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Plane is taken down in Ucrania by Verónica Molina (Currently Events Reporter)

Malaysia Airlines airplane was taken down by a BUK type land-air misille between Russia and Ucrania, last Thursday, july 17th of 2014. 298 people, including passenger and crew, were cruelly died. Investigations have concluded that the attack was intentionally plotted by ucranian or Russian rebels. 

According to CNN, an intelligence report from secret service of USA, gives a count of a plane taken down by pro-russian separatist.

Up the moment, two black boxes of MH17 flight were located by emergency services. Since the 911 (World Trade Center terrorist attack), this is seriously the worst tragedy in the aviation history. Witnesses in Tipunova, Ucrania -the place where the most parts of the plane felt-, have told how after the big explosion, the corpses started to rain. Even, a home roof was partially damaged by a woman corpse. Until today, dozen of dead bodies layd in a wheat field; the most part of them, have been found. Altough, this task has been difficult because is a war zone. Actually, pro-russian separatist were acussed by ucranian government of destroy proofs in the place where plane explote and to have taken 38 corpses to Donetsk city. This teory has been supported by the Malaysian government: “The remains have been manipulated and there are clues about the zone´s integrity has been compromised and there are proofs of the vital evidence hasn´t been kept correctly in his place”, affirms Liow Tiong, the Malaysian transportation minister.

The scary thing is, conspiracy teories explain episodes like this, saying it might mean the beginning of the Third World War by Russia and USA, who are testing new weapons, getting allied and dividing forces.

Israel and Palestine go on in conflict by Luz Astrid Rendon B

Israel and Palestine go on in conflict

The Israel army began a ground operation in Gaza on Thursday in response to the constants air attacks of the terrorist group Hamas.

In a statement, the Israel army explained that the Israel government approved the offensive military called, "Margin Protector."

The objective with this operation is to protect and defense their people and give a hit accurate to the structure of this terrorist group.

The operation will be coordinated by the south command and will included infantry troops, armored artillery, and intelligent units.

The decision to attack was because the Hamas group when the end the six hours of ceasefire solicited by ONU decide to attack sending hundreds rockets in against of the center and south of the country.

The situation of the people are terrible. They are living in constantly dangerous and the most affected with the situation are children and women. The last Wednesday died 4 kids in an attack. They were playing in the beach. One of the children that escaped said, “We heard the sound of the bomb, then We ran, but when We were running the second bomb fell, then my brother and my cousin couldn´t escape, “I really got luck.”

In addition, thousand people (around 10.000) have had to leave their country for fear to die, Also people are suffering because don´t have normal supply of water. The bombs has damaged the water well and the aqueduct, besides They have constantly cuts of electricity making more difficult their survival.

The international community and Institutions like ONU and CE (European Community) continue intermediating to stop this conflict, but no one of the two parts wants to give up in your intentions. A total of 715 Palestinians have killed and over 4500 injured.

Great people of the world like The Pope Francisco have spoken requesting an immediate ceasefire.

Today, the same situation continues and the terror, pain and desperation continue in people. They just wait for the end of the conflict will come soon.

Air controler doesnt arrive on time. EDWIN LOPERA

Urgent moments were met today July 19  in the early morning at the Mate Caña Airport in the city of Manizales,  a  plane from the company Avianca, was supposed to land this morning and was unable to, Since the Pilot did not get any responses on the ground, he had no other choice but to go to a different airport in a nearby city where he was able to get a response.

Moments after landing, the pilot was able to get in contact with the original destination airport, and was notified that transmissions from the plane were not being picked up and were received  50 minutes late which cause the urgency. The persons  in charge of investigating the happenings who is the aeronautic civil, notified them about new controls and penalties,  now that this type of situation could put many lives in danger.

After having surpassed the emergency, the plane at the nearby city of Pereira, was able to return to its original destination in Manizales; The cause of the delay was that the workers of control tower were not able to fine transportation to go to the airport because the van that was supposed to pick them up did not arrive on time.

The aeronautic civil says that is not an excuse and it’s a  responsibility of theirs that they arrive on time  ,new reports are awaited  for further detailing the situation and  it s to wait  that things like that don’t happens any more.

COLOMBIAN SCULPTOR DORIS SALCEDO WON THE HIROSHIMA PRIZE OF ART

All 298 people on a Malaysia Airlines flight died when a missile struck the plane on Thursday. By Andrès Felipe Mejìa Arango

All 298 people on a Malaysia Airlines flight died when a missile struck the plane on Thursday.

The flight was traveling from Amsterdam, Holland to Kuala Lumpur; when the airplane was on ukraine a missile struck it and all the people died in this moment.

Apparently the missile was of  separatists Pro-russian, a guerrilla group of Rusia that has many people on Ukraine and has a conflict with the armed forces of Ukraine.

