Kidnapping

Fear, suffer, pain, psychological trauma….. These are some of the consequences of suffering a kidnap.

This crime has been increasing in our country through the recent times.

Kidnapping is being considered now a big business to the offenders, that’s why Mexico takes the second place in the number of kidnapping! Just before Colombia.

We know that kidnapping is not new, but in the last years this topic has been of very importance in the country and that maintain alert to millions of Mexicans. This make that Mexico have been seen from other countries a kidnapping country.

Kidnapping is one of the most frequent crimes that atent to the dignity and psychology of a person and as I already said is causing a lot of controversy in the recent times. Why people want to seize over a person? Or why they illegally enclose that person and require a rescue?

These are some questions that I make myself when I hear that a person has been kidnapped. I know that they do it for money or things like that, but I don’t think that kidnapping a person is necessary.

From the 51 kidnappings occurred this year 7 have been “self-kidnapping” y they have recorded 49 persons from the 12 gangs, but also they have send to the judges 50 cases without a prisoner. From the 51 kidnappings the 60% has been declared, but not only are the kidnappings but also the assaults that impact directly to the people.

All what is happening about kidnappings make people move to different cities away from their family and friends.170 families of 290 that search for a relative kidnapped run away form the country, because they are scared of hat can happened later. Fernando Ocegueda Flores, the secretary of “Asociacion Ciudadana contra la impunidad”, said the week per week is increasing the rate of people disappearing.

The government should take more rigorous measures for the cases of kidnapping. This goes against the dignity of each person. People have the right for being free and to live with their family, and kidnapping not only affect the person kidnapped but also their entire family. The family feel anguish and after that they can’t feel secure in the place were they live that’s why families are moving of country. Kidnapping is a problem that is affecting everyone and is increasing; needs to be stopped!

Graffiti

Sometimes graffiti can be considered an art, but not where it defaces the public or private property. Graffiti has become a very serious problem that is spreading from the largest cities to other locales. Graffiti is related with the gangs, and I considered that this is a form of vandalism that most of the time is not reported to police, but some people think that police cannot do something about it.

Graffiti is a common problem that we see every day in every street and we are in a certain moment costume to it. However, has a cumulative effect; its initial appearance in a location appears to attract more to make graffiti there and that’s how it grows.

Approximately, $12 billion a year is spent cleaning up graffiti in the United States. Graffiti can be related to other types of crimes, like shoplifting, gang violence, property destruction, among other things.

Most of the time graffiti is on a public property, but we are now seeing it in private too. For example, in transportation systems (trains, subways, buses, etc), streets, traffic signs, monuments, schools, walls, garages, etc.

The people that make graffiti are often young and male with ages 15 to 23 and most of the time students. They typically are male, but now we are watching women too. They operate in groups; perhaps 15 % to 20 % do it alone.

This social problem needs to be stopped now, because we are now seeing it in every place where we go. I don’t think that this type of graffiti looks beautiful in our streets or houses. The government should do something about it, so this problem can be stopped. Graffiti lead a lot of consequences, for example if they are often doing graffiti on your house maybe later they can enter to your house and stole things or make something worst! Also I think that it can be uncomfortable that you know that someone at night is doing graffiti on your wall and you don’t know who is it or what other things he or she can do.

Graffiti is an art, but we don’t need it on the walls, streets, and houses.

BE CAREFUL!

The principal of the health Secretary, Jose Angel Villa lobos, said that during vacations the vials accidents increase form 10 to 15 percent.

Also he said that the car accidents were the first cause of dead on the population from 25 to 35 years, when half of these can be prevented and also for this cause 24 000 persons die each year! Between 40 and 60 percent of the accident are associated with alcohol consumption.

This accidents cause costs of $126 million each year, from which 5 to 10 milliards corresponds to the health sector.

They are making campaigns to prevent this type of accidents especially during this vacations that includes campaigns of communication about vial security, training, vigilance, and alcoholmeters.

The objective of this campaign is to reduce between 40 to 50 percent the number of accidents and dead.

The World health organization says that each year die 1.2 millions of people, while between 20 and 50 million are injured because of this.

Having precaution during vacations is very important. We want that our family and friends return complete, but also they want that we return like that. So, let’s be very alert of what happened to us take the necessary measurements .There are so many accidents that can be prevent it, it’s important to take care of us and every body around us.

