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Changing homes (edited 01/05/09)

Hi ALL :-D,

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Get happy!!

Everyone wants it but who knows how to get it ? You can´t buy happiness, and you can´t steal it. Millions are spent on researching crime, alcoholism and many other causes of human misery, but happiness remains an obscure and embarrassing subject.
Healthy people are happier than those who are sick. Yet curiously, the disabled tend to rate about the same happiness level as the rest of us.
We have a simple idea that happiness means nothing ever goes wrong. This is ridiculous. In order to be happy we must know not how to banish terrible events, but how to deal with them. Although life is diffcult for you, there are still many moments every day that can be enjoyable: a plesent smell, say or a memory or simply the way the light falls on your table and you realize that for that moment you are perfectly happy. Take a walk at dawn or spend your lunch break lying on your back in a park.

Easter

I want to sperak about Easter . As we all know that Easter is the most important holiday for Christians around the world. People belive that on this day, Jesus rose from the dead and people also believe that they will have life after death.
A long time ago before people celebrate Easter, they often celebrete springtime with a festival.One custom of the spring festival that is now a part of Easter is decorating eggs. During the festival people gave aggs as gifts to one another. An egg is a symbol of new life.
Bunnies were also a symbol of the old spring festival.Bunnies have lots of babies, so they are another symbol of new life.
I like celebrete Easter very much.

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Gouveia

Hey, i don't come here for a long time, lol sorry, but now i am back and i want to talk about a festival that i went last holidays.
This festival is known by the drugs sex and alcohol, but it's not true, talking by my self i like very much this festival because i went to Radical Sports like Paintball, Downhill and i had to much fun :D, and this type of Radical Sports
At night all of my friends including me we went to to Disco.

Thanks for reading my Post.

programs and television channels

Hi, people of cria!!

Tv programs and tv channels influence people positively and negatively. There are programs and channels that aren´t advisable for children and adolescent because show images shocking and that influenced more people their action. Sometimes, the people practice actions that prejudice the humanity bacause opinions and images that they look in television.

I see television like other people, but during the week I have not very time. I see more news and music programs, like MTV!!

BYE!

Miley Ray Cyrus

Like we have talk about Miley Cyrus, "Hannah Montana", I post a short bibliography.Some say she is beautiful, other critics but in 2008, Miley was elected by the American magazine Time one of the 100 most influential people in the world...

Miley Ray Cyrus is an actress and the American singer, who plays Miley Stewart / Hannah Montana on the Disney Channel series of the channel,Hannah Montan.

Miley was born in Nashville, Tennessee, daughter of country music singer, Billy Ray Cyrus and Leticia "Tish" Cyrus and granddaughter of Ron Cyrus. She has five brothers. And earned the nickname of "Miley" because her father always called her Smiley, for her smile a lot.

Goodbye to the next post!!!! ;D

The song that i love

Here is one lyric that i love ^-^:

I do not know baby
what happened
this love was so strong
and now died.
fell in a rose garden abandoned
my sky had stars and now it is not star.
You were the light,
ditava that my thoughts
what about you feel
was a strong feeling
you were you ...
the man of my way,
my heart was yours
and now this alone.
I feel so alone with no will to live
if I could baby
you gave everything you have
my heart beats for you
second, the second.
Were the most perfect guy in my world.

The song its sing by NTK one rapper , and i love his musics ...

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fly until the moon

nowadays people dream to go until somewhere over their country, but for me this isn´t enough. i want more. i want to paSS the world and touch on the stars. descovery the wonderful world behind us.

i think with more or less twenty or thirty years i can!!

i hope you want too.

bye!

Dream Theater's show in Portugal

Few months ago, I wrote a post about Dream Theater. It has informations about discography and biography. http://criaonline.org/dream_theater

And now, I received a notice. They will come in 18th June. They announced that they will bring a special guest, the Frost.

Unfortunately, I can't go. But if you like good music and good metal, I advise you to go... =)

One of things that makes this band amazing is the fact that it, every show, gives a different setlist.

Ticket:28 €

They announced , too, recently, the new album, named BLACK CLOUDS & SILVER LININGS . It will record in June 23.

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Optimus Alive 2009

Hey people! What's up?

Just to tell you Optimus Alive is coming and it all happens in Oeiras, at Passeio Marítimo de Algés, between the 9th and the 11th of
Each and everyone of you have the chance to watch some of the greatest rock bands like Metallica, Slipknot, Lamb of God, etc only in 3 days.

Another thing: the tickets are cheaper this year:
1 day ticket: 50,00€
3 day pass: 90,00€

See you later!

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Consumerism: Human Footprint

There are six billion people in the world, and each one of us consume. We think we don't make much of a difference but that's not true. Throughout our life we choose some paths, without even worry about the consumerism and its impact on the environment, always making the choice that allows us to have an easier and more pleasant life without considering the consequences it has on our planet. Have you ever imagined the resources our life requires? What would it look like laid down in front of us? We are going to show you everything we eat, everything we drink, all the water flushed down the drain, all the clothing we wear, all the fuel we use, and all the things we depend upon. We are going to show you our HUMAN FOOTPRINT.

For you to better understand the impact of human life in the environment, we are going to follow the life of an American, from toddler to elder, for you to visualize how one single life can mark the world.

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2009 is the international year of...

I want to announce that 2009 is the international year of gorillas :)
That's my favourite animal and I let here the official site that allows you to check more information: http://www.yog2009.org/

Enjoy it!

Think holiday

I don't know that write and I think write about easter holiday but after the holiday not started and I thought better leave that to the third period.

So leave the intention of write.

And good easter holiday's.

