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I’m working on it because I haven’t finished to read the book I want to review 😛
But I’ll share the paragraph I wrote as the hook. Tell me if it works, please!

Some pens are forced to carry with them the history of their countries. Some of them are the tool to build a path where people can walk and admire their past and the way things used to be.
Born in the middle of one of the green corners of Portugal, touched by letters before the soccer passion or the swearing of Hippocrates, António Lobo Antunes was and is the transmutation between the scalpel and the pen. A pen who has written about Benfica as his local paradise and a witness of beauty and pain in the fluent of life.

Malcolm in the middle

Malcolm in the middle. Why we connected with this series? Because it showed the reality of many families and combined with humor. As Latinos/as, we felt that.

It can be seen as just another series, but for me it’s quite different since that family is not perfect and has real problems. That’s what makes the series more human. Imperfection is part of humanity. Anyways, here are my reasons.

Lois and Hal get married and they think their life will be perfect. Unfortunately, no sooner had they had their first son than they realized that they were in a pretty pickle. Francis is probably the most problematic of their children.

If that were not enough, the couple has 4 children more (5 in total). All of them have their particularities.

The socioeconomic status. Maybe it’s believed that in North America people don’t have economic problems. Nothing further from reality. And I think here is were most people really feels a connection with the series. Malcolm’s family struggles to survive and it’s even more difficult when the parents are impulsive while spending money.

Malcolm, the genius boy. Ok, partially genius. Malcolm is a very intelligent person, but only in certain contexts. He belonged to an advanced class in which only certain people who met with certain criteria could get in. But on the other hand, his social relationships are a disaster. Everybody agrees that Malcolm only thinks about himself and doesn’t pay attention to others.

All in all, it’s a great series that shows the real life of a Californian family in the 2000s. But many Latinos/as really connected, because that imperfection is part of our situation as well (in most of the cases). And humor is what makes the series really funny.

What do you think about it? Let me know in the comments section.

here is mine. bit long but i’d appreciate if anybody reads it. 😃
Critical review – Succession (TV series)
Succession is currently, in the opinion of many people the best TV show on the air and I definitely have to agree with those statements of acclamation that the show is constantly receiving.
Succession is acclaimed for its characters and the artists who represent them, tough people, intense discussions, memorable dialogues and thrilling situations that let the viewer wanting to keep watching until the end of the season. The plot is simple, a dysfunctional powerful family with creed, grudge between others, betrayal and with the infinite desire of rule the family business. When I say powerful is literally powerful, as the business the family own is one the biggest media and entertainment conglomerate in the world (valued in more than 80B dollars). In the course of the show what people watch is the founder of the company and leader of the family, an 80 year old man who refuses to withdraw from the company despite his advanced age and the crisis that the conglomerate is facing, his sons, full of creed aim to the CEO position and their father, who chapter after chapter seems like he hates them, does whatever it takes to stay in control.

One important plus for the show is that is not focused in one main character as many others, instead, in succession all characters are main characters, everyone is playing his game, and at the end, perhaps all are bad people, thus, the audience find hard to support one of them, or maybe to try to predict what’s going to happen next turns difficult, so the excitement grows chapter after chapter.

Aside from the actors, the production is stunning, since the show has to recreate the fancy and luxurious life of a family with billions of dollars in their account, and indeed they do it great, the sceneries, locations and all the stuff we see in succession is amazing, it makes us realize that is everything but a cheap production. And last but not least, the music. The music of the show is 10 out of 10, just compared in my personal opinion with the great soundtrack of game of thrones.

Fans are waiting for season four, while the shows grows in popularity and acclamation, and I hope that anybody who read this do a favor for their selves and watch this great show which surely will become in one of the greatest of all time.

