Sunday, October 20, 2013
Mikaela Martínez, Bruno Tapia, Marcel Cabrera
In 1997 Gary Kasparov (the world chess champion) faced Deep Blue (the IMB's supercomputer), a machine versus its creator, the human being. Kasparov was sure about his victory because he could reason but the machine could not. However, due to a software bug the machine beat the champion, so Kasparov thought that the machine had reasoned which was the most appropriate move because it was impossible to do that without thinking it carefully. The IBM's engineers analyzed the computer's behavior using different tests and realized that the machine could answer intelligently. This was the first time in history that human beings created a machine which has the amazing feature of reasoning, as human beings do. IMB started to produce more and more machines which had the same feature, without considering that they were capable to take control over the humans and reach our intelligence until they could destroy humanity as we know it today. When the engineers realized that their invention could endangered human life, there wasn't any way to come back, the end is getting closer.
Pablo Maurer-Neuman
I was the
luckiest person on earth!
That day my life change forever.
Last week I decided to take a plane to Paris, the city of love and romance. Unluckily
for me, the main reason for travelling is the fact that that these dates are
the best for international business and I really needed to sign a good
agreement for my company.
Last Monday I woke up at six o'clock
a.m. My day started early due to the journey. It was a sunny and clear day in
Montevideo city where the weather conditions seemed to be good enough to travel
by plane.
Having breakfast something
unexpected happened. The moment I was testing my coffee I broke the cup,
falling all the coffee on my shirt. As a consequence I had to change my shirt
and it took me twenty minutes to get an appropriate for the occasion.
After leaving my flat I went to the
parking to go towards the airport. Being sit in the car, I was annoyed for its
problems to work. Ten minutes later I went to the street and I tried to take a
taxi. In a similar way it was difficult because most of them were busy.
Although taxis were busy, buses were available with no complications. That is
why I decided to take one.
I was terrified because I was being
late. My plane took off at quarter past nine and I arrived at the airport at
twenty past nine. I could not think what had happened.
I had mixed feelings. I felt furious! But on the other hand I was depressed and
I thought I was the most miserable person on earth.
Having lost the plane I had lost the
opportunity of signing the most important agreement of my life.
In the afternoon, even sad, I was
sit on my couch and when I saw the most shocking news of my life. I was stunned
when I realize that the plane I pretended to take crashed ten minutes before
landing.
Now I feel thrilled, like full of
happiness because I did no lost an agreement I won life!
Bryan Andrés Araujo Blanco, Sofia Constantino, Cecilia de los Santos
Night-Night!
Once upon a time I had a dream....
When I was a child I had gone on vacations with my parents. I still remember that they rented an old house near the outskirts or Miami. We took a plane and we traveled to Florida.
When we arrived at the house I felt that a chill toured my body and from that moment on I did not like the place. I didn’t like it and we seemed remain there for seven days, It didn’t seem any good.
Everything seemed to be in order, we were having the best vacation of our lives, but was the third night when I heard a lot of strange noises. I was very scared and stayed immobile in my bed, then I slept. The next day, at morning, I woke up very confused about what happened night. I thought that it was only a bad dream within a beautiful dream.
I had a wonderful day with my family, but this night would be the worst of my life. When evening, I couldn’t sleep. After a few minutes my parents and my brother were sleeping when began to hear noises again, this time I was determined to get up and go to see. Then I took courage, I stood up and started walking out of my room when all of a sudden the door slammed shut.
The next hour was the most terrifying of my life. I just screamed, and every time louder until it was over. I could only open the door and run away while my family was being shattered by a kind of supernatural force. I couldn’t do nothing more that let me drop on my knees and my affliction.
When I saw that life was going, I just woke up from this horror dream.
Once upon a time I had a dream....
When I was a child I had gone on vacations with my parents. I still remember that they rented an old house near the outskirts or Miami. We took a plane and we traveled to Florida.
When we arrived at the house I felt that a chill toured my body and from that moment on I did not like the place. I didn’t like it and we seemed remain there for seven days, It didn’t seem any good.
Everything seemed to be in order, we were having the best vacation of our lives, but was the third night when I heard a lot of strange noises. I was very scared and stayed immobile in my bed, then I slept. The next day, at morning, I woke up very confused about what happened night. I thought that it was only a bad dream within a beautiful dream.
I had a wonderful day with my family, but this night would be the worst of my life. When evening, I couldn’t sleep. After a few minutes my parents and my brother were sleeping when began to hear noises again, this time I was determined to get up and go to see. Then I took courage, I stood up and started walking out of my room when all of a sudden the door slammed shut.
