April 25 |Carnation Revolution|

The Carnation Revolution (Portuguese: Revolução dos Cravos) was an almost bloodless, leftist, military-led coup d'état, started on April 25, 1974, in Lisbon, Portugal, that effectively changed the Portuguese regime from an authoritarian dictatorship to a democracy after two years of a transitional period known as PREC (Processo Revolucionário Em Curso), characterized by social turmoil and power dispute between left and right wing political forces.
Although government forces killed four people before surrendering, the revolution was unusual in that the revolutionaries did not use direct violence to achieve their goals. The population, holding red carnations (cravos in Portuguese), convinced the regime soldiers not to resist. The soldiers readily swapped their bullets for flowers. It was the end of the Estado Novo, the longest authoritarian regime in Western Europe.

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I'd sit alone
And watch your light
My only friend
Through teenage nights
And everything
I had to know
I heard it on my radio
You gave them all
Those old time stars
Through wars of worlds
Invaded by Mars
You made em laugh
You made 'em cry
You made us feel
Like we could fly
Radio
So don't become
some background noise
A backdrop for
the girls and boys
Who just don't know
or just don't care
And just complain
when you're not there
You had your time
you had the power
You've yet to have
your finest hourRadio
All we hear is Radio ga ga
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Radio what's new?
Radio someone still loves you
We watch the shows
we watch the stars
On videos for hours and hours
We hardly need to use our ears
How music changes through the years
Let's hope you never
leave old friend
Like all good things on you we depend
So stick around cos we might miss you
When we grow tired of all this visual
You had your time you had the power
You've yet to have your finest hour
Radio
All we hear is Radio ga ga
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All we hear is Radio ga ga
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All we hear is Radio ga ga
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You've yet to have your finest hour
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Portuguese Teenagers TV Viewing Habits

Most young people watch TV for more than two hours a day.
Favourite TV series are CSI, Doctor House, Supernatural, The Bones, Lost and Prison Break, are its scientific, action and horror TV series.
Young people also watch cartoons like The Simpsons and Nody x) and TV serial “Strawberry with sugar” is the most watched TV serial by young Portuguese people.
Most young people read a magazine regularly. The boys read magazines about football, which is boring for the girls and the girls read magazines about girls, for example “Bravo” or “Super pop” and more.
Young people do use the Internet to send emails, visit WebPages for example game sites, hi5 or myspace, chats, research sites and many more WebPages that attract teenagers. But the consequences of too much internet are headaches, many hours unnecessarily spent, which harms us a lot.

Portuguese teenagers´ TV viewing habits

Our favourite channel is “MTV” because we love music and there we can listen a lot of good songs and watch the videos and has got very good programmes like PUNK´D. In this show the presenter (Ashton Kutcher) catches famous people unprepared in embarrassing moments and films the other face of the victims.
We like other types of shows like “Dr House”, “Ugly Betty”, “CSI”, “American Dad”, “Grey’s anatomy” etc. In general, American programmes. They have a lot of quality and in some way glues us to the TV screen.
Portuguese people are addicted to the TV. They spend a lot of time sitting in the sofa in stead of doing free activities like sports and enjoying the nature. They watch a lot of novellas and the news.
The best actor of the moment is Hugh Laurie, who plays represents the main character of Dr House, he has a great performance for his part which is very difficult once he is very strict men.

Portuguese Teens' TV viewing habits

Portuguese Teens TV viewing habits

In my class, most of us see TV Series as CSI, ER, Doctor House… and I, for instance, much 24 and Brothers & Sisters and Bones pretty much . In Portugal we have TV serials, such as Morangos com Açúcar, Fascínios, which attract many people in Portugal. I don’t like McA because it is always the same… it is at least the fifth edition and the story is about a boy and a girl who met a boy and they stick together and then separate again and again… I also like the actress Margarida Vila-Nova; Alexandra Lencastre, of course I don’t really care about the actors because they don’t attract meJ. My partner, by the other hand, care about the actors.

Portuguese teenagers TV viewing habits

My friends and I usually see a popular TV serial called “Morangos com açúcar”, it talks about teenagers’ problems, and how we feel about school. We also like watching TV series like “Friends” it talks about the wonderful relationship of six friends, and “Supernatural”.
We like watching music programs MTV and MCM too, to be updated and listen to the best music.
We don’t like watching documentaries or the news because there very boring, and don’t talk about our problems or anything amusing.
My friend and I actually share the same opinion of many teenagers that watch TV, it’s very important to us watching TV programmes that talk about our problems and how we feel about society.

