10 - A loyalty proof

There was a weird feeling in prison. Everyone knew what was about to happen and everyone should take a side. Along those days, Malick and Patrick started to get closer. Little by little they started trusting in each other. But Patrick was not a kind of person that trusted in people very easily. His father taught him that. He needed something more. A loyalty proof. Patrick knew how many prisoners were on his side, but he did not know if Malick was one of them. The present king of drug bussiness in prison was a fifty-year old man that was known as The Executive. The reason why he was known by that nickname is not the obvious one. He was not exactly an executive. Prior to his entrance in prision he was a hired assassin. And when he murdered somebody he used to cut the troat and stick the tongue out so it looked like a tie. Therefore, Patrick was confronting a really dangerous man. Someone that was not afraid of anything. Someone who had a cool mind. But Patrick also had those qualities, he thought. He had showed them before. It was a rainy evening, and everything was weirdest than it used to be. Everyone was specially nervous and Patrick felt it. He was with Malick in their prison cell when, suddenly, The Executive and two of his prisoners entered in the prison cell. They closed the cell's door and offered a game to Patrick in order to show who deserved to be the king and who deserved to be the fool. The Executive took a weapon out of his trousers and explained the game to Patrick. They were going to play the Russian roulette, The Executive said. Everybody knew what that game was about. And so did Patrick. His expression showed a deep terror. Malick was shocked. That man always seemed very brave and self-confident. But aim yourself and aim somebody else were different things. For Patrick pulling the trigger to kill someone was easy, but the possibility of dying was something Patrick was not used to. But if he wanted to control the bussiness in prision he had to do it. He accepted the game. And suddenly, when Patrick was about to seat on the chair to confront his uncertain fate, Malick said something that shocked everyone in the prison cell. He wanted to play the game instead of Patrick. The Executive accepted it. Therefore, both of them seated on the chairs with a table and a weapon in the middle of both. The Executive took the weapon, put a bullet in the chamber and spun it. He started and aimed himself with the weapon. A click and nothing. Empty. It was Malick's turn. His heart was beating so hard he could hear it beating inside his ear. He pulled the trigger. The click sound like heavenly music to his ears. Empty. The Executive grabbed the weapon and Malick noticed it was more difficult to him to pull the trigger. But finally The Executive did it. Click. Empty. Malick wanted to cry of terror. He knew he was going to die. He aimed himself with the weapon, closed his eyes and heard a shot. But he was not the one that shot. Whe he opened his eyes he saw The Executive's prisioners dead on the floor and Patrick aiming The Executive with a gun. Malick could not believe what was happening. He was alive and Patrick won the game.

The next morning, The Executive was found dead in his prision cell with his neck cut and his tongue out, like a tie. Therefore, Patrick became the king of prison and Malick his loyal friend.

9 - A bird caged in a mansion

As Patrick was walking into prison, he enjoyed his last seconds as a free person. He would know how a caged bird feel. Cryings that we tend to turn into music. But his music would not be heard by anybody. It is like you start to live another life. You get off of everything to enter in completely different world. A world is not made for everybody. A world that in many cases destroys you. But there is nothing worse than hope. You always hope to go out of that place that is made to torment you. It is like a bird that sings to escape from his cage hoping that one day someone will open the cage's door. At least, Patrick's father made sure that his cage was as nice as possible. He bought off everyone who was necessary to send Patrick to one of the best prisons of the world. A prison for lucky people. A prison to feel safe. But nobody is enough lucky to be comfortable in prison. He shared his prison cell with another boy. He was really young, Patrcik thought. He was a fit boy and his red hair was so intense that it seemed he had a wig on. His name was Malick and he was there because he stole a car. Malick asked Patrick why he was there and he answered that someone charged on him drug and human trafficking. They spent the whole day talking about each other's lives. Malick said that he lived in the poor side of the city and that his family was really poor. Malick used to steal cars and then he sold them in order to make money. He did not knew to do anything else. He grow up stealing to survive and that was what he was good at. On his behalf, Patrick told Malick his different life. But he did not told everything about his family bussinesses. Patrick also told Malick what his plann was. He was going to become the new drug king into prison. He planned to take drug from the street into prison in conyugal visits he would made with a prostitute from Sin City's club. But to be better than the present king you have to offer something else. And that is what Patrick did. Apart from drugs he also offered conyugal visits to prisoners with prostitutes from Sin City's club. His brother would be in charge of making whatever was necessary outside of  prison. There was just one problem. The present king would not easily stood up from his throne to let Patrick seat on it. But Patrick was ready to do anything to be the new king and be last one standing in the war that was about to start.

