Teams for Final Project Group 3

Republic of Turkey

• Naiomi Madrid
• Frida Osorio
• Fernanda Madrid

Kingdom Of Spain

• Maria Fernanda Flores
• Sofia Almada
• Alejandra Reina

France

• Luis Palacios
• Mayra Duarte
• Violeta Casanova

Venezuela

• Luis Aguilar
• Esteban Borrigo
• Alejandra Arellano
• Enrique Martinez

United kingdom

• Nohemi Trejo
• Yvette Sepulveda
• Kevin Jimenez

Iran

• Geovanna Lopez
• Samantha Rangel
• Michelle Gonzalez

Republic of China

• Jose Antonio
• Yolanda
• Sulette

Teams for Final Project Group 51

French Republic

• Lourdes A. Salas
• Manuel O. Munguia
• Abigail Trujillo

Turkey

• Rafael Nevarez
• Javier Villegas
• Ruben Mejia
• Esteban Monteverde

Republic of China

• Andrea Acuña
• Livier Hernandez
• Paola Rodriguez

The Kingdom of Spain

• Paulina Canizales
• Fernanda Elias Calles
• Jossie Ruiz
• Abel Murrieta

United Kingdom

• Andrea Aguilar
• Alberto Cossio
• Lillian Coronado

Government in Our Lifes

Do you think democracy is practiced in your state? Are you comfortable with your social status? Would you prefer to live in a communist country?

Nowadays, most of the country's population are poor. This is because rich people are getting richer, while poor people become poorer. The reason of this situation is that there is a failure in the distribution of the reources, opportunities, and money among the people.

The type of government in our country is called democracy. What makes a society democratic is if it looks to itself for structure. A good phrase that would summarize its meaning is: "Of the People, by the People, for the People..." the People refer to those who comprise the population. However, it is my opinion that a society or government can work without it being a democratic one. There are many countries that have had hybrid types of governments and societies; for example, France, which is Socialist, and Cuba, which is Communist.

Any type of government would work, but only for a period of time. If communism is imposed, at the beginning, everyone would be happy, would be comfortable with government and with society, poor people would have a better quality of life, and other advantages. However, as time passes, disagreements would emerge. People who want to succeed and improve their salary would start to be in strike because it does not matters how much they strive to achieve a better salary, they would not be able to get it.

Some of the reasons why I consider democracy as the best type of governing are:

-Human being is able to take their own decisions.

-Human being is able to vote (men and women).

-Human being is able to respect and be respected.

-Human being is able to practice his rights.

Remember, government forms a very important part in our lives. Lets choose the one we think its better for us, and would benefit all of us.

What about a world without scarcity?

We define scarcity as the economic problem in which a resource is limited and it is not able to supply the human needs. The most important scarce resources we have are oil and water. Oil is very necessary because it is mainly used to produce gasoline. Water is ultra-necesarry because it is an essential component for the human being to live.

But, a good question discussed in economy class was: What would the world be like if there was no scarcity? How would humans behave? Would it either affect or benefy society?

I have come up with a series of possible consequences that can occur if we would be living in a world without scarcity. Some of them are:

- People would have no sense of life. Because humans would have all the quantity of the resources they would use them crazily.

- Pollution: People would be using the resources crazily; that would change the people's behavior, so they would start contaminating everywhere.

- Work: Because people would easily get the resources, they would become lazy. There would be a lot of resources so prices would be lower, so they would need to work less.

- No conflicts and wars: What is the main cause of wars? Resources. If resources are plentiful, people would not have the need of creating conflicts for becoming the owner of resources.

- Overpopulation: Parents would not have the need to be always working, so they would spend most of their time in house; this would cause families having lots of kids because they have everything, they have nothing to do, and they think they can provide their kids everything.

- No social classes??: I have come uo with two possible results.

Social classes would not exist anymore because resources would be plentiful and the government would be able to organize and distribute them appropiately.

Social classes would become more evident because resources would continue concentrating in higher classes maing rich people richer, and poor people poorer.

If you carefully analize the above possible consequences, they are all related with economics. This is because scarcity is the basis of economics.

In conclusion, do you think it is a good idea a world in which there is no scarcity? Do you think it would benefy us or it would affect us?

I think that having no scarcity brings up more positive consequences that negative ones, so I would really like to live in a world like that.

We All Need Each Other

How do you feel when you see a malnourished person? Have you helped in any way the people suffering in Haiti? Do you do your social service because you have to or because it is something you enjoy doing? Have you thought in stop thinking about yourself for a moment, and spend a little time with people with a disability, with a disease, children without parents, and old men?

We need to admit that we are selfish, that we think in ourlserves all the time. We never realize that there are other people around us who are suffering.

But, there are some people (a few ones), who have decided to share their time with people who need us. Consequently, some organizations have been created.

Examples of these organizations are: UNIDOS, Un Paso a Tiempo, UNACARI, and a lot of orphanages or houses in which they receive children without parents or whose parents are not able to give them a good quality of life.

