Composition I | Luis Badilla Jaubert

  Performing on stage was one of the most exhilarating moments of my life. In 2012, my music teacher had been requesting that I play the piano for my entire school for several months, which I kept politely refusing due to lack of experience on stage or time to practice. However, after Holy Week, when approached again by my teacher, I decided to accept the offer. The day of the event, I oversaw setting up the stage, practiced, and played the piano for my entire school. When I arrived at the school that day, my teacher immediately sought me out. To my surprise, he had convinced the principal to unbox a brand-new, silver-colored Yamaha PSR-series digital keyboard. Then, I was told I was setting up the stage for the show, for which I talked a few friends into helping me. The implements included the keyboard stand, the pedal I brought, and the cherry on top: a raggedy old office chair that looked like it was one bad day away from turning to dust. It did not take us long to have everyt...

              Not very often I am left unimpressed by a scientific paper or article. Unfortunately, Umair Shahzad’s Global Warming: Causes, Effects and Solution turned out not to live up to expectations. First, the paper presents many grammatical inconsistencies. Punctuation is rather weak all through, as commas are missing from a lot of lines where they would be adequate. Added to that, terms are frequently repeated in the same paragraph, and certain words jump from singular to plural in several instances. Second, the paper possesses too much visual noise, making it difficult to read. The watermark behind the text presents itself as the biggest offender, and figures are used too often and in clusters that disrupt the reading flow despite the intention of elaborating through visual aids. Lastly, this paper is rather outdated. “Global warming” has not been the scientifically appropriate term since 1988 (Weart, 2003), and we sho...