Monday, October 29, 2012

How green you are?


Hello dear classmates and teacher

Today I'm going to talk about how green I am...
First! I think that people can learn more about enviromentally friendly practices in their schools, because is a space to learn where they can teach you about the basic things of life and how to take care of it...For this, if in schools this subject was more important the children would have a better grounding from the begginging

In my family, and my school never talk about that...For example, We never recycle!. I remember that in a course of a secondary called "technology", the teacher talk us about the recycle...but this was in one opportunity... 
I must recognize that I don't know much about taking care of the enviroment, this is why I don`t participate in any organization of this type. Sometimes I get informed by the news, but this never happens really, so I don't know much about it

About use a bike or my legs instead of a car...I can say that I always transport in a bus, because I leave in MaipĂș, so the university is really far of my house, for this I can't use a bike, for example...But when I go near of my house, always I walk...


I would like to know more about this topic, and can do things for help. For example: recycle, use a bike or my legs instead a car (or bus), a plant a tree, or use a ecologic products ...
Finaly, If in our society there would be more awareness of taking care for the enviroment, Santagio would be a better place for live!


And this is all!!
See You!!

Monday, October 22, 2012

The memory and documentaries

Hello dear classmates and teacher!

Today it's a  free post, so I'm going to talk about the subject of memory in the documentaries!
I like this topic because when I began to study sociology I was really interested in this, actually I wanted to study History! because I have always been interest in the past...But in the sociology this subject is not important in comparison with other topics such as the theory, gender or social structure...So, thanks to one friend I could take part in a class about the documentaries and memory, and here I recovered my interest in this topic!, and this time was more fun because I could learn about the memory but through the documentaries.
This class was part of a course about Chilean documentaries, of the film faculty. In this opportunity, the teacher talk about the documentaries and how the film director can tell us the memory through his or her personal story, or the social story. I think that the documentaries are a really god instrument for show this topics, because through the frames, and sounds you can understand the history better.
The teacher mentioned some documentaries about this topic, such as "Calle Santa Fe", "La Memoria Obstinada", or "Nostalgias de la luz". I watched all this documentaries, and I really like them!! I recommend this documentaries to you!, Maybe you feel sad, angry or confusion, but I can ensure that you'll get to know a lot about own history!

Finally, I will leave you a quote about memory that was said on "La Memoria obstinada" by Patricio Guzman:

"Remember comes from the latin recordaris, and re means come back, and cordis means heart, so recordaris is to go back to the heart...to wake up"

And as a wise person said "That's all Folks"



Monday, October 8, 2012

Retails news



Hello dear classmates and teacher!

Today I’m going to summarize a new from the Guardian!
I had to choose a new between various news about different topics such as society, politics or culture…But in this opportunity I chose one about retail.
The title of this news is called “Retail sales climb 1.5% in September”, and explain how the retail sales climb in comparison with month before .
In the first part, the new points out this situation. Then, tries to explain the context of why retail sales are climbing and here it indicates that because the economic situation, people prefer to not spend their money, and they stop byuing products of retail. 
Finally,  the new explains the causes about that, and points out that people are afraid of the economics situation, but for the time of year they have to spend money, for example, in clothes for their children, because in September they have return to school…
Another important thing is the contradiction in this situation because the prices of products climb, but the people economics get worse, and the retail sales climb too…

Sociology have very things to say about this topic, you can think that this new is about economics, but this changes also affect society! For this is very important that sociology relates with other subjects, because this can enrich the comprehension about society and its problems.
This is the lin of new:

Monday, October 1, 2012

Tango!



Hello dear classmates and teacher!

Today I have the opportunity of talk about what I want...
There are a lot of things that I would like to tell you, but in this ocassion I choose something different:
Tango

¿Why Tango? Because I love this music! I really like the songs!
As you know, the tango is a typical music from The Rio de la Plata. When you say "Tango" most people think in Argentina, but this music it's from a mixture of countries! Such as Uruguay, or other continent like Latin American, Europe, and Africa.
This music born about the middle of the 19th century!...You can say "It's a old-fashioned", but I think that it's a really great music because the song lirycs are very depth and poetic! Actually, I will leave you a video! It's a song by Roberto Goyeneche (an Argentinian singer of tango). This song is my favourite! Put attention to the lyric!!



In general, the lyrics are about the emotions like the nostalgia, love, and sadness. But the characteristic of the tango is the performance of the singers! because they express your feelings through its voice and acting.

The most famous singers of tango are Carlos Gardel, Julio Sosa, Roberto Goyeneche, and Libertad Lamarque.

Finally, one time I neard a definition of what is tango, and it made a lot of snese to me. This is why I leave it for you:
"Tango is the multitude divide in the lon eliness of a couple"
This is all about the Tango! I hope that you liked it!!

And as a wise person said: "That's all Folks"