H. G. Wells: “History is a race between education and catastrophe”.

martes, 28 de marzo de 2017

3º CC.SS. - TEMA 7 - Review

R6.- Identify the statements that are true and correct the false ones:
  • Deindustrialisation consists of transferring an activity to another area with better conditions and more modern and efficient factories:
  • Mineral resources are present in certain countries such as China, Switzerland and Russia:
  • Capital goods industry changes minerals into metals:
  • First Industrial Revolution was based on oil:
  • Fossil fuels are coal, oil and wind:
  • Mine shafts are located on the surface:
  • Renewable energy are water, Sun and gas:
  • Consumer goods industries changes minerals into metals:
  • Products of basic industry reach the consumer:
  • Industrial location depends on factors like the presence of raw materials, communications and inaccessibility to centres of consumption:
  • Second Industrial Revolution was based on coal:
  • Industrial relocation means abandoning industrial activity and the industrial areas that it occupied and the giving it other functions:
  • Industrial rocks are marble, iron and granite:
  • Minerals are gold, silver and marble:
  • OPEC controls production and prices of coal:
  • The main oil-producing countries are Saudi Arabia, countries in the Gulf of Panama and Russia:
  • The main industrial centres are located in China and central African countries:

lunes, 27 de marzo de 2017

2º H.E. - Cuestiones (3)

3. Revolución liberal en el reinado de Isabel II. Carlismo y guerra civil. Construcción y evolución del Estado liberal.

PRIMERA CUESTIÓN. Responda a las siguientes preguntas:
a) ¿Qué ley aprobada por Fernando VII condujo a la Primera Guerra Carlista?
b) Describa muy brevemente las causas y consecuencias de la Primera Guerra Carlista.

SEGUNDA CUESTIÓN. Responda a las siguientes preguntas:
a) ¿Cuáles fueron los dos principales partidos durante el reinado de Isabel II?
b) Describa las características de los partidos políticos que surgieron durante el reinado de Isabel II.

TERCERA CUESTIÓN. Responda a las siguientes preguntas:
a) ¿Qué nombre recibe el periodo comprendido entre 1844 y 1854?
b) Explique las principales medidas tomadas por el partido gobernante durante ese periodo.

CUARTA CUESTIÓN. Responda a las siguientes preguntas:
a) ¿Qué nombre recibe el periodo comprendido entre 1854 y 1856?
b) Explique las principales medidas tomadas por el partido gobernante durante ese periodo.

QUINTA CUESTIÓN. Responda a las siguientes preguntas:
a) ¿Qué nombre recibe la carta otorgada aprobada en 1834?
b) Compare brevemente la carta otorgada de 1834 y las Constituciones de 1837 y 1845.


7 de abril

El suicidio de Europa

Petrópolis, 22 de febrero de 1942

En la mesita de noche había dos vasos con restos de veneno, en la cama, Stefan y Lotte, muertos.

Berlín, 30 de abril de 1945

Eva tomó cianuro, Adolf también, luego, se disparó un tiro en la cabeza. El día anterior se habían casado.


Enrique Angulo, El suicidio de Europa.

domingo, 26 de marzo de 2017

4º. CC.SS. - TEMA 8 - Review (3)

R4.- Vocabulary:
  • Alhucemas landing
  • Civil Directory
  • Commonwealth of Catalonia
  • Dictablanda
  • Government of Concentration
  • Military Directory
  • Parliamentary Assembly
  • Patriotic Union
  • Picasso report
  • Radical Party
  • Revolution from above
  • Tragic Week

jueves, 23 de marzo de 2017

1º H.M.C. - TEMA 11 - Un fotógrafo en el infierno

miércoles, 22 de marzo de 2017

4º CC.SS. - TEMA 8 - Pictures (1)

















4º. CC.SS. - TEMA 8 - Review (2)


 
 R3.- Maura, Canalejas or none of them?
  • He called for elections to a new Cortes that would reform the Spanish constitution:
  • He defended a revolution from above:
  • He reformed the local administration:
  • He introduced obligatory military service:
  • He reformed the electoral law:
  • He led a government of ‘concentration’:
  • He wanted a non-confessional state:
  • He ended the system of alternating parties:
  • He led a military coup:
  • He created the Institute of Provission:
  • He proposed a profound constitutional reform:
  • He was liberal:
  • He ordered to shoot Ferrer Guardia:
  • He promoted public education:
  • He started the process of creating the Commonwealth of Catalonia:
  • He was killed by an anarchist terrorist:
  • He was conservative:
  • He suspended the constitution:
  • He forbade the establishment of new religious orders:
  • He was republican:

