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.
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