The next hour was the most terrifying of my life. I just screamed, and every time louder until it was over. I could only open the door and run away while my family was being shattered by a kind of supernatural force. I couldn’t do nothing more that let me drop on my knees and my affliction.
When I saw that life was going, I just woke up from this horror dream.
Thursday, October 17, 2013
Camila Machado, Fiorella Almeida, Analía Moré, Valentina Mendez
Zombies don’t fall in love… right?
Year 2085
I never was the kind of guy who thought too much about what happens in my life. I never stopped to think why things happen to me. But ... instead of boring you with these thoughts that don’t make sense, I'll tell you about what this is. So ... hello! My name is Bastian and I'm a human now. This is my story.
I was born as a normal child in the planet “Polybius”, living a normal life with my normal parents. I went to school and had friends as any normal teenager does. I had a best friend and I was completely in love with her. Her name is Emily. It was as if we had been born to be together, and we started dating. Everything went well, we were completely in love.
One day everything changed, a kind of virus attacked us. We don’t know how, we don’t know where and little by little, we all became… zombies? It’s sounds a little crazy I know, I know.
But in some strange way, we weren’t the kind of slow zombies with serious mental problems. Our intelligence remained intact. But our memories had been modified. I didn’t remember my old life and the people I cared about. Of course in that moment I didn’t know anything of this.
I saw how all those… zombies ate the rest of humans that stayed alive and I’ve decided that I didn’t want to do that. I preferred to eat grass.
One day when I was completely starving and my determination began to crumble down, I saw her. And in that moment I think that my heart was beating again. I came close to her and she looked at me, her eyes looked familiar to me.
We began to get to know each other and she told me how she didn't eat human brains either. In some way I think I fell in love with her, but… zombies don’t fall in love… right?
A few days later found that these zombies had decided to travel to "Planet Earth" and that there would some humans that they could eat.
Emily and I really care about preventing this, so we decided to take a little spaceship and come to Planet Earth before all these zombies did.
When we get there we found out that all those humans, instead of running away… they were waiting for us. They explained to us that they have a cure for zombie-ism. I wasn’t sure about it, but Emily told me that we had to trust them… She gave me a kind of hug and then we were separated. I was held in a room for what I thought was a long time (after I was told it was only for 24 hours). I fell into a deep sleep that had a beautiful sunshine and I was in a meadow, green as that color crayon I used at school. In that dream Emily was with me and she smiled at me. Oh, how much I love her smile. That was all. I woke up and the first thing I saw was a doctor. He was telling me something but I didn't listen to him. He helped me to get up and show me my reflection in the mirror. I was human again.
I had to stay under observation for a few days, but in my mind I just wanted to see Emily. My human memories before I become zombie were gone, but remembered every moment we spent together, Emily and I, and our "vegetarian diet".
When all Polibian zombies came, I was ordered by the armed forces to remain in safety.
At that time, I again experienced all human emotions that I had completely forgotten. Despair, anger, anxiety, loneliness, each thinking about Emily. If she was even alive.
A few weeks later I was allowed to see Emily. She was radiant, even better than when we were zombies and I just… I fell in love all over again.
We found out that the inhabitant zombies from Polybius had returned to humanity. Some of them died. Some of them were alive.
It took over a year for us to adapt to being human again. Emily was with me for the entire process.
We faced all the new things together; the new world and all those feelings.
Maybe some things are meant to happen. Maybe being a zombie was a great experience. Of course, who is going to believe in this story? Even I think that it was all was part of a some crazy dream.
Anyway, Emily is with me and she reminds me all the good in life. She reminds me what is real.
THE END
Year 2085
I never was the kind of guy who thought too much about what happens in my life. I never stopped to think why things happen to me. But ... instead of boring you with these thoughts that don’t make sense, I'll tell you about what this is. So ... hello! My name is Bastian and I'm a human now. This is my story.
I was born as a normal child in the planet “Polybius”, living a normal life with my normal parents. I went to school and had friends as any normal teenager does. I had a best friend and I was completely in love with her. Her name is Emily. It was as if we had been born to be together, and we started dating. Everything went well, we were completely in love.
One day everything changed, a kind of virus attacked us. We don’t know how, we don’t know where and little by little, we all became… zombies? It’s sounds a little crazy I know, I know.