But, these organizations need people to help them; this is the main reason why social service has been created.

Social service is considered a time in which people practice social justice, a good quality of life, and the development of the full potential of each individual (which I consider its main objective).

Social service is impulsed in most of the schools, at junior high-school, high-school, and college, and it is an activity that you can experience in your free time. Besides taking advantage of your time, you are also giving someone a piece of love.

I invite you all not to be selfish, share, live sharing, smile sharing, enjoy sharing. We are all humans, we do not know our fate. Maybe tomorrow we would have nothing to eat, or we would be disabled, or we would lose our family. Take advantage of your belongings, your abilities, and the people around you; but also, think about other people, people who are suffering, people who are facing a problem and need of someone to support them.

We are all like a puzzle, many different pieces, many different forms, many different colors. We all need each other, we depend on each other, we must help each other to complete the puzzle the best way!

Buses in Our Life

Have you ever used a bus? Do you know what the SUBA system was about? Do you know how many costs a bus trip around the city? What are the characteristics of the buses in Hermosillo?

What are the benefits of using buses? What are the risks of using buses in the city?

A bus is a vehicule that transfers people from one place to another, but I am only going to focus on the city buses.

The government of the city is in charge of providing to the society means of transport. However, however, gobernants have not provided yet a good transportation service.

The conditions of the buses are quite bad:

-Most of them have no air conditioner.

-There are no enough buses.

-The rutes do not go everywhere.

-You have the risk of being infected by someone else's disease.

-You have the risk of being robbed.

-You have the risk of being damaged and disturbed.

And there are many other disadvantages.

With all these I want to attack one certain point: Why do they charge people for using a bus in bad conditions?

Each time a person uses a bus, he needs to pay. Five pesos is the normal cuote for people. Do you think it is fair to pay five pesos for using a disgusting bus? Do you think it is fair to pay five pesos for a 2-minute trip? Do you think it is fair to pay five pesos for a trip in which you are in risk of being robbed or infected?

We, the "hermosillenses" should fight for a better quality of life, and this quality involves getting a good transportation service. We should demand our government better buses with better conditions. We pay taxes because they force us to pay them. We should force them to better the buses' conditions.

Remember, we are human beings; we deserve fairness, as well as a good quality of life.

Should Drugs Be Legalized?

A very discussed issue during the last years has been drug legalization.

First of all, by drug legalization it is understood the removing of the legal prohibitionf of the cultivation, manufature, distribution, and sale of illegal drugs. Some exmaples of these drugs are marijuana, cocaine, crack, ectasy, and others.

But, What are the reasons why people think legalizing drugs is a good option?

Well, one reason that I have heard around is that drugs should be legalized because taking drugs is an individual choice.

Because man has the right to do what it fits to him, as long as they do not harm anyone else. If a person chooses to put a drug inside his body, he has the right to take that decision, and the government has no right to interfere with that decision. All this is truth; however, can you walk around naked without affecting others? The answer to this question is NO because it is stipulated that we do not have the right to do anything we want with our body.

We are humans, we take decisions every day, and it is stipulated that our decisions should not affect other people. If a person decides to take drugs, he is not only affecting himself, but also affecting others. For example, a drug is a substance that may have effects at the moment or years after. If John took illegal drugs for three years, but then he decided to stop taking them. Three years after, John is a bus driver, and while he was driving a bus, he experienced a flashback, and that cause a crash in which most of the bus passengers died. Aren't the passengers being affected by John decision of taking drugs?

Another reason I have heard of why should drugs be legalized is " People love to do forbidden things". Well, this phrase is true: When someone tells us we should not do something, or look for something, or take something, those things are the ones we want to do. This is why many people say that if drugs are legalized, people would not feel a big wanting of the drug. Even though I agree with the phrase, I started to think: If all the forbidden things would be legalized, how would the world end? If killing would be permitted, who would stay alive? If corruption would be accepted, how would society end? I will leave these questions for you to answer yourself.

The other reason I have heard around is that drugs should be legalized because it would mean less government. People think that if drugs are legal, drug-traffickers would stop their war, and government would not be involved in drug regulation anymore. However, I consider this TOTALLY false. The legalization of drugs would allow government the right to increase the taxes in them.

Well, these are just some of the reasons why people think drugs should be legalized, but I think that if we are suffering nowadays, with the legalization of all drugs we would be suffering even worst!!

UNIDOS Association

"The Smile that moves the World"

Unidos is a company or an organization that every time more is helping the society and the communnity that present discapacity problems. Unidos is an association that is receiving handicapped people, they can be damage physically or mentally.

The person that help "Unidos" in all this procedure and all this work, are us. All of us have the opportunity as part of our community and society to participate in this type of activities that help them to make new friends, meet new people, talk about different things; but I think that all this movement is going to create a great and powerful satisfaction with our actions.

Like in one week I'm going to Unidos because we have our social service there. I imagine it really good, with lots of children making in society a great impact and progression that helps us to maintain our stability and also to start developing associations with great tendencies. Ex: Teletón

Gay Family?