Dreams

Hold fast to dreams
Or you never would know
What life means
Because without your dreams
You live in the dark
Without hope to see the light

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Consumerism

The youth of the globalized, capitalist world, are becoming increasingly consumerist and materialistic. Popular places to go and make a good impression need to buy clothes and follow trends, have phone, if possible with the most expensive camera, MP3, wallet always filled, some by bike or car. Based on a study conducted by UNESCO with young 24 countries on five continents, the young Brazilians are at the top of the consumer, ahead of young French, Japanese, Argentines and Americans. Of the 259 respondents in nine metropolitan areas in the country, 37% indicated the purchases as a matter of much interest from day to day. To 78%, quality is the main criterion for purchase, followed by price. We could say that only young people are part of this research, however, the figures show that boys have contributed to changing the statistics. The difference is the destination that each tends to give their money, whether from allowance or salary.

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Multiculturalism

Multiculturalism is a term that describes the existance of manycultures in a twon,city or country, whithout which one predominates, though seperated by the friendliness that is bring called the "Moisaic Cultural".
Who critic this policies followed monocultural policies especially in most countries of the world and closely linked to nationalism does the assimilation of the immigrants in the host countries.
However who defence this policies said that mluticulturalism advocates the opportunity to express and maintain distinctive aspects of minority culture, without prejudice to participation in political,
or in social and economic aspects.
Concluding we must put our differences a side and if we live all together we will discover that we are not so differents after all

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A help to handle with your life problems and Self Esteem

This topics will help you, and give you an idea what you don't have to do... If you follow this topics you you will put your Self Esteem high and that will help you in difficult's situations...

Avoid exaggerations. Correct your internal voice when it exaggerates Try to not thinking in extreme terms ("I always make that mistake" or "I'll never get that promotion.")
Accentuate the positive. Instead of focusing on what you think are your negative qualities, accentuate your strengths and qualities.
Accept imperfections. Allow yourself to make mistakes and then forgive yourself. Try laughing instead of criticizing.
Don't feel guilty about things beyond your control.
Don't feel responsible for everything.
Do feel responsible for your feelings.

Sea turtles in danger

Sea turtles come in different colours, shapes and sizes and are found in many parts of the world, from Mexico and Costa Rica Central to Turkey and Greece in the Maditerranean. Sea turtles have existed for millions of years but their survial is now being theatened.

Each year in the breeding season, the female sea turtle crawls from the sea at night to lay her eggs on the beach in a sandy nest. she lays about a hundred eggs the size of ping-pong balls, covers them with sand and thengoes backto the sea. During this time, the eggs annd the new-born turtles are in danger of being eaten by birds, crabs and small animals like rats.

DANGER FROM POLLUTION
One is pollution, the world´s oceans and beaches have been seriously polluted by the use of chemicals and fertilizers. Plastic rubbish wich has been dumped in the sea is also a danger when it is mistaken for food.

THREAT OF TOURISM

A Day At The Gulbenkian

Yesterday afternoon my class went on study trip to see the Gulbenkian exposition on Charles Darwin.
The exposition is very interested, it can find the most important aspects of the excellent work of Darwin.
This exposition aims to celebrate the 150 years of publication of his book "Origin of species".
In this exhibition we can find animals as suricatas, piranhas, a python, a turtle and among others.
We can also find many fossils, documents of the time and copies of animals.
But the part of the trip that I liked most was to know the fabulous gardens of the Gulbenkian Foundation.
In the gardens me and my friends took a lot of pictures and we had a lot of fun at this beutifull Spring afternoon.
I advise you to make a visit there.
Bye for now.

Which respond when questions are stupid ...

When you see lying down, with closed eyes, in bed with the light off and ask:
- Are you sleeping?
- No. I am training to die!

When you take an electronic device for the maintenance and technical question:
- You defect?
- No. Because he was tired of staying at home and I brought him to walk.

When a friend calls home and asks:
- Where are you?
- In the North Pole! A hurricane took my house out!

When you finish bathing and someone asks:
- Do you take bath?
- No! Gave a dip in the toilet!

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Self Esteem and Self Image

I put this video in a work of English. This video is related with the Self-Esteem...
See... It's important


Violence shown on the media

Nowadays there are no more doubts about the existence of a relationship between violence in television programmes, web sites and the tendency to aggression in children and young people. Today the television has become an essential object for most of families, if not all. Statistically speaking, more and more children spend their after school time either watching television or playing videogames instead of reading and playing outside (for example: climbing trees). Nowadays both mom and dad work for 8 hours and sometimes more children are more “exposed” to violent cartoons or videogames. The pervasive nature of violent media in society makes it difficult to minimize children's exposure. Even with parental supervision, interpretation, and control of children's media use, the available research suggests "no one is wholly immune to the effects of media violence."

 

The Mists of Avalon

Today, on my Portuguese class, I made my oral presentation about a book that is simply fantastic, so I decide to post here some informations about it, to those who like reading.

The name of the book is The Mists of Avalon (part I) - Mistress of Magic. This book of authorship of Marion Zimmer Bradley, relates the Arthurian legends by the female point of view. At this first part, the main character is Morgaine (or Morgan le Fay), half-sister of King Arthur, that goes to the Avalon Island when is just a kid to become a priestess, like her aunt Vivianne, grain-priestess of Avalon. But then, during a ritual, she and her brother end up being involved, without knowing they are brothers, and she ends up pregnant...

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24 Hours

If the world ends in 24 hours, what would you do?

* travel?
* sleep?
* shopping?
* go to the movies?

How far will your imagination?

Remember that "The time is just as unnoticed as a dream ..."!!!

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