Ecuador Proyect

Well my team and i decided to do the proyect of the class of introduction to economics, society and politics in the week end in Lulu’s house. We started to do it in Friday but couldn’t finished so we went again to Lulu’s house the day of Saturday. It was really hot. We couldn’t concentrate. We started at like 5 o’clock pm in the afternoon and at like 10 at noon we haven’t progress absolutely nothing. Well, not nothing but very little. There was very little information about Ecuador, I was really frustrated that we couldn’t get the proyect done and finish. So, we decide again to do it together at Sunday. When Sunday arrived it was still really hot, we were tired and frustrated and of course very stress. But even thought all of this happen we finished the proyect. But now I was really stressed because I haven’t even started to do the blogs for the same class! So I decided to talk to the teacher so he could let me do them for wednesday and he agree and I was happy. I am still really happy so that’s it.

Homework Economic crisis

I think we should blame everyone! I think that the first ones that we should blame is us, the ordinary people. I say this because, first it was our need to have more material stuff that bring us to borrow lots of money to the banks. Money that the people didn’t had so they would never ever pay back the money to the banks. Then, here the banks are the ones that we should blame. Why? Well, because the banks started to borrow credits and money to people that they knew that will never pay them up. People like inmigrants and people that have a very small quantity of money. Why did the banks did this? I don’t know. I think they did it because they could. Now, in my opinion here is where the governments are to blame. If the governments had come up with laws and regulations to manage better the money this problem would have never happened. Now, for example if the government would have said that instead of borrowing 90 percent of the money of the savers they would save i don’t know maybe 50 percent of the money it would have been less off a problem and no one would be in a reccesion or coming out of an economic crisis. I think that we should change our points of views and governments and banks work together to manage the money better.

Obesity in Mexico

In the last decade the radical changes in the eating habits in Mexico is causing health problems to Mexicans. Mexico is now one of the fattest nations on the planet.
Studies show that 68% of adults in Mexico are overweight and that 29% are obese; just behind United States where 74% are overweight and 39% are obese.
Only two Pacific nations, Samoa and Tonga, have heavier populations.
There is also concern in Mexico’s rising weight children. Mexico’s Government announced this month that surprisingly 35% of school pupils are over their recommended bodyweight.
In an antiobesity campaign the government is starting to support events of sporting events and healthy-eating propaganda directed to young people.
One of the events planned is a Thriller dance with 11,000 dancers where people are suppose to join in order to start dancing and burn calories. The event is scheduled for August 29 in Mexico City’s central plaza
The changing dietary habits in Mexico may have result from an extremely globalized economy. Since 1994, when North American countries signed the Free Trade treaty, the imports of processed food and drinks have increased.
Now at days Mexico consumes more Coca Cola products per capita than anywhere else in the WORLD, a total of 635 eight-ounce bottles per person each year. This amount represents a threefold increase compared to 1988.

UK elections 2010

Elections take place every 5 years in the United Kingdom, and 2010 happens to be a year of elections. More than 45 million people from aged 18 or above will get the chance to vote in order to choose a new Member of the Parliament.
The party that gets more MPs than all of the others put together will get to form the new government. But if none of the party’s manages to get enough MPs to win outright there will be a hung Parliament. The leader of the party with the most MPs will become the prime minister but it is also possible that two parties join to work together in a coalition only of they are able to rely on more than half the cotes of the MPs.
This year elections will be different because it will be fought on new constituency boundaries everywhere except Scotland, where new limits came into effect in 2005 elections. The new House of Commons will comprise 650 seats rather than the 646 contested in 2005. A party requires 326 seats to ensure a majority.

Damage to Mexico

The problem of the insecurity in Mexico is a matter that has me very worried, insecurity has become our “pan de cada dia”. We read, hear and see by all the possible media scaring news about the growing of insecurity in our country.
It is so much the fear to be kidnap or victim of the insecurity in Mexico that a few months ago there was a big manifestation in Mexico’s City. People got together and dressed in white as a symbol of wanting and demanding peace in and security in Mexico.
The only bad thing about these manifestations is that politicians are using this type of things to win votes, and a peace matter is turning into politicians’ affairs.

