TASK_WR-2__ the WORLDS around US

 TASK_WR-2  

the WORLDS around  US

TASK. WRITE   PARAGRAPH(S)  1 , 2 and 3:

PARAGRAPH  1......................

PARAGRAPH 2......................

 Draw  ONE  conclusions

      FINAL PARAGRAPH.  ......................

Draw your  global/personal conclusions:

 

Pick up one LINK  in one of  three  RESOURCES:  A, B, C

                  OR ONE OF THE THREE EXAMPLES  A1, B1, C1

Click on the orange sections

•  VISUAL CAPITALIST

• A great site for focussing on graph interpretation.  If you BOTHER TO LIVE IN OUR WORLD... then you need this site. It’s perfect for improving your graph reading skills.
•        A1     Every Minute on the Internet  
• here

• Economist Daily Chart – 
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• This is a collection of current graphs and charts, with descriptions. Visit the site and write out some of their graph descriptions on paper, then review them for useful words and phrases.   

•       B1. nurses needed.  .. here )

• TheGuardian.com Data Blog – 
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• Similar to the Economist but with a less economic focus and definitely more creative graphs.
•            C1 -  example Gay rights in the USA ... here
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DATA shows_collegiate members in Catalonia 2016

CATALAN view:- elperiodico

Item #1 

source:       

POCA EMIGRACIÓN MÉDICA

• Some 18%  from all  collegiate members in Barcelona, arrived in the last 10 years are not nationals (5.777  active professionals) with a  MIR credential.
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• Allegdly, there are few Catalan specialists searching for a job abroad (in numbers, during 2015 only  262) 
• 
  
• That is,  184 were from the rest of EU or SouthAmerica who with the lower opportunities here, decided to go back to their lands)

TASK. Watch the graph below and   
    Find 5 interesting items to delve comments on

   

FIRST PARAGRAPH: what else could you include?

The chart above illustrates the percentage involvement of doctors in Catalonia according to their origin in a period of thirteen years. The three groups detailed in the graph are inside Catalonia, rest of Spain and foreign lands.  Generally speaking,  the initial and final picture seem to have seen a relevant variation, especially in the largest group.

• Source? What type of doctors are these?
• All workforce or new recruitments?
• Which Years?
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FIRST PARAGRAPH:    ADD one  of the three

 EDITED_

The chart above from the Collegiate Body of Barcelona illustrates the percentage involvement of  new active doctors in Catalonia according to their origin in a period of thirteen years.  

The source of the news was Elperiodico newspaper. The three groups detailed in the graph are inside Catalonia, rest of Spain and foreign lands.  

The time line is registered in percentages at 4 points from 2002 every four years (except 5 for the last period). 

TASK. WRITE now 

 PARAGRAPH(S) 2:

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         FINAL PARAGRAPH.  Draw your conclusions:

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To read about it.....
https://www.elperiodico.com/es/sanidad/20160211/jubilacion-masiva-medicos-en-catalunya-8000-menos-en-10-anos-4887194

    ____  Interludi with PROVERBS ___   

When society laws make personal choices go on the wrong direction to the public interest, someone has to address the mistake!...
          4>3>2

So, minister.... we are: 

• firing into the wrong flock / 
• shooting one's own grandmother

Measure your guilt, then stretch your legs.

• see proverbs below:

pulling your leg ....three times 

They must be strong legs that can support prosperous days. 

He that has good legs, has often bad boots.

If his legs fail her, he fights on her knees.

Item # 2    -  the worlds  around us

Anna Parra - 11 /02/2016 - elperiodico.com

"Vivía de hacer guardias de UCI a una media de siete euros la hora"-

We feel so sorry, Anna,.... that must have a stop! Lawlessness!  

 

WR_Long Article - 6 options for a great summary

 options  for a great summary

            WR_Long Article_ (375 words)

for the how-to.... click here!

