Comparison and Contrast

 Life Before and After COVID-19 Outbreak

The human being was not expected to face such a fearsome virus that had the ability to change the entire world´s life forever. Everyone's life was radically changed to such an extent that people came to believe that life as it was known would never return. Although there have been other deadly viruses before this one, it was still scary just knowing that it existed and spread rapidly. Although that fear has disappeared, life has not been the same since its arrival. While time was elapsing, everything was adjusting to people's preferences and needs.

Firstly, one of the most notable things that changed significantly thanks to the arrival of the COVID-19 is the own lyfestile. New habits and routines were adopted by people just to be able to live and coexist with this virus. Something to be mentioned is that people did not use to take a shower right after coming back to their houses, but during and after quarantine this turned into a habit. Moreover the constant use of alcohol gel, which became a friend of everyone. Before the outbreak of the pandemic, the use of alcohol gel was not important, but then it became a need. Now it is a necessary added expense as well as masks and cleaning products, such as liquid soap, disinfectant, bleach, etc. 

Secondly, classes and everything related to school, University and work changed at all. Before COVID-19, online classes and conferences looked far away. Now that we have made use of virtual platforms and we make better use of them, we cannot see life without them. They have always been useful, but today they have become an important tool in the daily life of students, workers, and even are used for purposes outside of that range.

Last   but   not   least, quarantine helped many people to discover and develop skills they did not know they had. The most common are related to baking, cooking, making of handicrafts, and some others. 

Time even hits differently during the quarantine. Many who were babies, at the end of the quarantine were already children who were able to walk or run. Others were children, but when they returned and saw them again they were already young and full-fledged ladies or young men. It was even hard to believe that those little children

The COVID-19 lockdown has created many contrasts in everyone's life, including the existence of new healthy habits; new learning procedures; the use of resources to learn, teach, work and communicate; the development of new or hidden skills; and the learning that time goes fast and sometimes the focus of the attention is placed in other things instead of the ones that matter.

Persuasion

Animal Testing should be banned 

The use of animals for experiments with new medical substances or cosmetic products created by humans must be prohibited. Human beings, as the dominant species in this world; humans throughout history have always used animal species inferior to them in cruel experiments with highly toxic substances or products created by them and these experiments are in order to verify if they are viable for human use. The medical and cosmetic industry is the one that abuses defenseless animal species the most to check the efficiency of their experiments and products and then put them up for sale to benefit from the profits that these products will generate. Various investigations reveal that in cosmetic and medical research painful experiments are carried out on hundreds of thousands of animals every year, the animals most used in these experiments are rabbits, chimpanzees and mice because these animals can be easily replaced in these cruel tests. These cruel tests include skin or eye irritation, skin sensitization causing them allergies, poisoning, causing cancer from prolonged exposure to these chemicals, or exposing them to highly life-threatening viruses in order to sole purpose of seeing the effects that these viruses cause in their organs without caring about all the pain that this process  entails in them; therefore, when seeing how the human being does not respect the rights or the lives of these animals, they should be strictly prohibited from using any type of animal in their experiments on medical substances or cosmetic products created by the human being.

Classification

Love Relationships

Love relationships can be divided by the way they are perceived in life into the following groups: family relationships, romantic relationships, friendships, and acquaintanceships. The first type, family relationship, is the one you have since you were born; it includes your mom, dad, uncles, aunts, cousins, grandparents, etc. This relationship is supposed to be for life; even though sometimes it may have difficulties it is supposed to last until you die. The second type, romantic relationships, appears when two people are attracted to each other and they become closer with time; it gets stronger when you discover things in common and the love starts to grow. The third type, friendship, is when you become closer to someone with whom you share some experience and become close to the point to consider them as family; even though both of you don’t share the same blood. This becomes stronger when the loyalty is on it. Lastly, acquaintanceship is the one you have with people around you, such as your neighbor, some people you know from college, and so on. This is more to be respectful of the ones you are surrounded by. Sometimes a relationship that starts as an acquaintance can, sometimes, evolve into another type of relationship.  Relationships are different one from another, this means you are not just going to find love in family, but also in your couple, your friends, and people you know among life.

