Essay 2

Alzheimer's disease

Introduction

Throughout our lives, we are constantly in risk of contract a disease, because we are alive, and because we, like human beings, are vulnerable. Nevertheless, with the years we are more and more in risk, so, when we are older, and we can see it in our familiar history, it's more probably contract a disease. In fact, some diseases just arrive in the old age.

Not for nothing people says "Teme a la vejez, pues nunca viene sola", because the people not die because their years, if not because some diseases that get worse to us, that transform us in other persons, and in occasions, it makes us forget ourselves.

One of this diseases, and one of the most "painful" and feared, are the "Alzheimer".

Body

"Alzheimer'disease is an irreversible, progressive brain disorder that slowly destroys memory and thinking skills, and eventually the ability to carry out the simplest tasks" (National Institute on Aging). Alzheimer is a disease that appear mostly in the old people and affect their memory. This disease don't have clear symptons and for that it's difficult to diagnose and difficult to treat, but are some signs that help us to notice and act about alzheimer's disease. Some of them are: changes of memory that difficulty the quotidian life, difficulty for plan and solve problems, desorientation, changes in the humor and the personality, etc.

In other words, Alzheimer's disease means that the person affected not just lost their memory, if not they lose everything that makes them who they are, until to forget everything, even how to breathe. For that we can say (on the contrary to other illness) that is not only a painful disease, if not also a difficult disease to cope for the affected person, but also for their family members.

Currently, it doesn't exist a cure for alzheimer's disease, but exist some medicines to help to control or postpone their symptons for a time, especially in the early stages of the disease.

Conclusion
In summary, we can say that the Alzheimer's disease is a degenerative disease in which the person affected lose their memory but not just the memories, if not all the things that a person have to do to survive, to live. Like we say previously, alzheimer is an illness that affect the most to old people and for that, work in this illness and its cure is responsability of all of us, for our future and for humanity future, and their wwl-being.
Like someone say one time, "Las personas mayores son la memoria de un pueblo y maestros de la vida. Cuando una sociedad no cuida a sus ancianos, niega sus propias raíces y simplemente sucumbe, Por ellos, por ti: Recuerda sus olvidos".
Because they lose their memory, but we don't.

"No sé quiénes sois, pero sé que os quiero". - Antonio Mercero.

Bibliograpgy

- National Institute on Aging (NIA), https://www.nia.nih.gov/health/alzheimers-disease-fact-sheet

Essay 1

The sound of music

Introduction: - Musicals.

Body: - Musicals of the epoque.

           - The sound of music.

Conclusion: - Musicals films in the present.

Introduction

"La música expresa aquello que no puede decirse con palabras pero no puede permanecer en silencio" - Victor Hugo.

The musical film is a cinematograpich genre characterized by movies that contain interruptions in it, to give to sung musicals pieces that sometimes are accompany by a choreography. In 1927, was the premiere of "El cantor de jazz", considered the first movie with sound, but in fact it was a semi silent movie that just sound in the songs parts. For that, the history says that the musicals films like genre was born actually in 1929 with "La melodía de Broadway".

In the beginning, this genre have like principal objective impress, independent of his connection with the history, but with its development, the musicals numbers works like connectors of the history. Is in this way that we can understand the phrase that Victor Hugo says, the music express that it can't say with words but it can't remain in silence. Is this the importance of musicals films, that say with a song the things that it can't say it with words.

Body

Over the years the musicals films pass for different moments. We can see its beginning, its boom and also its decline. It's precisely in the 60's that the last moment aforementioned was occur. In the 60's born extraordinaries musicals like: "West side story" (1961), "My fair lady" (1964), "Mary Poppins" (1964) and "The sound of music" (1965). It's about this film that I will talk about in the present essay, but like we say previously, it is important to understand that in this decade, this genre start its decline. The preferences of the public was changing and the genre announce its retirement.

However, this genre leave us big films and works, like The sound of music.

In 1965 was the premiere of "The sound of music", a movie directed by Robert wise and starred for Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer. The argument of the movie are expound a few months before Austria was unified to the Germany of Hitler. Is a movie based on the broadway musical of the same name. The film is about a novice named Maria who is sent to the home of a widower captain of the former Austrian imperial navy called Georg Von Trapp to work as a governess to his seven children. There, the girl will befriend the children and fall in love with the captain, who is about to marry Baroness Elsa Schroeder.

Conclusion

Like we say previously in the 60's the genre of musical films start its decline. Currently, in the decade of 2000 a new boom in musical movies began, but they were mostly for teenagers about the conflicts of this age. Then it began to fall again, becoming now a little-known genre. However, although there are not many musicals at present, music as a soundtrack is increasingly present.
For now we can keep the memories, teachings and unforgettable stories that surround and tell the old musical movies as the sound of music.