Class: Additional Post for the Saturday group (21st Nov.
2014)
Vocabulary: zebra/ pedestrian crossing, turnip, artichoke, petty
crime/cash, heinous, good behaviour, life sentence, driving under the influence
(DUI), over dose (O.D.), non- fiction, fiction, pulp fiction, hard-boiled
To review definitions given in class
and see further examples, click on the following link:
OR
simply look them up in Google.
Extras, if you have
time:
Love Story -
Originally sung by Andy Williams (with Lyrics) [HD]
Double Indemnity
Official Trailer #1 - Edward G. Robinson Movie (1944) HD
Dashiell Hammett Documentary
Raymond Chandler
"Mysteries & Scandals"
Class: 21st / 29th November 2014
Unit 7A: Getting away with it
Pages: 66 -68
Grammar: Conditionals (Mixed)
Vocabulary: Phrases with get
and to surveil, to libel, to mug, to
fine, manslaughter, pederasty, (statutory) rape, tax haven/ evasion/ avoidance,
predator, misdemeanor, felony, theft, sentence, to give yourself away, finger
print, alibi, blow the whistle, whistleblower, woolly, smooth, outwit,
outsmart, stagger
To review definitions given in class
and see further examples, click on the following link:
Homework: Workbook – pg. 34 – 35
Extras, if you have time:
Stephen Fry on
American Prison Facts
What fond memories! I recall perfectly the day when my two sisters and I saw "Love Story", we were all at the age of seeing those soppy films. Furthermore, I can remember as if it were yesterday to my younger sister crying her eyes out inconsolably since the story ends horribly.
ResponderEliminar"Double Indemnity" is one of my favorite movies of all times. The script is absolutely brilliant; you cannot take one word off.
ResponderEliminarNEFF
I wish you'd tell me what's engraved
on that anklet.
PHYLLIS
Just my name.
NEFF
As for instance?
PHYLLIS
Phyllis.
NEFF
Phyllis. I think I like that.
PHYLLIS
But you're not sure?
NEFF
I'd have to drive it around the block
a couple of times.
PHYLLIS
(Standing up again)
Mr. Neff, why don't you drop by
tomorrow evening about eight-thirty.
He'll be in then.
NEFF
Who?
PHYLLIS
My husband. You were anxious to talk
to him weren't you?
NEFF
Sure, only I'm getting over it a
little. If you know what I mean.
PHYLLIS
There's a speed limit in this state,
Mr. Neff. Forty-five miles an hour.
NEFF
How fast was I going, officer?
PHYLLIS
I'd say about ninety.
NEFF
Suppose you get down off your
motorcycle and give me a ticket.
PHYLLIS
Suppose I let you off with a warning
this time.
NEFF
Suppose it doesn't take.
PHYLLIS
Suppose I have to whack you over the
knuckles.
NEFF
Suppose I bust out crying and put my
head on your shoulder.
PHYLLIS
Suppose you try putting it on my
husband's shoulder.
NEFF
That tears it.
Neff takes his hat and briefcase.
NEFF
Eight-thirty tomorrow evening then,
Mrs. Dietrichson.
PHYLLIS
That's what I suggested.
They both move toward the archway.
HALLWAY - PHYLLIS AND NEFF GOING TOWARDS THE ENTRANCE
DOOR
NEFF
Will you be here, too?
PHYLLIS
I guess so. I usually am.
NEFF
Same chair, same perfume, same anklet?
PHYLLIS
(Opening the door)
I wonder if I know what you mean.
NEFF
I wonder if you wonder.
Regarding Prisons, I have no doubt about it: they are a business.
ResponderEliminarDon´t get me wrong, I am not saying that a crime doesn´t deserve a punishment. But if the private sector is investing and managing prisons, they will "compete" to have as many "clients" as possible. Because if they have 100 inmates, that means more money than 1 inmate. Specially if these inmates are cheap labour force, or let´s be honest and call it by its name: slaves.
We should think more about why a person ends up behind bars and less about increasing prison sentences. I think we all can agree that a poor person will have more chances to serve a sentence than a rich person. There are several reasons for that and that´s exactly what we need to change.
I would like to recommend you this web-documentary, about a town in Colorado that has 13 prisons. Everybody either has a job related to prisons or is in one of the prisons. Scary!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2WeiY3weMyY
I couldn't agree more!! as you said a large number of aspects are involved here, and I also find it shocking why there are so many coloured people in the death row. This thing shows me that we are not all equal under the eyes of the Law and it is absolutely daunting.
Eliminar1,300 inmates from Cebu Provincial Detention and Rehabilitation Centre in the Philippines appear in this video dancing in time to the famous song "This is it" by Michael Jackson. The initiative to introduce dance as a part of rehabilitation sprang from a prison's adviser, the idea was an outstanding success since prisoners significantly improved their pattern of behaviour in such a way that it has become a routine to see them marching with famous songs.
ResponderEliminarhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fx2dVvyzirw
As I said in class last Saturday, the magazine 'The New Yorker' includes short stories, that I think can be interesting.
ResponderEliminarThe last ones I read were:
Summer of '38 (by Colm Toibin)
Katania (by Lara Vapnyar)
The web address is: http.://www.newyorker.com
Wauuuu Olga, amazing video. The three inmates in black dance like profesionals!!
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