8 - Turning point

It was really satisfactory to see their faces and how they felt insecure. They thought the happy life they were living was going to last forever. They thought they could live in their little paradise of money and corruption forever. But they were completely wrong. That was what William was thinking while he saw from one side of Patrick's parent's mansion the police arresting Patrick . He saw how the car took Patrick to jail, where he would spend the rest of his life. William and Oscar made sure of that. They anonymosly charge on Patrick drug and human trafficking, enough crimes that will make him change his happy life for a more monotonous one. But, he would not be the only one. Little by little they will send to jail every member of William's family. But, in that moment, William felt very happy he was achieving his goal. It was the first time he felt happy in a really long time. But there was that strange feeling again. William did not knew exactly what it was. But he felt guilty. Maybe his mind was not ready yet. Oscar told him that a revenge like that would need a cool mind and a cool heart, but maybe his heart and mind were not ready. During the six months he spent training his body and mind, he made himself many questions. He ask himself if that revenge was consuming his soul. He ask himself if revenge was all that mattered and if he should leave everything else behind. He tried to avoid those thoughts and concentrate in that fact that his revenge was working. When he arrieved to Oscar's house he told him their plann worked. Patrick was on his way to jail and there was no way he could escape from his awful fate. But, Oscar did not seem to be quite satisfied. He asked William to sit down. William was scared. Maybe his family discovered them. Maybe someone saw him in the graveyard or at Henry's mansion while the police arrested Patrick. His heart started beating so fast that he thought his chest was going to explode. But, suddenly, it stopped when Oscar said what he just discovered. Oscar hacked William's house security cameras and watched that Patrick was one of the men that entered in his house that horrible night in which William's life was destroyed. In that moment, Oscar saw something in William's expression that he never saw before. William was furious. He was full of anger and fire. The memories of that night started to appear. Those memories that only appeared everynight in his nightmares. But William was not sleeping. He remembered his father surrounded by fire and his mother's deafening screams of pain. It was like if he could still listening to her. His eyes became lakes of sandness and hate. Suddenly, William stood up and went to his bedroom.

The next morning, Oscar could not find William anywhere in the house. He disappeared. But, suddenly, when he went to the dark living room, he noticed that the  cupboard where he had all the documents that contained everything someone would like to know was opened, and all the files and documents were spread all over the floor.

7 - Flashblack

A minute becomes an eternity when you are waiting for something. And six months was a very long eternity. William was not exactly an anxious boy, but he could not wait any longer to see the ones who destroyed his world suffer. Anger keeps you going on. When you think about leaving your purpose, there it is that burning fire that keeps you strong and motivated. "Why is not the sweetness of hapiness the petrol that keeps our heart beating? Why is not the warm of love the thing that keeps us alive? Did I forget those feelings? And if so, could I get them back?". Uncountable questions run around Willam's head. But it was part of the training. Someone who takes a revenge do not have feelings. The inner self must become ice. An unbreakble ice no warm feeling could thaw. Sympathy nor humanity are allowed in revenge. This is something William had to learn. But it is not an easy job to take off feelings from the soul. It is like slowly ripping your heart, take off all the skin and then put it inside again. Therefore, everytime the heart beats it stings.

Meanwhile, Oscar recovered all the information he could. Fortunately, he had all the passwords to enter into the confidential files and documents of the family. He kept all of them when he was Henry' partner. In those times, everything was written down in paper. The Internet, what an invention. Nothing better than the Internet to have all your dirty secrets hidden. That was what they probably thought. But know, all their dirty secrets were Oscar's property. It seemed that, after Henry´s death they distributed the empire between all of them. Alexander became the head of it and of course, left the second position to Julius. Alexander was perfectly capable of running the bussinesses, Oscar thought. Julius was too impulsive and type of person who do not take consecuencies into consideration. But, on the other hand, Alexander had a perfect cool head, just the one someone needs to turn Henry's empire into the world of corruption. While he was in the glamorous throne, his twins Erick and Patrick and Julius were on the grounds, gathering the money that came from drugs, prostitution and extorsions. But Oscar needed to know what role each member of the family of them had. Therefore, he spent a month following all of them to every place they would go. And, surprisingly, he did not last too much time to achieve his goal. Apparently, Julius and the twins had a night club called "Sin City". Not too original, thought Oscar because that was where the magic took place. Many grils were brought to the night club in lorries,transported as merchandise . And the woman who took care of them was Caterina. She was in charge of deciding whoever of these girls were worthy of working there as prostitutes or not. In addition, they bought the mafia that controlled the human and drug trafficking. And last but not least, María. She was a women fully integrated in the upper class society. She planned different events in order to gather money for humanitarian organizations. At least, that was everybody beleived. Actually, all that money went to the same place. It did not matter if it was from prostitution or from people's charity. That money was full of dirt. So, this is how they build this whole complex of corruption and greed. But this would not last for long, thought Oscar. He told everything he discovered to William and both of them decided what their first step would be. And they agreed to start from the bottom. Therefore, their first victim would be Patrick.

6 - The First Blow

A voice. A deep voice in the darkness. And then a bright light. A dazzle light. William woke up the morning after the funeral but he did not woke up by himself. An old man was shouting at him and asking what he was doing there. Suddenly, William noticed that man was the security guard of the cementery. The same man who saw him in his grandfather's funeral. A flash went through his mind and he jump from the grass and started runnig while the security guard kept shouting. But William did not even heard what he was shouting. His ears were full of the sound of his heart beating. He could not believe how stupid he was. The images of him being discovered by his family started to appear in his mind. He tried so hard to make those images disappear. But it was impossible. And inevitably, after the images came many questions: What if the security guard recognised him? What if he was recognised? What if his family discover his plann? What was going to tell Oscar now? He could not stay in that area for a long time. He was in danger every single second he would stay there. So, he came back to Oscar's house. Obviously, Oscar was angry. When William told Oscar where he was, Oscar could not believe it. The angry turned into dissapointment. He thought that kid was smarter. But he was still a kid. He used to forget it. He never met a boy with such aspirations. With that need of revenge. Oscar told William he was going to help him, but under his conditions. If William wanted his help, he had to avoid that irresponsable behaviour. William agreed. Not everyone is ready to go through the difficult path of revenge, Oscar said. William needed to be ready physically and mentally. Especially mentally. A revenge is somenthing that tires the mind. And in most of the cases, it destroys the mind. That is why William needed a though mind to achieve his revenge. The Norton family was just a typical family. They were used to solve every single problem they would have. They had enough resources for that. So, their goal was not going to be easily achieved. And that is another feature someone that wants to revenge need to have: patient. Every successful revenge takes time. And the one Oscar had in mind, was going to take a lot of time. They say that the more time you spent thinking in your revenge, the more hurtful it is. Oscar advised William that he trained meanwhile he searched for enough information to start their revenge.
It was a calm night, just like a typical summer night. The calm before the storm. Someone rang on Alexander's mansion. Maria opened the door and, suddenly, the police entered and arrested Patrick. The police accused him of  illegal bussiness. Just when the police left with an arrested Patrick on the back seat, all of them recieved a text message: "I know what you did and I will make you pay for it. There is no place where you can hide. I will find you wherever you are. There is no place where you can feel safe and sound. I will always be watching you. And I will not stop until you all feel the fire of hell.". The game just started.