But in some strange way, we weren’t the kind of slow zombies with serious mental problems. Our intelligence remained intact. But our memories had been modified. I didn’t remember my old life and the people I cared about. Of course in that moment I didn’t know anything of this.
I saw how all those… zombies ate the rest of humans that stayed alive and I’ve decided that I didn’t want to do that. I preferred to eat grass.
One day when I was completely starving and my determination began to crumble down, I saw her. And in that moment I think that my heart was beating again. I came close to her and she looked at me, her eyes looked familiar to me.
We began to get to know each other and she told me how she didn't eat human brains either. In some way I think I fell in love with her, but… zombies don’t fall in love… right?
A few days later found that these zombies had decided to travel to "Planet Earth" and that there would some humans that they could eat.
Emily and I really care about preventing this, so we decided to take a little spaceship and come to Planet Earth before all these zombies did.
When we get there we found out that all those humans, instead of running away… they were waiting for us. They explained to us that they have a cure for zombie-ism. I wasn’t sure about it, but Emily told me that we had to trust them… She gave me a kind of hug and then we were separated. I was held in a room for what I thought was a long time (after I was told it was only for 24 hours). I fell into a deep sleep that had a beautiful sunshine and I was in a meadow, green as that color crayon I used at school. In that dream Emily was with me and she smiled at me. Oh, how much I love her smile. That was all. I woke up and the first thing I saw was a doctor. He was telling me something but I didn't listen to him. He helped me to get up and show me my reflection in the mirror. I was human again.
I had to stay under observation for a few days, but in my mind I just wanted to see Emily. My human memories before I become zombie were gone, but remembered every moment we spent together, Emily and I, and our "vegetarian diet".
When all Polibian zombies came, I was ordered by the armed forces to remain in safety.
At that time, I again experienced all human emotions that I had completely forgotten. Despair, anger, anxiety, loneliness, each thinking about Emily. If she was even alive.
A few weeks later I was allowed to see Emily. She was radiant, even better than when we were zombies and I just… I fell in love all over again.
We found out that the inhabitant zombies from Polybius had returned to humanity. Some of them died. Some of them were alive.
It took over a year for us to adapt to being human again. Emily was with me for the entire process.
We faced all the new things together; the new world and all those feelings.
Maybe some things are meant to happen. Maybe being a zombie was a great experience. Of course, who is going to believe in this story? Even I think that it was all was part of a some crazy dream.
Anyway, Emily is with me and she reminds me all the good in life. She reminds me what is real.
THE END
Eliana Lopez, Naielly Larrosa
Something frightening happened to me the other day.I was on my way home from school. I got off the bus at the corner of my road and started to walk towards our house. Then I thought "This is stranger There is a car outside our house". I looked inside because I wanted to see what they were like. At first i thought there was nobody in it. Then i saw a old man lying on the floor of the car. His eyes were shut and his face was white. I didn't want to open the car door, I was too frightened, so I went indoors to telephone the police.
Mum wasn't home and I was alone. I dialed 911 and asked for the police. A police man wrote down my name and address. However, I don't think he believed my story. Then I heard a car start. I looked out of the window and saw the car disappearing, round the corner.
The police never came and still don't know what happened to man, but it gave me a horrible fright. My dad said it was a good story, and he enjoyed it very much! But I promise you, I didn't imagine it. It was all true.
Valentina de Lima and Cecilia Salas
freaky friday!!
It is always necessary to be attentive when we walk along the street, to pay attention to the traffic lights and to the traffic that surrounds us. One day.. i remember it was friday when we go out the school in the evening, we were returning to my house. We were chatting and listening to music without realize that we had to pay attention when we cross the street . We were on a corner waiting for the traffic light to turn green so we could cross the street, when suddenly Cecilia did not wait for the light to change color.. the bus driver blew the honk very furiously,Cecilia even notice what was going on around her.When the light changed to green, I went to the street and i told Cecilia what happened, unfortunately she had not realized she's almost run over by a bus. In the moment, I was very nervous but everything was alright after that. I told her that she shouldn't cross the street when the light is red and that she should not use earphones when she is walking in the street because you cannot listen to anything. That moment was horrible because I was afraid that something bad will happen to her Cecilia could not believe what I was telling her. She had not even realized what was happened around her .
