Arquivo da categoria: Writing Challenge

[Composing – 08] Living in a house is better than living in a flat

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Living in a house is better than living in a flat. Firstly, flats are smaller than any house. Secondly, buildings has increasingly dweller’s number. Therefore, the trouble and noise in these buildings are common. Finally, I would like to increase my privacy because every day, we have less.

I have been living in a flat since I was born. My wife used to live in a house when she was not married. Then, we would have more space because we want to have more children and them need space to walk and run. We would like to have a Labrador Retriever, a Golden Retriever or both. I would like to have a garden and take care of it. When we stay at home, in a flat, sometimes we feel arrested and we feel the necessity to go out.

The noise is a difficult problem. We have been listening noise of flats around our apartment every day. When people discuss among themselves, sometimes we got a conclusion of who is right. The trouble with neighbors are frequent. It is difficult to building manager take care of it. In the building that we live, there are hundred sixty flats. There are days that the building manager is crazy because every neighbor wants something different.

Our next home will be a house for sure. We will have the common problems like to how take care of it or keep it safe for us, but we have privacy. I am sure that this feeling of being arrested will decrease. We will have space for our children and space for us.

Marcos de Carvalho Oliveira
06/06/2014

[Composing – 07] Dark Tower

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Dark Tower is the biggest series of books written by Stephen King. These books tell the story of "gunslinger" and his fight toward a tower named "Dark Tower".

Dark Tower is a magic tower and it has the power to remain all things in its right order. However, there is something or someone that tries to corrupt it and it got its power.

The gunslinger is a strange guy. When you read about gunslinger you think he is a bad guy. However, readers discover that “Roland Deschain” has proposes and goals extremely defined. He feels that something happens with the Dark Tower and he tries to save it.

In the middle of the story, we discover that the tower lost its force and a simple flower is fighting against dark forces.

The series is excellent and it makes us about think about our lives, in our behaviors, and the person that we might be. King likes to discuss about people and how people act. Because of these facts the story is amazing.

Marcos de Carvalho Oliveira
30/05/2014

[Composing – 05] Is everything conspiracy?

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Elvis Presley faked his own death. The Aids virus was create in a laboratory. Global warming is a hoax. These are conspiracy theories hard to believe. However, could not these conspiracy theories be true?

I did not live when Presley was alive. He should not have had peace in his life. Maybe, he decided to change his life and he has hidden. Some say he died in the ninetieths. It could have happened, mainly because his death happened very fast and it was very strange. He died at home after he went to the dentist. Perhaps, he went to Mars and he liked the Martians.

Dr. William Campbell Douglass said that HIV was genetically engineered in 1974. I don’t know his theories but I believe in it. I believe that HIV was created in a laboratory and many companies, nations earn money with HIV. AZT is the main drug and it is very expensive. We are in 2014. HIV is forty years old. It is difficult to believe that there isn’t a vaccine for Aids. Some people say that HIV was created to control the number of people and reduce the world population. We have vaccine for everything, but HIV.

Sceptics believe that Global Warming is a conspiracy theory because the government includes taxes to people, increases the control and authoritarian of government. This could be true. Therefore, everyone realizes the difference in climate. Something is happening. We are destroying the environment. There are more people in the world. The animals are disappearing. These facts trend grow very fast over time.

We don’t know If conspiracy theories are facts or not. Because of these, some people increase stories and create jokes. Anyway, we have many questions about it.

Marcos de Carvalho Oliveira
16/05/2014

[Composing – 04] How far should you go online?

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There is no limit to go online. However, it became a social problem. The first problem is that there are many companies that have been filtrating our search and reading our emails. Second, is how far you must go online? Third question is if there must be limits.

The first problem above is terrible. There are companies that read our emails. When they do that, they know everything about our lives. However, this do not main problem. The real problem is that companies filtrate options and show for us other companies and relational stuff of their interest. There are many people protesting for it and others like that. We have to remember that companies work to earn more money. There is always have some manipulation to earn more money. So, how do you read or listen protest about it if the internet manipulated?

