SPACE DEBRIS

I. Space debris can cause a great damage in the Earth. They are so dangerous to human people and also are a good device of investigation.

II. What are space debris.
A. How do they get to Earth?
B. Efects it causes.

III. Problems it causes.
A.Pollution
B. Harms

IV. Investigation.
A. Science
B. Astronauts

V. In short, space debris causes good and bad things. They can pollute the Earth and also cause damages to humans and their environment. But they can be investigated by scientists and they can discover new things about the space.

THE STATUE OF LIBERTY

The Statue of Liberty (Liberty Enlightening the World; French: La Liberté éclairant le monde) is a colossal neoclassical sculpture on Liberty Island in New York Harbor in New York City, in the United States. The copper statue, designed by Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi, a French sculptor, was built by Gustave Eiffel and dedicated on October 28, 1886. It was a gift to the United States from the people of France.

The statue is of a robed female figure representing Libertas, the Roman goddess, who bears a torch and a tabula ansata (a tablet evoking the law) upon which is inscribed the date of the American Declaration of Independence, July 4, 1776. A broken chain lies at her feet. The statue is an icon of freedom and of the United States, and was a welcoming sight to immigrants arriving from abroad.

Bartholdi was inspired by French law professor and politician Édouard René de Laboulaye, who is said to have commented in 1865 that any monument raised to American independence would properly be a joint project of the French and American peoples. He may have been minded to honor the Union victory in the American Civil War and the end of slavery. Due to the troubled political situation in France, work on the statue did not commence until the early 1870s. In 1875, Laboulaye proposed that the French finance the statue and the Americans provide the site and build the pedestal. Bartholdi completed the head and the torch-bearing arm before the statue was fully designed, and these pieces were exhibited for publicity at international expositions.

The torch-bearing arm was displayed at the Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia in 1876, and in Madison Square Park in Manhattan from 1876 to 1882. Fundraising proved difficult, especially for the Americans, and by 1885 work on the pedestal was threatened due to lack of funds. Publisher Joseph Pulitzer of the New York World started a drive for donations to complete the project that attracted more than 120,000 contributors, most of whom gave less than a dollar. The statue was constructed in France, shipped overseas in crates, and assembled on the completed pedestal on what was then called Bedloe's Island. The statue's completion was marked by New York's first ticker-tape parade and a dedication ceremony presided over by President Grover Cleveland.

THANKSGIVING

Thanksgiving is a holiday celebrated in the United States on the fourth Thursday in November. It has been celebrated as a federal holiday every year since 1863, when, during the Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln proclaimed a national day of "Thanksgiving and Praise to our beneficent Father who dwelleth in the Heavens", to be celebrated on the last Thursday in November. Thanksgiving was also celebrated nationally in 1789, after a proclamation by George Washington. As a federal and public holiday in the U.S., Thanksgiving is one of the major holidays of the year. Together with Christmas and New Year, Thanksgiving is a part of the broader holiday season.

The event that Americans commonly call the "First Thanksgiving" was celebrated by the Pilgrims after their first harvest in the New World in 1621. This feast lasted three days, and it was attended by 90 Native Americans and 53 Pilgrims. The New England colonists were accustomed to regularly celebrating "thanksgivings"—days of prayer thanking God for blessings such as military victory or the end of a drought.

WHAT WOULD I DO IF I WON THE LOTTERY?

If I won the lottery, I would do so many things. First of all, I would make a cruise around the Mediterranean. I love travelling above the sea and I have never tried it. That is one of my dreams. Moreover, if I won a jackpot prize I would donate a big quantity of money to NGO. I would feel better if I share my money with people that really need it.

I’m not used to buy lottery very often but I do it sometimes at Christmas, but unfortunately, I have never been a jackpot winner. I think that it is very difficult to win the lottery because there are many people who participate but the only way of not winning the lottery is not buying it.

With this big amount of money, I would buy a beautiful house with an individual pool and a nice garden. I would also buy a car and lots of clothes and shoes. When I bought all my whims, I would help my family and friends too, because if I win the lottery I wouldn’t be selfish. Moreover if I am in debt with anything, I will pay it instantly. What I have clear is that I wouldn’t waste money because there are many people that need it a lot.

On the other hand, I think that winning the lottery isn’t the answer to our problems or gives us the happiness but quite the opposite. If you aren’t healthy, you won’t be able to enjoy your whims. In fact, if you are seriously rich but you can’t make anything because of your health, you will not be happy although you were plenty of money.

In short, I think that money doesn’t give you the happiness, but it helps. In some cases a hard disease could be cured with a big quantity of money. In fact, for me the perfect combination is health, money and love.