Lately we have heard in the radio, television, news and almost everywere about gay marriages. In some parts it its allowed and in other ones it is illegal. I don´t think it has something wrong, in fact I am happy for them, because that way they live like a regular couple and between the 2 of them they will be able to get higher credits that they can use to buy a house, or new car.

But then there´s this new issue, should they be able to adopt a child? many persons probably think they shouldn´t, because they are afraid that they are going to abuse the child, or because thats wrong simply by saying a family should be conformed by a mother and a father; but then I think, whats with the single parent family? shouldn´t the that be not good either just because there is no mom or dad; and the kids that grow surrounded by only women or men? isn´t that kind of like the same, beeing race by a single sex (men or women). I think that there is nothing wrong with that and if you think about I bet that an orphan child would prefer to live with a gay marriage than in any institution. I made a little research and according to psycologists those children aren´t going to develop any psicological problems just by having a gay family.

I think its a good idea, maybe that way more kids would be adopted, after all no family is perfect.

Mexico's Bicentenario Celebration of History

Bicentenario of Independence, and Centenario of Revolution should be celebrated? or Should they be analyzed/studied/interpreted? or

We all mexicans now that this September will be our 200 hundred years old birthday, and all the society (including politics, economics, media) are making activities and programs to have a really big "Celebration." But my question is do we really need to celebrate? Are Televisa, TVAzteca, President celebrating or approaching of the situation to raise up many things?

Well, I think both of them. First of all, they are celebrating and gaining money and fame with it. Supposely they are celebrating historic events, our History. But I think these can be an excess.

First, we are not doing what History means. History, to social's; means to study, analyze, and interpret the recorded material or recorded history. So I think, it would be better for the President and Enterprises to be wasting money in studies that show why we were like that, or better yet; WHY WE ARE LIKE TODAY's? That's the purpose of history, to know the past and interpret it, to may be can know something of the present. I agree that we have to celebrate our fights but I think it has to be less. It would be better that WE celebrate our 200 hundred years by being a better country, and starting making real LAWS, POLITICAL DECISIONS, ECONOMICS RULES, that help in big way our country and society. This 2 reasons, are strong and can be the truth and the best option, but again; the politics and economics are based not in their social science definition, instead they are based on the interests of some.

Finally, when I knew about this big celebration of Mexico, in some form I became happy and honored( because of my country). But know I am happy, yes; but I'm sad that instead of giving Mexico a real gift (laws, rules, values, economics laws that help us) they waste time and money celebrating.

Do we really deserve the celebration? Do putting, in action, laws that help the country and its people are the right things?

May be political and economical situations have to be better, in order to CELEBRATE... We should consider the situation. Is it time for celebrations? or for Action?

We have to ask for good politics and economics! We have to be aware of the way, they decide. Are they basing the solutions in Social Sciences?

TANDEO

What do you think of when I say WATER? probably in the same thing I do "lack of water" and if you live in Hermosillo in TANDEO.

Water is a big issue in the world, no country has enought water for its people, exept maybe for Canada, and even they know water is a limited resource.

So, how does this affects me directly? well, in my particular case it doesn´t affects me that much because I have a tinaco, but it still changes some things like that we can only do our laundry in the afternoons (when the sun is really HOT!!!), the same goes for the dishes and my little garden isn´t that nice anymore. But to others it affects them even more because they don´t have tinacos and they have to adapt their shedules to their water hours, like for instance if the boy was used to shower himself in the mornings now he has to do it in the night and vice-versa.

Since we have no big water supplies near the city there is no other option than to rationalize water at the moment.

Maybe the real solution for us is to build a desaladora. The problem is that we also don´t have money to build one; then for Hermosillo´s people at this moment there no other choice than to adapt.

SUPER BOWL XLIV

This Super Bowl that occurred was the 44th of the National Football League. This game was made by two teams were the fighters or players were this ones: New Orleans Saints and Indianapolis Colts. This game was made in February 7 of 2010. All this controversy create a lot of conflicts in society.

This Super Bowl as all the pastgames we had had lots of conflicts that provoke great changes or damages into the society. In this types of games, like the one in football, we experienced terrible experiences: like when people is thrown through the hallway or when some of then start fighting while their team is playing. But the mayority have a common denominator that is to fight and continue shouting against there opponent team .

People has to be conscious and also they have to learn how does they have to act against all this problems. They have to learn how to work with a collaborative learning and a feedback for allseen. We as humans need to work in teams, if not society is going to be totally separated.

China blocks GOOGLE

I knew that in China they blocked some pages that contain inapropiate graphics or information according to the laws of regulation in China, but I would have never imagine that they would block an entire server like Google which is very popular across the world. They suposely did that because Google did not have good filters in its information and that children could easily acess to non proper material ( porn). In the other side Google says that they have good filters and that they were working in some improvements on them.

