Why the people visit museums?

The man is curious for nature, the man’s passion to discover and know stuff is like an instinct, we enjoy knowing and meeting new things. When we go to a place we have not visit before we feel curiosity to know all about that place, the culture, the art, the great artists, the fashion style, everything that we could identify about it. For instance we are going to Italy on vacations: I think when we go to Italy is not only to go shopping and go to the movies, we know that Italy is a country full of culture, tradition, customs and ethnicity, I am sure that all people that visit Italy for tourism will go to a museum to see the art and everything that they can find about the country behind that great culture.

When we go to a museum we can find a lot of things that tell us something about the place we are in. I think other reason for people to go to museums is to get to know something about the history and traditions which are part of the past of the country or city, in that way the tourist can learn something and understand why the festivals and holidays of the native people.

An illustration of that situation could be in our country Colombia, the museum that can show us the past of our culture, “El Museo Del Oro”, which was built specially to give us an idea about the older cultures, the different tribes, the art they made with gold, clay and mud, the traditions, our history, the independence, the colony, the conquest, the wars and all the events that left a memory in the olden times of our country. The tourist can go to “El Museo Del Oro” and find a lot of things related with our past, since pieces of clay and gold art, to weapons that our ancestors used to fight for our independence.

The museums are fascinating; we can find a lot of interesting things there. In a good museum we can find since modern paintings and pictures, to old pieces revealing the most traditional history of the place.

Finally, I conclude that people who visit museums, do it because they are interested in knowing new things and enjoy seeing stuff associated to the history of the place they are visiting. On the other hand, the people can enjoy the new and the older art, in the same place. The museums enrich the mind in a very exciting mixture of art and knowledge.

PUNK

In the neighborhoods of the nebulous and damp English cities of the seventies, the punk began when the rock was a expression for the young people, with denounced and rebellion, to become more a product of the great labels.

Perhaps another booster was the economic and political crisis that lived then England, and that added to the disenchantment of young people by the lack of opportunities and rising unemployment, opened the gap to a movement that served as a cry of protest and that he found in the Attitudes rebels and anarchists escape from reality and the meaning of life. Thus, the punk emerges as a way to release the discontent.

There are two versions of the origin of the term: one that asserts that the name was given by the English press in a manner derogatory to refer to these groups of young people questioned, and protesters were demonstrating against the company and laid down.

And another that arose when Legs McNeil and John Holmstrom in the United States created a magazine to talk about ideas, music and the excesses of youth, who called Punk. Either way, the term became popular and not only gave his name to a new musical genre but a wealth of ideas and beliefs that were disseminated rapidly in the United States and Europe.



Felipe amalfi torres

Teens and Smoking Tobacco

The differences between subjective feelings of those who smoke and those who don’t are shown in behavioral changes that are more apparent in teens than adults. Teens seem to be more abrasive when smoking or they feel like they are older and wiser when they smoke. Why do they smoke when we have seen billions of dollars spent on antismoking campaigns? The American Lung Association estimates that every minute four thousand eight hundred teens will take their first drag off a cigarette. Of those four thousand eight hundred, about two thousand will go on to be chain smokers. The fact that teen smoking rates are steadily increasing is disturbing. We are finding out that about 80% of adult smokers started smoking as teenagers.

Teens like to act as if they are someone special or dangerous. By smoking they can act on those feelings. Because it is so forbidden it becomes more alluring to teens. The problem is that when they take that first puff, they can become addicted. The idea that they are breaking the law or going against their parents and schools is an addiction within itself. Kids like to get attention; it does not matter if it’s good attention or bad attention. They crave attention and by smoking they get big attention. The other teens look at them in all kinds of ways and the adults get upset and don’t know what to do.

The times are changing; what the public and science did not know twenty years ago is now coming to the surface. The fact is that smoking cigarettes can cause many health problems including emphysema, high blood pressure, and various forms of cancer. We are seeing people live longer and healthier lives and the old idea that smoking makes you cool and attractive is gone. This is the truth about cigarettes; they are loaded with harmful chemicals and the end result is that they are a dangerous drug that can seriously harm people.

DOES PHYSICAL PUNISHMENT HELP IN EDUCATION?

