WORDS HAVE POWER

The poem "Phenomenal woman" is considered a feminist literary production because of several reasons. Firstly, It tries to establish social equality of sexes by recognizing women ability of successing as any man could. Secondly, it engages women to have confidence and faith on themselves to achieve everything they propose. Moreover, the poem is against the idea of female successing only by using their beauty. This poem is against of several social stereotypes which make women feel inferior from men. All these features show that feminism fights for social, economic and personal equality between men and women. Nowadays, the term FEMINISM becomes really popular among different cultures. Although most people consider that this movement involve only women, men decide to be feminist increasingly. However, there exist many men who reject feminist ideas yet. Undoubtedly, It is time to change certain aspects of our culture to acquire an equal gender society. For that rea

James Petras is a Bartle Professor (Emeritus) of Sociology at Binghamton University, New York who writes about the fall of Berlin wall. You can find his  biography  HERE KEY CONCEPTS Click on the concepts to listen to their definitions FREEDOM NATO BAD WALLS GOOD WALLS

Walls of different kinds Student A: Di Grazia Camila Student B: Rodriguez Giselle Student A: After watching the videos and reading the texts, we can say that walls bring more negative consequences on societies than positive ones. One of these consequences is based on the failure to make people cross the boundaries of the country. Another unfavourable outcome include those refugees who try to cross the borders by sailing but they die trying it. Moreover, many communities feel excluded and discriminated because of these fences. Most of these excluded people are poor. For that reason, vulnerable societies keep out from opportunities to improve their life conditions because many privileges such as a good education are for rich people only who are on the other side of the wall. Therefore, the majority of them tend to be stuck in poverty the rest of their lives. All these consequences shows that walls are not the solution for crimes but they bring horrible effects. Student

George Papandreou: Imagine a European democracy without borders           According to George Papandreou, the failure of leadership in global politics and globalizing economic is close related to the global evolution of democracy. During the Ancient Greeks times, democracy was seen as revelation which provided the limits of power such as tyranny so society could participate in protecting their own freedom together. However, current democracy has changed abruptly so Europe suffered several crises. Nowadays, democracy is weakened and undermined in the global politics and economic because of the lack of trust on social potential in finding creative economical solutions. In this way, citizens are taken out of the process rather than building the process around them. For that reason, there exists a growing concentration of power and wealth among the markets whose unfunded stereotypes and fears of an economic disaster cause social inequality. As democracy cannot work without publi

DEATH PENALTY ARGUMENTS COUNTER ARGUMENTS Death penalty is a deterrent against crimes Societies who use death penalty do not have low crime rates Poor people as well as rich ones could be executed It targets the economically disadvantaged: people who cannot afford a good legal counsel. It is irreversible Death of innocence It abuses two of our most basic and inalienable human rights: everyone has the right to live and no one shall be subject to torture   No matter how terrible the crime is, criminals are still human beings Criminals crossed a line between what is right and wrong but society should not want to join them

Learn how to write an opinion essay. Do the preparation task first. Then read the text and tips and do the exercises. PREPARATION Writing C1: An opinion essay – preparation 1. someone who has committed a crime or a violent act Correct a perpetrator 2. the ability to understand how other people feel Correct empathy 3. able to bring someone back to health or a normal life Correct rehabilitative 4. strict; severe Correct harsh 5. to make someone avoid or stop doing something Correct to deter someone from doing something 6. to commit a crime again (not for the first time) Correct to reoffend Reading text Some people think that some types of criminals should not go to prison. Instead they should do unpaid work in the community. To what extent do you agree? Owing to the great variety of crimes that can be punishable by prison, some people argue that not all criminals are the same and it