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  Try to define what you think about your topic in one sentence. People’s moral values can be easily shaken when there is social pressure. 2. Write down all the reasons that come to your mind that justify or explain your idea. Once done, underline the best ones (two or three). Each of these reasons could potentially be the central idea of the supporting paragraphs of your essay. Teenagers tend not to have their values fully established. Therefore, when there is peer pressure involved, they can change their values depending on what other young people do. Today’s society is really messed up. We have normalized acts that should not be considered as something that could happen to us if we were unlucky.  When people see others do wrong actions, they follow their lead. Instead of thinking about the consequences, they go with it without even considering that their friends might be wrong. People that do not follow what everyone is doing is bound to be isolated. That is why,...

Dear Professor Belmonte, I hope this email finds you well. I am Inés Pérez Velasco, one of the students that took “Prácticas de Redacción” last year. I hope you can assist me with an issue related to the Erasmus scholarship. Would you be willing to write a letter of recommendation that will help me get chosen for the exchange? Attached please find a copy of my CV. In case you need more information, I will be happy to share it.  Thank you in advance for taking the time to read this request and for your attention. Best regards, Inés Pérez. 

If focusing on a class while being in person was a challenge, now, with online classes, it is a true dare. There are many aspects of face-to-face classes that help you focus on class and almost none of them can be achieved through this new way of teaching. A downside I would highlight as the main struggle is participation. When being in class, you are surrounded by a studying atmosphere that encourages you to participate and, as a consequence, follow better the lessons you are being taught. Nevertheless, if you are at home, you feel cozy and as if there was no need to participate as there are other fifty students online that could do it, and, in class, about twenty peers that have that inspiring environment. The possibility of participating in class, unless you open the microphone as soon as the professor has said the question, is really slim. A solution to the problem of participating is to do more face-to-face classes. This resolution might lead to questions, such as: how are w...

  Talk shows are a worldwide phenomenon. First created shows in the USA, like The Late Night Show or The Oprah Winfrey Show , were pioneers in their time and they have influenced other producers all around the world to take the initiative and implement talk shows in their countries. As far as I am concerned, the USA is one of the countries with more talk shows in the world. Jimmy Fallon, Jimmy Kimmel, James Corden, and Ellen DeGeneres are, mainly, running the talk shows at this moment. Their ranking took-off years ago and they have kept the rankings up since then. In my view, their popularity can be justified if we observe how much effort producers put into the sections of the show and the natural charisma the presenters have. For these reasons, spectators still like this kind of show; the directors renew what they do on the show every few months, the producers bring household celebrities, writers work extremely hard to come up with funny scripts, and so on. We only see the shallo...

 Social media have done a 360º turn in our lives. They have changed everything we have known until now: how to socialize, how we talk, what to wear, where to buy, and so on. Nonetheless, the journey of social media has been full of bumps. Some of them, like Instagram or Twitter, have influenced our way of seeing things and behaving around others. First and foremost, Instagram is one of the most used applications of all time. It has been in the app market for a couple of years and, since then, it has been earning non-stop profits and an increase of people using the app. What makes Instagram so special is the portrayal of fake desirable lives. Everyone wants to show the world how much fun they are having and all the thing they have. Needless to say, no one is going to post how miserable they are and how bad things are going for them. Even though they are going through a bad period of their lives, they will upload a photo where they show the joy and bliss they have at that moment. Th...

 In light of recent events, the media have taken an essential role in today’s society. The broadcast of the latest news is something people are eager to hear about. Nonetheless, is everything that is televised truly vital? Definitely not.  Regardless of when we are watching the news, dangers and hazards are the first things that welcome you into the channel. When a tragedy strikes, TV news, and, more specifically European news, take the lead in order to show the images before anyone else can. It is overwhelming the number of negative events that happen in our everyday life and that, in addition to that, are shown to us every day by the news.  Needless to say, coronavirus has been all over the news since the pandemic started. It is as if no other incidents were happening in the world. A baby has been rescued after three days, not important; a woman has given born to triplets, not interesting; and so forth. Lots of fulfilling examples could be given, yet the news only f...

  Today I will be explaining an app mentioned in my first post. I will guide you, with simple examples, through the app and I will explain every single aspect of it.  I add as well a link in which you will find photos that will help you understand all the steps of this post:  https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1QSREVrF8HAv4kFKyaL1e4oK4uTk2EzfC?usp=sharing First of all, we have to enter Apple Store or Google Play and, in the upper-right corner, we click the magnifying glass. Then, we write MyRealFood and click done. From there, we will be directed to a page where it will offer you a good amount of apps to choose from. We have to click on download on the application that says MyRealFood app, not any other. Secondly, we exit the Apple Store or Google Play. After that, we search on our main page on the mobile phone for the app. Once we have found it, we click on it and it will open. Now, in case you already have an account, you pick the option “log on”.  If you do ...

 Emotional intelligence is an underrated issue to discuss at times like this. The best thing that could happen to you is knowing yourself to a deeper level. Understanding your emotions and the way you act is essential to solve everyday problems and that is what emotional intelligence helps you with.  This term allows you, overall, to get to know yourself better and, more specifically, your emotions. If you are facing a stressful day, the ordinary thing is to be sensitive to everything around you and have the emotions running high; or maybe your day takes an unexpected turn and, little things such as having your room messy, might shake you up. Nonetheless, you know beforehand you are going to react a certain way. It might be the case where you don’t know exactly how you will encounter the challenges ahead of you, yet you can do a self-assessment and consider how differently you can do things this time. Not only changing your behavior helps you in the present but also in the fu...

  Murcia does not exist. In all its aspects, we are left without anything to get by and we are not given any opportunities to improve our lives. Our airport, after years and years of being worked on and the vast amount of money invested in it, has been shut down. The government does not pay attention to the Region’s needs and decides to give supplies to cities that need less assistance than ours. Moreover, we are left with no money to use in enhancing our architecture or our local facilities. No help is given to small and medium enterprises that work extremely hard every day to stay afloat, but, with this economic crisis, even with all the help the local government could offer, the damage will have already be done. In conclusion, it is not that Murcia does not exist but that Murcia is ignored by everyone.