Adrián Juliá Marín C1

Part 1: Essay

Since 2000, streets of cities all around the world have been massively filled with fuel vehicles, regardless the high
damage they can produce to people’s health and the environment. Not until 5 years ago has an European
agreement imposed slight measures to reduce the peril of this invisible but drastic consequences.

It is true that fuel vehicles such as cars, buses, vans, trucks and mopeds have been banned from coming in the
hubs of cities, mostly those which are older than twelve years. However, that is not enough and politicians should
promote green means of transports like cycling and walking which do not harm our so appreciate natural setting.
They could offer incentive to people whenever dwellers catch public bikes or just walk to do their own errands.
And example could be to create and app and inhabitants register their movements when cycling or walking in
order to obtain discounts in income tax payments.

Nevertheless, what about the benefits and drawbacks of encouraging cycling and walking in lieu of fuel vehicles
in the centre of the city? In terms of pros, people’s general health would be increased since people would reduce
cholesterol levels, high blood pressure and blood glucose levels. Furthermore, smog and noise would be
decreased. Last but not least, traffic jams and the elevated cost of petrol would be an eventuality of the past
which would be recollected with irony.

On the other hand, there are also cons which must be taken into account such as, is everyone prepared to walk
medium distances? What about elderly people and disabled people? Could they walk or cycle one or two
kilometres to reach their destination? Besides, promoting cycling and walking would mean that the local council
would have to give people access to bikes and invest money in adapting cities, all of that, creating more
pedestrian streets and bicycle lanes.

To sum up, the best implementation which the local council could do to improve mobility, circulation and people’s
general health in the city centre would be to promote cycling and walking by adapting streets to every single
person living in the city like disabled and vulnerable people.

Part 2: review.

Review of “Mummies”

Two weeks ago, my scholars and I went, as a complementary activity of the school, to the cinema. An activity
which we had not done after the Covid pandemic. My students and I were hugely excited and, even though the
election of the film was a bit tough, we finally got by to reach an agreement.

Once decided, I phoned the cinema to book the tickets but not until I called them five times did I receive a
response. What is more, the telephone operator kept me waiting far more than 2 minutes trying to make sure if
there were enough seats for us. In the end, we were able to book the seats, all of that in the last row of the
cinema.

In spite of all the impediments we had to purchase the tickets, the film was great. This historical film was about
the governance of Egyptian pharaohs 2500 years ago, a cruel ancient world of enormous construction built by
slaves without any type of equipment and machinery. What really astonished us was the astronomic effort slaves
had to do to push up the giant squared rock using uniquely some cords, all of that, through a sandy slope.
However, I learned much more about this fascinating cinematographic work such as how low life expectancy was
and how many crisis caused by plagues and storms had Egyptian to go through.

Historically speaking, this film work was brilliantly precise and representative of the society and events of that
era. On the other hand, If I had to recommend this film to any particular audience, I would certainly recommend
this to teenagers who are fond of watching historical documentaries through the eyes of phenomenal historians
and lecturers of the Egyptian folk and culture.