19th of May 2015 (Tuesday)

Hello Everybody!!

Today in social sciences we have done some things. Firstly, when we've arrived to the class, we asked Paqui for the exams but she has said that she would give us at the end of the lesson. We also have asked her for our projects but her answer was the same.
When we have started the class, we have continued with the unit.
We have copied an scheme of Civil War (1918-1921):

-2 conforted armies: red army and white army
- The Bolsheviks mobilized a lot of soldiers and ordered the total requisition of food (war communism). Many people hid products and black market developed.
-Although the white army got the support of the western powers, the Bolsheviks finally won the war , but devastation was total in the country and 5 million people had died. The tsar and his family were also executed.

We have also copied the Lennis succession:

-Lenin died in 1924 and there were two candidates with opposed views of the USSR future.
- CANDIDATES: Trotsky wanted to export revolution to other countries (proletarian internationalism). Stalin wanted to consolidate revolution in the USSR (socialism in our country).

We have also copied some words in the glossary.

At 9:50, Paqui has given us the exams. I've got a 4.15 points. I've failed but at least I can pass the term if I pass the next exam. She also has given us the projects and I've got a 5, is not very good but is passed.

Here I leave a photograph of USSR map.


Source: http://www.theodora.com/maps/new8/ussr.gif

14th of May 2015, (Thursday)

Hello everybody!!

Today in Social Sciences we have had the exam of the units 5-7. The exam consisted of 4 questions:

1.- The first question consisted of choosing four of the concepts that Paqui gave to us. This question was worth 2 points.

2.- In the second questions we had to develope the Consequences of Colonialism. This question also was worth 2 ponits.

3.- In the third question we had to choose two of the four themes that Paqui gave to us:

A)  Causes and outbreak of World War 1. This was worth 2 points
B) Features of World War 1. This was worth 1.5 points.
C) Conference of Paris and peace treaties. This was worth 2 points.
D) Consequences of World War 1. This was worth 1.5 points.

We had to choose one of the themes which worthed 2 points and another which was worth 1.5 points. The exercise was worth 3,5 points.

4.- In the 4th and the last quesiton, Paqui has given us 11 little texts to complete. This question was worth 2.5 points.

For me the exam was more or less difficult and I don't know if I'm going to pass.

Bye!!


Source: http://www.tag-pictures.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/exam-funny-jokes-with-image.jpg

26th February 2015 (Thursday)

Today in the class of social sciences we have seen a lot of things in the whiteboard and also we have decided the date of the exam.

We have decided that the date of the exam is on 12th of March 2015, thursday.
Related to the unit we have seen in the whiteboard the Scientific Socialism or Marxism: the main leaders of the Scientific Socialism were Marx and Engels. They studied capitalism and reached some conclusions, reflected on several books, such as the Communist Manifesto and the Capital.

We also have been seeing the Class Struggle that was provoked by the workers who wanted to have better conditions in their works and they provoked the Proletarian Revolution:

The Proletarian Revolution was divided into two stages:

The first stage: DICTATORSHIP OF THE PROLETARIAT.
The second stage: THE COMUNIST SOCIETY.

We have seen the organization of workers. Marx and Engels considered that workers had to organize themselves. There were created some diferent parties according to their ideas: PSOE, SPD...

In the presentation there was also the Surplus value; Profit workers produce with their work, but they don't enjoy, because it serves to increase their capitalists' wealth.

We also have seen the Workers' alienation: Monotonous work in factories destroyed the creativity of workers and they became slaves of the machines.

During all the lesson we have copied some works in our own glossary:

 SCHOLAR: Erudito
CLASS STRUGLE: Lucha de clases
SURPLUS VALUE: Plusvalía
RED TAPE: Burocracia
ALIENATION: Alienación
RELIFE: Consuelo
SELF-EDUCATED: Autodidacta
TO SNATCH: Arrebatar
BLACK SHEEP: Oveja negra
TO MARGINALIZE: Marginar
MORALE: Moral
ANT: Hormiga

Here I leave you a image of the Comunist Society in an asiatic country:



BYEEE!!!!

22th January 2014 (Thursday)

Hello everybody!

