Chile 2010: bicentennial year
In this year, 2010, our country Chile, celebrates 200 year of independence. This celebration was commemorated the past September 18°, in honor to the first cabinet meeting. This is a good moment to reflect about these two hundred years of history.
What have we done in these two hundred years? Has had Chile a big progress as a country? Everybody feels the same about it?
I have to say that our country has progressed a lot in these last years. Chile has become in one of the most influential countries of Latin America. Our economic development has increased; we have a lot of trade agreements with important countries from other continents, which help us to expand our economic horizon. Chile has a lot of income in different areas, like mining industry (cooper), export fruits and wine, and so on. The per capita income this year is around US$14.299, which means that every Chilean person should earn about $6.892.118. But is that real? Are we at least near of this figure? It sounds almost like a bad joke, how can be possible that with this per capita income we have a minimum salary of $172.000 that is equivalent to $2.064.000 a year?
This is the point where our country hadn’t work enough or efficiently. Here are a lot of differences of social classes, I know that it would be an utopia that everybody earns the same salary, but I think is necessary to distribute the resources in an equitable way.
Chile has so bad distributed the resources that we can compare us with Africa in this point. Our county has developed a lot in the last time, but people don’t feel it in their everyday. The most of the money is concentrated in a little group of people, powerful people; while the majority of our population belongs to the middle class and has to satisfy with a salary of 300.000 as average, because in many cases it is lower.
As you can see, Chile has progressed a lot in these years, but it has to be not only for a few people. The big task of the current and future presidents is to help people that really need it, because until the moment only the powerful people have filled their pockets of money.
jueves, 25 de noviembre de 2010
miércoles, 24 de noviembre de 2010
blog 7: travels
Hello everyone!
Today I’m going to tell you about travels. I have to say that I have had not a big travel in my life, but that doesn’t means that I don’t like to do it. I thing travels are a good opportunity to relax, to know new places and just enjoy what that place offers to you. I prefer places near of the beach, I love to go to the beach, to watch the see and eat seafood. Definitely, holidays are the best occasion to travel, because we haven’t to think in the university and our parents haven’t to think in their jobs, also in holidays is summer, the perfect season for me.
The biggest travel that I have done was the past holidays, I went to Villarrica. My boyfriend was there with his parents and sister; I went after them because I was working here in Santiago when they went there. I traveled all the night by bus, the travel was very very long, about 11 hours. Villarrica is lovely, there are a lot of trees and nature there, I love it!
I had a really good time, we went to a lot of lakes that are near there. The Villarrica lake was the most that I liked. I didn’t know any lake, so that was the first time that I visited one. I think a lake is better than the see because there are not waves so you can swim relaxed without problems. Also the water has not
Today I’m going to tell you about travels. I have to say that I have had not a big travel in my life, but that doesn’t means that I don’t like to do it. I thing travels are a good opportunity to relax, to know new places and just enjoy what that place offers to you. I prefer places near of the beach, I love to go to the beach, to watch the see and eat seafood. Definitely, holidays are the best occasion to travel, because we haven’t to think in the university and our parents haven’t to think in their jobs, also in holidays is summer, the perfect season for me.
The biggest travel that I have done was the past holidays, I went to Villarrica. My boyfriend was there with his parents and sister; I went after them because I was working here in Santiago when they went there. I traveled all the night by bus, the travel was very very long, about 11 hours. Villarrica is lovely, there are a lot of trees and nature there, I love it!
I had a really good time, we went to a lot of lakes that are near there. The Villarrica lake was the most that I liked. I didn’t know any lake, so that was the first time that I visited one. I think a lake is better than the see because there are not waves so you can swim relaxed without problems. Also the water has not
miércoles, 17 de noviembre de 2010
blog 6: Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind
Hello everybody!
In this opportunity I’m going to talk about films. First of all I’m going to tell you the kind of movies that I like to watch, I like horror, thriller and romantic movies. I am not a films fanatic, first I like to know trailer and if I think that it´s interesting, then I watch the movie. Although I prefer to go to the cinema.
I like a lot of movies that I have seen, buy today I’m going to tell you about one in especial: “Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind”. I really like this film so I want to share with you about it. It is starring kate Winslet and Jim Carrey. This a very original romantic film, because the protagonists are very common and imperfect people. I really like that because I was used to watch this kind of movies that had very perfect protagonists like the princess and the prince, where everything is love and their relationship is beautiful and their love is bigger than everything.
This movie shows an impulsive woman and an introverted man that have a relationship. In the beginning everything is fine, but then they started to discuss and they break up. The woman (Clementine) decides to erase her memory with a doctor to forget the man (Joel). When he knew what she had done he decides to do the same. But the destiny had something prepared for them. They meet again and they fall in love again.
