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The day of the trip was a very special to me because apart from that I went with a very special person to my life I enjoyed a lot with my mother and my friends in the classroom. Then thank God that my mother changes the bus we headed for the Old San Juan because the first one was much wrecked. On the way the trip was very comfortable and in every trip to San Juan there is always something I’ve never seen. Before reaching El Morro I enjoyed the streets of Old San Juan on the bus and the different landscapes including: the Capitol, Fort San Cristobal and the pearl community. Arriving at El Morro quickly could see the famous wind of that site and the super way to get there. After a little scolding and instructions we entered El Morro and began our journey. A halfway there was a shocking event for my mother in whom two of my friends got lost in the confusion of my mother she seems she was very worried but I could only laugh. After finding my friends we followed giving end to this journey. In our way back we found a policemen who was the one who really showed us where the Garita de Diablo was and he replied by saying that this is in the pearl community and that we shouldn’t go there because we can get all beat up which is something I disagree with. After the disappointment of failing to reach the checkpoint we decided to give a tour of the streets of Old San Juan on foot and then drive to eat. In my case went to Pizza Hut and I really enjoyed the food. After that we walked the Paseo of Princesa ending with a picture of the whole group at the fountain which is giving end of the street so the crossing in Old San Juan. There we picked up the bus and we went in a funny way back to Guanica where from Caguas to Salinas did not stop laughing for a cause that actually made no sense. All because of my friends.

When we speak of love several emotions invade our minds, but it all depends on your experiences throughout your life. I will try to express my ideas about my experiences and I hope that pleases the reader.
First begin by saying that I do believe in love and that love is not always what you imagine or see on television or read in the fairy tale. For me love is patient, wait, fight and not get tired, yes, that feeling comes when you really love and you just do not live in an illusion. I began to know the love for about four and a half years ago when I met a very special person to this day I still smile from the heart and only want to spend the rest of my days with him. But I tell you that not everything is like a fairy tale that everything is perfect, love suffers, and the more you love, more you suffer, but if you really love, struggles as you can, and can be very happy. Not everything is easy, it is difficult but not impossible, it goes through disappointments and at the same time we makes mistakes, it is not easy to love but beautiful is to do so. The problems always come, but with a little understanding, patience and love everything in life has a solution. Trust is very important and difficult to create but easy to tear down, but if you really love between the two unite and build that confidence back, not give up if you really love, have faith in God that provided when a relationship based on this always is going to help, I say from experience and go through many difficult times and it was not all because of my partner, I also made many mistakes that I regret but all worth it, because in passing of the problems the relationship has become stronger. Never turn and i repeat if you love don’t give up, watch your step and value what you have at your side, you can forgive and forgive, always looks to God. I have always said that a relationship is like going driving a vehicle, always look forward and not look for much in the mirror looking back because you can ruin what is ahead. So I love and not just any love, suffering love that is difficult but God allows it to last forever.

In my birthday I had a big dream, to have a parrot. I was crazy about the idea of having an African Gray because I was In Ponce making some errands with my mother and my boyfriend and in the mall that we where there was a pet shop and I saw this baby African gray looking at me and I went crazy about it. When we were in the pet shop I really felt in love with the parrot and I spent like one talking to the African grey. But then my boyfriend told me they were expensive but I didn’t believe him and we started arguing a bit about that but he stopped talking to me and went to ask the manager the price of the parrot. When my boyfriend came to me again he was laughing a bit and he told me awful news, the African Grey cost $950 dollars. I looked at the bird and I felt very sad and we left the store. I had a sense of crying in my way out since that was my wish for my birthday. After leaving the store they tried to cheer me telling me that they will take me to the “Pulgas” of Sabana Grande that Sunday. So the day came and I was happy about it. We went to Sabana Grande and entered the “pulgas” that is a place where businessman go and offer their products at a very low price. At first we didn’t found a spot that sells parrots but at the end of the “pulgas” we found a spot that sells birds. When we got there there were only little birds, but suddenly he take out a cage and there were this baby African Grey and I ask him right away about the price but he told me it was $800 dollars. I felt the same feeling of the day in the pet shop but my boyfriend notices there was this little parrot in one small cage it was yellow and green and it have a white circle around his eyes. At first I admit that I wasn’t interested in that parrot because it seems sick, but everyone insisted about buying that one. I was sad but I take it and I took me like one day to figure out that is not the specie of the parrot what is important is the love that we feel to it. Now days I don’t regret for buying my “Aby” because when I’m alone I feel accompanied by he or her because I don’t really know what genre is but now I see that maybe I wasn’t going to be so happy with an African Gray like I’m with my Jenday Conure.

