Alienware: The best performing computer in the world.

The Alienware company was established in 1996 with the aim of assembling desktops, notebooks, and workstations. The name was chosen because of the television hit series the X-files. This company mostly produces laptops, desktops, keyboards, mouses, head-sets, and finally monitors. This means that they are in the industry of computers hardware, moreover they have only been in the computer hardware industry for a short time.

In my opinion if you are looking for a high performance computer for any kind of tasks and furthermore if you desire to keep it for a long time, the best investment you can make it is to buy Alienware. All the products of this high-tech company are composed of the best quality components and what is more, even if the computer costs quite a lot of money you will save on the other hand all the money needed for updating the software. This is because the company has its own anti virus system, work tools, and the customer support can be done by ringing them from the computer or laptop (skype) and have it online and free!

Being one of the users of this product, I might say that I highly recommend it because of all the advantages it gives, such as speed, a comfortable keyboard, mouse and screen. Plus the guarantee is for 3 years which allows you to test it for long time before you decide to keep it! Finally if the computer or laptop has any kind of hardware or software problems, the company will refund the cost or repair it.

David Esteban Carmona,


Banksy: Art or Vandalism? - by David Chatal

Banksy is a graffiti artist from Bristol. He is mostly a political activist and above all, he is against capitalism.

According to Banksy, big companies use advertisements in the street to “attack” people.

Nevertheless, his favourite place to practise his art is the street. Effectively, using the street as an art gallery, his productions are exposed in everyone's faces and he can explain his point of view in this way. In fact, he use the same methods as the big companies which he hates to follow his own advice!

So, should we consider his work to be art or vandalism?

It is true that the quality of his works is exceptional. His paintings are really well realized and the details are generally well shown. His messages are often clear and almost vindictive with lots of realism.

However, he practises his art without any authorisation and this fact is not acceptable. The owners of these walls are generally not responsible for the capitalism that he fights against so I think he is mistaken about his intentions.

If everybody started to paint anything anywhere, it's going to become a real mess in the street. In this case, society should support the cost of the cleaning and that would be counter-productive.

It could be better if some places were allowed in order for people to express their point of view. In this case, all artists like Banksy could practise their art legally. Unfortunately, this activity could not have the same impact!

In conclusion, I think painting on walls without any authorisation is definitively vandalism even if the quality of some of these graffiti is sometimes exceptional.

Letter to Farah - by Shoug

 

Dear Farah,

I'm very glad to hear that you're thinking of visiting Kuwait this summer. You can see amazing countryside in some parts of the country .

Unfortunately, in Kuwait the weather is really hot so don't even think of bringing warm clothes with you. I advise you to go to route 290. There you'll find a resort called Kheran where you'll enjoy seeing the beautiful scenery the nice weather. Moreover there are many breathtaking places like Alabdly and Alwafra; these places are full of farms and you can do a horse riding too. I'm not so sure about the wildlife in Kuwait but if you're really interested in this I can tell my friends to take you to their chalet to see some of their wild animals such as huskies, cheetahs, lionesses and wolves.

If I were you, I'd hire a car to get around instead of riding a bus or taxi. The best idea would be to hire it before you come, but don't worry about this - I'll rent a car for you, just tell me before you come. Make sure that you're ready for our HOT sun, dude.

I hope you enjoy your holiday and the hot weather.

Best wishes,

Sugar

The environment will change dramatically in the next 50 years - an essay by Hye jin Kim

The environment is intimately connected with the activities of human beings. It is like a chain because if one part of the ecosystem is destroyed, other parts which are linked with it will also be corrupted. Because of this, many movements for protecting the planet are appearing around the world; nonetheless, many people have no awareness of this problem. For these reasons, I think that our environment will be dramatically changed and our generation will face a worse situation than us. There are two main aspects to the problems people made and will make destruction and pollution.

The first thing is the destruction of nature. We survive in a country by developing the land and people think that it is a normal thing that we can easily do; however, the land has a limit to how far it can be developed, that means that if it is within the range of recovery, the planet can return to something approaching its original condition. However, if it does not have the power of restoration, the soil will become infertile in a very short time. For example, the extent of Sahara desert is now so great because residents and nomads in this area excessively use the land by raising animals and cultivating grains. Furthermore, people are also developing the rainforest and other natural areas for their profit. As a result, the planet will lose the capacity for recovery and people will also lose the land which feeds them.

The second aspect is the pollution of air and water. For example, many cars emit exhaust fumes, and factories also use chemicals which harm the earth's air system. In addition, water is also affected by trash and things like food waste, which can cause the fish in lakes, rivers and seas to die. As a result, people can not breathe fresh air or drink enough water, and sometimes they will need other facilities to make oxygen and purify the water.

In my opinion, if we do not make an effort to solve those problems, our planet and future human beings are facing a situation which will be really different and even more difficult. There are some suggestions that people can do right now: doing cooperative projects such as recycling or reducing trash, and restricting excessive construction work. To sum up, if we do not make a significant change to our activities, the future will be entirely different, and rapid environmental change is not good for all living things including our children.