I think that China is more concerned about the information Google gives of this country than what Chinesse goverment declares; or China is just being smart because that way companies and nations that want to keep negotiating with China will have to follow its regulations in order to be able to stay in the Chinesse stock market.

Sexism

Sexism, a term coined in the mid-20th century,is the belief or attitude that one gender or sex is inferior to, less competent, or less valuable than the other. It can also refer to hatred of, or prejudice towards, either sex as a whole (see misogyny and misandry), or the application of stereotypes of masculinity in relation to men, or of femininity in relation to women. It is also called male and female chauvinism.

Poverty

Poverty refers to the condition of not having the means to afford basic human needs such as clean water, nutrition, health care, clothing and shelter. This is also referred to as absolute poverty or destitution. Relative poverty is the condition of having fewer resources or less income than others within a society or country, or compared to worldwide averages.

Dependence in the Computers

The computer has become one of the most important tools for the people of this generation. Now at days young people use computers every single day for school, work, and mostly entertainment. We are the first generation who has become dependent on the computers; we have used them almost since we were born. For most of our lives we have used computers, so it is not surprising that our generation has become highly dependent upon them. The computers give us a lot of advantages, but also, there are several disadvantages. An example is the frustration that we usually feel when we can not get access to our computer. Other people spend a lot of hours playing or chatting on their computer, while they could be doing any other healthy activity.

Computers are becoming a great part of education, for example, in our case we as students use the computer for almost every activity from the school, online quizzes, online home works, research, and other activities. In the Universities computers are crucial for success. Computers have also facilitated the communication around the world. A Computer has a lot of advantages, but what about its disadvantages? Well I think that human has become a “slave” of the computer, and by saying this I mean that a person can not be without computers. Maybe the computer gives us much more advantages than disadvantages, but we can’t be sure of which will be the role of the computers in the future, how they would affect our society? We will have to wait to get the answer for that question.

Drug Abuse

Drug abuse has a huge range of definitions related to taking a psychoactive drug or performance enhancing drug for a non-therapeutic or non-medical effect. All of these definitions imply a negative judgment of the drug use in question (compare with the term responsible drug use for alternative views). I think drug abuse is a global problem because its everywhere and it lead us into a bad way of life.

War

War is a behavior pattern exhibited by many primate species including man, and also found in many ant species. The primary feature of this behavior pattern is a certain state of organized violent conflict that is engaged in between two or more separate social entities. Such a conflict is always an attempt at altering either the psychological hierarchy or the material hierarchy of domination or equality between two or more groups. In all cases, at least one participant (group) in the conflict perceives the need to either psychologically or materially dominate the other participant. The perceived need for domination often arises from the belief that an essential ideology or resource is somehow either so incompatible or so scarce as to threaten the fundamental existence of the one group experiencing the need to dominate the other group. Leaders will sometimes enter into a war under the pretext that their actions are primarily defensive, however when viewed objectively, their actions may more closely resemble a form of unprovoked, unwarranted, or disproportionate aggression.

Big B is watching

Big Brother is watching!!!, even thought we are not in this famous show in this particular case Big B refers to the goverment and some companies around the world. Goverment and Companies declare its for our good and security, it is suppose to make our lives easier which its not a bad idea at all but here is the thing- Big Brother is watching, this means that they will have acces to your personal information when ever they wanted and look at everything, from e-mails to phone calls and even using your laptop camera to watch you.This way it would be easier to recognize everyone and frauds would be less commun.They will be able to find someone no matter where they are, throught phone calls, e-mails or by identifying you through: your pupil, voice or face scaning.

The Goverment possition is " if you don´t commite crimes, if you are not a drug dealer, then what do you have to hide?; but until what point is it acceptable?; Wouldn´t it be attempting to your privacy and freedom?.

Maybe it would be a good idea if they were only aloud to do this with certain people, like people that have commited a crime, or are under investigations.But even then we wouldn´t be sure that this information couldn´t end in the wrong hands, and if this happens the security system would have failed and our privacy wouldn´t be a private thing any more.

Political Desicions influenced by Politics, not by the people desires

Chihuahuas State Powers will move into Cd. Juarez

Caused by the recently deaths, murders, and narcos; the governor of Chihuahua decided to move all the 3 powers into Cd. Juarez to be closer to the city problems and situation. This, by logic, is a political desicion but it also invo

lves the social context and other subjects of social sciences, such as, law; history; physochology. Why? Because if they decide to move the powers to Cd. Juarez (which is not the capital) they are including other subjects of the social sciences.

For example, it involves law; because the congress have to aprooved the demand in order to move the powers through the legal way. It is also an event that includes history, because since many time ago, powers had been moved from the capital city of a state.(so the social scientists will have to analyze the consequences.). And at last it involves the physochology field, because it can be analized, based on the human and individual behavior of the governors.

So in conclusion of the article, In order to move the powers to Juarez, it has to be aprooved by the congress(POLITICS involved).

