Prevention of AIDS

On this video, famous people brings us for the prevention of AIDS, which affects children day by day. In some parts of the world children become loosing their parents, education, protection, everything, because aids affect everyone around them. I think it's brilliant the fact of famous use their image, their impact on society to brings attention for the prevention of this disease that affects mostly in undeveloped countrys, where there are no care, alerts or how to avoid it.

Ayrton Senna Biography

Ayrton Senna da Silva was a Brazilian Formula 1 pilot, three times world champion in the years 1988, 1990 and 1991. He was also vice-champion in 1989 and controversial championship in 1993. Died in an accident at Autodrome Enzo e Dino Ferrari in Imola during the San Marino Grand Prix in 1994. His excellent performance in the previous formulas (especially in British Formula 3 in 1983) led him to debut in Formula 1 Grand Prix of Brazil in 1984 by the team Toleman-Hart. Once in his first season in the highest category, Senna showed exceptional talent quickly leading to a small team of English and exhaustion results ever achieved. It is considered one of the biggest names of Brazilian sport and one of the largest drivers in the history of motoring

Nationality : Brazilian Years 1984 - 1994 Teams (s) Toleman, Lotus, McLaren, Williams. GPs disputed 162 3 championships (1988, 1990 and 1991) 41 Wins 80 podiums 610 points 65 pole positions First GP Grand Prix of Brazil 1984 First Grand Prix victory in Portugal 1985 Last Grand Prix victory in Australia 1993 Last GP of San Marino Grand Prix 1994

•Ayrton Senna died in 1994 at the Enzo Ferrari track in San Marino Italy. He died of several brain damage when the crash against the wall of the 300km/h

A Racial Fight

At September 11 of 2001 suicide attacks by al-Qaeda was made against USA. In that morning 19 terrorist hijacked four commercial passenger jet airliners. Two of the jets crashed into World Trade Center (The Twin Towers) in New York, killing the jet passengers and the people that was in the buildings working. The thirn jet crashed into the Pentagon. The fourth plane crashed into a field near Shanksville in rural Somerset County, Pennsylvania. There are no survivors from any of the flights.

This attack can be seen has a fight between two different countries, races. A misunderstood between American and Isrealites provoque the attacks. From their until today the war and the insecurance continues between these two.

Here I live some images from the attacks to the World Trade Center


Was also made two movies one about the attacks to World Trade Center called "World Trade Center" with Nicolas Cage, Maria Bello, Michael Peña. The other one is about the jet that crashed into the Shanksville field, is named "United 93". Both great movies that I advice everyone to see, I already saw the two of them.

I also leave the trailers os "World Trade Center" and "United 93"
The "World Trade Center" movie trailer.

The "United 93" movie trailer.

Interview

I went to do some field work and I interviwed Pascal Thevenor an immigrant. The interview was made in the restaurant of Pingo Doce at Wednesday, 3rd March.

1
Q: What's your nacionality?
A: I'm French.

2
Q: Why do you have immigrate to Portugal?
A: I immigrate to Portugal because I'm married with a portuguese woman and because I have a house here in the country.

3
Q: Do you had any dificulties learning portuguese?
A: No (laughs), was easy.

4
Q: How do you leanr the language?
A: I learn the language with my family and like I also refer my wife is portuguese so I learn with her too.

5
Q: DO you keep your country's habits or customs here in Portugal?
A: Some of them. For example in gastronomy, the food I ate in Christmas Eve was tipicaly french.

6
Q: Do you think you received a warm welcome here in Peniche?
A: Yes.

7
Q: Did you ever feel discriminated, were discriminated or the target of racist comments?
A: No.

8
Q: Did you ever regret leaving your country?
A: So far so long no, but I'm a free man if I start to feel bad here I always can return to France.

9
Q: Are you graduate?
A: Yes, I'am in Hotel maagement and "Restauração".

10
Q: What's your job?
A: I'm a Cuisine Chef here in Pingo Doce.

11
Q: Was dificult to find a job being an immigrant?
A: Yes, was hard to get a job, but the opportunity came and I accept it.

