Remember to post your opinions on one of these questions;

What can small children learn from keeping pets? Should all types of hunting be banned? Do you agree with the saying, "A dog is a man's best friend." Do Zoos do more harm than good?

Actually we are facing a moral dilemma.
i think we are moving on a one way street.
we are miles away from civilazation, people die everyday and the food and the medicine are getting less and less day by day .
On the other hand we are in danger because they can kill us any time.
But,above all we are humans with heart and feelings
and we believe that it deserves to sacrifise one or two or tree lives for saving hundreds
So, me and my team will take the risk, and are going to accept their offer at the first stage. During the period of time we wiil find a way to trap them and if its nesseccary we will kill me .
Because in every movie, the good size always succed doesn't it????

Actually we are facing a moral dilemma.
i think we are moving on a one way street.
we are miles away from civilazation, people die everyday and the food and the medicine are getting less and less day by day .
On the other hand we are in danger because they can kill us any time.
But,above all we are humans with heart and feelings
and we believe that it deserves to sacrifise one or two or tree lives for saving hundreds
So, me and my team will take the risk, and are going to accept their offer at the first stage. During the period of time we wiil find a way to trap them and if its nesseccary we will kill me .
Because in every movie, the good size always succed doesn't it????

Imagine a situation:

You're the head of a refugee camp somewhere in a poor, developing country. The annual crops have failed once again and thousand of people arrive at the camp seeking food and medical help. The problem is that you have supplies enough for, at most 5000 refugees, however another 15,000 have come. As the days pass the death rates, especially amongst the very young and the very old rise dramatically. Despite repeated calls to the international community the aid promised by western governments fails to appear.

At this point a local drugs baron/warlord appears on the scene and makes a proposal; in return for supplying food and medical supplies for the camp you must agree to let him use the place as a cover for his cocaine/heroin/etc production facilities.

Do you agree?

This is a moral dilemma exercise which I will do in my lesson this week. It was inspired by the movie Beyond Borders.

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Everyone should write their opinion on the blog. Also don't forget to see the DVDs I gave you.

Hi all this is George!I would like to add some links that you may find interesting.
First of all you should visit www.youtube.com (it is a site that has miliones of videos,funny,entertaining,etc).Also a good way to keep in touch with people when you are using internet is to use MSN Messenger and have it open while you surf through the net(my msn address is gatoskilo_@hotmail.com), which you can find at http://get.live.com/messenger/overview where you can download it from.Oh!Before being able to use it you must register first(it is very easy,but if you have any problems i can always help).
Another good site where you can create your own website for free is http://geocities.yahoo.com/ ,but you must have an e-mail addres at yahoo(you can create one for free at this linkhttps://edit.yahoo.com/config/eval_register?.intl=us&new=1&.done=http%3A//mail.yahoo.com&.src=ym&.v=0&.u=a9a0kep2m44e6&partner=&.partner=&pkg=&stepid=&.p=&promo=&.last=
A couple of friends and me are now preparing our website and when it is done i will link its addres,so that you can see our work!
And if a blogg and a website are not enough for you,you can also create your own forum for free from InvisionFree!First you must register here http://s11.invisionfree.com/in/register.php and then go you can add whatever you want at your forum!!!
Lastly I would like to add some links where you can download programs for downloading songs,movies,pictures,games,other programms etc(for free of course).
The first is a preety good one and it is Mp3Rocket(just go at http://www.mp3rocket.com/downloadcb.htm)
This one is also good,but after a few months of using it,it sudenly crashed on my computer and
I am not able anymore to use it(even that I tried almost everything).It is Limewire and you can download from here http://www.limewire.com/english/content/downloadfree2.shtml
Lastly Shareeza is a good one(you can download it from here http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/shareaza/Shareaza_2.2.3.0.exe?use_mirror=mesh )but the other two have a much bigger collection of songs,movies,etc.
That was all the links i wanted to add in our blog,so that more people will start to use internet more often and for more reasons than just sent an e-mail.
And also check this video from youtube http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2190621943017048900&q=we%27re+all+to+blame (pause it when it starts to play and wait until it is downloaded).
I hope that in about 1 month the website that me and my friends are preparing will be ready and we will try to add a forum to it,so that we will be able to hear the opinion of you! And in 2 or 3 weeks(when i find some free time)i will activate my own website that the unviersity of Thessaloniki gave me,in order to do some projects for a lesson that I have chosen,programming computers!When I activate it i will add a link to it!

