Halloween

13 INTERESTING THINGS YOU DIDN'T KNOW ABOUT HALLOWEEN

1.- ONCE UPON A TIME...

You aren't going to believe it but Halloween hasn't born in a fabric of sugar: this celebration exist for more than 6000 years, it is believed to have started in 4000 a.c in Ireland.

2.- ALIVE OR DEAD...

The origin of Halloween was in the ancient Celtic festival <<Samhain>>, the celebration in the end of the season of the crop. By then the Gaelic people thought that the 31 of October the world of the people who live and the world of the dead people in that night were united, so the dead people come to live and started upsetting, killing live people. How the people scare them? Wearing costumes.

3.-CLIN, CLIN

After Christmas, Halloween is the second celebration where people in USA spend their money, about 6900 millions of dollars in Halloween. They spend it in sweets, costumes, parties, decoration, and they spend it too in costumes for their pets.

4.- TITANIC? WHAT?

Of the 6900 millions of dollars they spend every year in the United States, only in sweets are about 2080 millions of dollars. How many sweets we can buy with all that money? About 224 millions of Kilos, and thats equals to 6 ships like Titanic.

5.-SWEETS, SWEETS...

An American person eats approximately 1.27Kilos of sweets in Halloween. That's the weight of a chihuahua wearing a Halloween costume!

6.-LET'S TALK ABOUT SUGAR

The <<Trick or Treat>>-(known for wearing costumes, and go house by house asking for sweets)-Kids in Halloween eat about 7000 calories(you should eat 66 bananas for eat 7000 calories).

7.-BUH!

Halloween scares you? So that means, maybe you have “Samhainofobia” , fear of Halloween.

8.-A WITCH? WHERE?

If you wear your clothes inside out or you walk backwards in Halloween, the tradition says:if you do that you will see a witch in the midnight.

9.-A BIG PUMPKIN...

The heaviest pumpkin in the world, was grown in Switzeland, and it was 782,31 Kg, like a small car.

10.-DOING WHAT? WHY?

The pumpkin and Halloween are united, like sweets and Halloween: carving pumpkin in Halloween it isn't only for fun, it's too because they believe that doing that they scare the bad spirits, so let's start carving pumpkin!

11.-FOLLOW THE RULES

The truth is that<<Trick or Treat>>it's just for kids: in some cities of the United Stated they have ban to people older than 12 years old to do the Trick or Treat . Some teenagers ignore that rule and do it but if they are caught they have to pay a penalty fee about 1000 dollars! Sure that 7000 calories of sweets can't pay that penalty fee!

12.-SMALL SPIDERS.

Do not scare or kill a spider in Halloween: people believe that the spirit of a family member or someone you love its protecting you that night.

13.-YOU HAVE BEEN DOING IT WRONG!

Probably you have been misspelling Halloween, and yes! We too. The correct word to write Halloween is Hallowe'en (All Hallows' Eve)

(Where it is celebrated the most is in United States).

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By Mª Mercedes Blanco and Mª Ángeles Vazquez

The Famous of the Month

Hi! Every month we’re going to post about two famous people either in the world of acting or in the world of the music. This is going to be called: 

“The famous of the month”.

So the celebrity of October is Dylan O’Brien, an actor. Why is he the actor of the month? Easy, because this month he has released the second film of the The Maze Runner : The Scorch Trials and he is one of the main characters.

Dylan O’Brien was born the 26^th of August in 1991, in the city of New York, USA. He was the drummer for the rock band Slow Kids at Play. Dylan has developed on extensive YouTube world following by series of comic online shorts which he directed, produced and starred in. He began as a Youtuber star with his mother as an actress and his father as camera operator.

He went to Syracuse University to get title in sports broadcasting, but he left University and he decided to move to Los Angeles to start an acting career.

 

As an actor, he is known for his character Stiles Stilinski in Teen Wolf and as Thomas in the film. He also starred other films like The First Time.

He is one of the main characters in the 3 films of The Maze Runner; the second film was released on September 18, 2015 in USA and in the other countries in October. The third and the last film will be released in 2017. 

 

He has won the B.A in 2014 Young Hollywood awards, Breakthrough Actor and in the Teen Choice Tv Villain; in 2015 in the Teen Choice Tv : scene stealer and in MTV movie awards for Breakthrough performance, Best fight and Best hero. He has been nominated for more awards but hasn’t won them.