12
Q: Do you think you've being sucessful at or job here in Portugal?
A: Yes, I think I'm being good at my job.

USA for Africa

USA for Africa (United Support of Artists for Africa) was the name under which forty-five American artists, led by Harry Belafonte, Kenny Rogers, Michael Jackson and Lionel Richie, recorded the compact "We Are The World" in 1985. Most of the profits went to the USA For Africa Foundation and Amnesty International, which used them to help victims of racism and discrimination in the United States, later part of the profits were for the victims of hunger and disease in Africa. The song was composed by Michael Jackson and Lionel Richie, produced by Quincy Jones and recorded on 28 January 1985 at A & M Studios in Hollywood, California. On the basis of the letter is the intention of ending racism and prejudice, still, to add black and white musicians. Was chosen for recording the same day of the awards American Music Awards, to ensure that the largest possible number of artists appear. In total attended the 45th As was to be expected, the compact was a huge success, selling more than 7.5 million copies only in the United States, followed by an album, USA for Africa: We Are The World, which sold over 3 million, which brought songs from other artists. The total amount collected to the recordings, a video and merchandising, after a year had a profit of 50 million dollars.

Musicians : Dan Aykroyd, Harry Belafonte, Lindsey Buckingham, Kim Carnes ,Ray Charles ,Bob Dylan, Sheila E.,Bob Geldof, Daryl Hall, James Ingram ,Jackie Jackson, LaToya Jackson, Marlon Jackson, Michael Jackson,Randy Jackson ,Tito Jackson ,Al Jarreau ,Waylon Jennings ,Billy Joel ,Cyndi Lauper, Huey Lewis and the News,Kenny Loggins, Bette Midler ,Willie Nelson ,John Oates ,Jeffrey Osborne, Steve Perry ,The Pointer Sisters,Lionel Richie ,Smokey Robinson ,Kenny Rogers ,Diana Ross ,Paul Simon ,Bruce Springsteen ,Tina Turner,Dionne Warwick ,Stevie Wonder
Instrumentalists : John Robinson, Michael Boddicker ,Paulinho da Costa, Louis Johnson , Michael Omartian , Greg Phillinganes.

Amanda Bynes Biography

Biography:
Amanda Laura Bynes was born on April 3rd 1986, in Thousand Oaks, California. Bynes is the youngest of three children; she became interested in acting and performing career in age of three, when she ear her older sister Jillian saying her lines to the school plays. Was from then on that her family and friends knew that Amanda will be in the acting or comedian career.
She made her debut in 1996, when she auditioned and got the role in the movie “All That”. Right away she became very popular.
I 1999 with only 13 years old Amanda got her own show “The Amanda Show”. In 2001 she made “Big Fat Liar” that comes to theaters at the next year. She also won a Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Award and, at age 15, "The Amanda Show", 1999, ended its run.
In 2002, she began co-starring Jennie Garth in “What I Like About You” as Holly. In the same year she also made 16 years old and got her driver’s license on April 3rd.
In 2003, Amanda won two KCA Awards, because the movie “What a Girl Wants”.
On April 3rd, 2004, Amanda celebrates her 18th birthday on the 17th Annual KCA Awards, where she won an award for best actress for her role in “What a Girl Wants”.
She graduated from Thousand Oaks High School's independent study program on June 10, 2004, and filmed Love Wrecked, that went to the theaters in 2005, in 2004.

Trivia:
Amanda donated many items to Rocky Stone to be given to less fortunate kids as part of the Toy Mountain Campaign.
Has one older brother, Tommy, and one older sister, Jillian.
Has her own clothing line, "dear by Amanda Bynes", in conjunction with Steve and Barry's chain of stores.
Enjoys fashion design and drawing; presented David Letterman with a portrait she had painted of him. Favorite drink is Coke.
Likes roses.
Favorite fashion designer: Narciso Rodríguez.
Favorite subject is English.
Has two dogs: Tootsie Roll (golden labrador) and Betty Boop (Australian shepherd); three cats, Subbie, Dubbie and Tiger; and a fish named Bella.
Shoe size is 9.
Favorite lip glosses: Prescriptives Gloss, Lancôme Juicy Tubes.


Amanda also participate in the movie:
- She's the Man, as Viola.
- Hairspray, as Penny Pingleton.
- Sydney White, as Sydney White.

