Thursday, March 19, 2009

FAMOUS PEOPLE LIFE

The goal of mass media is inform to others what happens in the world today, and celebrities are part of actual news. So when people are famous they are exposed to mass media.

I agree with the topic, because journalists need news all time, and when people are famous the journalists try to find something to talk about this people. In some cases celebrities are more importants news in the world. I think that is very importants the news about famous people, because it help to all persons to forget for few minutes about the bad news that happen every day. Paris Hilton is a big example to this, because she is a celebrity, but despite her young age she has made many shows shameful that people have talked a lot. For example, Paris show up in a sexual video with her boyfriend, and all people saw this.

The journalists shows many things about famous people. They show us bad things, and good things. Is very different if you get celebrity by doing good deeds. For example, Angelina Jolie, she is a celebrity but is very different to PAris Hilton, because she doesn´t shows and scandals of any kind. Although journalists/ paparazzis meedle in her life.

Many people think that journalists don´t respect the privacity to celebrities, but I don´t agree with this because their function is find interesting information. Some persons are disagree with mass media because they show us the celebrities life. I like show this.

In you are drunk in a bar is your problem and other people don´t see this, but is very different is a celebrity is drunk in a bar: this is a scandal!!! And the celebrity have to accepto this because is a celebrity!

Save the future, first the first

Save the future, first the first

20 years ago people wasted energy and water, started c0ntaminating the enviroment, cars masive selling and factories smoke produced pollution, there were a lot of animals being hunted for its fur and hides without any kind of goverment protection, the contamination increased the earth temperatures and the poles melting started. The planet is trying to breath and thats why hurricanes, tsunamis and other natural disasters are ocurring, the art preservation isnt so important as the future of our planet.

Just few years ago people started to realize that we had a problem a here, and organizations like green peace, WWF, goverment created animal protection laws, but the damage is too big and the time is running out, some scientists estimate the earth will suffer a complete drough in 50 years if we continue like this, we need to invest more in the enviroment preservation if we want a future four our children, the goverment need to create more protection laws and make restrictions orders for miner companies that want to build in forestal places, also promote campaigns of water and energy preservation and good use. The winds making disasters in Barranquilla by this days are caused by global warming.

Some people, music and art fanatics claim more attention for it, demanding more investment rather than health and enviroment, ignoring that culture comes after health care, its worthless to have a rich culture with a lot of people dying, who will enjoy it then? , and it also comes after enviroment protection, its even worthless to be rich in culture knowing we have no future, where will be the art inspiration if the nature expires?

We need new research to rebuild the ozone layer, to reduce global warming, to create water saving products, to make campaigns, we need money, we need to invest in wildlife protection and reproduction, creating national parks, and animal reservation places is expensive, employees salaries, infrastructure, this shows enviroment needs companies and goverment support.

First the first is a very common phrase in spanish, first we need to secure the future of our planet, then we can start thinking in art and culture, first we need survival, food, energy, water, then we can look and discuss whats the best paint.

Mauricio Orozco

Wednesday, March 18, 2009

Plastic Surgery


In these days, a lot of teenagers are appealing to plastic surgery only for vanity. But they do not realize how many secondary effects can bring this kind of surgery.

Plastic surgery is a method used to fix physical problems in people.
Every day, many people, especially teenagers, have this kind of surgery not to be healthy but for vanity. They believe that by looking physically better, they will be more successful.

But I believe vanity should not be the reason to have plastic surgery. I think this procedure must be used only to reduce the psychological impact caused by deformities from accidents, burns or the cases of people who were born with physical deformity.

The most common plastic surgery in teenagers is breast augmentation. Girls think that this surgery will make them more secure about them selves. But that surgery in long terms could be really dangerous because silicone could cause allergies and later those girls could have bigger problems than small breast. They could completely lose their breast.

I do not mean that I am not in favor of plastic surgery; I just believe that this kind of surgery should not be done with rush. And also should not be done in all cases.
For example, liposuction in girls that are 20 years old is inappropriate because at this age, girls could go to gym and make exercises, but they prefer the ”easy way” of the surgery. They just think about the moment and do not stop to think that in the future they will suffer for this decision they made.

Some people believe that university students should be required to attend classes. others believe that going to classes should be optional for student

Everyone knows the university is considered the second home of a person where you learn more specific values. If students decided to not to turn up to class, they could miss out on valuable information and become less motivated. Although, self-study is a good way to acquire knowledge, I think that no matter they like or not, university students should be required to attend classes to get better their mind.