Initial D is a serial that Shuichi Shigeno wrote; it is about the life of a young man named Takumi who worked in a part time in a station with his friend Itsuki “a race fanatic” and with Iketani a lider of a racing crew called “Akina Speed stars”. At first Takumi wasn’t interest in racing but when another team came to challenge his friends crew he didn’t like the attitude and he won drastically against the challenging crew the “Red Suns”. The secret of his victory is that Bunta”his father” is a legendary racer of this area and Takumi without noticing is been trained by him since young giving deliveries for his father’s “tofu shop”. The method of his training consisted in putting a glass of water in the cup holder and the driver should be able to drive at all speeds in corners without spilling the water. After his victory he made himself famous because his opponent was a very famous one and everyone asked themselves that who was this mysterious racer of the Akina downhill. This success didn’t make Takumi realize that he had a potential that can be used to be the best racer in all his area instead he said that he wasn’t racing anymore. But there was something that motivates him and it was that he didn’t like to be sub estimated and he won’t let anyone that says is better that him get away without a race. After he won against the strongest racers in Akina and in several areas he finally decided to go to other areas with a group that his best opponent made called “Proyect D” although Ryosuke was his most difficult and intelligent opponent Takumi decided to be in his team because there were the best racers in all Japan and their plans where to take over the racer world and he knew that this group will help him grow as a racer and be the best one. But what is interesting in all this serial is that he make all this possible with a car that is considered a slow one and is a Corolla Trueno AE86 of 1986 and he defeat the best and modern cars only with his abilities and of curse making a lot of adjustments to his car.

Introduction

Around 1672 Ferdinand Verbiest designed a 65 cm-long steam-powered vehicle for the Chinese Emperor Chien Lung, but no one knows if his model was ever built. It is believed that this model was possibly powered by a mechanism like Hero’s steam engine, a spinning wheel with jets on the periphery. This engine consisted in a sphere or cylinder arranged to obtain a rotational motion in a fixed axis, with curved nozzles in opposite directions. When the pressure inside the sphere was increased by the steam, the vapor is expulsed by the nozzles creating a couple or a torque. The following video presents clearly how this invention works.

In fact  Thomas Newcomen create the first engine that had a cylinder and a piston. In 1752 a human-pedalled four-wheeled was constructed by a Russian named Leonty Shamsherenkov who later on proposed to equip it with odometer. Later on was developed the first pressurized steam engine by James Watt in 1765, it results more efficient than Newcomen’s engine.

In 1769 the first vehicle to move under its own power was designed by Nicholas Joseph Cugnot and constructed by M. Brezin. In Paris is displayed at the Conservatoire des Arts et Metiers a replica of this vehicle. In 1789 was granted to Oliver Evans the first automobile in the United States. Evans demonstrated in 1805 that his steam-powered vehicle was able to travel on road wheels on land and via paddle wheel in the water.