Fame and teens

The dissatisfaction of teenagers with their image and what they have leads them to seek more, something that has been offered by the media and it can only become reality, for this reason we witnessed the phenomenon of "copy", ie not there is more originality in the behavior of adolescents, especially when handling the "seems." When we left the streets we see many candidates to rapper, this fashion "bad-boy" is based on the American conquest of quick fame, money, easy sex and violence, characteristics that are desired by the young Brazilian, a phenomenon also present in the style of cars where image is everything, especially the buses, with smoke lenses and powerful sounds, expressing a defiant air. There is a call to all resources to be famous, if the objective is not achieved, at least it seems. The constant search for fame, together with strategies television, makes us remember the words of the famous North American pop Andy Warhol, where he said: "In the future everybody will be world-famous for 15 minutes" [ii], the future has arrived, people seeking minutes of fame in front of telinha, no matter the price. The highest price paid for the viewer who wants to be famous is the loss of intimacy, since you can not differentiate more public space for private space. Today, the most efficient way to make it to the media, "there is as prominent as large star, or as mere mortal who somehow knew the success, the 'greatness', the' heroism '(Rosa MB Fischer, 2001, p.35). This appeal to the fall of intimacy is a feature used very often in programs such as talk show, so the program can cite examples of Jô (Rede Globo), realizes that there is a time when the presenter does not leave to appeal to this appeal, is asking the audience, the interviewee or to the public at home with questions about sex, homosexuality or fetish, everything revolves around the challenge to discover what happens in the privacy of individuals.

Racism

Racism is the trend of thought, or way of thinking which gives great importance to the notion of the existence of separate human races and over each other. Where there is a belief that some individuals and the relationship between heritable physical characteristics, and certain traits of character and intelligence, or cultural, are superior to others. Racism is not a scientific theory but a set of pre conceived opinions where the main function is to exploit the biological differences between humans, which some believe is superior to the other according to their racial matrix. The belief of the existence of superior and inferior races was often used to justify slavery, the dominance of certain other peoples, and the genocide that occurred throughout the history of mankind.

"Racism starts when the difference, real or imaginary, is used to justify aggression. An attack based on the inability to understand the other, to accept differences and to engage in dialogue."

Mário Soares, former President of Portugal

Todays advertising

Today, all human activities benefit with the use of advertising.Advertising is, today, a significant importance and scope, both in the field of economic activity, or as a privileged instrument of promoting competition, always good for companies and their customers.

It is accepted more and more the principle that there is a parallelism between the evolution of the concept of advertising and how to communicate. That is, the technical disclosure of a "communicator", he always sought to move the process for advertising and media to each season.

Sure, we've heard the following sentence: "The advertisement is the soul of business." All of us who watch TV, walk the streets or read newspapers, we are constantly exposed to all kinds of ads that sell the most diverse products. But what, in fact, the concept of Publicity and Advertising?

Advertising is a career dedicated to public dissemination of ideas related to business, products or services, specifically, commercial advertising.

Publicity is the effect of spreading. It is projecting the company image in the market, through the media available in the community: TV, radio, cinema, press, magazines, billboards, internet and other media), disseminating the products and services to various slices of the market.

Benefits of the plastic surgery

The external and physical benefits can have several facetas. The first thing that many people notice a plastic surgery after is that its bodies seem more proportional or balanced. Exactly that a person opts to surgery in the face, seios, hip, or thighs the objective is to sculpture the body in a way that seems more natural. The result comumente allows that the people make look like more as they think that they would have to be. This can sound strange, but it is common that a nose is very great for the face of a specific person or the very small seios can very be great or e this can make that all its other characteristics seem desproporcionais.

The Terminal

This is a movie that shows us scenes of discrimination to Viktor Navorski, a man from Krakozhia, that come to a New York City's airport, but during the flight his eastern bloc country's government has been overthrown by rebels, that become his passport disabled. On the next nine months, Viktor Navorski is forced to live in the terminal, unable to set foot into the United States or to go home. During the nine mouths he met a lot of friends like the staff at the terminal.But he get one enemie too, the Immigration Officer that doesn't allow Victor to get into new york. Almost on the end of the movie, Viktor explains to Amelia that the purpose of his visit to New York is to collect an autograph of the jazz saxophonist Benny Golson, because his father that is already death and was a jazz enthusiast, collected autographs from a group of musicians, except for one person: Benny Golson. Viktor wants to collect this last one to realize his father's dream.
At the end, finnaly, the war ended in Hrakozhia, and then, Victor, with the help of all the staff of the terminal, even without the permission of the Immigraton Officer, could get into New York and get Benny Golson's autograph.