5 - What Nobody Can See

Oscar was surprised. He never thought such a young man could have so much anger. But he knew there was a terrible sadness behind that anger. That boy just lost his parents and his house. In forty eight hours his lived changed dramatically. And there is nothing but anger to keep yourself going. Oscar knew it perfectly well. So, Oscar wanted a reason and there he had it. A perfect reason to help him, William said. He prayed for Oscar to accept. Oscar had enough resources to help him and was intelligent enough to ruin his family's lifes. That man was his only chance to achieve his goal. Finally, Oscar accepted. But he set up his own conditions. Although he did not said it aloud, William was exultant. He was really looking forward to see the ones who destroyed his life suffer. However, everytime he thought about it, he scared. He would have never imagined he could think such horrible things. But he did. Suddenly, Oscar stood up and caught a laptop that was inside a drawer and started looking for something they could use. William took a closer look to Oscar's house. He saw a locked cupboard. Through the glass he could see lots of files and documents. They had to be worthy if they were locked into a cupboard. But, suddenly, William saw a newspaper with a shocking new on the front page. His parents funeral was going to take place that evening. But not only his parents funeral but his own. He did not remenbered everyone thought he was dead. But forgeting about his parents funeral was too hurtful. He totally forgot about that. It was the first time he experienced how revenge and anger could make him forget about what really mattered. Unfortunately, it was not going to be the last time. When Oscar turned around to talk to William nobody was there and the door was opened. The whole family was in the cementery. At least, they tried very hard to seem sad. It seemed false even from William was. He was seeing the show from a hill up the cementery. He did not care about being discovered by his family. He had to go. Not too many people could say they saw their own funeral. Once everyone was gone, he went down the hill, right to the place where his parents and him supposedly rested. Even though those gravestones were unworthy for him, he was tearing up. He could not forget his mother's screams, the image of his father surrounded by flames. And, suddenly, the sorrow started to become anger. He hit the grass and swear he would make them suffer until they begged to die. He lied beside his parents gravestone and before he even noticed, he felt asleep.

Compulsory Writing: Smartphones - Only advantages?

Smartphones are not as good as we think they are. Everyone thinks smartphones and technology in general, make our life easiest but they present plenty of disadvantages people do not usually consider. Even though everyone looks forward to have a smartphone, they are not always as useful as we think they are.

Smartphones could be considered as one of the greatest inventions in history. They allow as to communicate with people all over the world just pushing some buttons. Moreover, current technology developments have allow us to have a security system in our mobile phones or even to control the blinds of our houses or the TV.

Nevertheless, smartphones are not as useful as we think. The problem starts when we rely too many things on technology. New generations know perfectly how to use a mobile phone. On the contrary, they are completely lost when they try to send a letter because they have never done it. Therefore, if there is a break on the Internet or on the global telecommunications nobody is going to be able to communicate with people just because they do not know any other way to do it.

Overall, smarphones can improve many aspects of our daily life, but relying too many thing on them could be dangerous. From my perspective, we should be able to resolve our problems by ourselves and do not trust too much in some devices that do not last forever.