Today everyone talks about education: what should or shouldn’t parent have to do? What’s right or wrong? What can their actions cause in the future: the traumas or the happiness of their own kids? That’s why, today we see a considerable number of lost parent who try to think but at the end just act impulsively, sometimes hitting their kids and hurting them deeply, without any change in the behavior of their children. That’s why, I think that physical punishment doesn’t help in education and shouldn’t be used.

There are a lot of fields that have made fantastic advances in education and have helped to improve the way the people teach. The aggressiveness is something of our ancestors, so today, the way of managing the things is different and when people hit and fight they are returning and ignoring the mind evolution, just acting for their instincts like animals. In the past, the hits could work and sometimes there were specific dangerous situations where they can be necessary, but no more, a kid is not a real threat that can put in danger the lives of their parents. And if it is the case, that child needs special attention, not hits

We have to be aware that the parents have the obligation to educate and act like a model. When they hit their kids, they lose the control and they behave like their sons and daughters, it means like kids. So it seems that there’s no difference between adults and children. The parents send an implicit message: “I don’t know how to act and manage the situation, that’s why I use physical punishment and take advantage of my power position”

In spite of all, the most important things are that children don’t learn and there exist better methods. Studies show that punishment, specially, positive punishment, doesn’t educate, just produces that the kid doesn’t do the thing when someone is looking, so that means that he/she is not abstracting any lesson or moral. When parents talk with their kids, make agreements with them, reinforce good behaves, etc, they get better results and help their children to have critical thinking.

Finally, it is important to be aware of the idea that physical punishment doesn’t educate that at the end is the most important mission of a father or a mother. They have to act like the adults of the relationship, giving their kids the best environment to grow up, where they can think and be responsible for their acts and behaviors because they are conscious of, not just because they want to avoid a slap.

Why learn languages?

"I speak English, so I don't have to learn a foreign language............"?

Everyone speaks English, right? Well, certainly not everyone speaks English. According to the CIA World Fact Book, only 5.6 % of the world's total population speaks English as a primary language. That number doubles when people who speak English as a second or third language are counted. By conservative estimates, that means that well over four-fifths of the world's population does not speak English.

It's true that English has become a global lingua franca ( language widely used beyond the population of its native ) over the past several decades; this fact, however, really should have little effect on your decision to learn a foreign language. The attitude that English alone is enough, in fact, creates self-imposed limitations. To remain monolingual is to stunt your educational development, to restrict your communication and thinking abilities, and to deny yourself the ability to fully appreciate and understand the world in which you live. Learning another language opens up new opportunities and gives you perspectives that you might never have encountered otherwise. Personal, professional, social, and economic considerations all point to the advantages of learning foreign languages.

how the music inflence

In the new society the music is a way to Express how the people Could live and what they should buy; clot, shoes, hair style and in some cases ideas, are the most particular objectives of influence that the music make into people.

The lyrics of the song are the most important part, because in those the music producter can put all what he likes, for example in the pop music cd, they sale a dream of a perfect live, only if you are a stupid boy that live for money, belive on those dreams and influences.

But the pop music is not the only one that have this type of lyrics, for example in the beginning of the rap this conteins racism lyrics that told about the black power and the dead of the white people. But not all the music are bad, for example reggae talk about the peace, the respect and the live.

To the capitalism the music is a great industry for make money, because the new generations of teenagers are super consumers, the buy all that the tv ad show; and the music was the best way to said what is new and how they would be dress.

In this time the music is a way to control the maid of people.


Felipe Amalfi Torres

Abortion - Another Name for Murder

A mother kills her baby because it is unwanted, yet she is not charged

with murder. Is this right? Believe it or not, this has happened more than

twenty-million times in the past twenty years. The problem is that they have

been killed legally because of abortion. Many people approve of

because they consider that a fetus is not an individual human until birth.



Abortion is wrong and it shouldn't be legal. If a doctor killed a baby

one minute after it were born, they would be charged with murder. But if they

were to kill a baby one minute before it were born, and a minute before that and

so on, they would not be considered a murderer. At what minute can one consider

life worthless and the next precious?



Some people will say that abortion is not a matter of life and death,

but medical research proves that the fetus is a living organism. People also

argue that a woman has the right to control her body and has the right to an

abortion, but the fetus is a completely different life. Just because the unborn

is dependent on the mother for nine months does not give anyone the right to end

it's life.



I hope that I have at least brought you to some understanding that a

human fetus is a living individual. It should be remembered that a death occurs

every time an abortion is performed--the death of an unborn child.