First of all, university students can acquire much knowledge when they go to classes. When the teachers are explaining a topic, sometimes they say something that does not appear in the books, just because they say something that can be probably experiences of their life. For example, a teacher is explaining something about mechanical system, this is a topic very abstract but, teacher can make it easier for student, because he/she explains his/her experience in a factory related to the topic, the books do not say anything about the experience of someone in a factory, only appears theory. This expansion the students cannot learn if they learn by themselves trough the books. Going to classes, university students can learn much knowledge that does not cover in a book.

Second of all, attending classes, university students can learn more skills for the future life. When the teacher does an activity in groups, the students get together and can learn some skills through their group assignment.
In addition, students may spend time gaining experience since they are still at school. If students have only academic knowledge got from classes, they will definitely fail in the race for well-paid employments. The university students have their preparation to persuade others. These skills are very important for students when they go to work in any company in the future.

Although, optional attendance to classes at universities has been an increasingly popular way for students to study for several years in quite a few countries. However, it has not yet had its intended results as if had been hoped. In fact, today, this system seems to be one of the reasons for the corruption of university education in my opinion, compulsory attendance is better than having no requirement to attend all the lessons on campus.

Finally, going to classes can train university to be more responsible and hard working. Usually going to classes and keeping the schedule of classes require the effort of university students. If they want to be the best in their classes they have to be responsible and hardworking, this is something that will help them in the society.

In conclusion, I consider the university should require students to attend classes because the students can have much knowledge than they learn by themselves, learn more skills special communication to team work skill for their career in the future, and they will be responsible and hard working. Self-study is a good way to get knowledge but, if you do not understand something you will be confused for a long time, for that reason, these are some advantages when students go to classes. They will be better in the future through their second home called university.
Video games stimulate intelligence and generate good reflexes for the kid.

By andres duran



Often Video games have been considered as an addiction and a negatively influence in child’s behavior but also there are positive aspects saying that video games stimulate the intelligence and reflexes of the child.

The video games, used responsibly and with contents adapted for the kid’s age, can contribute to the good development of the child , videogames help him to understand the team work and to respect the rights of another person.

Some people say that a video game with violent scenes and mature contents as " grand theft auto ", " doom ", resident evil ", and others, can develop in the individual a very low border towards the crimes , with a trend towards the problems. Everything depends of autoesteem, behavior, aptitudes and physical and mental skills of the individual.

The violent scenes can influence a child, under psychological studies, the children who play violent titles, can have activities and violent thoughts.

Indeed this facts can be true but the parents have the responsibility to choose carefully a game with the appropriate content, and being present when the child is playing in order to clear any doubt of the child.


Some video games present big challenges, these games demand major intellectual exigency and have diverse advantages, as making a plan, since the kid, faces a great quantity of alternatives where he has to value his options, and use his imagination.

Besides video games need, a special action and reaction, this sue a major exigency to the kid,and some of the video games have historical contents that turn out to be even educational.


The practice of these systems collaborates in the exercise of the imagination, they promote a clarity in the goals that the child proposes to realize, and this helps concentration.


In conclution videogame can be very helpfull to stimulate the kid’s intelligence and reflexes .But i insists on the need that the video games that the minors use should be supervised by the parents, to prevent the children from having access to games with not suitable content for his age.

Are you enjoy what you do it for living or you doing it just for survive?

When we think about this question the people don’t understand the real meaning, because a lot of people don’t have this problem but when you realize the question whit the people that really don’t have nothing you start to think that a lot of people that contribute to the society or to the city they don’t like the role played that they have.

To begin when you were young, the only thing that you think was in had fun, after many years you realize that is not important what you like to do for hobby or for fun, you had to think what are you going to do for living. And then you know that what you like is not the think that help you to survive.

For example many people in this country live from the ground and worked in that because that was the only thing that they saw for living and was the only thing that learn to do, then the war made them leave what they like to do or the only thing that they know. Furthermore they have to immigrate to the city that is a place that they never saw come to there live, and found first place to live, but for that they need money that the only way to have it is working, then to get a place some of them pass a lot of nights in the park or in the street while they found a job or some to do, if we realize they don’t do it for enjoy or for have a great experience outdoors is because the have to do it to survive and for the same reason they do whatever to get money to solve the basic problems such as food, housing and so can have a stable place as they had before being displaced from the ground the they had.