4 - Reason

It was dark, very dark inside Oscar's house. He never saw such a strange house like that. The walls seemed like they were covered with coal. He hardly distinguished if the walls were painted in black or they were just full of dirt. Another thing that shocked him was that the walls were empty. Not a single painting, not a single photo, not a single portrait. Nothing. He remenbered his house was full of photographs of him and his parents. And also of his grandfather. But there were no photos now. Everything of his past was ash. He should be part of that ash. At least that was what Oscar told Willam when he entered in his house. William told Oscar everything, although he did not tell the details. Some details like he was the heir of Henry's fortune. William was not so sure if what he saw in Oscar's eyes was astonishment, but Oscar did not certainly expected something like that. Oscar knew what that family was capable of. He himself suffered the consecuencies of confronting them. But he did not expected such an outrageous crime. He was surprised. After everything he saw during his life, he still was shocked with how money corrupted the human mind. Oscar did not knew why William went to his house, at the other part of the city. But Oscar had always been an intelligent man and he could supposed what the reason was. He prayed to be wrong. On his behalf, William was not sure if that strange man could help him. What a twenty two year old boy and an almost sixty year old man were going to do  against such poweful family? But he had no option. He had to tell Oscar everything he needed and pray for him to accept. But before William could say anything, Oscar denied. He suffered enough pain years before and he was not willing to give up his peaceful life. It was so hard to build up the life he had now. But William did not saw that in his eyes. He always had a gift to see through someone's eyes and percieved what that person was feeling. Sometimes it was difficult, as with uncle Alexander, but sometimes it was really easy, as with Oscar. William's eyes seemed to have X-ray and he could see Oscar's soul perfectly well. So, William was clever enough to suppose that such a brilliant and excepcional mind could not resist such tedious life. But not only entertaiment moves a person to confront one of the most powerful families in the world. He knew the anger Oscar felt for his family was something he could also take a profit from. Oscar was surprised of how intelligent that kid was. A characteristic obviously inherited from his grandfather. Even though he did not say it aloud, he recognised that kid was right. But he was still sceptical. He did not knew if he wanted to get into that war. But he also saw that as an opportunity for revenge. That revenge he awaited for years. And he knew that was a wickness. He learned years before that deep feelings should be hiden in order to not to show your wicknesses to your enemies. And he thought it was not going to be so easy for William to take advantage of his anger. Maybe William was clever, but not as clever as he was. Oscar directly asked William to tell him a real reason that convinced him. And William did it.

"I want to snatch everything they have. I want them to be as defenseless as I have been. I want them to feel the fire of hell. I want to blow up their world. And when I finish the only valuable object they will have, it will be the tears on their eyes."

Compulsory Writing: Only Children

Only children are different from children who have siblings. The fact that they do not have brothers or sisters makes them develop a different personality. Furthermore, this situation leads them to have problems to socialise. Only children are more prone to isolate themselves from other people since this affects the way they are raised.

The developing of their personality starts at home. This is the place where they spent the most of their time. They play, eat, talk and watch TV in their houses. But they do all that by themselves, since they do not have someone to share their experiencies with. In adittion, they only communicate with their parents in an envorment they feel safe and confident and where they know they are not going to be judged. The problem starts when they get used to that and then they have to communicate with unknown people.

Socially, only children have more problems than children who have siblings. When the time to make friends comes to their lifes, they do not feel confident anymore. They go out of their comfort zone and that makes them feel defenseless. Furthermore, they feel judged by people they do not know. That is what makes them want to be alone. They feel more comfortable when they have nobody around because that is what they are used to. So, they think they would rather be alone than being judged and rejected.

All those situations could make them develop a different personality. They can became possesive over things since they have not shared anything in their lifes. Everything they recieve is for them and for nobody else because they have none to share their things with. Moreover, they recieve their parents whole attetion which could leads them to became arrogants or even narcisists. Giving an excessive attetion to them could make them feel they are the only ones who deserves attention.

Overall, only childs usually have more problems to socialise with other people. Being raised with no siblings makes their personality different. They usually end up with personality problems as they could became arrogant. Having nobody to share their experiencies with makes only children more prone to isolate themselves. That is why many people recommend to have more than one child in order to make their social life better.

3 - Reinforcements

The next day, the newspapers said that "a terrible accident" killed Thomas, Angelica and William Norton last night. Everyone believed he was dead. His family thought he became ashes just like his parents did last night. They thought their plann was succesful. But they were completly wrong. He was still alive and full of anger. But that anger did not cover the fact that he was alone. He had no idea what to do. He had no place to live in. That was what he thought while he was sitting on a park bench near his house. He had a strange feeling. It was like if he could still feel the fire on his cheeks, the smell of smoke, the heat all around him. Those feelings would follow him for the rest of his life. He was condemned. But thinking about how he will take revenge of those who condemned him was something that calmed him down. That was what he needed to focus on. But, what could he do? He had no resources. He could not take the money he inherited because he was dead, and those who are dead do not need money. And he also could not let everyone knows he survived. That was an advantage he could not get rid off. Even though he did not like the idea, he needed someone who helped him. Many faces appeared in his mind but, who could he trust in? Everyone who dicovered he was alive would tell it to his family. He needed to find someone that would hate his family as much as he did. Someone who would be brave enough to face one of the most powerful families in the world. Only one face appeared in his mind: Oscar Wodrow. William heard many stories about him. He knew Oscar was a family old friend that helped his grandfather to build his empire. But his uncles charge some illegal business on Oscar. Although it was never demostrated, his grandfather could not allow those types of suspicions and fired him. William heard he moved to the other side of the city, but that was a long time ago. He did not even know if he still lived there. But he had nothing to lose. He avoided the crowded places and went around the city since he could not risk to be discovered. When he arrived, he found a very charasteristic neighbourhood. It was no the type of neighbourhood he was used to. Every house had the same structure of the one beside. He thought that the architect that design that neighbourhood was not very creative. He risk to ask an old lady if she knew Oscar. It did not matter because no one was going to recognise him in that part of the city anyway. Apparently, everyone in that neighbourhood knew Oscar and his story. The old lady told William the house Oscar lived in. There was no difference with the other houses except for a sign saying: KEEP OUT. Apparently, Oscar was not a very welcoming host. William knocked on the door twice and a deep voice said exactly what the sign said: KEEP OUT. William insisted and asked him to open the door. He could feel how the voice insde the house was becoming more furious and furious. Although William did not want to, he had to do it. He finally said: "I am William Norton". The door was opened.