3º CC.SS. - Delocalization

 

The delocalization process has been utilized by the Transnational Corporations (TNCs) in their quest for higher profit margins. The TNCs move the production line from a developed country that has higher operational costs to a developing country that allows the corporation to reduce the costs.
Delocalization has its fans or its enemies, depending on the side you’re asking: the country that receives the new investment, or the country that had lost that investment.
The advantages of this process for the receiving country are easy to guess: new jobs, more revenues for the state or the region, a higher level of competition which stimulates the local economic agents to improve the quality of their products or services and so on. However, nowadays most of the world's highly polluting industries are found in developing and underdeveloped countries.
The disadvantages for developed countries are related to an increased unemployment rate, a lower volume of revenue for that country or region, basically a lower level of living standard. 


martes, 21 de marzo de 2017

3º CC.SS. - TEMA 7 - Renault opens factory in Morocco, stirs controversy at home

 

Renault inaugurated a giant factory in Morocco to build low-cost cars, generating controversy in France where a loss of industrial competitiveness has irritated. Renault chief executive Carlos Ghosn and Morocco’s King Mohammed VI attended the opening of the plant outside Tangiers.
With an initial capacity of 170,000 vehicles but expected eventually to reach 400,000 vehicles per year, the Tangiers factory will help Renault keep up with demand for its low-cost Dacia brand and introduce new models, such as the Lodgy minivan. Renault has received tax breaks and customs exemptions from Morocco
A political storm raged in France, where the so-called “delocalization” of manufacturing, particularly in the auto industry, is a hot subject in the run up to a presidential election.
“It isn’t something that is being done to the detriment of France,” chief executive Carlos Ghosn said on French RTL radio. Ghosn said “on the contrary the factory will increase work in France ... in our engineering labs, motor factories, and among our suppliers.”
Former industry minister Christian Estrosi, a member of the President Nicolas Sarkozy’s governing UMP party, accused Renault, in which the French state still holds a 15-percent stake, of selling out French workers. He said “it is dangerous and intolerable for our country that Renault, in which the state is the largest shareholder, practices social dumping in Morocco to manufacture cars destined for Europe and France.”
A leader of France’s far-right National Front called Renault opening the Tangiers factory “a real scandal”.

Alarabiya.net
Friday, 10 February 2012

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lunes, 20 de marzo de 2017

2º H.E. - Cuestiones (2)

2. Crisis de la monarquía borbónica. La Guerra de la Independencia y los comienzos de la revolución liberal. La Constitución de 1812.

PRIMERA CUESTIÓN. Responda a las siguientes preguntas:
a) ¿Qué importante derrota sufrieron los franceses al inicio de la Guerra de Independencia?
b) Describa muy brevemente los principales acontecimientos de la Guerra de Independencia.

SEGUNDA CUESTIÓN. Responda a las siguientes preguntas:
a) ¿En qué año se proclamó la primera Constitución española?
b) Describa muy brevemente las características esenciales de esta constitución.

TERCERA CUESTIÓN. Responda a las siguientes preguntas:
a) ¿Qué rey fue restablecido en el trono en 1814?
b) Explique los principales acontecimientos del llamado Sexenio Absolutista.

CUARTA CUESTIÓN. Responda a las siguientes preguntas:
a) ¿Qué militar protagonizó un alzamiento que llevó a los liberales al poder en 1820?
b) Describa brevemente las reformas que se llevaron a cabo durante el Trienio Liberal.

QUINTA CUESTIÓN. Responda a las siguientes preguntas:
a) ¿Qué político venezolano lideró la independencia de Sudamérica?
b) Explique brevemente las causas y el desarrollo del proceso de independencia de las colonias americanas.

31 de marzo

¿Cuándo se deshumanizó la humanidad?

 

Y llegó internet, que permitió que cualquier persona, desde el más remoto lugar del planeta, pudiera tener acceso global a la información; y después vinieron los chats, las redes sociales...
Hasta que un día, no se sabe muy bien en virtud de qué "bien común"..., se declaró ilegal la intimidad.


