Letter

January 24 th 2011

Discovery Home and Health
Production Departament

Dear Sirs:

My name is Luisa Li Chan from Ulacit Costa Rica class 210.

I am writing to express my dissatisfaction with the program that every Saturday at nine in the afternoon in your channel the reality show “Little Princesses" is on.

We think that the program have negative aspects because it makes people think the perfect image is the one who have the best make up, dress, hairstyle and accesories. At the same time we can see now the little girsl are abused psycologically and physically when they are subject to change their bodies and making them believe that the beauty is the most important thing in their life.
We also think that the program is a negative influence because it has an inconsequential message for the parents that watch the reality show. At the same time this program makes them act the same way the "Little Princes" should not be manipulating the audience.

Thank for your attention;

Luisa Li Chan

Smoking

First of all we need to know that the consume of tobacco is a single leading cause preventable of disease and death in the actual world. It’s also an important public health problem, because the sanitary consequences that it leads, like the high economic costs and social.
Smoking is not only a habit, is a chronic disease that is characterize to have nicotine an addictive drug. The addiction to nicotine forces the smokers continue it consumes and in this way generates that the person lose the liberty to decides and they are obligated to maintain or progressively increase its consume.

Why they smoke? Some adolescents like the sensation that they feel smoking. This good feeling is from nicotine in the cigarettes. Some adolescents think that smoking will help them lose weight and stay thin. Other also smokes because they feel that they have freedom and independence, and some smoke because they make them part of the society. Also here the publicities are an important way that makes that nowadays many young people smokes because most of this information is directed to adolescents. And the industries are creating cigarettes boxes more colorful and attractive for the consumers.
There are many reasons to quit using tobacco. Smoking can increase your risk of many health problems such as:
 Heart and blood vessel problems
 Cancer (especially in the lung, mouth, larynx, esophagus, blander, kidney, pancreas and cervix)
 Poor wound healing
 Problem during pregnancy
 Lung problems
 Decreased ability to taste and smell
 Infertility
 Loss of sight
 Tooth and gum diseases
 Wrinkling if the skin

Many persons do not realize they are addicted to the cigarette. They think can easily quit any time they want. But when they tried it is extremely difficult. Unfortunately is more ease to be addict.
If the person love themselves and they want to quit smoking, it is possible there many resources that can help like the support or encourage of the family, friends, and coworkers, the doctor will very helpful recommending replacement therapy and smoking cessation medications, and also the can assist to smoking cessation programs where they have a better chance to success.
The decision to smoking we take it by our self no one stop us, but you need to think first if that is the best for our body and life.

So in my opinion I think that is very important to ban smoking in public spaces, because this may contribute that the consumers smoke less. Also it is important because the one how smoke affects the others around them causing several diseases in people that don’t smoke, so we are getting sick by the fault of others. But is very sad to see how some smokers doesn’t matter if there are kids near of them and they still smoking.
So as there are places ban smoking, is necessary to have places where they can smoke otherwise if we ban all the public places this will be a big problem for the industries having consequences like to close the company and this will affect the employees. The ban of public places will help that the passive smokers can avoid the problems that the smoke of a cigarette can cause. This can be positive for the atmosphere making it cleaner and harmonious. And we will stop seeing the cigarettes butts scatter in everywhere that is very harmful for the animals because they don’t know and they eat them causing them intoxication.
In conclusion is very important to take consciousness of our life and the health of others.

Animals are intelligent?

Animals are living being like humans; they come from a class called mammals such as humans. Genetically are similar to humans the only differences are that they unable to talk and reason as well like we do.
I think that animals of course have some kind of intelligence not like humans but they have. Animals especially the dogs are like little babies learning about things, for example when we teach a baby something we start only saying words like: dad, mom, hello, bye, etc.; animals learns like: sit, up, hi or hello, newspaper, but in some way is more difficult to teach animals because they don’t develop so fast as we do, they need time, space and the owner or trainer needs be patient because they are unable to understand at the first time.
Other kind of animal that I know that are intelligent are the parrots because they are able to repeat words. And in some science investigation they have found that they are capable to recognize color and shape putting them where they go. I have watch in the television about a parrot that always that sees his owner he called by her name, but this needs to be teach to the parrot and it needs to recognize his owner.
Another example of the intelligence that the animal have is the emotional intelligence that is very similar to humans. When they are hurt, doesn’t feed them or when they are abandoned they feels sad and we can looked in its faces.

