My favourite day in europe was in Edimburgh, the day when we went to the castle because I remembered when I went with my family long ago. After going to the castle I went to a splendid pub called "The worlds end", the food was fantastic. Later that night I went to buy some cloths. Finally in the night I had lot of fun in the city.
Andrew Barroilhet III A
viernes, 21 de noviembre de 2014
martes, 29 de julio de 2014
sábado, 28 de junio de 2014
The Social Network Speech
Speech
Good evening ladies and gentlemen, today I’m going to
speak about something very important that happened here in the university, that
is, how Mark Zuckerberg betrayed his friend Eduardo Saverin, through ambition
for the webpage called 'Facebook' to have success. I would like to introduce
myself and tell you people the importance of having friends. My name is Andrew
Barroilhet, from business and engineering, and part of the coolest club in
Harvard, 'The Phoenix Club'. One of the reasons to have friends is to be
accepted. What I mean is that when you are accepted, you are part of a group
that is important to you because you are with people that like to be with you
and you like to be with them.
First of all, I would like to give some important
background that will help you to understand this situation better. It all
started when Eduardo entered my Club. Here Mark got jealous of him, so there
was a "crack" between Mark's and Eduardo's friendship. Another
problem, a BIG PROBLEM, is when the Napster co-founder, 'Sean Parker', joined
this company. He changed Mark in all senses, what I mean is that he manipulated
this genius to have success in Facebook at all costs, even betraying his friend
Eduardo. I still remember how Mark and Eduardo hung out in the bar, but thanks
to Facebook all that changed.
Secondly, another important fact is when Mark moved to
California; Eduardo couldn't go because he had a good and normal life in New York. So when Sean knew Eduardo wasn't coming he "transformed" Mark into another person, an ambitious one. Also an important issue is how Mark and Sean tricked Eduardo to sign a
contract. The contract was about the profit distribution of the company, for
its partners, which was 70% Mark and 30% Eduardo in the beginning. Then it was
reduced to 0.03%. This problem destroyed the friendship between
Mark and Eduardo.
So I was next to them when hey started to discuss, I remember that Sean was telling Eduardo how was his mind functioning, Furthermore I would like to give sn example of what I heard in the company where Sean
tells Eduardo how his mind was functioning in the moment, which is
how now Mark acts thanks Sean.
-“Sean Parker: You know what’s cooler than a million
dollars?
-Eduardo Saverin: you?
-Sean Parker: a billion dollars”
Here these two friends are already having a discussion
where their friendship is breaking apart because Sean is getting more greedy so
thanks to the Facebook company Sean’s mind is changing in a drastic way. I
would always choose my friends before than money or in this case a millionaire
company.
Thirdly, one day I had the possibility to go to the Facebook
Company. I still remember when Eduardo entered the office and found out what
really happened in the contract. He came out of the room where he was with his
lawyer and searched for Mark. He was furious I remember and destroyed Mark’s
computer and told him ‘I was your only friend – you had one friend’. Then he
left and later sued the company. At that moment Mark lost his only friend,
Eduardo, his best friend from Universitiy, lost their friendship thanks to a
company called Facebook, where you can have more than a 1000 friends, but fake
friends.
When I was in th company there was the ultimate discussion between Mark and Eduardo, it happened after Eduardo smashing Mark's computer.
“Eduardo: Mark!
Sean Parker: He's wired in.
Eduardo Saverin: I'm sorry?
Sean Parker: He's wired in.
Eduardo Saverin: [picks up marks computer and smashes it on the ground] What about now? Are you wired in now?"
Here it’s the maximum climax given by Mark and Eduardo, both of them are now seeing each other as enemies, forgetting the
past. Lately after this battle they were separated and then Eduardo denounced the
company, at meanwhile Mark was very regret from his actions as at it showed in the
last of scene of the movie when he added his ex girlfriend in Facebook, It seems to me that this is a very sad ending for the Mark.
To finish my speech, I want to repeat the idea that
friendship is very important in our lives. My life? In Harvard? Without
friends? I can’t imagine it, because I was a part of a group where people
respected me and I respected them. These years were the most important of my
life; because they formed me to person I’m now. I couldn’t imagine being alone,
a lonely wolf, it disturbs me. So please don’t be like Mark or Sean. FRIENDS
ARE MORE IMPORTANT THAN MONEY AND AMIBITION.
domingo, 22 de junio de 2014
viernes, 20 de junio de 2014
jueves, 1 de mayo de 2014
Letter to Jaime Shea
Dear Jaime Shea,
In first place you should abandon your job as soon as posible, or if you can now. Jaime, after the war of Kosov, by using euphemisms you distorsion the information to the people that read or watch the news,thats okay but what you did Jaime was a huge lie, because you could not manipulate the information in a good way. Jaime you can do expectacular things by using language, in this case euphemism, but you went out of control this time.
A good way to use euphemisms, in this case war, is to suppress some information instead of saying to a kid "your father was killed", you can say to him "your father passed away". What you did was terrible, you changed the whole perception of the war. People read the news to know what is really happening, but you did the contrary. People NEED to know what is happening, they must know what soldiers or maybe familiars are dying and being killed each other.
This is why I'm going to repeat to you to quit your job Jaime. I must say the only reason why people hear the news are to know what is happening, of course war. Instead you lied to all of them.
Please stop lying
Aldous Huxley
Link Glogster Presentation
http://www.glogster.com/joleyasu/english-presentation-barroilhet-ryan/g-6k1qo3idq34ro41saacpru5?s=imgglog
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