Emo Diary (Jose Maria)

16th January
I´m tyred, I´m tyred of people looking at me in a stange way, I´m tyred of people telling me I look weird. I´m tyred of the people.
Since I changed my "look" (that´s how they call it) on holidays, when I came back school, my friends don´t hang out as much as before with me anymore and when I talk to them they get really nervous, as if i was a sort of freak or something strange. I´m still me, but i decided to change my appearance because I wanted to be different the mass, different from me...
18th January
Yesterday was as boring and depressive as previous days. But today I met new people. People that are like, people who I can talk too, people which people look in a strange way too. They dress like me and act like me. They´re called "Emos".
19th January
It looks like things are starting to get better. Today I didnt sit by myself in class. I sat with Barbara, Jason, Mary and Paul. They´re the guys I met yesterday, they´re really nice and te girl, Mary, think she´s very pretty. I think I micht actually have found the ´group´I belong to.
21st January
Oh my God! It was amazing, I kissed mary at the cinema yesterday. I can´t wait to see her on Monday.
My parents are concerned that I spend much time in my bedroom, but they don´t understand I want to be away from the society.
23rd January
What is the point of life? What´s the point of life if you can´t change anything? What is the point of being alive if nobody hears you? What is the point of being alive if nobody hears you? What is the point of being alive if you lost all your friends? What is the point of life if the person you loved cheated on you with your best friend?...

Emo Diary (Raul)

May 14
Today was a different day. School was boring as usual, everyone ignored me & my friend juan since people around here can't . At the end of school day, I talked again with the girl I like. She is being more realistic about us & she started looking at us with different eyes. It's really good that she understands us now. I invited her to go out in the afternoon & she agreed. On the walk we saw a march of us (emos) walk by, I totally forgot about the march me & juan had been looking forward all week for it, well...
At the end of our walk we saw a group of of punks that told me they would be coming and searching for us. They said we should be scared. I really hope they didn't mean it, because I don't want anymore fights in this city. I don't like it when people get hurt.

Emos!!!

Emos are a urban tribe which have been on the news lately. They are very emo-tional (where their name comes from) & often wear black clothes topped off with the hair covering half of their face. Our personal opinion about emos is that they are very very sensitive & don´t show any violent reactions except for hurting themselves, which make people belive that they can treat them bad or discrimite them just because they will not fight back. Also, we think that the main problem is that because they go totally against culture or rules so noone can really understrand their thoughts or opinions excewpt for other Emos. Its not that we dont like them but we dont understand why they have such a strange behavour.

Political Prisioner Diary (Jose Maria)

Name: Charles Banks
Religion: Jewish
Time Location: 2nd WW
Family: Wife, 2 sons (all of them tortured and killed)
Job: Journalist (Against Hitler)

11th November 1942
I´ve just found this pen at the bottom of my bed.
I´m confused, I know they got me, but images are
confusing. I dont know where I am, I dont know where
I was and I dont know what will happen to me. An
interrogative probably, and then I shall be killed. I`ll
try find another pen...

13th November (you know the year)
Nothing. Nothing and Nothing.

14th November...(mmm)
Early morning, the guards woke me up and I was taken
to a room with nothing but a lamp, a recorder and a
table. I was threatened with killing my family my family
if i didn't speak. I had too, I didn't have an option. I told
them where the information was, all the newspapers I've
published, all the files and documents I had.
Everything is gone.

15th November (don't know what to think...)
I'm hurt. I couldn'r help it. They hit me. They wanted me
to tell them the truth. I won't, even if I die I won't.
I don't know if I will be alive by tomorrow...

Historical Links In Animal Farm (Raul & Jose Maria)

George Orwell refers in "Animal Farm" to communism and totalitarianism involves countries like Germany and Russia and talks about Russian Revolution and 2nd World War.
Links to characters:
-Mr Jones=Tsar (Nicholas II)
-Snowball=Trotsky
-Napoleon=Stalin
-Old Mayor=Lenin
-Squealer=Goebbels (Hitler´s Propagandist)
-Animal Farm=USSR

Pink Floyd (by Raul)

Pink Floyd is an English rock band from Cambridge. The band initially earned recognition for their psychedelic and space rock music, and, as they evolved, for their progressive rock music. Pink Floyd was known for philosophical lyrics, sonic experimentation, innovative album cover art, and elaborate live shows. One of rock music's most successful acts, the group have sold over 200 million albums worldwide including 74.5 million albums in the United States alone. Pink Floyd influenced progressive rock artists of the 1970s such as Genesis and Yes; and contemporary artists such as Nine Inch Nails and Dream Theater.

Discography: Pink Floyd has 12 studio albums, 3 live albums, 10 compilation albums & 4 video Albums.

One of my favorite songs from Pink Floyd is called “Learning To Fly” its from 1987 & is considered one of pink Floyd’s best songs after Roger Waters departure from the band. It’s from the album “A Momentary Lapse of Reason” It’s really good & hope you enjoy it.

P!NK (Jose Maria)
P!nk is a female singer born in 1979. Her real name is Alecia Moore. Her music style is pop, pop-rock, punk pop and dance pop. She rose to fame when she was featured along with Mya, Lil Kim and Christina Aguilera in the hit song Lady Marmalade. But her 1st solo number 1 in the United States was her song So What which reached the top position in September 2008. I like her music a lot and i think she is a good singer and has some very good songs. What I like about her is that she isn't the typical sexy fake blond singer. Some of her best songs are So What, Stupid Girls which criticizes material people and Get the party Started which has a Dance-Funk Feel. Her upcoming album is called Funhouse and will be released on October 29 (The same day of my birthday!!). Discography:
*Cant Take Me Home (2000)
*M!ssundaztood (2001)
*Try This (2003)
*I'm Not Dead (2006)
*Funhouse (2008)
Here is a video of her newest single So What:
SO WHAT