Climate Change

Tuesday, 11 June 2013

The term "climate change" refers to changes in global climate or regional climates of the Earth over time.
These variations relate to changes in temperature, precipitation, cloudiness and other weather phenomenon relative to historical averages.

These changes can be caused by processes internal to the Earth-atmosphere system, by external forces (eg variations in solar activity) or, more recently, by the result of human activity.

In my opinion the human race has contributed enough to change the Earth. The atmosphere over the years has changed. I don't know if decades from now we will still have the seasons, due to all these changes. We no longer have the spring as before, a summer as before ... We knew that between March and June, spring had blossomed between June and September the blazing sun had conquered thousands of people to the beaches. In recent times, the weather is uncertain. Therefore, we have to be careful with everything we do, it can further contribute to the environmental disaster.

Pedro Sousa 10ºA

Hercules

Tuesday, 4 June 2013

Hercules (movie)

Basic information about a movie:

 -Date of launch: 14 June 1997
 -Duration: 93min.
 -Production: Walt Disney Feature Animation
 -Launched by Walt Disney Pictures
 -Gender: Animation
 -Awards and indications:
     the song “Go the Distance” was nominated for best original song for two academies Golden Globe and Oscar buff in 1998 and the movie won
the award LAFCA (Los Angles Critics Association Awards) in 1997 for best animation movie.

Trailer - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y5J8jie6tgk

Short movie summary:

  Hercules was the son of the Greek God, Zeus, and had super-human strength. He had a mission to save the Olympus Mountain from Hades, the evil God of the sub-word from dominating the Olympus Mountain. In order to do that, Hercules had to prove that he was a real hero.
  He became a famous hero with the help of Pegasus, his loyal horse, and Phil his personal trainer.
  Hercules won many battles, but only his sacrifice to save his love, Meg, made him a true hero.

Luísa Dias  

Isadora Duncan

Monday, 3 June 2013

Isadora Duncan

  Angela Isadora Duncan was born in 27 May  1877 and died 14 September 1927. Isadora was an American dancer. Born in California, she lived in Western Europe and the Soviet Union. She acted in Europe after being exiled from the United States of America. She worked as a choreographer. She was one of the most important dancer in modern/contemporary dance. Isadora began her dancing career by teaching lessons in her home from in her teenage years.  Isadora won her fame in London in 1898. She did her first show in Paris. In 1912, she wrote a book called "the dance". In 1927 she wrote her own biography called "My Life" and dies in that same year, on 14th September. In 1928, some of her articles are edited in "The Art of the Dance"   Nowadays Isadora is very famous and Vanessa Redgrave was her in the movie "The Loves of Isadora"   Isadora died in a car accident. 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kq2GgIMM060

In this video, Isadora's dance doesn't appear to be a work of art, but back in her days it created a great impact and influenced many other dancers.

Luísa Dias 

Macklemore song

Saturday, 1 June 2013

Macklemore is a referencing how the clothes defined him and his image. He thougt that these clothes would make him cool, and was conditioned to think this way by the blind-consumer-environment and basically wants to send a message that what you wear doesn't define who you are. And it doesn't matter if your outfit costs one hundred dollars or ten dollars because it's simple clothes. He even says that it is possible to dress well and spend a little quantity of money.

Acácio Pereira

New diet habits

The over consumption of meat has been growing in the last couple of years, and that could affect some animal species since it's consumption could lead to a future extinction of these species. This away the number of animals could be insufficient to match the population's needs. A future lack of meat could lead to companies using toxic chemical substances in their products to speed up the prodruction, and this would cause both health and environmental issues. Meat's consumption has been rising due to advertising and due to a strong investment from companies to produce meat in a very appeling way . Nowaday's we have to face several health related problems like diabetes and obesity. 

Acácio Pereira 

A well-known portuguese artist

    Hi everyone! Today I will talk to you about a portuguese artist, Joana Vasconcelos.

    Joana Vasconcelos was born in Paris, in 1971, and now lives and works in Lisbon, Portugal.

   Her creative process is based on the appropriation, decontextualisation and subversion of pre-existent objects and everyday realities into sculptures, installations, performances, and video or photographic records, to reveal an acute sense of scale and mastery of color, while combining in the materialization of concepts that challenge the prearranged routines of daily life. Starting out from ingenious operations of displacement, the artist offers us a complicit vision, but one which is at the same time critical of contemporary society.

    She is a very well-known artist and, in 2012, Joana Vasconcelos showed her work at the major annual contemporary art exhibition in the Palace of Versailles.

    Joana Vasconcelos has already won several awards, such as The Winner Takes It All, from Berardo Foundation, the Fundo Tabaqueira Arte Pública and the Prémio EDP Novos Artistas.

    Here are some of her works:

 

Andreia Codeço