Canada`s Geography Jesús Lugo Davila Canada´s Geography Canada is the northernmost country of America, with an area of 9.984.670 Km2 is the world´s second largest country in area after Russia, Canada is slightly less than three-fifths as large as Russia and slightly smaller than Europe. In total area, Canada is slightly larger than both the U.S. and China Canada has coastlines at north with the arctic ocean, at east with the Atlantic ocean at west with the Pacific ocean, due to Canada´s large extension between the oceans Pacific and Atlantic Canadian’s state motto is: “A Mari Usque Ad Mare” (Latin: From sea to sea). Canada limits with the United Sates at south, Canadian border with the U.S is about 8800 Km long. Rivers and lakes are numerous in Canada. Quebec and Ontario are the provinces with the largest number of lakes. Almost 25% of all water on earth is located in Canada. In almost every part of Canada there are lakes and rivers. Canada has over 2 million lakes covering 7% of the land mass. The largest lake is the Northwest Territories’ Great Bear Lake. It is estimated that Canada is home to one-seventh of the world’s fresh water. In Canada you can see major climatic differences due to its large size and varied topography. To the north, the glacier area is permanently frozen, while in the west coast of British Columbia appears lush vegetation, thanks to the milder temperatures. Most of the country has a fairly tough northern climate, so only 12% of the land is dedicated to agriculture. In contrast, in the south you can see the four seasons with maximum temperatures in summer of 35 degrees Celsius and in winter minimum of 25 degrees below zero

Learning a new language (2) Learning a foreign Language is an advantage in our professional formation, it is need in many situations; when someone is planning to do an investigation project the main scientific and technical information required is published at English, at international trading is an obvious need to speak English, and at working at an international company knowing several languages is strength. Could not be easy dedicating time to learn grammatical rules, spelling, meaning and pronunciation of words at another language; and finding a real knowledge is not guaranteed unless exists a compromise to learn but we consider it so or not is not it is not wasted time, it an inversion of time. I think that curricula at high school and University should include a more extensive English program due to the importance of this language at professional environment that would be one of many useful reforms to our educational programs.

Learning a new language The word distinguishes man from animals and language distinguishes between nations. It is know from where is a man just after he has talked. At present at present there exist at least 6.000 languages that are talked in our world of those just 25 are considered important due to their extension and written production. Mandarin Chinese is the most talked language in the world, it is the native language from more than 1000 millions of people, while English the official language from countries like England and United States is spoken officially by 508 millions of people in the world. English is the second language more talked in the world but it´s considered a universal language due to it is the second language for most of the world population. English is the most used language at trade and international business. There are different techniques used to learn a new language, they have evolved from theories of psychology and linguistic. There are some considerations that could be helpful when a language is learned. Repetition is one of the keys to success; a very high numbers of repetition is need for a word become in our long term memory. These repetition can be orally, read or written. Ear training should be performed, at our mother tongue we have not to listen very well because our brain processes the words we hear and give it sense. That´s why we hear conversations, music and watch videos when we´re learning a language. Continuity is need because we forget language quickly, also we got to confront the fear to say something stupid or make a fool to ourselves, but learning a language almost guarantees that we will say something stupid, it is need to understand that it is ok, even the best language learners experience this.

English composition (Homework) In a very competitive world, companies should improve everyday their products and services with the target of keeping at a lead position on the market. Quality is a primordial concept to consider at this matter. Quality could be defined as: the level of satisfaction of clients requirements. But quality is a changing concept, and it depends on who defines it. In the past quality used to be focused on technical aspects, now it includes quality of the people products, industries are as good as their people is. Japan´s industry is considered the most developed in the world, this is very related with their Total Quality Philosophy, which now it´s an integral part of its industry. It was not always that way, before the Second World War Japan faced the reconstruction of their country. United States Government sent a group of experts to help Japanese in their labor. Guru of quality Eduard Deming visited Japan at 1950. Deming was working at the Columbia University when he received an invitation to talk about quality to Japan´s business men. Kaoru Ishikawa a Japanese Industrial Chemical were so interested on Deming`s teaching about quality he thought it was an exciting topic. Ishikawa studied two industries of electrical parts called GE group and Electrical industrial. GE group started to work with the concept of Quality integral system, getting at a year lower costs of production than electrical industrial. Also at two years GE with less investment an workforce had a higher productivity than Electrical Group. At our country Quality is ruled by the Venezuelan quality system Law, quality management is applied at pharmaceutical, cosmetic and food industries because is required by Law. Other industries might not adopt quality management systems because in the present condition of the country the quality is not encouraged First time I heard about quality management was at a conference I thought it was very interesting subject and then I decided that I will find more information about it. I´m going to finish a specialization at quality assurance this year.

Family stories My father told me that my grandfather was a man in arms. According to my father told me, my grandfather lived in the times of dictatorship, and he was part of some group that took up arms against it . Some of the stories that I heard of my father about his father was that national security went to her house looking for him, that in the basement of the house were my father lives there are guns and bullets that was buried to hide their existence and that once on a confrontation with government army he was the only survivor and had to hide under dead bodies all a day to then scape.

Haunted Warehouse One year ago I should stay alone in my office waiting for a provider that was supplying a raw material at the company were I work. I was sitting at the computer checking some files and nothing wrong was happening until that time. At some time i heard the sound of a microwave oven turned on, the sound came from the dinning room, at first I ignored that sound, but after a few minutes I heard the sound of the microwave turning off. I went up to the dining room to investigate and nobody was there. I returned to my office and in less than two minutes I heard the sound of a microwave oven door when is closed. I ignored that and after some other rare sounds i decided to hear some music until that the provider have arrived. Next day I commented to my co-workers wath I heard, and there were more than one of them with a story of rare things that had happened when they stayed alone at some place of the warehouse. Until that day i have heard and seen other strange things and i prefer do not stay alone at work.