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Condis
c/ Perú
Santa Coloma de Gramenet 
08921

                                                                                                                                                 Marina Bel

c/ Santa Eulalia

08921

20th April

Dear sir/madame,

I amb writing to complain about the huge quantity of food that you throw away every night just because it is unsold. 

I am appalled by the kilos of useful food that are been thrown away. There are lots of homeless people in our city that would be grateful if your firm could give this insane quantity of food to them. Furthermore, I find truely ashaming that while other people is starving, you throw away lots of food just because it is unsold. And I can assure that others share my feelings. 

Mainly, I would be very grateful if you could donate the food to charities for homeless people instead of throwing it all away. 

I look forward  to hearing from you in the very near future.

Yours sincerely, 

Marina Bel Mora  

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Natan Alan Jewelers                                                                                          

3333, Bristol                                                                                  

Costa Mesa, California                                                                                                   

                                                                                                                                          
Prat de la Riba Avenue
Santa Coloma de Gramenet
 08921

 6th April 2016

Dear Sir/Madam,

We are writing to complain about your latest advertisement published in your new adverstising campaign. 

We find the advertisement strongly offensive and nonsense, because it is sexist and it promotes male chauvinism. We also think that this kind of advertisement shouldn't appear in adverstising campaigns anymore, because of its discriminatory message. We are extremely appalled by the content of your campaing and we can assure you that lots of others Natan Alan's jewelry customers share our feelings.

We hope that your firm will change the thematic of the advertisements and we will be very grateful if you could remove this one. Actually, we certainly think that if you stop publishing advertisements such as this one, you will increase your sales, because lots of customers have stopped buying Natan Alan's jewels. 
We would be very grateful if you could send us a refund soon. 

We look forward to hearing from you in the very near future. 

Yours sincerely, 

Marina Bel and Hodaifa Belouafi

A good person is...

A good person is, in my humble opinion, someone who helps not for their own profit, but because they want to help out of goodwill. A good person, also has in mind others will and tries to be grateful for the favours that receives. 

Who do I admire?

I have always been interested in art. So, one of the people I admire the most is Salvador Dalí. He was a famous catalan painter well-known for his surrealistic paintings (and for his characteristic moustache too!). 
 I think that he was a very clever, crazy and talented artist who changed the artistic panorama of the 20th century.

I have always loved his work, ever since I was a child. I love the way he used to be, a very bizarre man! I must admit that I also love "Un chien andalou", a famous surrealistic movie, which was written by him, even though I don't undestand it at all...  
As I have already said, I've always loved his paintings, even though I don't have a favourite one. 

I would like to emphasize a very "Daliesque" quote: "Each morning when I awake, I experience again a supreme pleasure - that of being Salvador Dalí.".

For and against essay - Writing

Mobile phones- A blessing or a curse.
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Nowadays smartphones have become a very important object in our lifes. Mobile phones are a good way to receive information from all around the world and to be connected to our friends and relatives. But, are mobile phones a blessing or a curse?

We must admit that we use our smatphone everyday. They are truely useful; thanks to them we can be localized all the time. In addition, with our smartphone we can search on the Internet everything that we want in every single moment of the day. We can play with our smartphone or enjoy watching a film in it too, while having a good time. 

But mobile phones have bad aspects too. The truth is that they can create adiction. Lots of teenagers use their smartphones all the time, even though they are in class!
They can affect our vision, because of its shining screen, and reduce our mental creativity. 

In conclusion I think that mobile phones are a blessing because they can make our lifes a little bit easier and they're a good way to have fun too, but they can also be a curse if we don't use them properly. It just depends on the way we use them. 


Marina Bel 

Writing Marina Bel

SHOULD STUDENTS LEARN ABOUT WORLD RELIGIONS IN PUBLIC SCHOOLS?

Nowadays, religion has become a very popular and controversial topic, because of the terrorist attacks by ISIS. There is also a huge debate about learning world religions in public schools or not.  

In my opinion, public schools shouldn’t teach religion because religion can influence the behaviour of students. Some students can misunderstand some points of religions. Students have to decide if they want to learn about world religions or not.

Furthermore, I believe that if students want to learn something about world religion, they must go to a private organization to study in.

But, to be honest, I also think that everybody should know a little bit about religion, because of its history, and if we know something about t we can understand better other civilizations.

To sum up, I personally find that public schools mustn’t teach religion because students should go to a private organization. 

Link - Prague Presentation (Laura Ávila and Marina Bel)

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1xE9IJzHw-qrmI7H53LsZcXxEFkjD5vA8PRssKn3z3A0/edit#slide=id.p3

Transcription: 

As you can see in this map, this medium-size country is located at the centre of Europe, between Germany, Poland, Austria and Slovakia. Its capital is Prague and it's set in the northwest of the country, near their most famous river, Elbe.

Hii we're Marina and Laura and we're going to talk about the city of Prague, which is in Czech Republic.

In this slide we can see the most important monuments of Prague. Here we can see the Dancing House, designed by Vlado Milunic in the 20th century. It is also known as Fred and Ginger. 

Here it is the most symbolic monument of the city, the astronomical clock. It is one of the oldest astronomical clocks of the world. It was made in  the 15th century. 

There we can see the Golden Lane, a very popular streer near the castle of the city, where a lot of alchimists used to live in. The famous writter Franz Kafka lived in the number 22 house. 

And there we can see the Prague Castle, which is situated in the top of the city. It is considered the largest ancient castle. 

This is the Saint Charles Bride, which crosses the Vltava river. Its  construction started in the 14 century. It is decorated by 30 statues.

This is the Wenceslas Square. In this square is situated the National  Museum of Prague. During the Velvet Revolution, a lot of demonstrations  were held here. 

And finally, we can see the Vltava River, which is crossed by Saint Charles bridge. 

This is the Prague's Jewish Quarter, known as Josefov. It's history dates from the 13th century, when Jewish people were ordered to settle in this area. There are six synagogues, including the famous Spanish Synagogue (as you can see here). The Old Jewish Cemetery is the second oldest Jewish cemetery of Europe. It was founded in the 15th century and the oldest gravestone is dated from 1439. There are about 20.000 gravestones placed one on another because of the lack of space. The Jewish Quarter is also the birthplace of the celebrated writer Franz Kafka, who is commemorated with this statue. 

There a lot of things to do in Prague, such as get a boat trip on Vltava river while seeing a panoramic view of the city, get a segway tour around the city,  watch the astronomical clock in action, which happens every hour, or watch  a black theatre performance.