Questions about listening

1.      Who is explaining the medical consequences of using Carnitine?

Dr. Snider

2.      What protein can change the metabolism?

Cartine

3.      In what products can we find it?

In energizing drinks and red meat.

4.      Does the pesticide affect bees?

Yes, it affects the insects.

5.      How many farms had been affected?

70 farms

6.      What does the speaker say that is necessary to combat the problem with the bees?

Regulations with pesticides.

Movie: Láuberge espagnole

Plot:

The main character is Xavier, who is an economics student and he travels to Barcelona to study Spanish, because he needs to speak Spanish and to learn about the Spanish market for a job. He enters to the program Erasmus that is an exchange program and he has to leave his house, his mother and his girlfriend Martine. In Barcelona, he has to find a place where live, and he is accepted in an apartment where live people from different countries.

In this place he finds different cultures and of course each person has a different way to live, to think and to express. In some cases is difficult to get communication.

 Setting:

·         France

·         Barcelona, Spain

Characters:

·         Xavier

·         Xavier´s Mother

·         Martine (Xavier´s Girlfriend)

Partners of the apartment:

·         Wendy

·         Tobias

·         Alessandro

·         Lars

·         Soledad

·         Isabelle

Brave New World

1.    How does the author depict London in the future?

The author depicts London in the future with many tall buildings with many floors each one. Also, he depicts the importance of the science and the advances in technology and of course he depicts how the scientists love their work and contribute for a “better and happier society”.

2.    What kind of ideology is represented by the motto on the building?

The motto on the building is: Community, Identity, Stability. Where, I think community represents all the people that are working in the project and all the people who are “benefited” for the project. Identity represents the people who have characteristics and they belong to a specific group, for example the group of alphas, betas, deltas, gammas, epsilons. And stability represents the control that the project generates in society.

3.    Is there such thing as Natural Selection? If you could decide who to reproduce/clone, who would you pick?

I think Natural Selection is presented during the book, because the essential theme of the book is the reproduction of the best human species and the division of groups of people from the strongest to the weakest.

If I could decide who to reproduce/clone, I would pick people who can resolve problems in whatever situation, I would pick people who want to help the society. I would pick intelligent people and healthy people without vices who can improve the human race.

ü  What country is the biggest provider of cheap medicines?

India.

ü  What is one of the most contentious issues between developed countries and the developing world?

The debate over global drug pricing.

ü  Why do poorer nations have a moral obligation to make cheaper medicine?

They have to make generic drugs available to their populations.

ü  What is the use of the drug called Glivec?

The drug provides such effective treatment for some form of leukemia.

ü  What institution approved Glivec as medicine in the United States?

The Food and Drug Administration, in 2001 in record time.

ü  How much money does India export in generic medicine every year?

India exports about $10 billion worth of generic medicine every year.

ü  What do India and China produce together?

India and China produce together more than 80 percent of the active ingredients of all drugs used in the United States.

Link of the article: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/02/business/global/top-court-in-india-rejects-novartis-drug-patent.html?hp&_r=0