Sunday, 18 October 2015

How a 3-D-printer changed a 4-year-old's heart and life (News)

News:
Mia Gonzalez, a little girl, spent 3 and a half years of her life missing out. She couldn't have a normal life because of her heart problem. After passing by about 10 hospitals, finaly, the doctors realised that she had a malformation i her aorta, the vessel that pumps blood to her body. Now the young girl would need a heart operation to close a partn of her aorta, which was putting preasure o  her windpipe, which was creating difficultss to breathe, swallow and get rid of phlegmes when she got a cold.

Unfortunately, Mia's operation was complicated, and if the surgeons of Nicklaus Children's Hospital wouldn't had the 3D printing technology, the operation could have been apprehensive. Earlier this year, the hospital acquired a 3D printer, which has been used to replicate organs that the patients needed. The heart's replica, made a lot easier the operation, Redmon Burke, the surgeon, attributes the model to save to him and the team about 2 hours in the operation room.

Vocabulary:
Tools: eines
Colleague: company


Link:
http://edition.cnn.com/2015/10/06/health/3d-printed-heart-simulated-organs/index.html

Thursday, 11 June 2015

My 1st Batxillerat :)

My 1st Batxillerat J

A new school year has ended for me, but it hasn’t been a normal school year, I could say that it’s been so particular, nothing to do with ESO or primary.
In some way, I think that I’ve done a good choice coming here. This year has been so difficult, not only for exams and grades; I’ve experienced some things that I’ve never felt before, specially for one person.  I’ve met a lot of people, I’ve not made friends with everyone, but I’m happy about the new friends I made. I’m happy about met again some of my old class mates, as Isaac and Miquel, I haven’t seen them since we were at school, then we splitted and gone to different high schools, and It’s nice to see them again.

Finally, now that’s ending, I can see where I was at the beginning, and where I am now. I can see that I’ve grown as person, I’ve learnt a lot thanks to a lot of people, people who I’m desiring to see them as soon as I can and during a lot of time. I’m so happy about that, and, I can say, that I’m a bit sad about the end. I would like to return as soon as possible!

Should parents worry about cartoons?

Should parents worry about cartoons?

It’s a fact that some parents blame the cartoons that their sons watch lately to justify their behavior issues.
Everything depends on what’s your son doing or watching, and of course his character. For example, I’ve been playing and watching some weird things since I was younger. An example for that, I always liked to watch “South Park”, and I realized that it’s a very weird cartoon; they explain a lot of things, but in a weird thing. I played the “Grand Theft Auto” series too, and what I learnt is to distinguish the good and evil, because everything I saw there was evil. I thinki I'm pretty normal after all.

In conclusion, using me for an example, I don’t thinks that theory it’s true, because I think I’m normal. 

USA haters

USA haters

On the internet, I see a lot of people who complains about the USA, and its “police of the world” game.

I can understand their opinion, I believe. It’s true that the USA has been influencing a lot of the world, and not always by the pacific way. They’ve been supporting the killing and murdering of people just for its personal interests. They have the right to do it, because every country has done something similar along its history. But the thing is, now with all the media I think that its activities are more public and everyone can know them, so there are a lot of more protests than in past years.

The animal I would like to be

The animal I would like to be

That’s a thing that I’ve thought a lot of times, and the majority of those times, I always finished in the same conclusion.
I think that be a hornet would be cool, because those animals are so fast and small, the can go practically at any place quickly, and to bite people if they annoy me, and now that I would we sneaky, they wouldn’t never catch me, so I could enjoy a lot.
On the other hand, they have a short life-rate, I believe, so I couldn’t live for too much, and that’s a bad thing to have.

But anyway, I think that would be cool.

Too many publicity on TV

Too many publicity on TV

Every time we watch TV, we pay attention to the TV program or series which we are watching, but a lot of times those things that we like are interrupted by that annoying publicity.
At least, for example, the 50% of the time we spend watching TV is wasted by publicity, which just sends us the message to buy stuff. It’s okay to use publicity, but not to abusing it.  In Spain, there are TV chains, who use a lot of publicity, and just because it’s cheaper to pay the fine for using too much publicity, than use it in a normal quantity.

I think that there would must be some more penalties for exceeding the limit.

Old bombs in Germany (News)

Old bombs in Germany
After seventy years of the Second World War, the people of Germany still finding old bombs and ammunitions. Every year, at least 20.000 tons of active bombs and ammunitions are being found and deactivated. Some of them explode randomly, damaging people and buildings.
Specialists estimate that during the war, 1.5 million tons were dropped tin German territory, and at least, that 15% of those bombs were not detonated correctly, and could explode at any moment.
Bomb: Artifact that explodes
Ammunition: Fragments shot by fire weapons
Randomly: At any moment, unexpected


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