Thesis Statement: TV advertisements

Higher fines would help to dissuade TV Companies from publishing too much publicity and inappropiate advertisements that the youngest and most sensitive public can watch at some time.

Outline

1. Doing Taekwondo a few times a week can benefit not only our body, but to our mind too.
2. Physical benefits.

• Improves strength
• - During the training you are expected to use as much strength as possible.
• Increases flexibility
• -Flexibility exercises are practised in every session
• -You do need to flexible to do advanced techniques and kicks
• Increases resistance
• -Every training session starts with warm-up exercises that become harder and harder
• -These exercises avoid possible lesions and prepares your body for the training

     3. Mental benefits.

•   Improves quick thinking
• -Your sabonim expects you to obey his/her orders quickly. If you do not, yo can be punished
•  Improves concentration
• -To stay focused, you have to count loudly how many times you have repeated an exercise

     4. Therefore, Taekwondo may be a hard sport, but undeniably will increase you physical and mental condition

Books, glorious books~

Diane Setterfield is an English writer that was totally unknown for me until a few years ago.
When I was in the high school I went to a bookshop and looked for some books to keep entertained during a long trip by bus. There, I discovered The Kingkiller Chronicle and bought too The Odyssey. A third book caught my attention, but I had just bought two books, so I came back home.
A few days later, I still was thinking about the cover of that book and wondering about what kind of story it had.
Fortunately, the book was still in the same place when I came back to that shop, so I bought it. This novel is The Thirteenth Tale.
Vida Winter is a really famous and old novelist that has always been lying when she was asked about her life. The novelist knows that her death is near, so she asks for Margaret's (the protagonist) help to write her biography; the thirteenth and last work, The Thirteenth Tale.
This book may don't seem very interesting; the slow rhythm and Margaret's dull, shy and sad personality actually made me drop the story, but when I restarted reading two years ago, I discovered a wonderful suspense tale, full of misteries and secrets waiting for me.
The Thirteenth Tale gave me back the love for reading, and made me believe that there are thousands of stories out there, waiting to be read by someone, and we must dedicate them the time they require.
The Thirteenth Tale became one of my favourite books, and now I do regret to have left it years ago.
Nowadays it is a bit difficult to find it physically sold, but please, if you can, buy it and read it.
You may think that it is boring, but dedicate it enough time and you will discover that you actually love it. You will not regret.

Tutorial: How to train your dog

It's amazing the amount of people that gets a dog and they have no idea about how educate them, they have problems and they decide to abandone or give their pet. I have always had dogs, so I would like to make a tutorial with the techniques I used to educate mine.
In first place, we must be sure about what kind of pet are we getting. If you are a low-energy person or have no experience with dogs, you should get a calm and submissive puppy, or maybe an adult dog.
Puppies are cute and cuddly, but their education begins since they come in our home.
Even if they look cute, we must not allow them to bite anything, only their toys. We can do this just by saying 'No!' in a energetic way or using a soft 'touch' on their side. We can use this same technique if we observe a possesive or bad behavior.
  [Cesar Millán using his touch method to keep the dog calm and submissive during his rehabilitation]

The next step  is socializing our dog. Dogs are social animals, so they need to meet, walk and play with other dogs. To socialize our dog properly, we must walk him everyday and let him know and smell some dogs. If you know somebody who has calm dogs, it would be a great idea to wak them all together, like a pride. Doing this, we will have in the future a balanced and friendly dog, so we will avoid the fightings between  dominant and insecure dogs.

There are a lot of different dogs with different behaviours, and there are many different tips too, but I considered that these are the most important to educate our pet on an easy way.

Pokémon II

Let's continue with Pokémon. Today I am going to explain how does the game work and its evolution trough the years.
We call 'First Generation' to the games Pokémon Red, Blue, Green and Yellow Edition. In this generation there were 151 pokémon species, which could have one or two of the following types: Fire, Water, Grass, Bug, Ghost, Dragon, Psychic, Normal, Fighting, Flying, Rock, Ground, Electric, Poison and Ice. Each pokémon can have advantages or disadvantages over other types depending on its. For example, Grass type is strong against Rock, Water and Ground Types, but it's really weak against Ice, Bug, Fire and Flying types.

