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  I won't going to lie: I didn't read the book. I think I didn't have enough time to even search the book neither in my library nor my PC. In any case, since I have a work to do, I decide to read about the book on Wikipedia, and this is wat I found: Crime and Punishment was wrote by the Russian author Feodor Dostoyevsky (1821- 1881) and is considerate one of a masterpiece of the Russian and Universal literature. It present the dualism of the main character and how many mental troubles drives him from pride to humble through the kill. The main chara cter,  Rodion Romanovich Raskolnikov, kills an old woman, trying to steal her wealth and convince himself he belongs to the kind of mans that can kill and steal without punishment and not another loser in the world, like that old woman. The pression of this crime makes him confess and been arrested. but only the faith that was born from his love for a woman can calm him down.  The mental trouble matter is frequent on my reading...

  I want to start to think about massive media literacy with the example of 1984 by George Orwell. Like most of us must know, this book show is a world without soul, that hates, fight and kill without knowing the reason; a world without a truth, that believe every single lie that falls from above. I wonder if we are far enough from this kind of world. Because, even with the knowledge of everything in our hands, we choose ignorance, we eat anything worried not about what does it really means but if it's sweet or spicy. We follow parties, soccer teams, races and religions just to hate the ones who are at the other side to the point of forgetting that those other ones are our brothers: you against me, he against us just because.  How far are we now? To approaching to the understanding of the world were we live, we got to start analyzing and finding the real meaning of the culture, and how it connect us with each others. We got to try to be more human. That means to find the real ...

 This was, despite it happened only two times, one of the best activities we could do on the English class. The forum give us a chance to show our homework to everyone in class. Perhaps there were no one interested on others it. In any case, it was both creepy and funny to think that someone else could take a look of what we did. At the Forum we talked about the importance of take care of environment and dealing with others at our jobs, using some words and skills learned on the Training Material. But I remember the Forum because, when I read the kind of things that I had to write about, I thought that I just have to English writing about anything else. And I did so: I loved writing something like this. clearly I had to do my homework again, but this was great. Looking in another way, recently, when I make a review of my forum to make this blog, I found to my surprise that a classmate reply my evidence about dealing with other people: I don´t know, I think it's cool to see you'...

  Like a essential part of the English class of Visual Media Development, we study deeply three different Training material leveled 4 to 6: English Level 4 MCER A2.2.  Starting from the section "Going on Vacation", we made our first video English Level 5 MCER B1.1   English Level 6 MCER B1.1. From the sections "Cultural Literacy" and "Hidden Messages Mass Media", We´re going to make a blog. Every section of every level has the same structure: #1: Title #2: Introduction Material: that talks about the things we will learn. #3: Contextualization: made upon dramatizations. #3: Comprehension: exercises based from an audio, questions that need some of the particulars words that we have learned, and pronunciation practice.  For those like us, who study through a computer, far away from the teachers and classmates, this material supports us by the time we have to present our evidences. The knowledge trapped within is exposed originally and clearly.

Many months ago I made some videos for my YouTube Chanell. this is the second video I made since I started studying Graphic Media development and, like the instructor tell us we have to, we talked about a special member of our family, in my special case, about my mother. Later, I have the opportunity of make an interview with one of my virtual mates. I don´t even know if this girl still studying this career; she looks so dissatisfied with the way we have to study.  we worked together some times before; she has a lot of good, but like me at that time, she didn't knew how to express those ideas nor how to manage the softwares of the craft. She was very kind, in any case. The first and the last video that I had to make were similar: the instructor tell us to make a storytelling about our best vacation and interesting places near were we lived, and I choose to talk about a waterfall and a closed old factory constructed at the beginning of the past century, both placed near where I live...