My favorite podcast: “Doubts are given” ( “Se regalan dudas” )

Doubts are given is a podcast were Lety and Ashley interview domain knowledge experts about specific topics, so the listener can learn and comprehend the subject discussed. Commonly, the topics are controversial or current problems that the society faces. About the topics I can mention: love, happiness, drogs, life purpouse, sex, among many other themes.
My favorite podcast is about love because as many of us we have enjoyed it, cried for it and felt lot of thing through getting in love.
Other podcast, that really amazed me, was about the interview with a woman named Saski who has a organization that helps criminals to come back to the society, in a good way, after comply with their time in jail.
And the last podcast that I am going to talk, it was about to be happy with a life purpose. Since life purpouse is essential to achieve a life goal, it is also fundamental in a small parts of our life such as to be happy, productive, and feel special in your everyday routine.
Finally, I want to invite you to hear this podcast and think if after the podcast you change your mind about something or you realized something that you didn’t know.

p.s. they didn’t pay me for this advertisement

Project Hail Mary is one of the best science fiction books I’ve ever read.

Ryland Grace wakes up in a spaceship. He doesn’t know why he is there or even how he got up there. A medical robot is above him. He is surprisingly in good shape. Grace starts to remember that he has an important mission: to save planet Earth.

This novel is extremely well written. The chapters have the perfect length and timing. The way of writing of the author is excellent.

Project Hail Mary is an amazing space adventure that you should read. Will Grace save planet Earth?

I’m made the critical review of spider-man: into the spider verse

I think this movie is more that a superheroe kid movie, is a well made history, with a terrific develop of character. The story is simple a kid that is biting by a radio active spider and hive him powers sounds really easy, and also a little dumb, but the way the story try to show us how a boy had to deal with the fact that now he had powers, i think its a metaphor for grow in up, that you must to deal with the new responsibilities and the change that are coming, and all that mean while there are combats and cool fights sceens

1. False
2. True
3. Two

1. A Critical review is not a sumary – FALSE
2. You must challenge the material – TRUE
3. TWO structures

F.R.I.E.N.D.S

CRITICAL REVIEW:

Friends a comedy that left a mark in at least three generations, is it the best serie of them all? Let me give you my point of view of it

Throught the years this serie showed to be the favorite of a huge group of people around the world and it was tendency as the most seen in WARNER BROS and other tv channels, it is not weird that is still on air due to the facility that this serie has to get the people connected wiht the stories that happens inside, as it is based on a group of friends comformed by 6 people of different socioeconomic levels that become frinds and start supporting each other while they fall in love, get an economic stability, and overcome some childhood traumas.

Friends is known by creating funny moments from weird, embarrasing, sad problems that all face in life, that’s why you will feel so engaged whith it, because you will picture yourself in any situation the characters are facing and get joy living the process.

To sum up this serie gathers all kind of experiences that each of us can go during our lives, gives you joy from those problems, and let you live some moments vividly in different points of view.

introduction. the treasure island for me is the most impressive serie that i remembered, i always saw it in the tv show and i still do it spite of that it was many year ago.
overview of the material. this tv show we have pirates, treasure, action, drama and tragedy. Evaluation It´s a good serie because this capture all my atencion in those days even now. point 1. It ´s believed that the pirates never find the treasure. point 2. it´s said that the captain only want to be free of guilty and he helps to both parts. point 3 when you see the show you are thinking of participaiting in the quest. conclusion. This program it seems that you are looking for the trasure with some help of the others.

My ussually topic for read are the financial, economy, personal development and forms of the able persuading in the opinions of the people. To me is very important each one of this topics because any topic of them that you decide give you many usefull information regarding to the book that you pick. Just in this moment I’m reading a book named “The art of the deal” by Donald Trump that really this book I’m like me. This book has a containt very interesting about how this great busisnessman had achievement all the sucessful that now he had.

Have you ever experienced the sensation of being awake in your dreams? Although capable of influencing certain conditions and interactions, still lacking control over the output and the events just seem to pass you by? That is the feeling I have got from Tales From the Lꝏp.

Tales From the Loop is a series that revolves around the lives of people from a small town located upon a physics laboratory known as “the loop” and the uncanny sci-fi events that unfold in this location, characterized somehow by a rather mysterious beauty. It depicts ideas such as alternate realities, stopping time, conscious transfer, humanoid robots, as well as the way each character deals with these situations from their own psychological standpoints.

