Cancer

Nowadays there are more and more people who suffer cancer. It is one of the main causes of dead in the whole world, specially in Spain which is one of the most affected countries currently. It can be caused by some human actions or mainly by several factors of life.

Cancer can appear because of genetics, since if parents have any kind of cancer, it is very likely that their children will have this illness too.

Ageing is also another fundamental factor in the development of cancer. The incidence of this disease increases greatly with age, most likely because accumulate risk factors for certain cancers.

Another circumstance that cause cancer is the consume moderated of tobacco and alcohol that are very damage for lungs and kidneys.

In addition, most of food that we buy at the supermarket can cause cancer long-term, because all type of edible products are now plenty of chemicals like preservatives, colourants, etc. These are very harmful for our health. Therefore we have to be very aware of it.

Christmas recipe: quails in mandarin sauce and honey

            

Are you tired of eating the same food at Christmas? Do not worry. I am going to propose you a different dish to this day so special. When you think about Christmas dishes do not need to choose always the most expensive products of marked like for example the typical seafood. There are many ingredients that we usually use in our kitchen and we can give them a festive touch like these quails in mandarin sauce and honey.

Ingredients (for two people):

- 2 or 4 clean quails

- 2 medium mandarins

- 1/2 cup of broth

- 1/2 cup of white wine

- 2 tablespoons of honey

- 2 French onions

- 1 tablespoon of cornstarch

- pepper
- salt

- extra virgin olive oil.

Elaboration:

1. Wash and peel mandarins. Remove all the white part of the skin and chop into thin strips. Put in a saucepan with a finger of water, boil and strain. Repeat the operation. Replace the skins in a saucepan with honey and a pinch of salt. Heat over medium heat 2 minutes.

2. Add broth, wine and juice of the mandarins. Incorporate the onions cut into quarters, giving a blow pepper and cook over low heat 15 minutes. Peel while the remaining segments of the tangerine. Add to the sauce. Dissolve the cornstarch in cold water and then add to thicken.

3. Tie the quails' legs and cook them with a little olive oil in a frying pan or grilled until they are well browned on all sides. Serve with hot sauce to taste.

Elaboration time: 45 minutes

Difficulty: Easy

Stop dog's mistreatment

http://www.occupyforanimals.net/animal-abuse---how-to-report.html

     I am fed up with seeing on TV or on my own Facebook images of starving, injured, sad, deteriorated dogs because people who treat an animal like this are not human beings. These people should not exist. I do not know if I am against of this for loving so much dogs, but honestly I think that any person that posses use of reason would not be capable to harm an animal like dogs are. Really no matter what type of animal is, since this kind of beings mistreats any animal, but it is more widespread in dogs. When I see that pictures which I am talking to, I wonder: what blame have dogs had to finish of that way? Why? What type of being have been able to do that?

    Fortunately, the government has helped in many ways, since animals' mistreatment, specially dogs', is punishable with large amounts of money and even with jail. Furthermore, there are many animal protectors and lovers who are in charge of bringing up these animals which are mostly found almost lifeless. Thanks to people like these, dogs' life have more possibilities to survive, since most of them cannot be saved.

     I want to finish with a famous quote: dogs are the best friend of humans. Therefore, people that do this type of wild mistreatment are not a really human.

Spanish films

    I am not very keen on Spanish films because most of them have a senseless plot, sometimes difficult to follow and they usually are a copy of American movies. Moreover, they have a low cultural level and also a bad sense of humour.

    However, when people encouraged me to see the film '' ocho apellidos vascos''  last year, I was pretty surprised by it. This movie beat the record at  ticket office, since there were 9,5 million of viewers. It is a romantic comedy starred by Clara Lago (Amaia) and Dani Rovira (Rafa), Carmen Machi (Merche) and Karra Elejalde (Koldo) in which Rafa, a a Sevillian who has ever left of Andalusia, decides to leave his homeland to follow Amaia, a young Basque that resists their seduction techniques. To do this, and against the advice of his friends, he decides to travel to the town of her, Argoitia. A series of circumstances lead to the young Sevillian have to do as if he is a  Basque to achieve their purposes and marry to her.  