Photo taken by Gage Skidmore

Here you have some interesting favourites things about Dylan O’Brien:

· Favourite color: purple

· Favourite food: fatburger and brocoli

· Favourite drink: root beer

· Favourite book: Honeyball -> The Art of Winning a Unfair Game, The Art of Fielding

· Favourite music: depends on his mood

· Favourite film: Never Been Kissed, An American Werewolf in London

· Favourite TV show: Friends

· Favourite sport: Baseball

· Favourite baseball team: New York Mets

· Faourite body part: Legs

 

By Mª Mercedes Blanco and Mª Ángeles Vazquez 

The Hunger Games

Have you ever seen Hunger Games? If you haven't, we would advise you to watch it. If you want to know anything about the history, here you are!

Hunger Games

Katniss Everdeen, a 16-years-old girl from District 12, volunteers for the 74^th Hunger Games to protect his sister, Primrose. The selected man was Peeta Mellark, a Katniss’ known. Cinna, Katniss’ stylist, becomes her in the girl on fire,

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to get sponsors’ attention, and so getting survive at games. Katniss and Peeta will fight against the others tributes, pretending they are boyfriends.

Catching Fire

Afterwards Katniss’ challenge during the 74^th Hunger Games, districts start to rebel, because of this, the Capitol get angry. The president Snow order her to calm the districts because this wasn’t a challenge, this was a token of love for Peeta. But this wasn’t believable and they have to fight again at the 75^th Hunger Games.

Mockingjay Part 1

Katniss is a refugee at the District 13. She is enough worn out by her experiences. She is used by rebels as a tool to join together all districts and fight against the Capitol and the President Snow. Peeta and others were caught by the Capitol afterwards the 15^th Hunger Games.

Mockingjay Part 2

At the Mockingjay part 2; the trailer, we can see a strong girl; Katniss Everdeen. Before she was a girl who fell in love of two different men, but now in this film, she isn’t neither a confused girl nor a mentally ill girl. She wants to find Snow’s dead. This will originate a war between the Capitol and the 13 districts of Panem.

And finally as Finick Odair said “Ladies and gentlemen welcome to the seventy sixth hunger games”.

 

Laura Franco / Raúl Filigrana

Assasins Creed Syndicate

Assasins Creed Syndicate it's a game of adventure-action of the assasins creed saga which has been create by Ubisoft for windows, ps4 and Xbox One. The game went on sale last friday 10/23/15

The game takes part in the Victorian Age of London in the 19th century; in the industrial revolution with two assasins brothers as main characters, Jacob and Evie Frye. It is to end the oppression of the aristocracy over the common English people.
Now, here is a link to a video for you to have a look at it.

We have enjoyed a lot with this game. We cant wait to go on playing this amazing game. We hope you enjoy the game as well. Give it a try!

Jesus and Ignacio.

OTHER CULTURES: JAPANESE CULTURE: MANGA AND ANIME

1-DIFERENCES BETWEEN MANGA AND ANIME:

The manga is a printed product , just as comics and although the word is generally used to refer to Japan 's own creations within the country it is named with the same term both eastern and western comics. Unlike the classic comics, manga is a means in itself, covering both fantastic and realistic stories, and with very different themes, able to capture the public of all ages, sex or religion.

The anime, meanwhile, is the animated way of representing a story. As well as cartoons or animated short films. In to the picture even further is common narrative or graphic content to highlight the musical, It is in the opening and ending of each episode one of the points that never go unnoticed.

2-WHAT IS THE BOND THAT UNITES THEM?

The link between the two formats is very strong, and 

there is constant adaptation of manga anime or vice versa, which could somehow justify the confusion.

And as the light novels have manga, anime has serialized the OVA, or "Original Video Animation," which are film versions of the anime.

3-A BEAT OF HISTORY

The manga and anime in Japan has formed generations, since the mid-50s' to present time.They are as universal as any other art and not far behind against any socio-economic or political change. Manga and anime are always present in Japanese society, they have spruing from the change in mentality that exisists in every age. Since Astroboy to what is, today, Naruto or One Piece, anime and manga have influenced mostly young people, giving them most of the time positive messages, as the idea of "Faito"

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María Villarreal López.

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