Now, my personal opinion is that the final decision has to be made based on a scientific method that the social scientists will make, as we saw in class. This method will look by being physocologists and studying history, the best solutions in order to solve this matter; always looking for hyphotesis and experimenting a possible result. Obviously the Social Scientists don't decide, but in this case, I am calling the Congressmen= Social Scientists. Because for my opinion, in order to proove a law, they have to look into possible pros, consequences, situations, etc... (what in few words is using the Scientific Method of Social Sciences.)

This is only a political decision, of a million in the world, that have to see with people.(Social Aspects). What I think, is that the politics or people in charge of deciding should use the scientific method, in some way, in order to find the best solutions and laws to solve problems.

Pollution

Air pollution is the introduction of chemicals, particulate matter, or biological materials that cause harm or discomfort to humans or other living organisms, or damages the natural environment, into the atmosphere.
The atmosphere is a complex, dynamic natural gaseous system that is essential to support life on planet Earth. Stratospheric ozone depletion due to air pollution has long been recognized as a threat to human health as well as to the Earth's ecosystems.

How much are we into technology?

We are aware that for many of us, technology is already an important, almost essential, component of our lives. We base our day on techonology: when we turn on the tv, transportation in our cars, communication through cellphones, using the computer, listening to music, and many other examples.

Technology really brings benefits to our lives; however, I think it may get to a point where we are really into technology that we could tend to forget how reality works and its difference from the techonological world.

We may have heard our moms when she tells us to stop chatting or that it would be better to read a book than being in the computer. They are right in a way, techonology is absorbing us, it's getting to be an essential part of our existence and that obviously leads to a lot of both positive and negative consequences.

However, the thing here is that I believe we should be aware of how much time we use for technology. If we consider, for example, dedicating 4 hours using the computer each day, we will not see that seems unfair. But if we consider using it for 8 hours, we may really get lost into it and may forget to do our activities like eating, doing homework, doing exercise, etc.

The interesting part of this, is that we are a new generation. No one before us had experienced so much bounds with technology. I am not sure of what could happen in a future, as I don't see anything in the past that could be the same than the present connection between people and scientific innovations. We should care. We should dedicate a little bit of time for each of our activities; not making one more important than another one, but having in mind that we have to balance what we do in order to have a "healthy lifestyle" and avoid many possible problems in a future.

Racism against Haiti

Last week the deputy from PRD Ariel Gómez León during his radio program said some comments about the people from Haiti. Hearing this you would think he had said something about being soildare with their condition and that as a society we should join and help them; but to the contrary he started to say tha the people from Haiti are "muertos de hambre" and really despective comments about the people. He also said that they deserved to die because they are black more exactly he said " negros abusivos!!!"; In what way could he think people from Haiti are abusive?

I think that after everything they are suffering people shouldn´t be critizing them nor beeing racist at them, we should all be trying to help. If they were a poor country now they are even worst than you could imagine.

As far from the deputy Ariel "El Chunko", its a shame that someone like him is representing us;he is supose to have if not the same critiria Mexican citizens have at least watch what he is declaring because we may not all agree with him. Ariel should recieve a strong punishemnt.

Global Warming

The Global Warming is a topic really popular nowdays, I think we need to stop contaminating because we are making a real damage to the world , maybe we don't still alive but to our son's future its in our hands and we should start changing that. The Global warming is due to all the mess and all the trash human creates. To stop this I think we should start using less cars and more bicycles , I think it sounds crazy but we can finally reach it someday.

Poverty

the poor is borned or transformed? sadly this is suomething that will always exist because of the fact that we live in a world with only a certain amount of sources. but have you ever questioned yourself, how can we fix poverty? well, it actually depends on alot of factors, for example one of the first factors would be the government, by this i mean the way the country organizes itself to afford enough resources for everyone. the second factor i would consider the society we live in and how we take care of the resources, for example in Hermosillo the scarcity of water has made a great impact in poverty. and finally the last important factor in my opinion would be yourself and how you control situations. maybe you are part of a poor and humble family, but that doesnt mean that you have the same faith. you got to try and have a education, if that is not possible you should try and get a job. this is of course is you are older than 15. if not the government should make institutions to feed and give education to poor kids. we must remember that nothing is impossible.
Remember an wise mexican phrase .. "el que quiere, puede"

Religion

Religion, a term that is very known by society. The question that most people ask is "should I trust religion". History have teach only not to. Through the pass of time, people have used religion just to gain power. Take for instance the Inquisition. This period of time, church killed people if they did not agreed or did what the bible said, this way people would be afraid and do everything that the church wanted.

I have learned series of stories like this, through my different classes. Sometimes I wonder if our religion might past away and be consider something mythological; the same happened to the greeks and we see their religion as something completely impossible. A couple a months ago I watch a movie that talked about religion between other things. The movie was called "Zeitgeist". This movie said something very true. Religion, or actually the bible is the repetion of the same story through time and Jesus Christ and his story was based, as many other, on the sun and the constellations. Here's the explanation:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BNf-P_5u_Hw

So all this made me realize and come to the conclusion that maybe church is wrong or have made many mistakes, but at the end of all religion has a good intention, to make society behave better.
So the moral lesson of all these is: Make your own JUDGEMENTS, don't believe what someone tells you, belive what you want to believe and stick to it.

