future perfect issue 12 (print-ready version)

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Cover Photo

Miguel Angel Pasalodos

Cover design & post production

Mark Dallas

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Where the money went lasttime...

The December 2013 Journalism Class raised $204 for thecharity Silver Circle.

Issue #11 Journalists Leftright: Grace Yoo, Sebastian Mahecha, Vinicius Purgato, EditorMark Dallas, Silver Circle Employee, Felipe Serpa, Viviane Bento, Paulo Lima Neto

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Foreword by the Editor

Curious ArchitectureAbigail Rosas wanders into a couple of Toronto'sfavourite buildings

Thrilling Ups & DownsIghor Ferreira looks back at (and forward to)Amusement Parks through the ages

World Cup CityAlberto Garca follows the thrill of the beautiful gamein a city full of immigrants

Summer Festival CityFelipe Brito looks at Summer Culture in Toronto

LanguagesDaniele Moreira

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To learn more about language

and how it works, look out for

the 1 o'clock ILSC class

HOW LANGUAGE WORKS

Coming soon!

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who learn languages at anolder age.

According to the GoetheInstitute, the fact is that theformer uses a di"erent areain the brain associated with anatural process, which meansthey dont have to makemuch e"ort. On the otherhand, the la#er activates thegeneral memory so theyare supposed to use moreregions in the brain whilelearning a (now foreign)language.

This facility for youngstersmakes the learning process

of a third, fourth or even a%fth language even easier. Itmight sound confusing fora childs mind, but thats amyth since they practice in apractical way.

According to DELTA*President Ken Lackman,There are no disadvantages(for children) to speak morethan one language, onlyadvantages. Children do nottranslate words; they connect

them with the real world.Independently, wherelanguage diversity comes

from, how many languagesare spoken and how theyare used in society, itsa phenomenon worthobserving and learningabout. Toronto is probablyjust about the best place todo it. &

*Diploma in Teaching English to

Speakers of Other Languages

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Foreword

Dear Reader,

Thank you for buying our twelfth issue of Future Perfect.The theme this issue is...

SURPRISE!! (I'll bet you weren't expecting that).

Like when you're walking down the street and you see a building

you hadn't noticed before.

Or when you're on a rollercoaster and it suddenly drops into a 2-G

freefall and you think you're going to die till it completes the loop.Or when your soccer team loses by more goals than you thought it

might.

Or when you realized there's more to do in this city in the summer

than just sit on a patio and drink.

Expecting the unexpected is what makes life a challenge and in

turn, worth living.Enjoy the rest of this.

Mark Dallas

Editor


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Abigail Rosas wanders into a couple ofToronto's favourite buildings

Wake up! Its 9 oclock in themorning: time to go to school.I get dressed and run to thebus stop. By the time I arriveat the subway, I realize I amgoing to be late for school.It is a sunny day though, soI decide to walk around thegreat city of Toronto instead.Walking along Bay Streetdowntown, I suddenly see abig white structure coming

out between twobui ldings.

I wonder what it is, so I go into %nd out.

It is Brook%eld Place, whichhas two towers with o+ ces:Bay Wellington Towerand Canada TrustTower. Betweenthese is theCrystal

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is the winner with over3,000 languages and dialects.Interestingly, Papua NewGuinea is the clear nationalwinner with more than 800languages!

This diversity seems amazingto citizens of monolingualcountries. On the other hand,exactly because of it, manyminority groups can feelostracized as if they dontbelong to that particularcommunity, causinginnumerable problems. Evenif one can master the othergroups language, in Canadathe cultural distance between

Toronto (Anglophone) andQuebec (Francophone) isclear.

Furthermore, in multi-c u l t u r a lToronto, it is

interesting tonotice howE n g l i s h i sspoken throughs o m a n ydi"erent accentssuch as Spanish,

K o r e a n ,Chinese andTagalog. It is

u n d e r s t a n d a b l e t h a tEnglish is gathering manynationalities, but it makesyou wonder where thelanguage diversity is.

