Crime and Environment Review

Animal Abuse:
Many circuses are using animals for entertaining shows, but they don't really care about the fact that animals were not created to force them to perform riding bicycles, balance on balls, etc. and trainers are maltreating animals using tight collars, electric prods, etc. just to make people laugh.
I think that they should leave animals in peace, because there are too many ways to do an entertaining show without abuse. Besides, people should know about this in order to avoid animal abuse and make trainers pay for what they are doing.

Fraud:
These years Intenet has been a good way of frauds, because there are thousands of people who make use of it, and in many cases we need to give personal infomation if we want to get an account or something like that. The worst thing is that many websites are controlled by criminals who use the Internet to rob people, and that makes them feel that they have lost privacy because of the fraud.
I think that if we want to make use of the Internet it is important to know that we are always at risk of being part of a fraud. Also, if we want to use accounts or buy something via Internet, we should look for more information about the website that is offering what we want.

Formal Transactional Letter

Dear Sir or Madam

According to the newspaper from last weekend I was very disappointed with the report about the building of a by-pass for Oldbury, which had a lack of information including lots of errors in the explanation of how the event occured.

The purpose of our demonstration was claiming not only for the extintion of a rare species of snail, but also for the destruction of woodland, a very important fact of our nature that was not mentioned in the report, however, we think that people should know about it as well as the consequences to our environment if the construction company builds a by-pass.

I also have some complaints about some details that you wrote according to the number of the people gathered in the demonstration, which was over 2.000 people and not 200 as you reported. Despite of this, the way that we made the demonstration was silent and pacific, so the information about that protesters sat in the road chanting slogans at workers and police is wrong, and the "troublemakers" as the spokesman for the council said, were not all from other parts of the country, but rather many of them were local residents who are concerned about the destruction of our natural territory.

On the other hand, I would like to ask you for a new report explaining how really was the demonstration and correct the errors of what you said last week. I would also be grateful if you could send a reporter to interview me so you can get information from reliable sources.

Yours sincerely,
Constanza Arellano

Environmental Survey

1.- What do you think is the best way to motivate young people to be aware of the damages caused in the earth?
2.- What is your biggest fear about Global Warming?
3.- What do you do to collaborate on the planet's safety?
4.- Do you think that we are responsible for the damages on the earth? Or you may think that it's just a nature problem.
5.- Do you agree with the deforestation of green areas to build more houses?
6.- What would you do to prevent animal hunting?
7.- What would you do if you are witness of animal maltreating?
8.- Do you agree with hydroelectric companies in our country? Why?
9.- What things do you do for the preservation of our flora and fauna?
10.- Do you think that hybrid cars are a good invention to take care of our planet?

- Constanza Arellano
- Paulina Figueroa
- Natalia Martell