Racism of PRD deputy

I feel so angry to reed this news, how can a men that represent us, say comments like that about people that had just been through a big natural disaster. I think it is really bad that people like that are in charge on the goverment. Federal Deputy Ariel Gómez León, also known as “El Chunko,” he also have a radio program, i think it s great the punishment he took, because how can a racist have a radio program, that people can hear and adopt his thoughts. I thought in Mexico there wasn't so much racism, but know i know that problem is not only in other countries but it also had affected us and our country.

China Lists $9.6 Billion in Shares of U.S. Companies

i read this very intresting article that says how Shangay has invested over 9 billion Dollars to U.S. companies such as Apple, Motorola, Visa, Coca Cola, etc. with all the averages it is said that China has invested more to United states corporations than its own. What does this reflect? it reflects how the despite of the economic crisis, United States is still gaining power and credit by other influental countrys. it is impressive the role the U. S. has taken. we all dependend enormesly on it. not only it own most of the most powerful countries in the world. but also has power with most of the big and powerful countries in the world.

Drugs Legalization

Drugs Legalization have been a very controversial subject lately, and as almost every single subject it has it's pros and it's cons.

It should be prohibit because, it is a nocive subtance for health, and you may do thing under it's efects without being concious, and I think that I'll be goos because the drug dealer won't have much bussines to make, and perhaps I'll make this country a safer place to live.

And I think that it might be handeled as every other drug, to be sold only to adults, and until certain hours and in certains amounts.

In Haiti, Practicing Medicine From Afar

as many of you know the earthquake of Haiti has promoted a great chaos to the world. this has softened many people's heart. because sadly, Haiti is one of the poorest countries in the world. because of this many american doctors have started to test possible cures of mortal diseases. there were many volunteer surgeons from the United States who performed about 1000 operations since the earthquake. it is believed that doctors should soon be able to consult via satellite with specialists in Miami and other medical centers to improve their skills and be able to help more the Haiti population. thankfully people are being aware of the situation. United States has supported alot with nurses and medicen. everyone is doing their best to keep Haiti alive.

Global warming

Global warming

It is clear that global warming is affecting all of us. Global warming is a problem that is because the fossil fuels we burn, that gases are creating what we know as a green house effect, we are having because of our bad managment of resources. We had been using the fossil fuels a lot, that we had damaged our enviorment. This is a problem that i think we are going through for not having the culture or the value of respect. We damage a lot our world with this problems, contamination, global warming, deforestation , ect.

I think a solution of this is law, as we spoke in class about how taxes are to shape our behavior and to create money for infrastructure, i think we can use law to protect and change the behavior of all of us. We need to do this to conserve our planet.

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Importance of Recycling

The 3 R’s are Reduce, Reuse and Recycle. Recycling is the process in which we turn used material into new one. I think that recycling is a great idea because this way we can reduce waste, pollution and obtain new materials with good quality. There are many materials that can be recycled; like paper, plastics and glass.

Now days there are many institutions that are starting to recycle all these kinds of materials. I chose this topic because it is something that I really like and put in practice every time I get the chance. When I was in Jr. High School, I was in and ecology group were we would get together each Saturday at school and bring all the plastic bottles that we had accumulated during the week. We also had boxes in every classroom where we would put paper; there were also trash cans for organic and inorganic material.

All these activities are great ideas; I think they should be applied here in Tec and in other places. The trash cans that are in Tec are not really working because nobody cares were they put the trash and when the janitor throws the trash out it gets all mixed up, so it does not really matter where people throw the trash, which is a shame. Because of this a new group has been created, an ecology group, where we will be applying some of these ideas.

Familiys and Technology

it is very impressive in which the technological rate has grown. now a days it is completly normal to see small kids with exotic gadgets like iphones, ipods, laptops, etc. why is this? well, it is intresting, but the woman has influeces this episode of life grow. what do i mean with this? the amount of women who study has grown impresively. before, the women used to stay at home, stake care of the kids, make dinner, etc. it was not in their nature to have the right to study. afther the revolution many of these costums changed. the women began studing and molding herself as a professionist. this has caused the increase of job employments and technological advances. and the increasement of job has made a impact if the amount of population. so it has all become a cycle. and in the future it is known that man kind will become everyday more dependant of gadgets and techonology. the results to this depend to us.

A Bad Nutrition Affects the Behaviour of our Society

While I was looking for another topic for my post I read something quite interesting. But did you know that education, and even criminal behaviour is affected by nutritional issues? I knew that bad nutrition promotes illness, heart diseases, and lots of problems on the health of people, but that question really impressed me. Apparently when people suffer from nutritional imbalance, they also can suffer from psychological imbalances.

