Top 5 Historical Videogames

Today, I´m going to talk about my Top 5 Historical Videogames.

These days it´s really easy to find lots of Historical Videogames but just some of them are worth being in my Top 5.

I´m not going to make you wait more time.

Let´s start the Top:

Top 5: 

Civilization VI-> is a Turn-Based strategy game in which you have to build cities and you have to make your civilization prosper, like Spain, Germany, USA, Russia…  

    You have to discover others civilizations, set alliances with them or destroy them.       

You have to harvest lots of resources (for example: iron to military units, corn to population, jade and gold to economy).

You start in the Prehistory and finished at Mars.

I´m going to give it a 3.5/5 star rating.

Top 4: 

Hearts of Iron IV-> is a Real-Time strategy game. It´s based on World War II, in which you have to control a country and destroy the others countries.

You can make factions with others.

There is a national focus tree in which you can choose the things that you can do.

Too there is a investigation tree in which you can investigate; tanks, planes, artillery, nukes, militaries tactics…

You can start at 1936 and 1939.

I´m going to give it a 4/5 star rating.

Top 3: 

Age of Empires II-> is a Real-Time strategy game. It´s based on in the Middle-Age after the fall of The Roman Empire. Fundamentally, you have to make your civilization prosper and destroy the others.

You have to harvest resources(gold, stone and wood)

You have to build buildings like trader markets, headquartes to train troopers and castles to the defense.

You can be 13 civilizations like England and France.

I´m going to give it a 4/5 star rating.

Top 2: 

Europa Universalis IV-> is a Real-Time strategy game. It´s between 1444 after the Battle of Varna and 1821. The only thing that you have to do is SURVIVE.

You can set alliances and you can agree royales marriages.

Every times that you play are differents for example if you are England and you don´t want to be friend of Portugal, they could be annex by Castilla.

The part when you have to gain some money it´s very difficult because you depend on the commerce and the taxation.

You have to keep calm the clergy, the nobility and the peasants, because they can discourage your country and some kingdoms can exploit it.

 I´m going to give it a 4.5/5 star rating.

Top 1: 

Total War Saga -> is a group of Real-Time strategy games in which you control one side of two, and you have to move your troops depend on the weather or place, to win the battle.

There are lots of types of Total War Games like “Shogun” in Japan and Medieval Total War in Europe at the Middle Age

I´m going to give it a 4.5/5 star rating.

Reviewing the history of music: Rock

All we know what's Rock about, identify a rock song or say some famous rock singers but, do we really know what is it? well let's start with rock's history. Before the 1950s there was a type of music known as Rock and Roll, which descended from "rhythm and blues" and "country" but it was not until that year that people began to mix it with other types of music. It began to be influenced by blues, jazz, folk and even classical music and using as a denouncement for social evils. Guitar started being the most mopular instrument in this type of music, normally with a drum kit and a bass in the background or sometimes with a piano as main instrument too. Years later, rock began to become one of the most important musical types in history and to develop lots of subgeneres like  pop punk, rap rock, nu metal, glam rock, heavy metal, blues rock, folk rock and so on.

Year 1950

The rock movement started being one of the most popular types of music, Elvis Presley created the song That's Alright Mama, for many os of us, the start of the rock and roll. In addition great black singers arose like Chuck Berry, and began to bring rock to the black population. Later, Phil Spector revolutionized the music recording system, making the coming singers use that system.

Year 1960 

One of the best years in the history of music, are born groups like The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, The Kinks or The Who. Bob dylan begins to gather strength with his folk rock. In 1967 Leonard Cohen launches its first disc (personally my favourite songwriter) and 3 years latter appears the Grunge with  Led Zeppelin by the grunge hand.

Year 1970

Black Sabbath, Led Zeppelin, Deep Purple and Queen, create the Heavy metal. And Specially the group Queen gets an amazing popularity thanks to song like Bohemian Rhapsody, a real masterpiece these days. The Runaways created the Proto-Punk and in 1974 born the punk rock with amazing groups like The Ramones or Kiss. James Brown was the maximum exponent of disco music. In parallel, large groups are born like AC/DC or Aerosmith. From Jamaica Bob Marley popularize the Reggae and in the other hand, groups as Iron Maiden or Van Halen popularize the Hard Rock.

