Christmas Storms and Sunshine by Valentino gomez

The novel called Christmas Storms and Sunshine written by Elizabeth Gaskell is what this essay is going to be about. Before beginning with our main topic of the essay, it is important to have a background on who the author is. Gaskell was a Victorian novelist, also notable for her biography of her friend Charlotte Brontë.
Elizabeth Stevenson was born in London on 29 September 1810, the daughter of a Unitarian minister. After her mother's early death, she was raised by an aunt who lived in Knutsford in Cheshire. In 1832, she married William Gaskell, also a Unitarian minister. However, the death of her only son inspired her to write her first novel, 'Mary Barton', which was published anonymously in 1848. It was an immediate success. Her story Mary Barton is somehow, in my opinion, related to Christmas storms and sunshine since in both we have a character named
Mary and in real life her son was sick and dies as well as in the story, mary hodgsons son gets very ill and is in the point of death.
Gaskell died on 12 November 1865, leaving her longest work, 'Wives and Daughters' incomplete.
Im going to continue with the essay by defining the values of citizenship and commitment. Citizenship is carrying out the duties and responsibilities of a member of a particular society. Commitment is when you put your mind to do something. It is the state or quality of being dedicated to a cause, activity etc.
In this story we could see how two political families fight for a great position in the english newspaper. They are enemies because of their disagreements with politics and between the wives. The men are so commited to their job that it brings conflicts and a lot of other problems too. They both were envious families and that makes us realize that at the beginning of the story there’s no citizenship. But as the story continues, there’s a part where the son of mrs hodgson gets very ill that she has to go to her neighbours house ( the jenkins) and ask for help and advice on what to do. For an instant she did not want to help in any way but then she rethought it and decided to help mrs hodgson out with her kid. I thought to myself at that very exact moment that mrs jenkins would not help her nor her son out since she was always complaining about how the hodgsons had a son and they didn’t, how they only had a cat. She used to always show envy and jealousy towers the success of the other family, as a family and as workers. It was a bit surprising seeing an act if kindness coming from her part but it was a good thing as well. Mrs jenkins cat enters the hodgsons apartment and eats mr hodgsons plate of food that was on the table in their kitchen. At the beginning it was a mess because they got very mad about it but then the Jenkins visit the hodgsons with some food to show that they are sorry about what their cat did. It was an act to make the other family forgive them for what their baby cat had done and it also showed empathy to the readers.
This part of the story shows citizenship, as them being neighbours to help each other out and forgive. They were being kind and nice to each other for a change and the story ends with them having a peaceful Christmas dinner together and enjoying their moments as two completely different families but with pure positivity.

The Christmas storms by Valentino Gomez

To begin this essay, and to compare or relate the values of caring and patience to the story “The Lady of Shallot”, it is important for us to know the definition of these two important values. Patience is the capacity to accept or tolerate delay, problems, or suffering without becoming annoyed or anxious. It is when you can maintain yourself calm even if something happening around you bothers you. While the value of caring is when you feel or show worry, kindness or concern about someone that might or might not be special to you. Now in the story “The Lady of Shallot” i could only find patience in the lady and care in sir Lancelot. To begin with why i found patience in the lady of shallot is because she was a young woman who was imprisoned all by herself in an island called Shallot. It is an island near a place called Camelot. She was cursed and was held there for a long while weaving a magical web. I believe she has patience because she had to go through all of that on her own. She could not look at the outside world but could only see what was happening throughout a mirror that she had in the room she was in; that mirror reflected what was going on from the outside. She could see Camelot just through there and through some shadows that passed by. I believe it is a very boring life and she had was patient about it because she knew that if she looked directly at the outside world the curse she had would be activated and she could possibly die. I believe she doesn’t care about herself since her curiosity made her look at the outside when she shouldn’t have. A man called sir Lancelot got her attention and that was when she peeked on the reality world. She had to take a look at something that was real and not just a reflection through the mirror.  She left the place where she was imprisoned and got on a boat and swam away in the river with a long white dress. She did suffer a lot in that place and that’s why i mentioned she was patient enough but if she cared about herself she would not have looked outside to Camelot since she knew what the consequences to that act where. At the end of the story sir Lancelot, the man that captivated her eye and the man that lead to the curse being activated ran up to her because he saw her body lying on that boat. He and the people that were around the river at the moment went up to her since there was a body lying there. She froze dead from the breezy weather. What sir Lancelot did showed care, even if he did not know who that lady was, he went up to her to see what was going on and said or thought to himself that she had a beautiful face.