  Our  PROPOSALS 

Here you have some of the articles to work with 


Z. European  politics from Finland and UK post Brexit:

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/09/world/europe/finland-prime-minister-sanna-marin.html

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/dec/15/boris-johnson-lying-ireland-withdrawal-agreement-brexit-belfast-dublin

A. Capitalism is a lot more important than democracy

https://www.foreignaffairs.com/reviews/review-essay/2019-04-16/world-safe-capital

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/nov/11/democracy-defenders-economic-freedom-neoliberalism

B. Fired for use of Social Media

https://hbr.org/2015/12/case-study-should-he-be-fired-for-that-facebook-post
https://www.smartcompany.com.au/business-advice/legal/facebook-unfair-dismissal/
https://www.cnbc.com/2016/02/05/how-using-social-media-can-get-you-fired.html

C.  Climate crises

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2019/oct/07/bbcs-seven-worlds-one-planet-series-shines-spotlight-on-climate-crisis

https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaelshellenberger/2019/12/04/why-climate-alarmism-hurts-us-all/#5d9dfb3836d8

D. Maternity leaves in other countries. How much have we advanced related to others?

https://www.statista.com/chart/8359/the-us-is-still-light-years-behind-in-maternity-leave/ 

http://theconversation.com/the-us-is-stingier-with-child-care-and-maternity-leave-than-the-rest-of-the-world-94770

E. James Watson and  DNA

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2012/dec/09/dna-james-watson-helix-nobel-50

G. Consumerism  

https://www.ncronline.org/books/2017/08/todays-golden-calf-consumerism-religion

             Sources:

• https://owlcation.com/academia/How-to-Write-a-Summary

Drop a line on a good cause - yourself

While you are sitting alone in a small boat, drink beer/tea and drop a line for yourself

WR_ Long article  proposals.

                                      Do ONE OF THESE OPTIONS

Option A.  

OUR LOCAL Mag:  CATALONIA Today  (4 pieces)

 all about George Orwell

https://ma-serendipity.blogspot.com/2018/11/5-articles-george-orwell-in-catalonia.html

Option B.  

03_WR_Long Summary_on History

                                           O tempora o mores -the past strikes back

    1#   The shadows   

    2#    Empires  

 https://ma-serendipity.blogspot.com/2018/11/the-past-strikes-back.html

Option C.  

Saturday, December 14, 2019:   Our  PROPOSALS -6 great topics

https://ma-serendipity.blogspot.com/2019/12/wrlong-article-good-summary.html

Option D.  

WR_ Long article AFTER LISTENING to 15 min of the video

02- The art __02_From a Buonarroti's St Anthony forgery to Michelangelo's Sistine masterpiece

https://ma-serendipity.blogspot.com/2016/02/from-buonarrotis-st-anthony-forgery-to.html

That's all....

BONUS:

Visit our favourite Local  Historia : NORMAN  DAVIES 

.... link 1    link  2

03_WR_Long Summary_O tempora o mores -the past strikes back

Tame your writing skills 

 after reading some history background. 

Study how YOUR article was built: 

•  Structures: INTRO -BODY_ CONCLUSION. 

•  Make a LIST with 8 items you would like to incorporate in your summary. 

•  Do not copy syntax -use your comprehension to re-style the words with a new syntax.

 OUTCOME: ONE Long Summaries -375 words

0. the past strikes back

(READING history  to understand World news)

TASK. Choose one of the links and ....

summarise the content to be shared next week.

"O tempora o mores"

 an observation by Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 BCE - 43 BCE)

It translates in 3 options:

•  literally as    Oh the times! Oh the customs! 

1. but more accurately as Oh what times! Oh what customs! 
2.  or alternatively, Alas the times, and the manners.                 meaning an exclamation at the evil of them.

         1# SHADOWS :  Empirical  - indulged truths. 
           The shadows behind the history as a  new past: three topics here

1.1#     Curious about  George Orwell?

• Our CATALONIA Today news published new collection of  FIVE Orwellian articles.  Blend into a new unit.
• Orwell lived, laughed, loved and left  a mark on Europe, England and Catalonia.
• George Orwell was there to bear witness of a crucial time in the making. 

• https://ma-serendipity.blogspot.com/2018/11/5-articles-george-orwell-in-catalonia.html

 1.2#    The Working Class Strikes Back  by C. Wright  - August 2018 -review

this volume aims to examine how new, anti-bureaucratic forms of syndicalist, neo-syndicalist and autonomous workers’ organisation emerge in response to changing work and production relations in the twenty-first century

• https://www.counterpunch.org/2018/08/28/the-working-class-strikes-back/ 

1.3#  the use of language in diplomacy

• The treaty of Nerchinsk (1689) North and East in Outer Mongolia. 
• Manchu-Russian neighbours -XVII century was written in .... which language?

                a) Manchu     b) French      c) Russsian
        d) Español     e) Mandarin     f) Espèranto     g) another

Pardon my French. in 1870, when France was crushed and humiliated by the Germans, the text of the peace treaty was uniquely in French.

