CAN WE LIVE WITHOUT MOBILE PHONES?

Mobile phones have turned to be an essential tool on our daily basis. They have become so powerful due to their capaity, everything is linked to them and once you enter the vicious circle of being updated each second of the day you'll find it more difficult to disconnect from it.

In my opinion, there are two types of person for this issue: the ones who couldn't live without their phones and the ones who don't need a phone for anythig. There's no in between. I have seen people who were against using phones as computers. However, because of their jobs now are completely dependent. I can understand that kind of depency, but nowadays more and more people (mostly teenagers) feel the need to see what's more people (mostly teenagers) feel the need to see what's on their phone, although they might not have recieved any notification.

 We should use our mobile phones in our free time instead of not making the most of it when we're working, for example. Being the second type of person is more difficult, not to use the phone at all you must be a very organised person.

That being said, I think that I couldn't live without my phone, wich is frightening. We should enjoy doing things without using our phones, we need to find a balance.

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NEWS: ORGAN TRANSPLANT CHILD BARRED FROM RAYANAIR FLIGHT FOR ARRIVING LATE

An Airline Company called Rayanair didn't attend a family who needed to catch a flight immediately for health reasons. A ten years old boy who lives in the Canary Islands was on the list for getting a liver and kidney implants. When the hospital of Madrid called the family to say that the organs were available and that the surgery should take place as quick as possible, they rushed to the airport. Once they were there, the family tried to book a place for the child but, as the agents of Rayanair said, they were too close of the departure time and there's a rule of not to let anyone catch the plane if it's that close to the time. The family had to wait more than an hour to be able to take another plane (no from Rayanair's Compay).  Although the boy's situation is unknown, some people speculate that perhaps he was not able to have the implant on time.

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In my opinion, not allowing someone to take a plane which could save his/her life it's a clear violation of the Human Rights. To deny someone this help just because it's not in the rules, when it's a matter of living or not living, it's a crime. By doing that you don't respect the human right of Social Security (#22) because each Nation, and even in an International level, we should have to take an effort to protect lives, and the right of Responsability (#29).

News source: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/organ-transplant-child-barred-from-ryanair-flight-for-arriving-late-10114656.html

HUMAN RIGHTS

Human rights are fundamental rights that everyone has just by the fact of being human. Their function is to protect and help us. They were created in 1948 by Eleanor Roosevelt and the Comission of the United Nations at the end of the World War II due to the fact that millions of lifes were taken in wars or slavery. 

There are 30 human rights. Some of them are well known, like the right of equality (#1: We Are All Born Free And Equal) or the right for no torture (#5: No Torture). 

However, there're some which I didn't knew and that I think that are a little bit unnoticed by our society. 

I didn't know that we has the Right to Play (#24). This right defends that everyone must have spare time during work and also everyone should have a reasonable limitation of working hours and period vacation with payment included.

I don't think that this right it's acomplished everywhere. Even in Spain there are some cases of people who work an exageration of hours for a awful income. Or people who doesn't have hollidays. I guess that not having a holliday is not as grave as not having the right to equality but in my opinion if it's a right we should respect it as much as any other.

Source: http://www.youthforhumanrights.org/what-are-human-rights/videos/right-to-play.html

SKYPING WITH NOA

In this semester at school we had the chance to talk (trough Skype) with Noa, a girl who finished highscool a year ago and who has made a complete change in her life. 

As she explained to us, she knew two things for sure: 1: she did want to go to University and the second one: at that moment it wasn't the right time. As she explained, it was the moment to travel, to live in a different way, to be independent and to live an unforgettable experience. So, what did she do? Noa took a gap year to Australia, to Sydney to work as an au pair. 

Her job was easy: she had to take care of two young siblings and pick them up at school. She had a lot of free time and she made a lot of friends. Now she has a very good level of english and she is very happy with her decision. She said that she was homesick, however she had a great time in Autralia and before going home, she wants to go by it's own to Uluru with a group of excursionists, and although Noa is a very extrovert girl, she really likes to have a time with herself and the thing she loves the most is having adventures!

NEWS: MAN DIED FROM HEART ATTACK CAUSED BY BITTING HIS NAILS

We all know that bitting your nails is unhealthy and dangerous. Nevertheless, we're not concious about how much can this simple action afect us. 

I've found an article, which is about a man called John Gardener (40) who just died in consequence of bitting his nails. His wife explains that he bite his nails as a habit but lately it had become an adiction. Doctors believe that he didn't noticed the pain (of biting the skin) so that's why he continued bitting them. Although the poor man fought hard to stop his bad habbit, he couldn't, and his nails were in poor condition and often bleeding. Due to those facts, he died because of the lack of blood and of an infection, his heart stopped.

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All bad habits are bad for a reason. Although this story seems unrealistic, it's an example of what can cause to you have a bad addiction. I know it's not the same, but if for example you really love a book, you have that feeling that you have to finish it now: but time is running anyway, the world doesn't stop because you haven't finished the book. I gues that this is how being adicted to something is. You're not concious about the other things (most of the time those things are the rellevant ones) and that's why it's so dangerous. How can bitting your nails be that dangerous? How can watch a whole season on the internet be dangerous? You lose time, and time is gold.

News source: http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/john-gardener-inquest-man-died-3230045

NEWS: MYSTERY OF OUR 145 "ALIEN" GENES

A recent study at the University of Cambridge states that some of our DNA is not from our ancestors. It is believed that those genes are foreign, and by that they mean that we acquired the foreign genes from some microorganisms who lived with the human race millions of years ago. Another thing that they state is that it might be in consequence of them that the species can evolve. The scientists who discovered that are aiming to chance the point of view of the evolution. They found the same mocroorganism in another species 

It fascinates me how everyday people are trying to understand the way how everything works. Although the experiments are not useful to find an answer, they open another ways of exploring our world and ourselves so someday, we will know something sure.

The article surprised me because in theory, we already know our structure and all of our genes. We have the genoma code, which is a very, very, very long of each gen that everyone has. What I'm trying to say is that we'll never be 100% sure about how we got to live and that discoverys like those makes you questionate if all the concepts, ideas that we take for granted are really true.

News source: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2994187/Mystery-alien-genes-Scientists-discover-DNA-NOT-ancestors-say-change-think-evolution.html

NEWS: WELCOME TO THE MOLE HOUSE, AN ECOFRIENDLY HOME

They're not usual, but Eco-friendly houses are, nowadays, a trend and the Clinton Home (Michigan) is no exeption.

The ecofriendly house  is budied under 25 feet of soil, so the house doesn't need a heating system because it provides a natural insolation. The home itself mesures 3.300 square feet and it has three bedrooms, two bathrooms, a garage and a lot more. It's currently being sold for 425.000 pounds.

As you can see in the photo, the house is almost buried exept the façade and the garage.

The façade

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A large room of the house

I think that Eco-friendly houses are a good solution to pollute less, and to make the most of the natural sources. I think that making such an investment it's worth it if, after all, you're going to pay less. I would like to live in a Eco-friendly house, except that I don't really like the Clinton Home. I wouldn't like the idea of being buried!

News source: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2994247/Live-like-mole-Eco-friendly-Michigan-home-built-UNDERGROUND-help-save-money-utilities.html