Job Hunting Skills

Watch this presentation with information that will help you improve your job hunting skills.
Interesting links:
Sample cover letter: Outline
Sample cover letter: Requesting an opening
Sample cover letter: Responding to an advertisement
Cover letter email samples

Leonardo DiCaprio demands UN to take climate change seriously

"None of it is hysteria. It's a fact"

Food Pyramid

Look at the food pyramid. Do you think the foods you eat every day are healthy?

Imagine you are a congressional committee responsible for recommending what the government should do to fight the obesity epidemid and regulate the fast food industry. Here are some ideas:

1. Limit restaurant hours
2. Sales tax on fast food
3. require that warning labels are posted on food packaging / restaurant (like the one we find on tobacco)
4. require that alternative healthy choices be offered...

Do you think thease are good ideas, can you think of any other ideas?

An airline commercial that's gone viral on Youtube: real-time giving

Watch the video and read about it here.

THANKSGIVING

Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving is just around the corner, here are some facts about the holiday!!

by Raj Kamal.
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Closed for business!

Some resources to help you understand Government Shutdown in the USA. Before the end of each fiscal year (September 30th), Congress is tasked with passing a set of bills that allot funds to many Federal Agencies. No funds, means no business, and all those agencies have to turn everything off (including the Departments of Education,  Health and Human Services, Homeland Security, Justice, Interior... Environmental Protection Agency, US Courts, NASA, National Parks...)
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Multimedia overview of the meltdown.
From USAToday.A clear list of explanations about the situation.

Embarrassed by Government Shutdown

Education Systems in the US and UK

Thanks to our Language Assistants, Mehdi and Jon, for putting together these interesting presentations about the education systems in their countries!!

Stephen Hawking's Big Ideas... Made Simple

Stephen Hawking's Big Ideas explained in cartoon form.
Check out this link to read the article.

What type of learner are you?

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National Geographic

National Geographic celebrates 125 years of photographs with some of its most iconic images. Check out some of these amazing images!

Photography at 125! From nationalgeographic.com

Meet the TomTato!

A tomato-potato plant, now available in the U.K.

GMO OMG!

How much do you know about GMOs (Genetically Modified Organisms)? Here is some interesting information. What do you think? Do we know what we are eating?

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GMOs - Truth and Myths

Organic vs. Genetically Engineered Food:

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Texting While Walking

Should texting while walking be banned?
The filmmaker Casey Neistat explores the hazazards of text messaging while walking in NYC.

50th Anniversary of the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom

New York Times frontpage, August 28, 1963

Today, August 28th, we commemorate the historic March on Washington which occurred 50 years ago. Here are some links with interesting information about the Great March.

Witnesses to History, 50 years later, from The New York Times. People who attended the March share their memories and thoughts.

From NPR.org, "For King's Adviser, Fulfilling The Dream "Cannot Wait"








Watch some parts of the famous speech Dr Martin Luther King Jr delivered at the National Mall, in Washington DC.

Abraham Lincoln

On this day in 1862, Abraham Lincoln signed a measure abolishing slavery in U.S. territories.
Click here to learn more about the 16th president of the United States.
Listen to his famous speech, the Gettysburg Address.

These Pictures Prove that Maths are Really Hard

Why pay less when you can pay more?

Click here to see some more pictures.

29 Ways to Stay Creative

From dailyinfographic.com

Teenager Problems

The 15 most annoying things about being in high school, according to Reddit.

Graduation Speeches

Click here to listen to some graduation speeches from notable speakers, hope our soon-to-be graduates find them inspiring! Congratulations to our 2º Bachillerato students! WELL DONE!!