13-06-2011

Today it has been Monday 13 of June, the date of the make up exam.

After Paqui has given the exams she has collected the projects about the Renaissance paintings that we have done. I had to do the project about the painting Charles V in the battle of Mühlberg, which represents Charles V in the battle of Mühlberg against the Schmalkaldic league.

-The first student to present her project has been Yolanda Rubio. She has talked about "The Garden Of Early Delights", painted by Hyeronimus Basch between 1503 and 1504, and it is exposed in the Prado museum. It was commissioned by Henry the III, but after it was bought by Philip II and exhibited in el Escorial.

The painting it's a triptych and it was divided into three parts: Heaven, Earth and Hell. When it is closed you see God creating the world. There's a hole in the Heaven's part that represents the devil's entrance from hell. There are some animals that represents different things like the rabbits which symbolize female sex.

The middle part is also divided into three parts: The fountain of the four rivers in the upper part, the animals around some women bathing in a hole and in the part below there many people having sexual relations.

In the right hell is represented where people are punished by their sins. The deadly sins are also represented, as the man who is eating the punish people and defecating them into a black hole where other people is throwing gold... this represents avarice.

-The second one who has present her project has been Silvia. She has spoken about the "Holy Trinity". Historians think that it was painted between 1535 and 1538 more or less, but it's sure that it was painted by Masaccio and it's exposed in Florence. The characters of the paintings are Christ, Marie and John; and behind them is God. The painting represents Christ's death.

It show use of the perspective in the Renaissance, follows the trompe- l'oeil technique and the painter used dark colours. Behind the scene is painted the sarcophagus of Christ and it was found in an altar of a church.

-The third person to present her project has been Laura Meco. She has explained the "Burial of Count Orgaz". It was painted by El Greco in 1587 and it was commissioned by Andres Núñez de Madrid.

The painting is divided into two parts: Below is the Earthly life and in the upper part is the heaven. Below, Saint Sebastian and Saint Agustin are depositing the count into the tomb. One curiosity is that El Greco and his son are represented in the burial. The upper part represents heaven and eternal life.

In the heaven are Jesus Christ, Pedro open the doors of heaven and Marie receiving the count's soul. He used warm and bright colours to paint the heaven and cold and dark colours to paint the burial. He made the figures in movement trying to make beauty.

-And the last one to present his project has been Javi. He has commented on the painting called: "The ambassadors", painted by Hans Holbein the "young" in 1533 and it was commissioned by Jean de Dinteville. It's exposed in the National Gallery in London.

The two characters are looking towards the observer. We can see some sundials in which their hours represent the period of changes in England in which Henry the VIII tried to get divorced of Catalina and get married to Anne Boleine. One of the two characters is a Bishop which went there to try to persuade him of not doing it. The broken lute symbolize's the break between the Catholic Church and the Anglican Church. There's also a crucifix on the wall. There's a skull next to the lute which means that the earthly powers are useless in heaven, and it expresses the vanity of the people.The man on the left holds a scroll in his right hand. Nothing in this work of art was painted by chance, all these objects have an objective.

After finishing with the project my classmates who were doing the make up exam has given it to Paqui and then the bell has rung.

Bye see you on Wednesday.












Images:

http://sepiensa.org.mx/sepiensa2011/docentes/dominio_contenido/arte/musica_del_mundo/l_funebrecarlos/funebre_1.html

http://artedemadrid.wordpress.com/2009/12/05/tiempo-de-madronos/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holy_Trinity_(Masaccio)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Burial_of_the_Count_of_Orgaz

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ambassadors_(Holbein)

Friday 1-April-2011

Today in social science we have arrived a little bit late because we have been talking with Ana Margarita about the trip to Ireland and we have also spent much time until we have started the class, because many people were talking, others were standing up...Today we have been watching the power point Paqui use to explain this unit and we have also changed the word competences for powers, because there were some mistakes in the book about that.

In this powerpoint we have also learned about all the presidents of the Spanish autonomous communities, we didn't know many of them, but I think is normal that we only know the presidents of the principal autonomous communities as Arthur Mass of Catalonia, Patxi López of the Basque Country, Alberto Núñez Feijoo of Galicia... I think is also important to know about the different presidents of other

autonomous communities, they also take part in the government of Spain.

Today we have had a new debate, this time about Gibraltar, Ceuta and Melilla.