Compulsory Writing: Gender Violence (introduction and conclusion)

Gender violence is still a major issue of our society. Nowdays, many women are killed just because they felt in love with the wrong person. Many of them do not feel they are mistreated women until they experience an extreme situation of violence. In fact, an eighty percent do not informe against their couples because they think they are going to be seen as submissive and ingenuous women by society. Nowdays, in our supposedly modern society, too many women suffer from gender violence just because they are still considered the fairer sex.


It is heartbreaking to see the hard situations a woman still has to experience just because she made a bad choice. They are so in love that they consider those situations as normal. Our society has evolve enough to erradicate gender violence and the consideration that women are the fairer sex. That is why everyone should take bear in mind that today is an unknown woman who suffers gender violence, but tomorrow it could be our mother, our sister or maybe our daughter.

2 - Burnt Memories

William Norton, a twenty two year old boy, became the richest man in the world. It was strange that was the first thing he thought. He never was a materialistic boy. He never cared about how rich they were. Contrary to his entire family. But his parents realised the real danger. They knew that, by the moment his son´s name was pronunced, he became the target of the entire family. And Angelica knew what her family was capable of. So they did not even waste a second and ,when they arrived home, they started to pack their bags as quickly as possible. They had to go as far as possible and hide in some place so they could not be found. But that was almost impossible. They were one the most important families in the world. There were almost no place where their family could not find them. They knew people all around the world. Just with a call, their family could find. kidnap, and kill them in a few hours. But they at least had to give it a try. They had to do it for William. So, as soon as they had packed their bags, they would have taken a plane to go as far from their family as possible. Unfortunately, they did not even have time for that. Suddenly, they hearded an explosion in the front garden and a group of men in black entered in their house. They started to throw Molotov cocktails through the windows. Before they even noticed, William and his parents were surrounded by fire. Angelica took his son upstairs. William turned his head to look for his father and, suddenly, a Molotov concktail entered through the window that was in front of Thomas. The last thing he saw, was the image of his father surrounded by flames. But he did not have time to think his father was dead. He and his mother had to escape. Angelica knew there was a secret passage in the bathroom which led to the street, outside the gardens of the house, through the sewage system. It was a very old and big house and her father always said there were lots of secret passages all over the house. She wished to know all of them in that moment. As soon as she opened the door of the bathroom. they heard a deafening noise. The front door fell and the men in black entered in the house. She and William did not have much time. She opened the secret passage and William entered first. He barely could move because it was really straight in there. When he stopped and turned his head back to wait for his mother, the door of the bathroom opened and lots of men caught his mother. He wanted to go back. He wanted to go back more than anything, but he could not have done anything. He carried on with his eyes full of tears, hearing his mother screaming. He end up in the street in front of his house. The house where he spent his happiest years. That house that was burnt now. He knew who was the people responsible for that. In that moment, with the flame´s reflection in his eyes, he swore revenge.

Compulsory Writing: Alternatve Medicine

I. Alternative medicine is becoming, nowdays, more popular than traditional medicine because of its natural benefits.

II. Alternative medicine

      A. More natural
           1. No use of chemical products
           2. Use of natural devices
      B. Less harmful
           1. No secondary effects

III. Types of alternative medicine

      A. Herbal medicine
           1. Use of herbs and spices
           2. Specially used for headaches and diarrhoea
      B. Acupuncture
           1. Use of needles
           2. Specially used to ease the pain
      C. Osteopathy
           1. Treats the disfunction of spinal column and nervous system
           2. Specially used to ease the pain

IV. Less use of ordinary medicine

      A. Not healthy in many cases
           1. Allergies to some medicines
           2. Chemotherapy
      B. Not natural
           1. Use of quemical products
           2. Lack of natural devices

V. Overall, the use of alternative medicine is increasing little by little, since people belive in its natural effects, while the use of traditional medicine is decreasing.

1 - Family Ties

It was a rainy day, just like the typical funeral day that appears in films. His grandfather died the day before. Henry Norton, the head of the most powerful and influential family in the world. His grandson, William Norton, the youngest of the family, was deeply upset. He loved his grandfather mora than anyone. When he was a child he loved spending time with his grandfather who always told him stories about kings and queens and the conspiracy enviroment of the court. He really enjoyed hearing these stories but, as he was growing up, he felt that his grandfather had a special purpose, other than entertain him with them. But there will be no stories anymore. His grandfather was dead. This was an event that was anxiously waited for a long time by every member of the family. Although not everyone had the same type of anxiety. It is fair to say that some members of the family happily recieved the news of Henry´s death. Specially Julius Norton, the third son of Henry, and his wife Caterina. Julius always was different from his siblings. He was greedy and manipulative, just like the villian of his grandfather´s stories. And he never tried to hide it since he always felt proud of being that way. That is one of the reasons why Caterina and him were the perfect couple. They loved money more than anything. They would have sold their souls to the Devil if they had made a profitable deal. Opposite to Julius, William´s parents, Angelica and Thomas, never wanted this moment to come. They always knew this event would destroy their family. Angelica always felt her father´s death was going to start a war nobody knew when it would end. In Henry´s funeral, there was an strange enviroment. Everyone nerves were on edge since everybody wanted to know who was going to inherit the enmpire Henry built. Alexander Norton, the second son of Henry, was also nervous, but he tried to hide it. He was one of those people who never show his emotions. He always had a calm look, almost with no expression. He perfectly knew that the eyes are the window to the soul. So, he used that as a defensive method because no one could hurt him if they did not know what his weaknesses were. He, his wife Maria and his twins, Eric and Patrcik, arrived just in time to hear the will reading. Henry´s lawyer was reading the will in front of the anxious audience when, suddenly, a single name was pronunced. A name that shaked the foundations of the family more than any other. William Norton, the lawyer said.

