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-Luis Rodríguez

-Luis Pareja

-Mateo Ormeño

Topics :
-Mateo Ormeño : Comunication and
Famous Writers 

-Luis Rodriguez : Transport and Education

-Luis Pareja : Music and Places 

Transport 

The history of transport evolved with the development of human culture. Long distance walking tracks developed as trade routes in paleolithic times. For most of human history the only forms of transport apart from walking were using domesticated animals or transport in small boats.

 History of road transport

The first earth tracks were created by humans carrying goods and often followed game trails. Tracks would be naturally created at points of high traffic density. As animals were domesticated, horses, oxen and donkeys became an element in track-creation. With the growth of trade, tracks were often flattened or widened to accommodate animal traffic. Later, the travois, a frame used to drag loads, was developed. Animal-drawn wheeled vehicles probably developed in Sumer in the Ancient Near East in the 4th or 5th millennium BC and spread to Europe and India in the 4th millennium BC and China in about 1200 BC. The Romans had a significant need for good roads to extend and maintain their empire and developed Roman roads.

Education

50 years ago children were WANTING an education. 50 years on, I believe there are a high amount of children who DO NOT want to have an education.

50 years ago there was only one way of teaching, off the blackboard. If children did not behave, they were punished, and the punishment got them back on track. 50 years on, there are many cheesy methods of teaching, such as "class discussions", and "interactive whiteboards". Sure, these are fancy methods of teaching, but are they the most effective for the majority of children? Teachers appear to want their classes to be fun, and may compromise learning for fun. Education is about learning, not about fun. 

I believe that if the children of 50 years ago had today's education, with today's resources, the education system would work perfectly. Could you imagine, a class, where every student wants to learn and to their upmost best to achieve the best in life. Now in today's day in age you get bright and able students scraping a pass due to the lack of motivation.

Famous Writers

Lovecraft

Lovecraft's work has been grouped into three categories by some critics. While Lovecraft chose not to refer to these categories himself, himself once wrote: "There are my pieces Edgar Allan Poe and Dunsany my pieces-but-where are my Lovecraft pieces? 10

Grim Tales (c. 1905-1920)

Stories Sleep Cycle (c. 1920-1927)

The Cthulhu Mythos / Lovecraft (c. 1925-1935)

C.S. Lewis

The Chronicles of Narnia


The Mountains of Mourne inspired Lewis to write The Chronicles of Narnia. About them, Lewis wrote "I have seen landscapes ... which, under a particular light, make me feel that at any moment a giant might raise his head over the next ridge."
Main article: The Chronicles of Narnia
The Chronicles of Narnia is a series of seven fantasy novels for children and is considered a classic of children's literature. Written between 1949 and 1954 and illustrated by Pauline Baynes, the series is Lewis's most popular work, having sold over 100 million copies in 41 languages (Kelly 2006) (Guthmann 2005). It has been adapted several times, complete or in part, for radio, television, stage and cinema.

The books contain Christian ideas intended to be easily accessible to young readers. In addition to Christian themes, Lewis also borrows characters from Greek and Roman mythology as well as traditional British and Irish fairy tales.



J.R.R. Tolkien

The Lord of the Rings

The request for a sequel prompted Tolkien to begin what would become his most famous work: the epic novel The Lord of the Rings (originally published in three volumes 1954–1955). Tolkien spent more than ten years writing the primary narrative and appendices for The Lord of the Rings, during which time he received the constant support of the Inklings, in particular his closest friend Lewis, the author of The Chronicles of Narnia. Both The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings are set against the background of The Silmarillion, but in a time long after it.
Tolkien at first intended The Lord of the Rings to be a children's tale in the style of The Hobbit, but it quickly grew darker and more serious in the writing. Though a direct sequel to The Hobbit, it addressed an older audience, drawing on the immense back story of Beleriand that Tolkien had constructed in previous years, and which eventually saw posthumous publication in The Silmarillion and other volumes. Tolkien's influence weighs heavily on the fantasy genre that grew up after the success of The Lord of the Rings.