On Friday, U.S. President Barack Obama said that this incident is incredible, he said that intelligence of US know that Russia helps to this group of separatist,  literally he said, “This includes arms and training. It includes heavy weapons and it includes anti-aircraft weapons.”

Also said, “Evidence indicates that the plane was shot down by a surface-to-air missile that was launched from an area that is controlled by Russian-backed separatists inside of Ukraine.”

Obama called for an cease-fire between the Ukrainian government and the separatists because the world need to do an investigation about what was happened.

U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said that the world need to know what has happened.

Most of the passengers on the Malaysian plane were Dutch. Many were scientists that were going to a AIDS conference in Australia, at less 180 people that help the world were killed on thursday 17 of july; 4 months ago other airplane of Malaysia airline went missing, this airplane was  traveling from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing,

today the world don't knows nothing about this airplane, may be that the same group killed many people and the world need an answer right now. 

This new was written by

 Andrés Felipe Mejía Arango.

Course 12 Text Correction by Juan Manuel Montoya

Read your text and check the following:

• Sentence structure 
• Subject-verb agreement

The verb corresponds to the subject → My friends was ^were students at the time.

• Capitalization

Use CAPITAL letters at the beginning of sentences, questions, days of the week, months of the year, and proper names (people and places) → They went to Cinemark at 8:00 on Sunday.

• Punctuation

Use periods at the end of sentences (never use commas) → I had left the house when you arrived.

Use commas to separate three or more items in a list → I used to watch sitcoms, soap operas, and cartoons.

Don’t use a comma for two items → I used to watch documentaries and cartoons.

Use commas to separate a depending clause from an independent clause → When I was a child, I moved there.

• Use of appropriate tenses

Use tenses, time phrases, and vocabulary appropriately.

• Coherence

Your text is well organized and easy to read and understand.

• Spelling and other aspects

Check the spelling of words and other aspects that you consider important.

COLOMBIA MUST IMPROVE ITS ENGLISH LEVEL_V2 by Lina Marcela Lemus

COLOMBIA MUST IMPROVE ITS ENGLISH LEVEL

By Lina Marcela Lemus – English student

Colombia has a problematic with the English Language. Few people know it and it´s very frustrating because this country is less competitive in relation with other countries and many people could lose great opportunities in their life too.

 

The newspaper “Alma Mater” of University de Antioquia published one study about of English language in fifty-four countries of the world. That study was realized by “English Proficiency Index” where it was indicating that Colombia is ranked second to last in english proficiency throughout Latin America. In the other hand in the world was classified in the rank fifty. It´s a score very bad and low for developing the development of a Country, nationally and internationally.

In Medellin, about of 88% of young people enter to the university with level A1 (according to the European Framework). That level is when people are begining to understand and they have the possibility to say easy sentences about of immediately surroundings. That level is for kids between six to eight years old !!!.

Alma Mater indicated that there are factors associated with that deficiency, for example: the lack of bilingual teachers in the elementary school, the high number of students per classroom, low intensity programs, and social problems that affect the performance of some students. Preschool is even more important, several theorists as Jean Piaget, Steven Pinker and Larry Selinker, say that the stimulation is very important from birth to seven years old because you are an unconscious process and learning (conscious) of a second language.

Alma Mater insists that the teachers hiring must be based on parameters such as recreational and artistic skills. The teachers of core subjects must have enough knowledge to play, sing, motivate, and also to teach and solve foundation problems, because a preschool teacher is a shaper of worlds.

If we are indifferent with the performance of ours children, young people and ourselves about this deficiency with english language, we could pay the consequences, with less opportunities for skilled jobs and therefore with less quality of life.

 

Scientist find the largest volcano on Earth - Sara Múnera B.

SCIENTIST FIND THE LARGEST VOLCANO ON EARTH

A volcano that could be the biggest on the Solar System was found in Japan at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean by Houston University scientists.

A volcano under water was identified by Huston University scientists in the Pacific Ocean about 1.600 kilometers at the east of Japan.

The Tamu Massif was discovered after several years of exploration. It was made by the eruption of other volcanoes and it has the same size than New Mexico (United States), making it the biggest volcano on Earth. It could be also the biggest of its type in the Solar System, next to the Olympus Mont in Mars and Rea Silvia in Vesta asteroid.

The Tamu Massif is not only the biggest but the oldest volcano ever discovered. Its structure developed from a chain of mountains that cover the ocean bed, and it has an area of 195.000 square kilometers. Even the largest active volcano of the world, the Mauna Loa in Hawai, represents only the 2% of the Tamu Massif.

This volcano erupted for a few million years during the early Cretaceous period, about 144 million years ago, and it has been extinct since then. However, there’s a permanent debate on scientific community because each group of them has different theories to explain its emergence.