The story is told in a particular way, it has not a chronological order, but it started by the end and reach to the beginning of their relationship, it’s very interesting.
In this opportunity I’m going to talk about films. First of all I’m going to tell you the kind of movies that I like to watch, I like horror, thriller and romantic movies. I am not a films fanatic, first I like to know trailer and if I think that it´s interesting, then I watch the movie. Although I prefer to go to the cinema.
I like a lot of movies that I have seen, buy today I’m going to tell you about one in especial: “Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind”. I really like this film so I want to share with you about it. It is starring kate Winslet and Jim Carrey. This a very original romantic film, because the protagonists are very common and imperfect people. I really like that because I was used to watch this kind of movies that had very perfect protagonists like the princess and the prince, where everything is love and their relationship is beautiful and their love is bigger than everything.
This movie shows an impulsive woman and an introverted man that have a relationship. In the beginning everything is fine, but then they started to discuss and they break up. The woman (Clementine) decides to erase her memory with a doctor to forget the man (Joel). When he knew what she had done he decides to do the same. But the destiny had something prepared for them. They meet again and they fall in love again.
The story is told in a particular way, it has not a chronological order, but it started by the end and reach to the beginning of their relationship, it’s very interesting.
blog 5: Learn while you are sleep
Hello everyone!
Today I’m going to talk about the myths of the human brain that we read in the paper and the class done by Doctor Maldonado about it. It is a difficult topic for me because I don’t know too much about it, but I will use the class like my bibliography.
The myth that I consider more interesting is: Learn while you are sleep. I ask to myself why can’t this be real? It would be amazing, I just listened the classes in the night and it doesn’t be necessary to study too much, just studying something in the day and then listening the records in the night it would be enough to learn well and have good marks.
But it is too beautiful to be truth, this is not real. It’s truth that while we are sleeping the brain is working, but it has not the same level of working that it has during the day. While we sleep, we rest of all our worries, if we could learn in that moment we would be very tired and also, it woudn’t be a myth, everybody would be listening something in the night and everybody would have very good marks.
Like we can’t learn while we are sleeping we just have to study more, but something interesting that Dr Maldonado said is that to learn very well something we have to study and then we have to sleep to consolidate the knowledge. It’s different that the myth says but It’s a good tip to us.
Today I’m going to talk about the myths of the human brain that we read in the paper and the class done by Doctor Maldonado about it. It is a difficult topic for me because I don’t know too much about it, but I will use the class like my bibliography.
The myth that I consider more interesting is: Learn while you are sleep. I ask to myself why can’t this be real? It would be amazing, I just listened the classes in the night and it doesn’t be necessary to study too much, just studying something in the day and then listening the records in the night it would be enough to learn well and have good marks.
But it is too beautiful to be truth, this is not real. It’s truth that while we are sleeping the brain is working, but it has not the same level of working that it has during the day. While we sleep, we rest of all our worries, if we could learn in that moment we would be very tired and also, it woudn’t be a myth, everybody would be listening something in the night and everybody would have very good marks.
Like we can’t learn while we are sleeping we just have to study more, but something interesting that Dr Maldonado said is that to learn very well something we have to study and then we have to sleep to consolidate the knowledge. It’s different that the myth says but It’s a good tip to us.
martes, 19 de octubre de 2010
blog 4: stress
Hello everyone!
Today I have to talk about stress and work, so I think that this is a very interesting topic, because nowadays it is one of the most common problems in our society. There are a lot of things that today can take you to the stress. We know that Chile is one of the countries with more hours of work in the world, so we are more tired because of that, also a lot of people are studying or doing some advanced courses so they have a double job. Women are very stressed because they have even a triple job, including work, the house, kids and so on.
So all this conditions of our society can take us to stress, but how can we know when we are stressed? There are some symptom and sings that we can recognize:
- Headache
- Stomachache, gastric ulcers
- Nauseas, vomiting
- Tachycardia
- Nervous habits
- Problems to sleep
And so on.
Stress can brings you a lot of problems with you family, friend, with your job partners and every place where you are. Stress can damages you in everything you do, in all your activities, you could have problems in you job because you are not in good conditions and if you are student it could damages your performance and your grades. As you see it is not only a problem with you body and health, but it also means a problem with the people that shares with you and in your performance in everything you do.
Today I have to talk about stress and work, so I think that this is a very interesting topic, because nowadays it is one of the most common problems in our society. There are a lot of things that today can take you to the stress. We know that Chile is one of the countries with more hours of work in the world, so we are more tired because of that, also a lot of people are studying or doing some advanced courses so they have a double job. Women are very stressed because they have even a triple job, including work, the house, kids and so on.