Yesterday, we had the Social Sciences class at the third period. Paqui started the lesson explaining on the whiteboard a scheme of the Liberalism.
Liberalism was a political ideology based on the fact that human beings are born free and have some inalineable rights the state has to guarantee.
She also spoke about the Liberal Trends, about Olympe de Gouge, about Nationalism...
Nationalism it's the political ideology that defends the right of the peoples or nations to decide by themselves. There were two different conceptions: The progressive or inclusive and the Conservative or excluding.
She also explained the revolutions 1820 and 1830.
In the revolution of 1820 there were several liberal prisings in Naples and Spain. In Greece there was a nationalist revolution against the Ottoman Empire and The majority of the Spanish colonies in America became also independent.
The revolution of 1830 started in France. In the United Kingdom of Netherlands, the Belgians decided to separate from the Netherlands. The revolt in Poland was strongly repressed by Russia. The reforms introduced in Spain established a liberal system between 1835 and 1839.
We also have copied some new words in the glossary.

Preamble -- Preámbulo
Trend -- Tendencia
Equality before the law -- Igualdad ante la ley
Rake -- Rastrillo
Suffragette movement -- Sufragismo
Suffragette -- Sufragista
Self-Determination right -- Derecho de autodeterminación
Peoples -- Pueblos
Pole -- Polaco
Polish -- (adjective)

Yesterday I couldn't send my journal because my computer didn't react .

BYE!



SOURCE: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/July_Revolution

28th of November (Friday)

Hello Everybody!

Today I'm going to write the journal.

In the class of Social Sciences we have been copying some notes in our notebook. We have copied a serie of dates related to the 18th century in the U.S.A. and Spain:

-1775: The Battle of Lexington and Concord
-1776: 2nd congress of Philadelphia --> Declaration of the Independence
-1777: Battle of Saratoga
-1781: Battle of Yorktown. Colonist supported by France and Spain
-1783: Treaty of Versailles --> U.S.A.
-1791: 10 first amendments (Bill of Rights). The constitution has been amended 27 times.

She has explained why was a Federal and Presidentialist Republic:

-It was Federal: it was divided into states that have a lot of powers: own laws, police, education system, courts of justice...
- It was Presidentialist: the president holds wide powers.
- It was a Republic: because he was elected by the people.

The federal government had:
- Foreign affairs
- Economic Policy
- Currency
- Defense.

We also have started the point 4 that is divided in:
A) War of Spanish Succession
B) Centralized Absolutism: Philip V and Ferdinand VI
C) Enlightened Reformism: Charles III

We have copied an scheme to develope about War of Spanish succession that has to include:
-CAUSES
-CANDIDATES TO THE THRONE AND SUPPORTERS
-DEVELOPMENT
-CONSEQUENCES

We have to do it for homework.

Here I put you a Photo about the War of Spanish Succession. Bye!!
 
http://www.armchairgeneral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=59726&page=27

THE DEATH OF THE VIRGIN

The death of the Virgin was painted in 1606 by Michelangelo da Caravaggio. This painting was made probably in Italy. This painting was commissioned by Laerzio Cherubini for his chapel in Santa Maria della Scala church, in Rome. This painting belonged to Vicenzo Gonzaga and later it was bought by Charles I of England and later it belonged to Everhard Jabach and in 1671, Louis XIV bought this painting.

The dimensions of this painting are 369 cm length and 245 cm width. This painting is made over oil on canvas. The colours that Caravaggio used in this painting are dark colours. At present, this painting is in the Louvre Museum, in Paris.

The main part of the painting is Virgin Mary. She’s represented as a dead woman. Caravaggio represents this with a lot of realism. Around the Virgin, there are the apostles and Mary Magdalene.

                                 

This was Caravaggio’s most troubled painting. One of the reasons was that people said that he take as model a death prostitute.        