     I really like this film and so, last week I went to the cinema with my boyfriend to see the second part : ''Ocho apellidos catalanes''. I did not regret at all because it is as good as the first one. It has a lot of funny moments related to the Catalan context. Therefore, I recommend everybody to see it because it is worth.

I attach the trailers of the two films for whoever is interested in them.

                    ''Ocho apellidos vascos'' (First part)

                  ''Ocho apellidos catalanes'' (Second part)
         *Note: I have not found the trailer with English subtitles

Merry Christmas

    

http://highlandsmuseum.com/christmas-tour-of-homes/

    Christmas is already here! As every year I am always looking forward to arriving these date because it is one of the best festive season for me in the whole year. I and, as almost everybody, usually gather with the family during all Christmas and we hold Christmas Eve and  New Year’s Eve with a great dinner prepared with expensive and special dishes for the occasion. After I go out to celebrate with my friends and my boyfriend; we usually go to the disco and spend the night dancing.

      During these days I enjoy a lot with my friends; for example we go skating at the ice rink or go to cinema. When Christmas arrive, I love setting up the tree and the crib and decorating my home. In addition, I like buying gifts to my family and leave under the tree at Christmas Day. I also like open my presents that day; it is as if it was my birthday.

    Likewise, I always try to pass all my exams because thus, I can enjoy and relax these days. In contrast, this year everything has changed, since it is my first year studying at the university and as everyone knows, exams are unfortunately on January. Therefore, I will have to spend all Christmas season studying hard. This year and the rest of the career will be very hard for me.

Mobile phones among teenagers

   

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/may/20/teenagers-mobile-phones-study-smartphone-use-addictive

   Mobile phones, or now also called smartphones, have supposed a key breakthrough in technology. This particularly innovated electronic gadget has affected and changed the lifestyle of most young people in many aspects.

    Nowadays it is not difficult to find any teenager using the mobile phone, since now everybody has one. In addition, broadband connections, which allow them to go on-line more quickly, are widely available everywhere (at restaurants, at any station or even inside buses). This let teens be communicated all time, above all though social networks. Likewise, they can download all kinds of applications to do great variety of things: from playing a game to watching a film.

     But, are all these facilities really nice for young people? They are believed that smartphones are very useful and entertaining, and they are right, in contrast most of them have become very addicted and do not know how take control; they are completely absorbed in their phones. As a result of this, they will not develop correctly their communicative abilities and the physical contact with real people, especially if they begin to use them from childhood. Moreover, its continued use is harmful to health. 

    Due to the fact that teen are so connected to smartphones, we should take serious measures. For instance, an idea would be to establish a limited connection per day on our phones so that we cannot access or Internet or any app when this period of time ends. Besides, parents should be aware of their their children can make a misuse of them. Therefore, they do not have to let their kids spend all the day using these gadgets either they navigate websites alone.

   Overall, I wish everybody think a bit about this great problem that is influencing in the whole world. I am not saying that I am against smartphones, only I would like that children take advantage the time in other more important items.

Junk TV and its frauds.

http://www.elmanifiesto.com/articulos.asp?idarticulo=5219

This topic can be a bit  sensitive for someone, since there are many people who are in love of junk TV. The most channels on TV are gossip programs that do not really teach anything, but people like them because they are funny and entertaining. In contrast, there are few culture channels on TV like for example documentaries.

The main goal of enterprises is to earn money and, for it, they must get audience, offering contents that are interesting for viewers. Almost any one do not think about cultural aspects of society because people interest gossiping, hence junk TV is more extended in television world. Additionally, there are even some programs that are capable of tricking to people only for the money. An example is "Big Brother", a reality show in which a group of people are random selected to live inside a house and there have to be arguments, amorousness, fightings, etc. in order to entertain viewers. When the atmosphere is calm, the own reality tell the protagonists what they have to do, hence they are acting and it is not real. The problem is that people are easy to manipulate through television.

However, documentaries, history movies or programs related with the life ans culture are watched by very few people because the most say that they are boring. This is the reason for there are less culture channels on TV and it is very sad. Today society prefer watching junk TV to learning and developing their own culture.