lunes, 25 de mayo de 2009

Reseña Alexis Ayala

Titulo: Harry Potter
Época: 2001
Autor: J.K. Rowling

Es una escritora británica, principalmente conocida por ser la creadora de la serie de libros Harry Potter, cuya idea fue concebida durante un viaje en tren de Manchester hasta Londres en 1990.

El propósito del autor es realmente despejarse y dejar volar su imaginación, todo surgió en un tren que iba desde Manchster hacia Londres y ella escribe sobre un joven mago que quedo huerfáno según porque su casa se habia incendiado y sus padres se escontraban ahí. Años después el ya viviendo con sus tios que lo maltratan mucho y un dia llego una casrta de reclutamineto pa Howarts una escual de magos, y es así como la aventura de este joven mago comienza. Yo en lo personal me agradan mucho porque me identifico en muchas cosas con el personaje que es Harry Potter pero tambien te lleva un mundo de fantasía que al mismo timepo lo combina con al realidad, que es una realidad actual y a lo que me refiero con realidad actual es que se supone que es en estos mismos años pero al entrat al mundo mágico de Howarts se convierte todo totalmente en un mundo como antiguo pero maravilloso como lo podemas aprecir en la películas.

Loa personajes principales en estos libros y películas son:
Harry Potter, Ron Wisley, Hermione Granger.

Géneros y subgéneros:

Género ÉPICO: Relata sucesos reales o imaginarios que le han ocurrido al poeta o a otra persona. Es de carácter sumamente objetivo. Su forma de expresión fue siempre el verso.

Subgéneros Épicos

La novela:
Es un relato largo, aunque de extensión variable, con un argumento mucho más desarrollado que el del cuento. Y, a diferencia de lo que sucede con el cuento, al lector le importa no solo lo que ocurre a los personajes, sino también lo que piensan y sienten, como evolucionan espiritualmente y como influye en ellos la sociedad donde viven.

Principalmente el mensaje que deja es que aunque la vida te ponga muchos obstáculos los tienes que derribar y seguir adelante.

Los valores aquí son muchos:
Amistad, solidaridad, amor, coraje, valentíaentre muchos más.

Los antivalores son:
Coraje, rencor, discordia, venganza y envidia.

En conclusión hay virtudes en este texto porque aprendes un poco más de lo bueno y que hay que hacer pero tambien te dice como es lo malo para evitarlo y yo creo que deja una buena enseñanza este libro y yo lo recommendaría a todo el público desde niños a adultos.

viernes, 22 de mayo de 2009

1. What is the most predictable thing about influenza?
The nature of the viruses that cause it.

2. How many people have died in Mexico? (based on the article as well as on latest news)There have been 66 confirmed deaths and more that a thousand cases.

3. Name 3 countries where swine flu has been confirmed in the last three days.India, Malaysia, and Turkey.

4. What are the symptoms of the swine flu?
Fever, cough, sore throat, and nausea and can range from mild to deadly.

5. When was the outbreak of the Spanish flu?In 1918, after the World War l.

6. What percentage of the world population died of influenza then?
It killed 50 million people.

7. Why was there an emergency vaccination program in 1976?Because there was one death and an emergency prevention program vaccinated 40 million people.

8. Name a few actions the Mexican government has done to curb the spread of swine flu:
Schools were closed for a short time, and opened again the 6th of May. Many public places like the movies, and restaurants, where closed indefinitely. Currently, restaurants rae opened with the condition that they'll have to take extreme precautions to conserve hygiene for clients. Churches, theaters, clubs, and bars were also closed temporarily.

9. What were the consequences for Mexico and Mexicans due to the actions taken by the government?
Our tourist economy has suffered the consequences. Especially restaurants, cinemas, clubs, bars, etc.

10. What industries were particularly hard hit?
All the public and touristic places, like hotels, restaurants, museums, fairs, cinemas, etc, because people don't attend and they're suffering an economical crisis.

DISCUSSION QUESTIONS
1. Mexico has shut down schools and other public spaces; do you think that was the correct thing to do? Why or why not?
yes, because if they wouldn't maybe by this time we'll be dying.

2. More people die from the regular flu then from swine flu, why do you think this became a big news story?
I really do not have an idea.

3. Why did people stop visiting Mexico? Why have Mexicans been discriminated? Do you think the fear of the disease is justified?
Because they were afraid of getting infected and also we have been descriminated because people was afraid of getting infected, and I think the fear is justified because you prevent.

4. What questions about individual and human rights does preventing the spread of flu raise?
The same question they have making us since that are:
do you head hurts?
feber,cold? etc.

lunes, 18 de mayo de 2009

Influenza A H1N1

1. What is an epidemic?
Cases of a certain disease occur in a given human population, during a given period, substantially exceed what is "expected," based on recent experience.

2. What is a pandemic?
Is an epidemic of infectious disease that spreads through populations across a large region; for instance a continent, or even worldwide.

3. What is an infectious disease?
An infectious disease is a clinically evident disease resulting from the presence of pathogenic microbial agents, including pathogenic viruses, pathogenic bacteria, fungi, protozoa.

4. What is a virus?
Is a sub-microscopic infectious agent that is unable to grow or reproduce outside a host cell. Viruses infect all types of cellular life.

5. What makes the H1N1 virus a "novel" or "new" virus?
That this one cames fromthe pigs.

6. How do viruses mutate?
Because the climate changes and the pollution grows and the virus makes stronger or different.

7. What does it mean that this virus has "parts" from other known swine flus, human flus and American bird flus?
Becasue the virus stays alife and time passes more virus are known, but this one has part from other ones.

8. How does that process happen?
The transmisssion from tthe pigs for the humans.

9. How is the flu vaccine created?
From the virus they start makingin a lab the vaccine and the time expected to be the vaccine done is like 6 months.

10. Why are some viruses transmittable from human to human while others are not (avian flu)?

Because of changes in certain proteins on the surface of the influenza A virus.

11. How does Tamiflu work?

Tamiflu capsules and suspension contain the active ingredient oseltamivir phosphate, which is a type of medicine called a neuraminidase inhibitor. It is used to treat and prevent infection with the influenza (flu) virus.


12. Scientists worry that H1N1 might become resistant to Tamiflu. How might that happen?

Because virus change and might me resistant to Tamiflu, but I hope not.