Something that I have found particularly fascinating about it and that definitely sets it apart from other sci-fi shows one might encounter, is the scene composition. Even though I am not an expert in cinematography and some critics have argued it is slow-paced, I can tell you that it embodies a unique esthetic which resembles – somewhat – that of a classical painting.

here is mine. bit long but i’d appreciate if anybody reads it. 😃
Critical review – Succession (TV series)
Succession is currently, in the opinion of many people the best TV show on the air and I definitely have to agree with those statements of acclamation that the show is constantly receiving.
Succession is acclaimed for its characters and the artists who represent them, tough people, intense discussions, memorable dialogues and thrilling situations that let the viewer wanting to keep watching until the end of the season. The plot is simple, a dysfunctional powerful family with creed, grudge between others, betrayal and with the infinite desire of rule the family business. When I say powerful is literally powerful, as the business the family own is one the biggest media and entertainment conglomerate in the world (valued in more than 80B dollars). In the course of the show what people watch is the founder of the company and leader of the family, an 80 year old man who refuses to withdraw from the company despite his advanced age and the crisis that the conglomerate is facing, his sons, full of creed aim to the CEO position and their father, who chapter after chapter seems like he hates them, does whatever it takes to stay in control.

One important plus for the show is that is not focused in one main character as many others, instead, in succession all characters are main characters, everyone is playing his game, and at the end, perhaps all are bad people, thus, the audience find hard to support one of them, or maybe to try to predict what’s going to happen next turns difficult, so the excitement grows chapter after chapter.

Aside from the actors, the production is stunning, since the show has to recreate the fancy and luxurious life of a family with billions of dollars in their account, and indeed they do it great, the sceneries, locations and all the stuff we see in succession is amazing, it makes us realize that is everything but a cheap production. And last but not least, the music. The music of the show is 10 out of 10, just compared in my personal opinion with the great soundtrack of game of thrones.

Fans are waiting for season four, while the shows grows in popularity and acclamation, and I hope that anybody who read this do a favor for their selves and watch this great show which surely will become in one of the greatest of all time.yes

• The best way to write a critical review is by summarising everything.
  FALSE
• It is no enough to understand. You must challenge the material
  TRUE
• How many structures were mentioned in the class?
  Two specific structures

m working on it because I haven’t finished to read the book I want to review 😛
But I’ll share the paragraph I wrote as the hook. Tell me if it works, please!

Some pens are forced to carry with them the history of their countries. Some of them are the tool to build a path where people can walk and admire their past and the way things used to be.
Born in the middle of one of the green corners of Portugal, touched by letters before the soccer passion or the swearing of Hippocrates, António Lobo Antunes was and is the transmutation between the scalpel and the pen. A pen who has written about Benfica as his local paradise and a witness of beauty and pain in the fluent of life

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Some pens are forced to carry with them the history of their countries. Some of them are the tool to build a path where people can walk and admire their past and the way things used to be.
Born in the middle of one of the green corners of Portugal, touched by letters before the soccer passion or the swearing of Hippocrates, António Lobo Antunes was and is the transmutation between the scalpel and the pen. A pen who has written about Benfica as his local paradise and a witness of beauty and pain in the fluent of life.

False
True
Two structures

’m working on it because I haven’t finished to read the book I want to review 😛
But I’ll share the paragraph I wrote as the hook. Tell me if it works, please!

Some pens are forced to carry with them the history of their countries. Some of them are the tool to build a path where people can walk and admire their past and the way things used to be.
Born in the middle of one of the green corners of Portugal, touched by letters before the soccer passion or the swearing of Hippocrates, António Lobo Antunes was and is the transmutation between the scalpel and the pen. A pen who has written about Benfica as his local paradise and a witness of beauty and pain in the fluent of life

I’m working on it because I haven’t finished to read the book I want to review 😛
But I’ll share the paragraph I wrote as the hook. Tell me if it works, please!