Arizona Model United Nations

In this blog I am going to write about my amazing experience over there in AzMun. In the first hours of the trip going to Tucson I was a little down but it was because I had some unfinished issues that I needed to solve and couldn’t in that moment. Then, when we got over to the barbecue to meet with the Americans that were also going to AzMun. I was really excited bit because I saw lots of beautiful American girls. Right away I started to flirt with all of them. I really loved my experience over there in AzMun.
Then I met Taylor, which was the person who I stayed that night. She and her family were awesome. They started to talk with my in Spanglish and it was great; the house was great, it was beautiful and big.
The next day we went to the school and I fell in love with it! Well, not really but I like it a lot. The teachers were very nice and the students were very open and outgoing except one but I am not going to write about him. The day of the debate at first it was really boring and slow but later on the debates started to become really fun and entertaining. That was when I realized that I like a lot doing debates. I loved so much going to AzMun that I want to go next year.

Earth Drowned in Oil

Imagine how our lives would change if the oil fields in the world went dry tomorrow or even more interesting: What would happen to us if an organization seized control of all the oil reserves in the world. How would you be affected and how would you react to such a crisis? The world is heading for a catastrophic energy crunch that could cripple a global economic recovery because most of the major oil fields in the world have passed their peak production, a leading energy economist has warned.

Higher oil prices brought on by a rapid increase in demand and a stagnation, or even decline, in supply could blow any recovery off course, said Dr Fatih Birol, the chief economist at the respected International Energy Agency (IEA) in Paris, which is charged with the task of assessing future energy supplies by OECD countries. Oil production in 33 out of 48 out countries has now peaked, including Kuwait, Russia and Mexico. Global oil production is now also approaching an all time peak and can potentially end our Industrial Civilization. The most distinguished and prominent geologists, oil industry experts, energy analysts and organizations all agree that big trouble is brewing.

The world is not running out of oil itself, but rather its ability to produce high-quality cheap and economically extractable oil on demand.global oil production can be expected to decline steadily at about 2-3% a year, the cost of everything from travel, heating, agriculture, trade, and anything made of plastic rises. And the scramble to control oil resources intensifies Just kiss your lifestyle goodbye

Procrastination

Procrastination in a scientific definition refers to the counterproductive deferment of actions or tasks to a later time. Psychologists often cite such behavior as a mechanism for coping with the anxiety associated with starting or completing any task or decision. There are three criteria for a behavior to be classified as procrastination: it must be counterproductive, needless, and delaying.

Procrastination may result in stress, a sense of guilt and crisis, severe loss of personal productivity, as well as societal disapproval for not meeting responsibilities or commitments. These feelings combined may promote further procrastination. While it is regarded as normal for people to procrastinate to some degree, it becomes a problem when it impedes normal functioning.

Procrastination may sound like a simple behavior or character flaw that is easy to overcome but it is anything but simple. Procrastination is the act of postponing, delaying or pushing back something that can be done now or soon to a later date or never.

Procrastination is quite complex. It involves emotions, skills, thoughts, attitudes, and many other factors that we are not conscious of. It is through the inner tuning of our minds that we react or act in this way. On top of that, the unpleasantness of one task varies from one person to another.

For example, right now I don't now what can I write, and that is a type of procrastination because I am closed and blocked and I have the lack of inspiration but I am trying my hardest to write a blog about anything.

Women Selling Women

This is a fact that you will rarely see or hear about in the media, that the main culprits are women. On 11th February the United Nations issued a report on human trafficking. The report looked at 155 nations which accounted for over 60 percent of human trafficking convictions in Eastern Europe and Central Asia. Convictions between September 2007 and July 2008 were looked at during which time 22,500 victims were rescued, mainly from sexual exploitation and forced labor. Antonio Maria Costa is the director of the Vienna-based U.N. Office on Drugs and Crime. He said in an interview:

“Women commit crimes against women, and in many cases the victims become the perpetrators, they become the matrons of the business and they make money. It’s like a drug addiction.”