On the other hand we have works that are really nasty or are disgusting but someone have to do it. A lot of people that do this type of work, never imagine that that they are going to work in that for example the people that clean the garbage or the women that clean de houses for a stranger. There are things that we never think, like if the person that work in some work really liked or why they do it, or what is the history across the person that do it. How ere there are a middle class person that don’t enjoy what they do but they have to do it if they want be comfort or the other reason is to be save like the security live care.


To summarize when we see the people and we don’t treated well think that they don’t have to stand all your treatments because some of them don’t like that job, how ere you have to realize that the person have to be treated like one no more no less, because they have the same right that you but unfortunately not have the same opportunities

IS THE BEAUTY AN IMPORTANT FACTOR TO BECOME SUCCESSFUL IN LIFE?

The physical appearance is one of the main problems in people’s life everyday. We pass a considerable part of the day seeing our hair, our face, maybe if we are well dressed. But that love to our physical appearance has passed of being a simple part of our routine to become an important requirement in life and, even more, in an important factor to be successful.

According to an article published on The Economist, beauty has become in an important factor to be successful at getting a job even if this characteristic (to be beautiful) is not a real requirement.

In fact, many people judge others by their physical appearance. To illustrate, if we are going to work we put on a nice shirt, a smoking or just the appropriate clothes for the occasion. That is why the way we look influences the idea other peoples do about us.

Doing an analogy, when we are going to buy fruits we do not choose the ugly ones; we take to home the ones that seems to be better than the others, which apparently are well colored and have a nice aspect. Those are the characteristics that let us think, “These are better”.

Actually that is exactly what happens with us. In many cases we select people by their physical appearance.

I cannot judge this conception because we have learnt to value the exterior beauty of people. To the point that it let us make judgments about the way they are.

Even thought our organism evaluates others doing a kind scanning like in the case of women, if they have big hips and big breast we, unconsciously, think they can be good mothers, and that they has all the requirements to be successful at raising babies.

Then that perception is modified and materialized in our contemporaneous world and makes the women who have that requirements be more successful than the ones who do not have them.

Is that the world we want? Where physical appearance is even more important that all the knowledge a person can have.

So, what we should do is to start to construct a more equitable society to try to eliminate some paradigms. In addition, we should fight for a tolerant world where people do not be evaluated according to beauty canons that just leave as result, thousand and thousand of peoples who die in plastic surgeries or because they become anorexic or bulimic.

That is why now after I hope you want not to pay that price to become successful in life.

Some people prefer to live in a small town, other prefer to live in a big city. Which place you prefer to live in?

Sometimes we live in a place that we do not wish because the society forces us to be in that place due to our needs and principally to have a better standard of living. For this reason it is said that the planet is urbanized since in almost all the developed countries the persons have left the country to go away to the big cities because of the violence.

Living in the big city means having a better standard of living due to the fact that there’s almost everything as an excellent education, opportunities of work, safety, stability, good public services (drinkable water, service of sewer and cleanliness), big access of routes, the things are obtained with facility thanks to there are several shopping centers. In the field of health, there are specialists in every medical area and also they are actualized with the science advance.

Despite that living in the big cities has many advantages also has its disadvantages; it can be complicated, stressfully and principally the time that a person consumes in transporting due to the traffic is higher. The great quantity of vehicles dealing in the big cities cause a series of inconveniences as the noise and the respiratory diseases produced by the steams that expel the vehicles.

Given that the big cities are conformed by a great number of habitants, there’re a series of environmental problems as the domestic garbage and traffic congestion.

Unlike the big cities, it is possible to say that to live in small towns is living in peace, coolly; it would be like to live in harmony with the nature. The persons who live in the town are dedicated to the agriculture, ranching and fishing. For this, if you live in the small town, you can find the natural and very economic things as the fruits and fresh vegetables, also plants that often are used as help for medical investigations. Of equal form there are wild animals that help to the advance of the science and to treating the diseases. The transport is normal, due to the fact that the demand is low. Living in small towns also has its disadvantages as the quality of public services, the medical facilities, the education and the work.

I think that it’s of vital importance the quality of study. I say it because I studied in a school in a small town and the truth it isn’t the same thing, because it might not compete with the school of a city and now that I am studying in a university in the city I realize the great difference and quality that exists in these.

Something vital for the human beings is the health. In the cities exist great variety of clinics and hospitals with medical specialists in the different areas; besides it relies on excellent facilities and devices of last technology and the most important thing, it possesses ambulances in case of emergency. It is very difficult to find this type of attention in the small towns.

