"La Poutinerie"

Located near the port of Montreal, La Poutinerie is one of the most popular restaurants in the Canadian city.
The restaurant has this name because of their most popular and only plate: the "poutine". The plate is a traditional "québécois" recipe. It is basically composed of french fries, melted cheese and, the most disgusting ingredient of it, meat fat! The restaurant has many variations of the plate. You can have poutine with sausages, extra cheese, meat, and many other options.
It is very popular among the young people on Montreal, but it's also not the lightest food you'll try in your life...

My opinion about a limited use of the Internet

I partly agree with this affirmative. I agree that people are using the Internet too much, but it depends on the way they are using it. If people spend hours and hours online on Facebook, Twitter (there are the ones who uses it moderately), etc. I think that yes, there should be a limited use of the Internet for them. But there are also people who make a very good use of it- researching, studying, reading the news, etc.
Conclusion: for people that use the Internet to do useless things for a long time, yes, there should be a limited use. But for people who use it to do useful things, as I said before, this limit is not necessary. We must always remember that the Internet can be a great source of knowledge!

Questions (Chapter 1-3)

1) What is the man's background? Where is he from?
2) What is the story of the man's mother, Caroline Beaufort? How does the man feel toward his parents and what responsiblities does he feel they had toward him?
3) Who is Elizabeth Lavenza and what is her story? What gift does the man's mother give him? Do we know the man's name yet? Do we know his family name?
4) Who is Henry Clerval and what is he relation to Victor?
5) How does Victor characterize the interests and characters of Clerval, Elizabeth and himself?
6) Who is Cornellius Agrippa and how does Victor find out about him? How does Victor's father respond and how does Victor comment on that response?
7) What sort of science ("Natural Philosophy") is Victor learning from Agrippa, Paracelsus and Albertus Magnus? How would the moderns scientists respond to this sort of thinking?
8) What happens when Victor sees an oak tree destroyed by lighting and hears an explanation? What does Victor then begins to study?
9) Who (or what) does he credit for this change in direction? Who (or what) does he blame for his "utter and terrible destruction"?
10) What happens to Elizabeth and to Victor's mother as a result of Elizabeth's scarlet fever? How does this compare with the mother's early history?
11) Why does Victor's father send him to the university of Ingolstadt and how old is Victor then?



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The Atwater Market

Located at Atwater street, in Montreal, Canada, the Atwater market is one of the most picturesque places of the city.
The market is not big if compared to Jean Talons one, but its small size contributes for the pleasant atmosphere of the place. There, you can try some sausages from a stall specialised on this food. They have all types of sausages, with every kind of spice. You can also buy amazing cheese in one of the many cheese stores in the market. Also, cheese is much cheaper there! If you want to, you can taste it with bread, which is made by a popular net of "boulangeries" from Montreal, called Première Moisson. Finally, you can taste chocolate from one of the chocolate stores in the market, and so, probably finishing one of the best meals you have ever had!

Letter to the president of Spanish Football Federation

Dear Sir or Madam,

As a Spanish football fan, I would to like make complaint.
We all know how disputed is La Liga, and this year, this dispute is even bigger. We got two great teams fighting for the title, and one drawn or loss can change the whole competition. Unfortunately, we are going to have 2 less rounds of great football and emotion due to financial problems according the clubs TV rights.
I know that money is very important to administrate such a great competition, but I would ask you, please, if you could not try to solve this problem after the end of the tournament. We would have 2 more rounds of emotion, besides the great Copa del Rey final. We, football fans, would be very thanked!

Thank you for your attention,

Mr. Fleck

Homework - Internet

Due date: June 24th

There should be a time limit on Internet use so people can do useful things. Discuss.

Frankeinstein text

Frakeinstein is a famous book written by Mary Shelley. It is composed by letters, written by Robert Walton, to his sister, Margaret. The first one is written when Walton is at St. Petersburg. The Russian city is his fist step for starting his adventure. Robert tells his sister about how this is a dream coming to reality (he dreamed to travel to North Pole and study this region since he was a boy).
In letter 2, Walton is in Archangel searching for sailors to accompany him. In the letter, Robert writes Margaret the sentence "what can stop the determined heart and resolved will of men" (which I found very intelligent, because, if we think about it, is a very genuine sentence: we never give up of our dreams when we are very determined to achieve it!). He tells her about the history of the men he hired as well.
29 days passed from letter 3 (the shortest letter of the book, in which Robert announces his departure) until letter 4. In this last letter, Walton narrates a strange accident that happened. The ship got stranded. Sometime later, the attention of the sailors was attracted by a sled, ridden by a giant man, that rapidly passed in front of the ship. The next day, Robert sees a man being removed from the sea by his sailors. The ice broke during the night and he nearly died. He is exhausted, and almost frozen. Walton wants to asks him thousands of questions, but prefers to let the man relax. However, the lieutenant decides to ask him why he was in such a far region in such a strange vehicle. The man answers that he was following one who fled from him.
Time passes and Walton starts loving his new "passenger" as a brother, who is very polite, quiet, and seems to be a true gentleman.
8 days passes when Walton starts to write again. After learning about Robert's project, the man gets impressed. He believes Walton is going to have the same faith he had. He then starts to tell his story, to which Walton listens attentively.