In my own experience I have two dogs they are Dexter and Tutti. In my opinion Tutti is more intelligent than Dexter because when it was little I have her in a box where she sleep for two weeks in that time she never make poop inside the box, she wait until I get her to walk. Now I said her “hello” and she give me her leg.
To conclude, in my opinion yes, animals are intelligent because they can do many things. The key to this is give them love and be patient to teach them.

Living Longer

The opportunity to be alive and learn of each experience that we have in this world is one of most precious gift that God has given us.
Many years ago life expectancy was longer than nowadays, the reasons is that if we start to analyze how our great-grandfathers live, we discover that many of them are from the farm where the that they eat was from their own crops and in that time it doesn’t exist the fast food and so much contamination.

Living longer has its advantages as more experiences, spend more time with people that you love, do things that you really want, if we have a family we will like to see our children grow having their own family and if they have children, of course that we want to know them and having a good time. Also this is a chance to know many people and share with them our entire anecdote.
Some risk that we can find living longer is that our health will not be the same when we was young. That causes us to become dependent, needing the help of others for example I know a person that have 86 and he was diagnostic with renal failure and problem with his kidneys, he need to be carry because for him is very hard to move a place to other, also for him is difficult to take a shower so someone is there helping him and changing his clothes. For him is very sad because he feels useless. Other disadvantage to be elder is that many families abandon them in special homes that take care of them because they say that they don’t have time.
I think that in my case I will prefer to live longer, but to make this happens is necessary to eat well, do exercise, and enjoy the bad and good things that the live present us and avoid stress.

The advantages and disadvantages of immigration

Immigration in many countries is very common to see. A lot of people immigrate looking for better opportunities, but always is not good things it also have disadvantages.
Immigration has advantages for the country because there are certain jobs like agriculture that many citizen doesn’t like because are low paying and the agriculture is one of the most important resources of economy for a country. Many immigrants arrive to other country with their family looking for a place without wars, the advantage of this is that children get a better education and they found a place that is not so danger. Some immigrants come alone looking for better jobs and part of their salary is sent back to their family.
The disadvantages for the immigrants, they are exposing to the discrimination and bad treatment. Sometimes is hard to be an immigrant because is a new place because they need to get familiarly with the culture and also because is not so easy to find a job immediately.
The immigration also affect the country because it over populate and it limited the resources like water and food.
In my opinion I think that immigration is an issue that we need to live with, because nowadays we can see many immigrants. The immigration can influence in our life like learning new culture and other language.

Advantage and disadvantages of the technology

Today technology advances are increasing in the world. Many people can’t imagine their life without technology.
The technology is providing many advantages like in the communication is very useful because we can communicate very quick with or family or friends with the use of the telephones or internet. Nowadays we can see that there are many technology advances for example many of the cell phone have incorporate camera making it more attractive for the consumers. Other advantage are the laptops this are very important because it help us in our jobs
The disadvantages that we can find with the technology are that each day they are producing new things that are more expensive. The innovation of technology can make people addicted to it making them expend a lot of money. Also affect the environment for example the nuclear power plant in Japan are causing that people living near get sick. Other problem is with the internet because many website with inappropriate information have an easy access to children, making them to be exposed to danger. Also a very cruel way that the technology is used is for weapons that nowadays are used to kill many people and use in wars to destroy.
In my opinion I think that the technology is important in our life but we need to know how to use it in the correct way.

The advantages and disadvantages of homework

Nowadays many teachers all around the world use a lot the homework for their students. This is a way were the children can practice after class.
Homework is a benefit because help student to develop their skills after the school, for example in some homework they need to make investigation, with this they learn about many things like problems all around the world so student use make the homework with more interest. It also makes the student more responsible because when they finish at time they feel that they have done a good job. Doing homework each day make students get better grade in class because is a way were they can study without the obligation of an exam.
Sometime homework have disadvantage for example for little kids they do not learn too much because many of their parents make ell their homework. Other persons says that homework is to spend time because while they are doing the homework they use the time for practice sport, be with the family or make other activities. Sometime student feel that the homework are so hard that they make them feel like they are not capable to do it or they feel stress because of it.
In my opinion I think that homework is very important but we need the support of our teachers and parents.