Roberta – Paper #4

I’d like to virtually introduce my fiancee. First time I met him I thought that I had never seen such a sexy male full mouth before. Besides, inspite of the fact of his baldness,  what for me in a first instance is not attractive, his charm involved me in a way that I was totally fascinated and, maybe, already in love. I always was crazy about broad-shouldered men thus I started to think that God gave me a precious gift, my husband to be. Because of the lack of time, two or three times a week I find him with his sensual bald, combining with his thick eyelashes. When he smiles and his dimples come up to me, I feel loved and special, as I was the happiest woman in the world.

Janaína – paper #4

I have a 21 years old brother and, until 4 months ago, he was an obese guy weighting about 150 kilos. His light eyes and swollened nose gave him a pleasant but deformed face, so he used to turn the attention of the girls by creating different hair styles, from black-power to bald. Tired of being just a funny friend for the girls, in the beginning of the year he decided to pass trought a stomach reduction surgery that occurred in June. Since then, he lost about 55 quilos already. All this weight lost made him very flabby, but in the next months he will start practicing exercises to become the healthy muscular guy that girls admire. Another dream that he expects to realize after getting thin is to surf at the beach.

Paper # 4 – Eduardo

Describing my wife for the first time I saw her

I met Adriana 20 years ago. Her long blond hair call my attention imediatly. When I looked at her face I saw her small hazel eyes, changin from green to grey, changing from green again and turning to brown. Impossible to describe the color. She smilled to me like an angel, said hi! with a kiss in my face so I could feel her velvet pale skin. Like a soft touch of a cloud. So I looked at those thin lips  dreaming about kissing her. She looked like thin, but with beautifull strong legs, well-built body like an athlet. I was so closed that I could smell her sweet sensual perfum that was natural like the morning summer breeze.

That´s when I fall in love.

Paper # 3 – The Decision To Be Gay

To be a gay is a decision. For instance, according to Dr. Paulo Rodrigues, Psicologist of PUC/SP, there are many nature factors that lead our behavior and our choices regarding sexual preferences. He says that if a girl is raised in a home where the father figure is a menace, due to a violent behavior, for example, an alcholic father that spanks his wife and children when he is drunk,  there is almost a hundred percent of chance that this girl will deny the man figure as an attractive sexual element, at the same time that she will develop a different attraction to woman, and this can transform into a sexual attraction. Dr. Paulo has a lot of examples collected during his research that show lesbians that had serious problems with their father figures. The most interesting of them is a girl from the country side of São Paulo: she was thirteen years old, and her father was the principal of the city. Due to a mental desease, he had a kind of double personality so, when he was in home, he became extremely violent, without an appearent reason. In order to not jeopardize his career, his family decided to hide this, and the girl was raised with the two personalities of her father, and the consequence was that she completely denied the father figure, meaning the lost of sexual attraction to the male figure and the start of sexual interesting in girls. Dr. Paulo points out that this is one of the reasons that can lead or not to a lesbian behavior. According to him, the other consequences are that she could be keep interested in man but have difficulties to have a relashionship. Or simply live without a sexual attraction direction.

Paper # 1 – Introduction – Cyro

Hello, people.

Excepting Roberta, who has already studied with me here in Alumni, none of you know me yet. So let me introduce myself at first. I´m 40 years old and I’ve missed my classes last weeks because I’ve a job that sometimes consumes me more that I deserve: advertising.

I’ve inniciate in this area 20 years ago and I still don’t have a good reason for that choice, only that I was a young guy who wanted to be a writer, a journalist or a professional who would like to work with words. I think that the “ads” were the easiest way that time… so here I am, working hard in a advertisement agency.

This english course for me is not only a way to develop my professional skills, but mainly a way to expand some knowledgments beyond my profession. If it’s impossible to read as I used to do in the past, the contact with other language can be a good remedy for that.

At least, I have a wife (since January), and a son from my first marriage. He is 13 years old and loves Palmeiras as I do. (Sorry, Rick, but I still believe we’ll be the champions this year!!!).

Paper # 3 – The Influence of the Environment

Children who are raised in poor areas in America Latina are influenced by the environment that they live, tending to be more violent and commit more crimes due to the lack of opportunities. 

This event occurs basically because of the deficiency of the State to be present in such districts, investing and grating the minimum to them to live with dignity, such as, potable water, electricity, basic sanitation or even brick house. Also, there are a completely lack of education, culture, sports, healthy and social assistance. In general, the funds collected in America Latina from the taxes are consumed by corruptors or spending on other regions where the visibility to electors is higher.  The teenagers who live in these regions do not have any kind of perspective to reach higher steps in their careers and run away of the offers that comes from the criminal system. The mostly opportunities that reached them comes from the drug dealers and other criminals who are willing to recompense with nice paychecks in consideration to their workforce.

