Gestion Ambiental

República Bolivariana de Venezuela
Ministerio del Poder Popular para la Educación Superior
Aldea Andrés Bello Misión Sucre
Puerto Ordaz – Estado Bolívar
6TO Semestre PFG Gestión Ambiental
Materia: Ingles 2

Profesora: Traducido por:
María Lina ArdilaGiancarlos Tineo

Ciudad Guayana, Enero de 2013
A Christmas Carol: The phantom of Scrooge

The tale begins on a "cold, bleak" Christmas Eve exactly seven years after the death of Ebenezer Scrooge's business partner, Jacob Marley. Scrooge is established within the first stave as "a squeezing, wrenching, grasping,scraping, clutching, covetous, old sinner!" who has no place in his life for kindness, compassion, charity or benevolence.

He hates Christmas, calling it "humbug", refuses his nephew Fred's dinner invitation, and rudely turns away two gentlemen who seek a donation from him to provide a Christmas dinner for the Poor. His only "Christmas gift" is allowing his overworked, underpaid clerk Bob CratchitChristmas Day off with pay - which he does only to keep with social custom, Scrooge considering it "a poor excuse for picking a man’s pocket every twenty-fifth of December!".

Returning home that evening, Scrooge is visited by Marley's ghost. Marley warns Scrooge to change his ways lest he undergo the same miserable afterlife as himself. Scrooge is then visited by three additional ghosts – eachin its turn, and each visit detailed in a separate stave – who accompany him to various scenes with the hope of achieving his transformation.

The first of the spirits, the Ghost of Christmas Past, takes Scrooge to Christmas scenes of his boyhood and youth, which stir the old miser's gentle and tender side by reminding him of a time when he was more innocent. They also show what made Scroogethe miser that he is, and why he dislikes Christmas.

The second spirit, the Ghost of Christmas Present, takes Scrooge to several differing scenes - a joy-filled market of people buying the makings of Christmas dinner, the celebration of Christmas in a miner's cottage, and a lighthouse. A major part of this stave is taken up with the family feast of Scrooge's impoverished clerk Bob Cratchit,introducing his youngest son, Tiny Tim, who is seriously ill but cannot receive treatment due to Scrooge's unwillingness to pay Cratchit a decent wage.

The third spirit, the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come, harrows Scrooge with dire visions of the future that may come to pass if he does not learn and act upon what he has witnessed. These visions include Tiny Tim's death, and scenes related toScrooge's own death, including a conversation among business associates who will only attend the funeral if a lunch is provided. Scrooge's charwoman Mrs. Dilber steals some of Scrooge's belongings and gives them to a fence named Old Joe. Scrooge's own neglected and untended grave is then revealed, prompting the miser to aver that he will change his ways in hopes of changing these "shadows of what maybe".

In the final stave, Scrooge awakens on Christmas morning with joy and love in his heart, then spends the day with his nephew's family after anonymously sending a prize turkey to the Cratchit home for Christmas dinner. Scrooge has become a different man overnight and now treats his fellow men with kindness, generosity and compassion, gaining a reputation as a man who embodies the spirit ofChristmas.

Un Cuento de Navidad: El fantasma de Scrooge

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a historia comienza en una fría y sombría víspera de navidad exactamente siete años después de la muerte del socio de Ebenezer Scrooge, Jacob Marley. Scrooge en un primer plano aparece como un " amargado, desagradable, gruñón, fanfarrón, pichirre, codicioso y pecador viejo" que no tiene cabida en su vida para la bondad,...