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martes, 13 de mayo de 2014

Steve Jobs documentary

Vocabulary:

1)Geek: A digital-Technology expert or enthusiast.

2)Tribute: A gift, testimonial, Compliment, or the like, given as due or in acknowledgment of gratitude or esteem.

3)Reverberate: The reecho or resound and the Rebound or recoil

4)Visionary: Given to or characterized by fanciful, not presently workable or unpractical ideas, views or schemes: a Visionary Enthusiast

5)Glimpse: A very brief, passing look, sight or view.

6)Misfit: Something that fits badly. Or a person who is not suited or is unable to adjust to the circumstances of his particular situation.

7)Prototype: The original model on which something is based or formed 

True or False
1.F
2.F
3.T
4.F

Questions:
1. October 5th 2011

2. He died from Cancer, a pancreatic neuroendocrine tumor.

3. The impact was vey big and it reverberated around the world not because it wasnt known before that he was going to die but because he really changed the world.

4.He received flowers, letters, and some kind of tributes were created in the products he made.

5.The fact that all we call life and the world were made up by people that were not smarter that you, so you can change and influence it. 

6.He spent his childhood in Los altos of San Francisco, Los Angeles.

7.They talked a lot about the meaning of life and they did electronic devices together.

8.Bill Fernandez

9. An electronic skit, mimicking telephone  router codes to make free calls around the world

10. He met them at a meeting of the homebrew computer club, he helped unloading things from their car in the parking lot.

11. It attracted a lot of attention, because it is the first computer where you used a keyboard and a screen. 

12. He was the third co-founder of apple, he made the first logo for the company, but he leave off after a bussiness proposal that left him with the 10% of the company's earnings and because he felt it could be really hard to work with them, he felt old (40) 

13. It had an impact in the aesthetics and clean lines of his products. And because his tutor helped him with some greeks letters he wanted to add in a product.

14. He went to India and and started learning buddhism.

15.He was interested because he wanted to know and understand the nature of things, and specialy Zen buddhism because it represents de relationship between things.

16. Xerox

17. An under-arm deodorant ball and A butter dish as the structure around the ball. 


lunes, 12 de mayo de 2014

Mars holds massacre memories summary

On 30 January 1972 a teenager called Michael Kelly was killed in the incident, he was one of the youngest victims of the bloody sunday, it is known because of an investigation that "Soldier F" killed Michael. 

His older brother John Kelly, still keeps one of the chocolate bars that his mother  bought for Michael before his dead, he keeps it as a memory of his brother.

John Kelly said that his brother was almost 18 and he still asked his mother if he could go to the march that day, he also said that he was trying to keep his mother alive and find justice for his brother. 

John's mother got ill in 2003 and asked almost every day what was happening with Michael's case, John told her a few weeks before her dead in 2004 that the case was won and that Michael was innocent, he says that she died happy. 

John's mother said that she wanted all the bits and pieces belonging to Michael buried in the coffin with her, John said all the things that belonged to michael were buried, but he kept the Mars Ball.