Simple life is a different way to live where all is easier than normal life.
There are different reasons, because people decide to have a simple life; for example, spirituality, health, environmentalism. Others may follow the voluntary simplicity for reasons of social justice, rejection of consumerism or simply because it is the way of life that brings them more happiness.
It is important to distinguish between people who have a simple lifestyle and people who live in poverty, because it is very different; there are people who decide to have a simple lifestyle and they have lot money.
This way of life in many ways benefits the health of people, because they have a healthy diet, do not have much stress, and they can do exercise.
Examples of simple life are the people who plant the most food, the women don’t use washing machines, don’t have electricity in the house, don’t have cars, they cook in wood stove…
Simple lifestyle means to help the nature, as this can prevent the destruction of the planet, if we continue destroying the environment we will have serious problems. As nature shows us with the floods of last week in all country.
I think that simple life is interesting and in part is better, but now it is very difficult to live because we are used to have many facilities, I don’t image my live without phone, internet, electricity, but I think that we should practice some things; for example: be careful the things that we buy because sometimes we buy things that we don´t need, also we should have a good diet, and of course we should care for our planet.
The tourism is one way to get money for each country in the world, maybe the most important source of incomes.
In our country, tourism is the principal source to get money, because our land have many beautiful places, for example: the natural views like Braulio Carrillo Natural Park or Chirripó mountain, in these places the visitors can see many different animals and trees. The beaches are other kind of tourism destiny in Costa Rica like Puerto Viejo beachf in Limón, Punta Leona in Puntarenas and Tamarindo in Guanacaste. The people of Costa Rica and also people of other countries love to visit the beaches because these places are really wonderful and for the people that live near the beaches, it is easy to get money because they can work in hotels.
Also tourism is the perfect way to know different places in our country or in the other countries; for me the best tourism destiny is the beaches of Mexico. In the future, I want to spend my honey moon in Acapulco.
We should preserve our beautiful places because it is really important for our economic, but also if we do not take care of our mountains, our animals, and our water we will have a big problem.
There are different types of storytelling, for example: listening to someone tells a story like Ana Victoria Garro, reading a book as: Peter Pan written by James Matthew Barrie, watching a movie such as: the same Peter Pan but directed by P. J. Hogan, or watching a play like Romeo and Juliet.
Also, there are different kinds of stories depending of the writer, for example: horror story like “El cadejos”, fantasy stories like Peter Pan and more.
Storyteller is a person who relates the story, may be one or more people who tell the story. These people have different techniques to can transmit the story a good way; they change their voice with the purpose to change the feeling of the story, they talk faster and louder to make the story more exciting, they use different voices for different character to show the audience who is talking, they talk slowly and softly to sound scary and they use dialogue to bring the characters to life. Also, the use of the oral expression as the movement of hands is very important.
I think that is important to preserve this tradition because the young people can know about the life of our grandparents; for me is very wonderful listen a grandparent tell about a classic story of our country, for example: “La llorona loca”, “La carreta sin bueyes”, “La mona” and other.
The language is the oral communication form that people have for expression their emotions and their thoughts.
But, in the world, each country has a different language for example; in countries like United States, Canada and others countries speak English; in Japan and Korea speck Mandarin; in Brazil and Portugal they speak Portuguese, and we Latin Americans; speak Spanish but, each country has its own language, there are dialects that is a variant of some words associated with a particular geographical area
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In Costa Rica, we speak Spanish, but in each places we use different words to refer to something with the same meaning, for example ; in Guanacaste we say “chimpinilla” to refer a shin, “acuantá” that meaning just now. In Limon, there is a dialect that is a mixture between English and Spanish, this dialect is called “Patua”. In other places of Costa Rica like Talamanca they speck indigenous languages.
I think that the language is part of the culture's country and we must grow with globalization and learn other language like English or Mandarin because it is very important to get a good job but we shouldn´t forget our own language.
First… I think the person who practice extreme sport is very crazy and of course, very brave because this sport is dangerous.
Extreme sports are those sports or activities with a sports component, which by its real danger in this way are called.1
There are different types of extreme sport, for example:
SURFING is a water sport. Many people are hit with rocks and also drowning.2 Costa Rica has many beaches but surfing is not a sport practiced by the people of Costa Rica, for example, Guanacaste has one of the world's best beaches for surfing, but only people from other countries practice this sport.
MOTOCROSS is one of the most dangerous sports, it is very entertaining but has very terrible accidents an example is Lobito Fonseca accident, the motorcyclist was paralyzed by an accident on his motorcycle. Today, one of the most famous motorcycle is Travis Pastrana, in our country is Roberto Castro known as MUFLITAS.
SKYDIVING is a parachute jump technique, which can be done from an airplane, helicopter or hot air ballooning, recreational purposes, sport.3
There are more examples of extreme sports such as mountain climbing or ice climbing, skateboarding, rafting, canopy. To practice these sports the people need an excellent physical condition because otherwise they would have many difficulties, but above all they need an excellent mental condition, because the most power in our body is the mind.
I like some extreme sport, but only as an amateur because I can’t practice this type of sport because I get scare. The only extreme sport that I can do is canopy.
Really I admire these people who are strong and they not have fear of danger.
Bibiography
1- http://www.deportesextremos.org/
2-http://www.galeon.com/xtrem/surf.htm
3- http://www.deportesextremos.org/
Fraud is a crime very common. One fraud is when anyone is victim of any theft; in this way the thieves can to get money of easy way.
There are different types of fraud, for example when the people are victims of identity theft or goods theft , and also the goods steal can be outdoors like in a street, in a mall, in a park, in a bank and other parts or indoors like when a person touches the door to offer something and so the thieves can to enter the house and steal something.
When the criminal steal the identity of the people is very dangerous and can be most the steal of money, because the thieves with the identity can do many things. The identity theft is a steal of personal information for example: person’s name, passport number, address, driver’s license; this information about the victim is used to open bank or for use the credit card.
The criminal has many different forms to steal the personal information of his victims, for example false phone call, false price or false advertising.
Today, with internet is easier to get personal information about anyone. For this reason, we must be careful with our information, we should save our information don’t giving our information to strangers
Alajuela, September 26 th 2010
Dear organizers:
I write to give my opinion about the activity that took place last week which I attended.
I think that the globalization topic is very broad and very interesting because is a current topic for the world. Globalization has differents aspects like economic, technological, social and cultural, has a objectiv that is obtain the interdependence of countries and unite the markets of all countries. For this reason is important to know about companies like an INTEL because this company is the clear example of globalization in our country.
It is important to make these activities because for every college student must to know about this issue because we should advance with our country. Like all, globalization has positive and negative aspects, but in my opinion we must take the good aspects and minimize the bad aspects.
Thank you for attention and I hope a new opportunity for participate in other activity.
Cordially
Sofía Cortés Picado
