A letter

Dear Mr./ Mss. Editor,

I am writing this letter because I read the editorial about smoking and, as it says to write you our opinions, here comes mine: I totally agree with the idea of banning smoking in all public places.

This law would bring lots of problems to cigarette companies, almost all of them would close down and many people would be unemployed. And this would bring economical problems to the country’s economy.

Although I think it would be very difficult to make this law work in all public places (so that they wouldn’t smoke), it would help many people that want to stop smoking but can’t.

What’s more, it would make streets much cleaner, I mean, there wouldn’t be as many cigarettes on street’s floor as there is nowadays.

Hence, I think it would be beneficial to society to ban smoking in public places in order to improve all people’s health even those who don’t smoke.

Yours faithfully,

Daniel Aylmer

Fame

Many people wish the fame because they want to meet others famous people, have money, luxe, ''contacts'', status or fans. So there is nothing wwrong or weird. Unfortunately when this with be ahead the family or welfare. It is the beginning that there is something wrong.

On one hand, to be famous mean have people admire among other things. Obviously, who is looking for the fame expect to be the center of attention, have the fans who want to know what is happening is their life, appear in several television shows and make money.

On the other and, the fame has your bad side. The famous people have to be careful about what they will wear on the street. The paparazzi put on the tabloid any mistake that happened with famous. Not only famous people should have to put up with tabloids but also with who control their life, Quite honestly, famous try to be nice but it is difficult to give personal explications to someone that themselves do not know. They do just to continue be a calebrity.

No doubt be celebrity is not simple. In mean, fame is the summary of patience, lack of privacy and public display.

A letter to a newspaper

Dear Editor

I am writing in response to your article on the legalization of cannabis. Actually, we have to considerate the health of users, social issues and consequences to talk over about cannabis. Not do you have to argue seeing only the medicinal qualities. So there are more things to explore.

No doubt, legalize drugs is an absurd. The results of this attitude will be marginalization, violence and mainly the health risks. This is just beginning of legalize. It is believed that everybody reclaim about this things without legalize. Not only cannabis has the same effects on human lungs that smoke five cigarettes but also cause more cncer than cigarette. On the other hand, cannabis is effective against chronic pain and has potential analgesic effect. Apparently, it is also used to relieve pain in a improve the quality of life of terminally ill patients.

To conclude, there are many reasons why cannabis should not be legalzied. Public systems can spend more money in the future with the recovery of addicts. The number of drug users shots up because maybe cannabis will be more acessible and perhaps cheaper too.

The Fame

Being famous is something that everyone want when is younger. Be kown by everyone, be rich, do movies. But when became older people realize that this isn't what they want. Famous people don't have privacity and their lifes isn't so happy how looks.
Must people think that be famous is what they see in the movies. A lot of cars, freedom to to whatever you want, happy all the times, a lot of friends and be famous for te rest of their lifes. But the things aren't like that.
Famous people have to think a lot before do something because everything they do will appear on the magazines, or tv and they can only walk around the streets with security because crazy fans can attack them.
Fame is something that can bring happy moments and make life easier but it has bad sides too. So you have to see if you want to leave you life behind and live a life without privacity and with gossips, because it is being famous.

Globalization is something that took control of the world and now everybody and everything is moved by it.
Everywhere we go, or everything we do we have to pay for and everyday more and more products , better than the olders, appears and we want to have the newest and the most modern. Everything we do influence us to buy. All the websites we visit, all tv shows we watch, everything. Buy became a necessary thing to life and you are made by what you have , and not by who you are.
It's moving the society to a way of consumerism and more social inequality, but is becaming somehting necessary to live.
But globalization has the good sides too. With it the distance between two people became shorter and culture can be exchanged between people of different countries.
Globalization can be something bad, but it has good sides too, and now we can't live without it anymore.

Heaven or hell?

Nowadays many people are obsessed with fame, because our world seems to turn around the celebritie's life. In most of cases, they want that because being famous means being recognized, and valued, wich means being rich also.
Some people think that being famous is heaven, because they can't see the other hand. Famous is always associated with good things, including the material ones like, ride around the city with a wonderful car, live in a paradise mansion and stay all your day spending in a shop, buying all that you ever wanted, like in films.
It's important to mension that in real life, things can be different. Everyone will know about your life, and what's worse, will give their opinion about what you should or shoudn't do. To be a celebrity you need to be psycologically prepared, and we can see when someone isn't, analyzing their attitudes. It's not difficult to see in gossip programs, famous people losing control with paparazzis, which are always chasing them.

All in all, the fame life can reserve good surprises, including the possibility of live like in your best dream, but sometime you can face situations wich you weren't counting!

People think that being famous is something easy. They think that if you're rich, you don't have problems. Being famous has a lot of positive points that make people think it's easy to be famous.