Hello everybody i am Liana and i want to express my opinion about a movie i saw few days ago.The title is "Broken Flowers".To tell you the truth i did not like the movie.It was a film with literally no plot,uninteresting characters,no ending.I read somewhere that the script was written in two weeks.Well,i must say it is odvious!You are under the impression that you are watching depressed people do absolute nothing.I also wonder how come Murray,who is a good actor,took the decision to play in this movie.On the other hand i did like the music,especially the song during the titles.

Homework

Watch one of the films I gave you and post two paragraphs;

"What I liked about the ________ was .............................



However, I didn't like ................................................"

you can find out more about the films by clicking on the links below.

Garden State
The English Patient
Mr and Mrs Smith
Billy Elliott
Broken Flowers


Also let's welcome our new student, Regina to our class.

Hi all this is George and this is my topic where i will express my opinion about the building of a lumber mill in Thessaliniki.
The mill can give job to hundreds of people,but there are some problems.First of all,in the factory there will be used dangerous chaemicals,which are bad for the worker's health and will polute even more our enviromnt.Also the mill will produce paper,so after a while there will be more wood needed,so the forest's of Greece will be in great danger.Another problem is that the company that will create this mill didn't make clearly the fact that the workers will not be allowed to have contacts with the Trade Union,so they will not be able to demand their rights.
So,I believe that this mill shouldn't be created(unless if the company uses biological filtres to protect the inviroment and the worker's health,let the workers participate at the Trade Union,find sources from other forests and not from Greeck ones)and the mayor should find something better in order to decrease the rising unemployement.

Hello everybody i am Liana and i want to express my opinion about the opening of a paper mill in the vacinity of the city.The company refuses to install expensive cleaning equipment.I am absolutely convinced that this way there is gonna be an increasing problem of pollution in the area from the chemical waste and the smoke of the factory.All compine will make the air we breath less healthier and cause lung diseases,depression,headaches...Moreover the company does not permit its employees to join unions.I feel very strongly that it is illegal and i am totally opposed to that.Furthermore local mills will be out of business.On the other hand we must encourage foreign investment in the city so that unemployment will drop.To sum up i am in favour of opening this paper mill but with conditions-allow the employees to join unions and install cleaning equipment.As for the expenses i do hope the goverment contributes.

Don't forget to write what you think should happen in the Pollution Dilemma exercise (see below for the photocopy). Use some of the phrases from the photocopy above to help you - just click on it a couple of times to get a clearer image.

Also remember to follow one of the stories we heard on the news broadcast (see here for others) in class in the news or on the net. By the way Sky, (Σκαι) channel had exactly the same stories in Greek last night at 11 pm.

Hello everybody i am Liana and in fact i do not want to talk about my typical day because it has nothing interesting in it.I am waiting for my appointment as a doctor in the hospital of Poligiros and i hope i will get it soon because i miss working.In the hospital everyday was full of action and excitement.For the time being i am trying to improve my English.I am spending many hours of the day serfing in the internet(that is why i am enjoying these exercises). Soon i will start my postgratuated degree so i hope my life gets more exciting.

Hello again i am Liana and i want to recommend to you an interesting movie i saw receintly.The title is 'The constant gardener'.It is about a diplomat who lives in Africa with his wife.His wife is found murdered.The rumors say that her boyfriend abused and killed her.However her husband(the diplomat)refuses to accept this explanation and he starts investigating.He will find out that his wife was ready to reveal a conspiracy between goverments and drug industries.The drug industry claims that is helping African people by giving them medication for AIDS,but in the mid time a new drug for tuberculosis is being tested which causes death!!!!!!
I am not going to tell you what is happening next............
After you see it tell me your opinion.
I hope you enjoy it!!!!!!