Sunday, November 23, 2014

Blog's Conclusion

My experience forming this blog has been a truly extraordinary . Helped me not only to practice my writing in English, if not also gave me the opportunity to do a critical analysis of  different issues and have the privilege of listening to the opinions and point of view of different types of people (with different ages and social context). This was my first time making a blog,  and if the future presents  to me the opportunity to do another one,  without any doubt I would do it.  I urge everyone that if they have the opportunity to form some kind of a blog like this, do it. Since it is a great opportunity for many to think about important issues as war, education, media and all these things that are important analyze to get afloat our society. Things that we don't usually think, because of the life that we  are living. Not just  think about these things,  also to listen to others and together reach certain conclusions. I'm  very pleased with this project and grateful with the invitation to do it. I will like to thanks for all these people that take a time to read some of my conclusion about the subjects previously mentioned during the course of this blog. 

Sunday, November 16, 2014

The World



The theme of this week is a very broad topic with a lot of things that we could say. This week, I did not do an informal interview. I have to say certain things that worry me. I would like to start with my dislike about the hearts of people with whom we live. The 20th century, was a hard century for many, we went through really difficult moments. We were victims of two world wars, who unwillingly stole from us our hope. It is true, that in part it left us a bit of a social maturity and our fantastic's postmodern qualities. Since then, we have seen life from a point of view where everything is relative,  now it is getting out of our  hands. We reach to the point where happiness does not affect us and the pain doesn't hurt us. We live in a world that is a set of injustice and inhumanity, we have set aside our values. We are slowly forgetting our neighbor, that we are a family, that we need one another. Every day we see in the news as the number of crimes, suicides and depressive people that have soared. People do not love their neighbor, yet do not love themselves. Couples divorce. Mothers cry for their children and the children do not respect their mothers. But the worst thing of all of this is that  we have lost hope. We have decided to forget about the people who die in Africa. We have forgotten to say good morning, or smile in a genuine way. We have lost faith and desire to succeed.

I want to take the time to remember that the only thing that we have is the hability to change the world ourselves.We are the world. All together will gradually have to change starting with, smiling at people who come on our way. To help our neighbor cut the grass, handing out food to homeless peolpe at Christmas or, giving a hug to anyone who feels lonely. It is time to pick the pieces and recover what was lost. Move forward as we have done on other occasions. It is time to look inside in each one of us and take up humanity that we have forgotten.It is time to get up, recover and give the best of us for a better world, for our children and future generations.





Sunday, November 9, 2014

Education



"Education is what everybody receives, many transmit and few have." Karl Kesel. Everyone from very young  are forced to go to school. Where we learn to be ourselves, develop social skills, learn how to make friends, where are educated  little by little to understand our environment and at the same time have the capacity to improve it, live in a community and help our fellow human beings. They teach us about  math, science, languages, sociology and art. Over the years, guide us so that we are same to us, we know what surrounds us in every way. In this way, re-evaluate our environment, appreciate the fascinating thing we have and improve what does not work. Come to our own conclusions. Find within ourselves that desire and love for culture, reading and science. Activate and put our creativity into practice. Activate this desire of knowledge and educate ourselves. As it says the France of Arturo Graf "excellent teacher is one who teaches little, gives birth in students a desire to learn". Education is extremely important to ourself and collective development. Knowledge and culture helps us not only to understand our reality, but that of others. In this way were able to be more understanding and empathetic that will take us to improve our society. It helps us to understand the reason of our successes and our failures, weaknesses and triumphs. To improve the fascinating thing we have and remedy what have failed. Education is the weapon for many of our current problems to which we do not find solution.


Therefore, we can say that if we educate our children we will be fighting the crime of the future. Since when faced with a difficult decision, rather than choose to commit a crime to get to where they intend to take other ways and tools to open it provided education. This will at the same time, bring more security, reinforcement of values, respect and understanding. Education is really a fascinating and indispensable for each of us, necessary to develop our virtues, our creativity and remedy many common misconceptions. I want to emphasize that education is a process where the interest of the student and the inspirational role of the teacher is essential to activate that spark of knowledge. This is a problem that we are facing as a society for a long time and we are not realizing. In our country, many of our children are not being educated in the right way. What we are doing wrong?, that we are failing?. Here I focus on this week's informal interview. Talk to a group of young people where interviewed about factors that could push our children often get to extreme cases where alleged hate school. Between the guys with whom to talk, had two guys from middle school, three high school and others were college students.

These guys expressed their disenchantment with the school was in the environment and treatment of teachers. Teachers treat boys and military. They not let them interact, express their ideas, curiosities, do not let them eat and many times not even go to the bathroom. Something that may lead to an atmosphere really tortured and contrary to what a nice learning classroom is supposed to be. Not allowing them to speak or express their curiosities and concerns are depriving them of how valuable that can be the dialogue. Where you learn amazing things and knowledge are shared. Not allowed to the child or the teenager put their ideas and creativity. Just imagine uncomfortable so that it could be for a young person or a child sitting all day in a seat without be able to interact or express themselves. Where you have limited needs to do or eat if you're hungry, really a nightmare. The environment and our teachers are essential to encourage that fire by knowledge. This is something that many of you readers have experienced it and understand that I am exactly talking about. It is our responsibility to educate and pass on that love for education to the more young people. That love of learning, reading and knowledge. I think that we must reevaluate our education systems, already somewhat old and contrary to the young people of today. In this way in an environment more pleasant, the student take best advantage allowing you to express your ideas and coming to their own conclusions. Leaving him the benefit of the doubt and giving confidence so that curiosity from seizing it and consequently reach the love for knowledge. "Never consider the study as an obligation, but as an opportunity to penetrate into the beautiful and wonderful world of knowledge". Albert Einstein


Sunday, November 2, 2014

Movies




The theme of this week,  are the movies. Instead to talk about one movie or the fantastic that it is to go to the theater with our friends. I Prefer to discuss the influence that they have in us. As we  know, the movies has entertained us for many decades, since when cinema started in black and white with their silent movies, until now in days with the fantastic 3D movies that have been fashionable . We love movies but this is more that a entertainment. This dramatization of real life is of a  high influence to the behaviors and habits of humanity. The social, cultural and psychological  effects of the movies  has brought as a consequence many questions, hypotheses, and theories through the history of cinema. The movies are the  reflection of who we are, our lives, our fears, concerns and visions, and  plays a significant role in our personalities, what we think, opens our  minds to see the world in a different way.  I would say that the movie's influence bring us another way of thinking, in this way transforming us. It is important to emphasize that this, like other arts has served to communicate different cultures, sharing situations, fears, anxieties of different societies throughout the world. Without forgetting that in the same way that movies teach us fantastic things, the also teach  us many  wrong ideas of  reality. 

This is quite a devatible theme. A subjective view would say that the most people affected by the movies' influence are our children. They, who are  still without a  clear idea of what real life is,  the world, what is reality and what is fantasy. In this way they become more vulnerable to the influence of all means of communication, Movies, media, radio, etc. Considering that 70% of the current films have contained violence, sex and content that is  not meant  for children, Leaving clearly a big problem. On the other hand some studies  show that different movies, not only affect our children and  youths, the also cause traumatic effects, phobias, anxiety and insomnia in adults. And this not suppose to be a  secret, since all of us  have a family member or friend who has been notably "influenced" by some movie. In conclusion I would say that the task of each one of us is to have a clear idea of the influence that the movies could cause in each one of us. We must work our world with bad influence from movies is no longer an issue.