Cacao 70

Located in Montreal, Canada, Cacao 70 is an unconvecional restaurant specialized in cholocate-made sweets. There, you can taste chocolates from all around the world, and with different concentrations of cocoa. As the winter in Montreal is very harsh, you can have one of their 10 different types of hot chocolate there. If you're going there with your friends, you can also taste a plate that is called "Cacao 70", which is the restaurant's typical plate. It has small portions of all their specialities, like brownies. waffles, fondue (the chocolate "sauce" is made from the hot chocolate) and, obviously, chocolate. The plate serves 2-3 people, so it's a great option for you and your friends.
There is only one Cacao 70 store in the whole city, but it's worth the visit!

The Snow Festival

Every year, during the month of January, in Montreal, the Snow Festival happens. It is a festival to celebrate winter. There, you can go skiing and ice skating,  go down a mountain using a sled, and practice many other winter sports. If you prefer a less radical activity, you can have lessons of snow sculptures, or have a ride in a sled pulled by snow dogs, which is a great option if you have children. You can also visit a complete ice made hotel, and if you want, you can spent a night there. If you get hungry, you can try some Canadian typical foods, like Beavertail.
The Snow Festival is ideal for people that have never seen snow, but if you are accustomed with it, you can also have fun!

Macbeth adaptation

Once upon a time, there was a football player who played at Santos, a football team from Brazil, called Jean. When he was 18 years old, he was playing very well, and was called by the coach to play his first professional match in his career. Jean played very well and scored 2 goals. After this great performance, a famous football critic said that, soon, he was going to be the main striker in Santos, and after, the best player in the world.
Time passed and Jean got his place at the main team. After a great season, he was elected the best player of the tournament. When Jean discovered that, he remembered the words from the critic. Amazed by the idea of being the best player in the world, he requested to be transferred to an European club.
After a long negotiation, Jean was sold to Manchester United, a great club from England, for £15.000.000. He started playing very well, and again, got a place in the main team. But the obsession with being the best player in the world made Jean start cheating. He started to use doping, to improve his performance.
Jean played very well, and was nominate to be the best player in the world. Most polls in the web indicated that, according to 70% of people, the Brazilian should win the prize.
The day when the result would be revealed arrived. Everyone expected Jean to win. But, during the ceremony, before revealing the winner, the FIFA president announced that Jean was out of the dispute, because the exams he made before the ceremony revealed the use of doping by the Brazilian.
After learning that, the Manchester United's manager decided to dispense Jean. No one wanted to contract him, and he had to end his career, ending with it a great talent destroyed by his one and only cheating act.

Prometheus

To us it seems that Hermes' speech is to the point.

What he commands to you is to relax from your

self-will and seek the wisdom that's in good advice.

Do as he says, since wrong is shameful in the wise.

--The Chorus, Prometheus Bound

In Ancient Greek mythology, Prometheus was said to be the wisest of all the Titans. In the form of fire Prometheus is credited with bringing mankind knowledge and enlightenment. He stole fire from the Gods of Mount Olympus. For acting against the decree of the Gods, who wanted to keep the power of fire to themselves, Prometheus was harshly punished. He was chained to a rock to have his liver eaten out every day by an eagle. Every night his liver would grow back. This was to be his punishment for all of eternity.

The full title of Mary Shelley's novel is Frankenstein; or the Modern Prometheus. So it shouldn't come as a surprise that Mary Shelley was influenced by this tale. Her husband Percy Shelley even began composing his own tale of Prometheus in the form of a poem entitled, Prometheus Unbound. He began composing this work right around the same time that Mary was publishing Frankenstein.

Aside from the title, Shelley borrows from the tale of Prometheus a sense of consequence resulting from seeking enlightenment and power. Victor is her modern incarnation of Prometheus. He as Prometheus was, is fascinated by the power of electricity (lightning). We can recall from the narrative the moment when he becomes captivated by its fantastical power.

It is from this power, that he has equipped himself with, that the inner torture he will suffer from the use of it stems. Immediately following the creation if the creature, Victor is ill with disgust for what he has done. His torture mirrors that of Prometheus'; undying and eternal. From the beginning of the novel, when Victor warns Walton of the consequences of his quest, to the conclusion when Victor again reiterates the misfortunes he has suffered as a result of his curiosity, Mary Shelley mimics the Prometheus tale. Perhaps, this is why she saw it as a fitting subtitle.

Macbeth answer

Lady Macbeth and Macbeth relation is a very ambitous and evil relationship, in which Lady Macbeth forces his husband to be a person that he doesn't really is to get something she wishes anxiously (be the queen of Scotland).  But as time passes, thanks to his wife's pression, Macbeth starts to be the evil and cruel man her wife wanted him to be, sometimes even exceeding his wife level of evilness and ambition, murdering man after man to reach his goal. Even if Lady Macbeth tries to stop her husband, there is nothing she can do anymore. Thanks to Lady Macbeth, that woke up the bad Macbeth, and to Macbeth, that obeyed his wife even if he knew it was the wrong thing to do, Scotland is now condemned to a bloody reign.