Anastasia Vins 17827

Reflection note This semester we have made a lot of things. Talking about this course I can definitely point out such details which I have found useful as, first of all, working in not typically way (use blogger.com as the main resource of communication with the teacher), secondly, talks about global problems, for instance, depression, abortion, new technologies and so on. However, I have found one thing that I did not like. For example, the whole site Blogger.com has a lot of bugs, so sometimes it was really hard to work here (the problems connected with posting, deleting comments.) In my opinion, it would be better for us to change the platform for more productive work. In the next semester, I would really like to teach some theory, not only have practice. I think, that I was doing many mistakes in my works just because I have forgot or did not know the theory of writing or formalization my texts. I really enjoyed discussing global problems in our class, so it would be nic...

Final Essay Nowadays people live in a time of new technologies and innovations. Most of them, especially teenagers, really depend on their phones, laptops and other digitals. Young people spend hours in the social media and do nothing in real life, so sometimes it is hard for them to give up using electronic devices. That is why some people hold the opinion that the usage of technologies has a lot of drawbacks. Others agree that it is reasonable. In my opinion, many problems have appeared in our generation due to smartphones, pads and computers. First of all, young people have become obsessed with their gadgets. They use it 24/7, so the level of knowledge, the skill of memorizing information among students have become lower, but the level of laziness has increased. Teenagers spend most of their free time using mobile phones instead of studying, reading books or doing other activities despite using digitals. Secondly, people gained a huge amount of health problems such as poor ey...

About Stereotypes I have chosen an article which is called "Hollywood Stereotypes: Why Are Russians the Bad Guys?" It was posted on BBC site on November 5th, 2014 and written  by Tom Brook.  I've found it really interesting to read because the author explains the reasons why Hollywood film directors most of the time choose Russians as villians. To begin with, Brook uses Nina Khrushcheva's words, the great-granddaughter of the Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev, as an argument that due to the Cold War people have an assosiation with Russia as villians. Moreover, these stereotypes are supported by the Vladimir Putin's tough stance as the reason for the increased presence of Russian villains now. Secondly, the author mentions a few stereotypes which are connected with another countries and nationalities. For example, Brook tells us about 9/11 attacks, so this made a growing concern among Arab-Americans that they were being typecast as terrorists. In addition...

The Summary The article "The Da Vinci mystery: why is his $450m masterpiece really being kept under wraps? " written by Jonathan Jones is devoted to the discussion of the problem of the painting which is called "Salvator Mundi". Specialists all around the world cannot identify who is the author of this painting.  First, the author draws our attention to the prehistory of Salvador Mundi and tells us about all the auction bidding and how this painting has become the most expensive painting in the world.  Then Jonathan emphasizes that the painting that was bought by Louvre Abu Dhabi was not exhibited on September 18th, and this was suddenly and mysteriously postponed. In addition, he tells about the argues among the specialists and the details which mislead about the authenticity of Salvator Mundi all people around the world. In the end, once again Jones wonders about whose masterpiece this is.

Dear all, Let's start our blog!     Natalya Yu. have shown me the Gurdian newspaper website , and I'd like to share with you some information about an interesting article I've come across. It's about new version of a video game Dark Souls titled  Dark Souls: Remastered Rewiew - Dark Fantasy RPG Makes Glorious Return . Here you can get to know about new features of the first remastered part of Dark Souls. In general, the developers improved the graphic arts and fixed the most famous bugs, but most importantly, they improved online system. There is no problem anymore to connect to each other and play together.     Moreover, the game  has been handled by Polish studio QLOC rather than the original developer, FromSoftware, so the new modification is that  the online system allow more people to play together.     However, the price of the remastered Dark Soul is quite high. You have to pay 29.99 pounds to buy new Dark Soul, and, from ...