In my opinion Ceuta and Melilla can be use as centres to control immigration but at the moment this is almost impossible, however Morocco demands its authority.
On the other hand is very difficult that Gibraltar becomes a part of Spain, because as Paqui has said this is a tax haven and surely it is also used by Spanish corrupted employers, which are hurting the Spanish economy.

We have also known about the decentralization of Spain, in which there are different level of organization:

Government or central administration; autonomous communities or regional administration; provinces or provincial administration and municipalities or local administration.

We have also talk about a law in which, if the government of a town can't give a service, because it's very expensive... but it is necessary, the autonomous government has to give this service to that town. But if the town can get it by itself the government is not obliged to take part in that service.

At the end of the class Paqui has given us the exercises from 15 to 22 and she has used some minutes more to write the correction of the schemes about POLITICAL ORGANIZATION OF SPAIN.

Bye!!

See you on Monday

Images:

http://www.clipartguide.com/_pages/0511-0702-1411-4808.html

http://alexanderhamiltoninstitute.org/lp/Columbus/Ancient%20World/Spain%20-%20Wikipedia,%20the%20free%20encyclopedia.htm

http://d-bnews.blogspot.com/2011/03/gibraltar-britanico.html

Monday 21-February- 2011

Today Kelly has been with us.

Today in social sciences we have started checking the exercises from 18 to 21, that asked about things of the industries of Spain.

Then we have started to study the Transport; an activity from the tertiary sector. It consists of used means of transport (vehicles) to take people or goods from one place to a different one.

While we were reading the book, Paqui has shown us a powerpoint with the different means of transport and the infrastructures needed for every type of transport. It can be of three ways:

Ground transport( in which we divided into road transport; cars, buses and trucks that circulate through roads and highways, and railway

transport, trains and tramways), maritime ships; ships sail through oceans and seas; and air freight transport; planes and helicopters fly across the sky.

We also have seen that the main routes of planes are between the developed countries, They leave out many routes to the developing countries.







Images:

http://www.mundofotos.net/foto/negro_blanco/730788/industrias-contaminacion
https://elcuadernodelviajero.wordpress.com/tag/transporte/

Monday 17 January 2011(written Tuesday 18 January)

Today in social sciences we have started checking the exercise that Paqui gave us on Friday. She also gave us to read pages 36 and 37 about fishing. The differences between the places to fish like inshore fishing and

high-sea fishing. She also has shown us a presentation with the best places to fish. I thought at first that the warm currents were better to the fish than cold currents because of the temperature, but, as Paqui told us in the cold currents less water evaporates and because of this there is less salinity, and that propitiates to the accumulation of

plankton. I knew that in the union of cold and warm is very good for the fish because the temperature is milder and also there is more plankton. The presentation talked about aquaculture and capture of fish and how the fish catches has established and stayed in more or less the same numbers, and how the aquaculture has grown to satisfy the demand

of fish. This is a good way to prevent overfishing.

The last thing I want to say is the division of the seas in the countries. 200 km from the coast to the ocean and the only way to fish in those waters is to be from this country( or from the E.U. in its waters).

Sorry, I wanted to write it yesterday but I started to study French and I forgot.

Images: 

http://recursoslibart.blogspot.com/2010/03/corrientes-marinas.html

http://www.bobesponjaweb.com/imagenes_bob_esponja.html

http://www.crystalscomments.com/graphics/221/p/1/sorry

Wednesday, October 27/2010

Today we have had the class at third hour. Paqui has taken the three maps that she gave us on Monday. She also has said to the people who haven't given her the maps that next Wednesday they will have an exam.

Then we have copied the most important reliefs and bodies of water of Asia and Europe and Paqui has given the Europe and Spain map too. We have copied many reliefs and many bodies of water because Asia wasn't separated in north and south like America. She has said that we can find the reliefs and bodies of water of Spain at the book and she has given us the three maps for homework for Friday.

Today in the breaktime some idiots have burned the shrubs of the fence of the old centre.

Map of Spain.

I have said her that give so many maps is abuse of authority, jeje.

The three maps will take us much time because Asia and Europe have many reliefs and rivers.

Physical map of Asia.













Physical map of Europe. Source:

Image sources: 

Spain: http://www.freeworldmaps.net/europe/spain/map.html

Asia: http://geology.com/world/asia-physical-map.shtml

Physical map of Europe: http://www.mapsofworld.com/physical-map/europe.htm