I think it is a great film, with good actors.I recommend this movie to everyone

The Test - Prejudice still exist

This video was sent to my by my cousin. I was shocked when I saw it. The video show how a prejudice that “white” people have to “black” people and that prejudice already affects the black children. Is a bit shocking the questions they made to the children but I think the most shocking thing is the answer that the children say. I think nowadays that doesn’t happen so often but that children used to hear from white people that black people are bad, black people murder, black people steal. So in the test when the man asks them what the mean doll they answer the black doll is. Is also shocking the fact that they children think they are ugly, and only the white, blond and with blue eyes is pretty. Everyone is like himself and is that what made us unique and prettier, being black, white, yellow, red what colour is doesn’t matter a human being is a human being and should be treated like a human not like garbage.

The Video has subtitles, a help for the people that don't understand the video at the first time.

In an English class he saw a movie called "Super size me" the work of Morgan Spurlock, in which aims for 30 days could not eat anything that is not on the menu of McDonald's with the obligation to make three meals daily. A very good documentary and compulsory for all the fast-food fanatics.

Personally I liked it very much even though the already have seen the movie, I advise you to everyone watching the movie.

http://superizeme.com/

Small Things Challenge

Some celebrities give the face for a very important cause, help children from Africa, that doesn't have any human conditions for live.
The video have the message, that is evan a small contribution can make a huge difference. Is also refered in the video that only a coin is a start to help children go to school.

Slavery in Ghana

In our ordinary day we are not aware of what is happening around us, we do not believe that there are cultures in the world with different point of view from our, different values and habits. Some cultures do not respect the children andhumanity rights.
In Ghana, there are children who are sold by their parents for less than 27 pounds. Children are trafficked around 3/4 years old. These children work 14 hours a day, seven days a week on the Lake Volta, the largest artificial lake in the world. They are abandoned by their responsables. These children are kept in captivity by the the people that buy them. As that children are exploited, abused and living in isolated islands with no opportunities to escape. Terrified, don't know their name and most of them don't even know their age.
It's sad that it happends today, in a world more and more developed, there are children living like this way, while in parts of the world, has children who live with all the comodities, happy with everything a child is entitled, the right of be happy, to play, to be a child.

U2, Fighting against Poverty

This video shows a moment on a concert in Chicago of the band U2. Here, Bono, the vocalist, live a message to people open their eyes and help saving poverty, that is becoming worst day by day on our planet. He says that we have to help each other, we should do something to leave this poverty and this misery. This artist is human rights defender and makes great gifts at great humanitarian causes. This type of speaches are said regularly. I think it is a video that draws attention and brings people to think about that.

video by youtube.com

Obesity in Portugal

The rate of childhood obesity in Portugal is the highest among European countries and is growing day by day. This is due to food and sedentary lifestyle that is becoming more common in children.
Obesity is a disease that has always existed because of some genetic causes, but today there is factors that helps this growth, particularly the modern lifestyle. Children no longer play in the street, they are at home on computer or watching TV. We allow the advertising of food products such as juices and 'fast food', which influence children, while some another countries are facing the food business.

The estate is that only now begun to recognize obesity as a chronic disease, which causes other diseases and can lead to death and have high social consequences. The Portuguese state already contribute in some treatments to fight against obesity, but there must be a change in the way of facing this disease of our part.

The first person who made a plastic operation.

The first person who made a plastic operation is called walter Yeo `s. English Officer that during the first world war was disfigured in an explosion during a naval battle at Jutland in 1916.In 1917 the officer was treated by Sir Harold Gillies, the father of plastic surgery because he was the first surgeon to use skin from undamaged areas on the body.
Sir Harold opened a specialist ward for the treatment of the facially-wounded.
Warrant Officer Yeo is thought to be the first patient to benefit from the newly developed technique "a form of skin grafting technically known as 'tubed pedical'." Sir Harold said that plastic surgery was developed to cope with the new and horrific injuries resulting from the unprecedented firepower deployed in the war.We know very little about this man but there is record that he continues to make plastic operations until 1936.

As we can see the plastic surgery was creat to save wounds of war, very different from what we see on the television series.