World Fair Trade Organization

                                WORLD FAIR TRADE ORGANIZATION

The World Fair Trade Organization is a global association created in 1989 and now there are 324
organizations in over 70 countries. Members of this organizations are fair trade producer cooperatives
and associations, export marketing companies, importers, retailers, national and regional fair trade
networks and Fair Trade Support Organizations. The most important activities of this organization are:

•   Developing the market for fair trade
•   Building trust in fair trade
•   Speaking out for fair trade
•   Providing networking opportunities
•   Empowering the regions

The organization has important cooperations with countries from all the world: Africa, Asia, Latin America, Europe and The Pacific Rim.

The WFTO logo is for organizations that demonstrate a 100% commitment to Fair Trade in all their business activities. Only monitored WFTO members are authorized to use the logo.

Podcast: 30 Years as a Slave

                                                         
                                                                          30 Years as a Slave
                                      

This article talks about Guadalupe Pérez Castillo, a woman who is beginning to learn to live in freedom now, at the age of 43 after 30 years of captivity, working as a slave. Her story began in Las Agujas, a small town in Mexico where she sold fruit at the age of 10 to help her poor family. One day, a woman came to Pérez's family looking for a babysitter for her children, in exchange, she would pay Guadalupe and her mother agreed but the girl wanted to study and to have a career. When she arrived at the woman's home, she was forced to do all the houseworks but she didn't get paid and there wasn't a bed for her; she also tried to escape several times but she just could speak her town's dialect so she always came back. She also was molested and beaten by the lady's husband and they threatened to kill her. They stole 30 years of her life from her. Now, the woman has been in therapy for some time.

Woody Allen, a cinema philosopher

                                                             Woody Allen

Woody Allen was born in 1935 in New York, is an actor, author, filmmaker, comedian, playwright, and musician. His career was started in the 50s writing little scripts for television. He's best known for his cinematography and for his average of making movies: almost one film a year. His best movies are "Annie Hall", "Manhattan", "Hannah and her Sisters" and also others important films. He won four Oscars: in 1978 for "Annie Hall" for best directing and best original Screenplay; in 1987 for "Hannah and her Sisters" for best original Screenplay and in 2012 for "Midnight in Paris", always for original Screenplay. So we understand that his screenplays are awesome because of his biting humor and for his passion for philosophy, literature, psychoanalysis and European cinema. The majority of his movies are milestones of cinema also thanks to the women he met and married in life who were his inspirations, especially Diane Keaton, considered the biggest love of his life, in fact "Annie Hall" was devoted to her (Annie is her second name and Hall is her real surname). An other woman who inspired him was Mia Farrow but I think the best inspiration was Diane Keaton because thanks to her he made his best movies and wrote his best screenplays.

Woody Allen and Diane Keaton in a scene from "Annie Hall" (1977).

The main theme of his movies is love but we mustn't consider his films just like "love stories" because they're more than a simple love story, He also puts in his movies philosophy and literature's references ispiring on one of his idols, Ingmar Bergman, who inspired him for his dramatic movie Interiors (1978)..


Woody Allen and Diane Keaton in a cult scene from "Manhattan" (1979).

That's just a part of his awesome cinematography because if we had to talk about all his works we should have more time, We can say his movies consacrates him as one of the best filmmaker of all time,

                                                        FRANCIS "FRANK" J. UNDERWOOD
Frank Underwood is the protagonist of the american TV series House of Cards. He is a congress man who become vice president and then president of the U.S.A. Frank is manipulative, sociopathic and even an evil also because he commits acts of homicides to get what he wants. I love this character also because he always says wise things. He says:"Power is better than money". He made his campaign for the presidence of 2016 with the slogan "Anything for America". Frank Underwood succeed to become vice president without votes for him and he says "Democracy is so overrated." He is very ruthless and one of his best quotes is "Shake your right hand but hold a rock in your left.". Frank Underwood is played by the great actor Kevin Spacey, already winner of two Oscars. For this interpretation he won a Golden Globe and he was nominated for three Emmy Awards.

Breaking Bad is a TV series started in 2008 and finished in 2013. This TV series talks about Walter White, a Chemistry teacher who has an inoperable cancer and he has two years of life. To leave money to his family when he'll die he uses his chemistry ability to begin make methanphetamine with an his old pupil Jesse Pinkman. He begins make it in a camper but then they move to a very big lab. Walter White has got a son Walter Jr. who has cerebral palsy and his wife, Skyler, is pregnant. Walter describes the Chemistry as the study of changes:"Growth,decay,transformation" and it is the changes he does. Walter loses his hair and at this point begins his transformation. But there's a problem,his brother in law Hank Schrader works in DEA and Walter has to hide what he makes and it's very difficult.
This TV series recibes a lot of prizes like sixteen Emmy Awards. For me it's the best TV series because it talks about a very beautiful story and a carismatic man,it's a drama and I love it.

HeForShe

                                                                        HeForShe
HeForShe is a solidarity campaign for gender equality initiated by UN Women. Its goal is to engage men and boys as agents of change for the achievement of gender equality and women's right and to encourage them to take actions against inequalities faced by women and girls. Emma Watson is an ambassador for HeForShe's campaign.

                                                            DESCRIBING A PICTURE

Walter White, Breaking Bad 1x01 Pilot

In this picture,in the foreground, we can see a man without pants with a green shirt holding a gun with the right hand and behind him there are two antigas masks,one on the left and one on the right and behind these masks, in the background, on the left there is a camper issuing a red smoke. In the background, away, there is a desert. On the top there's the sky and on the bottom there's the land. This man is alone in the desert with an angry face and he's looking in the hollow, it seems as if he's waiting for something. I chose this picture because it's a scene of the first episode of my favourite TV series and I love it.