Technology’s Impact: Advantages, Disadvantages, and Future

The Impact of Technology on Modern Life

The world of technology is making strides. Each new release of any type of technological element differs greatly from its predecessor.

In this evolution, mobile phones are the devices that have changed the most since their appearance. I still remember the movies of the 80s where you could see this type of phone that looked like real bricks, uncomfortable to carry and use, quite the opposite of what happens today.

But not only telephones, but also film players,

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Vocabulary: Values, Relationships, and Inventions

Unit 4: Vocabulary

Values

Beautiful / beautifully / (in)dignity / discrimination / (un)equal / honest, honestly, honesty / humane, humanely, humanity / kind, kindly, kindness / loyal / prejudice / racism / (dis)respect, respectfully / trust

Idiomatic Expressions

  • Be fond of: To like very much
  • Be history: To be finished or over
  • Be sick of: To be tired of
  • Down in the dumps: To be sad or depressed
  • Eyes meet: To look at each other at the same time
  • Have something in common: To share interests or characteristics
  • In
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French Grammar Essentials: Articles, Questions, and Vocabulary

French Grammar Essentials

Articles: Partitives and Contracted

  • Partitive Articles: du + masculine noun / de la + feminine noun / l’ + noun (before vowel or mute ‘h’)
  • Contracted Articles: de + le = du / de + les = des / de + la = de la / de + l’ = l’

Asking Questions in French

  • Quel est votre nom? (What is your name?)
  • Quel est votre âge? (What is your age?)
  • Quelle est votre adresse mail? (What is your email address?)
  • Quels sont vos sports préférés? (What are your favorite sports?)
  • Quel est votre numéro
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Masterpieces: A Timeline of Art History

Masterpieces: A Timeline of Art History

Medieval and Renaissance Art (c. 815 – 1604)

  • Artists Unknown, Oseberg Ship (Gripping Beasts), c. 815-820 CE. Wood. Oslo, Norway.
  • Duccio di Buoninsegna, Madonna and Child, c. 1290–1300 CE. Tempera and gold on wood. Siena, Italy.
  • Simone Martini, The Road to Calvary, c. 1340 CE. Tempera on panel. Italy.
  • Pietro Perugino, The Giving of the Keys to Saint Peter, c. 1482 CE. Fresco. Sistine Chapel, Rome, Italy.
  • Michelangelo (Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni)
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Vocabulary in the News: Understanding Key Phrases

Shambles
‘It’s a shambles’: Data shows most asylum seekers are placed in the poorest parts of Britain.


Noun, uncountable: Something done incompetently; a disaster.

Spanish Translation: Desastre nm

  • The event was a complete shambles.
  • El evento fue un desastre total.

Noun, uncountable: A mess or disorder.

Disorder nm, chaos nm, mess nm, (Argentina, vulgar) quilombo nm

  • The flat was a shambles after the party.
  • Después de la fiesta, el apartamento había quedado en completo desorden.


Plough in
Greening’s language
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NAFTA: Boosting Trade, Growth, and Prosperity in North America

NAFTA: Fueling Economic Growth in North America

NAFTA: Creating one of the world’s largest free trade zones and laying the foundations for strong economic growth and rising prosperity for Canada, the United States, and Mexico. Since then, NAFTA has demonstrated how free trade increases wealth and competitiveness, delivering real benefits to families, farmers, workers, manufacturers, and consumers.

The NAFTA partners have created this website to provide Canadians, Americans, and Mexicans with information

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