A study that took place in a prison in Virginia, the purpose of this study was to investigate whether the prisoner’s behaviour would change if the men were made more nutritious. Their first diet consisted of hamburgers, fried potatoes, white bred, cookies sweet snacks, soft drinks and milk shakes. Their diet was changed to whole wheat bread, potatoes, meat, vegetables, fruit, and fish. Amazingly the prisoners' violent behaviour diminished, and when junk food was reintroduced to their diet their violent behaviour returned.

What these studies proved is that bad nutrition not only affects us physically, but it also affects us emotionally, and mentally. We must remember that our brain is a part of our body, and needs nutrients just as other parts of our bodies do. So when we don't have the right nutrition, our brain won’t function correctly. We have to make an effort and have a good nutrition because maybe the cause of the violence in our society could be our nutrition. In a certain way the problem of Poverty (Hunger) creates at the same time crime, which is another global issue we should deal with. It’s incredible that such a thing as nutrition can influence in the behaviour of a society.

IVA Increasing

Taxes had increased lately, and this is affecting all of us, because for instance people that won for instance $5,000 now the taxes make them get less money because of what the goverment take from it.

In the other hand I think that this decision what made thinking about the well being of all Mexicans and our economy.

A woman in charge

I was eating breakfast, and the news guy was talking about Costa Rica , that they had elected a new president. But the intresting about it was that the oldest democray in Central America had a new president and it was a woman, Laura Chinchilla. I think this talks great about how we have evolved in society, in culture. Before it was to hard for someone that was black, or woman to be president. Now it is possible, it talks about how we are trusting more in the soul that in the color.

It also talks about how well we have taken out one of the problems in society, but it is still present, racism. The society has understand that we can trust in someone that is not of our same color, but some people still think diferent, some people think they are still better just because they are of other race, like the diputado of PRD

Google leaving China

As many people know China has gained confliction with google. the reason is simple, google wants to promote access to all kinds of information, as it already does for coutries like ours. Sadly, the government of China hides too much information from their people that google could share to them. that is why the government decided to restrict most of the acces of google from their citizens. Google got upset of their desicion and is threating to leave china. this event has promoted the lack of Freedom of speach china has. the primary concern the goverment has about giving freedom of speach is the reaction of their people to them. by this i mean, what would they do? would they fight? would the create a different democracy? well these are the questions China has decided to avoid.
the most intresting part is that other countries comme wont about the situation and most of them agree with google. i mean, why would the chinese want to keep google if the cant even access it well. well the goverment obviosly wants the access to himself. it is not convinient for them to lack that kind of access.. and besides what would the chinese people think about the situation? would they agree? well these answeres may be answered the the chaos is done.

Sarkozy's New Ideal/Possible Law agains the Veil

Sarkozy's Against the Use of the Veil in Musulman's women...

In today's class we read again our news articles, and my team's article was about the "Burka in french, or the Veil" that Musulmans(arabs) women use in France. In some how, Sarkozy is attempting agains the Freedom of Expression and Religion that supposely characterized France. But also he is making a law that affects his government and popularity. Again Political decisions are involved in Society and in element of Culture matters.

This has to be with the class topic about Culture, and the elements of it. In this case, Customs and Traditions. The veil is a really ancient and important, unbreakable tradition and way of clothing in his country, but now they are living in another country. In which, they respected them, but now they don't want to. So here I think that the way of looking the situation, is may be a right decision because it is not their country, it is France. But also can be a violation to an element of culture and a violation to the ideas of freedom in France.

The veils should be respected and to continue in the practicants of each religion, not only because it is their right; but also due to his importance in matters of their culture. To break an element of a culture is hard and really damaging, and can be like a destruction of his thoughts and purpose of life. It may also affects the French Government in global popularity, because may be foreigners won't like to live in there, due to the restrictions of others elements of religion and culture. France should respected, and will be considered as an Updated and Freely country.

Too Early for Hidrogen

One day I was making a drawing about the future in which I drew an image about getting energy from hidrogen.My mother saw what I was drawing and told me something interesting.

Long ago she had a friend whose father was an extremely great inventor. He was so intelligent that he founded a way to make cars function with water (hidrogen). He sold his invention to great company cars and then they captured the whole family. My mother then told me that they captured them becuase if somebody knew about this invention then all companies that uses oil for energy like car companies, would crash and get bankrupted.

This made me wonder if there are posible inventions that are "too early" for people or companies to accept them. like cloning and robots, or maybe that companies don't make the correct and more pollution-free things becuase if they did some of the richest companies will collapse.

Scarcity of water

Scarcity of water is a problem that is had been afecting Hermosillo since January 16th 2010, the goverment has been limiting Hermosillo's Families to eight hours of water per day, it might even be good until some point because we are using less water and by this we are helping earth.

It also has a bad side, because now we are not able to shower at any time we want, and we are not able to to do a lot of things (mostly cleaning matters) becuase now we have like a schedule to do the thing we need to do with water.

And in a very extreme case it might even affect big industries, because maybe their production will low down, or the quality may low down too and and prices and the industry economy in general.