The Second Generation (Gold, Silver and Crystal Edition] introduced 100 more pokémon and new types Dark and Steel. It introduced more novelties as weather changes, time, days and nights and the chance to obtain rare pokémon with unusual colours, named as shinies.
Sapphire, Ruby and Esmerald form the Third Generation.
We have two important novelties in this generation: Nature and Ability.
Since this generation, each pokémon as a nature and an ability.
The Nature is some kind of personality that affects to your pokémon's stats. For example, a Bold nature will decrease your pokémon's attack, but it will improve its physical defense. There are some neutral natures too, like Bashful and Quirky,  that will not improve nor decrease any of the stats.
Each pokémon has an Ability too, that can be useful in or out of fighting and can develop a special skill or condition. For example: Eelektross is an Electric type, so he is  weak against Ground type. But Eelektross' ability is 'Levitate', so it never touches the ground and can't be damaged by this type.
Abilities can also modify some stats in special conditions. For example, Marvle Scale gives +50% pshysical defense if the pokémon is suffering poisoning, burns or it's frozen.
For me, the introduction of Nature and Ability is the most important change because from this generation, it's possible to build strategies using them or to catch special pokémon with unusual features.
The Fourth Generation (Diamond, Pearl and Platinum Edition) brings 100 new pokémon, new abilities, new moves and another important change: Moves do not depend of the type anymore.
Before, a water type move always was a 'special attack', but in this generation, water moves can also hit physically.
Pokémon Black and White Edition and Black 2 and White 2 (5th Generation) came out with a change in its story: for first time, the rival team, in this case, Team Plasma, asks for first time if it is ethical to catch wild pokémon and to use them to fight, and they pretend to release all pokémon in the world, no matter the bond that they had with their trainers.

The Sixth Generation is the most recent (2014). It's compounded by Pokémon X and PokémonY.
This generation introduced a new type: Fairy, which is strong against Dragon, which was the most powerful type until now. Old pokémon that were Normal type became fairy type, like Jigglypuff, famous befcause of  its appereances in Pokémon TV series.
Another interesting changes are the characterisation of our protagonist or visible haircuts in pokémon like Furfrou.

'Poké Recreo' is one of the new novelties. It allows you to feed your pokémon, pet it or to play. Eeevee evolves into Sylveon if we pet him in Poké Recreo and if we teach him a fairy type move.


Mega Evolution is an special evolution introduced in this generation that allows you to evolve your pokémon during a fighting using a special stone (not all pokémon can mega evolve)

This generation is one of the best for me because with Mega Evolutions, Nature, Abilities and a very big range og moves, it is possible to make wonderful strategies, train and breed a specific pokémon to make it perfect and fight with your team against people all over the world.

Comparison and Contrast paragraph: Reptiles and Mammals as pets.

There's a huge amount of people who is afraid of reptiles in general. In contrast, there is a lot of people who love them and have reptiles at home as pets.
The most popular reptile pets are pithons, geckos and other lizards like tritons. Snakes and lizards, such as iguanas, have to live in a terrarium enough big to allow them to move, with logs and earth to make them feel confortable, copying their habitats in the wild. They also need hot and humidity to stay healthy. They don't eat too much. Pythons eat one mouse a week, depending on the snake's size. Lizards eat some bugs and almost whatever you provide them. Reptiles are not loving animals. You can touch them, of course, but your pet will not bring that love back, and they must be used to pats if you do not want to be bitten.
On the other hand, mammals like cats, dogs and rodents are very popular as pets because they can live inside the house or a room, you don't have to worry about the humidity and it's easier to create a habit of feeding them everyday than feeding them just once a week, for example. Furthermore, they demand big part of our attention and affection to stay happy and healthy, and they will show you back their love.
Both reptile and mammals are good as pets, everything depends on our personal preferences and responsibility.

Pokémon I

Playing videogames is probably my biggest hobby since my childhood, when I used to play 'Bubble Shooter', 'Spyro', 'Banjo Kazooie' and 'Crash Bandicoot', exclusive titles for Play Station 1.

A few years after, Play Station 2 began to be sold, and I played superb videogames like 'Final Fantasy VII', 'Kingdom Hearts' or 'Van Helsing'. But today I'd like to focus on one of the most famous videogames saga, developed by Game Freak: 'Pokémon'

'Pokémon'  is a really popular videogame saga with six game generations. You begin as a trainer who must choose his/her first pokémon to start the adventure. After it, you travel through a region (Kanto, Johto, Hoenn, Sinnoh, Teselia and Kalos, depending on the generation we are playing to) full of wild pokémon, trainers and a 'Team' with evil and selfish objectives that we must stop, just as 'Team Rocket', 'Aqua and Magma Team' or 'Team Galactic'.

There are two principal objectives: the first one is to complete the Pokédex, some kind of register of every pokémon that live in the region.

The second one is to pass eight Pokémon Gym to have the chance to challenge Elite Four and become the Pokémon League Champion fighting with your team pokemon, that have been by your side since the beginning of your trip.

But the game does not actually end if we become the Champion: there are more challenges after the League, and even if you complete your Pokédex, you'll be able to find more pokémon that you haven't faced before.

I'll write another post about 'Pokémon' next week, in which I'll explain some basic mechanics and explain why I disagree with people who think that 'Pokémon' is a children game.