Essay about "The Clod and The Pebble"

“The Clod and The Pebble”

“The Clod and The Pebble” is a poem written by William Blake. It is about a Clod and a Pebble that talk about love and what they think about it. The poem presents two visions of love: in the one of the Clod, love is something positive and selfless, and, in the one of the Pebble, love is something negative and selfish.

The Clod presents love as something good and generous, that cares about you and tries to please you. It also says that love “And builds a Heaven in Hell’s despair.” That metaphor could mean that love makes things right when everything is wrong, that love can make feel good when you are feeling badly, that it can overcome everything. The Clod is something fragile and made of mud, what can symbolize that it is young and, because of that, has a more positive and optimistic idea of love.

The Pebble has a far more negative vision of love, one in which love is much more selfish: “Love seeketh only self to please, To bind another to its delight,” This is the exact opposite of the Clod’s vision. The Pebble thinks that love only wants to please itself and uses you to do that. It also says that it builds a Hell in Heaven, what signifies that love can make everything worse and can ruin every moment or person. The Pebble is a hard rock, and that could symbolize why it has a harsh vision of love.

In conclusion, the Clod sees the love as something completely positive and beneficiary, while the Pebble sees it as something negative and harmful. In my case I’m in the middle of both. I think the same as the Pebble when it says love can hurt you and is selfish, but when you are in love you stop caring about yourself and you care about the other.

Hábitos saludables: actividad física

Proyecto de educación física from tomipaladino

Arte 2015

• Todos los trabajos del año: 

Identidad from tomipaladino

Un examen raro

Este año, nuestro examen de fin de año de Biología , sobre el sistema reproductor masculino, lo hicimos en forma de una presentación, interviniendo una imagen en Thinglink.


Trabajo hecho por: Tomas Paladino y Lautaro Severina.

Queen's lost jewels found

• Write an article for the following headline (1 paragraph): "Queen's lost jewels found"

Queen's lost jewels found

The Queen's jewels, an esmerald bracelet

The gems, that were stolen last week, appeared in a dust bin inside the Royal Palace. They were found by one of the women from the cleaning service, Kelly Impia. The jewels were stolen last Wednesday night, and the security staff thought that someone broke into the Buckingham Palace, but there was nothing in the security tapes. After that, they thought it might be someone from inside, and decided to interrogate everyone. However, the Queen said she would be in charge of the search, and made a meeting with all the people living in the Palace. After that meeting, she discovered that her grandchildren had them, and were just making a joke to their granny, a very expensive one.  

The Buckingham Palace

Do young people help the environment?

Write your opinion on the following: “Unfortunately, young people are not interested in helping the environment.”

1. Follow the plan in Close Up, page 105.
2. Use the Useful Expressions and underline them. Use colours.

• Agreeing: 2 (two)
• Disagreeing: 2 (two)
• Comparing and contrasting: 3 (three)
• Becoming more specific: 3 (three)

A drawing, representing the world's pollution problems.

Nowadays, young people are not interested in helping the environment. It cannot support the view that adolescents have towards taking care of our planet.

I fully agree with the statement that young people don't help the environment. In comparison to the past, people are lazier nowadays and, in fact, I believe that is the reason why they do not do anything for the environment.

A young woman throwing garbage out of her window.

I strongly disagree with the people who pollute the environment and could prevent it. Contrary to the past, currently we indeed contaminate more and, specifically, that is why I believe young people should be aware of helping the environment.

What people should do, and what people do.

To sum up, I fully support the idea that young people do not care about the environment, since, in contrast to people in other ages, they do not realize that they are damaging the environment, whe they shoul help it. 

Nuestra responsabilidad

En clase trabajamos con VIH/SIDA y vimos un póster sobre la prevención de esa enfermedad. Después, respondimos unas consignas sobre lo visto.

El título del afiche, “Está en nuestras manos”, significa que es nuestra decisión y nuestra responsabilidad prevenir y cuidarnos de la infección del VIH/SIDA mientras tenemos relaciones.
En el afiche se puede ver un preservativo (el principal método de protección contra el SIDA) formado por distintas imágenes, como una mujer embarazada y una mano, por ejemplo. Éstas imágenes representan muchas cosas, como la salud, el amor, los hijos, las personas, los sexos/géneros, las relaciones sexuales, el mundo (el sida es una epidemia que afecta a gente de todo el mundo), el cuidado/ la protección y que el cuidarnos y prevenir está en nuestras manos.