Music Therapy

Music therapy is a process were people use music to improve or maintain health. It helps to improve the level of the quality of life in different aspects by using music experiences to achieve their goal.

Music therapy is being used to treat different diseases. According to some researches music can help to improve some diseases having a profound effect on the body.

For example, researchers suggest that listening Mozart’s piano can reduce the number of seizures in people with epilepsy. This is called the “Mozart effect”

Depending on the disease the person has is the beat or type of music that they use. Music therapy can help cancer patient, children with ADD, and others. Also some hospitals are using this treatment to help pain management, to promote movement, to calm patients and other benefits. Some benefits include a decrease in blood pressure, heart rate and levels of anxiety in heart patients. Music can have surprising effects in our bodies.

Also music helps to relieve stress. Music is especially helpful in relaxation and stress management

I think that music therapy can be very important for some persons, because they can see how their health is improving while they are just hearing music. Not also for people with disease is helpful. I think that can be very useful for students like us, because sometimes all the homework and exams that we have stress us a lot provoking some disadvantages in our health and we don’t defeat like always. So, maybe hearing the music that we like can make us forget about all the things that we have and relax making us feel better, and making on us feelings of positively and doing things in a better way.

Do we need war?

We now that power is the main reason of war. Some people always want to be over the rest; they want power and control. Politicians are a very good example of leaders because they want to lead and control other people. Most of the wars are caused by disagreements in the governments. When leaders have disagreements the first thing that it gets to their minds is war, weapons and all that stuff to destroy the other country. Do they really need to do that just to get power or money?

War just causes damages and dead, why they consider war like a solution? There are so many solutions to problems and disagreements war is not necessary. There are so many laws for murder and why this people in war don’t are punished if they kill other people o why there is not a law that prohibit war?

Politicians should think in their people, because war not only damage the other country also their own country.

Communication is the solution to problems, and there are so many media they should use them but not the media of war.

I don’t that there could be a good reason for war. Normal people don’t want war on the contrary the only thing that we want is peace! People want a good place were they can live, family, food, water but no war.

If we want a peaceful world where all people can get along, there should be no war. There are other solutions, we definitely don’t need war. War is only damage.

Tsunami Warning

After the earthquake that occurred in Chile, on Sunday there were warnings of a tsunami in all the nations near the Pacific. The big earthquake provokes a tsunami that can goes until Japan!
President Barack Obama said that his government was prepared for the tsunami that can affect the coast, especially Hawaii, American Samoa and Guam. He also said that they warn all the population to leave the coast zone; it is very important the people pay attention to the warnings and obey them.

Fortunately these warnings are over, because the waves observe are too weak to assume a threat to the normal life of the population.

The ocean level is increasing and decreasing constantly, but according to the specialist and their observations there is no risk for the people. We were near! The waves of a tsunami were close.

Have you ever think why all this disasters are happening? It is true the end of the world is coming?

First, it was the earthquake of Haiti, and then it was Chile, a tsunami alert for the Pacific. What would come next? I think that all of these happen because of global warming. People is not taking seriously what is happening, but we need to take care of the place were we live! The ocean is increasing; the poles are melting down. It’s time to make conscience of what is happening and what are the things that we need to make for this place. We live here on earth; taking care of it is an obligation to all of us, why we are not doing it? Are you going to wait until you really suffer a disaster? NO! Now it’s time, we need to take extreme measures NOW!

Ramzey to produce for Yamaha

Ramzey a company from Turkey will produce motorcycle to Yamaha, and this company will sell them in Africa. Ramzey is planning to produce 40,000 50 CC motorcycles for Yamaha this year. Within the next three years the company aims to increase that figure to 100,000.This will contribute 30 million Turkish Liras’s to the company’s annual income, according to Ramzey coordinator. Ramzey invested 5 million liras last year, when the global motorcycle market was facing significant negative .Ramzey increased its capacity 100 percent last year and created new employment opportunities as it increase the number of its employees by 35 percent.

“One of the reasons Yamaha chose us was our effectiveness in the African market. Turkey’s quality production and low cost duo does not exist in many other countries around the world.”

Ramzey produced 35,000 motorcycles last year, said Yalnız. The company, which managed to obtain growth last year, aims to establish a factory in Algeria this year. The company mainly exports to Algeria Tunisia, Morocco and Senegal.

