Earphones

Mr. Lange with his creation

They were created in 1919 by Nathaniel Baldwin, but in that time they weren’t used for listen to music. They were created to help to improve the communication via radio or phones. At that time the earphones weren’t sold for the massive public as long as they were heavy and too big. Because of that the first to use this equipment were the airplane pilots.

Only in 1958 they were launched for the public. John C. Koss and his partner Martin Lange developed the first stereo headphone. They did it because they had the dream of listen to music without bothering other people. But their headphones were big just like this one:

Since the success of the walkmans in the 80’, the headphones became smaller, by that time they started to be more like the ones that we use nowadays.

Nowadays we continue using both head and earphones. We use it mostly to listen to music, but it has a lot of utilities. Bluetooth earphones are now a reality and we have tons of brands and types to buy anywhere anytime.

This technology came to make our lives easier, but it has its disadvantages too. With this invention we are able to talk in the cell phone and keep our hands free, listen to music anywhere without disturbing other people and many other things. It’s important to remember that this equipment helps to improve some areas of work, like telemarketing with headsets, business men and women with Bluetooth and many more.

But everything has a bad side, and this technology has too. Most of its users are the younger people and they may don’t know, but the overuse or using it too loud can cause serious and permanent damage to the hearing aid. Researchers say that 40% of the users use it louder than the recommended.

There are a few recommendations for decrease the losses when using it:

• Opt for Headphones, the ones that stays out of your ears
• Watch the sound volume, don’t play it too loud
• Don’t use it for more than one hour, after that time give your hearing a break

And that's it! Thanks for reading :)

Gisele Bundchen

Gisele Bündchen 

Supermodel

Gisele Caroline Bündchen is a super model, actress, philanthropist and a businesswoman from Brazil.

Before the fame:

She was born in Horinzontina, a country town in Rio Grande do Sul, on July 20, 1980. Her parents are Valdir and Vânia, she has a twin sister named Patrícia plus four other sisters: Raquel, Graziela, Gabriela and Rafaela. When she was a teenager her dream was to be a volleyball player, but her career started in 1994, when she was fourteen years old. She was discovered by scouts of an agency models, during her graduation show of elementary school.

Career:

In 1996, she traveled for the first time for New York, giving birth to her long career of international fame and success. In 1999, Gisele appeared in Vogue’s cover in July, November and December, she won the prize of Model of the Year from Vogue and they said that is thanks to her the “sexy models” are back and it’s the end of unhealthy model’s appearance. In 2000 she was chosen to the Model of the Year, by Vogue, and the World’s most beautiful girl, by Rolling Stone. By the year of 2007, she was the only Brazilian girl in Forbes’ list of The twenty richest women in the entertainment industry. On that moment she had a fortune estimated in 70 million dollars and she also had almost 20 contracts. Actually, she is being considerate the “last supermodel of the world” and she was nominated the richest model on earth, by Guiness Book, with an estimated fortune of 150 million dollars.

Personal life:

From 2001 to 2005 she dated the American actor Leonardo DiCaprio, after she had a quick relationship with Kelly Slater, a surfer. In the end of 2006 she started dating with a football player, Tom Brady, which one she married in February, 26 of 2009 in a little catholic church in Santa Monica, California. In the same year, the couple had another ceremony. This time it was at 04/06 in Costa Rica and Brady’s son John was in these one. On December 8, 2009 was born their first son, Benjamin Brady. In 2012 she confirmed her second pregnancy and at December 5 was born the baby Vivian Lake Brady.

Activism:

Bündchen is social activist, she gives support to causes such as campaign I am African, painting her face in a protest against the lack of attention to HIV victims’ situation (mostly in Africa). Without receiving payback, she was the face of American Express Red Card, which gives support to HIV victims, sending a percentage of the earned money. She also donated a whole week salary on Sao Paulo fashion week to the program “Fome zero” (“Zero hungry” in English). Currently, her biggest concern is to protect the Amazon rain forest and it’s water resources, donating a percentage of her line of sandals’ profit.

Campaigns:

She have been doing adds and fotographs for renowned brands, including Valentino, Zara, Bulgari, Versace, Victoria’s Secret, Ralph Lauren, Tommy Hilfiger, Dolce & Gabbana, Colcci and many others. She also appeared on magazine’s covers like Marie Claire, Vogue, Forbes, Vanity Fair, Time, Newsweek and Rolling Stone. In her career she had been appearing in almost five hundred covers.

Werewolf

Werewolf, or Lycanthrope

In Brazil, the legend tells that when a baby boy has seven older sisters he's going to be a werewolf in his thirteenth birthday. 

The boy becomes this creature in the full moon nights. He has to pass through seven cemeteries until the 

sunrise, otherwise he will be on werewolf form for the rest of his life. 

But we have other ways to turn into a werewolf: 

•Being bitten by one. 

•Being cursed by a magician. 

How to kill a werewolf:

•Give him Wolfsbane 

•Shot him with silver bullet 

•Rip off his head

The werewolf's legend had it's origin in Greek mythology, when Zeus turned king Lycaon into these creature that is half man half wolf. 

This creature is very explored in media nowadays. We have much series and movies addressing these theme. Among them, we have:

•For series: 

 -Teen Wolf, MTV. 

 -The Vampire Diaries, CW Television Network. 

  -True Blood, HBO. 

  -Hemlock Grove, Netflix. 

       (Derek Hale, Teen Wolf) 

•Movies:

  -Werewolf of London, 1935. 

  -The Wolf Man, 1941. 

  -An American Werewolf In London, 1994. 

  -Twilight serie.

  -The Howling, 1981. 

  -Dog Soldiers, 2002. 

  -Red Riding Hood, 2011

Yourself

Being yourself and having your own style is something really hard nowadays, because people really care about being fashion and about what people think of you. For example, a lot of girls wear make up to go to school and this didn’t use to happen before and girls are just over dressed to everywhere. 

  

But, what I think it happens is that they are too influenced by media and seeing all these beautiful women in TV their self-esteem goes law and they try their best to be as pretty as them, so they get really self-conscious.

In the end of the all their personality changes as well, they start to get self-centered and all they think about manicures, false eyelashes and these kind of things.

I think that people just need to wear something comfortable and simple so it could be self-confident. But that doesn’t happen and people take self-image so important that people get hired sometimes because they are prettier even if the work doesn’t involve image.

It’s really sad to see that the way people dress also changes the way people see the others. For example, if you don’t wear expensive or known brands in our school you probably will be seen with other eyes, basically people care more about other people’s image than personality nowadays.

Probably, one of the main reasons for the huge quantity of suicides involves the media and it also involves self-confidence and self-image. The role models for "perfection" are models with really skinny bodies and happy faces what makes us think that we can be happier and live better by being thinner and by wearing lots of make-up, wigs or the clothes they wear, but it's just marketing, because the truth is that most of those girls are not happy living this way.

Living simply and living healthy are the best ways to live happily and to be yourself but also self-confident and I think the most important part of it all is that you just have to care about what you think of yourself, not what other people think of you. I know that there are a lot of people out there that are vain and just care too much about theirappearance but you don't have to be one of them, to feel good about yourself just let the wigs, make-up and nail polishes out for one day and try to take something good out of it. Because, in the end all that really matters is what it comes from the inside.