Another song by The Clash

You are working with R.P. and Estuary versions of "Career Opportunities", by The Clash, in class.

Do you want more? What about a song dealing with the Spanish Civil War?

SPANISH BOMBS

Spanish songs in Andalucia,
the shooting sites in the days of ’39.
Oh, please leave, the ventana open.
Federico Lorca is dead and gone:
bullet holes in the cemetery walls,
the black cars of the Guardia Civil.
Spanish bombs on the Costa Brava
I’m flying on in a DC-10 tonight.

Chorus: Spanish bombs; yo te quiero infinito.
Yo te quiero, oh mi corazón.
Spanish bombs; yo te quiero infinito.
Yo te quiero, oh mi corazón.

Spanish weeks in my disco casino;
the freedom fighters died upon the hill.
They sang the red flag,
they wore the black one -
but after they died, it was Mockingbird Hill.
Back home, the buses went up in flashes,
the Irish tomb was drenched in blood.
Spanish bombs shatter the hotels.
My señorita’s rose was nipped in the bud.

(Chorus)

The hillsides ring with “free the people” -
or can I hear the echo from the days of ’39
with trenches full of poets,
the ragged army, fixing bayonets to fight the other line?
Spanish bombs rock the province;
I’m hearing music from another time.
Spanish bombs on the Costa Brava;
I’m flying in on a DC-10 tonight.

Spanish bombs; yo te quiero infinito.
Yo te quiero, oh mi corazón.
Spanish bombs; yo te quiero infinito.
Yo te quiero, oh mi corazón,
oh mi corazón,
oh mi corazón.

Spanish songs in Andalucia:
mandolina, oh mi corazón.
Spanish songs in Granada,
oh mi corazón.

In 2003, the album The Clash was ranked number 77 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time. The album was described as a "youthful ambition bursts through the Clash's debut, a machine-gun blast of songs about unemployment, race, and the Clash themselves." This magazine had ranked the Clash album “London Calling” as the best album of the 20^th Century.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u-qcy0-7ngw&feature=fvw

Ecological footprint

The ecological footprint is a measure of human demand on the Earth's ecosystems comparing human demand with planet Earth's ecological capacity to regenerate.

http://www.ecologicalfootprint.com/

It represents the amount of biologically productive land needed to regenerate the resources a human population consumes and to absorb their waste.

It is possible to estimate how much of the Earth (or how many planet Earths) it would take to support humanity if everybody lived a given lifestyle.

For 2005, humanity's total ecological footprint was estimated at 1.3 planet Earths!!!

http://www.worldmapper.org/

What is a webquest???

A webquest is an assignment which asks students to use the Web to learn about and/or synthesize their knowledge a specific topic.
It requires synthesis of the new knowledge by accomplishing a “task,” often to solve a hypothetical problem or address a real-world issue. The assignment can be given on paper.
A webquest assignment can also be given on the web itself. You can also present a webquest using some other multi-media software such as Powerpoint.
The quality of your webquest depends on the ideas!

You may also look at: http://www.isabelperez.com/webquest/taller/qwebquest.htm

My name is Earl...

Set in fictional Camden County, the series stars Jason Lee, Ethan Suplee, Jaime Pressly, Eddie Steeples and Nadine Velazquez. Lee stars in the title role as Earl J. Hickey, a petty crook with occasional run-ins with the law, whose newly won $100,000 lottery ticket is lost when he is hit by a car. Lying in a hospital bed, under the influence of morphine, he develops a belief in the Americanized concept of karmic retribution when he hears about karma during an episode of Last Call with Carson Daly. He decides he wants to turn his life around, and so makes a list of every bad thing he's ever done in an attempt to correct them, as he believes that this is the only way he can gain positive karma. After doing his first good deed, he finds the $100,000 lottery ticket he had previously lost. He sees this as a sign and, with his new lucky money, he proceeds to cross items off the list, one by one, by doing good deeds in correspondence to the list items to atone for them...

What do you think about Earl?

As I Lay Dying "The sound of truth" New song

We have all heard what we wanted to hear
Truth that sounds right to our ears
We have all heard what we wanted to hear
Truth that sounds right to our ears

But what wisdom is there within us
To live based on the feeling of our hearts?
How many times has instinct let us down
Never to be thought through
Never to be questioned

Say what you really mean
When your ambition calls you, calls you
For what use is there in praying
If you will only hear what you want to hear?
AS I LAY DYING - THE SOUND OF TRUTH
We have all heard what we wanted to hear
Truth that sounds right to our ears

We speak of fighting to resist this world
But what about the battle within us?
If we have chosen to live against the grain
Then why are we all facing the same way?

There is no difference between us and them
If we all blindly seek truth from sentiments

We have all heard what we wanted to hear
Truth that sounds right to our ears

We have all heard what we wanted to hear
Truth that sounds right to our ears
We have all heard what we wanted to hear
Truth that sounds right to our ears!!

Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mOoTibcd__g

Their new single for all their fans