Marco Lopes, a resident of Paraisopólis, a huge slum in the middle of São Paulo City, was 17 years old when he decided to apply for several jobs without finishing the elementary school.  After 1 year waiting for a response, he realized that he was refused by those companies who received his resumé. Without any money for helping home and pay his own expenses, he accepted a job of a drug dealer to earn twice than a legal job which was offered by his best friend.

Therefore, the lack of governmental investment in poor areas affects directly the teenagers’ life that does not have opportunities in the market and frequently receive seducing offers from the criminal system. A huge investment in education, culture and sports could modify this scenario and give better life to those who wants to stay out of the illegal side.

Our genes

I believe that who we are is based in our genes. We can do many choices during our life, but I think our main characterists and behaviors come from the genes. Nowadays we are watching many transformations around the world. It is common to see a couple of man in the street and we need to accept their choice. It is clear that society are feeling more free to accept many differents kind of life, but, in fact, I think that it is happening because now we are aware that the genes can influence our personality.

I realy believe on that influence, because, although, nowadays it’s more normal to see gays on the street, I know that it is hard for them to show their position, to live their life. I have a gay friend that has told me that he knows that he born gay, because if he could choose  he would not choose to be gay. It is still difficult for him to face the society. He said that it is hard to live with another man and to introduce that man as his boyfriend in his family. Their parents haven’t accept his option.

Paper # 3 – Eduardo

Nature x nurture

I still believe enviroment is more important for a definition of a personality.

Beside the fact that science has been demonstrate how important genetic caracteristics are absolutly determinate to express a definition of human existence, I believe that DNA form the fisics caracteristics and some expecific abilities. For exemple, musicians in general have parents that probably were musicians too, or had the ability to develop some kind of special  music perception. An atleth receives a genetical information that makes the body able to a competition.

But when I think about emotions, personality, caracter I believe that the enviroment in wich one person had been rised up is much more important then the DNA.

The education that I received from my parents was much more important to define the person that I´m them my DNA caracheteristics. Even my natural impulse for a kind of agressive behavior in certain circunstances, is absolutly under control because of the education that I received.

Psicologists knows that the emotions can be controled, personalities can be formed, some aspects of caracter can be chanced depending on the kind of education that a person receive. Science is now showing something we didn´t know yet. We are suposed to have a natural way predeterminated by biological forces. And scientists are whowing how it happens. Probably a long time ago this caractheristics were in evidence in the human behaviour, but in the last 2000 years of ocidental culture, the enviroment, especialy by education, influences and changes this natural DNA way.

Paper # 2 – Birth Order

 HOW MY BIRTH ORDER INFLUENCES MY LIFE ADJUSTMENT

 

When I think about my relationship with my brothers it makes me understand some aspects of my behavior as an adult. I’m the oldest of four children, two boys and two girls. Some aspects of my life are strongly determinate by the fact that I was the oldest. Leadership is one of characteristic of my personality that has that kind of influence. Try to be the first of doing things, to be ahead of some situations, to be frequently exposed. And also to be protective, responsable. Some people say that in a certain way I am a role model, as a friend, as a husband and professional. I don’t feel like a role model and I never tried to be, but sometimes people ask me about their on lives.  

 

As the oldest child I used to be the leader of everything until a certain age. I used to have the ideas of games, to be asked about what to do, to protect little brothers and sisters from other children in the neighborhood. I was always the first asked about who did something wrong, and probably it was really me.

After certain age, sometimes I used to be a little bossy and it causes some problems in the relationship with my brothers. As long as I was getting older I became more friend, just like a second father.

 

I really think that being the oldest child caused great influence in personality and my behavior. Until today I have this kind of leadership that became since I was a very young boy.

 

 

 

Paper # 1 – Introduction – Talking about Myself

Talking about me

 

I used to think about me as an independent man. Someone who has been looking for some kind o freedom along my life time. It is a kind of feeling that makes me move, go ahead, look for different things to do. Beside the fact that I´m 42 years old, I still think about myself as someone looking for new thinks, new challenges, different people to be with, and different places to go. The image I make about me is about someone in constant change, looking for new abilities and especially new kind of vision of the things.

 

Since I was a child I used to do things in a different way. When I was at school I used to have a different behavior with guestions, arguing all the time with the things that I could not agree with. It was not easy to be against the rules but I was also breaking the rules and trying to be able to be part of that kind of school society.

I remember when I got my first job and at the same time people used to like my kind of vision of things, my way of doing things in a diffent way, but at the same time breaking some rules that was not suppose to be broken.

When I was younger, so much younger than today, I used to be a kind of guy who was always changing something around me. My clothes, my hair, my room, my girlfriend, they were always changing.

 

Nowadays I´m still changing, in a different way, but I´m always trying to change the way my life is. The things I do, the music I´m listening, people I met, places I go.

I thing it is a kind of necessity keep looking for freedom. And the way I feel free is having new experinces.