If you dont speak English,you dont get a good job, youdont integrate with people,and you dont take part fullyin society. Does this seem tobe a trace of diversity loss?

Avoiding this homogeneity,there are several familiesthat have in their housesmore than one languagerepresented. In a familywhose parents are di"erent

nationalities, kids learnlanguages naturally asif they were playing.It doesnt mean they aremore intelligent than people


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Finally, I decided to head toBloor Street to visit the RoyalOntario Museum, which istwo buildings in one. The%rst building is a palace withbalconies and large windows.In the front, theres DanielLibeskinds constructionmade of aluminum andcrystal. This shape is di+ cultto understand but has adi"erent and modern viewof the museum. It a#ractsthe a#ention of people whoare visiting or just passingby. I think the outside of themuseum represents its imageand identity. It is incrediblehow the contrast of the old

with the new looks good.&

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(Lesbian, gay, bisexual,transsexual, transgender,intersex, Queer/Questioning,2-Spirited and Allies)

communities. It happens inmany venues around thecity.

CaribanauNorth-America's largestCaribbean festival a#ractsmore than a million peopleevery year. The festivalpresents Caribbean-inspiredevents, classes and parties.Caribana happens late Julyearly August.

Canada Day

This is the celebration ofCanada's birthday (1st ofJuly 1867). The best places tocelebrate the date are NathanPhilips Square, Mel LastmanSquare, Harbourfront Centreand Downsview Park.q

The Toronto InternationalDragon Boat RaceuThis is a Chinese festivalin which colourful dragon

boats are the centrepiece. Ita#racts more than 100,000people with food, games anddance. It happens late Juneon Centre Island. &

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Ighor Ferreiralooks at the history behind the magicsparkle that is the Amusement Park

Everybody loves amusementparks. It doesn't ma#er if

you don't like the free-fallfeeling or the speed of rollercoasters, or if you're afraidof heights, there's alwayssomething about thoseparks that you love. Maybeit's the atmosphere, all the

joy inside this li#le world,the food, maybe the familya#ractions, or even the hard-core rollercoasters; you'll feelthat magic sparkle insideyou. But, have you everwondered about the history

behind that magic?

Let's go back in time, tothe Middle Ages. Do you

remember those fairs wherepeople traded their foodsand goods, danced all daylong, eating and drinkingas much as they could?That's when our storybegins. Those


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blowing in one's face. Thoseparks had their golden yearsand were usually a way ofdemonstrating economicand industrial success untilthe Great Depression of the1930s, and then the SecondWorld War, compromisingthe amusement parkindustry.

Under the constant threat

of bombs and %res, peopledecided not to frequent theparks anymore, since allthe a#ractions were madeof wood, and a lot of themwere burned to the groundin some terrorist a#acks.

Around the 1950s, things gotworse: the crime rate wasincreasing, the cities weregrowing, television becamea source of entertainmentfor many and a lot of theme

parks had to close down andface the wrecking ball.

However, after a few years,a small and unknownamusement park was builtwhich would become the

most famous in the world:Disneyland in California.This introduced steel rides

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and brought back the ideaof parks with themes, notonly a group of a#ractions.Each 'land' had a theme andthe a#ractions matched thetheme, such as the SnowWhite theme park based ontheir %rst animated movie.

It was only in 1971 thatWalt Disney opened theWalt Disney World Resort

in Florida, which is still thelargest amusement parkin the world with fourgiant theme parks. And thetechnological progress justdidn't stop: ba#ing cages, go-karts, bumper cars, bumper

boats and water slideswere created, combiningamusement parks and waterparks.

But, if you think progress isonly about a#ractions, you'rewrong. Tickets and even thefood changed through theyears. The %rst paymentmethod was called


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meant you paid an admissionfee, giving you the right toride all the a#ractions.

Looking at the food courts,what began as simplepicnics ended up as a worldof fast-food brands mixedwith fancy and expensiverestaurants.Nowadays, we can dividethe rides into 5 types: !at

rides, the most hard-coreones; train rides, focusedon speed and consideredfamily rides; water rides,which can be fully insidethe water or have only some


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