Luis Goróstegui, ¿Cuándo se deshumanizó la humanidad?

viernes, 17 de marzo de 2017

4º. CC.SS. - TEMA 8 - Review (1)

R1.- Answer the key questions (page 184).
a) What reforms did liberals and conservatives carry out after 1898?
b) What was the dictatorship of Primo de Rivera? How did he justify the coup?
c) What was the reform project of the Second Republic?
d) What causes led to the Civil War?
e) What differences can be established in the political and social evolution of the Republican and Francoist zones?

R2.- Who were these figures?
Alphonso XIII, Antonio Maura, José Canalejas, Miguel Primo de Rivera, Niceto Alcalá Zamora, Manuel Azaña, Clara Campoamor, José Sanjurjo, José María Gil Robles, Francisco Largo Caballero, Juan Negrín.

miércoles, 15 de marzo de 2017

martes, 14 de marzo de 2017

2º H.E. - Cuestiones (1)

 1. Características políticas, económicas y sociales del Antiguo Régimen. La política centralizadora de los Borbones.

PRIMERA CUESTIÓN. Responda a las siguientes preguntas:
a) ¿Qué candidato se enfrentó a Felipe de Anjou en la Guerra de Sucesión?
b) Describa muy brevemente las causas de la Guerra de Sucesión e indique qué bandos se enfrentaron en ella.

SEGUNDA CUESTIÓN. Responda a las siguientes preguntas:
a) ¿A qué reinado corresponden los Decretos de Nueva Planta?
b) Describa muy brevemente en qué consistieron estos decretos.

TERCERA CUESTIÓN. Responda a las siguientes preguntas:
a) ¿A qué reinado corresponde el Motín de Esquilache?
b) Defina el concepto de despotismo ilustrado.

CUARTA CUESTIÓN. Responda a las siguientes preguntas:
a) ¿Qué puerto perdió el monopolio del comercio con América en la segunda mitad del siglo XVIII?
b) Describa las medidas adoptadas respecto al comercio con América.

QUINTA CUESTIÓN. Responda a las siguientes preguntas:
a ¿Qué manufactura se desarrolló en Cataluña en el siglo XVIII?
b) Explique las causas del despegue económico de Cataluña en el siglo XVIII.

24 de marzo

lunes, 13 de marzo de 2017

4º CC.SS. - TEMA 7 - Pictures














4º CC.SS. - TEMA 7 - Review

R4.- Identify the statements that are true and correct the false ones:
  • The last tsar was Alexander III:
  • After Lenin’s death, Stalin and Molotov fought for the leadership:
  • Socialists put on fire the Reichstag:
  • Nazis liked reading all kind of books:
  • Adolf Hitler was born in Czechia:
  • In the February Revolution the Bolshevik party overthrew the Provisional Government:
  • Lenin promised land, wheat and war in his April Theses:
  • Women’s situation got better during the Third Reich
  • Trotsky led the White Army:
  • After the Putsch, Hitler became German chancellor:
  • In 1936 Rome-London Axis is formed:
  • Hoover advocated state intervention to revive the economy:
  • The Nazis believed that the Germans were “racially inferior”:
  • SS leaders were killed on the Night of the Long Knifes:
  • Italian Fascism defended liberalism and Marxist socialism:
  • Benito Mussolini was supported by the Brownshirts:

Review

4º CC.SS. - TEMA 7 - Documents

Prohibition
We always had our normal share of pickpockets, forgers, bank robbers, wife beaters and assorted petty criminals.
But why steal an old lady's purse or the pennies out of a blind man's tin cup when you could make millions manufacturing fake booze?
Despite the Eighteenth Amendment and the gradual disappearance of real whisky, people were still thirsty and still desired a shot now and then.
But the government, with its habitual wisdom, instead of allowing its citizens to drink moderately like ladies and gentlemen, now fixed it so that the bonded whisky we drank was sometimes aged in tire wood for as much as two whole weeks.
Millions of people, teetotalers all their lives, who had never been in a saloon or a night club and were indifferent to the joys of a highball or a martini, suddenly developed a yen for hooch.
I was one of those millions.
I never had a drink before January 18, 1920.
It wasn't that I disapproved of it, morally, but I just didn't like the taste of the stuff.
As a matter of fact, I still don't.
I drink it now and then at parties to avoid being caught sober.
But with the advent of prohibition, I came to the conclusion that if it was illegal there must be something to it that I had never discovered.
Groucho MARX, Groucho and me


Hoover’s speech
We in America today are nearer to the final triumph over poverty than ever before in the history of any land. The poorhouse is vanishing from among us. We have not yet reached the goal, but given a chance to go forward with the policies of the last eight years, and [sic] we shall soon with the help of God be in sight of the day when poverty will be banished from this Nation.
Herbert HOOVER, Speech accepting the Republican Party Presidential nomination (1928).