Normaly people associate being rich and having everything you ever wanted with "heaven". Sometimes it may be. But when you're famous you have to face problems that wouldn't happen if you weren't famous.

When you're famous your life becomes public. Sooner or later you'll be followed by stalkers, making you spend fortunes in security. You can't leave your house without calling attention. And if you can't leave your house without being followed it would be really difficult to make new friends. There're lots of negative points on being famous. But if you can handle them there's no problem.

Being famous is something that you may like or not, it depends on the person. If you're a person that's always relaxed you won't have serious problems. It's up to the person to decide if it's "heaven" or "hell".

We can't live without globalization

Globalization is something that is really present in our lifes. People got so addicted to it that it's almost impossible to live without it. As an example of that, people normaly can't imagine how the world would be whitout globalization. Probably the world would be just like the old days. No telephones, no cellphones, no internet.

Maybe the technology wouldn't be so evolved today, because to evolve something we need competition to show the need to improve something. Nowdays the best way compete with something is advertising your product. With no cellphone or internet, it would be really hard to advertise something.

Also music would be prejudiced, because it wouldn't spread so easily like today. It would be so boring to write this composition without a cool music. And the newspaper would also be prejudiced because it'll be hard to find news to write on it.

That's my opinion. Living in a world without globalization would be impossible for us, since we need it every day.

Heaven or Hell?

Almost everyone wants or wanted to be famous at least one time in their lives. Naturally because we grow up seeing those beautiful artists living their wonderful lives and then we think that this kind of life is all we ever wanted.

Obviously all that money, all that glamour and fame and all those people shouting our name give us the impression that being famous is heaven. You can have everything you want, at least it is what we think. You can buy the best clothes, the best car, the best everything. You don’t need to wait at a queue. You go to amazing parties and meet other celebrities, but does it really worth?

Actually, we just know the “beautiful” part of being famous. We don’t realize that when we became a celebrity our privacy ends. We will have to explain all our attitudes and there will be someone that will criticize them. There will be paparazzi in every place we go, just to take a photo of you. People will always expect something from you, and if you don’t reach their expectations, they will destroy your image.

All in all, being a celebrity, in my opinion, is more like hell. When you are a celebrity you don’t know who are your friends and who wants something from you. This ideal life does not call my attention anymore. I just want to live my life, with nobody expecting something from me or judging me.

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The most striking feature of globalization is the presence of global brands

Globalization is a phenomenon that began with the capitalist expansion of the Industrial Revolution, the result of post World War II.
This is a most visible on the Internet, thanks to ease the flow of information very fast. Arose mainly because of new media.

The labor market effects of globalization are evident, with the creation of the mode of outsourcing jobs to countries with manpower cheaper to deliver services that do not have high qualification, with production distributed among several countries, either to create a single product, where each company creates a part, is to create the same product in several countries to reduce costs and gain competitive advantage in access to regional markets.

But there are contradictions regarding the characteristics of globalization that involves increased risks of global financial transactions, with no control on economic stability. Thus, the economic instability that occurs in a particular country, it creates epidemics in the rest of the interconnected countries. These, in turn, are each time more dependent on each other and no longer any possibility of isolation.

On the positive side, the ease with which innovations spread across countries and continents, fast and easy access to information and assets. With the caveat that for the less privileged classes, especially in developing countries, such access is not "easy" (because its cost is high) and will not be fast.

The World Without Globalization, Can You Imagine That?!

Nowadays the world is connected. We can turn on the computer and surf in the internet to see images, news, texts, and learn about the culture and the news of every country in the world. You can even talk with people of other countries, you can make reunions using a webcam with people from your job that are all around the world, you can buy products from many different countries then yours in the internet.

Something that just happened can be on tv like five minutes after it happened, you can "know" other countries in your room and many other stuff. But the globalization is not only good for us, the population, but it's also very good for marketing and business. And I sincerelly just can't imagine how would be our world whitout globalization. With globalization, we have more communication and more information available all the time for us. And not only that. We have fun to. There are music, movies, books, tv shows, food, games. Nowadays if we stop and look at our life we will se that many of the stuff that we like to do, that we like to play, to eat, read or see are from other countries.

However, when you see that many of the things that you have, that you read, see, listen, eat and watch are from other countries, you can also see that in the middle of all these benefits, the globalization can also have a negative point. The compannies have the habit to import so many things from other countries - mainly USA - that this disable the opportunitie of our own country to have some progress not only on economy but in literature, music, cinema. If you stop and look, you'll see, in a book store, for example, that there are much more books of american writers than of brazilian writers. Many people, mainly the teenagers, hear more american music than brazilian. The amount of american movies that are released don't even compare to the small quantity of brazilian movies that are released. Of course that there's a reason for it to happen, that the USA have more money to make better movies, to invest more on literature, cinema, music and other stuff, but if their products continue to be the more consumed, when it will stop and other countries will have the opportunnity to grow? It is good to have an access to other cultures, but this can turn into a bad thing when other cultures, arts and other products that aren't brazilian are the most usual in our country and in our life, making impossible for our own country to grow.

