The Conversation Master Photo Contest!

Our group is having a photo contest. These are thumbnails of the pictures displayed on the corkboard panel in Copacabana branch. All photos were submited by students from this group. You may vote on your favorite picture either here or at the branch. Please help us choose a winner!!

Interesting video

Hello, all!

On the last class on which I was present, we discussed something about environment and sustainability. There is a very interestin video about this subject. Access http://www.storyofstuff.com/ and have a look! It is really interesting. If someone wants to show to someone who does not speak english, there is the portuguese version on http://www.unichem. com.br/videos. php.

Have fun!

Cláudia.

Hello, all!!! I couldn't stop laughing when I saw here the question about my and some of my classmates absence to the class today. Please, calm down!! I don't hate my collegues, I only keep working up to 7:40 pm. So, it was impossible to go to the class...
See you next Wednesday!!!
Cláudia.

Stand up

Hi everybody!

Friday I went to the theater to see "Comédia em pé". It was funny but I thought that the price of the tickets it was overvalued. Like student, I paid R$ 25,00 for one hour of jokes. But I could laugh with them in Youtube, or TV shows like Pânico na TV or CQC and all of them free. Then I was thinking: Is fair the price of tickets? Many people are private from this kind of show because they don’t have enough money to spend in this way, and they could spend the money in a lan house or at home to see that. I think this only contributes to the pirate market. And you? What do you think about it?

Kisses,

Leila

The world is changing

Hello everybody!
Have you seen? Obama is the new United States president! The first black president of USA! At his site ( https://donate.barackobama.com/page/contribute/dnc08splashnd , I don't know if this is official, but it looks like =] ) we says:
"Thank you! You proved that change can happen." We all know how prejudice was (or still is) strong there, I'm glad that he was elected. What do you think?

1-What do you think about human sacrifices?
2-The Spanish conquistadors have exterminated these civilization;what do you think about it?
3-Do you believe that man have changed or simply the methods of conquest did?
4-What’s the importance of this discovery to the science?

My favorite films

Hi people!!! I love to go to the movie,since I was a little girl.So, you can imagine how many films I had see.It’s difficult to choose but, anyway,I’ll trie.So,here we go!
Classics: 8 ½, from F.Fellini, Teorema,Pasolini,A fonte da donzela,I. Bergman,and so on.
Others: O Pianista,Roman Polanski,Moulin Rouge,Baz Luhrman,Linha de Passe,Walter Sales,O Estomago,Marcos Jorge. O Tigre e o Dragão,Berlim and many many others.I don’t like DVD,I only use dvd when it isn’t my favorite. I love big screen,sound, anyway,the “vibe” of the cinema.
Bye bye people and have a good weekend.

What are your all-time favorite movies?

Yes, people, it is time to think of a list. What are your five favorite films ever? Let's check out each other's tastes in cinema and see if there will be titles appearing in more than one list. If you want to write a little bit about your choices, all the better. We promise we'll be reading avidly ;-)

Movies and books

Well, hello, all! Following the same theme as Fernanda, I'm here to talk about movies and books. Many movies are based on books and, despite many books were written much before the film was made, generally the books get famous because of the films. Good examples are "Lord of Rings", "Da Vinci Code", "The Chronicles of Narnia", "The mists of avalon", "Dracula" and "Harry Potter", all of them huge Hollywood successes. There are also the brazilian examples, like "O Primo Basílio", "O Xangô de Baker Street", "Olga" and the famous title "Ensaio sobre a cegueira", written by the fantastic portuguese writer José Saramago. Personaly, every time I see a film based on a book that I have already read, I get disappointed. I allways imagine different faces and voices to the characters and things happen much faster on movies, with much less details. "Lord of Rings" is a good example. Token, the author, was so perfectionist that he rewrote many pages of the book because the phase of the moon did not match to the time passed on the story. No movie can describe this sort of thing so perfectly.

Cláudia.

Talking about movies (or would it be about comic books?)

Have you notice how the number of movies based in comic books has increased lately? Just this year we had Wanted, The Incredible Hulk, Iron Man and Batman the Dark Knight.

The last one has already taken on this year’s Scream Awards, a annual award for fantasy, terror and science fiction works. It has won twelve rewards, including the biggest trophy: The Ultimate Scream. Some of the others were The Best Super-Hero, for Christian Bale (Batman’s actor), The Best Supporting Performance, for Gary Oldman (the police commissioner Gordon) and The Best Director, for Christopher Nolan.

Of course, Heath Ledger (the Joker) won for Best Actor and for Best Villain, rewards that he actually deserves, in my opinion. His performance was perfect, after all the movies that he made (including Brokeback Mountain, the Grimm and many others, of many different styles, that I can’t remember the name) he pointed himself out as being a great actor. In one of his last interviews he said that Joker were the hardest character that he had played.

Well, the movie is great, I strongly recommend it ; ) .

For now that’s all. Let’s wait for the Oscar.

New elections old problems

Hello everybody!!!That is the question:new election but the problems are the sames.The candidates promise many things and the problems go on...like transport in R.J.city.The mayor doesn't do anything about.

I hope this time could be different.

Bye,till Wednesday night.

New elections old problems

Hi everybody! Just in order to make the start easer we might talk about something on the top. Whom are you going to give your confidence vote at?
Sorry, I didnt find how could I use that thing which the teacher has shown. So please answer the question in this post.
I hope all of you have a very nice week!
Regards
Ademir

Hello World

This is our first post! :)