"what you see is what you get" or "never judge a book by its cover"?

Some people say "what you see is what you get" (meaning what you look like is what you are) while others say "never judge a book by its cover" (meaning outward appearances don't reflect what is inside the person).

This is a much commented debate in everydayness, people govern their life by the choice between these two items this suggest that some believes in “what you see is what you get” and others in “never judge a book by its cover”. But there are a few cases in where people think that they believe in one although in reality they practice another.

On the first case, we see persons that think that the physical image people have is their exteriorization of what they are. On that way it means people have to be in a constantly care of their image because they do not want to leave a bad impression.

And in the last case we have the mentality of “not everything means what its look like”. The best example for this is if you have a very old book it is so old that its cover is broken and worn but it is the best book you will ever read.

Indeed, these two positions can not complement each other. But the last case picks up factors than the first does not, it is obvious that sometimes that a cover or an image do not summarize all the information of a thing or a person so this a factor that people might consider.

In sum, “Never judge a book by its cover” is a better philosophy for life because its considers the existence of factors that are not known and affect the image of an object or a person. 

Technology pros and cons

At present, technology has a crucial role in human's lifes. It govern almost every aspect of cotidianity: food, transport, entertainment, etc. But this have pros and cons that must be analyzed. 

It can not deny the important role of technology on educationship develop with the inputs that have improve the ways of how people learn. Thanks to that, learning is more dinamic and interesting and it has adapted to the differents habilities or senses of people.

On the other hand, technology has created a new age: the age of information. Everything, and everyone, are exposed in internet and it's free to look for it. In consecuense, information is more accessible and egalitarian they only requirement is to have a computer with internet (and with the massiveness of computers it's not hard to find one).

Nevertheless, these pros have a con's face that must be analyzed too.

The introduction of technology in education have altered the focalization of children and teenagers. The factor of having a cellphone (with internet or not) in the class concentrate the atention of the kids in be alert of what is happening to their phones. Also it is a high probability that anykind of technology might causes problems or fights between the children (even with their teacher).

And arriving to the age of information, this has been an improvent but also a kind of time bomb. The programs that recopilate the information make an assault to your privacity and anybody can come and enter to your life or your interests. Even you can be follow by the goverment (and it may be happening right now).

In conclussion, there are no more pros that cons and vice versa. All the pros have a cons part and all the cons have a pros part, as the example of education and access to information. The use of technology also makes a dependence of it, humanity have to reflect about the situation in where they are living (with a especially focus in environmental change).

Summarizing, the face of technology depends on how we use it and how much limits we have to use it.

   

  

Pets make you better person?

There is a controversial discussion about if people with pets are better persons or not especially with dogs. Its checked that pets have an influence on the behavior's develop but its not check if this determine the behavior of a person. We will say that pets have an important influence and maybe in some cases it will make people better persons but in the most of the cases it would not be like that.

First of all the best argument for this is that Adolf Hitler was an animalist that had two dogs but because of that we can not recognize him became a better person because of his pets, he is responsable of million of injustified deaths. We can affirm that a better person is who have a better deal with other and in the case of Hitler it was not like that.

On the other hand is important to highlight that if a person have a pet it does not means that he/she takes care of the animal properly. In that way is easy to have a pet if you does not take care of it and this not make someone a better person, on the contrary it makes he/she worst person.   

On the last there are phsycological treatments with pets for people with depression but it is for improve their moods. Pets in this case make you happiest person.

In conclusion we can say that pets develop your mood and thus your behavior but this behavior is focus in the deal between the pet and the person not in the deal of person to person.

The status of Education in Chile

Education in Chile is stagnant. There are a lots of protest, people losing classes due to their petitions to the government and another borrowing to set in an eternal debt that they will never stop paying.

So, why anybody do something to stop this? Why some people believe that our education is high quality? What’s our real reality or situation?

Our situation is that the government invest in things that establishments do not ask for, instead of that our quality goes down because there are not methods of regulation. Finally to study it doesn’t matter your talent, what you must have is money to buy education.

The former can be watch on all the old educational buildings that are falling down, actually in this point you can also realize what are the priorities of the government (but not necessary the priorities of the country). The latest technology is in the private’s schools and in the careers of engineering, nevertheless in municipals schools and humanistic careers they do not even have chairs.

These things decrease the quality of education, we have students that go to the university without knowing anything (and most of they are from municipal’s and subvention’s schools).

Think in all the little children that want to learn but their father do not have enough money to send them to a good school and university. May be these children have the cure for cancer but we can know that. The only thing that we can know, ask and do is wait the invest’s government on real and necessary educational subjects.    

Research

In what we now consider as Chilean territory, music has always been present. It started out with the aboriginal groups that inhabited it such as Mapuches, Yaganes, Selk'nam and northern populations. After the arrival of the Spanish to the continent, new styles and traditions were created like cueca and pericona (the latter originated from the adaptation of pericón, a traditional Spanish dance).
Most of these folkloric traditions got lost in time in part because of its popular character, although in between the decades 1930 to 1960 there was a resurgence in them thanks to differents groups of people and other individuals that took care of rescuing these customs to make them popular again; some of these people are Margot Loyola, Violeta Parra and Los Huasos Quincheros.

Nevertheless nowadays with the globalization process and the incorporation of different foreigns customs and goods into our lives it’s hard to know how much is this music present in the Chilean reality, and we can even ask ourselves if music rules our day to day.

Because of this doubt the focus of the investigation will be the aboriginal and folkloric music in everyday life.

For this, the authors Tânia da Costa Garcia and Juan Pablo González will be reviewed. The former talks about the reconfiguration of folklore music in Brazil and Chile and the differences between both countries, while the latter exhibits the achievements, problems and challenges for popular Latin American musicology.

It will also be needed an investigation on musical theory that must be focalized in indigenous and folkloric rhythms to identify them on actual music.

Although this research is mainly theoretical and practical, it will also be subject to changes - especially in the methodology to be used - according to the implications and / or needs that arise in the way to the realization of the project.

THE LAST

At first, I was thinking in a more academic instance of teaching so being in this type of class was more relaxing and entertaining. It was also great to watch many videos in english because i think that learning english is more efficient when you watch things in english (it's a kind of survive impulse to understand what are you watching). 

I think that I should improve my pronunciation and vocabulary so I will watch movies and series in english (but first with english subtitles and with nothing). And may be I will speak in english in home with my little brother.

After all of this, now I pay more attention to the series that are in english and I can read more easily english blogs on internet.

I really enjoyed this experience. And, about the blogs; Instead sometimes it was a bore (but not a fuckin bore) other times it was very funny (the best was reading the suicide blogs).

see u bitches!

  

i have hope

I'm going to be honest.

I don't even know what will be the changes on the curriculum of subjects to study in my carrer. Its like all the things happended so fast (i'm a very scattered person so I never know what's going on).

The first day that I arrived to the University (for the enrollment), a lot of people bombarded me with pamplets and speeches about: social work, the village, multiple claims to bureaucracy. Basically all the things that they want to change of University.

At first I was like "Finally, people that cares about the social issues" BUT THEEEEN I thought it better and reached to the conclusion of "How I can know if it's good to change something that I not even know or have tried?" and "in one of those, I like the things as they are and I would not change them but with this I will never know it".

The next year I will have different subjects to study that I don't know (and that its already decided) but my classmates have told me that they sound very interesting.
I hope that it will be like that.