LEGO

The name 'LEGO' is an abbreviation of the two Danish words "leg godt", meaning "play well". The LEGO Group was founded in 1932 by Ole Kirk Christiansen. The Company has passed from father to son and is now owned by Kjeld Kirk Kristiansen, a grandchild of the founder. It has come a long way over the past almost 80 years - from a small carpenter’s workshop to a modern, global enterprise that is now, in terms of sales, the world’s fifth-largest manufacturer of toys.
Fun LEGO facts:
• More than 400 million children and adults will play with LEGO bricks this year.
• LEGO products are on sale in more than 130 countries.
• Approx. seven LEGO sets are sold each second.
• Approx. 19 billion LEGO elements are made every year in Billund – equivalent to
approx. 2m elements an hour or 36,000 a minute.
• On average there are 62 LEGO bricks for every person on earth.
• The world’s children spend 5 billion hours a year playing with LEGO bricks.
• With a production of about 306 million tyres a year, the LEGO Group is the world’s
largest tyre manufacturer.
• In the manufacture of LEGO bricks the machine tolerance is as small as 0.002 mm
• The LEGO Club has 2.7 million members worldwide.
• Approx. 440 billion LEGO elements have been manufactured since 1949.

Mirror

A mirror is an object with at least one polished and therefore specularly reflective surface.
The most familiar type of mirror is the plane mirror, which has a flat surface. Curved mirrors are also used, to produce magnified or diminished images or focus light or simply distort the reflected image.
The first mirrors used by people were most likely pools of dark, still water, or water collected in a primitive vessel of some sort. The earliest manufactured mirrors were pieces of polished stone such as obsidian, a naturally occurring volcanic glass.

I Believe that mirrors are one of the most useful enventions ever, 'cause it can provide us our image, in the way we may take care of our stile (this applies mainly to womans). But this isn't the only application for mirrors in cars for example is also important to help the driver (and more...).

So mirrors have a lot of functions, and we can conclude that in some way they make our life easier.

Just breathe is one of the new songs from the amamzing Pearl Jam. This song talks about life and love.
Has the song tells us we most enjoy life the best we can, and be in the company of the people you love and you really consider a friend, a true friend.
The way we live our life should make who we are, and the way we relate to the people we love should make as foulfild. And in the end, when we are knoking on evens doors we may leave this world felling good with ourselfes and the life we lived, knowing that we leave someone crying for us but that we will meet tham again, oon the otherside.

Pearl Jam Rocks! <3

Technology.

Technology is making many people lazier than ever. In fact, now-a-days people don't like to move their "butts", not even just to turn on the TV (etc...).
Luckily in our case it has affected us, but it isn't very serious, because we consider ourselves active people.
Sure we like to waste our time doing nothing, and just play our video games, our surfing the internet, but we don't let it get to us soo hard.
What we prefer, or at least we use more are mobile phones, PC, playstation, and in Carlos' case the Ipod.
Now speaking more generally, people only get affected by technology if they want to, 'cause outdoors there are soo many activities and soo much fun that (if we want to) it will not be replaced by technology. We need to know to distinguish the two worlds.

Considering school work, it depends of the kind of student we are. A few years ago students need to be more dedicated and apply more to their skils, but in the days we live in it's not soo good 'cause most of students don't understand what they are doing, and don't even try, they just google it and copy and paste.
If we want too we can make much better work than this, but the problem is that students are getting lazier and lazier.... such that many aspects of a student's life are getting lost our just forgoten, anyway we can not sit down and let technology do everything for us.

Holocaust

What Does Holocaust Mean?

The Holocaust began in 1933 when Hitler came to power in Germany and ended in 1945 when the Nazis were defeated by the Allied powers.
The term "Holocaust," originally from the Greek word "holokauston" which means "sacrifice by fire," refers to the Nazi's persecution and planned slaughter of the Jewish
people. The Hebrew word "Shoah," which means "devastation, ruin, or waste," is also used for this genocide.
In addition to Jews, the Nazis targeted Gypsies, homosexuals, Jehovah's Witnesses, and the disabled for persecution. Anyone who resisted the Nazis was sent to forced labor or murdered.
The term "Nazi" is an acronym for "Nationalsozialistishe Deutsche Arbeiterpartei" ("National Socialist German Worker's Party").
The Nazis used the term "the Final Solution" to refer to their plan to murder the Jewish people.

Ghettos

After the beginning of World War II, Nazis began ordering all Jews to live within certain, very specific, areas of big cities, called ghettos.
Jews were forced out of their homes and moved into smaller apartments, often shared with other families.
Some ghettos started out as "open," which meant that Jews could leave the area during the daytime but often had to be back within the ghetto by a curfew. Later, all ghettos became "closed," which meant that Jews were trapped within the confines of the ghetto and not allowed to leave.
When the Nazis decided to kill the remaining Jews in a ghetto, they would "liquidate" a ghetto by boarding the last Jews in the ghetto on trains.
When the Nazis attempted to liquidate the Warsaw Ghetto on April 13, 1943, the remaining Jews fought back in what has become known as the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. The Jewish resistance fighters held out against the entire Nazi regime for 28 days, longer than many European countries had been able to withstand Nazi conquest.

Concentration and Extermination Camps

Although many people refer to all Nazi camps as "concentration camps," there were actually a number of different kinds of camps, including concentration camps, extermination camps, labor camps, prisoner-of-war camps, and transit camps.

Jewish customs

Flowers are normally not sent, for the following reasons:
Simplicity. The tradition in Judaism is to keep funerals as
simple as possible, to make everyone equal in death.
Tradition. Although flowers are not prohibited, the custom arose over time of not sending flowers, and making contributions instead. In ancient days, the Talmud informs us, fragrant flowers and spices were used at the funeral to offset the odor of the decaying body. Today, this is no longer essential and thus, many Jews do not use them at Jewish funerals at all. Most feel it is much better to honor the deceased by making a contribution to a synagogue or hospital, or to a medical research association for the disease which afflicted the deceased. This method of tribute is more lasting and meaningful.
Instead of flowers Jews usually put small white rocks.

Watch

The first watch made was invented by Abraham Louis Bréguet as a gift for Caroline Murat, sister of Napoleon Bonaparte, in 1814.The invention was assigned to Athoni Patek and Adrien Phillipe owners of Patek-Phillipe. The model became popular as a feminine fashion adornment.At the XX century, Santos Dumont by needing one, because he always had his hands dirty asked his friend Louis Cartier, to invent a watch for him. In 1904 the watch was finally made, and so because of this Santos Dumont was considered the responsible for the invention of man’s watch.
The first great war became very important, sinse soldiers needed it to kowns the houres of the missions.

In Carlos opinion watches are an usefull invention becaouse it help us arrive on time.
In josé opinion watches are more fashionable at the summer.
Francisco's opinion is that Watchs are also fashionable and usefull.