How I Starred in the Follies of 1929
Soon a much hotter business than show business attracted my attention, and the attention of the country.
It was a little thing called the stock market.
I first became acquainted with it around 1926.
It was a pleasant surprise to discover that I was a pretty talented trader.
Or at least so it seemed, for everything I bought went up.
I had no financial adviser. Who needed one?
You could close your eyes, stick your finger any place on the big board and the stock you had just bought would start rising.
I never took profits. It seemed absurd to sell a stock at thirty when you knew it would double or triple within a year.
The most astonishing thing about the '29 market was that no one ever sold a stock.
The public just kept buying.
One day I rather timidly asked my broker about this speculative phenomenon.
"I don't know much about Wall Street," I began apologetically, "but what makes these stocks continue to go up?
Shouldn't there be some relation between a company's earnings, its dividends and the stock's selling price?"
He looked over my head at a new victim who had just entered the office, and said, "Mr. Marx, you've got a lot to learn about the stock market. What you don't know about securities would fill a book."
One special day, the market began wavering.
Some of the people I knew lost millions.
I was luckier.
All I lost was two hundred and forty thousand dollars. (Or one hundred and twenty weeks of work at two thousand per.)
I would have lost more but that was all the money I had.
The day of the final, convulsive crash, my friend, sometime financial adviser and talented trader, Max Gordon, phoned me from New York. In five words, he issued a statement that I think will, in time, compare favorably with any of the more memorable quotations in American history.
I'm referring to such imperishable lines as "Don't give up the ship," "Don't fire until you see the whites of their eyes,"
"Give me liberty or give me death!" and "I have but one life to give to my country."
These words sink into comparative insignificance alongside Max's notable quote. Never the frilly type of conversationalist, this time he even ignored the traditional "Hello." All he said was, "Marx, the jig is up!" Before I could answer, the phone was dead.
Groucho MARX, Groucho and me


FDR's First Inaugural Address
This great Nation will endure as it has endured, will revive and will prosper. So, first of all, let me assert my firm belief that only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
Franklin D. Roosevelt (1933)

Lebensraum
The National Socialist Movement, on the contrary, will always let its foreign policy be determined by the necessity to secure the space necessary to the life of our Folk.
Adolf HITLER, Mein Kampf

We are an anti-parlianmentarian party
We are an anti-parliamentarian party that for good reasons rejects the Weimar constitution and its republican institutions. We oppose a fake democracy that treats the intelligent and the foolish, the industrious and the lazy, in the same way. We see in the present system of majorities and organized irresponsibility the main cause of our steadily increasing miseries. So why do we want to be in the Reichstag?
We enter the Reichstag to arm ourselves with democracy’s weapons. If democracy is foolish enough to give us free railway passes and salaries, that is its problem. It does not concern us. Any way of bringing about the revolution is fine by us… Mussolini entered parliament. Shortly afterward, he marched on Rome with his Black Shirts.
Joseph GOEBBELS, Der Angriff (1928)

They came for...
First they came for the Communists,
and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a Communist.
Then they came for the trade unionists,
and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a trade unionist.
Then they came for the Social Democrats,
and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a Social Democrat.
Then they came for the Jews,
and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a Jew.
Then they came for the Catholic,
and I didn't speak out because I was a Protestant.
Then they came for me,
and there was no one left to speak for me.
Martin NIEMÖLLER


Propaganda
If you tell the same lie enough times, people will believe it; and the bigger the lie, the better.
Joseph GOEBBELS

German autarky
When I realise that a particular raw material is indispensable for the war, I shrink from no effort to make us independent in this field. We must be able to dispose freely of iron, coal, petroleum, grain, livestock and timber.
Hitler’s Table Talk

Añoranza

Entró en el supermercado maldiciendo su situación, disparando al techo y estanterías. Clientes y empleados huyeron despavoridos. Salió desarmado con las manos en alto. La policía le esperaba.