Source:       http://arte.laguia2000.com/pintura/la-muerte-de-la-virgen-caravaggio

Source: https://tigrepelvar3.wordpress.com/2013/05/28/por-que-la-muerte-de-la-virgen-de-caravaggio-es-una-obra-maestra/

 Source:      http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muerte_de_la_Virgen_%28Caravaggio%29

 Image Source: http://www.allartclassic.com /pictures_zoom.php?p_number=25&number=CAM018

THE PALACE OF VERSAILLES

The Palace of Versailles is placed in the city of Versailles, at the south of Paris. It was built in the 17^th century. There, Louis XIV settled the court and the French government in 1682. Until the French Revolution, the kings were making the palace beautiful.

 

Source: http://www.arquitectura-antigua.es/palacios/versalles.htm

At the beginning, it was a small pavilion built by Louis XIII to go hunting. But later, Louis XIV chooses this place to build the palace that nowadays we know.

In the 17^th century, Louis XIV prepared the “Grandes Aposentos del Rey y la Reina”. In the next century, Louis XV built the chapel and the opera house.

In 1789, the palace loses his function of official seat. In the 19^th century, the palace becomes France’s history museum. There are a lot of rooms that compile all the history of France.

The most famous room in the palace is the Mirrors’ Gallery.  It has a length of 70 meters and 10,5 meters weight. The main purpose of this gallery is to blind Louis XIV’s guests. It has seventeen windows that provide the light that is reflected in the three hundred fifty-five mirrors. The walls of this room were decorated with paintings made by Charles Le Brun.

 

Source:  http://www.arqhys.com/articulos/galeria-espejos-versalles.html

INFORMATION SOURCE:
http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palacio_de_Versalles
http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galer%C3%83%C2%83%C3%82%C2%ADa_de_los_Espejos
http://es.chateauversailles.fr/es/the-palace-
 http://www.arqhys.com/articulos/galeria-espejos-versalles.html

Friday 24th of October

Hello Everybody!

Today in the class of Social Sciences we have done a lot of things.
We have started the class copying a new scheme about the decline of the Hispanic Empire.
The scheme included Philip III's validos: duke of Lerma and when he was suspected of corruption, he was replaced by the duke of Uceda, his son. And his main events as the devaluation of currency, the twelve years' truce... It also included Philip IV's validos: Count-Duke of Olivares and also the main problems, for example the Thirty Years' war in 1648 and the Union of arms project. Charles II's validos were Fernando de Valenzuela and Juan José de Austria. His main problems were firstly his physical and mental problems and when he died without successor. Because of this, took placer the War of Spanish Succession. This is what we have copied in the scheme. We also have copied some words in the glossary.
Here I leave you a photo of Charles III of Spain.

 http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Diego_Vel%C3%A1zquez_-_Philip_III_on_Horseback_%28detail%29_-_WGA24408.jpg

Bye.

 

23rd of September 2014 (Thursday)

Hi everybody!

Today in the class of Social Sciences, we had to bring the information to start doing the project of the brochure of Renaissance Art.
Nobody had the information of the Renaissance Art and Paqui has explained to us where can we find the information. She has explained us that we don't have to copy literally information from Wikipedia, so we have to look for the information on the internet pages, in books...
My project partner is Lucía and today we have been looking for information in the class book to do the project. We have decided to do something like a small book. We have this week to work in class. We have decided to organize it in this way:

- A cover with the tittle and some photographs.

- A summary about the Renaissance Art.

- In the interior, we are going to dedicate some pages to write about Renaissance Sculplture (features, photographs, sculptors...). Some pages also to write about Renaissance Painting (features, photographs, information about the painting, artists of Quattrocento and Cinquecento, small biography about the artists of Quattrocento and Cinquecento...) and Renaissance Architecture information (features, photographs, artists of Quattrocento and Cinquecento...)

- A back cover, with our name, level and group.

 During the class Paqui also has explained us what information we have to include in the project. Paqui has said that we have to include some information about Renaissance Art, Renaissance Architecture, Renaissance Painting and Renaissance Scuplture. We also have to write a small biography about Leonardo Da Vinci and Michelangelo Buonarrotti.

We have to work in pairs, but if we want we can work alone.

Here I include an image of the St Peter's Square in Rome with the Vatican in the bottom. It's a Renaissance building.

 

Source:  http://arqueoastronomia.wordpress.com/visita-virtual-al-vaticano/

Bye!!