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THE NEW ERA<br />
Aline Nicole Cogordan<br />
Barron(00258216)<br />
Nerea Orejas Vallez<br />
(00258703)<br />
Miss, Alondra Vivian<br />
Pérez<br />
English Level 6 10637<br />
June 12th, 2017
HOW LEADERS CAN CHANGE THE WORLD<br />
LOTTERY<br />
RULES<br />
TECHNOLOGY<br />
SLEEP<br />
SENSE OF HUMOR<br />
TELEVISION<br />
TIME
My name is Nicole Cogordan;<br />
I’m 21 years old, currently<br />
studying Nutrition in Universidad<br />
Anáhuac México Campus<br />
Norte. I studied middle school in<br />
Colegio Ciudad de México, and<br />
high school in Prepa Ibero,<br />
where I learned an excellent<br />
level of English. My favorite<br />
thing to do is horseback riding,<br />
which I train everyday since I<br />
was 5 years old, and I had won<br />
different national and<br />
international championships; I<br />
hope to continue doing it for as<br />
long as I can, because it’s<br />
definitely my passion.<br />
My name is Nerea Orejas and I’m 20 years old. My degree is in Finance and Public<br />
Accounting, which I find quite interesting; I study this in the Universidad Anahuac<br />
México Campus Norte. I graduated from high school at the Tomas Moro Lomas were<br />
the level of English was quite excellent and I learnt there everything I know. The thing I<br />
love the most in life is to go out with my friends and have a fun time together. I also<br />
love makeup, so I like to spend my time helping my friends with their makeup, while I<br />
do mine.
“HOW LEADERS<br />
CAN REALLY<br />
CHANGE THE<br />
WORLD”<br />
Leader: “A person or thing that holds a<br />
dominant or superior position within its<br />
field, and is able to exercise a high<br />
degree of control or influence over<br />
others” (Business Dictionary).<br />
NC: I really think that leaders are the<br />
future of our world in general, not only<br />
because they are people who thinks in<br />
others and they listen to the needs of the<br />
majority, but also because they try to<br />
make changes so that the world gets<br />
better.<br />
people with time, so that they can have<br />
their own collaboration too, and make<br />
themselves questions of how to make<br />
things better, that’s in my opinion, the key<br />
of all of this, to make people certain of<br />
the importance of their help to make this<br />
really happen. Also one of the things I<br />
really admire of people with leadership is<br />
that they know that in life there are going<br />
to be ups and downs and they have to<br />
learn how to manage to get up and move<br />
on.<br />
NO: I also think that’s true; the people<br />
who want to make a change in the world<br />
and to be known by it, is the people who<br />
think in the customer’s necessities and<br />
act towards that so that then they can<br />
communicate from the inside out. This is<br />
how you know a leader is because he<br />
highlights from all the others.<br />
NC: Yes, of course. Leaders build trust in<br />
NO: I agree with you, a leader is<br />
someone who makes people want to<br />
change too, not only to see others<br />
triumphing. Everybody wants to change<br />
something in the world but not everybody<br />
achieve it, so with good leaders we could<br />
start to do a change, or we can just sit<br />
down and see others do the changes<br />
which our world needs and do nothing<br />
about<br />
it
LOTTERY<br />
Definition: A gambling game or method of<br />
raising money, as for some public<br />
charitable purpose, in which a large<br />
number of tickets are sold and a drawing is<br />
held for certain prizes. (Dictionary.com)<br />
NC: Hey Nerea, did I tell you that my<br />
boyfriend used to go to the casino every<br />
single day?<br />
NO: No way! That can’t be true! Did he win<br />
a lot or he tends to lose everything?<br />
NC: Well, a little of both. He told me that<br />
like five or six months ago, he won a lot of<br />
money in a competition of black jack. But<br />
then, the ambition over passed him and<br />
ended up losing it all. So he really doesn’t<br />
like to go there anymore.<br />
NO: I can’t imagine how frustrating it might<br />
have been, people no longer understand<br />
what a game really is and take it too<br />
seriously and they end up losing their<br />
homes. The only reason I like casinos is<br />
because I love to play the lottery and I go<br />
there with the only purpose to have fun and<br />
pass some time.<br />
NC: That’s perfect! In my opinion that’s the<br />
whole point of going, just to have some fun<br />
and don’t really lose the strings. But either<br />
way I really don’t go there, for several<br />
reasons, the most important one is that I<br />
don’t understand how to play any of the<br />
games there. I think someday I will.<br />
NO: That’s probably an advantage you<br />
have, that way you don’t spend money on<br />