En comisaría sólo obtuvieron una respuesta:

—Deseo comer a diario, tener un techo, cuatro paredes y calefacción. ¡Añoro mis años de cárcel!

Isidro Moreno, Añoranza.

viernes, 10 de marzo de 2017

4º CC.SS. - TEMA 7 - Germany (1923-1933)

Hyperinflation:
• Government prints more money in order of paying the reparations
• The value of money goes down
• Prices go up
• Government prints more and more money
• Prices go up even more
In November 1923, Hitler tried to take advantage of the crisis facing the Weimar Republic by instigating a revolution in Munich. It was called the Beer Hall Putsch or the Munich Putsch.
The Dawes Plan provided for an end to the Allied occupation, and a staggered payment plan for Germany's payment of war reparations.
In the Locarno Treaties (1925), Western European Allied powers normalised relations with defeated Germany.
After the Putsch, Hitler was arrested and put on trial.
Hitler used his time in prison to write Mein Kampf (My Struggle) about his life and ideas.
In 1929, Germany was hit by a severe economic depression. By 1932 over 30 per cent of the German workforce was unemployed.
In the Election campaign, Adolf Hitler promised that if he gained power he would abolish unemployment.
In January 1933, Hindenburg agreed to appoint Hitler as chancellor.
On 27 February 1933, the Reichstag building was set on fire. Nazis blamed a communist plot.
At Hitler's urging, Hindenburg responded with the Reichstag Fire Decree of 28 February, which suspended basic rights and allowed detention without trial.

martes, 7 de marzo de 2017

3º CC.SS. - TEMA 7 - Cantera en el Cerro de la Fuente de la Peña

Cantera en el Cerro de la Fuente de la Peña


La reactivación de la cantera en una zona protegida como es el Cerro de la Fuente de la Peña ha generado una importante polémica.

Noticia completa

3º CC.SS. - TEMA 7 - Raw materials

R1.- Classify these raw materials (animal, vegetable, mineral or artificial):
cotton, iron, plastic, rubber, sand, PVC, copper, zinc, milk, wool, coal, uranium, nickel, lead, oil, leather, linen, mercury, bauxite, kaolin, nylon.

lunes, 6 de marzo de 2017

3º CC.SS. - TEMA 6 - Review

Review

Spoiler

No pude elegir. Nací con la flor de lis tatuada en mi hombro, culpable de los crímenes que estaba destinada a cometer. Te advertí que te alejaras de mí, pero te fascinó que las líneas de tu mano te hubieran guiado hasta mí y seguiste leyendo. No llores... acabaré pronto.

Patricia Richmond, Spoiler.

domingo, 5 de marzo de 2017

3º - CC.SS. - TEMA 6 - Denominaciones de origen andaluzas


Denominaciones de origen andaluzas

- Un folio, escrito a mano.
- Información sobre una de la denominaciones de origen andaluzas
- Entregar hasta el 20 de marzo.







jueves, 2 de marzo de 2017

4º CC.SS. - TEMA 7 - Democratic regimes or fascist regimes

R3.- Indicate whether the following sentences are referring to democratic regimes or fascist regimes:

  • Anti-Parliamentarism:
  • Control of education:
  • Autarkic economy:
  • Adulation of a single charismatic national leader:
  • Disdain for intellectuals and the arts:
  • Identification of enemies (scapegoats) as a unifying cause:
  • Belief in equality of people:
  • Ultranationalism:
  • Imperialist expansionism:
  • Multi-party system:
  • Rigidity of traditional gender roles (sexism):
  • Press censorship:
  • Fraudulent elections:
  • Belief in inequality of people:
  • Single-party system:
  • Violence against opponents:
  • Racism:
  • Anti-Semitism:
  • Supremacy of the military:

2º H.E. - TEMA 10 - Julio de Apezteguía y Tarafa

Julio José de Apezteguía fue un político hispano-cubano, diputado a Cortes por Santa Clara y La Habana en la isla de Cuba durante seis legislaturas, desde el 20 de mayo de 1879 hasta el 26 de febrero de 1898.

miércoles, 1 de marzo de 2017

3º CC.SS. - TEMA 6 - Fishbone