Vanessa and Patrícia 10ºO

Portuguese teenagers TV viewing habits

Teenagers in Portugal spend many hours watching TV just like other teenagers in the world even though they also spend a lot of time on the internet. Usually they don’t like watching documentary programmes or anything related to it. Teenagers like watching music programmes and channels such as MTV, which is very famous, this way they can hear and watch the videoclips from their favourite music at the same time.A TV serial also very popular is “Morangos com Açucar”. It’s all about teenagers’ life, what they do, how they are, how they react in different situations…
There are also TV series that teenagers like watching such as CSI, ER, Doctor House…
Portuguese teenagers are just like other teenagers, they like watching programmes that have to do with them and with their life!!!

done by: Jessica and Rafael

Portuguese Teens TV wiewing habits

First of all, I think TV is very important in our lives, not only because of the world news but for entertainment. TV series like Doctor House and CSI are important means of understanding the most complicated sciences. My friends and I, we like to watch the TV Serial Morangos com Açúcar. We like science (Dr.House) ,sports (Sport TV channel) and music (MTV and MCM chanels) programs and we hate soap operas or novellas.

Fabio Amaral and pskboysvb

Wall Street Crash of 1929

The Wall Street Crash of 1929, also known as the Crash of ’29, was the most devastating stock market crash in the history of the United States, taking into consideration the full scope and longevity of its fallout. Three phrases—Black Thursday, Black Monday, and Black Tuesday—are used to describe this collapse of stock values. All three are appropriate, for the crash was not a one-day affair. The initial crash occurred on Black Thursday (October 24, 1929), but it was the catastrophic downturn of Black Monday and Tuesday (October 28 and October 29, 1929) that precipitated widespread panic and the onset of unprecedented and long-lasting consequences for the United States. The collapse continued for a month. Economists and historians disagree as to what role the crash played in subsequent economic, social, and political events. The crash in America came near the beginning of the Great Depression, a period of economic decline in the industrialized nations, and led to the institution of landmark financial reforms and new trading regulations.
At the time of the crash, New York City had grown to be a major metropolis, and its Wall Street district was one of the world's leading financial centers. The New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) was the largest stock market in the world. The Roaring Twenties was a time of prosperity and excess in the city, and, despite warnings against speculation, many believed that the market could sustain high price levels. Shortly before the crash, Irving Fisher famously proclaimed, "Stock prices have reached what looks like a permanently high plateau." The euphoria and financial gains of the great bull market were shattered on Black Thursday, when share prices on the NYSE collapsed. Stock prices fell on that day and they continued to fall, at an unprecedented rate, for a full month.
In the days leading up to Black Thursday, the market was unstable. Periods of panic selling and high volumes of trading were interspersed with brief periods of rising prices and recovery. Economist and author Jude Wanniski later correlated these swings with the prospects for passage of the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act, which was then being debated in Congress. After the crash, the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) recovered early in 1930, only to reverse again, reaching a low point of the great bear market in 1932. The Dow did not return to pre-1929 levels until late 1954, and was lower at its July 8, 1932 level than it had been since the 1800s.

Daniel Azevedo!

April Fool's Day

What is April Fool's Day?

April Fools' Day, sometimes called All Fools' Day, is one of the most light hearted days of the year. Its origins are uncertain. Some see it as a celebration related to the turn of the seasons, while others believe it stems from the adoption of a new calendar.

What is its origin?

Ancient cultures, including those as varied as the Romans and the Hindus, celebrated New Year's Day on or around April 1. It closely follows the vernal equinox (March 20th or March 21st.) In medieval times, much of Europe celebrated March 25, the Feast of Annunciation, as the beginning of the new year.
In 1582, Pope Gregory XIII ordered a new calendar (the Gregorian Calendar) to replace the old Julian Calendar. The new calendar called for New Year's Day to be celebrated Jan. 1. That year, France adopted the reformed calendar and shifted New Year's day to Jan. 1. According to a popular explanation, many people either refused to accept the new date, or did not learn about it, and continued to celebrate New Year's Day on April 1. Other people began to make fun of these traditionalists, sending them on "fool's errands" or trying to trick them into believing something false. Eventually, the practice spread throughout Europe.