something unnecessarily. Although the<br />
lottery is never a bad idea as a principiant<br />
to start playing. If you want, we can go<br />
together sometime and I’ll show you<br />
everything I know
RULES<br />
Definition: An accepted principle or<br />
instruction that states the way things are<br />
or should be done, and tells you what<br />
you are allowed or are not allowed to do.<br />
(Cambridge English Dictionary)<br />
NO: Anahuac University’s rules are very<br />
easy to follow, although I’ve never liked<br />
to do what people want me to do, I just<br />
need to follow them because I signed the<br />
regulation. I honestly think that the day<br />
that they prohibit smoking in the<br />
university, that day I might not be able to<br />
follow the rules. How about you Nicole?<br />
Which rule do you think is the worst?<br />
NC: Well, the rule that first come to my<br />
mind is the one you’re mentioning right<br />
now, I mean, did you know that in some<br />
areas of the Medicine Faculty there’s no<br />
way you can smoke? In some way, I can<br />
understand the reason of it, I guess that’s<br />
illogic that the doctors to be, smoke,<br />
right? But I couldn’t agree less with you, I<br />
don’t like either that someone or<br />
something tells me what to do, but I think<br />
we have no other choice.<br />
NO: Thank God I don’t go on Medschool!<br />
Well another rule I hated was that the wifi<br />
password was only given by the teacher<br />
every day with different numbers only for<br />
you to work on class stuff, but I think that<br />
was not really fair because we pay for it. I<br />
mean, I know we shouldn’t be on<br />
facebook or social networks all the time,<br />
but we are already grown ups we don’t<br />
need a nanny telling us what to do, if we<br />
want to study we study, if not, it is a very<br />
bad decision but is still ours to make.<br />
NC: I really like the way you’re so sure of<br />
what you like and dislike, honestly I didn’t<br />
have that problem because I find that the<br />
wifi of our school is pretty bad, so I’ve<br />
never used it, but I understand your point<br />
that we’re paying for it so it should be<br />
better for us to use.
TECHNOLOGY<br />
Definition: The branch of knowledge that<br />
deals with the creation and use of technical<br />
means and their interrelation with life, society,<br />
and the environment, drawing upon such<br />
subjects as industrial arts, engineering,<br />
applied science, and pure science.<br />
(Dictionary.com)<br />
NC: It’s impressive how much the technology<br />
has grown over the years, don’t you think? In<br />
some way it’s very important that there are<br />
changes over the years because thanks to it<br />
we can do many things we couldn’t ever<br />
imagine years before. For example how<br />
people can live longer because the new<br />
technology existing in the hospitals, how we<br />
can cure or prevent many diseases. However<br />
it also affects us in other ways, what’s your<br />
opinion about it?<br />
NO: In my opinion, technology has been a<br />
very positive thing for all human beings, we<br />
have a better type of life and don’t have to<br />
worry about everything. The very best thing<br />
about it, like you said, was all the advances in<br />
health and medicine because thanks to that<br />
we have a bigger life expectancy and don’t<br />
have to go through painful diseases as we did<br />
before. And the second best thing was totally<br />
social networks and cell phones, we can be<br />
all connected every second of the day with<br />
the people that we want, from all around the<br />
world.<br />
NC: Yes, that was<br />
exactly about what I<br />
wanted to talk about,<br />
it’s awesome we can<br />
communicate with<br />
people we care even<br />
if they’re in another<br />
part of the world, it’s<br />
easy and fast.<br />
However, the<br />
technology has<br />
ruined other kind of<br />
stuff, and what I<br />
mean with this is that, we no longer<br />
communicate personally almost with anyone,<br />
we no longer say in person anything, we<br />
prefer to send a text and that’s it, have you<br />
notice how people spends all the time in their<br />
phones instead of appreciate or live a<br />
moment with someone? In family meals,<br />
dates, parties, many people are in their<br />
phones 24/7, that’s the only negative thing I<br />
see about the technology nowadays.<br />
NO: That’s so true, it is a very bad thing<br />
about technology these days, there’s nothing<br />
more sad than people who can’t have a nice<br />
time together with face to face type of<br />
relationship because they spend more time<br />
on their phones than with the person standing<br />
right in front of them. And also we live on a<br />
world where the number of likes is more<br />
important than anything else, and that is<br />
really sad and disappointing.