Compulsory Writing: Syrian Inmigration

Syrian inmigration is an issue we all should be concerned about. Inmigration has never been a major problem in our society. Countries has always open their borders to welcome people from other countries. Governs has always been happy to recieve inmigrants because it is a way to increase tourism and get economic benefit. But inmigration becomes a problem when it turns into a massive inmigration. One of the main problems of this issue is the fact that some countries are prepared nor economically neither socially to recieve such a high percentage of population. If more people than it should enters into a country its economy could be really affected. For example, all those people do not have a job so they will make the unemployment rate increase. A second poblem to take into account is that these people come from countries where there are terrorists. If we open our borders with no control, we are inviting them to enter into our countries and attack innocent people. If we freely let them enter into our countries they are not going to risk their lives going to airports where there are police controls because they could be discover.

In my opinion, trying to solve the inmagration problem is not the way to deal with this situation. The war these people is trying to escape should be stopped. If there is no war, these peolpe would not emigrate. These people do not want to come to our countries because they want to stay at home, in their own cities. They want to stay in their countries where they have their houses, their families and their lives. Unfortunately, stopping a war is not a very realistic solution. Maybe making a more careful control of the people who is entering in Europe is a better idea. If there are more controls, it will not be so easy for terrorists to enter into our countries since this could be used as a dissuasive method. Another solution is to divide the percentage of inmigrants between all the countries that are part of Europe. If we all are more generous and sympathetic with the nightmare Syrian people is living, we will help to solve this problem.

Monsters Made Of Fire

In the Middle Age, this story of love- if it could be called like that- took place. A story of a girl and a monster. A story of a monster and a man. Her name was Sarah Durffan and she lived in a small village in the South of England. She grew up in a tiny farm her family owned. Her childhood was not quite happy. Her father punched her until she fainted since she could remember. Everytime she could wake up, the first thing that came to her mind was the image of her mother watching the incident. She always stayed quiet, so the only thing that could be heard were the screams of her daughter. The indifference of her mother was even more painful than the beating. This was how something started to grow up inside Sarah. A feeling that was strange to her. A feeling that made her inner self burn. It felt like she was on fire. Probably it was anger as she always thought. But she knew it was not such a mundane feeling like anger, since anger would be jealous of the feeling she felt. And her father knew it. He could see that feeling in her eyes. In those eyes full of something he did not exactly knew what it was. And that scared him. That scared him a lot. In order to erradicate that feeling, he punched her stronger and stronger because he thought he would eliminate that feeling with beatings. "You are wrong" she always thought. Suddenly, when she was taking wood for the fire in a cloudy day, a man in black appeared behind her. He introduced himself as Krad. He was a murderer. He could kill anyone. He did not care if they were men, women, children, babies, kings, queens, farmers, poor, rich. He told her that he could see she was not an ordinary girl. He could see she had something really dangerous insider her. Then he asked her to say two names. "Mom and Dad" she said inmediately. The next day, she woke up feeling heat on her face. She was laying outside her house and she saw her house on fire, burning like her inner self had burnt many times. Those flames were specially familiar to her. It was strange, but it was the first time she felt happy in her life. She felt happy when she heard her parents screaming. Then she noticed Krad was by her side. She inmediately felt in love with him. When she was with him she felt powerful because, since that moment, Krad would kill anynone she wanted. And that was what happened. If a woman answer her in a bad way, she was dead. If a man looked at her, right to her eyes, he was dead. If a little girl was not nice to her, she was dead. But the more people Krad killed, the more nightmares she had at night. She dreamed of flames and death. She saw the faces of all the men, women and children who were killed. Her existance started to be something she could not handle anymore. The beast inside her became too big and dangerous. So, one day, she told Krad she had a last name to him: Sarah Durffan. It is not so easy to shock a man that has killed more people he is able to count. But she did. Although he always thought she was just another name, he noticed she was not another name anymore. He was in love. That is why he could not kill her. It was in that moment when he failed his own nature. He failed to himself. So they had to live dealing with themselves, cursed as they were, for the rest of their lives. That was their punishment.