Two of every five countries mentioned in the report had not recorded any

convictions from 2007 to 2008. Costa remarked: “Either these countries are blind to the problem or they are ill-equipped to deal with it. We only see the monster’s tail, how many hundreds of thousands of victims are slaving away in sweatshops, fields, mines, factories, or trapped in domestic servitude? Their numbers will surely swell as the economic crisis deepens the pool of potential victims.”

The investigation into an offer to sell young women’s virginity – the offer appeared on a Russian online discussion board - resulted in an immense scandal. It became known as a result of the investigation that it was young women’s mothers that were selling their daughters’ virginity.

Two adult women learnt from their acquaintances that virginity was highly valued then and that they could receive very good money from wealthy men willing to pay for a sexual experience with a virgin.

The first woman, Maria G. (42), was offered the price of 200,000 rubles ($6,000) for her 16-year-old daughter’s virginity. The other woman, Svetlana K (35), was offered even a bigger price – 400,000 rubles ($12,000), for her 13-year-old daughter’s virginity.

Both mothers confessed later, that they had been first shocked by such offers. They could not even imagine that one night of sex could cost so much. The mother of 16-year-old, named only as Polina, personally brought her daughter to the client for the sake of money.

WOMEN must cease this evil trafficking!

Pollution: A Sin

Last weekend, the Vatican’s official in charge of exploring new forms of sin, Archbishop Gianfranco Girotti, outlined a range of modern sins that the Church would now officially condemn. In addition to activities such as drug trafficking and stem cell research, Girotti pointed to “ecological” offenses as one of the most pressing new forms of sin.

An institution that has undergone a significant green transformation, the Vatican and its leaders have made numerous calls in recent months to combat climate change. In fact, the Vatican recently went so far as to host an international conference on how to reduce the environmental damage caused by fossil fuels. In recent months, Pope Benedict has made several strong appeals for the protection of the environment, saying issues such as climate change had become gravely important for the entire human race.

Under Benedict and his predecessor John Paul, the Vatican has become progressively "green".

It has installed photovoltaic cells on buildings to produce electricity and hosted a scientific conference to discuss the ramifications of global warming and climate change, widely blamed on human use of fossil fuels.

Girotti, who is number two in the Vatican "Apostolic Penitentiary," which deals with matter of conscience, also listed drug trafficking and social and economic injustices as modern sins.

But Girotti also bemoaned that fewer and fewer Catholics go to confession at all.

He pointed to a study by Milan's Catholic University that showed that up to 60 percent of Catholic faithful in Italy stopped going to confession.

In the sacrament of Penance, Catholics confess their sins to a priest who absolves them in God's name.

But the same study by the Catholic University showed that 30 percent of Italian Catholics believed that there was no need for a priest to be God's intermediary and 20 percent felt uncomfortable talking about their sins to another person.

Resolution to Mexican Truck issue may be near

A group of 56 U.S. lawmakers have urged the Obama administration to resolve a dispute with Mexico over cross-border trucking that has damaged bilateral trade, Reuters reported.

The current situation is “unsustainable and untenable,” the lawmakers wrote in a letter sent to U.S. Trade Representative Ron Kirk and Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood.

I think that both Mexico and USA should work immediately in a solution to this problems and that it ensures the safety of the truck drivers and it normalizes the trade between the two countries. I also thing that it is having a very negative impact, particularly on the agricultural industries in the USA.

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.

Sexual Traffic Of Children

You may not hear this problem very often and governments don't give to much attention to it. But the traffic of children is a very serious problem and every year its increasing. Its annual revenues were estimated in 2003 to exceed half a trillion dollars globally. This is twice the value of all United States currency currently in circulation at any given time, more than the annual gross national products of many countries.