SLEEP<br />
Definition: To take the rest afforded by a<br />
suspension of voluntary bodily functions<br />
and the natural suspension, complete or<br />
partial, of consciousness; cease being<br />
awake. (Dictionary.com)<br />
NC: Sleep, the best thing that could ever<br />
happened to us, and also one of the most<br />
important, if I could I’d sleep all day.<br />
Normally I have very good sleeping habits,<br />
it’s really rare when I can’t sleep, and if it<br />
does happen is because I have so much<br />
stress going on, but somehow I ended up<br />
falling asleep and wake up feeling so much<br />
better.<br />
NO: I honestly envy you, my sleeping is the<br />
worst. I can’t sleep until is 12:00am or 1:00<br />
am, and I always have you wake up at<br />
6:00am to go to school, so I don’t really do<br />
the 8 hours sleep a day almost never. The<br />
thing I do love to do is taking long naps,<br />
because when I wake up I feel like I’m<br />
another person. One of my favorite hobbies<br />
is actually sleeping, it can help you with<br />
everything, but the number one thing that I<br />
love is that you no longer have to worry<br />
about your problems in that exact moment<br />
and it relieves the<br />
stress you have<br />
accumulated.<br />
NC: Really? I have<br />
no idea you had<br />
those problems at<br />
sleeping time,<br />
have you tried<br />
something to<br />
sleep earlier? Maybe is because your long<br />
naps won’t let you sleep until 1 am, but I<br />
couldn’t tell you to stop napping because<br />
they’re the best, but the thing that happens<br />
to me, is that when I planned taking a<br />
power nap of like 45 minutes maximum, I<br />
ended up sleeping like two hours or maybe<br />
more, so I’ve lost all my day just sleeping,<br />
and I feel like the worst person for not<br />
taking advantage of my day.<br />
NO: The same happens to me when I go<br />
and take a nap, and I totally agree that we<br />
don’t take advantage of our day because<br />
we spend it sleeping, but sometimes is<br />
really more necessary than nothing. And<br />
about my night sleeping, I have tried<br />
everything and I just can’t get to go to bed<br />
earlier it’s so frustrating.
SENSE OF HUMOR<br />
Definition: Used to accuse others of a<br />
lack thereof when the person fails to<br />
laugh at someone else's expense. Or<br />
when the person fails to laugh with those<br />
who are laughing at him. (Urban<br />
dictionary)<br />
NO: Well the sense of humor in a person<br />
is literally one of the most important<br />
qualities they must have so that you<br />
enjoy their company, otherwise you<br />
would not really want to hang out with<br />
them another time. I consider myself a<br />
girl with a very good sense of humor, and<br />
I’m actually always happy and laughing<br />
about something thanks to it. I really<br />
appreciate people who know how to have<br />
a great time and those are the people I<br />
keep close to me forever, and leave the<br />
others away from me. What do you think<br />
Nicole?<br />
NC: I agree with you, it’s boring when<br />
you’re around someone with no sense of<br />
humor at all, also I’m always laughing<br />
and try to make a good time in every<br />
situation, I think that’s why we get along<br />
so well, we’re almost never in bad mood<br />
and we enjoy people's company when<br />
they know when to laugh and always see<br />
the bright side. In the way I see it, it’s<br />
always fun to laugh, be active and happy.<br />
NO: Totally agree with the active part, if<br />
you laugh you workout those abs, just<br />
joking. We get along so well because we<br />
spend more time laughing that in any<br />
other mood and because we’re funny and<br />
so easy going with everyone, also we’re<br />
open-minded and with a great sense of<br />
humor.<br />
NC: Yes, I love we can have so much fun<br />
even though we’re doing nothing, and I<br />
know that when we’re around people<br />
that’s being negative or sad all the time<br />
we always get away from them, because<br />
that isn’t the way we are and we prefer to<br />
be with happy and fun people.