Year 1980

 Michael Jackson becomes the King of pop, while Madonna and Prince are top sales. Bruce Springsteen revived American rock, U2 releases his first album called "boy" while Red Hot Chili Peppers triumphs in england and in USA Guns n' roses approaches to the hard rock with Appetite for Destruction or Welcome to the Jungle and later use a less violent style, to create some of it's best songs like Sweet Child o'              Mine or Paradise City,

Year 1990

Death Metal gets much harder with groups like  Cannibal Corpse, Immolation or Dying Fetus. The grunge is turned upside down with very basic songs like Smells Like Teen Spirit, from Nirvana. Guns N' Roses destroys the medium again with songs like Don't cry or Since I Don't Have You and Groups like Muse triumph with their political and social criticism, by the other hand Rap- rock gets popularity thanks to Linkin Park.

I'm sure you all know the rest of the story, if you are reading it, you are living it. This is just a part of the amazing story of the music which I expect you have ejoyed.

Local sports news

Hello, Iván and Isaac are going to tell us about sports activities. In this case Isaac is going to tell you about Jose Antonio Luna Guijarro, a.k.a. "COLACHA" And Iván is going to talk about Antonio Sanchez Tienda, a.k.a. "BOYIS".

Hello, my name is Isaac and I am going to talk about José Antonio Luna Guijarro "COLACHA". The menciano player started out standing out in the cadet category where he went to the Spanish championship with the Andalusian Futsal team. The following year he went back to the Spanish championship as a youth, where he stood out and was selected for the Spanish Futsal Team. After the young menciano was signed by the Palma Futsal and was there for two seasons. Then it was hired by Palma Futsal to Burela F.S, where he is currently playing.

Hello, my name is Iván and I'm going to tell you about Antonio Sánchez Tienda. He started out standing out in the Ategua F.S. in which he was three seasons and then stood out and was signed by the Jumilla F.S. where he was two seasons. He was finally signed by the Jaén Paraíso Interior at the age of 27 years and this is where he currently plays.

By Iván Polo and Isaac Cabalero, 4ºB.

Our school succeeds in Cantalenguas 2017 final

We couldn't be more nervous; the expected day of the Cantalenguas had finally arrived. After whole days of rehearsal and expensive preparation , we were already for the grand final. Students from 1 to 4 of E.S.O. , companions and the teachers who directed the project we were heading to Córdoba. Since we got on the bus we knew that, even if we did not get the first prize, all our effort had not been in vain, since, not everyone is lucky enough to get there.When taking a walk through the streets of Córdoba, we made time waiting at the doors of the Góngora theater. The nerves increase by second when seeing the rest of the participating groups. The show finally begins, We enjoyed wonderful performances throughout the day, it was time to go on stage and we rehearse before going out, Between hugs and animos we go with energy to the stage to sing Nije ljubav stvar ( in serbian ).we enjoy the act like never before, we returned satisfied to our seats to rest and later we prepare to go out and sing again je te promets ( in French), it was our last performance so we knew we had to give our best, from the stage we saw our families and our companions and that reassured us a lot. We finished the presentation and we did not give much importance to the prize . We were satisfied with everything we had achieved and it was enough.finally with all our effort we won the first prize with the song Nije ljubav stvar , we were euphoric, we ran up to the stage to collect the prize and we began to sing of joy, we could not believe it. Then, we received the second prize with the song je te promets , again we went on stage happier than ever even knowing it was a second prize, It was something we wanted with all our will and we deserved it. We could not forget about the awards our teachers Carlos J Lucena and Rafael Caballero received , they deserved it for all the effort they made throughout the year so that everything was carried out. At the end of the show we went to celebrate dinner at the Burger King , We were all happy and satisfied with what we had achieved even as a small group.

As a reward, we all made an excursion to the aquatic park of Córdoba, the Aquasierra and later we went shopping in the Arcángel, Córdoba's commercial center. We spent an unforgettable day together as a big family.

By Marta Campos Moreno 4ºB.

ecology and environmental awareness

ECOLOGY, AND ENVIRONMENTAL AWARENESS:

As we all know, the world is facing the hardest problem ever for the humanity: the climate change. Climate change is a real problem (even though there are still people who think it’s just some lies from the ‘’eco-friendly ones’’). We need to do something before it’s to late, before there’s a flood.

