What does "too much" means?
According to the website "soccer training info dot com", soccer players like David Beckham, Ronaldo and Zidane, earn just with their salaries, something around 32, 23, and 19 million dollars a year, each. It can be associated to the fact that they have a huge repercussion on the media and they play in the most famous soccer teams in the world. According to the theory of relativity, once proposed by Galileu, nothing is absolute unless it is compared with another reference. Comparing with ordinary people’s salaries, I really think that soccer players earn too much.
Some people may fall in love with music, others with theater, others with cinema and many of them fall in love with sports. Among the many kinds of game we have, the most famous one is soccer. That’s why people get trained since childhood to run after a ball – even by their own schools! – Just for fun. That is one of the reasons why the stadiums become so full of people at important events during the seasons, like championships and finals, contributing to the players’ high salaries.
Dedication leads to fame, and fame is the main element to make money in the world of show business. These people sell their image one more time to become the face of big companies as Adidas, Calvin Klein, and Hugo Boss, which makes their salaries higher along the year. Opponents of this idea claim that their salaries are well deserved because, despite the fact that they train hard everyday, the most famous players in the world can even find spare time to take care of their families and make huge advertisements.
On the other hand, people like policemen and firemen give their lives every single day to save others that one day can be us. They do this even don’t knowing who the other person is, that is their job, they are live savers. These people alone, with the big responsibility that they have, can’t earn half of the salaries that famous soccer players earn per month, which is outrageous! Because even not properly prepared, they make the possible and impossible, to keep us safe. They perform a decisive part in each ones lives and don’t receive the credit for it.
- »Sunday, June 15, 2008
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- Posted by:Julianna
Reike

It was really dificult to decide wich of my possessions is my most treasured one. I'm the kind of person who get easily attached to things. And I have a lot of things. Reike was my chosen one. My dog Reike is definitely my most treasured possession. He is actually, the family most treasured possession. He was a gift from one of my father's friends. We got him about almost 4 years ago.
I wasn't here. At the time I was living in Recife with my mom, so the story was told from my dad. It happened in a bright sunny day. My father and his friends were celebrating something, and then one of his fellows showed up with a package. It looked like a box filled with beers, but when my step-mother opened it, a puppy put it's head out. It was strange because no one was expecting it. We were actually shocked. The friend who gave the "present" explained that the previous owner of the dog had died days before and it was found stucked in the room with the dead body. There was no one to take care of it and he thought that my family would be perfect to prevent a healthy and happy life for the puppy dog.
We kept it since then. I think my grandma gave the name Reike. Later I discovered that Reike is a kind of massage, wich was very cool. The dog is very spontaneous, full of life, calm, obedient, the most intelligent one. It is actually the smartest I've ever seen! Everytime it wants something it show us the way to do the things, like opening the door, or feeding, or even going for a walk!
We've learnt how to love Reike really fast, and Reike felt the same way as us. We consider him a real member of the family, for this reason we can't live without him anymore. Not even me. Especially me.
- »Monday, April 28, 2008
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- Posted by:Julianna
Fashionable Decisions
These days we have a lot of different clothes to choose and wear in a thousand of different occasions. You can show through this what image you want to reflect to whoever is seeing you. Everybody wants to project a self-image through the way they dress.
You can even make some friends because the way of dressing can sometimes show so many things about us that we don't even imagine. It can show what kind of music we like, where we are from, if we are friendly or not, organized or not, and this makes us identify with other people, which is very nice.
Clothes can even help us according to the occasion. For example: if you are going to a business meeting and want to be more serious, you can wear a long skirt, a long-sleeved t-shirt, and high heels. I'm sure you will certainly get what you're looking for, 'cause men loves women who are interesting, intelligent, mysterious and mostly those who know how to talk, to start a conversation. When we are going on a date, we want to look sharp, seductive, irresistable but natural. In those cases, we can wear a nice dress that matches our bodies, discreet make up and, the most important, a really nice perfume to catch his attention and make him be head over heels and never let us go.
It's really important to know when and what you'll wear, because by doing this, we are showing how we are feeling about the situation. It doesn't matter if we take one or four hours to decide what to wear. You can even be judged if you cause the wrong impression. I don't think anyone wants to be judged like this, do they?
- »Saturday, March 15, 2008
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- Posted by:Julianna