We have to emphasize in people and relationship. When we go deep in to something, we forget the side of the coin. However, if you want to go ahead in a study or in our work, the correct it is to specialize.

Of course, limits should be constructed and it has happens over time. Every person has your own limit. However, there are people that lost the control of their life. Post many things in internet without necessity and check the messages all the time. It became a society of superficial people and sire new problems.

We like to be connected and informed. However, people lost control about it. Whom the companies cannot insert in this earth yet, it is your goal too. We need know controlling it. We need values. We need friends. We need talk. We need live our life. The technology helps us but we know separate it and live the life without connected too.

Marcos de Carvalho Oliveira
09/05/2014

[Composing – 03] Dubai’s Airport

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Last Saturday, I watched in Discovery Channel a program about Dubai’s airport. This documentary shows three workers of the airport and showed their responsibilities.

The first worker aim is to control the time of the aircraft on the ground. He is a manager that controls other workers’ jobs. The aircraft that he controls in the moment of the documentary is an A380 and the aircraft can stay three hours on the ground.

He has many problems and each problem is different. One of the problems was a luggage door. It was a giant door and it delayed the luggage of five hundred sixty passengers. Usually other problems happen with special needs people and the passengers that are late for the flight.

The second worker is a woman that controls the cleaners. The cleaners have about forty minutes to clean the entire airplane. However, they were late because the aircraft was not free to clean. They can only clean the aircraft if the passengers left it. It happens all the time. After passengers release the plane, cleaners finished their job in twenty minutes.

The third worker has the function of clearing the runway of the aircraft. When one aircraft is landing, it loses a lot of tire rubber and the track gets slippery over time. It takes 3 hours to clean each track per week and if the runway is not completely clean, the track keeps closed. In this airport, there are four tracks. One track closed, it means many passengers without flying.

In the end of the program, workers end their jobs. They are tired but pleased and waiting for the next flight.

Marcos de Carvalho Oliveira
24/04/2014

[Composing – 02] Necessity of learning English

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English is a widely spoken language in the world. However, what is the real necessity of learning English in a country that it is not the native language?

I have been studying English mainly to talk and understand the world around me. The majority of the books are writen in English. When someone writes about a new technology for sure, his book will be in English. Therefore, if you do not speak English, and if this new technology really get the majority of companies, perhaps this book will be translate to Portuguese.

MOOC, or “Massive Open Online Course”, is a tendency important for us from IT. If you do not participate at least once a year, you will be late. Unfortunately, the most of these courses are in English.

Now, learning English is a mania that many people have acceded. This is not a reason to judge people. It is an interesting tendency mainly because the people are studying it and this is great. Another reason is that Portuguese there are many words in English that people say all the time. How not to be interested?

Therefore, English is very important. Of course, that each one has their opinion about it, but not studying English is not an option anymore.

Marcos de Carvalho Oliveira
04/05/2014

[Composing – 01] Do you think money affects the level of your happiness? How much money do you need to be happy?

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Money affects the level of happiness and the others lives. We need money to pay bills, buy things, have a social life, pay courses and trips. However, our lives have values that are not measurable and often we try to calculate the simple values with money.

Which are the important values for you? Love, family, the fellowship that we have in common, the affection, and the time that we do not have anymore. Usually, we put other activities in our free time and It causes a series of problems, for example: We do not have time to give people that want to be with us; time to think of real things; time to do charity. When we do this, we decrease the value mentioned above.

What is wrong? Each one has to think more about this. We usually sell our time to pay more bills or other useless things. Where are values if I sell all time? We do not have love if we do not have time to cultivate it.

If you have much money, do you stop looking for it? I do not have enough to think of it. People that have enough money cannot answer this question because they would like to do many things with the money that they have not earned yet.

Marcos de Carvalho Oliveira
03/05/2014