TELEVISION<br />
Definition: The transmission of<br />
programming, in the form of still or moving<br />
images, via radio waves, cable wires,<br />
satellite, or wireless network to a receiver<br />
or other screen. (Dictionary.com)<br />
NO: I personally can say I don’t watch T.V.<br />
since I was 13 years old, which was weird<br />
at that age because Netflix and that new<br />
stuff didn’t really existed, so watching T.V.<br />
was the thing everyone used to do when<br />
they had free time. But unfortunately T.V.<br />
has been something that is a little bit on the<br />
past because of other new technologies<br />
that have been appearing these days.<br />
Since Netflix started I consider myself the<br />
most happy person in the world because I<br />
love to see movies without ads in between<br />
them and I can watch them everywhere I<br />
go because it is an app you can carry on<br />
on your cell phone and put it wherever you<br />
go.<br />
NC: Actually I’m also like that, it’s been an<br />
eternity since I saw something on the T.V.,<br />
I’m more the type of person to see videos<br />
on YouTube or Netflix like you, I agree<br />
that’s very practical and you can stop the<br />
show or movie whenever you want instead<br />
of being 2 hours straight sitting watching<br />
nonstop something, I mean the cartoons<br />
that existed before where the best thing<br />
ever, but now in my opinion there’s nothing<br />
interesting to see.<br />
NO: Yes totally, T.V. now a days is no<br />
longer worth it, it so boring and so bad like I<br />
wouldn’t understand a person who still<br />
watches it. Specially mexican novelas are<br />
pretty bad not only because they really<br />
don’t have a nice performance, but<br />
because of the message they send, of a<br />
typical life of a mexican or something<br />
related to mexicans.<br />
NC: Oh my god, yes. In my opinion those<br />
novelas are the worst thing I’ve ever seen,<br />
they’re very dramatic and exagerated, it’s<br />
impressive how many<br />
mexicans can be so<br />
obsessed about them and<br />
wait for the new chapter to<br />
come out. Well I think everyone<br />
has different tastes and we have<br />
to respect<br />
that.
TIME<br />
Definition: The system of those sequential<br />
relations that any event has to any other,<br />
as past, present, or future; indefinite and<br />
continuous duration regarded as that in<br />
which events succeed one another.the part<br />
of existence that is measured in minutes,<br />
days, years. (Dictionary.com)<br />
NC: What would I do if I could turn back in<br />
time, interesting question and difficult to<br />
think about it, honestly four years ago I<br />
would love to change things I did or didn’t<br />
do, but now, I realize that I wouldn’t change<br />
a thing, you know why? Because the<br />
mistakes and everything I did in the past,<br />
made me who I am today. If all of what<br />
happened changes in some way or<br />
another, I would be a totally different<br />
person, I wouldn’t have the lessons<br />
learned, because we know that when we<br />
messed up something, we learn so we no<br />
longer make the same mistakes.<br />
NO: Well I can’t really agree with you there,<br />
I think is such a cliche to think that you<br />
wouldn’t change a thing because you<br />
wouldn’t be the same person you are today<br />
and that things, but if I ever had the chance<br />
to change somethings in my life I would<br />
never have second thoughts and I would<br />
do it, because there are so many things I<br />
could have done<br />
different and<br />
regret not doing<br />
the right thing.<br />
NC: I know it<br />
might sounds a little cliche, but either way I<br />
like the decisions I’ve made, sometimes<br />
I’ve messed up and in a huge way and felt<br />
terrible about it, but I insist, if I hadn’t make<br />
those kind of things, I wouldn’t be able to<br />
have those life lessons that helped me to<br />
be or to choose the decisions I make today.<br />
But somehow I agree with you, sometimes<br />
is worst to stay with the “what if”, it’s always<br />
better to do things than regret not doing<br />
them, and now I know that because I also<br />
stopped doing things because of fear or by<br />
some other reason and ended no knowing<br />
what would’ve happened if I had really<br />
done it.<br />
NO: Not everything is a life lesson, there<br />
are just things that happen to you and you<br />
can’t do nothing about it but live with it<br />
wishing you would have never live it, well<br />
that is in my opinion, I know there won’t be<br />
too many people thinking like me but that<br />
won’t make me change my point of view.<br />
Fear is humans worst enemy, we should<br />
take chances and live a life away from it.
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