A modest proposal in values fairness and justice by Valentino gomez

A modest proposal, to begin with, is a story that i believe after reading it, does not show any signs nor characteristic traits of the values called justice and fairness. This story is too cruel to have these two important values. The definition of these two words should be left clear before starting by stating why in my opinion i believe that those two values are not pointed out. Justice is the condition of being morally correct or right, it is fairness in the way people are treated or dealt with; while Fairness is an impartial and just treatment or behaviour without favouritism or discrimination. It is the quality of being reasonable and right, doing what is correct. Being fair is being equal with people, not choosing someone over some selfish reasons, but to be reasonable about it and about the choices taken. The reason why i did not see these two values in the story is because none of the characters in it have it. No one is fair to no one. Jonathan swift made this proposal where he said that the wealthy have the right to buy the children of the poor. The reason he made this proposal was because he saw that Ireland was entering into an economic crisis and there was overpopulation. And his only resolution was to feed poor 1 year okd babies to the wealth and that way there would be less people in the country and the poor would have more money to be able to feed all of their other kids. Now this is a very unfair proposal and decision made by Swift since the poor families are gonna go through a lot just for economical and overpopulation reasons. He should have found another way to find a solution ti this problem not by killing some innocent babies. It is very unfair for them to be killed and fed to the wealthy, after all babies have not conscious of what is happening around them and can not do anything about it but let it happen. This decision made by him is very selfish, cruel, and harmful for the poor people living in Ireland. After all Swift does not know what those families are going through since he doesn’t have kids of his own. He proposed to the mothers to stop working and feed their children a lot of food so they could have more meat on their skin and they would be enough to divide in four plates and to be used as accessories. In other words, the horrible proposal that Jonathan made is just called being unfair towards his people.

The diary of Samuel pepys in my opinion by valentino gomez

The diary of Samuel pepys in my opinion by Valentino gomez

The story “The Diary of Samuel Pepys” is a story that has two values which are thankfulness and trustworthiness. These two values are very important in a person and in a character of any story. The aspect of these two values should be left clear for the readers understanding. Thankfulness is when someone is feeling or showing gratitude, when you are pleases and grateful for what you have, this is a time when you  are being thankful; it can be either for a favor or for the help of someone that you may feel this. While trustworthiness is when someone is honest, and can b entrusted with your secrets or with anything else of importance.  It is the ability to be relied on as honest or truthful.
Now in this story these two values are shown at different moments of the story. I believe that Samuel has the value of trustworthiness at a context of the story but not in a specific part. For example, you can trust him when it comes to him writing on his diary since it’s confidential things for him he writes there and he does not expect other people to fond out so thats why he is honest to this book. He is not trustworthy as a man, since he cheated on his caring wife. That is someone who can not be trusted anymore after that incident. He also lacks empathy in the part of the fire, when he just stares from his window. He can’t he be trusted since he didn’t help when he had the chance to, his neighbours where in a moment of crisis and he did not do anything about it. But the people from the neighbourhood do have trust on each other since they helped each other out. Pepys was thankful at a moment where his wife cooked meal for him, and served him dinner. He showed his appreciation even after he has cheated and showed lack of care and thankfulness towards her.

the virtues by valentino gomez

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                                                              THE VIRTUES

INTRODUCTION:

It suggests that a virtue theory takes the virtues and vices of agents to be more fundamental than evaluations of acts or beliefs, and defines right acts or justified beliefs in terms of the virtues.

It argues that there are two important but different concepts of virtue: virtues are qualities that attain good ends, and virtues are qualities that involve good motives.Accordingly, vices are qualities that either fail to attain good ends or involve bad motives. Finally, the introduction summarizes the eleven essays in the collection, which are divided into four sections.

