1. The truth is that I don't see any improvement in my level of english since September. There aren't a change with portfolio.
2. I don't know wihc activity shows my best level of English, I supouse that is blog and speaking on the class.
3. I think that the blog is very useful because it helps to learn a little more to write in English and read a book also is useful because I learning more vocabulary.
4. I don't know wich activities aren't useful.
5. I like doing the blog, but you lose too much time so I don't like to do next year, and other activities are always.
Domestic violence (also known as domestic abuse, spousal abuse, or intimate partner violence) occurs when a family member, partner or ex-partner attempts to physically or psychologically dominate another. Domestic violence often refers to violence between spouses, or spousal abuse but can also include cohabitants and non-married intimate partners. Domestic violence occurs in all cultures; people of all races, ethnicities, religions, sexes and classes can be perpetrators of domestic violence. Domestic violence has many forms, including physical violence, sexual abuse, emotional abuse, intimidation, economic deprivation, and threats of violence. Violence can be criminal and includes physical assault (hitting, pushing, shoving, etc.), sexual abuse (unwanted or forced sexual activity), and stalking. Although emotional, psychological and financial abuse are not criminal behaviors in some legal systems, they are forms of abuse and can lead to criminal violence. Recent attention to domestic violence began in the women's movement, particularly feminism and women's rights, in the 1970s, as concern about wives being beaten by their husbands gained attention. Estimates are that only about a third of cases of domestic violence are actually reported in the United States and the United Kingdom. According to the Centers for Disease Control, domestic violence is a serious, preventable public health problem affecting more than 32 million Americans, or more than 10% of the U.S. population and the Number of murders of women from Spain in 2003-2009 are 315.
Forms of abuse:
Physical violence Physical violence is the intentional use of physical force with the potential for causing injury, harm, disability, or death, for example, hitting, shoving, biting, restraint, kicking, or use of a weapon. Sexual violence Sexual violence is divided into three categories:[citation needed] 1. use of physical force to compel a person to engage in a sexual act against his or her will. 2. attempted or completed sex act involving a person who is unable to understand the nature or condition of the act. 3. abusive sexual contact.
Emotional abuse Emotional abuse (also called psychological abuse or mental abuse) can include humiliating the victim privately or publicly, controlling what the victim can and cannot do, withholding information from the victim, deliberately doing something to make the victim feel diminished or embarrassed, isolating the victim from friends and family, implicitly blackmailing the victim by harming others when the victim expresses independence or happiness, or denying the victim access to money or other basic resources and necessities. Economic abuse Economic abuse is when the abuser has complete control over the victim's money and other economic resources.
Stalking Stalking generally refers to repeated behaviour that causes victims to feel a high level of fear (Tjaden & Thoennes, 2000).
Domestic violence occurs across the world, in various cultures, and affects people across society, irrespective of economic status. For example in Barbados (30%), in Canada (29%), in Egypt (34%), in New Zealand (35%), in Switzerland (21%), in United States (22%). Some surveys in specific places report figures as high as 50-70% of women surveyed who were ever physically assaulted by an intimate partner.
Another controversy is the level of physical aggression in relationships of men versus women. For example, Martin S. Fiebert examined 219 studies on intimate partner violence and concluded that "women are as physically aggressive, or more aggressive, than men in their relationships with their spouses or male partners".
I agree with the statement because now the situation of the world is very bad, and all is caused by the human race. And those who are most to blame are not the people, but the government that does nothing to prevent it.
I think that the government makes us responsible for the pollution of the planet, because people do not recycle, use too much the car... but the people aren't the most responsible because the people recycle as much as they can we are not going to decontaminate the planet because there are factories that pollute, but bring money to the government as they don't say anithing. The cars are already created so as not to pollute but they don't sell them because they want people to spend money on oil.
A part from that the human species in general is very selfish. Everyone thinks of themselves and don't think about the future that will happen to humans who come after us if we continue destroying the earth in this way.
In conclusion at the moment it is very difficult to correct what we have done, but we showed try not to cause more damage and make people aware of the evil that is the planet where we live, our home.
Thank you very much for your last letter. It is interesting to read about your holiday in Australia.
I have also been on holiday. This summer I was a week in New York to improve my English and take advantage of shopping with my uncle in Fifth Avenue. We had a good time and everething was fantastic but my uncle was taken for a terrorist when we arrived at the airport! It was terrifing experience but we all come out unscathed . A part from that, with my mother and with my brother I went to Norway in a motorhome, Coni is wonderful, it seems that you are going to fall off the cliffs at any time.
Finally I went with my grandparents and with Sebas on a cruise ub the Mediterranean for a week, it go very weel and it was very relaxing. I saw dolphins, whales and we went scubadiving on creeks of Mallorca where I nailed hedgehog.
Well, that's all for now.
love and kisses
Mònica
P.S. I forgot that in september we have to go to Dublin to see my uncles!
Man not alone in universe Earth Day may fall later this week, but as far as former NASA astronaut Edgar Mitchell and other UFO enthusiasts are concerned, the real story is happening elsewhere. Mitchell, who was part of the 1971 Apollo 14 moon mission, asserted Monday that extraterrestrial life exists, and that the truth is being concealed by the U.S. and other governments.
While online social networks like Facebook, Twitter and MySpace are known hang-outs for younger adults and teenagers, older generations in recent months have been taking to the medium at a faster rate than any other age group, according to industry reports. The fastest-growing age group on Facebook is women older than 55, Inside Facebook says. Many of these older folks use social networks to keep tabs on younger family members and they often find fruitful connections with their peers after they've friended all of their kids and grandkids. There are now about 1.5 million female users older than 55 on the site, the group says -- roughly a 550 percent increase over six months ago. By comparison, membership among people younger than 25 grew by less than 20 percent over the same period, Inside Facebook says.Facebook now says it has 200 million users, making its user base larger than the populations of all the world's countries except China, India, the United States and Indonesia.
Hi I'm Mònica! And this is my blog and I hope that you like it very much, in this blog you can see Your say that it's writings about me and Tasks that it's the work that I've done in class.
In this blog you can know all about me!
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