The Lord of the Rings became immensely popular in the 1960s and has remained so ever since, ranking as one of the most popular works of fiction of the 20th century, judged by both sales and reader surveys. In the 2003 "Big Read" survey conducted by the BBC, The Lord of the Rings was found to be the UK's "Best-loved Novel". Australians voted The Lord of the Rings "My Favourite Book" in a 2004 survey conducted by the Australian ABC. In a 1999 poll of Amazon.com customers, The Lord of the Rings was judged to be their favourite "book of the millennium". In 2002 Tolkien was voted the 92nd "greatest Briton" in a poll conducted by the BBC, and in 2004 he was voted 35th in the SABC3's Great South Africans, the only person to appear in both lists. His popularity is not limited to the English-speaking world: in a 2004 poll inspired by the UK's "Big Read" survey, about 250,000 Germans found The Lord of the Rings to be their favourite work of literature.

Cominication

Visual, auditory and ancillary methods (non-electrical):

Prehistoric: Fires, Beacons, Smoke signals, Communication drums, Horns

6th century BCE: Mail

5th century BCE: Pigeon post

4th century BCE: Hydraulic semaphores

ca. 490 BCE: Heliographs

15th century CE: Maritime flag semaphores

1672: First experimental acoustic (mechanical) telephone

1790: Semaphore lines

1867: Signal lamps

1877: Acoustic phonograph

Basic electrical signals:

1838: Electrical telegraph.

1858: First trans-Atlantic telegraph cable

1876: Telephone.

1880: Telephony via lightbeam photophones

Advanced electrical and electronic signals:

1893: Wireless telegraphy

1896: Radio.

1914: First North American transcontinental telephone calling

1927: Television.

1927: First commercial radio-telephone service, U.K.–U.S.

1930: First experimental videophones

1934: First commercial radio-telephone service, U.S.–Japan

1936: World's first public videophone network

1946: Limited capacity Mobile Telephone Service for automobiles

1956: Transatlantic telephone cable

1962: Commercial telecommunications satellite

1964: Fiber optical telecommunications

1965: First North American public videophone network

1969: Computer networking

1973: First modern-era mobile (cellular) phone

1979: INMARSAT ship-to-shore satellite communications

1981: First mobile (cellular) phone network

1982: SMTP email

1983: Internet.

1998: Mobile satellite hand-held phones

2003: VoIP Internet Telephony

Music

The Beatles

The Beatles were an English rock band active during the 1960s, and recognized as the most commercially successful and critically acclaimed in the history of popular music. Formed in Liverpool, was established in 1962 by John Lennon (rhythm guitar, vocals), Paul McCartney (bass, vocals), George Harrison (lead guitar, vocals) and Ringo Starr (drums, vocals)

The Rolling Stones

The Rolling Stones is a British rock band originally from London. The Rolling Stones are known as "Their Satanic Majesties', due to the release of their studio album Their Satanic Majesties Request 1967. The band was founded in April 1962 by Brian Jones, Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Ian Stewart and Dick Taylor.

One Direction

One Direction are an English-Irish pop boy band based in London, consisting of Niall Horan, Zayn Malik, Liam Payne, Harry Styles and Louis Tomlinson. They signed with Simon Cowell's record label Syco Records after being formed and finishing third in the seventh series of the British televised singing competition The X Factor in 2010. Propelled to international success by the power of social media, One Direction's two albums Up All Night and Take Me Home, released in 2011 and 2012 respectively, broke several records, topped the charts of most major markets, and generated hit singles, including "What Makes You Beautiful" and "Live While We're Young".

PLACES
 A tourist attraction or tourist attraction is a place of interest where tourists visit, typically for its inherent or exhibited cultural value, historical significance, natural or artificial beauty, originality, because it is rare, mysterious, or for fun and recreation.

The attractiveness is a crucial element in the motivation of tourists to travel and generally the influx of tourists to a place related economic activity generates both (hotels, restaurants, excursions incoming agencies to local businesses, etc.) and infrastructure development for access and enjoyment of attraction (airports, roads, signs, etc.).

LIMA
 Lima is the capital city of the Republic of Peru. It is located on the central coast of the country, along the Pacific Ocean, forming an extensive and populous urban area known as the Lima Metropolitan

MADRID 

Madrid is the capital of Spain and the Community of Madrid. Also known as the Town and Court, is the largest and most populous city in the country