I think that all the production of the motorcycle will help a lot to the economy to the company and in consequent to Turkey, because this motorcycle are being exported and have a lot of demand.Every year they are producing more and the income is increasing, so this benefits a lot. Not only for all the income that they are obtaining also because fo the employment that they are producing, because they need people to produce this motorcycles and also this benefits the economy. Thanks to this company Turkey can be seen as a good country to invest, because of the quality of production.

Opportunity Cost

Scarcity of resources is the basic concept of economics. Scarcity needs trade-offs and trade-offs result in an opportunity cost.

We’ve seen during this partial opportunity cost.

The first concept of opportunity cost was made by John Stuart Mill. Opportunity cost is the other available choice to someone that picked up a choice between other ones. Any decision that involves between two or more options has an opportunity cost. For example, if someone has $20 we can buy a CD or a shirt, and if he buys the CD the shirt is the opportunity cost and vice versa.

Opportunity cost is useful when you evaluate the cost and the benefits of your choices, especially when you are between the sword and the wall. It often is expressed in non-monetary terms.

Opportunity cost has a lot of applications:

• Consumer choice
• Production possibilities
• Cost of capital
• Time management
• Career choice
• Analysis of comparative advantage

I think that it is very important to consider the opportunity cost in our lives to know the cost and the benefits of every action that we take even though it is not a monetary cost. Evaluating all the possibilities and benefits that we have we can take better decision; even though, they can be difficult

If we ignore that opportunity cost it produces the illusion that it doesn’t benefit the cost at all.

Another Earthquake!

More than 708 people died in Chile, this number can increase, because of the earthquake of 8, 8 degrees that occurred last Saturday. First, it was informed that there were only 214 victims but now are even more!

This earthquake provokes the lost of a lot of houses and hospitals, but not only that also make a tsunami that is along the Pacific Ocean. According to Sergio Barrientos, this earthquake was 50 times more tan the one of Haiti.

The authorities said that some constitutional rights can be restricted like the one of circulation or merchandise transport, so this can prevent more accidents. This earthquake provokes a lot of diseases. The mandatory said that they will use all the public web of health so they can take care of patients in risk, but also there are transport from destroyed hospitals to another’s.

The head of state said that they will found other solutions like campaign hospitals but also other local solutions that can be implanted in a medium term.

In infrastructure, they decide to establish emergency solutions, like the opening of alternative roads to the roads of pavement that are broken. The mayor problem is electricity; they need to restore electricity as fast as possible.

I think that all the people of Chile need to be responsible and patient, so they can’t prevent more accidents and problems. Also we need to help this country that is suffering a big natural disaster with a lot damages.
Like we did with Haiti being humble with this entire country that need us. Just imagine that you are suffering this! We need to help, whenever and wherever we can. They need us and we have all the capacities to help them.

Overpopulation and resources

The capacity for the human in the ecosystem has been exceeded. According to the logic of Overshoot by William Catton: the amount of stored energy from the sun (including fossil fuels) humans use is the equivalent of ten earths' intake of usable solar energy for photosynthesis.

With all the trash and all that stuff that we throw a lot of tons of topsoil is lost, the survival rate would be only one tenth of the one tenth!! And petroleum is one of the most important resources that would mark in history.

Population has been growing a lot even though all these damages and the lack of resources.

People are dependant on resources, and we need them to live. Overpopulation is causing that all these resources disappeared. In petroleum for example, agriculture will be affected.

I think that overpopulation and resources is a theme that is very important nowadays. Resources are not for ever! We need to take care of them, because population is growing and growing. Also I think that we need to find more alternatives that can help s when all resources come to an end.

Economic Inequality and Education

Economic inequality is the differences in the distribution of economic assets and income. This term usually refers to the equality of outcome and equality of opportunity. Economic inequality has existed since a lot of time. There are a lot of causes for this inequality. But, I think that education is the most important. Not all people have access to school, because they can’t afford it. Even though there are public schools, for some persons it’s more important to work to get money so they don’t go to schools. Also children if they want to school sometimes they can’t, because they need to help their family economically. As we know we need education in order to have a good job, and get the enough money to eat and supply the basic needs. This makes inequality bigger!