She recognised that crossing the street with red light was wrong, and she never ever would do that again
It is always necessary to be attentive when we walk along the street, to pay attention to the traffic lights and to the traffic that surrounds us. One day.. i remember it was friday when we go out the school in the evening, we were returning to my house. We were chatting and listening to music without realize that we had to pay attention when we cross the street . We were on a corner waiting for the traffic light to turn green so we could cross the street, when suddenly Cecilia did not wait for the light to change color.. the bus driver blew the honk very furiously,Cecilia even notice what was going on around her.When the light changed to green, I went to the street and i told Cecilia what happened, unfortunately she had not realized she's almost run over by a bus. In the moment, I was very nervous but everything was alright after that. I told her that she shouldn't cross the street when the light is red and that she should not use earphones when she is walking in the street because you cannot listen to anything. That moment was horrible because I was afraid that something bad will happen to her Cecilia could not believe what I was telling her. She had not even realized what was happened around her .
She recognised that crossing the street with red light was wrong, and she never ever would do that again
Friday, September 27, 2013
Jenny Ferreyra , Valentina Oviedo and Fernando Quirico
LOVE IS DANGEROUS
One day I met the guy of my life , we love them so much . He gave me love , care and trust, I gave him double what he gave me, until I gave him my virginity. I never wanted to see me with another man. We were too faithful to each other , we both believe in love. I was so happy , he calls me and I call princess prince . We were a real couple and we wanted to show true love to those who say that no longer exists . My friends told me that I did not commit that much as it would be too hard to let go when needed. I said it's too late because I feel for the first time committed , I hugged him and let the heart feel the warmth of love . My heart was broken when my prince told me I had to go to the Congo , I knew he was training for the army and that something will happen, but it was hard to believe they really go away. I still remember his last words. He said : " Sofia , my dear princess , could you wait until I get back ? " I do not even know when you will return , but I promised that I would expect . He promised to marry and start a family with me when I return. I waited a total of five years for him.
The first year I wrote letters, said it made the year better , but the remaining four years was like I'm seeing a ghost , someone who does not exist, but I was obsecionada for the love you gave me. After five years I have been told my prince is near, I got so excited and happy to see him much , had many questions for you , first why he stopped writing to me. Second , why did not he tell me that he returned . I went straight to his house , knocked on his door but unfortunately was a beautiful young woman opened the door , I asked her who she is, while I could see it could be his girlfriend because she was African , but I was wrong , not is his girlfriend, who is his wife, had three children ... I just felt his voice asking " dear who is at the door ? " His response was " an American woman ." I left the house with a painful heart and eyes full of tears, when I was walking down the street October 8th try throw me in the tunnel , but it did not work , unfortunately remains alive , the month of the accident, I came the sad news that my prince had been dead from an overdose .
I felt that I had the world at that very moment , did not stop mourn , I wanted to die , cease to exist until the point it reaches the conclusion that LOVE IS DANGEROUS !
One day I met the guy of my life , we love them so much . He gave me love , care and trust, I gave him double what he gave me, until I gave him my virginity. I never wanted to see me with another man. We were too faithful to each other , we both believe in love. I was so happy , he calls me and I call princess prince . We were a real couple and we wanted to show true love to those who say that no longer exists . My friends told me that I did not commit that much as it would be too hard to let go when needed. I said it's too late because I feel for the first time committed , I hugged him and let the heart feel the warmth of love . My heart was broken when my prince told me I had to go to the Congo , I knew he was training for the army and that something will happen, but it was hard to believe they really go away. I still remember his last words. He said : " Sofia , my dear princess , could you wait until I get back ? " I do not even know when you will return , but I promised that I would expect . He promised to marry and start a family with me when I return. I waited a total of five years for him.
The first year I wrote letters, said it made the year better , but the remaining four years was like I'm seeing a ghost , someone who does not exist, but I was obsecionada for the love you gave me. After five years I have been told my prince is near, I got so excited and happy to see him much , had many questions for you , first why he stopped writing to me. Second , why did not he tell me that he returned . I went straight to his house , knocked on his door but unfortunately was a beautiful young woman opened the door , I asked her who she is, while I could see it could be his girlfriend because she was African , but I was wrong , not is his girlfriend, who is his wife, had three children ... I just felt his voice asking " dear who is at the door ? " His response was " an American woman ." I left the house with a painful heart and eyes full of tears, when I was walking down the street October 8th try throw me in the tunnel , but it did not work , unfortunately remains alive , the month of the accident, I came the sad news that my prince had been dead from an overdose .
I felt that I had the world at that very moment , did not stop mourn , I wanted to die , cease to exist until the point it reaches the conclusion that LOVE IS DANGEROUS !
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