be paying attention to you and to every move you do, you'll be the centre of attention, you'll have to prepare yourself to fail and keep trying, to fall and stand up and continue, to get hurt, and keep smiling through the pain.

Dancing an amazing sport / art that may seem easy and simple, but it has a lot involved behind it.

H.P. Lovecraft. Expository essay

H.P. Lovecraft. Expository essay

By: Mónica de la Cruz Rojas

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H.P Lovecraft has generated a controversy in our time; the reason of this is simple. He is remembered for his work as the creator of the cosmic horror, but the question is why is he famous, since we have writers like Olaf Stapledon who wrote better science fiction, Clark Ashton Smith who had better style or Algernon Blackwood who wrote better horror, why is Lovecraft treasure in society, even when he is a racist elitist person.

Both text we read started to answer this question by analyzing the unique style of Lovecraft, since he cannot be categorize. For starting this analysis it is essential that we understand the concept of style. The definition is “the way in which language is used in a given context, by a given person, for a given purpose”. In this case the language used in the plot of a book, given by the author to generate an emotion or help with the development of the story.

Lovecraft has a very unique style starting with a frequent use of adjectives, this helps to overwhelm the readers by having a sheer intensity of the experience they share with the narrator or the characters, by using a large amount of adjectives in his stories Lovecraft defined one characteristic on his type of writing.

H.P Lovecraft work is full wide words like “indescribable, unknown or hideous”, creating a gap for the reader to imagine terrifying scenarios.

The second and main characteristic find in his stories is the dense and compressed vocabulary as said in Joshi, “Wide knowledge in the realms of biology, chemistry, geology, astronomy, art, architecture, literature, mythology, and other disciplines”, making the story hard for those with the lack of that information, since the did not understand the meaning making it hard for them to imagine the scenario.

The first person narration is also often found in his work, it helps the reader identify with the narrator in order for them to take a more direct part in all the events. This is emphasized by Lovecraft's intentional opposition between the local populace and the narrator, an outsider, not native to the parts, well educated and ignorant of local superstitions, comes to a feared, supposedly cursed place, armed with his rational mind and knowledge, only to discover monstrosities.

The stylistic features of Lovecraft's “Dream cycle” stories. Some of them being prose-poems, where the development of the story is fast and in its majority fantastic.

Another style marker is the intentional repetition of the phrase or its part making the narration of the place or situation sound alarming and threatening. The fragment from The Colour out of Space, exemplifies the above claim:

“The trees grew too thickly, and their trunks were too big for any healthy New England wood. There was too much silence in the dim alleys between them, and the floor was too soft with the dank moss and mattings of infinite years of decay“

In case of Lovecraft syntax it is frequent found in his work the inversion in the sentences.  Verbs, clauses and adjectives have no standard position. In the first sentence of his story “The Colour out of Space” explains the previous better in the next phrase:

“West of Arkham the hills rise wild, and there are valleys with deep woods that no axe has ever cut”

The two text we have read explains the reason of why H.P Lovecraft has transcended in history. Starting by explaining that his unique style of writing has help achieve the previous, since he is a person who write in a different way and generated story’s based on people fear, using the narration and the description of the places as help achieve this. But something he did that truly help achieve it´s success was that he took marketing of his own work into his hands. He draw attention to himself and his work by creating a close relationship with his readers, he used to answer fan mail and he seemed to be interested in their opinion and in answering their doubts. This and his unique style of writing help him achieve the success the has know at days.