• https://www.quora.com/When-did-English-truly-overtake-French-as-the-language-of-diplomacy

         2#  EMPIRES.  another  three topics here

    

 in Animal Crackers 

or the sanity clause scene between Groucho and Chico

 in Duck Soup

• Don’t forget the Sanity Clause. 
• There is no Sanity Clause, as the noted philosopher Chico Marx confirmed, but the Companies Act exists and, in this instance, enabled empires to prevaricate and procrastinate, to discover.
• Amid the confusion, the claims and counter-claims, other great Marx Brothers lines came to mind including:
•  “The party of the first part … is hereinafter called the party of the first part.” 

• Also: “These are my principles. If you don’t like them … well, I have others.”

Our mirror goes to bygone times ... vanished glories

2A# Oh Rome, Divide et Impera  

Those words were uttered by  Gaius Julius Caesar (100 BCE - 44 BCE), who was granted the title Dictator Perpetuus

• Rome will rule the world. It is her destiny and always has been.  Claiming a line of descent back to Hercules, Romans are not lacking in civic pride. So you think you know everything about the Romans?

• http://www.bookloons.com/cgi-bin/Review.ASP?bookid=6749 

• https://edgeinducedcohesion.blog/2011/04/12/book-review-terry-jones-barbarians/

    2B# Chaos at UK's past... It was not OK, it was KO 

• The lacuna in the British curriculum, the refusal to discuss imperialism in-depth, is not accidental. Rather, it reflects the fact that Britain as a nation has not settled on its own view of its past.

https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/inglorious-empire-india-strikes-back-1.3004235

https://www.noted.co.nz/currently/history/shashi-tharoor-demolishes-the-gauzy-romanticism-of-british-empire-in-india/

https://newrepublic.com/article/88797/british-empire-queen-elizabeth-india-ireland-africa-imperial





    2C# Our mirror goes to Vietnam

Enjoyed Apocalypsis Now, we love Coppola, of course.
still waiting to read a Viet side of their history!

https://www.newsobserver.com/opinion/op-ed/article177310941.html 




Et caetera:
https://www.history.ac.uk/ihr/Focus/Migration/reviews/

wsh_WR_How to make the most of my article summarizing

A forgotten WRIGHT:

  THE  RITE  OF  RIGHT  WRITING 

This was developed

 in the last century 

(Ask your grandparents....)

Our task is getting somehow a long text for our standards (375 words),

5 (6) good paragraphs in most cases.

A.      Our goal

         You might want to summarize an article. These are:

·         To condense quite a lot of information into a small space

·         To increase your understanding of an article

·         To activate your vocabulary

·         To go beyond your basic syntax structures

B.      Our goal

You would need to skim through the article first. Be sure you made a wide decision as you may spend one hour working on it… 

a.    go through it again and again as you clarify some points you might have missed before until you completely understand. Understanding before summarizing is the essence here. 

b.    Take notes spotting its main ideas in the article and jotting them down helps you get that clear picture 

c.    It is better than underlining lots of text! In your own words, rewrite those main ideas. Mind you, your sentences will only tell the broader picture not the details. Therefore, your sentences should not match the original. 

d.    As you read, keep questioning yourself of what points come out as important in the article. Those are the first hints.

C.      List of proposals-01

https://ma-serendipity.blogspot.com/2019/12/wrlong-article-good-summary.html

D.    Write itWhen you refer to the author for the first time, you always use their full name. When you refer to the author after that, you always use their last name. To show they are an authoritative source. The TWO sentences below show ways to do this.

             Attention to VERBS:   

In "Global Warming isn't Real," Steven Collin, a professor at the University of Michigan, claims that ... According to Collin's perspective ... Collin criticizes...  In conclusion, Collin elaborates about .

New York Times critic Johann Bachman argues in "Global Warming is the Next Best Thing for the Earth" that ...  As Bachman implies in the story about ...    Bachman  supports this view by pointing out …

• ADJECTIVES: In his unusual humorous style, Huxley warns … The eerie situations let you…. A gloomy outcome hints at ominous….

• ADVERBS:   eagerly - radically – loosely – sharply - wearily

The summary should end with the author's conclusion or last main point, most times with a statement about what the author is trying to convince the reader to believe, do, or think.

Find our wsh_01 proposals here

https://ma-serendipity.blogspot.com/2019/12/wrlong-article-good-summary.html

Sources:

https://owlcation.com/academia/How-to-Write-a-Summary