I’m from a town but due to the need to study in the university I touch myself to come to the city. For this I dare to say that living in small towns or in the big cities have its advantages and disadvantages. In spite of this, I think that it’s better to live in the big cities due to the excellent quality of life which it is possible to enjoy.
Global Warming


Topic: Is Global Warming the price we have to pay to have a good lifestyle?


People is destroying the planet, looking for more power and energy. However a lot of people think that this is the price we have to pay to have a good lifestyle.

The conservation of the planet is an issue that we should all be concerned, but is something people do not seem to care about too much. We should care more about our planet in order to keep it for further generations.

While people continue to pollute the air, and the big factories keep producing CO2. The Ozone layer will deteriorate more and more, causing what is know as Global Warming, the Global Warming can cause the destruction of some parts of the world, especially the ones near the poles and near the coasts, we can prevent this with simple solutions applied to our everyday lifestyle.

Even though conserving the planet is an important issue, some other people think that is even more important to have a good lifestyle, and it looks like the people who think like that are more than the people who actually care about the planet. Most of the people who do not care about the planet think that the Global Warming is a myth, but the truth is that the changes in the planet are becoming more and more visible with the pass of the time. And maybe the Global Warming would not affect them, but what we do now with the planet will affect further generations

In conclusion, we know that if we do not change our lifestyle, sooner or later Global Warming is going to affect us, but we also know that this is something we can change making some small changes to our way of life.

TEENAGERS HAVE JOBS WHILE THEY ARE STILL STUDENTS

The study and education are a fundamental part in the life of each human. To reach the goal to have a responsible life, with a worthy job, a happy family and full health, its necessary to got to school to learn and then work hard.

In many ways, students do not go to the school; sometimes because they think that have other obligations or they think the school is lose the time. In addition, there are students that wish to have the best clothes, the best shoes or the best videogame.
In particular, when they have obligations, for example, when they are waiting a baby, they feel the necessity to look for a job to support the creature. Since people’s perspective, this is good if the family has not the economic resources.

Instead, young people not attending the school believe that money is earned working from the beginning, because the study is not essential for survival.
Actually most of the students leave the school to work for their luxury to compare or humiliate with their partners. Want to have the best fine shoes or the best cap, this is so bad because cause a material personality on teenagers.

It is very sad to see teenagers in some countries working on the street at traffic lights, cleaning the windows of cars or selling candy. In this case they don’t want to work, but their parents obligate them because they are so slack and don’t like to work honestly.

In conclusion, the teenagers should not work because they need a previous preparation to get a better job in a future to survive with honor and to support their future children and have a worthy life.

Does it exist effective antivirus?

Many people says that most of the antivirus are not good, but there is an anti-virus that can offer full protection, it’s name is Kapersky.

This anti-virus can eliminate most of the virus is in ours personal computers. It’s content does not need much disk space; it always identifies some malicious code that others anti-virus fail to detect. Last week a group of companies made inquiries with different anti-virus and Kapersky had a high advantage over the other anti-virus.

As all software, Kapersky had compatibility problems with others softwares and even though it had not problems of disk space, it had problems with memory system, while others anti-virus had not this type of difficulty.

Kapersky is a great anti-virus, and though it has a disadvantage in computers memory without a high level, it protects you computer against all type of malicious code and Trojan. if you want buy it, you can find it at authorized stores.

evaluation

¿ Which place would you prefer to live in?

Live in a big city in not the same live in a small town. There are things that difference this place this place, in a big city how Barranquilla, you can find some thing, but to a price, in the country you cannot find all, however you can have essential thing that you serve for your necessity.

Live in a place, it depends of behaviour, personality, wish, dream and liking that has each people. It may appear that people are calm, do not like noise, they always live in a small town, in addition they say “the city never be silence”. While people that are very active, and like party, they are right for live in a big city.

Well, we do not forget the this place how all thing, have problem, for example in a small town can that do not have public service basic, in the same way in a big city your problem is contamination, people are conscience of this problem, they compare the problem and benefit of the place for they can take idea of when live.

The idea of live in fixed place change the pass in time, before is consequence because person change you way think, a young do not think and behave same than a old man, the place than they took, now they do not like.

In summary, all the place have characteristic that you have to evaluate, if you like it, of sure there you live for fixed time, even than you find other place where you like to live.

DO YOU AGREE WITH LIFE SENTENCE IN COLOMBIA







DO YOU AGREE WITH THE LIFE SENTENCE IN COLOMBIA?
Essay

Name: Massiel C. Henríquez Parodi.