Without our mobilitation, no change will be possible. The Earth as we know it, it’s dying. We aren’t noticing that, and that’d be our death too. That’s why activism, ecology and environmental awareness are so important.

The middle-class citizen is not at all informed of the situation and, moreover, it sees it as something unreal or distant to its reality. Climate change is happening faster than anyone, any scientist, aware us about.

I want to talk about this amazing paiting by Bosco so i can make you understand the situation in a better way: in the first panel we have Adan and Eva in the garden of Eden, some birds fly by and there’s a calm atmosphere. In the second one we can see an overpopulation, there’s no control, it seems not to be room for anyone else, i percibe it as a wildness world. The last panel it’s this twisted, decaded and burnt landscape, a paradise that has been destroyed.

I place ourselves in the second one, where it all is a mess. We need to consider this a big problem if we want to solve it now. As a human being, i’m truthly sorry for us, because we’re dumb and we can’t see what’s in front of us. We are destroying the Earth, we need to do something.

I feel anger talking about how many animal species have just dissapeared because of humans, they would just colonize their ecosystem and they would simply dissapear. The dodo, the passenger pidgeon, the tasmanian tiger, the quagga, the moa… The difference here is that we know what we’re doing now, we are conscious about it. We’re killing animal species in a bigger way.

Because of our need to get fosil energy, which our economy is based on, we’re poisoning rivers and destroying forests just to get energy and put it on fuel tanks, to get natural gas, petroleum and coal.

Our cars, planes, trains, the way we produce food, the way we build our cities, nearly everything we do, liberates CO2 and other gases, and this increases the climate change. the polar ice caps melt, the sea level begins to rise, and there will be more severe weather patterns, floods, hurricanes, droughts and uncontrolled fires.

The fact is that we have known about this problem for decades now. I imagine the world if we had taken seriously the problem back then.

In the universe, the earth it’s just a small bottle which is sinking, and we’ll all sink together. What’s going on? What can we do? Well, let’s see:

       -  Speak up!

The first tool we have to change the world is information: “Talk to your friends and family”. By voicing your concerns—via social media, for example—you send a message that you care about the warming world. Make the world know what’s going on.

-  Reduce water waste.

Saving water reduces carbon pollution, too. That's because it takes a lot of energy to pump, heat, and treat your water. So take shorter showers, turn off the tap while brushing your teeth.

-  Limitate your palm oil consume:

Palm oil is in nearly everything web uy, it’s bad for heath and to produce it, people cut down a lot of forests, killing animals and plants that can help us with the CO2 production. As you already know, plants use CO2 in their breathing so, as more plants there are, less CO2 and pollution will be in the atmosphere.

- GO VEGAN

If you really want to change something, you should stop eating meat, fish and animal products. Cows, as a example, produce methane while they eat, each molecule of methane is equal to 23 molecules of CO2 in the atmosphere. To produce what animals eat, we use 43% of the total land, and we only eat 1% of that. What people spend making a Burger is equal to 200 hours of a lightbulb use or 24 hours of a window air conditioner. Stop killing animals for nothing. There are solutions, we just don’t see them. With the land available once we had stop killing animals needlessly, we could stop the hungry in the world 14 times. Numbers that really scare me. Remember you’re not a lion, you don’t eat meat to survive anymore.

 These are just small changes, but the biggest one is to get information about what is going on, do not let the media control you. Think of yourself. If you do not want your future children or loved ones to see the world as the last pannel of Bosco's painting, you better start to do something.

The fact is that we are not really affected, what would happen to India, where they don’t even have electricity yet? Or Africa? They would not get bigger as a country, we'll stop their process completely. The same happens to pacific islands, if there is a rising sea level, they will disappear. And this is what we have done, it's Europe's, and the United States' fault, with so many others. We have destroyed the planet and also cultures who were getting bigger, now they're not. These ideas to stop the climate change I've put in here are just small things to do in here, but we have not even stop to think about Africa, India, China or pacifics islands.

As a normal citizen, we can not do much. We need to wait for the leaders of all countries to meet with each other and take some laws to follow, to not loose life as we know it.