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vol. 2 May 2015
Mendoza Herald English newspaper of the Burgos highschool Cardenal López de Mendoza
"People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news.""A. J." Liebling, american journalist from “New Yorker”
books
Maggie Stiefvater a great writer
The class is an opera
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One day, we realize d that ou class was r just like a n orchestra becau se in the orchestra there are dif instrumen ferent groups of ts.There are pupil like wood s instrumen ts: smart, discreet, gentle an d sweet.
For years, Grace has watched the wolves in the woods behind her house. One yellow-eyed wolf—her wolf—is a chilling presence she can't seem to live without. pag.4
2015: A YEAR OF ELECTIONS LOCAL, REGIONAL AND GENERAL ELECTIONS WILL BE HELD IN SPAIN STARTING IN MAY THIS YEAR. 2nd ESO STUDENTS REVIEW SOME OF THE MAIN PROBLEMS THAT AFFECT CITIZENS.
Corruption in Spain has become something we constantly talk about and that appears on the news almost daily. Throughout the last few years, we have seen many examples, such as the Gürtel and Bárcenas case, the ERE in Andalucía, and the Nóos or Bankia case. We think this is a very big problem, because citizens cannot trust politicians if they feel that they do not work for them, but for their personal benefit. So we need to call on our representatives to be honest and to act with accountability and transparency.
New materials for a new world
most prepared generations. Unemployment rate of these young people is about 50%. That is why lots of them have had to go abroad to try to find a job.
Central African countries of Democratic Republic of Congo and Rwanda and their neighbours used to be the source of significant tonnages. But civil war, plundering of national parks and exporting of minerals, diamonds and other natural resources to provide funding of militias has caused the Tantalum-Niobium International Study Center to call on its members to take care in obtaining their raw materials from lawful sources. pag.5
to kill a mockingbird Fifty-five years after her first novel, the Pulitzer-prize winner from Alabama, Nelle Harper Lee, publishes her second book “Go Set a Watchman”, a sequel to awardwinning, “ To Kill a Mockinbird”
Unemployment This is probably the worst consequence of the economic crisis that has affected Spain since 2008. In 2013, the unemployment rate reached almost 26% of the active population, which represents more than 5 million people. This problem gets worse especially at two age ranges: people over 50, because there are younger people who are more easily trained and who will work for less money; and people under 25, who have never had the opportunity to work and, consequently, do not have enough experience, although they are one of the
A l l a n Tu r i n g Evictions Everydody should have a home to live in. But since 2008, hundreds of thousands of families lost their houses because they did not have enough money to pay the mortgage. As a result, there have even been some cases of desperate people who have
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The situation of the media nowadays “MOM, I`M GOING TO FIND A DINOSAUR” A- 7- year -old-boy discovers the Giacomo Leopardi, an “Rosetta Stone“of paleontology Italian poet said Diego Suarez gives “Happiness is in the name to a new ignorance of the truth” dinosaur, an enigmatic plant-eating theropod from the Late Jurassic period of Chile. " It has features of carnivores, and herbivores ," said the scientist. In the last page you will discover recently discovered species and chilesaurusdiegosuarezi curiosities about these big creatures. pag.8
Have you ever wondered if the media is giving more attention to events that happen in first world countries than to other ones that might be more important?
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"I hope he will not fall between two stools. If he is to stay at public school, he must aim at becoming educated. If he is to be solely a Scientific Specialist, he is wasting his time at a public school" pag.7