A hotter earth?

The greenhouse effect is not only a worrying but growing phenomenon affecting our earth’s temperature. As a consequence of the increasing amount of greenhouse gases, mainly carbon dioxide, produced in the last years, the heat balance in the atmosphere has been altered. This increase has been caused mainly by human activities such as the burning of fossil fuels, deforestation, the use of fertilizers in agriculture, decomposition of garbage and the use of refrigerators as well as air conditioning. Those gases in the air work like a glass in a greenhouse, allowing light energy to get in but preventing much of heat energy from escaping. Therefore, the atmosphere becomes irreversibly warmer. This problem, which is often referred as the “enhanced” greenhouse effect, will eventually bring about a radical change in the globe’s temperature balance and lead to global warming.

Emma

A memorable teacher

When you study you know different teachers but there are some of them that you will remember for ever. Isabel is one of the cases. She always came to the school with the lesson perfectly organized, you could realize because every minute was calculated with a funny activity. One of the things I remember the most is her big bag, the magical place we used to call it, full of toys, magazines and balls. Anything she needed to motivate us was in there. Another thing that I remember is that she was always in a good mood, and she knew how to transmit all that energy to us. In this way, she created the right atmosphere to make us participate in the lesson. But the most important thing about her was that she was all ears when you had a problem; in that situation, she could stop the lesson and helped you to find a solution. Once I heard that to teach is to touch a life. She does not know it, but she did it; that is why she is a memorable teacher.

Pedro

On Anothers Sorrow

by William Blake

Can I see another's woe,

And not be in sorrow too?

Can I see another's grief,

And not seek for kind relief?

Can I see a falling tear,

And not feel my sorrow's share?

Can a father see his child

Weep, nor be with sorrow fill'd?

Can a mother sit and hear

An infant groan an infant fear?

No, no! never can it be!

Never, never can it be!

And can he who smiles on all

Hear the wren with sorrows small,

Hear the small bird's grief & care,

Hear the woes that infants bear,

And not sit beside the nest,

Pouring pity in their breast;

And not sit the cradle near,

Weeping tear on infant's tear;

And not sit both night & day,

Wiping all our tears away?

O, no! never can it be!

Never, never can it be!

He doth give his joy to all;

He becomes an infant small;

He becomes a man of woe;

He doth feel the sorrow too.

Think not thou canst sigh a sigh

And thy maker is not by;

Think not thou canst weep a tear

And thy maker is not near.

O! he gives to us his joy

That our grief he may destroy;

Till our grief is fled & gone

He doth sit by us and moan.

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