Chewing gum...

...is a type of gum traditionally made of chicle, a natural latex product, or synthetic rubber known as polyisobutylene, which is a non-vulcanisable form of the butyl rubber (isoprene-isobutylene) used for inner tubes or to line tubeless tires. For reasons of economy and quality, many modern chewing gums use rubber instead of chicle. Chicle is nonetheless still the base of choice for some regional markets, such as in Japan.
Modern chewing gum was first developed in the 1860s when chicle was exported from Mexico for use as a rubber substitute. Chicle did not succeed as a replacement for rubber, but as a gum it soon dominated the market. Chicle gum, and gum made from similar latexes, had a smoother and softer texture and held flavor better. Most chewing gum companies have since switched to synthetic gum bases because of their low price and availability. According to their website, Glee Gum is the last gum manufacturer in the United States to produce gum using all-natural chicle.
For me the chewing gum is the best invention, because relieves stress, entretained and I consider one of my good adiction.


By: Ju

Pearl Jam/ The Gossip

Pearl Jam_Just Breathe
The Gossip_Heavy Cross
Like our English teacher said this songs are very different and similar at the same time. They are different because the pace are calm to the first song and faster to the second song. They are similar because of their messages.
In our point of view songs talks about love someone. Maybe the songs was a refuge to the composers to express their love or to declare to their love.
In "Just Breathe" the part "Stay with me,.../You're all I see/Did I say that I need you?/ Did I say that I want you?" first we can see that the composer are begging and after declare his love, but the songs transmits the ideia that he didn't have the courage to declare and now already have, because he say "If I didn't now I'm a fool you see,...". He did this because he is afraid the time runs out and he hasn't said what is in his heart. Now he already do this and anything can happen because he and she will be together.
In "Heavy Cross" the sentence "I trust you" could be interpreted like a "I love you". We can get the explanation to this in the rest of the song. Like when she say "It's up to me and you, to prove it," she wants to transmit the message that is need two people to prove that she trusts him.

We Are The World 25 for Haiti

The charity anthem We Are the World has been re-made 25 years on from the original to raise money for Haiti.
With:
Justin Bieber
Nicole Scherzinger
Jennifer Hudson
Jennifer Nettles
Josh Groban
Tony Bennet
Mary J Blige
Michael Jackson
Janet Jackson
Barbra Streisand
Miley Cyrus
Enrique Iglesias
Jamie Foxx
Wyclef Jean
Adam Levine
Pink
BeBe Winans
Usher
Celine Dion
Fergie
Nick Jonas
Toni Braxton
Mary
Isaac Slade
Lil Wayne
Akon
T-Pain
LL Cool J
Will-I-Am
Snoop Dogg
Busta Rhymes
Swizz Beatz
Kanye West

By:Nitti*

Owl City_Fireflies

Edward Maya Ft. Vika Jigulina_Stereo Love

When you gonna stop breaking my heart
I don't wanna be another one
Paying for the things I never done
Don't let go ...
Don't let go ...
To my love

Can I get to your soul
Can you get to my toughts
Can you promise we won't let go
All the things that I need,
All the things that you need,
You can make it feel so real.
'Cause you can't deny
You've blown my mind
When I touch your body
I feel I'm losing control
'Cause you can't deny
You've blown my mind
When I see you baby
I just don't wanna let go

(Chorus)
I hate to see you cry,
Your smile is a beautiful lie.
I hate to see you cry,
My love is dying inside.
I can fix all those lies
Oh, baby, baby, I run, but I'm running to you
You won't see me cry, I'm hiding inside
My heart is in pain, but I'm smiling for you.

...

Oh, baby, I'll try to make the things right
I need you more than air, when I'm not with you
Please, don't ask me why, just kiss me this time
My only dream is about you and I.

By:Nitti*

Is technology making us lazier?

Technology is changing the world!
When we need to make some work we don't research in books but in Internet. It can make our work faster and can avoid our mistakes but at the same time we don't learn too much because when we research in books we have to read all the things and write but when we look for it in Internet we don't need to read everything and we just copy and paste. Technology can make our work better because we can put on that images and movies and we can choose the type, the size and the colour of letter. To give our work to the teacher we can send by e-mail or give the pen to the teacher so we don't need print it, we spend less paper and save the environment.

On the other side we have the technology who help us at home like household gadgets and we think that it doesn't make us lazier, it just help us. The time we spend cooking or washing clothes by hand, we can do other things like go out with our friends, study or just rest.

So, to complete and in our opinion, technology don't make us lazier it just make our work easier. But, we should use technology just to give us some help and not to replace us.

Holocaust

The Holocaust (from Greek ὁλόκαυστος [holókaustos]: hólos, "whole" and kaustós, "burnt"), also known as The Shoah is the term generally used to describe the genocide of approximately six million European Jews during World War II, a programme of systematic state-sponsored extermination by Nazi Germany. The man responsable for that was Adolf Hitler.
Some scholars maintain that the definition of the Holocaust should also include the Nazis' systematic murder of millions of people in other groups, including ethnic Poles, Romani, Soviet civilians, Soviet prisoners of war, people with disabilities, homosexuals, Jehovah's Witnesses, and other political and religious opponents. By this definition, the total number of Holocaust victims would be between 11 million and 17 million people.

Eberhard Jäckel wrote in 1986 that the Holocaust was unique because:
"the National Socialist killing of the Jews was unique in that never before had a state with the authority of its responsible leader decided and announced that a specific human group, including its aged, its women and its children and infants, would be killed as quickly as possible, and then carried through this resolution using every possible means of state power".

Stolpersteine:
To remember holocaust victims, Gunter Demnig created Stolpersteine.
Stones are neatly paved into the sidewalk, they force passers-by to stop and read them. “Here lived” begins the inscriptions engraved in brass on the concrete squares measuring about four inches—on each one, just the name, date, and place of death of a person killed by the Nazis.

Pacemaker

Pacemaker is a medical device used to regulate the heartbeat.
The first pacemaker was external and dangerous because they could eletrocute the person who using that.
Wilson Greatbatch pantented this in 50s but the first pacemaker(external) was used by an American doctor, in 1952, to reanimate two patients. One of them live 20 minutes and another 11 months. Pacemaker was implanted by the first time in a person in 1958 in Sweden. Rune Ellmquyist managed to make a pacemaker small enough to be implanted in a person.
The first pacemaker in Portugal was used by Décio Ferreira Martins in 1962.
Pacemaker are used in brain surgery too.
This invention allows a better quality of life to people who have a cardiac problem.
We think that is an important invention to humanity because it can save lives.