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1. False! A critical review is not a summary.
2. True!
3. 2

In a world where blue jays and raccoons can be friends with a white immortal gorilla and live the craziest adventures that a human mind can imagine, a bit of intrigue needs to arise in you, if not, give me some of what you and the writer of this series are taking. “Regular Show” is for many criticisms a cinematographic piece of art, that has marked and influenced the childhood of many people and as one of those, I can agree that this is the most creative animated series that has been ever created.

Regular Show Is a series of Mordecai and Rigby, a blue jay and a raccoon, respectively, who work for a park where the most absurd and fictitious things happen. With a bubble gum dispenser as a boss, an immortal albino gorilla as a coworker, a fat zombie who lives with a ghost in a trailer, and the park owner’s son as the “supervisor” with ahead of the size of a beach ball, nothing can go well. Now that you have an idea of what are we talking about, let’s focus on the plot and why is impossible to find inconsistencies in the story, even being so absurd. The regular show consists of 8 seasons, with about 20 episodes each, in which every single episode is a news story, where the park gets destroyed, they fly to the space to fight mystic babies, acquire superpowers or beat each other, but okay… you get me, weird things happen in that park. There’s another interesting fact about this series and that is that each new tale has a similarity, the structure of the events. First, they are having a civilized conversation as we humans tend to do, then some of the fictitious events mentioned before occur, third, the members of the park find a conflict to fight or argue over about, like that time Skips (the albino gorilla) killed Rigby in an arm wrestling game and had to beat the Death in an arm-wrestling match to resurrect the raccoon. And finally, they reconcile with each other, agree to be friends, just to find a new problem to fight about, and repeat that sequence over and over again. Moving on, now, you understand what type of characters and tales we are talking about, nonetheless, there are many negative and criticizable aspects of this cinematographic piece. One of them is the absurdness or hyperboles, a resource that many series apply to their stories to make it seem more attractive and entertaining, overused can be annoying for viewers and it’s something I find in regular shows. For instance, Money Heist is a Spanish series where several thieves rob the banks with the best security, every time the police are close to catching them, they make it look (in the most absurd way possible) like it was always part of the plan, this each of the 4 times they robbed. This being a crucial factor of “Regular Show” can be perceived as annoying and exhausting. Additionally, being a series with each episode a different story can make it hard to trap the viewer’s attention. Think about the show where you were the most invested in, it was probably something like Stranger Things, a series that combines absurd and real-life experiences that develops a plot that catches the attention of everyone, something we can’t see on Regular Show.

To conclude, if you are the type of person who likes fictitious cinematographic plays, where they don’t follow a coherent tale, but the creativity of the writers creates absurd art that may not have you super invested but will give you an entertaining time, “Regular Show” a not regular series with humanized animals who fight mystic animals (kind off), is just for you.

1. False. You must be prepared to give a strong opinion about a certain topic. Furthermore, synthesize information.
2. True. You need to read a lot about the material (skimming and scanning) so definitely you have a whole understanding of it.
3. Two structure:

• For a short critical review:
  Introduction
  Overview
  Evaluation (Point 1, Point 2, Point 3, add more if needed)
  Conclusion

• For a long critical review>
  Introduction
  Point 1 (Explanation + Evaluation)
  Point 2 (Explanation + Evaluation)
  Point 3 (Explanation + Evaluation)
  Conclusion

I think sometimes life gives you some situations, but some people are taking those situations in different ways. I mean, could be to take you down or make you stronger than before. The comfort zone makes you weak. Stay uncomfortable is very important to keep growing. It’s good being comfortable, but not too much time.

I like the interactive classes!

Life 3.0, Max Tegmark – [CRITICAL REVIEW]

How is the human interacting with new technologies using artificial intelligence? How will the human being interact with smarter technologies like general artificial intelligence? There are a lot of implications in this questions, Max Tegmark tries to approach many of these questions, nuancing and touching interesting topics from physics, biology, computer science, and even phylosophy.

The book starts with a sci-fi history that the author uses later to remember things to consider when building smarter artificial agents that humans. Since caveats to good things that could be achieved.

