lunes, 29 de octubre de 2012

How green are you?

To be green is really important for the planet, I think that all the people need to be worried about the recycling methods and how to spend less time destroy the planet and more try to find ways to save it because is a common problem for all of us.
When I was TV sometimes is in emission some propaganda about the world and how to save the planet all together, the same happens in the street or the radio, but I'm sure that not all the people pay attention or to get the meaning . I think that happens because the propaganda is really bad, of course the people need to think for themselves but the announcement must to be more violent and to scold the people or all will be affected.
Anyway I'm not the green personify in the earth but I try to re-use my bags or spend less artificial lights o having a vegetable garden, I'm sure that is not enough and for that reason I'm always looking for different options to recycle or something like that. For example I try to walk always if I can, or when I have the opportunity to use a bike I never reject that option.
I don't know any ecologist organization, but anyway I don't like that groups, I prefer to act in the better way thinking in all the people around and I say that to other people having hope in the change.

lunes, 22 de octubre de 2012

The Minotaur's myth!

One thing that fascinating me a lot are the Greek mythology, because when I was a child I only read books about the Gods and Demigods, the story about hero that fight against creatures just to amaze me.Today I'm going to talk about one of that myth, that's it "Teseo and the Minotaur", now why I choose this myth is because I liked of course, but also I read a really short history about the other side of this history, I mean the Minotaur's story
Obviously this isn't a Greek myth because it was written by Jose Luis Borges in his work "El Aleph" (1949), but is amazing how he invest the story and convert the Minotaur to the principal character, but in the same time Teseo is the redeemer of his life, Teseo kill him but is't the antagonist is just his liberator.
This Story is called "La casa de Asterión" in English "The House of Asterion", and, how I said before is the story about The Minotaur Asterion and is related like a monologue. Is the same Minotaur who talk about his personality, his life and house, also he talk about some young people who enter in his house and just die there (with this is prove his innocence). But he knows that someone one day is going to his house to set him free.
This person is Teseo, we already know the story about the wool and how Teseo cross the labyrinth, After that Teseo confront the Minotaur, who scarcely defended himself, that's because he knows that was his time to die.

Is a Really good Story, you can see it Here in Spanish (original) or Here in the English version.
Also You can read the Greek myth "Teseo y el Minotauro" in this Link (Spanish)

Good bye!

lunes, 8 de octubre de 2012

Should UK children be 'bussed' to school in the name of diversity?

One of the most important problems that UK and US have is the racial, ethnic and class segregation in the schools. Too may methods are used to solve this problem, one of these are the strategy of taking poorer children to affluent school in UK, but this measure is "flawed" and the american-style's bussing is considering like a possible option.
But, like all the methods, this strategy has a problematic history in the US, for example in the moment of the implementation (1970s and 1980s) white parents resisted the integration of no-white children to white schools, and sometimes they targeting buses of black children with violence.
In US this problem has have a lot of changes, in 1980 with the President Reagan's Words overturned school desegregation some districts have abandoned integration efforts altogether. But in the 1990s American reformers prove that black and latino children have the same capacity to have good grade, so the desegregation has no excuses!.
Also a sociology Amy Stuart Wells of Columbia University demonstrated that all the children must to be with others cultures and families different from one's own.
In conclusion, exists a lot of methods for the integral segregation of no-white children, but the simple bussing or taking poor children to affluent school have demonstrated that in this society those strategy rarely works.

The new's link>: http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/oct/02/uk-children-bussed-to-school-diversity

lunes, 1 de octubre de 2012

Movies!

Hello! Today I'm going to talk about one thing I really like, that's to watch movies. I have been watching movies since I was a 5 years old kid, but I start watching art film when I grow up and in a course about films and movies I learn a lot of things about directors, actors, and theory about how to film.
About any movement or vanguard that I like in specific, I love the strange ones and the mysterious ones, because I like to stay in the uncertainty. Movies like "Dark city", "Pulp Fiction" or "thirteenth floor" are my kind of films.
But that no meaning that I don't like the others, one of my favourites movies is La vita e' bella by 
Begini, and that's because that movie causes in me a feeling of lonely so strange that I can't explain.
Whatever, the last movie I saw was Kill Bill Vol.1 and 2 by Tarantino, I saw that movie because In that day I notice that Tarantino is the director of that movie and I really like him so I just sheared in internet and now is watched.
One of my dreams is being a director and to make films and shorts, but is an incomplete dream, that's not so bad because my little brother watch movies with me and I think he is going to study that so I'm more than ready to help him with my limited knowledge!

Thank for reading! Goodbye