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Archive for January, 2009

Yes we can!

Posted by joangg154 on January 21, 2009

Finally a new hope for  America and the world: Obama has become the new president of the USA. If you want to listen to his most famous speech, click here for the words and watch this video, especially from 9:06, where the line “We know the battle ahead will be long…” starts.

And to listen to the song they made with it, here you are:

But what does Obama refers to? Of course, he’s referring to the values stated in the Declaration of Independence. If you want to read its most famous excerpt, click here

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You can fool all the people…

Posted by joangg154 on January 12, 2009

“You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.“   Abraham Lincoln

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The Generalitat Valenciana has spent lots of money on propaganda – not just advertising – to disguise its boycott of the subject Educación para la Ciudadanía as a defence of trilingualism. But you can see what they are up to (= se les ve el plumero) comparing the evolution of the money spent on Eurocursos:

2008

2009

Available places

900

670

Price

€350

€450

You can draw your own conclusions.

And as usual, its application period (periode de sol.licitud)  nearly (quasi) overlaps (coincideix) the school Christmas holidays, so that we have little time to encourage the students to apply (sol.licitar) and to solve all the necessary paperwork (paperassa).

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