 

Definition

 Euthanasia

Euthanasia is defined as the decision that a person makes to end his/her life voluntarily under medical supervision. Euthanasia is the act that happens when a person is helpless either due to a terminal illness or a terrible accident decides this decision, and based on these conditions the patient in question makes this decision to end his/her life with the sole purpose of not continuing to suffer terrible endless pain in his/her body; that in most cases this torment is worse for the patient than death itself. Unlike a natural death, Euthanasia occurs with the consent of the evicted patient, so that his/her death is under medical supervision to make it less painful and quick, for example in the country of Colombia since 1997 it has been legalize because it was considered that the practice of Euthanasia is a humanitarian act for people, who have already been dismissed by doctors so as not to continue extending their suffering in the little that remains of their lives; hence, Euthanasia is a personal decision that can only be taken by people who suffer from terminal illnesses to put an end to their pain through death assisted and supervised by a doctor.

Narration

 A life-changing day

I do not like to leave things for later, and that really changed my life. I am not talking about responsibilities, I am talking about the opportunity to help someone, to show love or just to enjoy every second of life. I learned this the hard way. Three years ago, I said: I will see you then; then my life changed. Those words were to my grandma when I rushed off to college forgetting to kiss her and tell her how much I loved her; without knowing that it was going to be the last time that I would see her alive. While I was in college, I received a call from my mom telling me to go to the hospital because my grandma had had a cardiac arrest. I went as fast as I could, and I could still see her; she seemed to be sleeping. Two hours later, she died. The only words that were in my mind were the ones I said to her before leaving the house. And no, I didn't see her afterwards. Since that day I have a feeling of guilt in my heart, which does not let me leave the house without first hugging and kissing my family as I should have done that day. It is incredible how in just one day my life and my way of appreciating it changed so much.

Description

 

The Most Eccentric Person I know

I have not met a person as eccentric as my aunt. My aunt’s name is Marlene, and I live with her. She is an important person to me, but sometimes her behavior is so extravagant. The way she dresses is not according to her age, she is always using clothes with rare combinations of colors and big necklaces. She is always criticizing me about what I do as if she were a perfect person, and she does the same with other people. That is why she does not have friends. She likes to be alone because she says that nobody deserves her friendliness. My aunt is so curious, and she likes to learn new things because she does not like to depend on other people, since nobody does the things as perfect as she does, according to her. She is so unique in her appearance that it is impossible not to notice her. She is determined when making decisions. Sometimes her behavior is so bizarre, she likes to make jokes as if she were a child. That is why if it is about strange people, for me, my aunt is the winner.

Illustration

Social Media Effects in

Leisure Activities

    Since social media appeared, humanity has changed the ways to spend their free time. Some people have taken this as a way to inspire themselves to develop new things, create new hobbies, and connect with people around the world. For instance,using social media to watch movies but at the same time learning a language could be a positive change. On the other hand, there exist some negative changes as sedentarism and wasting of time as a result of the bad use of this tools; to illustrate, some people tend to spend hours just surfing on internet and chatting with others; this happens every time they are free or just bored, and this creates an addiction for them; sometimes you can be around them talking about an important thing, but their attention will be on their devices at any social media that are involved. Indeed, social media has created another perception on leisure activities, as not going out with friends, laying down on bed all day, and not having real communication with others.

 

Reflection about the writing of Our Writing Blog

           To be honest, the most difficult hurdle we had to go through as a group was writing each paragraph and finding a time available to everyone since we have different schedules. Sometimes we coincided and managed to meet in person, while in others our meetings were online. At the time of writing each paragraph, we created a document in which we wrote our ideas to be developed in each paragraph and we started a survey to decide how we would approach each topic. Once we were clear about the ideas to be developed in each paragraph, we began to create a draft for each paragraph. The coordinator was in charge of typing each idea that we were developing. Then it was time to check the consistency of each of the ideas, in addition to making sure that each paragraph complied with each of the characteristics of each assigned style. For this, we delegate 2 paragraphs to each one to be reviewed and then hold a meeting and share the observations that each one had of their assigned paragraph. This revision was also to check the punctuation and probable spelling errors. We already felt ready to send the first draft. The paragraph style that was most difficult for us was that of comparison and contrast and in fact, it was the one that we had to make the most changes to after sending it to the first revision. We had to read and search for more information about each paragraph's style and its characteristics. The best teaching we could have was the opportunity to put into practice each of the paragraph styles because thanks to the assignment of this blog we realized that each paragraph style contains its essence and that to achieve good writing we must from the beginning I begin to outline the idea to be developed and if it agrees with the theme previously selected or assigned in this case. So as a group, we rate our teamwork as basic because we are aware of how difficult it was for us to write some paragraph styles, but we also strive to comply with each of their characteristics.