American people celebrate Thanksgiving on the fourth Thursday of November. That day, families get together to celebrate. Even though we don't have this celebration in Argentina, I think we can also take some time to recall all those things we can be thankful for. Many times we are so involved in our everyday activities that we don't take the time to enjoy things we may take for granted.
Spring is here!! And here's a positive message for this very special time: "No matter how long the winter, spring is sure to follow." ~Proverb Hope you have a nice beginning of this beautiful season.
We're reading Anne Frank and wonder how the other characters might describe Anne as they see her. Here's how Natali thinks Peter would do so:
Today is my birthday and I have a game and a cigarette lighter for presents.Everything is getting worse,but we are safe and now that is the most important thing.I feel terrible because there are a lot of people in the streets and the families are separated.I like living here with other families but sometimes it's difficult.
Well,let's talk about Anne,she is very pretty and I like her company because she is funny and she has a good sense of humour all the time,and it's good to have a person like that,because if you are sad,nervous or worried she can make you happy.I like her very much,but in these time I can't think about love because the most important thing is to be alive and survive.If Anne likes me, she could be my girlfriend, but I don't think that, because she ''loves'' me like a brother or a friend.Well,I'm too tired and I've to go to sleep, because it's too late.
Here's what Facundo thinks Alfred would write:
I am Alfred Dussel 10 November
Dear diary , I think that I am lucky because this big family chose me to live in their house , now the Germans are taking the Jewsin the concentration camps to kill them ,our secret annexe is really secret because when I entered the buiding had no idea where I was going and then I entered the secret annex I forgot all about Germans and the concentration camps. I was puzzled they received me with a drink then they showed me my bedroom and I forgot to say something , I knew a girl called Anee Frank she is a beautiful she talked to me for an hour. She thinks that she is selfish and I said that she had not any reason to feel like that because you can not protect more people because we are 8 now .
This is Agostina's contribution
Hello kitty: I ,Margot was born in Frankfurt in Germany in 1926.When we went to the Annex I felt scared because I had a letter to say that I was going to the camp but i didn`t go.I lived with other people and it is horrible because we have no trust and the Annex is very small.When we have a shower we have 3 places.I sleep with my sister anne but then other person live with us and I go to sleep to my parents bedroom.I ´m not very happy I like sleeping with my sister it is more fun.I like living with these people,they are good but Mrs Van Dan isn`t a good person because she tells me off all the time.We can`t make noise because the people work in the factory,we have a bookcase that covers the doors this is safer because they don`t see the door.We have a friend called Miep and father´s friend,they help us,they bring us food and clothes.I love them.
Here's what Kendra thinks Peter would say:
Hi kitty! I'm Peter, living here is strange. I don't feel well, We don't know them a lot. Mom & Dad don't feel well either. This situation is very strange. Anne is a good friend and Margot is beutiful! I love her... I think i fell in love.I'm very afraid of the Germans, they can kill us! Sometimes i ask myself: why me? why am I living this horrible situation? I think i didn't do anything bad! But things are like that. I'll tell you tomorrow how I feel.
Some time ago, I saw the film Julie and Julia. I found the story inspiring and funny at the same time. Mary Streep´s performance is superb, the two plots are skillfully interwoven, and for those who love cooking this is the chance to get to know an icon of American cuisine.
Fourth Adolescents is reading The Diary of a Young Girl, a most moving story about Anne Frank, a girl who has to go into hiding with her family during the Second World War. You can take a tour of the house where they stayed at the time: http://www.annefrank.org/en/Subsites/Home/About-the-house/
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The nation’s unemployment rate remains steady at 9.5 percent for the month of July despite a gain of 71,000 jobs in the private sector. Analysts chalk it up in part to a loss of 131,000 temporary jobs, and now many are wondering if unemployment rates in the U.S. will remain stagnant for the next decade.
We’re analyzing coverage from Fox News, NPR, MarketWatch and CNN.
Recent figures confirm the U.S. economy slowed in the spring, and then came to a stall in the summer since employers failed to add as many jobs as anticipated. On Fox News Stuart Varney says unemployment numbers should be nowhere near this high.
“I cannot remember a time when you had 6.6 million people out of a job for more than six months. That is long-term, mass unemployment. Now that rate you just showed, 9.5 percent, that should be a lot lower at this stage of the ‘so-called’ economic recovery. We went into recession in December of ‘07, two and a half years later we should have an unemployment rate way below nine and a half percent.”
But NPR’s Yuki Noguchi says it’s easier said than done, and points to a major problem in the jobs market.
“Earlier in the year Gault predicted private sector hiring would have accelerated by now but the economy hit a snag and now he expects it might be a few more months before business hire more than a 100,000 people a month. ... The further we go into the year the better the numbers should get on the private side.”
But in an article for MarketWatch, a progressive policy analyst warns it could have been worse.
“To be sure, the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act saved or created up to 1.2 million to 2.8 million jobs, and without it, we would have had 8.7 million to 10.3 million jobs lost... the evidence is clear that these policies certainly helped. But we still have work to do.”
Finally on CNN one analyst highlights another problem she says is contributing to slow job growth.
“We’re seeing a trend. Employers are also bringing back temporary or contract workers instead of taking on full-time workers that they’d have to pay benefits to. Experts are saying that in the next few years forty percent of the workforce could be made up of freelancers, because Kyra you know there’s a lot of uncertainty as to what’s going to happen with health care especially, so you know companies are less willing to hire people on full-time.”
So what do you think? Is the economy at a halt, or will job growth pick up in the near future?