Killing Questions

Bertram was a German boy who was born in 1927, specifically in Berlin. He was half American as his father was born in Massachussets, in the northwest of the United States. This has always been a taboo in his family. His mother side was really conservative and agreed with some of the ideas of the raising ultra-conservative party. So, when she announced she was going to marry an American guy, the news were not welcomed by his family. But she never cared. She did not seemed to care until her baby boy was born. He got that american look since he was a blond, blue-eyed boy, just like a typical american farmer. Maybe that is why his mother has always been less affective with him. But, in fact, that american look has always been perfect to called him "the perfect German boy". But he has always being bullied thanks to his American side. In school he always was the "American faggot", the "American asshole", the "American fool". And it seemed that "American" was even more pejorative and hurtful than the other insults. But hes has always been over this. He never thought this was something he should be ashamed of, despite his mother's efforts to achieve it. So, Bertram was a boy who was always sympathetic with injustices since he had suffered them his entire life. It is hard to imagine something more hurtful than being almost ignored by your own family. But he was always over this- he continously made an effort to keep thinking this. As he was growing up over the years, he became more aware of the tremendous injustices the Nazi goberment were carrying out. Thanks to his mother's family traditional membership to the Nazi party, soldiers never took his father to some concentration camp, as Dachau or Auschwitz. His grandfather had many conversations with the most powerful and influential men of those years to please his daughter's requests- it was clear his grandfather did not do it to save his father´s life. Those years were really strange, full of fear, suspicion and instability because you could be taken by soldiers in any moment and with no explanation. There were public murders in streets and kidnappings all over the city. In a cloudy day of 1943, Bertram was going back home from school, when he found a group of soldiers punching one of his neighbours, an old lady who always seemed really nice to him. He run to help the old lady and ask the soldiers why they were doing such an outrageous crime. With no answer, they shoot him in the stomach. He fall down and while he was knocked down on the floor, he looked at the old lady, and she said: Thank you. Nobody had ever told him something like that. Something with such affection.  It was in that moment, in that last second of his life, when he felt full of love for once.

Compulsory Writing: Different ways of studying

Studying in a distance university is really different from studying in a ordinary university. In this last type, class attendance is compulsory while in distance universities there is no lectures. Distance universities allow to have more freedom since you are not meant to go to university everyday. However in ordianry universities you must attend lectures because, if not, you would fail the subject. But on the other hand, distance universities are not as easy as ordinary universities. In distance universities you have to be very responsible and you also have to be able to organise your time really well. In contrast, the lectures you attend in ordinary universities help you to be more aware of what you have to study and that helps you to organise better. Furthermore, in distance universities you have to be your own teacher since you have to answer your own questions yourself while in ordinary universities you can ask to the teacher whatever you need. From a social perspective, there are also some differences between these two types of universitites. Ordinary universities allow you to make new friends and have a social life because you go to lectures everday and that permits you to talk to people and socialise. But in distance universities you have a more lonely life since you have to stay home studying the most part of your time and that reduces your social life. Maybe distance universities are meant for older peolpe who are working and have no time to attend lectures. On the other hand, ordinary universities are made for youth since they have more time to go to university everyday. The positive thing is that both universitites please the specific needs of people who study a degree and it is good to have different ways of studying according to the characteristics of each student.

She

She is the kindest person I know and she is so generous as well. She is always thinking and worrying about others first than about herself. She always tries her best to make people feel good and comfortable when she invites someone home, offering them food, drinks or whatever they need. Physically, she is very beautiful and she has a thin and stunning face just like the most glamorous actress of Hollywood or the most glorious queens that have ever existed along history. She is able to mesmerise every man she wants with her bright and brown eyes. Those eyes could never been forgotten. When she looks at you, right to your eyes, you do not belong to yourself anymore. It feels like she has taken your soul away with that look. But when the sun hits her blond hair, the world stops and the light it produces blind you. Something I have always admired about her is that she is so sofisticated and extremely polite. Her manners are worth of any princess. The way she moves her body and her hands is really elegant. She does it with such graceful that it shocks you. Finally, she is perfection, but that perfection is so perfect that it only has one imperfection. She will never exist.

Compulsory Writing - Zoos: entertaining vs oppressive

Everyone usually likes zoos but, in my opinion, they should be banned. From my point of view, animals are not meant to be kept into a cage. Since, the human being has the right to be free animals ought to have it as well. Animals are not different from us as we like to think. We tend to consider that being able to talk or think in a independent way not linked to instincts give us the opportunity to run the world. But we are not alone. This ability should make us able to be sympathetic with the rest of beings we share this world with. According to a research, most of the animals that are in zoos suffers from  depression and psycological problems because they are trained for years to give a show. When they are enclosured in cages they cannot follow their instincts and that makes them have behaviour problems. For example, some years ago I went to a zoo and in the Artic section I saw a white whale that was kept into a very little acuarium. Why this white whale has to be caged whe she could be swimming in the ocean? Some people think that zoos are good for kids because it is a great way for them to learn a bit more about animals. But, if that is the only aim of zoos, why not watch documentaries on television where a voice explain everything you want to know about every species. Furthermore, watching documentaries is free. You do not have to pay for a ticket and it is much more comfortable as you do not have to move from your house or even your city to see animals. On one hand, I think it is fantastic that there are some zoos that help species in danger of extintion, but in the other hand, it is the human being who makes these species being in danger. We hunt them and we destroy their enviroments so it is a never ending circle of kill them and then help them. Finally, I consider zoos should dissapear as they represent an oppression because since we do not like to be caged, animals do not like it either.

