Thursday, May 31, 2007

An Inconvenient Truth

Here is the trailer to the documentary about the truth of Global Warming...

Watch it carefully and think about what we are doing to our planet

James Lovelock says Global Warming is now at point of no return.

Other top climate scientists are more hopeful but say we only have less than 10 years before it's irreversible and time is running out.

Bush Administrations have been accused of asking top climate scientists at NASA to STOP speaking out about the climate crisis and of altering scientific journals reporting on the phenomenon. We all need to speak up NOW or the Human Race will join the MILLIONS of other Species that will be extinct by 2050 from Global Warming.

www.climatecrisis.net

www.greatemergence.blogspot.com


Thursday, May 10, 2007

Visita de Estudo ao Porto

Cindy Crawford (Trabalho elaborado por José Carlos Mesquita, 8ºD)


Cindy Crawford



Cindy Crawford was born on the 20th February 1996 in the state of Illinois and became a North-American model.
When she was dedicating to the corn harvest, a short-time summer work, a photographer noticed her beauty and decided to take photos of Cindy. As a result of the session, her photogenia became noticeable, and that was enough to lead her to start her career as a model.
That summer, and the next she worked as a model for the Chicago’s Elite, but then she dedicated herself in exclusive to university, in the area of Chemical Engineering. Along the way she left her participation in the «Elite Look of the Year», in 1982, where she was one of the strongest candidates to victory. Later, she would leave her studies and go back to the “Fashion World”.
In the beginning of her career, someone suggested (she) her to take a birthmark she had close to her mouth off because it was ugly; she didn’t, and now it’s part of her image.
Cindy worked in Chicago until success took her to New York, where she lived until 1996 when she installed herself in Los Angeles. It only took two years to start to dress clothes of the most well known designers in the world and to occupy the front pages of the most fashionable magazines.
Until today, she has done more than 400 front pages in the world. One of the most famous is the «Vanity Fair» of 1993. There, Cindy appeared with the lesbian singer KD Lang in a pose that shocked the most conservatives.
Her success allowed her to integrate the first group of “super models”, up to the top models, where Naomi Campbell, Claudia Schiffer and Linda Evangelista belonged.
In 1998, she became the first super model to accept to pose for «Playboy». The experience was very well accepted by the public and allowed her a contract, which lasted for 6 years, to become the presenter of the fashion program «House of Style», of MTV.
She had an inclination for business too: she sold series of calendars and videos with images of her.
In 1995, she was considered by the North-American magazine «Forbes» as the most well paid model of the world. In that year she premiered in the cinema in “Easy Prey”, where she co-acted with William Baldwin, but the success was beneath the expected.
Cindy Crawford dedicated lots of time to charity, especially related with leukaemia, which stole her a brother when they both were children. Half the profits of her calendars are predestined to programs of leukaemia fighting.

Wednesday, May 09, 2007

The British Press





Te first thing you notice when you look at a newspaper is the size!



Traditionally, newspapers have been divided up into tabloids and broadsheets, broadsheets being the larger, more serious papers that you have to fold to read.




The gap between tabloids and broadsheets is a wide one. They look different, they contain different news, they have a different style of writing and they aim to attract different readers. However, the competition for readers is intense, and tabloids and broadsheets may steal tricks off each other in order to win the circulation war (eg) many broadsheet newspapers in Britain run 'Fantasy Football Leagues' which originated as a tabloid tactic. Some UK broadsheets have recently started producing a tabloid edition to further confuse matters.



Here are a few of the main differences:




Tabloids
'Popular' press
Aimed at lower social groupings (C2,D & E)
Bold layout (eg colour on the masthead, very bold typeface, easy to read), with large, dramatic pictures
Shorter articles, more pictures, less 'in-depth' reporting
Puns and jokes in headlines
More focus on human interest stories, celebrity gossip
Use of gimmicks such as bingo games, free travel tickets, phone-in surveys


Broadsheets
'Quality' or 'serious' press
Aimed at higher social groupings (A,B,C1)
Plainer layout (no colour on the frontpage, smaller typeface suggests readers will make more effort to read it), and subtle, possibly smaller, pictures
Longer articles, more detailed
Serious headlines
More focus on politics, international news





Here are some examples of British newspapers: