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The GPS generation

September 29, 2008

     GPS: an atempt to get rid of the traffic. With technology being part of our lives, a new gadjet is launched on montly basis. The GPS, known as Global Positioning System has hit ourselfs not too long ago, providing directions facilities. GPS are becoming more common nowadays because it’s easier, more precise and faster.

     GPS are more practical to use because it’s only necessary to type the destination wanted. It takes only about five minutes to get the root drawn, while the Tomas Guide takes a lot longer just to find the page with the adress. Besides that, it’s smaller and fits inside purses, which makes it useful also when going on foot or visiting other countries. That’s why using the GPS is considered easier.

CONCLUSION: Global Positioning System are being more used than before due to it’s facility, precision and speed. People are now shunning from Tomas Guide and running to GPS because it’s starting to be handier in our society. Therefore, GPS is an alternative to avoid the traffic.

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September 10, 2008

                                CATCHER

Homossexuality is a way of life that has been getting more and more common.  In the old days, gay couples were seen as “annormal” people and suffered a lot of prejudice from the society, which made them hide their sexual option from friends and family. As the years went by, a lot of things changed, especially people minds, who became more open and gave more room in the society to gay couples. Accepting homossexualism would be a great step for gays, who should be able to get marriage , adopt kids and leave their inheritance to their children.

     Gay marriage should be allowed all over the world, not only in few states in the USA . Since everyone must be happy with their lives, gay people should be able to get marriage whenever they want, with whoever they want and wherever they want because that’s the way that they are going to be happy. Ellen DeGeneres for instance, who is an american famous hostess, was fighting with California’s laws because she wanted to get married to Portia De Rossi, her life partner for almost 3 years. When the homossexual marriage law was accepted  in the state, they got married only one month later and she said that it was the happiest day of her life, and that she was finally feeling like she was part of the society. In order to make gay couples happy, they should always be allowed to get married.

After they get married, gay couples many times decide to adopt kids, so that they can built a family together, but

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Bad Christmas

August 13, 2008

     When I was almost 4 years old, I went to my aunt’s house in Interlagos with my mother, my father and my one year old brother to celebrate Christmas.

     My whole family was there waiting for us, so that we could have dinner and open the presents. As we arrived, I was entering the room holding hands with my mother and neither of us saw that the rug was up. I accidentaly put my left foot beneath it and fell, hitting my mouth on the corner of the table. I don’t remember what happened immediattly after because I fainted.

     My parents were extremily desperate because my mouth was bleeding a lot. They tried to call my dentist, who was in Ubatuba and told us to go to his sister’s -who is also a dentist- office.  Me and my parents arrived there at about midnight and I was exausted. The dentist staid for 2 and a half hours trying to put a special bracet in my teeth so that they didn’t fell of, but it didn’t work as it should. Due to the impact with the table, my front tooth was practically loose.

     I left the office at 3 in the morning with a strange bracet. Only Two days later, my tooth fell of. Since I was too young to lose a tooth, I started to use a bracet with a fake one, so that the others teeth didn’t change places, and I had to use it 24 hours a day, only taking it off to eat. However, the fake tooth was darker than the others, and all of my friends and kids I didn’t even know from my school started making fun of me saying that my tooth looked horrible. That made my self-steem decrease a lot, however there was nothing I could do.

     I used this bracet with the fake tooth from 4 to 8, when I accidentally lost it at school during break. The moment I lost it, i knew my mother would be very angry at me and would say that I didn’t take good care of it, so I left the classrom and started to look for it everywhere in the school. I also asked the school cleaners if they could help, but they didn’t find it. My mother got very upset and took me to the dentist to see what he could do. When we got there, he told me that I didn’t have to use it anymore because my front tooth was starting to grow. What a luck!