My name is Sir Gawain and I am here to tell my story

I am Sir Gawain, a member of the honourable and incomparable order of the Knights of the Round Table of Camelot. I serve my king, the once-in-a-lifetime King Arthur, that king I would give my life for. But  I remember I failed in my mission once. It was New Year's Eve in Camelot. There was a big festivity in the court, where we celebrated the great years we were living thanks to my King and his glorious govern. But this celebration ended when a monster, an horrible and terrifying Green Knight entered into the court in a green horse challenging the members of the order to hit him with an axe. But the resentful monster said something else. He said that he will give an equivalent hit a year after. The whole court was quiet and silent, everyone was scared and so was I, but in order to defend my King and Camelot, I stood up and I accepted the challenge. Therefore I beheaded the furious monster and then he challenged me to look for him in the Green Chapel a year after. Eleven months later, I prepared myself for the long trip and hard mission that awaited for me. I put my best armour on, I took my best sword and my best horse and I went to the North looking for the Green Chapel and the beheaded monster. It was a long trip and I will not lie saying I was not exhausted. But, thank God, I was lucky enough to find in my way a castle. It could not be compared to the magnificent castle of my brave King, but it was still fascinating . It was big and impressive, full of towers and well defended. I ask the lord of the castle, Sir Bercilack, for food and a place to sleep. As the good host he was, he pleased my requests and invited me to stay in his castle whenever I needed, following the hospitality expected from every knight. The castle was much more bigger than I thought. The inside of the castle was full of luxury and the decoration made it a really charming place. When we were having for dinner a delicious wild boar- it was obvious that Sir Bercilack was a commited hunter-  he offered me to exchange everything we earned along the day. While he leaved the castle everyday to go hunting, I should stayed with his beautiful wife, Lady Bercilack. She was such an stunning woman. She had a beauty I have never seen again, a beauty I will not be able to forget, not even in my deathbed. She was very sofisticated and deeply polite and se had a kindness that could be seen through her blue and big eyes. Anyone could see her soul through them.  It was really hard to remain loyal to Sir Bercilack when his wife came to my bedroom and try to seduce me. In order to try to not offend Lady Bercilack, I only allowed her to give me pure kisses. But the third time she visited my bedroom, insted of giving me one of her sweet kisses that I have loved  like nothing else in this world, she gave me a belt made of silk which had magical powers and she said it would save my live when I confront the Green Knight. But soon after this, the belt became the symbol of my tragedy. At the end of the day, when I was supposed to give everything I earned along the day to Sir Bercilack, I did not offer him the magical piece of silk her wife gave me. With this act, I failed the vows I swear when I became a knight. I was supposed to be true, honest and loyal to Sir Bercilack, but for my disgrace, I failed. After this, I went to the Green Chapel to find the dreadful monster. When I finally arrived, the Green Knight was waiting for me and he made three movements with the axe. Only the thrid one hit me, making a wound in my neck. But I was deeply surprised when the Green Knight revealed that he was actually Sir Bercilack who built this plan to prove my honesty. So he hit me in my neck as a punishment for not giving him the belt. Then I had to return to Camelot, completely ashamed as I was  for my lack of honor. But, thak to my mercy God, my beloved King and the rest of the Knights forgave me. In ordert to honoured me, King Arthur made the Knights wear a Green belt. That is why the legend of King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table will remain for centuries. That is why We will never be forgotten.

Compulsory Writing: Perfect place

In this image we can see the Giants Causeway balsat rocks located in Ireland. This place looks like one of those perfect enviroments that gives you the opportunity to go away from the real world. The sea and the characteristic rocks make it a place you can only find in fairytales and movies, a place you would have never imagined it existed. Its beautiful and fascinating sights allow you to forget about everything. It is such an unbeliveble place that you feel amazed when you visit it. When you look at this awesome sight you cannot think about anything but how stunning it is. It looks like a perfect place to relax as it seems to be very peaceful and quiet. But at the same time, it looks very lively because of the relaxing movement and sound of waves crashing against rocks. It is an open space perfect for people who want to go away from crowed and polluted cities and want to be in contact with nature. Even though it is a cool place it looks really comfortable. It looks just like a place where you could spent hours and hours not realizing how much time you have been in it. Finally, it is such an unique and charming place you will never forget in your entire life.

Shakespeare today

Shakespeare works has a great influence in many modern books and stories today. He was an author that wrote comedy and tragedy, and theater and poetry as well. That is why it seems that he set up the base where many writers, going from his contemporaries to modern writers, has based their works. For example, the deep exploration he made about the topic of revenge in many of his works such as The Tempest or Hamlet was really modern and very original. Shakespeare transformed a barely used topic before and developed one of the most common topics used nowdays by authors that find in Shakespeare works a great inspiration. But not only there are Shakespeare influences in books, but also in televison. One of the clearest examples is the TV series called The Simpsons since some episodes are based in stories Shakespeare created, such as Hamlet or King Lear. The list could go on and on in a never ending list of influences. This makes it clear that Shakespeare is an author that will never disappear from Literary History.

Fear of...

Fear of not being loved
And that my heart will stop,
Not finding a way to beat,
Not finding a way to still work.
I fear the world's doom will come
And I have no one to share that moment with,
Having to share it with a mirror,
Having to share it with myself,
Having to share it with loneliness anyway.
Fear of having to live like this
And that Miss Death won't come
To take my warm hand 
With her cold one
To take me to that place,
They say it is better.
And finally when I finish
I ask myself,
Is this cheesy?

Compulsory Writing: My name is Sir Gawain...

My name is Sir Gawain. I am studying English philology because English literature and culture has always been my passion. I started studying English when I was just a kid. That is why I have always been good at studying English because, in my opinion, the sooner you start studying a language the easier it gets. My parents were really concerned about this as they thought learning such an important language as English was crucial for my future. When I was a child I did not care too much about this matter but now that I am older I have noticed that being able to talk in another language is not only important to look for a job since it also gives you the possibility to communicate with other people, to discover new cultures and to understand them and even to appreciate them. Knowing a language opens your mind to a whole new world you did not know it existed.

As a conclusion, being able to talk in a different language gives you the possibility to have a wide open mind, that is a matter of fact.