Inglés IV

Inglés IV

Tuesday, October 19, 2010

How green are you?


Nowadays, all the people want learn about environmentally friendly practices, because the towns to destroy the natural ambient, generating phenomenon like global warming or weakening of ozone layer.
In Santiago, exist many places where learn about the help of environmental, like construct a vegetable garden for the homes, or to recycle the waste, and many people to converge in this sites. My mom went to the class where learn about produce compost with the vegetable waste of the house. Later, she put this compost in to the plants of the garden, and now is very big and pretty.
Every week went to the corner of square block, in this place exist a container for papers, and I leave the periodic as accumulate in my house. Sometimes, I deposit the milk box in containers of supermarket. The most of the times, I went to the university in my bike, in this form I help not produce a combustion and I save the traffic of the streets; and I walk in the short distance.
In the past, I work in ambient consult dedicated all the sunday, to turn the street in cycle path, where all the people to ride bicycle (kids, adults and grandfathers). This activity is very entertaining and good initiative.
I think with the time, all people participate (the many forms) to help the city, to get into conscience of to damage to make our environment. Also, the new technologies to develop a new machines and instruments as help reduce the carbon footprint, and the bad chemist to hurt the nature and the cities. Produce new materials, to replace the damaging materials, like petroleum or the plastic. In this form, the world long many years!

Sunday, October 17, 2010

My High School experience


My memories of high school are very nice, I attended a school that belonged to the Masons, where he imparted an education characterized by being pluralistic, secular and humanist. In this place not only learned the materials of different subjects, also I met people very entertaining and nice, like companions and teachers.

Not all the classes I liked, my favorites were history and music, as teachers were very good and the classes were very entertaining. Had subjects that were very interesting, as a language and philosophy, but in which teachers could not get the attention of students, so the classes became a veritable martyrdom.

Apart from the classic classes, there were extra-curricular activities that were very interesting and fun. I was the first violin in the school orchestra for many years, also participated with my friends at a literary workshop it given law students, and I had the opportunity to attend the Congress of Anthropology of Masons schools in all country, ir carried out in the city of Talcahuano in 2006, was a very educational and entertaining journey.
For all these activities had the support of the school, as well as infrastructure. There were good sound equipment to present the orchestra in the various activities carried out in school as "peñas" and the day of music.

I think the school really influenced my career choice after college, and all my history teachers helped me with my queries, clarifying doubts and sometimes reaffirm my choice. But I think that nowadays, new technologies should be better exploited by teachers, because children today are growing next to computers, televisions and phones, therefore we must "speak in their language" to better understand school subjects.

Tuesday, October 5, 2010

Boarding the Lifeline Express for a healthy future


India's Lifeline Express is a project developed in India, one of the countries more poor and defenseless in the world. This project consists in a train that travels for the rural zones in India, with doctors aboard hand in medical treatment. They treat problems like cardiac, gynecological, neurological or dental type.
One of the doctors in this project is Dr Ashok Kumar Agarwal, and his team screened a 90 adults, children and babies, but only 17 as considerer a candidate for surgery. On average, 5.500 patients register for treatment at each of the 12 annual projects. And, each project coast around £40,000, financially for sponsors and the help of voluntaries doctor.
One of the things more relevant in the article, for the anthropologist approach, is the role of mother in law on Indian society. The doctors of the India's Lifeline Express, observe that this woman as very important in the Indian families. She take care about the health or education in the members her family, like the grandchildren. The mother in law helps a lot of a daughter in law, with the sons and all of the labors for to look after, even the ante-natal.