BODY:

in a Virtue is a habitual and firm disposition to do good The end of a virtuous life consists in becoming like God St. Gregory of Nyssa. There are human virtues and theological virtues. Human virtues are habitual and stable perfections of understanding and will, which regulate our actions, order our passions and guide our behavior in accordance with reason and faith. Acquired and strengthened through morally good and reiterated acts, they are purified and elevated by divine grace. The main human virtues are the so-called cardinals, which group all the others and constitute the bases of virtuous life. They are prudence, justice, strength and temperance.

where I live the virtues that arise in people are how one can believe since they are seen as they are and how they act towards other people as when they are cautious with some example in a situation that are discussing 2 people and the other person It happens is not aware of what happens because it is not fixed in them, also if a problem happens between neighbors is arranged because it is a neighborhood where several people live and respect those around them in their neighborhood, you can also see them people who have much faith more than all for their religion because all who live here are very religious Catholics and you see that they go to church a lot, but there are many elders.

CONCLUSION:

he conclusion is that there are many virtues that are divided into, prudence disposes the reason to discern, in each circumstance, our true good and to choose the appropriate means to realize it. It is the guide of the other virtues, indicating their rule and measure. Justice consists in the constant and firm will to give others what is due them. Justice for God is called the virtue of religion. Strength ensures firmness in difficulties and perseverance in the pursuit of good, even reaching the ability to accept the eventual sacrifice of one's life for a just cause. Temperance it moderates the attraction of the pleasures, it assures the dominion of the will over the instincts and seeks the balance in the use of the created goods.Faith is the theological virtue by which we believe in God and in all that He has revealed to us, and that the Church proposes to us to believe, since God is the Truth itself. By faith, man freely abandons himself to God; therefore, the believer tries to know and do God's will, since "faith acts through charity and hope is the theological virtue for which we desire and expect from God eternal life as our happiness, trusting in the promises of Christ, and supporting us in the help of the grace of the Holy Spirit to deserve it and persevere until the end of our earthly life.

The legend of valentino gomez

The invicible man

the invicible man was a wicked man who liked to see women bathing in the hot springs that were located in the mountains of Chacao, the man to be able to become invicible took a position that gave a witch who lives near the hot springs In the mountains, one day the man was looking at the women but the posion was over because it is temporary and the women caught him and hit him and after that the man never did it again.

barranquilla, colombia and my neighborhood by valentino gomez

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                                          barranquilla, colombia and my neighborhood 

                                                                 
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I am from Colombia, a country that is in South America, I am from the city of Barranquilla, which is my hometown, I live here in a neighborhood called Villa Carolina. It is a very simple place to live where you usually meet many people who live here and They are very nice and that's also why I made several friends here.

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in this country it is a place that is constituted in a unitary, social and democratic state of law whose form of government is presidential. It is a politically organized republic in 32 decentralized departments and the capital District of Bogotá, seat of the national government. Here there are also great things like agriculture or the cultures that are here and more than anything in the things that is where I am from in Barranquilla and among other Cartagena or Santa Marta, spectacular places to visit. I like Barranca because here is a place where you can do many things like go to the beach, eat in different types of restaurants, more than all the fast foods that are the best in the country, such as the shredded chuzo, the richest in the Costa and the whole country, is also a city that is growing little by little thanks to our mayor who is alex char and who has helped a lot to serve this city.

also i now the law 768 of 2002 provided for the creation of the metropolitan area of the caribbean Coast, made up of the special districts of Barranquilla, Cartagena de Indias and Santa Marta and the municipalities and territorial entities that are part of its metropolitan areas, laying the foundations for a regional megapolis. with the objective of formulating, adopting and advancing plans for the harmonious and integrated development of the territory under its jurisdiction, rationalizing the provision of services by the entities that comprise it and eventually assuming the common provision of the same works of metropolitan interest and advance projects of common interest. In the 21st century, the citys leadership has set the goal for Barranquilla to recover its level of strategic capital of the country. Among the strategies defined, the integration of the city with the magdalena river stands out through projects such as the avenida del río, the malecón del río, the urbanization of the island of la loma, the deepwater port and the Port Corridor.

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The elsa administration noguerabegan construction of storm sewer on the streets most affected by the formation of streams when it rains, marking a milestone in the urban dynamics of Barranquilla. Also noteworthy are the construction of the new Pumarejo bridge, the modernization and expansion of the Ernesto Cortissoz airport, the expansion of the Circunvalar avenue, the start-up of the Events Center and the Caribbean Cultural Park, the start-up of the mass public transport system Transmetro and the restoration of the historic center through the recovery of buildings and the renovation and construction of new plazas and public parks. On the occasion of the realization in Barranquilla of the Central American and Caribbean Games 2018, the construction and remodeling of sporting venues is carried out, as well as the provision of complementary infrastructure to house the jousts.