To understand the sheer size of profits accruing from such terrible misery, consider this: a million dollars in gold would weigh as much as a Japanese Sumo wrestler. A half trillion dollars would come close to exceeding the entire population weight of a medium sized Australian city.

The profits come from child sexual trafficking in all its forms: white slavery, sex rings, pornography, the sex tourism industry, lap dancing, bogus adoption schemes, the untold millions of children globally entrapped in the sex trade industry who are forced to allow their bodies to be used in exchange for food, money, shelter, alcohol and drugs.Children are bought, sold, traded and misused in underground child sex markets daily. It is estimated that the profits would draw an interest exceeding US $2 million an hour. The sexual trafficking in children is not so much an industry but a global empire.Governments pay more attention to Mafia and Narcs struggle, to try stop corruption,try to give jobs but this is a big problem because people are abusing children, snatches them, never to be seen again.

The predators who control the sexual trafficking in children are well organized. They have thugs who snatch and break the resistance of children; banks who account the empire's profits without asking questions; ships that convey the hapless children from one continent to another and private planes that transport them to clients around the world.Yet there is little or no cohesive and sustained war against this terrible evil.

City surveillance: Crime deterrent or invasion of privacy?

The governments say they are doing all of this for our safety, but I don't think that way. They say is easier to caught people who commit crimes thanks to all this surveillance devices. That is okay as long as is for solving crimes only but now individual citizens are also having their privacy invaded in the work place by employers who utilize surveillance cameras and computer software programs to monitor their employees and forcing their workers to sign waivers of their expectations of privacy.

Today the right of privacy is also coming to the forefront as more and more employers operate surveillance systems in areas in which their employees have a reasonable expectation of privacy. In an effort to prevent theft, sexual harassment, the viewing of pornography on office computers and the perpetration of actionable civil or criminal acts, employers are in many instances intruding on and invading the privacy of their employees. Employers are using hidden cameras, workplace searches, keystroke monitoring computer programs, e-mail, website and voice mail monitoring, and other software to snoop on their employees while cloaking themselves with the claim that their actions are being done to protect their employees.

Also the government of Mexico is saying that we have to register our cellphones numbers for our own security. They are sending helicopters very near to the ground of cities, you know why?, because the helicopters have a special device that can hear or intercept the call made on telephones and cellphones to be able to track persons involved with the narcs. But the government doesn't have the right to hear and intercept our calls. In Mexico D.F. police officers can enter your house without an order if they want to with the pretext that is for looking narcs. If we don't stop this right now you is going to stop the government of controlling our every action. I rather be free and be insecure but with hopes of a better future than being a prisoner in my own house knowing that I can't do anything about it.

Turkish girl buried alive because she had male friends

This is a good example that sometimes culture and tradition are not always looking the best in people. This was not necessary and extreme, and victims are mainly females or children.The sexism, the ignorance and hate can lead to cases of extreme violence. The excuse that the father and grandfather told to justify their actions was that she brought dishonor to the family. It's wrong and culture doesn't justify their actions,it's immoral,disrespectful and the family should be punished for their actions. Times have change, ideas have change too, women should be treated as human beings with respect and love and no living thing should be tortured and been killed in that way.

Drug cartels in Mexico use rehab for recruits

As everyone knows, here in Mexico we have a really big problem of drug trafficking and everyday this problem is increasing. Mexico's powerful drug cartels have been operating drug rehabilitation clinics, turning some into bloody killing fields and forcing recovering addicts into their ranks of hit men and smugglers.They are taking advantage of the situation this people are going through and they tell the recovering addicts they have to help the cartels since they help them get clean or they are going to be killed.

This situation is unfair for all of us. The idea of the rehab centers is to help people who are addicted to some drug get clean not to force them to be part of the drug trafficking in Mexico. Besides, the people who could have stop this from happening didn't do anything to prevent it. The government is suppose to protects us not taking away our security. Because for this people the rehab centers helps them but since this is happening addicts are not going to go to this centers because they are no longer safe and don't do there purpose anymore.