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T.C.K's: Song analysis.

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Another summer day 
Has come and gone away 
In Paris and Rome 
But I wanna go home 
Mmmmmmmm 

Maybe surrounded by 
A million people I 
Still feel all alone 
I just wanna go home 
Oh I miss you, you know 

And I’ve been keeping all the letters that I wrote to you 
Each one a line or two 
“I’m fine baby, how are you?” 
Well I would send them but I know that it’s just not enough 
My words were cold and flat 
And you deserve more than that 

Another aeroplane 
Another sunny place 
I’m lucky I know 
But I wanna go home 
Mmmm, I’ve got to go home 

Let me go home 
I’m just too far from where you are 
I wanna come home 

And I feel just like I’m living someone else’s life 
It’s like I just stepped outside 
When everything was going right 
And I know just why you could not 
Come along with me 
But this was not your dream 
But you always believed in me 

Another winter day has come 
And gone away 
And even Paris and Rome 
And I wanna go home 
Let me go home 

And I’m surrounded by 
A million people I 
Still feel alone 
Oh, let me go home 
Oh, I miss you, you know 

Let me go home 
I’ve had my run 
Baby, I’m done 
I gotta go home 
Let me go home 
It will all be allright 
I’ll be home tonight 
I’m coming back home

This song shows, under my point of view, what is to be a 

third culture kid. this, because it mentions traveling through 

many places and cities, and taking many planes. in other 

words, it shows us a situation of constant journey. The lyrics 

of the song shows us how someone who is somewhere 

away from home doesn't feel like local, but he feels like a 

foreigner. This is just the way many thisrd culture kids feel, 

because they live in many countries that are not his home.  

T.C.K's

Punk for a month: Activity!


1-The way someone looks like tells us something about that person, what he likes, whathe is aiming to, etc. I said "something" because in many times, a person doesn't wears what he actually likes, but what the others use. We can still judge people based on how they look like, for our protection. For example, when we see someone suspicious walking next to us during nigh time.

2- She was expecting them to reject her. In some way, we might even think she wanted her friends to leave her alone. This, because she arrives to the table with an agressive attitude, and she never explains why she did what she did. Maybe she should have told her friend the reasons that pushed her into the decision she took, and she should have also asked her friends for comprehension, instead of walking away without saying anything about her change.

3-I can imagine that when she changes to the what she was in the past and stop being a punk, those new friends she made are going to reject Julie, just the way her old friends did when she turned punk. 

4-I think she changes interiorly. We can see she is now more self-confident, and she feels that now she is important to others. Before turning punk, she used to think she wasn't nobody in society, but after she turned punk, she feels that everyone knows who she is, and that she is now important, that she is now someone, as she said. This shows us that changing something as simple as the way you dress actually changes the way you are. Under my point of view, this is because you are changing into what you like, into what you really like, who you really are.

Personal response: Surrogacy in India


“The Akanksha clinic is at the forefront of India’s booming trade in so-called reproductive tourism — foreigners coming to the country for infertility treatments such as in vitro fertilization. The clinic’s main draw, however, is its success using local women to have foreigners’ babies. Surrogacy costs about $12,000 in India, including all medical expenses and the surrogate’s fee. In the U.S., the same procedure can cost up to $70,000.”


We have seen how technology and science, all around the world, have improved during the past years, and we can clearly see how it keeps moving forward into things we probably weren't able to even imagine just a few years ago. But, what do I mean when I say sience and technology is moving forwrd? Sience is giving us now solutions to problems that have been around mankind since the beginning, such as deseases, food issues, or other problems that a person might need to solve during a normal day. Now, what we see in this  quote is the case of surrogancy in india, i mean, women who "borrow" their body to fertilize and crate a baby. This child will be given to couples that can't have children because of natural conditions. Under my point of view, this is simply wrong. Mainly because you turn women into a useful "thing" (eventhough they are volunteers).  Those women no longer have children for their one,  instead they are being used to create life and then give it to someone else. i believe this is completely wrong and unethical. I would also like to add that, because this is a paid process, surrogacy mothers are actually selling their bodies, and their babies, that, eventhough they come from an unknown father, those cildren are still their sons.

Individual oral activity!

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Robot "Triple H": Home Helper for Handicapped !

What problem or challenge does the robot solve?

There are many people that lives in a handicapped situation. Many of this people would like and enjoy to live by their own, just like a normal person would do. This is what our robot is for. It is basically a home helping robot, that will allow people with physical disabilities to live on their own, without the cost of a nanny or a nurse.

What are some of the functions you will program your robot to carry out?

Basically, the robot will order the house, putting everything back on its place. The robot can also bring things to the owner, things that the user can't reach.

What materials will it be made out of? Why?

It will be made out of light metals, like aluminum. It will also have plastic parts. This in order to have not a noisy and heavy robot, but a light and stealthy one.

How will the robot sense its surroundings?

The robot will count with a variety of sensors in order to know where he is. It will also have scaners, so it can recognize what he needs to grab and where to put it. Cameras similar to the kinect cameras are used to have a better and more detailed view of where he is moving through.

How will it move and respond to the environment?

As I said before, the idea is to create a robot that doesn't invade the owner's house. Because of this, the robot will try to avoid crushing with persons, and when it is not ordered to work, the robot will turn into a stand-by mode.

How or why is a robot better equipped to handle this challenge than a human?
I'm not sure if it is better equiped. The advantages are that this robot works all week and doesn't need rest, or food. Other advantage is that hiring a person to help handicapped people implies money, but with this robot, you only pay at first (the price of the robot). On the other hand, this robot doesn't cook, so the owner will have to hire a nanny, but just to cook, and not during all day.

What specific functions will the robot carry out? What components will the robot include that help it carry out these tasks?

As I mentioned, the robot's main function is to order the house and bring things that the user asks for. In order to do this, the robot counts with omnidirectional wheels, and four folding arms that grab carefully what the owner asks for. It was a huge memory, in order to learn everything that's in the house, and where to put it or find it. There is also an application for smartphones that allows the user to select something he wants, and the robot will go and bring it to him.

What will the robot look like? Will it look humanlike? Why or why not?

The robot will actually look like a box with several arms. This, because it's the most practical way of doing it. With this design, the robot is more efficient than with a human form. In other words, it develops better his task the way it is designed.

How will the robot’s appearance influence how people interact with it?
Because it look more like a machine than a human being, it will be treated like that, a machime. People won't feel really attached to the robot, because it looks more like a tool than ike a "friend"

What limitations does the robot have?

The robot might be slow, because the technology to make a fast working robot doesn't exist yet. Other limitation is that the robot can't go up through a stair, but that is not actually a huge problem, because people with physical probles won't live in a place with stairs.