After this in 1806, the first cars with internal combustion engines working with fuel gas appear which led to the modern gasoline combustion engine. The process of combustion consists in four steps. The first step is known as Intake stroke, it is when the piston descends from the top of the cylinder to the bottom, as result it reduces the pressure inside the cylinder. The atmospheric pressure forced a mixture of fuel and air into the cylinder through the intake port. The intake valve(s) then close. The second step is known as Compression stroke, it is when the piston returns to the top of the cylinder compressing the fuel-air mixture. The third step of combustion is known as Power stroke, the compressed air-fuel mixture is ignited, usually by the spark plug or by the heat and compression, while the piston is close to Top Dead Center. The resulting massive pressure from the combustion drives the piston back down toward bottom dead center with enormous force. Is the main source of the engine’s torque and Power. The fourth and final step is known as Exhaust stroke, once again the piston returns to top dead center while the exhaust valve is open. In this process the products of combustion are pushed out with the spent of fuel-air mixture of the cylinder through the exhaust valve(s).

Not only the gasoline engine cars appeared, also the electrical cars in the 20^th century, but disappeared in the 21^st century when no one was interest in zero emissions. Sometime later, a French company called Panhard et Levassor, started his own production and sale of vehicles. In 1892, Henry Ford produced his first Ford in North America.

The British took a little more in relation to other European countries due to the law of the Red Banner (1862). This required the vehicle carried only one person in front of him, holding a red flag as a warning. The Lanchester was the first English car and, after him, others came as Subean, Swift, Humber, Riley, Singer, Lagonda and.

In the year 1904, came the first Rolls Royce with a radiator. Europe followed with their fleet of cars: the France (De Dion Bouton, Berliet, Rapid), Italy (Fiat, Alfa-Romeo), Germany (Mercedes Benz), as Switzerland and Spain began a more powerful online luxury: the Hispano-Suiza.

After the First World War, manufacturers began a line of cheaper cars; the cars here would be more compact and manufactured in series. Both Henry Ford, the United States of America, as William Morris in England, produced models such as Ford, Morris and Austin. They had an impressive output of factories. Impressed with the result, then other factories began to produce vehicles in the same way.

In the case of Latin American countries, this development propelled came only after the Second World War. Already in the 30s, foreign factories, such as Ford and General Motors put their assembly lines in the country. But it was only in 1956, began assembling cars. First they manufactured trucks, vans, jeeps, vans and finally cars. This industry was started by the National Motor Factory, which was responsible for the production of heavy trucks.
Soon after, cars and trucks began to be manufactured: Volkswagen, Charger (Ford), Opal (Chevrolet), Terrace, Regent and Dart (Chrysler). All these vehicles, although assembled in Brazil, were designed in the European headquarters and U.S., using the majority of parts and equipment imported.

Unlike the past, today the car has features such as comfort and speed, and is much more quiet and safe. Now days, the cars have gone through many changes, and these, becoming increasingly coveted by many consumers. The entire manufacturing process creates millions of jobs worldwide and billions of dollars, generating profits for multinational companies that manufacture them.

Work Cited

Bottorff, William W. “What Was The First Car?” Austin Business Computers, Inc. 11 Aug 2010 <http://www.ausbcomp.com/~bbott/cars/carhist.htm>

Hero’s Steam Engine. 2007. 12 Aug 2010 <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6PYlFlyNg_w>

“History of the automobile.” Wikipedia Encyclopedia. 7 Aug 2010. En.Wikipedia.org. 11 Aug 2010. <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_automobile>

Prologue

Dear Reader

When I started to think for a theme for my project I realize that my topic has to be one that symbolizes an important key in World’s development.  Initially I chose a topic that wasn’t related to cars. But something occurs that change my mind.

In my forced “vacations” during the strike, I had the opportunity to participate in a car engine change. It was a grateful experience because I had learned a lot about some parts of the engine and their functions. Since that day I transformed in a car fan and I wanted to know deeply about its composition. That’s the reason why I chose this topic. Automobiles have been an useful way of transportation and represents an important tool in the humanity. As an engineering student I always has been interested on how everything works, especially machines.

This multi-genre paper will let you get informed about how this vital machine was originated. Also it included a photo gallery album of my favorite cars and collage with pictures since older cars until newest. One of my genres presents in a colorful way some countries with their respective car marks. If you know about cars you can test how much you know by the Quiz provided in one of the genres. Finally I think that this paper will let appreciate the tough work for the creation of automobiles and its constant evolution in a diverse ways.

