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My trip to London

When I went London was an experience unforgettable, because was first time that I get of the country but too because was a big dream for me.

People and city are completely different of us.

Was an experience that I would like to repeat.

Discrimination

I wish I could say that discrimination is something that belongs to the past. Unhappily this isn’t true.

In fact nowadays people are still discriminated against for reasons of age, gender, race, religion, sexual orientation and social status. This means that any of these aspects can influence on the one hand the number of opportunities that a person has, for example at work, and on the other hand the way a person is accepted and treated by the others.

One of the things that shocks me the most is racism mainly because it is no one’s fault if you were born black or white in some countries there are people who are killed because of the colour of their skin, which is so unfair.

The ideal would be if all the people were respected and accepted whatever their characteristics or options are.

My opinion about child labour

In my opinion child labour is a crime that should be severely punished.

In Portugal there aren’t too many cases of childlabour (at least that we know) and I hope that with the crises that we are living now the situation doesn’t change.

I’m against child labour, because in the majority of cases the children work in a bad conditions and their salary is very low. I think that all children have the right to go to school, play with their friends and all things that are usual in their age.

I think that in Portugal, and in the world, everybody the people who understand that the children aren’t toys, they are human beings and should be treated with respect, because the children are the women and the man of the future.

The internet your friend but it shouldn´t be your only friend

Nowadays, the internet depict hobby to majority of people in the big Occidental world.

It gives as many things such as sports, news films, musics, buy things online and have them delivered at home.

It promotes talk and watch our friends family and other people in real-time and in different places in the world.

For me the internet is good tool to help school study and homework, I also use it to research different kind information, for the school, culture, hobbies, plays and many others things. But it have too disadvantages, because when we are online you lose the control of the time. By the other way when we are offline we want return quickly to the computer. Sometimes the people stay addict by internet. That situation can be dangerous to internet users.

I think that majority of internet users cannot live without it.

Montejunto

Montejunto is a small limestone mountain, with it is highest point 666 metres above sea level, located in central Portugal between the western region of the country and Tagues Valley it is a protected area included in the European Nature conservation net 2000.

Globalization

My idea about globalization was greatly influenced by having visited the United Kingdom in 2007. Although it was a trip that lasted only 5 days, it was sufficient to eliminate some of the pre-conceived ideas I had about the country and its people, at least as far as food and clothes are concerned. Not that I was expecting English people to dress like "Beefeaters" or "Bobbies" but I was certainly surprised by the enormous quantity of "Zara", "Mango" and "Bershka" shops with exactly the same clothes we can see here in Portugal. In fact, going to a shopping centre in England is not so different from going to any shopping centre in Portugal: the same kind of clothes, footwear, decoration articles, toys and so on. The shops that still don't exist in our country won't take long to arrive here, so it's only a question of time.

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