Essay about JFK's death

The assassination of John Fitzgerald Kennedy. Is all that we know real?

The death of the 35th president of the United States of America, John Fitzgerald Kennedy has been one of the most stunning events in the history of North America. President Kennedy was shot in the head by a sniper during a parade celebrated in his honor on November 22^nd, 1963 in the main streets of Dallas city (Texas). There was an official investigation carried by the Warren Commission that concluded, a year before of the event, that the only culprit for JFK’s assassination was Lee Harvey Oswal himself, discarding the possibility of any kind of conspiracy. Anyway, most of the Americans believe that others besides Oswald were also involved in the assassination, and a lot of theories have been created in order to clarify the mystery around JFK’s death, theories that involve not only the idea that there was more than one shooter, that it was a political conspiracy, but also that JFK wasn´t really killed.

One of the most extended ideas about the assassination of President Kennedy is the one that defends that there was more than one shooter in the streets of Dallas during that day. There are two big theories about this, in one hand there is a theory based in the idea that the car driver was directly related with the conspiracy and, when Oswal missed the first shot, it was the he himself the one who did the headshot that killed a wounded John Fitzgerald Kennedy. In the other hand there is also an idea that defends that there was more than one shooter placed in the surrounding area, this is based in the fact that only two of the three bullets that Oswal shot to the presidential car, hit inside the car itself, but the governor John Connally, that was also inside the car, was hit several times and only one of those bullets went across his body and hit JFK. Some of the witnesses around the area declared that they thought that the shots came from the front of the presidential car; meanwhile many other declared that they thought that the shots came from the back part of the car, so the theory about two assassins is completely possible.

It was very soon when theories that defend that Oswal was just a scapegoat to hide that the assassination was a political movement appeared. The two biggest suspects, if we think that Kennedy’s assassination was a political fact, are Lyndon B. Johnson who was Kennedy’s vice president and became the 36th president of the United States when JFK died, and Richard Nixon, whose hatred to Kennedy was known because of the fact that JFK “stole” the presidency to Nixon on 1960. This theories are the most difficult to prove because most of the possibilities have been investigated and, even though there is still some facts that have no sense, the evidences were not enough to incriminate politicians as important as they were.

The primary reason this case has never been solved is the fact that there is an enormous amount of disagreement and discrepancy regarding the medical evidence (Buyer, 2009). It is said that the American cop J.D. Tippit was physically identical to President Kennedy, as much as he was nicknamed “JFK”, for that reason there is a lot of people who think that Tippit was killed in order to be a replacement for the president, there were also some evidences of cosmetic surgery during Kennedy’s autopsy. This theory would guide us to the possibility that Kennedy, knowing that some people was trying to act against him decided to fake his own death in order to disappear.

In conclusion the death of President Kennedy affected the lives of everyone, regardless of ideology or political affiliation (Jovich, 1988), not only because of the charisma that he had but also because of the unknown facts and mysteries around his assassination. All the theories related with his death; if Oswall was an scapegoat and there is more people related with the crime, if there were more shooters than the one that we know, if there was any political interests hidden behind or even if it was a plan that he himself orchestrated in order to disappear from public life is something that will keep being unknown, at least until somebody finds some evidences that can solve one of the biggest mysteries in the history of the United States of America.

Bibliography

JOVICH, J. B. (1988). Reflections on JFK’s assassination: 250 famous Americans remember November 22, 1963. Bethesda: Woodbine House.

BUYER, R. (2009). Why the JFK assassination still maters: The truth form my daughter Kennedy and the generations to come. Tucson, Arizona: Wheatmark .

Lesson plan: Shake your body

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POWER POINT

ICT and CLIL

Information and communications technology (ICT) is often used as an extended synonym for information technology (IT), but is a more specific term that stresses the role of unified communications and the integration of telecommunications (telephone lines and wireless signals), computers as well as necessary enterprise software, middleware, storage, and audio-visual systems, which enable users to access, store, transmit, and manipulate information.

The way to use ICTs in a proper way in classrooms is directly related with the constructivism theory. This methodology is a very interesting way to also work CLIL as teachers, because not only it is based in the idea that people construct their own understanding and knowledge of the world, their own reality, but also that there is something called significant learning, this kind of learning is long-term and permanent, goes from a not knowing to a knowing situation and is based in experience and depends on previous knowledge. All the things said before have extended constructivism worldwide and made it a methodology accepted by teachers and research communities around the whole world.

As CLIL teachers we must be aware of the fact that, using different kinds of technologies in our classrooms is a good way to improve our student´s motivation without paying attention to what kind of area we are trying to work (math, science, physical education…) the use of any kind of device will be a very powerful support to motivate our students.

We must also think about the possibilities that it gives us as a non-speaking country, the support of the internet and softwares like skype, or some kind of tools as the blogs, is the best way to establish international relationship with schools form English speaking countries, that is an awesome way to improve the implication of the students in areas like English speaking countries history or literature, being the use of TICS in the school a vital way to do it. That is one of the strongest points in constructivism, to think that we can construct our own knowledge and understanding of reality, but is in the interaction with others where they can really test that reality and improve their knowledge about how reality is.

To conclude we can say that educational technology will be really useful to us as teachers when it is at the service of pedagogy and didactics. If it is pedagogy based in constructivism, where students learn in a collaborative and motivational way, technology will help us in several ways. We are going to improve significant learning and discover new ways to develop the social knowledge. Technologies such as the internet, tablets or interactive boards will make easier to the way to implement constructivism in our classroom.

Reader: The fussy little mouse

Art in class

Los jugadores de naipes (Francisco de Goya)

La gallina ciega (Francisco de Goya)

The teacher will show these paintings to the children, in which the topic is traditional games. It is a good way to show them how culture was in their country in the past. That will help them to be aware of the changes that have happened in their country. Making a comparison between how the game was in the past and how is it nowadays.

After the previous activity, all the children will play “Gallinita Ciega” and “Cinquillo”. In the first game, one child will cover his/her eyes with a blinker and all the kids have to move around in order to be catch. If the “hen” grabs on of his/ her classmates, he /she would have to figure out who that person is. In the second game, the children will have to put the card number five on the table, and then they will have to follow the numbers up and down. The winner is the one that runs out of cards first.