Water and poverty

Water is begging to grow scare and people are having a harder time getting water, because now a days obtaining money is much more difficult than before. Water, hard to get and irreplaceable. Even though we all know how important water is to us, to humanity, still we have a hard time to really understand it, because if we truly understood how valuable water is we would take good care of it. Hopefully now that water scarcity is more noticeable people will gain consciousness and take care of water.

However, money in this case is an important factor, because if you have money you can get water pipes that go directly to your house and have water in an instant. There are many people in poor countries that can not even afford that, sometimes they have to travel long ways to get potable water and there are people that are not allowed to go and get potable water in certain areas because of their social standard.

So, water is related to wealth and wealth is related with your geographical location, which at the same time is related to society, everything is interrelated. At the end what people need to survive is money.

An ageing world?

The world is in the midst of a unique and irreversible process of demographic transition that will result in older populations everywhere. As fertility rates decline, the proportion of persons aged 60 and over is expected to double between 2007 and 2050, and their actual number will more than triple, reaching 2 billion by 2050. In most countries, the number of those over 80 is likely to quadruple to nearly 400 million by then.

I believe this is not where the world should be going. I think that controlling the growth of the world's population is key in keeping a steady progress in human life but the actual decline of population growth is not good either. The fact that most people are becoming old must mean that less people are being productive. The reality is that old people aren't as productive as young people and that is why I believe this is wrong. A healthy number of young and old people is necessary to keep the world in steady production growth and actually keeping nations running. Old people are necessary too for the world's progress but there has to be a balance, no excess is good.

Overpopulation

I was reading an article about how overpopulation and enviormental problems are very related. Overpopulation, acording to this article is the most severe problem we have. Why? I think because if we didnt had overpopulation, a lot of problems would be not a problems anymore. Imagine if there was no overpopulation we wouldnt have the need to burn so much fossil fuels, or we wouldn't contaminate so much, or more jobs will be available. I think that overpopulation is the mayor problem we, as a human race, are facing.

Drug Addiction Impact on Society

Acorrding to NIDA (National Institute on Drug Abuse), drugs and alcohol has an impact of $67 billion per year. This includes costs related to crimes and incarceration, drug addiction treatment, medical costs from overdoses and drug related injuries and complications, time lost from work and social welfare programs. Because drug addiction and alcoholism are diseases of the brain, which is the center of judgment and behavioral patterns, drug addicts and alcoholics have a disturbingly high propensity to commit unlawful and immoral acts to obtain these substances because of the feeleing of power, indestructability which leads to aggressive and impulsive behavior.


Drug Addiction is on of the fastes ways to spread AIDS, by the sharing of needles and using drugs may lead a person to make bad decisions and participate in sexual activities with an infected individual. According to NIDA, drug addictions is now the single largest factor in the spread of HIV in the U.S.

Although there are millions of organizations and programs to prevent drug abuse and thousands of pages about this topic, it doesn't compare anything to the feeling of devastation and hopelessness felt by drug addicts and their families. The emotion of failure, anger, depression, confusion, and hundred more emotions can't be described in stadistics.



With special programs, treatment centers, rehabilitation, and most important, INFORMATION, we can do all we can to educate people about addictions and their consequences, not just physical consequences, also including social consequences. Until you go through it or watch a loved one going throught it, there is no other way to feel the true effects of Drug Addiction.

Kidnap on Haiti

This article talks about 33 haitian kids that were about to be ilegally transported to the United States, some of them still had parents, and a little girl that was interviewed, said that she thought or was told that she was going to on vacations, and they say also that they were going to be sold for 10,000.

I think this a really Inhuman thing to do, people are taking advantage of Haiti's situation, and instead of being any sort of help for Haiti they are sort of haming them, because not all of the kids were orphans, they were actually taking some kids that did have their parents, and by doing this they are making Haiti's situation worse.

Accept your body

t’s time for some sound advice on achieving a quality lifestyle instead of dieting again. Ninety-five percent of all women don’t have the ideal body type portrayed by the media. Accept and enjoy your remarkable body just as it. Here are some suggestions:

• Stop Dieting

Instead of dieting, start eating normally.

• Focus on the Total Person

Remember that you are a unique person with a range of special gifts and talents.

• Practice Positive Thinking

Positive thinking is an essential part of healthy living, directly affecting our physical and mental well being.

• Respect Others

Respect all people, regardless of size. Think positively about yourself, and remember to think positively about others.

HIV, Sida

Human immunodeficiency virus known as SIDA is a virus caused by AIDS. HIV occurs by the transfer of blood, semen, vaginal fluid, pre-ejaculate, or breast milk. Also, AIDS killed more than 25 million of people. And more than more than 570,000 were children. The cure for the VHI is unknown but the treatment with anti-retroviral increases the life expectancy of people infected with HIV.

I think is very important to know this kind of problems and how close they are to us. People may think that these problems are far away form them and my never happen to them, but is because of that cause that this problem (HIV) are very present today. Society has to become more aware of the fact that this sickness is present in our daily lives.