Maria Antonieta Palma Ferro
Posted by: Teresa Guerreiro
Here in Notting Hill a street carnival takes place every year in the last week in August, a parade along the streets of this famous borough, over two days (Sunday and the following bank holiday). It is considered the second largest street carnival in the world after Rio de Janeiro.
This festival began in 1965. It initially began with the immigrants from the Caribbean where the carnival tradition is very strong and the people living locally dreamed of creating a festival to bring together the people of Notting Hill. Most of them were facing racism, discrimination and poor housing conditions. At the time the state of race relations was very depressing. The Caribbeans organized the event to minimize the tensions between the two rival groups and it was attended by around a thousand people turning out to be a huge success.
However, this carnival and many of the following were spoiled by riots between Caribbean youths and the police.
This event is generally considered as a real proof of London’s multicultural diversity though dominated by the Caribbean culture.
The carnival is made up of five disciplines: masquerade, political, social and satirical commentary set to music, which is a fusion of soul, calypso and samba. The parade is filled with feathered costumes and plenty of dancers who dance to the rhythm of music.
Don’t miss it. If you have a good opportunity go and enjoy yourself!!All of us live in the same magical and wonderful place, The Earth.
Our planet is the third of Solar System and so far the only one where life exits. The Earth is the largest telluric planet with one satellite, the Moon. It has surface area with 510,072,000 km² and 1.0832073×1012 km³ of volume. The Earth has an atmosphere with Nitrogen (78, 08%), Oxygen (20, 95%), Carbon Dioxide (0,038%) and Water Vapor (about 1%), among others. This atmosphere is conducive to life and it is because of it there we live. The Earth has an average temperature of 15º Celsius, the rotation period of 23.9 hours and the translation period of 365 days and 6 hours. In our planet there are six continents, but 71% of it are oceans.
Like all the Solar System, the Earth is very old with about 4600 million years, but the life of human beings on this planet came to only 2.5 million years ago.
Human beings have inhabitted Earth for a short time but it seems that they will end up with life on this planet. Due to the pollution, global warming and extinction of species caused by the human activities, the Earth is exhausting all its natural resources and the conditions which are favourable to existence of life. In the future the Earth will probably be an empty and gloomy planet, like all other planets in the Solar System and life will cease to exist forever.
In my opinion the Earth is not a simple planet in the Universe, it is our home, the only place where we can live and forge relationships with different living beings. The Human Being has a mission: to take care and preserve Earth and not to destroy it. That way, all of us will live together and in harmony with the Earth for as long as possible.
BY: Inês Sofia Gouveia Abundância
10th B
Posted by: Teresa Guerreiro
Pollution is a term which means the introduction of contaminants into an environment that causes instability, disorder and discomfort to the physical systems or living organisms they are in.
Pollution is not a recent phenomenon. It exists since prehistory and it has been growing day after day due to the action of human beings.
There are different types of pollution like air pollution, water pollution, soil contamination, radioactive contamination, noise pollution and visual pollution, among others.
Azerbaijan, China, India, Peru, Russia, Ukraine a
nd Zambia are at present the world’s worst polluted places which is harmful for the people who live there and all around the world.
Although people know that, pollution continue keep
s being a fact which is very dangerous for the whole world and for all living beings and it can cause problems like global warming and ocean acidification and it can contributes to the extinction of many species.
Because of these reasons and many more we should bear in mind what we have been doing and that way we would live in harmony with our planet and with ourselves.
BY: Inês Sofia Gouveia Abundância
10th B
Posted by: Teresa Guerreiro