YOUTH OF TODAY

First of all, to my mind it is not necessary to drink or to smoke when we are with our friends and we want to have a good time. If you are in a good circle of friends, you can enjoy and laugh and even you do not remember that alcohol or tobacco exist.

On the one hand, as far as I am concerned, modern teenagers like drinking and smoking a lot to be happy. It is true that alcohol changes the personality of the people: it makes disappear the shame and teenagers feel better by drinking it. In my opinion, alcohol and tobacco can cause terrible fights because drunken people do not realise what they do and often they become aggressive.

On the other hand, there are many options to have a good time with your friends. For example, I like practicing sport with my friends. This is a good way to share our hobbies by practicing our favourite sports. I often go for a run with my friends and we always laugh and have a great time together. We also go cycling around the city and even we go out by roller-skates.

In addition, if you go to a party and a friend gets drunk, we have the responsibility and we should keep him from drinking more. In that way we cannot enjoy ourselves because we have to help out our friend. It is true that sometimes we feel strongly influenced by some friends that like drinking a lot. Then we get down drinking and we finish worse than we wanted.

To sum up, in my opinion we do not need to drink or to smoke because there are many ways to have a good time with our friends. I prefer doing sport, going out to eat or to have dinner, going to the cinema, going shopping... Moreover, when we go to a party we can have fun by dancing or singing without thinking in drinking or smoking. 

MY FAMILY

My most admired family member is my mother. She is one of the most important people in my life. She is the person who has brought up me during all my life. She is very funny and I always do a lot of things with her, for example, going shopping, watching series, cooking, etc.

However, the member of my family I most look like is my father. People often tell us we are the same person but with different gender. He has green eyes and blond hair and me too. I have the same chubby cheeks, nose and mouth as him. I also look like my grandmother; she has the same eyes and hair as my father and me. We three wear glasses too.

On the other hand, from my close relatives, the person I most take after in character is my grandfather. He was self-confident, he had a hard character and he made snap decision like me. He also had a great sense of humour and was always telling jokes.

In addition I have a cousin who is 12 and he look like me. We have the same eyes, hair, nose, mouth and height. The only difference between us is the age. People always think we are sisters. We also have the same character and likes but she takes things more seriously than me. We get along really good.

In short, I would be like my mother because she is the person in whom I more trust because she has never disappointed me. But the truth is that the person I most take after in personality is my grandfather. I think I have inherited some little things of all the members of my family.

ADVERTISING

First of all, when we go to the street, we find posters, billboards. When we go on the bus, we hear very commercial advertising, and when you get home, turn on the television and advertising.

On the one hand, advertising has a direct impact on our lives and how we buy things because we see deep messages, ideas, styles, lifestyles, products, etc., that is what we call marketing strategy. It influences us because we all want the best, we all want to be fashionable and share links with others through common products or lifestyles.

For example, when we see a car advert, we are so influenced because we see the perfect car, with a perfect environment, a perfect driving, etc. But the truth is not that; when we go to try the car in the real life, we notice that it is not the perfect car and we can feel disappointed.

On the other hand, we feel so influenced by the make of products. When we see an advert about the perfect sneakers from ‘Adidas’, we feel the necessity of buying the product although you do not need them. The reason for that is simple: TV adverts are made to persuade us and to try to convince us that we really need this single product.

In short, from my point of view advertising has a great power of persuasion. An advert can create inside you the possibility of buying something you do not need at all, without being conscious. 

Outlining an Essay

I. Studying languages can save our furure.

II. Languages
A. English
B. French
C. German

III. Benefits
A. Getting a job
B. Improve your knowledge
C. Working abroad

IV. Communication
A. Communication with foreign people
B. Communication with foreign companies

V. Thanks to learning languages we can obtain great oportunities and jobs, this is one of the most important things when we want to worry about our future.

HALLOWEEN

What we now know as The night of the witches or Halloween was celebrated 3000 years ago by the Celts. Precisely on October 31, the Celts celebrated the end of the year with Samhain, a pagan festival. With European immigration to the United States, mainly Irish Catholics in 1846, came the tradition of Halloween to America. When we speak about The night of the witches or Halloween we think in costumes, makeup, party, candy and children; but tradition states that its celebration was not always festive and cheerful, and the rites that were practiced during the night had a purifying and religious character.

When Emperor Constantine decreed that the inhabitants of his empire had to convert to Christianity, many pagan rites were introduced. In this way the festival of Samhain  was infiltrated.

By the eighth century, the Christian Church became the 1st of November as All Saints Day to honor all the saints who do not have a particular day of celebration. Over the years, these festivals were combined, and people called it as "All hallowmas" (the mass of all the saints, holy people) to All Saints Day. The night before became known as "All Hallows Eve" (Eve of All Saints Day). Later, his name became Halloween.