In order to consider aspects about intelligence from physics perspective the author gives a lot of amazing explanations merging sometimes with computer science side. This was expected because the author is in fact a MIT professor of physics, he is a great physicist.

When Max wants to illustrate some concepts he has given several examples, analogies and facts, sometimes it coud seem that is tangled up, or that the examples are in fact so simple, childish? But as you read the book you can notice that they are clear and wise examples.

From my perspective, it’s a great book, you will be amazed because of many interesting things that are mentioned and explained. If you wish to understand many of the hottest discussions around AI future, this book is really nice.

I share with you, a hock to star criticism with Mistborn Saga. 📚

What’s happened with the fantasy? Is the fantasy stuck in the same periplus? Tolkien created a story, and since the authors copy the formula? Those questions some of the main that most fantasy readers ask self about the fantasy gender. Because there was a moment that, fantasy doesn’t produce a new unique story, that we would want to read and devour each page as quickly locomotive. Since, authors tell the same story, but with different characters, and not that new arguments to relive this gender, nevertheless, there was written a story public by Brandon Sanderson called Mistborn, a new tribology, was not new to the readers, trilogies or sagas is very common in this ambit, but that play contents new arguments, a new way to tell a story and feel the pages as watercourse. Something that is developed with the necessary time, and dive to Mistborn, and explore who are the Mistborners, and everything started in The Final Empire.

I recommend a lot of this saga, If you like to read fiction, you have to read this book.

1. False: It’s not only a summary.
2. True: You need to challenge the material, you need to do give an opinion.
3. Four: structure, reasoning, logic, conclusion, wait, there are two only?

1. false
2. true
3. Two, to short and long essays

False, not only you have to summarize information but also, it is necessary to process, link and synthetize using criteria and challenging the ideas presented in order to write a proper critical review.

True, you must qestion and test all ideas being presented in the material before emitting a proper critical review. Also, confronting with your own opinion is recommended, since the reader is usually interested in knowing the writer’s point of view.

Two structures, a simple one for short reviews and a more elaborate one, where you should develop all the main ideas with its corresponding assessment.

1. False, it’s not just a summary. We need to understand all elements to create an opinion and challenge that information.
2. True. Giving a global perspective of the topic, mentioning good points and also bad points.
3. We learnt two structure examples. First one was giving an overview and then an specific evaluation point by point. Last one includes specific explanations and particular evaluations of each point.

1. False. You have to be critical and understand the material.
2. True. You do not have to accept everything.
3. 2 structures were mentioned in the class.

1.False : Because you need to give share your ideas and your approach
2.-True: Because you need to express your opinions
3.- 2 examples of structures

1. False. The main porpuse of critical review is analysis and evaluete the content in order to give a point of view, so summarise everithing is not enough.
2. True. To writte a critical review you have quiestion all the content.
3. Two specific structures.

1st. False, a critical review is not a summary, evaluating everything that you see
2nd. True, you must challenge all that you see. It’s not enough to understand the material, giving opinions, for instance.
3rd. 2 examples of structures.

1. False (you need to be critical of everything that you notice in the material)
2. True ( you need to challenge everything you see and give your opinions)
3. Two specific structures

1. False
2. True
3. 2 structures

1. False. The best way to do it is by challenging everything on the material.
2. True.
3. At least 2.

1. The best way to write a critical review is by summarizing everything.

   False - It is not a summary! You need to evaluate everything that you see, and you need to be critical of everything that you notice in the material.
   .

2. It is not enough to understand. You must challenge the material.

   True - You need to challenge everything you see when you are trying to be critical, you need to give your opinions.
   .

3. How many structures were mentioned in the class?

   Two specific structures.

1. False, When we write a critical review we have to analyze and evaluate the content.
2. True, You have to challenge the material in order to give a critical review, not just to understand it and accept it as it is.
3. 2Structures

• False. Critical reviews are meant to dissect the source material and review it critically.

• True.

• 2 Structures.

• False
• True
• 2 structures

• False
• True
• Two structures