This seems like a Goodbye!

The quarter has ended but also ends a happy and long period in which we have a lot of fun with jokes, anecdotes, films  and opinions of a person with experince in life. These last two years we have a lot of fun in the classe of practical English, but now our dear Professor Joan Climent retires. In my opinion, I think we will Never had a teacher like him. I hope the new teacher will be like Joan Climent!

The Outsiders ´summary

Set in 1965 Tulsa, Oklahoma, the Greasers are a gang of tough, low-income working-class teens. They include Ponyboy Curtis and his two older brothers, Sodapop and Darrel , as well as Johnny Cade , Dallas Winston , Two-Bit Matthews , and Steve Randle . Their rivalry is with the Socs , a gang of wealthier kids. Five of the Socs jump Ponyboy and cut his neck with a switchblade; Johnny had been similarly attacked the month before. Two Socs, Bob Sheldon and Randy Adderson , confront Johnny, Ponyboy, and Two-Bit, who are talking to the Socs' girlfriends, Cherry  and Marcia , at a drive-in theater. The girls defuse the situation by going home with the Socs. Later that night, Ponyboy and Johnny are attacked in a park by Bob, Randy, and two other Socs. They begin dunking Ponyboy in a fountain, but Johnny pulls out his switchblade and stabs Bob, killing him.

On the advice of Dallas, Ponyboy and Johnny leave town, and hide out in an abandoned church in Windrixville. Ponyboy dyes his hair blonde with peroxide in case anybody spots him. He reads Gone with the Wind and quotes the Robert Frost poem "Nothing Gold Can Stay". Dallas arrives with news that Cherry has offered to support the boys in court. They go out for food, then return to find the church on fire with children trapped inside. Johnny is hospitalized with severe burns and a broken back after he, Ponyboy, and Dallas rescue the children. The boys are praised for their heroism, but Johnny is charged with manslaughter for killing Bob, while Ponyboy may be sent to a boys' home.

Bob's death has sparked calls from the Socs for "a rumble," which the Greasers win. Dally then drives Ponyboy to the hospital to visit Johnny. Johnny is unimpressed by the victory, and dies after telling Ponyboy to "stay gold," referring to the Frost poem. Unable to bear Johnny's death, Dally robs a grocery store at gunpoint and is killed by police. Ponyboy is eventually cleared of wrongdoing in Bob's death and allowed to stay with his brothers. Turning the pages of Johnny's copy of Gone with the Wind, Ponyboy finds a letter from Johnny saying that saving the children was worth sacrificing his own life. The story ends as it began, with Ponyboy writing a school report about his experiences.

Apocalypse Now´s summary

U.S. Army Captain and special operations veteran Benjamin Willard has returned to Saigon since his involvement in the ongoing Vietnam War, where he drinks heavily and destroys his hotel room. One day Willard is called upon by military intelligence officers Lt. General Corman and Colonel Lucas about a top-secret assignment to follow the Nung River into the remote jungle, find Kurtz and kill him .

Willard joins a Navy patrol boat, or PBR, commanded by "Chief" and crewmen Lance , "Chef" and "Mr. Clean" . For escort through the Viet Cong-filled coastal mouth of the Nung River, they rendezvous with reckless Lieutenant Colonel Bill Kilgore , who commands a squadron of armed transport helicopters. Initially scoffing at them, Kilgore befriends Lance as both are keen surfers. Willard sifts through files of Kurtz, learning that he was a once-promising, model officer and could have eventually been promoted to general. Exploring the riverbank, Willard and Chef encounter a tiger. The next day the boat is fired upon by an unseen enemy in the trees, killing Mr. Clean and making Chief even more hostile toward Willard. They are ambushed again, by Montagnard warriors, and return fire, despite Willard's objections. In the fight, Chief is impaled with a spear and tries to pull Willard onto the spearhead before dying. Arriving at Kurtz's outpost at last, Willard takes Lance with him to the village, leaving Chef behind with orders to call an airstrike on the village if they do not return.

In the camp, the two soldiers are met by an eccentric American freelance photographer , who manically praises Kurtz's genius. As they proceed, Willard and Lance see corpses and severed heads scattered about the nearby temple that serves as Kurtz's living quarters. Willard is bound and brought before Kurtz in the darkened temple, where Kurtz derides him as an errand boy.

That night Willard enters Kurtz's chamber as Kurtz is making a tape recording, and attacks him with a machete. Willard descends the stairs from Kurtz's chamber and drops his bloodied weapon. The villagers, kneeling before him, do likewise with all of their own weapons and allow Willard to take Lance by the hand and lead him to the boat.