Adel's Dream House

Everybody dreams of living in big house or mansion, and I'm no exception. So I will give you the details of the house that I'd like to live in. I think most of you will think I'm strange and crazy. However, everyone has his or her own dream.

To begin with, I'd like to live in vast mansion, and I want it in the countryside as the Hollywood stars do. To be more specific, I'd want to live in the countryside far from the city because if it's near I think my wife will waste our money on shopping!!! I hope my friends would live nearby because my friends are mean and they wouldn't visit me because they care more about the cost of the fuel in their cars than me.

I need a large mansion because I'd like to bring 22 blonde maids to take care of me and I wish my future wife would give me freedom to bring them. The mansion would consist of 7 deluxe rooms and 10 bathrooms because the most important thing in the house is the toilet and bathroom because now I live in small house in Brislington and my host family contains a father, a mother, 4 kids and a foreign student (me). In this house there is only one bathroom!!! because of that sometimes I get to school late. Furthermore, I would like to have a big garden with my own lake where I could sit on sunny day and sunbathe.

Outside the mansion, I would need a lot of space for a garage because I would like to have 10 limousines, 7 luxury cars e.g. Maserati, Ferrari and McLaren.

If I had all these things, I'd be happy forever.   

Aseel's Ideal Home - a blog article

The house I would like to live in should be located in a suburb of Zurich, Switzerland and be only 20 minutes drive from the city centre. I would like to have a villa with a big garden overlooking the Zurich Lake with a BBQ area for the summer where my family and I can gather and chat together.

I wish my villa to consist of five bedrooms on the first floor, to be enough for all my family members and each room will have its own en suite bathroom and jacuzzi!. Because I adore cooking, I would like to have a large kitchen like the ones in hotels and to be well-equipped.

If I could I would design the roof to be glass so the sunlight would be able to permeate into the house. In the basement, I would like to have a large indoor swimming pool and a corner for a spa and sauna otherwise I would need to go to the gym.

On the ground floor, I would design a room to make a home cinema because I am addicted to watching movies. The living room I want to be decorated beautifully in the American style with paintings by famous artists hung on one wall.

Letter to Valerie

Valerie has written asking for tips on where to go to see the wildlife in Pedro's country. His reply:

Dear Valerie,

I'm very happy to see that you are going to visit me in summer. We have a lot of different possibilities to choose. I recommend that you go visit Asturias. It is located in the north of Spain and is a very particular region.

I have planned some activities: first of all we can go to see the Cares River, the panoramic view along the canyon that we are going to walk is really fantastic. You will need to bring with you some warm clothes and comfortable shoes for walking.

Next day we can go to the Corrubelos National Park where we can see bears, wolves and a lot of different kinds of birds. Is a very nice and safe visit.

Another interesting plan is to go by bus to the Covadonga lakes. There are three at the top of the mountain and it is something really interesting to experience.

Finally we will go to have a rest at Llanes, it is a small sailors' village where we can eat very well and also relax after our long walks.

You must try the sidra. It is very good indeed and it tastes great but it could be very dangerous for your headache.

Take care and hope to hear from you again soon,

Pedro

An Essay on the Gap between Rich and Poor - by Victor

Wealth is inequitably distributed. Many rich people keep it for themselves and they are quite greedy. I think that since the beginning of the 2008 financial crisis, the differences between rich and poor people have increased and the middle economic class has vanished.

Then we can use wealth better than we are using it now. If some of the rich people accept the idea of giving some money and not going out of the country when we increase taxes that will be easier. Then we can distribute money more fairly. We should help poor people perhaps not by creating more organisations but by helping public places such as hospitals, schools etc. That will help students and people who do not have enough money to pay for treatment.

Secondly some wealth is just useless for the rich but will help poor people. They take too much food and they often waste it and if you look, for example, at Africa, many people need food. If we cannot give that food to them, they will surely starve to death.

The vast majority of people really need money: some of them do not do anything to obtain more but others work really hard for it and they still do not get anything. While the richest people do not need to work and they still earn more in a month than I will earn in my entire life. That is why I want the wealthiest to give a proportion of their money to the lower economic classes. It is just unfair that the government does not tax rich people more than poor people.

We need to increase taxes and distribute the wealth more evenly which can help more poor people than rich.

We can tell third world countries that they can keep the food they produce instead of selling it for ridiculously low prices. For rich people wealth can be shared by giving and not taking.

Anyway we have to change economic issues for poor people. Evidently, in order to bring about the more equal distribution of wealth which we all desire, two things are necessary: firstly, that the minimum wage shall be raised, permanently, far above the level at which it now stands; and secondly, that willing hands shall always find remunerative work; and this must be done, not by charity, not by individual or local action, but by social rearrangements which will be self-acting and self-sufficing. I firmly believe that such changes are not only possible but comparatively easy, for I hold with Henry George, that at the root of every great social evil will be found a great political wrong. Let us seek out the wrong thing, and fearlessly put it right; and we shall then find that man is not so completely out of harmony with the universe in which he exists that thousands must starve in the midst of plenty, and that the actual producers of wealth in the wealthiest countries in the world must continue to live without enjoying a fair and adequate share of the wealth which they create.