The Annotated Bibliography

Markoof, John. “Car’s Computer Systems Called at Risk to Hackers” New York Times on the Web 13 May 2010. 12 Aug 2010<http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/14/science/14hack.html?_r=1&ref=automobile_technology>

This article is about a group of scientists that discovered that the technology of the computer system of a car is at risk because as these systems advances with the internet technology they are more at risks because of the hackers that they will be able to control the car like if they were hacking another computer. They can be able to control a group of functions in the car that includes stopping the engine, breaking it or even break an individual tire to make it turn. This is a big problem for the manufacturers because the customers who will buy their products are at risk to these hackers.

Ransom, Kevin. “Not All Horsepower Addicts Are Men.” Aol Autos (2010) 11 Aug 2010 <http://autos.aol.com/article/women-love-muscle-cars/>

In this article it is exposed an interesting point of view. It shows that not only men, also women could be passionate with speedy cars. The author of this article supports this idea by giving the experiences of two women that make this exception. It includes part of an interview made to hers and how since childhood they notice their interest in high-speed and the opportunities that they had to participate in important races.

Staff Writers Shangai. “China to invest 15 billion dollars in green cars” Space Daily. 4 Aug 2010. 12 Aug 2010<http://www.spacedaily.com/reports/China_to_invest_15_ billion_dollars_in_green_cars_999.html>

China will invest billions to make saving –energy cars. They have in plans to become one of the best sellers in this type of cars “green cars” because this type of car reduces the emissions in the atmosphere making it cleaner for their country. They wait that next moth the council will approve this projects so they can start their production. They also will give a reduction in prices so it can be beneficial to the clients and at the same time will attract more people to buy them.

Swanson, Fisher. “How to Save Gas.” Sport Cars. 12 Aug 2010 <http://www.2sportscars.com/savegas.shtml>

This article is based on recommendations, tips or advices that we could follow if the price of the gasoline rise or if you want to save it. It presents eighteen easy possibilities that could help to save this important fluid. You can use one or more of these tips, to make this strategy more effective.  Also when you save gas you also are saving money. Today’s economy is on crisis and this article could be very helpful now days.

Welch, David and Clothier, Mark. “The Combustion Engine Gets Downsized.” Business week 29 Jul 2010. 11 Aug 2010.<http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/10_32/ b4190036463034.htm?chan=autos_autos+–+lifestyle+subindex+page_top+stories>

The Idea of this project is to develop a new design of an engine called OPAC that works by having two horizontal pistons in each horizontal cylinder. This idea was made by John Colleti an ex engineer of the Ford Company. He gave the idea to Vinod Khosla co-founder of Sun Microsystems who wanted an advice on a new engine technology in which he was considering investing because the design would deliver a promised 50 percent improvement in fuel economy. The main question is that they hope people and manufacturers will be comfortable with this type of engine because everyone is used to the common engine. But one advantage that it have is that is goanna be cheaper than current hybrid cars.

Multi-genres

Genre #1 Collage

Genre #2 Quiz

Quiz: How much you know about cars

Genre #3 Wanted Poster

Genre #4 Map with a legend

Genre #5 Photo gallery album

Epilogue

I really enjoy writing this paper in a new way. I didn’t like cars before, but writing this paper my interest in it increase. Now I can interpret the automobiles with a different point of view, like an useful creation for our wellbeing. Also when I saw pictures of different types and years of cars I clearly noticed amazing modifications. With this project I learned the origin of the construction of cars. Also I find some countries with their respective marks of cars, what I represent with a map in one of my genres, for an easier understanding. I hope that my project and the genres used in it enlarged the knowledge of my readers. This writing have the mission to inform the reader and I think that it have the enough tools to accomplish it.

The first time I see this picture, I think “It is an extraordinary graphical representation.” But next I start to have a deep look and a crazy idea cross my mind “It could be the artist’s imagination of a natural creation of another Venice? Or a natural creation of a river?” Why I said natural creation? I said this because if we look carefully the walls of the river, its have parts that looks like lava, and maybe the lava make the big crack in the street and it doesn’t destroy everything around it because the water cool off the lava before it keeps melting all the city.