Glob, glob, globalization!!

Could it be said the we're drawning, or even drawned, in this globalized world?

How far is it good? What are the side effects of this process?

Is there the slightest possibilitey of a drawback?

I believe gobalization is here to stay and there is nothing we can do to stop its progress. One can say there are many disadvantages mainly for the long list of developing countries around the world. Nevertheless, they still have lots of benefits from it.

Due to these days development in terms of communication, globalization has huge impact in every area of our lifes, from economy to leisure, from health to culture. Everything has changed because of globalization, either directly or not.

Shopping is a good example of this huge change! Some years ago, we would have to go abroad to have most imported items. Nowadays we can buy most things we wish from most places around the world. There are websites where you can buy, safely pay and check the delivery status. It is absolutely safe, at least in most cases!!

I have already told you that I have shopped basically everything online, and many things from abroad. My mobile, my e-reader, some books, toys, CDs, even shoes!

Something that thrills me is the possibility we have of reaching everywhere on the globe on the spot, through internet or telephone. Information have become so valuable these days because it is constantly and instantaneously being altered. It is getting difficult to keep up with the news!

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The world without Globalization

No internet, no international musics, no international films. These are some examples of what maybe wouldn't exist if there isn't globalization. It's easy, nowadays, to know what is happening with the whole world just by turning on you TV or surfing the net. However, can you imagine how the world would be without globalization?

It would take too much time for someone who lives in Brazil, for instance, know what is happening in another country.

The globalization has changed the whole world, conecting the countries and the people, and made life much easier as you can know other cultures just by watching a programme about it or searching on the internet.

The countries are so conected that bacame really hard to figure out that one day it wasn't like this and a population didn't even know the existence of another one in other place.

Maybe we wouldn't know anything about South Africa or Japan, for example, but one thing is true, we can't live without it anymore.

Globalization: What would the world be like without it?

Our world is totally connected nowadays, something that is happening on another country, even if it's on the other side of the world, is shown to many people in different places at the same moment. There are many good things that came with this process, like the connection between the continents. We can know more about other cultures and use things related to than. In Brazil, as an example, we use clothes, listen to music, watch films and go to places in the same way that some people from another places, and they can do the same with the brazilian's culture. On the other hand, the globalization shows how the world is controlled by the "most powerful" countries, as the United Stated, and it's clear to see because they have influences in almost all the world (music,films,food). I can't imagine how would our lifes be without it, because we've adapted to this kind of life wich ''we live here like we were living there!"

Embarassing situation.

In this year I made a surprise party for a friend, but i didn't called everyone in my class because the party was here, at my house and there was't too much space for me to call everyone in our class. So, after the party, there were some situations where friends of mine that were invited to the party talked about her and then other persons that were closer talked "Oh, the party that you haven't invited me" and stuff like this. Worse then this was a boy who's not even my friend and complained about me with many people because he wasn't called.

Internet equals short distance?

Nowadays, internet have very influence in our routine and in the communication, for sure. With the internet we can speak with people of all the world, we can read the most recent news and we can share our opinnion in many different ways. So, does internet equals short distance? I don't think so. I think it helps us a lot with all the different ways of communication that we have at the internet, besides, internet it's just something a little bit unpersonal, too cold. So, I guess it dependes on the situation. But it's always better to talk to people and visit the places personally, being face to face.

The End? - Marley and Me

In the original end Marley, the dog, dies with a sick in stomach and leave the family sad.
In my end, Marley, before dies, find a female dog and has puppies with it. He leaves the house because knows that will die and don't want to let the family sad.
The puppies born and just one is male and the family appointing him Marley and everyone stay happy.

Belo Horizonte is a city kwown by your bars and restaurants and by your cold weahter. Can be a city that doesn't habe beaches ,but has a lot of other things to do there.
For example, if you want to relax you can go to a lot of squares around the city. There are Praça da Liberdade, Parque das Mangabeiras, Lagoa da Pampulha and a lot of others.
But if you want go out at night and meet other people you can go to Savassi, a neighborhood that offers a varierity of pubs and restaurants. In this place has the area where young people go and the area where the old people go.
And for the last, if you want to learn more about the history of the city you can visity a lot of museums, for example Mineiro where you learn about the Minas Gerais culture, or you can visit Museu da História Natural e Jardim Botâncio da UFMG where you can see the national fauna and flora.
But you can't forgot that is a big city and because of that a lot of people are robbed avery day, so be careful and enjoy the city!