So all this conditions of our society can take us to stress, but how can we know when we are stressed? There are some symptom and sings that we can recognize:
- Headache
- Stomachache, gastric ulcers
- Nauseas, vomiting
- Tachycardia
- Nervous habits
- Problems to sleep
And so on.
Stress can brings you a lot of problems with you family, friend, with your job partners and every place where you are. Stress can damages you in everything you do, in all your activities, you could have problems in you job because you are not in good conditions and if you are student it could damages your performance and your grades. As you see it is not only a problem with you body and health, but it also means a problem with the people that shares with you and in your performance in everything you do.
martes, 12 de octubre de 2010
blog 3: A healthy lifestyle
Hello everybody!
Today I’m going to tell you through the blog about a healthy lifestyle. First of all I would like to say that this is a topic very important because nowadays there are a lot of diseases related with an unhealthy lifestyle. In these days I think that is harder to have a healthy lifestyle, with all the technology that we have, now everything is easier and handier than before. Things are designed to be fast and disposable, for example, people don’t cook anymore, they buy fast food. People don’t go up the stairways, they use the elevator.
All these advances have done of us lazy people with an unhealthy lifestyle. So ¿What is a healthy lifestyle? Well, it consists in feed with a balanced diet, eating food of all the food groups but with different proportions, following the food pyramid. Also it consists in to do exercise at least 3 times at the week. It seems very easy, but we know that around 90% of the population is sedentary and almost the 50% are overweight and obese.
Like future health professional we have to educate the community in healthy lifestyles mainly people with a low social class, because in these people sedentary and obesity are increased. Furthermore healthy lifestyle means all the actions that help us to have a healthy life, for example and from the point of view of my career, to use condom is very important to prevent some sexual transmission infections. So a healthy lifestyle covers everything related with a healthy life, not only food and exercises.
Today I’m going to tell you through the blog about a healthy lifestyle. First of all I would like to say that this is a topic very important because nowadays there are a lot of diseases related with an unhealthy lifestyle. In these days I think that is harder to have a healthy lifestyle, with all the technology that we have, now everything is easier and handier than before. Things are designed to be fast and disposable, for example, people don’t cook anymore, they buy fast food. People don’t go up the stairways, they use the elevator.
All these advances have done of us lazy people with an unhealthy lifestyle. So ¿What is a healthy lifestyle? Well, it consists in feed with a balanced diet, eating food of all the food groups but with different proportions, following the food pyramid. Also it consists in to do exercise at least 3 times at the week. It seems very easy, but we know that around 90% of the population is sedentary and almost the 50% are overweight and obese.
Like future health professional we have to educate the community in healthy lifestyles mainly people with a low social class, because in these people sedentary and obesity are increased. Furthermore healthy lifestyle means all the actions that help us to have a healthy life, for example and from the point of view of my career, to use condom is very important to prevent some sexual transmission infections. So a healthy lifestyle covers everything related with a healthy life, not only food and exercises.
jueves, 9 de septiembre de 2010
blog 2: favorite get-away
Hello everybody!
In this opportunity I have to talk about my favorite get –away, but really I don’t have one. So I’m going to explain where I like to go in general. When I am in holidays I like to go to the beach, I really don’t care what beach in specific, if it’s in the north, in the south or in the center of the country; what I like is to travel far from Santiago and all its pollution. When I’m tired because of the university, the ideal would be go to the beach for a weekend, and it would be perfect id I go with my boyfriend.
Also I like to go there in summer, I love to swim in the sea, to spend time with my family and if it’s possible with my boyfriend too. I like to eat seafood and fish in the restaurants, I think this is the season where I eat more seafood in the year.
I would like to live near of the see and can watch everyday its beautiful color, feel the marine breeze and enjoy the nice climate, not too cold not too hot. Besides the people that live out of Santiago are very kind, the environment is so peaceful, so nice.
So, if anybody wants to invite my anywhere, the best option is the beach.
In this opportunity I have to talk about my favorite get –away, but really I don’t have one. So I’m going to explain where I like to go in general. When I am in holidays I like to go to the beach, I really don’t care what beach in specific, if it’s in the north, in the south or in the center of the country; what I like is to travel far from Santiago and all its pollution. When I’m tired because of the university, the ideal would be go to the beach for a weekend, and it would be perfect id I go with my boyfriend.
Also I like to go there in summer, I love to swim in the sea, to spend time with my family and if it’s possible with my boyfriend too. I like to eat seafood and fish in the restaurants, I think this is the season where I eat more seafood in the year.
I would like to live near of the see and can watch everyday its beautiful color, feel the marine breeze and enjoy the nice climate, not too cold not too hot. Besides the people that live out of Santiago are very kind, the environment is so peaceful, so nice.
So, if anybody wants to invite my anywhere, the best option is the beach.
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