Afternoon Pages (19.09.08)

Nowadays we face with a tendency of computerization. Computer and other gadgets have become a very essential part of our life. Every sphere of our everyday life needs or even demands the interaction with mashines. If you want to fill up mobile phone account you should use electronical automata, if you want to drink a cup of coffee - all the same - go to the coffee-making mashine. So, in my opinion, we will soon come to the time when people can be easily substituded by mashines. On the one hand, it will make our life simple and fast, but on the other hand, masines can rob us of communication with each other and make our life predictable and uninteresting. Moreover, we will face with the problem of huge unemployment.

A latter to a friend

Dear Irina,
I’m writing to you to complain about my hard life at the University, which has become more intensive and exhausting with my fourth academic year.
You know, having passed though the exam of the Theoretical Grammar on my third year, I felt the fresh air of freedom and independence. It took me the whole summer to regain consciousness after that “accident” and recharge my batteries in order to study properly and absorb as much information as I could. I thought my fourth year to be less busy, more active and amusing. But I was wrong.
The very first thing that drove me up the wall when I saw our schedule was two classes of Spanish on Saturdays at 8.30 a.m. Also, it turned out that there is no opportunity for the private life and working as we stay at the University every day till 4 p.m. More surprisingly was the huge size of our home tasks, some of them it’s hard to write in the lines of my date book, as it’s too small for such enormous notes.
Unfortunately, I am a techno bimbo, and now I reap the fruits of this drawback. Our new English teacher who, without any doubts, is a very modern person, asked us to use our computers three times as much as I used to come to it ordinary. Every class we should write something and then publish it somewhere in the Internet or send it to her. Yesterday I spent two hours trying to leave my comments on the writing task on the page of my group mate. Desperately, I phoned to all my friends asking them to help me. However, nobody had any faintest idea about the scared word “blog” and how to use it. I spent an awful half of an hour inserting all possible passwords and usernames, and finally, my computer surrendered. Whether it was a compassion or my own win I don’t know, it didn’t tell me.
Anyway, there are some benefits of being a fourth year student – one of them is a forthcoming fifth year and then getting rid of the University, and another one – I don’t have time for laying on one sofa than migrate to another one and lead a life of a bear – just eat and sleep.
Looking forward to hearing from you soon.
Best wishes,
Jane

Composition

If I had an opportunity to choose my future profession I would prefer to be an actress. The life of a movie star is full of luxury, meetings with interesting and famous people, attendings of different parties, awards, photo sessions.But on the other hand,it's a hard , risky profession, demanded to leave everyting for the sake of the career. There are so many examples of successful, beautiful, talented women who are unhappy in their private life. Moreover, even those who have children and husbands don't have a chance to spend with them much time, as they have to go far from their relatieves and spens months or the whole year on the shooting spot.
If I had a chance to choose the film, the role and my portner I would prefer a comedy with romantic mood, where people love each other and at the end of the film get marry. My portner would be Mathew McConahey. I like him in the film with Jenefer Lopez and I would probably like to be shot instead of her. I am also interested in drama and pshychalogical films about difficult life of the bottom of society. Here Jerold Letton would be a perfect candidad for playing depression, compassion and unfatisfaction of life.

Afternoon Page (16.09.2008)

For the author it's very important to interact with the readers, to transmit real feelings of his characters in order we can feel deeply their emotional states and sympathize with them. In attempt to achieve this goal the writer uses different stylistic devices, writes about some events from his own experience and describes his own emotions thereby we can feel the same. In the film we can feel the atmosphere of growing suspense by hearing the music, looking on the facial expressions of the main heroes. In the book the best way to convey the intensitive atmosphere is to describe weather conditions, as we face with it every day and know quite well how different natural disasters influence on our mood.
The most vivid example of the connection of nature with the main character is "The thunderstorm" written by Ostrovsky. Here, natural conditions fit the feelings of a young girl Kate. Everytime she feels utterly depressed, miserably and useless, we read about dark clouds above her head, peals of thunder and splashes of lightning. This weather conditions describes best the atmosphere of desrair and sooner suicide.

Sacred writing:the need of the forthcoming flight scared me to death.

It was time for me and my friend to decide where to spend our holidays. She suggested going to France for a week or so. We had only one day left to make up our minds. The idea was perfect: we were going to spend the whole week in Paris, living on uor own accounts. Only one miserable thing made me feel uncomfortable-in particular, the forthcomimg flight scared me to death.

Sacred writing: there was no possibility of taking a walk that day.

As I woke yp in the morning, fullfiled with the hope of going to the seaside, I was shoked with a strange sound behind the window. It was a thunderstorm, a real one, which often happens at the end of a hot, suffocating summer-day. But right in the morning it happened for the very first time, as far as I remember. Plans, hopes, dreams to spend a perfect time on the beach, laying under the soft sun and bathing, were broken and the mood was spoiled tillthe end of the day.