The history of punishments in Colombia is very variable, because our national history it’s gave by a lot of facts that although define our way to be, influence our lows positive and negatively in the same way. Before, the capital punishment existed, nowadays, they don’t want to have the people jailed.

Before to start to write opinions we should think what kind of crimes do we want to be punished with the life sentence. In my opinion the main crimes are the homicides, sexual abuse and kidnapping. I’ve even thought on capital punishment to all those criminals who violate the children rights, but I’ve reflected about it because God is the only one who can decide for the someone life’s destiny.

If Colombia implement the life sentence the first thing what will happened is that the people victim of the horrors is going to feel supported by the government. Second –and I’m very sure of that- the crime level will decrease, because the criminals don’t care about what they do for the simple punishments that they will get for any crime they committed, doesn’t matter what it is, always the punish will be less of what they deserve. Beside that, the law help them to go out of streets easier and faster, if they don’t do nothing bad during they stay on jail. But, if the government implement the life sentence, the criminals will be motivated to not make crimes for the harder punish that they will get.

I think the main contra that life sentence have is the economical factor. The government expense is very high and the maintenance of convicts on jail is very expensive, looking them as a group. If the government implement thins punish, this implicate to increase the government expense, when they don’t have money enough to do it.

Is necessary to our country make this law’s projects because of justice. We cannot let the criminals free on the streets, after the assassination of innocent people, or even worst, after the assassination or abuse of our children. Just God can forgive that kind of crimes. We don’t ask for capital punishment because we don’t like to be like them: disrespectful of the other life.

Finally, we cannot be flexible in the presence of major crimes. We should respect the life of everyone, but to have an assassin on the streets is a danger to all the community.

CAN MORE JOB AND EDUCATION OPPORTUNITIES CHANGE THE PERSPECTIVE AND THE SITUATION OF COLOMBIA?

CAN MORE JOB AND EDUCATION OPPORTUNITIES CHANGE THE PERSPECTIVE AND THE SITUATION OF COLOMBIA?

BY: JORGE MANGA HENRIQUEZ
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During the years, people see how the unemployment statistics are growing up. In Colombia is very difficult to get a job even if a person is a professional. We do not have a lot of job sources and opportunities to be prepare for the future witch is one of the million of reasons why people choose illegal ways to supply their needs.

Here in the country is very common to see a hundred of children working on the street like singing or selling food in small business instead of to be learning at school, witch is prohibit according to the children rights. Beside, many situations show that parents do not have a job have not the economic resources to support their son’s activities such as pay school so they order to children to look for a job. Free education would be the solution for this situation, but the budget of our government is too high. If Colombia did not have a lot of corruption, people could get the resources to make more accessible the education to everybody.

In the other hand, people who graduated from school have more opportunities (just a little) to get a job, but they do not have the same knowledge that people who went to the university and who are working in places that others going to work. Is important to the companies to train their employees. Statistics shows that companies who train their employees have a higher productivity than others and also have more opportunities to grow up and export.

In conclusion, Colombia needs to finish the corruption problems that do not allow people and the country development. Without corruption, government can invert and spend money in educations and jobs projects that allow people grow up having more opportunities to survive and to have a better preparation for the future.
It’s better for children to grow up in the countryside than in a big city. Do you agree ordisagree? Use specific reasons and examples to develop your essay.Living outside the city may be healthier for the children, in some different ways. In thecountryside the air is cleaner, that is a good reason for people who wants theirs childrenlive outside big cities, because children would have fresh air to breath, theirs healthwould perfectly develop and they would be able to play without having to breathcontaminated air that big cities has. The contaminated air cause many medicalscomplicated like asma and other respiration illness.

In a society where money is necessary to live, many people prefer to live in big cities forgood education and all the job opportunities that this provides. But it has very importantaspects that you have to know to live on the big cities. We know that big cities has allthat can imagine, some things are good others are bad, like big population, carcongestion, insecurity and others that for adult is easy to overcome but for children ishard and in some causes dangerous.

For example if i live whit my son in galapa we will have a connection with the nature,where the air is pure and have low pollution generated us good healthy, people who livein countryside are more calm do not have a dynamic life, have the same job for a longtime, theirs children have the same school and create really good friends. This thing dothat children has calmness infancy.

In conclusion, I think that it’s better for children to grow up in the countryside. That iswhy; the first thing that we must save is health of our children.