I also ask myself “This picture is showing one of the possible happenings that can occur in the future caused by the Global Warming?” It could be possible because the Earth is getting warmer because the magma in the center of this planet is heating up. Maybe the purpose of this picture is to make conscience and the consideration of options to slow down the Global Warming.

I notice something contradictory in this picture, the crack in the street and all the stuff happening in that city is something to worried about it and the people in the picture are just fine. They doesn’t  look scare, running for their lives or hiding. Everything looks normal for them, they look like “nothing is happening, everything is fine”. One thing that shocked me, is the kid in the edge of the street throwing things to the river, without fear to fall down.What will be the purpose of the artist with this? Why if something bad is happening, the people look like they are acting normal? This painting is a way that the creator uses to make an indirect criticism? Maybe the painter is making a criticism with it. Looking this in the Global warming point of view I notice that the author is criticizing the people that doesn’t care this serious problem that affect all the World and that is getting worse everyday.

This is my interpretation  of this picture, but I wanted to know yours.

Every week at least we know or talk to another person, how difficult it is to accept people, how difficult it is to accept people how they are. Every head is another world with different thoughts and different feelings. What if all the people in this world act the same way or talk and think the same things, it would be better or it would be worse? Sometimes we relate to persons and we don’t really like how the person is, but it will not be worst if everyone think as you? Everything will get bored and I think all marriage broke down because the society will enter in monotony that everyone will kill themselves. I think that God made things well and perfect creating different types of societies and different styles of living this life. This put me to think, that’s why our father and mother are so different because in love two persons with a totally same way of thinking cannot live together as a marriage. Meeting someone is so easy but accept them how they are so difficult. That’s why all my friends are different from me. I couldn’t stand hanging around with someone that is having my same thoughts. Why does all got to be so complicated? Why can we just not get together and pass a good time as friends without having problems or discussions about or different points of view? But if the society thought the same way we shouldn’t got wars and we shouldn’t have to send our parents to fight a war that doesn’t concern us. Maybe the prisons don’t need to exist because everyone is good. Guns never need to exist because no one is going to kill everybody. The youth people of this world could hang out without worrying about getting killed by others and our parents shouldn’t get worried about our security. We shouldn’t have more accidents in the road because everyone will respect the laws. So what do you think? Is this world is better having diversities in our living style or we should all be the same? What about if everyone is the same but only with bad things in our mind? This is really as life.

This world got so many people and cultures, and it has so many diversities, but we are just a little period in the universe and this put me to think, Are we alone?

Since childhood everyone in my family and in the society keeps talking about the “aliens” and the mysterious appearing in the sky of this UFO (unidentified flying objects) and I always wonder if this is really real. I always look into the sky trying to figure out or waiting to see something that gives me the result, but it’s all so complicated, we have in mind that they doesn’t exist but at the same time everybody talks about the Area 51; the famous spaceships landings and everything else. Why if they really exists the government or the society don’t let the truth go out and keep people away from reality if it is true. Is the government afraid of something? Does this world really belong to us? Or we are just part of another society that we don’t know.

This is a really spontaneous way of thinking but I don’t discard it because if someone or something is continuously visiting our world and we don’t know what it is or where it came from, it means we are a very inferior society compared to what is coming to visit this world because we don’t know everything and we haven’t discovered even another planet that contains living creatures or if humans can live in it. I know someday this world is going to discover all the truth but we need to be mentally prepared as a society to collaborate or even live in the same world within another species; or maybe we’ll get exterminated by this species and it’s the called end of the world. I don’t know what’s going to happen in a future but I know that future near so we just prepared and accept all human been in this world and leave the wars between us apart to accept another specie or unite our society to fight against another one.