Many economists believe that a major reason of the increasing level of is an increase in the demand for highly skilled workers in high-tech industries. They believe that this has resulted in an increase in wages for those with an education, but has not increased the wages of those without an education, leading to greater inequality. Nowadays, there are special systems were adults that work receives food, but I don’t that this can make inequality to decrease. We should have the same opportunities.

Economic inequality also has a lot effects in society. When people don’t have anything to eat, they try to get food wherever they can like in trash. So, they get malnourished and sick. Unfortunately, people die because of this. I think this is very disappointing that some people have everything they want while others are suffering. But I think that people that have this problem can solve it, by trying to make their best effort.

Global Warming

Global warming is the increase of the temperature at the Earth’s surface. Global warming is global issue, which has become the most complicated issue facing world nowadays. The Scientifics are warning of this situation more and more. On the other hand, the technological, economic and political issues that have to be resolved before a concerted worldwide effort to reduce emissions can begin have gotten no simpler, particularly in the face of a global economic slowdown.

This issue is affecting to all of us, and very different aspects. For example, we are now suffering the drastically climate changes. And also all the natural disasters that are happening right now are because of this. We know that the poles are melting down and in a few years some communities could get flooded and a lot of people and also animals are going to die. Unfortunately, also because of the drastical climate changes animals are dying, because they can’t get adapted to it. I think we should make something right now! Every person can apport something to our world; to ecology. For example, we can recycle. Make programs at school of ecology, there are a lot of things we can do!

Crime and Its Impact in Society

We all know what is crime, and we are living it all days. Every day in the newspaper there is something about it.

Crime affects us in some way, because of crime hey are making new laws to “protect us”.

Even the minor crime. For example shoplift, if a person shoplift the store has to pay that product that he stole, son in order to pay they need to raise the prices and they loose a lot of money. Just imagine that a person shoplifts something of $20 and if you multiply it for 52 weeks that a year has is $728,000 lost every year. It’s a lot of money and we are paying for it and we even noticed it! And imagine that there are more of the same stores it’s even more money. So, stores install cameras and stuff like that, but it isn’t cheap. And we are paying all of this in the higher prices.

But also we pay for the criminal, because it is expensive to maintain them in jail. They need clothes food, etc. In 2007 a newspaper reported that the average annual cost of housing prison inmates in the California prison system was $43,287 per inmate!

And we pay for it like in higher prices for clothes, food and in taxes to maintain criminals at jail. I don’t think that this is fair we are paying for something that isn’t our fault.

Hunger and World Poverty

Poverty means the lack of resources to afford basic human needs. Poverty is a global issue that entire world has been facing a long time ago. Poverty itself causes a lot of other things like hunger. According to the United Nations, about 25,000 people die every day of hunger or hunger-related causes!! And unfortunately most of these people are children. And we know that there is a lot of food around the world, but the problem here is poverty. They don’t have the enough resources to pay for food. And like they don’t have the enough money to pay for food they need to take food from the trash or things like that, so they are malnourished. With this they are more propane to have disease and they are weaker and this enables them to work and they can’t have money. As we can see this is like a cycle all is connected.

There are some programs that try to decrease poverty. For example, there are jobs were they are paid with food by making structures, school, etc.For children there is a program that if they go to school they receive food.

I think that this is good way to make decrease poverty, because if children are having education they can work and also they are having food so they can be nourish and with energy to go to school. And adults are having work and food at the same time. It is a good way that in al the world should be practiced.

Does global culture exist?

Culture is a term that has different meanings, but we know that culture is the basis of human society.

Culture is integrated by knowledge, beliefs, behavior, traditions, values, among other things.

In each human society there is a culture. So does global culture exist?

I don’t think that global culture exists. In every part of the world there are different traditions, or costumes. Even though a city could be just a few kilometers away from us, everything can change like the language, some beliefs, food, etc. There are a lot of elements that make a culture and each element changes. For example, in each country and also in every state there is a different flag that represents them and this is part of culture. Culture changes! Another example is the accent and language. The accent changes in every state even though it stills being Spanish, but in another countries there is a different language and inside this countries there are different accents too. That’s what I first understand from “global culture”. But in an web page it says that global culture is how you are able to experience your own culture in a foreign community.

This refers that how you can learn form different cultures and lifestyle. How when you meet a person from another country exchange valuable information of lifestyles and being able to adapt to it.