Maybe a lot of people had dreamed with travel to Egypt, Austria, England, Paris, ect. But what would happen if somebody asks you to travel to Australia? That was my case. Two years ago a leader of  a group in my church, which I belongs to, in representation of the Holy Pope asks to the Puerto Rican youth to go to Australia to evangelize the people who live there. On July 11, 2008 a  bunch of young people start the long travel to Australia. We arrived to Miami to take another airplane to Los Angeles, and the next day the airplane to Sydney, Australia. When we get out of the airport in Sydney it was extremely cold, because it was winter over there and the date wouldn’t change,it still being July 11. It was strange we live the same day twice. We daily evangelize in different places and at night we gather to tell our experiences. Also we take some days to visit touristic places like Blue Mountains, a small island named Manly and the famous Opera House in the harbor of Sydney. It will sound funny but when I get over there, the movie of Finding Nemo came to my mind. I only had the voice of Dory in my head saying “Sydney!, Sydney!, Sydney!” On July 19  around of 235,000 pilgrims walk since the Mary Mackillop Chapel, over the Sydney Harbor Bridge until the Randwick Racecourse. The pilgrims attend to an overnight vigil, slept there overnight and the next day the Holy Pope close the celebration with the Final Mass. Also I went to another city of Australia, to Brisbane. This city was away of Sydney and we had to take an airplane to get there. We evangelize in a beach, because we know that maybe there were a lot of people. Also we  visit an aquarium, and a zoo. In the zoo I had the opportunity  to see a kangaroo and to carry an koala. This was my first time traveling, it was an exciting experience.

Julitsa Martínez

Professor Ellen Pratt

English 3231

8 April 2010

How bad or good could be synthetic food?

In recent discussions about human health, a controversial issue has been whether synthetic food effects people appearance. On the one hand, some argue that synthetic food let the creators make mixtures of different types of foods and explore new flavors. On the other hand, however, others argue that synthetic food had secondary effects that change the appearance of the person who eat it.

One implication of the synthetic food’s creation process is that they have to change the molecules bonding and genetic properties, using a chemical named “Peltrophryne lemur”. An anonymous scientist, member of the Almost Real food Inc. indicate that it is a natural substance obtained of the frog mucus and that is carefully neutralized the venom that it contains. Personally, I think that is a disgusting option to make synthetic food, maybe they should try or consider other options. Also the venom of some animals can be very dangerous.

Many people assumed that the synthetic food can now be bought with different varieties of vitamins and minerals so you can choose the same food of your favorite with the vitamins that you need. “So now you can buy hamburger with calcium or a cupcake without sugar but tasting like it and giving it a touch of proteins.” “Synthetic food is a good option for parents, because they can give to their children all the vitamins and nutrients that they want without forcing them to eat things that they don’t like” argue the Dr. María Guzman, nutritionist, in an interview that she had in the Our children’s health program.

On the contrary, some others totally disagreed with this invention. According to the book “Playing to be God”, religious people think that God has already made the job of giving us something to eat and the Scientifics shouldn’t play to be God doing these synthetic foods. According to the Guatalamajara Newspaper some people had been affected with some strange secondary effects. “In recent days an anonymous person eat these food and in the next day he noticed that his tongue was a little bit more long and thinner so it seems he had some very bad secondary effects eating these kind of food.”

I agree with the idea of the nutrients and minerals but at the same time I think that scientists should find another way without using the frog mucus because if they do something wrong neutralizing this substance it can be mortal to children and adults because the frog mucus contains a very high toxin level that can paralyze your brain in less than six hours. Also they have to check carefully what chemical, process or mistake is producing these secondary effects on some people that eat it. Is this our future children food? How knows.

Work Cited:

Peterson, Gabriel. Playing to be God. Pennsylvania : Religious Press, 1831.

Cannon,Steven. “Almost Real food, Inc: knowing more of our company.” Business. Sep. 1978: 24.

“Synthetic food, a benefit or a risk?” Guatalamajara Newspaper 18 Abr. 1995: A-13.

“Our children’s health.”Northen Exposure. CBS, KCRA, Sacramento. 14 May. 1999.

Synthetic food. “Commercial” YouTube.17 Dec 2000.